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No laws have changed, but what was once perfectly acceptable — indeed, a registered trademark — no longer is. And the other way around.

"Redskins" are just a name, but there are worse signs of the changes... For example, University of Hawaii recently prohibited a student group to hand-out copies of the Constitution. The administrators' reasoning was: "This isn’t really the ’60s anymore" and "people can’t really protest like that anymore".

Obviously, the First Amendment has not changed in 50 years, it is just being reinterpreted. And so is the understanding of "disparaging".

I think this could be a hoax. It's not a scientific paper, not in a peer-reviewed journal's letter section. It appears via a Google circles posting from Kerry Emanuel who is a well-known, though partially reformed, climate denier. It looks like the Google+ account the letter is published in was just created. Plus, the facts are either skimpy & wrong. Saying we cannot ramp up solar & wind power fast enough, but can ramp up nuclear, is directly in opposition to what's happening. Solar installations are going up by double-digit percentage points each year, and meanwhile we haven't had a new nuclear power plant in over 40 years. The only pair that is underway (which is pictured in the Yahoo! story) is years from completion. There are only 19 permit applications active for new nukes in the US, and the power industry (which is notoriously risk-averse) has for decades shied away from their huge liability and expense.

That's the Obama logo. Really. There is no doubt about it. And used like this, as part of a positive word, it is not some cynical or sarcastic statement but an expression of support.

It's easy to use the logo negatively. Here are some nice examples:

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Logo_MickeyMouse.gif

http://i1.cpcache.com/product/563346833/anti_obama_logo_stickers_car_magnet_20_x_12.jpg?color=White&height=960&width=960&quality=100

http://rlv.zcache.com/obama_logo_lol_bumper_stickers-r97e12aee351b473b816cc69f9c229272_v9wht_8byvr_512.jpg

http://www.moonbattery.com/Obama-666-Logo.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bGtgc__mPxQ/USMla_G2tFI/AAAAAAABSZk/WIfzercMvKM/s320/Obama's+Israel+visit+logo.PNG

http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Logo_Mafia.gif

http://www.therightplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obama-logo-bendover.png

Don't cry - I still believe in global warming!

I still believe in global warming!

Love,
Ted

Nokia did a "me-tooo!!" online software store. It couldn't engage developers and it flopped.

Android started it smart with the summer code-challenges almost a year before the first phones came to the general market and have now the power to offer phonevendors the ease of NOT having to design an OS or upgrade/modify what they have for each phone model they release.

Microsoft still looked like they buttkicked PalmOS and went into a comfy zone "no competition. We know it sucks balls, but hey, what are your alternatives, management boy? Here, have a free magnetic stylus, so you can sync exchange."

Android has put Microsoft to shame with their pants on their knees in a "developer developers!" conference, touchscreening it to youtube and twitter while the WM6 guys are, well.. sortof trying to find the right program files folder and waiting a bit to open their browser...

Microsoft will have to "pull another IE" to get "sortof back in the game". The same way they are now throwing in everything to be ready for HTML5 and are a bit neglecting canvas.

They thought their honeycomb design on WM6 would be sufficient to give Android surprice buttseks, but they've been surprice-somethingelse'd themselves right now while they thought they had full game

And that assumes it actually WAS set up to be a legal torrent tracker! As others have pointed out, it's called The PIRATE Bay!

This reminds me of a comment I made over at Moonbattery on a post entitled "Guardian Moonbat Calls for "Cull" of Western Children" where the post actually says:

If communism and Nazism could leave tens of millions dead, what will be the death toll if the evil freaks driving the environmentalism movement get the leverage to inflict their anti-Western and antihuman fantasies?

This leaves little doubt as to their interpretation of The Guardian's article. I responded with:

Nowhere in the article is there a call for mass extermination, you're being completely ridiculous in that. They may call for people to have less children, but killing children already here? Are you so deluded that you actually think a major British newspaper could call for such a thing and get away with it?

I quickly got a response:

The word "cull" is used by the author in the piece, and it's definition is the reduction in the size of a herd through killing some members of it. The author may have been unaware of the proper definition, but it is the word he used.

Obviously they must have been calling for genocide! Why else would they say "cull" unless they intended for millions of children to die?

My point is that grabbing a dictionary and harping on forever isn't the best way to ascertain extent. Sometimes people are being satirical. Sometimes people use the wrong word. Trying to say The Pirate Bay must be made to help piracy because it's The Pirate Bay isn't an argument, it's just noise.

And that assumes it actually WAS set up to be a legal torrent tracker! As others have pointed out, it's called The PIRATE Bay!

This reminds me of a comment I made over at Moonbattery on a post entitled "Guardian Moonbat Calls for "Cull" of Western Children" where the post actually says:

If communism and Nazism could leave tens of millions dead, what will be the death toll if the evil freaks driving the environmentalism movement get the leverage to inflict their anti-Western and antihuman fantasies?

This leaves little doubt as to their interpretation of The Guardian's article. I responded with:

Nowhere in the article is there a call for mass extermination, you're being completely ridiculous in that. They may call for people to have less children, but killing children already here? Are you so deluded that you actually think a major British newspaper could call for such a thing and get away with it?

