So, let's see...what's been happening today...?
a young gal in Alabama is given detention because she hugged one of her really good friends because something had happened with one of her parents...
the Congress begins to figure out how they're going to keep their promise to the American people to end the war and stop the funding for Haliburton, Dick Cheney Enterprises, Blackwater, et al...even whilst the enlisted man/woman has their family have to go on welfare to survive...and when they come home they receive health care like they do in a third world country...and the report this morning is that 1 in 4 homeless are veterans!!!!...with the government looking for any way they can to deny them services...no college education here, my son/daughter...you are trailer trash...throwaways...yes, you served us...you served our agenda...oil...permawar...but you are not much in the overall scheme of things - really, do you believe you are?!
And the Democratic (that would be Wusses in the guise of changing the system) controlled Congress, and the Republicans (that would be the "They don't really matter to the Overall Scheme of Things as we control the Planet type folks") continue to think that we (that would be you and me, the everyday folks) don't matter unless we're spending our money without thinking about what we're buying (that would be crap food and crap toys for our kids) - as the news men/women (that would be "Lackies for the system because they're no longer newsmen/women, rather fearful 'on their knees' 'I want to keep my job/condo/house/etc., etc., ad naseum/ stuff folks") - no more Walter Cronkites, Edward R. Murrows...they are 'Wow - Paris Hilton, O. J. Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith - reporters...Sad...but then 'Brave New World' and '1984' and 'The Sheep Look Up' loom large in our current environment...and the WordSpin is such that the everyday folk have to really do the the research to see through the crap, yes?
And my words are always the same...
Do your own research.
Don't believe what ANYONE tells you - including me.
Do you really still take anything at face value????
Did Jesus really only talk about Gay Marriage, Abortion rights, and Capital Punishiment???
Did he EVER talk about things like...WE ARE ONE...ONE WITH GOD AND ONE WITH EACH OTHER....INSOMUCH AS YOU DO IT TO THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU DO IT TO ME...IF YOU HAVE BUT THE FAITH OF A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED (REALLY TINY), YOU CAN DO AS I DO AND EVEN MORE...????
Let's get real, folks.
Get your head out of the sand!
Let's have a conversation!
Let's start talking to each other!
Does the colour of your skin really matter?! It's melanine for God's sake!!!!
Does the nation you were born in really matter?! It's a fishin' piece of real estate, for God's sake!!!
REALITY! WHAT A CONCEPT!!!!
PEACE. DO THE RESEARCH!!!
08 November 2007
02 November 2007
PA GOVERNOR ED RENDELL ON THE DEBATES...Do we know any more?
You know, Governor Rendell has a really good point: "GOTTCHA" politcs sucks. For me, to watch grown men never talk about what their platforms are...explain to me WHAT they are going to do about a war that a general just said yesterday could last 50 YEARS!...tell me WHY we can't pass a health care bill for the children that will ONLY cost the TOBACCO SMOKERS money and NOT tax all Americans!?...WHY can't we have single payer healthcare - it'd be cheaper for EVERYONE except the Health/Keep Us Sick Industry and Big Pharma...and WHY do Newspeople (and I use the termly loosely, because there are no real newspeople any more - oh, maybe Keith Obermann, until they find a way to take him off the air) just waste time with ridiculous cah-cah they could control and don't in these debates...or worse yet, use NEWScasts (note the use of the term NEWS) to talk about Paris Hilton, Dog the Bounty Hunter, movie stars, Anna Nicole Smith (they almost brought her back to life they spent so many hours talking about her)...could it be THEY ARE AFRAID!!! SCARED? WUSSES?
So why don't these men (in both Republican and Democrat debates) attend to their own issues - and our real ones - and simply attack each other and especially Hillary?
The only explanation I can come up with is that they don't have anything of any value to tell us.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.....
Peace. Do the research.
01 November 2007
UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL on CENSORING SCIENCE
White House should not hide the facts
October 30, 2007
Although President Bush has every right to have his policy goals articulated by his appointees, recent reports of top scientists being censored by the administration are indeed troubling. Altering presentations does not alter reality.
The White House has a considerable record of charges that it attempted to edit or censor scientific information to conform with political goals. Among them:
Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was accused of censoring experts on polar bears about the potentially harmful effects of climate change on the creatures.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director James Hansen said earlier this year that Bush administration officials had attempted to stop him from delivering a speech in which he urged prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.
As he was leaving his position as U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Richard Carmona testified before a House committee that the White House would not allow him to speak on aspects of stem cell research, comprehensive sex education, emergency contraception or other politically charged topics.
In 2003, Council on Environmental Quality Director Philip Cooney is said to have made more than 300 changes to an Environmental Protection Agency report on global warming, supposedly exaggerating uncertainties about global warming.
The latest example of questionable political involvement in matters of science involves Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gerberding, a highly regarded infectious disease specialist, was set to deliver written testimony to a Senate panel on how climate change could effect the spread of disease.
Gerberding was prepared to present 12 pages of testimony to the committee, but after submission to the Office of Management and Budget for review, the testimony was reduced to six pages. Gone, among other statements, was one stating: “Populations in Midwestern and Northeastern cities are expected to experience more heat-related illnesses as heat waves increase in frequency, severity and duration.”
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters Gerberding's testimony was cut because, “in the draft there were broad characterizations about climate change that didn't align with the IPCC.” The IPCC is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which periodically issues reports on climate change research, including two this year. A number of scientists at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been involved in drafting these reports. Further examination, however, revealed no inconsistencies between the IPCC report and Gerberding's speech.
At this point, more than 12,000 scientists have signed a statement criticizing the Bush administration for manipulating science. With the many public health challenges confronting the nation and the world, Americans have a need and a right to know the truth. All our lives could depend on it.
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Peace. Do the research.
October 30, 2007
Although President Bush has every right to have his policy goals articulated by his appointees, recent reports of top scientists being censored by the administration are indeed troubling. Altering presentations does not alter reality.
The White House has a considerable record of charges that it attempted to edit or censor scientific information to conform with political goals. Among them:
Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was accused of censoring experts on polar bears about the potentially harmful effects of climate change on the creatures.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director James Hansen said earlier this year that Bush administration officials had attempted to stop him from delivering a speech in which he urged prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.
As he was leaving his position as U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Richard Carmona testified before a House committee that the White House would not allow him to speak on aspects of stem cell research, comprehensive sex education, emergency contraception or other politically charged topics.
In 2003, Council on Environmental Quality Director Philip Cooney is said to have made more than 300 changes to an Environmental Protection Agency report on global warming, supposedly exaggerating uncertainties about global warming.
The latest example of questionable political involvement in matters of science involves Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gerberding, a highly regarded infectious disease specialist, was set to deliver written testimony to a Senate panel on how climate change could effect the spread of disease.
Gerberding was prepared to present 12 pages of testimony to the committee, but after submission to the Office of Management and Budget for review, the testimony was reduced to six pages. Gone, among other statements, was one stating: “Populations in Midwestern and Northeastern cities are expected to experience more heat-related illnesses as heat waves increase in frequency, severity and duration.”
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters Gerberding's testimony was cut because, “in the draft there were broad characterizations about climate change that didn't align with the IPCC.” The IPCC is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which periodically issues reports on climate change research, including two this year. A number of scientists at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been involved in drafting these reports. Further examination, however, revealed no inconsistencies between the IPCC report and Gerberding's speech.
At this point, more than 12,000 scientists have signed a statement criticizing the Bush administration for manipulating science. With the many public health challenges confronting the nation and the world, Americans have a need and a right to know the truth. All our lives could depend on it.
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Peace. Do the research.
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