Saturday, February 23, 2013

23 February - Blogs I'm Following

English: Coat of arms of British Columbia
English: Coat of arms of British Columbia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Wawadit'la, also known as Mungo Marti...
English: Wawadit'la, also known as Mungo Martin House, a Kwakwaka'wakw "big house", with heraldic pole. Built by Chief Mungo Martin in 1953. Located at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia. (Description taken from here) Français : Wawadit'la, ou la maison de Mungo Martin, une "Grande maison" des Kwakwaka'wakw, avec ses totems. Monuments construits par le chef sculpteur Mungo Martin assisté de David Martin et Mildred Hunt en 1953 à Thunderbierd park, Victoria, en Colombie Britannique. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Looking along English Bay Beach in the West End.
Looking along English Bay Beach in the West End. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Straight Goods logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dr. Pielke
Dr. Pielke (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


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Kits Coast Guard?

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 7 minutes ago
There be foul odours over English Bay, blown in from East and West.  I've been having a hard time lately justifying why we still need politicians, because they really aren't making the case for themselves these days.

BC Liberals, Government of Gimmicks Gadgets And Gobbily Goop

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 9 minutes ago
*Written by Grant G* Before we get started there are two things that need to be said, right now the province of British Columbia is in structural deficit, meaning this, predicted and needed expenditures are greater than predicted and expected revenues, second, for far too long the public has been at the mercy of a pathetic media, a media that has failed in its public duty to report honestly, a media of complicit enablers, a media of spin and factual liars.. Our carbon tax, it`s a failure, this gimmick hasn`t removed one single gram of carbon from our provincial airshed, in theory ... more »

Roobarb and Custard Say: Rave

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 26 minutes ago
A kiddie rave tribute to Bob Godfrey, the creator of much-loved children's show *Roobarb* (not *and Custard*!); and national treasure, Richard Briers, who died earlier in the week.

The 100 million protest march

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 28 minutes ago
Chances are you didn't see this story on your TV news stations. I only saw it because I caught an odd RT in my twitter stream. My google-fu tells me it was barely covered by the high profile US news orgs even in print/online. But Al Jazeera was there: If you can't watch the video, the workers of India have had enough of being exploited by the owners and the politicians. As many as 100 million Indians angry about high prices, low pay and poor working conditions walked off their jobs Wednesday as a two-day strike organized by 11 major trade unions closed banks, disrupted major tr... more »

Interesting Update on the Sandy "Hurricane Deductible"

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 30 minutes ago
Yesterday the NHC released an update to its hurricane reanalysis page which lists Sandy as a hurricane in the state of NY, but not NJ. The new update is consistent with the recent Sandy assessment, but far more back and white -- a storm is is or is not on the list as a hurricane. In New York following Sandy this happened (emphasis added, and for more background go here): The New York State Department of Financial Services and Governor Cuomo informed the insurance industry that hurricane deductibles should not be applied. *The decision was based on the fact that the storm did not s... more »

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 38 minutes ago
Quiet news week, no? I'll go ahead and pick the developments in Syria as something that mattered, or at least could matter. And a cheat for what didn't matter -- I'll pick the argument over who originally proposed sequestration. The truth of it doesn't really matter, but I argued in my Salon column today that the fact that Republicans chose that as their spin is quite bad for current and future negotiations. So that's what I have...what do you have? What do you think mattered this week?

NSFW or Around Children - Transvaginal Ultrasounds

2old2care at Because I Can - 45 minutes ago
Lots of states are trying to push through transvaginal ultrasounds as a way to denigrate women who are choosing to use their rights under Roe v Wade. I do not think that state legislatures should be sticking their noses into this. I do not think that it is necessary for state legislators to further humiliate women at a stressful time. BUT - - - - - I didn't truly picture what this meant. Well ................... Then I ran into an actual picture - of the probing, penetrating transvaginal ultrasounddevice I just knew it was much more than just - wrong. The Republicans putting fort... more »

"DHS Contractor Apologizes For Selling Shooting Targets of Children"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 45 minutes ago
*"DHS Contractor Apologizes For Selling * *Shooting Targets of Children"* By Paul Joseph Watson "A company which received $2 million dollars from the DHS has apologized and taken offline “no more hesitation” shooting targets which depicted pregnant women, children, and elderly gun owners in residential settings as “non-traditional threats,” following an online uproar. As we first reported on Tuesday, Law Enforcement Targets Inc. (LET), a Minneapolis based company that has received almost $2 million dollars in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security over the last three ... more »

Must watch interview.

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 46 minutes ago
For the record, DJ! apologizes to Michael Sona. It appears the guy was in the throes of electoral fervor when he dispatched by CON war room bullies to play the role of a minor thug during the 2011 federal election. For his troubles, he was thrown under the bus. Watch his candid interview here. PMSHithead's government, elected by means that appear to me and many others who are working to collect the evidence of CPC wide-spread electoral fraud, cannot fall quickly enough. I hope the members of the CPC oligarchy who engineered this assault on democracy and the electoral process suffe... more »

Useful Idiots

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 55 minutes ago
It's always mystified me, how right wing nut jobs with more car derelicts and washing machines in their front yards than blades of grass stubbornly cling to the delusion that trickle up and trickle down economics works. Because self-styled conservatives think, for want of a better word, in frames and when you compartmentalize your thinking in rigid frames, no force on earth can move you to rethink, reappraise or reform your mode of thinking. Since the Southern Strategy of 1972, poor southern voters were convinced by the criminals of the Nixon administration that what... more »

U.S. States Jonesing for Drugs

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
Georgia is said to be rushing to put down condemned prisoners before it's stock of execution drugs expires on March 1. Georgia is just one of several states that find the supply of drugs needed for lethal injections drying up. Some states are even said to be hitting the black market. Georgia confirmed to the Guardian that its entire supply of pentobarbital expires on 1 March. The expiration date leaves the state in a quandary: it still has 93 men and one woman on death row, including Hill, but with no obvious means by which to execute them. *Anti-death penalty campaigners are s... more »

“The Trigger Has Been Pulled, The Crash Has Begun”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
* “The Trigger Has Been Pulled, The Crash Has Begun”* How are things going to play out? My take… by kaibosh "We have obviously crossed the threshold folks, things are falling apart by the day and the game of Kick the Can has at long last gone as far as it can. The rest of the World no longer has a choice, the United States is no longer the big bully on the playground who won WWII and their fingers are no longer so firmly around the throat of the planet. The long lunatic nightmare of Bernanke monetary ponzi schemes cannot continue. It will be interesting to see what their plan is ... more »

"Feds Buy Two Billion Rounds of Ammunition"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
* "Feds Buy Two Billion Rounds of Ammunition"* by William Bigelow "Something strange is going on. Federal non-military agencies have bought two billion rounds of ammunition in the last 10 months. The Obama Administration says that federal law enforcement agents need the ammunition for “mandatory quarterly firearms qualifications and other training sessions.” Radio show host Mark Levin is suspicious. He commented: "To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, the [Dep... more »

