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silveradeptMorning, everyone. This post is a test of the Emergency Broadcast, err, Dreamwidth cross-posting service. I’ve thrown my lot in with Dreamwidth, based on what I’ve seen, both policy and features-wise, at least for the next year’s worth of time. This does not mean you have to do anything at all. If the crossposter works, you will still see these entries appear on your LJ friends page as they appear. In a few days time, when this paid account status expires, there may be another request, namely to grant access to the OpenID account associated with my new Dreamwidth home so as to continue with friends access. If that is the case, I will be subscribing to your journals through the feeds, assuming those feeds actually have the capability to pass parameters, options, or complete challenge requests so that they can authenticate me to you and then get all that wonderful data that is you. Stay tuned to this page for more updates. Kind of wish it were easier, all told, to pick up and move than it is. But, I am not deterred! I’ll make it work out. Somehow. I will still be keeping an eye on the friends page until I am certain that I have access to all the items that I had before.
And here up top, The Mighty God King gives us an explanation as to why Archie chose Vernoica - Betty is an insane stalker.
Also of interest, from NYPL, a walk around the area pointing out the residences of several literary homosexuals.
Finally, The United Nations announces a free on-line university that will charge no tuition, but will have fees for tests and administration. Still, it’s a tiny amount compared to the cost of room, board, books, and lectures. And it might be the beginning of the end of the standard lecture model, as well as taking a chunk out of big campus learning.
Internationally: Inter-sectual fighting in Somalia leads to desecration and destruction of religious sites and graves, a boy selected by the Dalai Lama as a successor has decided he doesn't want the monastic life, Iran was discovered to have a second stash of enriched uranium, which makes a lot of people nervous that Iran is about to develop a nuclear weapon and use it.
The two reporters in North Korea have been sentenced to twelve years of hard labor for apparently entering the country illegally. Punditry on this side of the coin suspects the journalists are being used as bargaining chips against a strong condemning resolution for North Korea’s recent atomic tests.
Domestically, Today’s moment of Law: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme court ruled that not recusing yourself from a case where the people appealing donated three million dollars to your election campaign is improper. Company got ruled against, donated money to opposition. Opposition elected, case appealed. New judge would not recuse himself given three opportunities to do so because he saw no conflict of interests. Verdict reversed. Thus began the appeals. One, this shouldn’t have been a question, so it shouldn’t have ever gotten to the SCOTUS, but two, 5-4? Are you kidding me?
The SCOTUS also refused to hear a case on the validity of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, apaprently at the request of the Obama administration. Which could mean “well, we want to do it legislatively” or “we don’t want to deal with it.” At least he can be ambiguous. The gentleman declaring there should be no memorial to homosexuals in a Holocaust rememberance piece, because...well, I’m not sure, but I think he’s trying to say something about how adding the other groups that suffered during the Holocaust diminishes remembering the Jews who suffered.
Additionally, The General selects a few instances of a much larger list of children killed in various "boot camp", wilderness-prep, behavior-modification, etc. facilities. In not quite the same vein, following on from a previous story, the radio hosts who advocated for abusing transgender children have a history of poor taste on-line, and more sponsors have been removing their support of the program.
And, because the bureaucrats must have their own, a story of a homeless shoe-shiner just about ready to move into housing, when the city slapped him with the requirement to get a permit for his shoe-shining - said bureaucrat read about his successes in the paper and then came down on him.
Economically elsewhere, the tale of people who reposses big-ticket items that haven't been paid for. Yes, including getting shot at by people who don’t want to give them up. And Wal-Mart is expanding and hiring on new people, for those who will be able to swallow their generally worker-hostile policies. Chrsyler and FIAT had their deal pushed on them, despite misgivings, according to internal documents, which may have prompted the request to block the sale, and Ford continues to motor on without government assistance so far.
All told, the GOP is busily trying to avoid spending the rest of the allocated stimulus dollars, thinking the current possible upswing means there's no need to spend the rest.
