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Hello again! My client ate my previous incarnation of this post through unexpected behavior.
Right up top, Antonin Scalia is having nightmares right now - a federal judge ordered the state of Ohio to recognize a same-sex marriage legally conducted in Maryland for an Ohio couple. Pleasant dreams, Justice Scalia. Hold out your hope that a suit filed in the name of a California county clerk will somehow invalidate the federal order requiring all of California to ignore he unconstitutional Proposition 8. But realize you are losing. England and Wales have legalized marriage equality. The United States will, too.
PFC Manning was acquitted of the charges of aiding and abetting the enemy, but convicted on counts of espionage, and he still will face a lengthy prism sentence based on earlier pleas.
Out in the world today, you know how the worst ideas usually begin, "Hey, watch this!"? Well, after drinking eight beers, a Canadian man swam across the Windsor-Detroit border and was on his way back when the Coast Guard and Border Patrol found him.
Elsewhere, dolphins are recognized as non-human persons in India.
Here in the United States, before dismissing a comparison between your surveillance state and the surveillance state of an FSR, check to make sure the comparison isn't apt.
A lawmaker in Utah believes the public educatoon system in the state will be vastly improved by making public education entirely optional, figuring that only those who believe in the value of education will send their children, and will thus be more involved than the parents of the current compulsory system. I would normally think of this as having to do with the LDS wanting to have an easy venue to engage in religious education, instead, but I wonder whether the lawmaker believes that previous eras, where children went to work as soon as they were able, was a better time than our current one. It certainly fits in with other parts of the Republican Agenda.
You know. Jobs (by which we mean changing what is acceptable identification so as to disenfranchise minority and young voters and trying to change the districts for Congressional appointments so that white people can easily stay elected and black, brown, and women people find their districts evaporated, to which the Attorney General says, paraphrased, "Oh, fuck no."), Jobs (by which we mean systematically attacking women's reproductive rights and closing women's health clinics), Jobs (by which we mean trying to get people to oppose legislation that improves the health and gets health insurance to a lot more people and trying to sabotage the implementation of that legislation as well.)
The wing of yhe Republican Party responsible, however, will stridently insist that their obstructionism isn't the cause for any negative results from that obstructionism, of course. (The more intelligent people will decry it as the stupidity it is and call the sabotage attempts contemptible.)
McDonalds published a Budget Journal, which acknowledged most people working there would have to have a second job just to be able to make ends meet. The best was yet to come, though. Once looked at, everyone laughed at the impossible numbers presented in the budget, as they were also walking out on strike to try and get their wages raised. To which, even slightly off calculations say the increase in price of McDonalds food would be negligible (to the wealthy) to pay the workers there a $15 / hour wage.
If you think the United States is post-racial, or that racism is not still alive and well, compare letters from mothers to sons about United States society, and reconsider your position, please. If that doesn't convince you, perhaps Iowa Representative Steve King saying that 100 of 101 undocumented youth are drug smugglers from Mexico, a comment for which even even Jon Boehner says King's out of line and really wishes that King would stop claiming his anecdata is hard factual evidence.
The poor are systematically being taken advantage of by having their wages loaded onto prepaid cards, which carry fees even for simple things like balance checks or actually using the card. And thus, banks like JPMorgan Chase make their money and feed the wealthiest using the money from the poorest.
Last out of this section, eight women have accused the mayor of San Diego of unwanted sexual advances. With the strong likelihood that there are many more women who have received those advances and have not come forward.
In technology, you are being spied upon by scanners reading your license plate, many of which store that information for various lengths of time. And will say they're not invading your privacy because your license plate is displayed publically. Perhaps related, the DEF Con hacker convention has politely asked federal agents to stay away this year. Considering how completely the federal government has burnt any credibility they had regarding paying any attention to the law regarding surveillance, I can see why security people might want them to stay away. (And PRISM reminds us that spying on us is easier than ever because we share a lot on our social profiles.
An attempted three-dimensionally-printed rifle fired...one shot, and then was significant;y damaged. Which only means there will be another iteration. And frankly, if one wanted to use such things for nefarious purposes, it would only take one shot, assuming sufficient skill from the shooter and sufficient accuracy from the weapon. Printed weapons are likely the wave of the future.
Much happier than that, an illustrated periodic table. Many of which are really cool.
Last for tonight, the myriad reasons why people need fat acceptance. Most of them related to body image acceptance. And because not everyone is strong enough to apologize for pushing disordered eating on people in the guise of weight loss programs.
And perhaps one of the most important pieces of self-knowledge for sufferers of Impostor Syndrome. It's another variation on the duck lesson. But perhaps it will speak to you as it did to me.
For levity, the hellhound rescue, courtesy of a Paladin that speaks Abyssal.
Finally, a reminder, even in times of grief, that physics dictates and has measured that we do not disappear when we pass away, but instead become more entropic. A beautiful eulogy delivered. And a version of the cosmos, tailored specifically for us.
