Last before I go on a trip - 06 May 2009
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silveradeptUp top, The man who speaks in capital letters needed another funny man, and so he took 75 year-old Dom DeLuise to the Dead Pool with him.
An unconventional present given to someone on his 40th birthday - a year of sex every day from his wife, no exceptions, on either side. And yes, she wrote a book about it.
Internationally, conflict in Swat upcoming, thus, those who will be caught in the middle are trying to get out, Russia complained about NATO war games in Georgia, Mr. Ahmadinejad went on a new tirade against Israel, as his country stoned a man for adultery, Amnesty International notes that bombs are imprecise objects of death in talking about Afghani casualties to American munitions, and Israel's official insistence that its nuclear status is indeterminate may come to an end, depending on how negotiations and talks about the NPT, Israel, and Iran go. Despite, of course, everyone knowing they have nuclear weapons for at least forty years.
Oh, and Afghanistan's lone pig ahs been quarantined on fear of H1N1 outbreak. (Remember, mostly Muslim country, inherits rules about food from Judaism, where it’s not kosher at all to eat pork.)
Doemstically, The acting CEO of Wal-Mart appears to be no friend to homosexuals or single parents, based on his signature appearing on a peition for a ballot initiative that outlawed anyone other than a heterosexually married couple to adopt. Which could be a bit of useless trivia, or the beginning sign to something else. Only those who work at Wally-World would know, though. Any extra insight possible here?
Following in a similar vein, Miss California may be in violation of her agreement and contract based on her appearances in advertisements for NOM and a lingerie shoot she did as a teenager, which could be considered something sufficiently not of the highest standards to dismiss her.
On another front, however, Maine's governor made it official, signing into law a bill that legalized homosexual marriage in the state, and The District of Columbia voted to recognize homosexual marriages performed elsewhere. But remember, as people will tell you, it's just a phase.
The Latter-Day Saints are investigating the submission of Barack Obama's mother's name for posthumous baptism into the LDS church, after AmericaBlog broke that it had happened by looking through the records.
The Governor of California is looking into legalizing marijuana...so that he can collect the revenue from taxing its sale. As The Man in the Purple Suit pointed out, there could also be some serious savings in corrections, where all those people who get strong jail sentences for a small amount of possession stop getting those jail sentences. Stopping overcrowding, getting some revenue, and letting the populace do their alternate-experience thing? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Nevada charges the local ACORN group with illegally putting quotas on their canvassers to sign up voters.
The President's proposals for higher ed include a lot of entitlement spending to try and get more Americans into university, and to get them out without crushing debts.
Last out, DHS is in hot water again, after an "unofficial" Lexicon of Domestic Extremism was leaked out, saying that black power advocates, tax-hating teabaggers, and antiabortion protesters were all potential domestic extremists. The item was recalled in a hurry after DHS found out the report was out in the wild. These reports, as well as the rhetoric emenating from corners of conservatism make Ms. Robinson nervous that those right-wing extremists will soon cross into the territory of doing violence or setting up a violent showdown with the government.
In the opinions, Mr. Bageant finds wisdom among a whole lot of shit talking.
The WSJ beleives that the United States needs to show much more firm support for the government of Pakistan if it wants that government to go out and crush militants.
The American Thinker still thinks the Obama Administration is clueless about how the economic problem started, how it will resolve, and the right way to going about it, while also noting this crash is a clear example that fiat money and central banking are failures (so, going back to Real Money and...what? Individual banks and credit unions that might fail at a moment’s notice, won’t take each other’s money, and...?), and that we have to fix the problem now, instead of pushing more debt on our descendants (okay, that’s reasonably sound, especially compared to the above.)
The WSJ pans Mr. Obama's plans for overseas capital, believing that a better solution would be for the United States to stop trying to tax overseas money made, so that the perverse incentive to hold money overseas vanishes and U.S. companies are more inclined to invest... wait, where would they be investing? Overseas, again. So I think they also want Mr. Obama to lower the domestic tax rate as well as removing the attempt to tax overseas profits. Because lower tax rates mean more investment and revenue, “everyone” knows. Mr. Boortz compares the proposal to the Berlin wall, accusing Mr. Obama of operating on a guilty until proven innocent basis and building the wall to capture money that is otherwise seeking freedom.
