Awesome CGI Short of the Day: Tiny Worlds

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The CG team at Rushes brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet in “Tiny Worlds”, a trilogy of micro-shorts with a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London’s streets when we’re not looking.

Executive Producer: Norra Abdul Rahim
Producer: Caroline Laing
Production Assistant: Alexina Davidson
Head of CG: Andy Nicholas
Lead CG: Andy Hargreaves
Director: Chris Hutchison
TD: Ben De Luca
CG Artists: Chris Hutchison, Craig Travis, David Drese, Liam Hoflay, Andrea Scibetta, Nimesh Patel
Nuke: Noel Harmes
Flame: Martin Goodwin
Sound Design: Tom Martin @ Mcasso
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222 comments
1 andres  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:02:31pm

Amazing imagination.

2 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:13:08pm

I’m dying here…dying.
2.3 seconds left.

3 b.d.  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:14:12pm

Wildcats!

4 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:15:45pm

I. Can. Breathe.

WOOT!

5 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:18:16pm

Someone finally calls out Rick Warren for his historical revisionism:

The first impetus for coming to America

Warren, in trying to argue that Hobby Lobby ought to enforce its religious beliefs on all its employees, wrote:

[…]

The first people who came to America from Europe were devout pilgrims seeking the freedom to practice their faith. That’s why the first phrase of the first sentence of the First Amendment is about freedom of religion — preceding freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. Why? Because if you don’t have the freedom to live and practice what you believe, the other freedoms are irrelevant. Religious liberty is America’s First Freedom.

[…]

The fantasy world that Warren, who is far from the most rabid of fundamentalists, inhabits is characteristic of a core problem our society faces today - unwilling to face reality head on.

And that includes reality about our past.

6 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:24:39pm

More man love for Pooty:

‘He’s brilliant’: Nigel Farage reveals the world leader he admires the most - Vladimir Putin

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has praised Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admires.

The eurosceptic MEP called the Russian president’s handling of the crisis in Syria ‘brilliant’, despite insisting he did not support his foreign policies.

His comments, made during an interview with GQ magazine, came just days after he said the EU had blood on its hands for ‘provoking’ Russia to invade Crimea - while claiming it had been ‘weak’ on Syria and Libya.

[…]

UKIP - scores a .7 on the combined Baldwin-Buchanan scale.

7 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:29:09pm

re: #5 freetoken

I met the man and had to study his “Purpose-driven Church” b.s. in seminary (I got better!). He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Just because they don’t all look like Jerry Falwell doesn’t mean they’re not on the same page.

8 Skip Intro  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:32:26pm

Never forget,

9 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:35:40pm

Really?

Vladimir Putin ‘wants to regain Finland’ for Russia, adviser says

After annexing Crimea and with troops massed on the border of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will not stop trying to expand Russia until he has “conquered” Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland, one of his closest former advisers has said.

According to Andrej Illarionov, the President’s chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, Mr Putin seeks to create “historical justice” with a return to the days of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Mr Illarionov warned that Russia will argue that the granting of independence to Finland in 1917 was an act of “treason against national interests”.

“Putin’s view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors,” Mr Illarionov said.

“Parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership.

10 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:37:40pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout

The Finns won’t be as acquiescent as Crimea should such bullshit turn out to be true (given the source, and your track record).

11 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:38:12pm

Bad news gets worse - looks like the first West African Ebola outbreak is spreading:

Liberian health authorities confirm two cases of Ebola: WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday that Liberia has confirmed two cases of the deadly Ebola virus that is suspected to have killed at least 70 people in Guinea.

The outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola, which in its more acute phase, causes vomiting, diarrhoea and external bleeding, has sent Guinea’s West African neighbors scrambling to contain the spread of the disease.

Eleven deaths in towns in northern Sierra Leone and Liberia, which shares borders with southeastern Guinea where the outbreak was first reported, are suspected to be linked to Ebola.

[…]

12 andres  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:39:12pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout

Hmm… Didn’t that end badly for Russia last time?

13 RealityBasedSteve  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:43:14pm

re: #5 freetoken

Someone finally calls out Rick Warren for his historical revisionism:

Warren, in trying to argue that Hobby Lobby ought to enforce its religious beliefs on all its employees, wrote:

The fantasy world that Warren, who is far from the most rabid of fundamentalists, inhabits is characteristic of a core problem our society faces today - unwilling to face reality head on.

And that includes reality about our past.

Just saw one of the most reasonable arguments against Hobby Lobby and the Religious Freedom thing. Here is the short form. My comments are in Italics

1. The owners of Hobby Lobby formed the corporation as a means to protect their own individual property and finances from those of the company (which is why I formed my little LLC)

2. That corporation (legal fiction for a person) has certain rights and benefits in terms of taxation, among others. (in mine, no income is taxable until it flows back out to me)

3. The owners of Hobby Lobby benefit from the legal and financial benefits of the corporation, as well as the greatly reduced personal liability, since any legal actions would be against the “Hobby Lobby Corp”, not the individuals. My understanding is that there can be certain cases where the owners can be held personally liable, but they are the exceptions.

4. If the owners wish to enforce their religious beliefs on the employees, then they should have to willing forgo all the other benefits enjoyed by the Corporation. They can’t have it both ways.

This argument impressed me, it seems very rational, but is there a basic flaw in it. Love to hear what other Lizards think.

RBS

14 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:47:20pm

re: #13 RealityBasedSteve

Yes. The basic flaw is it misses the “because shut up, that’s why!” exemption of the right wing.

15 Romantic Heretic  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:47:35pm

re: #13 RealityBasedSteve

Make me think of Ambrose Bierce.

CORPORATION (n) An ingenious device to obtain individual profit while avoiding individual responsibility.

16 Stanley Sea  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:48:12pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

I. Can. Breathe.

WOOT!

Was eating with the parents. Missed the end curses! YAY CATS! Deserved it!

17 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:48:24pm

re: #13 RealityBasedSteve

4. If the owners wish to enforce their religious beliefs on the employees, then they should have to willing forgo all the other benefits enjoyed by the Corporation. They can’t have it both ways.

I think this is the key part of what they’re trying for. After the Citizens United decision, it seems the current conservative side of the Supreme Court might be willing to give them corporate protection and let them impose their private beliefs on employees of the corporation.

18 Romantic Heretic  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:51:07pm

re: #17 jaunte

Which means that Hobby Lobby’s owners concern is religious power not religious freedom.

I’m practically at the point that my eyes and ears automatically replace ‘liberty’ and its synonyms with ‘power’ whenever I hear someone on the Right talking these days.

19 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 4:53:08pm

re: #10 Rev_Arthur_Belling

The Finns won’t be as acquiescent as Crimea should such bullshit turn out to be true (given the source, and your track record).

I strongly suspect bullshit on that story. In a conventional shooting war we can still take the Russians, he can fuck around plenty in the Baltics and take what he wants but I don’t think we’d let him take Finland.

