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The liberal arts of chemistry (i.e., a set of states of energy tries to talk)
Next best comment attributed to a salon.com news article responder:
- Jeffrey Bardzell
- Friday, Sep 14, 2012 08:29 PM CDT
I agree with many of your arguments as written, but to be fair, I think it is more complex than that. Other contributing factors include the following:
– The “two cultures” of the arts vs. (not and) the sciences is a major issue. For various reasons, our society takes sciences more seriously than the arts. (Just look at the reward sizes of typical NSF vs NEA grants, or salaries and employment rates of graduates of science vs. arts programs, or who we give H1 visas to and for what.) The wedge between the arts and sciences–which is epistemological and political and waged from both sides–makes them “separate but equal” in the historical sense of that phrase (i.e., not at all equal!).
– While the sciences make an obvious case for their own state support (technological innovation, etc.), the humanities have not been as successful since the 1960s. It used to be that people believed that teaching Great Books made us model citizens. But the humanities were among the first to deconstruct that argument as ideological. And they were right: there is a problem with only reading dead white men. But if we don’t teach dead white men, then what can we teach that the public will agree should be taught? Multiculturalism and grand theory have been two answers proffered since the 60s, but (I’m stating a fact, not advocating for it) these have not achieved consensus in the way that dead white men had in the past.
I also think that the humanities themselves have their more recent origins (since the 19th century) in upper class culture. If only well to do men could go to college, then all that Latin and TS Eliot and critical thinking was another way they could demonstrate their fitness for their white collar professional jobs over everyone else. But with college becoming more accessible since the 1950s, the class alignment has changed, and people have become more specialized in order to be competitive. It’s not enough to be smart any more, you also need to know C++. (Of course, now knowing C++ seems to excuse one from being smart, which is a problem.)
Of course a concerted cross-generational conservative political attack on critical thinking and the humanities hasn’t helped. But neither has the hard turn to postmodern theories that to the public just sound crazy (like Baudrillard–and I am not saying he was crazy, well maybe a little bit, but very few outside of comp lit departments really understood what he was trying to do) so it just seemed like a waste of public resources–not saying I agree!
Anyway, my point is that we humanists need to make our own case for public support of what we can offer–and this is a slow and long-term commitment. Critical thinking is a very good argument and I agree with it. I think we can strengthen that argument with a more compelling rapprochement with scientists and technologists than humanists and scientists/technologists have collectively done so far (it’s a two-way street).
The best comment attached to the same news article:
- Cassie Mandrina
- Friday, Sep 14, 2012 07:40 PM CDT
I’m dismayed to see that you are equating the liberal arts with the humanities. The liberal arts include the social sciences and the natural sciences. Chemistry is a liberal art. Music is a liberal art. Psychology is a liberal art. So while I agree with your analysis, this article is itself a symptom of the decline of the liberal arts amongst those who think they’re defending them. Which is the saddest part of this all.
Repeat after me:
The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I’m bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, your majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth.
When 102000+ people were gathered to recite the Lord’s Prayer
So, the world now has proof that the most violent religion is Islam, if global protest headlines speak louder than words, and cult followers don’t have a sense of humour/irony, willing to kill others and die because a few actors were conned into making fun of a religious leader and his god in a video?
Meanwhile, our covert operatives, assigned to no country, used the noise and chaos to slip into place, as always, ready to assassinate at the first word from the Committee, keeping this 3D chess game moving forward into new areas of the protestors’ territory. If a protestor or a person who incited a protestor dies off-camera in a horrible traffic smashup or accidental fall/food poisoning at home, who’s going to pay attention?
Yes, you’re right again, of course. “Assassinate” is such a strong word. Should I have said remove the chess pieces from the playing board, instead?
However, when using the globe as our playing field, we do what we must to accomplish a goal greater than a species or nation ever outlives, changing the anthropomorphic state of sets of states of energy as the need arises.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration will forever be tied to the use of cowardly strategic murderous drone strikes, instead of putting himself and his drone option last, when he should say our military personnel, both those directly employed by our government and those indirectly employed as contractors/mercenaries, are, in person, used to carry out secret death sentences or actively engage in the legal right to proactively defend themselves during war.
In place of a HOPE poster, there will inevitably be found on the side streets of the Internet a picture of Obama looking like BIG BROTHER in “1984” with his finger pointed at you, saying, “Remote-controlled killing is love. A dead citizen is a happy citizen. Coercion is freedom.” All in the name of feeding this storyline, which appears to question the old storyline that stated the latest enemy is Islam, but only in the strictest radical sense, whatever that means in selling headlines more succinctly, a tradition of every country that divides killing into bins: socially-unacceptable murder or organisationally-acceptable restructuring.
