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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Democrat Cowards cave in and fail to hold Bush to a timetable in Iraq










http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Olbermann_rails_against_Bush_Dems_for_0524.html

Boy are we screwed. It's one thing to be victimized by a political party--at least you have your party of victims, hopefully united, morally indignant, so ready to step in, when possible, to right what wrongs they-and their country-have suffered. So, after all the marches, all the grassroots action, the donations, the calls for impeachment, the t-shirts, the bumper stickers, the phone calls, the talk shows...what do we find?
We -- all of us, democrats or not, are being victimized again, this time by the democratic party.
The democrats today are going to vote to continue funding Bush's grinding, absurd, isn't-this-over-already, post-modern simulacrum, disaster of a war--with no timetable attached. I.E., they're handing him a loan which no one expects him to repay. He gets all the benefits our weakened treasury can provide; and none of the responsibilities to all of us who fill that treasury. Which appears to be the way W has lived his whole life: cash and power goes in one end, failure and death come out the other.

Over the last few years we've seen our traditional balance between the 3 branches of government gradually get swallowed up by just one of those branches-the executive. All the checks and balances that are built in our system have failed, in a relatively short time, to prevent our government from spying on us; to prevent our president starting a war based on lies; to prevent voter fraud; to prevent habeas corpus from being demolished; to prevent our government from torturing people; to prevent New Orleans from unnecessary suffering;etc;etc;etc. Our anti-virus software, if you will, has crashed, and the viruses are running wild.

At least, I thought, at least we (barely) have a second party in the US. At least that's one last check against all the abuses we've seen. And now I feel we've lost even that feeble shield.

What's really galling is that the Democrats have everything to gain from pushing Bush and his cronies hard to end the war; they have popular support, they have an electoral mandate, they rode the anti-war sentiment into office, they are up against a president who is popularly regarded as being the "worst ever" and who will be moving into his lame(est) duck period in the next year. I don't see why they are being such weasels.

I wish I had known about this spinelessness back in the fall when I spent many nights and weekends calling people around the country encouraging them to vote democratic. Next time I'm going green.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Learn how to screenprint your own t-shirts

Great Make tutorial on screenprinting and adding LEDs to a wolf t-shirt. Nice!

Maker Faire Video Preview

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

dexter

Who knew breakfast was so violent?

Sunday, May 13, 2007

preschoolers thoughts on aging


preschoolers thoughts on aging
Originally uploaded by Frauenfelder.

Konstantin Raudive: Voices of the Dead cd tray


Konstantin Raudive: Voices of the Dead cd tray
Originally uploaded by pantufla.

Konstantin Raudive: Voices of the Dead cd tray

This is the tray of a cd of recordings by Konstantin Raudive, who made some of the first recordings of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena), which are allegedly disembodied voices unintentionally captured on recording equipment. Whether these are the voices of the dead, or aural pareidolia, is up for discussion. At any rate, all recorded sounds and images are documents of dead moments in time, tantalizingly present yet fundamentally absent.

www.posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=6572

Dr. Konstantin Raudive (1906-1974). Dr. Raudive was born in Latvia and later became a student of Carl Jung. He then went on to be a psychologist who taught at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He studied parapsychology all his life, and was especially interested in the possibility of life after death). He and German parapsychologist Hans Bender investigated Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). He published a book on EVP, Breakthrough in 1971. Dr. Raudive was a scientist as well as a practising Roman Catholic.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007