20 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:06:33pm

re: #19 Killgore Trout

I don’t think the Finns would let him take Finland.

21 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:08:27pm

re: #20 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I don’t think the Finns would let him take Finland.

All things being equal (which they never are) the Finns alone couldn’t stop Russia if, God forbid, things ever came to that craziness

22 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:12:27pm

re: #21 sattv4u2

No, but the Finns would be a helluva guerrilla force against the Russians. I can’t imagine Putin would want to deal with that headache.

23 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:14:44pm

re: #22 Rev_Arthur_Belling

No, but the Finns would be a helluva guerrilla force against the Russians. I can’t imagine Putin would want to deal with that headache.

yup

24 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:16:37pm

Some of these emos are still ranting about Stephen Colbert. Just saw someone tweet that white people (abbreviated “WP”) like Colbert just never take into account the “power dynamics.”

Because there’s no funnier topic for a comedian than power dynamics.

25 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:16:58pm

re: #19 Killgore Trout

smh.

The Baltic states are NATO members. Unless the US utterly abrogates 65 years of that treaty, we are required to come to their defense.

Period.

No wishy washy concern Trolling allowed.

26 calochortus  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:17:30pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout

Putin would be incredibly stupid to annoy the Finns in that way. He has far more to gain by being nice to the Finns as the eastern part of the country in particular is developing closer cultural and economic ties with Russia.
In some areas the mandatory Swedish language classes are being replaced by Russian language classes and so forth. Threats would probably just push the Finns away from Russia.

27 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:18:18pm

SO ,,,,,,

I found out why my drives off the tee have been hooking so badly at times lately

Seems as if I have a cracked capitate bone on my right hand and when my driver makes contact with the ball, I’m loosening my grip on the club a little so it doesn’t hurt

28 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:19:17pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

That whole argument about how Colbert shouldn’t be
“punching down” in his comedy was just mind-bogglingly stupid.

29 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:20:26pm

re: #25 William Barnett-Lewis

smh.

The Baltic states are NATO members. Unless the US utterly abrogates 65 years of that treaty, we are required to come to their defense.

Period.

No wishy washy concern Trolling allowed.

I don’t believe Finland is in NATO ,, and Finland is what the linked article was talking about

30 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:20:30pm

re: #22 Rev_Arthur_Belling

No, but the Finns would be a helluva guerrilla force against the Russians. I can’t imagine Putin would want to deal with that headache.

It would be closer to the 1939-1940 Winter War than it would be to the 1944 end of the Continuation war.

31 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:21:13pm

A good day of 40k. Salamanders kicked some Space Wolves tail.

32 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:22:17pm

re: #29 sattv4u2

I don’t believe Finland is in NATO ,, and Finland is what the linked article was talking about

KT referenced “letting” Putin have the Baltic states.

33 EPR-radar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:24:14pm

re: #22 Rev_Arthur_Belling

No, but the Finns would be a helluva guerrilla force against the Russians. I can’t imagine Putin would want to deal with that headache.

It was so much fun for Russia earlier. en.wikipedia.org

Simo Hayha was a Finnish sniper that ended up with the largest number of confirmed kills for any sniper in any major war. This was also done in less than 100 days.

34 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:25:05pm

re: #22 Rev_Arthur_Belling

No, but the Finns would be a helluva guerrilla force against the Russians. I can’t imagine Putin would want to deal with that headache.

Mention Simo Hayha and the Russians would run.

35 Teukka  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:25:19pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout

Really?

Vladimir Putin ‘wants to regain Finland’ for Russia, adviser says

re: #10 Rev_Arthur_Belling

The Finns won’t be as acquiescent as Crimea should such bullshit turn out to be true (given the source, and your track record).

Well, Dugins Foundations of Geopolitics has this chilling plan for Finland:

Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be “donated to Murmansk Oblast”.

And other neighbors are in Dugin’s sights as well.

So I would not call it Bravo Sierra just yet, question is whether Putin & Co are following the Dugin gameplan.

re: #12 andres

Hmm… Didn’t that end badly for Russia last time?

Yeah, but also bad for us Finns. Lost territory, paid through our noses in terms of reparations.

36 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:26:12pm

[Rubs eyes.]

37 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:26:28pm

re: #36 Gus

[Rubs eyes.]

Your own, I hope

38 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:27:26pm

re: #15 Romantic Heretic

While I don’t totally agree with that sentiment, there are advantages to allowing someone to try to create a business without having to worry about sacrificing his/her family if it fails.

Having said that, Hobby Lobby doesn’t need that defense.

39 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:28:50pm

re: #25 William Barnett-Lewis

smh.

The Baltic states are NATO members. Unless the US utterly abrogates 65 years of that treaty, we are required to come to their defense.

Period.

No wishy washy concern Trolling allowed.

Quite Concur. But as President Obama noted the rest of NATO needs to do its part, and right now it isn’t.

40 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:29:32pm

re: #37 sattv4u2

Your own, I hope

Well, that would be rubs eye.

41 andres  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:30:03pm

re: #34 Kragar

Mention Simo Hayha and the Russians would run.

Depending on the context, White Death should suffice.

42 EPR-radar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:30:48pm

re: #38 Belafon

While I don’t totally agree with that sentiment, there are advantages to allowing someone to try to create a business without having to worry about sacrificing his/her family if it fails.

Having said that, Hobby Lobby doesn’t need that defense.

There are good reasons for the corporate form to exist, but it is also perfectly fair to insist that corporations have duties they should abide by in order for the owners to deserve the liability shield.

43 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:31:35pm

re: #34 Kragar

Mention Simo Hayha and the Russians would run.

A single sniper would be less effective today against Russia. Russia has sensors that can track the path of a sniper’s shot back to the sniper (though those have to be deployed) and they have thermal sights which can pick out a man’s heat signature in cold conditions.

44 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:31:48pm

re: #28 jaunte

That whole argument about how Colbert shouldn’t be
“punching down” in his comedy was just mind-bogglingly stupid.

Disappointing to see it from people I normally consider pretty sharp.

45 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:33:02pm

Thank you Twitter for boring me to death earlier today which resulted in my taking a long nap.

46 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:33:12pm

re: #32 William Barnett-Lewis

KT referenced “letting” Putin have the Baltic states.

I really find it unlikely we’d got to war if Russian annexed a small region of Latvia. That’s why all these small countries are getting worried, Ultimately they are not important enough to us that we’ll go to war over them and they know that.

47 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:33:21pm

re: #40 Gus

Well, that would be rubs eye.

Not if you had a jar of them on your mantle!

48 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:35:17pm

re: #46 Killgore Trout

I really find it unlikely we’d got to war if Russian annexed a small region of Latvia. That’s why all these small countries are getting worried, Ultimately they are not important enough to us that we’ll go to war over them and they know that.

But do you think we should go to war over them? You’ve never actually made your position clear.

