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And thus, beware, for the news comes, and it is either a timesuck or a great summary. There were debates tonight, but I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to them.
To spiral back into the past, into a simpler time, and to relive some potentially very awful music, the number one song on the Billboard charts at X date in history. Find out what was popular when you were too young to realize what kind of (potential) trash it was.
Wash your damn hands, as research taken in the United Kingdom indicates that several travelers bring some of their own fecal bacteria with them.
The nation of Qatar is offering itself as a place to hold a conference to end the Darfur conflict, after having brokered a big peace deal recently. Syria and Lebanon have established normal diplomatic ties with each other, ending six decades of official non-recognition of each other.
Domestically, they knew. Despite any spin, talking point, or administration denial that appears from this point forward, the CIA and the top brass of the Bush Administration were aware of and endorsed the use of torture against captured persons. For he time, I’m betting that’s a flagrant violation of treaties and domestic law. For such high crimes, the Congress should move to impeach George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, and any other official involved in this that they have the power to serve impeachment against.
The successor to Mark Foley involved in his own mistress scandal, with payoffs and all?
Sex offenders in Maryland are required this Halloween to display an orange pumpkin blazoned with "No Candy At This Residence", stay at home, keep their lights off and not answer the door. So, they’d be perfect targets for the trick types looking for a yard or a house to damage, and this is because, according to the state, parents are concerned about sex offenders in their neighborhood when it’s trick-or-treat time. And while it certainly alerts the parents and shows places for them to avoid, if they’re skeeved, it also paints a bright orange target for crusader parents and for those who love to gossip and stigmatize. “Oh, did you see that your neighbor has one of the pumpkins? I wonder what he was convicted for? Didn’t I see him looking at your Suzie strangely yesterday? I looked him up on the registry, and he was convicted for diddling children/exposing himself to women/soliciting prostitutes. What a pervert. I don’t want him near any of MY children.” and so forth.
Can someone live on $25 a week for food? Barely. So, how about those social programs? And, of course, if one wants, there’s church charity as well, but depending on the aggressiveness and angle of the noses of the church, that may not be worth the hassle. Any President who can solve “Peace, Land, Bread” and get the country to buy into it will be hailed as a genius.
In opinions, a new perspective in the economic situation - for someone young, with no savings and investments, no house, and the usual crush of student debt, the financial crisis will likely pass them by unharmed. There will be some consequences, like it being tougher to get jobs and raises, but even as the economy tanks, the student loan interest rates go down. There is some grain of truth to it, though - not owning a house nor having a mortgage and just dealing with my student debt, with no investments to speak of, then it’s pretty easy for me to say, “Well, talk to me when you’ve got it sorted out. Although, with the way you’re spending my tax money, it sounds like you need the refresher course on income versus expenditures”.
Joe Bageant has an Anonymous Philosopher writing about how the religious right understands the culture, and how liberal progressives could crush the religious right if they wanted to make some changes, by finding a way to acknowledge and put to use the criticism of passive consumer non-sacrifice-requiring culture that the religious right has, and then marrying it to an economic system that works to erase the differences and things that generate the class gap in today’s society. By doing so, those who claim both that what the market does produces the ills of the society can be divorced from those who support that free market because it’s profitable to them. The conservative coalition collapses as social conservatives turn on economic conservatives and the progressive option looks pretty good. Control the nonrational factors, it appears, and you can control the populace, for good or for ill.
More doom-by-association attacks against Senator Obama - ACORN, for which the Senator worked for some time ago, draws ire for having taxpayer dollars funding it through grants, even as the organization reports violations that it found, attributing them to the work of individuals trying to cheat for their pay, rather than any sort of organizational corruption (at least, according to Mr. Olbermann or Ms. Maddow. I forget whom, but Jezebel comes through in the clutch with an article about how McCain is trying to scapegoat ACORN and Obama with it), and the unfortunate consequences of being required by law to send in all their registrations, whether they suspect bogus ones are there with the good or not. For the WSJ, though, this is supposedly systematic subversion of the election law, so they want investigations. The Media Circus takes a look at an Obama working for ACORN lawusit under the Community Reinvestment Act that, according to them, helped contribute to the current housing crisis. From that, of course, it’s a short leap to saying that Obama is totally corrupt and would force more of the same on the American populace, and he’s totally unfit for office because he believed in the idea of home ownership for all. As it turns out, yes, credit given to people who couldn’t necessarily repay it, but it’s also likely that the companies were trying to make more profit than they really could afford to on someone.
