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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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Cynical-C watches the Scientology videos so you don't have to!
Part 2 starts off explaining why Scientology is an actual religion (REALLY! We swear!) and compares L. Ron Hubbard to Buddha.(I didn't know Siddartha wrote bad sci-fi) We also find out that L. Ron was "fully professional in 29 different fields" such as aviation, ethnology, filmmaking and getting rich hollywood actors to hand over lots and lots of money. (Ok, I made up the last one....... wait, no I didn't)
6:52:02 PM 
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From
The Independent:
"Whatever you are," he goes on, "they say you are the reverse. The men behind the war in Iraq are cowards who did not fight in Vietnam - but they spent millions of dollars proving that John Kerry, who was a genuine war hero whatever you think of his politics, was a coward.
"This is what happens when you have control of the media, and I have never known the media more vicious, stupid and corrupt than they are now."
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(Via A Spork in the Drawer.)
6:24:44 PM
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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press*; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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Amendment I.5: Unless, in the judgement of the President, the press embarrasses the Presidency, in which case the President, or his supporters, may declare the press to be treasonous and mete out punishment as is desired.
( Glenn Greenwald has more.)
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(Via A Spork in the Drawer.)
6:22:57 PM
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And if we take a closer look at that number?
The Citizens Flag Alliance, a group pushing for the Senate this week to pass a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, just reported an alarming, 33 percent increase in the number of flag-desecration incidents this year.
The number has increased to four, from three.
(Via Cynical-C Blog.)
4:59:30 PM
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We all love da Carbon-Dioxide right?
Earth hottest in 400 years
Panel says humans responsible for much of the warming
The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."
A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is running a fever and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming." Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century.
The report was requested in November by the chairman of the House Science Committee, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New York, to address naysayers who question whether global warming is a major threat.
Last year, when the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, launched an investigation of three climate scientists, Boehlert said Barton should try to learn from scientists, not intimidate them.
Good for Sherwood Boehlert, a Republican with some scruple.
Now, go see 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
(Via Rising Hegemon.)
11:39:02 AM
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Only better of course:
And, right on cue, we have the New York Times weighing in with a well-timed leak promising major U.S. troop reduction, beginning two months before the November elections. Now isn't that a coincidence?
The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say.
The next step, of course, will be for the same people who three days ago were demanding the execution of John Kerry and John Murtha for even daring to suggest a withdrawal timetable to immediately begin calling for a withdrawal timetable -- that is, when they're not hailing the Cheney administration for having won a smashing victory in Iraq. In fact it's already started.
I really should have seen this coming. The tip off was the proposed amnesty for killers of U.S troops floated by one of Maliki's aides several weeks ago, which was immediately greeted by a bevy of GOP heel clickers as the second coming of Nelson Mandela (thus stacking one stinking pile of hypocrisy on top of another.) In hindsight, it's easy to see that they were just warming up for the BIG flip flop.
Will anyone in our beloved Punditry class notice? Especially that Jack Murtha has been predicting this scenario for months?
Of course not!
(Via Rising Hegemon.)
11:30:59 AM
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these days, Ms. Whitman? Happy? Making gobs of money off speaking engagements?
Fifty-seven Ground Zero workers have died and thousands of others have been sickened by exposure to a noxious mix of chemicals released when the World Trade Center was reduced to smoldering rubble, their lawyer said yesterday.
But in a courtroom blocks from the site, the city denied responsibility, saying its contractors were acting in the nation's defense as they worked to restore Ground Zero in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
rest here.
(Via Dependable Renegade.)
11:24:59 AM
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