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| davesearles |
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29 May 2005 08:53 pm Post subject: IN THE NEWS |
New topic to post links to news articles of interest |
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| mikelepore |
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30 May 2005 09:44 pm Post subject: |
A group of female airline flight attendants, informed that they might lose their pensions, have begun a project which might raise enough money to save the pension plan, or at least promote "national awareness of the problem with everyone's pensions." The flight attendants appear semi-nude in calendar photos.
http://www.stewsstripped.com/ |
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| davesearles |
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05 Jun 2005 04:44 pm Post subject: |
Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind
The people at the top of America's money pyramid have pulled far ahead of the rest
of the population in recent years, an analysis of tax records and other data shows.
With audio and photos, interactive graphics and forums for readers' responses.
http://www.nytimes.com/class?th&emc=th
From NY Times - free account set up may be required.
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| mikelepore |
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09 Jun 2005 01:14 am Post subject: |
I didn't catch this whole story, and if I find any references I will post them. Yesterday I was listening to a non-commercial National Public Radio (NPR) radio station 93-point-something in the upstate New York area, and the commentator said that the station was planning to sue the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He said that the Bush administration is forcing a new rule that noncomercial radio stations who accept CPB money, derived largely from tax revenues, can only get the money if they "actively support the policies of the Republican Party", in the commentator's words. The commentator added, "A caller asked why, then, don't we just refuse to accept CPB money. The answer is: Because it's our money." |
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| davesearles |
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09 Jun 2005 10:55 am Post subject: |
Mike, were you listening to WAMC? It is fund drive time there - during this time the whole staff becomes really sleep deprived and (especially Alan Chartok) are apt to say things like that, often times to hype up the base to encourage pledges. It's wonderful but must be taken with a grain of salt.
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| mikelepore |
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10 Jun 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: |
Hmm WAMC 90.3. That could have been it. People are allowed to say things on the radio that aren't true? |
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| davesearles |
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11 Jun 2005 02:21 am Post subject: |
Were you able to find the story elsewhere? |
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| mikelepore |
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11 Jun 2005 02:54 pm Post subject: |
I didn't look for it, since a sufficient period of procrastination hasn't yet passed. |
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15 Jun 2005 09:38 pm Post subject: |
An amazing story on several points #1 the shear stupidity of racism #2 what a person without formal education can learn to do given a chance #3 the fact that he became so skilled without any prosepct that he would benefit from it financially.
Hamilton Naki, 78, Self-Taught Surgeon, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/obituaries/11naki.html |
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| mikelepore |
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16 Jun 2005 04:21 am Post subject: |
Is it important whether the Teamsters and SEIU are actually part of the AFL-CIO? Ins't the important thing to honor each other's lines? If one union strikes a shop, the others should consider the shop to be closed. Is this ever achieved? Is it achieved more often if the unions are part of the AFL-CIO? |
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16 Jun 2005 04:31 am Post subject: |
A gardener who taught himself how to be a heart surgeon ... Although I had read about the heart transplant in the '60s, I wasn't aware of that part of the story. |
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| davesearles |
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16 Jun 2005 01:30 pm Post subject: |
On this day 1933 Washington, June 16.--Assuming unprecedented peacetime control over the nation's economic life, President Roosevelt placed in operation today his sweeping program for recovery from the depression.
Within two hours he signed acts of Congress giving him control over industry, power to coordinate the railroads, and authority to start work on a $3,300,000,000 public works program, and then began the active administration of these and other major measures
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0616.html#article |
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22 Jun 2005 05:04 pm Post subject: |
Happy 200th birthday
Giuseppe Mazzini
6/22/1805 - 3/10/1872
Italian propagandist and revolutionary
Happy 107th birthday
Erich Maria Remarque; Novels Recorded Agony of War (All Quiet on the Western Front)
6/22/1897 - 9/25/1970
obit
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0622.html |
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24 Jun 2005 12:55 am Post subject: |
Alcoa axes thousands to cut costs
Alcoa, the world's largest producer of aluminium, has announced it is to axe 5% of its global workforce.
The US group said 6,500 staff would go over the next year as part of a cost-cutting drive, following 1,800 redundancies earlier this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4125478.stm |
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24 Jun 2005 12:58 am Post subject: |
Oil price hits $60 a barrel level
Strong demand and refinery worries have pumped up crude prices
Crude oil prices have hit a record level of $60 a barrel on the US market amid strong demand.
