12 Jul 2004
Losing the Party

There's a great bit of political commentary linked below: read it to understand why this libertarian Republican will never support Bush or his ilk again.

Despite my overall agreement with this piece, I would like to note, for the record, that I still wholeheartedly concur with Barry Goldwater's famous statement that "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice no virtue".

Give us a chance, Democrats will ask Republicans, so you can regain control of your own party from its lunatic fringe, and give it back to its own roots, in Goldwater and Reagan, of Dole and Ford. You've been had, conned, and you have one last chance to get out of it, to take your party back.

(Con Game) [Moore's Lore]

00:00 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Fire department bars book-burning

Contrary to reports in the mainstream media, not all ayatollah's are Muslims ...

A church's plan for an old-fashioned book-burning has been thwarted by city and county fire codes.

(link) [CNN]

00:00 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link

FDA issues new rules to combat mad cow disease (USATODAY.com)

Two flaws with this new regime -

  1. BSE is a progressive disease: it does not spring forth magically in cattle at 30 months of age.
  2. BSE and other prion disorders are caused by feeding cattle contaminated feed made from other ruminants - and this is what the regulations specifically do not address, preferring "further study"

Thus, these new rules will do absolutely nothing to prevent the spread of BSE or other prion diseases. Bureaucracy in action ...

USATODAY.com - Six months after the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, the Food and Drug Administration issued long-delayed rules Friday banning nervous system tissue and other cattle parts from use in human food, dietary supplements and cosmetics.

(link) [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]

00:00 /Agriculture | 0 comments | permanent link