49 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:36:01pm

re: #46 Killgore Trout

I really find it unlikely we’d got to war if Russian annexed a small region of Latvia. That’s why all these small countries are getting worried, Ultimately they are not important enough to us that we’ll go to war over them and they know that.

If only we had some way to know what the Russian decision-makers are saying among themselves.

50 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:36:25pm

Wait! Real Housewives of Atlanta is on TV. Peace at last. //

51 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:36:46pm

re: #46 Killgore Trout

I really find it unlikely we’d got to war if Russian annexed a small region of Latvia. That’s why all these small countries are getting worried, Ultimately they are not important enough to us that we’ll go to war over them and they know that.

SO after 65 years, we walk away from the NATO treaty because _you_ think a NATO member is too small to matter?

Hint: It doesn’t work that way.

52 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:37:27pm

re: #51 William Barnett-Lewis

SO after 65 years, we walk away from the NATO treaty because _you_ think a NATO member is too small to matter?

Hint: It doesn’t work that way.

Doesn’t matter what KT thinks

Will matter what NATO thinks

53 goddamnedfrank  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:38:04pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout

Really?

Vladimir Putin ‘wants to regain Finland’ for Russia, adviser says

CATO Institute asshole sez what?

54 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:38:08pm

re: #42 EPR-radar

You are correct. If they are going to accept the protection of a corporation, they should expect the limitations of one, namely, they are not people.

55 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:38:54pm

NATO Member countries
Albania
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States

56 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:38:59pm

re: #46 Killgore Trout

It’s not a matter of importance. If Russia were to take a chunk off of a NATO member state, then NATO means nothing, and like William I find that unacceptable. If you give a free nation a war guarantee, then you need to be as good as your word.

57 andres  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:39:19pm

re: #46 Killgore Trout

I really find it unlikely we’d got to war if Russian annexed a small region of Latvia. That’s why all these small countries are getting worried, Ultimately they are not important enough to us that we’ll go to war over them and they know that.

I find it highly unlikely. If not the US, then someone else will engage war, and ultimately they’ll drag the US (and Europe) into it.

58 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:39:57pm

I’m really trying not to write about this topic any more, because it’s quicksand. But good freaking grief: Understanding the #CancelColbert Campaign

In our conversation, Park admitted that despite the hashtag’s command, she did not want “The Colbert Report” to be cancelled. “I like the show,” she explained. Instead, she said, she saw the hashtag as a way to critique white liberals who use forms of racial humor to mock more blatant forms of racism. “Well-intentioned racial humor doesn’t actually do anything to end racism or the Redskins mascot,” Park told me. “That sort of racial humor just makes people who hide under the title of progressivism more comfortable.”

It’s important to note here that Suey Park identifies herself as an activist, and does not make any claim to objectivity or fairness. #CancelColbert might have rankled and annoyed people who got Colbert’s joke, but Park says that the point of the “movement” was to argue that white liberals who routinely condemn what she called “worse racism” will often turn a blind eye to, or even defend, more tacit forms of prejudice, especially when they come from someone who shares their basic political beliefs. “The response shows the totality of white privilege,” Park said. “They say, ‘Suey is trying to take away a show we enjoy, so we’re going to start a petition to take away her first amendment rights and make rape threats.’ All this happens because they were worried that a show they enjoyed might be taken away.”

I’m someone who’s very open to discussions of “white privilege” - I’ve seen it at work many times throughout my life and don’t deny that it’s a real thing.

But good freaking grief here. This is ridiculous, shallow bullshit.

59 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:40:02pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Some of these emos are still ranting about Stephen Colbert. Just saw someone tweet that white people (abbreviated “WP”) like Colbert just never take into account the “power dynamics.”

Because there’s no funnier topic for a comedian than power dynamics.

FFS, Colbert was play a role, and yes the role may have been racist, but that does not mean Colbert is. In fact his use of that character to highlight the attitudes of racists suggests he’s the opposite.

60 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:40:07pm

re: #56 Dark_Falcon

It’s not a matter of importance. If Russia were to take a chunk off of a NATO member state, then NATO means nothing, and like William I find that unacceptable. If you give a free nation a war guarantee, then you need to be as good as your word.

How do you say that in Ukrainian?

61 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:40:12pm

re: #28 jaunte
I’m curious if any of the people who are getting angry at Colbert are in any way angry at the person he copied.

62 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:40:42pm

re: #27 sattv4u2

SO ,,,,,,

I found out why my drives off the tee have been hooking so badly at times lately

Seems as if I have a cracked capitate bone on my right hand and when my driver makes contact with the ball, I’m loosening my grip on the club a little so it doesn’t hurt

Stop cracking bones.

It hurts.

63 andres  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:40:59pm

re: #35 Teukka

Yeah, but also bad for us Finns. Lost territory, paid through our noses in terms of reparations.

Unfortunately true.

64 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:42:01pm

re: #61 Belafon

I’m sure they would say yes, but Colbert is somehow aggravating/amplifying the original racism by mocking it.

65 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:42:10pm

“Well-intentioned racial humor doesn’t actually do anything to end racism or the Redskins mascot?”

Right, unlike “hashtag activism,” which is reshaping reality even as we speak.

66 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:42:23pm

re: #62 b_sharp

Stop cracking bones.

It hurts.

Tell me about it!

My thumb and forefinger on my left hand finally feel “normal” after two years, except when it’s about to rain,.

67 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:42:43pm

re: #54 Belafon

You are correct. If they are going to accept the protection of a corporation, they should expect the limitations of one, namely, they are not people.

What I wish were possible, but likely isn’t, would be a long constitutional amendment (it would have to be longer than the whole Bill of Rights and the Reconstruction Amendments put together) that would define exactly what a corporation is, that it is not a ‘person’, and what rights a corporation does in fact have.

68 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:43:41pm

re: #60 Decatur Deb

How do you say that in Ukrainian?

Ask Google.

69 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:44:56pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

“Well-intentioned racial humor doesn’t actually do anything to end racism or the Redskins mascot?”

Right, unlike “hashtag activism,” which is reshaping reality even as we speak.

Why of course. Everyone sits around all day on Twitter. Don’t you know that? //

70 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:45:25pm

Sorry, but from my perspective, Stephen Colbert has done vastly more to awaken people in the US to the reality of white privilege than Suey Park’s self-promoting hashtag activism.

71 EPR-radar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:45:33pm

re: #54 Belafon

You are correct. If they are going to accept the protection of a corporation, they should expect the limitations of one, namely, they are not people.

For starters. I’ve swung far enough left in my dotage that I’d be perfectly happy to include compensation limits as part of the deal for corporations.

If an executive want to make a personal piggy bank out of the company, he hardly deserves the corporate shield.

72 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:45:40pm

re: #68 Dark_Falcon

Ask Google.

That would give a (bad) translation. Looking for something that would make a Ukrainian believe it.

