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Latest Articles: Editorial
'Why does everyone hate me?'
Post Date: 2007-01-17 11:39:39 by Tauzero
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'Why does everyone hate me?' Thousands of viewers have complained about the racist bullying of Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother. But we should not be surprised by the housemates' behaviour - it reflects the widespread bigotry of British society, says Germaine Greer. Wednesday January 17, 2007 The Guardian There are no good reasons for watching Celebrity Big Brother and very good reasons for not. Not watching will spare you the nerve-fraying annoyingness that is Shilpa Shetty. Everything about her is infuriating: her haughty way of stalking about, her indomitable self-confidence, her chandelier earrings, her leaping eyebrows, her mirthless smile, her putty nose and her eternal ...
Bush the Empire Slyer
Post Date: 2007-01-17 06:47:47 by Ada
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If you fancy losing an argument, try shooting down my contention that Mikhail Gorbachev is the leading historical figure of our time. Not one to miss a shooting opportunity, Dick Cheney tried. To my surprise, he won. Westerners fondly remember Gorbachev for finishing off an ailing Soviet empire left bleeding from its Afghan travails. Defusing half a century of nuclear tension can leave a mark on impressionable minds. On Cheney's – not so much. The former Defense Secretary had a tender spot for the Cold War and never forgave Gorbachev for ending it with not even a kind word for defense contractors. Cheney is the quintessential warrior, with plenty of dead quails and ...
Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
Post Date: 2007-01-16 19:54:06 by tom007
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Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007 [Print story] [E-mail story] [Rants + Raves] Page 1 of 1 Toughbook * See Also * Tech Predictions for the Decade * Alt Predictions for 2007 * Best and Worst Punditry of 2005 * Futurism Is Dead * With Psychic Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? By Wired News Staff 02:00 AM Dec, 29, 2006 Here are some predictions for 2007: * Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share * Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent. * BitTorrent on TiVo Speaking of, digital video recorders get BitTorrent baked in, bringing internet video to the living room. ...
The collapse of the Bush presidency poses risks
Post Date: 2007-01-16 19:21:14 by tom007
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The collapse of the Bush presidency poses risks (updated below) From Rasmussen Reports, the favorite polling firm of Bush followers: For the second straight day, 35% of Americans approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President. That’s the lowest level of Approval ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. That polling was conducted after the President's "surge" speech. What is particularly notable is this observation: It is interesting to note that the last time the President’s Approval Ratings hit a new low followed the President’s speech on immigration. Typically, President’s (sic) expect to get a positive bounce following a ...
On 'Chemtrail' and other irrationalities, including NORAD's
Post Date: 2007-01-16 11:19:26 by BlackSands
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If you've never heard of chemtrails, don't feel badly. I thought I'd heard most of the nutty notions affecting aviation, until a friend suggested running a Google search on chemtrails. Try it. You'll be astonished by the concept, to begin with, and the enormous number of pages devoted to it. In sum, chemtrails enthusiasts say that what were called vapor trails when I was a kid, now known as contrails, really are a government program to deliver mind-controlling or poisonous substances to the populace by spraying from airplanes. If you try to pin the believers down with science they say you're part of the conspiracy. It never occurs to conspiracy buffs that when a plot ...
AN ISOLATED PRESIDENT WHO DOESN'T CARE
Post Date: 2007-01-15 16:47:43 by Ada
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President Bush concedes he isn't popular, and that the war in Iraq isn't either. Yes, progress is overdue and patience is all but gone. Yet none of that changes his view that more U.S. troops are needed to win in Iraq. "I'm not going to try to be popular and change principles to do so," Bush said in a television interview that aired Sunday night. Digging in for confrontation, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney say they will not budge from sending more U.S. troops to Iraq no matter how much Congress opposes it. "I fully understand they could try to stop me," Bush said of the Democrat-run Congress. "But I've made my decision, and we're going ...
Marchin' Lootin' Killin' Day
Post Date: 2007-01-15 16:35:53 by Nostalgia
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"No other public holiday in the United States honors a single individual. Of all the great leaders in our Nation's history - none of them have their own holiday. All of our great war heroes share Memorial Day. All of our great presidents share President's Day. Yet King - a man who was a phony, a cheater, a traitor, and a sexual degenerate - gets a day of his own. I have a big problem with that." --- Author unknownMy name is Edgar J. Steele. I've given it a lot of thought, in view of all the negative articles concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. Day that fly around the Internet at this time of year, and I'm coming out in support of its status as a national holiday. ...
Not the America we know
Post Date: 2007-01-15 09:33:25 by tom007
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Not the America we know 15 January 2007 TO MANY of us, America’s greatnesses is the importance it accords to individual freedom and the rule of law, ideals that it sought to spread around the world in the past, and with great success. That the Bush administration, however, acts differently is not a secret. To coincide with the 5th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay prison, a senior Pentagon official has called on major US companies to boycott legal firms that take up the defence of the Bay detainees. For one, those detained at the Bay had for long been denied their right to defence; they won that right after years of detention, and possible harassment, thanks to the pressure that was ...
