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Latest Articles: Editorial
George Carlin on Environmentalists [Humor]
Post Date: 2007-04-23 14:04:59 by mirage
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We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet? I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough ...
For Whom The Bell Tolls: Conservatism And The Republican Party?
Post Date: 2007-04-23 11:09:13 by Red Jones
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For Whom The Bell Tolls: Conservatism And The Republican Party? It was billed as one of the greatest revolutions in American History that would usher in a thousand year reign of Republican Conservatism. Remember the Gingrich Revolution, also known as the Contract With America, that promised a smaller government and wholesome family values? Unhappy with a Democratic Liberal in the White House who gave his wife an office in the West Wing, and then attempted to establish a universal health-care plan and a ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy for Gays serving in the military, many Republicans and Conservatives believed that America had become a bastion of immorality and was no ...
Naval Gun Animation Try Two
Post Date: 2007-04-23 01:59:51 by tom007
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Naval Gun Animation
Post Date: 2007-04-23 01:57:18 by tom007
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Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You, Unfazed by Rising Tab
Post Date: 2007-04-22 23:33:31 by tom007
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Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You, Unfazed by Rising Tab By Joe Carroll April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Whether it's $50 to fill up your Prius or $130 for the Ford Expedition, $4-a-gallon gasoline is coming to a pump near you. Fuel prices are rising at a pace not seen since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita knocked out a third of the U.S. oil refining industry in 2005. Gasoline consumption is climbing twice as fast as last year and will accelerate when summer travel begins late next month. ``What we're surprised by is the increased demand,'' said James Mulva, chief executive officer at ConocoPhillips, whose refineries from California to New Jersey produce 56 million gallons of ...
Is George W. Bush Planning To Trigger Apocalyptic War ?
Post Date: 2007-04-22 22:23:37 by ...
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Is George W. Bush Planning To Trigger Apocalyptic War ?by Troutfishing [Subscribe] Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 07:43:19 AM PDT[ UPDATE : There's a quote base of quotes about Bush's beliefs at the end of this diary. I'm going to add some more now that this is on the recommended diary list. ] "The classical pattern of apocalypse, comprising in its active form, an initial phase of savage destruction followed by a phase of messianic rebirth, can be recognized in individual psychosis and in the Nazi type of destruction, persecution and virtual suicide." - Mortimer Ostow, "The Psychodynamics of Apocalyptic: Discussion of Papers on Identification and the Nazi Phenomenon," ...
The Big Picture
Post Date: 2007-04-22 20:33:37 by christine
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President Bush is pretty much universally abhorred by libertarians, and his popularity among the general public has fallen greatly. This is as it should be. With all the focus on Bush, though, I think the more important lesson he teaches is being neglected. Libertarians are quite rightly hostile to the idea that massive state power is fine as long as it's in the "right" hands. The widespread acceptance of that idea by the general public serves to make statism largely invulnerable to attack; all of the state's numerous evils can be blamed on specific malign individuals, without ever considering the possibility that state power itself is the root of the problem. For this ...
Cho’s high school has produced TWO psychotic young adults who went on gun rampages within one year of each other [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-22 13:33:39 by robin
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Cho Seung-hui and the Not So Secret School April 19th, 2007 at 5:14 pm (Uncategorized) Cho Seung-hui lost his mind. I think the public deserves to know who stole it from him. Cho gave us lots of hints, and probably a lot MORE hints remain among the pages not yet published by NBC. And he also left us those photos that have run incessantly behind the talking heads of the news networks. I was watching CNN last night and most of the interviews were done split screen with the images of Cho dwarfing the images of whoever was being interviewed. That gun kept pointing right in my face over and over again. I simply had to stop watching. And I hate to reprint one of those images here except that ...
The Voice of the White House 20 April
Post Date: 2007-04-22 12:08:44 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., April 20, 2007: “As I predicted, the press is trying to beef up the silly story that a harmless chemical product is actually responsible for the pet food deaths. This time, the spin merchants claim, it’s “contaminated rice.” And, of course, the rabid anti-Communist Cheney people will claim that like the harmless “wheat glutin,” this rice came from China. Where is the duct tape now that we need it? And elements here want to claim that the waclo zipperhead who went on a school rampage was actually a secret member of al Quaeda! Nest, we will learn that the utterly useless DHS is setting up an “Academic Security Bureau” that will cost ...
