Something hopeful on a Sunday morning. You’ll know that New Zealand just passed a statute legalizing same-sex marriage. What you may not know, and I sure didn’t until this very minute, was what that legislative process looked and sounded like. Now I do know. The public gallery and MP’s on the floor burst into song [...]
Being marinated in political ads is pretty much unavoidable right about now, and usually damned disagreeable. There are exceptions though, as we see here. No reason this can’t be fun, right?
Meet Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the Russian punk rock/feminist band “Pussy Riot”, who are in the process of being judicially prosecuted railroaded for an anti-Putin performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral. The “trial” is over, and this is Yekaterina’s closing statement. I don’t know when sentencing will happen. It’s mighty courageous, and really, really [...]
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see….” “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?” “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, [...]
OK, back to all the efforts now under way to combat “voter fraud” just for a minute. We’ve said before that the frequency of actual voter fraud —at least of the kind these measures are purportedly intended to prevent — is so small as to be statistically insignificant, and that remains true. From Mother Jones; [...]
Here’s the inimitable Suzy Sampson, a semi-regular here at 9thousandfeet, taking the health-care pulse of the nation on the anniversary of our independence. She’s in the South, of course, and it’s never difficult there to find someone willing to put their finger on the problem … It’s being going to hell, for, um, most, y’know, [...]
This is copied from a comment on the Guardian which is talking about making the elderly share the burden of cuts. So far it’s received over 1,000 agrees. Here’s excerpt from an article from the British Medical Journal showing the tactics of this agenda. Unfortunately it’s a pay site, so I couldn’t read more. So [...]
We’ve got to make sure that banks are recapitalized in Europe so that investors have confidence. And we’ve got to make sure that there is a growth strategy to go alongside the need for fiscal discipline, as well as a monetary policy that is promoting the capacity of countries like a Spain or an Italy [...]
… today’s kind of a big day, assuming the choice of a Presidential nominee actually matters nowadays. Today’s the day that could be pivotal, one way or another, in the selection of one of them. That’s the good news. The other news concerns who those Very Important Voters actually are. Let’s take a look first [...]
Now comes a video of Libyan “rebels” caging people and forcing them to eat the Libyan flag; People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag. “Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” screams a voice off-camera [...]