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Damn! I hate it when mega-corps act with social responisbility.
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American media at it’s finest. The cover of Newsweek in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US.
*sings* one of these things is not like the others.
*sings* lalalalala I’m not listening everything is going fine lalalala
Archive for September, 2006
links for 2006-09-27
The Democrats’ Da Vinci Code – David Sirota on how the Dem’s can win.
Posted to American Prospect Online David Sirota outlines how Democrat’s can overcome their appearance of empty counter-Republicanism. His advice is simple – study Democrats who win consistantly in consistantly Republican areas. He examines a Montana governor, a North Dakota representative and sundry others and comes up with 7 key themes:
- Fight the Class War
- Champion Small Business Over Big Business
- Protect Tom Joad (See above, family farms vs. agri-business)
- Turn the Hunters and the Exurbs Green
- Become a Teddy Roosevelt Clone (tough on crime a.k.a. fighting white-collar crime, big-business rip-offs, and corporate misbehaviour)
- Clean Up Government (and actually mean it)
- Use the Values Prism (translate policy and ideaology into values
Go get ‘em tigers!
PS. I ain’t holding my breath, especially if they let American Torture Approval and Boycott Of Your Rights (Ata boy) Act go through. Sure, even the Russian Czars poo-poo’ed torture, and even Louis XIV respected Habeas, but the are *Republicans* in the 21st century. And the mantra lately has been “I haven’t read that report” so we can imagine that they haven’t read any history either.
Two other links for you to follow in the case of the Tripoli Six
- Avocats Sans Frontières: Projet Libye – Lawyers Without Borders in France are activily trying to get international courts to review the case.
- Libya’s travesty: Nature. Science magazine Nature is one of the few large media organizations pushing this issue into the &ldquot;limelight&rdquot;
links for 2006-09-25
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Stevo takes on a Florida Gator. Hilarious.
links for 2006-09-24
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Why god invented lego & Escher in the same universe. For my amusement
links for 2006-09-22
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Someone went to town on the title tag for this page. Someone went to town on the quality of the food – one of the best (and easily the most expensive) meals of my life. Exquisite. Michelin 2 stars too.
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An intersting idea. Input dimensions for an object, see it compared to a similar, possibly more familiar object to get a clearer idea of it’s size.
links for 2006-09-21
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A detailed example of the Overton window – a political concept that states that within the entire political spectrum of one issue only a small window is acceptable to the public. Advocates need to shift the window for their extreme views to be accepted.
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Pogge brings to our attention the underreporting by the media of high level meetings between military, government, and corporate decision makers on how to more closely integrate North America. Citizens need not apply, father knows best
links for 2006-09-20
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A delicate(not!) yet exquisite take of one man’s offer to other to make him some pancakes. Deadwood style.
Cocksucker!
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Just in case you suffer from NIMBY syndrome. it can and does happen here.
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A great tool to visualize how the US budget is spent. Hmm, who can I contact to get a Canadian version.
I cannot understand them
30.September.2006 at 05:38 UTC · Filed under Political/Social Commentary, Uncategorized
I thought it was all about the money. But I can’t see where money enters into it. What motivates American politicians to legalize torture, remove the right to due process, strip the US Supreme Court of appelate jurisdiction, authorizing unsupervized wire-tapping, and overturn the Magna Carta? It frightens me greatly that the political party in charge of my country is a willing lap-dog to that regime.
It is behaviour like this that makes me think that the framers of the US Constitution knew what they were doing when they included the 2nd amendment.
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