"we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'"
What happened to just being not guilty on a specific charge? Now we have to prove (if we are not denied) our innocence? Sad.
It seems the only way to make the point would be to pick a fictional character, like Wile E. Coyote (Super Genius) or the "I'm just a Bill" character, and rig the election controlled by the Diebold machines.
So with all the new restrictions and measures put in place to stop the terrorists now, why did we have the old restrictions and measures in place if they weren't effective in protecting us? If these measures can't really protect us, then why have the added measures? Can the new measures really protect us or is it just a show to have us feel safe. I don't feel safe, I've got strangers with guns going through my belongings and searching me - that's terrorism.
With the networks now offering their shows on the web for free, why buy a TiVo? I can watch shows off the network websites when and how I want. The programming offerings will expand to the point of video on demand in the next year or two. If a TV viewer is satisfied viewing a show on the small screen of an iPod then why would that person what to spend big bucks on a HDTV screen? If I have a thousand or two to throw at a TV, why would I want to do that when I can purchase a faster computer or bigger monitor and watch my TV that way? When I look at the Bush economy of the rich get richer, the young and poor have no reason not jump on the HD bandwagon.
If this comes to pass there would be no reason for advertisers to go through TV networks when they can go straight to the show producers who might as well independently webcast their show.
Companies may exist to make money, but that doesn't exclude them from using morals and social values to make it. If a company does something you think is wrong, don't push the moral obligation to do some about on to the government, take your own action and don't but the product. When you buy a product you reward the values that went into making that product. If you think China is a totalitarian state oppressing it's people, don't buy products from China or only buy the products from companies that work to make conditions better. The market place has everything for sale; if there's demand of socially responsible products, the market will rush to provide the supply. Make the world a better place one purchase at a time.
United States There Is No Tomorrow By Bill Moyers Jan 31, 2005, 22:07
One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional
is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of
power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history,
ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold
stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally
accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are
not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters
and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the
interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist,
reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that
protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return
of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is
felled, Christ will come back."
Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking
about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the
country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true --
one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate.
In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the
polls believing in the rapture index.
That's right -- the rapture index. Google it and you will find that the
best-selling books in America today are the 12 volumes of the "Left Behind"
series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious-right warrior
Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology
concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took
disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has
captivated the imagination of millions of Americans.
Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre (the British writer George Monbiot
recently did a brilliant dissection of it and I am indebted to him for
adding to my own understanding): Once Israel has occupied the rest of its
"biblical lands," legions of the antichrist will attack it, triggering a
final showdown in the valley of Armageddon.
As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return
for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and
transported to Heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they
will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils,
sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation that
follow.
I'm not making this up. Like Monbiot, I've read the literature. I've
reported on these people, following some of them from Texas to the West
Bank. They are sincere, serious and polite as they tell you they feel called
to help bring the rapture on as fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That's why
they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish settlements and
backed up their support with money and volunteers. It's why the invasion of
Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the Book of Revelations where
four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released
to slay the third part of man." A war with Islam in the Middle East is not
something to be feared but welcomed -- an essential conflagration on the
road to redemption. The last time I Googled it, the rapture index stood at
144 -- just one point below the critical threshold when the whole thing will
blow, the son of God will return, the righteous will enter Heaven and
sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire.
So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to
read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist Glenn Scherer -- "The
Road to Environmental Apocalypse." Read it and you will see how millions of
Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not
only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even h
If a thousand year life span was available and only the rich could afford to get it, it would be a death sentence to everyone else. If this occurred, it would be the most extreme example of the have and have-nots. As a free society, we can't allow this inequality to happen. The treatment should be and must be free and to available all.
Economically, the differences between rich and poor would also have to be weakened. Who wants to live poor for a thousand years?
For the sake of nationalism, U.S. did it first and Russia never went for it, but now China and India want to fake going to the moon. Does every country with a camcorder have to have a manned space program?
You're missing the point of longer life spans - longer-term thinking! A survey of today's woes would show short-term thinking for short-term gains. In the short term one can get away with a win/lose strategy, because of the low number of iterations of implementation. In switching to the long term, a win/win strategy prevails. Using the super rationality of the win/win strategy, with a strong tit for tat, would become the optimum strategy.
With a longer life span, you'd be laying in the bed you made for a looooong time. Better socially, economically, and politically to changes your ways!
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There's no such thing as a lying or stupid politician only ignorant voters that believe misrepresentations.
