SavageDem

"I don't belong to an organized political party – I'm a Democrat." – Will Rogers

Month: January 2006

  • A Big To-Do about Avian Flu!

    Could this be the cure?  A new “quickie” vaccine that:

    • Only takes a month to produce
    • Doesn’t require live virus to create
    • Has a 100% protection rate!

    Too good to be true? Let’s hope not.

  • Brew gogs

    You know the old adage about how they, “get better looking at closing time.”?  Turns out there’s a scientific reason for so-called “beer goggles”!  Alcohol apparently tends to affect your nucleus accumbens (oooh, now there’s a dirty word!), and causes you to find your sexual prey more attractive than if you were sober!  They did a study at the University of Glasgow (“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”) that showed alcohol caused a 25% increase in how attractive people rated faces!

  • Can you spare a brother some outrage?

    I really think it’s time for some good old-fashioned outrage.  You know, the kind where people march in the streets, burn bras, and stuff flowers into the barrels of Charleton Heston’s guns.  I think we’re all so dulled by the constant tragedy, dishonesty, and lunacy around us that we’ve forgotten how to get in a real snit.  It’s Boston Tea Party time!  I mean, folks in Guangdong, China are not afraid to risk their lives in protesting their government’s actions; how come Americans aren’t going postal about Big Brother monitoring our personal communications illegally, our children dying in Vietnam II, and the increasing divide between haves and have-nots?

    Oh, and one other thing: mathematical evidence virtually proving that the 2004 election was rigged.  That’s 2 for 2 in the Bush Jr. years.

    “…Ohio’s exit poll discrepancies are consistent with the hypothesis that Kerry would have won Ohio’s electoral votes if Ohio’s official vote counts had accurately reflected voter intent.”

    The full paper:

    http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf 

  • A Call to Action

    Some pithy words by georgia10 at dailykos.  A sampling:

    Democrats can either surrender this government to a party which seeks to destroy it, or we can take Lincoln’s advice and play our available cards.  To those who say filibusters–judicial, patriot act, etc–are too politically costly, I say that failure to filibuster is conceding that this nation isn’t worth fighting for. Instead of worrying that we will be labeled “obstructionist,” I say we filibuster Alito, filibuster the Patriot Act, filibuster time and time again until this crazy government comes to a screeching halt.  Enough is enough. The list of scandals is overshadowed only by the list of names of the 2,190 whose deaths have yet to be honored by this administration.