Lieberman jumping ship (again)?

Meet Lieberman, R-CT:

the story

Kathleen Reardon: We’d Be Out Of This "War" In Iraq If…

Great op-ed regarding George Bush’s cowboy antics and the reasons the war is not going to end well. Hint: It’s his own damned fault.

“We’d be out of the “war” in Iraq tomorrow if negotiation weren’t synonymous with “surrender” among the G. W. Bush cronies. If we had among leaders in the U.S. people like President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski to negotiate a viable consensus, peace would have a chance. He said on The Daily Show, March 14, that
George Bush has squandered our nation’s credibility, has not led with the social responsibility imperative of a single super power leader, has failed to move peace forward as would have been possible in the post cold war era, and has lost the necessary respect and trust of other nations around the world that would otherwise now be crucial allies in that endeavor.”

The whole article

Israel’s bondage king of diplomacy

“Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth.

Apparently it’s not a joke.

All criminals are now labeled "Terrorist" and stripped of rights

“In a chilling analysis of the PATRIOT Act, the ACLU points out that the new definition of “domestic terrorist” redefines any US criminal as a terrorist, exempt from due process and an open trial. “Domestic terrorists” can have their assets seized without a hearing, have their educational records pulled, and a host of other nasties. “Terrorism” is now officially meaningless: as far as the PATRIOT Act is concerned, if you do anything the government doesn’t like, you’re a terrorist. When you put it that way, it seems even less likely that we’ll win the “war on terrorism.”

BoingBoing post here

The hilarity that is "conservapedia"

“The global warming page, as you might expect, is delightful. It acknowledges the recent international report from 113 countries asserting that global climate changes are very likely “not due to known natural causes alone” — but then it points out this fact, which may not have occurred to you: “These scientists are mostly liberal athiests, untroubled by the hubris that man can destroy the Earth which God gave him.”

Funny article about it

The Conservapedia site

Yes, that’s Jesus riding a dinosaur…read Conservapedia’s entry on dinosaurs

The problem with "The Media" today

By Drew Curtis…awesome stuff.

“What’s scary, though, is that the ratio of filler news to real news is now so high that the content of Fark and major news websites is often nearly identical. That should never happen because, in theory, mass media outlets are staffed by full-time, serious journalists who have better things to do.

So what’s going on?”

the entire article

Goodnight, Beer Man.

Alan D. Eames, who cultivated his reputation as “the Indiana Jones of beer” by crawling into Egyptian tombs to read hieroglyphics about beer and voyaging along the Amazon in search of a mysterious lost black brew, died Feb. 10 at his home. He was 59.

read it here

Revolutionary Evolutionist – Wired.com

“The following science fiction plot is feasible, given a technology that differs from today’s only in being a little speeded up. Professor Jim Crickson has been kidnapped by an evil foreign power and forced to work in its biological-warfare labs. To save civilization, it is vitally important that he should communicate some top-secret information to the outside world, but all normal channels of communication are denied him. Except one. The DNA code consists of 64 triplet “codons,” enough for a complete upper- and lower-case English alphabet plus 10 numerals, a space character, and a full stop. Professor Crickson takes a virulent influenza virus off the laboratory shelf and engineers into its genome the complete text of his message to the outside world, in perfectly formed English sentences. He repeats his message over and over again in the engineered genome, adding an easily recognizable “flag” sequence – say, the first 10 prime numbers. He then infects himself with the virus and sneezes in a room full of people. A wave of flu sweeps the world, and medical labs in distant lands set to work to sequence its genome in an attempt to design a vaccine. It soon becomes apparent that there is a strange repeated pattern in the genome. Alerted by the prime numbers – which cannot have arisen spontaneously – somebody tumbles on the idea of deploying code-breaking techniques. From there it would be short work to read the full English text of Professor Crickson’s message, sneezed around the world.”

A story and profile about Richard Dawkin’s. My favorite atheist guru.

The article is here.

More gov’t wiretapping details

This one is pretty interesting:

“It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked “top secret.” And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls.”

Story here

Darwin’s God?

“Which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God

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