Schwaller de Lubicz On The Sacred Teachings of The Ancient Egyptians

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
Below is an excerpt from *R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz's* 1949 book, *"The Temple in Man: The Secrets of Ancient Egypt."* Translated by Robert & Deborah Lawlor. Published in 1977 by Autumn Press, Inc. Pg. 106-107. "The Ancients never "popularized" anything; to the uninitiated they provided only the minimal *useful *teaching. The explanation, the philosophy, the secret connection between the myth and the sciences were the prerogative of a handful of specially instructed men. Did not Pythagoras wait twenty years before being admitted into the Temple? Did he not, in his own teaching, i... more »

"GEAB N°72: Global Systemic Crisis - Second Half of 2013"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
* "GEAB N°72: Global Systemic Crisis - Second Half of 2013*" The reality or the anticipation of the Dollar collapse obliges the world to reorganize on new fundamentals. by LEAP/E2020 "The reality or the anticipation of the Dollar collapse obliges the world to reorganize on new fundamentals. Just as the Euro crisis pushed Europe to modernize and adapt its economic and financial governance to the challenges of the 21st century, the terrible US dollar crisis will oblige the world to transform the whole of world governance structures, beginning of course with the international mo... more »

Brahimi’s Bulls***

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago
*Maybe we can find a kernel or two of golden corn nuggets in it. * "UN Syria envoy calls on government to start truce" by Ben Hubbard | Associated Press, October 18, 2012 BEIRUT — Lakhdar Brahimi’s push to get Assad and rebels seeking to topple him to stop fighting for the four-day Eid al-Adha feast set to begin Oct. 26 reflects *how little progress international diplomacy has made* in halting 19 months of deadly violence in Syria. Activists say more than 33,000 people have been killed.... * **It was never meant to progress. It's there as a fig leaf so western war-makers can say w... more »

Capitalism Exchanges Fire with France

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Globalization has transferred a great deal of political power into corporate boardrooms. And, for some businessmen, it's gone to their heads - guys like Maurice (Morry) "The Grizz" Taylor, CEO of U.S. tire company, Titan. Morry was in France to check out a faltering tire plant he thought Titan might pick up. When he was done, Taylor fired off a letter to French industry minister, Arnoud Mountebourg, telling him France could keep its "so called workers." ** *"The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for th... more »

Good News: The Building Trades Unions Aren't Endorsing A Republican In Massachusetts

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
A few days ago Nate Silver warned in his *NY Times* column that Ed Markey doesn't have Kerry's Senate seat in the bag. He shows the states as "likely" Democrat. Only likely... when the GOP can't even find a plausible candidate and after Obama won 61% of the state against Massachusetts' former governor. He won every county and every congressional district. The closest Romney came was in John Tierney's 6th CD where he took 43.9% of the vote. Most everyone, though, has written off Markey's primary as a bit of practice for the main event. He's running against ConservaDem and anti-Cho... more »

Mauna Loa carbon dioxide: a fit

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours ago
I wanted to find a nice function that gives a satisfactory description of the carbon dioxide concentration as a function of time. Mauna Loa, one of the five volcanoes underlying Hawaii, a middle Pacific state of the U.S., is the most standardized place where the concentration is measured. See this NOAA page on Mauna Loa weekly and the raw data I have used. If you open the page with the raw data, you will get over 2,000 weekly concentrations of carbon dioxide in ppmv (parts per million of volume – or equivalently, parts per million of the number of molecules) between May 1974 a... more »

Forgetting Jim Foley

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago
*"Journalists are increasingly getting caught up in the **chaos**"* ** * US writer is shown captive in Syria * ** * US news crew is freed in Syria * ** * I'm sorry, but since Mockingbird I view all US reporters as spies, especially foreign journalists. * A close escape for Richard Engel and NBC team Fortunate to have a big organization like NBC to safeguard their interests; hundreds of freelance journalists in global hotspots lack such protections. *Speak of freelancers....* "War reporter kidnapped a second time; Boston-based; captured in Syria" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, Janu... more »

The Crown Jewels of the Obama Administration

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 2 hours ago
Those of us not yet moribund with Outrage Fatigue Syndrome (see previous post) were flabbergasted to learn that while tens of thousands of people were protesting against the Keystone Pipeline in front of the White House last weekend, the president was far, far away in Florida, golfing with oil and gas barons. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama was off on her annual Aspen ski vacation, hosted once again by billionaires Jim and Paula Crown, who own and control a big chunk of defense/security contractor General Dynamics. The Crowns, as you may know, are prominent Obama campaign bundlers, havi... more »

You make me feel like dancing

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago
I imagine this will be posted everywhere today but I'm posting it too for the archives. Our First Lady is so cool. Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon in drag... [More segment clips here]

No Fly Post

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago
*"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also announced an additional $5.5 million in humanitarian aid for refugees, left open the possibility of setting up a no-fly **zone**"* *"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington and Turkey were discussing a range of steps including a no-fly zone over some parts of ** Syria**"* * **France seeks partial no-fly zone above Syria* * **"plans for a no-fly zone in Syria were ‘‘not on the front burner as far as I **know**.’’*" * **"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a television interview that Moscow rejected inter... more »

Why and When the Use of Drones is Unconstitutional

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 3 hours ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Why 'instant justice' via drones is an evil, pernicious, insidious, undemocratic outrage to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, specifically the Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." --U.S. Constitution, Fourth Amendment On ... more »

It's Dangerous Not to Talk

Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
The conversation that can change the course of history is well underway. It's time for our political leaders to listen. When opting a child out of a standardized test is considered civil disobedience, something is very wrong and very sick about that society. Barbara Madeloni at The Chalkface Radio tells it like it is. The cost of freedom and truth about corporate ed deform is getting higher along with the cost of everything else. But, it's more dangerous not to talk. Dangerous Talk FEBRUARY 23, 2013 BY BARBARA MADELONI 2 COMMENTS Talking is dangerous. Jesse Hagopian, a teacher lea... more »

Biden At Bat

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours ago
Veep Joe Biden is carrying the White House campaign to rein in assault rifles. And, predictably, he's shooting straight. *He challenged the National Rifle Association's arguments opposing Barack Obama's plans, declaring: ''They say, 'Well, it's about our culture … The facts are, our culture's not killing 25 people a day. It's weapons and high-capacity magazines. It's criminals who get guns without going through a background check.* * * *''We have to speak for those 20 beautiful children who died 69 days ago, 12 miles from here,'' Mr Biden added, saying he had met two Sandy Hook ... more »

Japan on the Offensive

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours ago
Majia: As an American citizen I don't feel I have much right to criticize the militarism of other nations. That said, I do think that Japan's LDP is escalating conflict in an alarming spiral that could get out of hand. Japan says Abe’s quotes about China in Post interview were ‘misleading’ by C. Harlan and D. Nakamura Feb 22, 2012[excerpted] — Japan sought Thursday to clarify comments about China that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made to The Washington Post this week, with a top government spokesman saying that quotations published by the newspaper were “misleading.” The Post had quote... more »

Hard Times Ahead For American Blacks?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours ago
Could the United States Supreme Court open the door for rolling back decades of progress for America's black minority? *When a black man won the White House in 2008, many in the commentariat declared the United States a "post-racial" society, no longer hamstrung by old hatreds, freed at last from the embarrassments of segregation – finally and triumphantly color blind. * *Conservatives have been telling themselves some version of this pretty lie ever since Robert E Lee surrendered at Appomattox. On 27 February, we'll hear it again when the supreme court takes up a challenge to th... more »