Light sweet crude for August delivery rose to touch the $60 mark briefly then dipped back. It closed at $59.42.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4125066.stm |
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24 Jun 2005 01:15 am Post subject: |
The Supreme Court today effectively expanded the right of local governments to seize private property under eminent domain, ruling that people's homes and businesses -- even those not considered blighted -- can be taken against their will for private development if the seizure serves a broadly defined "public use."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783.html |
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| davesearles |
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24 Jun 2005 06:44 pm Post subject: |
William N. Fenton, a scholar of Iroquois culture and former director of the New York State Museum, died on Friday in Cooperstown. He was 96.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/nyregion/23fenton.html
The NYS Museum was once known as the Lewis Henry Morgan Museum or so I was told by Aaron Orange a long time Section New York member.
I wonder have any recent discoveries added or detracted from the work of LHM.
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26 Jun 2005 01:57 am Post subject: |
Bulgaria's opposition Socialist Party is poised to claim the largest number of seats in the country's parliament, but fall short of a majority.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4621529.stm |
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27 Jun 2005 02:48 pm Post subject: |
Excellent background to election of 1866 and essentially the gentleman's agreement between the Democratic and Republican parties to exclude blacks (men) from the ballot. The one candidate calling for sufferage, and probably the best qualified, Chief Justice Salmon Chase, was shunned by both parties.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0627.html |
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28 Jun 2005 01:41 pm Post subject: |
More on the "gentlemen's agreement" with northerners to exclude blacks from voting in the last half of the 19th century.
Question: At what point did Socialists openly recognize the repression of blacks as a wrong?
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0628.html |
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07 Jul 2005 01:02 am Post subject: |
$38 per week to slave over a sewing machine to make clothes for wear in the USA. Remember it is only imaginary boundaries that keep us from such dire exploitation.
Masters of the lash, Masters of the loom?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4656987.stm |
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08 Jul 2005 05:18 pm Post subject: |
For the most part I am in agreement
The terrorist plot to destroy democracy from within.
By William Saletan
Posted Friday, July 8, 2005, at 4:12 AM PT
http://www.slate.com/id/2122246/ |
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13 Jul 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: |
But I thought it was about freedom for the Iraqi people.
"SHANGHAI -- Until recently, China's view of the global energy map focused narrowly on the Middle East, which holds roughly two-thirds of the world's oil. Special attention was directed toward one well-supplied country: Iraq.
"Through cultivation of Saddam Hussein's government, China sought to develop some of Iraq's more promising reserves. Beijing advocated lifting the United Nations sanctions that prevented investment in Iraq's oil patch and limited sales of its production. Then the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003, wiping out China's stakes."
By Peter S. Goodman
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 13, 2005; Page D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201546.html |
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15 Jul 2005 01:04 am Post subject: |
certainly no child is left behind:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unborn U.S. babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, gasoline byproducts and pesticides, according to a report released on Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-health-chemicals.html |
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17 Jul 2005 12:53 pm Post subject: |
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently visited N. Korea (one of the very few reporters allowed in) and is writing a series of columns describing his visit. In the column linked below do we see a description of the furure for us all if class rule continues?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/opinion/17kristof.html?hp |
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19 Jul 2005 11:51 am Post subject: |
On this day 157 yers ago the Senaca Falls convention (women's rights) was opened.
On this day 135 years ago the Franco-Prussian War began (the war in which the Paris Commune was born)
On this day 26 years ago The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
On this day 12 years ago President Bill Clinton announced a "compromise" allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity. (Unheralded was the fact that gays were prosecuted at twice the rate under the Clinton administration as under the previous Bush administration.) "Don't tell" as we all know, later aquired a special significance - "I never had sex with that woman!")
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20050719.html |
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20 Jul 2005 01:55 pm Post subject: |
On this date – Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. 1969;
Declaration of Sentiments and Rights calling for woman’s equality with men before the law signed in Seneca Falls, NY, 1848;
Viking 1 spacecraft landed on Mars, 1976;
New York City police find scores of deaf Mexicans kept in slave-like conditions and forced to peddle trinkets for smugglers who had brought them to the United States, 1997.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20050720.html |
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| davesearles |
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21 Jul 2005 07:24 am Post subject: |
Deaths in the news:
Evolution of Birds:
John H. Ostrom was influential in the revival of scientific research about dinosaurs, notably previously unsuspected clues to their probable ancestral link to modern birds.
