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health care “reform”?

Monday, March 22, 2010

The problem with health care in America is NOT that too many people don’t have it. And it’s NOT that it’s too expensive (though it is expensive). The problem with health care in America is that there is no reason for people to pay for what they can get for “free”. And if something goes [...]

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from `fortune`

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The five rules of Socialism: (1) Don’t think. (2) If you do think, don’t speak. (3) If you think and speak, don’t write. (4) If you think, speak and write, don’t sign. (5) If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised. – being told in Poland, 1987

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anniversaries – or conspiracy?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

20 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, signaling the demise of the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. 40 years ago Sesame Street premied on PBS, signaling the use of television as an aide to education and learning. I think the Berlin Wall fell because Sesame Street turned twenty.

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oh no! more information! stop it!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

As reported here, authorities in Sydney claim that by having the “blacklist” leaked, it will ‘”the concerned parent’s worst nightmare” as curious children would inevitably seek it out.’. Oh come on! Kids can find anything they want anyways. I certainly could when I was younger – and it didn’t require the internet. Encyclopedias, libraries, talking [...]

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guess it’s good this server is in the united states

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Because this link to wikileaks would be illegal in Australia. That’s right – if you operate a website in Australia, just linking to a banned site will cost you $11k per day. So. Mr Australia government guy… you’re banning domains? What happens when folks copy data from places like http://wikileaks.org to their own sites? Or [...]

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jim hansen – climatologist

Friday, February 20, 2009

A friend pointed-out Jim Hansen’s profile page on the NASA site: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html. I find this quote amazing on his profile, “The hardest part is trying to influence the nature of the measurements obtained, so that the key information can be obtained.” He flat-out admits to manipulating data to better his study’s goal. I’ve seen brazen [...]

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how is this racist?

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Yes, I am aware of regional American history in which black people were sometimes referred-to as ‘porch monkeys’. But please tell me how this cartoon is racist? According to Roland Martin, it’s a racist attack on the president. “The cartoonist didn’t hang a sign around the neck of the chimp, so he left it up [...]

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a [short] review

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Regardless of for whom you voted in 2000, 2004, or 2008, and regardless of whether or not you approve of the out-going president, or his replacement, certainly one thing can be agreed-upon. Less than 8 months after President George W Bush took office, some group of people hostile to the United States flew aircraft into [...]

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us urges merchant ships to try steps to foil pirates

Friday, November 21, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/washington/20military.html?_r=1 “The commander of American and allied naval forces off the coast of Somalia has begun efforts to halt a spike in piracy, urging merchant vessels to sail with armed guards on board and to travel only within lanes now patrolled by warships. The commander, Vice Adm. William E. Gortney of the United States Navy, [...]

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al qaeda greets obama victory with an insult

Thursday, November 20, 2008

From http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/mideast/qaeda.php: “In Al Qaeda’s first response to the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who will continue a campaign against Islam begun by President George W. Bush.” … “American officials dismissed the new video as spin control and a desperate tactic by a terror group that [...]

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