31 January 2007
Glenn Beck to "Good Morning America"
Okay. Now, in little words, tell me what exactly was wrong about what he said?
I've been trying to point out for quite some time that the "contractors" are mercenaries
And, it seems that others are now trying to get the word out about the American "civilian" deaths in Iraq.
This should set off all the impeachment bells
But it won't. Whyowhyo do they continue to give him a pass when he proudly announces he's committed crimes and then even Cheney says he committed one?
Impeach the Mother Fucker Already.
Impeach the Mother Fucker Already.
Shooting in Florida -- sounds like a wonderful modern film noir
I don't mean to belittle the tragedy and pain that family members must be feeling but this looks like a keenly interesting story.
30 January 2007
American Fascists
Chris Hedges has a new book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
, available at Amazon through the preceding link.
He's got some scary things to say but it's not anything I haven't said myself. These people are scary and they're not going away. They're just insinuating themselves into the fabric of our daily life. They've got the advantage that we accept whatever insanity one wants to push if you push it as religion because -- Well, gosh, you've got to respect religion. Horseshit is horseshit and religion is horseshit.
, available at Amazon through the preceding link.He's got some scary things to say but it's not anything I haven't said myself. These people are scary and they're not going away. They're just insinuating themselves into the fabric of our daily life. They've got the advantage that we accept whatever insanity one wants to push if you push it as religion because -- Well, gosh, you've got to respect religion. Horseshit is horseshit and religion is horseshit.
Giant space mirror sounds like a good idea
Reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere most definitely does NOT sound like a good idea.
I've always hoped that technology would get us out of the mess we've made of the planet but I've come to see the end of the oil as the end of the window in which we will be ABLE to do something. We've got to hurry.
But putting something in the atmosphere that we take out when it starts getting cold is not the way to do this.
I've always hoped that technology would get us out of the mess we've made of the planet but I've come to see the end of the oil as the end of the window in which we will be ABLE to do something. We've got to hurry.
But putting something in the atmosphere that we take out when it starts getting cold is not the way to do this.
The scare talk about global climate change is getting more heated
Russ Feingold continues to impress the hell out of me with his forthrightness
Russ is trying to walk the walk. Hillary and Barak should be taking notes.
Feingold is another Democrat that I could support for the presidency. Ooooooh! Feingold/Kucinch!! That's a dream ticket for everybody who thinks the Constitution means something and that being a human being means something, too. Too Midwester to win, of course. But I can dream.
Wouldn't it be great for us to be able to talk about electing the presidents we want instead of the ones we have to settle for? The GOP seems to do be able to do better than the Democrats in that regard. You get true believers over there. Over here -- enh -- not so much.
Feingold is another Democrat that I could support for the presidency. Ooooooh! Feingold/Kucinch!! That's a dream ticket for everybody who thinks the Constitution means something and that being a human being means something, too. Too Midwester to win, of course. But I can dream.
Wouldn't it be great for us to be able to talk about electing the presidents we want instead of the ones we have to settle for? The GOP seems to do be able to do better than the Democrats in that regard. You get true believers over there. Over here -- enh -- not so much.
What this administration has done to science is worse than what it has done to the Constitution
And they plan on making it even worse over the next two years. Political officers overseeing regulatory agencies is just one more page from Mussolini's book. Fascism. And nobody will call it that because they think it is just some sort of heated rhetorical trick. It's not. Our government is fascist. By all the definitions you want to apply. It makes me sick.
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Seems socialized medicine works
Or so says the _New England Journal of Medicine _ or this article about the article, anyway.
It has just become accepted that the government messes things up. I really can't think of anything, except the military, that the government runs inefficiently and I can't think of anything, including the military, that the government runs ineffectively, except for welfare programs.
Hmmm.
It has just become accepted that the government messes things up. I really can't think of anything, except the military, that the government runs inefficiently and I can't think of anything, including the military, that the government runs ineffectively, except for welfare programs.
Hmmm.
Homo floresiensis
This remains an under-reported science story. Well, maybe not under-reported but under-discussed by the general public. Imagine what it would mean for these little guys to not be extinct. What would it be like to share the world with another species of Homo? Would we have enslaved them? Eaten them? Ignored them? Did Jesus die for their sins too? Would Hitler have rounded them up and exterminated them or would he have recognized them as proto-Aryans and made one of them a minister in his cabinet? Just too, too interesting.
