People who are as angry and fed up with the Republican culture of corruption-and-denial can do something: attend a Watch Party in your area, take notes, and hold the administration’s feet to the fire — let everyone know when their deeds don’t match their pretty, lying words. Go to and click on the “Watch Party” link on the right.

I’m new-old.

I’ve likely lurked here a bit, but I can’t be certain, having finally gotten my short-term memory to malfunction to the point of losing some of the long-term… (^_^)`

If I’ve made comment, though, it was likely with a different handle – this one’s a one-off.

I’m just spreadin’ some of “teh (idiot) f00l, Naz-rude’n’s wisdumb®.” (aka: sh’t.disturbin’ ‘(-_^))

–btw: sry for the “sales pitches” on the Emoto site I linked. (I googled, chose and posted, and didn’t actually read it ’til post post.

re: home:
Yeah. If you drink from the tap, SF’s water will get’cha. It calls you back, even if you’re sick of the folks AND the Price-of-Living…

& yes, even in SF I’m considered a freak.

I’m just a stupid genuis; I’m unique, just like everyone else.

(my answer: No. The glass isn’t half-full or half-empty. It’s half-full and half-empty.)

(OT) 101st post in thread!!1!

No problem to being off-topic when they get this far back. I mean, we are social animals, after all… As much as most want to regulate, deny, punish and tax that… I personally think we would be better off if we could accept human behavior to begin with.

Awesome – thanks for the link! I’ll remind Gordo to come back here and check it out. He should really like it, I think.

I agree with you about the infinity of knowledge… and the ability to drive yourself insane in pursuit of it. I think most of us occasionally near that brink. It’s what motivates us (intelligent progressives)… “to understand”. Something evolution gave us (awareness) out of context (establishing further proof to me that there is no intelligent design). As someone here said recently – evolution will try anything once. At some point though, we all have to make certain assumptions based on the information available and live with it. Otherwise, you probably wind up like Nietzsche…

Just something about San Francisco… besides the beauty and the weather… Personally, I had and have a love-hate relationship with it. Hard to explain.

Haven’t seen you before – so welcome (if you’re new)!

…on the energy of water and its reactions to human emotion. I forget the author…
-unbelievable

Masaru Emoto

sorry to reply off topic… twice – it’s just so much more fun than the ‘Elephants in the Livingroom’

But, I do believe that there is a logical, scientific explanation for everything – even if we haven’t defined it yet.
-unbelievable

This is true.

The proofs contain numbers like phi, pi, i and e, and seem to prove the universe is vibrating harmonics of self-similarity, strange attractors, light, and consciousness…

Science, especially Physics, has given us a rational, logical explanation: It’s an irrational, illogical universe. ^_^

…and we’re all of us part of the isness.

Science isn’t even a thing: it’s a method of inquiry, and not only has it postulated that we can never really know everything, but has found the proof.

It’s almost enough to drive one outsane.

(idea – if we could get large groups of people to go to these liars’ speeches and SOTU addresses and just laugh hysterically at all of the bu-sh- coming out of their faces, we would win. I mean – we can’t out nasty the lizard-men in DC, but they really do fear the mocking laughter of their irrelevance…)

I’m in San Francisco right now.

The official reports by NIST, FEMA and the 9-11 Commission strikingly omit mention of large quantities of molten metal observed in the basement areas of WTC 7 and the Towers. The fact that the official reports do not adequately address the issue of molten metal found at the sites provides compelling motivation for continued research on the WTC collapses. Thermite!!!!

Controlled demolition:
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html

1. Filibuster Alito
2. Stage a walk out during the State of the Union
3. Impeach and inprison baby Bush

Controlled demolition of our country brought to by King George, playing the role of religious cult leader, defender of millionairs.

Comment by big papa — January 25, 2006 @ 1:09 pm

Yes, I keep forgetting his skin color…. And that others still notice.

