Resolved: Communism is closer to Biblical economic principles than Capitalism. Discuss.
Archive for October 28th, 2005
Random Weekend Flame Bait
Posted in Economics, Flame Bait, Religion on October 28, 2005 | Comments Off
Oh, That Liberal Media
Posted in Media, Politics on October 28, 2005 | Comments Off
Via Atrios, more examples of that dreaded liberal media in action. First, MSNBC called Obermann on the carpet for having two liberal guests out of nine over a three day period: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann recently revealed that network bosses were upset when he had two liberal guests too close together on his show in [...]
A Question for Pro-War Conservatives
Posted in Flame Bait, Politics on October 28, 2005 | 17 Comments »
The other night I was watching a special I had TiVoed that focused on two days during the Viet Nam war; one day, two US companies got slaughtered, the other, an anti-war sit-in on a university campus in the US turned violent. A couple of things struck me. The first was that the two police [...]
Shocking "Star Trek" Revelation
Posted in Church & State, Culture, General, Legal Issues, Politics, Privacy, Religion on October 28, 2005 | 5 Comments »
LOS ANGELES – George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community. . . . Takei joined the “Star Trek” cast in 1966 as [...]
I think we need to see what is in these papers: Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence [...]
Harriet Miers Gone
Posted in Church & State, Legal Issues, Politics, Privacy, Religion on October 28, 2005 | Comments Off
So Miers “withdrew” her name from consideration. Just a few thoughts: Bush must be incredibly weak. He never, ever backs down and never, ever admits an error. To not be able to push through his chosen Justice has to be hard to swallow The extremists who think the government should be able to regulate our [...]