Archive for December, 2007

The earliest recording of a new year celebration was in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C. and was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-March.

JIhadists Muslim radicals – including the Taliban and al Qaeda — have largely been responsible for rioting and terror attacks in Pakistan and elsewhere since former Prime Minister Bhutto’s assassination last Thursday. There is growing evidence too those radical elements assassinated her. Their goal is to destabilize Pakistan and leave open the possibility of a radical Islamic regime with nuclear weapons. Pakistan is believed to have about thirty nuclear warheads. The U. S. has spent about $100 million

He says he wants to be the change candidate, perhaps since he can’t be the mainstream candidate. The mainstream candidates seem to be those that opt out of the public finance system because they are collecting so much more in the private sector.

Words now says he will create a “tidal wave of change.”

JJ has a deeply instilled sense of justice. He is also painfully aware of how complicated that concept is, having learned that all of us view justice as we might view or feel or experience love or spirituality. Our personal experience, our knowledge base and our accumulated biases and preferences all inform us. Thus none of us and no group of us would always judge an event of injustice or attribute responsibility in the same way.

JJ like other licensed Contributing Hypster Editors has agreed to voluntarily help in the thought processes and judgment necessary to make sense of our wonderful world, which is all we have right now until someone demonstrates how to use those parallel universes. Member of Real Personas.

Is this guy mean?

Blog Flux seems to line up a diverse blogs. What do you think?

John Hawkins put together  a “more complete picture of the most popular political websites” in This List of the top 100 blogs on the web. Do you think he succeeded, or did he miss any your believe belong are in the top 100 of most popular blogs?

The Columbia Journalism Review writes a bi-monthly journal. Well worth a read by Clicking Here.

An asteroid about as big as a basketball court has a 1 in 75 chance of smacking into Mars’ equator while travelling about 8 miles a second on January 30^th. If it does it will be similar to the object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb and leave a hole the size of the famed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The NASA Mars Rover is in the neck-of-the-woods but will be out of range if the hit occurs.

How can Lenders go from SLOW (Silly Lenders Ousting Workers) to FAST (Finally A Sensible Thought)?

Lenders have in recent years helped a lot of people move into houses who can not afford them. They have also helped a lot of speculators buy properties hoping to flip them for a profit after renting them for a while. This unusual fog a mirror finance driven demand drove up prices of homes and slowed down rental rates.

Now they are kicking the occupants out

Keep up to date on what the Dems are doing to furhter their 2008 Presidential ambitions according to Ben Smith.