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link Link Yep, indeedie, there are those who will follow the new agenda and won’t like what they end up with. While the IP isn’t the smartest part in the world, this was a smart move in the right direction. Especially for us here in the 6th. France Finds Monsanto Guilty of Lying Read “The Beast in our Garden” Bachmann says she is doing what she was elected to do “So I feel all I am doing is weighing in and doing my job. I’m not trying to be a national voice.” “I would say that I’m exactly doing my job, representing the people of the 6th District, because I’m fighting for them. “ Name one thing. Just one thing you’ve done for us here in the 6th, Michelle. Go back to hiding in the bushes, I’m good with that. Time Magazine Names NASA's Ares-I As "Best Invention of 2009" UH, re-invention. Can you say Saturn as in heavy lift vehicle Leonid Meteor Shower 2009 Viewer's Guide Hey, get your lazy ass outta bed before the sun comes up and go look. Just once in your life, do something crazy!!. Movie review: Laying in bed friday night with a miserable head cold, I watched “Across the Universe”, about two star crossed lovers during the mid to late 60’s. Yep, it’s a musical, with all Beatles songs. I’d recommend it to anyone. And you do know how to watch it, right? 2012-And my wife drug me out Saturday night to see 2012. Just good escapism. Gotta see the special effects, and it’s all about special effects, on the big screen. Grand delusions OH, given todays topic, how could I resist? 5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes It's no surprise that the world gets taken in by hoaxers and con men. They're really good at what they do and most of us are bored enough to believe anything as long as it takes our mind off the cubicle for a while. OK, what’s going on. This is like the second video in the last couple of months of a cow being abducted by a UFO. I mean, do the aliens know something about who the intelligent species really is, or what? Tarryl Clark Sends Out Hard Hitting Pitch Going After Charlatan Michele Bachmann In The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown has once again mined a rich vein from the Gnostic Gospels: this time, the belief that we are all divine, and that we can all access that divine aspect. The word ‘gnostic’ comes from the Greek gnosis, meaning “knowledge” – the early ‘Christian gnostics’ who wrote the Gnostic Gospels believed that salvation lay not in faith and worship of God, but in each person having personal knowledge or experience of the divine aspect of their souls. In short, the Gnostic spirituality was about looking within; the divine aspect was immanent, not transcendent. In the words of Elaine Pagels, an expert on the Gnostic Gospels: For those who care to, think about Gnosticism in context to your life. Controversial Moon Origin Theory Rewrites History If a new twist on a decades-old theory is right, conditions in the early solar system suggest the moon formed inside Mercury's orbit and migrated out until it was roped into orbit around Earth. ...and I was just starting to buy into the cheese thing. The Lost Symbol's Masonic Temple The author was "pretty accurate in his descriptions of the building, symbols and references" to the Temple, says spokesperson Heather Calloway. Though he did not ask for special assistance from the staff, he took the tour "more than once," she says. The Past 5,000 Years Mark a New Epoch in Human Evolution "We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals." OH, I know some people who would fit right in with the Neanderthals. Get Smart! Cow Abducted by Flying Saucer? Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread "Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything. Real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you are in for the ride of your life." Does this look like America to you? But to some, this is their America Why Do We Only Search For Aliens That Resemble Life Here On Earth? “it’s not easy to design an experiment to search for life-as-we-don’t-know it, unless you expect it to be large and complex enough to wave at our cameras.” If it’s not waving, it ain’t alive! New guidance on assisted suicide The Law Lords accepted earlier this year that Ms Purdy, from Bradford, had a right to know whether her husband Omar Puente would be prosecuted if he helped her to travel abroad to commit suicide. Michele Bachmann Makes Psycho-Talk Again What is the difference between a democracy and a republic ? The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time The Ten Most Spectacular Geologic Sites You are being chemically castrated. But the lawyer for Citizens United, Theodore Olson, said federal law is wrongly preventing corporations and unions from airing their views, no matter how strongly held. Be concerned if this law is reversed. Corporations are not people. Like Unions, they are made up of people with differing views. If this law is reversed, the only, and I mean the only voices that will be heard during any election, is that of a corporation. Plain and simple! You will never be President. I know this may be difficult news, but I thought it could save you a lot of wasting effort. I know you think you fit the profile. You’re a Republican governor. You’re smart enough. You’re from a swing state. You’re not totally insane. But you’ve got one critical short coming. You’re a poser. Bachmann: make a covenant, slit our wrists, be blood brothers" Please do! So Stupid! an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006 What Happened to Disney Kids Movies? Out with a Moral to the