Obama caves to endless war.

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 1:47 PM PST

2009/12/04 · 13:47

Obama's explanatory speech made no sense on the surface, but revealed much in its obvious axioms. Yes, Obama studied the situation, listened to everyone, and made a decision. I don't think the progressive wing of the Democratic party is going to be happy with what he openly said he plans:

To quote an excellent analysis

In short, the US will be fighting immensely costly wars over a considerable portion of the earth’s surface, in regions stretching thousands of miles in every direction.

Reduced to its essentials, the perspective of Obama and his advisors is a future of endless war to maintain the US’ position as the global hegemon.

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 4:10 PM PST

2009/11/29 · 16:10

James Spader is a valuable treasure to the Western tradition precisely because he displays the entire range of possibilities of thought and character that we all carry, but can hardly stand face to face with. If you can watch Boston Legal and not speculate on your own horrors, you need to watch it again, with no one around, maybe with a tiny touch of LSD.

Spader lays out the incredible possibilities of the human psyche by bringing a vast range of them to life, balanced in some strange way by exploring alternatives of thought.

He gives you the only hint you need when he's quoted as having resisted ideology all his life. He's talking about Christianity, religion, mores and morals, and he's not afraid to let you know it. That's courage, the quality I see the most in Spader's portrayals of humans in touch with their entire capabilities of thought.

CallieDog71

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 2:12 PM PST

2009/11/25 · 14:12

A campaign is not the presidency. It's how you get to the presidency. I was worried this would happen, not that Obama couldn't preside, but that the flash mob that elected him wouldn't be able to cohere long enough to scare the legislators into working with him.

How do we keep this thing going on the new long bumpy road of reality? We're heavy into the meta. Will we get flash mob fatigue?

Walk in his shoes...

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 9:14 AM PST

2009/11/11 · 09:14

Pretend you're Obama, mulling over the entire situation, ALL of it: Military and Medical Industrial Complexes, brainwashed population, frothing media, 24-hour news cycle, embedded bureaucrats, stupid Congressional rules, two illegal wars with real consequences for sudden withdrawal, instinctual popular revulsion for abortion and gay marriage, constant deaths and PTSD infecting the lower class, impending climate crashes, peak oil, collapsing economy, rising world population fostered by five outmoded religions and their fundamentalists, foreign relations with a much more socialist Europe with Islamist problems, a rising Asia with nuclear weapons, prisons and the entrenched drug warriors, scheduling the kids' soccer lessons, advice flying in from everywhere...

It's not easy being President. Walk in his shoes.

CallieDog71

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Thursday November 05, 2009 · 2:35 PM PST

2009/11/05 · 14:35

Focus Fusion is a form of fusion that uses repeating large pulses of electricity to form a collapsing microscopic plasmoid donut to fuse hydrogen and boron and shoot the resulting beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) through a coil of wire and create electricity in the twenty megawatt range.

UNITY is when they produce more energy than they use. They are extremely close to doing so right now.

The apparatusis the size of a two-car garage or boxcar and requires little shielding, since it produces extremely small numbers of neutrons, the bad guys in regular fusion devices. It also captures and converts the x-rays produced into electricity.

They've actually done this, have pictures and detailed processes and patents. Their webpage has been viewed a half-million times already, and is under heavy revision daily.

This could be the the alternative energy source Al Gore hasn't heard about or invested in... we shall see.

A Nobel doesn't make you right...

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Tuesday October 27, 2009 · 11:51 AM PDT

2009/10/27 · 11:51

Reading a fascinating SciAm article on astrocytes, and discovered that neurons aren't the only parts of the brain that think.

And the guy who thought they were got a Nobel.

So often, a Nobel is used as a debate-stopper. But don't worry, Freud is coming back...

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Friday October 23, 2009 · 10:03 PM PDT

2009/10/23 · 22:03

Pure methane, gas bubbling up from underwater vents, escaping into northern skies, adds to the global-warming gases accumulating in the atmosphere. And pure methane escaping in the massive amounts known to be locked in the Arctic permafrost and seabed would spell a climate catastrophe.

Is such an unlocking under way?

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 11:50 PM PDT

2009/10/07 · 23:50

I'm watching the flood of rhetoric, argument, nitpicking and general emotion wear away the rock of reason in the health care discussion.

IF you use the Oregon Plan, where the doctors get together and evolve a list of treatments in order of efficacy and usefulness to the patient, and

IF you pass a single payer Medicare for All plan, and merely expand the existing payout system, and add the appropriate amount of taxes, then the increase in patients will be offset by the saving in emergency rooms, illness prevented and days of work lost, paper-pushing costs of multiple forms by excess office staff in doctor's offices, preventive medicine being phased out, salaries of medical professional bean-counters and high-salaried investment types trying to feed the shareholders, THEN you would end up with a far leaner system, and save such a chunk of money we'd be better off by far.

MEDICARE FOR ALL!

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Medicare for All?

37 votes Vote Now!

Medicare for All?

Best idea, simple,soon, understandable.

35 votes

Public option, when/whatever that is.

0 votes

Private insurance w/eligibility changes

0 votes

Nothing, change is evil!

2 votes

Mothers and Others

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 1:18 PM PDT

2009/10/01 · 13:18

Apparently we're only allowed to comment on people and events NOT in the blog, or comment on people and events IN the blog in the most trivial and crackerbarrel way.

Perish forbid we should engage with each other, question motives intelligently, counsel wise behavior in real life, or look at the dynamics of the group as it relates to itself, or people as they relate to each other!

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A useful direction?

9 votes Vote Now!

A useful direction?

Yes, I understand.

1 vote

I understand, but lack the need.

0 votes

We are electing good Democrats.

0 votes

Perhaps a little group introspection might help.

1 vote

Poo.

7 votes

Qum and get me!

CallieDog71

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Friday September 25, 2009 · 6:37 PM PDT

2009/09/25 · 18:37

Where's the proof that the new facility will enrich uranium past the 5% level needed for power production reactors?

Is this just another WMD scam, with the intent to make Iran look so bad that Israel can get away with another bombing run?

The media are already calling Qum a weapons making facility, but no information has emerged about what level of enrichment is sought.

Any insights into what's going on?

I'm waiting for Gates of War to appear at the UN with a little bottle of weapons grade uranium, or maybe a digital picture of one taken by an MI6 agent. Then Hillary of State can make an impassioned plea of "Never Again!"

Barack's Shell Game...

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 10:16 PM PDT

2009/09/03 · 22:16

Here's what I think is going down, and it's Obama-jitsu again.

What are the absolute essentials for effective and efficient health care?

Everyone must be in the pool, young and old, sick and well. Care must be rationed, using effectiveness research, like the Oregon Plan. Better care can cost more, but there must be a compassionate minimum that everyone gets.

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Monday August 24, 2009 · 2:01 PM PDT

2009/08/24 · 14:01

So now I'm reading in the LA Times that the insurance companies are crowing "Hallelujah!" about mandatory insurance requirements, linked with government subsidies for the poor, which means once again, the taxpayers are going to be paying for a bureaucracy to pay a bureaucracy to deny us care.

Additionally, the InsCos are fighting to REDUCE the percentage of costs they pay to 65% from the common 85-90%.

Add their fully inflated "administration costs" which pay the obscene executive salaries, skyscrapers, jets and Las Vegas "conferences" and you're looking at a successful zombie corporation parasitizing the entire country.

So, what a Payout Percentage? It's under the fold...

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