Ooh, look turkey soon! - 25 November 2008
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silveradeptGreetings, space fans! Remember, all that you see that might be in error is a feature. And it is of course totally legitimate and natural for McDonalds to file a patent application for the making of a sandwich.
Starting up top, A sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with - thank you, Mr. Carnegie, for your support of libraries. and thank you, Mr. Prelutsky, for seeing our value. (We’ll still disagree about the President-elect and his policies, I suspect, but hey, where else but the library can you get all the information you need to make a good decision, and for free?)
Internationally, is it a done deal or isn't it? Stop saying it’s done when there’s the possibility of support crumbling.
Russia alleges foreign nationals fought in the Georgian army during the recent conflict.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Although there is a visceral sense of right that someone who attacks by throwing acid should be punished by receiving it. And perhaps someone that attacks women trying to get an education should be forced to be re-educated by a woman before release? In other attempts to get the world into a more civilized era, Pakistan clamps down more on forced marriages.
Opposition gains ground in Venzuelan elections, several conservatives salivate at the possibility that Hugo Chavez might fail in his power bids now.
After retrial, a Muslim charity has been convicted of terrorism because of their funding of Hamas. This is the first success for the laws and rules put in place for freezing assets and criminally charging those who provide financial aid to designated groups.
Domestically, Current administrator pardons fourteen, no high-profile pardons as of yet. Other actions - making rules regarding oil shale in Utah, considering exploitation and environment damage an acceptable consequence of extracting oil from the shale.
New York City tells churches they cannot house the homeless, while emphasizing that there’s enough capacity to help them at the city’s shelters. With the temperature going down and the risk of freezing increasing, knowing where you can go is definitely going to be important. Also, it seems weird that the house of a religion at least nominally based on helping the poor would be unable to help the poor.
Person commits suicide live on webcam, some trying to talk him out of it, others goading him on. And possibly, those goading or telling him to do it may have broken the law. For other strange, and of significantly more importance to the Unabashed Feminism Department, better late than never. Laws are now being passed to prevent upskirts-style photography after a ruling came through that someone who was wearing a skirt in a Target had no reasonable expectation of privacy. And if we had just glanced across the Pacific to Japan, where there’s enough of a problem that it’s been in the manga? We would have noticed that it could easily become a problem, and perhaps have done something about it before a court case came.
In opinions, Dinesh D'Souza thinks atheists have given up the science angle because the science is proving there's a creative force or God, because all the coincidences make things highly improbable to have been random. Wait... haven’t we been here before? I think we have. Refresher course, please, on why this line of thinking doesn’t mean squat?
In the domestic sphere, William McGurn is certain that democracy will lose out if California's courts overrule Proposition 8 as they overruled the law that sparked proposition 8, because courts rob the people of the political process, impose preferences on people, and generate cynicism in politics. Because the nonparistan judges are elected to be interpreters of the law and the conscience of the populace, and are invested with the power of reviewing and overturning those laws that are found to be contrary to the founding principles of the country (like the one that says “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal...”), they shouldn’t exercise the power we place in their hands to be the people who are better than the masses? Besides, those that feel themselves to be God's chosen often do worse off than those who don't. Perhaps because that sense of entitlement and specialness means they indulge in the nature to treat those you consider inferior like dirt? Or to believe in your divine need to procreate, and thus to have sex without precaution or barriers or other things that would prevent STDs? This, from places that are having trouble with the family, but instead of trying to get nuclear families to stay together and encourage two-parent households, they go after homosexuals. So, is that religious majority really good for you?
...When did the Big Three bailout become a union bash? It used to be “mismanagement of company and building inferior product is killing Detroit auto industry”. Now it’s “UAW wages and benefits and jobs bank is what makes them unsustainable”. Or "The auto industries and unions have become socialists and dependent on government, and so are unsustainable".
