| Saturday, March 15, 2003 |  |
| Mobile Broadband | 1 comment |
 15 Mar 2003 @ 15:31In my search for adequate satellite modem alternatives I came across this mobile unit from TracNet I really like the freedom of this portable unit. I still feel all of this is just a small step on the way to something astounding that will link us informationally and energetically. More > |
| Arctic Oil Drilling Measure in Congress | 1 comment |
 15 Mar 2003 @ 15:14Bush Getting Close to Winning His Arctic Oil Drilling Measure in Congress By H. Josef Hebert Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans say they have moved to within a single vote of guaranteeing President Bush one of his top domestic priorities - opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The issue could be decided as early as next week. An internal GOP memo that circulated Tuesday in the Senate expressed confidence that 49 senators now plan to vote for drilling in the refuge, starting a scramble in search of the remaining lawmaker who would be needed to get the provision through as part of a budget measure. Read ... More > |
| More On Circumcision | 4 comments |
 15 Mar 2003 @ 15:04This comes from Jock Doubleday,author and founder of Natural Woman, Natural Man,Inc. , a California Non-Profit corporation. He distributes his NWNM newletter occassionally and this time the topic rides piggyback on my previous post about the physical and psychological risks of circumcision. One thing he asks is "Where is the men's movement's voice when it come to circumsion. Seemingly quiet. ---------------------------------------------------- Welcome to another issue of NWNM Today! This issue is concerned with the myriad hazards of circumcision and the myriad benefits of keeping the male foreskin intact. "Savages?" Many people think that ritual genital mutilation is practiced only by ignorant tribes deep in uncivilized territories of the world. But here in the United States, and in many other Western nations, genital mutilation is practiced on a daily basis. 3,300 baby boys are wounded every 24 hours. Infant males are routinely circumcised as part of the hospital birth process--for the ostensible purpose of helping them keep their penises clean and free from infection in their later years. To medical people, circumcision makes everybody a winner. The boy gets a smooth and easy-to-clean penis and "gets to look like his dad." The fee-for-service surgeon gets a paycheck. The hospital coffers are replenished. In the upside-down world of modern-day medicine, it makes more sense to cut off parts of babies that might become dirty or infected than to expect parents to teach their children good hygiene. I wonder what the culture of the Western world would look like today if half of its members were not brought into the world in pain. Following is the chapter on circumcision from my upcoming book "Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not To Have Your Baby in a Hospital." Read on... More > |
| Independence - It Depends On Us | 1 comment |
 15 Mar 2003 @ 14:42THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - PARAGRAPH 2 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. More > |
| Possible Tax Consumer Solar Power | 1 comment |
 15 Mar 2003 @ 14:35I wish I had comment on this. Go figure. Californians who recently took the trouble to put up solar electric panels expected hearty thanks from a state desperate for clean energy to relieve its strained power grid. Instead, they may be getting a bill. A California Public Utilities Commission proposal would slap a charge on consumers who start generating their own power. The reason: to cover the high costs of electricity the state bought for utility customers during the energy crisis two years ago. The whole story can be read at Mercury News More > |