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• • 24 Apr 08
  • 9:36 pm

  Here is the url for an ABC News webpage containing the transcript of the original sermons. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4719157&page=1

  Posted to Bill Moyers Interviews Rev. Jeremiah Wright

• • 24 Apr 08
  • 10:20 pm

  "Many are starting to see the Internet as the best place to get more well-rounded coverage." Well yes, 'well-rounded' in the sense that there are many more points of view to access. I generally go to Google's news page, mainly because of the variety available. But there's a lot of nonsense on the internet too, and you have to have a very discerning eye and a critical turn of mind to have a hope in hell of not being just as much misled or partially informed we risk from only going to 24-hr cable news or the local TV station. And, …

  Posted to News You Can Lose

• • 24 Apr 08
  • 11:05 pm

  One thing I'd like to do is to push Hillary and Barack and John into a corner and get straight from their mouths what exactly they plan to do about that horrorshow law, that truncator of constitutional protections, that ocean of fascistic possibilities, known far and wide as the USA PATRIOT Act. A newspeak-named assault on the whole idea of rights, I say. I've been in hate with the mf'n thing from the second I heard of it. I doubt if any one of them would give me anything but a canned, suck-up answer. I'd love to be proven wrong. First …

  Posted to Political Vice Squad

• • 29 Apr 08
  • 9:24 pm

  Wow Joel, your article was only on the front e-page for a day or so, got archived almost immediately while older articles stayed up front. Almost as if my perfectly correct and entirely legal expression of political opinion DQ'd it. Sorry about that. Well, sorry the editorial decision went the way it did, especially since your article helps point up the questionability of the law and how it gets used. Not sorry at all about my take on the USA PATRIOT Act. Here are 3 links to the parts of a documentary you all may find interesting, entitled "Unconstitutional: The War …

  Posted to Political Vice Squad

• • 16 Apr 08
  • 1:21 am

  Here in the Philippines, where rice is not only the staple food but also an aspect of Filipino cultural identity, food prices for basics have nearly doubled within the past year. Some have gone beyond doubling. Lots of poor local people can't switch out to another calorie source because there simply isn't an equivalent that's consistently affordable. Noodles is the next option, but wheat prices have driven up those prices as well. Also, the Phils has an inordinately large population relative to its land area (~88M, and growing at a rate of between 2 and 3% annually... at that sustained growth …

  Posted to As Hunger Rises, Chew on This