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Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion.
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Would this happen in a democracy? by SirJ Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Would this happen in a democracy? The Free Flow of Information Act passed the House last fall with a vote of 398-21, which is 95% of those voting. In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee recommended it by a vote of 15-4, which is 79% in favor. Both presidential candidates support the bill. However, it won't be voted in by the Senate because "no-one can get the whole Senate to vote on it." When over 80% of Congress is in favor of something, the future president of the United States is in favor of it, and it STILL cannot get passed, then we don't live in a democracy. Anybody who believes otherwise, please explain how this could happen in a democracy. SirJ  What's his name? by Madeline Zane Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Air Force: US nukes in Europe not safe
I remember something about four years ago where we were thinking about putting this guy in charge of the entire country who said on national television that unsecure nuclear material was the biggest security threat to the US. But then he went windsurfing and looked like a complete doofus so we collectively decided to hell with it. Madeline Zane Shtuff by Juan P. Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK BankImplode.com Promising Solar Power Technologies (The first technology is a light collection system designed by MIT students. Their idea is to use off-the-shelf components and to design the total product for lowest cost and ease of assembly. You can't have one in your backyard due to the extremely dangerous lightbeam which is hot enough to melt steel...) Juan P. Churches above the law by Rebecca Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Texas Court says church can't be sued over abusing and imprisoning girl for exorcism This is just wacky — the Court says the First Amendment protects a "church" that holds a kid against her will and injures her? By this reasoning anyone can get away with anything by feigning religion. Rebecca You mean, like the Catholics? Helen & Harry
Slippery slope to doom by JR Mooneyham Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK The middle class continues its sad disappearing act Years ago I wrote up the first draft to my own long term view of the fate of the middle-class. I was spurred to do it by the disturbing things I learned while researching my future timeline. It basically describes the slippery slope to doom, and how we're easily lured into such a course. Ragnarok: The war for our destiny JR Mooneyham (www.jrmooneyham.com/) Zimbabwe, a no-win situation? by Marie K. Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK When you go looking beyond the simplistic mainstream media headlines, you ALWAYS find complexity ... ... Click for more ... Marie K. French or Romanian by klmd Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re We know who did this to America They need to be taught a lesson the future won't forget. French or Romanian, that is the question. klmd Like any other politician by Chris M. Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Obama is shifting toward the center
Really??? Obama is a politician. He'll do or say anything he feels is necessary to get elected, like any other politician. He has been bought and paid for like all the rest. The problem is that those who call themselves "the netroots", a bunch of delusional shallow bourgeois clowns, believe that because he's black, Obama will embrace their pseudo-leftist beliefs ... BULLSHIT!! Politics is non-gender, non-ethnic specific. Politicians are all self-serving, power-hungry fuckers who are totally in bed with the cretins from Wall Street. Always have been. Some are just smatter and better at bullshitting the public enough to elected. So to those who still thing he, or anyone else, is going to be some sort of "white (or black as the case maybe) knight"... go back to your DVD collections or youtube and watch those George Carlin routines that so many of you say you will miss. And fucking pay attention this time. Chris M. A lot of enthusiastic but naïve people really think that Obama is somehow going to be 'different' from other politicians, and most people have noticed that he's black, but I haven't heard anyone suggest that Obama would be different or pseudo-leftist "because he's black". Helen & Harry
Pink haze by Sherri B. Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK It's only the haze through the smoke. We went through blood red suns in the LA fires but isn't it eerie? We are very, very close now. Sherri B. Good buddies by Fazookus Monday, June 30, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re We know who did this to America What is happening to America and affecting the rest of the world is not a conspiracy of the Bilderbergs, but an almost complete disconnect between America's political and business leadership...I thought that they were good buddies. Good points otherwise. Fazookus |
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