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silveradeptQuick debunking of meme re: consent age of Vatican City residents.
Time to get a move-on. The Dead Pool got J.D. Salinger at 91 years.
A very important point for authors, readers, and others - women as eingineers is not enough, especially when those engineers are then passive about fixing the problems they encounter, and decide to wait for men who can make it all work.
Domestically, the thing on most politically-active people's minds is the State of the Union address delivered by the President last night, indicating his priorities and requesting that Democrats help him and Republicans come to the table in good faith. Mr. Obama asked for a repeal of DADT, and stuck to his proposals, while also sounding like the centrist he is, adding on calls for tax cuts and spending freezes - which irritates the liberals. The response and conservatism seems to be just as interested in being the party of NO as they were before. When criticizing the Supreme Court's recent decision on corporate political donations, one of the Justices, Mr. Alito, apparently took umbrage, shaking his head and saying something, possibly "not true". The fact checking begins in earnest, with selected facts chosen depending on which side of the aisle you are at. All in all, the full text of the speech is available for those who wish to read it, and there is no doubt video of the entire thing for those who want to hear the weight of the oration.
a nuclear plant in Vermont is raising eyebrows with its rising radiation levels, to the point where the plant may not be renewed its operating license for fear of being too poisonous.
the chief of the National Enquirer during its coverage of John Edwards's affair makes a grand reveal of how they got Mr. Edwards to admit to it all - by holding proof of his affair over his head and threatening to release it if he kept denying it.
And last out, Mr. Boehner has put his foot down and declared there will be no terrorist trials in New York.
In technologies, Twitter looks to improve its technology so as to evade censorship attempts, the Mars Rover Spirit will now function as a lander, after NASA decides that it's not currently worth the effort for Spirit to try and extract itself from the current sand trap, and a successful trial at reprogramming skin cells into neurons, which could make for promising treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
In opinions, the speech takes center stage, ranging from the well-thought out, such as Mr. Wallison's commentary on why the President's bank proposals won't work, to the immature, with Mr. Breitbart's clip show of the use of the personal pronoun in one of Mr. Obama's speeches.
Not to say that the speech was the only source of immaturity. Mr. Giles presents an excellent case of immaturity in dismissing the MRFF's compaint about references to Christian writings and fellating Trijicon&apo;s various products. Mr. Greenhut says all of California's budget woes can be pinned on the fact that many of their public employees are unionized and their pension benefits are bankrupting the state. And, finally Mr. Adams simultaneously whines that he's being persecuted by atheists for being a Christian and builds a giant straw-man about liberals and atheists to attack. There is one good thing about that column - he's not hiding his lack of brains and surfeit of prejudices.
More maturely (by how much is an exercise to the reader), The WSJ complains of continued poor treatment of the interim government of Honduras by the United States, whom they accuse of having a policy that wants to appease the people that hate America and spite the people that like us. They also praise a Coburn amendment aimed at cutting duplicate programs and not spending money that is currently allocated, figuring that it would make a good test to see whether Democrats and Republicans are really serious about cutting defecits or are just looking for cover so they can increase taxes. Mr. Barone attempts to provide a historical context for the recent election of Mr. Brown, considering it a repudiation of the President by all but the elite "educated class", painted as a bunch of moneyed snobs who look down on the people. You know, "elitists" that Real 'Mericans hate.
Last out, one should always be mindful of what one is posting on social network sites. Or, for that matter, sending in text messages.
Time to get a move-on. The Dead Pool got J.D. Salinger at 91 years.
A very important point for authors, readers, and others - women as eingineers is not enough, especially when those engineers are then passive about fixing the problems they encounter, and decide to wait for men who can make it all work.
Domestically, the thing on most politically-active people's minds is the State of the Union address delivered by the President last night, indicating his priorities and requesting that Democrats help him and Republicans come to the table in good faith. Mr. Obama asked for a repeal of DADT, and stuck to his proposals, while also sounding like the centrist he is, adding on calls for tax cuts and spending freezes - which irritates the liberals. The response and conservatism seems to be just as interested in being the party of NO as they were before. When criticizing the Supreme Court's recent decision on corporate political donations, one of the Justices, Mr. Alito, apparently took umbrage, shaking his head and saying something, possibly "not true". The fact checking begins in earnest, with selected facts chosen depending on which side of the aisle you are at. All in all, the full text of the speech is available for those who wish to read it, and there is no doubt video of the entire thing for those who want to hear the weight of the oration.
a nuclear plant in Vermont is raising eyebrows with its rising radiation levels, to the point where the plant may not be renewed its operating license for fear of being too poisonous.
the chief of the National Enquirer during its coverage of John Edwards's affair makes a grand reveal of how they got Mr. Edwards to admit to it all - by holding proof of his affair over his head and threatening to release it if he kept denying it.
And last out, Mr. Boehner has put his foot down and declared there will be no terrorist trials in New York.
In technologies, Twitter looks to improve its technology so as to evade censorship attempts, the Mars Rover Spirit will now function as a lander, after NASA decides that it's not currently worth the effort for Spirit to try and extract itself from the current sand trap, and a successful trial at reprogramming skin cells into neurons, which could make for promising treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
In opinions, the speech takes center stage, ranging from the well-thought out, such as Mr. Wallison's commentary on why the President's bank proposals won't work, to the immature, with Mr. Breitbart's clip show of the use of the personal pronoun in one of Mr. Obama's speeches.
Not to say that the speech was the only source of immaturity. Mr. Giles presents an excellent case of immaturity in dismissing the MRFF's compaint about references to Christian writings and fellating Trijicon&apo;s various products. Mr. Greenhut says all of California's budget woes can be pinned on the fact that many of their public employees are unionized and their pension benefits are bankrupting the state. And, finally Mr. Adams simultaneously whines that he's being persecuted by atheists for being a Christian and builds a giant straw-man about liberals and atheists to attack. There is one good thing about that column - he's not hiding his lack of brains and surfeit of prejudices.
More maturely (by how much is an exercise to the reader), The WSJ complains of continued poor treatment of the interim government of Honduras by the United States, whom they accuse of having a policy that wants to appease the people that hate America and spite the people that like us. They also praise a Coburn amendment aimed at cutting duplicate programs and not spending money that is currently allocated, figuring that it would make a good test to see whether Democrats and Republicans are really serious about cutting defecits or are just looking for cover so they can increase taxes. Mr. Barone attempts to provide a historical context for the recent election of Mr. Brown, considering it a repudiation of the President by all but the elite "educated class", painted as a bunch of moneyed snobs who look down on the people. You know, "elitists" that Real 'Mericans hate.
Last out, one should always be mindful of what one is posting on social network sites. Or, for that matter, sending in text messages.
