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silveradeptEnd of week! Not End of World (WTF, mate?).
Continuing to exercise swiftness in those areas that he has full control over, President Obama signed an executive order lifting a federal ban on funding groups that provide abortion counseling or services in countries other than the United States. The Unabashed Feminism Department is quite happy, as well as a rumor that the rule halt also stops the "conscience clause" brought into existence by the former administrator is also stalled pending review, where it will be killed.
For those interested in tracking the performance of the President (and this would be a good one), the Promise Tracking Page, for which there are probably a lot of bookmarks. Maybe even one from the President himself.
Jumping to things that will offend the UFD... and one that will probably amuse the left. The Monstrous Regiment, a movie that claims feminism has been the very worst thing for women ever since it appeared, purporting to show how women living biblically in submission to their husbands is the way to go. You can tell it's a winner by the warning about content - "abortion, sex, and immodesty," and by how they describe their all-female cast, some by name, and "other honorable wives, homemakers, and mothers." Yeah. For those wondering if there's some insidious cabal out to make the Handmaid's Tale into reality, well, there is a "patriarchy movement", whose adherents call themsleves True Women and who advocate for biblical submission of women to men. Because God designed us to be different, and put men at the head of women, and everyone should agree with that design and not advocate for equality. If someone wants to be a submissive, even in a biblical sort of way, that's their choice, but that's the point - they get to choose. Take away that choice and you don't have submission, you have slavery (of the bad kind).
The laughable object is that the Vatican is claiming that "homosexual behavior" in Catholic seminaries is on the decline. Setting aside why the pontiff wants to declare this... would you trust him? The pontiff also claims celibacy teaching and the screening for who's really called to be a priest is better. The General asks for some clarification on the Pope's statements.
Dan Goldman has a short-story comic about what happens when President Obama meets the new Mayan Era in 2012. Change, indeed. There's also a great line in there where the President remarks that if he were afraid of what was to come... he'd be wearing pants.
Confessions for two men from Chicago area planning to kill soldiers in Iraq, as well as the desecration of a soldier's grave by thieves. Additionally, the possibility that the Color Guard for the Super Bowl will not be able to watch the game.
Minnesota's contested Senate seat stays contested, after judges deny Al Franken's request to block Coleman's lawsuit.
Governor Palin is trying to correct percieved errors and hostility in media coverage regarding her and her children, feeling that the media has done several thigns in poor taste and judgment by bringing her children into the mix.
In the opinions, comedian Rush Limbaugh plants himself firmly in the camp of the anti-Obama, declaring on Sean Hannity's show that he wants President Obama to fail, on the condition that President Obama's agenda is a fringe-left socialist-collectivist agenda. Based on the rain of commentary coming down from conservative outlets, it seems to be a matter of accepted fact that President Obama is a socialist and will push a socialist agenda, so I think I can confidently say that Mr. Limbaugh is the first person to openly declare on the media that he wants to see President Obama fail. Two days into his presidency. That must be some kind of record. Naturally, his statement offends more than just liberals, because wishing failure on the President is pretty well damning the country, too.
Paul Kengor says that the former administrator is blameless for Iraq, because the media led him to belive Saddam had WMD, and he then decided we couldn't wait to see whether he did or didn&aops;t. Wow
Politico contributors Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris feel there are unresolved questions about the Obama presidency, including what he believes on Afghanistan and Iraq. Where to put Guantanamo Bay residents is also an issue of contention, even with a clear mandate to get rid of the prison.
Kimberly Strassel feels pitchforks and torches are coming from the Democrats regarding the former administrator, despite the current administrator's promise to set aside childish things. She also thinks that those investigations would be partisan attempst to punish someone, instead of trying to find truth. Plus, they'd evaporate good will. She also claims that they wouldn't learn much else... as well as a hint of something that sounds like "Besides, they didn't do anything wrong, and the President is right now busily sacrificing all those tools we need to keep us safe." The WSJ agrees, especially on the torture issue, figuring that any investigation would not produce convictions because the CIA people didn't know they were doing wrong and deliberately do it. They also believe that the line that the President suppsedly drew isn't a line at all, but a warning shot.