I wonder if Americans will ever return to the moon
I mean in American spaceships. You'll probably be able to get a visa through the Chinese in the next twenty years or so.
In the meantime, we'll talk about going a lot.
Y'know, my entire life, I've been told that the first man will set foot on Mars in 20 years.
Sigh.
In the meantime, we'll talk about going a lot.
Y'know, my entire life, I've been told that the first man will set foot on Mars in 20 years.
Sigh.
29 January 2007
US Air Force installations in Rumania and Bulgaria
Surely these aren't really Air Force Bases. I mean, as opposed to Air Stations or something somewhat less enormous and nastily armed.
As I was reading the article I thought, why hasn't Russia squawked about these since the only reason they're there is to attack Russia. And then I got to the end and saw that the Russians aren't completely dumb.
As to the point of the article, I find it hard to believe that the Dear and Glorious Leader is being so badly managed that the handlers will risk impeachment by attacking Iran.
Ah, well. Impeach him anyway.
It's nice to know that while the recruiters are having trouble meeting quotas, by god, when they do sign up, there's a place to station 'em.
As I was reading the article I thought, why hasn't Russia squawked about these since the only reason they're there is to attack Russia. And then I got to the end and saw that the Russians aren't completely dumb.
As to the point of the article, I find it hard to believe that the Dear and Glorious Leader is being so badly managed that the handlers will risk impeachment by attacking Iran.
Ah, well. Impeach him anyway.
It's nice to know that while the recruiters are having trouble meeting quotas, by god, when they do sign up, there's a place to station 'em.
Apparently I'm smarter than I thought
This is the science fiction writer I am:
 | I am:Gregory BenfordA master literary stylist who is also a working scientist. |
Which science fiction writer are you?
Oooooh, medical illustraton
A blog on medical illustrations. Pretty neat. Any doctors in the house? I mean any that make a pretense of remaining scholars?
Iranians in SPAAAAAAAAAACE!
So they're going to juice up a theatre ballistic missile and fling a recon satellite up to look at Israel. Okay.
I have remained pretty non-committal about Star Wars for many years because I can see the good of it even if the "how" is awfully difficult. I can also sympathize with the Chinese anti-satellite experiments of a couple of weeks ago.
The dictum that there is no defense against an attack from outer space remains true but there needs to be one.
I have remained pretty non-committal about Star Wars for many years because I can see the good of it even if the "how" is awfully difficult. I can also sympathize with the Chinese anti-satellite experiments of a couple of weeks ago.
The dictum that there is no defense against an attack from outer space remains true but there needs to be one.
Stagger Lee
A couple of my passions come together in one of the books over there on the right -- roots music and comic books.
Somehow this got past me when it came out last year. Thanks to Amazon's recommendation thingee, I had it pointed out to me.
You've probably heard a version or two of "Stagger Lee" (Stacker Lee, Stag-o-lee, etc). Perhaps you recall that "Stagger Lee shot Billy Lyons, shot him 'bout fo' five times." or maybe you remember that it was all about "that John B. Stetson hat." Or maybe you don't have any idea what I'm talking about.
Well.
It seems that there was a murder in St. Louis in the 1890s. Lee Shelton shot and killed Billy Lyons. Before the trial was over, whorehouse piano players were singing a song about it. Over the next thirty or forty years, scores of versions of the song were sung and dozens were recorded. This book attempts to sort out what the facts of the case were, the history of the song, and some of the social conditions that lead to each.
Part graphic novel, part graphic essay, part graphic research paper. This is a brilliant work that deserves to be widely read. Printed on sepia paper with brown ink, it evokes the era beautifully.
But what makes it work as a brilliant piece of art is the introduction of flashbacks that delve into the (fictional) psychology of Lee Shelton and what *really* led him to shoot Billy Lyons. This is a really amazing piece of work for first-time graphic novelists. I strongly recommend that comic book readers or roots music enthusiasts get a copy and read it. It's good stuff.
Somehow this got past me when it came out last year. Thanks to Amazon's recommendation thingee, I had it pointed out to me.
