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silveradeptGreetings, all. there was a curious protest on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus's plight yesterday. More seriously, a graphic novel of William S. Burroughs, never published, is having the paintings touring the country and free Photoshop tutorials and brush sets so that you can go further down the rabbit hole in Photoshop.
Oh, and my professional self gets to lead off with The librarian's job in one panel, from Unshelved. More positively, Reading reduces stress levels better than anything else, requiring a mere six muntes to bring heart rates down to normal levels and leaving the readers with lower stress levels than when they started.
In the international sphere, true to their image, the Taliban in Afghanistan rejected a reconciliation idea, calling the idea lunatic. We’ll see what actual practice produces. In a similar vein, Iran denied that its envoy and the United States envoy had warm and promising talks at an international conference. Iraq still has a litle work needed on catching all the mutineers who staged an uprising.
Perhaps most interestingly, the G-20 meeting got underway in London, drawing financial protesters in addition to the normal anti-capitalist and anti-globalization crowds, for which the United States President did some relationship repairing as part of a busy pre-conference schedule.
Possible trigger warnings for the domestically abused - Keira Knightly stars in an advertisement against domestic violence that involves her being beaten on camera. It’s a good ad, and I find it interesting and sad that the broadcast authority that clears ads for airing on television is having trouble approving the ad for broadcast, because of the violence involved. What does that say about what people think of domestic violence and abuse? I’d like to see this ad be run on U.S. television - we could use to see something like it. Or better, we could use to see what real domestic violence looks like, without having actors.
Domestically, the defense lawyers have asked for the conviction of Ted Stevens to be overturned based on withheld evidence. The prosecution did not apparently turn over interview notes where the contractor involved in the corruption charge estimated that his costs were less than initially reported. The WSJ takes this as confirmation that the prosecutors were really just out to get a conviction, instead of give a fair trial.
Mr. Palin said that the more than $150,000 spent on wardrobe for Mrs. Palin during her Vice Presidential candidacy was "out of control", confirming what everyone else had figured out months ago.
Debate continues as to whether a bridge between Microsoft campuses should be built with stimulus spending money.
Working the opinion columns, Mr. Fund thinks the current auto industry partnership with the government is the beginnings of a Randian situation, there's always worry about the budget deficit amounts, along with the tax increases, where apparently trying to cut waste in military spending is a fool's errand compared to the stimulus and budget, and where again, there is an acknowledgement that trying to make businesses pay costs means that only consumers will pay those costs without thinking about whether or not that can be changed, the Justice Department is being politicized, this time over whether or not D.C. can get a House seat and two Senators, and the G-20 group, of which Mr. Obama is taking part, will be hamstringing developed nations by increasing state power in them. All this leads to why Mr. Lambro chooses Mr. Zogby, who has approval in the 50 percent range, as his pollster of choice. The thought being that “fair” is a negative response and that the populace is crashing down from their expectation high. Mr. Turd Blossom agrees, believing that the populace has wised up and that the Obama administration is keeping score on who is supporting him and who is not.
Mr. Steyn believes that the beginnings of controlling automakers will lead inevitably to restricting people's health care and then restricting their thoughts and actions through pervasive censorship, because, after all, they're giving you the money you need to survive and do business. The Washington Examiner's Byron York is similarly critical of a bill that would let the government determine the salaries of persons working for companies that the government has a major stake in, expecting the government to simply write the checks and let the companies decide on their own compensation.
The WSJ is unhappy that the Sudanese dictator can travel outside Sudan with an arrest warrant out for him, so long as he chooses places that haven't signed on to the ICC, while members of the previous administration that gave legal opinions and signed of on torture might be arrested if they travel abroad because of a Spanish judge opening a trial for the Americans. I can understand the frustration about justice, but in this case, I think it’s working pretty well. If he Sudanese President were to venture to a place that would enforce the warrant, it would be up for him. The Americans may just have to stay in America. The WSJ would like the President to thumb his nose at such proceedings and declare that they can only be tried in American jurisdiction, but the nature of the accusations may preclude him from that, especially considering the allegations that the torture was conducted outside the borders of the United States. This reflects a trend I’m seeing in conservative commentary about the need for American law to be the only thing used when deciding cases involving Americans - more on this at some later point.
Mr. Laffer hates the estate tax and considers it wasteful, as people either fritter it away or employ lawyers so as to step around the taxes and leave their estates intact. He suggests that if we must tax, we do it to the people inheriting the money instead of those leaving it, but he’d rather just see all that money pass on without any taxes at all. Mr. Boortz considers the maintenance of the estate tax to be a breaking of Mr. Obama' promise not to raise taxes on the populous.
Last out for today, The Slacktivist on why a fundamentalist, "no-outside-influences" family had to ban any kind of unapproved music from the hosuehold - because no matter what kind of music it is, even cheesy 80s power-ballads, music is a force to be reckoned with. It gives people ideas that may not be expressable in words, and that are bigger than they are, and will totally havve them looking outside the attempt at a hermetically sealed existence.
In science and technology: fuel cells that use yeast powered by blood glucose, some FUD about how people can build their own EMP weaponry and use it against civilian airliners, a hypothesis that rain forests develop winds that push water around the globe, research indicating long-neck dinosaurs were using it to sweep wide at ground level, rather than raise high and treetop-munch, an implantable telescope for the eye to help with macular degeneration, University of Washington scholars indicate that there is no substitute for getting out into nature, using new techniques to find planets not discovered in old Hubble pictures, and simulating manned missions to Mars on Terra, including the isolation that comes from being with just a crew in a very cramped space for a very long time.
Last out: The Mighty God King has found the difference between Pixar and Dreamworks pictures. And The OVO reminds us that H.P. Lovecraft was highly racist, but that doesn't seem to affect his popularity. Nor do the facts in any way prevent![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cmpriest from becoming her own urban legend, and earning her the right to use “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated”.
