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silveradept) wrote2009-09-15 11:58 pm
silveradept) wrote2009-09-15 11:58 pm
Middle of the month stuff - 15 September 2009
Out in the world today, the journalist who tossed his shoes at the previous administrator is home from jail and alleging torture while he was in prison.
Domestically, off the record in an interview, the President called Kanye West a "jackass" for his interruption of another person's acceptance speech at the MTV Music awards. While Mr. West has apologized for his interruption, we’re wondering if Joe Wilson’s virus is catching. Speaking of, most of what is considered for punishment is nothing more than a wrist slap.
Speaking of Presidential insults, the last administrator was apparently fond of ripping on other politicians while off the mike, according to a new book by one of his speechwriters.
And the President will grace Letterman with his presence on the 21st. This seems like a fairly smart strategy, because lots of people watch late night comedy - thus, more exposure.
Fed chair says recession is very likely over. Whether he’s believed is another matter entirely. I mean, Blockbuster is closing some 960 stores, and airlines are repotring $11 billion in potential losses. Clearly, the recession can’t be over, because people are still closing things down, right? Right?
Interlude - d00d kills appparently weaponless but aggressive intruder with sword.
Health care - new advertisement. Shocking fact - nine states permit having had a domestic violence incident to count as a "pre-existing condition" that can be used to deny someone health insurance or to refuse to pay their claims later on down the road. Cancer is also a reason for denial or loss of coverage. So the people that need things the most often find they can’t get them because it would be too expensive for the company’s profit margins. And that’s without the freaking fiasco that was one woman's death, shuttled from hospice to assisted-living and back based on whether or not she was too healthy or too sick for those locations. Last out of this section, Mr. Kucinich suggests that the fiasco will end disastrously for the populace - no public option, but an insurance mandate for the rest of the populace, basically ensuring that the insurance companies will be able to charge everyone what they want because the people will have to pay it or face fines.
Elsewhere, more on the people attempting to make education more affordable by bringing the bulk of it on-line, in both course materials, professor interaction, and most of the actual process of education.
the White House unveiled its new fuel economy standards, so we can eventually get back to how greening cars and other things kills business and makes it more expensive for consumers to do anything, because everyone knows businesses simply pass th costs of regulation onto consumers rather than let their precious profit margins fall.
Finally, the populace hates the media and thinks they should be called biased liars, possibly in addition to all the politicians, based on a Pew poll charting whether people thought the media was accurate (no) and whether it was biased (always against you). Also, as noted, liberals prefer MSNBC, CNN, and the NYT, while conservatives like Fox and the WSJ. Out of all of this, though, the people still want the media to stick around. After all, who else is going to tell us that modern politics look a lot like older politics, down to the angry white mobs carrying guns to rallies? And who will report on the vanishingly small amount of Republicans who are sane and worried their party is being defined by wingnuts and crackpots.
Interlude 2 - highly inappropriate children's toys, Phillips becomes a mainstream company marketing sex toys as sex toys, as opposed to something like Hitachi’s massage wand which may be used as such but is not marketed as such, and Newt Gingrich's Business Defense and Advisory Council naming a porn company as one of the Entrepreneurs of the year.
Technology! Science! Where we find how broken hears can kill you, along with identifying genes that switch stem cells into hunter-killer cells, taking detailed pictures of the electrons of an atom, a Google app that lets smartphone users flip through news articles as if they were the pages of a magazine, and other such cool things.
Yeah, it's another short post. Night, everyone!
Domestically, off the record in an interview, the President called Kanye West a "jackass" for his interruption of another person's acceptance speech at the MTV Music awards. While Mr. West has apologized for his interruption, we’re wondering if Joe Wilson’s virus is catching. Speaking of, most of what is considered for punishment is nothing more than a wrist slap.
Speaking of Presidential insults, the last administrator was apparently fond of ripping on other politicians while off the mike, according to a new book by one of his speechwriters.
And the President will grace Letterman with his presence on the 21st. This seems like a fairly smart strategy, because lots of people watch late night comedy - thus, more exposure.
Fed chair says recession is very likely over. Whether he’s believed is another matter entirely. I mean, Blockbuster is closing some 960 stores, and airlines are repotring $11 billion in potential losses. Clearly, the recession can’t be over, because people are still closing things down, right? Right?
Interlude - d00d kills appparently weaponless but aggressive intruder with sword.
Health care - new advertisement. Shocking fact - nine states permit having had a domestic violence incident to count as a "pre-existing condition" that can be used to deny someone health insurance or to refuse to pay their claims later on down the road. Cancer is also a reason for denial or loss of coverage. So the people that need things the most often find they can’t get them because it would be too expensive for the company’s profit margins. And that’s without the freaking fiasco that was one woman's death, shuttled from hospice to assisted-living and back based on whether or not she was too healthy or too sick for those locations. Last out of this section, Mr. Kucinich suggests that the fiasco will end disastrously for the populace - no public option, but an insurance mandate for the rest of the populace, basically ensuring that the insurance companies will be able to charge everyone what they want because the people will have to pay it or face fines.
Elsewhere, more on the people attempting to make education more affordable by bringing the bulk of it on-line, in both course materials, professor interaction, and most of the actual process of education.
the White House unveiled its new fuel economy standards, so we can eventually get back to how greening cars and other things kills business and makes it more expensive for consumers to do anything, because everyone knows businesses simply pass th costs of regulation onto consumers rather than let their precious profit margins fall.
Finally, the populace hates the media and thinks they should be called biased liars, possibly in addition to all the politicians, based on a Pew poll charting whether people thought the media was accurate (no) and whether it was biased (always against you). Also, as noted, liberals prefer MSNBC, CNN, and the NYT, while conservatives like Fox and the WSJ. Out of all of this, though, the people still want the media to stick around. After all, who else is going to tell us that modern politics look a lot like older politics, down to the angry white mobs carrying guns to rallies? And who will report on the vanishingly small amount of Republicans who are sane and worried their party is being defined by wingnuts and crackpots.
Interlude 2 - highly inappropriate children's toys, Phillips becomes a mainstream company marketing sex toys as sex toys, as opposed to something like Hitachi’s massage wand which may be used as such but is not marketed as such, and Newt Gingrich's Business Defense and Advisory Council naming a porn company as one of the Entrepreneurs of the year.
Technology! Science! Where we find how broken hears can kill you, along with identifying genes that switch stem cells into hunter-killer cells, taking detailed pictures of the electrons of an atom, a Google app that lets smartphone users flip through news articles as if they were the pages of a magazine, and other such cool things.
Yeah, it's another short post. Night, everyone!
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it all depends on you're point of view... if people weren't so hung up about the sexual aspects of breasts, the "baby glutton" doll would just be another doll that sucks on a bottle. the "kids nipple tassels" and the "pole dance doll" would be ways to teach kids that it's okay to want to be a burlesque performer when they grow up. if people weren't so divided about whether tattoos are body art or the sign of satan, the "magic tattoo gun" would be a way to offer kids a way to put their artistic talents to work when they grow up. the "stuffed STDs" could be a science lesson as well as something that the smaller kids can cuddle later. and "you can shave the baby" is a japanese product, and everybody knows that these japanese are crazy... they also have breast candy and nobody except the gaijins are even phased by it...
i've got to wonder about the "baby stilletos" though... that is well and truly sick...
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I'll bet the class was an interesting sight, because of the people attending. I'm sure you were properly discreet about staring too long at the other students work.
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