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Update on Rolling Stone, Robert Kennedy, and the 2004 Election

17 Jun

Update on the Election Fraud story about which I posted earlier. It seems that Mark Crispin Miller wanted to comment on the Salon story “debunking” Rolling Stone and Robert Kennedy. Salon refused to print his letter to them, and essentially cut off all discussion on the topic. Well, I’m “Not Ready to Make Nice” on this one. Go here to read Mark Crispin Miller’s open letter to Salon.

Excerpt:

What explains this eagerness to kill all conversation on an issue of such grave importance? This is not a question just about Farhad Manjoo and/or Salon, because your way of dealing, or not dealing, with this all-important matter has been typical of the entire US political establishment throughout Bush/Cheney’s reign. This general silence has prevented us from facing an enormous threat to our democracy, which is now at unprecedented risk.

Original Rolling Stone article which is causing all the fuss: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

BTW: Omerta is the mafia “law of silence”. Read Crispin’s open letter to know why I added this.

Protected: What a waste of young lives

15 Jun

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Beware God’s Bullies

15 Jun

Don’t Bow To God’s Bullies
Rev. Jim Rigby, posted to AlterNet

If you want to know why Americans are so frightened and why we attack anything that challenges our dominance over others, read the Bible.

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Protected: Online Petition – Letter to CMA Bod and GC

13 Jun

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Neo-Con/Theocrat Catch-22?

12 Jun

Apparently, global warming is increasing rates of evolution. I love the quote here

Wow, what a catch-22! They can continue to ignore global warming but risk causing the body of evidence in favor of evolution to grow even faster, thus making it more difficult to sneak religious ideas in classrooms. On the other hand, if they try to reverse climate change, they’ll have to actually admit that global warming is real and caused by humans.

See the original article in the National Geographic magazine. Thanks, jokermage, for bringing this one to my attention.

Minor plug: you really should go see An Inconvenient Truth, if you have not already done so.

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Protected: Pseudoscience – HHO / Brown’s Gas application

12 Jun

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TrustFlow results for wyldraven

11 Jun

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for wyldraven are close by:

More results below the cut…

Protected: Metaphysical navel gazing

11 Jun

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An Inconvenient Truth

11 Jun

On the strong urging of sollite, we (lasarina and I) got our old creaky selves moving and went to see a late showing last night of Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. We tried to see an 8pm showing and found that one to be sold out. So we bought advance tickets for 9:45pm, found a place to hang out in walking distance of the theater, and then came back to see the film. The film is powerful and frightening. (Trailer 2:30)

The New York Magazine did a great review of the film here:
Devastating in Its Implications
Go see Al Gore’s new documentary—and then pay attention to who attacks it.
By David Edelstein
Full text of article

Another mistake GW can forget to admit

9 Jun

NASA shelves climate satellites
Environmental science may suffer
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