"we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'" What happened to just being not guilty on a specific charge? Now we have to prove (if we are not denied) our innocence? Sad.
Now it makes sense, it should be a chip not a battery on his shoulder. "I dare you to knock this chip off my shoulder. I dare you." Man, I'm old.
It seems the only way to make the point would be to pick a fictional character, like Wile E. Coyote (Super Genius) or the "I'm just a Bill" character, and rig the election controlled by the Diebold machines.
I remember when I would "randomly" select want song I wanted on a CD player by using the shuffle button until I got the outcome I wanted.
It's the alien species from John Carpenter's The Thing! Trust no one.
So with all the new restrictions and measures put in place to stop the terrorists now, why did we have the old restrictions and measures in place if they weren't effective in protecting us? If these measures can't really protect us, then why have the added measures? Can the new measures really protect us or is it just a show to have us feel safe. I don't feel safe, I've got strangers with guns going through my belongings and searching me - that's terrorism.
Isn't this what the Tricoder from Star Trek did?
With the networks now offering their shows on the web for free, why buy a TiVo? I can watch shows off the network websites when and how I want. The programming offerings will expand to the point of video on demand in the next year or two. If a TV viewer is satisfied viewing a show on the small screen of an iPod then why would that person what to spend big bucks on a HDTV screen? If I have a thousand or two to throw at a TV, why would I want to do that when I can purchase a faster computer or bigger monitor and watch my TV that way? When I look at the Bush economy of the rich get richer, the young and poor have no reason not jump on the HD bandwagon. If this comes to pass there would be no reason for advertisers to go through TV networks when they can go straight to the show producers who might as well independently webcast their show.
LET THEM TRUCKERS ROLL! 10-4!
Is this Red State redistribution? How will this change Oregon's and other state's red/blue status in the 2006 and 2008 elections?
Companies may exist to make money, but that doesn't exclude them from using morals and social values to make it. If a company does something you think is wrong, don't push the moral obligation to do some about on to the government, take your own action and don't but the product. When you buy a product you reward the values that went into making that product. If you think China is a totalitarian state oppressing it's people, don't buy products from China or only buy the products from companies that work to make conditions better. The market place has everything for sale; if there's demand of socially responsible products, the market will rush to provide the supply. Make the world a better place one purchase at a time.
Good way to get rid of a dead body.
United States There Is No Tomorrow By Bill Moyers Jan 31, 2005, 22:07 One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts. Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back." Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true -- one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index. That's right -- the rapture index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in America today are the 12 volumes of the "Left Behind" series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious-right warrior Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans. Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre (the British writer George Monbiot recently did a brilliant dissection of it and I am indebted to him for adding to my own understanding): Once Israel has occupied the rest of its "biblical lands," legions of the antichrist will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to Heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow. I'm not making this up. Like Monbiot, I've read the literature. I've reported on these people, following some of them from Texas to the West Bank. They are sincere, serious and polite as they tell you they feel called to help bring the rapture on as fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That's why they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish settlements and backed up their support with money and volunteers. It's why the invasion of Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the Book of Revelations where four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of man." A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but welcomed -- an essential conflagration on the road to redemption. The last time I Googled it, the rapture index stood at 144 -- just one point below the critical threshold when the whole thing will blow, the son of God will return, the righteous will enter Heaven and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist Glenn Scherer -- "The Road to Environmental Apocalypse." Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even h
If a thousand year life span was available and only the rich could afford to get it, it would be a death sentence to everyone else. If this occurred, it would be the most extreme example of the have and have-nots. As a free society, we can't allow this inequality to happen. The treatment should be and must be free and to available all. Economically, the differences between rich and poor would also have to be weakened. Who wants to live poor for a thousand years?
For the sake of nationalism, U.S. did it first and Russia never went for it, but now China and India want to fake going to the moon. Does every country with a camcorder have to have a manned space program?
Every paragraph should have ended with, "and the government will be wacthing you."
You're missing the point of longer life spans - longer-term thinking! A survey of today's woes would show short-term thinking for short-term gains. In the short term one can get away with a win/lose strategy, because of the low number of iterations of implementation. In switching to the long term, a win/win strategy prevails. Using the super rationality of the win/win strategy, with a strong tit for tat, would become the optimum strategy. With a longer life span, you'd be laying in the bed you made for a looooong time. Better socially, economically, and politically to changes your ways!