EarthPortal
About a month ago I got an insight into the conservative thinking on climate change. It was a warm Halloween evening in New Hampshire. So warm that everyone was wearing only light sweaters for the neighborhood get-together. (more…)
The George W. Bush Administration has done more to discourage the basing of policy on “good science” than any Administration in American history.
Now, not only are bad policy decisions being made as a result of the Bush Administration’s non-fact based policies but people are dying because of them. (more…)
Disillusioning, political quagmire, futile
One does not think of the magazine Popular Science as a progressive or liberal news outlet. But their selection of “Congressional Science Fellow” as one of the worst science jobs possible reflects on the state of “non-fact based” politics in America today. (more…)
Steve Eddington, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashua, gave a powerful sermon on November 14 rergarding his post-election relections.
Excerpt:
“Those days may well be gone but there seems to be a 2004 version of that same sad and sorry game and tactic afoot. It goes something like this: My employment situation may be precarious, my health care benefits may be woefully inadequate, my elderly father or mother can’t afford the prescription drugs they need unless they can somehow purchase them via Canada, and my son or daughter might end up getting killed in Iraq; but by gosh and by golly at least I don’t have to live in a country where gay people can get married. That, after all, would upset the moral order of things.”
The Union Leader
Manchester, New Hampshire
Dear Editor:
According to an article in the Union Leader on November 11, some evangelists consider New Hampshire to be “part of a vast unchurched wasteland ripe for conversion.” (more…)
There are many ways to look at the outcome of the 2004 Presidential Election. Electoral College maps seem to divide the country into almost two nations: a northern coastal nation and a southern central nation.
Well, some have been very cynical in portraying the map of these results:
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John Kerry is not going out on a whimper. The man who won the second most popular votes in history for President in ‘04 has his sights on ‘08.
According to the Washington Post, “Kerry fueled talk about a 2008 bid during remarks at a Washington restaurant Saturday night. He provoked a thunderous reaction by reminding about 400 campaign aides and volunteers that Ronald Reagan twice sought the Republican nomination for president before winning it in 1980.”
Stay tuned…
According to an article in the Washington Post today, Evangelicals Say They Led Charge For the GOP.
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When you hear the term “moral values”, the word “homophobia” should pop up on your radar as the definition of this new code word to win elections in America during this early part of the 21st century.
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Maureen Dowd sums things up pretty well in her editorial today. Dowd observes that: “the blue puddle is comforting itself with the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, just as Newt Gingrich did in the 90’s.”
But as Dowd states, “with this crowd, it’s hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching.”
“ Invading France?“