Drones and Fascism

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours ago
New Drone Base in Niger Builds U.S. Presence in Africa by E. Schmitt and S. Sayare The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/world/africa/in-niger-us-troops-set-up-drone-base.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130223&_r=0 WASHINGTON — Opening a new front in the drone wars against Al Qaeda and its affiliates, President Obama announced on Friday that about 100 American troops had been sent to Niger in West Africa to help set up a new base from which unarmed Predator aircraft would conduct surveillance in the region. The new drone base, located for now in the capital, Niam... more »

Sex Could Solve Roman Catholicism's Biggest Problems

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
The debate is open again as to whether Roman Catholic priests should have to be celibate. Britain's top Catholic, Cardinal Keith O'Brien says the next Pope should re-open the issue of ecclesiastical celibacy. *Britain's most senior Catholic has suggested Catholic priests should be able to marry and have children, saying the demand for celibacy was not of "divine origin".* *In one of the most significant breaks with Catholic orthodoxy, Cardinal Keith O'Brien said many priests found it "very difficult to cope" with the celibate life and suggested lifting that ban could soon happen... more »

Indonesia’s palm oil developers threaten the Congo Basin – ‘The Indonesians came here for the first time in September 2010 and started to destroy properties, farmlands, crops, livestock, and houses’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago
[image: Cover photo for 'Seeds of Destruction', a report issued by The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), which reveals impacts on forests and local people of the biggest palm oil plantations in the Congo Basin. The Rainforest Foundation UK says there is 'a real and growing risk that some of the serious, negative environmental and social impacts resulting from the rapid expansion of palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia, such as widespread deforestation, social conflict and dispossession, could be repeated in the Congo Basin.' Photo: Rainforest Foundation UK] By Hayat Indriy... more »

Another two great songs ruined by some kids

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
One Direction's dire Comic Relief version of Blondie's 'One Way Or Another' segued with The Undertones 'Teenage Kicks'. David Cameron you must remember the original versions, have you no standards? Here's the original Blondie version of 'One Way Or Another' And The Undertones original version of 'Teenage Kicks' There's just no comparison with the anodyne, wimpy One Direction cover is there?

Cameron's Austerity Wins Britain a Credit Downgrade

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
It's not like Britain's Conservatives weren't warned their austerity platform would bludgeon their nation's economy. Still, David Cameron didn't have to boast that keeping Britain's AAA credit rating intact would by the real test of his economic and political credibility. Oopsie. Britain's credit rating has now been dropped from AAA to Aa1 by the ratings agency, Moody's. And the Tories, predictably, have vowed to stay the course since that seems to be working so well. *Chancellor George Osborne said the government would continue taking "tough measures" to deal with the deficit... more »

Duffy to Cough Up Cash

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago
Harper senator (just add water and stir) Mike Duffy has said he'll repay the housing allowance he's been pocketing for living in Ottawa while "resident" in Prince Edward Island. "*What we've got here is a case where the rules aren't clear,*" Duffy offered by way of a blended excuse/apology. He seems to think that resolves everything yet it might only make things worse - for him. If Duffy is legitimately resident in Prince Edward Island then the money he's refunding is properly his, every dime of it. It's only if Duffy isn't a resident of P.E.I. that he's taken money that he isn... more »

Slow Saturday Special: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago
*I thought I would start you off with this one since it brings back so many memories*: "Buck Biggers, 85; created Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo" by Daniel E. Slotnik | New York Times, February 23, 2013 NEW YORK — W. Watts “Buck” Biggers — who with his partner, Chet Stover, created the 1960s cartoon “Underdog” and wrote its infectious theme song — died Feb. 10 at his home in Manomet, Mass., a village in Plymouth. He was 85. The cause was a heart attack, said his longtime companion, Nancy Purbeck of Plymouth and Boston. Mr. Biggers was an account manager at the advertising firm Dance... more »

Tree Sit Remains, Tree Cutters Faced with Difficult Tasks Ahead

Alex Lotorto at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 5 hours ago
*February 23, 2013* * * *Tree Sit Remains, Tree Cutters Faced with Difficult Tasks Ahead* *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *Contact:* Alex Lotorto, Pike County, PA Resident 570-269-9589 / alotorto@gmail.com www.NoTennesseePipeline.blogspot.com photos attached * * *Milford, PA, February 23 2013* – A 12 p.m. march is still on for today in Milford across the Milford Bridge, from Milford to Montague, across the Delaware River! Meet at the corner of Broad and Harford. This will remain on the sidewalks and shoulder of the road and is child/pet friendly. Pinchot is still in the tree stand as tree c... more »

SNL on the POPE

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago
*Rally to #makeBPpay!* *New research: Louisiana coast faces highest rate of sea-level rise worldwide ~Bob Marshall*

Buying Votes

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours ago
This week, Stephen Harper launched his Office for the Promotion of Religious Freedom. Tasha Kheiriddin is puzzled: Of all the Conservatives’ initiatives to date, the most bewildering is its newly created Office for the Promotion of Religious Freedom. The Tories are deploying five million dollars of taxpayers’ money — ostensibly to promote not a particular religion, but the freedom to practice religion in general. Not in Canada, mind you, but around the world, in places from Turkey to Tibet. But the office is more than puzzling. It strikes at the very heart of Canadian democracy... more »

Did Pope Ratzinger Abdicate Over A Much Worse Boy Rape Scandal In The Vatican Hierarchy Than Has Ever Been Reported Before?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
Gays? Where? There are all sorts of reasons being given for Benedict's unprecedented abdication and his decision to be shut up, incommunicado, in a cloister for the rest of his life. On the positive side, he could have done it because he knew he was no longer physically and mentally (or even spiritually) up to the job and wanted to do the right thing for the organization and for the more than a billion Catholics who profess at least a nominal allegiance to his sect. More discerning critiques said the Pope stepped aside because of another in a series of scandals involving the Vatican ... more »

Channel 4 - Walking Wounded - Artist Taxi Driver rantorial

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 6 hours ago
this rantorial from Artist Taxi Driver starts off quite quietly, then he LETS RIP... ...and he's right.

today bradley manning has been imprisoned 1,000 days without trial

laura k at wmtc - 6 hours ago
One thousand days. Think of where you were one thousand days ago, and all you have done since then. In all that time, Bradley Manning has been in prison. For 62 days, he was held in a cage in Kuwait. For 265 days, he was held in solitary confinement. For 1,000 days, he has been imprisoned. And when Manning does receive a hearing, it will not be a trial. It will be a court martial: his accusers will be the only judge and jury. Manning's "crime" is exposing the truth about the murder of civilians by US forces in Iraq. While the real criminals go unpunished - indeed, while they le... more »

Breaking: This whole press corps is out of order!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 21013* *The New York Times attempts to report on the nation’s Hispanic students:*In some ways, yesterday was the wrong day to be called away from our sprawling campus. Consider a few of the day’s events as recorded by Kevin Drum: You had a fake column by David Brooks. For Drum’s review, click here. You had a somewhat fake review of health care costs by Steven Brill. Click this. Following Monday’s fake interview by Charlie Rose, these presentations made us think of Al Pacino’s famous rant in that famous movie: *This whole “press corps” is out of order,* as w... more »

