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    Let me get this straight. You're typing on a keyboard made from oil and refined metals, watching the letters come up on a light-emitting screen, in order to use a few grams of silicon etched finer than the eye can see with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of tiny quantum-mechanical devices, in order to send a message that will travel via optical cables (and possibly satellite links), to be read by thousands of people across the whole world, all of whom could reply within a few hours, and you are actually saying, I mean really actually truly making the claim, that *science has no special relation to observed reality*?!?

    I give up.

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    Rob Kall's Spring Cleaning

    As Rob says, “Think Big”. You can read the whole article with detailed explanations here:

    Put all unemployed workers and their families on medicare. End Unemployment. Give ten million unemployed people jobs. Military Re-do End drug laws that involve victimless crimes. End the marijuana laws Throw out the USA’s participation in the WTO, the WB, NAFTA, CAFTA Throw out Corporate Personhood Open up or [...]



    Is This Some Kind of Sick Joke?

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    Obama gets Nobel Peace prize, turns around and escalates an unnecessary occupation of Afghanistan.

    Now Bernanke is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year after caving to Wall Street investment banks and AIG by bailing them [...]



    caught a badddd bug

    and have been out of commission since Friday. Only benefit was I got through most of Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: a wonderful, horrible read about Pat Tillman’s decision to leave the NFL for the Army Rangers after 9/11, and all that BushCo did to use him and abuse his family after his friendly fire death in Afghanistan.

    Truly, it is to read [...]



    an (un)likely story

    thank any of the other “official” stories that have been coming out about the disappearance of that Russian freighter a few weeks ago. If you haven’t been following the story, here’s the background:

    WHO: The Arctic Sea and its crew of 15

    WHAT: On July 24, the Maltese-flagged Arctic Sea radioed that it had been boarded by gunmen posing as law enforcement officers off [...]



    Representatives Who Deserve Your Vote

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    Below are the Democrats who stood against Obama’s expanding war the day their votes mattered (See where your Representative stood here):

    Tammy Baldwin, Michael Capuano, John Conyers, Lloyd Doggett, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison, Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Alan Grayson, Raul Grijalva, Michael Honda, Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Eric Massa, Jim McGovern, Michael Michaud, Donald Payne, [...]



    Talks Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history



    Rhetoric versus Reality, Actions Speak Louder than Words

    First we have this, President Obama speaking in Cairo:

    And then we have this reality from David Swanson:

    A New Beginning: If Only

    By David Swanson

    President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with truth telling and noble sentiments. But imagine how much more good would be done if all [...]

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