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    Lennon represented life, and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death.
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    what do politicians hate more than anything else?

    Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure.

    So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it:

    SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media.

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    the know-nothing prize

    Once again, the Templeton prize has been awarded not for new discovery, but for the admission by a scientist that there are mysteries that science cannot penetrate, and therefore the answer is WOO:

    French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat won the Templeton Prize for religion on Monday for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being”.

    He [...]



    ratcheting up the pressure

    I assume these recent speeches by Obama are intended to publicly call out Blue Dogs and Senate Republicans to get along and go along once the Economic Plan is presented. From today’s speech at George Mason University:

    This crisis did not happen solely by some accident of history or normal turn of the business cycle, and we won’t get out of it by [...]



    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

    Close [...]



    get off your asses and do something

    I just got my Fidelity IRA statement and don’t have the guts to open it.

    So far this morning, the Dow has fallen almost 360, with many wondering if it will lose 1,100 before 2pm triggering a suspension of trading.

    Something has to be done to quell fears of a national/international recession bordering on depression. Yes, emotion is driving the market, but their [...]



    a chunk of ice the size of manhattan is hard to deny

    But then maybe it’s just god’s will:

    OTTAWA (AFP) — Two ice shelves in Canada’s far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change.

    The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and [...]



    Parties Suck, Especially Two of Them

    Most of us that have been paying attention or that have been involved in the outright “undemocracy” of party politics want to change to a better political party system.  Rob Kall, over at OpEd News, says that two things must occur to fix party politics, namely instituting instant run-off voting and equal treatment for all parties (not just the R and D parties) by [...]

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