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[gwydion]

* A Tea Party Republican Senator is calling for a repeal of child labour laws because he feels it should be a state's rights issue. The Republican Party: once again trying to drag us back into the 19th century.

* In case you missed it, Micheal Steele is no longer head of the Republican Party. The new Chairman is Reince Priebus. I know, i know, I'm going to be looking up the spelling over and over for months.

* Thanks to Hartwell Who, today I learned the cats to not like wolf howls on TV.

* I am rather worried about the new fish. They seem a touch lethargic. The orange guppy (in a different tank) isn't looking himself either. Gah!

* Snow Jabba: http://gothamist.com/2010/12/30/snow_wars_jabba_spotted_just_2500_m.php

* Ah, BPAL board. I am charmed by multiple Astronomers riffing on scientific conference and Astronomer culture.

* "Octopus unearths 900-year-old hidden treasure:" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470566/Octopus-unearths-900-year-old-hidden-treasure.html

* "NASA'S Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space:" http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-008_Fermi_Thunderstorms.html

* "NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet:" http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-007_Kepler_Rocky_Planet.html

* I've been listening to my old Babes with Axes Live CD. "The Great Unknown" is still so beautiful that the first time I hear it after a while of not listening to it, it slices a hole in my heart in the place where home used to be.

* il_volpe found, A bit of satire, "Pat Robertson: Snow Is God's Way of Punishing Americans Planning To Drive To Do Something Gay:" http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20110101/cm_uc_crabox/op_4716464

Comments

[mephron]

The Senator from Utah's point - having actually seen the footage - was that child labor laws were shot down in 1918 by the Supreme Courts as a states' rights issue, and that was why health care reform as it stands should be repealed, as it should be a state issue instead of a federal issue.

...he neglected to mention that a 1947 Supreme Court decision reversed the 1918 decision, thus invalidating his argument top to bottom.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't the 1947 decision superceed the 1918 one the way Brown v Board superceeded Plesey v Furguson? It sounds to me like he wants to rollback jurisprudance by a century.

[mephron]

It would!

He just didn't mention the 1918 one had been superseded because it didn't fit his states' rights argument. This has been, for me, an interesting point of a lot of the Tea Party debate: they don't just not mention things, they actively ignore anything that might, in fact, indicate there's any conflicting information. Talk about thing a, but if thing b later in time makes thing a irrelevant, then thing b did not happen because it makes using thing A as their argument inconvenient.

I'm sort of waiting to see if they do in fact try to use Plessy v. Ferguson without mentioning its situations with regards to Brown v. Board, because it's inconvenient to deal with the argument.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Uhm- WELL DONE, KEPLER. Hot damn.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Wait that name isn't a typo?

See, this is why the republicans want to repeal child labour law (other than being evil arseholes) they see years of trying to spell that name and are RAGING

[pjack.livejournal.com]

"Reince Priebus" is a perfect Star Wars character name. :)

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

It is. It really is.

[deusabscondidum.livejournal.com]

Do good days ever come from people not doing gay things? Like, is a happy sunny day one where everyone decides, "I'm not going to do anything queer!" Because if bad weather happens when someone does a queer thing, good weather must happen if everyone does a non-queer thing. Or maybe it is the same either way, and good weather is the result of some people not doing anything queer.

My head hurts.