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I found this old blog entry that seems highly relevant to the current US presidential election. It seems to me that it would be useful for all journalists and biased political hacks posing as journalists and analysts to visit the Project Implicit lab and voluntarily disclose the results so that consumers can see how implicit biases might affect the news and analyses.
p.s. After posting this, I went to the site and found that they now have an Obama-McCain implicit bias test in addition to the previous race, gender, ethnic, age, etc. implicit cultural bias tests. . . and whereas it found me to be racially neutral in my earlier experience with the site, it did accurately detect my strong preference towards one of the presumptive party nominees.

tags: politics us bias presidential implicit project race obama mccain

The Order of Canada was just awarded to 75 people selected by a committee headed by the Supreme Court Justice. This appears to be an annual or semi-annual awards ceremony to honor achievement in a diverse range of areas of activity.
note: After posting the snarky comments below, I looked up Wikipedia's entry and found out that the Official Site linked below is 4 years out of date. The US Senate has a more up to date listing of the US honorees at

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipients.htm

snarky comments follow:
The last US Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony was at the end of 2004, when certain individuals related specifically to an event (the 2003 Iraq invasion and occupation) were honored, in a break from the tradition of the past five decades. And unless there are some surprise announcements, it would seem that during this second term, this president has found no one deserving of the honor...or hasn't been able to get the mission of getting a list of recipients together accomplished.
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p.s. always use more than one source, even if it is the Official Source...

tags: us of canada order presidential medal freedom

Or maybe the question should be why don't US citizens know that the Congress and the President etc. have free health care and the joke is on the poor folks that get deceived into voting against their own best interests year after after year after year...?

tags: humor insurance health us sick constitution

On this Remembrance Day I want to say thank you to my Uncle Ron. For many reasons.

I am so often shocked when I hear that people have forgotten that the British fought the Japanese in WW2 alongside the US. Why this is not talked about is a mystery to me. The events are as follows:

Monday, December 8 - The United States and Britain declare war on Japan with President Roosevelt calling December 7, "a date which will live in infamy..."

tags: ww2 scottish land reform act us navy