Then, on an opposite street will be Romney, smiling, saying, “I do not kill unarmed Muslims without open due process. I love all people, regardless of religious affiliation, bad comic timing or alleged criminal guilt. Only my God can judge you, whose teachings I follow to the letter of the writings I read most often with more conviction than my opponent.”
Would it make more sense if public trials were held for defendants in absentia, who are given time to appear, even via the Internet, to face their accusers before being convicted of murder and sentenced to death by any means necessary, as long as it was not cruel and inhumane, including instant death by drone strike?
Are drones becoming too politically risky, creating the wrong kind of unintended consequences, scaring people and reinforcing rather than changing their subcultural beliefs?
This weekend, I stood in the midst of a group of 102000+ people gathered to celebrate their right to peaceably assemble and watch the three-ring circus we call a modern college football game, none of us expecting to be hit by a drone strike but willing to be filmed with no monetary compensation by dirigible-, crane-, guidewire-, hand- and helicopter-mounted cameras.
At the beginning of the game, on a public/state-sponsored university campus, a man spoke over the public address system to say a prayer before the players started tossing themselves at each other. This week, the speaker happened to lead us in a rendition of Christian text called the Lord’s Prayer.
We also watched the uniform number of Johnny Majors, a college classmate of my parents, retired from active use by the university football team, which brought a tear to my eye knowing one of my parents could not be there in person to join the festivities.
During the break between the two halves of the game, called the halftime show, for some strange reason, the university “Pride of the Southland” marching band included a Scottish pipes and drum ensemble which played both “Scotland the Brave” and “Amazing Grace,” as well as the inevitable “Rocky Top.”
And today, as we left Knoxville, we saw dozens of old muscle/classic cars/trucks leaving east Tennessee, as well as a few stragglers from a large motorcycle gathering heading north from a Trail of Tears ride.
Can I extract trends from these last few data points, wondering where, anywhere and everywhere on this planet, people were reinforcing their beliefs due to recent news headlines?
Me, I’m happy to see people do what they want, as long as they don’t physically harm others.
Then again, I enjoyed the football game, even if my alltime favourite college football team, the University of Tennessee Volunteers, was unable to post the higher score by the time the game ended, when many a player could easily show evidence of physical harm.
So, I’ve got a basic belief of mine to reconsider: freedom to be in the act of “first, do no [physical] harm.”
If nothing else in my beliefs this weekend, there is a sense of poetic justice, where, on the same weekend my team lost its game against a formidable opponent, a team now coached by a man who claimed to love the Vols but left us high-and-dry — Lane Kiffin — also lost. I can’t remember and maybe you can help me…which players with questionable ethics attended the same school? Was it O.J. Simpson and Reggie Bush?
I know our new coach, Derek Dooley, instills a real winning attitude of moral and ethical beliefs in his players as they reach successful goals in their career paths, in and out of the physically-harmful sport of American football.
While straying into sports, I keep having fun with this comical tirade on behalf of a political election campaign, seriously yet cynically satirical (or is that cynically yet satirically serious?), when I need to go on down the trail this storyline was going to take after the last blog entry but I’ve let myself get caught up in eddies and swirls of news headlines again, haven’t I, either way?
Old age, I guess.
Well, I’ve got to help my wife clear space in our space (“our space” is a house, in this case) to make room before we move her mother’s furniture from her sister in-law’s house, the furniture having worn out its welcome, as all guests are prone to do, including family.
Tomorrow, I’ll thank folks for their help this weekend, including Cassie at Bel Air Grill and Silvia at the Airport Hilton, my cousin Cindy and her husband Ron, and more…
Thank goodness I do not live in the ultra-regulated city-state of Singapore, because it considers illegal the flash mob performance of a haka that was as fun to watch as a spontaneous Scottish Highlands bagpipe concert.
When Sleight-of-Hand Gets Out-of-Hand Hands-Down
What’s the point of having a mercenary army at your fingertips if you can’t use it to achieve your goals?
Me, I’ve been here before so it’s time to remove myself from current events, letting people figure out how many ways the Iranian government, along with other partners, uses smoke and mirrors to achieve longterm goals.
Ever wondered why some people who call themselves white find a way to lament that their ideas and history would be so strong that, like a rare earth magnet, they attract people of all colours, shapes and sizes to want to experience/share/carry on the ideas and history, too?
