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Stuff - 19 April 2011
Good morning, and welcome to another edition. We being today with the person who blames the rise of technology as the reason the United States is shedding jobs, because the manufacture of technological devices has been outsourced to several countries. While it would be nice to have the entire supply chain located inside the United States, today's global realities make that nearly impossible, or the product produced would be too expensive for most U.S. consumers to buy (or so we're told).
Last out, Elisabeth Sladen, best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the long-running serial Doctor Who, has been offered a ride on the Dead Pool TARDIS, at 63 years of age.
Out in the world, The United States is receiving an object lesson in what not having unionization does to a company and a place - although it is Sweden's IKEA that is providing the lesson, rather than Wal-Mart. Elsewhere, the credit rating of the United States may be lowered, according to Standard and Poor's projections about the debt. This makes conservatives nod and claim the Obama speech was solely responsible for such a negative outlook.
The United Nations will take up the question as to whether Terra deserves to have certain rights designed to protect the planet from the worst excesses of the human industrial design.
Domestically, how depressing - the news cycle is not about news, but talking heads, celebrities, and smokescreens. Thus, actual news like how the current crop of Republicans has already voted multiple times to raise the debt ceiling when a Republican was President, even though they are now claiming they'll shut the government down over raising it now that a Democrat is in office, or the TSA's recent pat-down of a child was in contradiction to procedures they publically announced in November of last year.
Accusations are surfacing that Greg Mortensen, author of the story Three Cups of Tea, fabricated the events of the story and the effectiveness of the schools that he helped to build in the area.
Here's a place the Pentagon can ship all the money they save from waste - care for soldiers and their post-war conditions, so as to give someone care before they become suicidal, and to help all the veterans who are otherwise without care.
In addition to entities that are claiming copyright infingement with regard to movies and music, there are now entities that start with a lawsuit against any blogger or other organization that reproduces some material from properties they claim to own. Even though, so far, they have not actually been found to own the copyright and thus have standing to sue someone for such reproduction.
Texas joins several other states in trying to ban Islamic Law from ever being used in the United States, continuing to be afraid of a nonexistent threat, and justifiying that such things must be happening because there are large groups of Muslims in the country.
Staying in the same theme of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, have several of the lies deliberately seeded by Republicans to make people believe things about Planned Parenthood that aren't true at all, including a whopper told by Glenn Beck about who uses Planned Parenthood, Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum still believes states should be able to criminalize gay sex, and the lies that Utah Republicans told everyone else about the people who are on unemployment benefits, right before those Republicans cut those benefits.
Last for tonight, A Chicago school has required that students purchase school lunch or go hungry, prohibiting the bringing of meals from home over concerns about their nutritional values.
In technology, candy makers are adding more air to their confections to try and make their chocolate supplies last longer.
Also, Facebook's problems with rather stupid censorship policies that benfit assholes and trolls.
In opinions, the historical similarities between one intervention in Libya from a much previous President and the current President's intervention in Libya today.
Mr. Fund believes Mitt Romney wants to get as far away from his health care achievements as possible, because they'll paint him too liberal for the current base that elects Republicans.
Elsewhere, If you paid a dollar in taxes, you paid more than several corporations that posted gigantic profits for this year. And the funny thing is, if corporations were known to actually pay up what they owe, their stock prices go down for that act of honesty. No wonder corporations are amoral.
Dr. Sircus believes that the situation at Fukushima is far larger and more dangerous that our governments want us to believe, and the danger of radiation poisoning over time will be devastating.
Last for tonight, Tait Trussel sees stagflation on the horizon for the United States, and blames Barack Obama squarely for it.
Last out, Elisabeth Sladen, best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the long-running serial Doctor Who, has been offered a ride on the Dead Pool TARDIS, at 63 years of age.
Out in the world, The United States is receiving an object lesson in what not having unionization does to a company and a place - although it is Sweden's IKEA that is providing the lesson, rather than Wal-Mart. Elsewhere, the credit rating of the United States may be lowered, according to Standard and Poor's projections about the debt. This makes conservatives nod and claim the Obama speech was solely responsible for such a negative outlook.
