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Out in the world today, an example of "Once burned, twice shy." - NATO commanders in Afghanistan are not as quick to say they will be able to capture a Taliban stronghold as they were before.
And then, the almost inevitable conventional wisdeom that says the United States will keep troops in past their deadline next year, because the conditions on the ground will demand it, instead of keeping to the other part of the timetable that requires all the U.S. troops to be gone. Which is contrasted with the "Out NOW!" President that seems to be the conventional wisdom among conservatives without anyone saying "One of these positions has to give." The President will simultaneously want everyone out as fast as he can and make the decision to keep troops in for longer to help accomplish great things in Iraq. You cannot have it both ways.
Finally, the macho posturing and pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran may actually be strengthening a coalition against them and making more of their neighbors friendly to United States interests in stopping the expansion.
Here in the United States, we remind you that the movie industry could probably make several excellent films solely through reporting the events of real events. The latest candidate? An elaborate fraud scheme involving inventing a dead someone, having their actor-filled funeral, and then claiming a far more extravagant ceremony from insurance.
Because they want you to believe that this matter is about something other than the rights of a private group to build on private land a structure for the exercise of a private right to worship freely, there's news that one of the supporters of the Park 51 project also supports charities linked to Hamas. The person says he had no idea about the Hamas links at the time. Still, this is unimportant, unless you believe that Park 51 is some sort of triumphalist gesture by an organized Islam looking to thumb its nose at the United States and memoralize the one successful attack with a mosque.
A poll conducted of 900 persons for Fox News says 58 percent of people say that America did the right thing in going to Iraq. I hope those 58 percent are also more than ready to help out with how the soldiers are when they come back from the warzone, including helping them when the habits that saved their lives over there interfere with their lives over here.
Economically speaking, the private sector gained 67,000, the economy as a whole lost 54,000, and unemployment stays high. Well, someone's got to break the lock on things, whether it's through government employment or private sector employment. Really, only one of those things could be controlled. So let's get to making some infrastructure jobs.
On the matter of the housing crisis, Florida came up with a novel solution of using retired judges to clear out the case backlog on foreclosures. What that may be doing, however, is creating a climate where foreclosure is the default option and the burden of proof normally on the banks isn't being enforced, or is being supported with fraudulent documents created to take advantage of the speedy courts. Yet again, the bank doesn't actually care about you, specifically, just whether they can continue to make money on you.
Still showing off the slowness of the news, the provenance of a quote in the new Oval Office goes back farther than the person who uttered it, which means the quote as written is correctly attributed, but the speaker of that quote admits that he took it from another skilled rhetoritican and abolitionist before him.
In technology and sciences, increasing amounts of evidence that ancient beer was good for what ailed you - because it had antibiotics mixed right in.
The opinions open with Ms. Finley highlighting a school that cost a lot to build and isn't doing all that well, while these shiny charter schools built lots for cheap and are doing fine. While talking about building bonds and costs is important, and can be used as a finger to point for mismanagement at...someone, whether school officials or the voters that voted them the money, there is a curious lack of talk about the operating budgets for the schools. I don't actually know whether those charters can maintain healthy class sizes and have plenty of money to spend or not. there's a little bit of a guess abotu how overtaxed the public school system is, when a side mention of an overcrowded high school appears, but that's all there is about the operations of the school. Given the money and people to do it, I'd bet the expensive school would do really well, but Americans tend to be fond of overspending on unimportant things or things that they are told need to be done because otherwise terrorists win and underspending on those things that they know are terrible but have been told that increases will only line the pockets of political operatives.
Moving on, in response to the current administration's chair of economic advisers stepping-down speech, a chair under the previous administrator says everything that the government is doing is wrong and that we should go immediately back to 2003 with tax cuts, instead of investing business capital in infrastructure. The rolls of the unemployed grow because they're being fired and laid off. Yet corporate profits are pretty healthy. Almost makes you think that corporations don't really want to employ people if they don't have to. The solution proposed, though, of course, is to roll back everything that's been done so far and to make significant cuts to enttitlement spending. *yawn* Wake me when someone suggests something novel or something that might actually work. Even the peopel claiming 400 banks will fail because of these policies are starting to get a little boring.
Mr. Heninger says everyone, not just the 58 percent, should be glad that we went to Iraq, because otherwise, we'd have a nuclear Saddam, and everyone else would be upping the nuclear tension as well.
Last out, Mr. Elder says he wants to know who the real racists are, then spends an entire column saying, "People who accuse other people of being racists on any ground that I don't think is good enough are really racist themselves". And then goes straight to "Liberals accusing conservatives of being racist are the only people I will apply this rule to". Self-fulfilling prophecy.
On a similar vein, Mr. Prager accuses liberals of falling into bed with leftists since Vietnam and losing their ability to make accurate moral judgments, based on their apparent unwillingness to declare things like the Soviet Union or Islam evil. And for such heinous reasons as noting that there are a lot of people who kill in the name of Christ, past or present, as well as people who kill in the name of Islam, so they'll declare killing evil, but not Islam. Mr. Prager, thoguh, pooh-poohs the idea that people are killing in the name of Christ, because they don't shout "Christ is Lord!" before opening fire in the abortion clinics, that there are far less people killing in the name of Christ than there are in the name of Islam, (Ask some of the members of the military about that, Mr. Prager, and tell me that there aren't plenty of people killing in Christ's name), and that using the Crusades as a reference point is invalid because it happened so long ago. So, really, because liberals don't share the same ideas of what is good and evil, Mr. Prager thinks they can't make effective moral judgments. How many fallacies can you count?
Last for tonight, perhaps the most concise review of Twilight I have seen yet.
