Wednesday, February 13, 2013

13 February - Blogs I'm Following

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Winter Wonderland

Southern Man at Southern Man - 18 minutes ago
A surprise snowstorm left the campus blanketed in white. There was enough snowfall that the school closed at 3:00. Well, a quarter of a snow day is better than none at all!

New Castle Courthouse Shooting

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 minutes ago
"3 dead, including gunman, in Del. courthouse shooting; Custody battle cited; 2 women seen as targets" by Randall Chase | Associated Press, February 12, 2013 WILMINGTON, Del. — Motivated by a yearslong custody dispute, a gunman opened fire Monday morning in a Delaware courthouse lobby as the building was opening to the public for the day, exchanging shots with police, authorities said. Three people, including the gunman, died.... State Police Sergeant Paul Shavack said the gunman opened fire before he passed metal detectors in the lobby.... In the hours after the shooting, dozen... more »

Mardi Gras Mayhem

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 25 minutes ago
*It rained on their parade.* "Mardi Gras revelry not muted by rain, gloomy skies" by Stacey Plaisance and Michael Kunzelman | Associated Press, February 13, 2013 NEW ORLEANS — Despite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy floats with make-believe monarchs in an all-out bash before Lent. In the French Quarter, as usual, Fat Tuesday played out with all its flesh and raunchiness. Crowds were a little *smaller than recent years*, perhaps influenced by the forecast of *rain*. Still, parades went off as scheduled even as a f... more »

marxism 2012 program notes: from each according to their ability: the role of socialists in disability movement

laura k at wmtc - 29 minutes ago
This is the final post of my notes from the 2012 Marxism Conference. This was the first Marxism conference to include a talk on disability, an exciting development full of potential. I wanted to blog about it in great detail. A friend was recording the talk, so I stopped taking detailed notes... and then the audio didn't come out. Melissa Graham was kind enough to give me her notes, but the others didn't have anything written to share. What follows, then, is the general idea. What does disability have to do with capitalism and socialism? Where do disability and socialism intersect,... more »

Free & Equal Challenges Two Party Duopoly Again

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 34 minutes ago
Free & Equal Elections to advocate free and open elections at "Voice of the People" Valentine's Day Meet & Greet at Arkansas State Capital Rotunda Little Rock, Arkansas (PRWEB) February 13, 2013 Free & Equal's Arkansas State Leadership Caucus, a non-partisan group working for fair and open elections in Arkansas, will meet with Arkansas citizens, legislators, and the local media at the “Voice of the People” Valentine’s Day meet and greet at the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday, Feb 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. "The Voice of the People event is the perfect venue to inform Arkans... more »

ROSA PARKS AT 100: Where do factoids come from!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 35 minutes ago
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013* *Part 6—Mrs. Parks and Malcolm X:* Yesterday, Paul Krugman asked an excellent question, right in the headline of this blog post. We’d call it the question of the age. Krugman’s headline said this: Where Do “Facts” Come From? The bogus “fact” Krugman was trying to source was a claim about federal spending—the claim that federal spending has risen 37 percent under Obama. Using Nexis, we can’t find anyone making that claim on TV or in print in recent weeks. But as a general matter, Krugman was asking a deeply important question. An amazing amount of o... more »

A Disappointing Voting Initiative

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 37 minutes ago
For those who would like to see voting become easier, last night's SOTU riff and the planned presidential commission have to be disappointing. Here's what Obama said: We must all do our part to make sure our God-given rights are protected here at home. That includes one of the most fundamental right of a democracy: the right to vote. When any American, no matter where they live or what their party, are denied that right because they can’t afford to wait for five or six or seven hours just to cast their ballot, we are betraying our ideals. So tonight, I’m announcing a nonpartisan com... more »

ELM GUEST HOUSE; DAVID HAMILTON GRANT; DENHAM GILBART-SMITH

Anon at aangirfan - 37 minutes ago
The following is a short extract from: *ABOUT THE PAEDOTRIAL | The Paedo Trial* A man gave evidence that he had been raped or abused by *Denham Gilbart-Smith* in the following locations: Green Field House children's hostel in Maidenhead. Burnham Beeches Buckinghamshire Gilbart-Smith’s riverside home in Maidenhead. Five complaints of rape took place at Gilbart-Smiths holiday home in Sussex. Abuse took place in Gilbart-Smiths green MG convertible registration: KMO 124B The caravan and camping park Perranporth Cornwall. The Tudor House on Wimbledon Common London. Sir Percy Flan... more »

Poster Girl for Choice

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 53 minutes ago
Details are sketchy -- as they should be in a case like this -- but without knowing more, we at DAMMITJANET! are on the pregnant teen's side. A pregnant Texas 16-year-old has gone to court to avoid having an abortion against her will, according to court documents. Lawyers with the Texas Center for Defense of Life, a pro-life advocacy group, filed a petition on behalf of the teen plaintiff identified only by her initials in Harris County, Texas district court on Feb. 10. A judge granted a temporary restraining order in the case. . . The parties are slinging allegations at each other.... more »

ASSORTED STORIES OF INTEREST

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
- Last week I posted a news video from Nova Scotia about Global Network board member Tamara Lorincz's lonely vigil against Canada's vigorous new warship building program. This morning she sent around news about a man who stopped to talk with her during her vigil. Turns out he is the President of CAW/Marine Workers Federation Local 1. Tamara tells a great tale about their meeting and says, " I was shocked that he readily agreed with me!" It's a perfect illustration that you never know the power that one person can unleash. The union president told her tha... more »

Why is Jeremy Hardy a BBC favourite?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour ago
Why is Jeremy Hardy a BBC favourite? I know it's a puzzler isn't it. Here's a clue, it's from Red Pepper - which is some sort of left-wing magazine Jeremy Hardy thinks… about hating the ToriesThe Tories have taken on human form, which is when they’re at their most dangerousSomething weird is going on. People don’t hate the Tories as much as they should. They do hate the Liberal Democrats, or rather Clegg... Generally, the Liberal Democrats have become a stab-vest for the Tories. This fact alone, however, can’t fully explain the fact that the Conservatives are not more widely loath... more »

gods and aliens

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 hour ago

Helmut Newton

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 hour ago

South Americans face deadly water battles – ‘The only thing the people want is water for families, but the mining companies want to take it. And soldiers will kill if you get in the way.’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago
[image: This lake in the Peruvian Andes, once the water supply for farms and villagers, is drying up after Newmont's Yanacocha mine drained its water. Photo: Gabriel Rinaldi / Bloomberg Markets] By Michael Smith 12 February 2013 (Bloomberg Markets Magazine) – People streamed into the central square in Celendin, a small city in the Peruvian Andes, the morning of July 3, 2012. They were protesting the government’s support for Newmont Mining Corp.’s plan to take control of four lakes to make way for a new gold and copper mine. By midday, there were 3,000. Some hurled rocks at polic... more »

'Law Enforcement Has No Duty To Defend You'

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours ago
Came by this video via AP @ Twelfth Bough It's a gem. *Originally aired on January 13, 2013. Watch as Keith Morgan repeatedly defeats Bray Cary's empty and baseless arguments on the Second Amendment using facts, logic, and rational arguments.* What I really, really like is how irrational, manipulative and emotional the talking head gets. Vs the cool and rational rebuttals presented by Keith Morgan. A good demonstration of how rational discussion can trump propaganda

Molineux on The Crisis - his dire straits!

