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Tuesday, November 22
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UK's Telegraph: Pilgrims flock to see 'Buddha boy' said to have fasted six months: Devotees claim that Ram Bomjon, who is silently meditating beneath a tree, has not eaten or drunk anything since he sat down at his chosen spot six months ago.
Witnesses say they have seen light emanating from the teenager's forehead.
"It looks a bit like when you shine a torch through your hand," said Tek Bahadur Lama, a member of the committee responsible for dealing with the growing number of visitors from India and elsewhere in Nepal. And it gets even more strange: Photographs of Ram Bomjon, available for five rupees (4p) from his makeshift shrine, have become ubiquitous across the region. "Far and wide, it's the only topic of conversation," said Upendra Lamichami, a local journalist.
He said no allegation had yet emerged of Ram breaking his fast or moving, even to relieve himself. [emphasis added]
Posted - 11/22/2005 05:57:00 AM - Permalink | |
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CNN, the network that posts jpgs of Bush with cute titles like asshole.jpg and has employees calling administration remarks " bullshit" live on the air, now puts a huge black X across Cheney's face.
Posted - 11/22/2005 05:47:04 AM - Permalink | |
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Monday, November 21
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Jonathan Witt in the Seattle Times Those defensive Darwinists: THE first court trial over the theory of intelligent design is now over, with a ruling expected by the end of the year. What sparked the legal controversy? Before providing two weeks of training in modern evolutionary theory, the Dover, Pa., School District briefly informed students that if they wanted to learn about an alternative theory of biological origins, intelligent design, they could read a book about it in the school library.
In short order, the School District was dragged into court by a group insisting the school policy constituted an establishment of religion, this despite the fact that the unmentionable book bases its argument on strictly scientific evidence, without appealing to religious authority or attempting to identify the source of design.
The lawsuit is only the latest in a series of attempts to silence the growing controversy over contemporary Darwinian theory.
Posted - 11/21/2005 06:16:49 PM - Permalink | |
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Monday, November 14
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Bryan Preston demonstrates how Google, two words, and a number undermine the war critics: com/111405E.html">Did Bush Lie? Ask Google. Just search Google for "Clinton Iraq 1998" and you get over 3 million hits of pre-Bush Iraqi WMD.
Posted - 11/14/2005 08:10:19 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, November 10
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Glenn Greenwald writes, "[I]t is worth reminding ourserlves of the pious, pompous, condescending lectures about social order, racial and economic inequalities, and government competence which the French doled out to America in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina":
Philippe Grangereau in France's Liberation
"Bush is completely out of his depth in this disaster. Katrina has revealed America's weaknesses: its racial divisions, the poverty of those left behind by its society, and especially its president's lack of leadership."
Jean-Pierre Aussant in France's Le Figaro
"This tragic incident reminds us that the United States has refused to ratify the Kyoto accords. Let's hope the US can from now on stop ignoring the rest of the world. If you want to run things, you must first lead by example. Arrogance is never a good adviser!"
Le Monde
Le Monde credits the hurricane with highlighting “the country’s social inequalities”. It says: “Despite the economic and military strength it is prepared to deploy overseas, the United States has shown itself incapable of dealing with a catastrophe of this scale at home.”
Le Monde
Why did federal authorities under Bush's command "seem to be so little prepared in the face of a hurricane, the strength of which was known 48 hours in advance?" Le Monde asked. "Why did the [Bush] administration fail its first great [national-]security test since the September 11, 2001, attacks?"
...And there are many more.
Posted - 11/10/2005 06:05:15 AM - Permalink | |
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Damian Penny points to a great article at Tech Central Station, Internet Killed the Alien Star, in which Doug Kern " describes the way the internet, which can be used to spread nonsense and propaganda, ultimately shut down the alien-abduction hysteria of the 1990s": ...[I]n recent years, interest in the UFO phenomenon has withered. Oh, the websites are still up, the odd UFO picture is still taken, and the usual hardcore UFO advocates make the same tired arguments about the same tired cases, but the thrill is gone. What happened? Why did the saucers crash?
