Excellent article… Why I Left the GOP
Business and Politics
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Apr 15
Neil’s Pledge…
If the Pledge of Allegiance told the truth: pic.twitter.com/Iy5zoyMOls
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 2, 2015
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Apr 15
Informed or Opinionated?
Something I need to constantly work on, especially with emotionally charged issues. For me it’s usually politics or religion. It’s far too easy to be sucked into the extremist view… with no valid facts or logic to back it up.
Guilty as charged…
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Apr 15
The air we breathe…
If the Republicans ever find out that Barack Obama favors respiration, we’ll be a one-party system inside two minutes.
– Alan Lewis
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Jan 13
EMP: It’s not SciFi…
This artist’s rendering shows a CHAMP flying over a target
CHAMP – Lights Out
A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage.
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., successfully tested the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) during a flight over the Utah Test and Training Range.
CHAMP, which renders electronic targets useless, is a non-kinetic alternative to traditional explosive weapons that use the energy of motion to defeat a target.
Power is cut to a room of computers after being hit by a high-powered microwave pulse from a Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project.
During the test, the CHAMP missile navigated a pre-programmed flight plan and emitted bursts of high-powered energy, effectively knocking out the target’s data and electronic subsystems. CHAMP allows for selective high-frequency radio wave strikes against numerous targets during a single mission.
“This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,” said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works. “In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.”
Source: Boeing Phantom Works
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Dec 12
“A Bunch of Crazy, Ignorant Fools”
Thom Hartmann interviews Bruce Bartlett, Historian/Domestic Policy Adviser to President Ronald Reagan/Treasury official under President George H. W. Bush. Bartlett writes for New York Times, Financial Times, Fiscal Times, and Tax Notes magazine. This man is an old school Republican who realizes what the Tea Party really is: a bunch of crazy, ignorant fools.
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Nov 12
51st state?
AP/ November 7, 2012, 9:55 AM
Puerto Rico votes for U.S. statehood in non-binding referendum
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO A slim majority of Puerto Ricans sought to change their ties with the United States and become the 51st U.S. state in a non-binding referendum that would require final approval from Congress.
The two-part referendum asked whether the island wanted to change its 114-year relationship with the United States. Nearly 54 percent, or 922,374 people, sought to change it, while 46 percent, or 786,749 people, favored the status quo. Ninety-six percent of 1,643 precincts were reporting as of early Wednesday.
The second question asked voters to choose from three options, with statehood by far the favorite, garnering 61 percent. Sovereign free association, which would have allowed for more autonomy, received 33 percent, while independence got 5 percent.
President Obama earlier expressed support for the referendum and pledged to respect the will of the people in the event of a clear majority.
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