Gender and Human Capital Returns

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 7 hours ago
Here is an interesting fact: Women earn a higher rate of return from a college degree than men. In particular: After controlling for various demographic factors, the researchers found that female graduates earned more than $6,500 more per year than women with just a high school diploma, and more than $4,500 more than women who dropped out of college. Male graduates, by contrast, earned only about $2,700 more than high school graduates, and about the same amount as male college drop-outs. The findings are consistent with past research, which has showed that jobs are much more gend... more »

From Uvajuq - how death came into the world

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago
In the very earliest time When both people and animals lived on earth A person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being. Sometimes they were people and sometimes animals and there was no difference. All spoke the same language That was the time when words were like magic. The human mind had mysterious powers. A word spoken by chance might have strange consequences. It would suddenly come alive and what people wanted to happen could happen-- all you had to do was say it. Nobody could explain this: That's the way it was. Naalungiaq, 1923

Fully funded doctoral positions in practical philosophy open in Gothenburg

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 7 hours ago
A brief pointer to a call for applications, officially launched by my university yesterday, to fully funded doctoral studies positions at my department (of philosophy, linguistics and theory of science). Among the subjects to which one can apply is my own of practical philosophy – i.e. ethics, applied ethics, metaethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, and so on. So if you meet the eligibility criterion (basically a BA plus a minimum of a 1-year MA in a relevant subject), and think that spending four-five years in Gothenburg doing a philosophy/ethics doctoral project within... more »

High Fructose Corn Syrup Leads to Obesity and Liver Damage by Elizabeth Renter

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
High Fructose Corn Syrup Leads to Obesity and Liver Damage by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 23 February 2013 *Experts agree – **sugar truly is a health destroyer**. And whether it’s real sugar or sugar in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, negative health effects will surely pop up with over-consumption. But some research does indeed pinpoint HFCS specifically for causing a concerning amount of damage. Two studies coming to these conclusions found evidence showing that HFCS promotes obesity and causes damage to the liver.* One study, conducted by Duke University research... more »

BBC News - UK's credit rating cut humiliating, Labour says

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
The BBC are acting as the Labour party's mouthpiece again today. The news that Moodys has cut the UK credit rating from AAA to AA1 is headlined Ratings cut humiliating, says Labourand is accompanied by a long quote from Ed Balls that completely ignores Moodys analysis and reasons for cutting the UK's rating. Contrary to the much repeated Labour/BBC line that George Osborne is cutting too fast and too deep, the credit ratings agency criticises George Osborne for the slower than expected 'pace' of 'deficit and debt-to-GDP reduction', for 'mounting debt levels' and the failure 'to rev... more »

Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
I posted the Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel version on wednesday but have found some cover versions which I post here for your perusal Duran Duran's 1982 live version - I'm not a fan of this very Duran Duran version Erasure's version which is truer to the original but Andy Bell's voice just isn't on a par with Steve Harley's. Suzi Quatro from 1977 - I like this version but then I always did have a thing for Suzi in my pre-teens. The Wedding Present with a punkesque version form 1990 - I normally like punk versions of old tracks and this is no exception! Which is your favo... more »

Seen in Eastleigh

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Seen on the campaign trail in the Eastleigh by-election.

Gladue Factors beyond sentencing

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago
The *Gladue* factors may have other effects, even though they are only directly applied to sentencing in the *Criminal Code*. Since*Gladue* sets out principles intended to address the "crisis on the Canadian criminal justice system" that the horrendous over-incarceration of Aboriginals represents: (*Gladue, supra*, par. 64), some have suggested that a court should consider such principles in other situations that have the capacity to improve this situation. The Ontario Court of Appeal has held that *Gladue *principles apply in other situations where the court is engaged with the ... more »

Religious Freedummmmmmdumdumdum!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 9 hours ago
Crawling out from under several biotic invasions jumping up and down on me since November, I am finally starting to believe I will survive this winter, except I've likely jinxed it now by 'saying' that 'aloud'. Times like this remind one the stress of even temporary disease wears you down in a way that makes you slither away from added emotional aggravation. By the time you crawl home the only energy you have is for necessities of domesticity before passing out. Still, I am an adult and I'm privileged to have a home, plus employment that pays the bills and has HR policies against b... more »

China Policy Institute Blog at U of Nottingham

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 10 hours ago
*Kiln in Kaohsiung.* Jonathon Sullivan at the U of Nottingham alerted me to his China Policy Institute blog. One of the changes he has made is running regular special feature issues. The current one is on China-Japan relations, including some good articles on the Senkakus mess. In March they will run a special issue on President Ma, a year after the election. There will also be weekly pieces on Taiwan. Check it out! _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores... more »

A solution to the menace of children on a plane

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
It could work!

Zuckerberg and Brin Join Forces to Extend Life

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours ago
This is now happening mainly because it is becoming plausible. Recent work has blown open the problem sufficiently that pathways are now worth investigating. I would not be surprised to discover that the solution even turns out to be easy. Keep that thought. The ultimate human lifespan will not be earthly immortality but it can be centuries for individuals who prepare themselves. Recent work has already shown us that telomeres can be rebuilt and that implies restoration to one's prime is a viable proposition. When I started this blog, interest was still modest, but has ... more »

Corn Yields Boosted

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours ago
This will squeeze a significant gain in yield for corn likely on the range of perhaps another twenty percent. Corn is been subjected to many other beneficial improvements that secures it position as the leading field crop. In time we will have a rich nutrient enhanced product that is welcome everywhere. The conversion to corn culture worldwide continues to be rewarding and well rewarded and is handily providing us much of our food security. It will clearly continue to expand its range. It is all good news for the long term as agriculture prepares to shift into organic m... more »

Picasso Used Common House Paint

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours ago
It let him get the look he wanted and it was the age of high quality house paints. Thus it is no particular surprise. This merely improves analytic precision should we care. Yet it allowed him to create a vastly more expansive style that shed the attention to the traditional stroke by stroke methodology of the past and approaches the styles of today were it is all computer assisted. He truly led the way and was recognized for it. It made great art. *Picasso's Genius Revealed: He Used Common House Paint* *Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience senior writer* *Date: 08 ... more »

Primal Evil's Physical Basis

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours ago
There are two types of evil. The type this addresses is the worst kind and we will simply label it primal evil and it is strongly associated with a physical flaw in the brain itself. Evidence exists suggesting that Hitler suffered a war injury to the head and that effected his subsequent behavior. Other specific cases also typically are associated with brain flaw and this work polices the obvious science. The other type of evil is derivative evil and it is learned and impressed through the social environment. This is both forgivable and also modifiable if not outright... more »

Wayne Madsen - 100% certain 9/11 author Philip Marshall was assassinated

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 12 hours ago
yesterday, I chanced upon this video report from Wayne Madsen. Topic: 9/11 author and *former IranContra cocaine pilot* Philip Marshall who allegedly went bezerk with a gun in his home in a gated community called Forest Meadows and killed his teenage daughter Macaila, his teenage son Alex (both pictured) and his shitzu dog Suki before turning the gun on himself. *Neighbors’ houses are “practically on top of” Marshall’s house, so dozens of neighbors would have heard any gunshots that weren’t muffled by a silencer…and Marshall’s “patsy gun” did not have a silencer. * *The crime scene ... more »

Comet to see in March, NASA reports

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/OZlenAvqLCI Go find your binoculars! There's a new light in the skies... John

dream - muntjack sized regurgitating rat barman

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 12 hours ago
i) it was about the size of the Muntjack Deer I saw on yesterday afternoon's jog since the (triumphant) ten mile jog that did my knee in. I'm slowly getting back into my stride, as it were. Couple miles here, couple miles there. Running less on tarmac, more on grass where possible. Resting more in between runs. I'd got to the top of the hill, and there was the Muntjack in the bushes. It being winter, there was less cover than usual and I stopped and had a good look at it for seconds before it scampered away. But this RAT. That's all it was, an actual rat? Or was it another talking ... more »

POPE, RENT BOYS, CIA, NAZIS, MAFIA...

Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago
*Pope Paul VI, allegedly a gay Marrano Jew. Allegedly, under Pope Paul VI, Jewish and Freemason influence increased within the Catholic church.* How might the CIA, Mossad, the Mafia, and the top oligarchs, control the Papacy? *La Repubblica has reported the existence of an underground gay network at the Vatican...* In April 1976, in an interview with the Italian magazine Tempo, gay French author Roger Peyrefitte, wrote that Pope Paul VI was gay. "He is homosexual... It is known that a boyfriend of Paul VI was a certain movie star, whose name I will not give." (Paul VI's Homosexu... more »

Such inspiration!

Alex Lotorto at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 14 hours ago
It has been such an inspiring week so far. Tens of thousands of people came together for the largest environmental protest in US history! There have been multiple successful actions against extractive industries! *Congratulations everyone I think we just leveled up as a movement!* This all helps me imagine a world where tens of thousands of people are standing together against whatever threatens the planet or those who live on it.

Something Burning....

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours ago
Something burning at Fukushima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyGtSu8DLlU&feature=youtu.be Thanks Nuckelchen

February 22, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours ago
Howard Baker, the top Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee meets secretly in the White House with the president in the Oval Office -- there's no record of it in the White House official records of such things. Baker tells the president (according to a conversation between Nixon and Erhlichman the next day) that the committee intends to build up slowly to the major witnesses; in Nixon's words, they would "call of a lot of pipsqueak witnesses, little, little shitasses over periods of weeks to build it up, and then build the pressure to call" the headliners. The fight, from the... more »

Personal Note From Northerntruthseeker

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours ago
I want to take this time to inform everyone that my family issues are almost cleared up (finally!)... Yes, I have been spending a lot of time the last while visiting with my sick mother, and working with other family members on getting everything ready for her move to a personal care facility. It has been a long process, but it looks like the major headaches are now out of the way, and everything should be back to "normal"by next week....I hope..... It also has taken a lot of out me mentally and I have found myself absolutely wiped out... I have also had to take it more easy the l... more »

The Myth Of The Jewish People

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours ago
I have always been amazed by the audacity of those who call themselves "Jews" to claim falsely that somehow they are a distinct race of mankind. Common sense dictates that when you put an Ashkenazi, a Sephardic, and an Ethiopian Jew side by side, you can obviously see that you are looking at three distinct races, and yet all three ignore their racial distinction, and call themselves "Jews" first and foremost! I have put up many previous articles at this blog exposing the lies and fraudulence of Judaism itself. And now I want to present a new article that comes from the website:... more »

Sunday Classics preview: Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovich!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*The Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk, part of Novodevichy Convent, near Moscow, where Boris Godunov, who had been the power behind the throne of his brother-in-law the newly departed Tsar Feodor, retreated in 1584, waiting to be implored to accept the throne. The rise of the curtain is preceded by this deeply forlorn orchestral introduction:* *MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov: Prelude (ed. Rimsky-Korsakov)* *Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, cond. Decca, recorded November 1970* *by Ken* No, Sunday Classics isn't back from hiatus exactly. It's more like a hiatus from hiatus. I'... more »

Red Ice Radio - Egypt Roundtable - Hour 1 - Ancient Technologies & Khemitology

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: RedIceRadio. Posted on February 22, 2013]: This roundtable discussion features Egypt experts Stephen Mehler (archaeologist and prehistorian), Chris Dunn (craftsman and engineer), Patricia (artist) and Yousef Awyan (stone mason), Gary Evans (Infinite Connections) and Brien Foerster (Peruvian expert and sculptor) all of which will be guiding a unique 2 week tour of Egypt. In the first hour, we'll discuss ancient Egypt and the highly advanced civilization that was there before writing. This advanced civilization had knowledge of science based ... more »

Taxpayers and students have a right to know what’s happening at Athabasca University

David Climenhaga at Alberta Diary - 15 hours ago
Athabasca University from the air, with the town of Athabasca in the background. Below: Former VP Academic Margaret Haughey, President Frits Pannekoek and former VP IT Brian Stewart. What the heck is going on at Athabasca University? It was revealed to the university’s faculty earlier this week that four senior administrators have left their positions ... more »

Adequacy of reasons

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
R. v. Burnie, 2013 ONCA 112 is yet another adequacy of reasons case: [28] It is a well-established legal principle that the reasons a judge gives in a criminal trial without a jury fulfill an important function in the trial process and where that function goes unperformed, the judgment may be vulnerable to reversal on appeal: *R. v. Sheppard*, 2002 SCC 26, [2002] 1 S.C.R. 869. [29] Speaking on behalf of the Supreme Court in *Sheppard*, Justice Binnie noted, at para. 21, that it is a reviewing court's task, "not so much to extol the virtues of giving full reasons, which no on... more »

Musical Interlude: 2002, “An Ocean Apart”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
2002, “An Ocean Apart” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPONyDT_WQ

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
“The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may appear peaceful at first sight but it is actually tossing and turning. In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! Collisions between gas in the inner and outer regions are creating many hot blue stars and pink emission nebula. *Click image for larger size. * The above image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2001 and released in 2004. The fascinating internal motions of M64, also cataloged as NGC 4826, are th... more »

Ruined Health and Environmental Injustice

Majia's Blog - 16 hours ago
I've been battling a terrible flu and secondary bronchitis for 9 days now. I hate being sick so much. I'm happiest when I'm outside hiking or swimming so being sick is absolutely antithetical to enjoying my life. I keep thinking about the people in Japan and elsewhere who have had their health permanently ruined by wanton pollution. Destroying someone's health is destroying their life. Yet the nuclear industry is allowed to ROUTINELY contaminate the environment with radioactive emissions like tritium that destroy health and cause intergenerational genetic damage. The Fukushima nuc... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Your Nightly Dose of Reality: Pakistan's Army

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
Tarek Fatah, an award-winning Canadian writer of Pakistani origin and founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, compares Pakistan's army to Al-Qaeda in the video below. He says, "Pakistan is like a carcass being looted by these vultures." But Fatah's disdain for the top brass of Pakistan's army is not shared by the Pakistani people. Back in December 2011, Aakar Patel wrote in his article called, *"Why Pakistan’s army is more popular than its politicians"*: A Pew poll reported by Reuters a few months ago said the army was “overwhelmingly popular” in Pakistan. It said 79 percent of P... more »

