Happy Solstice, everyone - 21 June 2008
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silveradeptIt being far too late on account of Awesome and fun had today, there will probably not be much for commentary on this newsposting.
Happy S.O.S.A.D. - appreciate your orange snack today.
Hezbollah striking outside the Middle East?, while Israel is running war exercises that look to be really useful in case of attacking Iran, but we should be happy, because Iraqi oil pipelines aren't blowing up quite so much. The E.U. wants to fingerprint every visitor entering their domain, the Large Hadron Collider is not going to rend the fabric of space-time asunder, and Americans and British are stridently denying that America is hitting the decline phase.
Ever wonder why politicians don’t say definitive things? It tends to get them in trouble with a powerful group that supports them, or further in trouble with those that oppose, and trying to damage control sometimes only makes things worse.
Sharp plant used to commit robbery, cannibal family ate chunks of seven year old, only found by neighbor picking up stray signals. In India, girl children are getting aborted and abandoned more, possibly following China’s lead without a one-child policy.
Kimberly Strassel thinks the Democrats will go back to being an actual liberal party, Andrew McBride adds one more pile-on to the "terror habeas decision is bad" viewpoint, Paul Weyrich thinks Congress is wasting time passing laws other than those related to the oil crisis, and Red Cavaney reminds us that not every field leased has oil, and not every field marked nonproducing is sitting idle.
David Glernter says that Ted Kaczynski's papers should be only viewable by FBI agents, because apparently putting them in a university collection or selling them at auction would only generate more fame for the man convicted of being the Unabomber.
The Anglican Church and the Episcopalian Church will split over the matter of homosexual clergy and civil partnerships for homosexuals. It’s too bad that instead of adapting to the new times, and being able to see homosexuals as brothers and friends in the church, the main Anglican church will leave their progressive counterparts out in the cold.
Last section - map of the galaxy. Mouseover for features of the Milky Way. Regenerate your shopping list by scanning the barcods of each item as you use it, then have groceries delivered. Wonder about green cities of the future. And ponder what would it take to turn a skeptic into a believer? Me? It’s bed time.
Happy S.O.S.A.D. - appreciate your orange snack today.
Hezbollah striking outside the Middle East?, while Israel is running war exercises that look to be really useful in case of attacking Iran, but we should be happy, because Iraqi oil pipelines aren't blowing up quite so much. The E.U. wants to fingerprint every visitor entering their domain, the Large Hadron Collider is not going to rend the fabric of space-time asunder, and Americans and British are stridently denying that America is hitting the decline phase.
Ever wonder why politicians don’t say definitive things? It tends to get them in trouble with a powerful group that supports them, or further in trouble with those that oppose, and trying to damage control sometimes only makes things worse.
Sharp plant used to commit robbery, cannibal family ate chunks of seven year old, only found by neighbor picking up stray signals. In India, girl children are getting aborted and abandoned more, possibly following China’s lead without a one-child policy.
Kimberly Strassel thinks the Democrats will go back to being an actual liberal party, Andrew McBride adds one more pile-on to the "terror habeas decision is bad" viewpoint, Paul Weyrich thinks Congress is wasting time passing laws other than those related to the oil crisis, and Red Cavaney reminds us that not every field leased has oil, and not every field marked nonproducing is sitting idle.
David Glernter says that Ted Kaczynski's papers should be only viewable by FBI agents, because apparently putting them in a university collection or selling them at auction would only generate more fame for the man convicted of being the Unabomber.
The Anglican Church and the Episcopalian Church will split over the matter of homosexual clergy and civil partnerships for homosexuals. It’s too bad that instead of adapting to the new times, and being able to see homosexuals as brothers and friends in the church, the main Anglican church will leave their progressive counterparts out in the cold.
Last section - map of the galaxy. Mouseover for features of the Milky Way. Regenerate your shopping list by scanning the barcods of each item as you use it, then have groceries delivered. Wonder about green cities of the future. And ponder what would it take to turn a skeptic into a believer? Me? It’s bed time.
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Date: 2008-06-23 02:04 pm (UTC)So very, very true. It's not actually all that surprising, when you think about it - making those predictions doesn't cost them anything, but oh the kudos if they got it right... So they make with the predictions of how the world will change when nine times out of ten, the more it changes, the more it stays the same.