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silveradeptUp at the very top, we watched the NBC materials on the White House over the last two days - very interesting, both for what it revealed and for what it presented. It was very interesting to see how the cameras did things, and whether the cameras did things... and I wonder what all the unaired footage is.
The divine force of the universe, or some nut in the Dead Pool, recalled David Carradine, kung fu star, back to himself today, having granted Mr. Carradine 72 years of life.
Internationally, No shoes thrown at Obama as he speaks in Cairo. The analysis of that speech to follow, but first, read the text of the speech yourself, so you can formulate your own ideas before being subjected to others’. Osama bin Laden resurfaces, on cue, to denounce the speech and the presence of the President, Mr. Harnden thinks it's now become okay for "Hussein" to be used when talking about the President, as well as thinking his claim about being a decently big Muslim country aren’t on the level,
Militants blew up a girls's school in Pakistan as the army continued their campaign against the Taliban. There were no casualties, as school was out.
Twenty years ago, an iconic image - a man standing in front of several tanks, who moved to continue blocking the tanks when they tried to drive around him.
And the United States found itself fighting a losing battle to try and keep Cuba out of the Organization of the American States. Cuba, however, has said it doesn’t want to be part of it, so the matter may be moot.
Domestically, The Obama administration will sell the victims of Katrina the mobile homes FEMA has provided for them at virtually no cost and provide rent vouchers for others.
Dollar declines against other currencies, and bad news in a few sectors cuts off a rally underway. But there may be vouchers in your future if you trade in your old car and get a newer, more fuel-efficient one.
The Defense Secretary toured and expressed his confidence in a facility designed to intercept and destroy nuclear missiles inbound to the United States.
Because he won’t go away, we now know that the previous Vice President did secret briefings for lawmakers defending the use of harsh interrogation techniques - in 2005. This adds more wrinkles to who knew what when, but it also indicates the need to declassify and air out as much as can be done, so we get as complete a story as possible. Putting some people in trial might do that.
Landing in opinions, let’s talk nominees - first, sensibly, with Mr. Epstein saying conservatives will have to be more nuanced if they want to make any points against the nominee, and attack on the grounds of her decisions. Less sensibly, well, that’s in the running for worsts.
Elsewhere, Mr. Levine says Washington blew the GM affair by getting involved and transparently playing favorites, instead of just providing the bridges the company needed to get to a swift bankruptcy. On similar mismanagement. Mr. Harsanyi, though, sees GM as the method by which the Obama administration socially-engineers us all into what they want, despite their professed indifference to the running of the company.
On a related tangent, Mr. Carafano says the government becomes more efficient the more private contractors it uses, especially in military procurement and innovation.
Trying to weasel his way into the quiche competition, Mr. Malcolm thinks the current trend of Republicans regaining approval ground will continue the longer we get into the Obama presidency. If Mr. Lambro is correct, and the venues for Mr. Obama's health care plans are drying up by not being able to put together a concrete plan, then maybe the disappointed masses will change over.
Also on the outside looking in, Ms. Glick says that the United States has given up against North Korea and Iran, and only Israel stands stalwart against the nuclear threat posed by either nation. Mr. Feulner, after a quick "Bush kept us safe - there were no attacks" segment, says that North Korea intends on becoming nuclear-armed, and so America must act as if this were inevitable...by aggresively building up missile defense and marshaling the world against North Korea, including China. Mr. Tilford is much more sane, describing what he sees as United States options on North Korea, none of which are very good for the country or the area.
Close enough to smell the pastry, but not in the kitchedn is Mr. Williams, who laments our children's inability at testing at the age of 15, and says that more school competition, not more funding, is the answer, because we’ve already got good funding and low teacher-student ratios, and achievement still sucks. So we should make more schools, and break up the government monopoly with competition (from private schools, I’m guessing), so that the public school has to get better to keep up with the private tuition. And if private schools were under the same restrictions as the public schools, that might be an accurate claim. But the government entity has to deal with NCLB, and the requirement that all students be educated at a public school, and the fact that their funding is determined by voters and taxes, which can change with the political winds, instead of private tuition, which stays fairly fixed and can be raised or lowered as needed without having to pass tax matters. Private schools have their advantages over public ones. It’s no wonder they can do better. Maybe, Mr. Williams, instead of declaring the system broken and saying it needs to be abandoned, you can tell people who will listen about what’s wrong and should be changed - if you want, use private schools as your model on what needs to be unencumbered for public schools.
