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    We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan

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    Vote for Optimism and Change, Not More Horror

    Video highlights:

    PRIORITIES

    Tax cut for 95% of working Americans

    End tax breaks for “outsourcers”

    Reduce health care costs

    Energy independence

    Better education

    FUNDING

    Stop $10 billion waste in Iraq

    Bailout oversight

    Bush/McCain tax cuts for top 2% expire

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    a pie in the face is the very least i’d like to give john mccain

    I’d very much like to give him a piece of my mind.

    I was born on Long Island, just a few train stops from Hofstra University. If all you know of Long Island comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald (or Paris Hilton), that strip of expensive real estate may seem like a giant McMansion tract. But when I was born in Garden City in [...]



    The Day Hank Paulson Lied

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that there is a pattern with Congress passing legislation that the American people do not want and know is not in their interest?  First they kick it around a little and then have a vote or two that fails to pass the proposed bill.  Then they tweak the bill a little while some of the [...]



    Carrier – Benton Race About More Than Taxes

    Kayaker Carrier in action

    David Carrier ended last night’s election tally with a very respectable 47% of the vote against Benton.  Benton is an incumbent with gobs of special interest money.  Carrier is a newcomer to politics with limited resources and lots of energy.

    Why is Carrier giving Benton a run for his money (pun intended)?  It seems the tired old Republican talking [...]



    prideful dumbshittery

    Krugman hits the Neanderthal on the head:

    …[K]now-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.” … Remember how the Iraq war [...]



    Change doesn’t come easily: Marijuana law – Healthcare policy

    Over 100 billion rolled

    “Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation,” is a co-production of the Marijuana Education Project of the ACLU of Washington and the national ACLU Drug Law Reform Project.

    You can watch the 30 minute video here.

    Back in 1971 when I was in high school, I did an oral presentation in my history class regarding the legalization of marijuana.  My [...]



    Snakes in Suits

    Review of Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare – Regan Books, N.Y. 2006

    A Review by Omahkohkiaayo i’poyi

    I cannot recommend enough, to enough people, the book “Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare. These authors, both highly qualified on the subject of psychopathy, walk us through, and so [...]

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