Story, In with Crude Humor and Worse… What, you’re just figuring out Disney isn’t in the cartoon business anymore? Take an afternoon and check out some of their shows for our kids. Then spend a little time researching a bit about the sublime. Coverage under Obamacare will require an implantable microchip. I’m sorry, but if you’re this stupid to believe this tripe, you should be tagged and tracked like the sheep you are. the Insurance Industry is Feeding Right Wing Radio Hosts Talking Points The way it works is that the industry will hire big P.R. firms that create these front groups that have names that have no association with the insurance industry, and it is these front groups that do the things that you are seeing right now, that try to destroy health care reform by using terms like government takeover of the health care system, or we are heading down toward a slippery slope toward socialism, or we're going to kill your grandpa because of this health care reform bill. Obama Says Insurers Are Trying to Block Change “In some cases what we’ve seen is also funding in opposition by some other insurance companies to any kind of reform proposals.” We've also discovered that water, the essential ingredient for life, exists elsewhere in the universe—starting with our own solar backyard. Robots have spotted gullies freshly carved in the sides of Martian hills—evidence of recent upwellings. In June, astronomers observed geysers of water vapor on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain These guys are smart. I always figured the Antikythera mechanism was part of an exploded time machine. Bachmann turns the spotlight on disorder OK, read the comments, that’s what’s interesting. And once these stories get out there, they're hard to stamp out because our media do such a lousy job of speaking truth to stupid. Vietnam, Iraq and the Spanish-American War were all sold on lies that were unchallenged or even abetted by the media. Clinton got impeached and Kerry got destroyed in large part because the media didn't have the guts to say, "This is nonsense." Bachmann turns the spotlight on disorder OK, read the comments, that’s what’s interesting. 90 years later, experts still unraveling Black Sox mystery Forty-six years after the publication of 8 Men Out, the Black Sox story continues its hold on history lovers as more details of the complex case are revealed in bits and pieces. "The mystery hasn't been solved yet," said Jacob Pomrenke of Oceanside, Calif., vice chairman of the committee. "There's still a lot of information waiting to be uncovered." The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, traveled many paths before he found his Yellow Brick Road and captured our collective imagination On Michael Jackson, I’m sorry but the coverage is ridicules. That’s not to say the man wasn’t talented, that he didn’t have an impact on his profession, but the coverage is simply ridicules and that’s the general buzz around our water coolers. Tesla: The Forgotten Mysteries Nikola Tesla, the Serbian born inventor is labelled by today’s society as a mad scientist, others label him as nobody important hence his lack of recognition in text books and history, others see him for what he truly was, THE inventor of the 20th century, possibly even of the 21st, the man we owe so much too but yet know very little about. There is much mystery surrounding this fact, Tesla’s countless inventions ... Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution" This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution. "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information." But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred. What You Should Know Before You Roll Up Your Sleeve People think Big Daddy will take care of them and they don't have to bother taking care of themselves. This mentality has led to an open season of government and government backed corporate abuse resulting in a decline in the standard of life and health in America. This would be true! Soul Survivor' links WWII fighter pilot to boy in case of reincarnation When details of planes and war tragedies no two-year-old boy could know continued-- even in stark daylight-- Bruce and Andrea Leininger began to realize that this was an incredible situation. SOUL SURVIVOR is the story of how the Leiningers pieced together what their son was communicating and eventually discovered that he was reliving the past life of World War II fighter pilot James Huston. The Inability To Expand Exponentially WORLD EXCLUSIVE: NASA FINDS MISSING MOON LANDING TAPES OK, how does something of significant historical importance get lost to begin with. Bachmann finds conspiracies in the strangest places Conspiracy theories have been a constant in Rep. Michele Bachmann's political career since she first ran for the Stillwater school board in the late 1990s. Hey, I’m a conspiracy nut myself, but I’m not even close to being in this women’s league. The Inability To Expand Exponentially Into thin air - Do humans just disappear? It was nearly 9 pm when the horses were prepared. Bathurst, wanting to get to Berlin as soon as possible, left his assistant and went outside to wait in the carriage. That would be the last time anyone would ever see Benjamin Bathurst. Imagine Wine? C’mon, real liberals drink Jack or Tequilla but we all listen to Lennon. 