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silveradeptDouble dose tonight, because I apparently forgot to post last night. Perhaps I should send out the Playmobil Hazmat Crew to make my brain work again.
Fear, fear, terror, terror, biological attack will happen by 2013. So, naturally, the next president will have to devote more time and resources to keeping us safe from the terrists. The funny thing is - the terrorists that get caught are the stupid ones. The ones that are likely to succeed probably aren’t, and won’t be noticed until too late. Occasionally, of course, they do find one that hits on target, but I don’t know if that’s one of the scatter actualy being right or deliberate ignorance of strong evidence. Pat Buchanan provides a voice of reason, asking India not to knee-jerk against Pakistan, possibly setting off a bigger, more major conflict. As he points out, it took one assassination to spark the first Great War. Maybe the third one will be sparked by a terror hit at just the wrong time and place.
South Korea pulls out the last of its troops from Iraq, hopefully a signal that we will be leaving soon as...right. The Agreement that is alternately on or off, depending on what day it is. For the conflict that we've already won and are continuing to win, if only the mainstream media would report on it, says Mr. Norris, action-star turned pundit.
Chillingly, in an attempt to end the tribal warfare that has been going on for 20 years, mothers in Papua New Fuinea's Highland region are committing infanticide. By killing all the sons, the mothers hope to bring an end to the fighting, giving the men the knowledge that there will not be someone else there to take their place. It’s a desperation move, and hopefully it succeeds quickly so that there’s time to repopulate after the hostilities cease.
Starting in the domestic sphere, Well, duh. The United States is in a recession, and has been for the last year, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group that has the power to officially tell us what most of America already knew. It's doubtful anyone will step up to take the blame, says Dogulas MacKinnon, but they’ll all step up to take a bailout. And spending and FDR-like policies will prolong and worsen the agony, says Michael Fumento, because it stops the private sector from working its mojo to bring things back to health in its fast and efficient way.
Wingnuttery in the military is not exclusive to United States shores, but the presenter of this particular instance is a chaplain in the United States Air Force. Apparently, Charles Darwin is Soviet leader, despite predating Lenin and the USSR, and the United States’ sole ideology is Theism and no other, among other wild and specious claims. The General has his own take, lamenting the exclusion of Marvin Gaye on the list of Soviet leaders.
Indictments against Messrs. Cheney and Gonzalez, the GEO Group dimissed... and only now do the details of the prosecutor, the case, and what the indictments were appear. Had we known this beforehand, we’d have given it even less chance than the proverbial snowball.
In art, one of those cultural things - a small sampling of painted, decorated, and very artistic trains in Japan. In a country where rail service covers the whole country and most people use it, the aesthetic is important. Here, where everyone drives, you get art cars on occasion, but the public transit is usually pretty drab, dreary, and graffiti-laced.
As if someone needed more fuel for the “Obama-Messiah” speculation, Alex Grey has done a painting of him as a world leader. Something that will make the President-elect into more of a progressive than he’s been sowing so far, would be to follow Marty Klein's recommendations to stop the government's blanket hostility toward sexuality, by requiring accuracy in sex ed, funding Planned Parenthood and contraceptives, so as to make abortions as much of a nonissue as possible, stop criminalizing teenagers for sex and sexual behavior, including educating federal judges on healthy sexuality and refocusing on stopping child pornography while letting adult entertainment and sexuality go, and removing censorship by the FCC and things like CIPA. Hear, hear, yo. Do all this, and President Obama will be more progressive than most.
In the opinionated areas, that Muslism were involved in the Mumbai attacks means that the Unietd States must do more political warfare to combat extremist Islam, by helping out its opponents in places where the ideology is strong, not just explaining America, but helping them build networks. Islam is the new Communist bloc, which means all the wonderful stuff we did to affix a fear of communism is now repurposed toward Islam. I haven’t heard an explicit domino theory yet, but all that “fight them there, or they’ll bomb us here” certainly sounds a lot like it. The WSJ also says that keeping the freedom and liberty-destroying tools like the Patriot Act around so as to gether intelligence on suspected terrorists is a good thing and something the President-elect should consider.
