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It’s True! Anyone Really CAN Become the President!October 3

If there was any doubt that in this country anyone can become President that doubt was dispelled tonight during the Vice Presidential debate. I’m still shaking my head at the inane responses that Sarah Palin delivered in between mangling words like nuclear (God help us, a second person in the white house saying “nookular”), and inventing names - who’s General Maclleland?

I wish that I could believe that the American people are smart enough collectively to realize that this robotic toady who doesn’t know what the word “maverick” means even though she said it forty five times tonight, is so completely incapable of leading this country that if McCain has any decency at all he has left orders to the secret service that should he die she should be taken out for the good of the country.

I know that sounds terribly callous but my god, I am more qualified to be President than she is if for no other reason than that I realize that I am completely unqualified for the position.  I accept this even though I know what the Bush Doctrine is, I’ve been to more than one country outside the US, I can say “nuclear” correctly and I don’t attend some wacky church where people speak in tongues, fall down in spiritual trances or go on actual witch hunts (seriously, check this out Palin’s Kooky Church - is it a cult or just a freak show? )

Frightening Facts About W3C and Truth, Free Speech and the NetOctober 2

Editor’s Note:  The post below comes direct from one of the best newsletters you will ever have the opportunity to receive for free:  Mercola.com.  This publication by Dr. Mercola covers health, politics, food safety and other topics that should be of interest to anyone concerned about living a long healthy life.

As someone that has worked in the pharmaceutical and dietary supplement industries and has a long history of getting published as well as consulting for many of the top companies I have some pretty firmly established opinions on this topic.  Dr. Mercola is the first MD I’ve come across with whom I actually agree.  Seriously, this guy gets it and he even brings stuff to the forefront that I hadn’t seen before. I am continully impressed with his newsletter.

Below is an article that should scare the crap out of all of us.  Since when is the W3C supposed to be the arbiter of truth or the “decision maker” about what is and what is not a “conspiracy theory”?  I can’t tell you how big brotheresque I find this thought to be.  If it comes to pass that we have the opportunity to voice an opinion we must make it clear in no uncertain terms that we view the W3C as a web standards body and not as an entity charged with determining the validity of content.

Want to Write Your Congressional Representative? Just don’t use their email address…October 2

I recently wrote Jane Harman, one of the state congressional representatives from California. I got a reply to my original letter - a form response that was dated four months prior to the date I sent the letter.

This bothered me and finally I decided to respond to that form letter with something a bit more direct. It seems that Mr. Harman cares a great deal about what her constituents have to say. So much so that her email address doesn’t even work. Nice. That’s one way to turn a deaf ear to the voter.

I hope you’ll all join me in showing her and those like her like that loud-mouthed do-nothing Nancy Pelosi that have squandered their political capital and our good faith by completely failing to accomplish anything that they promised and for which we voted them into office that we won’t tolerate being lied to and that we don’t give second chances.

When these folks come up for re-election let’s send them packing. It’s just too bad we can’t fire them on the spot. Politics are amazing. There are few jobs on the planet where you can fail so spectacularly for so long and still collect your pay check every month. It seems to me based upon the last few years that we need a new system that gives the voter

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin: “It’s like a really bad Disney movie”September 12

How to Survive a Nuclear AttackSeptember 11

TED Talks are among the most incredible, valuable and interesting resource I’ve yet to find online.  With visionaries from all walks of life sharing their knowledge of physics, engineering, religion, music and more they never fail to inform, inspire, expand our worldview, and sometimes, as in the case of the talk I’m about to share with you, scare the hell out of us.

In the talk you can see below Irwin Redlener educates us about the evolution of the nuclear threat from the days when only the US had “the bomb” through present when there are at least nine countries with nuclear capability and when as much as half of the former Soviet Union’s terrifying arsenal is either insecurely stored or has actually gone missing.

From the days of “duck and cover” and “mutually assured destruction” to the present day threat of a single detonation of a low yield “suitcase bomb” or even a conventional explosive impregnated with depleted uranium, Redlener explains the survivability of a nuclear event (an all out nuclear war, Irwin says, is not survivable) and what to do to improve your odds as much as possible.

I rate this video a “must see”, but if you don’t have the 25 minutes to spare or you can’t handle some of the rawer truths of this material here are the bullets:

  • Nuclear War is not survivable, a single Nuclear Attack is
  • If you are in the vicinity of a nuclear attack do not look towards the blast - if you do you will be blinded either temporarily or permanently
  • Keep your mouth open to avoid having your eardrums blown out by the pressure of the blast
  • If you are within the immediate vicinity to within half a mile of the blast, your chances are essentially nil, the temperature at the blast site is tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit.
  • If you are from one half to two miles from the epicenter your odds improve to about a 50% chance of surviving the initial blast
  • From two to eight miles from the explosion your odds improve to about a 90% chance of survival
  • Within the first 15 to 20 minutes after a blast it is critical to get further away from the epicenter.  traveling just 1.2 miles further from the blast in a perpendicular direction from the blast generated wind can have a profound impact upon your survival and your long term health due to fallout exposure.  This is because the fallout from the mushroom cloud is going to come straight back down on the site of the blast.
  • If you cannot get away from the epicenter it is critical that you get sheltered.  Best is underground (an old school fallout shelter, a deep basement, or anyplace where earth and concrete separate you from the environment.  An alternative is to be above the ninth story above ground (for a ground level detonation)
  • Once you find shelter, whether inside or outside the radius of the initial fallout, stay there for at least 72 hours or until you are told by remaining authorities (assuming any exist) that it is okay to venture out.
  • As soon as it is possible, remove any clothing that you might have had on during or immediately following the blast and shower to remove residual fallout from your hair and skin.
  • Cover as much of your self as possible with clean clothing and bag and bury the clothing you had on during the blast.
  • Survivability is largely determined by your willingness to leave the area and stay out of harms way.
  • The only way to guarantee survival is to abolish nuclear weapons completely