6 Ridiculous Sex Myths (That Are Actually True) Note the one about size 10 shoes, will you, hon. "Mr. President, do you think it was proper for the United States to restore the shah to the throne in 1953 against the popular will within Iran?" a reporter asked President Carter at a news conference during the hostage crisis. "That's ancient history," Carter replied. Agreed, it was a crude joke. The truth is, there was no implication of rape in the joke, only loose behaviour. and it’s based in history (see: Bristol) "The airship is great because it doesn't have that Big Brother feel, or create feelings of invasiveness," It doe’s now, and I’m digging out my BB gun. All but over for Coleman, experts say Seven months after Minnesota's Senate election, the state's highest court hasn't reached a decision but election law experts agree: Norm Coleman doesn’t have a prayer. Note that part about seven months. And Norm thinks he has a shot at Pawlentys job....Right! So let me offer Congress two pieces of advice: 1) Don’t trust the insurance industry. But I do trust them, because they replaced both my legs all three times and only charged me a buck fifty. The 7 Most Bizarrely Unlucky People Who Ever Lived You can add me to the list. I mean who else has suffered through three different shark attacks and lost a leg each time. See ‘The Beast in our Garden’. Please tell me you wouldn’t expect anything different? And while we are at it, I think we should talk to our German counterparts in, well whatever party in Germany is like the Republicans. What is their name again, oh yeah, Nazis. Anyway, they should probably work on changing the name of the Christian Democrats. How can we accuse the Democrats of being Satanists if they have the word "Christian" right there in their name? "We are in deep deep trouble." Peter Schiff talking about this on CNBC...also a nice graph at the beginning of the video for you to see how the dollar has fallen the last few months. The others in the video are still in denial on what is happening...it's grown quite comical that these freaking idiots don't get it yet.... Did Rumsfeld Ruin Bush? Right, blame everyone except the chief decision maker in charge. Miss California: Fighting for our morally declining culture OR adding to it? How come only ‘Christians’ can claim the moral high ground? And as I read the blog, I get the sense that only Conservatives are allowed to be true Christians with the ‘moral high ground’. Why would I expect anything less? GlaxoSmithKline gets order for 60m swine flu vaccines from the UK Oh Rapture! Add Religious wars to the first sentence for todays write up. Why not! I’m going to go vegetate now.. Assailin' Palin: Complaints deluge gov. Why does this not suprise me? The wave that destroyed Atlantis Lots of big waves in our past,Something else to vegatate about, I ‘spect. huh! A Letter on the Swine Flu Leaked from an MD in Texas Weird and Strange because if it’s true, it’s weird and strange that our Government, our media isn’t telling us everything. OK, I know, they never tell us everything. Everywhere you look, we have been reduced to the fringe and the stupid. If it isn't tin-foil-hat-wearing tea baggers, it is Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal, reducing the average IQ in the room by offering nothing of value to the converstation. It is difficult to sympathize with these people, their comments laced with snobbery and petulance. But you can understand their shock: Their world has been turned on its head. After years of enjoying favorable tax rates, they are facing an administration that wants to redistribute their wealth. Their industry is being reordered—no one knows what Wall Street will look like in a few years. They are anxious, and their anxiety is making them mad. Just gotta love that old fashioned sense of entitlement. I went to college and that gives me the right to cheat and steal you blind. "I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real," Mitchell said on Britain's Kerrang Radio last week. This, from an Apollo Astronaut. Well, if this doesn’t stimulate the gray stuff, look at these quotes from others. Mr. Coleman has a legitimate grievance that not all votes have been treated equally. If the Franken standard of disparate absentee-voter treatment is allowed to stand, every close election will be settled by a legal scramble to change the vote-counting rules after Election Day. Minnesota should take the time to get this one right. My Take: I think Norm is taking his cue from the Republican party, and that’s to deny the Democrats the 60th vote. That said, I still support his right to take it to the MN Supreme Court, and no further. After all, it’s all about State’s Rights, right all you Republicans? Bachmann and Ellison trade barbs Bachmann started the row last week when she said during a radio interview that the controversial "flying imams"... had come to the Twin Cities to attend Ellison's victory celebration after his initial election to Congress. Uh, actually, the six men were off to attend a national conference of imams. Spider-Like “Drone” Photographed