The President-elect is wrangling difficult economic questions, including whether or not to immediately repeal the current administrator's tax cuts - he has wiggle room on promises made during the campaign, so it’s not a confidence vote issue yet. The WSJ is up for making several tax cuts permanent, as opposed to new stimulus spending. And speaking of the President-elect, the media was apparently totally in his court the whole time, instead of being fair and balanced. Using, of course, the New York Times as the example. Nice to know the Times still carries weight, but I thought it was established the Times has a left lean. Of course, the same faction that complains about media bias strenuously campaigns against the idea of the "Fairness Doctrine", because... it would force places that are overwhelmingly conservative to get more liberal airtime. One would think the opposite would also be true, and that, say, a station airing Countdown and Ms. Maddow might also have to air Bill’O the Clown and comedian Rush Limbaugh, in the name of fairness.
apparently, Sarah Palin is worthy of thanks. And is an inspiring figure. Even after she did the whole turkey thing. Although, it’s beginning to look more and more like she’ll make a pretty face to the party, where running for the chair of the RNC with your whites-only country club membership is okay. I seriously expect the Republican Party to splinter lots in the next four years, even if they don’t outright break the coalition into three parties. Mark Hillman is certain that the fiscal conservatism of the Republican Party is still sound, but that in the last election, nobody believed the Republicans could deliver on it. So, it was apparently socialist versus socialist-lite, and the populace said “Why vote for the lesser evil?” Furthermore on that line, it's not the greatest time to be Republican and African-American. Well, rather that the Republican Party really has to get moving on the idea of being a multiracial party.
Brett Stephens wonders why we don't just hang pirates, by whcih he means “There’s no procedure, really, in place for who can apprehend pirates and what sort of sentences can be summarily executed on them for being caught. And because its an expensive thing to be pirated, we should be smacking people down for this quickly. At least piracy isn't funding other boogeymen of terror.
Last out of the opinions, of course, the requisite "be thankful for all the prosperity you have" column. And for what you can write in on your votes.
In science and technology, the Mega Man of the biological world - a slug that is able to become photosynthetic by ingesting plants, quantum dots to get better displays, the genome of the Neanderthals nearing a complete sequence (and the ethics of possibly resurrecting one), solar panels giving shade and generating power beyond the grave, and the military adding another $50 million to their video game soldier training efforts. Realizing, belatedly, most likely, that simulations really are a good way to engage in training. Robotics is still lagging behind on household tasks, though.
And last for tonight, sleep is good for you, remember? So go to bed. After you look at twenty things that you can plug into the USB port... that you may or may not have known you could. And the electronic Lego safe.
Starting up top, A sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with - thank you, Mr. Carnegie, for your support of libraries. and thank you, Mr. Prelutsky, for seeing our value. (We’ll still disagree about the President-elect and his policies, I suspect, but hey, where else but the library can you get all the information you need to make a good decision, and for free?)
Internationally, is it a done deal or isn't it? Stop saying it’s done when there’s the possibility of support crumbling.
Russia alleges foreign nationals fought in the Georgian army during the recent conflict.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Although there is a visceral sense of right that someone who attacks by throwing acid should be punished by receiving it. And perhaps someone that attacks women trying to get an education should be forced to be re-educated by a woman before release? In other attempts to get the world into a more civilized era, Pakistan clamps down more on forced marriages.
Opposition gains ground in Venzuelan elections, several conservatives salivate at the possibility that Hugo Chavez might fail in his power bids now.
After retrial, a Muslim charity has been convicted of terrorism because of their funding of Hamas. This is the first success for the laws and rules put in place for freezing assets and criminally charging those who provide financial aid to designated groups.
Domestically, Current administrator pardons fourteen, no high-profile pardons as of yet. Other actions - making rules regarding oil shale in Utah, considering exploitation and environment damage an acceptable consequence of extracting oil from the shale.
New York City tells churches they cannot house the homeless, while emphasizing that there’s enough capacity to help them at the city’s shelters. With the temperature going down and the risk of freezing increasing, knowing where you can go is definitely going to be important. Also, it seems weird that the house of a religion at least nominally based on helping the poor would be unable to help the poor.
Person commits suicide live on webcam, some trying to talk him out of it, others goading him on. And possibly, those goading or telling him to do it may have broken the law. For other strange, and of significantly more importance to the Unabashed Feminism Department, better late than never. Laws are now being passed to prevent upskirts-style photography after a ruling came through that someone who was wearing a skirt in a Target had no reasonable expectation of privacy. And if we had just glanced across the Pacific to Japan, where there’s enough of a problem that it’s been in the manga? We would have noticed that it could easily become a problem, and perhaps have done something about it before a court case came.