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 hours ago
*Stefan Molineux*, essayist, philosopher and Freedomain Radio podcaster from Canada, provides us with important data on what goes wrong in our western societies. His data about the USA is revealing and closely linked to other countries, some somewhat behind and others upfront "the curve", as he explains. The *catastrophic* socio-economics he outlines are -to the opinion of more experts- "the beginning of the end" of this type of societies. I believe that the USA and Europe are nearly at par with each other. It now depends on coincidences what triggers the final collapse of a worn ... more »

Daniel Greenfield expresses my sentiments...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago
*exactly* - and I thank him * ** Where's Our Panama Canal?* from Sultan Knish by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Sitting in the CNN studio today, with an earpiece jammed in one ear and a microphone clipped to my jacket, the disembodied voice of some CNN guest urgently proposing that the government take advantage of historically low borrowing rates to invest in infrastructure howled in my ear. Without a monitor, the voice had no body belonging to it. It was the muse of liberalism. The idiot angel standing on the shoulder of Uncle Sam crying out, "Spend, spend, spend." In ... more »

Globe on France: Fags and a Photo

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago
*I know it is a politically-incorrect and incendiary term today (worse than the j- and n- word these days); however, it will illustrate the agenda-pushing formula at work in AmeriKa's newsrooms. * * * *Btw, if I were one would it be okay if I said it? That's what I thought (and I don't intend to use it again)**.* "LAYOFFS PROTESTED -- French riot police faced workers of the tire manufacturer Goodyear during a demonstration in front of the Goodyear headquarters in Reuil Malmaison, outside Paris, Tuesday. The US tire maker confirmed plans in January to close a French plant near the n... more »

Hagel Clears Committee

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago
"Chuck Hagel nomination advances after bitter vote; Some GOP senators vow filibuster over defense choice" by Jeremy W. Peters | New York Times, February 13, 2013 WASHINGTON — After a *combative two-hour debate* that tested the bounds of Senate collegiality, the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of former senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary on a *sharply partisan vote*. * **How can it be partisan with Democrats backing the Republican?* The 14-11 vote to send the nomination to the Senate floor with a *favorable recommendation* was just the latest step ... more »

China’s thick smog arrives in Japan – ‘This is dangerous pollution, like poison, and we can’t protect ourselves’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: Dense smog settled over the North China Plain on 20 February 2011. The featureless gray-brown haze is so thick that the ground is not visible in parts of this photo-like image taken at 11:35 a.m. by NASA's Terra satellite. At that time, a weather station at Beijing’s airport reported visibility of 1.9 miles (3.1 kilometers). Visibility dropped as low as 1.1 miles (1.8 km) later in the afternoon. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC] TOKYO, 4 Feb 2013 (AFP) – The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Ja... more »

Matt Damon Wants You to Give a Shit About Toilets

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
Best if he explains in his own words in this video: *It is the first in a series of YouTube videos put together by an unusual alliance of Google, Hollywood, social-media creators and a non-profit advocacy group, water.org. The campaign, which was launched on Tuesday and will build up to World Water Day on 22 March, hopes its combination of celebrity, social media and humour will appeal to young people and go viral on the internet.* *"It was Matt Damon's idea two years ago: how do we persuade people to give a shit about toilets?" said Chevenee Reavis, water.org's director of strat... more »

President Obama cites storms, drought to build case for climate action – ‘If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: Senator John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden applaud President Obama's State of the Union address, 12 February 2013. President Obama pledged action on climate change, saying, 'If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will.' Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP] By Coral Davenport 13 February 2013 Fifteen years ago, when President Clinton raised the specter of climate change in his State of the Union address, he spoke of a “gathering crisis” that would need to be stopped “at some point in the next century.” Now scientists say that crisis is starting to arrive... more »

Is David Icke A Zionist Agent?

NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 2 hours ago
. David Icke has nothing to say about the Nazi 'human gas chambers'. A large number of 'alternative' sites have published articles exposing this, history's greatest lie, as a fraudulent hoax. The science(and much more besides), in my opinion, proves it. But David doesn't go there. Thus, while naming Rothschild Zionism as mankind's greatest enemy he refuses to attack the lie that gives "Rothschild Zionism" its great spiritual power over the mind of man. Furthermore his attacks on the Catholic Church, traditionally Orthodox Judaism's (and therefore Zionism's) greatest foe, are cont... more »

YES!!!!

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 2 hours ago

Stephen Harper's War on Working Class Canadians

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
She should be leading the opposition in Parliament. The *Toronto Star's*Carol Goar shreds Steve Harper's fiscal war on blue and white collar working class Canadians. *Employment insurance, which once softened the blow of losing a job, has dwindled to the point that only a minority of the unemployed are eligible for benefits.* ** *Welfare, which once prevented people from hitting rock bottom, now leaves recipients 60 per cent below the poverty line.* ** *The income tax system has become flatter and more rigid. There were 13 income brackets in 1981. Today there are four. This means p... more »

Home Remedies for Burns – 8 Natural Treatments by Mike Barrett

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours ago
Source of Logo: http://www.4ayurveda.com/health.asp?aid=553Home Remedies for Burns – 8 Natural Treatments by Mike Barrett Natural Society, 13 February 2013 Do you feel the burn? Whether first, second, or third degree, burns can be quite painful. But did you know that there are numerous home remedies for burns you can utilize without taking a trip to the pharmacy. If history has taught us anything, it’s that nature provides time-tested, natural solutions for most health ailments. Hopefully, these natural treatments will take away any burn-induced pain and discomfort. First, Seco... more »

Lousy Economists

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
As a response to the Great Depression, western governments put in place several "economic shock absorbers" -- unemployment insurance, welfare and baby bonus cheques -- to cushion the negative effects of an economic downturn. But neo-conservatives, convinced that they encouraged people to become fat and lazy, systematically destroyed those shock absorbers. Under the banner, "Makers Not Takers," people like Paul Martin and Stephen Harper cut back on government assistance to Canadians. Carol Goar writes, in *The Toronto Star*, that the war on the poor continues: [Jim] Flaherty has r... more »

The Fema Camp Bill is Back! (Video)

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 3 hours ago
Lee Rogers, Black Listed News It looks as if Representative Alcee Hastings a Democrat from Florida has decided to reintroduce his FEMA Camp bill. A few years ago I was the first person to write an article about this awful piece of legislation. Fortunately, I was successful in exposing it to a much larger group of people via the alternative media and the bill did not move forward in the legislative process. The latest iteration of this bill has been introduced as House Resolution 390 otherwise known as the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act. This bill would authorize... more »

WotW: Shop Smarter, Eat Better and Save Money

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 3 hours ago
The number one thing my wife hates more than anything else (besides cockroaches) is trying to figure out what to make for dinner. If we don't have a plan, it's really tempting to just say, "Nah, forget it, let's just go grab something real quick." So we do and then feel guilty we spent extra money and ate food that wasn't all that good for us. All because we didn't have a meal plan. The other dilemma we commonly face is going to the grocery store, buying a bunch of groceries and then come home only to realize we forgot a bunch of items we needed. So back to the store we go, or we pl... more »

Austerity-- Here And There: Paul Ryan's Roadmap Wrecking David Cameron's Conservative Party

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Failed Austerity warriors Paul Ryan & David Cameron American voters have, so far, been wise enough to reject Paul Ryan's Austerity vision. Outside the Beltway/Wall Street Axis of Greed, most people seem to think that what works in Ayn Rand's adolescent novels isn't really a roadmap to successful governance. Not only did Ryan's VP nomination help sink the Romney presidential ticket, he came close to losing his own Wisconsin congressional seat-- even falling below the 55% margin that marks an incumbent relatively safe for the next round. First-time candidate, Rob Zerban, who had no hel... more »

Klaus on abdication of Benedict XVI

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours ago
I was sorry to learn about the reports that Benedict XVI resigned. Whatever the reasons behind the Pope's surprising decision were, the decision makes me sad. For 8 years, Benedict XVI has been not only the leader of the Catholic Church but also a globally prominent statesman. In the wake of our meetings – both his visits to the Czech Republic, as well as those in the Vatican – but also from his numerous public appearances, speeches, and texts, I could perceive the proximity of our attitudes. He belonged among the rare personalities of the contemporary world who don't ride the ... more »

SANDY HOOK; SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE; EMILIE PARKER

Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago
Lanza father and son. Saturday Night Live - *75 - Cluesforum* Saturday Night Live - 75 - Cluesforum Saturday Night Live - 75 - Cluesforum "Saturday Night Live" made a rare departure from its comedic opening to pay tribute to the children and adults killed at a Connecticut elementary school." 'SNL' & Newtown Shooting: Show Opened With 'Silent Night' Tribute SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled... *by DianeDi* *Emilie's big sisters* * * Emilie Parker, shown on the school’s playground equipment last year. http://www.rrobserver.com/news/local/ar ... ge&photo=0

Worried by walking on ice? Fearful of falling over on the icy pavement?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
I found myself walking on an icy pavement yesterday, yes even in London there's ice around. It was slippery and even in rubber soled shoes I felt unsure of my tread, then I remembered this and all was fine...