Evolution of home cooking (yum):
Gerry Thomas designed clever packaging for a frozen meal and called it the TV dinner, a landmark for the frozen food industry.
Evolution of the exploration of space (bravely going where no man has gone before):
James Doohan faked a Scottish burr to create one of television's most endearing characters — Scotty, the chief engineer on the original "Star Trek."
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/obituaries/index.html |
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| davesearles |
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28 Jul 2005 11:49 am Post subject: |
NASA Suspending Shuttle Program Over Foam Debris
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/science/space/28shuttle.html?th&emc=th
leaving Russia with the only viable space program.
They seemed like they were surprised that this stuff broke off.
Is this something like the program was to big to stop and became more and more unstable but no one could pull the plug?
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| mikelepore |
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29 Jul 2005 05:31 am Post subject: |
At today's press conference, the NASA bosses said the press misstated the situation. They said that the shutle is an experimental vehicle, and by the nature of that, every mission enocounters problems, and then they're always forbidden to fly again until the problems found during each flight are fixed. They aid that the word "grounded" in connection with this problem was therefore misleading, because it's always this way.
I'm glad I get the NASA channel. I haven't changed the channel on my upstairs TV once since the morning of liftoff.
They did a funny thing today after Discovery docked with the ISS. The commmentaroe said that it has developed into a tradition for whenever military officers come through the docking bay into the ISS. Someone bangs a gong and says in a solemn voice, "Captain, United States Navy", etc., and then the person glides through. |
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| davesearles |
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29 Jul 2005 09:36 am Post subject: |
Foam breaking off was a problem in the flight before this, it seems.
Now in this flight there is still damage from foam breaking off.
What was fixed? |
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30 Jul 2005 01:56 am Post subject: |
Just like in 2003, the problem is the insulation of the external tank. But one good thing -- starting with this mission, the space station photographs the entire shuttle, then, anytime before reentry, they can put their suits on, go outside, and patch the holes. |
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30 Jul 2005 02:14 pm Post subject: |
Oh that's right, I forgot about that. Last time, I belive that before the craft decended they had an inkling that there could have been a problem with damage to the tiles, but the rationale was that there was nothing that could have been done anyway, had it occurred. The space station was in orbit at the time. Was there any thought that they could have gone to the space station then? Would it have been possible? Now that Scotty has died, Mike, maybe you could fill in for him.
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31 Jul 2005 05:31 am Post subject: |
The shuttle was always able to dock with the space station, but there wasn't a method to repair broken or missing tiles. Within the last year they invented a paste that they can trowel on during an EVA, then after it solidifies it can survive the reentry temperature, which is above 1,300 degrees C or above 2,300 degrees F. |
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07 Sep 2005 06:31 pm Post subject: |
Dunno if this is the right spot for it, but what are thoughts about Chavez's policies in Venezuala? I've read that workers management is now being introduced and that they've stepped beyond the boundaries of reform there. |
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| davesearles |
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07 Sep 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
I don't know what oes where either - but usually a link to a news story is given and then some comment is made which may go back and forth.
Workers management is one of thise things that has a revolutinary flavor to it - but if the workers are manain the plaintation or the sweatshop for production for profit - it aint socialism.
Believe it or not - Henry Ford wanted to turn over manament responsibilty to the labor unions and they didn't want it. I Thnk I am recallin this right - someone with a better grasp of labor history can set me right on this.
Let me know when Chavez calls for the workers everywhere to establish a new form of governemt based upon compete worker managment and ownership of the means of production, - where the wages system is abolished and production is not for profit but for human need.
I hope that he does but I am not going to hold out too much hope.
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| mikelepore |
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13 Sep 2005 06:22 am Post subject: |
What are some lessons learned from recent the New Orleans experience?
* Given an economic pressure (shipping from the Miss. River to the Gulf, and later the discovery of offshore oil), human beings will tend to do something reckless to accomodate economic utility (build a coastal city in a bowl, below sea level). If some jobs are there, then some workers will inevitably settle there.
* Wet lands absorb much of the energy from tropical storms. If we drain too many wet lands for human use, we might not like the results.
