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gwydion* I was worried they might be downplaying Nelson Mandela's illness to prevent panic, but they sent him home by morning US time, so it sounds like he really will be okay. It's a huge relief.
* The President is telling the truth when he says any candidate who claims that if they are elected the price of gas will drop to a speciic low price. Yes, policy can have some effect on the price, more in the long term than the short, but realistically, prices are a function of a huge number of international factors as well as domestic things it's hard to control, like the tendency of Americans to use air-conditioners and take car trips in summer, and turning up the heat during a blizzard. The things a President and Congress can do, like set tighter fuel economy on new cars, alternative energy policy, etc., can help in the long term, but it's not going to counter short term issues, like Iran threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz and the response of the Futures market to the International tension, or the Financial Crisis in Italy and Greece and how it effects fuel sourcing and consumption in Europe. Of course Newt is lying about how he can magically drop gas prices, just as Bachmann was lying, and nearly every politician I can member talking about fuel prices all the way back to when I was a toddler and first aware of the energy crisis. I'm betting it goes back further than that, it's just my personal lived political memory does really reach further than the gas lines in 1973. This magic lowering of gas price lie is such a political given, it might as well be wall paper. The President is not a God who can point a finger and make it so, but I expect to be hearing this lie as long as I'm alive anyway. It's Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, so hard to get worked up over one way or another.
* Melissa Harris-Perry talks about how Child Left Behind hurts children: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46523712/#46531034
* "Women's Rights and their Bodies." Word: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46523712/#46531474
The discussion that follows it about how the housing crisis effects the children made homeless because
* "'Little Horny Man': Rock Carving of Giant Phallus Discovered:" http://www.livescience.com/18602-horny-man-rock-carving-giant-phallus.html
* Uncovering a drowned city in China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-02/23/c_131426806.htm
* "Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Mickey-goodman/are-we-raising-a-generati_b_1249706.html
* "Precious past: why the ancient assets of Greece and Egypt must be saved:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/feb/20/ancient-assets-greece-egypt-eurozone
* I've been experimenting with post organization again. Please bear with me.
* By bed time last night, I was still generally crappy, but only sporadically dizzy, and my head's clearer. I'm more functional today, though still a bit ick.
* Akata Witch is every bit as fascinating and fast a read as Slatebreakers promised.
* Walking Dead: that was so much deliberate stupid at once, that I pretty much want most of the main characters dead. Can we start with Shane, Rick, and Lorrie? Please? Pretty please? Also, the all white people episode particularly pisses me off. I keep feeling like white supremacists and gender role essentialists have hijacked the agenda. It's getting harder and harder to hang on to see if they manage to do right by Michonne. Still no Michonne. Still no Michonne. Shane's still not dead. Shane's still not dead. Thumb twiddle.
* I need I mention that death threats to an author because Amazon started shipping early when they weren't supposed to is not okay. Neither are threats of sexual assault and generalized misogyny: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/425907.html?style=mine#cutid1
* Cake toppers: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/2/26/sunday-sweets-youre-the-top.html
* O.o: http://biomekanic.livejournal.com/502659.html
* The President is telling the truth when he says any candidate who claims that if they are elected the price of gas will drop to a speciic low price. Yes, policy can have some effect on the price, more in the long term than the short, but realistically, prices are a function of a huge number of international factors as well as domestic things it's hard to control, like the tendency of Americans to use air-conditioners and take car trips in summer, and turning up the heat during a blizzard. The things a President and Congress can do, like set tighter fuel economy on new cars, alternative energy policy, etc., can help in the long term, but it's not going to counter short term issues, like Iran threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz and the response of the Futures market to the International tension, or the Financial Crisis in Italy and Greece and how it effects fuel sourcing and consumption in Europe. Of course Newt is lying about how he can magically drop gas prices, just as Bachmann was lying, and nearly every politician I can member talking about fuel prices all the way back to when I was a toddler and first aware of the energy crisis. I'm betting it goes back further than that, it's just my personal lived political memory does really reach further than the gas lines in 1973. This magic lowering of gas price lie is such a political given, it might as well be wall paper. The President is not a God who can point a finger and make it so, but I expect to be hearing this lie as long as I'm alive anyway. It's Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, so hard to get worked up over one way or another.
* Melissa Harris-Perry talks about how Child Left Behind hurts children: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46523712/#46531034
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* "Women's Rights and their Bodies." Word: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46523712/#46531474
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The discussion that follows it about how the housing crisis effects the children made homeless because
* "'Little Horny Man': Rock Carving of Giant Phallus Discovered:" http://www.livescience.com/18602-horny-man-rock-carving-giant-phallus.html
* Uncovering a drowned city in China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-02/23/c_131426806.htm
* "Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Mickey-goodman/are-we-raising-a-generati_b_1249706.html
* "Precious past: why the ancient assets of Greece and Egypt must be saved:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/feb/20/ancient-assets-greece-egypt-eurozone
* I've been experimenting with post organization again. Please bear with me.
* By bed time last night, I was still generally crappy, but only sporadically dizzy, and my head's clearer. I'm more functional today, though still a bit ick.
* Akata Witch is every bit as fascinating and fast a read as Slatebreakers promised.
* Walking Dead: that was so much deliberate stupid at once, that I pretty much want most of the main characters dead. Can we start with Shane, Rick, and Lorrie? Please? Pretty please? Also, the all white people episode particularly pisses me off. I keep feeling like white supremacists and gender role essentialists have hijacked the agenda. It's getting harder and harder to hang on to see if they manage to do right by Michonne. Still no Michonne. Still no Michonne. Shane's still not dead. Shane's still not dead. Thumb twiddle.
* I need I mention that death threats to an author because Amazon started shipping early when they weren't supposed to is not okay. Neither are threats of sexual assault and generalized misogyny: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/425907.html?style=mine#cutid1
* Cake toppers: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/2/26/sunday-sweets-youre-the-top.html
* O.o: http://biomekanic.livejournal.com/502659.html
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Date: 2012-02-27 02:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-29 01:26 pm (UTC)I really am just hanging on to see if Michonne and Tyreasse even the scales a little, but I've pretty much lost hope.