Everything old is new again.

I dunno, maybe I'm giving up on this Christianity thing too quickly.

Remember this?

It ain't just NORAD.

Federal Emergency Management Agency too.

The Environmental Protection Agency.

Department of Homeland Security.

Federal Aviation Administration.

Social Security Administration.

Central Intelligence Agency.

National Security Agency.

All of the above.

Yeah.

It's a buggin' buggin' buggin' buggin' buggin' buggin' buggin'

This sizzle is da shiznit.

Best line from a comic strip of all time.

"...thanks a lot fucker. Let's go Jesus. -- We out"

Seymour Hersh.

Read.
Read.
Read.
Read.
Read.

'nuff said.

Why atheism?

Let's just say, christians, muslims, jews, buddhists, hindis, taoists, shintos, confucianists, sikhs, have all been around for AT LEAST 1000 years each.

Still haven't gotten it right.

Unless you like wars, famine, greed, hypocrisy, caste systems, overpopulation, fascism and just about every other ailment you could attribute to mankind and his works.

But Drew, those are the acts of a minority, of people twisting the words of Confucious, Christ, Muhammad and many others.

I mean sure if you put a hundred random religiosos in a room, I personally would agree with 90% of the spiritual beliefs of about 90% of the folks there.

And you could probably say the same about each of them agreeing with each other individually.

It's not the spirituality that I find offensive, it's the dogma.

And I'm sorry but if you sign on with folks who think that you're going to hell for marrying a black person, or eating meat on fridays, or believe in a caste system, well guess what?

You're one of them.

Regardless of what the religious right says about stem cell research and abortion, how many really horrific atrocities have been carried out purely in the name of Science?

My wife and I came up with just a few.
Manhattan Project.
Experimentation on animals.
Eugenics projects and Human experimenation of the Germans and Japanese during WWII.

Although that last one, I'm not sure if I'd blame science, but hey I'm biased.

Now I'm not saying technology doesn't have a down-side, but no-one ever invades another country in the name of Millimeter Wave Astronomy.

Frankly I am sick of bad science being used to justify all kinds of horrible shit.

I can imagine that folks who are religious say the same thing, only problem is how can you tell which one is the "bad religion"?

We have ways of quantifying bad science. Scientific method. Peer review. Reproducible experimentation. Just good ol' fashion skepticism.

Discussions get heated but we tolerate each other.

Eek! Rich people!

Another cheap shot post.

Sorry.

Bottled water?

I use it, but mostly for convenience.

After reading this I might not.

And of course we seem to have forgotten just how important water is.

Oh, and guess who's buying it all up?

...according to Fortune magazine, [water is] "One of the world's great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th."

Oh great. We all know how casual we all are about the worldwide oil supply.

Corporatization of H20 supplies couldn't possibly have a down side, could it?

Nah.

Iraq elections.

"I vote for candidate Electricity and his running mate Fresh Water."

Damn.

That's pretty funny.

Aaaaaand then there's this.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

Yeah, but does he sing?

Yo Head Ass-Plode!

Ouch, ouch, ouch!

Oh great. Now I gotta go gouge my eardrums out.

Aw dammit, too late.

ACK! PLPLPBTHTH!

Ashcroft & Bacon
TRUTH: Volume One, Edition One

Sweet, it looks like the dems are FINALLY fucking FIGHTING on something!

From the above link:

"If you're interested in talking about the President's Social Security plan, listening to other people talk about it, or ask questions about it, you're looking at a mother lode today.

At 9:00 am ET, House Minority Leader Pelosi, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Democratic Caucus Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Reps. Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Sander Levin (D-MI) slam President Bush's Social Security overhaul in a news conference.

At 9:30 am ET, Sens. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and John Sununu (R-NH) join the New York Times' Paul Krugman and Cato's Stephen Moore to talk about Social Security at the National Press Club.

At 10:00 am ET, Democratic women Senators hold a news conference to talk about how and why they oppose the President's plan.

At 11:00 am ET, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and others in the Senate Democratic Caucus "hold an event" to discuss their opposition to privatization of Social Security at the FDR Memorial. AP politely uses "hold an event" — what we hear they're going to do is hold a séance in an effort to invoke the memory of the late president who created Social Security.

