Image control is complete. The Iron Curtain has descended.
Sat Sep 17, 2005 at 05:47:11 AM PDT
Image control is complete. The photo journalists have been pacified. The Iron Curtain has descended. Now all we see are men in white plastic suits and face masks carrying off body bags. Now all the dead are only to be presented in ziplock black body bags. The person who was - is hidden from view. Our government has decided they can not be allowed to become images in our mind. The emotional impact of seeing what remains of a living human being is withheld from us.
Why High Oil Prices are Good for Bush
Thu Sep 15, 2005 at 08:00:16 AM PDT
Why High Oil Prices are Good for Bush
by Jeff Vail
Pundits on the left and right decry the "Pain at the Pump", and other catch-phrases to describe the high oil prices affecting us at present. Traditional wisdom suggests that we need to lower these oil prices in order to prevent economic slowdown, and to prevent too much money from flowing into the hands of terrorist-supporting states. While it certainly makes for good PR for the current administration to say they're doing everything they can to reduce oil prices, here's why high prices--in fact, even higher prices--are good for their agenda:
$6 Million and 6 1/2 Days to Fix the 17th Street Canal Levee OR $60 Billion and 6 Years
Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 04:45:12 PM PDT
It took about $6 Million and 6 1/2 days to fix the 17th Street Canal Levee. Isn't the payback for fixing it earlier at least 10,000%, if one just considers the estimated
$60 Billion in property claims? Shouldn't we also add $2 Million for each of the dead like we did for 9/11? If there are 10,000 dead, that would be another $20 Billion more.
On the left, a break is seen in the levee of the 17th Street Canal on Aug. 30. On the right, repairs that were made are shown from a photo taken on September 10, 2005.
Howard Dean, Intelligent Design and Einstein's Letters
Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 11:00:06 PM PDT
CBS News
FACE THE NATION
Sunday, August 14, 2005
SCHIEFFER: What is intelligent design? What do you think of that idea?
Dr. DEAN: I think it's a religious idea. (1) And actually, Einstein thought that there was some merit to it. (2) Who am I to question Albert Einstein? (3) But that is not--a religious idea is different than a scientific design. (4) The idea that--and I don't think science and religion are incompatible. (5) That's the thing that amazed me about this. You don't have to disbelieve evolution in order to be a religious person. (6) So I don't understand why these folks continue to try to have this debate. (7) But the truth of the matter is, intelligent design is a religious perception and a religious precept. (8) That's fine. (9) That should be taught wherever religion is taught, if that's the desire of those people who are religious. (10)
ID (intelligent design) Is Not Science!
Sat Aug 13, 2005 at 03:49:58 PM PDT
The primary goal of science is not the facts themselves but a new idea, principle, or model that (1) connects and explains certain scientific data and (2) leads to useful predictions about what is likely to happen in nature. Scientists working on a particular problem try to come up with a variety of possible or tentative explanations, or scientific hypotheses, of what they (or other scientists) observe in nature.
To be accepted, a scientific hypothesis must (1) explain scientific data and phenomena and (2) make predictions that can be tested by further experiments. One method scientists use to test a hypothesis is to develop a model, an approximate representation or simulation of a system being studied.
If repeated experiments or tests using models support a particular hypothesis or a group of related hypothesis, it becomes a scientific theory. In other words, a scientific theory is a verified, highly reliable, and widely accepted scientific hypothesis or a related group of scientific hypothesis.
