All talkiness done - 11 June 2009
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silveradeptOkay, here we go with the next incarnation of this interesting roundup of stuff - so, let’s start with Carrie Prejean, Miss California, being fired for breach of contract - y’know, by not showing up to events, giving unauthorized interviews, and the like. Carrie Prejean said that nobody had told her that she was doing things wrong, and that it was really about her answer to Perez Hilton. Well, if that’s what you want to believe.
Speaking of belief, make what you will of the fact that the Creation Museum sells Coca-Cola. No further comment from here.
On much less serious matters than even that, but we will cheer anyway, Futurama returns to television! Whoo!
Going back to serious matters, out in the world, sex workers in India are taking self-defense classes to protect themselves from customers and pimps who would of them violence. So that piece that I linked to about a pervasive culture where men think they have entitlements to women’s bodies? I think I’ve been handed a pretty object lesson with this article.
Domestically, more details on the shooter at the Holocaust Museum - definitely a regular right-wing extremist, but also becoming increasingly desperate as the social net that was supporting him fell out from under him. He thought it was revenge and punishment. Odds are good it was bureaucracy, but with his inclination toward the government, we can see where this contributed to the decision to go shoot up a government facility.
And tucked away, as the very last line in the previous article, is something that should qualify for a WTF. “The responsible white separatist community condemns this,” said John de Nugent, someone who knew the shooter. “It makes us look bad.” Definitely a WTF moment here. I don’t know how you get a responsible community that advocates for separating from the country and building another nation that reinstitutionalizes racism.
Speaking of domestic terrorism, a former officer of the Southern Baptist Convention has declared he's praying that President Obama dies, using the idea of “imprecatory prayer” to call on the vengeful God of the Hebrews to arrange it so that the “usurper in the White House, B. Hussein Obama”, dies because he didn’t turn to said god.
Gun control advocates feel the latest outbreaks of violence strengthens their case for tightening gun control laws.
The Congresscritter rules about paying for new spending as you go... yeah. They haven't been all that enforced. Since they came into being, basically. Because, y’know, Congress can always find ways around their own rules. The WSJ also believes unions are agitating for relaxing of disclosure rules around them, so they don't have to show off how broke they are.
So, we’ve got a goal post in economics here - both parties will be rushing to claim credit for the Fed survey indicating the recession's downward drop may be leveling off.
In the opinions, why everyone needs a company and/or a laboratory space to test new ideas out on, where they can see feedback and ideas and other effects and play, rather than being stuck at work. Thus, the 20% idea at Google, and other good ideas that would give employees latitude to innovate on the things that they do and see at work or elsewhere. (I think every library worker could use a 20% to create ideas that could turn out to be awesome improvements to the process. Instead, we have a more formal, much slower process that probably discourages ideas and innovation...)
Mr. Coughlin tells us not to get excited about the Iranian elections, as all the candidates standing had to pass the Supreme Leader's muster, and are thus unlikely to be actual reform candidates or advocate for the real change that Iran needs. Mr. Boortz is much shorter and more succinct about Kim Jong-Il - nutjob with nukes, needs deposing or destroying, instead of stern language and the dismantling of our own nuclear defenses. The WSJ doesn't go as far as Mr. Boortz, but does concur that real tough action is needed. Mr. Luttwak suggests the silent treatment.
We’re going to start with the statistic here, and then we get to see how others may interpret it and others to get...the result they were aiming for anyway. So, statistic - Fifty-two percent of persons asked to name the main person who speaks for the Republican Party said there wasn't one or drew a blank.
Mr. Avalon hits a solid line with the opinion that the increased Independents are a repudiation of the idea that President Obama has a liberal mandate, and evidence that the Republican Party is being abandoned. Thus, the people who can talk to the independents will be the winners in the next election. Playing to the base is a losing strategy.
Elsewhere in opinions, Mr. Laffer declares inflation and high interest rates are on the way, because the Fed is flooring the gas on the money supply to pay for all the stimulus spending. Mr. Laffer says that the opposite action will retard lending and credit, and so the people in charge are in a very damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
Mr. Jenkins, Jr. says the new GM boss was appointed to play politics instead of selling cars, because GM has always been better at playing politics and will have to continue to be so, rather than being able to act as a private entity and tell the politicians, the unions, and the fuel standards to bugger off. And speaking of Chrysler, Mr. Olivestro feels there's a perversion of the Constitution and the law in the UAW receiving a significant part of Chrysler, over the "secured creditors" who are supposed to be first in line for a bankruptcy.
Mr. Blankley almost praises the the election of anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic parties to the European Parliament, considering it a statement from the people that they do not wish to be run over by aggressive Muslims and immigrants, and want to bring the discussion on what to do with all the people who want to come into the country without being branded racists. At the end, however, he notes that the election of potentially volatile parties is the likely end of not being able to talk about culture and immigration.
Mr. Bronstein chides the press for their continued love affair with the new President, because the press should be grilling the President on things like rogue states and other policies, instead of softball pieces like the NBC inside the White House part.
And Mr. Goldberg pans on the cap-and-trade bill, calling it a waste of everything and that the money could have been better spent on real science to try and solve the climate change problem, where it might have an effect, instead of trying to conflate social science with real science, to a bad effect.