Out in the world today, an example of "Once burned, twice shy." - NATO commanders in Afghanistan are not as quick to say they will be able to capture a Taliban stronghold as they were before.
And then, the almost inevitable conventional wisdeom that says the United States will keep troops in past their deadline next year, because the conditions on the ground will demand it, instead of keeping to the other part of the timetable that requires all the U.S. troops to be gone. Which is contrasted with the "Out NOW!" President that seems to be the conventional wisdom among conservatives without anyone saying "One of these positions has to give." The President will simultaneously want everyone out as fast as he can and make the decision to keep troops in for longer to help accomplish great things in Iraq. You cannot have it both ways.
Finally, the macho posturing and pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran may actually be strengthening a coalition against them and making more of their neighbors friendly to United States interests in stopping the expansion.
Here in the United States, we remind you that the movie industry could probably make several excellent films solely through reporting the events of real events. The latest candidate? An elaborate fraud scheme involving inventing a dead someone, having their actor-filled funeral, and then claiming a far more extravagant ceremony from insurance.
Because they want you to believe that this matter is about something other than the rights of a private group to build on private land a structure for the exercise of a private right to worship freely, there's news that one of the supporters of the Park 51 project also supports charities linked to Hamas. The person says he had no idea about the Hamas links at the time. Still, this is unimportant, unless you believe that Park 51 is some sort of triumphalist gesture by an organized Islam looking to thumb its nose at the United States and memoralize the one successful attack with a mosque.
A poll conducted of 900 persons for Fox News says 58 percent of people say that America did the right thing in going to Iraq. I hope those 58 percent are also more than ready to help out with how the soldiers are when they come back from the warzone, including helping them when the habits that saved their lives over there interfere with their lives over here.
Economically speaking, the private sector gained 67,000, the economy as a whole lost 54,000, and unemployment stays high. Well, someone's got to break the lock on things, whether it's through government employment or private sector employment. Really, only one of those things could be controlled. So let's get to making some infrastructure jobs.
On the matter of the housing crisis, Florida came up with a novel solution of using retired judges to clear out the case backlog on foreclosures. What that may be doing, however, is creating a climate where foreclosure is the default option and the burden of proof normally on the banks isn't being enforced, or is being supported with fraudulent documents created to take advantage of the speedy courts. Yet again, the bank doesn't actually care about you, specifically, just whether they can continue to make money on you.
Still showing off the slowness of the news, the provenance of a quote in the new Oval Office goes back farther than the person who uttered it, which means the quote as written is correctly attributed, but the speaker of that quote admits that he took it from another skilled rhetoritican and abolitionist before him.
In technology and sciences, increasing amounts of evidence that ancient beer was good for what ailed you - because it had antibiotics mixed right in.
The opinions open with Ms. Finley highlighting a school that cost a lot to build and isn't doing all that well, while these shiny charter schools built lots for cheap and are doing fine. While talking about building bonds and costs is important, and can be used as a finger to point for mismanagement at...someone, whether school officials or the voters that voted them the money, there is a curious lack of talk about the operating budgets for the schools. I don't actually know whether those charters can maintain healthy class sizes and have plenty of money to spend or not. there's a little bit of a guess abotu how overtaxed the public school system is, when a side mention of an overcrowded high school appears, but that's all there is about the operations of the school. Given the money and people to do it, I'd bet the expensive school would do really well, but Americans tend to be fond of overspending on unimportant things or things that they are told need to be done because otherwise terrorists win and underspending on those things that they know are terrible but have been told that increases will only line the pockets of political operatives.
Moving on, in response to the current administration's chair of economic advisers stepping-down speech, a chair under the previous administrator says everything that the government is doing is wrong and that we should go immediately back to 2003 with tax cuts, instead of investing business capital in infrastructure. The rolls of the unemployed grow because they're being fired and laid off. Yet corporate profits are pretty healthy. Almost makes you think that corporations don't really want to employ people if they don't have to. The solution proposed, though, of course, is to roll back everything that's been done so far and to make significant cuts to enttitlement spending. *yawn* Wake me when someone suggests something novel or something that might actually work. Even the peopel claiming 400 banks will fail because of these policies are starting to get a little boring.
Mr. Heninger says everyone, not just the 58 percent, should be glad that we went to Iraq, because otherwise, we'd have a nuclear Saddam, and everyone else would be upping the nuclear tension as well.
Last out, Mr. Elder says he wants to know who the real racists are, then spends an entire column saying, "People who accuse other people of being racists on any ground that I don't think is good enough are really racist themselves". And then goes straight to "Liberals accusing conservatives of being racist are the only people I will apply this rule to". Self-fulfilling prophecy.
On a similar vein, Mr. Prager accuses liberals of falling into bed with leftists since Vietnam and losing their ability to make accurate moral judgments, based on their apparent unwillingness to declare things like the Soviet Union or Islam evil. And for such heinous reasons as noting that there are a lot of people who kill in the name of Christ, past or present, as well as people who kill in the name of Islam, so they'll declare killing evil, but not Islam. Mr. Prager, thoguh, pooh-poohs the idea that people are killing in the name of Christ, because they don't shout "Christ is Lord!" before opening fire in the abortion clinics, that there are far less people killing in the name of Christ than there are in the name of Islam, (Ask some of the members of the military about that, Mr. Prager, and tell me that there aren't plenty of people killing in Christ's name), and that using the Crusades as a reference point is invalid because it happened so long ago. So, really, because liberals don't share the same ideas of what is good and evil, Mr. Prager thinks they can't make effective moral judgments. How many fallacies can you count?
Last for tonight, perhaps the most concise review of Twilight I have seen yet.
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Date: 2010-09-07 11:41 am (UTC)*sigh* I'm not awake enough at this point in the morning to go on and on about this. =_=