And now the weekend - 6 March 2009
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silveradeptHere comes the infortrain, where the best investigative journalism on the planet predicted the current situation from quite a ways out... several times, all set to happen within a time frame... that wasn’t this one. But, y’know, stopped watch. If that’s not impressive enough, The Tattoo Baby Doll Project would like your viewing. If that’s too weird, enjoy the sheriff suing craigslist as a place where prostitution takes place.
Worldwide, Mr. Gorbachev says that the current Russia is much like the worst of the communists he led, but does not pass off communism itself as being bad, holding out hope that some countries will re-form with Russia into a new union.
The U.N. SecGen says that the expulsion of aid workers from Sudan will only make the bad situations in the country worse, with irrevocable damage as the result. If we're lucky, it will be more like a death spasm. There are still harsh words for the ICC for issuing the warrant, but not having the stones to go in and stop the thing for which the warrant was issued from happening.
Mental illness is the ruling in the case of a Canadian who killed and dismembered a fellow passenger, which means he gets psychiatric help and institutionalization, isntead of a prison sentence, which irks the family of the dead man to no end - they think he got away with murder, and will challenge the law that sends the mentally ill to hospitals rather than prison.
Domestically, McGrfuf the Crime Dog took a fist to the face. The person throwing it thought it would be a good joke. No, they’re not laughing.
testosterone is a go for naturopaths in the state that pays for the most pr0n. Yeah, the General clued me into this one.
Atheist-bashing author claims conspiracy on Amazon to give his book one-star reviews. And this is somehow different from the campaigns that wingnuts mount to “boycott” certain businesses, with likely similar effects? The author claims that the negative review campaign has hurt his book sales, but also claims it’s so powerful, exposes all the lies and unsicentificness of atheism, and when he sent a copy to an atheist, the atheist wrote back saying he had converted. Naturally, the General seizes on his point that evolution has no answer for why females came into being, and takes it all the way out to its natural conclusion. All of this almost pales in comparison to An Oklahoma representative introducing a resolution to say how much they don't support Richard Dawkins coming to talk at one of the universities there because he’s a minority opinion...and that the university should engage in an "open, dignified, and fair discussion" of Darwinian evolution (unlike the current theory, which Dr. Dawkins is probably more familiar with). I’m with PZ Myers - it’s got to be a badge of honor to say that someone called you out by name as being a bad influence.
Tax Day Tea Party rallies to protest the government's stimulus bill and appropriations afterward, if you’re so inclined. A protest mostly about spending, although everyone’s certain someone else is going to get bitten by the taxes, if not now, then later on.
Boss Rush continues his reign of terror over Mr. Steele. The Steele for RNC chairman blog now links directly to the RNC homepage, most likely a result of taking serious heat for
Okay, getting serious, now. The FDIC thinks its deposit insurance fund may go broke if bank failures and problems continue. Thus, new fees for the banks to help and a bill that would expand the FDIC's credit line up to $500 billion.
The FDA has some 'splainin to do about the way that it's been approving medical devices and drugs, with criticism that the regulatory body caves too much to the industry at the forefront.
I’m not sure if this is intended to be a dig at the President, but Politico notes that Mr. Obama carries a TelePrompTer with him almost anywhere he goes. That’s apparently not as bad as using outdated data in a rhetorical flourish when talking about health care and bankruptcies. And, in a nearly-invisible transition into opinions, Ms. Pipes would dispute that there's anything really wrong ith our health care system, and the arguments used to move us toward a more single-payer system will make for increased costs and reduced services for all.
In more pure opinions, Mr. Boskin says that crisis is not the time to re-engineer the economy wholesale, accusing Mr. Obama of doing so and thus causing the further declines in the stock markets, a point The WSJ agrees on - policy is prolonging the recession, they say. They may not agree with Mr. Forbes (yes, that Forbes) on what kind of policies are the bad ones - he fingers Bush-era revitalizations of bad policies and knockouts of others, and urges the President to kill the bad ones ded again and restore the good ones. Mr. Thomas says that a campaign against the rich ultimately makes the middle class poor, because the middle class gets laid off when people stop showing their conspicuous consumption on luxury items, travel, and the like, and Mr. Towery sees the governing elite and the rich as becoming the royal class, for whom all of us peons work and slave away, get taxed too much and/or mollycoddled to the point that we can’t be independent. Ms. Strassel harps on the cap-and-trade carbon system as a giant tax, one that businesses are starting to realize exists, and which will be passed onto consumers, who will suffer because the companies are unwilling to have their profits cut into.
Fear Sharia, all you in the west! FEAR! Because of the excesses and bad decisions of courts with regard to its principles, the whole thing should, naturally, be scrapped, before it turns us all into woman-oppressing Muslims. Mr. Phares says that we have to keep pressure on Iran and Syria as we leave Iraq, or Iran will take over Iraq and make it into a clone of itself, undoing all the work we did do with our troops. Oh, and Venezuela is a threat, too. Not necessarily as much of a threat as President Obama and his left-wing agenda unleased, according to Ms. Hollis, whom she berates the voting populace for having all the information about the baby killing, activist-appointing Communist-in-Chief and still voting for him anyway on the premise that they didn’t believe he would do exactly as he said he would. If that’s true, than the voting populace are morons, it’s true, but because you should never trust or expect someone to do the opposite of what they say they will. I’m still inclined to believe the American populace heard the messages, weighed them, made their decision, and voted for the things they wanted anyway.
