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Bush: those who disagree with him "slander America"

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:47:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How very, very cheap - taking those who disagree with HIM and labeling them slanderers of AMERICA. He attempts to manipulate people who want to be patriotic into sitting down, shutting up, and asking no questions about his abuse of power, so he can do whatever he wants with their money.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

BOULTON: There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.

BUSH: Of course, if you want to slander America.

a short — but by no means exhaustive — list of those who have

slandered America:

– The United States Supreme Court: The Court ruled last week that “terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to seek their release in federal court” saying that Bush’s policy compromised “the Constitution’s guarantee of liberty.”

– McClatchy Newspapers:

the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned “perhaps hundreds” of men “in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments.”

– The Federal Bureau of Investigation:

according to its agents, “[m]ilitary officials at Guantanamo Bay used some aggressive techniques before they were approved, possibly in violation of Defense Department policy and U.S. law.”

Tags: bush, gitmo, war on terror

Bush: those who disagree with him "slander America"

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:47:12 GMT

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

BOULTON: There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.

BUSH: Of course, if you want to slander America.

a short — but by no means exhaustive — list of those who have

slandered America:

– McClatchy Newspapers:

the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned “perhaps hundreds” of men “in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments.”

– The Federal Bureau of Investigation:

according to its agents, “[m]ilitary officials at Guantanamo Bay used some aggressive techniques before they were approved, possibly in violation of Defense Department policy and U.S. law.”

Tags: bush, gitmo, war on terror

Lefty Blogosphere Petitions Dems to Drop Lieberman

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:53:25 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: The piece goes on:

Next week, Democratic activists and liberal bloggers plan to deliver the petition to members of the Senate Democratic Steering Committee, which will make recommendations on committee assignments next Congress to Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader. They also plan to keep the grassroots pressure on the Democrats until those decisions are made after the November elections.

Leaders of this effort hope to mirror the success bloggers had in fueling the candidacy of businessman Ned Lamont, who beat Lieberman on an anti-war platform in the Connecticut 2006 Senate Democratic primary. Running as an Independent, Lieberman later defeated Lamont in the midterm elections.

Now that Liberman's stumping for McCain and a continued majority in the Senate is a leadpipe cinch, dems really should kick Joe out on his ass.

Screw him. They need this guy like a boat needs a drain.

Clip Source: thehill.com

Liberal groups plan to deliver a petition to Capitol Hill next week calling on Democrats to oust Sen. Joe Lieberman from his committee chairmanship in the 111th Congress.

The liberal Los Angeles-based production company Brave New Films is trying to capitalize on those concerns. Last week, the company released a Web video carrying controversial statements made by Lieberman and launched a petition drive to request Democratic leaders to strip Lieberman of his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. So far the petition drive, which has been highlighted on prominent liberal blogs Huffington Post and Open Left, has amassed more than 41,000 signatures, according to the website LiebermanMustGo.com.

Clip Source: bravenewfilms.org

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Tags: news

Why Abstinance-Only?

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:57:23 GMT

clipped by: graphictruth
clipper's remarks: Studies show that Abstinance-Only sex ed works no better than nothing. So why the literal evangelical fervor for shoving it down our children's throats? To "save them from hell" - and of course, those who are NOT saved don't matter.

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

Consider the contrast between the emphasis on making pregnancy as inevitable as possible with militant opposition to consider any social fail-safes for mistakes, accidents, poor decisions or the unpredictable circumstances of life, isseus that are of concern to any person of genuine Evangelical Christian faith, or indeed, anyone who takes the words of Jesus to be important and morally instructive.

I'm sorry if that seems arrogant, but those who discount the positive importance of the words of Christ while treating 19th century Dispensationalist twaddle as if it were Scripture are, aside from being grouchy, mean-spirited, spiteful, intolerant, fearful and judgmental prudes with an unhealthy interest in the bodily functions and private affairs of others, have also stretched the definition of "Christian" to the point where Christ Himself would not recognize it.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Why Abstinance-Only?

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:57:23 GMT

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

The Pencil Project

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:49:24 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Interesting program methinks

Clip Source: www.evolus.vn

With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.

Pencil will always be free and can run on virtually all platforms that Firefox 3 supports.

Take a Quick Tour Or Install It, Now!

The Pencil Project

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping

Multi-page document with background page

On-screen text editing with rich-text supports

PNG rasterizing

Undo/redo supports

Installing user-defined stencils

Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...

Cross-platforms

Adding external objects

Why Abstinance-Only?

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:57:23 GMT

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Chronic fatigue syndrome gets recognition as legitimate illness

Fri, 30 May 2008 21:57:29 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks: Maybe next we can stop telling people with fibromyalgia that they're hypochondriacs.

Clip Source: health.nytimes.com

For decades, people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome have struggled to convince doctors, employers, friends and even family members that they were not imagining their debilitating symptoms. Skeptics called the illness “yuppie flu” and “shirker syndrome.”

But the syndrome is now finally gaining some official respect. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in 1999 acknowledged that it had diverted millions of dollars allocated by Congress for chronic fatigue syndrome research to other programs, has released studies that linked the condition to genetic mutations and abnormalities in gene expression involved in key physiological processes.

