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These people are fluent in the only language most politicians seem to understand: money. From the Environmental News Service “The world’s largest investors today issued a statement calling on the United States and other governments to ‘act now to catalyze development of a low-carbon economy and to attract the vast amount of private capital necessary for…

Massachusetts stands a genuine chance of electing Scott Brown as a Republican Senator in next week’s election.  No, the state is not going red, conservative, or Republican.  The reason is more interesting than a sudden case of state-wide insanity.

UPDATE below Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s Ambassador to the US, has done a wonderful job debunking  Pat Robertson’s idiotic comments about Haiti’s supposed pact with the devil.  Using Robertson’s logic, the devil also wanted the US to acquire the Louisiana Purchase and 13 new states, and also Latin America to become free from Spanish colonialism.  Both…

Pat Robertson’s is receiving well deserved if still insufficient condemnation for saying the Haitian earthquake may be a “blessing in disguise” and is the result of a “pact with the devil” Haitians made long ago to drive out French slave masters.  (After all, BLACK people could not possibly defeat White people without Satanic help.) As…

And it felt SO GOOD.  I’m not sure there is much that is better than a good Wiccan circle.  I mean no disrespect to any other spiritual tradition, not at all, but after several years without people to work with other than as a guest, this was great.  

Huffington Post writes that a major scientific journal, the International Journal of Biological Sciences is reporting cases of organ failure in rats fed any of three varieties of Monsanto’s GMO corn.    The original article can be found here.

Tonight my Wicca 101 class will cover spells and related stuff, so it’s interesting that my “Open Thread” has focused in part on issues of spellcraft.  This is an area where I am pretty cautious of “book learning” myself, but here is some basic book learning that I think some people might find useful.  

I haven’t had one of these in a while.  I figure it’s time to share.

The cost of one combat soldier in Afghanistan or Iraq is currently reliably estimated at about $775,000 per year.  Needless to say that doesn’t go to the guy on the ground.    The cost of a special election to fill Hawaii’s soon-to-be-vacated Congressional seat when incumbent Neil Ambercrombie steps down to run for governor, is almost…

I was talking with my friend Jim about the strange new Republican effort to rewrite history: that no terrorist attacks took place during George Bush’s presidency.  Diana Perino, Mary Matalin,  and now “Mr. 9/11” Rudy Guiliani have said it.  Even setting 9/11 aside there have been at least three terrorist attacks, the anthrax attacks, the shoe bomber, and…
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