Gordaen's Blog

In this day-and-age of Googling and increased information accessibility, I’m frequently amazed at the people who don’t effectively use search engines. The first cases I saw of this were back when Yahoo! was the search engine and HotBot was useful rather than atrocious. People would type in a complete URL into the Yahoo! search box [...]

Senator Larry Craig (R.-Idaho) says “[Industrial Carbon Dioxide] is not a pollutant.” Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla) has been quoted for saying that global warming is a “hoax.” Here’s a quote from an article he wrote: Despite the lack of a scientific consensus to warrant such measures, climate change alarmists — in the heat of the [...]

Unfortunately, it’s not in a good way.  Raise money for a Republican politician from South Carolina by shooting doves (the symbol of peace) on September 11th!  Sorry I didn’t get this out sooner so that we could all participate…  It’s even worse that this person is the State Superintendent of Education.

Just as Cheney lied, Bush recently gave a less-than-honest answer to a question about two weeks ago. The question was what Iraq had to do with 9/11 and Bush replied: “Nothing. Except it’s part of — and nobody has suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack.” He went on to say: “Nobody’s [...]

Analyzing the latest Census statistics shows that the citizens of Seattle have the highest percentage of people with degrees out of any city in the US with a population of 250,000 or more. 52.7% of its residents who are 25 or over have a four-year (or better) degree.