Truth in politics

Linda suggested this as an interesting website but mostly I suspect that it'll just make my blood boil. Gill hollers for something like this from time to time. I've got to warn him, though, it seems that Factcheck.org leans to the left somewhat. Oh, no! Wait! It just seems that way because the GOP is full of liars and thieves and the Democratic Party isn't. Wow. Who would have thought?

It must make Texas Democrats dizzy

They're fighting to keep a GOP candidate on the ballot.

And to conclude today's burst of blogging

It seems that not only will they violate the Constituion at a whim, they will not allow any court review of their violations either.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/ratner



ITMFA

If I've said it once, I've said it four times...

...invertebrates shall not eat vertebrates.

And this is creepy to boot.

It's been a while since we looked at some science

And, lo and behold! It's still cool!

Once I thought I liked Barak Obama as a national political figure

Now, I know different.

http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060628-call_to_renewal_keynote_address/index.html

Why does everything in our national life now have to revolve around religion? It didn't used to, y'know?

Something from one of the old timey-guys

I stole it from PZ Meyers who stole it from Tom Paine.


"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

"I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?"

How long will it be before they tell us *again* that bin Laden is a top priority?

How many times do they have to lie to the American people before we understand that nothing they have done since 9-11 has been about terrorists?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060704/ap_on_re_us/cia_bin_laden

I'm ready to give the keys to the ISS to China and retire from the field

I'll be surprised if we ever launch another shuttle.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/science/space_shuttle.

The GOP is practising with foreign elections

This makes me sick.