Here’s a particularly Orwellian ad run in a London newspaper:
Here’s a marvelous response to it:
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.”
On this July 4th weekend, we’re likely to go to pool parties and eat barbeque, hotdogs, or burgers. We’re probably going to be with friends and family having a good time. I love this time of year and I want to look forward to this for the rest of my life.
However, we also need to remember why we’re here. Not enough Americans actually think about what happened 232 years ago. A small group of patriots met with each other to take a huge risk and break with the oppressive government they were living under. We are here today, enjoying the benefits of their sacrifices.
Yet, Americans have lost the ability to control their own government over the last 8 years. Whether you’re a liberal democrat or a conservative republican, you’re wondering where your government went. At the same time we’re losing critical civil liberties, our government is spending us into oblivion. We aren’t a representative democracy anymore because the government doesn’t seem to represent any of its citizens.
No matter what we do on the left, we can’t get congress to impeach Bush for his violations of international law and abdication of his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. No matter how much smart business people who value fiscal conservatism express their concerns, we’re still spending $12 billion a month in Iraq and bailing out mortgage lending firms.
On this great day, you have to ask yourself what else is going to happen if average Joe American doesn’t stand up and say “Enough. This is not the America I want”.
America is in crisis and we are to blame.
Others share my concern:
I’m pretty pessimistic sometimes, but this guy just gave me a wonderful five minutes of joy.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
I’ve always been a Cubs fan, but today, I was trying to support my son and be a dual citizen.
Cubs lost, BTW.
“We don’t understand science, and we fear what we don’t understand, so we think it’s dangerous and should be shut down” seems to be mantra for people who are afraid of the Large Hadron Collider. Here’s a cute little rebuttal.
When did ignorance start being fashionable?
It’s really nice to see the religious “la-la-la fingers-held -in-ears” folks try to act rational when it comes to the recently published discovery that further supports evolution (let’s face it, it basically puts the final nail in the creationist coffin). Over twenty years and 44,000 generations, this team witnessed the emergence of a new trait for E. Coli that allows it to process a new food source that the original population was unable to process. Evolution documented in a petri dish.
The religulous folks are really pissed because there’s living proof. Here’s the full email exchange between Richard Lenski on the team that’s publishing the results and some nut who’s trying to tear down his research without understanding the first thing about the scientific process or how open to criticism it is.
The denialists are making claims that Lenski hasn’t released his data, or that he hasn’t fully documented the results, or that he is obscuring some important modification. In fact he’s totally above-board, has published results over time, is still continuing research, and it painfully shows how the denialists don’t even know how to play “The Science Game”.
It’s epic.
This is the single most compelling graph for human-caused Global Warming. Nobody disputes this graph based on the science. Additionally, nobody disputes the correlation of global temperature with CO2 concentration. We are in trouble.
This comes from NASA.
There are several online photo-sharing/hosting/editing apps and it appears that Adobe’s connects to several of them, so I’m trying it out as “The Hub”.