Monday, June 30, 2014

30 June - Blogs I'm Following

10:03am MDST

A bang or a whimper

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 9 minutes ago
No sooner was The Big Questions getting into its stride under the masterful chairpersonship of Nicky Campbell than the series ended. I’m not even joking now. Don’t let’s forget that not so long ago that programme was such a shambles that watching it turned you into a voyeur, like when you stumble upon Jeremy Vine and are momentarily transfixed. However, it’s gone and now there’s Sunday Morning Live. I don’t know why we lost Samira Ahmed, who was rather good, and got instead Sian Williams who sports the roundest face ever to be televised. Like TBQs SML has three topics and a panel,... more »

ISIS oh ISIS your a Mysterious Child

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 19 minutes ago
To summarize my past analyze of this group : Bullshit. There are so many things wrong with this picture its hard to know where to hang oneself. I just know in my heart the group that manufactured ISIS where Bob Dylan fans. They are throwing babies out of incubators, no not yet but soon I expect. If they really want to make a Islamic superstate why not project their message to the Islamic states instead of speaking English aimed at the American people? So the US will give a half billion dollars worth of the finest tech weapons to moderate fighters. Is this like a weight class. Seri... more »

ANTHROPOLOGISTS WITHIN: Defining the problem!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago
*MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014* *Part 1—Balz on board:* With the death of his mentor, the late David Broder, Dan Balz is sometimes considered the dean of the Washington press corps. In yesterday’s Washington Post, Balz affirmed the instant narrative his own newspaper created last week. In the process, he raised a question which can only be answered by the anthropologists who emerge, on the rare occasion, from within his own corrupt guild. What is that question? We’ll post it below. First, let’s review Balz’s weekly column, which was quite significant this week. As always, Balz’s column, T... more »

Hobby Lobby...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago
*you could knock me over with a feather about now. * *HOBBY LOBBY WINS!* Supreme Court rules *5-4* in favor of *religious liberty*. and SCOTUS Rules 5-4 Against Public Unions in Harris vs. Quinn Decision

Radio Host Banned for Saying Mohammed Married a 6-Year-Old: “You Can’t Call a Deity a Pedophile” | FrontPage Magazine

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
' "No one mention Mohammed" has become the new, "No one mention the war".' Read why here... http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/radio-host-banned-for-saying-mohammed-married-a-6-year-old-you-cant-call-a-deity-a-pedophile/#.U7F0jxzrvwQ.twitter

Who are the Palestinian people?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
http://vimeo.com/98803639

Polar bear cubs in Germany

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago

Hell Is Empty & All the Mercenaries Are Here

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 hour ago
It's even worse than we imagined. A private mercenary force ostensibly working for the US Government issued a direct death threat against a US Government investigator, and then the US Government essentially turned tail and ran away in abject fear, leaving the private mercenary force behind in Iraq to kill at will. As usual, the wrong people are in jail (namely, Iraq War whistle-blower Chelsea Manning). And ironically enough, the reporter who broke this blockbuster Blackwater death threat story is himself now facing jail time for the crime of committing journalism and refusing to div... more »

Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assaults

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
The BBC report - http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-28094561- that 'Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris has been found guilty of indecently assaulting four girls. The 84-year-old was convicted of 12 attacks between 1968 and 1986.' Horrible story and to a man that I, figuratively, looked up to as a child. Oh well as Rolf Harris songs are now no doubt verboten, here's Splodgenessabounds with their version of Two Little Boys http://youtu.be/zeYwTIC2-TI

A film question re Django Unchained

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
Why are the gang who are taking Django to the mine in Django Unchanged Australian? Just wondering...

