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Comments about politics
For a reasonably balanced view on why Romney is a better choice (or perhaps a less bad choice) than Obama, I offer this interesting post from Scott Adams…
Interesting Day
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/interesting_day/
For me my ‘support’ of Obama (since I live …
Finally Liberated From Facts, Mitt Romney the Pure Bull Artist Takes Flight
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/finally-liberated-from-facts-mitt-romney-the-pure-bull-artist-takes-flight-20121019
The wonky types are all tied up in knots trying to understand Romney’s latest blather, but it can’t be done. This is a guy who says whatever …
Conservatives’ HPV vaccine dilemma: are they anti-cancer, or just anti-sex?
Proof that vaccinating girls against the HPV virus does not cause promiscuity puts culture warriors in a spot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/conservatives-hpv-vaccine-dilemma
I find this bit so amusing I am including it verbatim:…
The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy
Secret collusion between the two parties, funded by corporations, run by lobbyists: all the ingredients are there
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/presidential-debate-issues
I know this shouldn’t be surprising to me, but I …
U.S. officials believe Iran is behind recent cyberattacks
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/15/u-s-officials-believe-iran-is-behind-recent-cyberattacks/?hpt=hp_t3
The US continues to play the victim card and increases babble about the dangers of Iran to promote willingness amongst the sheeple for a war with Iran (I have talked about …
Various items: free speech v ‘community’, lawlessness in Libya, sprawling surveillance state
The core western political liberty is being slowly eroded by a toxic combination of the worst human attributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/14/free-speech-libya-drones
I talk about free speech from time to time …
Martha Raddatz and the faux objectivity of journalists
Establishment journalists are creatures of a highly ideological world and often cause ideology to masquerade as neutral fact.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/12/raddatz-debate-objectivity
Poor Glenn. So much dysfunction, so little time to express outrage.
This was …
For-profit inspectors allow toxic food
A Bloomberg Markets investigation shows dangers of food industry taking over from FDA
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/for_profit_inspectors_allow_toxic_food/
We don’t want no stinkin regulation! We can self-regulate no problem!
The ironic thing to me is that the ‘for profit’ …
US supreme court finalizes gift of immunity to the telecom giants
Yet again, the Congress, courts, executive branch and the establishment media work together to protect the nation’s most powerful actors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/supreme-court-telecoms-win-immunity
I haven’t droned on about our police state…
CEO emails 7,000 employees: Defeat Obama or else
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/09/news/economy/siegel-email-employees/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
One more case of biting the hand that feeds you: genius CEO David Siegel, whose company, btw, seems to have grown under our current President’s economic policies (it always flabbergasts me …