Goddard, Watts vs Tamino: Arctic ice

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours ago
Grant Tamino Foster funnily and angrily reacted to an innocent observation by Steven Goddard and (later) Anthony Watts. They pointed out, without too much ado, the innocent fact that since the beginning of the observations in 1979, the year 2013 has seen the greatest increase of the Arctic sea ice area relatively to the previous year's summer minimum. That drove Tamino up the wall! Some people – deniers – can't be reasoned with, we learn. I find this exchange amusing. It's very clear that pride of Tamino's God – the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent global warming – has been... more »

FoxConn China - iPad factory news - ONE MILLION ROBOTS TO REPLACE ONE MILLION WORKERS

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 7 hours ago
in 1982, Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation had a motto, "More human than human." But that world never came. Instead, "Less human, more robot," became the rule, as the car industry soon found out. And now a *third world country** like China is starting to see how this will impact their (slave) jobs, too. ONE MILLION ROBOTS TO REPLACE ONE MILLION WORKERS is a new story that comes courtesy of Singularity HUB - a site I'm going to be reading a lot more of in the future, it's full of the great and horrific story of mankind's usurpment. *Foxconn, the Chinese electronics manufacturer tha... more »

Now you need never be lost for something to post on The Guardian comments pages

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
Tom Forth has created The Guardian Comment Generator and it is right on the money. Here's a couple of examples that I generated, they makes at least as much sense as many that I read on the Guardian's comment pages: I love Israeli fruit in the Winter but does it not taste bitter knowing what's going on in Palestine? It's absurd we haven't yet reached full equality for all ethno-sexual persuasions. It's time to recognise that animal rights now are as important as women's rights last century. Last Saturday, as I was weeding my organic foxglove bed, it struck me! Judging children's a... more »

'The poor are paying the price'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
The Labour/BBC alliance continually push the narrative that the poor are paying the price for the bankers crimes and that the rich are not paying a fair share of the costs. Is that true? Of course it's not. As a general rule if the Labour party and BBC are pushing a narrative, it's a lie, or at least a distortion of the truth.

We are Free

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 7 hours ago
~Sophia

Asteroid 2012 DA14 gets close to earth on February 15th

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 8 hours ago
as Douglas Adamas, who knew the CMG or Corporate Media Game, would say, "DON'T PANIC." It's only an asteroid about the size of the asteroid that created the Tunguska event where twenty square kilometers of woodland were flattened in 1908. I mean, it's weird referencing back to THAT event, don't you think? I mean, if there's no threat from this passing rock. You know, if you don't wanna panic the people of this world. If you want them to remain CALM and HEALTHY in body and mind. You know, if you don't have a BPI or Big Pharma Industry to feed with people's fear. So, if it's that h... more »

Hypocrisy: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago
*February 13, 2013* (LD) - AFP has reported that a recent NATO airstrike in Afghanistan has killed over 10 civilians in an all-too-familiar headline glossed over by the Western media in an exercise of both depravity and hypocrisy. RT's article, "NATO airstrike kills 10 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children - officials," notes in particular that up to 11,864 civilians were killed in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2011, and that civilian deaths before 2007 were not even tracked by the UN. Such facts reveal alarming hypocrisy as the UN keeps almost daily, inflated tallies of civili... more »

Susskind, Hrabovsky: The Theoretical Minimum

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
Sean Carroll locates and praises a new book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. (Funny, in the Czech spelling, Jiří Hrabovský is a rather famous guy in the Czech TV News and P.R. industry.) This book's goal is to teach you everything you need to actually follow and do physics – including equations – but it is not a textbook. One may be surprised how a book with equations may refuse to be a textbook and what the word "textbook" really means ;-) but whatever it is, it is surely successful. For example, it's #150 at amazon.com (and it was #4, we hear) and #1 in "science for kids"... more »

Sorry about what we said, Tom, but spare a sigh for Alberta, latest victim of Dutch Disease

David Climenhaga at Alberta Diary - 9 hours ago
These typical Albertans may be victims of Dutch Disease. Who would have thought just weeks ago they were wearing slim-cut jeans, ostrich-hide boots and nice Resistol hats like the people below? It’s pathetic, really! Below: Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, sorry Tom; Alberta Premier Alison Redford. All images just found on the Internet. Who would ... more »

North Korean Provocation

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
The interests of China and North Korea have been steadily diverging. To start with China has learned that it can live beside a powerful united pro American Korea as a natural ally. China itself is powerful enough to see off any such challenge in the event. Better, the probability of such a war will be of China's choosing. In the meantime North Korea continues its reckless policy of provocation to extort concessions from the global community after which it retreats to the negotiating table for a couple of years. It appears that this pattern will not be changing with the new ... more »

No Leniency in China

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
There is certainly no better time than just at the beginning of a ten year rule to shed the top layer of officialdom of whom ninety percent can be easily replaced by understudies. Not only does it cool off the greed aspect for quite a while, it restores institutional responsiveness to effective levels without entering into a lot of local fights. So this is good and sets the stage for actual action. I can not imagine that the process will take long either as essentially everybody is guilty and will be begging for mercy and a quiet retirement. While this is going on, Bo w... more »

Iberian Neanderthals Prove 10,000 Years Older

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
The immediate take home is that our carbon 14 data is vulnerable to natural contamination able to make the samples far younger than they are. Again this type of dating is excellent yet vulnerable to unpleasant surprises. Unfortunately we draw conclusions that then inform further research and get really bitten when it comes to archeology. The first trip around that block was the idea that civilization arose in the middle east and slowly migrated outward. Correcting ages using 6000 years of tree rings turned decades of scholarship on its head. Now we have nicely bumped the Ne... more »

Global Warming Less Extreme than Feared?

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours ago
Needless to say, the past thirteen years of zero change has cut down the modeling projections. What is not mentioned here is that the sensitivity to CO2 forcing is hugely cut if not even zeroed out. Quite simply, if any part of the rise in the nineties was due to CO2, where did it go in the past thirteen years? You cannot claim one without addressing the other. It be comes way easier to outright dismiss CO2 forcing. It is within human capacity to change the climate. It is just not likely to be by burning a lot of coal. Nature manages CO2 way too well. More wisely we need... more »

CHILD ABUSE BY WOMEN; GOVERNMENT MAY BLOCK INTERNET PORN

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*1.* In the USA, the *National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System*(NCANDS) provides information on child-abusers. Nearly 80 percent (79.9%) of perpetrators were parents of the victim. *Approximately 58 percent (57.9%) of perpetrators were women.* 42 percent (42.1%) of perpetrators were men. Child Maltreatment 2006: Chapter 5: Perpetrators "A mother is accused of tormenting and abusing her ten-month-old baby and videoing the assaults..." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ "When a father got the feeling that his children were being painfully mistreated by their mother, he got... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
“Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC). *Click image for larger size. * The above image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed for artistry by an amateur to win the Hubble's Hidden Treasures competition. Although the section imaged above is known as N... more »

Creation's Daughter - Sung by Nahko Bear and Sandra Fay

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago
Nahko and Sandra perform one of Nahko Bear's original songs called 'Creation's Daughter' as a duet at the Evening of Island Sounds event, Antida Studio - Bali, Indonesia. ***How I Came Into BEing - A painting by SJ*

Allergy to reading among reading experts

skrashen at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
A blog in Ed Week has the headline “Students Must Learn More Words, Say Studies.” Based on a yet to be published article in the Reading Research Quarterly, it asserts that research shows that teachers are not teaching enough vocabulary. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/02/06/20vocabulary_ep.h32.html?tkn=TZMFgk7NAkmjOoC5gr4c2bOzxwjAgLv%2BoQnD&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1 Only two of those who posted comments and none of the experts cited in the article (except for Hirsch) appear to be even aware of the hypothesis (not to mention the massive research showing) that vocabulary is gradually a... more »

The one hundred and seventy sixth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
This week's award goes to the venerable journalist Simon Jenkins for this Comment is Free piece 'Whether it's North Korea or Iran, sanctions won't work' No shit, Sherlock. Sanctions won't work, but then neither will appeasement nor an invasion. So what is the solution? I'm not convinced by Simon Jenkins solution: 'Iran is a proud nation of 80 million mostly Muslim people, one of many Asian and African states struggling between theocracy and democracy, tradition and modernity. These are agonising struggles among and within peoples, to which the west has contributed nothing but host... more »

No coordinates...

A.Decker at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago
... jUST bARNACLES...

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Stockard Channing, 69. For what it's worth: I believe that's two days in a row with someone who has played Barbara Gordon. And for the good stuff: 1. No list of items today; just SOTU pieces by Ezra Klein; by Jamelle Bouie; by Greg Sargent; by Philip Klein; by Andrew Sprung; and by Ann Friedman.

