Category Archives: Government
On Thinking
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♦Lane Wallace, writing for The Atlantic, gives us two articles on the process of thinking that deserve further consideration:
In my experience, there are two factors that seem to make the biggest difference as to whether or not two people can have a meaningful and productive discussion from different points of view [...]
The Family a.k.a. the Christian mafia
Has anyone else been slightly blown away by the recent revelations about “The Family”, another secret organization for the wealthy and powerful White cabal in D.C.?
Just when we thought “Good old boy” clubs had become passé, just when we thought we’d seen the last of former Skull and Bones members holding positions of power and [...]
not a fact but a fancy
Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit…
When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being….
We attack not a person but a belief, [...]
U.K citizens…please enable remote desktop
If that last post doesn’t make you wonder if George Orwell only erred in the year he selected for his title, read on…
THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s [...]
A personal information hellhouse
The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.
A cabinet decision to put the management of the multibillion pound [...]
A reason to hope?
I’m usually critical, skeptical, not easily given to optimism. I know enough about humanity and its history to be fairly confident in my pessimism.
Tonight, however, I’m wondering if this next year might prove my worst expectations false. Perhaps Americans have noticed the damage that’s been done to our country by Bush/Cheney and decided to change [...]
$108 billion to pay out bonuses to top bank executives
Democratic lawmakers are joining the chorus of Americans asking how slumping banks could hand out executive bonuses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Following a letter from Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), has opened an investigation into the matter, according to a release from [...]
Our Representatives ain’t representing
May I say that every non-Jewish representative that took advantage of a Jewish holiday to quit working on a solution to this situation and head home for a break ought to be voted out at the next opportunity.
The Jewish representatives have an excuse, though personally I think they should be ashamed to be putting their [...]
We don’t need change
Now that both presidential campaigns are on the Change bandwagon we’re beginning to see the pausity of that promise. Change isn’t always good nor does it always promise an improvement. There’s “change for the sake of change” and “change for the worse” in addition to “change for the better”. Without a better idea of what [...]
Presidents and toilet paper
In a country where we have the choice of 50 kinds of toilet paper, why do we limit ourselves to only two viable candidates for the presidency? Why do we allow ourselves to be convinced that only two parties can possibly represent the views of all Americans?
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