Al Bratton

Hometown: Tupelo, MS
Interests: Progressive Vision
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  • Shared Ten Amino Acids Thermodynamically Favored (Progressive Opinion)
    April 14, 2009 - 11:06pm

    Ten Amino Acids Thermodynamically Favored

    While Bible-Thumping Creationists continue to teach that God’s Creationism is the origin of Earth and Man, science continues to trump their efforts.

    In the famous Miller-Urey experiment, amino acids, the “building blocks of proteins,” can be relatively easily produced by simple, natural processes. Ten of the 20 life building amino acids were created in conditions similar to the atmosphere of a young planet Earth.

    Bottom line:

    “...if these 10 amino acids were the basis of life on Earth, and they form so favorably, then there’s a very good chance that life on other planets may have originally used the same 10 amino acids.”
    [...]

    “...the fact remains that life here on Earth might have a lot in common with life elsewhere....”

  • Shared The Great Right -Wing Freak-Out (Progressive Opinion)
    April 13, 2009 - 9:00pm

    Published on Monday, April 13, 2009 by Salon.com
    The Great Right-Wing Freak-Out
    Symptoms of the conservative crack-up were on full display after President Obama's trip abroad. Bill Kristol, take a bow.
    by Juan Cole

    President Obama's recent trip to Europe, Turkey and Iraq was a fairly bland freshman outing in foreign affairs, notable for the enormous good will it generated toward the U.S., along with some practical achievements and a few minor errors. It lacked the drama of the untested young Kennedy grappling over Berlin with the wily old Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. On the American Right, however, Obama's trip produced a hysteria not seen since radio listeners mistook Orson Welles's 1938 radio production about an invasion from Mars for the real thing, and crowded the highways, heads wrapped in wet towels, to escape the poisonous miasma of the onrushing aliens. The weeping and trembling of Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh and William Kristol underlined once again that the rightwingers are playground crybabies who kick and scream and faint whenever they do not get their way.

  • Published Famous Quote (Blog entry)
    April 5, 2009 - 7:28pm

    "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." : John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Published AFL-CIO Blog Announces Winner of Chicken Little Contest (Blog entry)
    April 5, 2009 - 3:54pm

    re-printed by A. Bratton from: http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/01/and-the-winner-is%e2%80%a6/

    We have a winner in the heated contest for the Chicken Little Sky Is Falling Bizarre Corporate Panic Over Workers’ Rights Award.

  • Published A Mississippi Blue Dog DemoRepub Misfit (Blog entry)
    April 5, 2009 - 11:47am

    Letter to the Editor Tupelo, Miss. Daily Journal

    April 5, 2009
    Al Bratton
    Tupelo, MS

    On Mar. 18, 2009 an article appeared in the Daily Journal titled “Senators, Childers Voice Opposition to Card Check Bill” by Joe Rutherford.

  • Shared Going Galt--Conservatives Love Ayn Rand? (Progressive Opinion)
    April 4, 2009 - 6:15pm

    conservatives say they love ayn rand but i think they aren't aware she is anything but a conservative fan.