Speaking of Boortz, Mr. Boortz sounds off on the Chrysler bankruptcy, claiming that unions and the White House are working together to deprive the creditors of Chrysler of their share, which should be taken before union personnel get anything, including intimidation and threats against those creditors that are trying to get the bankruptcy blocked under the Fifth Amendment prohibition against deprivation of people’s assets without due process. I love how it’s an automatic assumption that unions use strongarm tactics to get whatever they want, as if they were an organized crime syndicate. Someone’s watching too many movies, methinks.
And our writers take a break from lionizing Ronald Reagan to admiring Margaret Thatcher for her staunch commitment to conservatism, her belief in principles that she wouldn’t waver from, and her unwillingness to move anywhere near a moderate position. In short, Republicans need to follower her example and become more ideologically pure, so they can use that purity to return to power when the feel-good bubble of the liberals and the moderates pops. It’s a good bronze effort, nothing against the Iron Lady herself.
Mr. Sowell climbs the ladder, talking about how the lifetime appoinments of SCOTUS justices means they can undermine the rule of law and rule to put the agenda of liberals into law without actually going through the legislative process, because the person appointing them values whether they have “empathy” or not, which will lead them to favor some groups over others (making them “more equal than others”) regardless of what the law says. I somehow doubt that a justice available for SCOTUS nomination will have had anything in his background that indicates she disregards the rule of law in favor of implementing someone’s agenda. (Besides, “everyone” knows that the justices will consistently rule in favor of corporations, so if there’s an agenda involved, it’s not conservative or liberal, it’s the corporations. They've already taken control of the legislature and the executive, so the judiciary isn’t far behind.)
The winner tonight, though, is The still not-funny comedian David Limbaugh, hitting all these points and more, all designed to sell the American public that extreme liberalism is pragmatic moderateness, that moderate pragmatic conservatism is frigne right-wingness, and then to put in place Mr. Sowell’s boogeyman of a judge that doesn’t respect the Constitution at all because of her “empathy” for how people are affected by the law. Mr. Limbaugh bleives the nominee should be a point of conservative contention, where the people resis this slick propaganda campaign and require the president to appoint a conservative like them, err...someone who respects the Constitution.
In technology, success! A complete face transplant is taking, an opinion declaring RSS dead and Twitterlikes the new king, in the same way that RSS killed the hunt-and-peck style of searching on the Web, because Twitterlikes do it all in realtime, using gene comparisons to determine which fatty deposits are potentially dangerous bursters, a nanoneedle that can deliver molecules of material with accuracy, the need to adopt personalized health medicine, with cost-savings in the trillions if we do, estrogen demonstrated to affect how the brain processes sounds, and a suggestion that discovering question-answering is not an AI-complete problem would be really good for humans, because then, instead of sifting Google to find the relevant page, we might just ask the answerbot.
Last for tonight, products to help with the odor of flatulence, proof that the idea that masturbation is harmful extends well into our past, and other humorous signs spotted and photographed/photoshopped.
As a postscript - I got fooled, (and then fooled again, according to redrab) because I’m damn sure that I linked to something she’s written and possibly accorded it a dishonorable award or two, but the Republican Congresscritter Representative from Minnesota, Michelle Bachmann, is a persona by a performance artist and satirist. Several times, she attempted to end the charade by behaving in increasingly outlandish and more ludicrous ways, but apparently her choices only furthered her credibility and helped her to get elected. There will be a special election to fill the now-vacated seat.
[edit]Or, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redrab points out, the HuffPo piece is the satire and Bachmann is serious. I think all of this helps reinforce the bit on Countdown that talked about how conservatives see Stephen Colbert as a satirist, but still think he’s a staunch conservative just pretending to be a satirical conservative. Poor satirists. We can’t tell them apart for anyone else, even when they’re trying. Hell, I can't tell them apart, and I normally think I'm decent and figuring out when someone's going too far.