73 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:45:57pm

United States Trends
Kentucky
UConn
#TheWalkingDeadMarathon
#AskTWD
#CapsPreds
Marlo and Kenya
#ISupportShanesha
“Literally”
#espnopeningday
Poor Rumple

Twitter activism is changing teh world!

74 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:46:42pm

re: #60 Decatur Deb

Ukraine is not part of NATO, and neither did we have a pact with them to defend them. What our pact said was that we and the Russians would not attempt to use economic extortion against them, and if a country invaded, we would bring it up with the UN Security Council.

75 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:46:47pm

re: #73 Gus

Are the Kardashians in Twitter gulag?

76 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:46:54pm
77 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:47:29pm

Straw men, moving goal posts and pleading to emotion.

78 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:47:38pm

re: #60 Decatur Deb

How do you say that in Ukrainian?

It’s impossible in Georgian.

79 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:48:10pm

re: #74 Belafon

Ukraine is not part of NATO, and neither did we have a pact with them to defend them. What our pact said was that we and the Russians would not attempt to use economic extortion against them, and if a country invaded, we would bring it up with the UN Security Council.

And they bought that?

80 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:48:16pm

Here’s an interesting map showing US troop commitment around the world.

How would you like to be the 5 US military personel in Latvia.

81 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:48:57pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

From that New Yorker link:

As #CancelColbert grew, Park acted as something of an online personal trainer, exhorting her followers to push the hashtag up the list of Twitter’s trending topics. In response, tens of thousands of people came to Colbert’s defense, many of them apparently outraged at the outrage. By lunchtime on Friday, when Deadspin published a post by two Korean-American writers with the tongue-in-cheek headline “Gooks Don’t Get Redskins Joke,” #CancelColbert had become another online feeding trough, attracting heated commentary from everyone who has ever thought anything about race in this country. (As Deadspin noted, it had also shifted the debate away from Daniel Snyder and the name of his football team.)

Well, that is a new kind of activism./

82 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:48:58pm

I’m not sure if this has gotten wide circulation here, but the Associated Press (via Politico) has some actual facts about the diplomacy going on regarding Ukraine:

John Kerry cancels U.S. return en route from Mideast

SHANNON, Ireland — Halfway home from Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has abruptly changed course and will stay in Europe for talks on the Ukraine crisis.

Flying from Riyadh to Shannon, Ireland, for a refueling stop on Saturday, Kerry decided to turn his plane around and was traveling to Paris for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov scheduled for Sunday evening. Kerry spoke to Lavrov on the flight after President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a call on Friday to have their foreign ministers meet to discuss a possible diplomatic resolution to the Ukraine situation.

State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki on Saturday confirmed the day and general time of the Kerry-Lavrov meeting.

83 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:49:48pm

re: #79 Decatur Deb

It is kind of sucky for them right now, and I personally wish there was more we could do, but your statement I responded to implied that they were to be treated as a NATO member. I was responding to that.

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:49:49pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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Retweet To Impeach!!11111!!!

85 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:49:51pm

Adjective, adjective, straw man. Your argument is invalid.

86 EPR-radar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:49:54pm

re: #80 Belafon

Here’s an interesting map showing US troop commitment around the world.

How would you like to be the 5 US military personel in Latvia.

“Canary in a coal mine” duty, it seems.

87 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:50:11pm

re: #80 Belafon

Here’s an interesting map showing US troop commitment around the world.

How would you like to be the 5 US military personel in Latvia.

Must be Marine embassy SG, and maybe a DoD attache.

88 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:51:12pm

re: #83 Belafon

It is kind of sucky for them right now, and I personally wish there was more we could do, but your statement I responded to implied that they were to be treated as a NATO member. I was responding to that.

They’re not a NATO ally, but they probably wish they had their nukes back.

89 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:51:23pm

re: #80 Belafon

Here’s an interesting map showing US troop commitment around the world.

How would you like to be the 5 US military personel in Latvia.

Security at the US embassy there I’m assuming

90 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:51:41pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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91 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:51:49pm

re: #89 sattv4u2

Type faster.

92 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:52:43pm

re: #91 Decatur Deb

Type faster.

I only have two thumbs,,, and one of them is recovering from a cracked bone!

93 Belafon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:54:36pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

I bet they do, too, and I’m afraid this will further encourage smaller countries attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. I doubt it will actually make a country try to start a program, but it will set the resolve of countries like Iran.

94 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:56:13pm

re: #81 jaunte

That’s exactly why this nonsense is infuriating - what they’ve really achieved with this wrong-headed purity campaign is to take the focus off a much bigger issue, and launch a vicious, pointless, out of context attack on someone who’s totally ON THEIR SIDE.

Mega-dumb.

95 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:59:10pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

That’s exactly why this nonsense is infuriating - what they’ve really achieved with this wrong-headed purity campaign is to take the focus off a much bigger issue, and launch a vicious, pointless, out of context attack on someone who’s totally ON THEIR SIDE.

Mega-dumb.

Purity at all costs!!1 That comic made a mild slip of the tongue? PURGE THE RACIST!!1

Purity at all costs!!1 That Politician made a mild slip of the tongue? PURGE THE RINO!!1

96 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 5:59:51pm

re: #86 EPR-radar

“Canary in a coal mine” duty, it seems.

Also known as US Marine Embassy Guards.

97 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:00:29pm

re: #80 Belafon

Here’s an interesting map showing US troop commitment around the world.

How would you like to be the 5 US military personel in Latvia.

Nervous.

98 Lidane  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:01:49pm

Season finale of The Walking Dead is about to start. BBL.

99 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:02:18pm

re: #96 William Barnett-Lewis

Also known as US Marine Embassy Guards.

Doesn’t work. If US Marines were canaries, then no cat would even eat a canary again.

100 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:02:23pm

re: #97 Killgore Trout

Nervous.

Map shows one guy in Syria.

101 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:02:41pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

lol

Her degree of involvement in a hashtagged cause, she said, depends on how much “free time” she has at the moment

102 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:02:56pm

re: #100 Decatur Deb

Map shows one guy in Syria.

Lonely.

103 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:03:19pm
104 goddamnedfrank  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:03:22pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

I’m really trying not to write about this topic any more, because it’s quicksand. But good freaking grief: Understanding the #CancelColbert Campaign

I’m someone who’s very open to discussions of “white privilege” - I’ve seen it at work many times throughout my life and don’t deny that it’s a real thing.

But good freaking grief here. This is ridiculous, shallow bullshit.

This is the part the killed me:

During our conversation, she mentioned Kanye West and the politics behind his public persona. Park suggested that she, like West, is playing to a part and, in the process, satirizing what we might expect from a twenty-three-year-old hashtag activist. “There’s no reason for me to act reasonable because I won’t be taken seriously anyway,” she said. “So I might as well perform crazy to point out exactly what’s expected from me.”

So cynical and fucked up. If she wants to be a performance artist fine, but the categorical dismissal of any potential to be taken seriously is so much self fulfilling bullshit. Whatever the rationale, she’s decided in advance that honest communication is impossible, so fuck it, why not just make things worse.

