New Vaccine Stops HIV
Mon Dec 06, 2004 at 01:00:17 PM PDT
They've been working on this forever, and they've finally made a huge breakthrough. It's really amazing what they've been able to do over the past couple of decades. HIV is no longer completely a death sentence, and from the looks of things it may not even be a huge health concern in the future.
The article is below the fold:
Why We Lost: Thanksgiving Update
Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 10:37:43 AM PDT
After having Thanksgiving with my girlfriend's very conservativ-to-moderate liberal family, I've noticed one consistent factor.
We lost to ignorance: plain and simple ignorance, which Bush spent 4 years and over half a trillion dollars cultivating, and which the media and public were complicit in.
Here's how it broke down at my Thanksgiving. Certainly many of you have conservative relatives you just saw who you hadn't talked to since the election. Please post your stories here too.
Endangered Species Act on the Endangered List.
Fri Nov 19, 2004 at 09:17:30 AM PDT
Next on the GOP's list of laws to trample on is the Endangered Species Act. They've already trampled on human rights, so I guess they figured why not move on to all forms of life.
The newly empowered Republican majority on Capitol Hill will grease the skids for plenty of legislation that's sure to gall environmentalists and delight developers, but the most galling and delighting of all could be sweeping changes to the 30-year-old Endangered Species Act.
Business leaders, top Bush officials and many Republicans in Congress have been arguing for the past four years, if not longer, that this cornerstone environmental law is outdated and ineffective, in particular its critical-habitat provision, which constrains development in certain biologically sensitive areas deemed necessary to species rehabilitation.
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We Need a Spanish-Speaking Candidate
Tue Nov 09, 2004 at 08:18:56 AM PDT
There have been a lot of questions on which issues we should compromise. Should we abandon homosexual marriage? Should we give up on gun control? Should we compromise on a woman's freedom to choose?
Well, no, we shouldn't. With the current influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants, many supported Bush in the last election, we would do well to nominate a candidate who, literally, speaks their language.
We don't need to nominate a Southerner to win, or a pro-gun, anti-gay, anti-freedom nutcase. We need to nominate someone who speaks Spanish.
Voters Unite: compilation of voting irregularities
Sat Nov 06, 2004 at 11:03:44 PM PDT
It's all stuff we've heard before, but now you can get it all in one place, kids:
Voters Unite!
Included are gems such as:
Columbus. A Danaher ELECTronic 1242 computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. A cartridge from one of three voting machines at the polling place generated a faulty number at a computerized reading station. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections said the cartridge was retested Thursday and there were no problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.
Bush on Depression Meds?
Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 02:04:58 PM PDT
Capitol Hill Blue:
President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.
The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President's mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.
Have to wonder if his mental faculties were ever top notch to begin with. If true, this is scary.
