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We’re still a ways of from 2012, but we're already seeing people looking forward to it. Others are embracing some of their heritage... stereotypes... something, in promoting people to visit their area by releasing videos involving giant robots fighting aliens. Which gets a bigger stamp of approval around than what the Chicks on Anime think of the latest Sakura-Con ad, which seems to glorify all the bad stereotypes. And, apparently, Mr. W. bush's rating among wrestling fans.
Looking back into the past, The Japanese government certified the first known survivor of both atomic bomb attacks in 1945. Hopefully, after that twin stroke of poor placement, he had great fortune thereafter.
And right here in the present, some Saudi women are calling for a boycott of lingerie stores until they employ women in the shops. It’s one of those weird places where, because they didn’t want to have women dealing with men buying underthings, only men work in those shops. But that means only men are talking, sizing, and demonstrating cleaning technique on those underthings, which is embarrassing for all involved, apparently. Good intentions, unexpected consequences. There’s even a law that requires only women to work in women’s apparel stores, but that runs into conflicts with the other laws about men and women not mixing. And worst, the women can’t try on the stuff to see if it fits until they get home.
Internationally, the hunt for a German serial killer ahs been resolved - turns out the DNA evidence that was on all the cotton swabs was the person handling them before they went to the police. Anticlimactic ending, and perhaps a good reason why we need to do more than just work with DNA ecidence.
In response to North Kroea loading a rocket onto a launch pad, for what they claim is a satellite launch, Japan mobilized missile-defense forces to protect their coast, which is in the flight path of the rocket/satellite launch.
New strategy docs, including heavy emphasis on exit plans, accompany pledge to send 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan and more aid to the region. Additionally, the defeat of al-Qaeda is a top priority for the country.
The Pentagon worries that China will start swinging its weight around in Asia, to impose its solutions on disputes in the region.
Egypt says that it is mediating a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. In the territory, Israel tested an anti-rocket defense system, hoping to make the rocket raids much less effective. The best hope might lie, however, in projects like Strings of Freedom, composed of Palestinian youth, giving a concert to Holocaust survivors.
The case of faulty wiring leading to electric shock in Iraq's military bases is not isolated. Investigators are looking at all 90,000 facility buildings to see where else shoddy workmanship has resulted in serious danger. Someone should probably be sued or fined for not doing the work. Wasn’t this KBR/Haliburton territory?
A conflicting report - while al-Qaeda is on the way down, it says, the possibility of a nuclear or chemical attack on the United Kingdom is going up. So, they’re thinking it will be a big bang of a last huzzah, or what?
Workers at a 3M plant in France have held said plant hostage while they strike for keeping their jobs. This was part of larger strikes across France.
Domestically, The Obama administration signed on to a U.N. declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide. This document signing comes with no legal obligations, considering that Teh Gay in the United States is not illegal. So, it’s a safe support signaling step. If the Obama administration really wants to show serious support for the LGBTQ population, he’d start making noise about encouraging states to rescind their “marriage” amendments and push for a law to repeal the federal DOMA.
Now that there's a plan, the party of NO has something to say NO to, or: Republicans oppose Geithner’s plan to overhaul the financial sector. The chief argument is that more regulation is a bad thing, which looks a bit silly if you consider that a lack of regulation is still a possibility on what got us into this mess. A secondary one is that the administration still doesn't know what it's doing, and all the borrowing and spending is akin to flailing about in a minefield, when, if we would just wait for a moment and let nature take its course, we might find the way out. The Czech Prime Minister doesn't like the spending plan, calling it a "road to hell". All in all, though, the President's budget heads to the open floor of the Senate, so those looking for NO will only have a few more chances to wield it.
Speaking of success in the midst of failure, the people making money by successfully predicting the collapse are doing quite well.
Republicans will also be busily opposing contingency plans in case Guantanamo Bay residents are released in the United States that hope to start them off well and give them incentive not to return to terror (if, indeed, they were guilty of it in the first place). All of this is part of a plan to contrast what the candidate said and what the president is doing. Because, apparently, the attempt to say that the president was doing exactly what the candidate said he would do has not taken Exhibit A of the previous attempts of “he’s doing what he said he would”.
A requirement from the Obama administration for lobbyists not to speak to administration officials about specific stimulus projects, and to put it all in writing, is drawing ire from those lobbyists, who feel their input isn’t wanted on the matter. Which might be true, or might be a “put it somewhere where we can document it and trace it back to see who gets axed if things go wrong”.
