Just finished reading "GOP soars in House, state races; Democrats cling to Senate majority" by "the CNN Wire Staff". I was pleased to see that the so-called "Democratic Party" is losing influence, but this pleasure was quickly subdued by the idiocy and bias of the article. It really could have been written by a high school student, yet I'm to ( Read more... )

i hate it when it happensi'm also anxious, because despite going to the doctor; receiving antibiotic medication and Tetanus shot (for puncturing my foot at our Bonnaroo camp site, the last day we were there); returning clothing at kmart and walmart; buying groceries, gardening supplies and lunch, i feel that i've been productive, that i've not done ( Read more... )

You know, I'm sitting here trying to find out who is behind the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) ... Ron Paul was given half the opportunity to speak that everyone else was given -- that is, everyone else was given twice the opportunity to speak that Paul was given; I made that point in my previous post. I found a transcript of the debate, ( Read more... )

"Creationists such as Abraham believe God made the world in six days, as the Bible's Book of Genesis says. ... Abraham, who was dismissed eight months after he was hired, said he was willing to do research using evolutionary concepts but that he had been required to accept Darwin's theory of evolution as scientific fact or lose his job. The ( Read more... )

The $2.6 billion in reconstruction aid sought by the Bush Administration will go largely to building an electrical power distribution system - only 6% of Afghans now have dependable electrical power, according to Jawad - and to constructing roads. Farmers unable to move crops to market in the cities are turning to opium growing because the harvest ( Read more... )

The military's new weapon is a ray gunIt's officially the 21st century in my book. >_ ( Read more... )

WTF?!"This is not about stifling or suppressing our science, or politicizing our science in any way," Barbara Wainman, the agency's director of communications, said Wednesday. "I don't have approval authority. What it was designed to do is to improve our product flow ( Read more... )