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silveradeptBefore we begin, ten things every autism spectrum child wishes their parents and the adults around them knew.
The speedrun of awesome will now commence by... making fun of Twilight - body glitter for that Cullen sparkle. Then making fun of Star Wars, because the galaxy far, far, away has some serious design flaws. Furthermore, eyebrow-popping at a show that glorifies stun gun use along with women police officers, providing a sort of torture porn, as it were. Speaking of television, miniature clip-playing units with full-motion advertisements appeared in some print magazine in select areas. Putting commercials, and not just ads, in your ad-filled magazines. Who knows? Maybe it's the next big hit. Finally, the longest poem in the world, consisting of taking intelligent ape Twitter couplets and adding them on to the end of other rhyming Twitter couplets.
And then, in our chosen profession, some librarians you don't want to mess with, some dos and dont's regarding library books, and how some books end up being hidden - although in this case, it became part of a rare books collection. The article does talk about more general requests for reconsideration and/or censorships in schools and public libraries. Officially speaking, although not in such coarse language, I would hope most library policy is generally, "Sod off." to most requests based on personal offense to readers who then want their personal preferences reflected in the library collection. And I like it that way.
Out in the world, an example that some people can, indeed, have their "forgiveness" for marital straying bought - in this case, with diamonds. Sounds like it was an open marriage to me.
More seriously, have a look at the story behind Fiji bottled watter, including military juntas, environmental misdirection, and the financial shenanigans almost common to large American corporations, Iran's new defense minister is a wanted terrorist, and the United States feels that it does not have enough military manpower in Afghanistan, where fraud charges have been leveled in the latest presidential election.
Mexico decides small amounts of drugs aren't worth the police hassle.
Domestically, a school district in Minnesota has paid $25,000 to settle on complaints that two teachers were harassing a student based on their perception of his sexual orientation, sufficiently venomously and constantly that the student transferred to get away from the taunting from the teachers. That those teachers have not been sacked as part of the settlement makes the settlement seem insufficient.
Further disturbing is that those hit squads that failed miserably in our past? The ones the CIA director practically lit the tile on fire to disclose once he found out about them? Some of them were outsourced to Xe, nee Blackwater. Which put a private contractor company in charge of black ops for the government. The rabbit hole digs really, really, deep. Is there anyone up to the challenge of digging it all up?
For all our needs in making the complicated seem more simple, or for putting data into media where it is best grasped, there is Visual Economics. On economics, something possibly encouraging for the peons - the rich getting richer all the time might have hit a slowdown, or even made the rich poorer. Recession hits all, I guess. Now, all we need is for someone to start pumping out jobs - even if its a WPA-style "build stuff" program. After all, the defecit's going to be big. May as well make something out of it. Cash for Clunkers worked pretty well, although the WSJ wants to sow doubts that dealers will be reimbursed for their part in the program.
Mr. Ridge, former director of homeland security under the last administration, says in his latest book that he was pressured to raise the threat level to assist the President in political victories. Other staffers during the last administration dispute and deny the charge that the terror level was raised for political gain.
Talking health care even COBRA can be an expensive route to go if you should lose your job - there may be some ways of keeping yourself afloat with individual insurance instead. Those on Social Security will not receive a COLA, which means their health care costs just took a bigger slice of their income pie. And further along the insane route, almost two-thirds of Republicans say the government should get out of a government medicine program, and that's probably with cheering the anti-choice Michelle Bachmann's decidedly pro-choice comment while she was talking about that need for government to get out of health care. "The use of words expressing something other than their literal in-ten-tion. Now that...is...irony!"
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bradhicks tells us how he learned not to buy anything on televisions, as well as how his father taught him how not to nag, beg, or plead for anything (as it was the quickest way to ensure there would be none of it).
The United States populace is significantly less about the One True Way than we were before, which can hopefully result in increased tolerance of other religions and those who practice them. Then again, with the way several factions of the Republican Party train themselves to avoid reality, greater tolerance may be a pipe dream. Plus, we're still mostly wired to see things only one way, and hate ambiguity.
Mr. Barnes praises the Republicans for being the combative party of NO, because in his opinion, it's working and stopping bad policy from happening, by moving independents and center-people over to the opposition to Mr. Obama. Well, something's working, that's for sure, and in the end, I suppose Mr. Barnes can be proud of the results, regardless of how dirty the tricks were to get to that spot. Further expanding this idea, still unfunny comedian David Limbaugh describes how much the people aren't buying the Obama smoke screen of fundamentally changing the country to redistribute wealth, discriminate against white men, turn his back on allies and coddle terrorists, and dismantle the great country brick by brick, all to make us into a socialist country, on which the public option and health care reform will be the first step.
