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silveradept) wrote2010-05-14 11:33 pm
silveradept) wrote2010-05-14 11:33 pm
Late, as usual - 13 May 2010
Good morning, people who find the lives of others interesting. Another Letter of Note to begin, this time of the first African-American commissioned officer and his plea to Congress to be reinstated after he was scapegoated and dishonorably discharged.
The New York Times presents a graphic dispalying the many places someone has to go to truly make sure their Facebook is private. This should not be this convoluted.
In what is probably the strangest way of arriving at a Morality Play yet, Roger Ebert drew an apt comparison between wearing an American flag on a Hispanic heritage day and wearing a hammer and sickle on the American Independence Day, and it was met with outrage, jingoism, and at least one instance of increasingly vicious remarks about his cancer. As the person who posted the tweets about the cancer explains, it started as spiting Roger Ebert. then, as he went looking for evidence to prove his assumption, he kept running into things he liked and agreed with. Then he came to the revelation that Twitter is not our lives, and he has a lot in common with Roger Ebert as a human being. So he's sorry, even though he'll probably continue to be nasty in other realms. I don’t know if I could have made a more Anvilicious After-School Special than this, to tell the truth.
Out in the world today, the Untied Kingdom's Conservative-Liberal Democrat Cabinet convened for the first time. You may now begin your office pools on how long it will last.
When it comes to fighting the Concept War, the Pentagon thinks large scale counterinsurgency may not be the best usage of forces, and that operations to train local forces to fight local battles may be much better.
Domestically, more economic damage for Arizona, as musical group Cypress Hill cancel an Arizona show in protest of the Papers Please law. So what does Arizona do in response to the amount of polite and impolite requests to change their stance and the law sent their way? They double down on their bet by passing a law that bans any public school class that is "designed for a specific ethnic group or promotes ethnic solidarity", upon pain of a 10 percent funding cut. So you can kiss your African-American studies class goodbye, as well as classes about Latino influence or contributions to the state and country. Perversely, I suspect this law could be interpreted to force a removal of significant parts of history classes, considering a lot of history wants to be how white dudes came and conquered and civilized all the savages that were around them. Oh, and the slavery/Civil War Unit will have to go - it’s all about black people. It’s still a stupid law, but I want to see someone challenge under the new rules to require more ethnic diversity in history classes, instead of the less the lawmakers seem intent on going for.
When hiring lobbyists, always get the best. And there isn’t much better someone to represent your oil-drilling company than the former Congressman who founded the Blue Dog Democratic coalition. The locals, on the other hand, have to put together benefit concerts to help out the people affected by the oil spill.
The United States and Afghanistan presidents continue to say that rumors of a falling-out between them have been greatly exaggerated.
A bill in Georgia's state legislature to allow veterans to voluntarily designate they suffer from PTSD is under attack from some veterans groups, who see the deisgnation as an invitation to discriminate, if not by law enforcement, then by others like bartenders. Those advocating for the bill suggest that having the designation would allow police officers and others to know beforehand that they need to handle situations delicately.
The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department offers a poll suggesting the electorate has strong anti-incumbent feelings is spun into "the people don't like the Democrast" on the lead and then only acknowledging the nonpartisan irritation later. For an example of how things cut both ways, The Plum Line shows where liberal candidates might manage to unseat several entrenched Demcoratic politicians, like Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln.
And last out, Lane Bryant, maker of plus-sized lingerie, raised holy hell when ABC and Fox initially denied their advertisements as being too racy while allowing Victoria's Secret ads to go through. Both networks have sinced reversed the decision, but really, ad folks - there are more than enough people who want to see attractive plus-sized women in their underclothes. Women come in all shapes, sizes, and curves, and it’s not good to try and restrict those who are on the airwaves to one particular model of model.
Technology starts with using chemicals to trick storage fat into burning itself up, but only in mice and when those mice felt cold. Beyond that, we go down to the nanoscale to look at molecules that can be programmed to move along a certain path using DNA strips encoded with instructions on the path and a nanoscale assembly line using DNA strips to deliver payloads and drive structures along a path.
Then back to the macroscale where autombiles want to bring cloud computing, augmented reality, and the ability of your car to use Twitter to you soon.
Last out of technology, in the United States, 25 percent of households rely solely on cellular phones for access to the telephone network.