An unconventional present given to someone on his 40th birthday - a year of sex every day from his wife, no exceptions, on either side. And yes, she wrote a book about it.
Internationally, conflict in Swat upcoming, thus, those who will be caught in the middle are trying to get out, Russia complained about NATO war games in Georgia, Mr. Ahmadinejad went on a new tirade against Israel, as his country stoned a man for adultery, Amnesty International notes that bombs are imprecise objects of death in talking about Afghani casualties to American munitions, and Israel's official insistence that its nuclear status is indeterminate may come to an end, depending on how negotiations and talks about the NPT, Israel, and Iran go. Despite, of course, everyone knowing they have nuclear weapons for at least forty years.
Oh, and Afghanistan's lone pig ahs been quarantined on fear of H1N1 outbreak. (Remember, mostly Muslim country, inherits rules about food from Judaism, where it’s not kosher at all to eat pork.)
Doemstically, The acting CEO of Wal-Mart appears to be no friend to homosexuals or single parents, based on his signature appearing on a peition for a ballot initiative that outlawed anyone other than a heterosexually married couple to adopt. Which could be a bit of useless trivia, or the beginning sign to something else. Only those who work at Wally-World would know, though. Any extra insight possible here?
Following in a similar vein, Miss California may be in violation of her agreement and contract based on her appearances in advertisements for NOM and a lingerie shoot she did as a teenager, which could be considered something sufficiently not of the highest standards to dismiss her.
On another front, however, Maine's governor made it official, signing into law a bill that legalized homosexual marriage in the state, and The District of Columbia voted to recognize homosexual marriages performed elsewhere. But remember, as people will tell you, it's just a phase.
The Latter-Day Saints are investigating the submission of Barack Obama's mother's name for posthumous baptism into the LDS church, after AmericaBlog broke that it had happened by looking through the records.
The Governor of California is looking into legalizing marijuana...so that he can collect the revenue from taxing its sale. As The Man in the Purple Suit pointed out, there could also be some serious savings in corrections, where all those people who get strong jail sentences for a small amount of possession stop getting those jail sentences. Stopping overcrowding, getting some revenue, and letting the populace do their alternate-experience thing? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Nevada charges the local ACORN group with illegally putting quotas on their canvassers to sign up voters.
The President's proposals for higher ed include a lot of entitlement spending to try and get more Americans into university, and to get them out without crushing debts.
Last out, DHS is in hot water again, after an "unofficial" Lexicon of Domestic Extremism was leaked out, saying that black power advocates, tax-hating teabaggers, and antiabortion protesters were all potential domestic extremists. The item was recalled in a hurry after DHS found out the report was out in the wild. These reports, as well as the rhetoric emenating from corners of conservatism make Ms. Robinson nervous that those right-wing extremists will soon cross into the territory of doing violence or setting up a violent showdown with the government.
In the opinions, Mr. Bageant finds wisdom among a whole lot of shit talking.
The WSJ beleives that the United States needs to show much more firm support for the government of Pakistan if it wants that government to go out and crush militants.
The American Thinker still thinks the Obama Administration is clueless about how the economic problem started, how it will resolve, and the right way to going about it, while also noting this crash is a clear example that fiat money and central banking are failures (so, going back to Real Money and...what? Individual banks and credit unions that might fail at a moment’s notice, won’t take each other’s money, and...?), and that we have to fix the problem now, instead of pushing more debt on our descendants (okay, that’s reasonably sound, especially compared to the above.)
The WSJ pans Mr. Obama's plans for overseas capital, believing that a better solution would be for the United States to stop trying to tax overseas money made, so that the perverse incentive to hold money overseas vanishes and U.S. companies are more inclined to invest... wait, where would they be investing? Overseas, again. So I think they also want Mr. Obama to lower the domestic tax rate as well as removing the attempt to tax overseas profits. Because lower tax rates mean more investment and revenue, “everyone” knows. Mr. Boortz compares the proposal to the Berlin wall, accusing Mr. Obama of operating on a guilty until proven innocent basis and building the wall to capture money that is otherwise seeking freedom.
