Today's Show: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
DISPATCH FROM BAGHDAD
The U.S. military said today that 11 more U.S. troops have been killed in combat in Iraq - putting this month on track to be the deadliest month for U.S. troops in nearly two years. Today, we're checking in with Borzou Daragahi, Baghdad Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.
ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
WORST CONGRESS EVER
The new issue of Rolling Stone is out and the cover story is The Worst Congress Ever. It's complete with picks for the 10 worst congressman, and it's a must read.
THE GOD DELUSION
Scientist, atheist, humanist and public intellectual Richard Dawkins joins us to talk about his audacious new book The God Delusion.
SECRET PLAN
Worried that the White House doesn't seem to have any plan in Iraq? According to Senator Conrad Burns of Montana, you don't have to worry anymore. There is a plan - it's just a secret.
FABULOSOAP
You can see how this might be a little confusing.
Rock Star Philosophers
Thanks for getting Dawkins on the show. Please consider inviting more, if need be I'd supply a list of living philosophy stars we need to hear.
I'd LIKE DAWKINS, if he was RESPECTFUL
but instead, he thinks DISPARAGING the Sheeple is gonna WIN HEARTS & MINDS to logic,
then, he's missed something ESSENTIAL about Psychology & social behaviour.
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
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Judge: N.Y. must answer 9/11 Cleanup Claims
Judge won't toss claims by workers sickened by dust at Trade Center site
Updated: 9:21 p.m. CT Oct 17, 2006
NEW YORK - A federal judge on Tuesday refused to toss out claims by thousands of emergency workers who sued New York City and about 150 private contractors after the workers were sickened by dust at the World Trade Center site. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein dismissed claims against Consolidated Edison Co. and companies controlled by developer Larry Silverstein, saying they did not have legal control over the area and therefore were not liable for damages.
But Hellerstein said the city, its contractors, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were only partially immune from lawsuits, with the precise scope and extent of the immunity varying according to date, place and activity.
Andrew J. Carboy, a lawyer for plaintiffs, called the judge’s decision “a first step forward in the legal system for these other victims of 9-11.
Link to the article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15311256/
Bomar
We "Own" Space??
Space should be maintained as a global commons for all of Mankind.
This is solely about a STOOPID desire to weaponize space.
To quote Kevin Sanders, a speech writer for Ronald Reagan (who's speeches on this type of matter were edited to lop off pesky sentences like, "As we reach for the stars, we invite the people of the world to join us in this grand odyssey."), who wrote in 1998:
"Is this the behavior of a nation the world should look to as the world's guarantor of safety and freedom in space?
As the renowned science writer, Arthur C. Clarke told the UNispace 82 conference, such a system is inherently impractical since it would cost trillions of dollars to build and launch and would always be vulnerable to cheap and easy countermeasures. (A bag of nails launched into reverse orbit would destroy even the most advanced system.)
And there is no strategic value in Star Wars. Long before any effective system of space-based antimissile weapons could be put in place, adversary nations would simply take their bombs off the missiles, and put them on low flying planes that could fly under the radar. More likely - and even easier and cheaper - would be the placement of nuclear bombs in the target area in a truck or a ship. "
I can't wait to see these Conservotards go bye-bye. Their irrationality knows no bounds. They are profoundly dangerous.
Bush sets defense as space priority
U.S. says shift is not a step toward arms
Updated: 11:08 p.m. CT Oct 17, 2006
President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests."
The document, the first full revision of overall space policy in 10 years, emphasizes security issues, encourages private enterprise in space, and characterizes the role of U.S. space diplomacy largely in terms of persuading other nations to support U.S. policy.
"Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power," the policy asserts in its introduction.
National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said in written comments that an update was needed to "reflect the fact that space has become an even more important component of U.S. economic, national and homeland security." The military has become increasingly dependent on satellite communication and navigation, as have providers of cellphones, personal navigation devices and even ATMs.