Right up top, Antonin Scalia is having nightmares right now - a federal judge ordered the state of Ohio to recognize a same-sex marriage legally conducted in Maryland for an Ohio couple. Pleasant dreams, Justice Scalia. Hold out your hope that a suit filed in the name of a California county clerk will somehow invalidate the federal order requiring all of California to ignore he unconstitutional Proposition 8. But realize you are losing. England and Wales have legalized marriage equality. The United States will, too.
PFC Manning was acquitted of the charges of aiding and abetting the enemy, but convicted on counts of espionage, and he still will face a lengthy prism sentence based on earlier pleas.
Out in the world today, you know how the worst ideas usually begin, "Hey, watch this!"? Well, after drinking eight beers, a Canadian man swam across the Windsor-Detroit border and was on his way back when the Coast Guard and Border Patrol found him.
Elsewhere, dolphins are recognized as non-human persons in India.
Here in the United States, before dismissing a comparison between your surveillance state and the surveillance state of an FSR, check to make sure the comparison isn't apt.
A lawmaker in Utah believes the public educatoon system in the state will be vastly improved by making public education entirely optional, figuring that only those who believe in the value of education will send their children, and will thus be more involved than the parents of the current compulsory system. I would normally think of this as having to do with the LDS wanting to have an easy venue to engage in religious education, instead, but I wonder whether the lawmaker believes that previous eras, where children went to work as soon as they were able, was a better time than our current one. It certainly fits in with other parts of the Republican Agenda.
You know. Jobs (by which we mean changing what is acceptable identification so as to disenfranchise minority and young voters and trying to change the districts for Congressional appointments so that white people can easily stay elected and black, brown, and women people find their districts evaporated, to which the Attorney General says, paraphrased, "Oh, fuck no."), Jobs (by which we mean systematically attacking women's reproductive rights and closing women's health clinics), Jobs (by which we mean trying to get people to oppose legislation that improves the health and gets health insurance to a lot more people and trying to sabotage the implementation of that legislation as well.)
The wing of yhe Republican Party responsible, however, will stridently insist that their obstructionism isn't the cause for any negative results from that obstructionism, of course. (The more intelligent people will decry it as the stupidity it is and call the sabotage attempts contemptible.)
McDonalds published a Budget Journal, which acknowledged most people working there would have to have a second job just to be able to make ends meet. The best was yet to come, though. Once looked at, everyone laughed at the impossible numbers presented in the budget, as they were also walking out on strike to try and get their wages raised. To which, even slightly off calculations say the increase in price of McDonalds food would be negligible (to the wealthy) to pay the workers there a $15 / hour wage.
If you think the United States is post-racial, or that racism is not still alive and well, compare letters from mothers to sons about United States society, and reconsider your position, please. If that doesn't convince you, perhaps Iowa Representative Steve King saying that 100 of 101 undocumented youth are drug smugglers from Mexico, a comment for which even even Jon Boehner says King's out of line and really wishes that King would stop claiming his anecdata is hard factual evidence.
The poor are systematically being taken advantage of by having their wages loaded onto prepaid cards, which carry fees even for simple things like balance checks or actually using the card. And thus, banks like JPMorgan Chase make their money and feed the wealthiest using the money from the poorest.
Last out of this section, eight women have accused the mayor of San Diego of unwanted sexual advances. With the strong likelihood that there are many more women who have received those advances and have not come forward.
In technology, you are being spied upon by scanners reading your license plate, many of which store that information for various lengths of time. And will say they're not invading your privacy because your license plate is displayed publically. Perhaps related, the DEF Con hacker convention has politely asked federal agents to stay away this year. Considering how completely the federal government has burnt any credibility they had regarding paying any attention to the law regarding surveillance, I can see why security people might want them to stay away. (And PRISM reminds us that spying on us is easier than ever because we share a lot on our social profiles.
An attempted three-dimensionally-printed rifle fired...one shot, and then was significant;y damaged. Which only means there will be another iteration. And frankly, if one wanted to use such things for nefarious purposes, it would only take one shot, assuming sufficient skill from the shooter and sufficient accuracy from the weapon. Printed weapons are likely the wave of the future.
Much happier than that, an illustrated periodic table. Many of which are really cool.
Last for tonight, the myriad reasons why people need fat acceptance. Most of them related to body image acceptance. And because not everyone is strong enough to apologize for pushing disordered eating on people in the guise of weight loss programs.
And perhaps one of the most important pieces of self-knowledge for sufferers of Impostor Syndrome. It's another variation on the duck lesson. But perhaps it will speak to you as it did to me.
For levity, the hellhound rescue, courtesy of a Paladin that speaks Abyssal.
Finally, a reminder, even in times of grief, that physics dictates and has measured that we do not disappear when we pass away, but instead become more entropic. A beautiful eulogy delivered. And a version of the cosmos, tailored specifically for us.
