Thursday, February 12, 2009

Celebrating Reason

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A couple of bright spots in the effort to see reason valued as a keystone in any decision making. First, today is Darwin's' birthday...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

B106 and a Trillion Dollars

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My morning commute is fairly short and fairly regimented. One of the habits that has been refined to an automatic behavior is my radio liste...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Not At All Surprised

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Haggard faces more gay-sex accusations Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay-sex scanda...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

1/4 Inch of Snow

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It's time for the whole of the midlands to freak out. Tags Weather
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Our House Is Burning Down

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And we are offered stale failed old ideas . Governor pushes budget cap, ending corporate income tax, proposes truce with Legislature ... Gov...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Evolution, In Action

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Creationist and the rest of the anti-science crowd are a funny bunch. They denounce evolution as a lie, as imposable, as never occurring. Th...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Fantastic Judicial News

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Enron’s Skilling loses appeal A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling's convictions for his role in ...
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Sunday, January 04, 2009

Al Franken Beats Coleman

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The votes have been counted, the counts have been checked and the disputed ballets reviewed. Now that it is all done it is clear that Al Fra...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

They Lie Like Rugs

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Since the moment that the Discovery Institute lost its Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case ( the lawsuit that beat back the effort...
Friday, January 02, 2009

A Measured Response?

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Hamas has been lobbing an occasional small rocket into Israel, a rare few of these rockets actually hit something and a few civilians have b...
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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year

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After a long break to re-charge the batteries, vacation, attend to family issues, hold thanksgiving and Christmas and time to do nothing, it...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

A Civics Test

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Another sigh of what is wrong with our country, our leaders are fundelmentally clueless . US elected officials scored abysmally on a test me...
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Bailing Out CitiBank

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Well it seems that we (as a nation) are bailing out another bank, this time to the tune of 325 billion dollars plus (in investment and loan ...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Some Friday Blog Links

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Since I still have not found the time to write much Band of Butters notes numbers don't lie . When considering the bail-out of the auto...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A Center Path

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The early appointments in the Obama administration seem to come from the more from the center than the left. I find this a bit confusing sin...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Good Friday Morning

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Still here, still busy, I hope to have a real post up later today (work willing) Tags Work
Monday, November 10, 2008

I Am Alive And Well

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(well, at least as well as I ever am) But overloaded at work, and catching my breath from the last 6-8 weeks. So this is about all I will ge...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Prediction Review

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I said Democrats Gain 8 in the Senate (with no losses) Right now they are up 6 with three races still being counted or contested. I think I ...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

More Elections Stats (with Maps)

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And these should scare the heck out of Republicans First the map showing where Republican strength is Growing. Now, where Democratic Parties...
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Another Nice Stat About The Vote

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America's youth are not real happy with Republicans. Young voters diverged sharply from the population as a whole, preferring Obama/Bide...

A Great Day

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A Democrat in the White House, nice gains in the Senate and House and a fresh start for the country. Obama has been left an absolute mess bu...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Prediction Time

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Democrats Gain 8 in the Senate (with no losses) Democrats Gain 25 in the House (losing 3 seats) Obama gets 52% of the popular vote and 364 e...
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South Carolina May Not Be A Competive State

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But early this morning the turnout at a few of the precincts in my area was astounding. 3 or 4 time the normal amount of voters queued up at...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Absolutely Situationaly Unaware

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This is a perfect example of one of the many problems with the modern Republican party. To many of their thinkers are as dump as posts. One ...

McCain's Camp, A Stray Thought

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Has anyone running for President ever given people fewer reasons to vote for them than John McCain? He has given us countless number of reas...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008

GOPs America ?

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Tags Cartoons
Friday, October 31, 2008

Last Minute Moves

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It appears that with only 4 days to go until the election that both campaigns are making late media purchases in new areas. Obama is buying ...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

GOP Ticket's Appalling Contempt for Knowledge

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Christopher Hitchens has a little to say about Sarah . it didn't seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But the...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Palin Knifes McCain

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I hope John can get a little help getting that knife out of his back. I am not real sure, but I don't think that it is proper etiquette ...
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An Important Fact, Expressed Well

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Could it be that Americans are rejecting the far-right Culture War? Could it be that they see through the tactical misinformation and manipu...
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