Read this article and tell me why Muslims the world over shouldn’t be stoned.

But then so should Christians. And other monotheists who try to push their religion and religious views on others.

This is a point by point confirmation of the conspiracy theories attendant to the Bush Administration. Makes all sorts of reference but the main players are Wolfowitz, Cheney and PNAC.

Part I

Part II

A long read, with many, many hyperlinks to other supporting articles. But my favorite is this because even though the articles in The Onion are usually fictional, sometimes they nail it dead on. Truth is definitely stranger than fiction:

In 2001, the Onion ran a satirical inauguration speech, wherein Bush promised to run up the deficit, tear down the wall between church and state, and “engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.” Truth is often stranger than satire, however, and it was later discovered that well before Bush’s selection as president, plans for war in Iraq had been drawn up and were waiting in the wings. “For nearly a decade a group of people exiled from power during the Clinton years had been making plans,” Ed Vulliamy wrote, referring to the cast of characters tied to the Project for a New American Century, whose memos and documents signaled a hunger for battle and foretold a future of wars on multiple fronts. (And possibly even a reinstatement of the draft.)

Seems the Bush Administration is still trying to kill science. After all, Christian Funamentalists would have a coniption if we found other worlds capable of supporting life. What happens to their God then?

The two points that support my argument are these:

• Delayed indefinitely – the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), a mission to detect and study Earth-like planets

• Delayed by about three years – the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), designed to map stars with unprecedented accuracy and search for planets slightly larger than Earth will now launch no earlier than 2015

I do hope that there is still work going on with regard to propulsion. We need to get as close to the speed of light as possible. My greatest disappointment is that we will only get to about 5% the speed of light in my lifetime.

But NASA is still funding it’s FTL group.

HIV/AIDS has destroyed many lives. Maybe a cure is within reach this time. Seems some scientists have discovered a compound that stops the virus cold.

What I find more interesting is that this compound also kills herpes. So in essence, should this actually work in human trials you’ll probably see the 2nd sexual revolution.

I knew it would only be a matter of time. Granted it took too long and I lost too many friends to AIDS but at least it looks like a light at the end of the tunnel.

This is beyond despicable. Someone tell me, does a staff puke have the same protection that a President does? Because if not, I wish someone would meet up with Rove in a dark alley.

The Bush Administration KNOWS it did wrong in ordering the NSA wire taps. Now it’s trying to stack the deck. Of course the carrot being offered is that Bush will give money and do photo ops for the ’06 election campaigns.

Were I a Republican I’d find Bush a liability and not an asset.

Here is a guy that was once part of the Reagan administration. Even he sees the evil in this administration and in the Republican party.

Read the article at CounterPunch

This is an interesting read. Apparently Iran has been busy upgrading their MiG 29’s. Hmm, and where exactly did they get those MiG’s. More to the point, where did they get the uranium processing gear. Russia perhaps?

But then one could ask, where did Israel get F-15’s and F-16’s, or its nuclear weapons.

Newseek Article

Sam Harris, author of “The Atheist Manifesto” has written a piece on TruthDig refuting critics who posit that morality has it’s foundation in religion. It doesn’t.

As someone who took a short path to atheism I can appreciate people who put it out there for the world to see. Unfortunately I haven’t managed to completely shuck the whole religious thing as yet, it’ll be many years before automatic responses are caught and corrected. But my belief in an unseen, unproven boogeyman is over.

That being said I find Kissing Hanks Ass and the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be as valid as the mainstream monotheistic churches.

NOTE – An exploration of fellow Minister James Huger’s site is prerequisite for reading this blog.

You have to watch this since Colbert mocks Republicans so well.

I sincerely hope all of this translates to a Democratic win in 2006.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) was asked what he though about the President. “Well,” he said, “I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.”

Priceless!