Comment by Jay Randal — January 25, 2006 @ 1:11 am

As word of mouth is the best form of advertizing there is – we should talk this up. A lot. This is the kind of spirit we need for 2008. And if we start now, we can build some momentum. Perhaps we should even suggest this to the Dems not interested in the job. Just get the mantra going now…

Gore/Obama 2008
Gore/Obama 2008
Gore/Obama 2008
Gore/Obama 2008
Gore/Obama 2008

Comment by Sharon Cox — January 25, 2006 @ 12:09 am

Another coincidence. Was raised Catholic – and though now completely non-spiritual, share more of a respect for earth energy with you than any of the organized religions on the planet. Prefer most animals to most people. Am vegan and do what I can to ‘leave no foot prints’. Would love to hear more about your beliefs.

I always imagine I’ll wind up in Washington State eventually… :)

Comment by G. Gordon Giddy — January 24, 2006 @ 11:47 pm

I have heard of this… Did you see ‘What the Bleep Do we Know’? They spoke of it in that movie as well… Which you might enjoy.

Mystery is an interesting thing. And I think it’s nice that we don’t know everything. But, I do believe that there is a logical, scientific explanation for everything – even if we haven’t defined it yet. There is considerable proof of science. And that is what I believe in (why I teach it :). Perhaps you could call Science my religion…. :)

There is another study you might like ( i have a friend like you who considers the energy in the universe ‘God’). It’s on the energy of water and its reactions to human emotion. I forget the author – but he is Japanese… Will try to find it for you.

I won’t tell you how old I was then, but let’s just say… I don’t remember it… :) But those were the good old days. It’s changed. Corporate America has eroded the hippiness over the city, and I left because I was going into debt living there on $65K…

I’ve told you before, atheism, which I have an affinity for, is not to be confused with the certainty that there isn’t something more, which is why I call myself an agnostic, or a gnostic, depending on my mood.

I still believe that the ’something more’ people tend to apply to supernatural or higher sources is actual human based (love, kindness, intuition, etc.) I think everything we need can be found here in our world. Perhaps it’s the science geek in me that just does not think there is one iota of evidence that there is “anything more” in a traditional sense. I just think we have been cultural indoctrinated to assume it comes from exterior sources… There’s a wonderful book – Natural Atheism by David Eller that you might wanna check out if you come across it. One of the most logical and yet human explanations of Atheism I’ve ever read.

…or the ability to say “I don’t know”…

In that reagrd, everyone is Agnoctic. No one knows how we got here. I just see zero proof for anything beyond plasmic forces and evolution… hence a-theism… no belief in god(s).

Maybe you need to look into some of the Christian mystics, like Thomas Merton. Many years ago, before I gave up thinking about it, I was a practicing Sufi. I just read Dervish tales from time to time now. Those of the idiot Mullah Nasrudin being my favorite, and some Zen.

Prior to Christianity, I studied and practiced Zen Buddhism for a while. But it became for philospohical for me in the sense of harmony with nature and self-worth. I find most religions unappealing, and really don’t feel I need them any longer. I find my own sense of happiness from within myself. I don’t need or want a mystic source for it.

No point in being certain about anything but death and taxes… and Karma. Or as we call it here on the street, payback.

Comment by G. Gordon Giddy — January 24, 2006 @ 11:22 pm

I’m okay with my certainty that this life is it. Makes me respect it more. I’ve traveled more in my life than populations of some small towns combined… I try just about anything once (as long as it has a positive intention), and as a result have had a very full life even though I’m less than half way through it (barring any calamities). I know that it’s not comfortable for everyone, but it does work for me. I like knowing that this is it. I don’t want eternity or next. I just don’t. But thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. It’s always interesting to hear about other people’s perspectives and experiences.

Comment by TerrytheTurtle — January 24, 2006 @ 11:18 pm

Uh, yeah… bit of a nuisance that getting up for work can be :) I actually have to watch the reruns the next day at 8:00 p.m. because I can’t stay up that late… But I’m glad they play them during prime time on a channel everyone likes (well, everyone cool :).

How about the commode?

Oh, maybe you mean where can you find a current poll. Try here.

There’s no more effective way to puncture the fake bubble of manufactured “mission accomplishments” than to show the hollowness of Bush’s own words. He looks like nothing more than a con-artist TV psychic forced to eat his own last year’s predictions. Outstanding job.

Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid, delivered a tough speech yesterday, urging President Bush to “come clean” in his State of the Union speech next week. The speech was prefaced by a video showing clips from past Presidential speeches compared to mo…