Six minutes to midnight refers to the time on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “doomsday clock.”
If six minutes to midnight sounds bad, consider that until just recently, it was five minutes to midnight.
The scientist give two reasons for this. One seems reasonable, the other does not.
The first has to do with efforts to reduce [...]
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It’s Now Six Minutes to Midnight.
Posted: 17th January 2010 by admin in Climate Change, Environment, Global Information, Knowledge, Media Slant, National Security, Science, UncategorizedTags: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Climate Change, death valley, deserts, doomsday clock, feedback loops, hot, ideology, nuclear proliferation, rhetoric limit climate change, tipping points
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Whether or not one agrees with his position on health care reform, Alan Grayson made a heck of a case on the floor of the House yesterday; He also played Republican games with Republicans, by pointing out a Harvard Study that supports the idea that over 40,000 Americans die each year becuase of lack of [...]
Call the Presses! A Democrat Making an Effective Sound Bite Case
Posted: 9th October 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTags: Alan Grayson, Republican
Alan Grayson:
They understand that if Barack Obama were to cure world hunger tomorrow, they would blame him for overpopulation.
They understand that if Barack Obama were to somehow bring about world peace, they would blame him for destroying the defense industry.
In fact, they understand that if Barack Obama has a BLT tomorrow for lunch, they will [...]
—The Bush Administration’s Executive Order 13423, signed Jan. 24, 2007, set energy efficiency targets, as well as tried to increase government efficiency on use of Energy. Yesterday, October 5, “President Obama signed an Executive Order (attached) today that sets sustainability goals for Federal agencies and focuses on making improvements in their environmental, energy and economic [...]
Alan Grayson:
[Democrats] bought into this storyline that there was a need for bipartisan. The Republicans never intended anything resembling bipartisanship, not on this issue, not on any other issue.
But why is it always Democrats that have to be bipartisan. While the Republican Party has shifted further and further to the right, it is always Democrats [...]
NY Times David Brooks Doing What He Does Best
Posted: 2nd October 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTags: " "John McCain, "Glenn Beck, David Brooks, debate, history, incendiary, Machiavellian, mainstream information, Merlin, Middle America, NY Times, pundit, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity
Today, David Brooks doing what he does best; and that is, miss the real story.
Brook’s aforelinked column, is a good one, in one sense. It teaches some history.
In another sense, it is atrocious.
Brooks: Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, have no power because they can not merely summon a wish, and have millions act upon their specific command.
Wow, they [...]
INSTA BS Makes a Great Point About Tea Protestors!!
Posted: 25th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedTags: " "Health Care Reform", "Far Right, cable news, capitalist, conservatives, economic summit, G20 economic summit, gG20, glenn reynolds, goverment, instapundit, james taranto, march, Media, nancy pelosi, protesters, protests, rhetoric, sound bite, tea baggers, tea parties, tea protestors, twitter, unAmerican, violence, wall street journal
And, really, quite an extraordinary point it is.
This is neither a liberal nor a conservative site (which probably means that online, where people tend to self select like mad to have their views reinforced, it won’t achieve world wide fame and mad top 5 blogs of all time status) but some of the far right conservative sites [...]
This is just embarassing.
I THOUGHT THAT OBAMA’S ELECTION WOULD MEAN THEY WOULDN’T HATE US ANYMORE: FBI arrests Jordanian citizen for attempting to bomb skyscraper in downtown Dallas. (Via JWF).
Is that supposed to be funny? Yeah, much of the world might not, because we wouldn’t be seen, rightly or wrongly, as quite as much of an [...]
What is Missing With Democrats, and Media Complicity Today
Posted: 18th September 2009 by admin in UncategorizedIf the ”Left” (whatever that is) engaged in something like this, would the staunch Right put up with it??
Not a snowball’s chance in you know where.
Here, while playing nice with the WSJ’s James Taranto, we noted what Nancy Pelosi said in regard to her somewhat foolish, politically divisive comments about “carrying swastikas.”
In response to the question “Do you [...]