Frobisher Bay

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago

"The 12 Rules of Survival"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
* "The 12 Rules of Survival"* by Laurence Gonzales "As a journalist, I've been writing about accidents for more than thirty years. In the last 15 or so years, I've concentrated on accidents in outdoor recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and why. To my surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive seemingly impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart, separated by culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most successful survivors–those who practice what I call “deep survival”– go through the same patterns... more »

Thin snowpack in U.S. West signals summer of fire and drought – ‘We’re running out of time’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago
[image: Thin mountain snow in Colorado and across the West could signal another summer of drought and wildfire in 2013. Photo: Matthew Staver / The New York Times] By JACK HEALY 22 February 2013 DENVER (The New York Times) – After enduring last summer’s destructive drought, farmers, ranchers and officials across the parched Western states had hoped that plentiful winter snows would replenish the ground and refill their rivers, breaking the grip of one of the worst dry spells in American history. No such luck. Lakes are half full and mountain snows are thin, omens of anothe... more »

Let's call the whole thing off

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours ago
There's a reason Republicans love to demagogue about "out of control spending" but refuse to name specific cuts they want to make. It's because, when asked about specific cuts, the majority of the electorate loves spending and in fact wants to spend more. If you don't want to dig through the numbers, Plum Line summarizes the polling. As it turns out, the people love the very programs Republicans most want to cut and care the least about the spending Republicans are fighting to protect. Although there's some small variation, for instance callous cons care less about helping the poor... more »

Right-wingers all over agree: We don't need no stinkin' democracy!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago
* * *by Ken* In a "Letter from Jerusalem" in the January 21 issue, which appeared just before the January 22 Israeii election, *New Yorker* editor David Remnick wrote an interesting piece ("The Party Faithful") that I didn't get around to reading until *after* that election, with its surprisingly un-extreme result. Remnick, in his piece, seemed quite prepared for what most everyone was expecting: the next step in Israel's seemingly unstoppable free fall into the clutches of its demonic Far Right. The extremist crazies, for their part, seemed pretty confident that Total Victory was... more »

Bathroom Success!

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 18 hours ago
I was beginning to think I'd never see the day but my bathroom is now complete. (Okay, there's still the light fixture but that's a minor issue compared to the other things I needed to get taken care of.) I had the new flooring installed this morning and got the new toilet put on late this afternoon to finish things off. It's my first upgrading/reno I've ever done and I'm pretty impressed with the results if I do say so myself. I was hoping to get it all taken care of for under $1000 and as an added bonus I managed to come in slightly under that. And what a huge difference now... more »

Friday Baseball Post

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours ago
The Friday Baseball Post is really an elsewhere this week; for those who didn't see it earlier, I wrote something for Baseball Prospectus about Paul Richards (who regular readers will know I had developed a bit of an obsession with). So there's that. Bonus fact. You know Walker Cooper, right? He managed exactly two years, both in the minors. The first year, with the 1958 Indianapolis Indians, he managed Joe Altobelli, Sam Mele, and Bobby Winkles. Perhaps not the greatest set of managers of all time, but that's a still a lot of games managed for one minor league roster, no? Also -- t... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago
*Former Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office purchasing chief, friend of Gusman, resigns from jail ~Tom Gogola, The Lens*

Academic Freedom and the Challenges of Going Global: LSE Cancels Conference in UAE.

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 20 hours ago
Apparently, the Arab Spring will not come to the UAE this weekend. Planners of an LSE conference on the implications of the Arab Spring set for this weekend in UAE have cancelled the event after efforts by senior UAE officials to control the content. From the BBC: A senior LSE academic told the BBC he Continue reading

First Nation Terrance Nelson: Refusing to be the 'house nigger'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
Refusing to be the 'house nigger'   Terrance Nelson By Terrance Nelson First Nation Roseau River Ojibway Censored News   Evander Kane has every right to challenge racism in the NHL and in Winnipeg. Despite the attack by Don Cherry upon Evander Kane for using the "race card", there is no doubt that racism in the NHL is real. Not long ago Boxing, Baseball, Football, and Basketball

Global Musical Chairs

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours ago
There's nothing like self-interest to shape one's perspective. With the ascendancy of the emerging economies: - China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico and South Africa - those of us in the developed world face the prospect of possibly having to do with less as our rivals muscle us out of some markets that were once ours for the taking. They've got money, they want to buy the stuff we want, they'll compete and we're going to have to pay more for somewhat less. But imagine what the future holds for the have-nots. They too are going to have to compete with the new wealth and as the r... more »

Russians Rushing From Syria

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago
*Not really, but that was the agenda-pushing narrative and impression my mouthpiece media was trying to give. * "Rebel fighters give ground to Syrian troops in Aleppo" by Dalal Mawad and Damien Cave | New York Times, August 09, 2012 BEIRUT — There were new, disputed accounts regarding an equally contentious claim by the insurgents that they had *killed a senior Russian general*acting as a military adviser to government forces around the capital, Damascus. A *rebel group calling itself the Hawks Special Operations Battalion said in a video posted on YouTube* that it had ‘‘eliminate... more »

John Friend on The Real Deal w/ Dr. Jim Fetzer

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 21 hours ago
Last Wednesday, February 13th, I was a guest on Dr. Jim Fetzer's radio program *The Real Deal*. We discussed the Sandy Hook "shooting" hoax, the use of fake victims and scripted actors to perpetuate PSYOPS on the public, and the PSYOP aspects of the alleged Jewish "Holocaust" during WWII. You can download the entire two hour program *here*.

Ending the day in a healthy way...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 21 hours ago
*Mark Sisson, of Mark's Daily Apple, has some pretty good suggestions.* A few things I would add to the list: - Review your day in your appointment or day book. - Review what you'll be doing the next day and make a list. - Put out your clothes and accessories (your kidlets, too.) - If you need to take things with you the next day (ie: books, reports) make a pile so you won't forget anything. I routinely forget to put on my watch if it's not on the pile. - Say your prayers. Most of my suggestions focus on the next day, but it's very relaxing to know that the nex... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago

ufo disclosure now

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 21 hours ago

saucer on the moon

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 21 hours ago
Watch video: UFOs captured on film during the Apollo Program

Frank Herbert, "Litany Against Fear"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert, "Dune", "Litany Against Fear"

Paulo Coelho, "The Consequences of Fear"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
*"The Consequences of Fear"* by Paulo Coelho "• *Worry* is a mechanism of our psyche that prompts us to do something. The prompting energy is fear – usually fear of some consequence. Because it is fear, the person tends to avoid thinking about it. Thus worry tends to perpetuate itself in a circular way – the fear causes non-action, and non-action further causes worry. • *Anxiety* is a fear whose object is nonspecific or vague, whereas worry is about something specific and identified. Anxiety is the result of repeated unprocessed fears that have accumulated in one’s subcons... more »

Some links you'll like

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 22 hours ago
First of all another cultural inventory, Me Blog Write Good, not as detailed as Pushing Ahead of the Dame or Shabogan Graffiti, but it's the kind of write-up cum scholarship The Simpsons deserve. It goes well with the tumblr, Crudely Drawn Filler Material. Also, check out this American online magazine, Red Wedge, slogan: Independence of art for the revolution - revolution for the liberation of art. The current feature is by a very promising young writer you'll be hearing a lot more of.