ALEC Transparency - Ain't what it used to be

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
ALEC trans-par-ency ain't what it used to be, ain't what it used to be, ain't what it used to be, ALEC trans-par-ency ain't what it used to be, just a few years ago. ALEC has learned to mislead the press very well when it comes to the issue of transparency. Unfortunately for the reader - the press writes what ALEC says - doesn't check to see if it is true - so the press feeds the public lies. *ALEC Distorts Transparency* because of member concerns about transparency, Meierling said. “The fundamental issue is people want to know,” Meierling said. “Critics of the organization and s... more »

Charles Forsberg's views on Generation IV nuclear costs

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 2 hours ago
*I am reposting this 2010 essay, because I believe that it makes important points about the future of nuclear power that require repetition.. Charles Forsberg has retired from ORNL, and currently directs nuclear fuel cycle research at MIT.* ORNL MSR development work focused almost exclusively on MSBRs, although Ed Bettis's reactor design shop did design some deep burn MSR converters. The AEC was interested in breeder reactors, so the ORNL focus was on the development of a MSBR, rather than on possibly simpler converters. During the 1960's the cost of Light Water Reactors (LWRs) was... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 3 hours ago
*Poor, bright British children missing out on top universities: More than 2,000 are overtaken by less able pupils after getting lost in the 'secondary school maze'* *The authors below seem unaware that IQ peaks earlier among low IQ individuals -- and those who peak early often look relatively good at early ages. That alone could explain the results below* More than 2,000 bright children from poor homes are missing out on places at top universities because they get lost in a ‘secondary school maze’, according to new research. These disadvantaged students are being overtaken by ... more »

“What You Signed Up For”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*“What You Signed Up For”* by Karl Denninger “I bet you thought Facebook tweaked your feed to provide you with "relevant" information you might find useful. What if you found out that instead they "tweaked" it in an attempt to determine whether they could manipulate your emotional state? Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” was p... more »

Stephen Harper's Legacy

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
http://greeceandworld.blogspot.ca/ Michael Harris has written a devastating indictment of the Harper regime. The piece is a little long. After all, the man has done a lot of damage in eight years. But, by far, most of the damage has been done since the prime minister was given his majority: It was revealing. Unlike his minority governments, where a murder of political crows flapped overhead waiting for the fatal misstep, after 2011 there was no vote Harper could not win, and no cabal in the Opposition ranks that could topple him... more »

Russia beginning to show its cards on Ukraine ( June 30 , 2014 ) -- Russia Reveals "Plan B": Gazprom Says Gas Transit Via Ukraine May Be Stopped Completely ..... Meanwhile Russia's trade with China set to soar !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-30/russia-reveals-plan-b-gazprom-says-gas-transit-ukraine-may-be-stopped-completely Russia Reveals "Plan B": Gazprom Says Gas Transit Via Ukraine May Be Stopped Completely [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 06/30/2014 07:53 -0400 - B+ - Bank Run - Bulgaria - Eurozone - fixed - Hungary - Natural Gas - None - Turkey - Ukraine inShare1 A few days ago, when we wrote our "explainer" on the need for Russia to have an alternative pathway for its gas, one which bypasses Ukraine ent... more »

Iraq Updates - June 30 , 2014 -- As the Iraq Government ( helped by Syria / Iran / Russia and the US ) mans the barricades to defend Baghdad / Samarra / Najaf / Karbala and to attempt to retake territory seized by various Sunni fighting Groups , just note the Kurds are moving quickly to establish Kurdistan in Iraq !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Tweets of note - FWIW ! *Mark* @markito0171 · 2h #Iraq #ISIS/#IS take most parts of Camp Speicher in #Tikirt http:// wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.668935 Retweeted by Alexblx *dado* @unaa2011 · 2h There are reports the arrest of Maj. Gen. Ali Furaiji, commander of operations in Salah al-Din Base Speicher #Iraq #Tikrit - *Al-Monitor* @AlMonitor · 45m Former #Iraq PM Ayad Allawi says a crescent of Russian influence forming in Middle East - Week-in-Review http://almon.co/24f9 *Al-Monitor* @AlMonitor · 2h #Russia is unlikely to do much more than provide arms to Baghdad - @ Th... more »

NFF

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours ago
Sorry that I have been out of touch with regular blog readers. I have moved to Nantucket for the summer, and the weather here has been too great to spend much time in front of a keyboard. (The three best reasons to be a professor: June, July, and August.) The past few days I have been attending the Nantucket Film Festival. I have had a chance to see some great movies before they are in general release. Two are worth mentioning: *Arlo and Julie*, a small quirky comedy/mystery that is a bit Woody Allen-esque. Also, *Happiness*, a documentary about a boy and his family in Bhutan. ... more »

