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A wave of support for dark horse presidential candidate Ron Paul is sweeping the internet. In fact, it’s going so fast that it will be old news by the time I click “save” on this blog entry.

But, as with all things which move so fast, the sensation is more than a little misunderstood.

There are plenty of reasons to like Ron Paul. He’s the only Republican who’s against making the war in Iraq an eternal one, for instance. Even better, he’s the only candidate from either party who seems to understand the true politics of the Middle East, along with our involvement in them. (For those of you who don’t know, those are the politics of poverty, exploitation, and victimization — all seeming, to the uneducated, which the majority surely is, to come from the hands of the west.) And, while I’m sure most of the candidates understand these politics of cause and effect, Mr. Paul is the only one willing to talk about it, openly, to the American public. Read more…

44 years ago JFK was assassinated.

Every word has already been written, every detail over analyzed.   I won’t add to it today.  Today, just remember, and think about what it was like when we had real presidents who were interested in running America; who considered themselves much more than mere stewards, installed to broker deals between government and the industry of their choice.

Read this: http://www.the-tidings.com/2007/101907/difference.htm 

Click here for a newspaper clip of this article.

Within 24 hours of officially announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, support groups for comedian Stephen Colbert had sprung up on popular social networking groups like MySpace and Facebook, the latter of which grew to over one million members in less than a week — it is now one of the largest groups on the website.

News of the funnyman’s budding campaign had rocketed across the internet and blogosphere (Colbert’s established domain), and he abruptly took the next week off from doing his nightly talk show, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, to appear on various hard news programs, including Tim Russert’s “Meet The Press.”

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Never say that censorship and bureaucratic grandstanding haven’t given you anything.

It was announced today that scientists have discovered a way to turn existing cells into stem cells. And naturally, the Christian Right — the very same folks who came up with the GOP’s anti-abortion, pro-death penalty logic — have no problem playing god with cells after they become skin cells… just not before.

Stem cells, as everyone who doesn’t go to private a Christian school knows, are cells which can be turned into any other kind of cell we want. You don’t need much of an imagination to know that the potential for “programmable cells” is boundless–from building skin grafts from scratch to curing cancer.

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