Very late to this party - 14 October 2009
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silveradeptGreetings, denizens of the Future! Astound yourselves and be amazed that a sport magazine is willing to post NSFW pictures of an Ironman Triathlete - the first leg amputee to finish, specifically. And yes, that leg does look good on her.
Also, enjoy that if the Twitter account DrewFromTV makes it to one million followers by 1 January 2010, one million dollars will be donated to the Livestrong charity, as part of an auction for the twitter username drew that Drew Carrey is participating in. If it falls short of the goal, however, the donation will be $1 for every follower achieved at the DrewFromTV account at that time. As of my checking, he had not yet made it to 100,000 dollars.
Also, know well that your satirists have been working to ensure you get the best quality of work. Thus, The Onion provides us with the opinion of many anti-homosexual forces: If God had wanted me to accept homosexuals, he would have created me with the capacity to do so.
Out in the world, a curious application of censorship that creates a situation where newspapers are not permitted to report on who was asking, what question was asked, whom the question was addressed to, and where said question might be found. What they can say is that a question was asked and a Minister will answer it at some point. Needless to say, this makes the free speech advocates pretty pissed off.
United States General McChyrstal is still seking several tens of thousands of new troops for Afghanistan, despite his worries about a corrupted government, one that has admitted to the presence of fraud in their latest presidential elections.
H1N1 could be very costly to businesses, if they don't take appropriate cautions to keep their workpeople mostly infection-free.
Domestically, a double-dosage of health care weird for you all - first, a four month-old denied health care coverage for being obsese, defined as being in the 99th percentile of weight for children his age. Thus, it’s a pre-existing condition, and he can’t get health insurance.
Also, according to Mr. Klein, the firm that produced the raw data for the AHIP's declaration that rates will be increased if reform passes is distancing themselves from the conclusions reached. This on top of things like one White House advisor compared the report to telling us what the world would be like if it were flat, for all the truth that it told and good information it gave.
Beyond those, now that we have all the bills out of committee, let's do some side-by-side analysis of what they will do. Helpful analysis, anyway, instead of the "This is just like Massachusettes and will end the same way!" scaring the WSJ wants to give you.
In the realms of the military, the Pentagon is itching for a big bunker-buster bomb to be done sooner. Furthermore, the military can thank the bad economy for helping them meet recruitment goals for the entirety of last year, the first time this has been done since the military became all-volunteer in 1973.
Fire up your “Zero Tolerance does not work” file and put in this the fact that a first-grader was originally suspended for forty-five days for bringing his favorite camping utensil, which had a knife, to school. His sentence has been reduced - to three to five days. Which is still three to five days too long.
Last before opinions, after crudely altering her photograph as to give her inhuman proportions, and threatening a blog with legal action for posting the image manipulation disaster, the Ralph Laurn company fired the model for an inability to meet the obligations of her contract. Which currently might mean, “Is too big to fit the clothes” (the model’s point of view) or “we think is making our brand look bad, and thus must be dismissed”, or something else. In all cases, the company is still shooting the messenger and continuing to behave like it’s someone else’s fault this happened, even when they took responsibility for the image manipulation.
Starting opinions, the WSJ considers Apple and Nike's resignation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to be short-sighted, especially with their view that newer carbon taxes and tariffs will also be passed that will catcj up with any benefits the two companies would enjoy now because most of their manufacturing operations are overseas.
Further on economics, Ms. Shelton worries that the dollar will continue to fade out as a reserve currency because the projected spending and defecit increases will put out national debt as being more than our GDP very soon. I still wonder how much of our defecit could be cut if everyone, person and corporation alike, filed completely honest and accurate tax returns. Maybe we wouldn’t have defecits at all, even with the emergency spending plans. Being concerned about the increasing debt and the value of the currency is not a bad thing, but myopic focus saying that spending must be cut, must always be cut, whenever debt rears its head is missing half the point. Revenue increases should go along with debt and defecit reductions. Instead, we usually get a combination of “reduce spending and reduce revenue” - cut taxes and spending, and the private sector will be happy and the economy will grow. And then the private sector will do their best to hide their growth and/or pass any tax costs on to their consumer. Maybe what we need aren’t wage and price controls, but profit controls. For a little while, anyway, in service of paying the debt so that we can reduce taxes at the end. Surely patriotic corporations would be okay with that?
