Feb
28
2007
Global War
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Or maybe not. Dr. Mike Adams has a good, well-informed belief it's not.
Update of Hope: Atlas Shrugs notes this. So I safely presume the federal gov't law enforcement appratus will be shortly - Atlas Shrugs is a site by a Jew for the anti-Jihad wings of the world.
Feb
28
2007
Originally from Drudge
L'Eggo My Lego
Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.
A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.
According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."
The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."
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Feb
28
2007
HJR 4218, the 60% legislative vote for emergency clauses, got a courtesy hearing yesterday and will almost certainly die tonight at midnight. Yet, as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation submitted testimony for the House Joint Resolution - in part, “Article I, Section 1 of the Washington constitution says that “all power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed….” The right of initiative and referendum are a part of this power that the people reserved to themselves, so any attempt by the legislature to deny this power should be severely limited. ” I also believe the time is ripe to say that the Washington Education Association was able to stop an emergency clause on charter school legislation and brought the bill as Referendum 51 to the 2004 electorate where the legislation died. Maybe, just maybe, they should get on board and save HJR 4218…
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Feb
28
2007
So there he was, Dick Cheney, the Vice President, in a surprise visit to Afghanistan. Suddenly there was a bombing attack at the base he was at:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2907390
A suicide bomber struck at the main entrance to Bagram air base in Afghanistan today, as Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting.
Immediately after the attack, a red alert traveled throughout the base — a red alert that we heard saying that the base was under direct attack.
At least nine people were killed, officials tell ABC News. Associated Press reporters at the scene said that they had seen the bodies of at least 12 people, and that they had been carried in black body bags and wooden coffins from near the base into a market area where hundreds of Afghans had gathered to mourn.
A Taliban spokesperson has claimed responsibility, saying the intended target was in fact Cheney. The bomber never got near Cheney.
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Feb
27
2007
Midnight tomorrow night the Google the State Budget Bill (HB 2342) is going to die without your help because it hasn't gotten out of legislative committee. Which means, without some speedy action, another Washington State budget will pass without the ability (with apologies and cite to President G.W. Bush) "to call up the name and location of entities receiving" state "funds, and will provide them with the purpose of the funding, the amount of the money provided, the agency providing the funding and other relevant information."
Read THIS Evergreen Freedom Foundation press release for more and go HERE for state legislative contact information via phone & e-mail.
Remember, it was the blogosphere and activated citizens that got us the federal legislation to make this so. It's the blogosphere and activated citizens that's going to have to deliver the state version. Please go HERE for state legislative contact information via phone & e-mail and make something happen.
Feb
27
2007
The famous Aerial Tram shut down today for a bit, because wind gusts occasionally hit 40 miles an hour. Who'd ever have thought? We almost never get wind gusts that high, sitting here at the mouth of the funnel that is the Columbia River Gorge. Fire up the buses, boys! You'd almost think this ski-lift was thought up by the same folks who bring you light rail - because we never get ice storms here. Oh, wait…
Now they want to sell you a bridge, for only <snicker> $6 billion. Like our $15 million tram? Oh, never mind the cost overruns. That tram thing ran close to $60 million, but hey. But some guy came up with a great idea: forget the super-bridge - build 40 or 50 trams to carry traffic between Portland and Vancouver. The idea has great potential. Less expensive, and would take thousands of cars off the freeway. Unless it gets breezy. As Ted Kennedy might say, "We'll drive off that bridge when we come to it".
Feb
27
2007
Well, how can this be? It's been frequently claimed that the debate is over, and of course, globally-acclaimed atmospheric chemist AlGore (who also helped to invent the internets) has had awards heaped upon him for his role in producing one of the poorest science-fiction movies of all time. Nonetheless, it appears that there are skeptical scientists out there (rarely if ever publicised, of course). "Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States"…
Dr Jensen, a nuclear physicist, has said he is not convinced that human activity is responsible for global warming.
In an interview with The Age last month, Mr Evans acknowledged that last September's visit by former US vice-president Al Gore to promote his Oscar-winning global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth had helped generate a lot of publicity on climate change.
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Feb
27
2007
Really, you can't keep track of it. We're all gonna die because of Global Warming and it's All Your Fault, and you need to reduce your "carbon footprint" and yadda yadda. Well, you've doubtless already seen some of the hypocrisy of AlGore and his fellow wealthy followers, so you understand that Global Warming is a new religion, or more accurately, a new cult. The leaders are much like Bagbalm Shree Rajneesh, who had around a hundred high-end cars to drive while preaching a minimalist lifestyle to his followers.
Like Bagbalm, AlGore is revered by his devotees, and they ignore his excessive lifestyle. As the leader of the cult, it is only his due. It seems likely that if AlGore told his acolytes to drink the Kool-Aid, they would willingly do so. But the wooden man is a little smarter than Jimmy Jones was. He wants to keep living high on the hog, while proposing that everyone else make do with less. And so unlike Jimmy, he needs to keep his followers around. Jones was willing to die with his followers. AlGore doesn't see a lot of personal benefit to that. And in that, he's correct.
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Feb
27
2007
Another good bill worth fighting for - Senate Bill 5435, the bipartisan legislation requested by Attorney General Rob McKenna-R Washington State to take a look at the 300+ exemptions in the public disclosure act, passed the State Senate 48-0.
Please contact your state representatives and ask them to pass SB 5435 out of the state house! As Attorney General McKenna said last December, “The whole purpose of open government is defeated if there are too many exemptions to the Public Records Act.”
[Hat-tip: State Senator Claudia Kauffman, D-Kent]