You've probably heard a version or two of "Stagger Lee" (Stacker Lee, Stag-o-lee, etc). Perhaps you recall that "Stagger Lee shot Billy Lyons, shot him 'bout fo' five times." or maybe you remember that it was all about "that John B. Stetson hat." Or maybe you don't have any idea what I'm talking about.
Well.
It seems that there was a murder in St. Louis in the 1890s. Lee Shelton shot and killed Billy Lyons. Before the trial was over, whorehouse piano players were singing a song about it. Over the next thirty or forty years, scores of versions of the song were sung and dozens were recorded. This book attempts to sort out what the facts of the case were, the history of the song, and some of the social conditions that lead to each.
Part graphic novel, part graphic essay, part graphic research paper. This is a brilliant work that deserves to be widely read. Printed on sepia paper with brown ink, it evokes the era beautifully.
But what makes it work as a brilliant piece of art is the introduction of flashbacks that delve into the (fictional) psychology of Lee Shelton and what *really* led him to shoot Billy Lyons. This is a really amazing piece of work for first-time graphic novelists. I strongly recommend that comic book readers or roots music enthusiasts get a copy and read it. It's good stuff.
28 January 2007
Holy Joe wouldn't be saying this if the Democrats had a 52-seat majority
But, when you're wielding as much power as he is these days, you can say what you please. Bastard.
War profiteering is evil
It doesn't matter what I think of the war, these are some evil fucks that need to be thrown under the jail.
27 January 2007
A Kucinich press release
This is why I support Kucinich for president. He doesn't owe much to the House leadership and he's not going to go away.
Can you imagine Dear and Glorious Leader's frat boy attitude toward Kucinich? Can you picture the dismissive smirk and the nasty nick-name? I hope Dennis tears him a new asshole.
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Can you imagine Dear and Glorious Leader's frat boy attitude toward Kucinich? Can you picture the dismissive smirk and the nasty nick-name? I hope Dennis tears him a new asshole.
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26 January 2007
Molly Ivins says it better than I ever could...
...so I'm going to quote her in full.
I will not support Hillary Clinton for president
January 20, 2006
AUSTIN, Texas --- I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.
If no one in conventional-wisdom politics has the courage to speak up and say what needs to be said, then you go out and find some obscure junior senator from Minnesota with the guts to do it. In 1968, Gene McCarthy was the little boy who said out loud, "Look, the emperor isn't wearing any clothes." Bobby Kennedy -- rough, tough Bobby Kennedy -- didn't do it. Just this quiet man trained by Benedictines who liked to quote poetry.
What kind of courage does it take, for mercy's sake? The majority of the American people (55 percent) think the war in Iraq is a mistake and that we should get out. The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it. The majority (86 percent) of the American people favor raising the minimum wage. The majority of the American people (60 percent) favor repealing Bush's tax cuts, or at least those that go only to the rich. The majority (66 percent) wants to reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.
The majority (77 percent) thinks we should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment. The majority (87 percent) thinks big oil companies are gouging consumers and would support a windfall profits tax. That is the center, you fools. WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
I listen to people like Rahm Emanuel superciliously explaining elementary politics to us clueless naifs outside the Beltway ("First, you have to win elections"). Can't you even read the damn polls?
Here's a prize example by someone named Barry Casselman, who writes, "There is an invisible civil war in the Democratic Party, and it is between those who are attempting to satisfy the defeatist and pacifist left base of the party and those who are attempting to prepare the party for successful elections in 2006 and 2008."
This supposedly pits Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, emboldened by "a string of bad news from the Middle East ... into calling for premature retreat from Iraq," versus those pragmatic folk like Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman.
Oh come on, people -- get a grip on the concept of leadership. Look at this war -- from the lies that led us into it, to the lies they continue to dump on us daily.
You sit there in Washington so frightened of the big, bad Republican machine you have no idea what people are thinking. I'm telling you right now, Tom DeLay is going to lose in his district. If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to OWN the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.
Do it all, go long, go for public campaign financing for Congress. I'm serious as a stroke about this -- that is the only reform that will work, and you know it, as well as everyone else who's ever studied this. Do all the goo-goo stuff everybody has made fun of all these years: embrace redistricting reform, electoral reform, House rules changes, the whole package. Put up, or shut up. Own this issue, or let Jack Abramoff politics continue to run your town.
