I Guess It Isn't Bad Enough Yet
Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 10:32:08 AM PDT
It's not bad enough yet to get you off your couch. To notice that the media have control of the election because they provide "news" coverage of it. But [did you even notice?] THEY get to decide which questions to ask and what to show you is happening.
If it's not on TV, it didn't happen.
That seems to be the mindset of many people here on the kos and in the meatworld too.
[more below]
We're American. We're Entitled!
Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 12:00:10 PM PDT
Entitled to a lot of things that the rest of the world desires.
This is a bit of a rant about the status of American Political and Social thought and inaction.
We are the descendants of the "Greatest Generation"(tm). Are we bound for our own historical label too? What should it be?
Follow below the fold for more speculation:
How Scientific Laws are made.... and a book recomendation
Sun Jun 24, 2007 at 06:43:40 PM PDT
What did the Renaissance get us? The "Scientific method." Not just wishful thinking or blind faith, but verifiable events that were carefully measured and repeatable that were then formulated as theories that could predict future events with accuracy.
Science is always "as far as we know..." so there is no absolute answer as strewn about so freely by the Dobsons of our modern world. That is a big difference and the reason that science will always trump blind faith unless blind faith is the one with the gun.
The idea for this diary started while I was reading a book I've been meaning to read for the last several years by Dr. Richard Feynman, the physicist, teacher, painter, safe cracker, Nobel Laureate, and bongo drums player.
more after the fold
OK, I've had it with this.... A Drive by post.
Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 10:38:37 PM PDT
OK, There's the Foley thing[s]
There's the Hastert coverup.
There's the North Korea Nuke Test,
There's the continuing murder in Iraq [and Darfur, and elsewhere]
Is there no Good news? I want happy thoughts for everyone!
Oh. You say that we must first elect all Democrats first and THEN we get happy thoughts?
I don't think so.
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Apt tale from the beyond.,,
Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 10:13:15 PM PDT
I got this story from a friend on email today and thought I'd pass it on as it seemed to reflect reality more than a little bit...
[the story is below the fold]
Have the Shia and Sunnis just stopped and thought it out?
Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 01:00:41 AM PDT
I gotta imagine that these folks who are blowing up each other in a quasi religious frenzy haven't thought it out.
The Shia are killing Sunnis trying to cleanse their land of the followers of the prophet.
The Sunni are killing Shias trying to cleanse their land of the followers of the prophet.
.... Oh wait! You mean it's the SAME prophet?
OOOps, My Bad!
[more below the fold]
It's Time People - A Democratic War on ERROR!
Sat Sep 02, 2006 at 06:55:46 PM PDT
We all know about the Republican color coded War on Terror ... but it really sounds more like an advertisement FOR terror rather than a strategy for combatting Terror.
What mis-steps, malaprops, cavils, lies, cheats, steals, etc do the Republicans get away with daily simply because the Democrats don't call bullshit on them?
Follow below the fold... more will be revealed...
Uh Oh... I just put 2 + 2 together...
Wed Jul 26, 2006 at 10:40:53 PM PDT
I was walking along today and was remembering the threads I've read here about the Middle East and the scourging of southern Lebanon.
I read Daily Kos on a very [too?] regular basis...
Suddenly I stopped in my tracks struck by three diary topics diaries in the last few days.
Bush: "I thought you were gonna ask me about the pig." ... WTF?
Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 09:10:31 PM PDT
Ye Gods!! Is this imbecile trying to see how fast he can hasten the Rapture?
Mr. Bush made his comments after a ceremony with Mrs. Merkel where he was presented with a traditional local gift in the town square here, a barrel of herring, and hours before he was scheduled to go to a barbeque with a freshly slaughtered wild boar served in his honor.
In his question-and-answer session with reporters, Mr. Bush joked about that dinner, kidding in response to a double-barreled question on the growing crisis and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig," Mr. Bush said.
Anyone see this $21Bn merger in the news here?
