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http://www.whoslying.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=636&Itemid=2 In "Without a Doubt", New York Times, Oct. 16, 2004, Ron Suskind quoted a “senior advisor to Bush” who said people like Suskind were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' He continued: ''That's not the way the world really works anymore… We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're …

This'll probably come across like I'm picking on the Dems, but I just happened to catch an ad on my television from the Democratic National Committee. It featured the sad-looking faces of a number of children, and the voicover was talking about how they will be saddled with additional debt thanks to the Bush administration. No problem there -- I am in complete agreement. Then the narrator went on to say that the deficit is $2.7 trillion. No. Really. In point of fact, the deficit is coming in at a bit over $400 billion. I have no idea if they just picked this number out of thin air or what. I mean hell, why not $50 trillion? A hundred? What the hell…

I was watching Robert Kennedy jr on TV this evening and he was saying it could be done with a little conservation, windmills and solar ect. renewable and alternate energy sources. He thought it would take maybe 15 years to do it. Question? IF IF IF it could be done, would it really be a good thing? I suppose we would disengage from that part of the world and leave them to revert back to whatever previous centuary appeals to them. That would be a haven for terrorist, despotic dictators, and people who do not like us very well. Where as now, we are interested in that part of the world BECAUSE we would like to buy their oil. We have a chance to establish a de…

Good idea, or government control? In the UK http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/ In the US http://www.schneier.com/essay-034.html Government control everywhere, and they are making GLP now that can put in people to track. Its in the news being candy coated.

All of these statements from John Kerry in the last debate were lies: Resource: http://www.factcheck.org/article281.html - Twice claimed (in the last debate) 1.6 million jobs have been lost under Bush, which is 1 million too high. - "The jobs the president is creating pay $9,000 less than the jobs that we're losing," a fanciful figure based on industry averages that don't actually compare wages of jobs lost to those of newer jobs. - "I have a plan to cover all Americans" for health care. Actually, his plan wouldn't cover all Americans. It would increase the percentage who have coverage from 84% currently to an estimated 92% to 95%. But several million…

All of these statements from George Bush in the last debate were lies: Resource: http://www.factcheck.org/article281.html - Bush said most of his tax cuts went to "low- and middle-income Americans" when independent calculations show most went to the richest 10 percent. (See the web site above for more detail, but basically 53% of the tax cut went to the richest 10% of citizens. Only 13.7% of the cut went to the bottom 60%.) - Bush stumbled when he denied making some remarks about Osama bin Laden that Kerry had accurately paraphrased. Bush accused Kerry of "one of those exaggerations." In fact, Bush said almost exactly what Kerry quoted him as saying. It…

Why isnt Micheal Badnarik invited to the presidential debates when he is endorsed in 48 states? Quote : Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party’s 2004 presidential nominee, will debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or he’ll go to jail instead. “A majority of Americans say that I should be included in the events sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates,” says Badnarik, 50, of Austin, Texas. “And the CPD, as a non-profit, has received special treatment from government on the requirement that they be non-partisan in their activities. Bi-partisan is not non-partisan. “Unless I am allowed to participate, the debates become a…

Scientists hope that "playing" a tiny guitar string, the smallest ever created, will help unravel some of the secrets of the molecular world. The string, developed at Cornell University, US, is only 10 atoms across, a million times smaller than a normal guitar string. It is made from a carbon nanotube, formed from a sheet of carbon one atom thick and rolled into a cylinder. Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3677410.stm

I have been watching a conspiracy tv broadcast on the net. They claim that the CIA is partener with Bin Laden and support him to allow political gains in the world for control. That Bill Clinton and Janet Reno used him to bomb Oklahoma City and other places every time there was problem in the White House. And that 9/11 was allow to further progress world control government. Lots of conspiracies to repeat they have said, Kennedy and team made up Russia building missles sites in Cuba just to give us reasons to invade them. Then Rosevelt allowed the bombing of Pearl Harbor to promote the UN. Just enough truth with some play to make them sound good. freedom-tv.net a…

.......he's so blatantly homophobic? How can you represent the people if you don't believe in the basic right to formally express love? Same sex marrage is not a premise that's way out there (like polygamy, which is legal in some US states), it's a fact of life in the modern life. Not going into the warmongering, alcoholic stupidity of the man. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3110581.stm

Annenberg uncovers what everybody knew four years ago and seem to forget.