I quickly got a response:

The word "cull" is used by the author in the piece, and it's definition is the reduction in the size of a herd through killing some members of it. The author may have been unaware of the proper definition, but it is the word he used.

Obviously they must have been calling for genocide! Why else would they say "cull" unless they intended for millions of children to die?

My point is that grabbing a dictionary and harping on forever isn't the best way to ascertain extent. Sometimes people are being satirical. Sometimes people use the wrong word. Trying to say The Pirate Bay must be made to help piracy because it's The Pirate Bay isn't an argument, it's just noise.

A rebuttal to the "socialist agencies" comment I quoted is here by "hiram":
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/08/a_savage_mob.html

Hiram makes some good points. Still, is not regulation of monopolies something you need a government for? Also, much drug research is fundamentally based on publicly funded (NIH) studies. Also, broadcast media was in general much better for families when there was an equal time law and restrictions against advertising to children. So, some of the problems he points to are the result of deregulation as well as shifting government resources away from "butter" and into "guns". I agree public schooling is a big problem (see John Taylor Gatto and my other post).

We need to separate out various functions of government like regulation and oversight or taxing and redistributing wealth for legitimate public purposes (including avoiding a concentration of wealth that is bad for democracy, like with a progressive tax up to 91% under Roosevelt after WWII) from the issue of who actually provides the services.

But, as I said earlier, take a look at this video of a high speed robot hand from Japan and tell me *anything* about our economy will make sense as-is in ten or twenty years:
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation

Or even this:
From:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2159038/posts http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202191.html
"Armed robotic aircraft soar in the skies above Pakistan, hurling death down on America's enemies in the war on terrorism. Soon -- years, not decades, from now -- American armed robots will patrol on the ground as well, fundamentally transforming the face of battle. Conventional war, even genocide, may be abolished by a robotic American Peace.
The detachment with which the United States can inflict death upon our enemies is surely one reason why U.S. military involvement around the world has expanded over the past two decades. The excellence of American military technology makes it possible for U.S. forces to inflict vast damage upon the enemy while suffering comparatively modest harm in return. ...
The rapid emergence of the armed unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) that roam over Pakistan is a sequel to Moore's Law. Onboard computers became far more powerful, so automatic pilots became far more competent. Signal processors became more sophisticated, facilitating collection and processing of more interesting intelligence. Global Positioning System receivers shrank and could be economically employed on small robotic aircraft. Precision-guided munitions could deliver lethal firepower. And so forth. ...
The U.S. Navy has arguably moved farthest toward substituting treasure for blood. A generation ago the Reagan administration brought World War II-era battleships out of mothballs to provide gunfire support to onshore operations. With a crew of more than 1,500, these ships were designed to be manned by the low-paid draftees of the 1940s, not the more amply rewarded volunteers of the 1980s. The Navy couldn't afford them, and the ships were soon returned to mothballs. In their place, the Navy came up with the new DDG-1000 Zumwalt destroyer, an automated warship with a crew of only 150."

I came across that while looking what the freepers say about robots:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/robot/index?tab=articles

Anyway, many conservatives don't get it about technology invalidating muc

And that's not even the half of it.

I guess we (rich countries) could also try to suck CO2 out of the air, but I haven't yet seen a proven method.

Trees?

There are two problems I know of to use trees to absorb CO2. One is that some trees have been shown to emit more CO2 during parts of their growth. Another problem is that once the trees die they'll release the CO2 again. What has been proposed is to bury trees deep underground. However others have called those people Envirokooks.

Something I just thought of typing this reply is if burying trees will really work, it may make greenhouse gases in the atmosphere worse. This is because as organic matter decomposes in an anaerobic , without oxygen, it decomposes into methane which is 20 tymes as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2 is.

Falcon

So did Moonbattery.

Why is this not surprising? Anyone with any sort of brain knows that Obama has no idea about anything; the only people voting for him are the ones too stupid to realize he is just saying whatever he needs to, to get elected.

Shhhh! It's not like they're actually paying attention, anyway....

Too bad Moonbats aren't migratory birds.

If you are a member of the ACLU there is a good chance you're a pedophile.

People know you by the company you keep:

ACLU's Charles Rust-Tierney Busted For Hard-Core Kiddie Porn

The ACLU's crusades don't always make a lot of sense, but its campaign to legalize kiddie porn is quite understandable in light of Charles Rust-Tierney's arrest Friday for possessing child pornography. Rust-Tierney used to be president of the ACLU's Virginia chapter.

Investigations revealed that "Charles Rust-Tierney has subscribed to multiple child pornography websites over a period of years." He admitted downloading videos and images from kiddie porn websites and collecting them on CDs.

The guy's no lightweight; he likes the hard stuff:

The videos described in the complaint depict graphic forcible intercourse with prepubescent females. One of the girls is described in court documents as being "seen and heard crying", another is described as being "bound by rope."

Rust-Tierney has been coaching various youth sports teams. On behalf of the ACLU, he advocated against restricting Internet access in public libraries. By the way, his wife Diann, also a moonbat activist, serves as executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty -- which makes you wonder what else the Rust-Tierneys have been up to.

The day that the criminal syndicate that calls itself the "American Civil Liberties Union" is broken up and liquidated cannot come soon enough.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2005/08/george _monbiot.html