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silveradeptGreetings. From one sentient to others, enjoy these optical illusion photographs of children playing with Luna. Additionally, the account of a two hundred fifty foot long vinyl slide coated with soapy water definitely sounds like it would be fun.
For those looking to mock people and/or take a meme one step further, the Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator. So that you, too, can have a conspiracy hatch about where you were born and whether you are eligible to be President of the United States.
And now, the news. After a personal trip from former President William Clinton, and significant work from the State Department, the two journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea have been given a "special pardon" and have returned home safely to their families. Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for Current TV, arrived in California and were reunited with their families.
The top American commander in Iraq says the Untied States will still play a crucial role in transitioning Iraq to stability. This has been your “No, really?” moment for today.
As planned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took an oath of office for his second term as Iran's president, despite the continued protests over the legitimacy of his election. The continued noninterference stance from the current administration results in renewed calls for the U.S. to interfere and denounce the illegitimacy of the election. And perhaps if they can be assured that the underlying power structure, like the unelected Supreme Leader and his religious council, would be replaced by something more aligned to United States interests, maybe they will. Until then, though, why get involved, if all you are doing is rearranging the deck chairs?
Inside the borders of the United States, President Obama announced a $2.4 billion plan for development of electric cars inside the country, a significant amount of which may end up in Michigan's coffers and help create more jobs for the automobile industry.
Blackwater employees have sworn affadavits that the company was involved in smuggling weapons, may have murdered or assisted in the murder of witnesses investigating the company, and that the company founder felt he was sent by God to kill Muslims.
The Postal Service might require some bailing out soon, as it continues to post losses.
When the President says he has the best healthcare in the world, he’s not fooling around. The Los Angeles Times details some fo the Presidential insurance and health care perks. If the President could make good on a promise to deliver care anywhere approaching his own, the country would have quite good health coverage, indeed. Speaking of, all these town halls that are being disrupted, by potentially non-local people whose sole goal is to shout and disrupt and prevent real discourse? The Democrats are pointing the finger at Republicans, who innocently claim that its the will of the people being expressed in opposition to Democratic plans. This is after memos on how to do disruption were leaked to the media, indicating the presence of an organized campaign. And if the RNC were not in some way pleased or organizing these kinds of events, one would think they’d willingly take callers who viewed the DNC’s attack piece and give them a chance to set the record straight. However, the RNC is shunting, hanging up, or dismissing people who call about the DNC ad, which could mean collusion. It could also mean that the RNC is still so disorganized that they can’t put out a united response to an attack ad with any sort of haste. Things over the last nine years have been so acrimonious that even normally civil debate turns ugly, indicating perhaps more investment in the people than the policy, on those who praise and those who complain, regardless of who is being praised or complained about.
And last out, a judge finally cleared the way for the federal government to seize and sell the parcels of land that make up Kent Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure park, where creationism, not science, rules. The Hovinds, convicted of tax fraud, owe a little under a half million USD in back taxes, and after their debts are settled, any property left will be returned to them.
In the opinions, an unsigned from the WSJ practically salivates over the prospect that President Obama will likely break his promise about not taxing those making under $250,000, probably because they figure since “no new taxes” sunk the elder Bush, they can use it to attack just about anything the Democrats or the President wants to do from here on out. They also assume there will be a VAT in the future, and the United States will resemble Europe in slow growth, no jobs, and giant entitlements). Still nothing, though, on whether the populace might actually be okay with those taxes if what they get in return for it is the fact that nobody will go without health care, freeing all sorts of people to consider doing what they love, not what gives them insurance. If we stray in that direction, thouh, Mr. Barone takes up the task of warning us of unintended consequences, with the Cash for Clunkers program as the small example, where our health care will be rationed and frozen based on bureaucrats who will close their minds to what experts say after they decide what is, we'll eventaully turn into the utterly horrid single-payer Canadian system, people will take advantage of the system and exploit it, and our employers will unceremoniously dump us into the public option to save themselves money, forcing us to deal with the unintended consequences of a system we won’t be able to escape from, despite the President’s promise that people who like what they have won’t have it changed.