Mr. Spitzer will not be charged for his role in the "D.C. Madam" case, as an investigation indicates he didn't use public or campaign money for any of his visits. So, having already had his reputation shredded, he can now go back to being a private individual without worrying that the government will go after him and make more of a spectacle out of him. The press turns their attention to the gent getting 90 days in prison for using a car wash vaccuum in erotic pursuits, goalies receiving death threats from fans of the opposition, and rumors springing up that a high school in Boston had developed a case of vampirism.
A suit against a government contractor responsible for interrogations in the Abu Ghraib prison will be allowed to proceed, possibly putting the contractor on the hook against allegations of torture and mistreatment of the prisoners there.
Stupid, stupid police officer. Going to see his dying mother, a player was stopped at the hospital by a cop, and then held there for twenty minutes on trying to find insurance, ignoring the pleas of even the nurses to let him go and see his mother. After the twenty, where the player was finally ticketed for running a red light, he was released, but his mother had already died. Worse, even on review, the police officer believed he did not do anything wrong. If that’s what passes for a police officer, no wonder people are worried about dealing with them.
The father of a missing four year-old married his 17 year-old girlfriend, the last to see the child before she went missing.
And just before the opinions, because they have litle else to do, Congress is looking into changing the BCS system, citing the possibility of antitrust issues being brought to bear on it.
In the opinions, the adolescence of the telepromter-meme, where pedants believe that their pronunciation is proper and that the President can’t speak without the teleprompter telling him all of it. Exhibit A: “New-Kyu-Lar”. Open Left deconstructs this idea, noting that lots of people use prompters and aren't considered dull, plus, when answering questions from the press, clearly there's no way of scripting that. Plus, it’s not like he’s the first President to use notes, a prompter, or some other sort of memory aid in his speechmaking. The President can and does go off-script, which often seemed to be better than the talking points ideology of conservatism, where everyone repeats the same thing over and over again. Mr. Gerson beleives the teleprompter is a beneficial thing for government, allowing the writing and delivery of a speech to bring out the full flavor, as it were. Besides, as the General points out, we all know what's really happening with the prompter - it's secret messages from his Amish overlords.
Mr. Towery wants the press to start playing hardball with Mr. Obama instead of letting him keep his smooth image, because they’re still apparently fawning all over him.
More seriously, Mr. Gaffney, Jr. returns to the theme that the Obama administration's defense decisions are making the country weaker, exposing exploitable holes and emboldening the opposition, Ms. West thinks the Obama administration is surrendering to Iran and groveling, as Mr. May believes that if America becomes more like Europe, then we too will fall helplessly to radical Islam. For an example, they might point to Dr. Phares' tsk-tsking Britain for talking with Hezbollah. All in all, the attempt to improve relations with the world isn't going well, says Ms. Charen.
The Wall Street Journal prints a complaint at being taken out of context, because while they did say that the secret ballot doesn’t go away if the Employee Free Choice Act passes, their intent is that such an option would never be taken, because unions would press for the card check option and intimidate people into joining on.
the WSJ in Asia thinks a trade agreement between the EU and South Korea is a warning to the U.S. to get off its protectionist horse and sign on to freer trade worldwide. The protectionism, much like the complaints about Mexican trucks, are apparently all union-driven.
In tech, worrying about whether a solar plasma storm could toast our infrastructure in a mintue and a half, trying to find ways of saving Terra from another asteroid-stirke extinction event, the growing popularity of nuclear power in an emissions-based system, a robot that uses a biological brain to learn new things, a sea worm uncovered as the culprit in coral death at the Blue Reef Aquarium, an experiment at sequestering carbon in the ocean failing because the plankton got eaten, a pathogen-pulling blood cleaning device running on micromagnets, spinning magnets in new ways to make MRIs more detailed, powering up giant lasers to attempt fusion experiments, artificial cartilage surpassing the natural stuff, rooting for the spiders currently on the ISS, and the development of a pizoelectric generator, which could make movement power our electronics.
Last for tonight, the face of a boy hearing for the first time. And a mistake that should have been too big to let go, but they did anyway.
