Rock A Bye Grover

Obama's Making A Huge Comeback:

Rock a bye Grover

On your treetop

Obama's rising

See how he rocks

When the bough breaks

Your cradle will fall and

Down will come Grover

Cradle and all

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Certain values are ontological

Kuhn: Paradigms, Incommensurability, and "Progess" in Science and .... | Serendip's Exchange:

"There is, I think, no theory-independent way to reconstruct phrases like 'really there'; the notion of a match between the ontology of a theory an its real' counterpart in nature now seems to me illusive in principle ... I do not doubt, for example, that Newton's mechanics improves on Aristotle's and that Einstein's improves on Newton's as instruments for puzzle-solving. But I can see in their succession no coherent direction of ontological development ... if the position be relativism, I cannot see that the relativist loses anything needed to account for the nature and development of the sciences." (p 206-7)"

What is missing in ontology is values and what is missing in values is a theory that proposes just what might be ontological values. Conceding that all such theories would be fallible would be an apt Peircean given. Conceding that the presence of values such as democracy, tolerance, helpfulness and non-idolatry in the area reserved for the ontological would open up a realm that might best be said to have been opened by Peirce. Even such an elementary supposition would be a major stride in developing such a theory.. We might add in Nietzsche since he deserves credit for the notion of revaluing values even if he never succeeded in identifying or articulating what might be ontological values.




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Eye break

Had my second cataract operation today and have the prospect of normal vision without classes for the first time in my life.Can't be doing this for a day. See you tomorrow.
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ProPublica should investigate the woman who accused Julian Assange

ProPublica | Search results for julian assange:

Too bad one of the few investigative journalism venues left has not dug into the skeevy story of Julian Assange's possible entrapment in Sweden. I say possible because I distinctly recall that at the outset it was entirely plausible that this was a setup. I wrote of it at the time but never saw any followup.

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Assange extradition looms

Let Out Your Daughters — Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal: "It's not the end of all hope for Assange to remain in the UK, though — there still may be a slim chance of an appeal to the Supreme Court if lawyers believe the case is of "legal significance.""

Imagine a setup that begins with
Consensual sex

In which the original female instigator is
Connected to the skeevy underside

Of the CIA 

Imagine the tentacles of our paranoid
Transparency bashers
Reaching out to turn

That setup into a charge that might conceivably gain traction
Even in permissive Sweden

Imagine a story where you do not know the half of it
And the media passively fails to investigate

Divide the sum of ignorance by a simple thing called truth

The US is powerful and paranoid 

Julian Assange has done what Jesus more or less anticipated would

Be the result of his good news of openness
Democracy
Reciprocity
Neighbor love
And the like

Seeing that all things are made manifest

Knocking the legs out from under
Official hypocrisy

And The Way Things Are

You cannot get away with classifying reality

Sweden can either be a pawn of  such small thinking and regression

Or stand up and not
Cave to hidden influences

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Terrorists without borders

Open Channel - Born in the USA, but now among Somalia's Islamist terrorists: "The suicide bombing last weekend in Mogadishu – allegedly by a Somali American from Minnesota – has highlighted the important role played by U.S. citizens in the operations of al-Shabab, the Islamic terrorist organization battling the government in the war-torn east African nation."

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The year of the vanishing incumbent

Voter Rage Has Congress Worried About Job Security - Its Own - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — One of the immutable laws of American politics has been that while voters typically loathe Congress, they tend to tolerate their own lawmaker. Now, with ratings for that institution in the root cellar and approval of individual lawmakers heading there, members of Congress and analysts are beginning to wonder if that law could be repealed next year."

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Is TV Toast? Most probably.

Will YouTube Replace Television? - Digg: "heweek.com — Google plans to launch 100 new online "channels" with exclusive original programming — a deal reportedly worth $100 million. "

Peanuts when you consider the likelihood that on demand will migrate away from THE tube to YouTube and other online origin spots. The building of the macro world will honor the mobility of things as well as people. And ease of operation (usability) over means of delivery.

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Myanmar: A Year After Suu Kyi’s Release · Global Voices

Myanmar: A Year After Suu Kyi’s Release · Global Voices: "The Burmese people in Myanmar and the whole world rejoiced after Aung San Suu Kyi's release last year on November 13, 2010. Now it has almost been a year since she had been released."

