“We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors… but they all have to live in the same box.”
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- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
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What were they thinking? NYT
Aren’t they paying attention to our poster boy for disasterously inept right wing conservatism? What is wrong with those Swedes? And those Canadians? Jeeze, they all have ample vision that can tell Bush is a conservative disaster, but they can’t see the nose on their faces. I guess Americans don’t have the market cornered on stupidity.
looking contagious:
ya think a few here in DC will follow with a confession?
That Guardian article on Germany is an eye opener for sure. I’ve seen little blurbs now and then about Germany’s neo-nazis, but I did not know that such a large percentage of Germans would actually vote for one.
It’s like I said… stupid knows no international bounds.
As for the Hungarian PM’s admission of lies, lies and more lies… that is an unbelievable story. Bush on the other hand believes his lies. He thinks if he says it on national tv that it’s automatically true. That’s what Unca Dick told him, so it must be true.
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Geothermal and hydropower are mature enough for private enterprise to take the lead, the government says.
Out at the Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River, a new turbine is being tested that generates more electricity, but won’t kill so many fish – thanks to research dollars from Uncle Sam.
Down in California’s Long Valley, on the Sierra Nevada range, federal researchers are working to boost efficiency of geothermal energy, which uses the earth’s natural heat to generate power.
But renewable energy advocates may have to kiss goodbye those and other research projects. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is quitting the hydropower and geothermal power research business – if Congress will let it.
This was among the Friday news dump items. While we’re busy with things like torture and illegal wiretapping, Bush’s government continues to do untold damage to our nation.
An international research team has used three years of observations of the “double pulsar”, a unique pair of natural stellar clocks which they discovered in 2003, to prove that Einstein’s theory of general relativity – the theory of gravity that displaced Newton’s – is correct to within a staggering 0.05%, in the most stringent test ever performed on the theory of General Relativity.
Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan’s north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below.
Hundreds of angry residents in Abidjan rioted Friday over Ivory Coast’s toxic waste dumping scandal that has claimed seven lives, left thousands unwell and brought down the government.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reversed a 30-year policy by endorsing the use of DDT for malaria control. The chemical is sprayed inside houses to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes. DDT has been banned globally for every use except fighting disease because of its environmental impacts and fears for human health. Malaria kills more than one million each year.
Trees that live in an odd desert forest in Oman have found an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from fog, scientists report.
New research suggests that a single exposure to environmental contaminants during pregnancy can cause cancer, kidney disease and other illnesses for future generations not by mutating DNA but by epigenetic inheritance – affecting how the genes are turned on and off.
Past exposure to low levels of pesticides that linger in the environment might accelerate the development of Parkinson’s Disease, which would put millions of aging Americans at risk.
Pennsylvania is poised to require new cars to be cleaner-burning a year from now – and put the state in lockstep with California’s efforts.
Your Monday Morning Mystery: The mystery of mane-less male lions: Some male lions grow skimpy manes, or none at all. Is it a result of higher testosterone (like balding in human males)? Are the mane-less lions descended from extinct European lions that also were mane-less? Or is it a response to keep cool in a warmer climate?
A Hopeful Story: With a steady stream of bleak predictions that “water wars” will be fought over dwindling supplies in the 21st century, battles over irrigation water between two Sumerian (modern Iraq) city-states 4,500 years ago seem to set a worrying precedent… except that since then, cooperation in addressing water problems, rather than warfare, seems to be the rule. In the five decades to 1999, there have been no wars and just 37 military acts over water between states — 30 of them involving Israel and its neighbors. Among signs of cooperation, Israel and Jordan held secret talks about managing the Jordan River from the 1950s, even when they were technically at war. The Indus River commission kept going despite wars between India and Pakistan.
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The House of Representatives is advancing a bill that critics say would hinder people from defending the separation of church and state in the nation’s courtrooms.
As previously reported by The NewStandard, the Public Expression of Religion Act, introduced by Representative John Hotstettler (R-Indiana), would prevent plaintiffs in church-state separation cases from recovering attorney’s fees as part of their lawsuit awards. The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill last week.
Supporters of the legislation, such as the veterans’ organization American Legion, want to limit lawsuits against religious symbols in public settings, from prayer at school football games to crosses on public grounds.
Critics of the bill, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the advocacy group Secular Coalition for America, say the bill would further empower government institutions to inject religion into the public sphere.
This one was entirely under my radar until now. Another incidious attempt to tear up the Constitution.
AAACK! Church, not Shurch… and I even previewed it! More coffee.
I read it as Slurch – thought it was a great name for us Pastafarians to call our houses of worship.
It’s moments like this that I miss the yippies.
When I heard about this and I thought about all the BushCo “Islamo-fascist” rhetoric, I couldn’t help thinking about how so often you become what you fear and hate.
The yellow stripe award for those profiteers of fear
The Toronto Film Festival jury gave a prestigiuous award to the controversial docudrama, ‘Death of a President’ “for the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal the larger truth”.
Lebanon’s ‘deadly harvest: orange orchards and olive fields of cluster bombs
Iran Sanctions: France joins the coalition of the unwilling.
Fear of ageing? Doctors weigh in that Botox therapy may be addictive
Those cluster bombs will be reminding Lebanese of Israel at it’s worst for years to come. I’m still depressed over the US Congress blessing on continued use of cluster bombs.
Chirac is right… we haven’t engaged Iran in talks at all. Bush’s version of diplomacy is yelling at other countries until he gets what he wants.
The fear mongers have found that $$$ and power flows from fear, but if I understand that article, it will eventually result in people ignoring the fear and going on with their lives. Sounds like the old cry wolf story. It is our scourge for electing such twisted leaders who have sold their souls to the hydra god of power/money.
A ‘basic human right’ that makes good business sense
I start Wednesday. 🙂
Trying to find a progressive business to apply to… is hurrrrd wurrrrk 🙂 – we’re dropping my husband’s “coverage” (who works for a HUGE HUGE HUGE company – with supposed “competitive benefits”) and going with mine.
MSNBC on Bush Torture Tantrum
I know this is one day old.. but it just has me screaming mad. Please pass this one along.
In “War Criminal at Bay”:Bush was deceived into committing war crimes so he needs a good CYA law to save himself says Paul Craig Roberts, a former associate editor of WSJ.
and of torture: No need to define torture. Bush should ask Mr. Arar.
Just released this afternoon is the Canadian Inquiry report on the Maher Arar case.
What price compensation? Is a trillion enough? And if Canada, why not Bush?
In my classroom, the crayons never seem to end up in the box.