Interest was high when wanting to get the Republicans out of office. Now, however, a popular conference is much more sparsely attended, because there's a Democrat in office - even though he's not necessarily a liberal.
Governor Palin, despite several ethics charges leveled against her, has not been convicted on any of them. Which gives credence to the idea that the ethics charges may have been nuisance filings intended to make her spend time fighting them.
Getting in before the opinions, some candid shots of the President of the United States. They may go well with the excerpts from the audiobooks of Mr. Obama’s books where he occasionally uses nuaghty language. Conference exasperation of the President, and a phone call from hell. We never said being the leader of the country was easy or stress-free.
Also, for the curious, expense reports of House of Representatives members will now be posted on-line, for easy searching (and complaining).
Dropping into opinions, then, ddjango tells us why he's unconvinced that transhumanism will magick us into a better future, especially from those who take it as an article of faith that machines will be able to deduce superior ethics with no priming.
Mr. Cline explores the eliminationish rhetoric of most anti-abortion groups, as well as their continued denial that this same anti-abortionist rhetoric leads to deaths and violence. He suggests that many of the people who say “abortion is murder” don’t really believe it, because they don’t act on that idea, either by trying to get it banned totally or doing violence against those who provide it. However, in the case of Dr. Tiller, it looks like the feds are getting serious about investigating the "longe nutjob" theory and seeing whether there were more people involved.
Mr. Davis opines on how many opportunities there have been to create a Palestinian state that have not ben taken, in alternatingly anxious-and-relaxed takes on the Obama Administration’s attitude toward Israel.
Two opinions on taxes and the messes their increasing could generate, first, the WSJ on a "tax revolt" in Illinois against an income and business tax increase, and then, second, Mr. Paulson goes to town on the need for California to spend less, do less, tax less, and be less, eventually working up to applying the same principles to the federal government, too - the populace is tired of the way things are going, and so will punish the latecomers for the mistakes of the former. So his solution is to end entitlements entirely and trust that the less fortunate will be able to rely on the generosity of private giving by their neighbors. We have to learn through failure, instead of things being “too big to fail”. Hopefully, he was agitating for this before the bailouts began, lest a hypocrisy charge be leveled.
And then there are the quiches: Mr. Brietbart exhorts republicans to get back on the win at all costs strategy, while insinuating that Democrats improperly use money to recruit organizations that will pick up anyone off the streets and put a voting pen in their hand, playing minority groups against each other while accepting “bribes” from them to keep themselves in power, and have become far-leftists because groups like MoveOn.org ally with them and leftists displayed Obama placards proudly.
Ms. Parker declares the biggest civil rights challenge of this time is not LGBT anything, but the need to get children out of public schools and into private ones, so they don’t get taught “sexual moral relativism” and instead get a hefty done of the traditional values that they so desperately crave and need.
At the very end, though, Mr. Bialosky takes home the prize by describing his vision of what Europeanization means, complete with being forced to trade your car in for a bicycle, but then having to pay so much in taxes and the wages of workers you can’t afford it (not to mention they aren’t open when you actually have time to shop), buildings of exactly the same height, being charged to drink water or to urinate, and six major urban centers that get all the resources and people, leaving the rest of the country out in the cold. Plus red-light districts in every city. Your caricature falls more han a little flat, shall we say. Conveniently, there’s a quiche right here to break your fall. Enjoy!
In technological and scientific realms, a chemical gel that's self-propelled, going back to the idea of one universe, tryign to build rat AI before trying to get to humans, looking at how much emissions will be generated on the full life-cycle of various transport mechanisms, including power generation and the manufacture of the objects themselves, (The PDF has graphics), an inflatable tower that could bring people up to the edge of space (although, one would think the wind would be pretty hard on an inflatable object), and solar panels that you can roll up and take with you. Perfect for those days when solar variation helps to make the climate here on Terra variable (although there’s more than just solar variance going on here.)
Last for tonight, though, because it’s that good, stormotroopers spelling out an American icon. Isn’t that much better than the photorealistic woman painted (and then photoshopped) for a magazine cover? Will it beat out cute pictures of mice and their toys? Or animal babies that grow up to look a bit odd? Only you can decide.
