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Logic

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:15:19 GMT

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This is a guide to using logical fallacies in debate. And when I say "using," I don't mean just pointing them out when opposing debaters commit them -- I mean deliberately committing them oneself, or finding ways to transform fallacious arguments into perfectly good ones.

Tags: logic

Where Are the Journalists?

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:11:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I remember when the news media asked hard serious questions of government offiicials.

Clip Source: niemanwatchdog.org

How the press can prevent another Iraq

Journalists, and through us the public, have a grave responsibility to not be complicit in another march to war on false pretenses. So what lessons should we have learned from Iraq?

Lessons we thought had been learned from Vietnam were forgotten in the rush to invade Iraq. And now, as we cover President Bush’s ratcheting up of the rhetoric against Iran, it’s looking like the lessons we should have learned from Iraq may not have been learned at all. So at the risk of stating the obvious, here are some thoughts about what those lessons were. (Feel free to add more in comments.)

Tags: media, lies, iraq, iran

Media Follows Drudge Lead

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:38:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just as in the "inventing the internet" tale, once again the main stream media thought nothing of a story until after rightwing activists "spun" the tale into an issue.

Clip Source: www.talkingpointsmemo.com

CNN Didn't Think Hillary's "Drawl" Was Signigicant -- Until Matt Drudge Said So.

Here's the evidence: I've gone back and determined that CNN didn't think the Hillary "drawl" story was at all significant -- that is, until Matt Drudge said it was.

Tags: journalistic integrity, media, drudge, smear

Libby Urban Myths

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:14:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Watch for these urban myths to be touted by the media in the aftermath of the Libby conviction.

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

No underlying crime was committed.

There was no concerted White House effort to smear Wilson.

Libby was not responsible for the leak of Plame's identity.

Libby merely "left out some facts."

Libby's leak was an effort to set the record straight.

There is no evidence that the Plame leak compromised national security.

Fitzgerald is a partisan prosecutor.

Fitzgerald exceeded his mandate in investigating violations beyond the IIPA

Plame's employment with the CIA was widely known.

Plame's employment with the CIA was widely known

Tags: libby, perjury, corruption

Libby's Forgotten Job Title

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:38:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Often forgotten is that Libby was "Special Assistant to the President." Has the media dropped that title in an effort to distance Libby from Bush?

Clip Source: www.gwu.edu

Building the New Administration

Lewis "Scooter" Libby

Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff to the Vice President/Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs

Tags: libby, bush, scandal

Prosecutors Pressued to Go Easy on Repubs

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:04:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Any way you cut it, this isn't looking good.

Clip Source: talkingpointsmemo.com

Another prosecutor forced out in 2005 for investigating a Republican?

“There was direct pressure not to pursue these investigations,” said the former prosecutor, Thomas M. DiBiagio. “The practical impact was to intimidate my office and shut down the investigations.”

Tags: bush, scandal, prosecutors, doj

Free Time Wasting Sites on the Net

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:36:47 GMT

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Clip Source: freebies.about.com

Some would say that the personal computer and the Internet have revolutionized how much we can accomplish in a day. That may be true, but they have also revolutionized how much time can be wasted in a day.

1) Falling Sand

This is an absolutely incredible interactive toy.

2) Not Pr0n

3) Someone keeps stealing my letters...

Imagine the chaos and the fun of having dozens of people trying to spell out words with virtual letter magnets on a virtual refrigerator.

4) Samorost

If you have not experienced the incredible graphics and engaging point and click game play of Samorost you must give it a try.

5) Samorost 2

6) Subservient Chicken

I refuse to admit how much time I wasted playing with this little gem.

7) Stuff on My Cat

This one is not interactive, but there are so many pictures and many of them will make you laugh so much, that it can take hours to get through the site.

8) Spirograph

I had a Spirograph as a kid and loved spending hours making amazing geometric drawings with it.

Tags: games, life, people, internet, computers

More Bogus Sliming of Senator Clinton by Wingers

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:35:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.talkingpointsmemo.com

Yet Another Wingnut Sliming Of Hillary Proven To Be Bogus

Another day, another wingnut tale proven to be highly dishonest. Today's exhibit of winger mendacity -- pushed today by Drudge, Fox News, and some of the big winger blogs -- concerns the southern accent Hillary put on in Alabama yesterday.