An Ethical Difference

Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 10 hours ago
Senator Brandis is the Shadow Attorney General. One cannot get into that position without having an IQ greater than your shoe size. Though one might well wonder after his rude interruption of a witness before the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee a fortnight ago. ParlInfo - Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee : 24/01/2013 : Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 Senator PRATT: So you would like to see, if religious exemptions were to continue, intersex status specifically taken out of those exemptions? *Gina Wilson * : Certainly. T... more »

Liquefied Natural Gas export threatens Columbia River

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Liquefied Natural Gas export threatens Columbia River By Karen Doris Wright Censored News   This is a NO LNG meeting in the Pacific Northwest, in Astoria Oregon, just across Columbia River (and the bridge) from Washington. This meeting is about stopping the Export LNG plant called "Oregon LNG" that will be at the mouth of SKIPANON RIVER River, where it flows into the YOUNGS BAY RIVER, which

SOTU

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
State of the Union speeches are plagued by the format. They have to be laundry lists; that's the nature of it. At best, a president can drop in a nice phrase or two, a nice moment. But mostly, as speeches, they just aren't going to be memorable. Tonight's? No exception. I counted one moment that stood out, Barack Obama's demand for a vote on gun legislation in the name of the victims of gun violence. The rest was fine, but nothing special as oratory. Nor has Obama really mastered the Joint Session of Congress setting. He's okay; better than either Bush, I'd say. But he doesn't fully... more »

Excellent Video: Truth About Libya

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours ago
When the innocent nation of Libya was attacked and destroyed by the criminals in both NATO and the United States some two years ago, we were told by the liars in the mainstream media and our own governments that the destruction of Libya was "necessary" to remove the "dictator" Muhammar Gadaffi, and to bring "peace" to the Libyan people. We now know differently... Libya was destroyed primarily to prevent Gadaffi from breaking away from the US "Petro-Dollar" fraud, and also to prevent his establishment of a new African Gold based currency that could have freed his nation from the ev... more »

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might find the following quick links helpful: - The #CTWW Gang - The Honor Society - This Week's Challenge Last week we decided to apply a little political pressure by contacting our officials about Fracking, a dangerous method of extracting natural gas and oi... more »

Violence Against Women... It's A Republican Family Value

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
GOP spokesmodels Rand & Marco favor violence against women This afternoon the Senate overwhelmingly voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, 78-22. Every Democrat plus 23 Republicans voted for it. All four of the Republican women in the Senate, Kelly Ayotte (NH), Susan Collins (ME), Deb Fischer (NE) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) were among the 23 who voted YES. And then there were the other 22-- all male, right-wing extremists, the Hatred and Bigotry wing of the Republican Party. What a disgrace, that on the same day Republicans were showcasing potential 2016 presidential nomin... more »

Alan Waldman : ‘MI-5’ is a Gripping, Timely Brit Counterspy TV Series

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: Enjoy 10 seasons of a great, well-made thriller ripped from the headlines. By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / February 13, 2013 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas, mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Most are

North Korea Greets Kerry With Nuclear Bomb

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago
*Was that very nice?* "John Kerry plots course for first official trip; Expected to visit Europe, Israel, and possibly Egypt" by Bradley Klapper | Associated Press, February 12, 2013 WASHINGTON — Just hours before Kerry was sworn in to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton, militants provided a *stark reminder* of the *inherent danger in American diplomacy* as a suicide bomber struck the US Embassy in Turkey. * **Another agenda-pushing false flag operation? Seriously, a Marxist?* And in the days since, Japan alleged that *China locked weapons-targeting radar* on a Japanese destroyer and ... more »

Stephen Colbert: POPE QUITS

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
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Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation 02/12/2013

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 13 hours ago
Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation 02/12/2013 2 Ben, 1 Zac, 9 Eb Selamat Balik! We return with much more to tell you! The special deadline set by Heaven is practically upon us. The dark continues to scramble in vain to find a means of maintaining your shrinking world reality, but the old perceptions are fading as the new precipitates more confidently into your realm. It is only the old sacred agreement that is holding together the dark, cold world that you have known since birth. This is now set to convert into something that can brin... more »

BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : The Panthers and 'Black Against Empire'

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours ago
Black Against Empire: The legacy of the Black Panther Party "We didn't preach to the people, we worked with them." -- Former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / February 12, 2013 [Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies) (2013:

creation of adam

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago

Sunlight stimulates release of carbon dioxide in melting permafrost – ‘Permafrost carbon is potentially a huge factor that will help determine how fast the Earth warms’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago
[image: Regions of melted permafrost in the Arctic, 11 February 2013. Photo: Rose Cory / PNAS] By Monte Morin 12 February 2013 (Los Angeles Times) – Ancient plant and animal matter trapped within Arctic permafrost can be converted rapidly into climate-warming carbon dioxide when melted and exposed to sunlight, according to a new study. In a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of environmental and biological scientists examined 27 melting permafrost sites in Alaska and found that bacteria converted dissolved organic carbon materia... more »

Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest, seizure of church wealth by Easter - Diplomatic Note was issued to Vatican just prior to his resignation

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 13 hours ago
Historic, Breaking News: Wednesday, February 12/13, 2013 *Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest, seizure of church wealth by Easter - Diplomatic Note was issued to Vatican just prior to his resignation* http://lightworkersxm.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/itccs-why-the-pope-retired-for-real-kevin-annett-european-governance-issued-an-arrest-warrant-and-closure-and-seizure-of-vatican-assetts-here-are-all-the-notices-and-dates/ New Pope and Catholic clergy face indictment and arrest as “Easter Reclamation” plan continues A Global Media Release and Statement from The International Tribunal... more »

Thirteen Ohio School Districts "Scrubbing" Low Scoring Students

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
From CantonRep.com: Four more Ohio districts, including Canton City Schools, removed poor-performing students from their rolls, state Auditor David Yost said Monday in the final step of his investigation into a practice whereby schools attempted to improve performance ratings. More than 70 schools or districts also had attendance reporting errors, though these didn’t appear to be purposeful, Yost said. The four districts bring to nine the number that Yost has identified in his investigation of the data withdrawal practice known as “scrubbing.” The districts Yost identified Monda... more »

Bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
Ivor van Heerden, LSU settle wrongful termination lawsuit ~Bob Marshall

Freedom is an Attitude ~ OPPT-IN

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 14 hours ago
We are not changing so much as becoming. The difference is that in the first, you keep looking back to what was and it slows you down; comparisons and judgments are heavy offerings. The second is a brand new BEing, with a way of DOing that has never existed. There has very recently been a new addition to my family. For sure we are all watching “who he BE and what he DO” with nothing but joy – he is brand new! So are you. This day, with this body, these thoughts, feelings and abilities has never been. History is being re-written. Throw out society’s expectations. Pick ... more »

Ractopork coming to a supermarket near you?

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
There's been much commentary on Taiwan this month from the Heritage and Brookings, both of which hosted Taiwan-related events. Rupert Hammond-Chambers, head of the US-Taiwan Business Council, opined that the Ma Administration should be announcing soon that FTA agreements with major trading partner Singapore and also with New Zealand should be finalized soon. Good news, if true. He and other speakers at the Heritage Foundation mentioned that, in the context of the TIFA trade talks between the US and Taiwan, the issue of ractopork should be easily solved and the talks moved forward (r... more »

Ayatollah Khamenei To President Obama: Prove You Have Goodwill Then We Will Negotiate

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
The Obama administration said it wants to have direct talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran. But it is offering to sit down and talk with Iran while simultaneously it is imposing illegal sanctions on Iran, killing its scientists, waging cyber warfare against it, demonizing it, funding terrorist groups, and politically supporting the terrorist cult MEK. It is safe to say that the White House's current approach vis–à–vis Iran is insane. There is no other word for it. No one in their right mind can take the Obama administration seriously. Someone who is hitting you and insulting ... more »

David Evans - The Drones of Empire (A Poem)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
*The Drones of Empire* By David Evans As the drones of empire circle the earth Witness we hell fire queen's grim plan To give fear and loathing a new birth From Hoboken River to North Waziristan. Alas the vanguard of death have found their mark Unleashing their digital death orders, From break of dawn to fall of dark Across angry ancient borders. The Angel of Death has had a field day Caressing the burning circuits of doom Where taunting electrons laugh and play And the virgins of armageddon quietly loom. Launching virtual war against faces nameless Stalking them with surgi... more »

Secret Memo: Bin Laden Was Killed By Masked Man Bane

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
*This is the masked man who allegedly killed Osama Bin Laden. His name is Bane.* *Background* - Read: *"Esquire reporter: Man who killed bin Laden faced life ‘like a mafia snitch’ after leaving Navy."* If President Obama came forward and said, "Bane killed Bin Laden," it would sound more believable than anything that has already been said about the incident. Washington has become a total joke. The President has no authentic authority. The U.S. government is pathetic. It's not even fun to make fun of these screwballs anymore. The myth makers can't even create a realistic, beli... more »

The Next Pope?