Link to the Article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15312116/
Bomar
& WHY? China's shooting satellites & Russia mines MOON
CHINA shooting LASERS & hacking US
http://tinyurl.com/ycd6ck
RUSSIANS planning to MINE THE MOON... yes, you heard that right. yes, we signed a ban against it, & so did they. But WHO is gonna stop 'em NOW???
http://tinyurl.com/yegg7a
YES AMERICANS ARE IN IT, TOO:
http://tinyurl.com/yf5ccj
documentary EVERY TEEN & REPUBLICAN SHOULD WATCH:
http://tinyurl.com/yjbwyw
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
can be found @ ThisCanadian.com
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Oh no!: that begs for a thumb joke...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106834/posters
that's all I gotta say...
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
can be found @ ThisCanadian.com
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Olbermann's RANT on habeas corpus
http://tinyurl.com/shn2q
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
can be found @ ThisCanadian.com
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Sex Crimes & the Vatican: eDocumentary
Its only about 45 minutes.
But WELL worth your TIME:
http://tinyurl.com/yjhejq
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
can be found @ ThisCanadian.com
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Olbermann - Another Habeas Corpus Rant
Tonight on Olbermann's "Countdown" will be another rant on Habeas Corpus.
Bomar
COOL... now if someone would LISTEN
we'd get somewhere.
feeling like this ELECTION IS GONNA BE STOLEN???
TIME TO MOVE TO CANADA!
http://tinyurl.com/ym4usb
http://tinyurl.com/kzy3t
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
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Th worst congress ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Worst Congress Ever How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps
MATT TAIBBI
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
>> See our picks for the 10 Worst Congressmen and read what people are saying in our politics blog.
There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?
GWB: Proof that the guy in the next barstool should NOT be President! :coolhmm: 2006: Incumbents should be filling their trousers with butt biscuits!
A War Of Equals
As of yesterday the population of the USA hit 300 million people.
Iraq is a country of 25 million people.
That means we're 12 times bigger than they are.
So, if this was a war between equals, and one side, Iraq, lost 400 to 800 thousand people, if you multiply those numbers by 12, it would be like having 5 to 10 *million* people dead here in the USA.
There's a word for somebody that picks a fight with someone 12 times smaller than them:
"Bully"
nwa
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"There aren't a lot of things in this world that one can be sure of, but I do know this; anytime you go by a Church, of any size, and of any denomination, that's filled to the rafters with people, you can be certain that the vast majority of those people haven't actually taken the time out to read The Bible, because if they had read it, that Church would be nearly empty."
Nyc Alberts, NYC, October, 2006]
Take The Challenge!!!
OOPs
OOPs
I have a great Pet Story for You All
Scientists put shrimp on a treadmill
Device allows researchers to measure the activity of an exercising shrimp
A sluggish, sick human is easy to spot. But it's harder to tell when a shrimp is under the weather. So one scientist put the little crustaceans on a tiny treadmill to examine how diseases impact their performance.
Humans fighting an infection typically sleep more and are not at top physical performance. "The situation is much more critical for a sick marine crustacean, such as a shrimp, where a decrease in performance may mean the difference between life and death," said David Scholnick, a biologist from Pacific University.
The shrimp treadmill, invented and built by Scholnick, allows researchers to measure the activity of an exercising shrimp for a set period of time at known speed and oxygen levels.
Link to the Article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15319541/
Bomar
Marshall Brain & Richard Dawkins....
....really may want to consider working together, especially since Marshall Brain does an awesome job of presenting the argument of God being imaginary in really plain, non-confrontational, English.
The question:
"Why Does God Hate Amputees?"
May look simple on its face, but it's really a Mike Tyson level knock-out punch.
More on this here, here, here, and here.
If you like what you see, please pass it on.
And please, Take the Challenge, listed below.
:cheese:
nwa
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"There aren't a lot of things in this world that one can be sure of, but I do know this; anytime you go by a Church, of any size, and of any denomination, that's filled to the rafters with people, you can be certain that the vast majority of those people haven't actually taken the time out to read The Bible, because if they had read it, that Church would be nearly empty."
Nyc Alberts, NYC, October, 2006]
Take The Challenge!!!
Dawkins, even DAWKINS talks "US" vs "THEM"
I'm listening.
and EVEN RACHEL can't get him to talk about the issue RESPECTFULLY.
you can HEAR him SNEERING.
that just DOES NOT go OVER for American 'Oblivions' if you will...