Here are the details. For much of today the Drudge Report has been running the following enormous banner headline:

Tags: clinton, rightwing, smear

High Priest

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:14:27 GMT

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Clip Source: susiebright.blogs.com

You Get the Timothy Leary You Deserve

Shortly before his death, Timothy Leary was asked about Richard Nixon calling him “the most dangerous man in America.”

“It’s true,” Leary replied. “I have America surrounded.”

“There is one thing people should know about Leary,” says British writer John Higgs. “He was fucking funny!”

Ultimately, you can't hope to understand why he did what he did if you refuse to look at the ideas that drove him. Leary was too complicated a figure to dismiss as either a saint or a moron, as many people try to. He's probably the best example of the “trickster” archetype that the 20th Century produced, and his ambiguity is key to understanding him.

Tags: leary

Hendrix Commentary by Susie Bright

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:55:30 GMT

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Clip Source: susiebright.blogs.com

Hendrix, & Why the Little Dykes Understand

Sure, lots of MTV stars are cute, but I don’t see them when I look out my belly button window. I’ve fantasized fucking many rock ‘n’ roll legends, but I’ve never again had the feeling like I got with Hendrix that I could fuck the whole wide world.

With Jimi you could love it and leave it; the two philosophies were not exclusive. He carved an axis bold as love and left me like he left so many others— spinning.

Tags: hendrix

Bush Had Trouble Landing - Had to Skip

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:12:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Evidence suggests Bush's performance as a pilot in the guard was on the slide. Daddy called friends in Alabama and said, "he's killing us in Houston." They had to get him out of town. He couldn't pass his flight physical; he was booted down to a trainer and simulator; and he was obviously having a drinking problem.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Skipping Texas for Alabama

There is increasing evidence that Bush left his Texas Air National Guard unit in '72 for Alabama because he was having problems piloting a fighter jet.

Growing evidence suggests that George W. Bush abruptly left his Texas Air National Guard unit in 1972 for substantive reasons pertaining to his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet.

Tags: bush, awol, national guard

Look Out Cleveland - There's Thunder on the Hill

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:36:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a nightmare come true for the Bush administration. Democrats with subpoena power.

Clip Source: www.hillnews.com

Democrats send out first round of subpoenas

A House Judiciary subcommittee approved today the first in what is expected to be an avalanche of subpoenas to Bush administration officials. They will likely explore corruption and mismanagement allegations on everything from pre-war Iraq intelligence to the mishandling of the response to Hurricane Katrina.

The first round of subpoenas concern the recent controversial firings by the Bush administration of seven U.S. attorneys, some of whom were pursuing public corruption cases against Republican members of Congress.

Tags: bush, corruption

Bush Approvals at All Time Low

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:13:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My question is - where did they find 29 morons who say they approve of the job Bush is doing?

Clip Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

March 1, 2007, 6:40 pm

New Bush, Iraq Poll Numbers

In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Over all, Mr. Bush’s job approval remains at one of its lowest points, with 29 percent of all Americans saying they approve of the way he is doing his job, compared with 34 percent at the end of October. Sixty-one percent disapproved, compared with 58 percent in October, within the margin of sampling error.

Tags: bush, politics

Bush Worsens Terror Situation

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:25:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It seems everything Bush touches turns to shit. The joke in Midland, TX when Bush was in the oil "bidness," was that George W. Bush couldn't find a friggin quart of oil in a 7/11."

Clip Source: news.independent.co.uk

1 March 2007 11:17

How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place

New figures show dramatic rise in terror attacks worldwide since the invasion of Iraq

Innocent people across the world are now paying the price of the "Iraq effect", with the loss of hundreds of lives directly linked to the invasion and occupation by American and British forces.

Tags: bush, iraq, terrorism

Cheny Lucky to Be Allowed to Leave Country

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:39:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bush WH is sitting on pins and needles hoping Libby is acquitted. A guilty verdict may move the treason investigation yet even one step closer to the Oval Office.

Clip Source: www2.arkansasonline.com

Cheney’s approach revealed in miniature

By Gene Lyons

LITTLE ROCK — If Dick Cheney were anything less than vice president, you’d have to wonder if the judge in the Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial would have let him leave the country. During closing arguments, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald made it clear that he believed Cheney’s chief of staff perjured himself to cover-up his boss’s role in “outing” CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Tags: bush, treason, cheney, libby, plame