Bush, Cheney and Co. will continue to play the patriotic bully card just as long as you let them. I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. The MINUTE someone impugns your patriotism for opposing this war, turn on them like a snarling dog and explain what loving your country really means. That, or you could just piss on them elegantly, as Rep. John Murtha did. Or eviscerate them with wit (look up Mark Twain on the war in the Philippines). Or point out the latest in the endless "string of bad news."
Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.
To find out more about Molly Ivins and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2006 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.
I will not support Hillary Clinton for president
January 20, 2006
AUSTIN, Texas --- I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.
If no one in conventional-wisdom politics has the courage to speak up and say what needs to be said, then you go out and find some obscure junior senator from Minnesota with the guts to do it. In 1968, Gene McCarthy was the little boy who said out loud, "Look, the emperor isn't wearing any clothes." Bobby Kennedy -- rough, tough Bobby Kennedy -- didn't do it. Just this quiet man trained by Benedictines who liked to quote poetry.
What kind of courage does it take, for mercy's sake? The majority of the American people (55 percent) think the war in Iraq is a mistake and that we should get out. The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it. The majority (86 percent) of the American people favor raising the minimum wage. The majority of the American people (60 percent) favor repealing Bush's tax cuts, or at least those that go only to the rich. The majority (66 percent) wants to reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.
The majority (77 percent) thinks we should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment. The majority (87 percent) thinks big oil companies are gouging consumers and would support a windfall profits tax. That is the center, you fools. WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
I listen to people like Rahm Emanuel superciliously explaining elementary politics to us clueless naifs outside the Beltway ("First, you have to win elections"). Can't you even read the damn polls?
Here's a prize example by someone named Barry Casselman, who writes, "There is an invisible civil war in the Democratic Party, and it is between those who are attempting to satisfy the defeatist and pacifist left base of the party and those who are attempting to prepare the party for successful elections in 2006 and 2008."
This supposedly pits Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, emboldened by "a string of bad news from the Middle East ... into calling for premature retreat from Iraq," versus those pragmatic folk like Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman.
Oh come on, people -- get a grip on the concept of leadership. Look at this war -- from the lies that led us into it, to the lies they continue to dump on us daily.
You sit there in Washington so frightened of the big, bad Republican machine you have no idea what people are thinking. I'm telling you right now, Tom DeLay is going to lose in his district. If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to OWN the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.
Do it all, go long, go for public campaign financing for Congress. I'm serious as a stroke about this -- that is the only reform that will work, and you know it, as well as everyone else who's ever studied this. Do all the goo-goo stuff everybody has made fun of all these years: embrace redistricting reform, electoral reform, House rules changes, the whole package. Put up, or shut up. Own this issue, or let Jack Abramoff politics continue to run your town.
Bush, Cheney and Co. will continue to play the patriotic bully card just as long as you let them. I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. The MINUTE someone impugns your patriotism for opposing this war, turn on them like a snarling dog and explain what loving your country really means. That, or you could just piss on them elegantly, as Rep. John Murtha did. Or eviscerate them with wit (look up Mark Twain on the war in the Philippines). Or point out the latest in the endless "string of bad news."
Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.
To find out more about Molly Ivins and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2006 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.
24 January 2007
An observation by Greg
Our pal, Greg Girkin, observes:
There’s an article on insurance companies canceling coastal property coverage in the latest Newsweek. The article contains little new, except the mention that ***54%*** of the American public lives within 50 miles of the coast. It’s a good thing global warming is a lie. Otherwise, we’d be completely fucked.
Oh, yeah. And where do politicians get off saying the “heartland” is the center of
23 January 2007
Another in a series of things I didn't know
Did ya'll know that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented for Montgomery Ward? Neither did I.
22 January 2007
New climate report
Apparently it's going to be worse than earlier predications had indicated.
It has recently become a conservative position that "Yes, everbody knows that it's getting warmer but we don't know what's causing it so we need to go slow and do more research." Y'know, there's something to that second part: we really don't know the cause. It *could* be that the sun is brighter or hotter. It *could* be that something other than man-made greenhouse gasses are causing the warm-up.
But what if that's so? Aren't we still in a helluva lot of trouble and don't we need to fix the part that we can control? Don't we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what's *causing* the heat? We *know* that reducing the CO2 will lower the temperatures. Why wait? Sure, continue to study the phenomenon but get a handle on our emissions now. While there's still a human race to save.