I PREFER the more MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHICAL debate that permits people to BE PHILOSOPHICALLY & SPIRITUALLY CURIOUS.
Dawkins doesn't, he sneers. YICK.
http://tinyurl.com/rkm8q
thre is no ROOM in discussion with Dawkins, that permit people to have anything that isn't logical.
he may be RIGHT, but he shouldn't rub noses in it.
what does THAT get you in a conversation?
win the battle, lose the WAR.
Namaste,
BlueBerry Pick'n
can be found @ ThisCanadian.com
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Caption contest WINNER is a JAR HEAD, of the a few good men type
Do I look like a page to you .. these hands are WMD ...
MOTIVATE ME!!!
WE ARE CLEAN AND STRONG AND WILL NOT HESITATE AT THE MOMENT OF TRUTH!!!
YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
BTW:
You need to remind Randi about the fact that you had the Riddler Romero on yesterday who disagrees with Turleys assessment that Kennedy will wilt on the UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of any congressional edict appointing a DEPOT-UBER-PRESIDENT resulting from the SCOTUS coronation in 2000 per the Habeas Corpus matter, which a gaggle of SPINELESS DEMS, REPUBLIcrats (Lieberman, Zell types) and FASCIST NEOCON / AMERICAN TALIBAN / LOCK STEP GOP'ers passed ( i.e. Military Commissions Act of 2006 http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/qna1006 )
RR still thinks that she and Olberman are the only REAL PATRIOTS among us.
Time to call in the USMC and Hartmann, Ritter, Dean, Reichoff, CODE PINK et. al. to get this PARTY STARTED right-CORRECTLY!!!
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Let us get a few ideas straight
To be an Atheist, you must first believe in the Judo-Christian-Islamic god. Then you must deny that fact.
Hindi, Shinto and all other Non- Christian, Jewish, and Islamic theologies, who do not believe in the Judo-christian-islamic concept of a god, are not defined by the concept of Atheism.
Remember to be Hindi, you beleive in Brahma. The idea of the Judo-christian-islamic god, does not get above the Ishtar level as defined by the theology.
There are no Atheists in Taoism, there is only Nothingness and Enlightenment.
Bomar
Funniest Headline
This would have gotten my vote.
Bush Seeks to Block Enemies From Space
Help were drownding ! And were being put in debt slavery !
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Daughty/oct182006.html http://www.infowars.com/ http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html http://www.airamerica.com/springer/node/8391 http://www.airamerica.com/springer/node/7526 http://tinyurl.com/dw846 http://www.geocities.com/tthor.geo/debasedmoney.html
Mathematics and Relevancy
Correlation is not causation. There are distinct audiences for mathematical concepts, and the farther one travels in school's course work, the greater this distinction becomes. In order for me to understand geometry, trigonometry, and algebra, I needed to occasionally 'see' real life applications to link math concepts with my 'reality'. When I took my first calculus course, I couldn't find the relevancy because my teachers wouldn't/couldn't describe real-life application examples. For me, I understand that I'm not a mathematican. I can't be one because I can't think in the 'abstract' using the rules of mathematics that are the basis of the science. What a crime! However, because I can 'see' application, I travel easily in the fields of statistics (univariate and multivariate) and know surveying math. Yes, I can't derive new applications of math principles, I can't compute rocket trajectories, I can't compute solutions to math inigmas, but I know how to apply math principles to derive answers to current questions that relate to the environment, the natural history of species, and contaminants in the environment. There are two audiences for math, each with a valid and specific needs. We should never confuse those who learn 'application' and those who practice 'derivation'. The U.S. may not be at the pinnacle of new math, but, wow, we're good at application. There is room for both in our classrooms.
Notice to Keith Olbermann,
Thank you, Sir:
I realize that I am your age, but I must say, Thank You for your Special Commentary about our lose of Habeas Corpus.
Bomar
Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus:
Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus: “Your words are lies, Sir.” By: John Amato @ 6:30 PM - PDT
Keith Olbermann has been calling it like it is. His "Special Comments" are indeed special because no other talking head outside of Cafferty is willing to step up to the plate and say what needs to be said on 24/7. "Your words are lies, Sir." They are lies, that imperil us all.' Sounds about right to me.