Say what you will, but this is strange stuff. This particular phenomenon is filled with misinfo and outright hoaxes, but what the... On their responsibility as Journalists. O’Reilly: With us now to respond is Glenn Beck. So you understand that this is just the jealousy factor. This is their answer when cornered with the belief they might be instilling fear. Fear of guns, fear of socialism, fear Muslims, fear of democrats, etc Fear-Mongering on the Radio in San Francisco Man, I’m sorry but underneath all that ‘sensible’ talk is some scary stuff if you listen to what she’s really saying. Which is we’re moving to Socialism and Obama is selling our Nation right out from under us. All with half truths and lies. 17 'socialists' in House Asked to clarify his comments after the breakfast speech at the Trussville Civic Center, Bachus said 17 members of the U.S. House are socialists. No names, no facts, no evidence. Just general indictments to instill fear. So, how is all the vitriolic verbiage about Obama in different than what Conservatives were saying about Bush? Be realistic. It’s a matter of ethics and character, not as much policy. For instance, consider Obama’s work ethic to our former presidents. Bush spent a quarter or more of his time on vacation or at his ranch. Then there’s his handling of Katrina, the firing of the AG’s, the constant erosion of our rights not to mention the Plame affair and the fear mongering that Iraq bought. I don’t want your money (Yes I do). Govs. Mark Sanford, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin led the anti-stimulus charge... No Big suprise, is it? Why, even here, they’re fighting over the wish list. Piss Me Off The situation was similar in 2007, when, according to a Housing Link study, Bachmann’s district had a higher foreclosure rate than the rest of Minnesota and the rest of the country. The Republicans Introduce a Budget When they originally introduced their budget through internal communications, the de facto leaders of the party, Sarah Palin and Michael Steele, were very confused about the content and requested clarification. I knew it, I just knew it! Collapse of Ice Bridge Supporting Antarctic's Wilkins Ice Shelf Imminent. "During the last year the ice shelf has lost about 1800 sq km or about 14% of its size. The break-up events in February and May 2008 happened in just hours, leaving the remaining part of the ice bridge in a fragile situation," I know the argument is that Global warming might be a part of a natural cycle, but hey, we should address and prepare for it regardless of the cause. Did you read that part about the breakup occurring in just ‘hours’? Anti-Obama talk worries some on right Glenn Beck, who graced the cover of The New York Times on Monday, teased Friday’s episode of his increasingly popular new Fox News show with images of Stalin, Lenin and Hitler, while telling audiences on Wednesday’s show that he was wrong to have said the Obama administration is leading America to socialism — it’s actually fascism. Conservatives have two basic beliefs. That what’s good for big business is good for America and the other is their religious and moral convictions. Neither belief supports the other. You can’t believe in the basic tenets of Christianity while screwing over the workers of this Nation. Obama to CEOs: 'Show some restraint!' "Show some restraint," Obama said he told the executives, according to an interview he taped Friday with Bob Schieffer of CBS News. "Show that you get that this is a crisis and everybody has to make sacrifices." Well, not to beat a dead pig, but when’s the last time you saw a pig show restraint, much less be concerned that I’m hungry as well? Within 9 monthes we’ll see economic collapse... Don’t believe it? Check out this clip with Gerald Celente. Want more? Here you go. Sidenote, that 2012 date sure seems to keep popping up. What’s the deal with that? More to the point, Mr. Celente has been spot on with his predictions, and that should get you thinking. Taibbi: You know it's funny this morning outside of Penn Station I saw a guy huffing glue out of a paper bag, and he was making more sense than Michelle Bachmann was making. I can't believe it. You need to pass a written test to drive a car in this country but I bet this woman can't even write her name in the ground with a stick. I mean it's just unbelievable to me that this person is in the Congress. Another twist for the unemployed: Debit card fees "Fees should not be attached to unemployment benefits that the taxpayers are paying to help Americans," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, told CNN. "Particularly, these fees should not be attached by banks that are getting TARP money and are being supported by taxpayer dollars." Sad, make the poor pay simply because their poor. “After spending his first night behind bars, mega-Ponzi crook Bernard Madoff cravenly begged the court yesterday to let him out of jail until he is sentenced this summer for running the world's biggest financial scam.” Yea, right, if he can’t handle the first night of the rest of his life, you really think he’s going to stick around if they let him out. After all, spending 70 billion is way cooler than bending over in a 6x6 cell. Duran's cow was found dead with her udders and reproductive organs missing. "No tracks at all," said Duran. "No blood, no predators," he added. Obviously, it wasn’t really his cow. But to say such on MSNBC speaks to me more than the fact aliens are running around our skies. But what do I know about aliens, no one believes me any ways. The Latino Experiance You know, it’s OK that Wal-Mart and NBC want to be progressive and showcase/attract the Latino population, but is is racist to ask, What about me? The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home Just a good read, that’s all. Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? But several unique factors lift Gobekli Tepe into the archaeological stratosphere - and the realms of the fantastical. The first is its staggering age. Carbon-dating shows that the complex is at least 12,000 years old, maybe even 13,000 years old. They Just keep pushing the age of Humans back further and farther and one day they’ll come across the star child from 2001 and wonder, wha’ da hell’. 