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silveradeptUp here at the top, another group of schoolchildren wowed with books and the promise of prizes, free food, and free ice skating. I also understand more than my thorough understanding about how unappreciated a teacher is, especially when having to run crowd control on all the people there all at one time. Oy. So, to distract away from that thought, after proper rumination, read the account of the really big kitty that got up a tree while visiting the people part of town.
And then just sit back and enjoy the view. Go swimming if you like.
Around the world, Danish squatters who have been in control of an abandoned naval base for decades are told they have no right to settle there, and government plans to reclaim the base from them move ahead.
The United States nominee for commander of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan promised precise hits, but said progress would be a long time coming and that errors would happen. Well, he’s honest. The WSJ is a bit smug about pragmatism, with Senators moving on instead of subjecting the nominee to rigorous questioning about past abuses that happened under his watch, placing his ability to succeed over any skeletons he many have in the closet. I think they’re smug because they feel another liberal witch-hunt was denied and that part of the Democratic Party will get all feather-ruffled about it. Trying a different tactic, President Obama met with the Saudi king over several issues on his stop before Cairo, where it is widely expected he will try to open dialogue and start toward resolving problems between the secular West and the religious moderates, perhaps getting the moderates to more aggressively police and tamp down their extremists. (With Dr. Tiller’s death, we could stand to do some stomping of our own on fundamentalists who advocate for killing people who don’t believe the same way they do. More on this later, in the dungheap competition) The vice president of the UAE believes for its part, the Middle East needs to invest more in the security of the people there, so that efforts to educate the populace can truly take hold, instead of having to keep one eye on the books and one eye on the people who think you shouldn’t be learning. Mr. Wolfowitz thinks it's a tall order for the President to succeed with one speech, but if he sticks to the idea of spreading freedom and convincing the Middle East that freedoms are in their best interest, too, he’ll do fine.
The heir to North Korea's throne appears to be the youngest son, Kim Jong Un, based on activity and referring to the son as “Commander Kim.”
The Police of Lancashire have developed a DVD for primary school children intending to teach them about the dangers of extremism and spotting potential terrorists. It also tells them to tell teachers and authority figures if other children are expressing extremist views, because Guy Fawkes got his views while he was in school, and we all know how that turned out. Congratulations, your kids are being indoctrinated to keep an eye on your and each other. Before they have the mental capacity to really understand the whys behind either position. Get ‘em young, I guess.
Lest one continue to believe that the planet is not undergoing serious change, mountains and valleys that were until now always under Anarctic ice have been captured on film.
The United States Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geithner, assured China that their investments were safe and there was no risk of the dollar collapsing or defaulting. Against that, the World Bank President compared the United States stimulus bill to a sugar rush and declared it wouldn't make lasting change, and the WSJ says Mr. Geithner needs to convince everyone the U.S. doesn't plan on trying to let depreciation of the dollar help close the debt gap.
Domestically, New Hampshire makes it six states with legal marriage between homosexuals. Forty-four left.
Ooops. A sensitive report detailing a lot about nuclear power in the United States was made public for a bit. For a little while, though, one could access a lot of information about civilian nuclear power and where fuel for nuclear weaponse was stored.
Further commentary on the death of Dr. Tiller, including a piece that details just what was really lost with Dr. Tiller's death, instead of the F.U.D., misinformation, and pinheads that would have you believe otherwise. And, if you have excess rage to vent on, go after PETA, who is trying to play both sides of the tragedy as a promotion for a vegetarian lifestyle. Y’know, the Confucians said that it was proper for someone to be in mourning for a year aftr the death of a family member - maybe we can make it a moratorium on anyone running any sort of ad related to the matter?
And for more conventional terrorism news, officials confirmed al-Qaeda was attempting to smuggle a mass-casualty biological attack weapon in from Mexico, and were looking for militia or other anti-government entities to accomplish the goal. So.. abortion as a wedge issue, militias that see themselves in opposition to the governemnt... do we need one more of those memo groups to be implicated before we’ll let DHS re-release the memo, with a coda indicating the accuracy of the assessment based on recent events?
The populace is still apparently fairly split on whether torture is justified (it isn't) and on whether Guantanamo Bay should be closed (signs point to yes).
the Minnesota Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on the contested election between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.