"Fear"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"Fear"* by The DailyOM "The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear- fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety." - H. L. Mencken. "Anything worth doing will always have some fear attached to it. For example, having a baby, getting married, changing careers- all of these life changes can bring up deep fears. It helps to remember that this type of fear is good. It is your way of questioning whether you really want the new life these changes will bring. It is also a potent reminder that releasing and grievi... more »

Why The GOP's Far Right Base Loves Fringe Lunatics Like Louie Gohmert

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
New polling from Pew, indicates that the Republican Party-- at it's core (so values, principles, policies, agenda)-- is woefully out of step with normal American voters. We're not just talking about the sad antics of Republican psychopaths and vaudevillians like Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul and Steve Stockman; we're talking about the heart and soul of the GOP, their financial backers and the crackpot, Foxified base of the party. In short, the public disagrees with everything the Republican Party has been talking about for at least five years. ... more »

"The Case of the 5-Year Old Bubble Gun Terrorist"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
* "The Case of the 5-Year Old Bubble Gun Terrorist"* by Simon Black "A few weeks ago in the Land of the Free, a five-year-old girl in Pennsylvania was labeled a terrorist threat. Fortunately for the citizens of Northumberland County, local authorities managed to detain this nefarious kindergartener before she could exact her villainous deeds on thousands of innocents. Authorities were tipped off after someone overheard a conversation between the girl and one of her classmates in which she mentioned plans to shoot people… with a bubble gun. Administrators at her local elementary ... more »

Good News: The Building Trades Unions Aren't Endorsing A Republican In Massachusetts

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
A few days ago Nate Silver warned in his *NY Times* column that Ed Markey doesn't have Kerry's Senate seat in the bag. He shows the states as "likely" Democrat. Only likely... when the GOP can't even find a plausible candidate and after Obama won 61% of the state against Massachusetts' former governor. He won every county and every congressional district. The closest Romney came was in John Tierney's 6th CD where he took 43.9% of the vote. Most everyone, though, has written off Markey's primary as a bit of practice for the main event. He's running against ConservaDem and anti-Cho... more »

WWE Tea Party Character Upsets Tea Party

Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 23 hours ago
Usually when wrestling veers into politics liberals tend to be the butt of the joke. This time around, however, WWE's Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter are irritating the real Tea Party by pretending to be right wing blow hards. *The Majority Report* has more: Incidentally, the angle may have been, let's say appropriated, from Lucha Libre USA.

Zapatistas Marcos Them and US VII 'The Smallest of Them All'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
Them and Us VII: The Smallest of Them All THEM AND US. VII.- The Smallest of them All. Espanol: Enlace Zapatista Introduction. February 2013. For several years now, while in the politics of above they fought over the booty of a shattered nation, while the media was either silent or lied about what was happening, while the original peoples of this land went out of fashion and returned

MORE ON PALESTINIAN OSCAR FLAP

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
Palestinian director Emad Burnat arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday and was unexpectedly held for questioning for nearly an hour and a half by US immigration officials. According to Burnat, the immigration agents threatened to deport him and his family if he couldn't provide adequate proof that he was nominated for an Academy Award. The news broke after documentary filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted the news and now the director of "5 Broken Cameras" joins us to give a first-hand account of what happened.

Feds cut funding, but the tests will survive

skrashen at Schools Matter - 23 hours ago
Sent to the Washington Post, Feb. 22, 2013 “U.S. schools brace for federal funding cuts,” Feb. 21, did not mention that despite anticipated cuts of $1.3 billion in federal funding of education, there are no plans to cut back on the common core standards, accurately described by Susan Ohanian as “a radical untried curriculum overhaul and … nonstop national testing.” The common core requires that all students be connected to the internet in order to take the tests that enforce the standards. This represents an investment of billions. New York City and the State of Florida have budget... more »

ALEC-er Would Give Corps the Right to Vote

2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours ago
From Think Progress This ALEC legislator was part of “once upon a time” ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force (Voter ID bill). This must be a piece of ALEC “model legislation” they keep hidden in the ALEC vault. A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the entity i... more »

Flor rosa luciendo su hermosura

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Mujer hada en la isla bajo el cielo púrpura

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Honoring the Life of Russell Means, Pine Ridge Feb. 27, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
2nd Honoring - The Life of Russell Means, “Oyate Wacinyapi” (Oglala Lakota) Censored News PORCUPINE, S.D. -- The family of Russell Means invites you to join us in the “2nd Honoring - The Life of Russell Means”.  The honoring will highlight his life, leadership and the eternal fire that he re-ignited throughout Indian Country.  This Honoring is being held in conjunction with the 40th

BELGIAN MP TELLS TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA POLICY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago
Laurent Louis, Minister of the Belgian Parliament, delivers the truth about the French "total re-conquest" of Mali and the reasons that underlie this latest neo-colonial war in Africa. The 32-year old MP is one of the most vilified political figures in Europe and after viewing his speech it's easy to understand why he's being targeted. You can read the full speech *here*

Casa en el campo con árboles enormes

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Hermoso paisaje con cabañas junto a las montañas nevadas

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Can't live without a living wage

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
Happy to see Nancy Pelosi throw down a challenge to the GOP on an issue that really matters to the little people. She told the media Democrats would be pushing a minimum wage raise and if GOPers didn't get on board they could explain it to the voters in 2014. The strategy is straightforward: “Just keep it simple. We want to raise the minimum wage, and you don’t. Why not?” She understands the politics perfectly: “There’s an even greater awareness now than there was six years ago about the disparity of income in our country — and that this disparity is not a healthy thing for a fa... more »

Mohawk Nation News 'Dirty Tricks'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
MNN: DIRTY TRICKS Posted on February 22, 2013 Mohawk Nation News MNN. Feb. 22, 2013. The Infinite Elder “Red-X” found the Secret Instruction Manual on “Stealing Indigenous Resources”. Here are some of the colonial strategies. A Red-X disguise. Colonial Dirty Trick #1: Call it “democracy”, 51%, and you will keep control. Organize fancy cocktail parties with open bars, colonial

Edificios a orillas del mar azul

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Mohawk Nation News 'Another Invasion of Canada Coming'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
ANOTHER US INVASION OF CANADA COMING Posted on February 21, 2013 Mohawk Nation News MNN. Feb. 19, 2013. In June 2006, US Border Patrol and ATF [Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] were caught monitoring the Six Nations standoff at Caledonia. There was no outcry. Our men were charged with interfering with these foreign agents.  Was this part of the groundwork for the future US invasion of Canada

Campo de flores iluminado por un cielo rojo

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Democracy and culture

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 23 hours ago
I have just been given a copy of The Beatles Esher Demo. It was a very kind and thoughtful gift. The Esher Demo was made in spring of 1968 after The Beatles returned home from India. The songs were recorded in George Harrison’s home, many of which ended up on the White Album, recorded and released later that year. The recordings had been passed around as a bootlegfor a long time and were so almost-official parts of the tape were eventually released on the final part of the Anthology. The interesting thing was as soon as I mentioned I had a copy I was asked whether I downloaded it. T... more »