In opinions, Dinesh D'Souza thinks atheists have given up the science angle because the science is proving there's a creative force or God, because all the coincidences make things highly improbable to have been random. Wait... haven’t we been here before? I think we have. Refresher course, please, on why this line of thinking doesn’t mean squat?
In the domestic sphere, William McGurn is certain that democracy will lose out if California's courts overrule Proposition 8 as they overruled the law that sparked proposition 8, because courts rob the people of the political process, impose preferences on people, and generate cynicism in politics. Because the nonparistan judges are elected to be interpreters of the law and the conscience of the populace, and are invested with the power of reviewing and overturning those laws that are found to be contrary to the founding principles of the country (like the one that says “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal...”), they shouldn’t exercise the power we place in their hands to be the people who are better than the masses? Besides, those that feel themselves to be God's chosen often do worse off than those who don't. Perhaps because that sense of entitlement and specialness means they indulge in the nature to treat those you consider inferior like dirt? Or to believe in your divine need to procreate, and thus to have sex without precaution or barriers or other things that would prevent STDs? This, from places that are having trouble with the family, but instead of trying to get nuclear families to stay together and encourage two-parent households, they go after homosexuals. So, is that religious majority really good for you?
...When did the Big Three bailout become a union bash? It used to be “mismanagement of company and building inferior product is killing Detroit auto industry”. Now it’s “UAW wages and benefits and jobs bank is what makes them unsustainable”. Or "The auto industries and unions have become socialists and dependent on government, and so are unsustainable".
The President-elect is wrangling difficult economic questions, including whether or not to immediately repeal the current administrator's tax cuts - he has wiggle room on promises made during the campaign, so it’s not a confidence vote issue yet. The WSJ is up for making several tax cuts permanent, as opposed to new stimulus spending. And speaking of the President-elect, the media was apparently totally in his court the whole time, instead of being fair and balanced. Using, of course, the New York Times as the example. Nice to know the Times still carries weight, but I thought it was established the Times has a left lean. Of course, the same faction that complains about media bias strenuously campaigns against the idea of the "Fairness Doctrine", because... it would force places that are overwhelmingly conservative to get more liberal airtime. One would think the opposite would also be true, and that, say, a station airing Countdown and Ms. Maddow might also have to air Bill’O the Clown and comedian Rush Limbaugh, in the name of fairness.
apparently, Sarah Palin is worthy of thanks. And is an inspiring figure. Even after she did the whole turkey thing. Although, it’s beginning to look more and more like she’ll make a pretty face to the party, where running for the chair of the RNC with your whites-only country club membership is okay. I seriously expect the Republican Party to splinter lots in the next four years, even if they don’t outright break the coalition into three parties. Mark Hillman is certain that the fiscal conservatism of the Republican Party is still sound, but that in the last election, nobody believed the Republicans could deliver on it. So, it was apparently socialist versus socialist-lite, and the populace said “Why vote for the lesser evil?” Furthermore on that line, it's not the greatest time to be Republican and African-American. Well, rather that the Republican Party really has to get moving on the idea of being a multiracial party.
Brett Stephens wonders why we don't just hang pirates, by whcih he means “There’s no procedure, really, in place for who can apprehend pirates and what sort of sentences can be summarily executed on them for being caught. And because its an expensive thing to be pirated, we should be smacking people down for this quickly. At least piracy isn't funding other boogeymen of terror.
Last out of the opinions, of course, the requisite "be thankful for all the prosperity you have" column. And for what you can write in on your votes.
In science and technology, the Mega Man of the biological world - a slug that is able to become photosynthetic by ingesting plants, quantum dots to get better displays, the genome of the Neanderthals nearing a complete sequence (and the ethics of possibly resurrecting one), solar panels giving shade and generating power beyond the grave, and the military adding another $50 million to their video game soldier training efforts. Realizing, belatedly, most likely, that simulations really are a good way to engage in training. Robotics is still lagging behind on household tasks, though.
And last for tonight, sleep is good for you, remember? So go to bed. After you look at twenty things that you can plug into the USB port... that you may or may not have known you could. And the electronic Lego safe.
