According to the Washington Post, two in three Americans disagree with the 21,500 troop surge, and 53% say we need to set a deadline for withdrawing US forces from Iraq. In addition, 67% said they disapproved with the handling of the war, and 64% said that the war in Iraq was not worth fighting. Bush’s approval rating stayed constant in the mid 30s.
With the Senate now turning back the clock in an attempt take away the power given to Bush and the executive branch back in 2002 in order to go to war, and a non-binding resolution opposing the troop surge recently passed by the House of Representatives, things are looking good. People seem to have confidence in the Democratic party, and are slowly starting to realize the corruption and incompetence rampant in the Bush administration. We may have a ways to go before impeachment, but it’s certainly a big improvement.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-27 | Filed under: Current events, Opinion | 3 responses
As Kotaku reports, Ethur, a radical Christian ministry in California, launched a smear campaign aimed at Nintendo’s new gaming console through it’s anti-pornography website The Porn Talk. The headline is “The Wii’s Dirty Little Secret.” Apparently this “dirty secret” is that it’s wifi enabled and can surf the Internet.
A more interesting secret, however, is The Porn Talk’s backing. They go pretty far out of their way to hide their ties to Ethur. Even when they do mention it in the “about us” section it’s only refered to as “non-profit organization called Ethur that exists to launch culturally relevant initiatives,” with no mention of it’s religious affiliation. They have a bigger “dirty little secret” than the Wii does.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-27 | Filed under: Current events, Tech and games | 6 responses
Yup, it’s a real bill.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of an internet domain name to a terrorist group when he or she knowingly sells or provides without charge an internet domain name to any organization included on the list of organizations engaged in terrorist activities or who pose a terrorist threat compiled, maintained and updated by the state office of homeland security pursuant to paragraph (t) of subdivision two of section seven hundred nine of the executive law. Criminal sale of an internet domain name to a terrorist group is a class A misdemeanor.
Do they seriously think this will do anything? Besides, what kind of terrorist buys a domain under his or her own name?
The number of ridiculous things being done in the name of stopping terrorism is still increasing.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-24 | Filed under: Current events, Other | 8 responses
Yup. Read that title a few times before you read on to let it sink in.
This has been all over the place, especially Fox News, and it’s completely ridiculous. First and foremost, he isn’t Muslim. While living in Indonesia, he once attended a school that was mostly Muslim for a few years, in addition to attending a Catholic school for a few years, but it’s not like it was a religious choice; it was his mother’s decision, based on what she thought would get him the best education. He’s obviously Christian. But the worst part of the whole thing is that the right wing media is using this as an attack, that they think if they convince the American people he’s Muslim then he’ll be hated. And, for a good part of the population, they sadly might be right.
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Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-20 | Filed under: Current events, Opinion | 10 responses
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Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-19 | Filed under: Atheism, Noteworthy | 70 responses
I first saw this when it was released for free on the Internet, and it really had an impact on me. I’m posting this here because it’s just as relevant now as it was then, maybe even more so.
Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today’s nightmare vision of a secret, organized evil that threatens the world. A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful.
Episode 1 (Baby It’s Cold Outside):
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Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-17 | Filed under: Current events, Videos | 9 responses
Egyptian bloggers recently exposed police in Giza torturing bus driver Emad Mohamed Ali Mohamed by publishing a video of it online. The police released the bus driver with no charge 36 hours after the video was taken.
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Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-02-08 | Filed under: Current events, News, Other, Tech and games | 19 responses