Do they not see that the best way to prevent a worldwide war is to mix people together into a homogenous whole, where no one area on Earth has the exclusive right to foment war on behalf of out-of-date ideology?
In the meantime, any government in transition has a weak spot — it’s up to the dragon slayers to find the spot and act.
Are you willing to attack an indigenous mob and face further negative connotations/consequences in global mass media coverage?
When is a drone a liability rather than an asset?
How does a world police force maintain order when the crowd is mentally and physically armed against the force of police?
Which is the most violent ideology — Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Pantheism, Agnosticism, Non/Atheism, Capitalism, Confucianism, Communism, futbol, chess, disc golf or quilting?
Which is least violent?
Remember the three tenets of the new slogan in this blog: “Business. Science. Competition.”
And now, finally, after months…no, YEARS of waiting to reveal the next step, the natural progression, of the direction of this blog, let us move behind the curtain and see what’s really going on in the parallel universe where these symbols have no meaning.
Closing off subplots
Palatia rode the bus to work that morning.
She walked up to the back door and rang the bell.
A security guard answered. “Palatia G. Spaut?”
“Yes?”
“Follow me.”
Palatia walked with the guard to the manager’s office.
“Palatia! You made it in this morning, I see. Feeling better already?”
Palatia nodded at Veruog, her shift manager. “Yes. Thanks for asking.”
Veruog waved off the security guard and pointed at the chair next to the manager’s desk, with about all the room left on the office floor taken up by a tiny desk.
Palatia sat on the edge of the seat and looked up at Veruog.
“Palatia, first of all, I want to say you have been a good employee. Don’t say we haven’t noticed that you can handle the cash register and the food line with little supervision.”
“Thank you.”
“But…but yesterday, you called in sick.”
“Yes, I wasn’t feeling well.”
“Anything in particular?”
“Ohh…you know, aches and pains.”
“I see. And you spent the day at home in bed?”
“Pretty much…”
“Pretty much? What if I was to say that we have video evidence that you not only left your flat but you also went to a local park with friends, not returning until later in the afternoon, perfectly healthy-looking the whole day?”
“How can you say that?”
“Funny you should ask. You see, we consider you a valuable employee since you haven’t quit in the first six months of working long hours and low pay at a fast food joint. Therefore, we registered you with a security service that has links to many traffic cams, security systems and other monitoring devices so we can make sure you are out of danger.”
“Out of danger? You mean you’ve been spying on me?”
“Oh no. Let’s just say our company has health insurance policies on our best employees and to make sure our policies are well protected, we ensure that your habits outside of work are within the actuarial predictions of your overall value.”
“Huh? You pay someone to follow me?”
“No. We…or, rather, the security service uses the latest in face and body motion recognition to monitor your whereabouts and warn us if you are in imminent danger. From what we received yesterday, it appears you hiked near the edge of a canyon where several hikers died earlier this year and where some campers died of a hantavirus infection last week.”
“What? Are you kidding me? You mean you know, or think you know, where I was yesterday?”
“Yes. After we received the message from the security service, we attempted to contact you at home but got no answer. We then sent a security guard to your flat and, again, no answer. We contacted the building supervisor who was worried that one of his tenants had died on his watch, so to speak, raising his insurance premiums. He gladly opened your flat to reveal you weren’t home, which, we believe, verifies that the person we have in this recording right here…” Veruog pointed at the flat screen mounted on the wall above the desk. “…indicates, through deductive reasoning, was you.”
“But I…”
“Do you deny that you went hiking yesterday?”
“No.”
“And do you deny this scene we’re watching from satellite imagery which indicates your hiking path reached up to and over the safety barrier of the canyon edge?”
“No, but…”
“Then we have only one conclusion to make here, Palatia. You have voided the contract you signed when you agreed to work for us…”
“But…”
“…and further, based on the fine print here just above your signature, you are hereby terminated for endangering the efficiency of our company by exposing yourself to nonwork conditions that not only make us liable for training a replacement employee but also liable for health insurance coverage we had not calculated in the actuarial tables generated by your user data, including your social media profiles and the application you submitted to us. The only exception to this contract would have been if you died and, in that case, we would have collected a tidy sum. However, since you are still alive…”
“You can’t fire me! I quit!”
“Ahh, see, that’s where we differ on this issue. We have already posted the change in your employment status to our social media site which we hope you will be kind enough to reflect by changing your employment status on the various social media sites you frequently use that we agreed to document when you signed the contract.”
“That’s not fair!”
