Presto’s Ramblings

I disagree with much of Kieth Olbermann’s politics, but I have to stand up and applaud him for being one of the very few major media figures willing to question the Bush Crime Family:

Thanks to Horse’s Ass.org.
Update: This video has been removed from YouTube.  If you want to see it and cannot find it, let [...]

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Cartoonist David Horsey at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asks if Americans are getting dumber in his “Burning Questions” column this week. In the comments, one of the responders points to an 1895 graduation test for the 8th grade. Here’s the test in its entirety, courtesy of the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society:
EXAMINATION GRADUATION QUESTIONS
OF SALINE [...]

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BoingBoing points us to a great new addition in free-speech wear: A t-shirt from itsnotallbad.com that says in Arabic, “I am not a terrorist.” For those of you who are not aware, an Iraqi peace activist boarding a plane was detained and forced to remove a t-shirt that said in English and Arabic, [...]

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Courtesy of the same people who brought you the Boston Big Dig, we present you Seattle, the sequel!
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that the biggest contributors to the campaign to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel are two of the contractors behind the mess in Boston. Nearly all of the rest of [...]

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Apparently, my earlier post on the Post’s DEA propoganda exhibit article is the #2 listed blog in the article page’s ‘Who’s Blogging on This Article’ box. It’ll be interesting to see how many hits I get from the link.

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Armor Of God PJ’s!
The Portland Mercury and The Stranger bring us the funniest thing that I have seen in a while: Armor of God PJ’s. I could get into the theology of Ephesians 6:10-18 since I used to be a minister-in-training, but why spoil the joke? There is also the classic clothing from [...]

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Fake War On Drugs:Via Strike the Root and Future of Freedom Foundation. The Washington Post reports on a DEA exhibit connecting the ‘War on Drugs’ with the ‘War on Terror’. The DEA Targets America page on the exhibit does a good job explaining the propoganda involved here. The false 9-11 connection is [...]

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Sorry if this post is a little more Rambling than usual…I’m trying to work out these things in my head as I go.
Wally Conger, on his Out of Step blog, refers to the debate of left-libertarians regarding voting. His arguments are very compelling. Check them out.
I don’t know why I have continued to vote, [...]

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Jim Bovard reports that federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor has ruled that “There are no hereditary kings in America.” Could’ve fooled me.
The quote appears on page 40 of her opinion.
Of course Senator Spectre (spelling intended) is pushing for a coronation.

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I can’t seem to stop commenting on current events, since there soooo many outrages going on at present.
I knew the illustrious Rev. Joe Fuiten, pastor of one of the the largest megachurches in the state of Washington, Cedar Park Assembly of God when I was disillusioned with the life of a cog in the corporate [...]

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