Peter Schiff is worried about just who will be financing defecit spending in the United States, especially for stimulus, as Carl Icahn figures we need to make managerial reform as we make company reform.
Andrew Murcia says Republicans have to reach out to youth (good luck on that in this environment), as Peggy Noonan comments on the spectacle of the inauguration (and how much it transcends partisan politics), while giving some advice on how to avoid riling up the opposition.
Last out of the opinions, Lori Roman is disgusted at how much race was mentioned in the Obama inauguration, with the implications that she is responsible for some of the crimes committed and attitudes of years ago. She wants the post-racial world, and she thinks that displaying it so much for the inauguration was counter to the fact that many people are living post-racial lives already. Jere Krischel asks the President to stop a bill in Hawaii that appears to establish a second government for the natives, potentially causing inequal treatment.
In technology, robots made to climb up structures, poles, and irregular facings, the possible development of a material that will serve as the cable to a space elevator, carbon nanotubes as film for flexible electronics and displays, creating tiny dolls made of living cells, more progress on manipulating and transferring quantum information over distance, even bigger amounts of data on hoodgraphic storage media, and speculation and possibly wank on the matter where LHC black holes might exist for longer than a second... despite the chances of this happening being nonzero, I'm betting on "infintesimaly small". But it's probably bigger than the amount of clue that this Microsoft rep had in introducing a DRM mobile music service that's more expensive than DRM-free Amazon and iTunes.
Oh, and worms around the Internet, this one worse than the last.
Last for tonight, the Good Stuff, like a modular house built for $5000 USD our of recycled paper, MIT scientists say the reason analog materials like Post-Its still exist is because digital tools aren't as easy to use, and thus offer up List.It, an attempt at a tool that can become your Post-Its.
And then, 389 years, a poster that chronicles a countdown of African-American issues up to the election of Barack Obama. G'night.
Continuing to exercise swiftness in those areas that he has full control over, President Obama signed an executive order lifting a federal ban on funding groups that provide abortion counseling or services in countries other than the United States. The Unabashed Feminism Department is quite happy, as well as a rumor that the rule halt also stops the "conscience clause" brought into existence by the former administrator is also stalled pending review, where it will be killed.
For those interested in tracking the performance of the President (and this would be a good one), the Promise Tracking Page, for which there are probably a lot of bookmarks. Maybe even one from the President himself.
Jumping to things that will offend the UFD... and one that will probably amuse the left. The Monstrous Regiment, a movie that claims feminism has been the very worst thing for women ever since it appeared, purporting to show how women living biblically in submission to their husbands is the way to go. You can tell it's a winner by the warning about content - "abortion, sex, and immodesty," and by how they describe their all-female cast, some by name, and "other honorable wives, homemakers, and mothers." Yeah. For those wondering if there's some insidious cabal out to make the Handmaid's Tale into reality, well, there is a "patriarchy movement", whose adherents call themsleves True Women and who advocate for biblical submission of women to men. Because God designed us to be different, and put men at the head of women, and everyone should agree with that design and not advocate for equality. If someone wants to be a submissive, even in a biblical sort of way, that's their choice, but that's the point - they get to choose. Take away that choice and you don't have submission, you have slavery (of the bad kind).
The laughable object is that the Vatican is claiming that "homosexual behavior" in Catholic seminaries is on the decline. Setting aside why the pontiff wants to declare this... would you trust him? The pontiff also claims celibacy teaching and the screening for who's really called to be a priest is better. The General asks for some clarification on the Pope's statements.
Dan Goldman has a short-story comic about what happens when President Obama meets the new Mayan Era in 2012. Change, indeed. There's also a great line in there where the President remarks that if he were afraid of what was to come... he'd be wearing pants.