“Again, Palatia, it’s a matter of perspective. We both have our reputations to manage, including, these days, our online presence. We have held up our part of the bargain, providing you not only a safe and secure work environment, but also compatible employees, a steady paycheck and a guarantee that you are a stable, if somewhat independent type personality. Any questions?”
“Yes? What about my last paycheck?”
“We will issue you your last paycheck as soon as you return the uniforms we provided you. According to the spreadsheet, you have three uniforms issued in your name.”
“Yeah? Well, fuck you!”
Veruog pressed a button on the edge of the desk and the security guard immediately stepped into the doorway.
“Yes, ma’am?”
“We have a set of clothes in Palatia’s size. Here’s the ticket. Get one of the guys off the line to open the supply cabinet and return with the clothes. Palatia, I’m sorry, you have given me no choice but to demand that you return the uniform that you are wearing right now.”
Palatia got up to run and noticed that all the order screens in the fast food restaurant changed to an image of her jumping up from the chair in Veruog’s office.
“As you can see, Palatia, it’s up to you whether you want to turn this into a criminal act for the police to investigate. The security guard has already requested a patrol car to swing by our restaurant as soon as possible.”
Palatia, caught between wanting to maintain a viable employment record and wanting to tell this whole system off, stopped in the doorway.
She wondered if her friends, all of whom depended on shaky job histories, would take her in if she bolted.
Surely, there was more out there than background checks and slave labour jobs like hers.
Palatia quickly stripped off her clothes and ran out the back door. If Princess Kate and
Prince Harry can make millions with their clothes off, she…well, there was also that stripper named Katrina Darling…she could make herself famous as the first employee who was fired and ran naked from the premises. How much was 15 seconds of fame worth in this YouTube era of celebrity scandals and embassy burnings?
News headlines the next minute reported a naked bandit who was shot and killed by brave police officers called to the scene of a crime in progress, said an iNews reporter who had pulled up into the carpark and was shooting video of the restaurant sign when a woman, running as fast as she could, flipped a bird at the police, ran straight toward them and screamed something unintelligible. “The next moment, a manager walked out with a security guard, both of them looking panicked, saying that the dead assailant, named Palatia, had stolen two uniforms from the restaurant and threatened harm to the reputation of the establishment’s owners. The police clearly had no choice but to protect themselves from this crazed individual! Here’s my video and I thank you for watching. You can see my other videos at…” The instant news stations switched to the next forgettable crime in progress, posting a link to the video at the bottom of the screen.
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While investigating what makes some people vote for one U.S. presidential candidate over another, I came across the book, “What’s the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was,” by Joan Walsh, referred to me by the website, salon.com, which has provided many a relaxing and entertaining moment of reading in the past.
However, after reading the following 2-star review of the book on amazon.com by Tom Peterson, I’ll have to encourage myself in the future to be open-minded about book suggestions (and, most importantly, subsequent reviews) by websites I review habitually, before I automatically jump to their linked commercial content:
The basic theme of this book is, why do some Whites refuse to fully cooperate with the destruction of their own people and culture? Why won’t they more eagerly promote the genocide of their own children and grandchildren. The policies the author promotes are Anti-White. Open borders, mass immigration, huge transfers of wealth and opportunities from Whites to non-Whites, all of it to the detriment of Whites. Lest someone think genocide is too harsh a term, note that what China is doing to Tibet is rightly called genocide, even though it is largely “non-violent”. Most of the time, genocide does not involve outright killing.
In 1965 the US was roughly 90% White. Today, a minority of children born are White. This is the most rapid demographic change in the history of North America – far more rapid than what followed the arrival of Whites to this continent in 1492. Four hundred years after that date, Amerindians and Whites were still fighting! We now witness a crushing dispossession of Whites in just a few generations. Apparently some Whites are not quite as enthusiastic about the genocide of their people as the elites would like, and this disturbs the author.
The shocking fact is that in 50 years, there will be NO majority White countries anywhere on earth. Yet every Asian country will remain Asian. And every African nation will remain African. It is White countries and only White countries that are being flooded with non-Whites and it is every single White country without exception. None of that is of concern to the author.
Imagine if Africa was undergoing forced assimilation and mass immigration of non-blacks to the point that every single African country would be non-black in a 40 or 50 years. It would rightly be called genocide. Yet this is exactly what is happening to every single White country. This is the central fact of our age, and the one the author willingly ignores in this book
Can I guess who a person like this would vote for in the upcoming U.S. presidential election? You get three guesses and the first two don’t count!