David Horsey's editorial cartoons sums up a lot of the misleading messages and narrative about Senator Obama. And then, some imagery indicating the possible solution those kinds of people have thought up to the "problem". The person who generated the graphic attempts to defend himself, saying, it's exactly the same thing that liberals are doing to Sarah Palin! Or to John McCain, if one looks at the Halloween decoration that has Senator Obama chased by Senator McCain in a KKK robe and hood. Such liberal hypocrisy! They’re inflaming the race issue! Some of our candidate supporters are encouraging the waterboarding of the Senator, as well as comparing him to Osama bin Laden, thinking he’s an “Arab” or a “Muslim terrorist”, our vice presidential candidate has said he pals around with terrorists, our presidential candidate has run a long string of attacks asking the question as to who the “real” Barack Obama is, and the campaign sinks itself to new lows trying to lure voters who are going to be repulsed by the depths to which the campaign is sinking, but you, you liberals, you’re accusing us of being racists, and we’re clearly not! And any time you attack Sarah Palin because she’s confused when off her teleprompter, when she evades questions or answers them in her folksy but unqualified way, or for her anti-woman positions, you’re engaging in exactly the same level of hateful rhetoric that we’re clearly not doing. You’re being racist and sexist and that’s worse than anything we’ve ever done or implied the whole time.
Whew. After all of that, I think I need some laughs. Check out Yes we Can (Hold Babies) for some choice poses of how the “shake hands, kiss babies” part of politics works in practice.
In the science realms, more people are using drugs to boost their brain capacities, asnd according to a new UCLA study, web surfing and searching helps to keep older brains active. Also, Virtual reality training getting better and better, so those HMDs and “The World” will probably be not too far behind.
At the end, cheap souveneirs replace actual landmarks, and several times around - dumb names for web 2.0 startups, a list of the less intelligent names, some domain names that needed some additional thought, and some web app names that shouldn't make the cut, and what we thought about this stuff two years ago.
And thus, beware, for the news comes, and it is either a timesuck or a great summary. There were debates tonight, but I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to them.
To spiral back into the past, into a simpler time, and to relive some potentially very awful music, the number one song on the Billboard charts at X date in history. Find out what was popular when you were too young to realize what kind of (potential) trash it was.
Wash your damn hands, as research taken in the United Kingdom indicates that several travelers bring some of their own fecal bacteria with them.
The nation of Qatar is offering itself as a place to hold a conference to end the Darfur conflict, after having brokered a big peace deal recently. Syria and Lebanon have established normal diplomatic ties with each other, ending six decades of official non-recognition of each other.
Domestically, they knew. Despite any spin, talking point, or administration denial that appears from this point forward, the CIA and the top brass of the Bush Administration were aware of and endorsed the use of torture against captured persons. For he time, I’m betting that’s a flagrant violation of treaties and domestic law. For such high crimes, the Congress should move to impeach George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, and any other official involved in this that they have the power to serve impeachment against.
The successor to Mark Foley involved in his own mistress scandal, with payoffs and all?
Sex offenders in Maryland are required this Halloween to display an orange pumpkin blazoned with "No Candy At This Residence", stay at home, keep their lights off and not answer the door. So, they’d be perfect targets for the trick types looking for a yard or a house to damage, and this is because, according to the state, parents are concerned about sex offenders in their neighborhood when it’s trick-or-treat time. And while it certainly alerts the parents and shows places for them to avoid, if they’re skeeved, it also paints a bright orange target for crusader parents and for those who love to gossip and stigmatize. “Oh, did you see that your neighbor has one of the pumpkins? I wonder what he was convicted for? Didn’t I see him looking at your Suzie strangely yesterday? I looked him up on the registry, and he was convicted for diddling children/exposing himself to women/soliciting prostitutes. What a pervert. I don’t want him near any of MY children.” and so forth.
Can someone live on $25 a week for food? Barely. So, how about those social programs? And, of course, if one wants, there’s church charity as well, but depending on the aggressiveness and angle of the noses of the church, that may not be worth the hassle. Any President who can solve “Peace, Land, Bread” and get the country to buy into it will be hailed as a genius.