105 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:03:26pm

re: #102 Killgore Trout

Lonely.

Runs the PX.

106 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:03:30pm

Hashtag activism. From the comfort of your local fusion cuisine restaurant.

107 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:04:05pm

re: #100 Decatur Deb

Map shows one guy in Syria.

shhhh,,,,, nobody is supposed to know!!
NOW you’ve blown it

108 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:04:06pm

re: #104 goddamnedfrank

This is the part the killed me:

So cynical and fucked up. If she wants to be a performance artist fine, but the categorical dismissal of any potential to be taken seriously is so much self fulfilling bullshit. Whatever the rationale, she’s decided in advance that honest communication is impossible, so fuck it, why not just make things worse.

She’s 23 years old.

109 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:04:36pm

re: #106 Gus

Hey, I’m not going to let my newfound concern for the plight of native Americans get in the way of watching Scandal.

110 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:04:58pm

re: #99 Dark_Falcon

Doesn’t work. If US Marines were canaries, then no cat would even eat a canary again.

Marines come, marines go. The army abides. Cat’s are the army ;)

111 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:05:03pm

re: #108 Charles Johnson

She’s 23 years old.

Pity.

112 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:05:12pm

re: #105 Decatur Deb

Runs the PX.

At least the two guys in Lithuania can play cards.

113 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:06:10pm

re: #112 Killgore Trout

At least the two guys in Lithuania can play cards.

So can the one in Syria

gamezebo.com

114 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:07:13pm

I’m waiting for them to say something wrong on Cosmos. re: #109 jaunte

Hey, I’m not going to let my newfound concern for the plight of native Americans get in the way of watching Scandal.

Let me see if I can get a few activist Tweets out from my 2015 Tesla.

115 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:08:02pm

re: #109 jaunte

Hey, I’m not going to let my newfound concern for the plight of native Americans get in the way of watching Scandal.

BAM.

116 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:08:14pm

re: #110 William Barnett-Lewis

Marines come, marines go. The army abides. Cat’s are the army ;)

So the Army is The Dude?

//

117 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:08:37pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

I’m just glad no one was watching what I said when I was 23.

118 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:09:19pm

re: #117 jaunte

I’m just glad no one was watching what I said when I was 23.

I was just thinking the same thing.

119 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:09:35pm

re: #117 jaunte

I’m just glad no one was watching what I said when I was 23.

She still is.

120 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:09:51pm

re: #117 jaunte

I’m just glad no one was watching what I said when I was 23.

They were

Snowden has the tapes!!

121 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:10:03pm

re: #120 sattv4u2

Ackk!

122 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:10:22pm

I’m a Twitter activist!

…

Quiet. Walking Dead is on.

123 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:13:51pm

I think it’s neat that people can come together to watch the finale of a show that involves the killing of things and the use of firearms.

124 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:15:02pm

CNN will be relieved to know they can continue their search for Perth without time limit:

Australian PM: ‘I’m Not Putting a Time Limit’ on Jet Search

125 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:15:24pm

re: #123 Gus

I think it’s neat that people can come together to watch the finale of a show that involves the killing of things and the use of firearms.

Well, that’s about 75% of network and cable. L&O reruns are half of that.

126 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:15:44pm

re: #123 Gus

I think it’s neat that people can come together to watch the finale of a show that involves the killing of things and the use of firearms.

There are swords, too! And lots of sticks.

127 Usually refered to as anyways  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:15:55pm

Ukraine crisis: John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov hold more talks in Paris but fail to reach agreement

The United States and Russia failed to reach a deal on Ukraine during talks in Paris this morning, but did agree to hold more discussions.

US secretary of state John Kerry said talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov had been constructive and would continue.

“Both sides made suggestions on ways to de-escalate the security and political situation in and around Ukraine,” he said.

“We also agreed to work with the Ukrainian government and the people to implement the steps they are taking to assure the following: demobilisation and disarmament of irregular forces and provocateurs … [an] inclusive constitutional reform process and free and fair elections monitored by the international community.”
Russia points to Ukraine federalism as possible solution.

Read more…

128 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:15:58pm

re: #125 Decatur Deb

Well, that’s about 75% of network and cable. L&O reruns are half of that.

Think of the children!

129 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:16:07pm
130 gwangung  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:16:18pm

re: #104 goddamnedfrank

This is the part the killed me:

So cynical and fucked up. If she wants to be a performance artist fine, but the categorical dismissal of any potential to be taken seriously is so much self fulfilling bullshit. Whatever the rationale, she’s decided in advance that honest communication is impossible, so fuck it, why not just make things worse.

No. This is just after the fact bullshitting and face saving.

She managed to piss off and attack every single Asian American activist that’s been doing actual activism (some of them doing for far longer than she’s been alive) e’d have tangible, boots on the ground results of their work on Asian American issues.

This is just willful tantrum throwing. She got taken to the woodshed by other activists who aren’t a member of the 101st Chairborne Division and now she’s sulking.

131 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:16:47pm

re: #128 Gus

Think of the children!

They have to get their own guns—don’t trust the guttersnipes.

132 goddamnedfrank  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:18:00pm

re: #117 jaunte

I’m just glad no one was watching what I said when I was 23.

Disinhibition. We need a whole separate internet with training wheels for people who’s frontal lobes haven’t quite finished developing.

133 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:20:44pm

I think it’s this simple. Much the same as it is with Glenn Greenwald. Some of the personalities involved are just plain repellant.

134 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:21:21pm

re: #129 Charles Johnson

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They loony left isn’t a factor in elections—they went off in a tiff after Nader cratered.

135 klys  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:23:13pm

Is the outrage over the outrage over, or should I head back out?

136 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:25:21pm

#TheGoodWife_CBS

137 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:25:30pm

#TheWalkingDeadSeasonFinale

138 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:25:45pm

The NLRB comes down with an infection of common sense:

The ‘student-athlete’ charade

A regional office of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Northwestern University football players are employeeswith the right to unionize. It’s an unexpected and potentially momentous decision that could change college sports.

If it holds up on appeal, this may well be the first step in a chain of events that brings down the charade of amateurism in NCAA athletics.

[…]

Still, I’d like to draw attention to the refreshingly obvious point that Peter Ohr, director of the NLRB’s Chicago office, makes on page 18 of his opinion. No matter what the NCAA wants you to think, Northwestern’s scholarship football players, he writes, “are not primarily students.” It’s that simple.

Why not? Because math:

•  Players spend 50 to 60 hours a week on football during a training camp before school starts.

•  They also dedicate 40 to 50 hours per week on football during the four-month season. “Not only is this more hours than many undisputed full-time employees work at their jobs, it is also many more hours than the players spend on their studies,” Ohr writes. They spend 20 hours per week in class and more doing homework, sure, but they also work on football outside of official practice time. Ohr’s equation also doesn’t seem to take into account the offseason. But, he writes, it “cannot be said” that they “spend only a limited number of hours performing their athletic duties.”

