It's a jumble out there.
Oct. 17th, 2006 03:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptYet another late-night posting. These need to stop, but apparently the "interesting-times" curse is up and running at full force. This is not a good sign to have running parallel to your projects starting to appear. Hopefully, it all resolves and sorts out nicely, but this time, it's going to take the cooperation of others to do that, and I'm not entirely sure they're all on board for it.
In links: Rampaging weather ahoy - after the quakes in Hawai'i, we get the monsoons on Texas, with tornadoes and flooding and the like.
Following forward from the article of last night, the Dems are going for the pretteh factor. Yet another thing to vote for, rather than issues.
The "stupid criminals" file gains another entry - a would-be thief's robbery is foiled when the clerk realizes his gun is a toy.
Transforming costumes. Pretty neat. Question is, will they do that with someone inside, and can that person stay inside it without contortionist problems? From what's there - apparently, the answer is yes. Which means extra props for the designer and those that use the costume.
I pop an eye at this particular piece, because of the writing style. If someone could find something in a little less familiar, it's be fantastic. But apparently Secret Service are harassing teens over Myspace pages. On more serious notes, an American member of Al-Qaeda is charged with treason, and an attorney is given 28 months jail time for helping a sheik pass massages.
The next time you go to see some terra-cotta soldiers, check carefully. Some of them might be pregnant. That's right - pregnant terra-cotta soldiers. War costs more than just men.
Net-users will defend themselves when threatened. Here's a little bit about net neutrality that demonstrates that protective instinct.
A Colombian television show tackles an issue that a lot of girls in the U.S. might want to see - is getting bigger boobs a ticket to happiness?
Last call is a pairwise for tonight, putting together two seemingly disparate things - The making of a Zombie Culture, which says that television and mass media conspire to keep the populace ignorant and hypnotised, rather than well-informed, and a poll where 81% of those polled think the government is hiding or lying to the people about foreknowledge of 9/11. Is that a result of the media coverage, that's starting to shift into the consciousness that not everything is necessarily all the way true (but it was done for good reasons), or the populace running into alternate sources and informing themselves of the things that don't make sense?
Right. Too early in the morning for more, so bed now.
In links: Rampaging weather ahoy - after the quakes in Hawai'i, we get the monsoons on Texas, with tornadoes and flooding and the like.
Following forward from the article of last night, the Dems are going for the pretteh factor. Yet another thing to vote for, rather than issues.
The "stupid criminals" file gains another entry - a would-be thief's robbery is foiled when the clerk realizes his gun is a toy.
Transforming costumes. Pretty neat. Question is, will they do that with someone inside, and can that person stay inside it without contortionist problems? From what's there - apparently, the answer is yes. Which means extra props for the designer and those that use the costume.
I pop an eye at this particular piece, because of the writing style. If someone could find something in a little less familiar, it's be fantastic. But apparently Secret Service are harassing teens over Myspace pages. On more serious notes, an American member of Al-Qaeda is charged with treason, and an attorney is given 28 months jail time for helping a sheik pass massages.
The next time you go to see some terra-cotta soldiers, check carefully. Some of them might be pregnant. That's right - pregnant terra-cotta soldiers. War costs more than just men.
Net-users will defend themselves when threatened. Here's a little bit about net neutrality that demonstrates that protective instinct.
A Colombian television show tackles an issue that a lot of girls in the U.S. might want to see - is getting bigger boobs a ticket to happiness?
Last call is a pairwise for tonight, putting together two seemingly disparate things - The making of a Zombie Culture, which says that television and mass media conspire to keep the populace ignorant and hypnotised, rather than well-informed, and a poll where 81% of those polled think the government is hiding or lying to the people about foreknowledge of 9/11. Is that a result of the media coverage, that's starting to shift into the consciousness that not everything is necessarily all the way true (but it was done for good reasons), or the populace running into alternate sources and informing themselves of the things that don't make sense?
Right. Too early in the morning for more, so bed now.
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Date: 2006-10-17 05:38 pm (UTC)http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/38768.html
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Date: 2006-10-17 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 10:26 pm (UTC)I was, however, amused by:
According to reports, the Secret Service agents – apparently huge MySpace fans
But I digress. The reporter definitly spoke their own opinion in that news article, and we were always taught (and this goes for all 3 Penn State campus' whose paper staff I was on) that your opinion belongs in the Op/Ed section, and the only opinion in a news report should be the opinion of the people being interviewed.
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Date: 2006-10-17 10:30 pm (UTC)Do you think this has any effect on Bush's approval ratings? I beleive (And please, correct me if i'm wrong) that his current aproval rating is in the low 30%'s right now. I'm interested in what your opinion on that is....and if i've missed it....oooops.
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Date: 2006-10-18 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-17 10:38 pm (UTC)I'm trying to decide if that series will help or hinder young girls. Will they see that show and think "Oh no, I don't want that to happen to me!" or will they watch it and think "hey, there's the idea!". It's kind of like that boob-twin meme that was around LJ last week. Sure, I took the quiz and posted my results, but I quickly took it down, after I realized that it wasn't just a "silly" meme, it was honestly a meme designed to seriously compare your chest to those of famous people. Someone who saw the meme briefly posted on my LJ actually went as far as to figure out what size my chest was, then compliment me on it. Were I a younger girl who was compared to a less-endowed celebrity, I think I might have gotten upset by it. it's absltely horrible that girls ANYWHERE in the world think that they need bigger boobs to be succesful or to "get out of dodge", as it were. Really, if those girls would perhaps focus more on their education than the size of their jugs, they mught still be able to make a difference in their lives.