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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense — Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don’t hold up

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Bush thought he was going to be able to run on the strength of his response to 9/11, but increasingly it’s looking like his failure to act strongly to prevent it will be his downfall.

He decided Iraq was the target he wanted, and was so distracted that he missed the opportunity to prevent 9/11–at least that’s the growing perception, and with Iraq in a total intractable mess, that perception will only get stronger and stronger.

So, he thought that he would get credit (which he didn’t deserve) for successfully fighting terror, but instead he’s getting blame (which he also, really, doesn’t deserve) for not preventing terror!

“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
Or words to that effect.

I got the message on my Toshiba laptop that I only had 24 days left on my Norton Antivirus subscription, and I didn’t really want to buy a new year, so I decided to switch to AVG free edition. No problem there–AVG seems fine and free, but like a dummy I felt I just had to remove Norton, too. Big mistake! Trouble with the uninstallation (it just froze two-thirds of the way through) led me to run their uninstalling tool, and go on a little deleting temp files spree.

Well! That had some unintended results!
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I’ve been watching that Peter Jennings special Jesus and Paul. Actually, just watching a little at a time, because it’s so long, and really not very good.
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These two cats are genetically identical. Exactly the same DNA. In other words, they’re clones. But in a perfect argument that DNA is not destiny, we can see that not only are they not the same cat (the vernacular understanding of “clone”), they don’t even look the same…not at all!
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Trying to get my logo image to appear in the bloglines pane for this blog. The image is this, and I may have it right or I may not. It seemed to be appearing (couldn’t completely tell) on the syndic8 site, but I haven’t been able to see it on bloglines. I need to study this whole rss thing a lot more…that is, if I intend to continue with the blogging at all.

It’s awfully hard to write an article on demand, especially when you know that your future life, career and happiness depends on some anonymous “peer” reviewers accepting that article–even though it may challenge some of their own long-held and dearly-clung-to conceptions.
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It takes a few days for it to get going, but by now, the third day of dosage, I’m feeling major relief. This is good stuff, and I wonder how it works. But I don’t really care…my nose is clear, so it’s all good.

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