This is not the crux of the case, but it is a direct retort to the mostly fictive concept of the big-time scholar-athlete. Ohr is saying that Northwestern’s players are athletes first, students second. […]

[…]

139 gwangung  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:25:51pm

re: #135 klys

Is the outrage over the outrage over, or should I head back out?

If you’re white, probably.

If you’re Asian and an activist, no…she’s still apparently sending her followers out against them.

140 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:25:59pm

#ASOT650US

141 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:26:18pm

Tonight’s Naked and Afraid survival show is set in Fiji. If I were naked in Fiji, I’d be afraid.

142 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:26:23pm
143 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:28:01pm

I fear for the future of this country.

144 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:29:28pm

re: #138 freetoken

The NLRB comes down with an infection of common sense:

The ‘student-athlete’ charade

be careful what you ask for. You just might get it!

If the football players on scholarship can unionize, are their scholarships considered part of their “compensation”, and if so, what will the tax rate be on a (lets say) $50,000 a year “free ride” ??

Just one of many worms this open can may reveal

145 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:29:53pm

re: #141 Decatur Deb

Tonight’s Naked and Afraid survival show is set in Fiji. If I were naked in Fiji, I’d be afraid.

You’d also be alone!

146 klys  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:30:57pm

re: #144 sattv4u2

be careful what you ask for. You just might get it!

If the football players on scholarship can unionize, are their scholarships considered part of their “compensation”, and if so, what will the tax rate be on a (lets say) $50,000 a year “free ride” ??

Just one of many worms this open can may reveal

Scholarships are already taxed, if they cover room and board.

Just ask me how I know.

147 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:31:59pm

re: #146 klys

Scholarships are already taxed, if they cover room and board.

Just ask me how I know.

But if they are now counted as “regular income” the tax rate will be at the same as you making $50,000 at XZY corp

148 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:32:14pm
149 klys  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:32:46pm

re: #147 sattv4u2

But if they are now counted as “regular income” the tax rate will be at the same as you making $50,000 at XZY corp

…

The “room and board” portion is counted as regular income, unless it’s for the purposes of things like IRA contributions.

150 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:33:06pm

re: #144 sattv4u2

be careful what you ask for. You just might get it!

If the football players on scholarship can unionize, are their scholarships considered part of their “compensation”, and if so, what will the tax rate be on a (lets say) $50,000 a year “free ride” ??

Just one of many worms this open can may reveal

I hear you, but the way things have been set up is a sham and its about time that was recognized officially. Only after that is done can discussions begin about putting things to rights.

151 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:33:07pm

dammit ,,, supposed to rain next weekend

Ah well. Guess the second coat of sealer on the back deck/ front porch will have to wait another week

152 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:33:41pm

re: #149 klys

…

The “room and board” portion is counted as regular income, unless it’s for the purposes of things like IRA contributions.

I know,,, but the tuition, at 50k ,,,, thats what I’m referencing

153 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:33:54pm
154 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:34:37pm

re: #153 Gus

PaleoPat will be happy.

155 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:37:19pm

RawStory runs other sources’ stories, but at times really mangles the headlines.

Here is the Guardian’s original headline:

Salivary ‘carb breakdown’ gene linked to obesity, study shows

Here is the RawStory headline for the same story:

There’s a gene in your saliva that determines how your body breaks down carbs: scientists

I don’t know if RawStory editors can understand why their headline is wrong, or if they intentionally dumb down headlines for their American audience.

156 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:39:04pm

re: #153 Gus

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Well, of course they’re going to turn in an EPIC FAIL, they’re French!

157 The War TARDIS  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:39:26pm

re: #155 freetoken

Intentional.

158 klys  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:39:50pm

re: #152 sattv4u2

I know,,, but the tuition, at 50k ,,,, thats what I’m referencing

As it stands right now, I doubt most of them are filing properly on their room and board portion, if it is included in theirs.

I still find it hard to see where paying taxes (which works out to be less than tuition by far) is somehow more horrible than paying tuition.

159 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:40:49pm

Results for Front National

160 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:42:52pm

re: #159 Gus

Results for Front National

Did they beat Nate Silver’s projections? ;)

161 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:44:06pm

And on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons

162 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:44:57pm

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

Did they beat Nate Silver’s projections? ;)

Nah. Well, polling was predicting this in previous weeks. Meanwhile in the USA you know how Americans only like polling that satisfies their confirmation bias.

163 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:47:52pm

Speaking of colleges and tuition and such, the following AP story is getting some play:

STUDENTS’ JOBS PAY OFF TUITION AT 7 WORK COLLEGES

Many students spend years after college working off tens of thousands of dollars in school debt. But at seven “Work Colleges” around the country, students are required to work on campus as part of their studies - doing everything from landscaping, growing and cooking food to public relations and feeding farm animals - to pay off at least some of their tuition before they graduate.

[…]

With rising college costs and a national student loan debt reaching more than $1 trillion, “earning while learning” is becoming more appealing for some students. The work college program is different than the federal work study program, which is an optional voluntary program that offers funds for part-time jobs for needy students.

But at the seven so-called Work Colleges - Sterling College, Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Ky., Berea College in Berea, Ky., Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill., College of the Ozarks in Lookout, Mo., Ecclesia College in Springdale, Ariz., and Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., - work is required and relied upon for the daily operation of the institution, no matter what the student’s background. The students are then evaluated on their performance.

“It’s a core component of the educational program,” said Robin Taffler, executive director of the Work Colleges Consortium.

“It does not differentiate between those that can afford to pay for their education, from those that must work to cover their educational costs. And that’s a big deal. No student can buy their way out of this work program. So this essentially levels the playing field because everybody is doing a job,” she said.

Eckstrom works up to 100 hours a semester at $11.10 an hour, so the pay helps with her school costs, she said. She also gets tuition credit for coming a week early for training before the start of the school year.

[…]

Hmmm… I’m failing to see what was wrong with the old Federal Work Study program. The idea is the same - low to medium skilled labor in exchange for a small wage.

If they’re saying that the old program was too stringent - that students who needed it could not qualify for some reason - then they could simply raise the restrictive limits.

I for one think there is no shame in work. Requiring every student to be work a part time job seems to me to run counter to need in many fields for students to stay even longer (5 years) in undergraduate programs because the fields are so technical that humans can’t learn everything in 4 years.

164 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:49:31pm

re: #162 Gus

Nah. Well, polling was predicting this in previous weeks. Meanwhile in the USA you know how Americans only like polling that satisfies their confirmation bias.

I know. Sen. Schumer went after Silver for predicting that Mark Pryor would lose in Arkansas. While that was on some levels DERPy, Schumer really did have to go after Silver. Senators simply can’t admit that they expect another Senator of the own party is likely to lose, because such an admission would make Silver’s prediction more likely.

165 RealityBasedSteve  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:49:33pm

re: #161 sattv4u2

And on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons

Where there is sour cream.

