![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptShort week, taxing week, it’s over, at least for a little bit, and then there’s working on the weekend. So let’s dive right in. Although, we may need to make a quick trip to the bathroom for some toilet entertainment, like the Pee Goal, bringing interactivity to urination. If that wasn’t quite your thing, maybe the dinosaur made of balloons will work?
My professional self is flaming mad at the original decision, since overturned on appeal, to deny an asylum-seeker entry to the United States based upon what a Wikipedia article said about the document she was presenting. This goes back to basic biblio instruction, one of those Things You Should Have Learned In School, Even If You Weren’t Paying Attention. Always vet your source and check their credibility. Wikipedia is great for start points and jumpings-off, but it is not and never really will be an authoritative source because of its “everyone-can-edit” nature. considering the addition or deletion of a letter or two can change a statement from true to false, there’s always a high possibility that the material in Wikipedia is not 100% accurate. To then base a decision for asylum mostly on that is enough that I don’t merely point and say “Stu-pid”, I make sure the anvils hit their targets. Stupid, stupid government creature.
And then, well, there’s what very well may have been the single most tasteless thing done to date in a Presidential campaign this year. First, The Boston Globe, in text, about the video materials to come, for which the question "Did they just cross a line?" is answered with a resounding Yes. As it turns out, the partisan campaign video endorsing McCain at the RNC shamelessly replays the video of the 11 September tragedy for political purposes. The current administrator was certainly not above doing this in the aftermath of the event, and it appears the party is still more than willing to try and use it for their own purposes. And that’s without the bit at the beginning linking the Iranian revolution that deposed the shah and Osama bin Laden to the footage that follows, probably as an attempt to make us think that Iran was really behind 9/11, so we’ll go invade them next.
Intenrational affairs begin with a confirmed raid by NATO forces in Pakistan, marking the first time the border has been officially crossed by NATO troops. ‘S not the full-scale invasion thing... yet? Plus, recommendations to keep more troops in Iraq than projected (shock), even as some conservatives call for troops to be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan, and Condoleezza Rice visits Libya.
Remembering that life is different elsewhere, we have such tidbits as a question in Saudi Arabia on whether it is permissibile to celebrate a birthday with a party, and continued religious violence in a province of India.
Domestically, the economy is doing just fine, thank you, because we haven't actually had negative growth yet, or so we’re told. Although, I doubt the fine citizens of Detroit believe that. Considering the mayor has been dismissed after pleading guilty to felony counts, I think they have good reason to not believe all is well.
In candidate matters, Swiftboating 2.0: Media Matters Action Network lays out the map of exaggerated, misleading, and downright false, but highly popular and resilient, attacks used against Senator Obama. After the overview, there’s the Venn Diagram of things, accompanied by the explanations of the attacks, and the actual truth, in the fact sheet.
We hope the McCain family feels good about the current administration's tax breaks, as they pretty well paid for one outfit worn by Cindy McCain at the convention. So who’s trying to fool who about looking out for the working and middle classes again? Positioning yourself as a moderate or postpartisan after your VP selection won't work, either, Senator McCain. And would the candidates stop using music that they didn't get permission for, seriously?
In some ways, the pick of Palin might work to McCain’s advantage, because right now, tehre’s a storm of stuff both positive and negative going around about her.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dogemperor is, well, dogged in his pursuit of proving that Palni will do anything in her power to bring about the Dominionist vision, based on past actions as a Mayor and Governor.