13 Unsolved scientific puzzles I’m inclined to think about how 96% of the Universe is missing. For some reason, that bothers me, but then again, so does a missing sock.... Look, actually take the time to look who contributes to the Democrats and the Republicans. While this may be just one race, it shouts what’s wrong with this Nation and I suspect it’s true of every single political race. On one side you have hard working, blue collar organizations and unions, and on the other, the rich and powerful. Does that mean anything? Obama Is Serious About Making the Rich Pay Higher Taxes Barrack Obama's first budget proposal fulfills several of the promises he made during the 2008 campaign, but the Corporate Right is poised for a fight. And it’s fight they’re going to lose because they just don’t get it. Bloggers are not journalists, according to Senate bill It’s an old question, this issue of who qualifies as a journalist. And it has been part of the debate over the so-called reporter’s privilege for decades... Thank God! At least now I can have my own damn opinion and claim it as mine. U.S. Map of the Top UFO Hotspots and How to Report a Sighting Go ahead and report it, there’s a nice tight fitting white jacket to be delievered by your friendly neighborhood men in black. Is Humanity a Spacefaring Race? I like the idea of becoming a spacefaring society. It's just a matter of how far we'll fare. Yes, we'll colonize our cosmic backyard; after all, if our species has not spread beyond Earth within a century, then we're headed for eternal internal conflict and armageddon@home. In the words of rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, humans can't stay in the cradle forever. Uh, if we colonize our back yard, and do so successfully, it won’t matter what humans on Earth do. We’ll take off from Mars, or the martians will. Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star In the spring, a team will begin attempts to ignite a tiny man-made star inside a laboratory and trigger a thermonuclear reaction. You do know, that one of these days.... Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind "The plan is to engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain," In what could be one of the most ambitious computing projects ever, neuroscientists, computer engineers and psychologists are coming together in a bid to create an entirely new computing architecture that can simulate the brain's abilities for perception, interaction and cognition. All that, while being small enough to fit into a lunch box and consuming extremely small amounts of power. Now, it’s been postulated that the next step in human evolution is our merge with our technology, you know where we become half human and half machine. Hmmm, can you imagine a machine filled with sexual desire or rage or god forbid, greed? Look at the people they have brought in to manage the TARP money. They brought them in from the Blackstone Group. They brought them in from Goldman Sachs. They brought them in from all the gangs that made the collapse happen! And they’re going to fix the economy? Nope, they are going to steal us blind. Al Gore, in his famous movie "The Inconvenient Truth," had simply omitted to say that for the past 420,000 years that he cited as an example, rises in CO2 levels in the atmosphere always followed increases in global temperature by at least 800 years. It means that CO2 can't possibly be the cause of the warming cycles. When there’s 10 feet of snow outside and it’s 20 below for weeks on end, who the hell cares what caused it. You can’t prepare for it by arguing about the cause. And if anyone stops to think about global warming, they know that warming trends change ocean currents, thus in turn making it cooler in parts of the world. Ergo, global cooling is a result of global warming. Inhofe Statement on Stimulus Compromise "While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and only 7% stimulation. Over the past few days I have fought to include more in the way of real stimulus through higher percentage of infrastructure and defense spending, while working to cut much of the typical government waste often found in a bill of this size. Yet Democrats have blocked these efforts First, spending money to make money is kinda how it’s done. Second, where were you when Bush drove the ec Stimulus Bill Lacks Spending Direction "We have more oversight built into this package than any package in the history of man. If money is spent badly, we want to know about it so we can hold accountable the people who made that choice. And guess what? Regardless of what we do, there will be some stupid decisions made." Tom Daschle, tapped to be President Obama's health czar, was paid more than $200,000 by the health-care industry in the past two years, according to documents obtained by Politico. Bullshit, whose interests will our new Health & Human Services Secretary be thinking about? Retail and Commercial Real Estate Collapses The answer in both retail and the office space - the people who are going to take over that vacant space is nobody! You're going to see a glut of real estate that we have never seen before - ghost malls are going to be spreading around the country. So now, that's where the collapse really happens because how are these people who leveraged all this commercial real estate going to service these loans? The answer is: they are not! We're going to be moving into the Greatest Depression. Hmmm, kinda makes one wonder about the commercial construction viability ‘specially when you’ve just finished reading that Caterpillar is laying off 20,000 positions Then again, it’s just not old yellow. Methane pockets may narrow search for Mars life Methane gas in the Martian atmosphere is concentrated in three specific