Mr. Belloan is unconvinced that the Fed will actually use its counter-inflationary tools when the time comes. Of perhaps bigger concern, Mr. Stern, president of the SEIU, wants the government to resist letting private equity firms repeat the techniques they used to make out like bandits and then force us to bail them out. Rewards to them, risk to us.
Mr. Stephens believes that not signing on to treaties and controls for climate emissions will help countries such as India and China clean themselves up more, because increased freedom and loosening of controls is what will make the country safer, cleaner, and more prosperous. Messrs. Feith and Shulsky fail to see the value of continuing to negotiate with Russia as if it were the Cold War, and allowing Russia to hobble the U.S.'s interests in stomping out new proliferators like Iran and North Korea, if the President really does want a world without nuclear weapons that is safe from dangerous hands.
Mr. McGurn lumps those who feel that less children will help save the planet by having less mouths to feed in with birthers and other nuts, and tells us to have trust that more children will mean more chances at finding the person who grows up to save the planet.
And last out, ddjango has had enough of the constant chatter of persons trying to sell us the status quo, and thinks we should listen to ourselves for a moment, where we find that we hate the noise and want the people who are supposedly representing us to do their jobs, stop talking, and start showing us where their allegiances really lie, whether in the status quo, so they can be dismantled, or with the people, so they can start dismantling.
In technology, the dream machine for iPhone, the camera with the built-in projector, ways of apparently getting one's GMail ads to not display by utilizing trigger words, of the sort that would indicate the e-mail is of a catastrophic nature, and the knowledge that LEDs are energy efficient on the order of CFLs, and probably a lot less dangerous to dispose of.
In the realm of social content, if you're a name that works with ESPN, you're not really allowed to talk about sports stuff on your personal social networking stuff unless it serves their interests, basically requiring you to always be “on-air” as it were, even in your personal spaces, because you could reflect badly on the company. That seems like overreach to me, but I also get the feeling it follows a certain tradition where talking about work or work-related things on personal blogs could get you fired, regardless of the truth value of those statements. While ESPN just restricts, the Marines have banned it for a year, for reasons of operational security and safety, worrying that social networking tools might compromise missions and positions of Marines.
At the very end tonight, sixty-four years ago, the first nuclear weapon was utilized against the Empire of Japan. Even today, we still feel the effects.
For those looking to mock people and/or take a meme one step further, the Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator. So that you, too, can have a conspiracy hatch about where you were born and whether you are eligible to be President of the United States.
And now, the news. After a personal trip from former President William Clinton, and significant work from the State Department, the two journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea have been given a "special pardon" and have returned home safely to their families. Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for Current TV, arrived in California and were reunited with their families.
The top American commander in Iraq says the Untied States will still play a crucial role in transitioning Iraq to stability. This has been your “No, really?” moment for today.
As planned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took an oath of office for his second term as Iran's president, despite the continued protests over the legitimacy of his election. The continued noninterference stance from the current administration results in renewed calls for the U.S. to interfere and denounce the illegitimacy of the election. And perhaps if they can be assured that the underlying power structure, like the unelected Supreme Leader and his religious council, would be replaced by something more aligned to United States interests, maybe they will. Until then, though, why get involved, if all you are doing is rearranging the deck chairs?
Inside the borders of the United States, President Obama announced a $2.4 billion plan for development of electric cars inside the country, a significant amount of which may end up in Michigan's coffers and help create more jobs for the automobile industry.
Blackwater employees have sworn affadavits that the company was involved in smuggling weapons, may have murdered or assisted in the murder of witnesses investigating the company, and that the company founder felt he was sent by God to kill Muslims.
The Postal Service might require some bailing out soon, as it continues to post losses.
When the President says he has the best healthcare in the world, he’s not fooling around. The Los Angeles Times details some fo the Presidential insurance and health care perks. If the President could make good on a promise to deliver care anywhere approaching his own, the country would have quite good health coverage, indeed. Speaking of, all these town halls that are being disrupted, by potentially non-local people whose sole goal is to shout and disrupt and prevent real discourse? The Democrats are pointing the finger at Republicans, who innocently claim that its the will of the people being expressed in opposition to Democratic plans. This is after memos on how to do disruption were leaked to the media, indicating the presence of an organized campaign. And if the RNC were not in some way pleased or organizing these kinds of events, one would think they’d willingly take callers who viewed the DNC’s attack piece and give them a chance to set the record straight. However, the RNC is shunting, hanging up, or dismissing people who call about the DNC ad, which could mean collusion. It could also mean that the RNC is still so disorganized that they can’t put out a united response to an attack ad with any sort of haste. Things over the last nine years have been so acrimonious that even normally civil debate turns ugly, indicating perhaps more investment in the people than the policy, on those who praise and those who complain, regardless of who is being praised or complained about.
