scientist's blog

honestly

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~Bertrand Russell

clinton got a blowjob...

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lewis black on religion

don't get burned again

here's what to do

Video-the-Vote

here are 20 reasons why:

(there are hundreds)

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush’s vice- presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.

9. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold’s Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a “high degree of sophistication” to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold’s claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it!

17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

18. Bush’s Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.

19. All—not some—but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!)—again always favoring Bush—have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.

they stole it in 2001 and 2004... what do they have to lose? other than power?

new rules

love and work

what’s the difference between love and work?
can they be one and the same?
what if they connected for this turk?
why can’t life be just a game?

end the sickness

NOT wanting to end a war is just plain sick

NOT wanting to stop torture is just plain sick

NOT wanting to help Katrina victims is just plain sick

NOT wanting life-saving research is just plain sick

NOT wanting clean air is just plain sick

NOT wanting to listen to half of your country is just plain sick

End the sickness

Vote Democratic

In DROVES

Day 345

from thursday, october 26 2006

chest
head
left leg
right leg

my high's

from thursday, october 26 2006

basketball

down with the king

discipline

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ~Bertrand Russell

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. ~James Allen

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. ~William Feather

free hugs nyc

stay the course?

i hope the dems win, but i would not be surprised to see surprising results on election day

the republicans control the voting process

they can easily manipulate the machines

they control the counting

it would take very few evil bastards to produce a surprising result

it may have only taken 7 of them to pull off 911

my high's

from thursday, october 24 2006

basketball

the dingo

terrorists

"The dictionary definition of the word “terrorize” is simple and not open to misinterpretation: “To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”

Note please, that the words “violence” and “death” are missing from that definition. For the key to terror, the key to terrorism is not the act, but the fear of the act.

That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings.

But why is the Republican Party imitating them?

Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; the Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear.

The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.

Only the Republicans have a bigger bank roll.

“To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”

By this definition, the people who put these videos together, first the terrorists and then the administration, whose shared goal is to scare you into panicking instead of thinking, they are the ones terrorizing you.

By this definition, the leading terrorist group in this world right now is al Qaeda.

But the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party. "

life

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~John Lennon

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln

one and only

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

liar liar

bush says "we've never been stay the course"

bush is a liar:

BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]
BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]

how can you trust someone who repeatedly lies to your face?

stem cell research

what would jesus do, asshole?

"here's a man, a father to young children, a good person - and we're not doing everything humanly possible to help him? Everything humanly possible is the only moral and ethical choice here. The only one.

Wonder where we would be if the millions we spend every hour in Iraq were spent on stem cell research?

Wonder if Jesus would think maybe we should re-allocate some funds? And reconsider our opposition to saving lives? What do you think?"