US opts for unilateral moves against Iran( More Good News From DC)
Post Date: 2007-01-15 09:22:40 by tom007
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US opts for unilateral moves against Iran (AFP) 14 January 2007 JERUSALEM - Recent US operations against Iranian interests in Iraq appear to signal a shift by Washington toward unilateral action after growing frustrated with slow-moving UN diplomacy. “We have had a strategy toward Iran, I think, that has been evolving to deal with the serious problems that Iran is causing,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in remarks released Saturday by the State Department. Rice, who arrived in Jerusalem Saturday at the start of a Middle East tour partly aimed at rallying Arab nations against Iran’s influence, defended a US raid Thursday against an Iranian office in Iraq. US ...
Eight below ZERO in Colorado Springs
Post Date: 2007-01-15 08:48:53 by tom007
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Winds finially stopped last night, a clear sky and this morn it is eight below. How bout you ...?
HEY! You guys obviously don't understand the concept of the sport of Ice Driving in Texas.
Post Date: 2007-01-14 23:19:42 by tom007
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HEY! You guys obviously don't understand the concept of the sport of Ice Driving in Texas. You may have enough Spam to have gotten Napoleon's army through the Russian winter or spare batteries that would send a rocketship to Jupiter and back, but let a inch of ice show up on the bridge, and --- Momma's Gotta Go To Walmart!! Many of us more experienced aficionados of Texas Ice Driving even keep special equipment for the few days of the sporting season. This usually consists of a '64 Plymouth Fury without a hood, a Lamesa High School football helmet, a 30' length of logging chain and 3 inebriated or otherwise brain damaged friends. It's part social event, part ...
Future Iraq: Allied With Iran Against Israel
Post Date: 2007-01-13 14:07:33 by Brian S
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New Delhi, India - In ten years, George Bush's legacy will be evident. In Iraq, give two years for the departure of American troops, three years for local power struggles, and five years for consolidation and recovery. Iraq in 2017 will be an overwhelmingly Shia-majority nation, with most Arab Sunnis having migrated to Jordan, Palestine or a much-altered Saudi Arabia. Sunni Kurds will remain in their province, but under watch since Baghdad, Damascus, Istanbul and Tehran will cooperate to shut out any hopes of Kurdish independence. Iraq will be part of an Iran-led economic-military alliance that will stretch from the border of Afghanistan to the border of Syria and Jordan. It will ...
Archaeologists find ancient stone tools -(MINNEAPOLIS ANCIENT ICE SCRAPER S FOUND IN MINNEAPOLIS)
Post Date: 2007-01-12 21:31:02 by tom007
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Archaeologists find ancient stone tools By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press Writer 37 minutes ago MINNEAPOLIS - What appear to be crude stone tools may provide evidence that people lived in Minnesota 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, which if confirmed would make them among the oldest human artifacts ever found in North America, archaeologists said Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Archaeologists in the northern Minnesota town of Walker dug up the items, which appear to be beveled scrapers, choppers, a crude knife and several flakes that could have been used for cutting, said Colleen Wells, field director for the Leech Lake Heritage Sites Program. "They don't look like much," Wells ...
Olbermann
Post Date: 2007-01-12 19:25:53 by Hmmmmm
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Poster Comment:I hope this isn't a duplicate post. It is everything I expected from KO. I hope the lunatic watches this while eating a pretzel.
Kucinich: Bush setting stage for wider war
Post Date: 2007-01-12 13:06:11 by Ferret Mike
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Kucinich: Bush setting stage for wider war FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C – Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement tonight in response to President Bush's nationally televised address to the American people. "President Bush appears to be setting the stage for a wider war in the region. He has blamed Iran for attacks on America. The President is vowing to disrupt Iran. He is going to add an aircraft carrier to the shores off the coast of Iran. He has promised to give Patriot missiles to 'our friends and allies.' Isn't one war enough for this President? It is time ...
Dr. Watson: Anti-Semitism Justified
Post Date: 2007-01-11 16:23:38 by RickyJ
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Scientist James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner, says anti-Semitism is justified, in a recent magazine interview. The ADL called Dr. Watson's remarks about Jews "disturbing" and is asking Watson to clarify them. Watson, 78, who lives in Cold Harbor, N.Y., tells Esquire magazine in its January edition that anti-Semitism, in some circumstances, is justified. In an interview profile for the magazine Watson asks rhetorically, "Should you be allowed to make an anti-Semitic remark?" He answered: "Yes, because some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can't be criticized, ...
A Crisis of Confidence; Bush spoke with all the confidence of a perp in a police lineup.
