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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under the

An Honest man cannot win an argument with an idiot.  

Steve Wishnevsky (1945-) 

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. 

            Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) 

Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. 

         Charles Simmons 

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Still Don't Proove Nothin' God Wants That Ice to Melt.

NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict

By Peter Brown

 

 

Your Republican Moral Arbiters Keeping Family Values Intact

Sens. Larry Craig and David Vitter co-sponsor Marriage Protection Amendmentby PageOneQTwo United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity have named themselves as co-sponsors of S. J. RES. 43, dubbed the Marriage Protection Amendment. If ratified, the bill would amend the United States Constitution to state that marriage "shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

Onward to Victory

Posted on Fri, Jun. 27, 2008

And Denial is a River in Egypt

Scientific American 

News -  June 23, 2008Ice Core Reveals How Quickly Climate Can ChangeWeather patterns can permanently shift in as little as a year, according to the records preserved in an ice core from Greenland 

By David Biello 

Definitions of Fascism Googled up at Random

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition ... 

A social and political ideology with the primary guiding principle that the state or nation is the highest priority, rather than personal or individual freedoms.A system of government that promotes extreme nationalism, repression, anticommunism, and is ruled by a dictator. 

Rough Tough Cream Puffs

The tendency of Right Wing bloggers to use scatological, homophobic, and sexual dominance metaphors in addition to their usual tactics of character assassination brings to mind some research I did last summer on the prevalence of closeted gay homophobics in the neo-con ranks…

War Crimes, Frat Boys and Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Clip from McClatchy

 

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McClatchy Washington Bureau General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: June 18, 2008 08:34:09 PM

WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.

Whew, What a Relief

You can expect the price of gas to go down to a dollar a gallon soon. Not only will the offshore oil drilling make us energy independent, but just as soon as that Iraqi oil gets on the market, they will pay you to take it off their hands. Guaranteed.

 

Everybody in the oil business is so optimistic that ExxonMobile is selling off all it's gas stations. Probably because gas will be so cheap that it won't be worth selling.