Confessions for two men from Chicago area planning to kill soldiers in Iraq, as well as the desecration of a soldier's grave by thieves. Additionally, the possibility that the Color Guard for the Super Bowl will not be able to watch the game.
Minnesota's contested Senate seat stays contested, after judges deny Al Franken's request to block Coleman's lawsuit.
Governor Palin is trying to correct percieved errors and hostility in media coverage regarding her and her children, feeling that the media has done several thigns in poor taste and judgment by bringing her children into the mix.
In the opinions, comedian Rush Limbaugh plants himself firmly in the camp of the anti-Obama, declaring on Sean Hannity's show that he wants President Obama to fail, on the condition that President Obama's agenda is a fringe-left socialist-collectivist agenda. Based on the rain of commentary coming down from conservative outlets, it seems to be a matter of accepted fact that President Obama is a socialist and will push a socialist agenda, so I think I can confidently say that Mr. Limbaugh is the first person to openly declare on the media that he wants to see President Obama fail. Two days into his presidency. That must be some kind of record. Naturally, his statement offends more than just liberals, because wishing failure on the President is pretty well damning the country, too.
Paul Kengor says that the former administrator is blameless for Iraq, because the media led him to belive Saddam had WMD, and he then decided we couldn't wait to see whether he did or didn&aops;t. Wow
Politico contributors Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris feel there are unresolved questions about the Obama presidency, including what he believes on Afghanistan and Iraq. Where to put Guantanamo Bay residents is also an issue of contention, even with a clear mandate to get rid of the prison.
Kimberly Strassel feels pitchforks and torches are coming from the Democrats regarding the former administrator, despite the current administrator's promise to set aside childish things. She also thinks that those investigations would be partisan attempst to punish someone, instead of trying to find truth. Plus, they'd evaporate good will. She also claims that they wouldn't learn much else... as well as a hint of something that sounds like "Besides, they didn't do anything wrong, and the President is right now busily sacrificing all those tools we need to keep us safe." The WSJ agrees, especially on the torture issue, figuring that any investigation would not produce convictions because the CIA people didn't know they were doing wrong and deliberately do it. They also believe that the line that the President suppsedly drew isn't a line at all, but a warning shot.
Peter Schiff is worried about just who will be financing defecit spending in the United States, especially for stimulus, as Carl Icahn figures we need to make managerial reform as we make company reform.
Andrew Murcia says Republicans have to reach out to youth (good luck on that in this environment), as Peggy Noonan comments on the spectacle of the inauguration (and how much it transcends partisan politics), while giving some advice on how to avoid riling up the opposition.
Last out of the opinions, Lori Roman is disgusted at how much race was mentioned in the Obama inauguration, with the implications that she is responsible for some of the crimes committed and attitudes of years ago. She wants the post-racial world, and she thinks that displaying it so much for the inauguration was counter to the fact that many people are living post-racial lives already. Jere Krischel asks the President to stop a bill in Hawaii that appears to establish a second government for the natives, potentially causing inequal treatment.
In technology, robots made to climb up structures, poles, and irregular facings, the possible development of a material that will serve as the cable to a space elevator, carbon nanotubes as film for flexible electronics and displays, creating tiny dolls made of living cells, more progress on manipulating and transferring quantum information over distance, even bigger amounts of data on hoodgraphic storage media, and speculation and possibly wank on the matter where LHC black holes might exist for longer than a second... despite the chances of this happening being nonzero, I'm betting on "infintesimaly small". But it's probably bigger than the amount of clue that this Microsoft rep had in introducing a DRM mobile music service that's more expensive than DRM-free Amazon and iTunes.
Oh, and worms around the Internet, this one worse than the last.
Last for tonight, the Good Stuff, like a modular house built for $5000 USD our of recycled paper, MIT scientists say the reason analog materials like Post-Its still exist is because digital tools aren't as easy to use, and thus offer up List.It, an attempt at a tool that can become your Post-Its.
And then, 389 years, a poster that chronicles a countdown of African-American issues up to the election of Barack Obama. G'night.