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13 Sep 2005 09:56 am Post subject: |
Storms are becoming more stronger as the earth heats up. Infrastructure in these areas need to be radically improved. Whereever there are people there needs to be a way out. People, especially poor people, especially poor black people are expendable uder capitalism.
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| mikelepore |
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15 Sep 2005 05:05 am Post subject: |
> People, especially poor people, especially poor black people are
> expendable uder capitalism.
Bill Maher on TV was spoofing the govt officials' attitude about the late-August evacuation order ...
"Just load up the SUV and go to your summer home. What's the problem?" |
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| mikelepore |
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15 Sep 2005 06:10 am Post subject: |
I watched the first two days of Judge Roberts' confirmation hearing. People are expected to believe that this man has been a lawyer for 25 years but has he no opinion whatsoever about Roe v. Wade, or the right of a hospital patient to refuse the respirator, or the meaning of the word "unreasonable" in front of the phrase "searches and seizures." All he needs to know is that a related case may come before the court, and abracadabra, he switches his brain into the mode to be completely open-minded and objective. Of course, the truth is - nearly every judge begins nearly every case from the position of prejudice ... they have to because they are human individuals ... but it's against protocol to admit it. The whole concept of an independent judiciary is based on lies. |
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| davesearles |
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15 Sep 2005 01:05 pm Post subject: |
Abortion even when it was illegal was available. Women with money took a trip to where it was legally available or paid their doctor to cook up some medical emergenc. Women without obtained "back alley" abortions - frequently suffering terrible injury and death as a result.
Reading the tea leaves Roe will stand becasuse of the backlash from women that will ensue. I THINK.
Courts are a part of the political state - Courts, although judge candidates profess differently - are engines of law enforcement - capitalist law enforcement - always will be.
I would expect that IF there is a court system under socilism that the same will be the case - except that capitalism being the starting point - socialism will be the starting place. In many ways a judiciary is incompatible with "democracy". Democracy has to surrender some of its authority to a court to allow the court to decide a case even in a way that the democracy does not agree with.
How else could it be?
Perry Mason could tell us. Right always prevailed when he was around.
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| mikelepore |
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16 Sep 2005 05:40 pm Post subject: |
I've never been able to understand the philosophy that the reason federal judges can be fair and objective is because they are appointed for life. I understand the point that being appointed for life means they don't make campaign promises, but such promises are just one of several factors in biasing state officials. To be forever unaccountable to anyone, like the most Roman emperors, is itself a source of bias, making the "common" people see like a bunch of ants "down there." |
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| davesearles |
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21 Sep 2005 11:04 pm Post subject: |
Carrying on Mikes convesation about Judge Roberts. Of course the judge as umpire role is a bunch of nonsense. They legislate every day. One of my wiser observations over the years has been: The lowest justice of the peace court in the country might as well be the supreme court to someone without money or influence. I don't care how much the law or facts are on your side - justice is a sham. The constitution is only the constitution if you have to pull to have it enforced.
Bush and the bush class doesn't care about roe v. wade. When their wives or daughters need an abortion - they get an abortion even if they have to fly out of the country. |
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| davesearles |
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10 Oct 2005 10:44 am Post subject: |
It does seem that the popular tide is turning against the current occupant of the White House and that the press is making big of it. This affects us little, imho.
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11 Oct 2005 06:17 am Post subject: |
Why would a politician who already had his eight years, and can't be nonimated or reelected for another term, even care about popularity polls? |
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12 Oct 2005 04:44 am Post subject: |
This relates to socialism. People always ask how we can be sure that socialism won't lose its democracy to bureaucracy. I like to point out that the means to prevent bureaucracy can be identified and listed. I maintain that one of these means is to have all administration proceedings be open public records.
Am I being utopian? Perhaps, until the last class ruled nation states on earth are ended, even a socialists society would require something like the CIA? |
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12 Oct 2005 11:01 am Post subject: |
We ought to have a seperate discussion about bureaucracy. Sometimes I wonder if some people don't have a bureacracy bone in their heads. Just the slightest bit of authority and they are the world's greatest bureaucrat. E.g. I wrote to a state office to verify that in fact DID NOT have a certain document. I asked for them to certify that they did not have it. The response that I got was that they did not have the document. They also said that if they did have it, theu could certify that fact - but that if they did noit have it they could not certify that fact. And this was told to me in the gretaest seriousness, as if the person had just consulted with god and that this was a holy edict. When I spoke to a supervisor I was told that they in fact could certify that they did not have it. It seems the smaller amount of authority a person actually has the bureacracy bone grows proportionately.