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Bahrain's inept handling of students

Hard Lessons in Democracy Building | Human Rights First: "The Bahraini government’s inept handling of its students is a great example of why the Kingdom is increasingly seen as a pariah state. Dozens of students were arrested and hundreds more were expelled earlier this year following large-scale peaceful protests calling for democratic reform in the Bahrain. These students faced aggressive interrogations about their possible participation in political protests and some were even asked to identify classmates in demonstration photos that appeared on social networking sites such as Facebook."

More focus is needed on conditions here.

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Media not central to nonviolent movement's success

Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- The Onion Theory of Nonviolent Protest: "Since the purpose of a nonviolent action is to build a political, people-power movement, if it positively affects the first three layers of the audience onion towards that end it is a success regardless of media coverage. More than 90% of all the nonviolent protests conducted by the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s had no media coverage whatsoever, not a single radio sound bite, not a single newspaper sentence, yet they profoundly changed the participants, observers, and grapevine as well as their communities and the nation as a whole"

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Cambodia, Malaysia - egregious human rights abuses

Cambodia/ Malaysia: Domestic Workers Face Abuse | Human Rights Watch: "(Phnom Penh) – The Cambodian and Malaysian governments’ failure to regulate recruiters and employers leaves Cambodian migrant domestic workers exposed to a wide range of abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today. Tens of thousands of Cambodian women and girls who migrate to Malaysia have little protection against forced confinement in training centers, heavy debt burdens, and exploitative working conditions."

 Another sign for Occupy worldwide.


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Jesus gospel is what he said it was in Mark

Jesus Gospel Vs. Gospel of Jesus - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com:

"Jesus gospel is what he said it was in Mark: Abba's kingdom, or realm, is at hand. Repent and believe this good news.

The gospel of Jesus was promulgated by the churches four centuries later. It was set forth as a creed which makes no reference to what Jesus said the gospel is."

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This may help you zap fear

Zapping Fear - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com:

"Fear Disables. Fear Stops You in Your Tracks. Fear is Mysterious. Fear is Unbearable. How Can You Zap It?"

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Progress is cool

Is Progress More Than a False Dream? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com:

"Progress is more than a false dream. The doctrines that were made to weigh us down, of sin so deep that good cannot be done, are doctrines that one day will pass away."

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Biography with a bite

I Blame The Patriarchy: "Born a mousey intellectual, in my twenties I discovered all the perks of Porn2K-Compliance. I amassed drawers full of Chanel makeup. I had boxes of wigs. I combed the thrift stores incessantly. I had so many clothes I had to turn a spare bedroom into a closet."

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An age of post-secularism?

Taking a stance « The Immanent Frame: "I conclude by noting that a new politics of tolerance and citizenship may not sit easily with secularism as it is defined by Bilgrami. Does this mean that the outcome is not a form of secularism? The answer to this question will vary, depending on whether one thinks that secularism is less cohesive as a concept than Bilgrami argues it is, or whether one thinks that we have moved into an age of post-secularism."

Interesting

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A radical version of U.S. disestablishment

Going to law « The Immanent Frame: "A radical version of U.S. disestablishment would suggest that churches in the U.S. are, and have from the beginning been, understood to be entirely voluntary and private organizations that survive or not due to the enthusiasm and pocketbooks of their congregants (and God’s will), not public institutions legally defined and supported by the state. State-supported churches with their own jurisdictional domains were the common model in Europe. Arguably it is that model that Americans have been trying to get away from for several hundred years. The ministerial exceptions, and other lingering legal privileges for American churches, particularly the most legal-minded of them, seem, at times, to be vestiges of that older European model."

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Obama checkup unmasks more GOP lies

Obama ‘Tobacco Free’ and Fit, Doctor Finds - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — Forget the rumors that he has been sneaking cigarettes; President Obama is “tobacco free,” the president’s doctor said in reporting the results of the president’s second physical since he took office."

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Perry comes off as flat out weird

Rick Perry Goes Full On Goofy in New Hampshire | Addicting Info: "It’s hard to know what to make of Governor Perry’s campaign thus far. Is he serious? Does he really want to be president? Who the hell knows?

However, I would argue that his ascent/descent trajectory clearly outpaces any that I’ve ever seen, including that of the former half-term governor from Alaska."

Video commentary - maybe the last we'll see of him?


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