News and Stuff

by: Natasha Chart

Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 06:01


Courtesy of the Joshua Blog, Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, explains traditional marriage (video clip below is not work safe, contains adult content) ...

Now for the news. And stuff:

- Feeding cows an approximation of their natural diet may reduce their methane emissions and, hence, their contributions to global warming. Which is almost as fascinating as the revelation that very little cow muscle tissue makes it into hamburgers.

- Patients pay tribute to Dr. Tiller, via Atrios. He was one of only three doctors in the US, which means there are still two left; Jill Stanek is working on the problem.

- Obama lays down his expectations for health care reform, while Baucus says the Senate plan will include a public option.

- A common diabetes drug could help in cancer treatment.

- The New Hampshire wedding-industrial complex will spend the weekend toasting all the gay and lesbian weddings they're going to get to charge through the nose for, as out lesbians and gays in the state realize that their parents are now going to start bugging them about when they're getting married already, just like everybody else. Congratulations!

- Let's have some real financial innovation to make banking boring and safe again.

- Juan Cole shares reactions to Obama's Cairo speech and a roundup of Iraq news.

- There exists a manual wherein anti-choice advocates are advised to "Just be normal again." Apparently, they've cottoned to the fact that they're as creepy and off-putting as medical 'professionals' who discriminate against lesbians in hospitals.

- As Chris would say, "'Most people' aren't anything. Except women. Most people actually are women." Which is why it's so funny when women's perspectives are considered biased and men's are considered the normal baseline.
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Yup, there has to be real reform of the banking sector! (0.00 / 0)
so far, not much, not nearly enough has changed for Wall Street. Instead of speculating on the housing bubble, they are now speculating on the next oil bubble! Some difference. Where is the regulation bill that would makesuch gambling illegal for banks? Banks shall provide credits for the industry, business, and citizen, speculating is for private investors whose bankruptcy won't disrupt the economy. Period.

And there's still room for inovations in a banking system that is reduced to its "boring" role of providing credit. Just recently, the Wells Fargo boss publicly voiced that his bank is shifting its focus on microcredits, providing money for small businesses, startups, and the self employed. even if this is a bit like back to the future, this is inovative for the 21sr century, after all the decades where banks all but ingored those customers. And if the other bank giants weren't so occupied about speculating in oil contracts, or trying to get the decadent boni for their management back, they would have much more time to come up with good business ideas of their own. Well, if they don't voluntarily shift their focus, someone has to force them doing it. Roll out that banking regulation bill!  

It's nice to see (4.00 / 1)
some people actually read the good book, instead of just thumping it.

Montani semper liberi
Deven Green (0.00 / 0)
ish a comedic geniush, in all sheriousnesh.

Anyone interested should look for what versions still exist of the parody "Welcome to My Home" on google video.  

Betty Bowers Is Dangerous (0.00 / 0)
If I paid too much attention to her, I'd never get anything done.

p.s. I've also heard it's dangerous to laugh that much in the morning.  Jeffrey Rosen's sources told me so.


"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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