Video - WMV Video - QT
Olbermann: And lastly, as promised, a Special Comment tonight on the signing of the Military Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus.
We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived… as people in fear.
And now — our rights and our freedoms in peril — we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid… of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight, have we truly become, the inheritors of our American legacy. For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
(Read the rest of this story…)
Filed Under: Countdown/Keith Olbermann
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I couldn't get over my own shock that what Keith says is so true and so absolutely necessary. We live in a cowardly America and due to our choices, we have neither safety nor freedom.
I am truly afraid he called it right, except for one thing. The guy who will wrongly use the bill will be Bush/Cheney himself.
They will go after the left wing media (i.e. the internets) via chertoff; then the political opposition, just like Nixon wanted to.
Where's the clip of Bush wishing the US were a dictatorship? It fits him to a "T". Congress has handed over our freedom to a man who only intentions ror Americans has been demonstrably malicious.
GWB: Proof that the guy in the next barstool should NOT be President! :coolhmm: 2006: Incumbents should be filling their trousers with butt biscuits!
More trivia
Yesterday, Bush visit the Pettys, the NASCAR legends from NC.
President Bush Visits Victory Junction Gang Camp, Inc.
Not to take anything away from the charity of the organization, but...some of us have a longer memory about one of the Pettys, namely Richard Petty, who made into the News of the Weird some years ago:
"1996 -- Stock-car racing legend Richard Petty, running for North Carolina secretary of state, paid a $65 fine in September for improperly bumping a car that wouldn't let him pass in the left lane on Interstate 85. According to a state trooper, Petty said if the driver got in front of him again, he was going to knock his "rear end" off the road. Petty told a reporter, "Now if it had been a NASCAR showdown, [the driver] would have been over in the ditch somewhere." "
There was another quote from Richard Petty, who ran on the Republican ticket (and lost), about his decision to bump the passenger car on I-85. The quote, offered after he realized he as in trouble, was in the papers. I liked it because, as I recall, it had every possible wrong conjugation of the verb "to do" that could be crammed into one sentence. It went something like this (poor paraphrase from memory):
"If I'd of knowed what I did would cause so much trouble before I'd did it, I can tell you I wouldn't have never did it."
Ah, savor the precious moments in NC politics...
Just so there's no misunderstanding...
...all that stuff I said earlier about "natural linguistic evolution" doesn't apply to redneck Republican NASCAR dudes. In those cases, I'm more than willing to write it off to slack-jawed yokelism and corn-fed, Busweiser-swillin' inggernints.
'Fraid you do misundertsand, cap'n
See, what Petty did was a shining example of compassionate conservatism. Read the quotes again. See, Petty merely bumped the car, when he WANTED to knock it off the interstate and into a ditch. Isn't that compassion? See? Compassion -- yeah, that's it.
As for beer, NASCAR's origins lie in building cars that could outrun the "revenoors" -- the G-men or feds who were trying to collect taxes on illegal income from the sale of alcohol from stills, especially in the hills and mountains. It would be a charming little history if stills were the whole story. Most people grudgingly admire or at least tolerate people who ran booze during Prohibition. And most of western NC stayed dry long after Prohibition ended. Running booze had an aura of outlaw glamour for some people in those days. Even NASCAR will tell you this much about its history.
http://www.new2nascar.com/history.htm
But, there's something NASCAR web sites seem never to talk about. It's true that the feds were sniffing out illegal stills to shut down bad hootch factories and to collect taxes. But they were also looking for something else that was much more sinister and that has always seemed to exist alongside the stills, even as far back as the 19th Century.
I'll let you figure out what the feds were really looking for while they busted up stills. Let's just say that, knowing the whole history, I like the feds better than NASCAR, and I don't mind the feds whacking a few stills if it helped root out the other rotten thing. I have never attended a single NASCAR event and snap my radio and tv off when NASCAR news comes on. Can't get past their history.
Cap'n, do you realize Budweiser is a Chinese beer
It is the only major beer made in America, that is made from "Rice". Nascar is therefore a communist plot to destroy America by making us Asian Dependent.
Bomar