My education, health, salary, and pension are shrinking… How about we lose all of this Spiritual Fitness stuff instead? In a time when national debt is relatively common discussion, it seems that unconstitutional spending of hundreds of millions of dollars would be a natural choice for the chopping block. Read more . . .
Since early August, three administration decisions—on Arctic drilling, the Keystone XL pipeline and the ozone that causes smog—have all favored dirty industry over public health and a clean environment. . . What’s going on here? . . . Putting corporate profits above public health is unconscionable . . . Instead of going to the ends of the earth to feed our national addiction to oil, and putting irreplaceable waters, habitat and even the American breadbasket at risk, we need to invest in the clean energy strategies of tomorrow. That’s the way to put Americans back to work, developing renewable sources of power and fuel and building the next generation of energy efficient cars, homes and workplaces. Read more . . .
By Madison S. Hughes (09.03.2011)
Am I the only one that noticed how, the probabilistically nearly impossible, latest jobs report showed that 17,000 private-sector jobs were created, while government payrolls were cut by an exact equal 17,000? Seriously, an EXACT inverse relationship . . .
Is this just irony? It could certainly be interpreted as such, and maybe I just have a warped way of interpretation. Nevertheless, I don’t see it as irony, but instead take it as insult. The “Haves” have been incessantly attempting to privatize the public sector for private profit since government’s genesis. Of course this comes with a blatant disregard for the “Have-nots” that they so easily exploit. However, in the past the “Haves” would at least go through the gyrations of herd concealment so that only the helpless minority of politically astute would realize its happening.
The zero sum of private-sector gain at the total expense of public-sector loss is reprehensible. It is yet another outwardly demonstration of the unfettered callousness of which the “Haves” regularly display.
In Solidarity!
Dawkins continues to argue not just against faith but — as an evolutionary biologist — for inheritance, in terms of the chemical genes we are born with and the cultural “memes” that may be transmitted from generation to generation . . . “I’m very aware that people try to get their hands on children and indoctrinate them and I want to open their eyes, open their minds, show them the thrill of science — of really understanding so much of why we exist, why the universe exists, what life is .” . . . It was from his father, Dawkins says, that he learnt a “scientific attitude”. I ask him to define that. He replies: “Ceaseless questioning, scepticism, wanting to know what the evidence is, understanding what evidence means.” Read more . . .
The two main eras of progressive change in our country in the last century were accompanied by a broad and spirited upsurge of people . . . Social progress without mass pressure is never easy in a capitalist system. Capitalism is structured to resist change of a progressive and radical nature. But it is especially tough going in circumstances where the right wing controls many levers of power, as it currently does . . . The political imperative of this moment, therefore, is clear: the quantitative and qualitative strengthening of the people’s movement for progressive change. Read more . . .
There really is a movement of religious zealots who are convinced Galileo was wrong. They are called “geocentrists.” How do these geocentrists know that the Earth is the center of the universe? The Bible tells them so!
. . . Yeah, we scoff at geocentrists today, but as Sungenis points out, they had their day. It lasted something like 1,500 years. Church and state were one, and if you didn’t like it, well, they had a torture rack and possibly a pyre just for you. Read more . . .
