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Denton Drilling: Draft ordinance needs overhaul
Denton, Texas’ draft ordinance concerning gas drilling gets an F from local citizens. Time for a do over. Last night, about forty dedicated citizens gathered to review the draft gas drilling ordinance and generate ideas for how to improve it. There was one clear take home message: The draft ordinance…
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Privacy Rights Myth: Limitations on the 4th Amendment and Illegal Search and Seizure | Learnist
The Hunted and Hated is a short film featuring recordings of police intimidation and brutality. This film includes current and former police who talk at length about the systemic abuse of stop and frisk for the purposes of showing increasing arrests and decreasing crime rates. via Privacy Rights Myth: Limitations…
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Human “Enhancement” vs Environmental Reformation
When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall. The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder…
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A Boon of Dandelions 2
Frustrated. Nervous. Confused. Diseased. Disordered. Cloudy day and foggy mood although I do not think it a direct correlation: not then seasonal activity disorder. Melancholy abounds into my now/here; she empassions me darkly. Boundary situation of pain: Toes I sprained last week and the general tenseness in my shoulders circulate…
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Combatting Knowledge with Opinion (and some Prayers)
This is a nice follow up piece for the earlier link I posted today on why we are not ENTITLED to throw our opinions around without evidence and/or expectation of being challenged by those with broader knowledge: It is more than a little scary when you realize that objective data…
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Becoming Empassioned
Good piece. Opening ourselves up to the possibility of this Beautiful Order, we become conduits, energized by the dynamic force of the Encompassing Good. Letting-go of worry or fretfulness or obsession, we need not follow bliss as the blissful will find & empassion us. Growing up, we were told by…
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The Entitlement of Opinion
The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I…
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A Boon of Dandelions 1
48 Revolutions Round Sol… 4 X 12 cycles, from the Year of the Green Wood Dragon to the Year of the Black Water Dragon. Maybe this “mind,” maybe this “I” is but a phantom radical of some complicated fleshly life filled with so many material wonders there should be great…
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The Trials of Teaching in Texas
Since the [Texas State] Legislature eliminated more than $5 billion in financing from public education in 2011, some early results are easily quantifiable — like the approximately 25,000 employees shed from the state’s schools and the more than 6,200 additional elementary school classes that have more than 22 students. Other potential consequences…
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Freedom of Religion Clause a “Shield” NOT a “Sword”
A key insight in this opinion is that salaries and health insurance can be used to buy birth control, so if religious employers really object to enabling their employees to buy birth control, they would have to not pay them money in addition to denying them comprehensive health insurance. An…
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Ending The War Between Athens & Jerusalem: LA Review of Books
THE VIEW THAT ATHENS AND JERUSALEM represent two very different and antagonistic sources of Western civilization has long been a feature of the Western tradition. It dates back at least to Tertullian’s passionate second-century polemic against Greek philosophy. Those Enlightenment thinkers who preferred Greek reason to Hebrew revelation confirmed it…
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Top Ways to Energize Yourself by Healthy Eating « Home Remedies,Natural remedies,Health Remedies – Remedies for health
Nice blog by Nitin over at remediesforhealth. People as cars need some fuel to live, work and relax. Without fuel they can be exhausted and die forever. Healthy food is a great fuel for our body as it is a supplier of all necessary nutrients. I should notice that not…
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Eyes of Spirit: Works by Adam Scott Miller
My own life’s work as an artist is an expression of energy, creating my response to what I feel is needed for harmony between my consciousness and the cosmos. Visionary art is this pursuit of harmony, in courageous creativity for the sake of oneself and all, in mutual enrichment- imaging…
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Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers
Not one to advertise things for the iPad, but so many of my buddies are musicians who will find this of great interest.
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