regions, according to the most sensitive measurements yet made. The discovery will likely stoke further debate on the source of the gas, which could be created through geological processes but might be tantalising evidence of life below the Martian surface. OK, to save you time, there are no known active volcanos on Mars. That said, I have to also tell you that this news fits in with what I postulated years ago regarding an ancient civilization on Mars. Our world may be a giant hologram The holographic principle says that the amount of information papering the outside must match the number of bits contained inside the volume of the universe. Could it be, that’s why we’re spinning our tires, because everythings blurry and we just can’t see where we’re going? On Israel and Palestine No, I am not anti-semantic because I believe Israel is wrong. What news reports did you hear about Hamas bombarding Israel before they invaded? Is it acceptable to bomb a school with children inside or hospital with the sick inside simply because there’s a stockpile of weapons inside. Of all the casualties, the most are innocent women and children and a few terrorists. Israel is wrong and their tactics are those of who they claim to despise. The new Alan Colmes-less Hannity premieres Monday with frequent Fox News guest Al Sharpton filling the liberal seat on Sean Hannity's newly christened "Great American Panel." The only reason to have this divisive woman on our television is to insult our intelligence, to embarrass us here in the Sixth and to hope she’ll spark controversy and draw ratings. She will say nothing that speaks on intelligence or of issues of substance. Detroit Bailout The $70 an hour myth. Seventy bucks isn’t all that much when you consider the cost of health care, pensions and everything else they take out of our checks. The real question is ‘What’s your take home?’. Why I support a bailout. Simply because if any of the big three file bankruptcy, there goes pensions and the Unions along with thousands of jobs. I’m not saying to give ‘em a blank check, but hold them accountable. Not doing so is what scares the hell outta me. University-educated Catholics are to blame for the crisis in the Church and the growth of secularism, according to the bishop charged with tackling the decline in Mass attendance. Yep, Ignorance is bliss. It’s time to end conservative support of Fox News for their association with pornography. The news channel and especially the website have become home to raunchier and raunchier material. This shouldn’t be a surprise given the fact that the owner of Fox News also owns a growing porn empire and sleazy porn magazines in the UK. I actually agree! The problem is much larger than Fox News. Even the Disney channel presents it’s young female stars as adults with not so covert sexual dress and themes. Sex is everywhere and we’re all perverts. The Big Bounce ABHAY ASHTEKAR remembers his reaction the first time he saw the universe bounce. "I was taken aback," he says. He was watching a simulation of the universe rewind towards the big bang. Mostly the universe behaved as expected, becoming smaller and denser as the galaxies converged. But then, instead of reaching the big bang "singularity", the universe bounced and started expanding again. What on earth was happening? This would mean our Universe has always been, with no beginning and no end. Fit’s in with my concept of God. Is Lumley’s UFO still out there? There are indeed mountains in that area, and Lumley’s lost UFO might just still be sitting there, partly buried in a mountainside, with its hieroglyphs perhaps now slightly eroded waiting for some intrepid explorer to find and reveal to the world. Unless, of course, the government or the originators of this UFO didn’t get to it first. Every once in a while, I hear about a new, intriguing case that I just have to do some research on. From an E mail Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. Involvement in Iraq , here is a sobering statistic: There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 40 months and a to tal of 3,567 deaths. That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers. The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. Is 80.6 per 100,000 persons for the same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq. Obvious Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington Obama unveils 21st Century New Deal “We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms,” he said in the address. Working for a School District, believe me when I tell you that over the last two years, I’ve lost staff, my budget has been cut to unmanagable levels and that our new school is already falling into a state of disrepair. Stop to think what the electric bills are on a building the size of even a small school. The Mad Scientist Bringing Back the Dead.... Really. Bubbling cauldrons, toxic substances, insane and dangerous ideas -- whatever happened to that kind of science? Take a look at Mark Roth in his lab in Seattle. It's mad. It's heroic. It's science the way it's supposed to be Meet the world's director of time That would be fine if the earth kept good time, but in fact it doesn't. The earth's rotation rate changes every day by thousands of nanoseconds, and this is due in a large part to wind. When winds push against mountain ranges, they can either speed up or slow down the rate of spin of the solid ground, transferring that spin into the atmosphere. LET'S BREAK THE MODERN MEDICAL MONOPOLY NOW! Killing 784,000 people doesn’t even cover those who suffer chronic, sometimes lifelong illnesses that destroy all chances to lead a full, productive life from the litany of failed toxic drugs, surgeries gone wrong, mistakes in hospitals, misdiagnoses and all manner of problems that have arisen from a system awash in cash and political connections to keep it afloat. 