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Postmodern Ring of Doom Watch - Russia to deploy new type of nuclear missile

Russia to deploy new type of nuclear missile I don't believe this. Why is Russia doing this? What do they hope to achieve? I can understand that the US antiballistic missile shield tends to destabilize the deterrence concept, but 1. I thought the Cold War was over, and 2. At least it's a shield , not a new weapons system! These kinds of moves seem to demonstrate that Russia has the kind of paranoid leadership we have long suspected them of having. I guess the Cold War's still not over! Sauron is pleased. I wonder if this means the Doomsday Clock will be set closer to midnight, again? Cyr Currently it's set to seven minutes to midnight. What do you think? BTW, for those of you wondering, the title for the post is taken from my assertion that nuclear weapons are the postmodern world's Ring of Doom - more about this later.
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On This Day in 1215

November 11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "1215 - The fourth lateran council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation , meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ." The doctrine of the eucharist was the most important issue during the 16th century Reformation . It caused more divisions between evangelicals than any other issue. At that time, other doctrines were proposed as responses to this doctrine: Luther proposed the doctrine of consubstantiation . He used the allegory of a hot iron to demonstrate that, just as there is fire is in a hot iron but the fire does not become the iron, so Christ is present in the bread and wine but the elements do not become Christ. Zwingli proposed a symbolic interpretation of the Last Supper, saying that there is no real presence in the elements. Calvin proposed a doctrine of "spiritual presence," saying that the body and blood of Jesus Christ are received in a sp...
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Bullet The Blue Sky

Yahoo! News - Thousands of Troops Storm Fallujah Here we go...they expect there will be more casualties in this battle than in any battle of the war so far. I hope this works, because if not Iraq really is a lost cause. Pray for the soldiers and the innocents. To quote Governor Tarkin: "I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work."
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St. Paul Pioneer Press | 11/10/2004 | Kerry taunts tied to school fight

St. Paul Pioneer Press | 11/10/2004 | Kerry taunts tied to school fight : "'It's a good thing to see young people interested and excited about politics,' said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom. 'It's obviously very disturbing to see this kind of violence over it.'" Looks like they're just taking after our example of animosity!
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Ukraine Election Watch

Neither the incumbent Mr. Yanukovich or the challenger Mr. Yuschenko has gotten more than 50% of the vote in Ukraine's presidential election, so they go to to a runoff on Nov. 21. Mr. Yanukovich is a semi-communist, and advocates political reunion with Russia. Mr. Yuschenko is a reformer, and advocates closer ties to the EU, NATO, and the West. There were around 24 contenders in the presidential election. With 94.4% of precincts counted, pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had 40.12% of the vote, and top opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko had 39.15%, the Central Election Commission said Monday...turnout was about 75%. For some reason ;) Ukraine's government is not publishing official results, describing the tally as "unofficial preliminary results." My wife is visiting Ukraine right now. She says there's vibrant political activity all over the place in the capital Kiev, where her brother lives. They say people stayed up all night to vote in...
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Hello, Hello - I'm at a place called Vertigo

Hello, Hello Hola! [Spanish for Hello] I'm at a place called vertigo (¿Dónde está?) [Where is it?] It's everything I wish I didn't know Except you give me something I can feel Feel
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Reflections on the elections

To start with, I'm going to blockquote a SojoMail I received from Jim Wallis: Progressive faith did not lose this election by Jim Wallis Religion was a big factor in this election, and "moral values" were named as a key issue for voters in the exit polls. On the Republican side, George W. Bush talked comfortably and frequently about his personal faith and ran on what his conservative religious base called the "moral issues." On the Democratic side, Senator John Kerry invoked the New Testament story of the Good Samaritan, talked about the importance of loving our neighbors, and said that faith without works is dead - but only began talking that way at the very end of his campaign. We've now begun a real debate in this country over what the most important "religious issues" are in politics, and that discussion will continue far beyond this election. The Religious Right fought to keep the focus on gay marriage and abortion and even said t...
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Some tech stats for election 2004

CNN.com Election 2004 Using Java and Flash as well as HTML, CNN has set up a pretty nifty looking election results site. Using Netcraft , I determined that CNN.com runs Apache on Linux. Netcraft also has some interesting news about DOS attacks on electoral-vote.com, an electoral college prediction site; plus, the author of the site is Andrew Tanenbaum, the author of Minix.
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