We’re still a ways of from 2012, but we're already seeing people looking forward to it. Others are embracing some of their heritage... stereotypes... something, in promoting people to visit their area by releasing videos involving giant robots fighting aliens. Which gets a bigger stamp of approval around than what the Chicks on Anime think of the latest Sakura-Con ad, which seems to glorify all the bad stereotypes. And, apparently, Mr. W. bush's rating among wrestling fans.
Looking back into the past, The Japanese government certified the first known survivor of both atomic bomb attacks in 1945. Hopefully, after that twin stroke of poor placement, he had great fortune thereafter.
And right here in the present, some Saudi women are calling for a boycott of lingerie stores until they employ women in the shops. It’s one of those weird places where, because they didn’t want to have women dealing with men buying underthings, only men work in those shops. But that means only men are talking, sizing, and demonstrating cleaning technique on those underthings, which is embarrassing for all involved, apparently. Good intentions, unexpected consequences. There’s even a law that requires only women to work in women’s apparel stores, but that runs into conflicts with the other laws about men and women not mixing. And worst, the women can’t try on the stuff to see if it fits until they get home.
Internationally, the hunt for a German serial killer ahs been resolved - turns out the DNA evidence that was on all the cotton swabs was the person handling them before they went to the police. Anticlimactic ending, and perhaps a good reason why we need to do more than just work with DNA ecidence.
In response to North Kroea loading a rocket onto a launch pad, for what they claim is a satellite launch, Japan mobilized missile-defense forces to protect their coast, which is in the flight path of the rocket/satellite launch.
New strategy docs, including heavy emphasis on exit plans, accompany pledge to send 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan and more aid to the region. Additionally, the defeat of al-Qaeda is a top priority for the country.
The Pentagon worries that China will start swinging its weight around in Asia, to impose its solutions on disputes in the region.
Egypt says that it is mediating a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. In the territory, Israel tested an anti-rocket defense system, hoping to make the rocket raids much less effective. The best hope might lie, however, in projects like Strings of Freedom, composed of Palestinian youth, giving a concert to Holocaust survivors.
The case of faulty wiring leading to electric shock in Iraq's military bases is not isolated. Investigators are looking at all 90,000 facility buildings to see where else shoddy workmanship has resulted in serious danger. Someone should probably be sued or fined for not doing the work. Wasn’t this KBR/Haliburton territory?
A conflicting report - while al-Qaeda is on the way down, it says, the possibility of a nuclear or chemical attack on the United Kingdom is going up. So, they’re thinking it will be a big bang of a last huzzah, or what?
Workers at a 3M plant in France have held said plant hostage while they strike for keeping their jobs. This was part of larger strikes across France.
Domestically, The Obama administration signed on to a U.N. declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide. This document signing comes with no legal obligations, considering that Teh Gay in the United States is not illegal. So, it’s a safe support signaling step. If the Obama administration really wants to show serious support for the LGBTQ population, he’d start making noise about encouraging states to rescind their “marriage” amendments and push for a law to repeal the federal DOMA.
Now that there's a plan, the party of NO has something to say NO to, or: Republicans oppose Geithner’s plan to overhaul the financial sector. The chief argument is that more regulation is a bad thing, which looks a bit silly if you consider that a lack of regulation is still a possibility on what got us into this mess. A secondary one is that the administration still doesn't know what it's doing, and all the borrowing and spending is akin to flailing about in a minefield, when, if we would just wait for a moment and let nature take its course, we might find the way out. The Czech Prime Minister doesn't like the spending plan, calling it a "road to hell". All in all, though, the President's budget heads to the open floor of the Senate, so those looking for NO will only have a few more chances to wield it.
Speaking of success in the midst of failure, the people making money by successfully predicting the collapse are doing quite well.
Republicans will also be busily opposing contingency plans in case Guantanamo Bay residents are released in the United States that hope to start them off well and give them incentive not to return to terror (if, indeed, they were guilty of it in the first place). All of this is part of a plan to contrast what the candidate said and what the president is doing. Because, apparently, the attempt to say that the president was doing exactly what the candidate said he would do has not taken Exhibit A of the previous attempts of “he’s doing what he said he would”.
A requirement from the Obama administration for lobbyists not to speak to administration officials about specific stimulus projects, and to put it all in writing, is drawing ire from those lobbyists, who feel their input isn’t wanted on the matter. Which might be true, or might be a “put it somewhere where we can document it and trace it back to see who gets axed if things go wrong”.