But, finally, we get to the worst of the worst - Mr. Jeffrey starts the litany with another attack that says the President has a huge ego, based on the frequency of the personal pronoun, “Congress” and “law” in his oratory making the case for nationalization of General Motors. According to Mr. Jeffery, the President sees himself as the government, all by himself, and damn the Constitution, the laws, and the Congress if they object. And then says this would be an example of the slide into socialism. *sigh* You still do not know what that word means.
Mr. Sowell continues on his tirade against Sonia Sotomayor, using the word "racist" much more freely, and rehashing the standard conservative “examples” - the firefighter case, the out-of-context quote, the “empathy” standard - and adding on new ones, including the nominee’s upbringing may have made her a bitter revenge-seeker instead of an upstanding story, and the assertion the new racism is now hidden under the name of “diversity”, which trumps the idea of “equal protections of the law” and gives people special rights. Like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which started the whole thing and permits discrimination against white people. On any other day, this would have won the competition hands-down. However...
Not yet buried is Dr. Tiller, and already Jill Stanek is agitating for the other doctors who perform late-term abortions to be shut down, because, in Ms. Stanek’s opinion, late-term abortions are never medically necessary - we should just carry them all to term. The General notes the depths of her research, including publishing addresses and photos of family members, too, so that some other nut with an axe to grind and a belief that all abortion doctors must die will act on that belief. Or, rather, extremist movements within the general antichoice department will continue to gather intelligence, plan attacks, and execute them without serious interference or investigation from the police. For continuing to agitate for murder and providing people with the tools and intelligence they can use to murder, we join with Mr. Olbermann and declare you the winner, you Worst Person in the World.
In science and technology, looking inside witch-warding bottles to see what was there, chimps rocking the tools to get honey, Google Squared, presenting organized search results in a grid, the military and their tiny technology used for tagging suspected terrorists, bigger toys, like a plane that can perch, using sound waves to try and produce the same effects as deep brain stimulation or other drill-and-electrode work, contact lenses coated with patient stem cells helping to regenerate optic cells and return sight to the otherwise blind, and a diabetes drug that may increase the effectiveness of vaccinations.
Last for tonight, remember the progress that has been made when looking at the progress yet to be made - at least we don’t censor novels for the single mention of a homosexual kiss.
And if something like that makes you feel to weighted down - check out some really big and really complex crop circle designs, enjoy the story of police chasing a horse and buggy, and cringe at the lawsuit that alleges false advertising because crunchberries aren't actually berries.
The divine force of the universe, or some nut in the Dead Pool, recalled David Carradine, kung fu star, back to himself today, having granted Mr. Carradine 72 years of life.
Internationally, No shoes thrown at Obama as he speaks in Cairo. The analysis of that speech to follow, but first, read the text of the speech yourself, so you can formulate your own ideas before being subjected to others’. Osama bin Laden resurfaces, on cue, to denounce the speech and the presence of the President, Mr. Harnden thinks it's now become okay for "Hussein" to be used when talking about the President, as well as thinking his claim about being a decently big Muslim country aren’t on the level,
Militants blew up a girls's school in Pakistan as the army continued their campaign against the Taliban. There were no casualties, as school was out.
Twenty years ago, an iconic image - a man standing in front of several tanks, who moved to continue blocking the tanks when they tried to drive around him.
And the United States found itself fighting a losing battle to try and keep Cuba out of the Organization of the American States. Cuba, however, has said it doesn’t want to be part of it, so the matter may be moot.
Domestically, The Obama administration will sell the victims of Katrina the mobile homes FEMA has provided for them at virtually no cost and provide rent vouchers for others.
Dollar declines against other currencies, and bad news in a few sectors cuts off a rally underway. But there may be vouchers in your future if you trade in your old car and get a newer, more fuel-efficient one.
The Defense Secretary toured and expressed his confidence in a facility designed to intercept and destroy nuclear missiles inbound to the United States.
Because he won’t go away, we now know that the previous Vice President did secret briefings for lawmakers defending the use of harsh interrogation techniques - in 2005. This adds more wrinkles to who knew what when, but it also indicates the need to declassify and air out as much as can be done, so we get as complete a story as possible. Putting some people in trial might do that.
Landing in opinions, let’s talk nominees - first, sensibly, with Mr. Epstein saying conservatives will have to be more nuanced if they want to make any points against the nominee, and attack on the grounds of her decisions. Less sensibly, well, that’s in the running for worsts.
Elsewhere, Mr. Levine says Washington blew the GM affair by getting involved and transparently playing favorites, instead of just providing the bridges the company needed to get to a swift bankruptcy. On similar mismanagement. Mr. Harsanyi, though, sees GM as the method by which the Obama administration socially-engineers us all into what they want, despite their professed indifference to the running of the company.
