When it comes out in February 2008, everyone please ignore Expelled starring Ben Stein as the rebel with a cause - getting ID into science classrooms. I hope someone can teach Ben what exactly the Scientific Method is, and why ID isn’t science (instead of psuedo-conspiracy theories).
(Thanks to P.Z. for the link)
I watched a cool documentary this morning called America, from freedom to fascism, which was directed by Aaron Russo. The premise is Russo tries to find a law / constitutional requirement for citizens of the USA to pay income tax. What he finds is that in 1913 when the Federal Reserve was created it began a slow decent from a free country to a corporate owned fascist dictatorship.
He finds that the IRS has no legal precedent to force Americans to pay income tax, to seize their property, or to arrest them for tax evasion.
He finds that the majority of income tax simply goes to paying off the national debt which is mainly controlled by the Federal Reserve.
He finds that the Federal Reserve is in actuality a private-owned bank, whose owners are unknown (likely the major banks of America).
Near the end he also goes into how acts like the Patriot Act, and the coming of national ID cards (May 200 
will further evaporate American civil liberties and create a fascist police state.
Very enlightening, and it would be naive to think a lot of this isn’t happening here in Canada too.
I keep thinking through the movie (”robots in disguise”), it just would have been the perfect line.
So last night I went to see the new Harry Potter, more so because friends were going than that I really wanted to see it. But in my belief system you don’t get advance tickets for movies (or at least I’ve never done that), so I didn’t get to see Harry Potter. Instead I saw Transformers (since I was at West Ed). It was pretty radical (to use appropriate 80s terminology). Not the greatest movie ever, but definitely not a let down. The only downside that night was having to take a rip-off cab from West Ed back to my apartment (~$25 ride), because buses don’t run at 1am.
I also bought Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion, since it was on sale for 30% off at Chapters. I started reading it and I’ll comment later on it (so far so good though).
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