Justice is a terrible thing but injustice is worse

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours ago
Peter Wimsey

America's Nazis in Kiev: "Russians are Subhuman"

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours ago
*June 30, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Self-appointed prime minister of Ukraine, Arseny Yatsenyuk of the "Fatherland Party," referred to Russians as "subhuman," echoing the racist vitriol of Nazism Yatsenyuk and others in his regime subscribe to. It was a violent, armed coup spearheaded by Neo-Nazi militants that placed Yatsenyuk into power in the first place, along with the Neo-Nazi political front Svoboda, and paved way for fraudulent elections that predictably yielded a pro-US-EU client regime. Yatsenyuk made his comments amid ongoing fighting in the east of Ukraine, where Kie... more »

Small dog climbs stairs oddly

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
No reason other than it's cute!

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 8 hours ago
*Laughing Stock Met Office…2007 “Peer-Reviewed” Global Temperature Forecast A Staggering Failure* Frank Bosse at Die kalte Sonne here puts the spotlight on a global warming forecast published by some British MetOffice scientists in 2007. It appeared in Science here. The peer-reviewed paper was authored by Doug M. Smith and colleagues under the title: “Improved Surface Temperature Prediction for the Coming Decade from a Global Climate Model“. Using sophisticated methods, the target of the paper was to forecast the temperature development from 2004 to 2014 while taking the internal ... more »

Carnivore Husbandry - The Lion and the Lamb

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
*Carnivore Husbandry.* I want to note that an alternative approach to animal husbandry is shaping up. Let me explain the reasons why. The actual balance of nature is grossly inefficient in terms of prey carnivore balancing. What happens is that predators focus on the young members of the prey species and go after adults rather sparingly. This suppress the population unnaturally. Simply hunting out the carnivores is not a good solution either since we then must face the reality that we ourselves need to replace them. It is about picking your poison. Yet we are approaching an a... more »

The Global Financial Ponzi Scheme

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
What no one really grasps in all this is that the global currency and credit system has literally gone its own way and has removed itself from the direct control of any human agency whatsoever. Participants pretend that their actions have influence, but it is really a charade. This has become Adam Smith's invisible hand with a vengeance. Of course those at the top of the credit bubble get to play king maker, but they are also in no meaningful form of control beyond managing their own appetites. Just how long such a group can sustain this remains to be seen and unfortunately well... more »

Laser Therapy Can Recover damaged Teeth

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
This is very good news. It means that teeth that are simply damaged can be induced to regrow outright. The protocol is not well defined yet, but the principle is clear enough. The tooth is cleaned up and stimulated. It is then likely temporarily protected as well and allowed to grow in with some additional stimulation likely required. Thus the next several years will see both this therapy and the actual implanting of fresh buds to produce new teeth where lost. This means that a full recovery of a mouth of teeth is becoming practical and way more important, worth planning for. H... more »

Trouble With the Pineal Gland?

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
I am not sure if any of this helps, but all inputs like this may. I put this into my list of associations and hope it pops up if it helps. The pineal gland has attracted a lot of attention but even that is openly disputed so that it merely informs as to the the real depth of our ignorance. What I do know for sure is that a few individuals become opened and can with coaching and some discipline find ways to convert experience into usable words. Lucid dreams may or may not be part of the story and those I can confirm. *Trouble With the Pineal Gland?* *By June 6, 2014* http://sore... more »

MORE ABOUT 'THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY' BOOK

THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY is a history of neoconservatism and its influence on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Written after years of extensive research, THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY contains over 550 pages, including more than 1200 footnotes and some 120 pages of bibliography. The book has been meticulously researched with every aspect of the history fully supported with primary evidence, much of it from the neoconservatives themselves. The book is a must for all those interested in the history of neoconservatism, the recent his... more »

Harry Targ : The intellectual impacts of historians Joyce and Gabriel Kolko

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
The ‘Limits of Power’ demonstrated that the United States was committed to expanding its capitalist empire across the globe. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | June 29, 2014 I have been teaching courses on United States foreign policy … finish reading Harry Targ : The intellectual impacts of historians Joyce and Gabriel Kolko