10 false flags operations that shaped our world From Nero to 9/11, via Pearl Harbour and the Gulf of Tonkin incident... Joe Crubaugh provides an "all time greatest hits" of false flag operations, whereby one scenario is repeated... as the world keeps falling for the same lie. From the urban legend that is Michele Reminded of those remarks by Colmes on Tuesday night, Bachmann suggested, as she has before, that she was baited and trapped by the media, which created an "urban legend" about what she says she really said. We know what you said, the entire Nation knows what you said and despite all your attempts to explain and blame, we all still think your both an embarrassment and an idiot. Vast Mars glaciers are spotted The glaciers, estimated to contain at least as much water as Lake Huron and possibly as much as the entire Great Lakes, were found by ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Some years back I was really into the Mars anomaly community. You know, the face on Mars and all that. We were saying then, what our Scientests are saying now. Just wait till they really start digging because there are some strange things in some of the returned pictures over the years. Junk Debt Buyers There's a thriving industry of debt buyers who purchase very old and long-neglected debts for pennies on the dollar. They tack on fees and interest, and then try to collect the entire amount for the full amount plus interest. Interesting BBS Thread Pondering Questions about life after Death Hmmm, we are energy and energy never ceases to exist, it just changes form. Hmmm, with the increase in human population, where do all the new souls come from? Only God exists and we are a part of the whole. Selective damage to car drives UFO theorists Did magnetic waves from a visiting UFO warp, dent and wrinkle the side of a car heading east on Lake-Cook Road? It may be more likely that a deer did the damage. But local UFO enthusiasts are looking into the Nov. 4 event just to make sure, and are planning scientific tests on the car. OK, I’m sorry, I was just in a hurry to get out of here. The checks in the mail to cover damages. Scientists decline to defend themselves Like mentioned, you just can’t think beyond your speck of a planet, attacking those who somehow dare to do so. The Philosophy of War What is Individualism Today I want to escape from election-speak and try to focus for a while on the more fundamental questions. I will define and contrast individualism and collectivism and explore their philosophic underpinnings and their political consequences. Planet in Peril The evidence on global warming is overwhelming. Ongoing scientific research reveals that human-induced climate change will contribute to dangerous new weather patterns and rising sea levels that will gradually swamp many coastal cities, displacing millions of people over the next century. The Mad Woman From Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, is Back Bachmann is a crazy born-again who's even more fun to watch than Palin. She's got the hair, the wonderful Fargo-esque accent and penchant for abuse of power. Yep, but the truth is she’ll get nothing done in my district because everyone outside of my district thinks she’s an imbecile. Duprey, Schmidt deny Newsweek report Regardless, it’s a damn good read, full of little behind the scenes tidbits. I’m sad to say that I think what we witnessed on Tuesday was an awful lot of people who voted for a man based on the color of his skin, rather than the content of his character (or his lack there of). The idiots at these Obama rallies remind me of the idiots who gathered on top of buildings to greet the aliens in the movie Independence Day only to be blown to smithereens by a giant alien laser beam. That’s about what Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi are ready to do to our economy, our energy policy, and our morals in America. To understand this, half of America is stupid and racist. Andy, have you looked in the mirror? This kind of bullshit is in fact the nightmare which must end. The belief that we all must believe as you do, Andy, or we are not as good as you. Simply shameful! Cover this! Inside the nastiest ’08 rumors When John McCain and Barack Obama started running for president in 2007, they were two of the most universally liked and respected politicians in America — men who even members of the opposite party saw as decent, unifying characters — and neither of them inspired much loathing. And come Wednesday morning they will be saying the nicest of things about each other. Good Read The Change Agent "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes," Jackson said. "If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." 6th District Congresswoman To Hold Election Night Party In 3rd District I don’t know if it’s normal for candidates to hold their election night festivities far from those they are elected to represent but in Micheles case, the further she is from me, the After destroying the country, Republicans are planning to rebuild and re-energize their party The truth is, the damage to the Republican Party lies in their fundemental belief that the needs of Major Business and Religion trancends the needs of the American people and the American People. And as our current economy shows, there is a role for Government in business and in protecting our rights.
