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:: Friday, November 11, 2005 ::

Bush rapping

:: Jim Nichols 11/11/2005 04:59:00 PM [+] ::
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CHILDREN OF BIPOLAR PARENTS SCORE HIGHER ON CREATIVITY TEST, STANFORD STUDY FINDS

:: Jim Nichols 11/11/2005 12:38:00 AM [+] ::
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Bill O'Reilly thinks San Fran can go up in smoke for all he cares

:: Jim Nichols 11/10/2005 08:47:00 PM [+] ::
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity!"
-- Edgar Allan Poe

:: Jim Nichols 11/09/2005 12:09:00 AM [+] ::
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BUSH'S WAR ON PEOPLE OF FAITH..

:: Jim Nichols 11/08/2005 11:15:00 PM [+] ::
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I am watching the Frontline on abortion called The Last Abortion Clinic. Its a travesty. I really don't have words to explain it. Woman in rural poor america are given no choice. Roe means nothing and does nothing for these women.

update: here is NARAL's website. Give some money if you can.

:: Jim Nichols 11/08/2005 10:34:00 PM [+] ::
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Epitaph has a new website

:: Jim Nichols 11/08/2005 10:19:00 PM [+] ::
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Good post on the riots in France

:: Jim Nichols 11/08/2005 09:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Europe risks economic damage from Kyoto: study

Europe's push to meet pollution targets agreed under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change could dent its economies and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs by 2010, according to research published on Monday

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 06:15:00 PM [+] ::
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Norman Solomon was arrested during a visit by Prince Charles

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 05:42:00 PM [+] ::
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Oh this is too good for words.

Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning

The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election.

Steve Clemons over at The Washington Note has some questions to ask the IRS

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 05:32:00 PM [+] ::
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My misogyny is probably showing in this post but nevertheless this should happen more often.

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 05:06:00 PM [+] ::
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A post on one of my favorite political positions

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 05:04:00 PM [+] ::
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Good post at TPM Cafe about the torture/CIA issue

Perhaps now we can begin to understand how Adolf Hitler could rally German Christians to do the unthinkable to Jews and Gypsyies in concentration camps. If you convince people that they are at risk unless they move to destroy those who represent a perceived threat, regardless of the methods and means, then you are on your way to atrocities.

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 04:49:00 PM [+] ::
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Why vote? an article on economists views about voting. My question is always did you give money? Voting doesn't matter; money does.

:: Jim Nichols 11/07/2005 04:42:00 PM [+] ::
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How i'm voting next Tuesday

Prop 73 --> No
Prop 74 --> No
Prop 75 --> No
Prop 76 --> No
Prop 77 --> Yes
Prop 78 --> No
Prop 79 --> Yes
Prop 80 --> No

:: Jim Nichols 11/06/2005 06:15:00 PM [+] ::
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The best post i've seen so far in regards to the Supreme Court and Judge Alito.

It hits on what makes a good justice:

In my judgment, the primary responsibility of the Supreme Court is to protect the relatively powerless in our society against the inherent dangers of the democratic process and to protect the process itself against the most powerful elements in our society when they attempt to manipulate the system for their own partisan or personal advantage.

And whether or not a senator should vote for or against Alito:

In most circumstances, if the president nominates a qualified individual with “mainstream” views, it is reasonable for senators to give the president the benefit of the doubt to enable the process to run smoothly. But if a senator strongly disagrees with the perspective and philosophy of the nominee, the president has had multiple nominees and has consistently nominated justices with a distinctive point of view, and the senator is genuinely concerned about how a succession of such nominees will affect the Court as an institution, then it is perfectly appropriate and consistent with historical practice for the senator to oppose confirmation.

:: Jim Nichols 11/06/2005 12:30:00 AM [+] ::
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This seemed to me to be the most important point in the FTAA talks

A Free Trade Area of the Americas would be larger than the European Union, though without its free flow of labor and political integration. Benefits for the United States as the dominant economic power in the hemisphere are obvious: with no more tariffs and other barriers that inhibit entry of American goods and services, American exports to the region would boom.

Its not true free market principles until there is free flow of labor. Which is something we ain't going to be seeing for a real long time. But thats the kind of free market fundamentalism that I'd like to see more of.

:: Jim Nichols 11/06/2005 12:06:00 AM [+] ::
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