Free Download: Omar Khayyam, "The Rubaiyat"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
"We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all- HE knows- HE knows! The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall ... more »

"Let the Chips Fall Where They May..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
“It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. The things you own end up owning you. We are defined by the choices we make. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? I say, never be complete. I say, stop being perfect. I say, let’s evolve and let the chips fall where they may…" - "Fight Club"

"The Road..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet Will turn towards the lighted inn, My evening-rest and sleep to meet." - J R R Tolkien

"My Purpose..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars...” ~ from “Ulysses,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Akb1t37T4E&feature=related

What The Hell? Criminal Jews Have Forced The Shutdown Of Internet Traffic Originating From Iran (Prelude To War?)

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours ago
I have read the reports over the last two days about how a criminal Jewish scumbag lawyer in the United States has been able to convince a court in the United States to have ALL internet traffic originating from the innocent nation of Iran (all sites ending with ".ir") to be shut down... The excuse from this scumbag in this lawsuit is that Iran is a "terrorist nation" and is responsible (?) for the Israeli led attacks of 9-11! After reading the official statement put forward by the scumbags behind this atrocity, I honestly wanted to puke... I am shocked that they have had the auda... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
“Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are less than 200 left. Many globular clusters were destroyed over the eons by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center. Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil, older than any other structures in our Galaxy, and limit the universe itself in raw age. *Click image for larger size.* There are few, if any, young globular clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy because conditions are not ri... more »

The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Ninth Duino Elegy"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*"Ninth Duino Elegy"* "Praise the world to the angel: leave the unsayable aside. Your exalted feelings do not move him. In the universe, where he feels feelings, you are a beginner. Therefore show him what is ordinary, what has been shaped from generation to generation, shaped by hand and eye. Tell him of things. He will stand still in astonishment, the way you stood by the ropemaker in Rome or beside the potter on the Nile. Show him how happy a thing can be, how innocent and ours, how even a lament takes pure form, serves as a thing, dies as a thing, while the violin, blessing it, fades... more »

Psychology/Psychiatry: "Do You Have 'Oppositional Defiant Disorder'?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
*"Do You Have 'Oppositional Defiant Disorder'?"* by Ethan A. Huff "Psychiatrists have issued the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and, in it, they hope to add a whole slew of new psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, many of these disorders are merely differences in personality and behavior among people. The new edition may include “disorders” like “oppositional defiant disorder”, which includes people who have a pattern of “negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures.” Some of the “symptoms” of ... more »

"Four Noble Buddha Quotes"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
"Four Noble Buddha Quotes" by Perry Garfinkel "Isn't it - I can't decide whether to say "ironic" or "appropriate" - that modern technology now brings us wisdom that would otherwise have been considered oh so 2,500 years ago? I refer here to sharing timeless tips from one Siddhartha Gautama, the prince who lived 500 years before the Common Era, a.k.a. the Buddha. But sage as he was, as relevant today as when he lived, quoting the Buddha is dangerous business. Nothing he said was written down until some 300 years after his death; it was all passed down orally. By the time it got to us... more »

Paulo Coelho, “The Well of Madness”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
* “The Well of Madness”* by Paulo Coelho “A powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which all the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad. The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and inspectors, however, ... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
Keauhou, Hawaii, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

"God Grant Me The Courage..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.” -Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

"There For All Of Us..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
"We are hurt; we are lonely; and we turn to music or words, and as compensation beyond all price we are given glimpses of the world on the other side of time and space. We all have glimpses of glory as children, and as we grow up we forget them, or are taught to think we made them up; they couldn't possibly have been real, because to most of us who are grown up, reality is like radium, and can be borne only in very small quantities. But we are meant to be real, and to see and recognize the real. We are all more than we know, and that wondrous reality, that wholeness, holiness, is t... more »