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
An excerpt from *"Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet would bring ‘strong sense of collegiality’ as pope"* by The National Post: Mere hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation Monday, *Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet became one of the most talked about candidates to replace him as leader of the world’s one billion Catholics*. If elected by his 120 or so peers in the Vatican next month, the hockey-playing kid from Abitibi, Que., would make history not just as the first Canadian pope, or even the first from North America, but the first ever appointed from outside Europe — a... more »

Saturday Night Live - Dress Rehearsal C-Span Chuck Hagel Hearings

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
*Andrew Sullivan:* After being banished from earnest Washington discussion for decades by various press gate-keepers, the absurdly overblown power of the Greater Israel lobby is now seeping into the popular culture. SNL captures the lunacy:

Anna - Systems Breaking Down

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago

Paulo Coelho, “Convention For Those Wounded In Love”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*“Convention For Those Wounded In Love”* by Paulo Coelho *“General provisions:* *A –* Whereas the saying “all is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct; *B –* Whereas for war we have the Geneva Convention, approved on 22 August 1864, which provides for those wounded in the battlefield, but until now no convention has been signed concerning those wounded in love, who are far greater in number; *It is hereby decreed that:* *Article 1* – All lovers, of any sex, are alerted that love, besides being a blessing, is also something extremely dangerous, unpredictable and capable o... more »

“Cooperation: Acting Together for Good”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*“Cooperation: Acting Together for Good”* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM “Cooperation is allowed to flow more easily when we let go of the necessity to be right all the time. Cooperation seems simple: working together toward a common goal for the benefit of all involved. But amazingly it can be quite challenging, even when we have so many successful examples all around us. Human society is based upon the concept of cooperation, but finding a balance to ensure the good of all members of society is difficult. In nature, symbiotic relationships form between unlikely allies: a bee a... more »

Government: "One Hundred Years of Intrusions"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*"One Hundred Years of Intrusions"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Imagine a time when the government knew nothing about the money in your bank. It cared nothing about how much you made, where you made it, and what you did with it. You could take your earnings in gold, silver, paper, or anything else, and never filed a sheet with the government. How you earned a living was none of the business of the political class. For that matter, your bank account could be under a false name and absolutely no one cared. This was the world of a mere 100 years ago in the United States. That’s why it was c... more »

"Your Time Is Limited..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life and don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” - Steve Jobs

Chet Raymo, “The (Unattainable) Thing Itself”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
* “The (Unattainable) Thing Itself”* by Chet Raymo ․ “Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more like a snowy air, Reflecting snow. A newly-fallen snow At the end of winter when afternoons return. Pink and white carnations- one desires So much more than that. The day itself Is simplified: a bowl of white, Cold, a cold porcelain, low and round, With nothing more than the carnations there.” “Simplicity. Morning. Forty minutes till sunrise. Coffee. An English muffin. Sit on the terrace. The sky a deep v... more »

Satire: “Pope’s Decision to Come Out of Retirement Stirs Controversy”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*“Pope’s Decision to Come Out of Retirement Stirs Controversy”* by Andy Borowitz VATICAN (The Borowitz Report)— “Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world for the second time in twenty-four hours today by announcing his decision to come out of retirement. “I thought I was getting too old for this,” the Pope explained via his Twitter account, “but I’ve still got plenty left in the tank.” The Pope’s abrupt unretirement left many fans wondering if his original decision was little more than a publicity stunt, but according to one Vatican source, “The situation was a lot more complicated ... more »

"Barack Obama 2013 State of the Union Drinking Game"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
* "Barack Obama 2013 State of the Union Drinking Game"* by Will Durst "WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY: Four taxpayers of any sex: One rich white banker-type wearing a Suit. Cuff links would be nice. 1 person in a Blue work Shirt, another in a White shirt and one wearing Rags that in a former life might have been an integral part of a frantic escape through the sewers of Paris. At high tide. The four group around a cocktail table directly in front of a television with newspapers laid on the table and floor. One shot glass per person. Everybody brings own and places on table. Suit gets f... more »

“A Warning To My Generation: Tyranny Has Come, Will You Take Action?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*“A Warning To My Generation: Tyranny Has Come, Will You Take Action?”* by Alec Scheer, Edited by Emilie Rensink “To my generation, Upon writing a letter to President Obama regarding his gruesome and unconstitutional drone policy, I feel it is paramount that I write a letter to you warning you about what is to come; warning you – that if you do not take action now – you will not be able to enjoy the life pleasures you have been acquainted to. I know, from personal experience, that most of you would rather be out partying, hanging out with friends, watching television, play... more »

“End of Liberty (The Societal Collapse Of America)”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
NIA, Gerald Celente, “End of Liberty (The Societal Collapse Of America)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AQv-sdMCClQ#! - http://facethepolitics.com/

Native American Music Awards Nominees 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
Censored News congratulates nominees NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD Nominees Announced for the Fourteenth Annual Native American Music Awards To Be Held On Friday, May 10, 2013 At The Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino In Niagara Falls Tickets On-Sale Now At All Ticketmaster Outlets & At The Seneca Casino Box Office February 12, 2013 – New York, NY. Nominations for the 14th Annual

Northerntruthseeker Status: Returning To Blogging!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours ago
As many of you have been aware... I have spent the last while with taking care of family concerns, especially those of my elderly mother that recently suffered from a stroke... Everything is now in place in terms of the care necessary for my mother, and I can now say that I am returning to other business, including writing and posting articles in this blog... I want to thank everyone that has sent their condolences and their concerns... I do appreciate the thoughtful messages.... I also want to thank everyone for their patience..... It is good to be back... New articles at this blo... more »

Inside the Eye - Live! w/ John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 15 hours ago
Earlier today I guest hosted *Inside the Eye - Live!* on *Oracle Broadcasting*. Dennis Fetcho, AKA "The Fetch", was away on business and asked me to fill in for him. I interviewed Andre from *Total Fascism* and we discussed the concepts of *National Socialism and Fascism* as reactions to Jewish international communism and international capitalism, * Christianity* and spirituality, *feminism*, cultural Marxism and *the organized Jewish assault on traditional European culture and society*, and related matters. You can download the entire show *here*.

Taiwan isn't a dirty word: we need to talk about Taiwan

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 15 hours ago
*Happy New Year from Taiwan, 1930. Formosa Vintage Museum Cafe vintage photo . * Still on vacation in Borneo, but you're welcome to enjoy these links. The writer, Ben Moles, attended an Emerging Leaders Dialogue in Taiwan as a guest of Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Three blog posts: *Taiwan isn't a dirty word: we need to talk about Taiwan* (Part One)(Part Two)(Part Three) _______________________ [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 of links to other Taiwan blogs and fo... more »

Metamorphose

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 15 hours ago

Is it so hard to understand why CT Rep. Joe Courtney is upset by this misrepresentation in LINCOLN?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*Democrat Joe Courtney has represented CT's 2nd CD since 2007.* *"I'll stick to my nice safe snakepit in Washington."* *-- Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), reflecting on his accidental immersion in the politics of Hollywood* *by Ken* Here's another one for the "You Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry" file. [Connecticut Dem Rep. Joe] Courtney told us Monday he was captivated by the movie until it came to that moment: How, he wondered, could a Connecticut congressman have voted that way? “Our state abolished slavery completely in 1848. Children of slaves were emancipated by 1784,” he said. “... more »

Fox News hetero fail

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago
One would think that a prerequisite for pontificating on same-sex marriage would be the ability to distinguish between same-sex and opposite-sex unions. The apparently uber-straight titans of heterosexuality at Fox News?   Epic fail.