Mr. Holtz-Eakin pans the bill from the Finance Committee as nto actually achieving what it is supposed to while forcing the middle class to pay more, as corporations naturally do what they do best - shirk costs by passing them on to consumers. So premiums go up because of taxes and fees and costs, just like AHIP said they would do. Yet, Mr. Holtz-Eakin makes no mention at all of the four other bills currently in the Congress, which could easily dix all the problems he has with the one. Why is this bill the only one that supposedly exists again?
Mr. Jenkins sees the oncoming technology fight to be one of competition for wireless bandwidth, instead of net neutrality, which the result that has to happen, tiered pricing models based on bandwidth consumption, being the one that will be objected to the most.
Earning herself the Worst Person in the World tonight, Ms. Parker first is against the idea of a consumer financial protection agency, then defends payday loan services as a sector that should be allowed to continue without oversight or regulation, where something as simple as a 28 percent interest cap it too much regulation, based on the fact that almost half of the payday loan operations vanished when their usury was limited.
However, not to end on a bad note, (and to remind us that conservative newspapers may still print more liberal opinions if it suits them), Mr. Frank attacks Republicans holding up an effective labor bureaucrat because she's an effective labor bureaucrat and started programs to encourage employees to report labor law violations, while also damning the previous administrator’s full-speed regression on regulation and investigation into labor practice.
In technology, a new wireless specification that will permit peer-to-peer networks without an access point,
Last for tonight, the humorists are also doing excellent work bringing the Muppets into the 24-hour news cycle.
This, and a stellar graphic showing off all the various missions from Terra to the planets, moons, and further beyond of the Sol star system.
Also, enjoy that if the Twitter account DrewFromTV makes it to one million followers by 1 January 2010, one million dollars will be donated to the Livestrong charity, as part of an auction for the twitter username drew that Drew Carrey is participating in. If it falls short of the goal, however, the donation will be $1 for every follower achieved at the DrewFromTV account at that time. As of my checking, he had not yet made it to 100,000 dollars.
Also, know well that your satirists have been working to ensure you get the best quality of work. Thus, The Onion provides us with the opinion of many anti-homosexual forces: If God had wanted me to accept homosexuals, he would have created me with the capacity to do so.
Out in the world, a curious application of censorship that creates a situation where newspapers are not permitted to report on who was asking, what question was asked, whom the question was addressed to, and where said question might be found. What they can say is that a question was asked and a Minister will answer it at some point. Needless to say, this makes the free speech advocates pretty pissed off.
United States General McChyrstal is still seking several tens of thousands of new troops for Afghanistan, despite his worries about a corrupted government, one that has admitted to the presence of fraud in their latest presidential elections.
H1N1 could be very costly to businesses, if they don't take appropriate cautions to keep their workpeople mostly infection-free.
Domestically, a double-dosage of health care weird for you all - first, a four month-old denied health care coverage for being obsese, defined as being in the 99th percentile of weight for children his age. Thus, it’s a pre-existing condition, and he can’t get health insurance.
Also, according to Mr. Klein, the firm that produced the raw data for the AHIP's declaration that rates will be increased if reform passes is distancing themselves from the conclusions reached. This on top of things like one White House advisor compared the report to telling us what the world would be like if it were flat, for all the truth that it told and good information it gave.
Beyond those, now that we have all the bills out of committee, let's do some side-by-side analysis of what they will do. Helpful analysis, anyway, instead of the "This is just like Massachusettes and will end the same way!" scaring the WSJ wants to give you.