Post Date: 2007-01-10 23:34:28 by Brian S
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Bush's way forward may be sensible. But his face showed fear—and that's no way to rally a war-weary nation. WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Howard Fineman Updated: 10:43 p.m. ET Jan 10, 2007 Jan. 10, 2007 - George W. Bush spoke with all the confidence of a perp in a police lineup. I first interviewed the guy in 1987 and began covering his political rise in 1993, and I have never seen him, in public or private, look less convincing, less sure of himself, less cocky. With his knitted brow and stricken features, he looked, well, scared. Not surprising since what he was doing in the White House library was announcing the escalation of an unpopular war. The president may well be ...
Hannity's New TV Show Bestows A Weekly "Enemy Of The State" Award
Post Date: 2007-01-10 20:08:43 by SmokinOPs
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Great Moments In Fox News Dept. Forget Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person In The World" contest — it's now been completely upstaged by a new Sunday contest on Fox: Sean Hannity's "Enemy of the State" award. Last night, Hannity's new Sunday night program aired for the first time, and from here on he'll award his "Enemy of the State" prize — a term originating with ancient Roman dictators placing bounties on rivals — on whatever red-state abortionist, anti-war activist, or run-of-the-mill Democrat who has attracted Hannity's ire that week. Imagine Hannity in that famous Twilight Zone episode, as the ranting Chancellor ...
Bush “Surge” Speech Stitched of Neocon Whole Cloth
Post Date: 2007-01-10 13:14:50 by Brian S
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It figures. “President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq was crafted by a little known aide who is a strong advocate of escalating the troops and who alarmed Democrats over a decade ago when he proposed attacking North Korea with nuclear weapons to stop its nuclear program, the Wall Street Journal reports,” according to Raw Story. It is said “J.D. Crouch, an academic turned deputy national security adviser,” crafted the neocon “surge” plan under the tutelage of Stephen Hadley, the Cheney and Straussian Wolfowitz understudy who replaced Condi as national security adviser after she took up her new digs in the State Department. Taking Crouch under his wing is a ...
Time To Hold U.S. Culprits Accountable
Post Date: 2007-01-09 23:34:18 by Brian S
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In one important aspect, the new democracy in Iraq is ahead of the older one in the United States -- it is holding its former leader and his henchmen accountable for the deaths of its citizens. The trial and punishment of Saddam Hussein began a process of accountability for the highest cards in the infamous Iraqi deck. In this country, only the lowest cards in our deck have been called into account. The high cards, the ace of spades (President Bush), the kings (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle), the queen of hearts (Condoleezza Rice) and etc., have borne no responsibility for the deaths of more than 3,000 soldiers (more than those killed in 9/11) and ...
From Pelosi to Pitt, perverts to Paris, Dave Barry offers a last laugh
Post Date: 2007-01-09 22:58:09 by IndieTX
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It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor. Decades from now, our grandchildren will come to us and say, ''Tell us, Grandpa or Grandma as the case may be, what it was like to be alive in the year that Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears and Katie whatshername all had babies, although not necessarily in those combinations.'' And we will smile wisely and emit a streamer of drool, because we will be very old and unable to hear them. And that will be a good thing, because there are many things about 2006 that we will not want to ...
Roots of Latino/black anger
Post Date: 2007-01-09 14:44:54 by Tauzero
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Roots of Latino/black anger Longtime prejudices, not economic rivalry, fuel tensions. By Tanya K. Hernandez, Tanya K. Hernandez is a professor of law at Rutgers University Law School. January 7, 2007 THE ACRIMONIOUS relationship between Latinos and African Americans in Los Angeles is growing hard to ignore. Although last weekend's black-versus-Latino race riot at Chino state prison is unfortunately not an aberration, the Dec. 15 murder in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old African American, allegedly by members of a Latino gang, was shocking. Yet there was nothing really new about it. Rather, the murder was a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: ...
How To Further The Neocon Mess In Iraq; Those Who Sold War On False Pretenses Want Escalation
Post Date: 2007-01-09 13:01:39 by Brian S
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Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol walked into the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) yesterday with a big grin on his face, as if to say "they're listening to me again!" Wolfowitz, Feith, Rumsfeld, Bolton and other architects of the war in Iraq may be gone, but the neoconservatives' stature inside the Bush Administration has hardly diminished. The same people that sold us the war, often under false pretenses, are now leading proponents of escalating the conflict by sending tens of thousands of additional troops. An event at AEI yesteday brought together the intellectual progenitors of escalation: military historian Fred Kagan, retired General Jack Keane and Senators ...
Giant squid caught in Sea of Japan
Post Date: 2007-01-09 00:41:12 by tom007
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I love the giant squid story. Squids and cuttlefish are intersting to me.
Bush's Rush to Armageddon
Post Date: 2007-01-08 22:37:30 by Brian S
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Monday 08 January 2007 George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle East, broadening his options for both escalating the conflict inside Iraq and expanding the fighting to Iran and Syria with Israel's help. On Jan. 4, Bush ousted the top two commanders in the Middle East, Generals John Abizaid and George Casey, who had opposed a military escalation in Iraq, and removed Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, who had stood by intelligence estimates downplaying the near-term threat from Iran's nuclear program. Most Washington observers have treated ...
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