Tag: politics
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The resemblance is rather striking (no offense to the chimps)
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I’m not alone; peas, wonderful peas
I’ve been buried in classes and haven’t been doing much of anything other than school related stuff as of late, so not much to post. Here’s my round up of the last few weeks: I just received an email from a friend with this link rating Bank of America as the worst bank in America.…
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Iraq War experiment
Hurry, before you do anything else, write down the number you see below: click here to learn more Okay, now go check out this article from the St. Petersburg Times on the War in Iraq and the costs – both financially and in human lives. When you’re done reading that article, come back to this…
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a couple minor political thoughts
I have two more posts on my trip to Princeton and Hartford, but I have to interrupt the narrative with a couple of political news items. First, whether you’re a fan of John McCain or not, you need to know that he has recently come out in favor of the completely nonsensical position that thimerosal,…
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McCain visits University of Tampa
I just finished my morning class on Friday and was responding to email when I heard that John McCain was visiting the university at noon. I called Debi, who doesn’t have classes on Fridays, and asked her if she wanted to see him. Regular readers will know we don’t generally lean Republican, but we are…
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How do you measure up against the candidates?
A friend sent me a link to this quiz to get a sense of how you measure up to the current candidates for President: I’ll tell you who most closely matches my views if you tell me who most closely matches yours.
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I’ll try not to be too political this year…
… But I think I’m allowed one political post. Just read this editorial from The New York Times and realized that it sums up in a few short paragraphs everything that is wrong with the Republican domination of our government right now. I’m a political independent, so don’t think I’m saying Democrats are any better…
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waxing political for a moment…
There are several good articles in the NYTimes this morning about the direction the U.S. government seems to be heading as regards civil rights and Presidential powers. Here’s an excellent op-ed about a similar situation faced by the Romans: Excerpt: But such was the panic that ensued after Ostia that the people were willing to…
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Laurence Britt’s 14 points of fascism
(Note: I originally posted this on my blog in October 2004. Over 27 people commented on it, including Laurence Britt. It is one of the more popular blog posts I’ve made over the years. In the interest of keeping my site cleaned up, I’m converting this post, along with all of the comments, into a…