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silveradeptHey, all. Back to an almost normal schedule of work and non-work, now that one of the major VEWPRFs has gotten underway. Of course, one must congratulate the new standard for futility in American football, not that anyone who hasn’t been following that team for the last few years is surprised about it.
Big numbers - by the end of next year, the United Nations believes there will be one billion people worldwide lacking adequate nutrition, because the countries that normally provide food aid are getting hit by financial difficulties, and the countries that desperately need credit to buy food are finding their credit lines drying up.
From the “No sh-t” department of Unabashed Feminism, those who do the whole virginity pledge end up having sex at about the same rate as their non-pledged peers, and it's unsafe sex to boot. So, with that obvious knowledge, the Jezzies and Shakesville do what they do best - “Well, duh!” Seriously, people, effective sex education may be one of the things that keeps people from having sex, or at least gives them the best odds that they won’t find their big plans derailed by the presence of a baby and having to answer uncomfortable questions from family and facing the still-Puritanical instinct of most communities to tatoo “slut” on the girls that get pregnant. (Some would even do it if they found out that you had sex. Which only can fuel the porn industry in those areas, I’m thinking.)
Anyone with a more local view on the apparent decision of the Australian government to begin building a firewall to filter traffic with? The whole “filters don’t work” thing seems to have slipped by.
In the Middle East, after receiving rocket attacks, Israel has struck back into the Gaza strip area. Old war, same place, new incarnation. *sigh*
Protests on the matter elsewhere in the world, as columnists try to find a way of tying it all to Iran, or applauding Israel's actions and urging for the continued destruction of Hamas so that a genuine peace process occurs. Hamas is definitely taking the blame.
Thousands gathered to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. That event certainly didn’t help the chaos of the region.
At the domestic point, the American populace is ready for the administrative changeover. The split is consistent with the outgoing administrator’s current approval rating. Elsewhere, talking in the theater sparked gun violence in Philadelphia, with one totally disgruntled moviegoer first threatening a son, then shooting the father in the arm.
Americans United For Separation of Church and State has their top ten list for this year, with highlights including the role religion played in the presidential campaign, Rick Warren’s ascension, homosexual marriage showdowns and, of course, the War on Christmas.
Moving from one VEWPRF entity to another, soem pictures of the Santa rampage that left many an orphan, whether by shooting or the subsequent burning of the house. As the General satirically notes, there was no reason to believe that this was coming, because he was just a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, or because he was a man put upon by his wife, who was going to steal his money through alimony and deserved to die because she divorced him. Y’know, the Biblically appropriate punishment and all. It's nto like he was mentally unstable or anything.
Last for domestic news, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is publishing letters written to the incoming President on a variety of issues until the President-elect takes office. Of course, this means Warner Todd Huston and others see it as the perfect justification that schools are teaching the thorough left-wing agenda, and that some of the letters supposedly from 10 year-olds are frauds and written by adults.
Here in opinions, David S. Broder sees the continued destruction and obsolescene of the Republican Party as the Southern states continue to dictate policy and action, with the echoes felt in many other places, like the Midwest and New England, where a Republican in an elected federal office is becoming an ever-scarcer thing. Star Parker thinks that African-Americans could be lured to the Republican Party if only the Republicans could convince them that their ideology, instead of the "welfare-state" Deomcrats, will give them the social mobility and respect they want. It’s just a matter of “confidence” in the free-market system. (Am reminded of J. brad Hicks’s thoughts that African-Americans don’t like Republicans because the Republicans engage in a regular campaign to bilk, steal, or otherwise take all of their assets and give them to themselves.)
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown feel that the internal investigation clearing Obama staffers of any involvement in Blagojevich's Senate seat sale is a fraud and that independent investigation is needed to expose the scandal and all thsoe involved.
Further matters of the President-elect continue with The WSJ considering Rick Warren to be another step toward bringing the two sides together, and a nice silver lining in that the far left will probably stop the President-elect from building that coalition because of their insistence that, say, the President-elect not be someone who’s indifferent-toward-hating toward LGBT issues. Bill'O gives his opinion of what's good and bad for the President-elect, according to the conservative mindset. Michael Barone sees him as an aloof president, not really caring about or needing his party, because the populace and the media will still worship him. Of course, nothing we see or hear on the media about President Obama will be fair or unbiased, according to what Austin Hill saw at the McCain media headquarters and his conversation with a reporter from Dublin. Foreign media are apparently not to be trusted, either, with the sole unbiased source in the media being Fox’s news programming (not their opinion shows, of course).
