Seattle’s conservative blog updates the infamous “target map.” Click the map to see it in full scale or click here to see the entry at Sound Politics. The frightening part of this is that the author is not an anonymous troll. He feels confidant enough of this sort of thing to pos[...]
Posts Tagged ‘tea party’
February 8th, 2011 - 1:47 am § in America
Fox Edits Declaration of Independence
This Sunday, during the SuperBowl, Fox took fair and balanced to a new level. In a rare display of patriotism, Fox had NFL players read the Declaration of Interdependence. What a patriotic act! Glen Beck should be proud! Of course, the Declaration was edited to remove content that might offend G[...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 2:28 pm § in Misc.
Global Warning ….Listen to It!
from Steve Haushka UW News By Sandra Hines Listen to an Ice Berg Breaking Up At 76 miles long and 17 miles wide, the iceberg would have extended from Olympia all the way to Sedro-Woolley, had it been in the Puget Sound basin. Its actual location was near Antarctica’s Cape Adare where it was speedi[...]
Climate Denial
Thanks to Jefferson and the enlightenment, the American Revolution gave us a society that bans blasphemy laws. Is this is a good thing? Scientific truth .. whether that truth is based in particle physics or historical research, is different from the religious truths of the past or the doctrinaire tr[...]
FOX attacks Al Jazeera
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Everyone of O’Reilly’s quotes show NOT that the Qatar based news channel is biased but that Al Jazeera actually reports what happens. If some crazed ex internee talks wildly about being hexed in Gitmo by Jews and witches, is that something we d[...]
February 1st, 2011 - 5:03 pm § in Schools & Colleges
What Are Students Taught About Violence?
Melissa P. Upton, M.D. At my children’s elementary school, they were required to sign “no weapons, no violence” honor code each autumn, and parents had to co-sign. No toy weapons were allowed, even with costumes, but, and addition, no object (pencil, book, bat) could be used as a[...]
Campus Threats: Not Funny Anymore
Over at the AAUP listserv, Galya Diment has a funny post about a math professor at California State University, Northridge caught on video urinating on a colleague’s door. While I assume that the post was an effort to relieve tension, I am not at all relieved by the lack of focus on our REAL[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 5:01 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Disgruntled Students Start Petition to Close Kaplan U
All they wanted was an education. All they got was debt. More and more former students at Kaplan University – the lucrative chain of “for-profit” colleges owned by the Washington Post Company – are coming forward with horror stories about the bogus classes, surprise fees and [...]
Do We Want to Be Greece?
Paul Ryan says the US could become Greece! Paul Ryan, (R, Minn) gave the Republican response to Obama last night. The Congressman is said to be the best and brightest of the new right. Perhaps so, but his speech was irrational. Rather than focusing on any strategy for economic recovery, or eve[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 5:29 pm § in Uncategorized
Standards For Scientists and for Generals!
Seymor Hirsch gave a frightening speech in Qatar Hersh claims that a large part of the US military are members of fundamentalist Christian organizations, including Opus Dei. He says that this includes generals as high as the top command and leaders of the special forces. In part this claim rests o[...]