RBS

166 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:53:36pm
167 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:55:39pm

re: #164 Dark_Falcon

I know. Sen. Schumer went after Silver for predicting that Mark Pryor would lose in Arkansas. While that was on some levels DERPy, Schumer really >did have to go after Silver. Senators simply can’t admit that they expect another Senator of the own party is likely to lose, because such an admission would make Silver’s prediction more likely.

Yeah, the 2014 election is all about Nate Silver. Schumer is one of those Dems that the far-left hates one day, and loves the next. Everyone loved Nate Silver in 2012. Now some of these same people are not much different than the unskewed polls fools of 2012. Nate puts out numbers. Either accept them or not. Ignore polling at your peril. Midterms are historically poor for Democrats. Has nothing, zero, to do with the latest polling. This has been history for decades now. It last happened in 2010 and it wasn’t the fault of Ed Schultz’s ranting about staying home to “teach them a lesson.” It’s just history.

168 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 6:59:36pm

RealClimate notes that the IPCC WG2 report is finally available:

Instead of speculations based on partial drafts and attempts to spin the coverage ahead of time, you can now download the final report of the IPCC WG2: “Climate Change 2014:Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability” directly. […]

Here’s the index page:
ipcc-wg2.gov

Note that this is Working Group II, which is different than the science summarization released at the end of last year.

Frankly, I think all these working groups are becoming redundant, and the general population doesn’t know the difference, and even the supposed audience, the “policy makers” probably don’t know or care the difference.

Here’s the summary of the summary:

169 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:06:18pm

re: #167 Gus

Yeah, the 2014 election is all about Nate Silver. Schumer is one of those Dems that the far-left hates one day, and loves the next. Everyone loved Nate Silver in 2012. Now some of these same people are not much different than the unskewed polls fools of 2012. Nate puts out numbers. Either accept them or not. Ignore polling at your peril. Midterms are historically poor for Democrats. Has nothing, zero, to do with the latest polling. This has been history for decades now. It last happened in 2010 and it wasn’t the fault of Ed Schultz’s ranting about staying home to “teach them a lesson.” It’s just history.

It’s history Schumer can’t acknowledge, and for politicians that’s often just The Way It Is. Mark Kirk (R, IL) did something different by publicly refusing to campaign for Dick Durbin’s challenger this year and in so doing has put himself on the shit lists of many Republicans, including me. Senators are supposed to support their party, and concerns about their relationships with senators from the other party should be a much lesser concern.

Some people here may not like my defense of partisanship. That’s OK, but I mean my words as such a defense. Sometimes things really do need to be partisan.

170 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:06:19pm

re: #168 freetoken

James Delingpole has already told the right wing world ahead of time, with no citations or sources, that this new release shows there’s nothing to worry about - just like they do with every new IPCC report.

171 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:08:54pm

re: #170 Charles Johnson

I’m pretty sure Delingpole is hired by the UK media explicitly to do this kind of thing. To the corporate media, Delingpole is like those who write stories about celebrities being caught with strippers - it’s a way to force controversy to sell product.

172 klys  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:09:35pm

re: #169 Dark_Falcon

It’s history Schumer can’t acknowledge, and for politicians that’s often just The Way It Is. Mark Kirk (R, IL) did something different by publicly refusing to campaign for Dick Durbin’s challenger this year and in so doing has put himself on the shit lists of many Republicans, including me. Senators are supposed to support their party, and concerns about their relationships with senators from the other party should be a much lesser concern.

Some people here may not like my defense of partisanship. That’s OK, but I mean my words as such a defense. Sometimes things really do need to be partisan.

Like women’s ability to choose. Like access to healthcare. Like people’s ability to marry the person they love.

Dark, what makes the Republican party so sacred to you that you’re willing to trample on other people’s rights in order to uphold it?

173 Kid A  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:09:36pm
174 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:11:02pm

Speaking of legitimate outrage:
Judge: Probation for du Pont heir in daughter rape because ‘he would not fare well’ in prison

A Superior Court judge who sentenced an heir to the du Pont fortune to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter wrote in her order that he “will not fare well” in prison and suggested that he needed treatment instead of time behind bars, according to Delaware Online.

Via Lawyers, Guns & Money

175 EPR-radar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:15:45pm

re: #174 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Some animals are more equal than others, part infinity.

This shit gets old. Nobody fares well in prison. People aren’t sent to prison because they are supposed to fare well there.

If prison is too awful a place to put a duPont heir, then it is too awful for anyone to be imprisoned.

176 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:16:47pm

I tend to agree:

IPCC’s limp-wristed climate assessment

[…]

Unfortunately, the Summary for Policy Makers released today is not all that helpful to anyone trying to get a concrete understanding of what we might be in for if we don’t get our act together to take this problem seriously. Instead it leaves us with somewhat vague descriptions of what might or might not happen depending on what humans might do to either:

lower emissions; or
adapt.

The report is very far from alarmist, in fact a politician that reads it is likely to be left wondering what they need to do.

[…]

177 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:27:53pm

re: #168 freetoken

RealClimate notes that the IPCC WG2 report is finally available:

Here’s the index page:
ipcc-wg2.gov

Note that this is Working Group II, which is different than the science summarization released at the end of last year.

Frankly, I think all these working groups are becoming redundant, and the general population doesn’t know the difference, and even the supposed audience, the “policy makers” probably don’t know or care the difference.

Here’s the summary of the summary:

[Embedded content]

I don’t read the summaries.

178 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:28:02pm

re: #174 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Speaking of legitimate outrage:
Judge: Probation for du Pont heir in daughter rape because ‘he would not fare well’ in prison

Via Lawyers, Guns & Money

Well, time to destroy civilization and start over.

179 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:30:01pm

re: #176 freetoken

I tend to agree:

IPCC’s limp-wristed climate assessment

The report is very far from alarmist, in fact >a politician that reads it is likely to be left wondering what they need to do.

[…]

The summaries are put together and reviewed by politicians. The only way to get the real dirt is through the full report.

180 allegro  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:32:49pm

re: #174 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Speaking of legitimate outrage:
Judge: Probation for du Pont heir in daughter rape because ‘he would not fare well’ in prison

Via Lawyers, Guns & Money

Affluenza strikes again? Jeez they don’t even have to try to pretend anymore, do they.

181 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:33:32pm

re: #178 Kragar

Well, time to destroy civilization and start over.

This sort of shit has happened in every civilization, and it will happen in any that emerge later. It’s the kind of low-level corruption that never goes away entirely.

182 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:36:31pm

re: #180 allegro

Affluenza strikes again? Jeez they don’t even have to try to pretend anymore, do they.

The judge in the previous case did his best to get a poor black kid in the same situation into treatment. This is far, far more egregious. Also, the previous case was about a minor.