On a related tangent, Mr. Carafano says the government becomes more efficient the more private contractors it uses, especially in military procurement and innovation.
Trying to weasel his way into the quiche competition, Mr. Malcolm thinks the current trend of Republicans regaining approval ground will continue the longer we get into the Obama presidency. If Mr. Lambro is correct, and the venues for Mr. Obama's health care plans are drying up by not being able to put together a concrete plan, then maybe the disappointed masses will change over.
Also on the outside looking in, Ms. Glick says that the United States has given up against North Korea and Iran, and only Israel stands stalwart against the nuclear threat posed by either nation. Mr. Feulner, after a quick "Bush kept us safe - there were no attacks" segment, says that North Korea intends on becoming nuclear-armed, and so America must act as if this were inevitable...by aggresively building up missile defense and marshaling the world against North Korea, including China. Mr. Tilford is much more sane, describing what he sees as United States options on North Korea, none of which are very good for the country or the area.
Close enough to smell the pastry, but not in the kitchedn is Mr. Williams, who laments our children's inability at testing at the age of 15, and says that more school competition, not more funding, is the answer, because we’ve already got good funding and low teacher-student ratios, and achievement still sucks. So we should make more schools, and break up the government monopoly with competition (from private schools, I’m guessing), so that the public school has to get better to keep up with the private tuition. And if private schools were under the same restrictions as the public schools, that might be an accurate claim. But the government entity has to deal with NCLB, and the requirement that all students be educated at a public school, and the fact that their funding is determined by voters and taxes, which can change with the political winds, instead of private tuition, which stays fairly fixed and can be raised or lowered as needed without having to pass tax matters. Private schools have their advantages over public ones. It’s no wonder they can do better. Maybe, Mr. Williams, instead of declaring the system broken and saying it needs to be abandoned, you can tell people who will listen about what’s wrong and should be changed - if you want, use private schools as your model on what needs to be unencumbered for public schools.
But, finally, we get to the worst of the worst - Mr. Jeffrey starts the litany with another attack that says the President has a huge ego, based on the frequency of the personal pronoun, “Congress” and “law” in his oratory making the case for nationalization of General Motors. According to Mr. Jeffery, the President sees himself as the government, all by himself, and damn the Constitution, the laws, and the Congress if they object. And then says this would be an example of the slide into socialism. *sigh* You still do not know what that word means.
Mr. Sowell continues on his tirade against Sonia Sotomayor, using the word "racist" much more freely, and rehashing the standard conservative “examples” - the firefighter case, the out-of-context quote, the “empathy” standard - and adding on new ones, including the nominee’s upbringing may have made her a bitter revenge-seeker instead of an upstanding story, and the assertion the new racism is now hidden under the name of “diversity”, which trumps the idea of “equal protections of the law” and gives people special rights. Like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which started the whole thing and permits discrimination against white people. On any other day, this would have won the competition hands-down. However...
Not yet buried is Dr. Tiller, and already Jill Stanek is agitating for the other doctors who perform late-term abortions to be shut down, because, in Ms. Stanek’s opinion, late-term abortions are never medically necessary - we should just carry them all to term. The General notes the depths of her research, including publishing addresses and photos of family members, too, so that some other nut with an axe to grind and a belief that all abortion doctors must die will act on that belief. Or, rather, extremist movements within the general antichoice department will continue to gather intelligence, plan attacks, and execute them without serious interference or investigation from the police. For continuing to agitate for murder and providing people with the tools and intelligence they can use to murder, we join with Mr. Olbermann and declare you the winner, you Worst Person in the World.
In science and technology, looking inside witch-warding bottles to see what was there, chimps rocking the tools to get honey, Google Squared, presenting organized search results in a grid, the military and their tiny technology used for tagging suspected terrorists, bigger toys, like a plane that can perch, using sound waves to try and produce the same effects as deep brain stimulation or other drill-and-electrode work, contact lenses coated with patient stem cells helping to regenerate optic cells and return sight to the otherwise blind, and a diabetes drug that may increase the effectiveness of vaccinations.
Last for tonight, remember the progress that has been made when looking at the progress yet to be made - at least we don’t censor novels for the single mention of a homosexual kiss.
And if something like that makes you feel to weighted down - check out some really big and really complex crop circle designs, enjoy the story of police chasing a horse and buggy, and cringe at the lawsuit that alleges false advertising because crunchberries aren't actually berries.
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Date: 2009-06-05 10:12 am (UTC)Re: I gave you a cookie
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