In the opinions, Teh Slacktivist kicks off another Flame War Thursday by quoting an assertion made that persons looking to find a logically ironclad argument for evangelical Christianity are wasting their time - they will never succeed, and the people they are trying to convince have long since moved past that point. Which makes all the more sad the urgency at which they try to find it, believing the fate of the world is in the balance and the necessity of converting the entire world to their point of view. Including, apparently, their fellow Christians. The response, a good one, and one that should not be caricatured, is empathy and pity for those who are crushed by their burden of learning and fighting spiritual warfare, the one they feel they cannot ever lay down.
Fox would like to know where the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group is, despite claims that it is working, although perhaps not at 100 percent. Or, we could just drop the premise that we need to hold people outside of the law and let the people who would normally be in charge of these things continue their normal operations. Just a thought. We might even suggest taking some of the suggestions from Mr. Fuelner's list of things America should do to continue staying safe, like consolidating the committees that have some oversight of DHS down to a very few (although we reject extending USAPATRIOT and note that he is one-sided about the reasons why Guantanamo Bay is not closed yet).
Speaking of the Concept War, Mr. Mukasey, Attorney General to the last administrator, advocates against using the criminal justice system that he was the ehad of in Concept War cases, endorsing the idea of calling hem unlawful enemy combatants, stripping them of most of their legal protections, and doing whatever is necessary to get intelligence out of them before sending them to a military tribunal.
On economics, Mr. Feldstein argues that in a time of record deficits and rotten economies, the correct thing to do is extend tax cuts, because increasing taxes would hurt the people who are currently orchestrating the recovery, and small business would be hurt as well. To his credit, he at least also says that defecits should be reduced.
And on the nomination of Elena Kagan, Mr. Fund is convinced that Ms. Kagan is definitely a liberal, and that President Obama learned from experience to pick a candidate that was hard to shoot at.
Mr. Carroll lays out many new problems with the health care bill, including increased spending and lack of participation, and concludes that he hopes repeal efforts succeed. We hope that Mr. Carroll will logically throw his support behind a single-payer bill, since it should make most of the problems he is mentioning cease as well as fixing the problems with the system that existed before the bill’s passage.
And last out for the day, Doris E. Travis, the very last of the group known as the "Ziegfeld Girls" has been reclaimed by the Dead Pool at 106 years of age.
The New York Times presents a graphic dispalying the many places someone has to go to truly make sure their Facebook is private. This should not be this convoluted.
In what is probably the strangest way of arriving at a Morality Play yet, Roger Ebert drew an apt comparison between wearing an American flag on a Hispanic heritage day and wearing a hammer and sickle on the American Independence Day, and it was met with outrage, jingoism, and at least one instance of increasingly vicious remarks about his cancer. As the person who posted the tweets about the cancer explains, it started as spiting Roger Ebert. then, as he went looking for evidence to prove his assumption, he kept running into things he liked and agreed with. Then he came to the revelation that Twitter is not our lives, and he has a lot in common with Roger Ebert as a human being. So he's sorry, even though he'll probably continue to be nasty in other realms. I don’t know if I could have made a more Anvilicious After-School Special than this, to tell the truth.
Out in the world today, the Untied Kingdom's Conservative-Liberal Democrat Cabinet convened for the first time. You may now begin your office pools on how long it will last.
When it comes to fighting the Concept War, the Pentagon thinks large scale counterinsurgency may not be the best usage of forces, and that operations to train local forces to fight local battles may be much better.
Domestically, more economic damage for Arizona, as musical group Cypress Hill cancel an Arizona show in protest of the Papers Please law. So what does Arizona do in response to the amount of polite and impolite requests to change their stance and the law sent their way? They double down on their bet by passing a law that bans any public school class that is "designed for a specific ethnic group or promotes ethnic solidarity", upon pain of a 10 percent funding cut. So you can kiss your African-American studies class goodbye, as well as classes about Latino influence or contributions to the state and country. Perversely, I suspect this law could be interpreted to force a removal of significant parts of history classes, considering a lot of history wants to be how white dudes came and conquered and civilized all the savages that were around them. Oh, and the slavery/Civil War Unit will have to go - it’s all about black people. It’s still a stupid law, but I want to see someone challenge under the new rules to require more ethnic diversity in history classes, instead of the less the lawmakers seem intent on going for.