Paraphrasing economist Bill Black: Flagstar was a big mortgage lender that lent among the riskiest kinds of mortgages and was a major user of liar's loans. These were the pervasively fraudulent loans that were insured by an insurance company that specialized in guaranteeing the quality of these kinds of loans, once they were packaged. They bank covered its fraud by making the home buyer appear to be the liar. The real significance of this case is that the same methodology is being used in an enormously bigger case against the Bank of America ...which would be wiped out if it is found guilty.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 16 hours ago
------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 11, 2013 *Judge Rules Against a Bank - Precedent Could Cost Bank of America Billions* Bill Black: Judge rules that Flagstar, a big mortgage lender that gave "liars loans", is liable to insurance company - same issues at stake in Bank of America case Watch full multipart The Black Financial and Fraud Report More at The Real News *Bio* William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE, teaches economics and law at the U... more »

Paulo Coelho, “Convention For Those Wounded In Love”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
*“Convention For Those Wounded In Love”* by Paulo Coelho *“General provisions:* *A –* Whereas the saying “all is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct; *B –* Whereas for war we have the Geneva Convention, approved on 22 August 1864, which provides for those wounded in the battlefield, but until now no convention has been signed concerning those wounded in love, who are far greater in number; *It is hereby decreed that:* *Article 1* – All lovers, of any sex, are alerted that love, besides being a blessing, is also something extremely dangerous, unpredictable and capable o... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
Strabane, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.

Atlas in South America

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago
Turns out that Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism and Ayn Rand—and Austrian economics—are growing in popularity in South America, including reports from Cuba of a tractor and cart used for transportation between two villages wit he words “John Galt” emblazoned on its sides. And in Guatemala the Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM) has a Ludwig von Mises library, a Centro del Capitalismo, a Centro Henry Hazlitt, and has made *Atlas Shrugged* required reading for all students—with the events in the novel integrated with the economics courses—and *The Fountainhead*assigned reading for all a... more »

Korean Hostage Crisis

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago
*Caught themselves a spy did they? * "North Korea says it has detained a US citizen" by Jean H. Lee | Associated Press, December 22, 2012 PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea said Friday that a *US citizen* has been *detained* after confessing to *unspecified crimes*, confirming news reports about his arrest at a time when Pyongyang is facing criticism from Washington for launching a long-range rocket last week. The man was identified as Pae Jun Ho in a brief dispatch issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang. News reports in the United States and South Kore... more »

"The Only Example..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
“The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.” - Arthur Koestler

You've Been Warned

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 17 hours ago
I don't put much stock in State of the Union addresses. They are an annual theatrical exercise in pomp and circumstance. Or pomposity and circumlocution. Remember the mortgage fraud task force rolled out last year, for example, and how it was never fully staffed or funded and how it was just a smokescreen to reward the criminal behavior of banksters? And if this preview just released by the White House is any indication, President Obama will again go full-bore humane Republican in tonight's demagogy: *“It is our generation’s task, then, to reignite the true engine of America’s eco... more »

The Iron Lady of Asia

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago
*"She cited the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth I as her role models."* *Started out soft*: "Candidate seeks dialogue with North Korea" by Sangwon Yoon | Bloomberg News, November 06, 2012 SEOUL — Park Geun Hye, the presidential nominee of South Korea’s ruling party, said Monday that she wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to *improve relations* if she wins next month’s election. ‘‘I am willing to meet the leader of North Korea for the advancement of inter-Korean relations,’’ Park said at a televised press briefing in Seoul to announ... more »

“A Dying Civilization: The Moral Order”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
* “A Dying Civilization: The Moral Order”* by Morris Berman “The notion that there was a way of life characteristic of modern (or industrial) societies that was qualitatively different from the way of life found in pre-modern (or folk) societies goes back, at least, to the German sociologist Max Weber. Modern societies, said Weber, are governed by bureaucracies; the dominant ethos is one of “rationalization,” whereby everything is mechanized, administered according to the dictates of scientific reason. Weber famously compared this situation to that of an “iron cage”: there was n... more »

DID AUSTRALIAN MOSSAD MAN KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT 9/11?

Australia’s ABC TV network aired its weekly *Foreign Correspondent* program last night about a Jewish Australian who had immigrated to Israel and joined Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. According to the program, Ben Alon, also known as Ben Zgier, somehow managed to hang himself while being held in a top secret ultra-high security prison cell in 2010. His body was flown back to Australia for burial seven days after his death. According to the program, Alon had left Australia for Israel in late 2000. Alon, a lawyer, was aged 24-25 by the time he arrived in Israel. He married an Is... more »

The Emperor Has No Clothes!

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 18 hours ago
A pine that snapped in Sandy, already well rotted on the inside, stands brokenly in New Jersey Every day, I check in several times at Nature Bats Last, because even if there isn't a new post from Guy McPherson, I know I will find wonderful comments and fascinating links. It's one of the rare places on the web where the commenters are in general agreement that our host is correct in his conclusion that Near Term Extinction has become a foregone conclusion. There are minor quibbles about whether it is more likely to arrive from, say, nuclear plants melting down, or perhaps drought in... more »

Hey, Reporters: 60 Votes Required Means Filibuster

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours ago
Okay, this may appear to be redundant and overkill, but as long as people are still getting it wrong... I've been criticizing some reporters on the Hagel nomination because they've been saying either that Republicans won't filibuster or that it's not clear whether Republicans will filibuster, when in fact it's been clear for four years that Republicans have established a 60 vote requirement on practically everything. Josh Rogin's reporting made it a bit more clear today what's going on: "We're going to require a 60-vote threshold," Inhofe told The Cable. Cornyn told The Cable, "... more »

Crystals Of Naica mine

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 18 hours ago
*Prediction...* *Some where in the world there are more of these growing crystals as giant as the ones in Naica mine.* *They will find a Amethyst cave with Crystals larger than most tree trunks...* *Ben Judea* The Naica Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico, is a working mine that is known for its extraordinary crystals. Naica is a lead, zinc and silver mine in which large voids have been found, containing crystals of selenite (gypsum) as large as 4 feet in diameter and 50 feet long. The chamber holding these crystals is known as the Crystal Cave of Giants, and is approximately 1000 feet do... more »

The "Bar" Treaty of 1947

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
* * * * *The "Bar" Treaty of 1947* * * Effectively Tying the Bar Associations of the Respective Pan-American States Together and subverting our Constitution to United Nations International Law Today an attorney is a sworn officer of the court, and by his own admission, as that officer, his duty is to impose the will of the state against the citizen. AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (Organized at Saratoga Springs New York, August 21, 1878) It's object shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation and of judicial decis... more »

Attention: Occupy Movement

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
By Grant Williams – OPPT NYC http://oppt.thegsolution.com/a-call-to-occupy-worldwide/ To all those who participated in the OCCUPY Movement worldwide! I’d like to offer you a choice. Do you really want to get to the root of all the issues you were protesting – All thecorrupt bankers, government officials and systems. Well the One People’s Public Trustgot to the root of it all. I can only show you the door. Only YOU can open it. I encourage you to become familiar with OPPT and what they have accomplished with the UCC filings made late last year. You can see for yourself after... more »

Ayatollah Khamenei To President Obama: Prove You Have Goodwill Then We Will Negotiate

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago
The Obama administration said it wants to have direct talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran. But it is offering to sit down and talk with Iran while simultaneously it is imposing illegal sanctions on Iran, killing its scientists, waging cyber warfare against it, demonizing it, funding terrorist groups, and politically supporting the terrorist cult MEK. It is safe to say that the White House's current approach vis–à–vis Iran is insane. There is no other word for it. No one in their right mind can take the Obama administration seriously. Someone who is hitting you and insulting ... more »

Solar energy is clean energy?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
You like solar energy because it’s “clean energy”? But are you sure about that? Despite the daydreams by the likes of Russel Norman, solar energy still struggles to be economic. It’s not sustainable. This industry that’s never made a profit wouldn’t survive without being subsidised by industries that do. And it’s *filthy*: Nowhere is the waste issue more evident than in California, where landmark regulations approved in the 1970s require industrial plants like solar panel makers to report the amount of hazardous materials they produce, and where they send it. California leads th... more »

How Not to Write About Catholicism

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 19 hours ago
On marking the imminent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, this from Shiraz Socialist: Perhaps covering up for child abuse, promoting anti-gay bigotry, spreading AIDS throughout the world, and explaining away his organisation’s hatred of 50% of the human race finally wore him out? Anyway, the former Hitler Youth member (in fairness, he claims he had no choice) has decided to stand down. Pity his organisation (the Church, not the Hitler Youth) survives. “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” ― Denis Diderot Okay. As far as ... more »

