At the beginning of this election cycle there were two candidates I supported. Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. I would have loved for either one of them to have won the nomination. And there was one candidate that I didn’t support. John McCain. I felt he had abandoned the GOP and there was no way I was, or could, vote for him. But I did prefer him over Obama. Barack Obama is the wrong man for the job at any time, but especially today. I was going to sit this election out.
2 Comments » - Posted in America, Indian Chris, John McCcain, Politics, Presidential election, Republicans by Indian Chris - Trackback URLI think she gave an effective speech. I liked this part:
To the most powerful office on Earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless … the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God … the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pinhole in his cell door as Lt. Cmdr. John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.
As the story is told, “When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe’s door and flash a grin and thumbs up” — as if to say, “We’re going to pull through this.” My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.
“Torturous interrogations.” Think about it. Stress positions for long periods of time, the withholding of medical treatment, beatings. John McCain experienced torture first hand. He has stated unambiguously that waterboarding is torture and yet many of those who would vote for him either disagree or don’t care.
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Has the media been a friend to McCain during this election?
3 Comments » - Posted in Big Media, Indian Chris, John McCcain, Politics by Indian Chris - Trackback URLWho would have thought physicists could rap? The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to send the first beam of particles on September 10th. It is the biggest, most expensive experiment in history and will involve thousands of physicists from around the world. The Economist has a great article on it:
The physics of the small requires big machines: the LHC is a ring with a circumference of 27km (17 miles)…But what is being looked at is, in a sense, not small at all. It is actually the entire universe—or, rather, its fundamental constituents. At the moment, there are 17 constituents on the list: 16 are known and one, the Higgs, is predicted.
Here’s the part that blows me away…they will be testing for dark matter and energy:
2 Comments » - Posted in Science, Silke by Silke - Trackback URL[W]hen the universe is viewed through a telescope, most of it seems to be missing. Visible matter makes up a mere 4% of it. Another 22% is referred to as dark matter. This can be detected from its gravitational effects, but is otherwise invisible. The remaining 74% of the universe is known as dark energy. Its existence is inferred from an effect that looks like the opposite of gravity: it is pushing the universe apart.
While I’ve been doing Wednesday Hero, called Fallen Hero when it began, since March of 2005, today marks the second year since I made the posts available for others to post. Huge thanks to Kathi for doing this. This will be a yearly post, so long as she wants to keep doing it.
No Comments » - Posted in Indian Chris, Military, Wednesday Hero by Indian Chris - Trackback URLSure, it might kill a few people, cause millions of dollars in damage and cause a few thousand to end up homeless but thank God for Gustav.
And on Olbermann’s show no less. What a shocker.
And we have former DNC chairman Don Fowler & Congressman John Spratt joking about Gustav, caught on video. The audio is a little hard to understand, but you do hear enough to know they’re talking about hurricane Gustav.
“I think this demonstrates God’s on our side”
UPDATE
UPDATE 2
Don Fowler apologizes for his comment and then blames the person who taped him saying it.
One doesn’t anticipate that one’s private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase, but that’s the nature of what we’re dealing with.”1 Comment » - Posted in Democrats, Idiots, In Case You Missed It, Indian Chris, Weather by Indian Chris - Trackback URL
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