A Twitter twit that I follow posted this article earlier today on his feed: The Economy Will Be Fine. No, I’m Being Serious. . . . Despite the doomsayers, America will shake this event off like a bad case of fleas. The people shouting “Doom!” the loudest are the very ones who stand to benefit [...]
READ MORE »Monthly archives for September, 2008
“Three Times is Enemy Action.”
“Devilstower” has a fantastically complete and detailed explanation of how three of the largest events/scandals to undermine the U.S. economy in the last 25 years have had the involvement of persons like, oh, John McCain, his financial adviser Phil Gramm, and Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan: Three Times is Enemy Action Alan Greespan is often lauded, [...]
READ MORE »One major step closer to space colonization!
The first privately funded, non-governmental, liquid fuel rocket reached Earth’s orbit this last weekend! Phil Plait comments on it in his Bad Astronomer blog: Space X makes it to space! It’s kind of funny, when you go to the company’s Web site, the illustrations of the craft look so sci-fi, or like a page from [...]
READ MORE »“‘Gang’ brags about beating crowd.”
Too tired and sleepy to comment on…but it doesn’t need any additional commenting by me anyway: Despicable arrogance of self-satisfied culture of police brutality on cs’s “Classically Liberal” blog: Gang brags about beating crowd.
READ MORE »Economic crisis reality checks:
First, we have McCain wanting to suspend his debate and take the V.P. debate off the schedule in order to “work on this economic crisis.” Huh. This is from the guy who has said on more than one occasion that he doesn’t know anything about economics. Plus, he’s not on any of the Senate committees [...]
READ MORE »Offshore drilling–a forgotten yet most important reminder.
Alex Palazzo has a brief blog post with pretty charts letting us know how next to inconsequential opening up offshore drilling would be to U.S. gas prices and economy (although it would be a huge boon to the oil lobbyists working in the McCain campaign and the oil companies they lobby for) Let’s talk about [...]
READ MORE »Capitalist economic “endgame” described.
An amazing article by David Rushkoff that briefly explains exactly how the capitalist system we work under was a contrived system to serve the royals and proto-capitalists (and is not a “natural” development as the hegemony would have you, the proletariat and the petite bourgeois, believe), and how what we are witnessing may be the [...]
READ MORE »Intelligence test for voting.
Warning: Extreme elitist misanthropic opinion follows. I watched the latest “Real Time with Bill Maher” the other day, and he decried the intelligence of the American people as unable to do the right thing when voting, citing as one of his examples the fact that most people (according to USA Today) believe in angels, particularly [...]
READ MORE »“In Doc We Trust”
Hemant Mehta just posted a great little piece on his site about a “sermon” at a UU church by atheist Michael Aquino. The sermon can be found here, but I want to quote w/o permission the snippet Hemant used on his site because it’s so poignant! For the past eight months we’ve put our health [...]
READ MORE »Two great debunking stories.
A recent panel of skeptics spoke on a panel at DragonCon, recorded and presented on the Sketpic’s Guide to the Universe, features a couple of great stories about debunking. I urge you to listen to them in their own words. SGU episode #163 The first story is how the SGU group, early in its career, [...]
READ MORE »Reality gatekeepers.
I’m listening to an episode of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe where they podcasted from the recent DragonCon, and one of the early cool things discussed on the panel is how telescopes from around the Earth were “linked” together to form a giant virtual telescope the size of the planet, and examined the center [...]
READ MORE »Deregulation.
With the spiraling nose-dive of the economy due to deregulation and risk-free corporate greed in the news, I thought I’d start this short post with a reminder that banking and securities and lending industries aren’t the only areas that suffer from deregulation: the herbal/dietary suppliments are also completely unregulated (well, except that suppliments can’t claim [...]
READ MORE »Forced to apologize for someone else’s incompetence.
A year ago, MIT student Star Simpson was nearly killed by police when an airport worker panicked at seeing a benign electric light-up design integrated into Star’s sweatshirt. Long story short, she’s been forced by the state to do community service and issue an official apology–for doing absolutely nothing wrong. They tried to get her [...]
READ MORE »It’s not a 1st and 4th Amendment violation if we say “whoopsie!”.
You’ll recall my post during the Republican National Convention in which I relayed news that not only were legitimate criminals being rounded up before the RNC commenced, but so were peace activists and protestors, civil liberties activists, government watchdog groups…and evil journalists. Many were raided and harassed and intimidated into submission and property was seized [...]
READ MORE »McCain fails mainly on Spain.
Quick post: Apparently the presidential candidate who’s major platform is that he’s the experienced and knowledgeable foreign policy guy and Obama’s the young and inexperienced guy, doesn’t know what hemisphere Spain is in or at least who the Prime Minister of it is. Bizarre McCain Remarks Appear To Reject Spain As Ally The Spanish journalist [...]
READ MORE »Makes perfect sense that it looked like a bordello…
…since Palin was basically whoring out her town to Washington lobbyists for tens of millions in earmarks. (No offense or disparagement meant to “working girls” by comparing them to sleazy politicians. I’d much rather have a beer with a prostitute than either Palin or McCain. Just a beer, though! Seriously.) What am I talking about? [...]
READ MORE »Those who don’t study history…
Maybe I’m over simplifying things, but I find this very interesting: Nearly 150 years ago our country suffers through a horrific war that drastically alters the economy of the country from top to bottom. But once the war ends, the country starts to go through a period of invention and development, exploration and prosperity. New [...]
READ MORE »“Uncritical thinking kills”
The last few weeks there have been a slew of postings and releases (to feature only a couple) regarding the rise of deadly measles and other once fully contained contagious diseases in the U.K. and the U.S. due to people not vaccinating. Enough people in some places have stopped vaccinating as to weaken the “herd [...]
READ MORE »I’m voting Republican!
Hat tip to Ellen Datlow for this.
READ MORE »Democracy…when?
One of the stories mentioned in yesterday’s blog post on the police unlawfully raiding peaceful protestor organizations, homes of liberal organizers not even planning to protest, and confiscating computers and cameras (the dangerous weapons of the press and free public who watch the watchers), was the arrest of Democracy Now! producers and reporter: Update: Democracy [...]
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