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09 Nov 2005 02:18 am Post subject: |
Greart news for those who have always found science to be just too tedious. The Kansas school board has just redefined science - yes that is right. Maybe in fact many of our children do not have specific learning disabilites - they may just suffer from misdefined subjects.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Evolution-Debate.html
This just in - Hurrican Katrina struck New Orleans a- caused hundreds of deaths and probably a trillion dollrs in damage. Why did this terrible thing happen?
Yes - because god was inflicting punishment on Ellen Degeneris' hometown becuase she is a LESBIAN and was scheduled to host the Emmy awards - just as God caused the 9/11/2001 attacks on this country - Why? Again because God was p.o. at the TV networks for allowing a LESBIAN Ellen Degeneris to be scheduled to host the emmys in that year. Oh yes this is true. Pat Robertson said so and he talks to God all of the time.
ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS
Lesbian is New Orleans native Hollywood - Pat Robertson on Sunday said that
Hurricane Katrina was God's way of expressing its anger at the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences for its selection of Ellen Degeneres to host
this year's Emmy Awards. "By choosing an avowed lesbian for this national
event, these Hollywood elites have clearly invited God's wrath," Robertson
said on "The 700 Club" on
Sunday. "Is it any surprise that the Almighty chose to strike at Miss
Degeneres' hometown?"
Robertson also noted that the last time Degeneres hosted the Emmys, in 2001,
the September 11 terrorism attacks took place shortly before the ceremony.
"This is the second time in a row that God has invoked a disaster shortly
before lesbian Ellen Degeneres hosted the Emmy Awards," Robertson explained
to his approximately one million viewers. "America is waiting for her to
apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought
onto this great nation."
Robertson added that other tragedies of the past several years can be linked
to Degeneres' growing national prominence. September, 2003, for example, is
both the month that her talk show debuted and when insurgents first gained a
foothold in Iraq following the successful March invasion. "Now we know why
things took a turn for the worse," he explained.
In order to avoid further tragedy, Robertson called not only for the
Television Academy to find a new heterosexual host, but to bar all
homosexuals and bisexuals from taking part in the ceremony. He said
employees at the Christian Broadcasting Network had put together a list of
283 nominees, presenters, and invited guests at the Emmys known to be of
sexually deviant persuasions.
"God already allows one awards show to promote the homosexual agenda,"
Robertson declared. "But clearly He will not tolerate such sinful behavior
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| davesearles |
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12 Nov 2005 01:27 pm Post subject: |
Oil companies post largest quarterly earnings for any corporation in any quarter in history. US Congress hauls the CEOs into testify as to why BUT NOT UNDER OATH. "We're not responsible, it's the gas stations that are making the prices fluctuate - yeah fluctuate - pop right up to $3.20 a gal and then take months to SLOWLY settle back 90 cents.
But WE must remember that price gouging is a secondary effect - exploitation is at the point of production of the producers.
GWB heading for political disconnect:
+++The house budget bill was just too much and had to be withdrawn. No political stomach for the massive cuts to the poor - i.e. food stamps for the working poor on top of massive tax breaks for the rich.
+++In radio address GWB makes big misstep - instead of taking FULL responsibility for conduct of war he states that the members of congress who voted for the war should not now criticize the initiation of the war - that that hurts moral. Besides having his facts wrong on the war resolution - (from memory the bill was to authorize the president - not that the president had to go to war) But blaming congress members instead of directly answering their criticisms is tantamount to an open admission that he cannot answer.
I look at this stuff and take heart - not because the president is now in trouble - but that GWB seemed invincible and now he is not only vincible (metaphor alert!!) but is being pulled off of his horse. In fact GWB's troubles don't do a thing for us as far as building socialism goes - except to show that political forces based upon material conditions do have their effect.
If GWB why not capitalism?
imho
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I was remiss in faling to note that yesterday was the 385th aniversery of the Mayflower Compact signed off of the coast of unchartered and uncharted territory when the Mayflower finally anchored way north of intended Virginia.
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19 Nov 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: |
Seven score and two years ago
Some consider this to better represent the true national charter.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of
that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final
resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But,
in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here but it can
never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have
thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
the great task remaining before us,--that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom--that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth. |
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