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silveradeptOnly one more week before the votes are cast, the results counted, the results challenged, the machines found to be improperly programmed, the result standing anyway, and a new President begins the cycle anew.
Until that point, today’s offering to tide you over.
Up at the top, because I think it’s an awesome idea and that more people need to be involved in it: an advertisement for the book "Sexual Secrets for the Christian Husband", all about having a pleasing marriage bed and doing things that are both hot and exciting and Scripturally sound. Great sex, no guilt! Of course, the claims in the book might be a little bit on the outlandish side, but in general, I approve of the idea of religious couples having a good sex life. And besides, it’s an amusing read to hear someone peddling with the same kind of slick skill, just trying to get the Christians to part with their money for a sexual technique book.
International news: Syria accuses the United States of launching a helicopter-based attack in their country. At last check, there was no official comment, but anonymous sources say the attack was aimed at shutting down Syria as a pipeline for extremists to flow into other countries.
If there really is no agreement for troops in Iraq, then the United States threatens the shut down will be sudden. So get that extension through, people, says he U.S., or you get all of those responsibilities, all at once. Iraq's main Sunni party has decided to suspend contact with the United States, accusing the United States of a “hidden political motive”. Sooo, is that deal done, or not? Well, at least Iraq has more cash than they know what to do with for now.
Exhaustion for the president of Iran, released to combat the idea that something more serious might be on the way.
It is the "dryness" now in Australia, rather than the drought, because the latter term is frightening to farmers, according to a government panel.
Domestic: In the hunt to find all we could about "Joe the Plumber", was there illegal access to government records?
Ted Stevens of Tubes fame, convicted on several counts of corruption - Governor Palin has no comment on whether Stevens still gets her vote.
Long after the hurricane hit, Galveston, Texas is still not recovered completely, because things aren’t rebuilt, things aren’t restored, people aren’t coming back, and there’s not the money to do it with, either. Switching from people to animals, 7 orcas are missing from Puget Sound pods, much to the dismay of scientists there, and 8 year-old child, under parental supervision, shoots Uzi submachine gun - and kills himself accidentally. Yeah. Even with gun safety, shooting off an Uzi at eight? I’d rather he stuck to weapons that had very little chance of self-kill, even if shooting oneself.
Exorcist gets his own Sci-fi Channel reality show. He thinks it will be great to demonstrate the reality of demons and get people to talk about their own problems. I’m wondering if Sci-fi isn’t giving this a wink and a nod for people to MST3K it. Then again, they do have Ghost Hunters, too...
Political: A peek at next year's agenda for the Democrats, including reduced military spending and increases in social programs, possibly more economic stimulus.
Pennsylvania GOP and McCain campaign invoke ten-foot pole rule on e-mail sent supposedly in the GOP's name suggesting a Democratic candidate will create a new Holocaust.
Just how many witch-hunters does Sarah Palin associate with? And they're worried a great national terror attack is coming. Just trying to see if they can get the October surprise in, or trying to be prescient about the preferred conservative interpretation of Senator Biden’s statement? Or perhaps they had caught whiff of a plot to assassinate Senator Obama, or at least kill some black kids by young men with firearms, but apparently no actual plan yet and they made enough noise to catch the attention of investigators.
Lawsuit alleging Senator Obama's origins to be non-national dismissed, with the judge ruling that the person bringing the case lacked standing to do so.
In opinions, The WSJ on how it would be better to permit those receiving Social Security to opt-out of Medicare if they feel they can receive better coverage and care through private doctors and accounts, along with worries that the populace won't realize that less government makes the economy go, not more.
more details about James Dobson and his doomsday letter from the Obama presidency, including just how much fear, propaganda, and “liberal” successes there will be. For those curious to know all the gory details, the source document, 16 pages, from Focus on the Family, entitled "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America" is available for you. While the document disclaims that not all of its doom-and-gloom predictions will come true, it says any of them could, inducing the proper fear of “which ones will” and “all of them will happen!” Including pronography on the airwaves, displayed openly at gas stations and other places, the banning of guns (and subsequent rise in crime), terror attacks, the collapse of Iraq, and of course, Supreme-Court mandates that require homosexuals to be accorded equal right rights everywhere and for abortions to be performed anywhere at any time at any part of the pregnancy, with the threat of losing one’s license to practice (law/medicine/teaching/etc.) if one should refuse any of this on the grounds of conscience.
In other Democratic candidate opinions, Kevin McCullough pens an open letter to Senator Obama's African-American supporters, claiming that Senator Obama's policies will work directly opposite their values and will deliberately make them poorer. Ken Connor believes that government attempts to help the poor are ultimately doomed to failure, and that private charity is really the only way that will actually succeed, because private charity encourages people to work and get back up on their feet, while government assistance encourages laziness and sponging off the public dollar. Hey, wait, I’ve heard that before. A lot. Usually associated with some sort of “welfare reform”. Last, and most grandiose of them all, Laura Hollis proclaims that America is asking for a king, in the biblical sense, who will take the best for himself, give it to someone else, and enslave the populace to the government, who will not do anything, who will wallow in the filth that is popular culture, and who will expect the government to approve of this and continue to give them money and living for it.
