Jim's Political Links

Riffs (or should that be rifts?) on the origin of species

1. Answers to Creationist's Nonsense
2. More Answers from the NCSE
3. YAACS - Yet another anti-creationist site in a nice Q&A format
4. Pastafarians - Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, a rather funny way to address the problem.

Banging on corporations - they don't all deserve it!

1. Bad Corporations - An extremist view for sure. I can't see all corporations in this light. Still, they offer some interesting information.
2. Buy Blue - How to buy from businesses that share your political view. If you're on the right and the business isn't listed here...
3. Creative Commons - Some brilliant legal work.
4. Intellectual Property thinking

Banging on The Government - but the government does a lot of good too!

1. US DoD - the official site
2. Privacy.org - Information about remaining free.
3. EFF - Keeping the Internet a free place.
4. Propaganda - a historical perspective, umm, but some of the examples are current!
5. Modern Propaganda - Some Photoshop experts.

Data for an Open process

1. How we voted in 2004
2. Where They Stand - Every politician on every issue. Very informative.
3. The Black Vault - Keeps an archive of documents that have been removed from government web sites.
4. The Memory Hole - A site that keeps an archive of war photos that the government was reluctant to release.
5. Who gives and who takes - An interesting set of statistics about what states get more tax dollars than they pay.
6. The Smoking Gun - Documents they gather from all over the place. Lots of scanned images.

Banging on the Bush Administration

1. Bush Speech Writer - A funny use of his sound bites, from the UK.
2. He's an a**hole, etc - a funny music video
3. Sorry Everybody - An interesting use of the internet to build come community.( and a companion site )
4. Truth Out - They editorialize about current events.

Banging on The Moral Right

1. The American Taliban - An interesting approach to some of the more egregious mouth pieces of the unmoral far right.
2. The Evil Bible - These guys are way too extreme, but if you need to balance someone who's thumping on your chest, this might help.

Banging on the Media

1. Independent Media Newswire - not exactly banging on the media.

Political Groups

1. Outraged Moderates - They are really pissed.
2. MoveOn - I supported them before the 2004 election, but now their discussion groups don't resonate with me. I don't think our "number one issue" is moving solar power forward...
3. MoveOn PAC - ... but their political action committee is more professional and more focused.
4. Punk Voter - Do they vote?
5. Moderate Republicans and those who oppose them.

One Man Parties

1. PAN Party - Anyone can become a political party.
2. Majority Voters - OK, my own attempt.
3. Progressive Republicans

Sites that have linked into my Site (thanks, but no commercial use please!)

1. Home Cooking recipes
2. S.V. Bermuda Triangle
3. The Brain - thanks for the link, but your brain is out of whack
4. An anti-UHaul site
5. Schrempp.us  (OK, it's my brother's web site)
6. Donne in Cucina
7. A photo credit in an article about SOFIA
8. NZ camper vans - ??

Travel Sites that link to my site

1. Dmoz Travel
2. Google Travel Peru
3. Google Travel Cambodia

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