Sun Jun 25, 2006 at 11:27:23 AM PDT
US energy firms in $21bn merger
This was the headline Friday in the BBC on line news service. It was pushed off the front page of their website later in the day with stories about the "bombing" plans of the 7 "homegrown terrorists" that were arrested in Florida.
Follow me below the fold for the rest of the article.
Strategy for the Dems and the "Amendment Debate""
Mon Jun 05, 2006 at 10:26:52 PM PDT
OK, the Presnit has made our task clear. We must protect the American family at all costs.
Can't you just hear the talk in the cloakrooms and offices in Congress and the Senate?
"What to do? What to DO? We must protect our families! Our constituents demand that we do our duty and protect them from the threat..."
The question comes to mind: "The threat of WHAT?"
the Repugs answer" "Gay marriage!"
The Dems answer: [after the flip]
How long will it take to make the Blood for Oil trade a good one?
Mon Mar 27, 2006 at 07:13:23 AM PDT
How expensive does gas have to get before it seems a good trade to Joe Six-Pack and Soccer Mom to send someone else's kids to Iraq to secure the oilfields for our refineries so they dona't have to pay $5 a gallon for gas? And what the HELL is up with O'Reily and the Easter Bunny?
[Yes, these are related]
A lapel pin to rival the rightie's flag pins -[Ooh I love crafts!]
Sat Mar 25, 2006 at 09:58:37 AM PDT
A Progressive lapel pin to wear in place of the flag the Righties wear.
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
Combine that with our All-American,
"Put your 2-cents in."...
I'm so DAMN MAD!
Fri Mar 17, 2006 at 11:39:30 PM PDT
Alright, I got carried away with the tags but Heck! [Insert Archival footage of ever polite Democrats wringing hands over someone saying "something they shouldn't" about the opposition.] But DAMN! I'm unhappy right now with the flagellates.
[definition after the fold]
Magic Letter works wonders on Ted Stevens - with poll
Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 06:59:00 PM PDT
Well what do my wondering eyes behold? That sterling example of an "Honest Politician," Ted Stevens [R -AK] has given up his quest to increase supertanker traffic in the unprotected Strait of Juan de Fuca. He has been the perennial impetus to force more oil tanker traffic on the inhabitants of this region. He has been fighting a continual battle against Senator Maria Cantwell [D-WA] to increase the flow of supertankers into the straits and she has fought him to a standstill over and over. BTW- the Magnussen Act of 1977 prohibits that type of traffic.
He now states that he has given up, but it wasn't because of Cantwell's efforts. It was because he got a single letter from a Washingtionian who just happens to be her Republican opponent in this year's election [ex SafeCo CEO Mike McGavick]. Wow. Evidently, the pen is mightier than the PAC contribution...
More after the fold
Thoughts on Katrina and Mardi Gras
Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 10:25:34 PM PDT
Don't miss
this one: A nice uplifting story about the rewards our compassionate conservative Federal Government lavish on a local official who showed some initiative in getting needed supplies to the folks who actually needed them.
Mix this with the homage that "Rex" paid to the victims of Katrina, Past, Present and Future during the MardiGras parade today.
Add a little Paul Krugman "Why Johnny can't get a well paying' job."
Mix well.
Pour over cracked ice.
The "Axle of Evil"
Sun Feb 12, 2006 at 06:45:42 PM PDT
The "Axis of Evil" phrase made famous in the SOTU address read by the head co-conspirator of this White House was slightly wrong. He misspoke again. ["'Library', 'Liberty' - what's the diff? I'm makin' this up as I go along anyway."]
It's time for this misstatement to be corrected by the Democrats. It should be "Axle of Evil." Here's my reasoning:
What Book Best Mirrors Current Events? With Poll.
Wed Feb 08, 2006 at 08:50:57 PM PDT
I was sitting here reading the blogs and my wife mentioned that the real book that current history is based on is not Orwell's '1984' but is, instead, 'Farenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury.
'Farenheit 451' is about a fascist anti-literate society that is controlled with the active participation of the state-run media. To say that the government discouraged literacy would be a mild description of their tactics. I mention this because about half of the adult women in her book club had never read it before. [It was this month's selection.]