What’s to Lose?
Post Date: 2007-04-22 06:31:28 by Ada
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The other day President Bush charged the congressional Democrats with wanting to “legislate defeat” in Iraq. It’s a standard political ploy to smear one’s opponents, but maybe we should follow this line of thought (if that’s not too dignified a word) and see where it leads. What would an American defeat in Iraq mean? Would evil Iraqis conquer the United States, force us all to speak Arabic, and convert us to Islam? Hardly. There is no threat whatsoever to the American people from the sectarian fighters in Baghdad or elsewhere in that country. Even the Iraqis who form the local al-Qaeda chapter have no designs on the United States. Indeed, they have their hands ...
The Shame of Higher Education
Post Date: 2007-04-22 03:10:31 by IndieTX
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Many of our nation's colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and the new racism. In a March 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt warned, "The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. . . . The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind." Writing in the fall 2006 issue of Academic Questions, Luann Wright, in her article titled "Pernicious Politicization in Academe," documents academic dishonesty and indoctrination all too common today. Here are some of her ...
Air Crashes
Post Date: 2007-04-21 21:37:51 by tom007
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Indian teachers ‘purify’ students with cow urine
Post Date: 2007-04-21 20:33:50 by tom007
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Indian teachers ‘purify’ students with cow urine MUMBAI: Indian teachers sprinkled cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil, reports said on Saturday. Upper-caste headteacher Sharad Kaithade ordered the ritual after taking over from a lower-caste predecessor at a school in a remote village in the western state of Maharashtra earlier this month, the Times of India reported. He told an upper-caste colleague to spray cow urine in a cleansing ceremony as the students were taking an examination, wetting their faces and their answer sheets, the newspaper said. “She said you will study well after getting purified,” student Rajat Washnik was quoted ...
Carter's Inconvenient Truths (Paul Roberts)
Post Date: 2007-04-21 20:07:40 by tom007
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Carter's Inconvenient Truths By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Jimmy Carter, probably the most decent man to occupy the White House, received a lot of grief during his term in office, most of it undeserved. His latest book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid has brought him even more grief, none of it deserved. My own appreciation of Jimmy Carter is new found. It began with his previous book, Our Endangered Values, in which Carter criticized the direction in which George W. Bush was taking America with his assaults on the Constitution and international law. His latest book, currently a best seller, shows that Carter has the courage to match his decency and commitment to peace in the Middle East. A ...
The Party of Brownshirts (former Reagan official)
Post Date: 2007-04-21 15:12:52 by Mekons4
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The Party of Brownshirts Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a Brownshirt Party. Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial dominance for President Bush. The Republican attorney general denies that the U.S. Constitution provides habeas corpus protection to American citizens. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential campaign, believe the president has the power to imprison U.S. citizens indefinitely without warrants or trials. The "conservative" Federalist Society favors concentrating more power in the executive. Neoconservative ideologues claim ...
Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose
Post Date: 2007-04-20 23:18:38 by robin
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Freedom's Just Another Word
For Nothing Left To Lose
By Jim Kirwan
4-19-7
The idea of America has long been synonymous with "Freedom" almost from the very beginning. Yet what too few still fail to realize is that Freedom, was never meant to apply to everyone in this nation"far from it. The native population was almost immediately targeted for extermination. Slaves were obviously not included, nor were women and children. As the years went by changes within were undertaken to add new rights and new freedoms to the Constitution, for those living here. Yet even as that process went forward the US was taking away rights and human life in very large numbers, in their ...
VT KILLER RANT (DISTURBED ALERT)
Post Date: 2007-04-20 22:12:38 by tom007
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How To Feed 100 Dogs At Once
Post Date: 2007-04-20 21:55:44 by tom007
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NYTimes: Gonzales a "dull-witted apparatchik"
Post Date: 2007-04-20 18:23:19 by Mekons4
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Editorial Gonzales v. Gonzales * Sign In to E-Mail or Save This * Print * Share o Digg o Facebook o Newsvine o Permalink Article Tools Sponsored By Published: April 20, 2007 If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge. Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. He had no trouble remembering complaints from his bosses and Republican lawmakers about ...