"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?" by Tony Schwartz "Think, for a moment, about the life you're living. You skitter from activity to activity. The consequence is that you don't do anything particularly well. You're easily distracted and have difficulty paying attention. You rarely read anything challenging, if you read much at all, which is why so much of your knowledge is superficial. The same is true of your relationships. How does that description strike you? Have I got it pretty much right? My suspicion is I do, even if you are compelled to deny it. Okay, now take a moment ... more »

"How Ot Really Should Be"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago

"It's All Written..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
"Its five in the morning, I can see the first rays of sun trying to penetrate through this grey sky, trying to change its color to dark blue, and declare the dawn, but it's strange, dawn and dusk both have the same color, both have that same murky feel about them, but how different is their nature. One exemplifies the end, while the other symbolizes a new beginning... but is that end the end of hopes or end of sorrows... or is that beginning the beginning of a new life or new difficulties which lie ahead... we can't ever figure it out... it's all written and that's what destiny is. ... more »

Musical Interlude: Irish Tavern Music, Gaelic Storm, "The Farmer's Frolic”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
Irish Tavern Music, Gaelic Storm, "The Farmer's Frolic” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBATrLRWySg

FREE Download: "Words of Paradise- Selected Poems of Rumi"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
"What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself in the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?" - Rumi (1207 - 1273) • "Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a 13th century Afghan poet and philosopher who heavily influenced both eastern and western poetry. His poetry is divided into categories: the quatrains and odes of the "Divan," the six books the "Masnavi," the discourses, the letters and the "Six Sermons." Rumi's major poetic work is "Matnawiye Ma'nawi," a six-volume poem, conside... more »

know your rights, rental edition, part two

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago
Just about one year ago today - July 8, 2013, to be exact - our area was hit with a massive flood that swamped homes, cars, highways, trains, and . . . our basement. The basement had been Allan's office. The office in which he was working to meet a publishing deadline. Stressful? You could say that. It could have been much worse. We got an insurance settlement, and we moved - not without some hassles, but we did it, moving in to our current rental home in September. Now, one year later, we mentioned to our current landlord that it's time to renew our lease. He said he'd come over f... more »

things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #14

laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago
One of our regular Readers' Den customers approached me with her usual long list of movies. She researches movies online, prints out lists, and comes to the desk to see what we have in our collection. Anything we have, we place on hold for her. She's a great customer, in terms of library use. She has an intellectual disability, and sometimes helping her can be a bit of a challenge. This customer talks very fast, and a little too loudly. While you're searching for one item, she's rattling off the next few, so after placing each hold, you must ask her to repeat the next title. Becaus... more »

Texas Winds are Unreliable.

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 18 hours ago
This is crazy. [image: Graph of Texas (ERCOT) hourly wind generation, as explained in the article text]

Louisiana “Annual Tests” Tied Up in the New Mexico Courts?

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
June 18, 2014, was an interesting day in Louisiana politics and education. (I realize these two are now one and the same, but humor me.) One event of June 18 was Governor Bobby Jindal’s decision to suspend Louisiana’s involvement in PARCC because Louisiana State Superintendent John White, the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE), and the […]

Pitchforks and Inequality

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 19 hours ago
This "memo" from Nick Hanauer to his fellow billionaires is an absolute must-read. Couched in straight forward language, he's basically saying to his class that not enough people have a stake in the system any more and this *will* pose them an existential threat unless inequality is sorted out. Here's a snippet: Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 19 hours ago
*The Populist Uprising Against Common Core Is Libertarian and It’s Winning* *It recognizes that there is no one answer to fixing education in America* When Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) announced last week that he would pull his state out of Common Core, he may have been sounding the death knell of the national education standards. Though a confluence of pushy and powerful interest groups have promised that they invented the solution to the American education crisis, people just aren't buying that more top-down standardization of America's education system is the answer. The populist ... more »

US & Europe Push Confrontation with Russia towards War

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 20 hours ago
My husband states today "It's as if the US wants war with Russia" I reply "that is exactly what they want" Every opportunity the US and their toadies in the EU could have taken to bring this horrendous situation to a peaceful resolution has been instead used to increase the odds of confrontation- We aren't the only ones noticing. *The so called ceasefire has been a ruse * Claims by Ukraine of a ceasefire were mere perception management. A meme planted so the blame could be cast on Russia for it's failure- The Ukrainian thugs never stopped their killing. *As evidenced by abundant repo... more »