And last out, a judge finally cleared the way for the federal government to seize and sell the parcels of land that make up Kent Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure park, where creationism, not science, rules. The Hovinds, convicted of tax fraud, owe a little under a half million USD in back taxes, and after their debts are settled, any property left will be returned to them.
In the opinions, an unsigned from the WSJ practically salivates over the prospect that President Obama will likely break his promise about not taxing those making under $250,000, probably because they figure since “no new taxes” sunk the elder Bush, they can use it to attack just about anything the Democrats or the President wants to do from here on out. They also assume there will be a VAT in the future, and the United States will resemble Europe in slow growth, no jobs, and giant entitlements). Still nothing, though, on whether the populace might actually be okay with those taxes if what they get in return for it is the fact that nobody will go without health care, freeing all sorts of people to consider doing what they love, not what gives them insurance. If we stray in that direction, thouh, Mr. Barone takes up the task of warning us of unintended consequences, with the Cash for Clunkers program as the small example, where our health care will be rationed and frozen based on bureaucrats who will close their minds to what experts say after they decide what is, we'll eventaully turn into the utterly horrid single-payer Canadian system, people will take advantage of the system and exploit it, and our employers will unceremoniously dump us into the public option to save themselves money, forcing us to deal with the unintended consequences of a system we won’t be able to escape from, despite the President’s promise that people who like what they have won’t have it changed.
Mr. Belloan is unconvinced that the Fed will actually use its counter-inflationary tools when the time comes. Of perhaps bigger concern, Mr. Stern, president of the SEIU, wants the government to resist letting private equity firms repeat the techniques they used to make out like bandits and then force us to bail them out. Rewards to them, risk to us.
Mr. Stephens believes that not signing on to treaties and controls for climate emissions will help countries such as India and China clean themselves up more, because increased freedom and loosening of controls is what will make the country safer, cleaner, and more prosperous. Messrs. Feith and Shulsky fail to see the value of continuing to negotiate with Russia as if it were the Cold War, and allowing Russia to hobble the U.S.'s interests in stomping out new proliferators like Iran and North Korea, if the President really does want a world without nuclear weapons that is safe from dangerous hands.
Mr. McGurn lumps those who feel that less children will help save the planet by having less mouths to feed in with birthers and other nuts, and tells us to have trust that more children will mean more chances at finding the person who grows up to save the planet.
And last out, ddjango has had enough of the constant chatter of persons trying to sell us the status quo, and thinks we should listen to ourselves for a moment, where we find that we hate the noise and want the people who are supposedly representing us to do their jobs, stop talking, and start showing us where their allegiances really lie, whether in the status quo, so they can be dismantled, or with the people, so they can start dismantling.
In technology, the dream machine for iPhone, the camera with the built-in projector, ways of apparently getting one's GMail ads to not display by utilizing trigger words, of the sort that would indicate the e-mail is of a catastrophic nature, and the knowledge that LEDs are energy efficient on the order of CFLs, and probably a lot less dangerous to dispose of.
In the realm of social content, if you're a name that works with ESPN, you're not really allowed to talk about sports stuff on your personal social networking stuff unless it serves their interests, basically requiring you to always be “on-air” as it were, even in your personal spaces, because you could reflect badly on the company. That seems like overreach to me, but I also get the feeling it follows a certain tradition where talking about work or work-related things on personal blogs could get you fired, regardless of the truth value of those statements. While ESPN just restricts, the Marines have banned it for a year, for reasons of operational security and safety, worrying that social networking tools might compromise missions and positions of Marines.
At the very end tonight, sixty-four years ago, the first nuclear weapon was utilized against the Empire of Japan. Even today, we still feel the effects.
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Date: 2009-08-07 09:04 pm (UTC)