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silveradeptPerhaps a little lighter on the details today, but still lots of interesting stuff arrives on the doorstep. Not always neatly packaged, though. And sometimes, I swear it’s ticking...
A new campaign will be launched in London soon - and based on the amount of donations it is getting, it could be a very wide campaign indeed - The Atheist Bus, which will put advetisements on the sides of London buses stating “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Supposedly in the course of one or two days, it has already exceeded the target goal by more than five times the stated amount. I wonder if a similar campaign would have similar successes here in the United States - a lot more ground to cover, certainly, if wanting to hit major metropolises across the nation.
Drive-through voting - an awesome concept for people who feel they don’t have more time that what it takes for that. Althoguh, admittedly, it does conjure the image of fast-food-style decision making in one’s civic obligation. Still, if it’s been thought out beforehand, the concept of being able to do the vote on one’s lunch hour at a drive-through does have some appeal. That is, assuming someone on a partisan, possibly Republican and partisan, agenda hasn't tried to steal it from you first.
The Financial Times of London believes that those against California's Proposition 8 (the "NO GAYS MARRIED HERE" amendment) are "surprised" at how many people support the measure. I don’t think that’s true. Saddened, frustrated, even possibly depressed, but not surprised. Once the California Supreme Court did the knockdown, the constitutional amendment was inevitable (but should also be reviewable by the courts even if it passes), and homosexual marriage is one of those issues where it appears a lot of people choose not to think the matter through, but to let their first personal impressions of the matter be the sole amount of thought devoted to it. From what I can guess (and Comic Philosopher-General![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ldragoon attests from her experience at phone-banking for the No on 8 cause), I feel like the Yes side is doing a lot of “well, what would happen if a homosexual hit on me (and all the implications thereof)” and “my religion says that marraige and sexual relations is for procreation, not love”, both of which seem rather odd because it would be easy to say, “Ah, no, don’t swing that way, sorry. Thanks for the compliment, though.” - because it would be one - someone else found you attractive. That it’s not a member of the gender you find attractive is details that have to be ironed out. And the majority religion in this country, based on the Christian Foundational Writings, is that its adherents are supposed to work toward their own perfection, and through that and their godly behavior, be examples to everyone else and draw them in that way. It’s a soft sell of peace, contentedness, and happiness, not a hard sell of the alternative being damnation and hellfire.
And it’s definitely not serial apostrophe abuse in an attempt to condemn just about everybody different than you as someone who loves the definite entity known as Satan. Seriously. “Emos”? “Sports nuts”? “Loud-mouthed women”? The choices here are awful even after mentally correcting for the possessive problem.
On a much more positive (and probably equally repulsive to some as homosexual marraige), a piece for the non-poly on accepting and relating well to the non-monogamous. Like exposure to any other culture, sacking one’s prejudices and assumptions and behaving as “ignorant but willing to learn” will go a long way.
In financial opinions, Aaron Friedberg and Gabriel Schoenfeld warn against America withdrawing from the world stage because of the debt crisis, but offer no suggestions on where to reduce spending, advising against removing our presence from the expensive sands of Iraq. If we withdraw and rebuild, they say, there will be a pwoer vacuum, just waiting to be filled by the problems we have now, like Russia, China, and Iran and North Korea, and dollar-backed assets will fall out of favor. So, we don’t go protectionist, but we have to cut the spending somewhere. What parts of the budget can be excised as optional until spending falls below revenues? How do you wrest control of the purse strings back from those who seek to plunder it for their own special interests?
Senator Obama receives another welfare accusation, this time from William McGurn, based on where the Senator says he will be getting the revenues for his tax credits from.
When it comes to candidates, it appears that once someone supports Senator Obama, they become transformed. From a general with high respect to someone who senses and stays with the political winds, as has happened to General and former Secretary of State Powell. It’s getting bad enough that even when the Chairman of the Federal Reserve makes noise that more economic stimulus might be a good idea, he's accused of having "all but submitted his job application to Barack Obama" and "endorsed" the Senator. Thsoe who support the Senator have had tires slashed by someone who believes strongly against them.
The worst of this lot so far has been a bear that had been shot in the back of the head dumped on Western Carolina University campus grounds covered with Obama signs. I’m not even sure what the message here is, unless someone wants to indicate they’ll do the same to the Senator if he’s elected.
Cutting and running may be the only thing struggling GOP candidates in the House can do to improve their lot.
In science and tech, a bunny visible from space, an homage to Buckminster Fuller with "buckypaper" designed to be like paper in appearance but conduct electricity and potentially be much stronger than steel, old files revealing a possible UFO incident in 1991, acknowledging that cat bites really hurt and will take chunks out of you, the eventual need to move Gaia further out to account for the expansion of Sol, indexing and making searchable video streams from surveillance drones, and always fighting off the botnets.
Artistically speaking, 40 vry creative lamp designs, many of which would be awesome to have in the home to make it more yours. Or in the library, maybe, considering how many of them have book designs or hold books. Some of them might even fit in right at home with 12 ideas for creating housing options out of freight shipping containers, which will have Mad Science Alphabet Blocks on the floor for the budding scientists.
