It is fascinating how the underlying issues are touched on but not directly addressed:
Until there is no money for racist policy it will continue. And until marijuana is legal in this country people will continue smuggling it in over the borders.
The above article shows that the current administration is serious about addressing the institutional problems that exist, at least.
Hopefully they will also begin to address the economic issues as well.
This deck is a limited and numbered edition reproduced with great care by Il Meneghello in 2001. Each card was painted by hand (in water color) by artist and publisher, Osvaldo Menegazzi. Naibi di Giovanni Vacchetta is a beautiful contribution to the Tarot legacy by renown artist, Giovanni Vacchetta (1863-1940). It was originally printed in 1893.
Note: This is the premium deck I’m now using on my HTC Incredible – absolutely lush imagery, and there’s quite a few different ways to lay out the cards now. Highly recommended!
Luntik the cat’s ears must be burning from all the discussion he’s generating — all four of ’em. That’s because the 3-month-old kitten, who lives in an auto service station garage in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, was born with dual sets of ears. But while Luntik undoubtedly draws double takes from motorists pulling into the station, he doesn’t get a double earful of their exclamations: The small pair of vestigial ears slightly in front of the main ones — which are purr-fectly normal — contain no ear canals or anything else that would make them functional.
via He’s all ears: Meet Luntik, the four-eared cat – TODAY Pets & Animals – TODAYshow.com.
After telling Golf Digest that he golfed over 100 times a year and boasting to Fox News’ Chris Wallace about his 6 handicap, Boehner is having a hard time convincing us all that he is hard at work solving the tough issues of the day.
It’s author, Paul Booth, has consented to give me an interview where we talk together about the ways that he thinks Alternate Reality Games can shed light on the practices of online fandom, about how we might push beyond the opposition between producer and consumer, about how we might better understand the interplay of the commercial and gift economy as it effects fandom, and about new forms of expression which have emerged as fans work together through social networking sites.
His responses here only sample the richness of this particular book, which draws heavily on digital and literary theory, to encourage us to rethink some of the classic paradigms in fan studies. The work is cutting edge both conceptually and in terms of its range of examples which include various forms of crowd-sourced and wiki-based forms of fan collaboration that have received limited attention elsewhere.
The illness is called “TILT,” or Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance. Patients lose tolerance to household products, medication, or even food after being exposed to chemicals, like burning oil, toxic fumes, or dispersants from the spill.”Things like diesel fuel, exposure to fragrances, cleaning agents that never bothered them before suddenly bother them,” adds Dr. Miller.TILT has been difficult to track because symptoms are similar to the flu. Currently, Dr. Miller is educating primary care doctors on how to spot and treat the illness before it gets worse. Though it’s not contagious, the best cure right now is staying away from affected areas.
John Boehner on Meet The Press was tantamount to an unpaid advertisement for Justin Coussoule’s campaign for the western Ohio congressional seat that Boehner has been squatting in since 1990 when Buz Lukens, his Republican predecessor, was caught buying the sexual favors of a sixteen year old girl. Apparently Boehner was so traumatized by the Lukens incident that he joined the one remaining golf club in the DC area that not only doesn’t admit women– but doesn’t even permit them on the premises! Burning Tree has been Boehner’s home away from home when he’s not on Meet The Press advocating raiding the Social Security Trust Fund to finance more tax breaks for multi-millionaires.
One could only wish that the Meet The Press segment would play on TV from Fairfield and Hamilton up through Huber Heights, Troy, Piqua and Celina from now til November.
Some would prefer to define actions as requiring bodily movement (see behaviorism). The side effects of actions are considered by some to be part of the action; in an example from Anscombe’s manuscript Intention, pumping water can also be an instance of poisoning the inhabitants. This introduces a moral dimension to the discussion (see also Moral agency). If the poisoned water resulted in a death, that death might be considered part of the action of the agent that pumped the water. Whether a side effect is considered part of an action is especially unclear in cases in which the agent isn’t aware of the possible side effects. For example, an agent that accidentally cures a person by administering a poison he was intending to kill him with.
