Politics Stuff

[skywaterblue]

Still continuing: Maureen Dowd still thinks Barack Obama could be 'Sorkinier'.

Charlie Stross thinks the USA's future is too unstable to predict.

Over in the Guardian:
A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed, where America is only one of several great powers, facing an uncertain future it can no longer shape.

More or less.

The Barack Obama plan for science.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

You know why? Because brown people attacking white women (and that's why we gotta regulate who they are and what they do) is quite literally ONE OF THE OLDEST IN THE BOOK.*

The color of the perps isn't the problem. It's the aggressive ideology, supported by religion. For that matter, not all Muslims are "brown people." Those from the Balkans are exceedingly "white," as are the Turks.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I don't really spend a lot of time worrying about Islamofacism. (Sorta the same way I don't REALLY worry too much about Christofacism, although I do hope everyone votes Dem this year to try and stem off some our own crazy religious people.)

Mostly, because of stories like this. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/world/middleeast/27beirut.html?scp=3&sq=turkey%20television&st=cse)

Not that globalization is a perfect solution. It hasn't so much worked for China as made China more interested in buying us instead of bombing us.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Not that globalization is a perfect solution. It hasn't so much worked for China as made China more interested in buying us instead of bombing us.

Since China "buying" us is to our benefit, while China "bombing" us would be to our harm, it sounds like it's working just fine from our POV.

[fashionbeast.livejournal.com]

Uh, no, I'm sorry. The more our economic infrastructure gets ripped out of our country the less anyone will need to bomb us.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

China "buying" us does not equal "economic infrastructure" getting "ripped out of our country." China "buying" us simply means that the Chinese are investing in our economy.