It has recently become a conservative position that "Yes, everbody knows that it's getting warmer but we don't know what's causing it so we need to go slow and do more research." Y'know, there's something to that second part: we really don't know the cause. It *could* be that the sun is brighter or hotter. It *could* be that something other than man-made greenhouse gasses are causing the warm-up.
But what if that's so? Aren't we still in a helluva lot of trouble and don't we need to fix the part that we can control? Don't we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what's *causing* the heat? We *know* that reducing the CO2 will lower the temperatures. Why wait? Sure, continue to study the phenomenon but get a handle on our emissions now. While there's still a human race to save.
12 January 2007
There *are* Democrats who understand the Constitution
At least one. What I like best about this is how McConnell's hypocracy gets pointed out.
Which brings to mind the fact that McConnell's going to be getting a lot of air time for the next couple of years and he's waaaaay more charming the Harry Reid ever thought about being.
Which brings to mind the fact that McConnell's going to be getting a lot of air time for the next couple of years and he's waaaaay more charming the Harry Reid ever thought about being.
I'm embarrassed to share the planet with some people -- Idaho wolves
I can't even come up with something to say about this other than it's just sad that people like this get handed positions of power, authority, and responsibility.
10 January 2007
I know that the customs of my tribe are not the laws of nature
But, by the same token, not all cultures have equal value. I know that this sort of thing is in no way a threat to the United States but whyowhyo don't we tell these people to stop shit like this?
Like I didn't have enough to like away at night thinking about
Plastics are screwing up our kids. Who is truly surprised by this? We've created a world that we can't live in. I don't have an inkling of what a solution to all the pollutants we fling into the environment would look like.
I'm almost tempted to have one of those analyses done where they take all kind of samples from your body and then report back to you what horrible and deadly chemicals you're filled with. But I really don't want to know.
I'm almost tempted to have one of those analyses done where they take all kind of samples from your body and then report back to you what horrible and deadly chemicals you're filled with. But I really don't want to know.
We conspiracy nuts just *love* being vindicated
It seems that ol' GHW Bush's lies about his early connections to the CIA have been exposed.
Bush Sr's involvement with the Bay of Pigs has long been bandied about among conspiracy folks on the basis of an FBI memo indicating that Director Hoover had briefed "George Bush of the CIA" on the JFK assassination the next morning and the naming of the troop transport ships involved in the actual Bay of Pigs landing: the _Zapata_, the _Barbara_, and the _Houston_. Lovely coicidences all, don't you think?
Bush Sr's involvement with the Bay of Pigs has long been bandied about among conspiracy folks on the basis of an FBI memo indicating that Director Hoover had briefed "George Bush of the CIA" on the JFK assassination the next morning and the naming of the troop transport ships involved in the actual Bay of Pigs landing: the _Zapata_, the _Barbara_, and the _Houston_. Lovely coicidences all, don't you think?
08 January 2007
Victory in Iraq is at hand
I can see now why the Dear and Glorious Leader thinks that a "troop surge" (never ever ever to be called an "escalation") will bring victory. Because it will! All we have to do is keep the central government from collapsing long enough to enact "their" new hydrocarbon laws. And then victory is ours! Well, victory is Exxon's and the rest of those guys.
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And I suppose the Democrats are going to let this one pass, too
I seem to recall having a right to freedom of assembly. Justice Department doesn't think so.
What is it that we've gotten in our heads that lets us excuse these kinds of abuses? What the hell are we afraid of?
Impeach the Mother Fucker Already.
What is it that we've gotten in our heads that lets us excuse these kinds of abuses? What the hell are we afraid of?
Impeach the Mother Fucker Already.
07 January 2007
Israeli plans to nuke Iran
This comes as no surprise. The only thing surprising in the article is the assumption that the US would have give its approval and that the Israeli's might not have the nerve for this. I thought for a while that the writer of the article didn't know or was going to ignore that the Israeli's have done this kind of thing before but he saved it on page 2.
If Israel uses low-yield, mini-nukes the West will look the other way. Iran will not retaliate because the Israeli's wouldn't hesitate to use big nukes on the second pass. Sure there will be lots of anti-Israeli protests all over the world. This is different from today, how? I hate to say it but it looks like there is no downside for Israel.