And finally, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer tells us directly what we have suspected will happen - companies will move employees and operations offshore if new Obama tax plans are put into place.
Starting of our opinions, Mr. Redfern thinks the government is trying to actively encourage UFO belief, so that they can hide operations behind UFO matters.
Mr. Maguire tells us the components of spelling-bee winners, and says the United States needs to have more families like theirs if we want to continue being competitive outside of school.
Mr. Frank believes the Republican Party could have a good run in 2012 if they decide to go after the Demcorats on economics, which would essentially entail putting up a role-reversal and making enough people believe that its true, based on the most recent evidence of how bailouts are handled by the Democrats. Or, they might get there after the apparently still-going-on infatuation with President Obama fades.
Last out, before competition for pastry, Leslie Blanchard on the illusion of free will, especially in America, where we claim everyone has free will and prove the contrary, by our actions and the actions of the government to keep us soft and stupid, instead of them fearing us.
The WSJ gives it a go with trying to make us believe the Demcorats will rush through health care reforms before anyone can stop them with detailed analysis of the costs and the debts and the consequences of the matter. Right. And people are just sitting on their hands, instead of running possible proposals based on what’s already been said and coming up with pros and cons of them. How stupid do you think your own opposition is? From the moment Obama said something about it, there should have been people running numbers and possibilities. I don’t think there will be a sudden bill that gets passed without people knowing the consequences thereof, and having the opposition mount their opposition to the bill.
The pastor of the Baptist church in Wasilla is convinced the Antichrist will be a homosexual, because he will follow the sin of Sodom (and so will be inhospitable to guests and deal with that xenophobia by trying to generate mobs to expel and rape those guests), will reject his gender and the design for it (wait, so now it’s a transgendered person?), and he will not regard the desire of women (so he’s goal-oriented and has no time for a companion). And, of course, the time is ripe for such a leader, so we should be extra careful about any gay men or lesbian women who rise to high office, because they could be the anti Christ. Bet he’s pissed at the New Hampshire law.
But he’s retreading ground, and thus just misses the pastry matters - Mr. Mahtesian senses a conspiracy afoot to convert GOP moderates into Administration appointees, and thus cut off any ability for the Republican Party's moderates to right the sinking ship. If that really is the plan, then hats off to the strategists of the Obama Administration, for boxing in the opposition. Just expect them to lash out and fight hard if you don’t give them an out that they can run down and be slaughtered on. (Sun Tzu would appreciate it if it went that way.)
They both lose, however, to our bronze winner of tonight, Mr. Matt Philbin, snorting loudly at the Obamas commencement pleas for graduates to go into professions that help others, non-profits, teaching, public sector work, and the like. He’s laughing because those professions don’t pay all that well, and “eveyone knows” we need people in good-paying jobs so the non-profits and the helping professionals can survive and so the private sector will continue to innovate every piece of progress the United States will produce. We don’t need more helpers because we need to apparently stop believing, like the Obamas do, that everyone is a victim that needs help. Take a poll of the helping professions, Mr. Philbin. Teachers, nurses, social workers, et cetera. Ask them whether they need more people in their profession. Then ask other people whether those people make enough money for the work they do. (You may have to have them shadow the workers for a day or two for them to truly appreciate everything.) Make sure that you get lots of people from underprivileged areas, where the schools are underfunded, the social problems are rampant, and there’s nobody who wants to really be there, corporate or private, because they’re afraid of the people there.
The silver to Mr. Sowell, continuing to take Judge Sotomayor out of context by calling her a racist and declaring her empathy will get in the way of interpretation of the law, also choosing to use her curt dismissal of the firefighter case (which is apparently more about the possibility that the merit exam may have unintentionally screened out minority candidates, and thus needs to be reviewed to make sure it didn’t, based on discrimination law, rather than any sort of intentional discrimination against the white people - at least, according to the Coutndown/Maddow analysts) as another example of the justice nominee’s racist behaviors. Mr. Sowell hopes taht the public will be agitated enough by the continual declarations of racism that they will pressure the Senate not to confirm her. Because all these people who are not Senators are saying she’s a racist, based on her appelate court rulings and a statement she made in the past.