Border patrol policy - Israel vs. America

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 21 hours ago
A recent article appearing in *The Jewish Daily Forward* dealing with Israeli border patrol policy offered a striking contrast to American border patrol policy. *The Forward* reports: More than 1,000 illegal African migrants have been camping out near the border with Egypt to protest their treatment in Israel. The migrants walked out of Israel’s Holot detention center on Friday, and attempted to cross into Egypt, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces prevented them from crossing the border. *The migrants*, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, *live in the open detention facilit... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours ago
*Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation helps teach kids to fish ~Andrew Canulette, The Advocate* *Hidden in plain sight ~Fix the Pumps * *Climate Scientist: Manhattan Will Need “Venice-Like Canals” to Stop Flooding ~Claus Jacob, Next City* *~Editilla Cotellas~**1NONewsladder2 * *• 6 minutes ago* Mr. Jacobs, 80% of New Orleans flooded from 3 catastrophic engineering failures: 17th Street Canal flood wall, London Ave Canal flood wall and the Industrial Canal flood wall --NOT from hurricane Katrina storm surge. These flood walls breached at below design spec, due to a number of bad calls ... more »

John Baird is either a liar or stupid ...

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours ago
And, no, you are not limited to one or the other when trying to decide. I've said before that Harper and his incompetent thugs are nothing more than hillbillies playing at governing with no coherent plan and no clear concept of the world around them. No one epitomizes the intellectual laziness of the Harper regime than his so-called Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird. This is the guy

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, June 29th, 2014

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours ago
[image: rant-jpeg-b] Yes, it is Sunday again, and as usual I am presenting my weekly rant of what I see is really happening in the world around us. It has been a very interesting week indeed, so lets get down to it... First, I am very happy that my son has finished High School here in Canada and graduated with honors last Thursday.... He has not decided yet what to do about his future and/or his future education, but he is definitely not set on going to any University... He fully understands that a University/College diploma is no longer a guarantee of employment, and instead is ... more »

The Emperor of Ice Cream

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 22 hours ago
It's the presidential summer of comfort food love. In the cruel absence of any economic relief for struggling Americans, and in the sordid presence of too much economic relief for the war profiteers of the global battlefield, Barack Obama is doing what he does best. He's out campaigning, mingling with the masses, and ... eating. Scarfing down gallons of soft vanilla ice cream and all-American burgers for our vicarious pleasure. To show that He Is One Of Us. To make us forget his alter egos of Emperor of Drones, Friend of Wall Street, and Deporter-in-Chief of thousands of refugee ch... more »

The Republican Guantanamo Bay Torture Camp Fetish

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 22 hours ago
Strangely absent from the public view has been outgoing Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, the fanatical authoritarian who is stepping down from a safely gerrymandered Michigan congressional seat for a career in right-wing talk radio. Rogers was a Sunday morning fixture for months as he defended the NSA Stasi for unconstitutional mass surveillance and data-mining as well as continued to pull out unsubstantiated allegations that former government contractor turned patriotic whistleblower Edward Snowden was a Russian spy. Well this Sunday he has made his r... more »

Mike's Story Part 64 - Spellbound

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 22 hours ago
*By **Jenna** Orkin* * After we got back from Oregon, I was doing the shopping on Montague Street when I saw that our videostore was going out of business. That was too bad but the silver lining was the resulting sale. I snapped up some bargains including Spellbound, a movie about - among other things - psychoanalysis and repressed memories. Gregory Peck is the troubled new director of a psychiatric institution in which Ingrid Bergman practices.* * "You can take that back," Mike said, "I've seen it." * * "I haven't." * * A week later he said again, "You can take that ... more »

Mike's Story Part 63 - Oregon

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 22 hours ago
*By **Jenna** Orkin* * I came across the complete account of the time Mike was bitten on the testicle.* * He and at least one other cop had been summoned by a sergeant, 6' 5''. When they arrived, they found him cornered by a small, wiry man holding a 35" T.V. above his head. The guy had a glazed look in his eye and a thin sheen of perspiration all over, telltale signs of PCBs. The cops wrestled him onto a gurney with Mike at the head. They managed to get plastic handcuffs on him and canvas restraints on his legs. The guy broke the restraints but not without consequence; his sh... more »

How is #teacherprep really different at Western Governor’s?