If Israel uses low-yield, mini-nukes the West will look the other way. Iran will not retaliate because the Israeli's wouldn't hesitate to use big nukes on the second pass. Sure there will be lots of anti-Israeli protests all over the world. This is different from today, how? I hate to say it but it looks like there is no downside for Israel.
06 January 2007
There are things that they do that infuriate me
The White House is not a private residence. It belongs to us and we have a right to know who is coming and going there, goddammit.
The unmitigated audacity of these worthless bastards.
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The unmitigated audacity of these worthless bastards.
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I knew there must be Republicans like Sen. Collins
Apparently, sometimes those that write the bills don't like it when the Dear and Glorious Leader makes those pesky signing statements.
Ah, Congresswoman McKinney a bit too late
Cynthia McKinney entered Artciles of Impeachment against the Dear and Glorious Leader a month ago. She won'ta be returning to the new Congress so she didn't have to worry about bucking the party leadership on this.
But she's made it so that the Congress can't later claim that they didn't know these things.
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But she's made it so that the Congress can't later claim that they didn't know these things.
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05 January 2007
And he's going to open our mail
Our Dear and Glorious Leader isn't done with us and our Consititution -- oh, no. He's going to open your mail, too.
I'm pretty sure that COINTELPRO was deemed by all to be seriously illegal and nothing has changed since that determination. Oh, you say, but we've had 9-11! Hoover thought that the civil rights movement was made up of terrorists, too. That didn't justify opening their mail.
Joshua Crust.
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I'm pretty sure that COINTELPRO was deemed by all to be seriously illegal and nothing has changed since that determination. Oh, you say, but we've had 9-11! Hoover thought that the civil rights movement was made up of terrorists, too. That didn't justify opening their mail.
Joshua Crust.
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03 January 2007
Pat Robertson: "Sometimes I miss." ?????
It seems to me that if God was talking to me, I'd be pretty careful not to repeat what I "thought" I heard.
Y'know, I've got a cousin who is in and out of mental hospitals all the time because he hears voices and claims to have a divine mission.
Y'know, I've got a cousin who is in and out of mental hospitals all the time because he hears voices and claims to have a divine mission.
Science is cool
This is a twenty-frame movie of the last twenty full moons. They are all at the same scale and centered appropriately so the change in size is "real" and so is the wobble. By "real," I mean that the moon is visually smaller (or larger) depending on the moon's distance from the earth, which varies a bit.
Y'know, Isaac Asimov hypothesized that if we didn't have such a large, bright moon that just happens to have the same angular size as the sun, we probably would have been really slow, as a species, to develop mathematics because we wouldn't have had an interest in all those complicated calendrical calculations related to great lunations and solar eclipses and such.
Y'know, Isaac Asimov hypothesized that if we didn't have such a large, bright moon that just happens to have the same angular size as the sun, we probably would have been really slow, as a species, to develop mathematics because we wouldn't have had an interest in all those complicated calendrical calculations related to great lunations and solar eclipses and such.
Biofuels are not a good idea
I've been saying it all along; mostly I've been saying it about corn- and soybean-oils but it's true for whatever else you might want to burn that way: You are just trading one problem for another.
At best, biofuels are a temporary measure -- very short term. The minute you start setting up agricultural facilities with the intent of growing crops for biofuels, you're either reducing the acreage available for food crops or you're clearing new lands for agriculture and both of those are bad things in the long haul.
At best, biofuels are a temporary measure -- very short term. The minute you start setting up agricultural facilities with the intent of growing crops for biofuels, you're either reducing the acreage available for food crops or you're clearing new lands for agriculture and both of those are bad things in the long haul.
We live in a science fiction universe -- Part 43,915
I've read quite a few dystopian future novels and seen a couple of movies where this is the norm.
I understand that it can be quite a bit cheaper but whyowhyo is everygoddamned decision made based on what something costs? This is really pretty frightening when you start thinking about it. How long before gated communities decided to opt out of paying city taxes since they have their own private security firms that can make arrests? Then how long does the city last? Months rather than years.
I understand that it can be quite a bit cheaper but whyowhyo is everygoddamned decision made based on what something costs? This is really pretty frightening when you start thinking about it. How long before gated communities decided to opt out of paying city taxes since they have their own private security firms that can make arrests? Then how long does the city last? Months rather than years.
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