And here up top, The Mighty God King gives us an explanation as to why Archie chose Vernoica - Betty is an insane stalker.
Also of interest, from NYPL, a walk around the area pointing out the residences of several literary homosexuals.
Finally, The United Nations announces a free on-line university that will charge no tuition, but will have fees for tests and administration. Still, it’s a tiny amount compared to the cost of room, board, books, and lectures. And it might be the beginning of the end of the standard lecture model, as well as taking a chunk out of big campus learning.
Internationally: Inter-sectual fighting in Somalia leads to desecration and destruction of religious sites and graves, a boy selected by the Dalai Lama as a successor has decided he doesn't want the monastic life, Iran was discovered to have a second stash of enriched uranium, which makes a lot of people nervous that Iran is about to develop a nuclear weapon and use it.
The two reporters in North Korea have been sentenced to twelve years of hard labor for apparently entering the country illegally. Punditry on this side of the coin suspects the journalists are being used as bargaining chips against a strong condemning resolution for North Korea’s recent atomic tests.
Domestically, Today’s moment of Law: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme court ruled that not recusing yourself from a case where the people appealing donated three million dollars to your election campaign is improper. Company got ruled against, donated money to opposition. Opposition elected, case appealed. New judge would not recuse himself given three opportunities to do so because he saw no conflict of interests. Verdict reversed. Thus began the appeals. One, this shouldn’t have been a question, so it shouldn’t have ever gotten to the SCOTUS, but two, 5-4? Are you kidding me?
The SCOTUS also refused to hear a case on the validity of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, apaprently at the request of the Obama administration. Which could mean “well, we want to do it legislatively” or “we don’t want to deal with it.” At least he can be ambiguous. The gentleman declaring there should be no memorial to homosexuals in a Holocaust rememberance piece, because...well, I’m not sure, but I think he’s trying to say something about how adding the other groups that suffered during the Holocaust diminishes remembering the Jews who suffered.
Additionally, The General selects a few instances of a much larger list of children killed in various "boot camp", wilderness-prep, behavior-modification, etc. facilities. In not quite the same vein, following on from a previous story, the radio hosts who advocated for abusing transgender children have a history of poor taste on-line, and more sponsors have been removing their support of the program.
And, because the bureaucrats must have their own, a story of a homeless shoe-shiner just about ready to move into housing, when the city slapped him with the requirement to get a permit for his shoe-shining - said bureaucrat read about his successes in the paper and then came down on him.
Economically elsewhere, the tale of people who reposses big-ticket items that haven't been paid for. Yes, including getting shot at by people who don’t want to give them up. And Wal-Mart is expanding and hiring on new people, for those who will be able to swallow their generally worker-hostile policies. Chrsyler and FIAT had their deal pushed on them, despite misgivings, according to internal documents, which may have prompted the request to block the sale, and Ford continues to motor on without government assistance so far.
All told, the GOP is busily trying to avoid spending the rest of the allocated stimulus dollars, thinking the current possible upswing means there's no need to spend the rest.
Interest was high when wanting to get the Republicans out of office. Now, however, a popular conference is much more sparsely attended, because there's a Democrat in office - even though he's not necessarily a liberal.
Governor Palin, despite several ethics charges leveled against her, has not been convicted on any of them. Which gives credence to the idea that the ethics charges may have been nuisance filings intended to make her spend time fighting them.
Getting in before the opinions, some candid shots of the President of the United States. They may go well with the excerpts from the audiobooks of Mr. Obama’s books where he occasionally uses nuaghty language. Conference exasperation of the President, and a phone call from hell. We never said being the leader of the country was easy or stress-free.
Also, for the curious, expense reports of House of Representatives members will now be posted on-line, for easy searching (and complaining).
Dropping into opinions, then, ddjango tells us why he's unconvinced that transhumanism will magick us into a better future, especially from those who take it as an article of faith that machines will be able to deduce superior ethics with no priming.