Mr. Driessen believes the scrapping of the clunkers made more greenhouse emissions and energy than the marginal carbon and gas savings the program made, and that the idea to convert infrastructure to cleaner options will be a similar boondoggle.
Last before health, Mr. Kennedy repeats the statement that the rich drive the economy, and the more you try to get the rich to pull their weight, the more they shirk it and dump the consequences on the poor and middle class. He justifies this by saying, "Hey, we drive spending and taxes and jobs, so we shouldn't have to pay more in taxes - we'll just do less in spending and jobs, then, and make everyone else hurt".
On health, though, kids need more Vitamin D, says study, which means "get out more". Hooray, sun? More argumentatively, Mr. Cline lays out the case that teabaggers and those protesting aginst what they bizarrely see as fascism in health care reform are acting far more like the fascists than anything floated from the Democrats so far. On the other side of the equation, Mr. Tabor accuses the Democrats of using misinformation to advance the public option plan, because they always praise single-payer systems without mentioning their foibles. His main point, however, is that Obama will kill babies and grandmas because nothing in his bill stops the use of taxpayer dollars for abortion (lie) and that euthanasia will inevitably happen because denial of coverage or reimbursement to people is indirectly killing them (of which insurance companies must be practiced hands, then.) Misinformation after claiming your opponents use misinformation? FAIL. On the misinformation that all the town-hall protests are really just concerned citizens, Mr. Goodman says maybe some small portion of the protesters are astroturf, but the majority of the people really are grass-roots, are better informed than the Congresscritters, and are scared that their insurance will be changed to their detriment. Two fibs and a half-truth, depending on whether or not they're Death Eaters. Speaking thereof, while Mr. Krauthammer denies there are death panels, he says that reimbursing the doctor to give you a talk about end-of-life care is a societal pressure urging people to choose to die instead of live, as well as saying people will ignore your living will, anyway, in asking you what you want or in asking your family what they want, and family knows best for you, anyway, so they're all right to ignore the living will. He both denounces and supports the Death Eaters, and then says that it's right and proper for someone not you to ignore your living will, your expressly stated wishes, in deciding what's best for you if you can't tell them yourself. What is wrong with this picture?
In our worst persons derby, the bronze to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who says that his anti-hurricane magic spells are the reason why Florida has not suffered any hurricanes in recent years. The charm is effective because it hasn't happened! Clearly the charm must be working.
Speaking of magic spells, the silver to Kristen Atkinson, publisher of an article about how Michelle Obama's mother has apparently been practicing witchcraft, although it was at least first designated as Santeria, although it later got confused with voodoo, which is a separate belief system. Atkinson further digs the hole of her credibility's grave with confirmation that she's a birther, a Secret Muslim supporter, and believes the President hates America while also decrying the dangers of voodoo and "Satanic forces" gathering at the White House. Her concluing paragraph, though, ties it all together beautifully.
However, because opinion columnists still pale in comparison to the actions of real politicians, the Government of Suda, who like whipping women according to "Islamic Law", and continue to insist that women are second-class citizens who should be whipped for something like wearing trousers, are today's worst people in the world.
On technology, designing robots that walk like insects, despite not looking like them, floating water cleaners with a distinct saucer shape, occasions when lightning shoots up, not down, organisms that provide their own light in the dark, our oceans breaking temperature records in the "hot" category, trying to find a way of turning our feelings into data, and then into things that can be analyzed and manipulated, Hume women prefer men who already have mates to those who do not, and another reason why website security is important. That is, unless you have gone into the baby-eating business, and then you have other problems.
Last for tonight, things you don't say to women with well-endowed mammaries, most of which will earn you a sod off or worse should you make those mistakes. Might even turn you into a ghost. Or Robin Williams, with the associated career ups and downs.
As a postscript, if one ever wondered what to do with broken or unserviceable sexual toys, there may be a recycling program in your area for them. Just because it's an adult toy doesn't mean it can't be recycled.