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 22 hours ago
We keep hearing about these NCTQ teacher preparation rankings. There’s so much critique out there of NCTQ as a legitimate research organization, of their data and methods, I don’t even have to get into it. I’m hearing a lot about Western Governors University. I was only vaguely aware of the institution prior to the “rankings.” […]

Kevin Carey Plays His Fear Card about American Colleges: It's a Deuce

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
With ALEC far on in writing model legislation to put steerage of higher education under the ham hands of the Tea Party and the Oligarchs (sounds like the worst band ever, right?), and with the federal government too in debt to the oligarchs to do anything about it, the only remaining stumbling block is the need to convince the public that higher ed is going to hell in a hand basket. Enter, Kevin Carey, to declare all rotten in higher ed. His evidence? Another test, of course, this one designed by the same international cabal that has turned the world PISA-centric with its period... more »

Obama Wraps War Mongering in Phony Gay Rights Crusade

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 day ago
The American war machine is constantly working to sell perpetual war based on such false pretenses as making the world safe for democracy, killing those who hate us for our freedoms, stopping the global communist menace, the war on terror, preemptively taking out the latest “new Hitler” and now making the planet safe for gay rights. This is a masterpiece of bullshit from the Obama regime and it will play very well with the ongoing cynical manipulation of gay voters as the 2016 election campaign begins. Liberals who have learned to love the wars that they at one time wanted George W... more »

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery June 26 - 27 , 2014 -- INVESTIGATORS believe someone in the cockpit of MH370 turned on the plane’s autopilot before it disappeared, as Australian search chiefs announced a new phase in the hunt for the missing airliner ( Who do this ? ) .... Blamescaping ?? BUT WHO IS THE SOURCE & WHY ARE THE LEAKS MADE! Family, friends of MH370 pilot furious at 'prime suspect' report

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=309802:mystery-deepens-who-turned-on-mh370s-autopilot?&Itemid=2#axzz35nLqFLFk Friday, 27 June 2014 06:41 Map of new search area - h/t WSJ .... Malaysia Chronicle..... MYSTERY DEEPENS: Who turned on MH370's autopilot? - font size [image: decrease font size] [image: increase font size] - Cetak - E-mel - Komentar (0) Rate this item - - 1 - 2 - 3 - <a class="four-stars" href="http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=309802:mystery-deepens-who-turne... more »

Mass Killings

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
It is like capital punishment. If the state can kill you then to kill is okay. The Vietnam war and Gulf One, Iraq war etc have told the people, its okay to kill and make mistakes if your objective is worthy. In some ways its like the drug war.

Fukushima Updates ( June 29 , 2014 ) -- Lead items - Japanese Gov advertises seawater of all of the crippled reactors even outside for worldwide ideas to remove molten fuel from 3 crippled reactors ....... Highest density of Tritium measured from of underground wall ......... Study: Fukushima plutonium in playground 60 km from nuclear plant — “Proves that indeed Plutonium has been emitted by the accident” — Some “in the form of fuel fragments”? — Up to 14 Billion Bq of Pu-239 and-240 released ! Additional items on contamination and human impacts to ponder.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Fukushima Diary..... Tepco to cover the 180,000 m2 of sea bed of Fukushima plant port with concrete Posted by *Mochizuki* on June 29th, 2014 · 2 Comments Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services On 6/26/2014, Tepco announced that they are going to start covering the sea bed of Fukushima plant port with concrete. It’s 180,000 m2. Tepco states they will start the construction in the end of this month and complete by the end of next March. Tepco also commented they measured 190,000 Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 from the soil of the sea bed. The covering i... more »

Mike's Story Part 53 - Spellbound

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 1 day ago
*By **Jenna** Orkin* * After we got back from Oregon, I was doing the shopping on Montague Street when I saw that our videostore was going out of business. That was too bad but the silver lining was the resulting sale. I snapped up some bargains including Spellbound, a movie about - among other things - psychoanalysis and repressed memories. Gregory Peck is the troubled new director of a psychiatric institution in which Ingrid Bergman practices.* * "You can take that back," Mike said, "I've seen it." * * "I haven't." * * A week later he said again, "You can take that ba... more »

