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January 2006 Thoughts

Nothing lasts forever, but January 2006 will go down in history as a month in which the majority of Americans finally gave up on believing the President.

Proof: the day after his State of the Union address, the White House retracted the single most remarkable statement: that we as a nation are addicted to oil and would cut our imports from the Middle East.

There was scant outcry. The White House says something, then takes it back, we're all used to it. Nobody believe George.

  • Remember the Alito!
    Samuel "Big Government Is Always Right" Alito is on the Supreme Court for life, but at least half the Democrats in the Senate chose at last to stand and fight for the people by opposing cloture. They lost that round (...after all, the Alamo did fall) , but the fact that they stood by principal and fought is cause for celebration. Maybe next time, those fainter of heart will have learned: when you stand on principal, you don't have to crawl! - 1/30+31/06

     

  • American LysenkoismDr. Trofim Lysenko
    Communist officials in the Soviet Union forced scientists  to follow official ideology. The ideal scientist was Dr. Lysenko, who fabricated test results supporting Communist ideology. Here's his story.

    Bush Administration officials seems to like Lysenko's methods. They fabricated non-science news, either by paying reporters outright such as Armstrong Williams, or feeding phony information to the credulous and the ambitious, such as Judy Miller.

    And now we know the Bush Administration to the next step in Lysenkoism: gagging scientists who deviate from the Party Line.  Dr. JamesDr. J. E. Hansen E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, with a distinguished record of scientific publications, has been ordered to get his lectures on Global Climate Change approved by political apparatchiks in the public affairs office. He has refused: see NYTimes article.  You can evade the censors by reading some of his remarks here.

    Global climate change threatens the future of our nation and our world. Lysenkoism didn't work in the Soviet Union, so why is the Bush Administration trying it here?  -1/29/06

     

  • Filibustering Alito
    The only statement on record that Alito has made regarding a woman's right to privacy is that she doesn't have one!

    Read that again. It would be bad enough if Alito were silent on privacy or women's rights, but he's gone further: he says you don't have them.
     
    There are hundreds of judges with as much experience as Alito, and most of them will concede the obvious: the right to privacy is one of those rights so obvious to the Founders that they would laugh Alito's vision of intrusive government all the way back to the court of mad King George III, where it belongs.

    "Using the filibuster to delay or block legislative action has a long history." says the official Senate web site. There is no reason not to use it here. Sign the filibuster petition and tell your Senator to have the guts to filibuster as long as needed (...unless you, like Alito, are an America-hating Tory.) - 1/28/06
     
  • Against Housefires and For the Firemen
    Saying that you're for the troops and against the war is like saying you're for the firemen and against housefire; for doctors and against disease; for cops and against crime.   -1/27/6
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
    If you want a beautiful website, that works as well on a cellphone as on a regular computer, stop formatting your website with tables, and use Cascading Style Sheets. The official W3C definition is  here; a great book about CSS is here.
    My site (rewinn.com) is very simply formatted, but CSS will support as much fancy-schmancy stuff as you like. For many example, see the  CSS Zen Garden site for dozens of gloriously designed web pages! -1/26/06

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