The speedrun of awesome will now commence by... making fun of Twilight - body glitter for that Cullen sparkle. Then making fun of Star Wars, because the galaxy far, far, away has some serious design flaws. Furthermore, eyebrow-popping at a show that glorifies stun gun use along with women police officers, providing a sort of torture porn, as it were. Speaking of television, miniature clip-playing units with full-motion advertisements appeared in some print magazine in select areas. Putting commercials, and not just ads, in your ad-filled magazines. Who knows? Maybe it's the next big hit. Finally, the longest poem in the world, consisting of taking intelligent ape Twitter couplets and adding them on to the end of other rhyming Twitter couplets.
And then, in our chosen profession, some librarians you don't want to mess with, some dos and dont's regarding library books, and how some books end up being hidden - although in this case, it became part of a rare books collection. The article does talk about more general requests for reconsideration and/or censorships in schools and public libraries. Officially speaking, although not in such coarse language, I would hope most library policy is generally, "Sod off." to most requests based on personal offense to readers who then want their personal preferences reflected in the library collection. And I like it that way.
Out in the world, an example that some people can, indeed, have their "forgiveness" for marital straying bought - in this case, with diamonds. Sounds like it was an open marriage to me.
More seriously, have a look at the story behind Fiji bottled watter, including military juntas, environmental misdirection, and the financial shenanigans almost common to large American corporations, Iran's new defense minister is a wanted terrorist, and the United States feels that it does not have enough military manpower in Afghanistan, where fraud charges have been leveled in the latest presidential election.
Mexico decides small amounts of drugs aren't worth the police hassle.
Domestically, a school district in Minnesota has paid $25,000 to settle on complaints that two teachers were harassing a student based on their perception of his sexual orientation, sufficiently venomously and constantly that the student transferred to get away from the taunting from the teachers. That those teachers have not been sacked as part of the settlement makes the settlement seem insufficient.
Further disturbing is that those hit squads that failed miserably in our past? The ones the CIA director practically lit the tile on fire to disclose once he found out about them? Some of them were outsourced to Xe, nee Blackwater. Which put a private contractor company in charge of black ops for the government. The rabbit hole digs really, really, deep. Is there anyone up to the challenge of digging it all up?
For all our needs in making the complicated seem more simple, or for putting data into media where it is best grasped, there is Visual Economics. On economics, something possibly encouraging for the peons - the rich getting richer all the time might have hit a slowdown, or even made the rich poorer. Recession hits all, I guess. Now, all we need is for someone to start pumping out jobs - even if its a WPA-style "build stuff" program. After all, the defecit's going to be big. May as well make something out of it. Cash for Clunkers worked pretty well, although the WSJ wants to sow doubts that dealers will be reimbursed for their part in the program.
Mr. Ridge, former director of homeland security under the last administration, says in his latest book that he was pressured to raise the threat level to assist the President in political victories. Other staffers during the last administration dispute and deny the charge that the terror level was raised for political gain.
Talking health care even COBRA can be an expensive route to go if you should lose your job - there may be some ways of keeping yourself afloat with individual insurance instead. Those on Social Security will not receive a COLA, which means their health care costs just took a bigger slice of their income pie. And further along the insane route, almost two-thirds of Republicans say the government should get out of a government medicine program, and that's probably with cheering the anti-choice Michelle Bachmann's decidedly pro-choice comment while she was talking about that need for government to get out of health care. "The use of words expressing something other than their literal in-ten-tion. Now that...is...irony!"
Into the opinions we go, where
bradhicks tells us how he learned not to buy anything on televisions, as well as how his father taught him how not to nag, beg, or plead for anything (as it was the quickest way to ensure there would be none of it).The United States populace is significantly less about the One True Way than we were before, which can hopefully result in increased tolerance of other religions and those who practice them. Then again, with the way several factions of the Republican Party train themselves to avoid reality, greater tolerance may be a pipe dream. Plus, we're still mostly wired to see things only one way, and hate ambiguity.
Mr. Barnes praises the Republicans for being the combative party of NO, because in his opinion, it's working and stopping bad policy from happening, by moving independents and center-people over to the opposition to Mr. Obama. Well, something's working, that's for sure, and in the end, I suppose Mr. Barnes can be proud of the results, regardless of how dirty the tricks were to get to that spot. Further expanding this idea, still unfunny comedian David Limbaugh describes how much the people aren't buying the Obama smoke screen of fundamentally changing the country to redistribute wealth, discriminate against white men, turn his back on allies and coddle terrorists, and dismantle the great country brick by brick, all to make us into a socialist country, on which the public option and health care reform will be the first step.