But winning tonight is James Kirchick, for declaring that the religious right had nothing to do with the death of Dr. Tiller, because they all rushed out to decry the killing, after someone took their inflammatory rhetoric to heart and acted on it. Hey, Kirchick, pay attention - there were at least a few fringe groups who rejoiced at the death of Dr. Tiller and will write hagiography of his killer. And many of them, while denouncing the killing, still referred to the Dr. as “a mass murderer” or some other title that made clear they disapproved of him still. Mr. Kirchick goes on to say that there’s no way we can compare antiabortion murderers to the Taliban or other Islamic fringe groups, because most Christians don’t support murder, while radical Muslims revel in death, celebrate it, and go out to do more. Christians are just about making sure people can’t be happy or wed or that science can’t be taught in schools - clearly that’s not as bad as cutting off female genitals or bombing transit stations, says he. No comparison at all, apparently, because there aren’t as many Christian maniacs and they’re not as insane as the Muslims. Never mind their shared ideology, desired results, and willingness to use violence against those they see as their enemies, and the support network of clerics they have that will give them justification to feel that way and to go commit violence. And if you go back to 11 September, there was a litany of Muslim denominations, clerics, and important people who denounced the attacks and disavowed that their religion had caused it at all. By your own reasoning, sir, then Islam should have been absolved of any culpability regarding those attacks, because they stepped up and denied them. From your own tone and the offense you took at being compared to them, I’m pretty sure you don’t really believe that. Enjoy your honors as the king of the poop pile.
In technology, Ships, a game that uses Google Earth data to put you in command of a boat sailing around, YouTube putting up a serial clip watcher along with quality versions of its clips that will display well on televisions, Google announces its intentions to sell e-books, the need for social media to become interoperable if it wants to move on to the next step, the possibility that methanol may supplant hydrogen for a bit to help with transitioning to environmentally friendly and renewable sources of fuel, Sony finally releasing a motion-sensing controller, several thousand websites hijacked to point to malware sites, an implantable device that will read surface brain activity and turn it into computer or prosthetic limb commands, and eyeglass-mounted displays that will use eye movements as commands.
Well, that and sharks can apparently be trained like other pets, land-based or aquatic.
Last for tonight, proof of a highly improbable event, and more book covers for various pulp tales - of Spain.
And then just sit back and enjoy the view. Go swimming if you like.
Around the world, Danish squatters who have been in control of an abandoned naval base for decades are told they have no right to settle there, and government plans to reclaim the base from them move ahead.
The United States nominee for commander of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan promised precise hits, but said progress would be a long time coming and that errors would happen. Well, he’s honest. The WSJ is a bit smug about pragmatism, with Senators moving on instead of subjecting the nominee to rigorous questioning about past abuses that happened under his watch, placing his ability to succeed over any skeletons he many have in the closet. I think they’re smug because they feel another liberal witch-hunt was denied and that part of the Democratic Party will get all feather-ruffled about it. Trying a different tactic, President Obama met with the Saudi king over several issues on his stop before Cairo, where it is widely expected he will try to open dialogue and start toward resolving problems between the secular West and the religious moderates, perhaps getting the moderates to more aggressively police and tamp down their extremists. (With Dr. Tiller’s death, we could stand to do some stomping of our own on fundamentalists who advocate for killing people who don’t believe the same way they do. More on this later, in the dungheap competition) The vice president of the UAE believes for its part, the Middle East needs to invest more in the security of the people there, so that efforts to educate the populace can truly take hold, instead of having to keep one eye on the books and one eye on the people who think you shouldn’t be learning. Mr. Wolfowitz thinks it's a tall order for the President to succeed with one speech, but if he sticks to the idea of spreading freedom and convincing the Middle East that freedoms are in their best interest, too, he’ll do fine.
The heir to North Korea's throne appears to be the youngest son, Kim Jong Un, based on activity and referring to the son as “Commander Kim.”
The Police of Lancashire have developed a DVD for primary school children intending to teach them about the dangers of extremism and spotting potential terrorists. It also tells them to tell teachers and authority figures if other children are expressing extremist views, because Guy Fawkes got his views while he was in school, and we all know how that turned out. Congratulations, your kids are being indoctrinated to keep an eye on your and each other. Before they have the mental capacity to really understand the whys behind either position. Get ‘em young, I guess.
