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Obamagram: Polls changing fast
Despite McCain and Clinton’s best efforts to turn voters away from Barack Obama, he is surging in the polls. Continue reading Obamagram: Polls changing fast
Space, the Final (political) Frontier…
According to the New York Times, “An
Errant Satellite Is Gone, but Questions Linger” …Should the people of the world be breathing a sigh of relief that the risk of a half-ton of frozen, toxic rocket fuel landing who knows where has passed? Or should they be worried about the latest display of the United States’ technical prowess, and see it as a thinly veiled test for a shadow antisatellite program?
Get Your”No to Nader”Blog Badge!
Here they are, in all sizes for all blogs, sidebars, and other places on the web. Or blow it up and put it up on your lawn next to your Obama or Clinton sign! Or use it as the template for a tattoo. … Continue reading Get Your”No to Nader”Blog Badge!
Fidel Castro Will Step Down Sunday
Fidel Castro Will Step Down SundayCuba’s ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not accept another term as president, ending the communist revolutionary’s 49 years in power.
Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. Continue reading Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration
Al Gore for President?
According to Newsmax, The Telegraph is outlining a scenario by which Al Gore becomes the Democratic Nominee for President. Continue reading Al Gore for President?
He feels unnerved. Others feel, well, like their guts were blown out of their bodies all over the lecture hall.
This man supplied some of the weaponry used in two major college mass murders. He is eager to continue supplying these weapons in the hopes that someday a good guy will shoot a bad guy. Eric Thompson, owner of Topglock.com, is the goto guy if you need guns, especially the widely loved Glock handgun. The gentleman who killed a half-dozen people at NIU got some of his supplies at Topglock. The guy who killed all those kids at Virginia Tech last year also got some of his armaments at Topglock.com. Topglock: Your specialist in tragedy. We’re having a motto contest for Topglock.com. Here’s my entry:“Online Gun Suppliers don’t kill innocent college students ….. Crazy guys kill innocent college students. The Online Gun Suppliers just supply them with the tools they need”Do you have a better motto? Maybe a jingle or a limerick? Continue reading He feels unnerved. Others feel, well, like their guts were blown out of their bodies all over the lecture hall.
Creation Scientist Enters Political Race in Indiana
Paul Abramson founded and runs “creationism.org” … a creation science web site. It is one of those sites that provides parents and students material to use in harassing their life science teachers and generally making an obnoxious nuisance of themselves.Paul is now seeking the Republican Party’s nominiation for congress, with which he hopes to challenge sitting congressman Brad Ellsworth (Democrat).[source]
Bird Watchers Plan Global Takeover
And good luck to them, they will probably do a pretty good job! Continue reading Bird Watchers Plan Global Takeover
Science Debate Two Thousand Eight in Business Week
Science Debate 2008 got a writeup in Business Week.
When most of the Republican candidates for President proclaimed that they did not believe in evolution during a debate last year, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss was one of many who were aghast. The Case Western University professor and best-selling author was even more upset when former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shrugged off concerns, saying that he was running for President, not writing a middle-school curriculum. “How could being scientifically illiterate be perfectly acceptable?” Krauss asks. “No one would accept a candidate who, say, denied the Holocaust.”Instead of just fuming, Krauss seized on an idea then being proposed by screenwriter/director Matthew Chapman to stage a Presidential campaign debate focused on science….
Has Ron Paul Quit?
Vague reports are circulating that Ron Paul is quitting his bid for president. He wrote this letter to supporters. Continue reading Has Ron Paul Quit?
Help out a guy looking for a job
This person needs a job.This individual seeks an executive position.He will be available in January 2009, and is willing to relocate.(Resume below the fold)
Important Message from the National Treasury
[Hat tip: JoAnn]
Huckabee: You can take our racist flag and shove it
South Carolina people know true conservatism when they see it.You don’t like people outside the state telling you how you ought to raise your kids, you don’t like people from outside the state telling you what to do with the flag … In fact, if somebody came down to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell’em where to put the pole.
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