Mr. Driessen believes the scrapping of the clunkers made more greenhouse emissions and energy than the marginal carbon and gas savings the program made, and that the idea to convert infrastructure to cleaner options will be a similar boondoggle.
Last before health, Mr. Kennedy repeats the statement that the rich drive the economy, and the more you try to get the rich to pull their weight, the more they shirk it and dump the consequences on the poor and middle class. He justifies this by saying, "Hey, we drive spending and taxes and jobs, so we shouldn't have to pay more in taxes - we'll just do less in spending and jobs, then, and make everyone else hurt".
On health, though, kids need more Vitamin D, says study, which means "get out more". Hooray, sun? More argumentatively, Mr. Cline lays out the case that teabaggers and those protesting aginst what they bizarrely see as fascism in health care reform are acting far more like the fascists than anything floated from the Democrats so far. On the other side of the equation, Mr. Tabor accuses the Democrats of using misinformation to advance the public option plan, because they always praise single-payer systems without mentioning their foibles. His main point, however, is that Obama will kill babies and grandmas because nothing in his bill stops the use of taxpayer dollars for abortion (lie) and that euthanasia will inevitably happen because denial of coverage or reimbursement to people is indirectly killing them (of which insurance companies must be practiced hands, then.) Misinformation after claiming your opponents use misinformation? FAIL. On the misinformation that all the town-hall protests are really just concerned citizens, Mr. Goodman says maybe some small portion of the protesters are astroturf, but the majority of the people really are grass-roots, are better informed than the Congresscritters, and are scared that their insurance will be changed to their detriment. Two fibs and a half-truth, depending on whether or not they're Death Eaters. Speaking thereof, while Mr. Krauthammer denies there are death panels, he says that reimbursing the doctor to give you a talk about end-of-life care is a societal pressure urging people to choose to die instead of live, as well as saying people will ignore your living will, anyway, in asking you what you want or in asking your family what they want, and family knows best for you, anyway, so they're all right to ignore the living will. He both denounces and supports the Death Eaters, and then says that it's right and proper for someone not you to ignore your living will, your expressly stated wishes, in deciding what's best for you if you can't tell them yourself. What is wrong with this picture?
In our worst persons derby, the bronze to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who says that his anti-hurricane magic spells are the reason why Florida has not suffered any hurricanes in recent years. The charm is effective because it hasn't happened! Clearly the charm must be working.
Speaking of magic spells, the silver to Kristen Atkinson, publisher of an article about how Michelle Obama's mother has apparently been practicing witchcraft, although it was at least first designated as Santeria, although it later got confused with voodoo, which is a separate belief system. Atkinson further digs the hole of her credibility's grave with confirmation that she's a birther, a Secret Muslim supporter, and believes the President hates America while also decrying the dangers of voodoo and "Satanic forces" gathering at the White House. Her concluing paragraph, though, ties it all together beautifully.
After 8 years of a president sent by God to lead the American people and rescue us from the horrors of 911 and Islamo-fascists, it now boils down to this? How incredibly tragic. You folks don’t really seem to understand the extreme peril that our nation confronts. Stop making fun of me. Take off your blinders! Wake up!Need we say a whole lot more? Well, okay, one more thing. Did we mention some birthers want to see the presidential staff because they think his circumcision or lack thereof will prove his country of origin? The General takes these two ideas together and melds them in poetic fashion.
However, because opinion columnists still pale in comparison to the actions of real politicians, the Government of Suda, who like whipping women according to "Islamic Law", and continue to insist that women are second-class citizens who should be whipped for something like wearing trousers, are today's worst people in the world.
On technology, designing robots that walk like insects, despite not looking like them, floating water cleaners with a distinct saucer shape, occasions when lightning shoots up, not down, organisms that provide their own light in the dark, our oceans breaking temperature records in the "hot" category, trying to find a way of turning our feelings into data, and then into things that can be analyzed and manipulated, Hume women prefer men who already have mates to those who do not, and another reason why website security is important. That is, unless you have gone into the baby-eating business, and then you have other problems.
Last for tonight, things you don't say to women with well-endowed mammaries, most of which will earn you a sod off or worse should you make those mistakes. Might even turn you into a ghost. Or Robin Williams, with the associated career ups and downs.
As a postscript, if one ever wondered what to do with broken or unserviceable sexual toys, there may be a recycling program in your area for them. Just because it's an adult toy doesn't mean it can't be recycled.