Television interview asks Senator Biden whether Senator Obama is a Marxist and whether the Senator has said American power is coming to an end. In return, station nets a cancellation of asking questions of Senator Biden's wife. This is either “we asked tough questions and now they’re punishing us” or “because they chose to ask non-substantive questions that have already been dismissed, we’re not spending more time with them”, depending on which side you want to believe. If you’re Orson Scott Card, then every juornalist needs to be fired and replaced for permitting the credit crisis to be blamed on the Republican Party (because the Democrats were the cause), and because every journalist is sweeping Senator Obama's mistakes under the rug and amplifying all of Senator McCain and Governor Palin's, instead of doing the job of telling the truth to the American populace, no matter whom it affects.
Amanda Carpenter sees Democrats' accusations of racially-motivated voter suppression as pre-emptive hits against places where there has been no suppression, only ACORN voter fraud. The WSJ feels that the Justice Department is ignoring substantive conservative objections to ACORN's registrations in favor of pursuing investigations of "liberal priorities". Thomas Sowell takes that football, runs with it, and tries to tie it all back to Senator Obama, accusing Senator Obama's allies, like ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, and Michael Pfleger of not being "honest and decent people", and that we should vote against Senator Obama because he is untrustworthy, having associated and allied with all of those people in the past, yet talking as someone who is of a different position from those past figures.
Rough-and-tumble campaigning in Ohio, where one line of attack from the Democratic challenger is that the Republican who went to serve in Iraq did shirked his Congressional duty to engage in his Marine Corps bid. An odd line of attack, but is courting the anti-war crowd and trying to prove one’s opponent did nothing while in office, I suppose it’s one way of going about it.
Austin Cline at the General's on how the McCain campaign gambled heavily on image attacks, and that even the image attacks they and the Republican Party are going for, if you look at Republican Party policies or the candidates themselves, they rely on similar things. Republicans may also be suffering from a snapback in the younger generation, based on how well their policies have been in this generation. So even if as Robert Carroll suggests, everyone would do better with the McCain health-care tax credits, because low and moderate-income people would have lower prices, and insurance would go back to covering catastrophic problems, rather than an ever-expansive net of coverage because of tax breaks through employer-sponsored health coverage, giving all sides less incentive to spend more and use more routine health-care coverage, the fact that McCain is a Republican, running with the weight of twenty of the last twenty-eight years of Republicans in some form of power or another, could do more damage to him among the voters than his policies can help him. the Rebel Yell gives advice to the GOP - this campaign is not how to win an election. If picking inexperienced, work with them beforehand, and choose someone who won’t stomp on your head to launch their own bid four years down the road when it looks like you won’t be winning.
Just remember, at the end of it all, what we're getting rid of. Including having to consider whether one's nation tortures its prisoners. Assuming, of course, that the election ends amiably, or peacefully, or without incident.
Weird news: Union re-enactor shot by Confederate re-enactor, because the big rule of “no loaded weapons” wasn’t followed, possibly because the shooter wasn’t completely familiar and trained with the unit that he was assigned to. Men attempt to remove rusty bolt from gas tank using cutting torch, explosion follows. Lightning hits fence, kills 52 cows in an apt demonstration of how electric fences work, although obviously there was too much current in the wires.
In tech, technology used by all, including those that the military thinks are dangerous, the sounds of the stars, smaller-than-an-atom data storage, denser computer chips through new fabrication methods, the need to start evaluating plans to save the world, so we can implement one in time, delays in Europe's mission to Mars, the possibility of geoengineering - but at a price, and using a Google Maps mashup to find the exact address of a point on earth .
At the end, embrace the robot revolution, because it will most certainly come for your job. The best solution? Figure out a way to restructure the economy so that all humans benefit from the automation. The entire industrial population, laid off, becomes artists, and doesn’t have to worry about whether they have housing and food? And can thus devote their time to their passions? I like it. As things are, even the expectation that machine intelligence will pass human intelligence is changing the way we think and behave.
Heartwarming story for tonight: dog refuses to leave burning building, leads fire rescue teams to cats still inside.
On the very last, Squirrel underpants. and Vagina Dentata. Well, okay, it’s called Rapex, but functionally, it’s there to give a woman a very sharp trap to use. The hooks involved are only supposed to be removed by a medical doctor once they’ve found their way onto the rapist.
Until that point, today’s offering to tide you over.