Harry R. Jackson, Jr. sees the election of the pragmatic Obama as a way for conservative Christians to escape the wingnut label and be sees as social glue instead, although most of the piece is about the a panel involveing the Congressional Black Caucus and their belief that there’s more to be done in the Obama administration to relieve the tensions and disparities of race, although I think Mr. Jackson believes that the Caucus is seeing too many things in terms of race. Elsewhere in the world, the WSJ is not happy that the supposedly liberal party of Egypt are still anti-Jews, and that regardless of what other progress they may be making, this backwardsness is making it hard to say confidently the Arab world is progressing. At the stakes where lives are involved, the president of Georgia defends his military actions, claiming that Russia invaded his sovereign territory and has engaged in a misinormation campaign to make the world believe Georgia was the aggressor.
Star Parker has the future of Republicans pegged - staying anchored to the socially conservative base and then reminding people of the limited government part, and by doing so, the spendy conservatives will drop out and become Democrats, and the minorities that are socially conservative (apparently because they see the damage “moral relativism” causes) will gravitate to that socially conservative Republicans, fixing the “white” problem they have.
Dank Kennedy sees a war on fast food, in much the same way as the war on tobacco, but is certain the mainstream media will miss all of it, and is thus left in the curious position of defending unhealthy vices and insisting that the media is not smart enough or chooses not to connect all the dots that amount to this war, like they haven’t with the bailouts, and that all of this amounts to government control of our lives and industries. It’s quite the twisted way of getting there, that’s for sure.
Last out of this segment, Thomas Sowell considers the community service requirement propoganda for the left akin to military recruitment and service on the right and hostile to freedom, because it lets teachers and admissions officers, all liberals, dictate what is acceptable community service, and thus they do it on their terms, with their ideas, denying families the opportunity to figure out how to best spend their childrens time, turning what should be an exercise for compassion into one of propaganda, and, naturally, by encouraging work in homeless shelters, implanting the idea that it’s okay to be a “vagrant”, someone “not working, hanging out on the streets, aggressively panhandling people on the sidewalks, urinating in the street, leaving narcotics needles in the parks where children play” rather than being too ashamed to use government services set up to help people stay afloat in situations between jobs or such. He assumes everyone who is homeless is there by choice, and thus, there should be no need for any assistance to those who choose to be lazy, because it takes money from all the productive and hard-working people and squanders it on them. If that’s the case, Mr. Sowell, would you be okay with religious organizations stopping their assistance programs as well? Those people must be lazy, too, if they need help. Nevermind the charge on many of them to help the needy when they have the chance, which sometimes manifests as the tithe to the church. Getting back to the point, though, this is a new dimension to the still-tired argument that liberals have taken over the school system and are using it as an indoctrination chamber, K-university. The point of community service is to take a step back and get people to look at a world foreign to many (possibly intimate to some), perhaps putting some names and faces to “the poor” and those “vagrants”, and the people who are “the least of my people”. And rather than being some sort of liberal plot, military service would be excluded because it’s a contract that requires adulthood to be signed on to, I suspect. Anyway, community service might be one way of sneaking actual education back into the school system. Maybe from there, we can retake our classrooms and banish the standardized tests and their control over school purses back to where they came from.
Technology opens up with an interesting design for alpine sheltering - an 8-meter self-sufficient structure that intends to blend in with the nature around it, while providing a transparent view of that nature to those inside. It’s neat - if it could be made in such a way as to be carryable like a tent, I think camping would be that much more awesome. Beyond this point, the bizarre lack of acorns in parts fo the United States is drawing attention, commercial wave farm number one is up and running, harnessing the tides and currents to generate power, using virtual reality to trick people into believing they're someone else - therapy now, MMORPGs later. - A patent application for a method of dispersing hurricanes through the use of sonic booms generated by supersonic jets, and male-male coupled penguins are trying to look after eggs... but they're stealing them from other couples. Not quite the way to go about it - and the other penguins have noticed the theft and are ostracizing the two. Well, so long as nobody rants on about this being some analogue to human homosexual pairings.
And last from these sections, two instances of technology to very different ends - Dec 2, 1942 finds the first controlled atomic chain reaction, Dec 2, 1957 opens up the first commercial nuclear power plant in Shippington, PA, and then on Dec 1, 1952, the first successful sex-change operation presented Christine Jorgensen to the world.
Last for tonight, oh, hey, look, The Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar! Plenty of images taken of our universe that are beautiful and wallpaper-deseving all by themselves. Of course, if space doesn’t interest you, here are some television shows someone thinks you might like. If you have time for television, that is. If that’s not your thing, then perhaps consider the impact Anne of Green Gables, and her bosom friend, have had on lesbians for the last 100 years.