Africa should not try to be a green country, says Messers. Soon and Driessen, considering it a form of “eco-colonialism” that will hold Africa back from developing into a truly rich nation.
At the end of this all, Mr. Chapman says he misses Bill Clinton, because he didn’t go gigantically liberal in his time in office and worked on Republican priorities. Winning the award for “...the hell?” tonight out of the opinion columns, however, is Ann Coulter, who attempts to skewer Keith Oblermann by claiming that he did not really go to the Ivy League Cornell, but instead a hanger-on that’s on the same campus, has the same name, but is all about Aggies instead of Artspeople. With a lower IQ, SAT score and apparely, one that accepts anybody that applies. Mr. Olbermann does what he does best - he shows the viewing populace his degree from Cornell University, signs, seals, and all. Which, as I recall, is still an Ivy League school, no matter what degree you got from there. I’m also wondering when Ms. Coulter ran out of substantive objections to Mr. Olbermann’s on-air statements that she had to resort to declaring that Cornell is not part of Cornell, just so that she could accuse Mr. Olbermann of being a fraud.
Mr. Edler comments on the tactic of blaming Rush, telling Mr. Steele to get his act together and actually lead the party, rather than being Rush’s lapdog and letting the Demcorats use him and Rush as punching bags and someone to blame when things inevitably fail.
In scitech, a paradoxical result of an experiment designed to show that unobserved reality behaves rather oddly, instead of according to classically observed results. The paradox was proven to exist by the results. Yet more of the quantum weird.
Additionally, the rainforst drying up could accelerate the climate change phenomeon, as could the disappearance of summer ice from the Arctic. Suddenly, looking at other areas as possible origin points of life starts looking better, thus the Kepler mission. Did we mention that in Illinois, Pluto is still a planet? Let the plutocracy jokes begin.
Artificial control of celular assembly is now possible, meaning that we can build microtissues just the way we want ‘em. Combined with nanotubes that can sense the entire visible light spectrum... and I’m not sure what you could come up with.
Last out, converting an oil rig into a luxury resort, which is a pretty good reuse of the giant, stable platform and its structures.
Worldwide, Mr. Gorbachev says that the current Russia is much like the worst of the communists he led, but does not pass off communism itself as being bad, holding out hope that some countries will re-form with Russia into a new union.
The U.N. SecGen says that the expulsion of aid workers from Sudan will only make the bad situations in the country worse, with irrevocable damage as the result. If we're lucky, it will be more like a death spasm. There are still harsh words for the ICC for issuing the warrant, but not having the stones to go in and stop the thing for which the warrant was issued from happening.
Mental illness is the ruling in the case of a Canadian who killed and dismembered a fellow passenger, which means he gets psychiatric help and institutionalization, isntead of a prison sentence, which irks the family of the dead man to no end - they think he got away with murder, and will challenge the law that sends the mentally ill to hospitals rather than prison.
Domestically, McGrfuf the Crime Dog took a fist to the face. The person throwing it thought it would be a good joke. No, they’re not laughing.
testosterone is a go for naturopaths in the state that pays for the most pr0n. Yeah, the General clued me into this one.
Atheist-bashing author claims conspiracy on Amazon to give his book one-star reviews. And this is somehow different from the campaigns that wingnuts mount to “boycott” certain businesses, with likely similar effects? The author claims that the negative review campaign has hurt his book sales, but also claims it’s so powerful, exposes all the lies and unsicentificness of atheism, and when he sent a copy to an atheist, the atheist wrote back saying he had converted. Naturally, the General seizes on his point that evolution has no answer for why females came into being, and takes it all the way out to its natural conclusion. All of this almost pales in comparison to An Oklahoma representative introducing a resolution to say how much they don't support Richard Dawkins coming to talk at one of the universities there because he’s a minority opinion...and that the university should engage in an "open, dignified, and fair discussion" of Darwinian evolution (unlike the current theory, which Dr. Dawkins is probably more familiar with). I’m with PZ Myers - it’s got to be a badge of honor to say that someone called you out by name as being a bad influence.
Tax Day Tea Party rallies to protest the government's stimulus bill and appropriations afterward, if you’re so inclined. A protest mostly about spending, although everyone’s certain someone else is going to get bitten by the taxes, if not now, then later on.
Boss Rush continues his reign of terror over Mr. Steele. The Steele for RNC chairman blog now links directly to the RNC homepage, most likely a result of taking serious heat for
Okay, getting serious, now. The FDIC thinks its deposit insurance fund may go broke if bank failures and problems continue. Thus, new fees for the banks to help and a bill that would expand the FDIC's credit line up to $500 billion.