Is Japan joining the global unrest parade ? June 29 , 2014 --- ​Japanese man sets himself on fire in protest to reform of pacifist constitution

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
​Japanese man sets himself on fire in protest to reform of pacifist constitution Published time: June 29, 2014 13:03 Get short URL [image: Photo from Twitter/@JuhaniHeiskanen] Photo from Twitter/@JuhaniHeiskanen Share on tumblr Tags Health, Human rights, Japan, Politics,Protest, Security A middle-aged man has set himself on fire in the center of the Japanese capital in an apparent protest to government plans to change Japan’s pacifist constitution. Authorities hosed the man down and immediately rushed him to hospital. In a dramatic act of protest, the protester scaled a pedestrian bridg... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Acne where did it come from?

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I am looking at WW1 photos and hearing testimony of old people that acne was never around for the most part. Now everyone has acne. In those days they could barely take a photograph so do not tell me all those clear skin faces where photoshoped. Considering Acne amelioration is the biggest source of income on the planet should someone not look into this? Something has changed from 1917 to now in terms of our skin condition. Our current economic model is all appoint treatment but no resource for the cause. Cause which for acne did not exist 100 years ago. One might think all the re... more »

Zhang Visit Unravels

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
*A monkey inspects a vehicle on the 23 near Donghe.* The visit of China's Taiwan Affairs Office head Zhangzhijun ended ignominously as he fled the island in the face of relentless public protests. WSJ scribes: * China's top cross-strait negotiator, in Taiwan on a landmark visit, canceled three public appearances at the last minute Saturday after protests against his bridge-building trip turned violent.* Zhang Zhijun, head of Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, is the first ministerial-level Chinese official to set foot on Taiwanese soil after both sides split 65 years ago. *Mr. Zhan... more »

UKRAINE: NATION OF OLIGARCHS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Seek truth from facts with intelligence expert William Engdahl; economist Professor Michael Hudson; former US intelligence officer Scott Rickard; and the prosecutor who put Yulia Timoshenko's partner behind bars, Martha Boersch.

Hollywod Making More Money in China than America?

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Teabagger you been played. The place where everything is pirated is the best source of income. Maybe someone will win a Nobel prize in economics explaining that. Or maybe they will die in the attempt?

Contempt And Criminal Justice

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
http://xray-delta.com Eddie Greenspon and Anthony Doob write that Stephen Harper's contempt for all things institutional makes him a poor lawmaker: Stephen Harper’s high-handed personal attack on the chief justice of Canada is part of a pattern of contempt for legal institutions and the law itself. Harper’s so-called “defeats” at the Supreme Court of Canada illustrate his disrespect for principles of fairness and his complete lack of interest in attempting to create coherent, sensible laws. And the r... more »

Start of WW1

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Least we forget It was the stupidest war in History planned my milquetoasts and delivered human slaughter that was new and more horrible than ever. The funny point is that all the people who started the war lost except the British. Unfortunately for humanity the British managed to entangle Americans in the great game. Americans never wanted part of the big game, but WW1 was a flesh wound that never healed. But it works both ways like Tony Blair. Very sad for us all. On the bright side it set Europe free, free of Royals, free of Barons, from of a legal Hierarchy. This has been the ... more »

"When Your Beloved Pet Dies, "Until We Meet Again," "The Rainbow Bridge"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"When Your Beloved Pet Dies,* * "Until We Meet Again," "The Rainbow Bridge"* A friend recently told me about her beloved dog, a loyal and loving companion of many years, who is now nearing the end of her life. I hope this might comfort you when you need it, as it has me. - CP ․ *"Until We Meet Again"* Author Unknown "I know what you're thinking. You think I'm dead. Because you cannot see me with your human eye, cannot feel me with your hands or hold me in your arms, you think I am gone forever. You recall how I looked when I left this place, and you cannot remotely imagine that I ... more »