Lest one continue to believe that the planet is not undergoing serious change, mountains and valleys that were until now always under Anarctic ice have been captured on film.
The United States Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geithner, assured China that their investments were safe and there was no risk of the dollar collapsing or defaulting. Against that, the World Bank President compared the United States stimulus bill to a sugar rush and declared it wouldn't make lasting change, and the WSJ says Mr. Geithner needs to convince everyone the U.S. doesn't plan on trying to let depreciation of the dollar help close the debt gap.
Domestically, New Hampshire makes it six states with legal marriage between homosexuals. Forty-four left.
Ooops. A sensitive report detailing a lot about nuclear power in the United States was made public for a bit. For a little while, though, one could access a lot of information about civilian nuclear power and where fuel for nuclear weaponse was stored.
Further commentary on the death of Dr. Tiller, including a piece that details just what was really lost with Dr. Tiller's death, instead of the F.U.D., misinformation, and pinheads that would have you believe otherwise. And, if you have excess rage to vent on, go after PETA, who is trying to play both sides of the tragedy as a promotion for a vegetarian lifestyle. Y’know, the Confucians said that it was proper for someone to be in mourning for a year aftr the death of a family member - maybe we can make it a moratorium on anyone running any sort of ad related to the matter?
And for more conventional terrorism news, officials confirmed al-Qaeda was attempting to smuggle a mass-casualty biological attack weapon in from Mexico, and were looking for militia or other anti-government entities to accomplish the goal. So.. abortion as a wedge issue, militias that see themselves in opposition to the governemnt... do we need one more of those memo groups to be implicated before we’ll let DHS re-release the memo, with a coda indicating the accuracy of the assessment based on recent events?
The populace is still apparently fairly split on whether torture is justified (it isn't) and on whether Guantanamo Bay should be closed (signs point to yes).
the Minnesota Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on the contested election between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.
And finally, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer tells us directly what we have suspected will happen - companies will move employees and operations offshore if new Obama tax plans are put into place.
Starting of our opinions, Mr. Redfern thinks the government is trying to actively encourage UFO belief, so that they can hide operations behind UFO matters.
Mr. Maguire tells us the components of spelling-bee winners, and says the United States needs to have more families like theirs if we want to continue being competitive outside of school.
Mr. Frank believes the Republican Party could have a good run in 2012 if they decide to go after the Demcorats on economics, which would essentially entail putting up a role-reversal and making enough people believe that its true, based on the most recent evidence of how bailouts are handled by the Democrats. Or, they might get there after the apparently still-going-on infatuation with President Obama fades.
Last out, before competition for pastry, Leslie Blanchard on the illusion of free will, especially in America, where we claim everyone has free will and prove the contrary, by our actions and the actions of the government to keep us soft and stupid, instead of them fearing us.
The WSJ gives it a go with trying to make us believe the Demcorats will rush through health care reforms before anyone can stop them with detailed analysis of the costs and the debts and the consequences of the matter. Right. And people are just sitting on their hands, instead of running possible proposals based on what’s already been said and coming up with pros and cons of them. How stupid do you think your own opposition is? From the moment Obama said something about it, there should have been people running numbers and possibilities. I don’t think there will be a sudden bill that gets passed without people knowing the consequences thereof, and having the opposition mount their opposition to the bill.
The pastor of the Baptist church in Wasilla is convinced the Antichrist will be a homosexual, because he will follow the sin of Sodom (and so will be inhospitable to guests and deal with that xenophobia by trying to generate mobs to expel and rape those guests), will reject his gender and the design for it (wait, so now it’s a transgendered person?), and he will not regard the desire of women (so he’s goal-oriented and has no time for a companion). And, of course, the time is ripe for such a leader, so we should be extra careful about any gay men or lesbian women who rise to high office, because they could be the anti Christ. Bet he’s pissed at the New Hampshire law.
But he’s retreading ground, and thus just misses the pastry matters - Mr. Mahtesian senses a conspiracy afoot to convert GOP moderates into Administration appointees, and thus cut off any ability for the Republican Party's moderates to right the sinking ship. If that really is the plan, then hats off to the strategists of the Obama Administration, for boxing in the opposition. Just expect them to lash out and fight hard if you don’t give them an out that they can run down and be slaughtered on. (Sun Tzu would appreciate it if it went that way.)