Next on the list…
Or, is your shipping lane open for business?
While I stood folding clothes in the master bedroom last night, I saw in my thoughts an image that startled me – a protest on sea, where crude oil-laden ships were blockaded by the simplest of technologies.
Some images are truly figments of my imagination.
I hope this one is, too…
Else, the image of Obama repeating history, a black man subject to the whims of his virtual white wife (H. Clinton), just like his father before him, will set a bad precedent for national decisionmaking issues in the not-so-distant future. We only think we can escape history, don’t we?
I’m glad that my thoughts are dominated by humorous renditions of current events, rather than trying to believe that writing an alternative parallel universe in a blog is anything close to the reality of a world that treats the blog as anything more than a subset of states of energy.
When was the last time you looked at the inequality inherent in the atomic chemistry chart (“periodic table of elements”) that dominates many a school science lab? Social engineering is built into classrooms, setting a stage that makes it easy to distinguish the public education students from the rest.
And makes my humorous views easier to generate…
How shall the storyline entertain me today?
Der Spiegel und The Beagle
Have you ever read a story where the main characters you’d grown to love simply disappeared?
In such a case, the writer had better hook the readers strongly because a storyline is as much about the characters as about the plots.
Or is it?
In this storyline, where billions of us depend on each other for fuel, food, clothing and shelter, what happens to the storyline if we all disappear?
After all, aren’t we also the readers?
Or are we?
What if this story was written for (a set or sets of) states of energy that are not of our genetic code sequence?
Perhaps I am giving too much away at this juncture. I don’t know.
We can spend time here arguing about whether the best storyline shows or tells but in either case the storyline is and the storyline continues with or without us.
It is in that direction that our storyline proceeds from this point.
How our lives do or do not connect to the storyline from this point forward is up to your interpretation.
We in this storyline who have served as characters on the Committee who assigned subcommittees to put into play certain events may reappear but our appearance is irrelevant. We are like the fables of old. No, we ARE the fables of old, retold.
There will be members of the billionaires club whom you may recognise playing games with your lives for pure entertainment. We ask that you cooperate kindly and act out your roles with the dignity and grace you deserve.
As for me, I return to my humble self, squeezing technology in my fingers until stories drip out like blood from turnips, relying on my network of spies out in the open sending the most obvious signs of what happens [supposedly] behind closed doors, where my spies stand and listen to the conversations as people walk out and about on their walkabouts, looking for phrases and word trails that give away thought patterns which fill in the blank places that shape the missing information clear as dry pavement under umbrellas in the rain.
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Thanks to Anthony at Best Buy Mobile, Patty at Dreamland BBQ, and the kids working in the Madison Square Mall, which is so much like a ghost town it ought to be converted into a business office mall or headquarters for a bunch of incubated startups on the edge of one of the largest technology parks in America — talk about an ideal place for synergy!
Link of the day: affiliate marketing for a favourite product line of mine.
Two Intel news bits about intel:
The Illusion of Power
You fans of “The Art of War” know where part of this storyline is going, don’t you?
Yeah, I thought so.
That’s why I was going to label this blog entry “The War to End All Wars” but I knew you already had it figured out.
You see, some of my male friends think that giving women power makes us weaker overall, citing the decline of companies like HP and the weakening of the U.S. in the eyes of Islamic countries that have no respect for Hillary Clinton.
Well, there’s only one way to show them if their theory is correct.
Put Clinton to the test.
In other words, is she or is she not a puppet of the Saudis, the Israelis, the Chinese, the Indians and/or the Russians?
Or simply a corporate spokesperson?
Is she her own woman?
Can she stand up to a world turning against the U.S., which is quickly becoming an ignorant banana republic?
If not…?
Well, my male friends are only partially right to begin with because there are plenty of examples of women who’ve been successful, including the Australian (Gillard) and UK (Thatcher) PMs in politics (whether Rousseff, the president of Brazil, will be successful remains to be seen), not to forget others around the world like Indira Gandhi of India.
Meanwhile, the male-dominated societies in Muslim countries will be watching closely to see if the U.S. Secretary of State is for or against them and, thus, whether they should spread the word to their American colleagues in the U.S. to vote for Romney, who understands the needs of real men.
More news for the snooze
Earlier today, the government denied receiving accurate intelligence that terrorist groups had devised a reliable method of deploying IEDs in the shape of road reflectors, traffic calming “bumps” and other methods, including fake potholes and manholes, to disrupt the economy.
