Writers Note: This post was tentatively titled: “Big Balls Inc.” Bailout for Implants”, but was rejected for inappropriate language. I’m fairly sure *this* title has none of that.
As was widely reported today, the Adult Entertainment Industry, headed by Larry Flynt and Joe Francis, asked today for a $5 billion federal bailout. Now, obviously, some people laughed this off, but I really want us to consider this. Is this really such a bad idea? Could the industry survive without a bailout? How many jobs would be created by this bailout? Let’s take a slightly closer (but not too close–makeup can only do so much!) look at this proposal.
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posted by Jason Young at 2:30 am
An interesting story today comes from the AP (and, by association, CNN’s Website) telling the tale of a court in Pakistan that has issued a gag order on one of their Nuclear Scientists/Engineers/Physicists, Abdul Qadeer Khan, because he has been telling the media about how Pakistan helped North Korea develop nuclear bombs.
A court on Monday barred the disgraced architect of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program from speaking about nuclear proliferation, less than three weeks after he implicated the army in the sharing of nuclear technology with North Korea.
That’s right–the Pakistani court has the ability to refrain a person from talking completely about a subject because they don’t want to have to admit what happened. Great.
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posted by Jason Young at 4:34 pm
The site Little Green Footballs comments on Obama’s new plan to rid the planet of nuclear weapons. Now I have been following everything that Obama says about Nuclear technology for personal reasons and most of it I simply think about and then add that to my list of reasons why Obama aggravates the piss out of me. I’m not saying he’s a horrible person and I’m not saying that I won’t vote for him (as I am still completely undecided), but he just is so aggravating sometimes that it’s ridiculous. Why would Obama take away our main deterrant force?
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posted by Jason Young at 1:43 pm
Many people, including New Scientist, are reporting on the passing of a bill in the Louisiana Senate: Senate Bill 733, the “Louisiana Science Education Act.” This is yet another instance of a religious agenda being pushed into the public school under the guise of science. Can we go ahead and agree that this is ridiculous, not scientific in the slightest, and has no place in a public schoolroom? Look, if you want to teach your kids creation, that’s great–but keep it at home or at church. Not in the public school that I am funding. Of course, this doesn’t just deal with evolution, but with “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.” Oh, come on!
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posted by Jason Young at 11:39 pm
As I was browsing the internet earlier I saw a post about a further expansion of Bush’s “Faith Based Initiatives”. Assuming it was another play by McCain to the right, I figured that I would pass on reading and went along my merry way. Well, a bit later it turned up on Digg under a different headline: “Obama courts conservatives with new faith program.” WHAT? Obama, the supposed Democratic candidate, is carrying on a staple of the Bush administration? This pandering is getting ridiculous!
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posted by Jason Young at 10:53 pm