links for 2009-08-20
On 20 August 02009 with 10 comments
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More birthers believe that Obama was born in Indonesia than Kenya (where did *that* come from?), and while 6% know that he was born in Hawaii, they refuse to concede that Hawaii is part of the U.S. It's hard to know what will be tougher to explain to my future children: Sarah Palin or birthers.
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President Bush pressured Tom Ridge to raise the security alert level the night before the 2004 election, to frighten people into voting for him. My God, the more information that comes out about the Bush White House, the more I think that these people are nuts for opposing a Truth and Reconciliation Committee. The alternative looks like jail time.
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This is how far the moon is from Earth, to scale. A quarter million miles isn't quite as far as I thought.
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The CIA hired Blackwater to execute a secret assassination program, which they hid from Congress for seven years. Dick Cheney authorized the program, saying that there was no need to inform the legislature. This is basically what the fringiest leftists were accusing Bush, the CIA, and Blackwater of doing, as early as 2002. And—whaddya know?—they were right.
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Mother Jones' expose on Fiji Water, the country of Fiji, and the cognitive dissonance that's necessary to perceive the company as being eco-anything. Fiji has a nationwide problem of a lack of access to safe drinking water. But this American company is bottling their water and shipping it halfway across the world so that yuppies can buy it, propping up a repressive dictatorship while they're at it. Instead of buying Fiji water, why not just kick a puppy? It's cheaper. And local.
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