IL-02 Special Election And The Gun Question

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
Last October no one thought California state Senator Gloria McLeod had much of a chance to defeat incumbent Blue Dog Congressman Joe Baca in the new CA-35. Baca raised over a million dollars and McLeod had only raised $302,550. But on election day McLeod wound up with 72,562 votes (56%) to Baca's 57,304 (44%). What happened? The big anti-NRA PAC, Independence USA, funded, in part by Mayor Bloomberg, dumped independent expenditures into the district to the tune of $3,296,583 (almost all of it in the last week) and that was the end of one of the NRA's most enthusiastic Blue Dogs. Bu... more »

QUOTE OF THE DAY: What’s at stake

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.” - Professor Richard Lindzen Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Let's Talk about Self-Serving Abuses of Power

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 19 hours ago
Here at DAMMIT JANET!, we've had occasion to blog about cause marketingbefore, mainly over pinkwashing and the Komen Kaper. This kick at that can is prompted by today's Bell's Let's Talk campaign for mental health/illness awareness. First, yes, of course it is a worthy cause. Mental health issues are stigmatized and silenced. My friend Vicky Sanderson writes movingly (but not without her trademark snark) on the toll stigmatized, silenced suffering takes on individuals, families, and communities. Mental health care and research and outreach are all also woefully underfunded. So, i... more »

Japan's Children and the Fukushima Legacy

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours ago
Evidence of the Fukushima children’s ongoing internal contamination is perhaps the greatest tragedy of this disaster. Activists had called for evacuations of children and pregnant women in the first months of the disaster because of their special susceptibilities.[i] Yet, evacuation orders were not timely and wide enough to prevent contamination. For this reason it was particularly concerning when allegations began surfacing in the fall of 2012 of manipulation of government tests results of thyroid nodule detections in Fukushima children. An independent blogger and filmmaker, Ia... more »

What are the business leaders afraid of?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 20 hours ago
Sent to the NY Times, Feb 12, 2013 Why has the business community posted a full-page ad in the NY Times praising the “tougher” academic standards and more “rigorous” expectations of the common core? (“Open Letter from 73 Business Leaders,” Feb. 12). Maybe it is because there is greater awareness that harder standards and increased testing do not help students, and greater awareness that American academic performance is high: Test scores of American students not living in poverty rank near the top of the world. Maybe business leaders fear that more of the public will learn this, and ... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

"The Purpose Of Life..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter; to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” – Leo C. Rosten

CIA TO CHOOSE NEXT POPE?

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
*Cardinal Bertone (right)* "The *Secretary of State *and the real power behind the papacy is *Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone*, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of *Gotti Tedeschi*, head of the Vatican Bank, last May. "Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for 'greater transparency' by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and *was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. * "It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope's diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in R... more »

Harry Targ : Celebrate the 'Historical Revisionists' / 1

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours ago
Historian William Appleman Wiliams circa 1986. Image from Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections / Daily Barameter / The Nation. Celebrate the 'Historical Revisionists' / 1 William Appleman Williams’ classic text, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, broke new ground in the early 1960s as opponents of the Cold War and the escalating Vietnam War policy began to challenge reigning

Phil space

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 21 hours ago
The first Satellite Eye on Earth of the year. Here's a special picture. They Payun volcanic field in northern Argentina: green is vegetation, black is cooled lava, orange is exposed iron oxide.

Econ Summer Camp

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 21 hours ago
Those with an interest in the history of economic thought might want to consider this summer program. I have been told that the program is designed primarily for faculty members in economics, other social sciences, and the humanities, though three of the twenty-five slots are reserved for graduate students.

GOP responds to SOTU with Cirque du So Lame

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours ago
Apparently President Obama is so powerful it now requires three Republican responses to the SOTU. Latest legacy media darling Marco Rubio will handle the official GOP duties because, Hispanic outreach. Which ironically won't be broadcast in Spanish as planned because the "English only" cons in Congress protested. Rand Paul will deliver the privately sponsored official Tea Party response which he promises won't be any different from the official GOP position because, solidarity. Or something. In other words, pointless. Meanwhile, appearing as the true representative of the crackpot... more »

David Evans - The Drones of Empire (A Poem)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
*The Drones of Empire* By David Evans As the drones of empire circle the earth Witness we hell fire queen's grim plan To give fear and loathing a new birth From Hoboken River to North Waziristan. Alas the vanguard of death have found their mark Unleashing their digital death orders, From break of dawn to fall of dark Across angry ancient borders. The Angel of Death has had a field day Caressing the burning circuits of doom Where taunting electrons laugh and play And the virgins of armageddon quietly loom. Launching virtual war against faces nameless Stalking them with surgi... more »

Geopolitics: "A Rising Superpower, The Next Cold War?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
*"A Rising Superpower, The Next Cold War?"* by Chris Mayer "It is in the air and has no name, but something wicked this way comes. Stirrings of another cold war — this time with the giant in the East. In what follows, we’ll take a look at a potential flash point in the South China Sea, run over some geopolitical history and circle back with investment conclusions. The impetus to take to the keyboard starts with the worrisome tensions between China and Japan over a mishmash of contested islands. If that were all, it would be bad enough. But it is far worse. As The Wall Street Jo... more »

אסיר ללא שם, תא ללא מספר.רצח מוסד?

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 21 hours ago
היזהר אם אתה הופך למרגל עבור ישראל זה עלול להיות גם הגורל שלך. בן יהודה אסיר כל כך אנונימי שככל הנראה אפילו לא סוהריו ידעו את שמו ומדוע הוא היה נעול היה 34-בן שגויס על ידי מוסד, על פי תאגיד השידור האוסטרלי. הוא התאבד בכלא הישראלי בשנת 2010, לאחר שנערך במשך חודשים, דוחות ABC. זה אומר ראיות ממליצות לו הייתה בן Zygier, שהשתמש בשם בן האלון בישראל ועבר ממלבורן 10 שנים קודם לכן.הסיבה למאסרו נשארה בגדר תעלומה. רשת ABC מדווחת: "המוות הולך חלק מהדרך כדי להסביר את קיומו בישראל של האסיר X כביכול, העריך נרחב בתקשורת המקומית והבינלאומית כאסיר שנוכחותו כבר הודה על ידי אף מערכת הכלא ולא לממש... more »

HONORING PAUL & ESLANDA ROBESON

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 21 hours ago
In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now remembers the lives of the legendary civil rights activist, singer and actor Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda, whose story is not as well known. One of the most celebrated singers and actors of the 20th century, Robeson was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by the government for his political beliefs. Eslanda Robeson, known by her friends as "Essie," was an author, an anthropologist and a globally connected activist who worked to end colonialism in Africa and racism in the United States. Democracy Now is joined by historian Barbara ... more »

Benedict Bails Out

Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago
*Must be some nasty information about to come out from under those robes.... * "Pope Benedict stuns Catholic world with resignation; Citing frailty, Benedict XVI announces his departure after 8 years marred by controversy; cardinals are expected to elect a successor next month" by Lisa Wangsness | Globe Staff, February 12, 2013 Pope Benedict XVI, whose reign was hobbled by the ­clergy sexual abuse crisis, as well as internal Vatican scandals and external controversies, announced Monday that he would relinquish the post he has held for barely eight years. The *surprise announceme... more »

Prisoner without a name, Cell without a number Mossad Murder

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 21 hours ago
A prisoner so anonymous that apparently not even his jailers knew his name or why he was locked up was a 34-year-old who had been recruited by Mossad, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He committed suicide in the Israeli jail in 2010 after being held for months, the ABC reports. It says evidence strongly suggests he was Ben Zygier, who used the name Ben Alon in Israel and had moved from Melbourne 10 years earlier. The reason for his imprisonment remains a mystery. ABC reports: "The death goes part of the way to explain the existence in Israel of a so-called Pris... more »

GAIA PORTAL: Gaia Energy Influx Limitations Have Been Removed

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
* * * * *Gaia Energy Influx Limitations Have Been Removed* by ÉirePort Gaia energetic influx limitations have been declining gradually over this past year. Subsequent to the 12-21 to 12-31-12 upgrade period, limitations were at minimum level. These limitations have now been removed. Ascension of humanity consciousness levels as well as Hue-manity " release of limitations" has permitted these removals of energy influx limitations. Gaia is now subject to the full impact of Cosmic Higher Light. Hue-manity is aware of this. humanity (small h) should prepare to be surprised. ÉirePort ... more »

Bill Nye Talks About Asteroid Near-Hit

Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 22 hours ago
As George Carlin taught us, a near-miss would actually be something that hit you. "This one will miss us by about 15 minutes --15 minutes difference and that's it," Nye told CNN.