Last for tonight, the numbers do not lie - even on average, the football coaches make lots more than even the university presidents. A little over three times more, in fact.
A new campaign will be launched in London soon - and based on the amount of donations it is getting, it could be a very wide campaign indeed - The Atheist Bus, which will put advetisements on the sides of London buses stating “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Supposedly in the course of one or two days, it has already exceeded the target goal by more than five times the stated amount. I wonder if a similar campaign would have similar successes here in the United States - a lot more ground to cover, certainly, if wanting to hit major metropolises across the nation.
Drive-through voting - an awesome concept for people who feel they don’t have more time that what it takes for that. Althoguh, admittedly, it does conjure the image of fast-food-style decision making in one’s civic obligation. Still, if it’s been thought out beforehand, the concept of being able to do the vote on one’s lunch hour at a drive-through does have some appeal. That is, assuming someone on a partisan, possibly Republican and partisan, agenda hasn't tried to steal it from you first.
The Financial Times of London believes that those against California's Proposition 8 (the "NO GAYS MARRIED HERE" amendment) are "surprised" at how many people support the measure. I don’t think that’s true. Saddened, frustrated, even possibly depressed, but not surprised. Once the California Supreme Court did the knockdown, the constitutional amendment was inevitable (but should also be reviewable by the courts even if it passes), and homosexual marriage is one of those issues where it appears a lot of people choose not to think the matter through, but to let their first personal impressions of the matter be the sole amount of thought devoted to it. From what I can guess (and Comic Philosopher-General
ldragoon attests from her experience at phone-banking for the No on 8 cause), I feel like the Yes side is doing a lot of “well, what would happen if a homosexual hit on me (and all the implications thereof)” and “my religion says that marraige and sexual relations is for procreation, not love”, both of which seem rather odd because it would be easy to say, “Ah, no, don’t swing that way, sorry. Thanks for the compliment, though.” - because it would be one - someone else found you attractive. That it’s not a member of the gender you find attractive is details that have to be ironed out. And the majority religion in this country, based on the Christian Foundational Writings, is that its adherents are supposed to work toward their own perfection, and through that and their godly behavior, be examples to everyone else and draw them in that way. It’s a soft sell of peace, contentedness, and happiness, not a hard sell of the alternative being damnation and hellfire. And it’s definitely not serial apostrophe abuse in an attempt to condemn just about everybody different than you as someone who loves the definite entity known as Satan. Seriously. “Emos”? “Sports nuts”? “Loud-mouthed women”? The choices here are awful even after mentally correcting for the possessive problem.
On a much more positive (and probably equally repulsive to some as homosexual marraige), a piece for the non-poly on accepting and relating well to the non-monogamous. Like exposure to any other culture, sacking one’s prejudices and assumptions and behaving as “ignorant but willing to learn” will go a long way.
In financial opinions, Aaron Friedberg and Gabriel Schoenfeld warn against America withdrawing from the world stage because of the debt crisis, but offer no suggestions on where to reduce spending, advising against removing our presence from the expensive sands of Iraq. If we withdraw and rebuild, they say, there will be a pwoer vacuum, just waiting to be filled by the problems we have now, like Russia, China, and Iran and North Korea, and dollar-backed assets will fall out of favor. So, we don’t go protectionist, but we have to cut the spending somewhere. What parts of the budget can be excised as optional until spending falls below revenues? How do you wrest control of the purse strings back from those who seek to plunder it for their own special interests?
Senator Obama receives another welfare accusation, this time from William McGurn, based on where the Senator says he will be getting the revenues for his tax credits from.
When it comes to candidates, it appears that once someone supports Senator Obama, they become transformed. From a general with high respect to someone who senses and stays with the political winds, as has happened to General and former Secretary of State Powell. It’s getting bad enough that even when the Chairman of the Federal Reserve makes noise that more economic stimulus might be a good idea, he's accused of having "all but submitted his job application to Barack Obama" and "endorsed" the Senator. Thsoe who support the Senator have had tires slashed by someone who believes strongly against them.
The worst of this lot so far has been a bear that had been shot in the back of the head dumped on Western Carolina University campus grounds covered with Obama signs. I’m not even sure what the message here is, unless someone wants to indicate they’ll do the same to the Senator if he’s elected.
Cutting and running may be the only thing struggling GOP candidates in the House can do to improve their lot.
In science and tech, a bunny visible from space, an homage to Buckminster Fuller with "buckypaper" designed to be like paper in appearance but conduct electricity and potentially be much stronger than steel, old files revealing a possible UFO incident in 1991, acknowledging that cat bites really hurt and will take chunks out of you, the eventual need to move Gaia further out to account for the expansion of Sol, indexing and making searchable video streams from surveillance drones, and always fighting off the botnets.
Artistically speaking, 40 vry creative lamp designs, many of which would be awesome to have in the home to make it more yours. Or in the library, maybe, considering how many of them have book designs or hold books. Some of them might even fit in right at home with 12 ideas for creating housing options out of freight shipping containers, which will have Mad Science Alphabet Blocks on the floor for the budding scientists.
Last for tonight, the numbers do not lie - even on average, the football coaches make lots more than even the university presidents. A little over three times more, in fact.
