I came across this the other day. Someone analyzed all of the Bush administration's references to Iraq's WMDs, Iraq's links to Al Qaeda or both over time up to a shortly after starting the war with Iraq in 2003; it even shows a bar graph shedding light on an organized PR campaign to fool the Americans and everyone else into going to war with Iraq.
It's an interesting read. It kind of makes them all murderers in a sense, IMO.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Why US students are 29th in the world...
The "crazy Christians" are after us!!!
Re: Origin Theories Clash: Pinellas School Board would teach Intelligent Design...
The reason the US is 29th in the world in science instead of 1st is because our leaders and educators are being duped by the "Wedge Document" campaigns. These school board leaders need to go back to school, as they have not had a proper science education: These leaders are apparently easily duped by a PR campaign promoting an idea that in no way reflects critical thinking skills, the scientific method, or qualifies as a scientific theory. This ignorance would be laughable if it weren't so pathetically damaging to America's future.
The Wedge Document represents the strategy of the Discovery Institute, a think tank that advocates intelligent design and its "Teach the Controversy" campaign, which aims to teach creationist beliefs in public high school science courses. The Discovery Institute put forth its planned public relations, public opinion, media, and political lobbying campaigns in the Wedge Document, which states that the aim of this creationist campaign is to drive a "wedge" into popular discussions about the origin of life by manufacturing a false controversy that does not actually exist within the scientific community. The Wedge Document states the Institute's manifesto is to "defeat evolution" and "replace it with Christian and theistic convictions" to "affirm the reality of God."
In a public school, to have any patience at all with creationist/intelligent design notions is to do a severe disservice to your students. Those ideas in no way qualify as a theory, in any science, by any scientist anywhere. I hope various leaders on the School Board will thank the private company, the Discovery Institute, for doing such a good job in their advertising campaign! Their duping campaign has worked on them!
Re: Origin Theories Clash: Pinellas School Board would teach Intelligent Design...
The reason the US is 29th in the world in science instead of 1st is because our leaders and educators are being duped by the "Wedge Document" campaigns. These school board leaders need to go back to school, as they have not had a proper science education: These leaders are apparently easily duped by a PR campaign promoting an idea that in no way reflects critical thinking skills, the scientific method, or qualifies as a scientific theory. This ignorance would be laughable if it weren't so pathetically damaging to America's future.
The Wedge Document represents the strategy of the Discovery Institute, a think tank that advocates intelligent design and its "Teach the Controversy" campaign, which aims to teach creationist beliefs in public high school science courses. The Discovery Institute put forth its planned public relations, public opinion, media, and political lobbying campaigns in the Wedge Document, which states that the aim of this creationist campaign is to drive a "wedge" into popular discussions about the origin of life by manufacturing a false controversy that does not actually exist within the scientific community. The Wedge Document states the Institute's manifesto is to "defeat evolution" and "replace it with Christian and theistic convictions" to "affirm the reality of God."
In a public school, to have any patience at all with creationist/intelligent design notions is to do a severe disservice to your students. Those ideas in no way qualify as a theory, in any science, by any scientist anywhere. I hope various leaders on the School Board will thank the private company, the Discovery Institute, for doing such a good job in their advertising campaign! Their duping campaign has worked on them!
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Nel mezzo del cammin
Part 1
I've had this dream
a million nights
and now I'm living.
Living the running free down the street
out, away, flying away.
Breathing cool, stretching
as wide as the earth.
Fancy footing over pavement, over grass.
Away and away - all flowy-haired and shining.
And in this moment,
I'm me
and it's about me.
There's so much time.
Like the earth is holding it's breath until I step.
Like balancing on a barrel sticky and hot.
How did I get out here?
Days and weeks and years of counting to 10 and then 100
and swallowing tears and fears...
Part 2
"Mother" I branded into my skin myself.
Now I know why all mothers are a little bit crazy.
Thought when we met and kissed I'd never be alone.
Now, I'm more alone than ever.
"It's all on you, babe."
My shoulders broke from the weight of my babies
and the story of all my days is a child's story.
My 10-year plan is a kid's paradise.
Did I lose my mind, my soul
or do I not have a right to one?
Do the rich keep theirs?
Do I look without longing for relief? Can I glance without resentment?
It's all on me: This is my blessed trap. My job.
I am woman:
hear me in the wind a butterfly's wing makes.
It is the wind that turns the world.
I've had this dream
a million nights
and now I'm living.
Living the running free down the street
out, away, flying away.
Breathing cool, stretching
as wide as the earth.
Fancy footing over pavement, over grass.
Away and away - all flowy-haired and shining.
And in this moment,
I'm me
and it's about me.
There's so much time.
Like the earth is holding it's breath until I step.
Like balancing on a barrel sticky and hot.
How did I get out here?
Days and weeks and years of counting to 10 and then 100
and swallowing tears and fears...
Part 2
"Mother" I branded into my skin myself.
Now I know why all mothers are a little bit crazy.
Thought when we met and kissed I'd never be alone.
Now, I'm more alone than ever.
"It's all on you, babe."
My shoulders broke from the weight of my babies
and the story of all my days is a child's story.
My 10-year plan is a kid's paradise.
Did I lose my mind, my soul
or do I not have a right to one?
Do the rich keep theirs?
Do I look without longing for relief? Can I glance without resentment?
It's all on me: This is my blessed trap. My job.
I am woman:
hear me in the wind a butterfly's wing makes.
It is the wind that turns the world.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Perfect Me Ann Coulter
Again, this is great...very funny, and in my Happy Hanukkah video theme...
Satirist/singer/guitar player Leah Kauffman sings and asks Ann Coulter to perfect her. I think she (Leah) really puts things in the right perspective.
Rock On!
Happy Hanukkah!
We were laughing out loud watching this. I thought it was appropriate being Hanukkah and all.
Crank That Kosha Boy
Monday, December 10, 2007
Holy Crap!
6,000 soldiers claim persecution by "Christian" evangelicals
This is so frightening...
Links from the article:
-Harry
This is so frightening...
"They are proselytizing not on behalf of the Constitution of the United States and the national security interests of our country but rather on behalf of some sort of fanatical view of end times. And they are using our army to affect that."And follow the link to read on, it gets better, I mean worse.
-- Ambassador Joe Wilson
Links from the article:
- The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism
- Theocracy Watch: The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party - a public information project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy
at Cornell University - ideological insanity behind Erik Prince and Blackwater Inc.
- Military Religious Freedom Foundation
-Harry
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