When hiring lobbyists, always get the best. And there isn’t much better someone to represent your oil-drilling company than the former Congressman who founded the Blue Dog Democratic coalition. The locals, on the other hand, have to put together benefit concerts to help out the people affected by the oil spill.
The United States and Afghanistan presidents continue to say that rumors of a falling-out between them have been greatly exaggerated.
A bill in Georgia's state legislature to allow veterans to voluntarily designate they suffer from PTSD is under attack from some veterans groups, who see the deisgnation as an invitation to discriminate, if not by law enforcement, then by others like bartenders. Those advocating for the bill suggest that having the designation would allow police officers and others to know beforehand that they need to handle situations delicately.
The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department offers a poll suggesting the electorate has strong anti-incumbent feelings is spun into "the people don't like the Democrast" on the lead and then only acknowledging the nonpartisan irritation later. For an example of how things cut both ways, The Plum Line shows where liberal candidates might manage to unseat several entrenched Demcoratic politicians, like Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln.
And last out, Lane Bryant, maker of plus-sized lingerie, raised holy hell when ABC and Fox initially denied their advertisements as being too racy while allowing Victoria's Secret ads to go through. Both networks have sinced reversed the decision, but really, ad folks - there are more than enough people who want to see attractive plus-sized women in their underclothes. Women come in all shapes, sizes, and curves, and it’s not good to try and restrict those who are on the airwaves to one particular model of model.
Technology starts with using chemicals to trick storage fat into burning itself up, but only in mice and when those mice felt cold. Beyond that, we go down to the nanoscale to look at molecules that can be programmed to move along a certain path using DNA strips encoded with instructions on the path and a nanoscale assembly line using DNA strips to deliver payloads and drive structures along a path.
Then back to the macroscale where autombiles want to bring cloud computing, augmented reality, and the ability of your car to use Twitter to you soon.
Last out of technology, in the United States, 25 percent of households rely solely on cellular phones for access to the telephone network.
In the opinions, Teh Slacktivist kicks off another Flame War Thursday by quoting an assertion made that persons looking to find a logically ironclad argument for evangelical Christianity are wasting their time - they will never succeed, and the people they are trying to convince have long since moved past that point. Which makes all the more sad the urgency at which they try to find it, believing the fate of the world is in the balance and the necessity of converting the entire world to their point of view. Including, apparently, their fellow Christians. The response, a good one, and one that should not be caricatured, is empathy and pity for those who are crushed by their burden of learning and fighting spiritual warfare, the one they feel they cannot ever lay down.
Fox would like to know where the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group is, despite claims that it is working, although perhaps not at 100 percent. Or, we could just drop the premise that we need to hold people outside of the law and let the people who would normally be in charge of these things continue their normal operations. Just a thought. We might even suggest taking some of the suggestions from Mr. Fuelner's list of things America should do to continue staying safe, like consolidating the committees that have some oversight of DHS down to a very few (although we reject extending USAPATRIOT and note that he is one-sided about the reasons why Guantanamo Bay is not closed yet).
Speaking of the Concept War, Mr. Mukasey, Attorney General to the last administrator, advocates against using the criminal justice system that he was the ehad of in Concept War cases, endorsing the idea of calling hem unlawful enemy combatants, stripping them of most of their legal protections, and doing whatever is necessary to get intelligence out of them before sending them to a military tribunal.
On economics, Mr. Feldstein argues that in a time of record deficits and rotten economies, the correct thing to do is extend tax cuts, because increasing taxes would hurt the people who are currently orchestrating the recovery, and small business would be hurt as well. To his credit, he at least also says that defecits should be reduced.
And on the nomination of Elena Kagan, Mr. Fund is convinced that Ms. Kagan is definitely a liberal, and that President Obama learned from experience to pick a candidate that was hard to shoot at.
Mr. Carroll lays out many new problems with the health care bill, including increased spending and lack of participation, and concludes that he hopes repeal efforts succeed. We hope that Mr. Carroll will logically throw his support behind a single-payer bill, since it should make most of the problems he is mentioning cease as well as fixing the problems with the system that existed before the bill’s passage.
And last out for the day, Doris E. Travis, the very last of the group known as the "Ziegfeld Girls" has been reclaimed by the Dead Pool at 106 years of age.
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