Everything can cause cancer. Everything can kill you. Were all going to die sooner or later ( Read more... )

It's now official -- President Bush and other top members of his administration flat out lied to the American pulic about Iraq in order to send our soldiers to war in that nation. As a result, I have no reservations about how I have "enhanced" the truths expressed in the following article that documented this exposé in the press yesterday.

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If you didn't already know (which I doubt knowing the demographics of my flist), today is the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade which has ever since protected a woman's right to an abortion in the United States. For the last few weeks I've been waiting to say something about this being a male myself and knowing what so ( Read more... )

"There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world." --George W. Bush, speaking to U.S. troops in Kuwait, January 12, 2008 ( Read more... )

The short version of this story is that the White House has spent 1.3 TRILLION dollars on funding the war in Iraq and that the National Debt and while likely surpass $10 trillion -- that's thirteen zeros -- by the time Bush leaves office.


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So I was reading the news stories about Baby Jessica. Do you guys remember "Baby" Jessica McClure, the little girl who got trapped at the bottom of a well back in the late 1980s? Well, today is the 20th anniversary of her rescue ( Read more... )

NOTE: This is a bit lengthy, but I encourage you to read it because I'm serving up first-hand proof that we can't always trust what comes out of the mouths of experts. Also it's worth reading if you want to see me own two scientists who keep company with the Nobel Prize committee... on the subject of science ( Read more... )

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The other day I received a bulletin from a political group calling for a general strike on the upcoming sixth anniversary of September 11th in order to protest all the lies and corruption in the Bush administration ( Read more... )

I was flipping channels late Saturday night when I came across C-SPAN footage of the Republican Party Straw Poll that occurred in Iowa earlier that day. If your curious, Mitt Romney had the most votes, followed by former Arkansas Governer Mike Huckabee in second place, and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback rounding out the field in third place ( Read more... )