It looks like Hollywood is not happy with Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Roger Ebert gave it one star, and his primary beef seems to be over the fact that the "White House gets a free pass" and that the famous Hollywood stars "exist in the movie essentially to be ridiculed for existing at all, I guess". http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041014/REVIEWS/40921007 I haven't seen it yet, but it sounds to me like they deserve a credit for not bowing to the pressures of political correctness, producing a satire that goes after BOTH sides. But I wonder how long it will be before the far left criticizes their decision to release the film just…

This campaign is becoming characterized by deceit. Forget Iraq/WMDs -- I'm talking about deception taking place right now. I want to know when Kerry is going to drop this ridiculous "ties to the Saudi royal family" line. That's the kind of Michael Moore tactic that's going to get him back into trouble. The reason he was so far behind in the polls before is because of lack of credibility in his attacks. He's dipping right back into that same well these days. In addition: - "$200 billion" is not the amount we've spent on Iraq. It's half that. - "1.6 million jobs lost" is double the actual figure. - Pharms got a $139 billion bailout is well documented t…

If you're voting for Kerry, please state why you are here. I'm not fishing for arguments, I'm just trying to get a feel for why people are voting kerry.

I'm kind of stealing this poll from another site. but, its a good question. Reeves was a proponent of stem cell research. Kerry even mentioned him in his presidential debate. What do you think?

honestly, i really can't understand why so many people support bush. i'd like some reasons. and please, make them factual. nothing like "because he is the best to protect us against terror" because bush has had a chance as president and kerry has not. therefore its all speculation that kerry will do bad. i dont want comparisons. i want some reasons for why you(if you do) support bush.

Do you think voters of the LP will affect the election by taking away votes from a canidate? If so, which one?

I was at the library and saw a poster. It was talking about how it ismportant to vote, BUT it was in Spanish. For those of you that don't know, I live in America. I found that poster disturbing. I don't think you have any right to vote if you can't understand the national language. What do you guys think?

Astronomers working in Chile think they may have taken the first direct image of a planet circling another star. The star, called 2M1207, is 230 light-years away and is very much smaller and fainter than our own Sun. The pictured companion is 100 times fainter still and tested the technical limits of the Yepun telescope. Astronomer Christophe Dumas said: "It is a strange feeling that it may indeed be the first planetary system beyond our own ever imaged....The thrill of seeing this faint source of light in real-time on the instrument display was unbelievable." Benjamin Zuckerman, of the University of California, in Los Angeles, added: "If the candidate compan…

Did anybody actually watch this? It looks like a lot of people decided it wasn’t important. Anyway I think Cheney undoubtedly won. Edwards just seemed childish trying to argue with him. I loved the way Edwards told us a ‘personal story’ during one of his answers. It was mush more entertaining than the first presidential because there was so many personal attacks. Unfortunately the buzzer was never used, although Edward interrupted Cheney at one point. Any thoughts?

The latest issue of Skeptic Magazine that takes Bush to task for his abuse of science: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic10-08-04.html The Politicization Of Science in the Bush Administration: Science-As-Public Relations Dylan Otto Krider There’s a war going on—and not just the one in Iraq. This conflict may not get as much media play, but it could have just as great an impact on our safety, national prestige, and long-term economic health. It is a war over the integrity of science itself, and the casualties are everywhere: career scientists and enforcement officials are resigning en masse from government agencies, citing an inability to do their jobs due …

http://www.planetaryinvestments.com/ These guys take claim to the right to sale land plots on the moon and Mars. Now what exactly is the law on other planet land ownership? Should we be allowed to buy it? Many questions.

Do you think they should be allowed to do this?

We had a discussion here recently in which someone tried to suggest that only the United States has violated the WTO. Which is, of course, ridiculous, but after I demonstrated that it's not the case, I got to thinking about Kerry's plan to stop outsourcing in America. The basic idea is that he wants to provide tax incentives to companies that keep jobs in the US instead of sending them overseas. Now, setting aside for the moment the obvious flaw that every company in the country will immediately apply for these incentives, claiming outsourcing pressures (sigh), another thought occurs: Wouldn't this be a violation of the WTO? Obviously this would only apply if…