Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the bible. Next, they say it had been discovered before. Lastly, they say they always believed it. – Paleontologist Loius Agassiz
Posted in Quickie, Religion, Science | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
War, as has been said before, is hell. It is that realization that prevents most sane leaders from engaging in war activities unless they have been left no other option. But when war does become unavoidable, it is the duty of every leader to make sure that war is as ...
Posted in General, Military, Politics | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
While the GOP attempts to cut, more like gut, the Estate Tax, they fail to give a raise to the poorest workers in the country by raising the minimum wage, afflicting the afflicted. While the move to kill the Estate Tax cut was killed in the Senate, the House ...
Posted in Budget, Economics, Quickie | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
John Robb over at Global Guerillas has a somewhat disturbing story. As Globalization continues, leaving large segments of the population behind, these people begin to conglomerate around "Primary Loyalties" whether they be gang, tribe, clan, ethnicity, religion, or more. This posses a direct threat to Nation-States mainly because ...
Posted in Homeland Security, Military, Quickie | 4 Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
It seems that top Commander in Iraq, Gen. Casey, believes that Shia Insurgents are being backed by Iran.
"We are quite confident that the Iranians through their covert special ops forces are providing weapons, IED technology and training to Shia extremist groups in Iraq,"
Imagine that, Dear Leader keeps talking ...
Posted in Middle East, Military, Quickie | No Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
One tactic the anti-abortion crowd uses in their debate is the proposition that the unborn are people too. Since they are people they need protection of the government. However, as it is often pointed out the very same people that make this claim are the first to cut funding of ...
Posted in General, Police State, Politics | 12 Comments »
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universe, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, ...
Posted in Quickie, Religion | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
A Pro-war Christian is answered by an Anti-war Christian, point by point. Also includes reference to a Dr. Teresa Whitehurst, a quote:Remarkably, for many prowar Christians, the sight of suffering doesn’t help them to empathize with the sufferer – it just makes them angry . . . . They ...
Posted in Military, Quickie, Religion | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Things that make you go dang! Distribution of poor, middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods have shifted, and not in a good way. Middle-Class neighborhoods as a percentage have declined from 58% to 41% since 1970. Sadly, the mobility hasn't all been upward. In Los Angeles the share ...
Posted in Economics, Quickie | 5 Comments »
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Robert Reich the Secretary of Labor under Clinton lays out a good case for a coming deflationary period. As productivity soars and capacity is generated while at the same time people are out of work and their wages stagnant, the stage is set for Deflation to occur. Sadly, ...
Posted in Economics, Quickie | 4 Comments »