The, uh, creative event will focus on how Bush's " privatization scheme " levies a "birth tax" on newborns and will detail how the Bush plan (whatever it is) allegedly increases the per capita debt each American owes by more than 100 percent.

At noon ET, AARP, Rock the Vote, and the Joint Center for Economic Studies hold a news conference to release a poll on attitudes of younger voters and minorities about Social Security.

At 1:00 pm ET, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities holds a conference call on Social Security issues. Kenneth Apfel, former Social Security commissioner and now a professor in public affairs at the University of Texas, Robert Greenstein, executive director of CBPP; and Jason Furman, senior fellow at CBPP, participate.

At 2:00 pm ET, the Senate Special Committee on Aging holds a hearing called, "Social Security: Do We Have to Act Now?" Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director of the Congressional Budget Office; David Walker, comptroller general of General Accountability Office; John Rother, policy director of the Association of American Retired Persons; Bob Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition; and David John, research fellow the Heritage Foundation, testify."

Sick 'im boys!

Yee-haw!

Now I'm no defender of U.S. foreign policy under Bush, BUT...

...I know Bullshit when I see it.

Iran needs to continue its uranium enrichment capacity because it needs a civilian nuclear energy program?

Excuse me but aren't you sitting on a great big pile of Texas Tea?

Of course WE haven't been getting any of it.

(Maybe that will change. *WINK* You do realize of course that we were getting a larger percentage of our oil from Iraq after operation desert storm than before. Let's see. In 1985 we got 1% of our oil from Iraq. By 1990 we were getting 5.3%, 1999 6.6%. We get 3.9% NOW, but you gotta remember the infrastructure of their country is in complete shambles, so not bad. We need more oil. In Jan 2002, US oil cunsumption was 18.5 million barrels per day as of 2004, over 20 million barrels per day. Maybe we're gonna just come and get it.)

Now they (the Iranians) have subsequently agreed to suspend their enrichment program, but still.

Whole lotta questions.

NO NUKES, DAMMIT.

Still think invading is a bad idea.

More oil stats can be found here and here.

Reynolds wrap hat!

No, but seriously... I'm not sure if you've seen this, but it is pretty wild.

It's a little dated, but I'm keeping it for the 2006 election.

MSNBC's Keith Olberman 11.11.04 report on all(?) the voter irregularities in the election all at once and it even acknowledges the tin foil hat community a bit.

(Look carefully at the AFDB link and you'll find a nod to my favorite primate, BONOBO MONKEYS! Booyah!)

About half way through the vid, Keith rips through all the counties with heavy Democratic majorities that went heavily to Bush.

Seeing them all listed like he does is pretty chilling.

So let's not be TOO hard on cable news.

OK, we can be a little hard.

Found that link (http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/) by literally just typing oreilly-sucks.com in my browser and seeing what came up.

I wonder what happens if I type sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com

Oh, goody.

Man, the internet makes this all too easy.

Tee-hee.

Like free downloading?

Forget Creative Commons, just go for a classic.

It's a lot of money.

Ok, Micro$oft paid out a dividend to its shareholders.

It is so big that it skews the numbers for the entire economy.

I wonder how much of that Billy-boy got?

Wouldn't you like to be as rich as Bill Gates? Here's how.

Oh, and this just made me laugh out loud.

Please follow these important steps to make a contribution to reduce the debt. Make check payable to the "Bureau of the Public Debt" In the memo section of the check, make sure you write "Gift to reduce the Debt Held by the Public " Mail check to - ATTN DEPT G BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT P O BOX 2188 PARKERSBURG, WV 26106-2188

As my friend Steve would say, "Riiiiiight".

Hey I'm all for using the web as a tool.

But DUDE!

No, not all online calculators are worried about Generating Tm, free energy, molecular weight and hairpin and dimer formation structure from Oligonucleotides.

For instance:

BMI.
Metrics.
Mortgage.
kVA=kW.
Blood.
Inflation.
Politics.

And of course, my personal favorite: the U.S. National Debt Clock.

Keep hitting refresh, and watch it grow! It's fun!

Maybe you should look at this.

Stupid Not-Tax and spend Republicans.