Archive for the ‘BIO’ Category
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
So now the Pope is going green. Or at least that's what he'd like for us to believe.
Speaking to a group of 200,000 people gathered in Sydney for the Roman Catholic Church's youth festival, the Pope told followers that the world's natural resources are being squandered by "insatiable consumption."
Some excerpts ...
Posted in BIO, Environment, Religion | 3 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
In the following video, Dan Dennett discusses the power of ideas (memes) to hijack evolutionary rules and therefore the individual. When this happens, depending upon the idea, society and the individual can become the virtual victim of a parasite that promotes actions that are actually contrary to our genetic fitness. ...
Posted in BIO, Religion, Rhetoric | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
For years, Jesse Helms blocked measures intended to provide care and assistance to homosexuals suffering from the ravages of HIV. In true Helms backasswards bravado, he often insinuated that the only way such legislation would pass would be over his dead body.
Surprise...it gets even better! Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole, ...
Posted in BIO, GLBT, HIV, Health, LGBT, Republican, Rhetoric, Right Wing Nut | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
"Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses...in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them."
- Ralph Nader
Conservatives hate socialism. We know this is true because they tell ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, Economics, Housing Market, Taxes, capitalism, greed, ownership society | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Today, the stock market reacted negatively to speculation that the U.S. government could be forced to bail out the nations two largest sources of mortgage funding, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Of the 12 trillion in mortgage debt, the two giants account for slightly less than 50 percent...a full 5 ...
Posted in BIO, Current Affairs, Economics, George W. Bush, Housing Market, ownership society | 30 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
I'm not sure what it will take for our government to admit that abstinence education isn't working. Fortunately, George Bush will soon leave office and we can hope that the next president will restore science to its proper place and put an end to the myth that purity pledges are ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, George W. Bush, Health, LGBT, Religion, Right Wing Nut | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Concluding his final meeting with world leaders at the G8 summit, U.S. President George W. Bush pumped his fist into the air and boldly announced, "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
Probably thinking he was being amusing, Bush got no props from the other world leaders who stood by with looks ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, Environment, IDIOT | 28 Comments »
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
When in the course of human events is truth self-evident? Or is truth a declaration independent of our capacity to recognize it? Is there a point at which the collective truth of yesterday is no longer sufficient to hold together that which seemed to be a more perfect union? Are ...
Posted in 2008 elections, America, BIO, Death, Dying, Homeland Security, Police State, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, security | 7 Comments »
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
It’s not what you have, but what you believe you can have that drives the American economy.
We should all understand that Republican fiscal ideology is focused on benefits for the wealthy. It costs the wealthy too much to help out those down on their luck, so we shouldn’t do it ...
Posted in America, BIO, Economics, Poverty, capitalism, greed, ownership society | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Have you ever wondered what a modern day slave would look like and how he or she might behave? Ever consider who might be the owners of plantations, staffed by these slaves, if they were "permitted" to exist today? Has it ever crossed your mind that the only thing that's ...
Posted in 2008 elections, BIO, Barack, Economics, Global Warming, Obama, Politics, Race, Religion, Rhetoric, presidential elections | 1 Comment »
