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May 2, 2010
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, My World, Sci-Fi, bullshit, curious, history, myth, religion . Tags: The Bible, parting the red sea, satellite imagery . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment

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I love this perspective. So when you visit the troops now, how do you rein in some of your strongly held beliefs about war? Oh, that’s easy. It’s just really not the place for that. Quite often in these places like Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s a very apolitical situation. The job that day is not [...]
Last week, after it became apparent that the GOP campaign of disinformation regarding the health care legislation was working wonderfully [1] President Obama shifted gears a bit to talk about *why* this change is necessary. WASHINGTON — President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring [...]
[videos forthcoming] US NEWS People thieving the electrons. Obama: Economy hurts. Duh. Obama Budget Strategy raises questions. New home construction gets a lift (month-to-month). Small business help on the way. Fed prints money like mad. A couple economists agree that printing money is a good idea…today. China wants a new global currency standard. Palin to [...]
Part 1: Part 2: Here’s the links for the video… Obama talkin’ to the CEO’s. Jon Stewart slamming Jim Cramer and CNBC. China on the offensive in the Impeccable. China on that $1,000,000,000,000 note of ours. Russian bombers and new bases. World Bank on global economy shrinkage. Cheney being Cheney, which is to say, a [...]
So I finally finished reading Andrew Sullivan’s piece on “Why I Blog” (available here, as a four page blog post). He hits the nail on the head on why I’m not a blogger with this paragraph (and a half). If all this sounds postmodern, that’s because it is. And blogging suffers from the same flaws [...]
This line of thought began with this MetaFilter post linking to this FRONTLINE piece on what happened with the banking/ibanking sector last Fall. [BTW, the best animation explanation of the problems is here.] The FRONTLINE documentary does a great job at pointing out some of the players in the mix and the personal relationships that [...]
Been seeing and hearing a lot of lamentations lately about the stimulus package. A lot of them seem to be nebulous complaints not focused on the actual legislation, but more of the ideological whining that plagues our Democracy. After actually looking at a nice, objective, analysis of what’s in the package (which you can read [...]
I learned this one from Piers Anthony at about thirteen. CSM Story.
This story. This book. This planet. Now, dammit!