A primary concern of the philosophy of action is to analyze the nature of actions and distinguish them from similar phenomena. Other concerns include individuating actions, explaining the relationship between actions and their effects, explaining how an action is related to the beliefs and desires which cause and/or justify it (see practical reason), as well as examining the nature of agency. A primary concern is the nature of free will and whether actions are determined by the mental states that precede them (see determinism). Some philosophers (e.g. Donald Davidson) have argued that the mental states the agent invokes as justifying his action are physical states that cause the action. Problems have been raised for this view because the mental states seem to be reduced to mere physical causes. Their mental properties don’t seem to be doing any work. If the reasons an agent cites as justifying his action, however, are not the cause of the action, they must explain the action in some other way or be causally impotent.
via Action theory (philosophy) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Focusing on the financials alone of social computing and how it can help us generate more business revenue, i.e. focusing just on the numbers, on keeping the stakeholders happy, on using the same business models as last century’s is just going to help us get back into the same position we are nowadays in with this horrendous financial global crisis we are going through for a couple of years and still going strong. Hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel at the moment …
We need some fresh thinking; we need to break the barriers of how business has been conducted in the last few years; we finally need to break free from that financial yoke and eventually strike for that sustainable economy that everyone keeps talking about, but that doesn’t seem to come along as quickly as we thought. It keeps slipping away from our fingers, when we know it’s just so close to us! We need to stop thinking about social strategy and push more along the lines of social philosophy.
Benefactors $1,500; chairs $1,000; sponsors $500; and hosts $200 receive two tickets, a photograph with the governor and their names printed in the program. Benefactors, chairs and sponsors will be acknowledged and recognized by the governor during his address.
We must approach the study of SBNR Americans with the understanding that (for the most part) they forego participation in the most common mode of social interaction in the United States: conventional religious worship. Thus, they voluntarily absent themselves from the social networks fostered in and by congregations and hence fail to receive the politically charged messages that many clergy deliver. This lack of connectedness, combined with the evident desire of SBNR persons to forge their own way in the world, outside of the rigid social and cultural boundaries that traditional religion tends to erect, suggests to me that SBNR Americans are unlikely to have any semblance of a clear or systematic political agenda.
Nevertheless, it makes sense to hypothesize that SBNR Americans would place themselves to the left of center politically, at a bare minimum because the Republican Party today is so widely identified as being “friendly” to organized religion. The data I analyzed bear this hypothesis out: SBNR respondents were significantly more Democratic in their party identification and liberal in their ideological orientation than their religious counterparts. Following the work of George Lakoff, we might also hypothesize the SBNR individual to be less authoritarian than one who is traditionally religious.
via Who are the “spiritual but not religious”? « The Immanent Frame.
“As long as your data is being held by someone else, not only can you not control what they are doing with it right now but you can’t control it in years to come,” said Raphael Sofaer.
Colleague Max Salzberg said they don’t necessarily have Facebook in its crosshairs and are motivated by doing something for the greater good.
Before the city commission approves proposed new rules, officials need to do some clear thinking about the possible long-term repercussions of those rules — or the lack of rules — proposed by a planning commission committee.
The bedrock problem is that this is brand-new territory as far as deciding what laws, if any, a municipality needs to control medical marijuana use or if controls even are appropriate. So far, advocates have said the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects the right to confidentiality of patients and their caregivers, and any effort to license or even identify those people could be considered a violation of the law.
(J. W. Dunne’s time theory, documented in his books An Experiment with Time and The Serial Universe, was the result of self-experimentation through close observation of his dreams and subsequent events that seemed to indicate a trend of precognition. Dunne concluded that time is not linear, as is commonly thought, but is instead a series of events taking place simultaneously. Past, present and future are happening all at once. In dreams we are less bound by conventions of thought, and therefore we are able to see past, present, and future as coexisting layers.)
My take on the right wing presence in Twitter is that there is literally a central command, and that it’s very old, very white, and very clueless. The first 15 months I was on it was wall to wall barfucious flag & eagle backgrounds with combative dim bulbs claiming to be former marines. About ninety days ago, concurrent with Sarah Palin’s vacuous grizzly mom initiative, half a dozen different styles of female profile photo appeared, all “conservative”, “mom”, all with pink, lavender, or mint green backgrounds, and all talking in hashtag #twisters.
· The sad nature of their efforts are no more clear than when inspecting the leader of the Dolt Revolt, disloyal alleged former marine Greg W. Howard. See the flag? See the golden bull idol? This guy is a Christian business advisor. Who recently went bankrupt. It’s almost like a comedy rip on Christians and the whole false prophets thing in Revelation, but he’s straight up Christian Identity heresy. Look for as long as you can stomach it – he’s listed as the top Twitter voice for the right in some metrics.
Kyle VanHemert: Bill Gates Thinks the Web Will Soon Offer the Best College Education
Andrew P. Wilson: We Can Lead and Be Leaders
John F. Moore: The Social Ecosystem – The biggest barrier to success? Education
Lisa Rein: A new batch of younger employees finding their place in the federal workforce
Andrea DiMaio: Employees-First, Citizens-Second: The Best Route to Open Government
William Pitcher: Should You Care About Online Influence?
via Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – August 8, 2010 | Gov 2.0 Radio.
Stephen Colbert being interviewed out of character in 2008 by Tim Russert on “Meet the Press: Take Two”.