The United Nations will take up the question as to whether Terra deserves to have certain rights designed to protect the planet from the worst excesses of the human industrial design.
Domestically, how depressing - the news cycle is not about news, but talking heads, celebrities, and smokescreens. Thus, actual news like how the current crop of Republicans has already voted multiple times to raise the debt ceiling when a Republican was President, even though they are now claiming they'll shut the government down over raising it now that a Democrat is in office, or the TSA's recent pat-down of a child was in contradiction to procedures they publically announced in November of last year.
Accusations are surfacing that Greg Mortensen, author of the story Three Cups of Tea, fabricated the events of the story and the effectiveness of the schools that he helped to build in the area.
Here's a place the Pentagon can ship all the money they save from waste - care for soldiers and their post-war conditions, so as to give someone care before they become suicidal, and to help all the veterans who are otherwise without care.
In addition to entities that are claiming copyright infingement with regard to movies and music, there are now entities that start with a lawsuit against any blogger or other organization that reproduces some material from properties they claim to own. Even though, so far, they have not actually been found to own the copyright and thus have standing to sue someone for such reproduction.
Texas joins several other states in trying to ban Islamic Law from ever being used in the United States, continuing to be afraid of a nonexistent threat, and justifiying that such things must be happening because there are large groups of Muslims in the country.
Staying in the same theme of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, have several of the lies deliberately seeded by Republicans to make people believe things about Planned Parenthood that aren't true at all, including a whopper told by Glenn Beck about who uses Planned Parenthood, Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum still believes states should be able to criminalize gay sex, and the lies that Utah Republicans told everyone else about the people who are on unemployment benefits, right before those Republicans cut those benefits.
Last for tonight, A Chicago school has required that students purchase school lunch or go hungry, prohibiting the bringing of meals from home over concerns about their nutritional values.
In technology, candy makers are adding more air to their confections to try and make their chocolate supplies last longer.
Also, Facebook's problems with rather stupid censorship policies that benfit assholes and trolls.
In opinions, the historical similarities between one intervention in Libya from a much previous President and the current President's intervention in Libya today.
Mr. Fund believes Mitt Romney wants to get as far away from his health care achievements as possible, because they'll paint him too liberal for the current base that elects Republicans.
Elsewhere, If you paid a dollar in taxes, you paid more than several corporations that posted gigantic profits for this year. And the funny thing is, if corporations were known to actually pay up what they owe, their stock prices go down for that act of honesty. No wonder corporations are amoral.
Dr. Sircus believes that the situation at Fukushima is far larger and more dangerous that our governments want us to believe, and the danger of radiation poisoning over time will be devastating.
Last for tonight, Tait Trussel sees stagflation on the horizon for the United States, and blames Barack Obama squarely for it.
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In fact, there is much more to fear from the burning of hydrocarbons/fossil fuels in vehicle explosions following the initial earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and the tsunami destroying buildings and equipment with heavy metals, and then spreading that stuff around.
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Part of it is that the scientists who unlocked the power of the atom, geniuses like Einstein, intimidate the rest of us into thinking we can't understand it. So, we don't try. I'm simply lucky that my Dad was a nuclear engineer and that I know enough to know what is media hype and what isn't.
I'm reading Gwyneth Cravens' Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. There are parts of the book where I feel somewhat skeptical, but then I remember things my Dad used to say and what he was able to teach me before he passed away, and then the book makes sense again and doesn't seem quite so far-fetched. I'm only about halfway through, but I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to know more about nuclear energy or, even better, how to save the planet.
Incidentally, if you read the book, pay attention to the part about the Generation 4 designs for reactors, which would have weathered (pun unintended, but still apropos) the earthquake and tsunami in Japan with aplomb.
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Isn't it always the disaster that happens because we're using old technology? Blowout preventers, old nuke plant designs, that sort of thing? If we could just upgrade regularly...
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That said, I'll take their hint and start eating more iodized things to thwart the radioactive iodine. Too bad I can't counteract the cesium.