Terry Paulson feels an entitlement crash coming, because the government has no spine to say no to more bailouts of corporations and the President-elect wants to spend more money to try and help people out of their problems. Then, when all the baby boomers leave and the taxes finally come home to roost, we’ll all crash and die and be taxed too much, and the economy will truly do the crash. Clifford Winston agrees that current stimulus is really pork, and that it woud be better for the President-elect to do as much economical spending, through imposing tolls and charges on those that use the new stuff, and reducing union requirements and regulations in building things like airports. Peter Schiff just says that there shouldn't be as much spending everywhere, so that we can save up for the next time, and that government can’t and shouldn’t try to spend itself into recovery, because all it does is suck away from the private sector.
And, of course, dsepite all of this financial manner, Thane Rosenbaum tells us there's still the War on a Concept that we have to pay attention to, and be afraid of, and continue to do things away from the Constitution we’re supposed to be upholding and following. The DHS is releasing their predictions on where the terror will come from. And, of course, because it’s going swimmmingly now, regardless of justifications for beginning it, everyone should be praising the outgoing administrator for his decision to attack and topple Iraq. After all, we'll thank him someday, according to Ms. Rice. We’d rather pay attention to accusations of sexual slavery in Sudan.
Damian Thompson finds [UK] Channel Four and UK society in general indulgent of Islam to the point of being harmful to society, whether in providing accreditation or other things, leading to the inevitable adoption of Islamic law with all its problems in the United Kingdom. Yes, in a few years, UK citizens will be wearing burquas and engaging in honor killings.
Ready for transitions... Christopher Booker claims that he's figured it out, and that global warming has been disproved, based on the stories that snowfall looked to be drying all the way up uin May, only to be hit with record-looking snowfalls by November. Which totally disproves the whole idea of anthropogenic climate change.
Technology: pictures of fractal cats, using body fat sucked off liposuction patients to power a vehicle, new laser generation methods, more scientific reason to trust our instincts, and the year summary articles in Wired Tech, robotics, nanotechnology, and extreme news.
At the very end, someone plans on trying to ignite a star. If successful, energy problems could become a thing of the past. Assuming the reactions don’t do as real stars do and expand outward for a very long ways, engulfing and destroying everything in their path.
Okay, the very tail end involves phrases to use as a check whether you're too drunk to drive, or perhaps, to make any decisions at all.
Big numbers - by the end of next year, the United Nations believes there will be one billion people worldwide lacking adequate nutrition, because the countries that normally provide food aid are getting hit by financial difficulties, and the countries that desperately need credit to buy food are finding their credit lines drying up.
From the “No sh-t” department of Unabashed Feminism, those who do the whole virginity pledge end up having sex at about the same rate as their non-pledged peers, and it's unsafe sex to boot. So, with that obvious knowledge, the Jezzies and Shakesville do what they do best - “Well, duh!” Seriously, people, effective sex education may be one of the things that keeps people from having sex, or at least gives them the best odds that they won’t find their big plans derailed by the presence of a baby and having to answer uncomfortable questions from family and facing the still-Puritanical instinct of most communities to tatoo “slut” on the girls that get pregnant. (Some would even do it if they found out that you had sex. Which only can fuel the porn industry in those areas, I’m thinking.)
Anyone with a more local view on the apparent decision of the Australian government to begin building a firewall to filter traffic with? The whole “filters don’t work” thing seems to have slipped by.
In the Middle East, after receiving rocket attacks, Israel has struck back into the Gaza strip area. Old war, same place, new incarnation. *sigh*
Protests on the matter elsewhere in the world, as columnists try to find a way of tying it all to Iran, or applauding Israel's actions and urging for the continued destruction of Hamas so that a genuine peace process occurs. Hamas is definitely taking the blame.
Thousands gathered to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. That event certainly didn’t help the chaos of the region.
At the domestic point, the American populace is ready for the administrative changeover. The split is consistent with the outgoing administrator’s current approval rating. Elsewhere, talking in the theater sparked gun violence in Philadelphia, with one totally disgruntled moviegoer first threatening a son, then shooting the father in the arm.
Americans United For Separation of Church and State has their top ten list for this year, with highlights including the role religion played in the presidential campaign, Rick Warren’s ascension, homosexual marriage showdowns and, of course, the War on Christmas.
Moving from one VEWPRF entity to another, soem pictures of the Santa rampage that left many an orphan, whether by shooting or the subsequent burning of the house. As the General satirically notes, there was no reason to believe that this was coming, because he was just a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, or because he was a man put upon by his wife, who was going to steal his money through alimony and deserved to die because she divorced him. Y’know, the Biblically appropriate punishment and all. It's nto like he was mentally unstable or anything.
