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Comment #4 is dead on….

Let’s see, Roosevelt rolled up Hitler’s Industrial Germany, Mussolini’s Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan in less time than Bush has taken to hamstring the US military in Afghanistan with a group of religious zealots living in caves and in Iraq with a “handfull of dead-enders”.

Discuss….

Charles Barkley Abandons Conservatism: ‘The Word Conservative Means Discriminatory’ – “”The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It’s a form of political discrimination. [Conservatives are] against gay marriage and for a war that makes no sense. A war that was based on faulty intelligence. That’s all they ever talk about. That and immigration. Another discriminatory argument for political gain.”

I agree with him 100% on this….Seriously, it’s no longer politics but a series of beliefs about how we respect a person’s rights. It’s not about states rights or national rights anymore, it’s about the personal agendas being pushed around by both sides. I trust conservatives as much as I trust liberals.

We are dealing with an administration, who’s beliefs in family are only on the surface. Social services have been cut, aid that would provide families with much needed aid. We have huge churches popping up, but we still have hungry folks running around. We don’t pay our teachers, police, etc enough and most are barely making a living wage. I know janitors who make more than cops.

We need to take an interest in principles that are based on being human instead of being based on political, social-economic, or religious grounds…because those have failed us miserably.

Circumcision ‘could cut HIV risk’

Interesting, but the article says nothing about “why”. Just says that circumcision cuts the risk of HIV without giving any supporting data, other than talking about computer models. If this was completely true, wouldn’t the HIV infection rate be higher in Europe than in America?

Workbench: Daily Kos Hid Business Partner’s SEC Lawsuit

Zengerle suggests in a followup that the members of the Liberal Blog Advertising Network have a financial motivation not to publicize this scandal, since the network’s run by Armstrong and Moulitsas with MyDD founder Chris Bowers. Zengerle links to my own experience being ousted from the network last November, which appears to have resulted in a dramatic decline in ad sales on the Drudge Retort.

I hope this looks worse than it is, but on its face, Armstrong behaved reprehensibly and Moultisas won’t own up to it. Investors lost millions on dubious Internet stocks like BluePoint during the dot-com boom, and Armstrong allowed himself to become one of the famous blogging wunderkinds of the Howard Dean campaign while he was under active SEC investigation.

Liberal or Conservative, it doesn’t really matter. They’re both hiding shit. It’s interesting to see Koz’s group jump on Rogers for running this story. I’ve always avoided Koz’s camp, since he’s just as much as a loony-ass motherfucker as his equal on the right, Charles Johnson.

The world has it’s share of checks and balances, yin-yang, etc. That’s nature. Bizarroworld it may be, but politics is a good example of that. There is enough bullshit on either side, if you ignore that, you’re just contributing.

Students unveil “Trinity,” a 200 mpg SUV at NewFangledGreen

If students can make a plug-in hybrid out of an SUV that already exists, why can’t GM, Ford, and others? Plug-in hybrids make so much sense, I can’t understand why the big auto makers aren’t making them!

I’ve been wondering something similar for a while. If we have all of these technical universities coming up with hybrid engines for years, why aren’t they in full production?

If one oil company said, “We’re going to start migration of our stations to hydrogen (or ethanol) and will be complete by 2010.” I wonder how quick the automobile companies would follow-up with engine development? Imagine if one oil company did that. They would be media darlings about being innovative plus they would have a head start for when we’re really in the pits about a lack of oil production.

We only need gasoline currently, because no one has taken a step forward and said, “hey we know you’re suffering with the high costs of gasoline and we’re going to change that”. Instead, we have everyone from the oil companies to the auto companies and the government, making tiny baby steps….when we should have been doing something for the past 30 years.

6/7/2006 – Gay Marriage Ban Was Just Pandering Legislation – Opinion – Chattanoogan.com – Important legislation under this current group of senators include English as a national language, gay marriage, Terry Schiavo (one person), and burning the American flag. All of it is useless, pandering legislation that does nothing for the country and the betterment of anyone’s life.

Exactly!

Why do we care if two men or two women want to marry, when we have high gas prices, schools that can’t even educate our kids, unprotected levees and a war out of control? Those are more serious and impact more Americans than same-sex marriage.

Good! I wanted to make sure I wasn’t the only one who said it.

{Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You’re Calling} – “A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.”

I don’t know about you but when the CIA starts tapping the news media’s phones, that’s when you know when a reported story has weight. When will this administration be stopped?

I’ve been swamped, but I’m still keeping a list of links that interest me.

1.) Project Access Partners Provide More Than $6.5 million In Low-Income Healthcare – I developed the original logo for this organization, don’t know if they use it or not.

2.) I’m using Konqueror under KDE on SUSE and GNOME on Ubuntu. Safari/Webkit nightlies under OSX. KHTML on Windows using VMWare Player, seems to be the only way I’ll ever have KTHML/Konqueror under Windows.

I’m not sure where this new-found interest in Linux came from. I’m guessing that it’s because I’m back in the Windows world and quite shocked at how much more progressed Linux has become. I’d say it’s about equal with Windows 2000 currently. Still not the easiest thing to mess with, but it’s still better than nothing at all. The installs are much better and the support forums, Ubuntu for example, are sooo much better than dealing with Slackware or Red Hat hackers 10 years ago.

I’m even to the point of considering a Linux-based laptop as my next machine. The Powerbook is nice and I really dig OS X, but for my needs I can handle having a Mac for Photoshop & file server needs and using Linux for web browsing.

3.) “Is there a way to easily have browsers seek out the new css page now?” – Great solution…..

4.) What happened to MacEdition?

5.) Concord Road Residents Object To Cell Tower – Invoking the “important to Homeland Security efforts.” line, is the weak way out of a weak argument.

6.) I have a lot on my mind about everything from gas prices, to Tom Cruise pulling a Michael Jackson and trying any/everything to have his name in the news, to the NSA spying being more widespread than thought. I just don’t have the time right now to jot anything down.

My basic question is, “When will we say we’ve had enough”? When will a 31% approval rating, thousands of deaths in Iraq, $3 gas, and internal spying make us rise up and make a change with votes or by calling our representatives?

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