Oh, and my professional self gets to lead off with The librarian's job in one panel, from Unshelved. More positively, Reading reduces stress levels better than anything else, requiring a mere six muntes to bring heart rates down to normal levels and leaving the readers with lower stress levels than when they started.
In the international sphere, true to their image, the Taliban in Afghanistan rejected a reconciliation idea, calling the idea lunatic. We’ll see what actual practice produces. In a similar vein, Iran denied that its envoy and the United States envoy had warm and promising talks at an international conference. Iraq still has a litle work needed on catching all the mutineers who staged an uprising.
Perhaps most interestingly, the G-20 meeting got underway in London, drawing financial protesters in addition to the normal anti-capitalist and anti-globalization crowds, for which the United States President did some relationship repairing as part of a busy pre-conference schedule.
Possible trigger warnings for the domestically abused - Keira Knightly stars in an advertisement against domestic violence that involves her being beaten on camera. It’s a good ad, and I find it interesting and sad that the broadcast authority that clears ads for airing on television is having trouble approving the ad for broadcast, because of the violence involved. What does that say about what people think of domestic violence and abuse? I’d like to see this ad be run on U.S. television - we could use to see something like it. Or better, we could use to see what real domestic violence looks like, without having actors.
Domestically, the defense lawyers have asked for the conviction of Ted Stevens to be overturned based on withheld evidence. The prosecution did not apparently turn over interview notes where the contractor involved in the corruption charge estimated that his costs were less than initially reported. The WSJ takes this as confirmation that the prosecutors were really just out to get a conviction, instead of give a fair trial.
Mr. Palin said that the more than $150,000 spent on wardrobe for Mrs. Palin during her Vice Presidential candidacy was "out of control", confirming what everyone else had figured out months ago.
Debate continues as to whether a bridge between Microsoft campuses should be built with stimulus spending money.
Working the opinion columns, Mr. Fund thinks the current auto industry partnership with the government is the beginnings of a Randian situation, there's always worry about the budget deficit amounts, along with the tax increases, where apparently trying to cut waste in military spending is a fool's errand compared to the stimulus and budget, and where again, there is an acknowledgement that trying to make businesses pay costs means that only consumers will pay those costs without thinking about whether or not that can be changed, the Justice Department is being politicized, this time over whether or not D.C. can get a House seat and two Senators, and the G-20 group, of which Mr. Obama is taking part, will be hamstringing developed nations by increasing state power in them. All this leads to why Mr. Lambro chooses Mr. Zogby, who has approval in the 50 percent range, as his pollster of choice. The thought being that “fair” is a negative response and that the populace is crashing down from their expectation high. Mr. Turd Blossom agrees, believing that the populace has wised up and that the Obama administration is keeping score on who is supporting him and who is not.
Mr. Steyn believes that the beginnings of controlling automakers will lead inevitably to restricting people's health care and then restricting their thoughts and actions through pervasive censorship, because, after all, they're giving you the money you need to survive and do business. The Washington Examiner's Byron York is similarly critical of a bill that would let the government determine the salaries of persons working for companies that the government has a major stake in, expecting the government to simply write the checks and let the companies decide on their own compensation.
The WSJ is unhappy that the Sudanese dictator can travel outside Sudan with an arrest warrant out for him, so long as he chooses places that haven't signed on to the ICC, while members of the previous administration that gave legal opinions and signed of on torture might be arrested if they travel abroad because of a Spanish judge opening a trial for the Americans. I can understand the frustration about justice, but in this case, I think it’s working pretty well. If he Sudanese President were to venture to a place that would enforce the warrant, it would be up for him. The Americans may just have to stay in America. The WSJ would like the President to thumb his nose at such proceedings and declare that they can only be tried in American jurisdiction, but the nature of the accusations may preclude him from that, especially considering the allegations that the torture was conducted outside the borders of the United States. This reflects a trend I’m seeing in conservative commentary about the need for American law to be the only thing used when deciding cases involving Americans - more on this at some later point.
Mr. Laffer hates the estate tax and considers it wasteful, as people either fritter it away or employ lawyers so as to step around the taxes and leave their estates intact. He suggests that if we must tax, we do it to the people inheriting the money instead of those leaving it, but he’d rather just see all that money pass on without any taxes at all. Mr. Boortz considers the maintenance of the estate tax to be a breaking of Mr. Obama' promise not to raise taxes on the populous.
Last out for today, The Slacktivist on why a fundamentalist, "no-outside-influences" family had to ban any kind of unapproved music from the hosuehold - because no matter what kind of music it is, even cheesy 80s power-ballads, music is a force to be reckoned with. It gives people ideas that may not be expressable in words, and that are bigger than they are, and will totally havve them looking outside the attempt at a hermetically sealed existence.
In science and technology: fuel cells that use yeast powered by blood glucose, some FUD about how people can build their own EMP weaponry and use it against civilian airliners, a hypothesis that rain forests develop winds that push water around the globe, research indicating long-neck dinosaurs were using it to sweep wide at ground level, rather than raise high and treetop-munch, an implantable telescope for the eye to help with macular degeneration, University of Washington scholars indicate that there is no substitute for getting out into nature, using new techniques to find planets not discovered in old Hubble pictures, and simulating manned missions to Mars on Terra, including the isolation that comes from being with just a crew in a very cramped space for a very long time.
Last out: The Mighty God King has found the difference between Pixar and Dreamworks pictures. And The OVO reminds us that H.P. Lovecraft was highly racist, but that doesn't seem to affect his popularity. Nor do the facts in any way prevent
cmpriest from becoming her own urban legend, and earning her the right to use “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated”.