The Internet showed this particular emperor to be lacking in clothes. If UFOs and alien visitations were genuine, tangible, objective realities, the Internet would be an unstoppable force for detecting them. How long could the vast government conspiracy last, when intrepid UFO investigators could post their prized pictures on the Internet seconds after taking them? How could the Men in Black shut down every website devoted to scans of secret government UFO documents? How could marauding alien kidnappers remain hidden in a nation with millions of webcams?
Just as our technology for finding and understanding UFOs improved dramatically, the manifestations of UFOs dwindled away. Despite forty-plus years of alleged alien abductions, not one scrap of physical evidence supports the claim that mysterious visitors are conducting unholy experiments on hapless victims. The technology for sophisticated photograph analysis can be found in every PC in America, and yet, oddly, recent UFO pictures are rare. Cell phones and instant messaging could summon throngs of people to witness a paranormal event, and yet such paranormal events don't seem to happen very often these days. For an allegedly real phenomenon, UFOs sure do a good job of acting like the imaginary friend of the true believers. How strange, that they should disappear just as we develop the ability to see them clearly. Or perhaps it isn't so strange. Read it all.
Posted - 11/10/2005 05:59:18 AM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, November 9
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Accuracy In Media honors People in Pajamas, aka Bloggers, specifically the ones who brought down the fake Dan Rather forged memo story. In related news, fired CBS producer Mary Mapes thinks the burden of proof was not on them to prove the documents were authentic: ROSS: Have [the documents] proved to be authentic, though? Isn't that really what journalists do?
MAPES: No, I don't think that's the standard. It sure isn't the standard. As long as the "story" fits the liberal media template and their view of reality, i.e. what they want to be true or think should be true - that's the standard.
Posted - 11/09/2005 06:48:48 PM - Permalink | |
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AP via Fox News: New science standards for Kansas' public schools, criticized for promoting creationism while treating evolution as a flawed theory, won approval Tuesday from the State Board of Education.
The board's 6-4 vote, expected for months, was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards and argued the changes would make teaching about evolution more balanced....
It's unclear how the new standards will affect what's taught in classrooms. Those decisions will remain with 300 local school boards, and some teachers have said they won't change what they teach. However, some educators fear pressure will increase in some communities to teach less about evolution or more about creationism or intelligent design. One step forward, and one step back: Pennsylvania Voters Oust School Board That Backed Intelligent Design . Ouch! [Hat Tip: Bill Dembski]
Posted - 11/09/2005 06:12:00 AM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, November 2
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Chris Hitchens writes about the republican most cited by liberals when discussing Iraq, that darling of the left, Bush 41's former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, opening his piece with this: The sole point of the non-findings of the Fitzgerald non-investigation, into the non-commission of non-crimes and the non-outing of a non-covert CIA bureaucrat, is (as Messrs. Kerry, Krugman, Rich, and others keep reminding us) that it might even yet trigger the long-awaited inquest into the Iraq intervention. I very strongly hope that there is a full-dress postmortem into this country's Iraq policy, though I am not ready to assume that "inquest" or "postmortem" are the correct terms for it. Let's just say a serious blue-ribbon, bipartisan, full-out inquiry. This inquiry, however, could hardly be confined--as Kerry, Krugman, and Rich so obviously hope--to the years 2001-05.
At the very minimum, the starting point of such a retrospective should be the decision, in 1991, to confirm Saddam Hussein in power after his expulsion from Kuwait and to keep his population under international sanctions. Another place to begin might be the apparent "green light," given by the Carter administration, for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran. Real specialists and buffs might wish to start with the role of the CIA in the 1960s military coup--or coups--that brought the Baath Party to power in Baghdad in the first place. Read it all.
Posted - 11/02/2005 06:42:02 AM - Permalink | |
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