They both lose, however, to our bronze winner of tonight, Mr. Matt Philbin, snorting loudly at the Obamas commencement pleas for graduates to go into professions that help others, non-profits, teaching, public sector work, and the like. He’s laughing because those professions don’t pay all that well, and “eveyone knows” we need people in good-paying jobs so the non-profits and the helping professionals can survive and so the private sector will continue to innovate every piece of progress the United States will produce. We don’t need more helpers because we need to apparently stop believing, like the Obamas do, that everyone is a victim that needs help. Take a poll of the helping professions, Mr. Philbin. Teachers, nurses, social workers, et cetera. Ask them whether they need more people in their profession. Then ask other people whether those people make enough money for the work they do. (You may have to have them shadow the workers for a day or two for them to truly appreciate everything.) Make sure that you get lots of people from underprivileged areas, where the schools are underfunded, the social problems are rampant, and there’s nobody who wants to really be there, corporate or private, because they’re afraid of the people there.
The silver to Mr. Sowell, continuing to take Judge Sotomayor out of context by calling her a racist and declaring her empathy will get in the way of interpretation of the law, also choosing to use her curt dismissal of the firefighter case (which is apparently more about the possibility that the merit exam may have unintentionally screened out minority candidates, and thus needs to be reviewed to make sure it didn’t, based on discrimination law, rather than any sort of intentional discrimination against the white people - at least, according to the Coutndown/Maddow analysts) as another example of the justice nominee’s racist behaviors. Mr. Sowell hopes taht the public will be agitated enough by the continual declarations of racism that they will pressure the Senate not to confirm her. Because all these people who are not Senators are saying she’s a racist, based on her appelate court rulings and a statement she made in the past.
But winning tonight is James Kirchick, for declaring that the religious right had nothing to do with the death of Dr. Tiller, because they all rushed out to decry the killing, after someone took their inflammatory rhetoric to heart and acted on it. Hey, Kirchick, pay attention - there were at least a few fringe groups who rejoiced at the death of Dr. Tiller and will write hagiography of his killer. And many of them, while denouncing the killing, still referred to the Dr. as “a mass murderer” or some other title that made clear they disapproved of him still. Mr. Kirchick goes on to say that there’s no way we can compare antiabortion murderers to the Taliban or other Islamic fringe groups, because most Christians don’t support murder, while radical Muslims revel in death, celebrate it, and go out to do more. Christians are just about making sure people can’t be happy or wed or that science can’t be taught in schools - clearly that’s not as bad as cutting off female genitals or bombing transit stations, says he. No comparison at all, apparently, because there aren’t as many Christian maniacs and they’re not as insane as the Muslims. Never mind their shared ideology, desired results, and willingness to use violence against those they see as their enemies, and the support network of clerics they have that will give them justification to feel that way and to go commit violence. And if you go back to 11 September, there was a litany of Muslim denominations, clerics, and important people who denounced the attacks and disavowed that their religion had caused it at all. By your own reasoning, sir, then Islam should have been absolved of any culpability regarding those attacks, because they stepped up and denied them. From your own tone and the offense you took at being compared to them, I’m pretty sure you don’t really believe that. Enjoy your honors as the king of the poop pile.
In technology, Ships, a game that uses Google Earth data to put you in command of a boat sailing around, YouTube putting up a serial clip watcher along with quality versions of its clips that will display well on televisions, Google announces its intentions to sell e-books, the need for social media to become interoperable if it wants to move on to the next step, the possibility that methanol may supplant hydrogen for a bit to help with transitioning to environmentally friendly and renewable sources of fuel, Sony finally releasing a motion-sensing controller, several thousand websites hijacked to point to malware sites, an implantable device that will read surface brain activity and turn it into computer or prosthetic limb commands, and eyeglass-mounted displays that will use eye movements as commands.
Well, that and sharks can apparently be trained like other pets, land-based or aquatic.
Last for tonight, proof of a highly improbable event, and more book covers for various pulp tales - of Spain.