Last for domestic news, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is publishing letters written to the incoming President on a variety of issues until the President-elect takes office. Of course, this means Warner Todd Huston and others see it as the perfect justification that schools are teaching the thorough left-wing agenda, and that some of the letters supposedly from 10 year-olds are frauds and written by adults.
Here in opinions, David S. Broder sees the continued destruction and obsolescene of the Republican Party as the Southern states continue to dictate policy and action, with the echoes felt in many other places, like the Midwest and New England, where a Republican in an elected federal office is becoming an ever-scarcer thing. Star Parker thinks that African-Americans could be lured to the Republican Party if only the Republicans could convince them that their ideology, instead of the "welfare-state" Deomcrats, will give them the social mobility and respect they want. It’s just a matter of “confidence” in the free-market system. (Am reminded of J. brad Hicks’s thoughts that African-Americans don’t like Republicans because the Republicans engage in a regular campaign to bilk, steal, or otherwise take all of their assets and give them to themselves.)
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown feel that the internal investigation clearing Obama staffers of any involvement in Blagojevich's Senate seat sale is a fraud and that independent investigation is needed to expose the scandal and all thsoe involved.
Further matters of the President-elect continue with The WSJ considering Rick Warren to be another step toward bringing the two sides together, and a nice silver lining in that the far left will probably stop the President-elect from building that coalition because of their insistence that, say, the President-elect not be someone who’s indifferent-toward-hating toward LGBT issues. Bill'O gives his opinion of what's good and bad for the President-elect, according to the conservative mindset. Michael Barone sees him as an aloof president, not really caring about or needing his party, because the populace and the media will still worship him. Of course, nothing we see or hear on the media about President Obama will be fair or unbiased, according to what Austin Hill saw at the McCain media headquarters and his conversation with a reporter from Dublin. Foreign media are apparently not to be trusted, either, with the sole unbiased source in the media being Fox’s news programming (not their opinion shows, of course).
Terry Paulson feels an entitlement crash coming, because the government has no spine to say no to more bailouts of corporations and the President-elect wants to spend more money to try and help people out of their problems. Then, when all the baby boomers leave and the taxes finally come home to roost, we’ll all crash and die and be taxed too much, and the economy will truly do the crash. Clifford Winston agrees that current stimulus is really pork, and that it woud be better for the President-elect to do as much economical spending, through imposing tolls and charges on those that use the new stuff, and reducing union requirements and regulations in building things like airports. Peter Schiff just says that there shouldn't be as much spending everywhere, so that we can save up for the next time, and that government can’t and shouldn’t try to spend itself into recovery, because all it does is suck away from the private sector.
And, of course, dsepite all of this financial manner, Thane Rosenbaum tells us there's still the War on a Concept that we have to pay attention to, and be afraid of, and continue to do things away from the Constitution we’re supposed to be upholding and following. The DHS is releasing their predictions on where the terror will come from. And, of course, because it’s going swimmmingly now, regardless of justifications for beginning it, everyone should be praising the outgoing administrator for his decision to attack and topple Iraq. After all, we'll thank him someday, according to Ms. Rice. We’d rather pay attention to accusations of sexual slavery in Sudan.
Damian Thompson finds [UK] Channel Four and UK society in general indulgent of Islam to the point of being harmful to society, whether in providing accreditation or other things, leading to the inevitable adoption of Islamic law with all its problems in the United Kingdom. Yes, in a few years, UK citizens will be wearing burquas and engaging in honor killings.
Ready for transitions... Christopher Booker claims that he's figured it out, and that global warming has been disproved, based on the stories that snowfall looked to be drying all the way up uin May, only to be hit with record-looking snowfalls by November. Which totally disproves the whole idea of anthropogenic climate change.
Technology: pictures of fractal cats, using body fat sucked off liposuction patients to power a vehicle, new laser generation methods, more scientific reason to trust our instincts, and the year summary articles in Wired Tech, robotics, nanotechnology, and extreme news.
At the very end, someone plans on trying to ignite a star. If successful, energy problems could become a thing of the past. Assuming the reactions don’t do as real stars do and expand outward for a very long ways, engulfing and destroying everything in their path.
Okay, the very tail end involves phrases to use as a check whether you're too drunk to drive, or perhaps, to make any decisions at all.
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Date: 2008-12-30 06:30 pm (UTC)Also, i shoot. I believe in the second amendment, and i believe in the use of firearms for other things, such as being able to feed and protect oneself. This does not make me a killer, and the suggestion that such a thing might is frighteningly wrong.
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Date: 2008-12-30 07:39 pm (UTC)