Fear, fear, terror, terror, biological attack will happen by 2013. So, naturally, the next president will have to devote more time and resources to keeping us safe from the terrists. The funny thing is - the terrorists that get caught are the stupid ones. The ones that are likely to succeed probably aren’t, and won’t be noticed until too late. Occasionally, of course, they do find one that hits on target, but I don’t know if that’s one of the scatter actualy being right or deliberate ignorance of strong evidence. Pat Buchanan provides a voice of reason, asking India not to knee-jerk against Pakistan, possibly setting off a bigger, more major conflict. As he points out, it took one assassination to spark the first Great War. Maybe the third one will be sparked by a terror hit at just the wrong time and place.
South Korea pulls out the last of its troops from Iraq, hopefully a signal that we will be leaving soon as...right. The Agreement that is alternately on or off, depending on what day it is. For the conflict that we've already won and are continuing to win, if only the mainstream media would report on it, says Mr. Norris, action-star turned pundit.
Chillingly, in an attempt to end the tribal warfare that has been going on for 20 years, mothers in Papua New Fuinea's Highland region are committing infanticide. By killing all the sons, the mothers hope to bring an end to the fighting, giving the men the knowledge that there will not be someone else there to take their place. It’s a desperation move, and hopefully it succeeds quickly so that there’s time to repopulate after the hostilities cease.
Starting in the domestic sphere, Well, duh. The United States is in a recession, and has been for the last year, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group that has the power to officially tell us what most of America already knew. It's doubtful anyone will step up to take the blame, says Dogulas MacKinnon, but they’ll all step up to take a bailout. And spending and FDR-like policies will prolong and worsen the agony, says Michael Fumento, because it stops the private sector from working its mojo to bring things back to health in its fast and efficient way.
Wingnuttery in the military is not exclusive to United States shores, but the presenter of this particular instance is a chaplain in the United States Air Force. Apparently, Charles Darwin is Soviet leader, despite predating Lenin and the USSR, and the United States’ sole ideology is Theism and no other, among other wild and specious claims. The General has his own take, lamenting the exclusion of Marvin Gaye on the list of Soviet leaders.
Indictments against Messrs. Cheney and Gonzalez, the GEO Group dimissed... and only now do the details of the prosecutor, the case, and what the indictments were appear. Had we known this beforehand, we’d have given it even less chance than the proverbial snowball.
In art, one of those cultural things - a small sampling of painted, decorated, and very artistic trains in Japan. In a country where rail service covers the whole country and most people use it, the aesthetic is important. Here, where everyone drives, you get art cars on occasion, but the public transit is usually pretty drab, dreary, and graffiti-laced.
As if someone needed more fuel for the “Obama-Messiah” speculation, Alex Grey has done a painting of him as a world leader. Something that will make the President-elect into more of a progressive than he’s been sowing so far, would be to follow Marty Klein's recommendations to stop the government's blanket hostility toward sexuality, by requiring accuracy in sex ed, funding Planned Parenthood and contraceptives, so as to make abortions as much of a nonissue as possible, stop criminalizing teenagers for sex and sexual behavior, including educating federal judges on healthy sexuality and refocusing on stopping child pornography while letting adult entertainment and sexuality go, and removing censorship by the FCC and things like CIPA. Hear, hear, yo. Do all this, and President Obama will be more progressive than most.
In the opinionated areas, that Muslism were involved in the Mumbai attacks means that the Unietd States must do more political warfare to combat extremist Islam, by helping out its opponents in places where the ideology is strong, not just explaining America, but helping them build networks. Islam is the new Communist bloc, which means all the wonderful stuff we did to affix a fear of communism is now repurposed toward Islam. I haven’t heard an explicit domino theory yet, but all that “fight them there, or they’ll bomb us here” certainly sounds a lot like it. The WSJ also says that keeping the freedom and liberty-destroying tools like the Patriot Act around so as to gether intelligence on suspected terrorists is a good thing and something the President-elect should consider.
Harry R. Jackson, Jr. sees the election of the pragmatic Obama as a way for conservative Christians to escape the wingnut label and be sees as social glue instead, although most of the piece is about the a panel involveing the Congressional Black Caucus and their belief that there’s more to be done in the Obama administration to relieve the tensions and disparities of race, although I think Mr. Jackson believes that the Caucus is seeing too many things in terms of race. Elsewhere in the world, the WSJ is not happy that the supposedly liberal party of Egypt are still anti-Jews, and that regardless of what other progress they may be making, this backwardsness is making it hard to say confidently the Arab world is progressing. At the stakes where lives are involved, the president of Georgia defends his military actions, claiming that Russia invaded his sovereign territory and has engaged in a misinormation campaign to make the world believe Georgia was the aggressor.