The Rebel Yell finds Palin's speechmaking less than informative and very unexciting, andflutterbychild reminds us that community organizers can be quite the experienced hands, even as John Fund believes it was energizing to the conservative base, and well done enough that liberals couldn't attack it, while Daniel Henninger thinks that Palin will be attacked because she doesn't fit the liberal mold of "successful women", with her conservative views and the methods of her rise to power, because she is everything modern feminism says she shouldn't be, because she’s pretty, supermom, doesn’t hold feminist views, and has been nominated to potentially be the vice president, while Hillary’s run for President stalled out. Well, if the Jezebel crew is on target, it’s because Palin represents everything that's wrong with high school politics, writ large, by being the pretty girl who’s a snot in personality that nonetheless ends up winning all the popularity contests and succeeds despite all the things in her personality and stated positions that work against her. Many are screaming, “It’s a mask! Tear it off and see what’s underneath” while they worry that others will be entranced by it and never look deeper. To that end, Gloria Steinam dismisses Governor Palin as the wrong woman with the wrong message to appeal to women voters looking for a good women’s issues candidate. Maybe Palin’s success and media scorn is because she's the next Ronald Reagan, apparently, and can put the smack down on the "elites" as Reagan did, sounds just like the average American mother while demolishing the parts of the GOP that have grown soft, complacent, and dependent on earmarks.
In other opinions, The WSJ praises Joe Lieberman for sticking to his principles, including his support of the Iraq invasion, Andrew Wilson compares Senator Obama unfavorably to former Prime Minster Thatcher, Jeffrey Imm plays up Terror under the guise of Islam and predicts grave consequences for the UK if they ignore it, because apparently, the United Kingdom erfuses to acknowledge the threat they face and won’t call it what it is. Is that before or after the expansion of surveillance and police powers, sir?
Out in the places where science and technology rule, the possibility that 68 molecules generate all the important components of cells, more proof that decentralized resources work effectively, whether for good or for evil, and designing robots to fit the expectations of the people that encounter them.
Significant discovery of the brain is that remembering is like reliving, with refiring of some of the neurons involved in the original incident, and, even more, we tend to replay our emotional highs and hurts much moer than our physical ones. So it’s really pretty easy to drive yourself into the ground and feel worthless, because one social mess-up recalls others, and then you’re stuck reliving all of them, with just as much hurt as when they were fresh.
Also significant, although rather obvious, is that musical tastes reflect personality, which means that those who enjoy music constructed from mathematical patterns and randomness... well, I don’t know what it says about them.
Last for tonight, the mindset of the incoming college students. All sorts of changes, yet many things still stay the same. And a highly unfortunate coincidence of positions.
My professional self is flaming mad at the original decision, since overturned on appeal, to deny an asylum-seeker entry to the United States based upon what a Wikipedia article said about the document she was presenting. This goes back to basic biblio instruction, one of those Things You Should Have Learned In School, Even If You Weren’t Paying Attention. Always vet your source and check their credibility. Wikipedia is great for start points and jumpings-off, but it is not and never really will be an authoritative source because of its “everyone-can-edit” nature. considering the addition or deletion of a letter or two can change a statement from true to false, there’s always a high possibility that the material in Wikipedia is not 100% accurate. To then base a decision for asylum mostly on that is enough that I don’t merely point and say “Stu-pid”, I make sure the anvils hit their targets. Stupid, stupid government creature.
And then, well, there’s what very well may have been the single most tasteless thing done to date in a Presidential campaign this year. First, The Boston Globe, in text, about the video materials to come, for which the question "Did they just cross a line?" is answered with a resounding Yes. As it turns out, the partisan campaign video endorsing McCain at the RNC shamelessly replays the video of the 11 September tragedy for political purposes. The current administrator was certainly not above doing this in the aftermath of the event, and it appears the party is still more than willing to try and use it for their own purposes. And that’s without the bit at the beginning linking the Iranian revolution that deposed the shah and Osama bin Laden to the footage that follows, probably as an attempt to make us think that Iran was really behind 9/11, so we’ll go invade them next.
Intenrational affairs begin with a confirmed raid by NATO forces in Pakistan, marking the first time the border has been officially crossed by NATO troops. ‘S not the full-scale invasion thing... yet? Plus, recommendations to keep more troops in Iraq than projected (shock), even as some conservatives call for troops to be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan, and Condoleezza Rice visits Libya.
Remembering that life is different elsewhere, we have such tidbits as a question in Saudi Arabia on whether it is permissibile to celebrate a birthday with a party, and continued religious violence in a province of India.
