Nina Totenberg on NPR this morning: “…the federal government will be broadly extending benefits to gay federal employees, as can be expected from an administration that has always supported gay marriage…”
2009: Obama’s Justice Department files a brief supporting DOMA.
But don’t you dare say NPR is biased.
PR isn’t biased. They just aren’t aware of anything going on that happens to speak badly of the President, that’s all. Selective memory, kinda like a lazy husband never remembering what’s on the honeydo list.
Always? I thought the administration only recently “evolved”?
Perhaps I just assumed they had opposable thumbs. I thought their recent evololution had to do with same-sex marriage. Silly me. Once again NPR earned their money. That’s right … never mind. They can’t actually “earn.”
well of course the aging Totenberg would only have nice things to say about the people who put her sister Amy on the bench in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
And remember the uncredentialed Totenberg was the info engineer that shaped and delivered the Anita Hill story.
The other day NPR’s morning edition spent a good five minutes explaining that the IRS targeted liberal groups as well as Tea Party groups for scrutiny.
Although I have no degree in journalism, and I am not given a position of public trust, I know that the word ‘scrutiny’ is not an absolute term, and that the level of scrutiny is critical, as is its breadth.
If government is just a word for ‘the things we do together’, then apparently what we do together is f*ck over the 48% who didn’t vote for the current regime.
I’ll believe that the congress is really in the hands of the ‘far-right’ when NPR loses its subsidy and the stupid incandescent light bulb ban is lifted.
Terry,
Much more on that subject tomorrow.
Much. More.
@ Terry
The key for success for LEDs is to get consumers away from the ideas of light bulbs and fixtures for lighting. LEDs will last for the life of a lamp, for instance, and the lamp doesn’t need to look like a traditional lamp. LEDs can be integrated into any piece of furniture, any wall, any ceiling. I think we’ll see less of people buying LED “replacement light bulbs” and more where people will be lighting rooms without light bulbs, hiding light sources in clever new places. LED makers need to figure out ways to facilitate interior designers, rather than focusing on the light bulb model of the lighting business.
But it is not your job, Emery, to tell consumers (or me) that their choice of lights is wrong. Get over it.
I know people in the LED light business. There is a lot of crossover between solid state lasers and the semiconductor lamp biz. Very tricky. Dependent on speculators and government grants, for the most part. The pattern is that a startup finds someone with a PhD after their name and a good sales pitch. Patent some stuff, sell out to GE, and everyone gets a golden paycheck.
Then GE finds out it can’t scale the tech. They can make LED lamps for $80, not $8. So they send the lobbyists to work on subsidies from DC . . .
When you are selling a commodity, like kilowatts or lumens, economies of scale are everything. You can’t charge more than the market price, and you can’t change the market price. Not unless you’ve got a good lobbyist in DC.
Most Americans who know anything about these regulations remain under the impression that they ban incandescent bulbs, (R-12 refrigerant isn’t banned either), when in fact they do not. But the main point, is that the lighting industry is upset about the regulatory chaos. GE, Philips (a company under severe stress from lower-cost Asian competitors), and Osram have invested huge sums of money in developing new energy-efficient incandescent bulbs on the understanding that the old ones would be barred. Now they’ll still have to compete with low-cost old-fashioned bulbs, and will have a harder time recouping their investment. Sounds like the automobile market in the late 1970’s.
“more where people will be lighting rooms without light bulbs, hiding light sources in clever new places.”
Have a care
EmeryDoug. Someone sticks one of those up Ken Martin’s brown eye and you’ll be blinded. Ray Bans are the ticket.Try not to be such a tool Tom. You claim to be an automation engineer?
What I claim to be isn’t imporant, asshole. Call me a sanitation engineer; as long as I get paid a salary commensurate with the value I bring, I’m good.
I see your point Tom. This gentleman here looks like he could be a sanitation engineer. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Pugripz/Swiftee_Finger.jpg
Good engineers understand complex systems but only demand that those systems are coherent with themselves.. Try not to be such a tool…..
How about those Blackhawks?
Good thing they don’t reside in Detroit, the town would be burning as we type.
Since I am being compensated quite satisfactorily, I’m guessing my employer is satisfied with my technical expertise, Doug. So I really don’t see any value in cut and paste engineering advice from a dimwit such as yourself.
BTW, you know every time some lefty asshole posts that picture, I smile, and today is no different. I may have to update it.
Look deeply into those eyes Doug.
But it is not your job, Emery, to tell consumers (or me) that their choice of lights is wrong. Get over it.
Emery has a hangup about the word choice, more specifically individual choice. In his perfect libturd world goobernement is the solution and provider of everything. He is very content with being a slave.
@swiftee
“Look deeply into those eyes”
OK I will. I see a man with a deep seated sense of self-loathing. I also see a man who has issues with anger, discipline and a lack of self control. My back of the napkin diagnosis tells me; that you lacked a strong positive father influence in your upbringing.
On a different note whenever someone has been especially evil in life we subject them to continuous loops of “beg-a-thons” PBS does (props to POD sr. for coming up with that one) then the NPR ones which are worse because you can literally hear the smugness dripping from their voices. Oh and thanks for the LED’s, like we don’t have enough toxins down in hell already (everything that goes into a dump eventually ends up down here ya bastards)