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2005 8 November :: 5.00 pm
:: Mood: enraged
un fucking believable
We all knew it, but it's all coming out now....the role of VP Dick Cheney's office in the intelligence that lead to war:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129686/nav/tap1/
I apologize for only posting links and the like lately, I'll write a real entry soon! But do read this, it's enough to enrage even the most politically apathetic.
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2005 4 November :: 8.04 am
this is great!
how i learned to stop thinking and love the republican party:
http://www.becomerepublican.com
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2005 27 October :: 11.49 am
a slate.com article comparing Intelligent Design trial transcripts to a Monty Python sketch:
Monty Python:
Q. You say you have a new theory about the brontosaurus.
A. Can I just say here, Chris, for one moment, that I have a new theory about the brontosaurus.
Q. Exactly. Well, what is it? ¡
A: Oh, what is my theory?
Q: Yes.
A: Oh, what is my theory, that it is. Well, Chris, you may well ask me what is my theory.
Q: I am asking.
A: Good for you. My word, yes. Well, Chris, what is it that it is¡ªthis theory of mine. Well, this is what it is¡ªmy theory that I have, that is to say, which is mine, is mine.
Q: Yes, I know it's yours. What is it?
A: Where? Oh, what is my theory? This is it. My theory that belongs to me is as follows. This is how it goes. The next thing I'm going to say is my theory. Ready?
Q: Yes.
A: ¡ This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle; and then thin again at the far end.
As though that explained anything. Which brings us to last week's cross-examination of Behe by Eric Rothschild, the lawyer opposing the school board in the Pennsylvania case.
Q: Please describe the mechanism that intelligent design proposes for how complex biological structures arose.
A: Well, the word "mechanism" can be used in many ways. ¡ When I was referring to intelligent design, I meant that we can perceive that in the process by which a complex biological structure arose, we can infer that intelligence was involved. ¡
Q: What is the mechanism that intelligent design proposes?
A: And I wonder, could¡ªam I permitted to know what I replied to your question the first time?
Q: I don't think I got a reply, so I'm asking you. You've made this claim here (reading): "Intelligent design theory focuses exclusively on the proposed mechanism of how complex biological structures arose." And I want to know, what is the mechanism that intelligent design proposes for how complex biological structures arose?
A: Again, it does not propose a mechanism in the sense of a step-by-step description of how those structures arose. But it can infer that in the mechanism, in the process by which these structures arose, an intelligent cause was involved.
Talk about tautology.
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2005 20 October :: 4.05 pm
it's evolution, baby
http://www.framestore-cfc.com/press/05pr/051003noitulove/amv_gune339_050_qt.mov
watch this commercial from guiness, it's great!
and hooray for being irish :)
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2005 19 October :: 9.29 am
read me
http://www.slate.com/id/2128199/?nav=tap3
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2005 11 October :: 7.16 am
:: Mood: awake
International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza
Is it just me, or are Bush's committees starting to sound like Professor Umbridge's declarations from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
You all probably don't know what those are, I must be the only dork who reads those books...just trust me on this one :)
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2005 29 August :: 9.57 am
To Earthward
by Robert Frost
Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air
That crossed me from sweet things,
The flow of--was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Downhill at dusk?
I had the swirl and ache
From sprays of honeysuckle
That when they're gathered shake
Dew on the knuckle.
I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.
Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain
Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.
When stiff and sore and scarred
I take away my hand
From leaning on it hard
In grass and sand,
The hurt is not enough:
I long for weight and strength
To feel the earth as rough
To all my length.
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2005 23 August :: 6.47 pm
:: Mood: amused
i love it when people make fun of this joke of a guy we call our president
http://www.slate.com/id/2124691/?nav=mpp
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2005 25 July :: 9.14 am
:: Mood: bored
i could not see
for the fog in my eyes.
and i could not feel
for the fear in my life.
from across the great divide,
in the distance i saw a light.
John the Baptist,
walking to me
with The Maker.