Some scientists and many patients remain highly critical of the C.D.C.’s record on chronic fatigue syndrome. But nearly everyone now agrees that the syndrome is real.

“People with C.F.S. are as sick and as functionally impaired as someone with AIDS, with breast cancer, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,”

Internet As We Know It To End in 2012

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:38:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: internet, net neutrality, corporatism

In 2050, your lover may be a ... robot

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:02:32 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AFP) - Romantic human-robot relationships are no longer the stuff of science fiction -- researchers expect them to become reality within four decades.

And they do not mean simply, mechanical sex.

"I am talking about loving relationships about 40 years from now," David Levy, author of the book "Love + sex with robots", told AFP at an international conference held last week at the University of Maastricht in the south-east of the country.

"... when there are robots that have also emotions, personality, consciousness. They can talk to you, they can make you laugh. They can ... say they love you just like a human would say 'I love you', and say it as though they mean it ..."

Robots as sex toys should already be on the market within five years, predicted Levy, "a sort of an upgrade of the sex dolls on sale now".

These would have electronic speech and sensors that make them utter "nice sounds" when a human caresses their "erogenous zones".

Tags: robots, human, relationship

The coming famine

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:32:27 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: www.cosmosmagazine.com

BARRING NUCLEAR WARS, pandemics and cosmic accidents, there will be about 9.1 billion people living in the world in 2050. Yet they will eat as much food as 13 billion people at today's nutritional levels. So how will we feed them all? The answer to this question could be the greatest scientific challenge of the 21st century – greater even than finding a solution to climate change.

The problem is that humanity is consuming more food, year-on-year, than it produces, especially as demand for high-protein food increases in high population developing countries like China and India.

The world is also moving towards a water crisis: cities are now taking up to half of the water that was once used to grow food, while groundwater levels are declining in every country where it is used for food production.

Tags: food, water, resources, population, economy, production, famine, drought, world

Impeach The [Miserable Failure] Already!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:15:40 GMT

clipped by: graphictruth
clipper's remarks: If not, why not? If not now, when?

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

Congressman Wexler just signed on as co-sponsor of Dennis Kuchinich's articles of impeachment, as shown in the text of this letter that I just found in my in-box.

It's damn important to go through this process now. Why? Because that will put the next president - whoever they are - on notice that we will not tolerate this, nor will we allow them to put the powers Bush illegally, immorally and unconstitutionally claimed in their pocket.

So, let us do this right, by the book. And do it now before either "side" is surely in power. Right now, Nancy Pelosi has a duty to the Republic - and that duty comes before her duty to party or personal ambition.

Tags: impeachment, george bush, dick cheney, wexler, kucinich, nancy pelosi, articles of impeachment

Bikini-clad women make men impatient

Sat, 31 May 2008 01:26:16 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Sorry, no pictures!

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Images of sexy women tend to whet men's sexual appetite. But stimulating new research in the Journal of Consumer Research says there's more than meets the eye. A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification—even when they were making decisions about money, soda, and candy.

Authors Bram Van den Bergh, Siegfried DeWitte, and Luk Warlop (KULeuven, Belgium) found that the desire for immediate rewards increased in men who touched bras, looked at pictures of beautiful women, or watched video clips of young women in bikinis running through a park.

"It seems that sexual appetite causes a greater urgency to consume anything rewarding," the authors suggest. Thus, the activation of sexual desire appears to spill over into other brain systems involved in reward-seeking behaviors, even the cognitive desire for money.

"After they touched a bra, men are more likely to be content with a smaller immediate monetary reward,"

Tags: sex, men

Houston police dept uphold Beard Ban

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:03 GMT

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Clip Source: madconomist.com

Houston City Council Authorizes Spending Up To $150,000 To Defend Police Department Beard Ban

to defend the city in a lawsuit challenging the no-facial hair policy

"But we're basically saying we want new police officers, but we don't want police officers with beards."

Four police officers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in November claiming the policy is discriminatory. The officers say the prohibition on beards and goatees is unfair for men who suffer a skin condition that reacts negatively to shaving. The condition can cause severe irritation, rashes and ingrown hair.

Art or Pornography?

Mon, 05 May 2008 13:10:33 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Or only in America?

Clip Source: blogs.guardian.co.uk

That Miley Cyrus photograph: artsy or outrageous?

When a photograph of the child star - with a naked back and damp hair, draped in a satin

sheet - appeared in Vanity Fair, it caused outrage.

Germaine Greer deconstructs the image

"In western art most of the women portrayed semi-clad or totally nude are children ... When Lucian Freud paints girl children nobody cares ... Botticelli paints the yet-to-be-enjoyed goddess of love emerging from the sea, people come from all over the world to gape at her

Kate Moss has been able to earn millions only as long as she could continue to project the body image of a 13-year-old."

So why the moral uproar over a photograph which is essentially the same thing?

dirty postcard aesthetic depicts Cyrus as post-coital

dismisses the moral outcry over Cyrus's decency as a storm in a teacup

"It's the insincerity of everyone concerned that really chokes me,"

isn't this just a depressingly conventional piece of iconography?

our preferred Venuses are children

Tags: sex, photos, pornography