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silveradeptRemember, I'm collecting addresses for VEWPRF correspondence, even if it doesn't get there in time for the new year. Check the post previous.
Up top, the repilcation of a famous experiment has the same result, unfortunately - Milgrim's experiment redone, people still willing to administer electric shocks marked lethal if an authority figure tells them.
Welcome to another news day - Blackwater produces evidence suggesting that guards accused of shooting civilians unprovoked in 2007 came under fire first, South Korea denies that it had anything to do with the assassination plot North Korea alleges happened, where the leader's latest absence is explained by the fact that he was fighting off poisoning.
In much the same vein as "Sorry, World", we now have "Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe", where people post pictures of themselves and their shoes in support of the person they felt was sufficiently brave to express his opinion of the outgoing administrator. According to a source that has reason to be biased, students in Fallujah protested by their own show-throwing, only to be fired upon by troops.
Domestically, following, perhaps, a bit of a trend of the last eight years, the naval carrier to be named after the outgoing administrator's father will be commissioned before undergoing sea trials.
Detroit gets the bailout it wanted, cheers, everyone else gets to bitch and moan about how this was a bad decision and to complain that the necessary reforms will not occur.
The mother of Levi Johnston, the man who will be marrying the pregant Bristol Palin, was arrested on drug charges. Certainly makes the family values tactic look more suspect.
New allegations appear that indicate Governor Blagojevich was running gambling rings in previous decades, making the corruption run deeper than initially thought. And the world lost someone who exposed deep corruption, Mark Felt, also known as "Deep Throat".
The best of the lot? a suit against Galveston police officers alleges that they arrested a 12 year-old girl, believing her to be a prostitute, and then beat her as she screamed for her father. The neat thing? The place the police officers were being called to was several blocks away. And now, the police department are claiming they're totally justified in arresting the girl and imprisoning her for resisting her false arrest and assaulting a peace officer.
In the opinions, Peggy Noonan says the country should catch a reality check, and that we should become optimistic again about the future by talking the long-term view, being totally confident that the current economic crisis will be short-term, and to seek the return of the people who will take responsibility and lead the country into those optimistic times.
Kimberley Strassel understands how the Democrats will now be the focus of every scandal in the media, now that they're the elected party. The WSJ complains that any forthcoming prosecutions of high officials in the outgoing administration about torture are politically motivated sham trials, where officials were just following the law, there was no actual torture sanctioned by the higher-ups, and those officials were just protecting the country from terrorist attacks.
Philip Howard believes that the government in Washington should restructure itself in the same way that it demands Detroit do so, eliminating useless laws, outdated subsidies, and trimming the levels of management in the government so as to become much leaner. That would we way nice to happen. It would also be pretty cool if the law could be rewritten in such a way that the layperson understands it all, but we'd take a pruning.
Last out - because it's VWEPRF season, Armstrong Williams feels confident in telling us all that because of the economic downturn, everyone will get back to celebrating Christmas and acknowledging Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
In technology, trying to link sneezing to thinking about sex, the robots of the year in Japan, using E. Coli to generate the building blocks of biofuels, proteins that suppress the growth of new neurons discovered, which means if those proteins get suppressed, they think the brain could rejeuvenate, new ways of spotting cancer through protein analysis, and a happy birthday to Beethoven who may have been a catalyst for determining the effective length of the compact disc.
Last for tonight, Ice: A Victorian Romance, chronicling stories and narratives of visits to the frozen north. Also, some of the first art of the Americas. If that's too highbrow for your taste, perhaps some severely ugly VEWPRF-themed sweaters will suffice.
Up top, the repilcation of a famous experiment has the same result, unfortunately - Milgrim's experiment redone, people still willing to administer electric shocks marked lethal if an authority figure tells them.
Welcome to another news day - Blackwater produces evidence suggesting that guards accused of shooting civilians unprovoked in 2007 came under fire first, South Korea denies that it had anything to do with the assassination plot North Korea alleges happened, where the leader's latest absence is explained by the fact that he was fighting off poisoning.
In much the same vein as "Sorry, World", we now have "Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe", where people post pictures of themselves and their shoes in support of the person they felt was sufficiently brave to express his opinion of the outgoing administrator. According to a source that has reason to be biased, students in Fallujah protested by their own show-throwing, only to be fired upon by troops.
Domestically, following, perhaps, a bit of a trend of the last eight years, the naval carrier to be named after the outgoing administrator's father will be commissioned before undergoing sea trials.
Detroit gets the bailout it wanted, cheers, everyone else gets to bitch and moan about how this was a bad decision and to complain that the necessary reforms will not occur.
The mother of Levi Johnston, the man who will be marrying the pregant Bristol Palin, was arrested on drug charges. Certainly makes the family values tactic look more suspect.
New allegations appear that indicate Governor Blagojevich was running gambling rings in previous decades, making the corruption run deeper than initially thought. And the world lost someone who exposed deep corruption, Mark Felt, also known as "Deep Throat".
The best of the lot? a suit against Galveston police officers alleges that they arrested a 12 year-old girl, believing her to be a prostitute, and then beat her as she screamed for her father. The neat thing? The place the police officers were being called to was several blocks away. And now, the police department are claiming they're totally justified in arresting the girl and imprisoning her for resisting her false arrest and assaulting a peace officer.
In the opinions, Peggy Noonan says the country should catch a reality check, and that we should become optimistic again about the future by talking the long-term view, being totally confident that the current economic crisis will be short-term, and to seek the return of the people who will take responsibility and lead the country into those optimistic times.
Kimberley Strassel understands how the Democrats will now be the focus of every scandal in the media, now that they're the elected party. The WSJ complains that any forthcoming prosecutions of high officials in the outgoing administration about torture are politically motivated sham trials, where officials were just following the law, there was no actual torture sanctioned by the higher-ups, and those officials were just protecting the country from terrorist attacks.
Philip Howard believes that the government in Washington should restructure itself in the same way that it demands Detroit do so, eliminating useless laws, outdated subsidies, and trimming the levels of management in the government so as to become much leaner. That would we way nice to happen. It would also be pretty cool if the law could be rewritten in such a way that the layperson understands it all, but we'd take a pruning.
Last out - because it's VWEPRF season, Armstrong Williams feels confident in telling us all that because of the economic downturn, everyone will get back to celebrating Christmas and acknowledging Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
In technology, trying to link sneezing to thinking about sex, the robots of the year in Japan, using E. Coli to generate the building blocks of biofuels, proteins that suppress the growth of new neurons discovered, which means if those proteins get suppressed, they think the brain could rejeuvenate, new ways of spotting cancer through protein analysis, and a happy birthday to Beethoven who may have been a catalyst for determining the effective length of the compact disc.
Last for tonight, Ice: A Victorian Romance, chronicling stories and narratives of visits to the frozen north. Also, some of the first art of the Americas. If that's too highbrow for your taste, perhaps some severely ugly VEWPRF-themed sweaters will suffice.
