"The Stone-Age Did Not End For The Lack Of Stones"

Sometimes someone says something so tightly wrapped, so direct, but yet somehow enigmatic…it sticks in your mind.

DHS looking into Bush library corruption charges

WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) — Homeland Security (OTCBB:HSCC) officials are looking into allegations that a member of the department’s advisory council offered to arrange meetings with senior administration officials in exchange for a large donation to the Bush presidential library.

Stephen Payne, a major GOP fundraiser and international affairs lobbyist, also touted his success in getting an Uzbek opposition leader removed from the U.S. terrorist watch list and issued a U.S. visa…

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Study: Global warming may spark more kidney stones

Houston Cronicle
July 14, 2008, 4:54PM

Dallas scientists find the risk may rise by at least 30% if the climate change indeed occurs
By ERIC BERGER

The next time you feel a sharp, cramping pain in your lower abdomen, spare a thought for your personal carbon footprint. That’s the message from Dallas scientists who predict that as the planet warms during the coming century people will sweat more, not drink enough water to compensate, and therefore develop more kidney stones…more

Let me guess, Government causes global warming by subsidizing ethanol, Antarctica melts, I get a stomach cramp so I sue the Government for surgery! That’s crazy! Will the Medicare buy it? After all, Acts of God aren’t covered, how about Acts of Congress?

I’m going to check the fine print in my policy….

Leaders, Liars and the Need to Know

You may be interested in this breaking news;

AP Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq By BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER July 6, 2008 “The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans…more“

If the dead could speak, what would this man say? ( click on image for larger view )

Image at Wikimedia Commons ( public domain )

As the Bush Administration comes to a close, I expect many such news releases. Mark Twain was a radical in his own day, with little formal education and few ties to the Establishment. That allowed him to speak freely about the world he lived in;

‘Politicians are liars and thieves, which makes them eminently qualified to represent their constituents.’

While we ponder our ‘need to know’, we should ask ourselves if the actual truth about nuclear energy should be taught anywhere, by anyone. Someone is in charge of the science, and they determine who has the ‘clearance’ to study real science on the issue. Even if a science student thinks he needs to know how to make a bomb, it is very doubtful that any of his teachers have the ‘clearance’ to actually teach him.

Just how much does the average man ‘need to know’ to cast an informed vote?

America doesn’t seem to be getting much news about the war in Iraq lately, at least not in the Main Stream Press. Most of what we learned about the war in Iraq was from reporters ‘embed’ with Coalition troops, and from Retired Generals that sat as “message force multipliers” on news broadcasts.

I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for apologies from pundits that condemned the Bush Administration decision to go to war. Perhaps they don’t think we ‘need to hear’ that.

The Thin Edge, of the Wedge.

Last spring I began to read blogs from behind the wall of censorship that covered the face of Armenia. Unzipped was one of the few that formed a thin edge of a wedge that split that wall.

As the Armenian post-election saga developed, I was forced to learn new skills to keep up with history. And, I discovered new tools that have greatly influenced my own blogging efforts. I’m also learning ( daily ) about people I would never had known existed ( that’s the best part of the inter-net, meeting people ).

When I read Azerbaijan: Blogs, BarCamps & Social Networks on the Oneworld Mutimedia Blog I began to search for better tools to share what I was reading. The more I searched, the more I found at Google. I wonder if Blogspot and Google are available in Georgia? I’m sure it is in Armenia.

My Google rss reader provided the means to share all the feeds I’ve been enjoying, and several gadgets that add much to this page ( I really like the custom rss gadgets on my left rail, you can build your own, just click on ‘gadgets’ at the bottom of the reader. )

‘Blogworld‘ is the tag I use share posts from different sources, about a movement in countries that are learning, and building their blogging skills. Take a look at the face of the future, the youth of today…

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