Up at the top, because I think it’s an awesome idea and that more people need to be involved in it: an advertisement for the book "Sexual Secrets for the Christian Husband", all about having a pleasing marriage bed and doing things that are both hot and exciting and Scripturally sound. Great sex, no guilt! Of course, the claims in the book might be a little bit on the outlandish side, but in general, I approve of the idea of religious couples having a good sex life. And besides, it’s an amusing read to hear someone peddling with the same kind of slick skill, just trying to get the Christians to part with their money for a sexual technique book.
International news: Syria accuses the United States of launching a helicopter-based attack in their country. At last check, there was no official comment, but anonymous sources say the attack was aimed at shutting down Syria as a pipeline for extremists to flow into other countries.
If there really is no agreement for troops in Iraq, then the United States threatens the shut down will be sudden. So get that extension through, people, says he U.S., or you get all of those responsibilities, all at once. Iraq's main Sunni party has decided to suspend contact with the United States, accusing the United States of a “hidden political motive”. Sooo, is that deal done, or not? Well, at least Iraq has more cash than they know what to do with for now.
Exhaustion for the president of Iran, released to combat the idea that something more serious might be on the way.
It is the "dryness" now in Australia, rather than the drought, because the latter term is frightening to farmers, according to a government panel.
Domestic: In the hunt to find all we could about "Joe the Plumber", was there illegal access to government records?
Ted Stevens of Tubes fame, convicted on several counts of corruption - Governor Palin has no comment on whether Stevens still gets her vote.
Long after the hurricane hit, Galveston, Texas is still not recovered completely, because things aren’t rebuilt, things aren’t restored, people aren’t coming back, and there’s not the money to do it with, either. Switching from people to animals, 7 orcas are missing from Puget Sound pods, much to the dismay of scientists there, and 8 year-old child, under parental supervision, shoots Uzi submachine gun - and kills himself accidentally. Yeah. Even with gun safety, shooting off an Uzi at eight? I’d rather he stuck to weapons that had very little chance of self-kill, even if shooting oneself.
Exorcist gets his own Sci-fi Channel reality show. He thinks it will be great to demonstrate the reality of demons and get people to talk about their own problems. I’m wondering if Sci-fi isn’t giving this a wink and a nod for people to MST3K it. Then again, they do have Ghost Hunters, too...
Political: A peek at next year's agenda for the Democrats, including reduced military spending and increases in social programs, possibly more economic stimulus.
Pennsylvania GOP and McCain campaign invoke ten-foot pole rule on e-mail sent supposedly in the GOP's name suggesting a Democratic candidate will create a new Holocaust.
Just how many witch-hunters does Sarah Palin associate with? And they're worried a great national terror attack is coming. Just trying to see if they can get the October surprise in, or trying to be prescient about the preferred conservative interpretation of Senator Biden’s statement? Or perhaps they had caught whiff of a plot to assassinate Senator Obama, or at least kill some black kids by young men with firearms, but apparently no actual plan yet and they made enough noise to catch the attention of investigators.
Lawsuit alleging Senator Obama's origins to be non-national dismissed, with the judge ruling that the person bringing the case lacked standing to do so.
In opinions, The WSJ on how it would be better to permit those receiving Social Security to opt-out of Medicare if they feel they can receive better coverage and care through private doctors and accounts, along with worries that the populace won't realize that less government makes the economy go, not more.
more details about James Dobson and his doomsday letter from the Obama presidency, including just how much fear, propaganda, and “liberal” successes there will be. For those curious to know all the gory details, the source document, 16 pages, from Focus on the Family, entitled "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America" is available for you. While the document disclaims that not all of its doom-and-gloom predictions will come true, it says any of them could, inducing the proper fear of “which ones will” and “all of them will happen!” Including pronography on the airwaves, displayed openly at gas stations and other places, the banning of guns (and subsequent rise in crime), terror attacks, the collapse of Iraq, and of course, Supreme-Court mandates that require homosexuals to be accorded equal right rights everywhere and for abortions to be performed anywhere at any time at any part of the pregnancy, with the threat of losing one’s license to practice (law/medicine/teaching/etc.) if one should refuse any of this on the grounds of conscience.
In other Democratic candidate opinions, Kevin McCullough pens an open letter to Senator Obama's African-American supporters, claiming that Senator Obama's policies will work directly opposite their values and will deliberately make them poorer. Ken Connor believes that government attempts to help the poor are ultimately doomed to failure, and that private charity is really the only way that will actually succeed, because private charity encourages people to work and get back up on their feet, while government assistance encourages laziness and sponging off the public dollar. Hey, wait, I’ve heard that before. A lot. Usually associated with some sort of “welfare reform”. Last, and most grandiose of them all, Laura Hollis proclaims that America is asking for a king, in the biblical sense, who will take the best for himself, give it to someone else, and enslave the populace to the government, who will not do anything, who will wallow in the filth that is popular culture, and who will expect the government to approve of this and continue to give them money and living for it.
