Time crunch post - 25 January 2008
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silveradeptPosting this in between thinking and making dinner. It’s a neat concept, but really, I suggest something else where possible. Anyway, onward to that which appears to be news.
Impeach the bastards, already. Not only have they made demonstrably false statements about war and weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Bush ignores the original context of an illustration in favor of his own interpretation. Kind of like what he’s done with the Constitution, and the Bible he claims to follow. (Oddly enough, despite their pro-life stances, many Republican candidates seem unwilling to up in front of antichoice rallies and address the crowds.) The Bible will probably earn him a smiting somewhere, but doing that to the Constitution generally constitutes a violation of the oath he swore when he came into office. If that wasn’t bad enough, even with our current military being overtaxed, Mr. Bush offered to send some troops to Pakistan if requested. I’m assuming that this had nothing officially to do with Pakistan's test-firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
Mr. Bush might grasp at some straws offered by the agent that interrogated Saddam Hussein, saying that the Iraqi dictator hid the fact that he had no WMD to stop Iran from invading, and that he had no idea that Mr. Bush would go on the ground and knock him over. At the same time, he was boasting about how he eluded the United States’ capture for so long.
And if we thought there would be travel relief any time soon, after the general lack of airline attacks, it is not to be. The Homeland Security chief still thinks terrorists want to blow up planes and airports, so the continued arbitrary paranoia will continue, soon to be aided by REAL ID grousing.
The stimulus package that passed the House is being touted as "bipartisanship" and "cooperation" between the Democratic and Republican members of the legislature. Yep. Having long since lost the ability and the mandate to steamroll, as the populace had hoped they would, the majority Democrats are continuing on their old path - sniveling and touting cooperation.
The science department leads with an infra-red helmet that hopes to be able to reverse the degeneration of Alzheimer's. Well, we’ll watch and see. One of these treatments is bound to work and be generally applicable. Significantly weirder than infra-red helmets is the liver transplant recipient that took on the immune system of her donor. Stem cells went to the marrow, the immune system replicated that of the donor, so no need for antirejection drugs. The doctors involved are obviously very interested to see if they can replicate the process and figure out why it happened. They may want to talk with the doctors that have created a synthetic genome if the genome-creators are able to successfully implant and keep the cell running on the synthetic genome. Last out of science is something that I can’t make complete sense of, and neither could the comment squad at io9 - a gigantic structure with trees and solar panels that appears to provide power and possibly cleaner air to Madrid. Is that a fair assessment of the device, or is there something else going on here?
Instructive dos and dont's with babies. For some of us, this is a needed training manual. Speaking of children, Truthout has a column from earlier in the month about a growing practice of surrogate motherhood in Third World countries - while the money those surrogates make is much more than they would normally, there’s something that’s just wrong about outsourcing the raising of children. Especially with plenty of children here to adopt. Have some pictures of some of the surrogates.
Keeping in the theme, sort of, Curious George has a child interested in seeing nude bodies, and wants to know where good kid-friendly nakedness could be found. It’s a lot of good
Bat mating season delays interstate construction. I wouldn’t want to get in the way of 20,000 bats, either, and especially not when they’re in the process of munching up all those bugs that will aggravate me in the daytime and night.
Last for tonight is a great bit of hilarity - music for everyone. Those with musical training will probably find some of the more obscure ones very funny.
And with that, we disappear for the night.
Impeach the bastards, already. Not only have they made demonstrably false statements about war and weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Bush ignores the original context of an illustration in favor of his own interpretation. Kind of like what he’s done with the Constitution, and the Bible he claims to follow. (Oddly enough, despite their pro-life stances, many Republican candidates seem unwilling to up in front of antichoice rallies and address the crowds.) The Bible will probably earn him a smiting somewhere, but doing that to the Constitution generally constitutes a violation of the oath he swore when he came into office. If that wasn’t bad enough, even with our current military being overtaxed, Mr. Bush offered to send some troops to Pakistan if requested. I’m assuming that this had nothing officially to do with Pakistan's test-firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
Mr. Bush might grasp at some straws offered by the agent that interrogated Saddam Hussein, saying that the Iraqi dictator hid the fact that he had no WMD to stop Iran from invading, and that he had no idea that Mr. Bush would go on the ground and knock him over. At the same time, he was boasting about how he eluded the United States’ capture for so long.