Return to honest politics -- elect Ron Paul
Post Date: 2007-04-20 15:12:10 by Ferret Mike
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The Roman poet Juvenal predicted the downfall of a society that eats up the "bread and circuses" spectacles created by the powerful elite more than 1,880 years ago, but this is more relevant to the 2008 elections -- and you -- than you may realize. Fox reported Sunday that former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney lead the GOP pack in terms of financing, with more than $10 million in the bank and $20.7 in donations, respectively. Giuliani, one may remember, whipped up the public spectacle that mounted to humiliate and dehumanize Leona Helmsley and her husband for tax evasion by goading the media to selectively ignore bits of relevant ...
Buchanan: Too Much Tolerance
Post Date: 2007-04-20 13:45:26 by Brian S
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Posted: April 20, 2007 Cho Seung-Hui did not live the life he wanted. But on Monday, on the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, Cho ended his life the way he wanted. And because of those two hours of slaughter and suicide, Cho attained the immortality he craved. He carried out the killings – and we of the media did the rest. A month from now, few Americans will remember who his victims were. But, decades from now, millions will recognize Cho's face. When it pops up on a TV screen anywhere in America, they will ask, "Isn't that the Korean kid who shot all those people down at Virginia Tech?" Cho is now up there with Lee Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, Eric Harris and ...
A global warning from the dust bowl of Australia
Post Date: 2007-04-19 21:27:00 by Arete
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Australia is in the midst of a crippling drought, the country's worst on record. Many towns and cities have been forced to enact drastic water restrictions as reservoirs have run dry. Rivers have been reduced to a trickle. The drought has severely damaged the agricultural sector. Farmers are raising emaciated cattle and sheep. Cotton-lint production has plummeted. Wine grape and rice output has collapsed. Agricultural production has fallen by almost one-quarter in a year. And it is estimated that the drought has knocked three-quarters to 1 per cent off the country's growth as a whole. And now the government is reaching for desperate measures. Australia's Prime Minister, John ...
What I like about Freedom4um [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-19 15:19:48 by Paul Revere
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The purpose of this thread is to applaud our hosts for this place, and what we like about it. One of the things I do not like about modern USA culture is that people do not properly thank others. It's as if they believe they're giving up something to acknowledge that someone else did something nice. Running a site is a royal pain in the ass, and time consuming. It costs something to run, and someone has to pay that. So thank you to the owners, and here's what I like about Freedom4um: 1. No smilies!! I hate those things. I can barely stand to read DU because there are so many people who use them. Why not crayons? 2. No threads calling for government to FIX whatever ...
S. Korea Remembers Cho Family
Post Date: 2007-04-19 14:27:19 by TheSilverFox
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The family of the gunman in the Virginia Tech shootings had struggled while living in South Korea and emigrated to the U.S. to seek a better life, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The shooter was identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a senior in the university's English department, who the South Korean Foreign Ministry said had been living in the United States since 1992. Cho was the only suspect named in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, which left 33 dead including himself. South Korea's largest newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that Cho's family was poor when they lived in a Seoul suburb and decided to emigrate to seek a better life. The family lived in a rented, basement ...
Truthers - They Walk Amongst Us
Post Date: 2007-04-19 09:53:49 by cone of balls
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A post I would rather not have had any reason to write! After picking up on this story through a post by commenter Jim on the SDA blog.... It seems that an editor of one of our local newspapers is willing to perpetuate the pack of misrepresentations, fallacies, fables, fantasies and outright lies that are the psychic food of lunatic conspiracy theorists and the misinformed and outright delusional elements of society. This pack of fools and whack jobs known colloquially as "Truthers" has been building a straw house around the preposterous notion that the events of o9/11 2001 were a conspiracy of : Pick and choose or mix and match ANY of the following - The GW Bush White House, ...
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