Safe Seats Do Not Mean Gerrymandering

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
I guess we're not explaining this well enough. Dave Weigel: I enjoy the new, #slatepitchy argument that gerrymandering is overrated as an issue, and that it doesn't influence whether members moderate their votes or not, but sequestration's putting that to a test. Kevin Drum: Hold on a second. Who's saying that? The argument I've heard making the rounds lately is that gerrymandering is probably responsible for a fairly modest change in the number of House seats Republicans won last year...But who's been saying that gerrymandering has no effect on whether members feel any need to mo... more »

Perros en la nieve junto a los árboles secos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Gatito felíz tocando piano

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago
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Ciudad de las torres con luces y juegos pirotecnicos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Caballos corriendo en la arena de la playa

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Principia Scientific Intl - Atmospheric CO2 Not Linked to Humans says Global and Planetary Journal

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
'The professor affirmed that the results were nonetheless conclusive: "changes in CO2 always lagging changes in temperature." ... Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.' More here - http://principia-scientific.org/supportnews/latest-news/135-atmospheric-co2-not-linked-to-humans-says-global-and-planetary-journal.html I await the BBC's coverage of this news...

with silent lifting mind

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
"High Flight" Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've ... more »

What a real space Alien looks like

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 1 day ago
Lo que un real extraterrestre se parece. *ما هو الفضاء الحقيقي الغريبة يبدو* مخلوقات غريبة تشبه اليرقات تحت الماء مصغرة • قد نجا يجري المغلي في 150 درجة وبرود في -200 • اسم يأتي من مخالب صغيرة في نهاية أرجلهم • تخيل أنك تعيش لأكثر من 200 سنة، رحلات إلى الفضاء على قيد الحياة والبقاء أملس بسبب الظروف الأكثر تطرفا على هذا الكوكب. • وجود المستحيل بالنسبة لك أو لي، ولكن لا يصدق كل يوم لمجرد صغيرة الحيوانات التي تعيش في الماء، والمعروفة باسم tardigrades، أكثر جرأة المخلوقات على وجه الأرض كنت قد سمعت أبدا من. • يشبه اليسروع تحت الماء مصغرة، tardigrades تتباهى مخالب صغير في نهاية أرجله... more »

Not Green, For Now

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
I had to resign my membership in the Green Party to do it, but now I'm a Liberal Supporter. I didn't join the Liberal Party and I won't unless something radical happens but I registered as a Liberal Supporter in order to vote for Joyce Murray as party leader. Murray is the only candidate who is remotely progressive. She's the only one who isn't a bitumen booster. She's the only candidate who has garnered the support of two people I truly respect - Lloyd Axworthy and David Suzuki. She's a fellow British Columbian. That said, I expect Trudeau will win and carry on the Liberals' m... more »

Note to Bahrain: Release Prisoners and Provide More Social Services

amurdie at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Thanks to a very awesome grad student of mine, I just realized that last week marked the second anniversary of the start of the Bahrain uprising. Fueled by protests in Tunisia and Egypt, citizens of this small and very beautiful island state took to the streets to demand political changes. For two years, the protests Continue reading

Steve Israel Lets His Slip Show On Which Republican Banditos He'll Be Targeting In 2014

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Last cycle, Israel and his incompetent DCCC stumbled and fumbled their way through the election with disastrous, narrow targeting, wasting Democratic resources on red districts with unelectable Blue Dogs and leaving at least a dozen winnable seats on the table because the conservative and self-serving Israel, a "former" member of the Blue Dog reactionaries himself, hates progressives. He adamantly refused to go after any senior Republican policy-makers or committee chairs in charge of the Republican policy agenda. But not only did he not commit ritual seppuku after his failure, h... more »

Common Core State Standards Primer

Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
Disclaimer: The publishers of this document, Truth in American Education, have some very disconcerting right-wing membership and advisors. I mean really right wing, like Heritage, Koret, the Teabaggers, and other assorted birthers and Birchers. However, this Common Core State Standards Primer document appears on the Hoosiers Against Common Core site that Professor Ravitch mentions in her recent Two Determined Moms in Indiana Take On Common Core post. Like the old adage: "even a broken clock is right twice a day," this flyer provides factual information on the Corporate, er... I mean... more »

Know Your Rights Everyone!

Alex Lotorto at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 1 day ago
Know Your Rights FAQ – Guide to Peaceful Demonstrations and Protests in Pennsylvania All persons have rights under the United States Constitution to freedom of speech, to peacefully assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. This guide addresses some common questions that arise with respect to demonstrations and protests. It is not comprehensive and is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended as legal advice and should not be so construed. Do we need a permit to demonstrate? You need a permit if you are demonstrating in a public par... more »

Shame, Shame

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
By Capt. Fogg Remember when anyone like the Dixie Chicks, for instance, or you and I expressed any sense of shame for any actions our country may have taken or not taken: any shame for having elected Caligula Jr. the Warpresident? Well certainly the great weight of Limbaugh and the fire-farting far right came down on such unfortunates back in the day when expressing pessimism about the Stock Market was evidence of being an "America Hater." Even peripheral actions like perhaps wanting to publish the names of soldiers killed in the early days of our Shokinaw war in Iraq was disgrace... more »

Maternity Leave, Iran, and American Exceptionalism

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
Source: “Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move From Surviving to Thriving”  by Jody Heymann With Kristen McNeill On February 17, 2013, The New York Times published a fascinating and, quite frankly, damning map depicting the United States’ retrograde attitude toward paid maternity leave in comparison to the rest of the world.In simple terms, the United States is a global outlier: the only

Hitting it out of the park...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*by Bob Belvedere, at Camp of the Saints - and we thank him!* *Masterminds, Libertines, And Thugs *

The Square, Egypt's Revolution Doc with Sundance Winner Dir. Jehane Noujaim

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Jehane Noujaim directed the 2004 documentary *"Control Room."* Her new documentary is about the Egyptian revolution called, *"The Square."* It won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Bring Your Own Doc : The Square, Egypt's Revolution Doc with Sundance Winner Dir. Jehane Noujaim. Source: TheLipTV. "The Square," Filming The Egyptian Revolution Dangers of Filming in Egypt's Revolution: THE SQUARE

The Social Science of Climate Change

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
What does social science have to do with climate change? Quite a bit, actually. Climate change denialism has given social scientists rich pickings to scrutinize, pick apart and analyze. One finding they've reached is that the ranks of climate change denialists are heavily populated with conspiracy theorists. It's a hoax, a conspiracy, you see, the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. And research that shows denialists = conspiracists, well that's a conspiracy too. *The strongest finding in the survey was that ideological belief in an unregulated free market tended... more »

Formation flying: skydivers with airplanes...

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/fNSQCWPyGVA I am still waiting for the wingsuit skydivers to land on their feet without parachutes. I am sure some new, innovative gadget will enable this! Enjoy a cool weekend! John

Always Wanted to Visit "The Big Easy"?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Many of us have at one time or another wanted to visit New Orleans, *The Big Easy*. If you still want to go, you might want to go sooner rather than later. Louisiana, you see, is experiencing a major problem with sea-level rise, far more than state officials expected. *Stunning new data not yet publicly released shows Louisiana losing its battle with rising seas much more quickly than even the most pessimistic studies have predicted to date.* *While state officials continue to argue over restoration projects to save the state’s sinking, crumbling coast, top researchers at the Na... more »

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