Proving that there is no relic from our childhood that cannot be turned into an expensive event movie bearing almost no resemblance to the original artifact, The Hollywood Reporter says that Universal has acquired the movie rights to Asteroids, the bleeping, blooping 1979 video game in which crude line drawings were used to represent rocket ships and gigantic space rocks.No doubt it will be written by Uwe Boll and directed by Michael Bay, what could go wrong with this? Super Mario Brothers was such a tour de farce that this is sure to be a box office smash (like bugs on a windshield at NASCAR). Hollywood has long been clamoring for a movie that could focus entirely on technical features, and now they have it.
What was missing from the suspected facts that pointed to Savana [Redding] was any indication of danger to the students from the power of the drugs or their quantity, and any reason to suppose that Savana was carrying pills in her underwear. We think that the combination of these deficiencies was fatal to finding the search reasonable. [emphasis mine]Is this a crack in the zero tolerance edifice? The Supreme Court just smacked them down on the basis that there was no reason to believe that the pills were harmful, and that the public school officials had no reason to believe she would go so far as to hide them in her underwear. Both are excellent points since the first point reinforces the issue of there being actual harm, and the second not only reinforces the fourth amendment by restraining how far a search can go, but can be cited in the future to stop perverts (think it's not an issue?) from using it for a peep show.
Rather than pulling out the rather musty notion that paternalism, and/or downright patriarchy is what these women and their children need, why not directly open our society's resources to benefit these families? How? Universal healthcare access, generous family leave benefits to workers, better quality free schooling, and family law that recognizes families as they are rather than wishing for what they never were. Because regardless of how much society encourages marriage among parents, women will continue to get pregnant and bear children outside of marriage, just as they have from time immemorial. All the encouragement in the world will not make it go away.I'm sure that Young's sparring partner was completely oblivious to the irony of her argument. Her demand for a more active government is extremely paternalistic. If her description of what she thinks the government should be doing does not amount to the figure of "provider and protector" that was traditionally assigned to a husband, then I don't know what is.
Not because hospitals are above covering up malpractice, or because doctors don't protect other doctors, but because any private hospital would have been terrified of getting sued. The VA is very hard to sue because of sovereign immunity.The sovereign immunity angle is almost a foregone conclusion because the federal government is not going to allow itself to be targeted en masse by people like John Edwards, nor will it allow itself to be easily held accountable by the common man for actual injuries. Sovereign immunity is the bane of civil libertarians in how it allows police to get away with incredible incompetence, and even borderline criminal conduct without even an apology to their victims. It's the legal mechanism which allows the police to bust down the wrong door, cause all manner of property destruction, terrorize a family, and the cite a warrant and claim good faith.
The argument would only work if white supremacy were the reductio ad absurdum of opposing globalization and federal power, an assumption that makes no sense. You'd actually expect the most partisan patriots to embrace a radical decentralism, not racism. Perhaps expecting this objection, Stern argued that decentralist rhetoric is racist itself-that the idea of states' rights "has always been used to shield local governments from criticism over discriminatory practices" (emphasis added). And the dangers of decentralization didn't stop there. "Most Americans," Stern wrote, "define their political associations from top to bottom: One is an American, a Texan, from Dallas. There has always been a countervailing tendency...to reshape alliances so that small comes first, and large last, if at all." And what's so bad about that? "When a political movement rejects the idea of common American values and says, 'Let me do it my own way,' it usually means it wants to do things that are objectionable, and yearns to do them undisturbed and unnoticed."The idea of a common American set of values is largely a creation of public education. It's maintained by the way that each region of the United States maintains a selectively provincial view of what the United States is. Each region tends to see itself as the authentic America, and the rest either hopelessly backward or running off a values cliff at full speed. That view of the other didn't come out of nowhere, but rather it comes from the fact that in our observation of our own region, and the behavior of the others, we see a marked disparity between our values and culture. Our own founding fathers realized that while we were capable of becoming a single country, we would always be closer to a union of nations along the lines of the United Kingdom, rather than a single unified nation like France which happens to have some other nationalities annexed within its borders.
On the face of it, Internet Explorer is just another browser, but it's time to stop drip feeding it, it's time to stop replacing its internal organs when one fails, and it's time to wean it off its nasty oxygen habit. Internet Explorer is old, pathetic, tiring to even look at, and depressing. Microsoft, let it die. (Failing that, just do what you did with OneCare: strip it down, funk it up and start all over again.)Internet Explorer jumped the shark around version 6. IE 6 was such a miserable piece of trash that it's amazing that Microsoft released it. Countless security patches and evidence that it had terrible support for web standards certainly did not embarrass them. Each subsequent version of Internet Explorer has only gotten worse, and now there is no point in using it at all at home. Preferring it over Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera is like preferring to drive a SUV that gets six miles to the gallon on the highway, can't do a u-turn on less than a four lane highway and that looks like it was the getaway vehicle for an army unit that got ambushed in the green zone. As a product, it is now such a miserable piece of shit that the first instinct of most web developers when they find that someone actually likes it, their first internal reaction is "what the hell is wrong with you."
