by AL Whitney (C) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Dr. Strangeloves have been around for a long time. Are we certain that the story of Frankenstein’s monster was fictitious? The mad scientists never seem to disappear and continually manage to convince their ‘funders’ that exploring new ways to create life-in-the-lab is justified because a) ‘we can’ or b) it is an important step in the ‘evolution’ of the human species.
Now that profiteering corporations have control of our media, the general public rarely hears the objections of the bioethicists but are instead exposed to a relentless barrage of ’spin’ to justify whatever insane projects/programs Business, Inc and their partner Government, Inc. choose to engage in.
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.” Read more »
Well, it looks like South Carolina is so all-fired riled up that it’s coming out with guns blazin’, and they are pointed right at you!
This is bad medicine, folks. This cowboy hasn’t heard of anything like this since the Attorney General put together the 1947 Biddle list of subversive front organizations to track them pesky communists. Read more »
INTRINSIC NATURE OF RIGHTS
I believe that only individuals have rights, not the collective group; that these rights are intrinsic to each individual, not granted by the state; for if the state has the power to grant them, it also has the power to deny them, and that is incompatible with personal liberty.
I believe that a just state derives its power solely from its citizens. Therefore, the state must never presume to do anything beyond what individual citizens also have the right to do. Otherwise, the state is a power unto itself and becomes the master instead of the servant of society. Read more »
Karl Golovin, a retired customs agent and security director for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, just forwarded a transcript of Andrew Jackson’s farewell address. It’s pretty amazing. Here’s Karl’s intro, followed by an excerpt:
“During his presidency, Andrew Jackson viewed as his crowning achievement that he “Killed the Bank,” the 2nd Bank of the U.S. Our current ‘Federal Reserve,’ created in 1913, is the 3rd Bank of the U.S. Jackson was intent upon restoring an honest, Constitutional monetary system. There probably never has been written a more articulate, prophetic vision of what calamity would befall our nation if we did not diligently stay that course, as argued by Jackson in the following excerpt from his farewell address in 1837. It reads as if written this very day about our present financial circumstances:” Read more »
What a sad, sad world it must be for those who cannot see the intelligence that created the world we live in. To look at the intricate beauty of life all around us down to the smallest microbe, and not see that there is an intelligence far superior to our own involved in its creation is very sad, indeed.
The following video sets forth a compelling case for the scientific concept of Intelligent Design as opposed to Darwinism.
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet
Taxman!
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
Don’t ask me what I want it for (Aahh Mr. Wilson)
If you don’t want to pay some more (Aahh Mr. Heath)
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
A short, excellent explanation of the various forms of government, and how America was never set up as a democracy because it inevitably leads to oligarchy.
In 2006, The Washington Post reported…”Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission…” Read more »
Dr. Strangeloves have been around for a long time. Are we certain that the story of Frankenstein’s monster was fictitious? The mad scientists never seem to disappear and continually manage to convince their ‘funders’ that exploring new ways to create life-in-the-lab is justified because a) ‘we can’ or b) it is an important step in the ‘evolution’ of the human species.