In opinions, a new perspective in the economic situation - for someone young, with no savings and investments, no house, and the usual crush of student debt, the financial crisis will likely pass them by unharmed. There will be some consequences, like it being tougher to get jobs and raises, but even as the economy tanks, the student loan interest rates go down. There is some grain of truth to it, though - not owning a house nor having a mortgage and just dealing with my student debt, with no investments to speak of, then it’s pretty easy for me to say, “Well, talk to me when you’ve got it sorted out. Although, with the way you’re spending my tax money, it sounds like you need the refresher course on income versus expenditures”.
Joe Bageant has an Anonymous Philosopher writing about how the religious right understands the culture, and how liberal progressives could crush the religious right if they wanted to make some changes, by finding a way to acknowledge and put to use the criticism of passive consumer non-sacrifice-requiring culture that the religious right has, and then marrying it to an economic system that works to erase the differences and things that generate the class gap in today’s society. By doing so, those who claim both that what the market does produces the ills of the society can be divorced from those who support that free market because it’s profitable to them. The conservative coalition collapses as social conservatives turn on economic conservatives and the progressive option looks pretty good. Control the nonrational factors, it appears, and you can control the populace, for good or for ill.
More doom-by-association attacks against Senator Obama - ACORN, for which the Senator worked for some time ago, draws ire for having taxpayer dollars funding it through grants, even as the organization reports violations that it found, attributing them to the work of individuals trying to cheat for their pay, rather than any sort of organizational corruption (at least, according to Mr. Olbermann or Ms. Maddow. I forget whom, but Jezebel comes through in the clutch with an article about how McCain is trying to scapegoat ACORN and Obama with it), and the unfortunate consequences of being required by law to send in all their registrations, whether they suspect bogus ones are there with the good or not. For the WSJ, though, this is supposedly systematic subversion of the election law, so they want investigations. The Media Circus takes a look at an Obama working for ACORN lawusit under the Community Reinvestment Act that, according to them, helped contribute to the current housing crisis. From that, of course, it’s a short leap to saying that Obama is totally corrupt and would force more of the same on the American populace, and he’s totally unfit for office because he believed in the idea of home ownership for all. As it turns out, yes, credit given to people who couldn’t necessarily repay it, but it’s also likely that the companies were trying to make more profit than they really could afford to on someone.
David Horsey's editorial cartoons sums up a lot of the misleading messages and narrative about Senator Obama. And then, some imagery indicating the possible solution those kinds of people have thought up to the "problem". The person who generated the graphic attempts to defend himself, saying, it's exactly the same thing that liberals are doing to Sarah Palin! Or to John McCain, if one looks at the Halloween decoration that has Senator Obama chased by Senator McCain in a KKK robe and hood. Such liberal hypocrisy! They’re inflaming the race issue! Some of our candidate supporters are encouraging the waterboarding of the Senator, as well as comparing him to Osama bin Laden, thinking he’s an “Arab” or a “Muslim terrorist”, our vice presidential candidate has said he pals around with terrorists, our presidential candidate has run a long string of attacks asking the question as to who the “real” Barack Obama is, and the campaign sinks itself to new lows trying to lure voters who are going to be repulsed by the depths to which the campaign is sinking, but you, you liberals, you’re accusing us of being racists, and we’re clearly not! And any time you attack Sarah Palin because she’s confused when off her teleprompter, when she evades questions or answers them in her folksy but unqualified way, or for her anti-woman positions, you’re engaging in exactly the same level of hateful rhetoric that we’re clearly not doing. You’re being racist and sexist and that’s worse than anything we’ve ever done or implied the whole time.
Whew. After all of that, I think I need some laughs. Check out Yes we Can (Hold Babies) for some choice poses of how the “shake hands, kiss babies” part of politics works in practice.
In the science realms, more people are using drugs to boost their brain capacities, asnd according to a new UCLA study, web surfing and searching helps to keep older brains active. Also, Virtual reality training getting better and better, so those HMDs and “The World” will probably be not too far behind.
At the end, cheap souveneirs replace actual landmarks, and several times around - dumb names for web 2.0 startups, a list of the less intelligent names, some domain names that needed some additional thought, and some web app names that shouldn't make the cut, and what we thought about this stuff two years ago.
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Date: 2008-10-16 05:30 pm (UTC)Of course, it helps that I know how to cook, have lots of time for prepwork and I'm really good at seeing a sale at the market and figuring out a week's menu based on the best deals. Give me $100 and I'll write a full list of menus for 3 meals a day, 28 days and it'll be healthy, too.
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Date: 2008-10-16 06:33 pm (UTC)Here's a brilliant idea. If you're going to let your kid participate in trick-or-treating, why don't you walk to the fucking door with them?