In technology, Nokia is looking into cellular phones that can recharge themselves from ambient radio waves, observing a rapidly shrinking star... maybe we're going to get to watch a nova in realtime? That would be neat.
and last from tonight, courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amenquohi, an autistic child has already grasped an essential truth of life. He'll be going into primary school soon.
Speaking of belief, make what you will of the fact that the Creation Museum sells Coca-Cola. No further comment from here.
On much less serious matters than even that, but we will cheer anyway, Futurama returns to television! Whoo!
Going back to serious matters, out in the world, sex workers in India are taking self-defense classes to protect themselves from customers and pimps who would of them violence. So that piece that I linked to about a pervasive culture where men think they have entitlements to women’s bodies? I think I’ve been handed a pretty object lesson with this article.
Domestically, more details on the shooter at the Holocaust Museum - definitely a regular right-wing extremist, but also becoming increasingly desperate as the social net that was supporting him fell out from under him. He thought it was revenge and punishment. Odds are good it was bureaucracy, but with his inclination toward the government, we can see where this contributed to the decision to go shoot up a government facility.
And tucked away, as the very last line in the previous article, is something that should qualify for a WTF. “The responsible white separatist community condemns this,” said John de Nugent, someone who knew the shooter. “It makes us look bad.” Definitely a WTF moment here. I don’t know how you get a responsible community that advocates for separating from the country and building another nation that reinstitutionalizes racism.
Speaking of domestic terrorism, a former officer of the Southern Baptist Convention has declared he's praying that President Obama dies, using the idea of “imprecatory prayer” to call on the vengeful God of the Hebrews to arrange it so that the “usurper in the White House, B. Hussein Obama”, dies because he didn’t turn to said god.
Gun control advocates feel the latest outbreaks of violence strengthens their case for tightening gun control laws.
The Congresscritter rules about paying for new spending as you go... yeah. They haven't been all that enforced. Since they came into being, basically. Because, y’know, Congress can always find ways around their own rules. The WSJ also believes unions are agitating for relaxing of disclosure rules around them, so they don't have to show off how broke they are.
So, we’ve got a goal post in economics here - both parties will be rushing to claim credit for the Fed survey indicating the recession's downward drop may be leveling off.
In the opinions, why everyone needs a company and/or a laboratory space to test new ideas out on, where they can see feedback and ideas and other effects and play, rather than being stuck at work. Thus, the 20% idea at Google, and other good ideas that would give employees latitude to innovate on the things that they do and see at work or elsewhere. (I think every library worker could use a 20% to create ideas that could turn out to be awesome improvements to the process. Instead, we have a more formal, much slower process that probably discourages ideas and innovation...)
Mr. Coughlin tells us not to get excited about the Iranian elections, as all the candidates standing had to pass the Supreme Leader's muster, and are thus unlikely to be actual reform candidates or advocate for the real change that Iran needs. Mr. Boortz is much shorter and more succinct about Kim Jong-Il - nutjob with nukes, needs deposing or destroying, instead of stern language and the dismantling of our own nuclear defenses. The WSJ doesn't go as far as Mr. Boortz, but does concur that real tough action is needed. Mr. Luttwak suggests the silent treatment.
We’re going to start with the statistic here, and then we get to see how others may interpret it and others to get...the result they were aiming for anyway. So, statistic - Fifty-two percent of persons asked to name the main person who speaks for the Republican Party said there wasn't one or drew a blank.
Mr. Avalon hits a solid line with the opinion that the increased Independents are a repudiation of the idea that President Obama has a liberal mandate, and evidence that the Republican Party is being abandoned. Thus, the people who can talk to the independents will be the winners in the next election. Playing to the base is a losing strategy.
Elsewhere in opinions, Mr. Laffer declares inflation and high interest rates are on the way, because the Fed is flooring the gas on the money supply to pay for all the stimulus spending. Mr. Laffer says that the opposite action will retard lending and credit, and so the people in charge are in a very damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
Mr. Jenkins, Jr. says the new GM boss was appointed to play politics instead of selling cars, because GM has always been better at playing politics and will have to continue to be so, rather than being able to act as a private entity and tell the politicians, the unions, and the fuel standards to bugger off. And speaking of Chrysler, Mr. Olivestro feels there's a perversion of the Constitution and the law in the UAW receiving a significant part of Chrysler, over the "secured creditors" who are supposed to be first in line for a bankruptcy.
Mr. Blankley almost praises the the election of anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic parties to the European Parliament, considering it a statement from the people that they do not wish to be run over by aggressive Muslims and immigrants, and want to bring the discussion on what to do with all the people who want to come into the country without being branded racists. At the end, however, he notes that the election of potentially volatile parties is the likely end of not being able to talk about culture and immigration.
Mr. Bronstein chides the press for their continued love affair with the new President, because the press should be grilling the President on things like rogue states and other policies, instead of softball pieces like the NBC inside the White House part.
And Mr. Goldberg pans on the cap-and-trade bill, calling it a waste of everything and that the money could have been better spent on real science to try and solve the climate change problem, where it might have an effect, instead of trying to conflate social science with real science, to a bad effect.
In technology, Nokia is looking into cellular phones that can recharge themselves from ambient radio waves, observing a rapidly shrinking star... maybe we're going to get to watch a nova in realtime? That would be neat.
and last from tonight, courtesy of
amenquohi, an autistic child has already grasped an essential truth of life. He'll be going into primary school soon.
