Another win for the good guys...

Drilling measure stopped in Senate. Click Here.

Spying Followup

No sooner did I hit publish then I found this very explanatory write up over the same Clinton-Carter subject.

Thank you Kos and Think Progress for restoring my faith in the Dems.

Moral of the story: Clinton and Carter did not authorize spying on AMERICAN CITIZENS.

Spying..

Today Drudge has excerpts posted that both Clinton and Carter used their Presidential authority to authorize secret surveillance of US citizens without a court order. If true this pretty much cancels any hearings that would be considered for BushCo.

The thought of this really irks me. If the govt can start monitoring activities of any person or any group then the whole idea of a free society is flushed down the toilet. The government can now know of a groups actions and intents and counter strike before that group even knows what is coming.

As a nation we should demand that this type of power need to be approved in courts. If the President can issue survelleince of anyone at anytime there is no privacy. Just because it is thought you are a threat doesn't mean you are. Eveidence should be presented to substantiate the concern.

As promised..

As a follow up to the blocking of ID in Dover schools let me be the first to say that this is a huge win for those who still believe in separation of church and state. Although his decision only covers the Dover School District this case sets precedent for any other whacky ass crackers who want to try to trick us into believing ID is a theory like Darwinism and should be considered in schools.

The major argument I find, which is touched on in the below article, is that Darwin's "theory" has factual data that is collected all the time to support it. With ID how do you show logical reason that meets scientific method?

The scientific method is derived as follows. Let's try to "prove" ID.

1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.

Human beings are intelligent rational creatures whereas all other animals are masses of flesh.

2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.

Humans were created by a outside force and given intelligence by this force.

3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.

Over the last couple million years no new creatures have been discovered that share the intelligence and logical thinking that humans do.

4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.

a) Gene maniulation - Result: No no intlelligence
b) Electrical shock to monkey brain - Result: No new intelligence

As you can see Intelligent Design can be proven based on new intelligence.

OK so that was fun.. I'm sure that the ID proponents will have many more oppurtunities to add to this but then again ID is not a scientific idealogy. It's just that- an idealogy. In the public school forum this should never enter the curriculum. Hopefully today's ruling will ensure that


The full story from CNN can be found here.

Finally a Federal Judge with sense..

Taken from CNN breaking news banner.

"Federal judge rules "intelligent design" cannot be included in Pennsylvania public school biology courses."

All I can say is thank the flying spaghetti monster.

Story to follow.

Pathalogical....

In a series of more lies, President Bush today tried to convince the American public that his penis "is this big, no really just ask Condi"

ANWR revision passed

Warning - Completely opinion based post below.

In one of the final acts of Congress before the session ends for this Holiday season, the house passed the defense spending bill which includes funding for Katrina, avian flu, and drilling in Alaska.

I would defer all to mergenow's post on the (non) benefits of opening up the ANWR for drilling in order to get a real appreciation for the actual import benefit this will produce. To put it mildly - NONE! One of Chimpy's initial goals since he was illegally awarded the presidancy was to open up ANWR - not for good of our economy but so his cronies can begin moving equipment and receiving the billions in contract work that will be involved.

Now I am not so much of an environmentalist when a greater good can become of disturbing the ecosystem. To me opening ANWR is not for the greater good but for the good of few. The money and resources going to be spent on this initiative can be used for research in ethanol and other sources of energy but that would mean revenue to big oil being lost. We all saw how they gouged us after Katrina but managed to makes billions upon billions.

Anyone who believes that BushCo does anything for the good of country and people has got to be completely blind.

I am ashamed...

After almost 2 months of no new blogging I am making a promise to myself that I will try to amp up to at least a few posts a week.

In my absense mergnow at ExitRamp has been doing a hell of a job making sure that his readers are aware of the crap that has been happening.

Starting Monday look for some heapings of disgusted rants.

I would like anyone else also to check out strawmanliberal for some healthy right wing hate.