Don't boycott Opera, boycott Internet Explorer. Buy Windows 7 E if you can, or if you don't want to or live in a non-European country, please for the love of God, remove Internet Explorer from your Windows 7 machine.
The Lone Wolf. Born on July 6, 1947 in Bowie, Arizona to a Navajo father (R. Rambo according to the last film) and a mother (Marie Dragoo) of Italian descent. Needs no one. The original Army of One. Lives by his own code.
In 2007, Edwards said he had gone to work at Fortress because his family needed the income, despite holdings then estimated at $30 million. But in the interview, he said he was no longer fixated on finding lucrative work. "When I'm on my deathbed, I don't think I'll be thinking, did I work enough or earn enough money," he said. He plans to return to El Salvador next month. "Whether I'm digging a ditch or hammering a nail, I don't have any pride in this anymore, I just want to help," he said. "If I can help the most by working quietly, that's what I'll do. If as time goes by I can be more helpful with a public role, that's what I will do. "
He realizes that his trangressions had only bolstered his longtime skeptics, but said that any cynicism about his motives on fighting poverty was "complete foolishness." "There's a reason why it's been many years since a politician made this issue central to him -- and, I might add, I didn't get elected," he said. "There aren't many votes in helping poor people. "
Most of all, he wants his most ardent supporters to believe that the message that drove his campaigns was solid, despite all later revelations about the candidate himself.
"It was real, 100 percent real," he said. "I want them to be proud of what I stood for, and of what the campaign stood for. The stands were honest and sincere and idealistic. They were what America needed then and needs now."
Need any more proof that humans aren't as rational as economists assume? Look at flexible spending accounts, a benefit that can put hundreds of bucks in your pocket. About 80% of large employers offer FSAs, but a mere 22% of their workers enroll, according to the consultancy Mercer.Unless you can afford to light cuban cigars with hundred dollar bills, you have no good reason to not take advantage of a FSA if your employer offers you one and you spend more than a few hundred dollars a year on all medical expenses. It's so simple and responsible that it's no wonder so few people actually do it! All it takes to calculate the approximate funds that you need to stash away is to list your typical expenses at doctor's visits, prescriptions and throw in an additional 5-10% to cover the unexpected. If you know that you are going to have a major operation or a child, then dump as much money as you can afford in it, and all of those medical expenses will come out of your pre-tax income.
An FSA allows you to set aside part of your paycheck for health expenses. (The exact limit depends on your company, but it's usually $2,000 to $5,000.) You don't have to pay income or payroll taxes on that part of your earnings. So if you are in the 28% bracket, a $1,000 FSA may save you about $350. Money in your FSA can usually be used to cover co-pays and deductibles, prescriptions, and even over-the-counter drugs. These plans used to require paperwork, but that excuse is gone. Many now offer debit cards and websites to track and manage your spending.
It's not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. Isn't it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?The only good thing that can be said about the writer, Bonnie Erbe, is that she was consistent in her own argument since she included everyone from James W. Von Brunn, to the Muslim who killed Pvt. Long, to Jeremiah Wright. Even though she is calling for an illegal, unconstitutional preemptive attack on free speech enforced by violations of the fourth, fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendments, she is at least consistent in calling for the violation of the rights of all who engage in hate speech. Not that it would be fairly applied once the jackboots start getting their marching orders, but it's the thought that counts.
I'm going to stop emphasizing to all who will listen that this world is a rotten place because people aren't safe from wild animals. I'm going to act as if we are and refuse to play into the talons, teeth and brute strength of the animals that might like to eat us. You know why? Because part of living a full life is going wherever you want, including big animal cages, shark-infested waters and when you're there, it's really cool. Being around dangerous animals is not an unfortunate fact of life, threat to one's safety or irresponsible behavior. It's a pleasurable experience to be up close and personal with a big, dangerous animal. It's a liberating experience to stand between a female grizzly and her cubs, or to swim with great white sharks. And people should be able to do these things for their own sake, not just when we find ourselves in the wrong place, at the wrong time, mistook a sign in the forest or didn't realize that we swam past the continent shelf into the hunting grounds of large sea animals, but because while we're here, we'd like to live a little. And fuck the consequences.And while you're at it, socialize the medical costs because we're going to need it...
Wendy Portillo, the Kindergarten teacher infamous for permitting neurotypical students to vote a boy with a form of Autism out of her class, will keep both her contract with the St. Lucie County school district and her tenured status after a unanimous vote by the School Board. Portillo is "overjoyed" by the ruling and hopes to return to teaching.
Alex Barton reportedly has not returned to school since the incident. Shortly after Alex was voted out of class, his mother said he was so traumatized that he was unable to even ride past his former elementary school in a car without screaming and begging not to be forced to return to school.