Television interview asks Senator Biden whether Senator Obama is a Marxist and whether the Senator has said American power is coming to an end. In return, station nets a cancellation of asking questions of Senator Biden's wife. This is either “we asked tough questions and now they’re punishing us” or “because they chose to ask non-substantive questions that have already been dismissed, we’re not spending more time with them”, depending on which side you want to believe. If you’re Orson Scott Card, then every juornalist needs to be fired and replaced for permitting the credit crisis to be blamed on the Republican Party (because the Democrats were the cause), and because every journalist is sweeping Senator Obama's mistakes under the rug and amplifying all of Senator McCain and Governor Palin's, instead of doing the job of telling the truth to the American populace, no matter whom it affects.
Amanda Carpenter sees Democrats' accusations of racially-motivated voter suppression as pre-emptive hits against places where there has been no suppression, only ACORN voter fraud. The WSJ feels that the Justice Department is ignoring substantive conservative objections to ACORN's registrations in favor of pursuing investigations of "liberal priorities". Thomas Sowell takes that football, runs with it, and tries to tie it all back to Senator Obama, accusing Senator Obama's allies, like ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, and Michael Pfleger of not being "honest and decent people", and that we should vote against Senator Obama because he is untrustworthy, having associated and allied with all of those people in the past, yet talking as someone who is of a different position from those past figures.
Rough-and-tumble campaigning in Ohio, where one line of attack from the Democratic challenger is that the Republican who went to serve in Iraq did shirked his Congressional duty to engage in his Marine Corps bid. An odd line of attack, but is courting the anti-war crowd and trying to prove one’s opponent did nothing while in office, I suppose it’s one way of going about it.
Austin Cline at the General's on how the McCain campaign gambled heavily on image attacks, and that even the image attacks they and the Republican Party are going for, if you look at Republican Party policies or the candidates themselves, they rely on similar things. Republicans may also be suffering from a snapback in the younger generation, based on how well their policies have been in this generation. So even if as Robert Carroll suggests, everyone would do better with the McCain health-care tax credits, because low and moderate-income people would have lower prices, and insurance would go back to covering catastrophic problems, rather than an ever-expansive net of coverage because of tax breaks through employer-sponsored health coverage, giving all sides less incentive to spend more and use more routine health-care coverage, the fact that McCain is a Republican, running with the weight of twenty of the last twenty-eight years of Republicans in some form of power or another, could do more damage to him among the voters than his policies can help him. the Rebel Yell gives advice to the GOP - this campaign is not how to win an election. If picking inexperienced, work with them beforehand, and choose someone who won’t stomp on your head to launch their own bid four years down the road when it looks like you won’t be winning.
Just remember, at the end of it all, what we're getting rid of. Including having to consider whether one's nation tortures its prisoners. Assuming, of course, that the election ends amiably, or peacefully, or without incident.
Weird news: Union re-enactor shot by Confederate re-enactor, because the big rule of “no loaded weapons” wasn’t followed, possibly because the shooter wasn’t completely familiar and trained with the unit that he was assigned to. Men attempt to remove rusty bolt from gas tank using cutting torch, explosion follows. Lightning hits fence, kills 52 cows in an apt demonstration of how electric fences work, although obviously there was too much current in the wires.
In tech, technology used by all, including those that the military thinks are dangerous, the sounds of the stars, smaller-than-an-atom data storage, denser computer chips through new fabrication methods, the need to start evaluating plans to save the world, so we can implement one in time, delays in Europe's mission to Mars, the possibility of geoengineering - but at a price, and using a Google Maps mashup to find the exact address of a point on earth .
At the end, embrace the robot revolution, because it will most certainly come for your job. The best solution? Figure out a way to restructure the economy so that all humans benefit from the automation. The entire industrial population, laid off, becomes artists, and doesn’t have to worry about whether they have housing and food? And can thus devote their time to their passions? I like it. As things are, even the expectation that machine intelligence will pass human intelligence is changing the way we think and behave.
Heartwarming story for tonight: dog refuses to leave burning building, leads fire rescue teams to cats still inside.
On the very last, Squirrel underpants. and Vagina Dentata. Well, okay, it’s called Rapex, but functionally, it’s there to give a woman a very sharp trap to use. The hooks involved are only supposed to be removed by a medical doctor once they’ve found their way onto the rapist.
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Date: 2008-10-28 04:30 pm (UTC)While this reality show sounds like it will likely be over the top in the worst way, some people do take exorcism seriously. In 1999 the Archdiocese of Chicago appointed a full-time exorcist for the first time in its history.
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Date: 2008-10-28 05:17 pm (UTC)