Domestically, the economy is doing just fine, thank you, because we haven't actually had negative growth yet, or so we’re told. Although, I doubt the fine citizens of Detroit believe that. Considering the mayor has been dismissed after pleading guilty to felony counts, I think they have good reason to not believe all is well.
In candidate matters, Swiftboating 2.0: Media Matters Action Network lays out the map of exaggerated, misleading, and downright false, but highly popular and resilient, attacks used against Senator Obama. After the overview, there’s the Venn Diagram of things, accompanied by the explanations of the attacks, and the actual truth, in the fact sheet.
We hope the McCain family feels good about the current administration's tax breaks, as they pretty well paid for one outfit worn by Cindy McCain at the convention. So who’s trying to fool who about looking out for the working and middle classes again? Positioning yourself as a moderate or postpartisan after your VP selection won't work, either, Senator McCain. And would the candidates stop using music that they didn't get permission for, seriously?
In some ways, the pick of Palin might work to McCain’s advantage, because right now, tehre’s a storm of stuff both positive and negative going around about her.
dogemperor is, well, dogged in his pursuit of proving that Palni will do anything in her power to bring about the Dominionist vision, based on past actions as a Mayor and Governor.The Rebel Yell finds Palin's speechmaking less than informative and very unexciting, and
flutterbychild reminds us that community organizers can be quite the experienced hands, even as John Fund believes it was energizing to the conservative base, and well done enough that liberals couldn't attack it, while Daniel Henninger thinks that Palin will be attacked because she doesn't fit the liberal mold of "successful women", with her conservative views and the methods of her rise to power, because she is everything modern feminism says she shouldn't be, because she’s pretty, supermom, doesn’t hold feminist views, and has been nominated to potentially be the vice president, while Hillary’s run for President stalled out. Well, if the Jezebel crew is on target, it’s because Palin represents everything that's wrong with high school politics, writ large, by being the pretty girl who’s a snot in personality that nonetheless ends up winning all the popularity contests and succeeds despite all the things in her personality and stated positions that work against her. Many are screaming, “It’s a mask! Tear it off and see what’s underneath” while they worry that others will be entranced by it and never look deeper. To that end, Gloria Steinam dismisses Governor Palin as the wrong woman with the wrong message to appeal to women voters looking for a good women’s issues candidate. Maybe Palin’s success and media scorn is because she's the next Ronald Reagan, apparently, and can put the smack down on the "elites" as Reagan did, sounds just like the average American mother while demolishing the parts of the GOP that have grown soft, complacent, and dependent on earmarks.In other opinions, The WSJ praises Joe Lieberman for sticking to his principles, including his support of the Iraq invasion, Andrew Wilson compares Senator Obama unfavorably to former Prime Minster Thatcher, Jeffrey Imm plays up Terror under the guise of Islam and predicts grave consequences for the UK if they ignore it, because apparently, the United Kingdom erfuses to acknowledge the threat they face and won’t call it what it is. Is that before or after the expansion of surveillance and police powers, sir?
Out in the places where science and technology rule, the possibility that 68 molecules generate all the important components of cells, more proof that decentralized resources work effectively, whether for good or for evil, and designing robots to fit the expectations of the people that encounter them.
Significant discovery of the brain is that remembering is like reliving, with refiring of some of the neurons involved in the original incident, and, even more, we tend to replay our emotional highs and hurts much moer than our physical ones. So it’s really pretty easy to drive yourself into the ground and feel worthless, because one social mess-up recalls others, and then you’re stuck reliving all of them, with just as much hurt as when they were fresh.
Also significant, although rather obvious, is that musical tastes reflect personality, which means that those who enjoy music constructed from mathematical patterns and randomness... well, I don’t know what it says about them.
Last for tonight, the mindset of the incoming college students. All sorts of changes, yet many things still stay the same. And a highly unfortunate coincidence of positions.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-09-06 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-06 02:05 pm (UTC)