183 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:39:06pm

Got around to downloading the camera and thought I’d post a few cropped and shrunk images for the community.

en.wikipedia.org

A series of tapestries from the 17th century on the life of Constantine The Great. I got pictures of the majority of them in fairly low light and it looks like they came out pretty well. No flash, so it was a pretty long exposure.

Constantine Killing the Lion

184 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:45:04pm

Child rapists should consider being allowed to continue breathing as a lenient sentence.

185 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:45:30pm

Also from the Philadelphia Museum of Art - a few coat-of-arms done in stained glass. With a nice cloudy sky background.

English Royal Coat-of-Arms (16th century)

186 Ming  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:50:28pm

re: #180 allegro

Affluenza strikes again? Jeez they don’t even have to try to pretend anymore, do they.

Absolutely shocking. You’re right; there isn’t even the pretense that there’s any justice happening here. Unbelievable.

Will Mr. DuPont register as a sex offender, or would that be an “inconvenience”?

187 freetoken  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:50:34pm

The economic policy adjustments needed to mitigate additional climate change are significant, quite significant, from a political view.

I just can’t see the US willfully changing from a carbon-burning based economy. Our governing institutions are set up to promulgate as much economic growth as possible within the constraints of personal-morality (e.g., outlawing slavery.)

Almost every State of the Union in recent decades mentions oil, or oil producing nations, or energy, etc.

It’s part of our being.

We equate success with how much energy we can consume.

Maybe a loner here or there in Congress is serious about reducing carbon output, but they really are a minority within a minority (those who even care about the big picture.)

The day the US enacts a carbon tax is the day I will believe we are serious about tackling climate change.

188 Eclectic Cyborg  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:55:29pm

re: #184 Kragar

I fully agree with your sentiment. Child rape is a very real and very underreported problem.

Of most people I know my age, the list of those who WEREN’T molested is considerably shorter than the list of those who were.

(I wasn’t - I consider myself lucky…as sad as that is)

189 klys  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 7:59:06pm

re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg

I fully agree with your sentiment. Child rape is a very real and very underreported problem.

Of most people I know my age, the list of those who WEREN’T molested is considerably shorter than the list of those who were.

(I wasn’t - I consider myself lucky…as sad as that is)

This is one of the issues I have very conflicted emotions on, when the subject turns to prison for rehabilitation versus punishment. What do you do when it is a minor molesting another minor? Where there are clearly mental health issues at play? Obviously support and healing for the victim, but how do you handle the perpetrator?

I freely admit I don’t have answers to this, just internal conflict.

190 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:03:47pm

re: #174 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Speaking of legitimate outrage:
Judge: Probation for du Pont heir in daughter rape because ‘he would not fare well’ in prison

Via Lawyers, Guns & Money

re: #178 Kragar

Well, time to destroy civilization and start over.

191 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:05:21pm

D&D flashback!

“Frog” Helm - used for jousting

More Philadelphia Art Museum. An interesting, but not large, armor and medieval weapons collection.

192 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:08:31pm
193 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:08:44pm
194 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:09:08pm

Stone Bridge on Wissahickon Creek

A sunny, but cool, Sunday up in the Wissahickon Creek valley.

195 The War TARDIS  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:09:34pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

You see this alot onTumblr, especially directed at Steven Moffat.

A number of people with more time than they know what to do with are constantly screaming about how Moffat is sexist and racist. Which I find a little odd.

196 Ming  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:09:40pm

From the Louis CK thread, I notice a journalist whom Glenn Greenwald calls “So challenging, perceptive charming and sharp”, the anti-Israel Rania Khalek, really, really hates this film called Honor Diaries.

So I Googled and, as expected, Honor Diaries looks like a most excellent film!

<sarcasm>It’s almost enough to make you wonder if there might be some suffering among some Muslim people that isn’t caused by Israel and its American supporters! Could it be? Nah… </sarcasm>

197 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:20:53pm

Creationists fucking stuff up example 1214232323472

198 jaunte  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:23:07pm

re: #197 Kragar

“Upon arrival in the state Senate, Sen. Kevin Bryant (R), a self-described ‘born-again Christian,’ proposed to amend the bill by inserting three verses from the Book of Genesis detailing God’s creation of the Earth and all of its living inhabitants — including mammoths.”

That bar is just too low.

199 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:28:16pm

The more they make everything about their beliefs, the more I realize they’re full of shit.

200 Eclectic Cyborg  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:29:04pm

Kragar that really needs to be paged.

201 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:30:14pm

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

Youtube Video

202 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:30:43pm

203 Lidane  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:31:14pm

No spoilers, but tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead was awesome.

Money quote: “They’re screwing with the wrong people.”

Awww yeah. Can’t wait for next season. :D

204 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:31:21pm

205 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:32:04pm

re: #201 Gus

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

[Embedded content]

Always loved the Foo Fighters more than Nirvana. This song is an excellent example of what I’ve loved. Thanks for linking it.

206 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:32:14pm

re: #202 Gus

[Embedded image]

#cancelbathtime

207 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:33:36pm
208 Lidane  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:33:39pm

re: #205 William Barnett-Lewis

Always loved the Foo Fighters more than Nirvana. This song is an excellent example of what I’ve loved. Thanks for linking it.

Foo Fighters > Nirvana. Period. I don’t care what anyone says.

209 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:36:01pm

210 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:36:52pm

re: #205 William Barnett-Lewis

Always loved the Foo Fighters more than Nirvana. This song is an excellent example of what I’ve loved. Thanks for linking it.

That one is one of my favorites.

211 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:37:37pm
212 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:41:20pm

213 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:41:24pm

Paged it

214 Gus 802  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:41:40pm

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Youtube Video

215 Lidane  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:41:50pm

re: #197 Kragar

Dear Creationists,

That is all.

No love,
Me

216 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:43:15pm

Think of how many problems plaguing us today are because “Creationists ensued.”

217 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:47:41pm

re: #212 Gus

[Embedded image]

Saturn V. IIRC, it was the _only_ rocket to never have a launch failure.

218 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:48:35pm

re: #215 Lidane

Dear Creationists,

[Embedded image]

That is all.

No love,
Me

Yep. Their inability to understand theology does not help them either.

219 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:48:49pm

re: #217 William Barnett-Lewis

Saturn V. IIRC, it was the _only_ rocket to never have a launch failure.

It happens to everyone at some point.

220 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:52:12pm

re: #219 Kragar

It happens to everyone at some point.

Only if they ever make more of them again. That was the bet Von Braun won… V2 to SV… was it worth it? Much as I love the space program, I do sometimes wonder.

221 Kragar  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 9:00:51pm

re: #220 William Barnett-Lewis

Only if they ever make more of them again. That was the bet Von Braun won… V2 to SV… was it worth it? Much as I love the space program, I do sometimes wonder.

I guess my subtle erectile dysfunction joke was a tad too subtle.

222 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 30, 2014 9:13:36pm

re: #221 Kragar

I guess my subtle erectile dysfunction joke was a tad too subtle.

Heh. Yep, right past me. :)


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