Speaking of Boortz, Mr. Boortz sounds off on the Chrysler bankruptcy, claiming that unions and the White House are working together to deprive the creditors of Chrysler of their share, which should be taken before union personnel get anything, including intimidation and threats against those creditors that are trying to get the bankruptcy blocked under the Fifth Amendment prohibition against deprivation of people’s assets without due process. I love how it’s an automatic assumption that unions use strongarm tactics to get whatever they want, as if they were an organized crime syndicate. Someone’s watching too many movies, methinks.
And our writers take a break from lionizing Ronald Reagan to admiring Margaret Thatcher for her staunch commitment to conservatism, her belief in principles that she wouldn’t waver from, and her unwillingness to move anywhere near a moderate position. In short, Republicans need to follower her example and become more ideologically pure, so they can use that purity to return to power when the feel-good bubble of the liberals and the moderates pops. It’s a good bronze effort, nothing against the Iron Lady herself.
Mr. Sowell climbs the ladder, talking about how the lifetime appoinments of SCOTUS justices means they can undermine the rule of law and rule to put the agenda of liberals into law without actually going through the legislative process, because the person appointing them values whether they have “empathy” or not, which will lead them to favor some groups over others (making them “more equal than others”) regardless of what the law says. I somehow doubt that a justice available for SCOTUS nomination will have had anything in his background that indicates she disregards the rule of law in favor of implementing someone’s agenda. (Besides, “everyone” knows that the justices will consistently rule in favor of corporations, so if there’s an agenda involved, it’s not conservative or liberal, it’s the corporations. They've already taken control of the legislature and the executive, so the judiciary isn’t far behind.)
The winner tonight, though, is The still not-funny comedian David Limbaugh, hitting all these points and more, all designed to sell the American public that extreme liberalism is pragmatic moderateness, that moderate pragmatic conservatism is frigne right-wingness, and then to put in place Mr. Sowell’s boogeyman of a judge that doesn’t respect the Constitution at all because of her “empathy” for how people are affected by the law. Mr. Limbaugh bleives the nominee should be a point of conservative contention, where the people resis this slick propaganda campaign and require the president to appoint a conservative like them, err...someone who respects the Constitution.
In technology, success! A complete face transplant is taking, an opinion declaring RSS dead and Twitterlikes the new king, in the same way that RSS killed the hunt-and-peck style of searching on the Web, because Twitterlikes do it all in realtime, using gene comparisons to determine which fatty deposits are potentially dangerous bursters, a nanoneedle that can deliver molecules of material with accuracy, the need to adopt personalized health medicine, with cost-savings in the trillions if we do, estrogen demonstrated to affect how the brain processes sounds, and a suggestion that discovering question-answering is not an AI-complete problem would be really good for humans, because then, instead of sifting Google to find the relevant page, we might just ask the answerbot.
Last for tonight, products to help with the odor of flatulence, proof that the idea that masturbation is harmful extends well into our past, and other humorous signs spotted and photographed/photoshopped.
As a postscript - I got fooled, (and then fooled again, according to redrab) because I’m damn sure that I linked to something she’s written and possibly accorded it a dishonorable award or two, but the Republican Congresscritter Representative from Minnesota, Michelle Bachmann, is a persona by a performance artist and satirist. Several times, she attempted to end the charade by behaving in increasingly outlandish and more ludicrous ways, but apparently her choices only furthered her credibility and helped her to get elected. There will be a special election to fill the now-vacated seat.
[edit]Or, as
redrab points out, the HuffPo piece is the satire and Bachmann is serious. I think all of this helps reinforce the bit on Countdown that talked about how conservatives see Stephen Colbert as a satirist, but still think he’s a staunch conservative just pretending to be a satirical conservative. Poor satirists. We can’t tell them apart for anyone else, even when they’re trying. Hell, I can't tell them apart, and I normally think I'm decent and figuring out when someone's going too far.
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