Spokesperson for the government, Jes Kiddin, adamantly denied the allegations that intelligence gathering is performed by 15-year old hackers, not seasoned employees of the military/spy agencies.
“We have never implemented a policy of using underaged children to determine how foreign governments use pop music to insert subliminal messages into their people; instead, we accept or wish we could collect taxes from corporations that regularly use and abuse children in order to profit from our middle-class people willing to pay full retail prices because we’ve convinced them to pay full retail taxes, too.”
In related news, the Revenue Extortion Service has banned all use of tax preparation software and/or person(s) acting as individual tax preparer(s) that permits any deductions from the full tax burden every citizen must share in order to prop up what pundits are calling the Greatest Ponzi Scheme of All Time. Anyone caught claiming tax deductions, no matter their wealth status, will be denied citizenship and deported to Switzerland. Rumours that millions of poor and middle-class people claiming tax deductions to join rich American expats in Switzerland have not been confirmed. Similar rumours of French citizens with dual Belgian citizenship accepting banishment to Monaco have been confirmed.
Back to the news currently in progress that tries to stir people to care about the earnings redistribution business calling itself a government.
In a conversation with my group of diverse friends…
Finally, some real entertainment news for the U.S. election season to wake me up from the doldrums! I knew my friends would produce stupendous headlines to keep me from nodding off into the morning bowl of oatmeal, drool running from mouth down the sides of the tablet PC scrolling international news because the tickle of my chin hairs felt like a finger swipe as I snored.
I spoke to a few sets of friends to get their take on what they’d like to see, the news behind the news…
In Republican-friendly news publications today, a documentary purported to have been recorded while Obama’s father was alive reveals that the ultimate plan of the Obama family was to work covertly with the bin Laden tribe to give Iran the capabilities to build a nuclear bomb, destroying Israel once and for all.
In Arabic-language news publications today, the Islamic leaders who, Allah be praised, believe that no man can purely be of two religions, asked their followers to prove, once and for all, whether Obama should have to demonstrate true loyalty to his professed religion, Christianity, or loyalty to the religion of his father, Islam, Allah be praised.
In science news today, a group of first graders asked President Obama to read a passage of one of his autobiographies to show where, in his youth, he was first inspired to want to put politics ahead of a promising career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
The construction industry today announced a new plan to work with the Obama administration to boost business, including support for several legislative acts that reduce government spending to prevent the U.S. from receiving a lowered value from a bogus rating agency by eliminating all environmental, labour and other regulations that slow construction and force businesses to give highly-inflated wages, safe working conditions and allegedly competed contracts for government construction projects but, instead, will include enough bribes…graft…off-the-book fees to fill the government’s coffers without increasing taxes or imposing the need for ethical policies and procedures.
The Society for Creative Anachronisms announced a new category called The Crusades that re-enacts the European kings’ actions to placate their people in honouring popular religious practices such as Catholicism and worship of popular political figures like Obama by staging a series of Muhammadan protests in the old Ottoman Empire, making the U.S. military and its allies perform the role of the Crusaders by defending U.S. interests in north Africa and the Holy Land.
Zionist websites today decried the mistake of electing Obama president of the United States, seeing their worst fears realised as Obama makes a ploy to solidify himself as leader of the Muslims, perhaps even declaring Islam as the only true world religion, indicated in his obvious snub of Netanyahu as a pretext to announce Iran as a nuclear power in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that Israel may or may not have also violated.
Apocalyptic Christians started gathering at a secret commune in preparation for the end of the world as predicted would take place when war broke out in the Middle East, dragging the major world powers into mutual destruction.
The spirit of Carl Sagan sighed today while he waited breathlessly to see if his forecast for a nuclear winter would finally come to pass.
Baseball fans, clueless about world events, placed their bets on which teams would take the final wildcard positions before the regular season ended, a few wondering if Obama had a favourite team in America’s game.
Apple fanboys the world over sliced and diced the news about the latest cookie cutter phone labeled the iPhone 5, praising and condemning the new phone’s hardware specs at the same time that news about political uprisings and Obama’s responses/rebuttals scrolled by on their screens during Internet throughput tests.
Film producers announced the formation of a corporation to start preproduction on a movie titled “Trading Places 2,” where Eddie Murphy, now a retired multimillionaire, is conned into trading places with an out-of-work scientist who has a Nobel Prize in Physics, which the producers hope will inspire the next generation of kids to forgo a career in business for a STEM career much like the original “Trading Places” inspired kids to trade a life of street crime for a life of Wall Street crime, leading to the Great Depression by logical extension.
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