The FDA has some 'splainin to do about the way that it's been approving medical devices and drugs, with criticism that the regulatory body caves too much to the industry at the forefront.
I’m not sure if this is intended to be a dig at the President, but Politico notes that Mr. Obama carries a TelePrompTer with him almost anywhere he goes. That’s apparently not as bad as using outdated data in a rhetorical flourish when talking about health care and bankruptcies. And, in a nearly-invisible transition into opinions, Ms. Pipes would dispute that there's anything really wrong ith our health care system, and the arguments used to move us toward a more single-payer system will make for increased costs and reduced services for all.
In more pure opinions, Mr. Boskin says that crisis is not the time to re-engineer the economy wholesale, accusing Mr. Obama of doing so and thus causing the further declines in the stock markets, a point The WSJ agrees on - policy is prolonging the recession, they say. They may not agree with Mr. Forbes (yes, that Forbes) on what kind of policies are the bad ones - he fingers Bush-era revitalizations of bad policies and knockouts of others, and urges the President to kill the bad ones ded again and restore the good ones. Mr. Thomas says that a campaign against the rich ultimately makes the middle class poor, because the middle class gets laid off when people stop showing their conspicuous consumption on luxury items, travel, and the like, and Mr. Towery sees the governing elite and the rich as becoming the royal class, for whom all of us peons work and slave away, get taxed too much and/or mollycoddled to the point that we can’t be independent. Ms. Strassel harps on the cap-and-trade carbon system as a giant tax, one that businesses are starting to realize exists, and which will be passed onto consumers, who will suffer because the companies are unwilling to have their profits cut into.
Fear Sharia, all you in the west! FEAR! Because of the excesses and bad decisions of courts with regard to its principles, the whole thing should, naturally, be scrapped, before it turns us all into woman-oppressing Muslims. Mr. Phares says that we have to keep pressure on Iran and Syria as we leave Iraq, or Iran will take over Iraq and make it into a clone of itself, undoing all the work we did do with our troops. Oh, and Venezuela is a threat, too. Not necessarily as much of a threat as President Obama and his left-wing agenda unleased, according to Ms. Hollis, whom she berates the voting populace for having all the information about the baby killing, activist-appointing Communist-in-Chief and still voting for him anyway on the premise that they didn’t believe he would do exactly as he said he would. If that’s true, than the voting populace are morons, it’s true, but because you should never trust or expect someone to do the opposite of what they say they will. I’m still inclined to believe the American populace heard the messages, weighed them, made their decision, and voted for the things they wanted anyway.
Africa should not try to be a green country, says Messers. Soon and Driessen, considering it a form of “eco-colonialism” that will hold Africa back from developing into a truly rich nation.
At the end of this all, Mr. Chapman says he misses Bill Clinton, because he didn’t go gigantically liberal in his time in office and worked on Republican priorities. Winning the award for “...the hell?” tonight out of the opinion columns, however, is Ann Coulter, who attempts to skewer Keith Oblermann by claiming that he did not really go to the Ivy League Cornell, but instead a hanger-on that’s on the same campus, has the same name, but is all about Aggies instead of Artspeople. With a lower IQ, SAT score and apparely, one that accepts anybody that applies. Mr. Olbermann does what he does best - he shows the viewing populace his degree from Cornell University, signs, seals, and all. Which, as I recall, is still an Ivy League school, no matter what degree you got from there. I’m also wondering when Ms. Coulter ran out of substantive objections to Mr. Olbermann’s on-air statements that she had to resort to declaring that Cornell is not part of Cornell, just so that she could accuse Mr. Olbermann of being a fraud.
Mr. Edler comments on the tactic of blaming Rush, telling Mr. Steele to get his act together and actually lead the party, rather than being Rush’s lapdog and letting the Demcorats use him and Rush as punching bags and someone to blame when things inevitably fail.
In scitech, a paradoxical result of an experiment designed to show that unobserved reality behaves rather oddly, instead of according to classically observed results. The paradox was proven to exist by the results. Yet more of the quantum weird.
Additionally, the rainforst drying up could accelerate the climate change phenomeon, as could the disappearance of summer ice from the Arctic. Suddenly, looking at other areas as possible origin points of life starts looking better, thus the Kepler mission. Did we mention that in Illinois, Pluto is still a planet? Let the plutocracy jokes begin.
Artificial control of celular assembly is now possible, meaning that we can build microtissues just the way we want ‘em. Combined with nanotubes that can sense the entire visible light spectrum... and I’m not sure what you could come up with.
Last out, converting an oil rig into a luxury resort, which is a pretty good reuse of the giant, stable platform and its structures.
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Link Note
Date: 2009-03-07 07:36 am (UTC)~M~
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Date: 2009-03-07 04:28 pm (UTC)The Oklahoma resolution that PZ linked to was a later version. ERV (http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2009/03/the_first_draft_of_ok_legislat.php) has a link to an earlier version.
Re: Link Note
Date: 2009-03-09 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-09 08:49 pm (UTC)