Our Corporate Masters Have Spoken

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Thursday January 31, 2008 · 7:57 AM PST

2008/01/31 · 07:57

For the last several days, I've been thinking about the choice of John Edwards to quit. From the moment, and well before, I knew that the reason for his failure to garner a nomination would be because of corporate media blackout. I often read about the dinosaur that is print media, that it is cheapened and does not print quality news, and that it needs to move aside. But Corporate America just proved that it has a bite, one worth thousands, perhaps millions of votes.

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Wednesday April 11, 2007 · 8:50 AM PDT

2007/04/11 · 08:50

This is a guide specifically for those who suffer from the affliction of self-hate. If you do not suffer from self-hate, then this guide is not for you. I once suffered from this terrible, debilitating affliction (somewhat snarkish), but after I came to realize a few simple points, I was able to free myself from the bonds of hatred that I had forced upon myself.

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 1:52 PM PDT

2007/04/10 · 13:52

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Blueletterbible.org: Mat 5:32
As I was thinking about the Defence Of Marriage Act, and the taxation revenue problems that we have today, I remembered some verses of the bible that people in red states don't like to quote so much, this being one of them. Jesus didn't like divorce all that much, and the churches of today are filled with divorced and remarried individuals. Therefore, as an amendment to end all of the argument about gay marriage, I would like to put forward a proposal.

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Friday May 19, 2006 · 7:17 AM PDT

2006/05/19 · 07:17

My wife and I decide to walk our daughter to the park. I head upstairs to get her a new pair of pants and some shoes. There is the snowsuit that she got as a gift from Grandma on Christmas. We only had one day of snow after Christmas here in Marysville after Christmas this year. One day, and it was only a half an inch or so. My daughter is two and a half, and next year she will be way too tall to wear it.

We leash up our dog, and we don our jackets and exit the front door of our rented two bedroom townhome. It exits to a small concrete patio with a little growing area, and then is fenced against the lawn. A few weeks ago we played in the lawn area. I got some of the kids living nearby to try to headstands and handstands with me. Last week, they posted a sign in the middle of the lawn, warning of pesticides. We don't play in the lawn anymore. Read More

I Become Death

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 6:36 AM PDT

2006/05/18 · 06:36

There are ways that having a child changes your life. One unfortunate thing about this is that you become tied to the capitalist system that we are in, unable to escape due to the necessity (be it biological, spiritual, or moral) to care for this wonderful child.

Now I look at the world, here and abroad. After much meditation, I see that I bring death. The images that seep into my memory; African children starving, Men killing our troops in Iraq after their families are destroyed by our bombing campaigns, Genocide in Darfur, the fear and hatred on television, and the murders in the United States I pour into my mind on a daily basis. Read More

Is this what we're about?

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Monday April 24, 2006 · 7:02 AM PDT

2006/04/24 · 07:02

This is the question that I am forced to pose, after the extremely unfair attacks against Jerome A Paris this weekend. I am, of course, referring to the posts Does Jerome A Paris Hate America? and the post Jerome a Paris is Just, Plain, Wrong. The first one is somewhat fallacious, while the other admits that he is right, but acknowledges, as well, that it will lose elections. I feel that this is correct, but I think that there is a deeper problem in the mere existence of these attacks.
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Peak Oil and Alternative Energy

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Tuesday April 11, 2006 · 8:41 AM PDT

2006/04/11 · 08:41

I read Planning, policy, strategy and energy (part I) today at the Energy Bulletin, where the author discussed two books about peak oil, energy usage, and human ingenuity. I am currently in the camp that believes that the Kunstler, the author of "The Long Emergency" is accurate, with an eventual spiral into small towns, and what the author calls a medieval lifestyle (Although I believe that with appropriate social structure, such a lifestyle might not be so bad, but you still have to deal with global warming). The second author, Peter Tertzakian, has written the book "A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World". It takes a different tone on the future of humans. Here is my take, if you want to hear it. Read More

Environmentalist = Vegetarian. Period.

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Tuesday March 28, 2006 · 10:07 AM PST

2006/03/28 · 10:07

When you sit down in front of your plate every day, you speak louder about your feelings towards the environment than perhaps any other time throughout your day. Previous attempts at pointing this out result in overwhelmingly negative responses, but you don't have to take my word for it. A little bit of science and math (something that we Dems are known to love), are all that are needed to prove the point.
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A Hated, Logical Atheist (an angry rant)

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Monday March 27, 2006 · 9:05 AM PST

2006/03/27 · 09:05

My wife, who was Christian when we married and later became a Buddhist agnostic, found an interesting article the other day that really reflected the state of American religious affairs from a point of view that few people discuss. The University of Minnesota Sociology Department is about to release a study into the American feelings towards atheists. The Minnesota Daily has an article on it.

Now, I am an atheist through and through. I do not believe in a heirarchical system of power in the Universe. I believe that all things are equal. I am a vegetarian because of it and my wife and I are about to move to a complete vegan lifestyle. I am a total pinko commie as well, which is something that follows into my belief system quite well, because I value the good of the many over the good of the one; thus I am forced to believe that wealth beyond necessity is unethical. Read More

Science and its Public Relations Battle

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 9:34 AM PST

2006/03/08 · 09:34

Intelligent Design, for anyone with an open mind who reads its tenets, is not only religious but clearly ridiculous from the standpoint of science. Most kossacks I think would agree that intelligent design is trying to fit a round peg into a square hole - with religion trying to answer the 'why' question, and science trying to answer the 'how' question. The success of intelligent design (and religion) in the United States has less to do with the merits of either, and more to do with the public relations war that is currently going on.

I only bring this up because I recently read the article More Than Half of Americans Reject Evolution, Back Bible. There is no major setback here, as this has been true for a long time. The reason that I'm bringing this up is that the merit of science as a self-reducing explanation of things is simply not good enough to win the trust of the public.

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Why Do They Lie?

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 9:04 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 09:04

Like most people, I don't enjoy it when people lie to me, although lately it has been happening at a much higher rate than I remember in the past. It upsets me to some extent.

Yesterday, I came across Shadow Government Statistics, and that proved to me much of what I have seen in the American and World Economy, it becomes clear that most of the Administration (perhaps excluding the President, whose knowledge of modern situations appears to be questionable, at best), the Media, and some other very major players, are simply lying to us in order to complete some goal. I guess you could call this a conspiratorial diary, if you like.

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 8:05 AM PST

2005/11/15 · 08:05

I live in Marysville, OH, and I voted one week ago for all of the Reform Ohio Now measures (2, 3, 4, and 5). Today, I read the following article, which is a must read for all here. This article nearly brought me to tears, when I realized that my vote no longer counted in this sad state.

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But none of the on-the-ground glitches can begin to explain the impossible numbers surrounding the alleged defeat of Issues Two through Five. The Dispatch polling has long been a source of public pride for the powerful, conservative newspaper, which endorsed Bush in 2004.

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I Become Death

Is this what we're about?

Peak Oil and Alternative Energy

Environmentalist = Vegetarian. Period.

A Hated, Logical Atheist (an angry rant)

Science and its Public Relations Battle

Why Do They Lie?

My Rights Destroyed: Ohio Elections