October 2007 – Page 4 – The Blog That Goes Ping

Astronaut and Alien Believer: Edgar Mitchell

ST. PETERSBURG – The aliens have landed.

Thus declared Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell on Saturday to more than 200 admirers.

“A few insiders know the truth . . . and are studying the bodies that have been discovered,” said Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon.

Mitchell, who landed on the moon with Alan B. Shepard, said a “cabal” of insiders stopped briefing presidents about extraterrestrials after President Kennedy.

This makes the Weirdness Lobe of my brain happy.

Christopher Hitchens and Genocide- by Justin Raimondo

Christopher Hitchens and Genocide- by Justin Raimondo:

You know the paranoiac stereotypes of atheists held by many fundamentalists, about how they’re basically out to destroy religion? It turns out that Christopher Htichens, one of the most prominent spokesmen for modern atheism, is out there advocating the slaughter of Muslims just because they’re Muslim — because Islam is a particularly pernicious form of Theism, which is itself evil and must be stamped out. No kidding. Presumably Jews and Christians get a pass for now, but right now he considers us to be in a “clash of civilizations” against Islam, and he thinks nuclear weaponry would be a great next move in the conflict.

Because of this apocalyptic agenda, he favors Rudy Giuliani for president — he seems likeliest to take us in the genocidal direction of which Hitchens approves.

Wow.

Thanks For the S-CHIPpage, Vern!

Sometimes my representative Vern Ehlers comes through for me.

Hooray for a Republican doing the right thing!

Dennis Kucinich, ironically, is voting against the bill, because they’ve changed it from the original version, which he did vote for, in order to exclude children of legal (not illegal… legal) immigrants. Nobody ever accused Dennis Kucinich of being excessively pragmatic…

Dennis Kucinich Empties His Pockets on the Colbert Report

Via Brave New Films:

Florida Scraps ALL Touchscreen Voting Machines! W00t!

Voting Machines Giving Florida New Headache – New York Times:

Across the nation, jurisdictions that experimented with touch-screen voting after 2000 are starting to scale back or abandon it based on a growing perception that the machines are unreliable and concern that they do not provide a paper trail in case questions arise. California will sharply scale back touch-screen voting next year after a review by the secretary of state found it was vulnerable to hackers.

Florida is the biggest state to reject touch screens so sweepingly, and its deadline for removing them, July 1, 2008, is the most imminent.

Let’s not forget that sometimes things actually change for the better.