Mr. Cline explores the eliminationish rhetoric of most anti-abortion groups, as well as their continued denial that this same anti-abortionist rhetoric leads to deaths and violence. He suggests that many of the people who say “abortion is murder” don’t really believe it, because they don’t act on that idea, either by trying to get it banned totally or doing violence against those who provide it. However, in the case of Dr. Tiller, it looks like the feds are getting serious about investigating the "longe nutjob" theory and seeing whether there were more people involved.
Mr. Davis opines on how many opportunities there have been to create a Palestinian state that have not ben taken, in alternatingly anxious-and-relaxed takes on the Obama Administration’s attitude toward Israel.
Two opinions on taxes and the messes their increasing could generate, first, the WSJ on a "tax revolt" in Illinois against an income and business tax increase, and then, second, Mr. Paulson goes to town on the need for California to spend less, do less, tax less, and be less, eventually working up to applying the same principles to the federal government, too - the populace is tired of the way things are going, and so will punish the latecomers for the mistakes of the former. So his solution is to end entitlements entirely and trust that the less fortunate will be able to rely on the generosity of private giving by their neighbors. We have to learn through failure, instead of things being “too big to fail”. Hopefully, he was agitating for this before the bailouts began, lest a hypocrisy charge be leveled.
And then there are the quiches: Mr. Brietbart exhorts republicans to get back on the win at all costs strategy, while insinuating that Democrats improperly use money to recruit organizations that will pick up anyone off the streets and put a voting pen in their hand, playing minority groups against each other while accepting “bribes” from them to keep themselves in power, and have become far-leftists because groups like MoveOn.org ally with them and leftists displayed Obama placards proudly.
Ms. Parker declares the biggest civil rights challenge of this time is not LGBT anything, but the need to get children out of public schools and into private ones, so they don’t get taught “sexual moral relativism” and instead get a hefty done of the traditional values that they so desperately crave and need.
At the very end, though, Mr. Bialosky takes home the prize by describing his vision of what Europeanization means, complete with being forced to trade your car in for a bicycle, but then having to pay so much in taxes and the wages of workers you can’t afford it (not to mention they aren’t open when you actually have time to shop), buildings of exactly the same height, being charged to drink water or to urinate, and six major urban centers that get all the resources and people, leaving the rest of the country out in the cold. Plus red-light districts in every city. Your caricature falls more han a little flat, shall we say. Conveniently, there’s a quiche right here to break your fall. Enjoy!
In technological and scientific realms, a chemical gel that's self-propelled, going back to the idea of one universe, tryign to build rat AI before trying to get to humans, looking at how much emissions will be generated on the full life-cycle of various transport mechanisms, including power generation and the manufacture of the objects themselves, (The PDF has graphics), an inflatable tower that could bring people up to the edge of space (although, one would think the wind would be pretty hard on an inflatable object), and solar panels that you can roll up and take with you. Perfect for those days when solar variation helps to make the climate here on Terra variable (although there’s more than just solar variance going on here.)
Last for tonight, though, because it’s that good, stormotroopers spelling out an American icon. Isn’t that much better than the photorealistic woman painted (and then photoshopped) for a magazine cover? Will it beat out cute pictures of mice and their toys? Or animal babies that grow up to look a bit odd? Only you can decide.
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yay!
Date: 2009-06-10 12:07 am (UTC)Re: yay!
Date: 2009-06-10 12:52 am (UTC)Here from Google
Date: 2009-06-09 04:30 pm (UTC)For friends reading your page, you can grant their OpenIDs access on DW and they can see your entries on their DW reading page, but that won't allow them to see your DW entries on their LJ reading page unless you also cross-post.
Did that make sense?
Re: Here from Google
Date: 2009-06-09 07:01 pm (UTC)So I'm sitting on my hands now, knowing they're working on it. Once they figure out how it gets done, then we'll go full-bore to test it out and make sure it works properly. And that will make us very happy that we can reside on a service that we like and still keep great contact with people on other services. (Or even go exploring to other services ourselves.)