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OK science geeks, start your political engines! If you can handle differential equations or molecular biology, you have the problem solving skill set this nation desperately needs after eight years of willfully ignorant mob rule. Scientists and Engineers for America are eager to help with the rest:
SEA is holding a workshop to train scientists to run for office on May 10th at Georgetown University. If you are a scientist or engineer and have been considering running for office or working on an election campaign, then join us for a crash course on how it’s done. ... read the rest w/video
The entire state of Florida may be on the verge of falling for the Dover Trap thanks to creationist sympathizers in office. Woe to we taxpayers in the Sunshine State who will get stuck with massive legal bills. Oh, and while you're visiting my good friend Ed Brayton, show your support for this post where he threw an Obama/racist out of his house.
Those silver-tongued global warming hoaxsters have conned a sheet of Antarctic ice the size of Ireland into going along with their climate change scam. Seriously, do conservatives ever get tired of being laughably wrong, or do they get some kind of sick masochistic kick out of it?
Here's one for you sociologists out there to debate: Nothing says "I love you" to Iraq's most underprivileged poor like bombs and a Hellfire Missile fired into their modest homes, right?
The White House sure does have either terrible luck or suffer utter incompetence when it comes to the science of information storage. And these clowns are managing the most sophisticated electronic gizmos for collecting, archiving, and analyzing databases full of the world's deadliest terrorists? Oh yeah, I feel safer.
Tomorrow, March 29, around the planet, millions of people will shut non-essential electrical power off for one hour, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., local time. The Earth Hour originated with the World Wildlife Fund.
The event started last year in Sydney, Australia, and boasted more than 2 million participants who cut the city's overall electrical usage during that hour by as much as 10%. As of yesterday, nearly 12,000 businesses worldwide had signed up to participate in this year's event. Some 100 cities throughout North America have joined.
Earth Hour has been pooh-poohed by some as a lame, symbolic act in the face of a gargantuan problem. But often much of the criticism about a baby-step like this one comes from people who sit on their butts rather take the big steps they say are needed.
The biggest step, of course, is weaning ourselves off the fossil-fuel teat, something most individuals can only have a modest impact on in their own lives. But all of us can collectively pressure our governments - city, county, state, federal - to take bold action. Since Ronald Reagan gutted the best parts of Jimmy Carter's energy plan in 1981, not more than a handful of federal officials (or candidates for high office) have been willing even to discuss seriously the initiatives so desperately needed. Indeed, quite a number have engaged in three decades of foot-dragging and spouting bogus science. But we're starting to see some attitudinal changes among previously recalcitrant politicians.
Symbolism obviously has its limits, but events like Earth Hour can have a positive impact. We too often underrate the benefits and spin-offs of such political theater. So, tomorrow, please join me and millions of others who will be switching off our power at 8 p.m.
This evening's Rescue Rangers are ybruti, Painty Kat, srkp23 (pulling double duty), dadanation, Wes Opinion, and joyful, with shayera as editor.
Avenging Angel's well-written and well-sourced diary NYT's Lichtblau Details White House Effort to Block NSA Story is a must-read, detailing just some of the lengths the Bush Administration has gone to keep the truth of the NSA spying from the American public. (dadanation)
RiderOnTheStorm shows us that in the never ending quest to protect the American people from the threat of terrorism the DHS is willing to go that extra mile and become an even bigger threat in DHS wants new torture technology. (Wes Opinion)
rmelcher discusses his/her perceptions of the realities involved in the 2008 Presidential cycle through November in Reality Intrudes. (PaintyKat)
In a beautifully written second diary, Leigh3352 describes a fulfilling career working with the developmentally disabled. Stop Not Looking also encourages you to give time to these deserving people. (ybruti)
dhonig offers a unique perspective into the state of the globe's financial state through the lens of a wine glass (honestly) in Wine - What it tells us about the world. (dadanation)
chuckwh presents a fascinating fictional presentation of the Gore Years after September 11, 2001 in Iraq During the Gore Years. (PaintyKat)
Killer of Sacred Cows reviews, recommends, and riffs off Eric Alterman's new book and draws an interesting and useful distinction between easy and simple answers, in Liberalism: Reclaiming the Right to Think. (srkp23)
This should have been in the news a month ago! It is relevant since she brought it up!
This seemed pretty odd to me, so I looked at the article:
When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
But as the former Clinton pastor was sentenced Friday to three years in prison...
Wait...where is there a first name associated with that? So I went to Google, and confirmed my suspicion: the article was about a pastor from a town named Clinton, in this case, the town of Clinton, New York.
How many idiotic rumors get started this way?