In the realms of the military, the Pentagon is itching for a big bunker-buster bomb to be done sooner. Furthermore, the military can thank the bad economy for helping them meet recruitment goals for the entirety of last year, the first time this has been done since the military became all-volunteer in 1973.
Fire up your “Zero Tolerance does not work” file and put in this the fact that a first-grader was originally suspended for forty-five days for bringing his favorite camping utensil, which had a knife, to school. His sentence has been reduced - to three to five days. Which is still three to five days too long.
Last before opinions, after crudely altering her photograph as to give her inhuman proportions, and threatening a blog with legal action for posting the image manipulation disaster, the Ralph Laurn company fired the model for an inability to meet the obligations of her contract. Which currently might mean, “Is too big to fit the clothes” (the model’s point of view) or “we think is making our brand look bad, and thus must be dismissed”, or something else. In all cases, the company is still shooting the messenger and continuing to behave like it’s someone else’s fault this happened, even when they took responsibility for the image manipulation.
Starting opinions, the WSJ considers Apple and Nike's resignation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to be short-sighted, especially with their view that newer carbon taxes and tariffs will also be passed that will catcj up with any benefits the two companies would enjoy now because most of their manufacturing operations are overseas.
Further on economics, Ms. Shelton worries that the dollar will continue to fade out as a reserve currency because the projected spending and defecit increases will put out national debt as being more than our GDP very soon. I still wonder how much of our defecit could be cut if everyone, person and corporation alike, filed completely honest and accurate tax returns. Maybe we wouldn’t have defecits at all, even with the emergency spending plans. Being concerned about the increasing debt and the value of the currency is not a bad thing, but myopic focus saying that spending must be cut, must always be cut, whenever debt rears its head is missing half the point. Revenue increases should go along with debt and defecit reductions. Instead, we usually get a combination of “reduce spending and reduce revenue” - cut taxes and spending, and the private sector will be happy and the economy will grow. And then the private sector will do their best to hide their growth and/or pass any tax costs on to their consumer. Maybe what we need aren’t wage and price controls, but profit controls. For a little while, anyway, in service of paying the debt so that we can reduce taxes at the end. Surely patriotic corporations would be okay with that?
Mr. Holtz-Eakin pans the bill from the Finance Committee as nto actually achieving what it is supposed to while forcing the middle class to pay more, as corporations naturally do what they do best - shirk costs by passing them on to consumers. So premiums go up because of taxes and fees and costs, just like AHIP said they would do. Yet, Mr. Holtz-Eakin makes no mention at all of the four other bills currently in the Congress, which could easily dix all the problems he has with the one. Why is this bill the only one that supposedly exists again?
Mr. Jenkins sees the oncoming technology fight to be one of competition for wireless bandwidth, instead of net neutrality, which the result that has to happen, tiered pricing models based on bandwidth consumption, being the one that will be objected to the most.
Earning herself the Worst Person in the World tonight, Ms. Parker first is against the idea of a consumer financial protection agency, then defends payday loan services as a sector that should be allowed to continue without oversight or regulation, where something as simple as a 28 percent interest cap it too much regulation, based on the fact that almost half of the payday loan operations vanished when their usury was limited.
However, not to end on a bad note, (and to remind us that conservative newspapers may still print more liberal opinions if it suits them), Mr. Frank attacks Republicans holding up an effective labor bureaucrat because she's an effective labor bureaucrat and started programs to encourage employees to report labor law violations, while also damning the previous administrator’s full-speed regression on regulation and investigation into labor practice.
In technology, a new wireless specification that will permit peer-to-peer networks without an access point,
Last for tonight, the humorists are also doing excellent work bringing the Muppets into the 24-hour news cycle.
This, and a stellar graphic showing off all the various missions from Terra to the planets, moons, and further beyond of the Sol star system.
