Yahoo! News - Official Suggests a U.S.-Iraq Duel

Now this is a GREAT idea.

"A president against a president and vice president against a vice president and a duel takes place, if they are serious, and in this way we are saving the American and the Iraqi people," Ramadan told the Associated Press Television Network."

The Memory Hole > Excerpts From "War Against War!"

"In 1924, the German anarchist and pacifist Ernst Friedrich published one of the great anti-war classics, War Against War!. Outraged by the slaughter of the Great War (now known as World War I), Friedrich gathered pictures of battlefield butchery and mutilated soldiers. Juxtaposed with propagandistic pictures of military "glory" and labeled with ironic, sarcastic captions, these photographs showed, and continue to show, the reality of war in all its sickening horror."

George Bush military records

"George Bush has lost a year of his youth and needs your help to find it. Between May 1972 and October 1974 George W. Bush seems to have lost:

1) A year of his service in the Air National Guard (ANG)
2) His eligibility to fly F-102 jet fighters (See photocopy, footnote 1)
3) The directions to his military doctor's office
4) The means to travel to his punishment detail (2) to which he apparently never reported, although he claims to have served the final months of his enlistment there.

Lots of people didn't see George Bush, including retired General William Turnipseed (3) to whom young 1st Lt. Bush was ordered to report, and the commanders of the Texas Air National Guard Unit (4) in which he was supposedly serving. You can imagine how disturbing this must be to our unelected Commander-in-Chief — to have so thoroughly lost a year of his own military service (5) when he plans to ask young Americans to stick to the terms of their military enlistments so he can send them to Iraq."

AlterNet: Building Economic Democracy

"Enron fooled us. But that's not the real lesson here. The lesson is that all the things CSR [corporate social responsibility] has been measuring and fighting for and applauding may be colossally beside the point, because they fail to tell us what's really going on inside companies. What's going on is a single thing: unremitting pressure to get the numbers, by any means possible."

Linguists Decipher Warning Message in Genome

"Exploiting evolved, mathematical models derived from iterative analyses of network-available audio, video and text files in more than 200 languages, the team scanned files in the Human Genome Library for patterns consistent with the presence of a "semantic system."..."We we're stunned to find that the genome contains sequences consistent with an implied linguistic system."

WorldNetDaily: How do you know the Bible is true?

"Asked whether they believed that the Old and New Testament Scriptures were the "inspired and inerrant Word of God in faith, history and secular matters," mainline ministers responded "NO" in overwhelming numbers:
Episcopalians, 95 percent
Methodists, 87 percent
Presbyterians, 82 percent"

Distinguishing the Message from the Delivery Platform.

A good article. What I like most about it though is that I just read "Stranger in a Strange Land" this weekend, and then I see this paragraph:

"Much of what is described in media stories does not bear close examination. American science fiction author Robert Heinlein developed a concept in one of his novels for legal proceedings that he called 'fair witness'. His idea was that evidence is almost never untainted or the interpretation of it unbiased, so there is a need for an independent party who could look at what is and what isn't based only on the actual evidence. In his description of the process, he used the following (paraphrased) example: If you were asked what you see on that hill over there, you might reply that you see a white house. A fair witness would reply that he sees a building that generally resembles a personal dwelling, and that it is white on three sides. The fair witness would be acknowledging that he couldn't be sure of the building's use merely by looking from outside, and he couldn't tell if the house was white on all sides because he can only see, at most, three sides at any one time."