Where have we seen this before in a losing Campaign? Same kind of stuff we were hearing in the last day’s of Hillary’s bid for the nomination, that’s where! McCain volunteer made up robbery story So, who gave her the halloween carving and the black eye? And a larger question being asked is where the descritption of a big black man came from? The police are saying it wasn’t from them and the initial reporters on the story are saying it came from the McCain camp. Interesting, huh?
You will not hear an apology from Michele Bachmann because she actually said what she means, that Obama is anti American as is any liberal. Anyone who has followed her political career can list a multitude of derisive, divisive and outright ignorant statements. Yes Michele, we are at a crossroads and we are going to liberate our District from your bullshit. If by some miracle, you remain is office, you’re role as our representive will be completely negated, and that sucks! I Didn’t Say That! "I'm not saying his views are anti-American, I'm saying they're concerning. That was a misreading of what I said," she told reporter Esme Murphy. UH, YES, YOU DID! MR. MATTHEWS: So you believe that Barack Obama may have anti- American views. REP. BACHMANN: Absolutely. I’m very concerned that he may have anti-American views. That’s what the American people are concerned about. That’s why they want to know what his answers are...
McCain, though, has a health care plan girded with a similar philosophy. He proposes providing individuals with a $5,000 tax credit to buy health insurance. He would pay for his plan, in part, by considering as taxable income the money their employer spends on their health coverage. So What exactly is Socialism? Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and the creation of an egalitarian society. UH... Isn’t that what Bush just did, you know, the collective ownership thing when we bought stake in the banks? "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom." In other words... White America! You know, I’m uncomfortable with the fact that I’m becoming a minority but I somehow manage to deal with it. And given the fact that she spews hatred and innuendo, I deal with it even better today. Palin and Bachmann sittin’ in a tree McCain calls comments by Georgia Democrat 'shocking' We have become a people that allow a black American running for President to be called a traitor, a terrorist, an Arab, along with calls for his lynching and murder. And if such a terrible thing were to happen, who would be accountable? Those who purposefully spread such hate for political gain, those who repeat such hate or those who remain silent in it’s presence.
A Government that keeps propagating unresolvable issues...to tug at your emotions and create division.
Absolutely despicable and outright disgusting that we, American citizens are held in total disregard and outright contempt. You know as well as I do, no one will be held accountable and the American populace will stay silent and suffer. How sad! We should be screaming for our pound of flesh, and we’d be honorable in doing so.
I wonder how many of these names you’ll see in the Corporate world in the next few years.
Yep, Deregulation and trickle down economics, the belief that Corporate wealth will flow down to the middleclass.
And what Does John Believe? You could argue that Americans overall are better off, because we have had a pretty good prosperous time, with low unemployment and low inflation and a lot of good things have happened. A lot of jobs have been created. But let's have some straight talk. Things are tough right now. Americans are uncertain about this housing crisis. Americans are uncertain about the economy, as we see the stock market bounce up and down. But I think what we're trying to do to fix this economy is important. We've got to address the subprime housing problem. We need to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, which I voted for twice to do so. I think we need to eliminate the alternate minimum tax. Source: 2008 Republican debate at Reagan Library in Simi Valley Jan 30, 2008 And just today, Johns claiming the following. “We’re worse off than we were four years ago.” Hmmm, seems to be telling everyone what they want to hear. Or is he just a flip-flopper?
From 2000 to 2003, she secured over $27 million in earmarks, averaging $6.7 million in federal money every year for her town of about 6,700 people.
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