Mr. Spitzer will not be charged for his role in the "D.C. Madam" case, as an investigation indicates he didn't use public or campaign money for any of his visits. So, having already had his reputation shredded, he can now go back to being a private individual without worrying that the government will go after him and make more of a spectacle out of him. The press turns their attention to the gent getting 90 days in prison for using a car wash vaccuum in erotic pursuits, goalies receiving death threats from fans of the opposition, and rumors springing up that a high school in Boston had developed a case of vampirism.
A suit against a government contractor responsible for interrogations in the Abu Ghraib prison will be allowed to proceed, possibly putting the contractor on the hook against allegations of torture and mistreatment of the prisoners there.
Stupid, stupid police officer. Going to see his dying mother, a player was stopped at the hospital by a cop, and then held there for twenty minutes on trying to find insurance, ignoring the pleas of even the nurses to let him go and see his mother. After the twenty, where the player was finally ticketed for running a red light, he was released, but his mother had already died. Worse, even on review, the police officer believed he did not do anything wrong. If that’s what passes for a police officer, no wonder people are worried about dealing with them.
The father of a missing four year-old married his 17 year-old girlfriend, the last to see the child before she went missing.
And just before the opinions, because they have litle else to do, Congress is looking into changing the BCS system, citing the possibility of antitrust issues being brought to bear on it.
In the opinions, the adolescence of the telepromter-meme, where pedants believe that their pronunciation is proper and that the President can’t speak without the teleprompter telling him all of it. Exhibit A: “New-Kyu-Lar”. Open Left deconstructs this idea, noting that lots of people use prompters and aren't considered dull, plus, when answering questions from the press, clearly there's no way of scripting that. Plus, it’s not like he’s the first President to use notes, a prompter, or some other sort of memory aid in his speechmaking. The President can and does go off-script, which often seemed to be better than the talking points ideology of conservatism, where everyone repeats the same thing over and over again. Mr. Gerson beleives the teleprompter is a beneficial thing for government, allowing the writing and delivery of a speech to bring out the full flavor, as it were. Besides, as the General points out, we all know what's really happening with the prompter - it's secret messages from his Amish overlords.
Mr. Towery wants the press to start playing hardball with Mr. Obama instead of letting him keep his smooth image, because they’re still apparently fawning all over him.
More seriously, Mr. Gaffney, Jr. returns to the theme that the Obama administration's defense decisions are making the country weaker, exposing exploitable holes and emboldening the opposition, Ms. West thinks the Obama administration is surrendering to Iran and groveling, as Mr. May believes that if America becomes more like Europe, then we too will fall helplessly to radical Islam. For an example, they might point to Dr. Phares' tsk-tsking Britain for talking with Hezbollah. All in all, the attempt to improve relations with the world isn't going well, says Ms. Charen.
The Wall Street Journal prints a complaint at being taken out of context, because while they did say that the secret ballot doesn’t go away if the Employee Free Choice Act passes, their intent is that such an option would never be taken, because unions would press for the card check option and intimidate people into joining on.
the WSJ in Asia thinks a trade agreement between the EU and South Korea is a warning to the U.S. to get off its protectionist horse and sign on to freer trade worldwide. The protectionism, much like the complaints about Mexican trucks, are apparently all union-driven.
In tech, worrying about whether a solar plasma storm could toast our infrastructure in a mintue and a half, trying to find ways of saving Terra from another asteroid-stirke extinction event, the growing popularity of nuclear power in an emissions-based system, a robot that uses a biological brain to learn new things, a sea worm uncovered as the culprit in coral death at the Blue Reef Aquarium, an experiment at sequestering carbon in the ocean failing because the plankton got eaten, a pathogen-pulling blood cleaning device running on micromagnets, spinning magnets in new ways to make MRIs more detailed, powering up giant lasers to attempt fusion experiments, artificial cartilage surpassing the natural stuff, rooting for the spiders currently on the ISS, and the development of a pizoelectric generator, which could make movement power our electronics.
Last for tonight, the face of a boy hearing for the first time. And a mistake that should have been too big to let go, but they did anyway.
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Date: 2009-03-29 12:53 pm (UTC)So, what really matters more - that the cop stopped a man from seeing his mother (Which I'm sure must be a common excuse for them to hear. It's just that, in this case, it really was the truth.) or the fact that it was a sports player.
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