And if we thought there would be travel relief any time soon, after the general lack of airline attacks, it is not to be. The Homeland Security chief still thinks terrorists want to blow up planes and airports, so the continued arbitrary paranoia will continue, soon to be aided by REAL ID grousing.
The stimulus package that passed the House is being touted as "bipartisanship" and "cooperation" between the Democratic and Republican members of the legislature. Yep. Having long since lost the ability and the mandate to steamroll, as the populace had hoped they would, the majority Democrats are continuing on their old path - sniveling and touting cooperation.
The science department leads with an infra-red helmet that hopes to be able to reverse the degeneration of Alzheimer's. Well, we’ll watch and see. One of these treatments is bound to work and be generally applicable. Significantly weirder than infra-red helmets is the liver transplant recipient that took on the immune system of her donor. Stem cells went to the marrow, the immune system replicated that of the donor, so no need for antirejection drugs. The doctors involved are obviously very interested to see if they can replicate the process and figure out why it happened. They may want to talk with the doctors that have created a synthetic genome if the genome-creators are able to successfully implant and keep the cell running on the synthetic genome. Last out of science is something that I can’t make complete sense of, and neither could the comment squad at io9 - a gigantic structure with trees and solar panels that appears to provide power and possibly cleaner air to Madrid. Is that a fair assessment of the device, or is there something else going on here?
Instructive dos and dont's with babies. For some of us, this is a needed training manual. Speaking of children, Truthout has a column from earlier in the month about a growing practice of surrogate motherhood in Third World countries - while the money those surrogates make is much more than they would normally, there’s something that’s just wrong about outsourcing the raising of children. Especially with plenty of children here to adopt. Have some pictures of some of the surrogates.
Keeping in the theme, sort of, Curious George has a child interested in seeing nude bodies, and wants to know where good kid-friendly nakedness could be found. It’s a lot of good
Bat mating season delays interstate construction. I wouldn’t want to get in the way of 20,000 bats, either, and especially not when they’re in the process of munching up all those bugs that will aggravate me in the daytime and night.
Last for tonight is a great bit of hilarity - music for everyone. Those with musical training will probably find some of the more obscure ones very funny.
And with that, we disappear for the night.
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Date: 2008-01-26 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-28 08:45 pm (UTC)Oddly enough, the book that the instructive baby pictures come from is a book I bought for a friend of mine about a year ago. I picked it up and could not stop laughing. I feel it's a must-have for all new parents. And babysitters.
And I like the intellectual humor of the music for everyone bit, but I wasn't such a fan of the racial jokes (like "Chinese"). It is a funny bit, why did they have to go ruining it like that? Sigh.
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Date: 2008-01-28 09:42 pm (UTC)With regard to the music jokes, well, it is "Music for Everyone", so maybe "everyone" includes people who find racial jokes funny.
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Date: 2008-01-30 11:19 am (UTC)That was pretty much what I was referring to: he was trying to show enough evidence make his local enemies believe he still had them while making sure there wasn't anything the UN could find that would justify an invasion. So he stuffs the weapons inspectors around and makes it look like he's hiding something... when there's actually nothing to hide except for the fact that there's nothing to hide. After all, if there was something he was actually keeping, there would be the chance someone would stumble on it and the game would be up.
It's something I've suspected since it started to become clear that he didn't have weapons in the first place, although I'd admit I'd thought he was more worried about his own population than Iran.
Of course, we all know how that strategy turned out...
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Date: 2008-01-30 03:15 pm (UTC)