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2005 14 June :: 4.24 pm
about as creative as 'the dave matthews band'
#41
Come and see
I swear by now I'm playing time
I against my troubles
I'm coming slow but speeding
Do you wish a dance and while I'm
in the front
the play on time is won
but the difficulty is coming here
I will go in this way
And find my own way out
I wont tell you to stay
But I'm coming to much more
Me
All at once the ghosts come back
Reeling in you now
What if they came down crushing
Remember when I used to play for
all of the loneliness that nobody
notice now
I'm begging slow I'm coming here
Only waiting I wanted to stay
I wanted to play
I wanted to love you
I'm only this far
And only tomorrow leads my way
I'm coming waltzing back and moving into your head
Please, I wouldn't pass this by
I would take any more than
What sort of man goes by
I will bring water
Why wont you ever be glad
It melts into wonder
I came in praying for you
why wont you run
in the rain and play
let the tears splash all over you
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2005 7 June :: 3.51 pm
The Complete Bushisms
http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/
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2005 25 May :: 3.56 pm
from cnn.com, 5-25-05
LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) -- Four years after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, human rights are in retreat worldwide and the United States bears most responsibility, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the picture is bleak. Governments are increasingly rolling back the rule of law, taking their cue from the U.S.-led war on terror, it said.
"The USA as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power sets the tone for governmental behavior worldwide," Secretary General Irene Khan said in the foreword to Amnesty International's 2005 annual report.
"When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity," she said.
London-based Amnesty cited the pictures last year of abuse of detainees at Iraq's U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison, which it said were never adequately investigated, and the detention without trial of "enemy combatants" at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
"The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law," Khan said.
She also noted Washington's attempts to circumvent its own ban on the use of torture.
"The U.S. government has gone to great lengths to restrict the application of the Geneva Convention and to 're-define' torture," she said, citing the secret detention of suspects and the practice of handing some over to countries where torture was not outlawed.
U.S. President George W. Bush often said his country was founded on and dedicated to the cause of human dignity -- but there was a gulf between rhetoric and reality, Amnesty found.
"During his first term in office, the USA proved to be far from the global human rights champion it proclaimed itself to be," the report said, citing Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
'Blurred distinction'
But the United States was by no means the sole or even the worst offender as murder, mayhem and abuse of women and children spread to the four corners of the globe, Amnesty said.
"The human rights abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan were far from being the only negative repercussions of the response to the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001.
"Since that day, the framework of international human rights standards has been attacked and undermined by both governments and armed groups," Amnesty said.
The increasingly blurred distinction between the war on terror and the war on drugs prompted governments across Latin America to use troops to tackle crimes traditionally handled by police, the report said.
In Asia too, the war on terror was blamed for increasing state repression, adding to the woes of societies already worn down by poverty, discrimination against minorities, a string of low-intensity conflicts and politicization of aid, it added.
Africa too remained riven by regional wars and political repression, and the abject failure of the international community to take concerted action to end the slaughter in Sudan's vast Darfur region was a cause of shame.
Khan also condemned the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for failing to stand up for those supposedly in its care.
"The U.N. Commission of Human Rights has become a forum for horse-trading on human rights," she said. "Last year the Commission dropped Iraq from scrutiny, could not agree on action on Chechnya, Nepal or Zimbabwe and was silent on Guantanamo Bay."
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2005 17 March :: 5.01 pm
i actually found this sentence published in a scientific journal:
In such cases, natural selection has produced an adaptation that uses natural selection to achieve its effect.
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2005 9 March :: 1.24 pm
:: Mood: horrified
will it ever stop?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/09/iraq.main/index.html
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2005 2 February :: 12.46 pm
:: Mood: annoyed
And while steering clear of an "Axis of Evil" formulation, he [Bush] will speak of the nuclear showdowns with Iran and North Korea, making clear that he continues to believe both can be resolved through diplomacy.
~taken from CNN.com
Isn't it funny how we invade countries with no nuclear weapons under the farce that they have them and will use them against us, and act diplomatically towards the ones who could blow us off the face of the earth? There's a Bushism for you.
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