Star Parker has the future of Republicans pegged - staying anchored to the socially conservative base and then reminding people of the limited government part, and by doing so, the spendy conservatives will drop out and become Democrats, and the minorities that are socially conservative (apparently because they see the damage “moral relativism” causes) will gravitate to that socially conservative Republicans, fixing the “white” problem they have.
Dank Kennedy sees a war on fast food, in much the same way as the war on tobacco, but is certain the mainstream media will miss all of it, and is thus left in the curious position of defending unhealthy vices and insisting that the media is not smart enough or chooses not to connect all the dots that amount to this war, like they haven’t with the bailouts, and that all of this amounts to government control of our lives and industries. It’s quite the twisted way of getting there, that’s for sure.
Last out of this segment, Thomas Sowell considers the community service requirement propoganda for the left akin to military recruitment and service on the right and hostile to freedom, because it lets teachers and admissions officers, all liberals, dictate what is acceptable community service, and thus they do it on their terms, with their ideas, denying families the opportunity to figure out how to best spend their childrens time, turning what should be an exercise for compassion into one of propaganda, and, naturally, by encouraging work in homeless shelters, implanting the idea that it’s okay to be a “vagrant”, someone “not working, hanging out on the streets, aggressively panhandling people on the sidewalks, urinating in the street, leaving narcotics needles in the parks where children play” rather than being too ashamed to use government services set up to help people stay afloat in situations between jobs or such. He assumes everyone who is homeless is there by choice, and thus, there should be no need for any assistance to those who choose to be lazy, because it takes money from all the productive and hard-working people and squanders it on them. If that’s the case, Mr. Sowell, would you be okay with religious organizations stopping their assistance programs as well? Those people must be lazy, too, if they need help. Nevermind the charge on many of them to help the needy when they have the chance, which sometimes manifests as the tithe to the church. Getting back to the point, though, this is a new dimension to the still-tired argument that liberals have taken over the school system and are using it as an indoctrination chamber, K-university. The point of community service is to take a step back and get people to look at a world foreign to many (possibly intimate to some), perhaps putting some names and faces to “the poor” and those “vagrants”, and the people who are “the least of my people”. And rather than being some sort of liberal plot, military service would be excluded because it’s a contract that requires adulthood to be signed on to, I suspect. Anyway, community service might be one way of sneaking actual education back into the school system. Maybe from there, we can retake our classrooms and banish the standardized tests and their control over school purses back to where they came from.
Technology opens up with an interesting design for alpine sheltering - an 8-meter self-sufficient structure that intends to blend in with the nature around it, while providing a transparent view of that nature to those inside. It’s neat - if it could be made in such a way as to be carryable like a tent, I think camping would be that much more awesome. Beyond this point, the bizarre lack of acorns in parts fo the United States is drawing attention, commercial wave farm number one is up and running, harnessing the tides and currents to generate power, using virtual reality to trick people into believing they're someone else - therapy now, MMORPGs later. - A patent application for a method of dispersing hurricanes through the use of sonic booms generated by supersonic jets, and male-male coupled penguins are trying to look after eggs... but they're stealing them from other couples. Not quite the way to go about it - and the other penguins have noticed the theft and are ostracizing the two. Well, so long as nobody rants on about this being some analogue to human homosexual pairings.
And last from these sections, two instances of technology to very different ends - Dec 2, 1942 finds the first controlled atomic chain reaction, Dec 2, 1957 opens up the first commercial nuclear power plant in Shippington, PA, and then on Dec 1, 1952, the first successful sex-change operation presented Christine Jorgensen to the world.
Last for tonight, oh, hey, look, The Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar! Plenty of images taken of our universe that are beautiful and wallpaper-deseving all by themselves. Of course, if space doesn’t interest you, here are some television shows someone thinks you might like. If you have time for television, that is. If that’s not your thing, then perhaps consider the impact Anne of Green Gables, and her bosom friend, have had on lesbians for the last 100 years.
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Date: 2008-12-03 06:17 pm (UTC)i like this... combatting extremist islam is okay, but we don't say a word about extremist "christianity". what are people like the phelpses and those people who blow up abortion clinics and those people who want to legislate what people are allowed to do in the privacy of their own bedroom if not terrorists?
personally, i think extremist religion, regardless of the flavour, is what we should really be fighting against.
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