Government: "One Hundred Years of Intrusions"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"One Hundred Years of Intrusions"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Imagine a time when the government knew nothing about the money in your bank. It cared nothing about how much you made, where you made it, and what you did with it. You could take your earnings in gold, silver, paper, or anything else, and never filed a sheet with the government. How you earned a living was none of the business of the political class. For that matter, your bank account could be under a false name and absolutely no one cared. This was the world of a mere 100 years ago in the United States. That’s why it was c... more »

Greg Hunter, “One-On-One With Dr. Paul Craig Roberts”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*“One-On-One With Dr. Paul Craig Roberts”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, “I think we have three of the biggest bubbles in history. The bond market, stock market and the U.S. dollar , and something is going to go.” Roberts thinks,“This is possibly one of the riskiest years in Western civilization.” When it comes to recent revelations about the extensive use of drones to kill terrorists, both foreign and domestic, Dr. Roberts says, “It’s not just unconstitutional, murder is illegal.” When it comes to drone strikes... more »

中国军队的调动信号战争吗?

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 22 hours ago
*American Scofflaw* 日本和中国之间的任何军事冲突将不可避免地拖累美国与日本结盟,由于条约。 传统的美国对中国的战争,美国政府非常糟糕的,因为它不拥有的兵力,制造,或金钱,以确保取得圆满成功。 这意味着这样的战争很可能去核的速度比光的速度。 但是这里有一些好消息 http://grandmalow.com/

The NHC Sandy Report

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 22 hours ago
The National Hurricane Center has issued its final report on Hurricane Sandy (here in PDF). Kudos to the scientists at NHC for their fast and comprehensive work. As I guessed, Sandy will remain categorized as a "post-tropical cyclone" upon making landfall in the US. This determination had already been established in a New Jersey executive order and widely implemented in insurance payouts. To determine otherwise would have wreaked havoc, regardless of the scientific justifications for the decision. Interestingly however, future Sandy-like storms may be classified differently, at l... more »

Maddow: Obama’s address should be a real hoot!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013* *Just look who will be in the gallery:* Several fascinating education reports appeared in the weekend’s newspapers. We’ll look at them in the next several days. For today, we thought we’d revisit the life and the death of Chicago’s Hadiya Pendleton. Pendleton, 15 years of age, was shot and killed just one week after performing in last month’s inaugural parade. On Saturday, her funeral was held in Chicago. In Sunday's Washington Post, Philip Rucker quoted her friends and described a lost ambition: RUCKER (2/10/12): [Mrs.] Obama sat quietly as Pendleto... more »

When nothing goes right

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 22 hours ago
I´m having one of those days that Cuso International warns its volunteers about - one where the frustrations of life in a new country and culture build up to the point that you´re at risk of snapping rudely to just about anyone, "Come on, you people, get your freakin´act together!" Admittedly, some of the frustration is petty. Everything seems to break here, including the kitchen clock we bought after we arrived that has now developed the habit of stopping every time the hour hand passes "1." The electrical current is so irregular that I´ve burned through an expensive electric toot... more »

Only If You Really, Really Want to Know

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
If you're looking for evidence or irreversible climate change - you know, runaway global warming, feedback loops - just look up, look northward because it's happening right in our back yard, right now. Two months ago we dealt with the thawing of the circumpolar tundra and the fires that were breaking out in this rich, carbon-heavy natural fuel source. Together with the retreat of glaciers and the loss of Arctic sea ice, the tundra thaw and burn represented three active feedback loops. But wait, there's more. Researchers found a massive increase in methane release in ice-free Arct... more »

United Native Americans: Round Dance and Protest at Hearst Castle March 29, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
United Native Americans Inc. will host an IDLE NO MORE Round Dance and Rally on Friday, March 29, 2013 at the Hearst Castle to Protest and Demand Reparations and Accountability for the illegal theft of the Black Hills and the Homestake Gold Mine.We will meet at the Hearst Castle Entrance, located at 750 Hearst Castle Rd. in San Simeon, California.The event will begin at 8:00 AM PST and end at

Ratzinger Resigns: Follow the Vatican Bank Money

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours ago
*UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM. OF, THE FLASHBACK TYPE...* Ratzinger's sudden resignation; The first such resignation in hundreds of years Why? * Pope Ratzinger emulating the Grinch* *An opinion piece from Kevin Annett * *The Rat Scurries from the Vat: The Latest Coup in Rome: by Kevin D. Annett* Theories are abounding this week now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office.* But as always, the most direct way to the truth behind the world's oldest corporation is simply by following the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank m... more »

Satire: “Tea Party Issues Scathing Rebuttal to State of Union Twelve Hours Before Speech”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
* “Tea Party Issues Scathing Rebuttal to State of Union* * Twelve Hours Before Speech”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “In a break with tradition, Tea Party Republicans issued their official rebuttal to tonight’s State of the Union address a full twelve hours before President Obama was scheduled to deliver it. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) appeared on Fox News Channel at 9 A.M. (E.T.) to read the rebuttal, which some historians called the most brutal response ever to a Presidential speech that had not yet been made. Calling Mr. Obama’s speech “full of the same ... more »

Rihanna - Gratuitous nudity alert - NSFW - Rule 5 Tuesday

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
Rihanna - Gratuitous nudity alert - in the video for her new single 'Stay' which seems to have been shot in one take in the bath. There is a another version of the video and here's that one with Mikky Ekko in the bathroom along with Rihana.

Some Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Bill Clinton Are Still In Congress

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
The Senate could have removed Bill Clinton from office. There was, after all a 55-45 GOP majority, in the Senate when they voted on the House's impeachment articles. But they wisely backed away from the entirely partisan ledge their colleagues in the House had dragged them to. No Democrats voted for removal and 8 Republican senators voted not guilty on at least one of the two articles. The only Republicans left in the Senate who voted to remove Bill Clinton from office are: Miss McConnell (R-KY) John McCain (R-AZ) Jim Inhofe (R-OK) Jeff Sessions (KKK-AL) Pat Roberts (R-KS) Mike En... more »

Wrestling is Out?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
Wrestling is being scrubbed from the Olympics. Apparently it's a victim of dwindling popularity. Being considered to replace wrestling are sport climbing, wake boarding, roller sports and - wait for it - wushu. In case you're wondering, here is Jet Li's championship wushu performance from 1978. If the ancient Greeks did it, up on mount Olympus, shouldn't wrestling be kept on the roster if only for old times sake?

Writer Vs Author

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours ago
In one of two or three writing communities to which I belong on Linked In, the place where middle-aged and elderly wouldbes go to commiserate, someone asked the same Creative Writing 101 question, obviously fancying themselves to be asking something startlingly original that had never been asked before: "What's a writer and what's an author?" It's one of those questions that involves such a necessarily subjective answer that if you ask 100 self-identified writers that question, you'll get 150 responses. Being an analytically-minded writer and political blogger myself, in w... more »

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
To Brad DeLong, who takes apart a Julia Ioffe TNR profile of Ezra Klein. To begin with: for those who don't know, Ezra Klein has always been a terrific friend and supporter of Plain Blog, of me, and of political scientists in general. So I'm not exactly unbiased on this. On the other hand, I'd take his support to be pretty convincing evidence that he is not, as Ioffe believes, always looking "upward" -- I mean, really, when Ezra first took notice of me I couldn't have been more of a nobody, and even now it's hard to see that there's much percentage in it for him in (as he does) occa... more »

Brindis para el gran día de San Valentín

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Corazón de perlas rojas entre el arcoiris del amor

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Corazones llenos de amor por siempre

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Corazones y rosas para los amigos de verdad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Enamorados bajo la lluvia en el paraíso del amor

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Gatito listo para regalar rosas rojas el 14 de febrero

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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WE WANT CUTS IN THE WAR MACHINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Bring Our War $$ Home now.

Hermosa postal de corazones para el día del amor y la amistad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Perritos festejando el día de San Valentín

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Regalos para los enamorados y amigos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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A few more of those forbidden histories!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013* *And one or two additional targets of those legends and myths:* Yesterday, we said that much of what we regard as “fact” and “news” is actually myth and legend. Then too, we have our “forbidden histories,” one of which Nick Turse described to Bill Moyers last weekend. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/11/13. We described a twenty-year era of fact and legend aimed at Democratic candidates. We said we couldn’t think of a Republican who got the same treatment during that era. Later, it seemed to us that we might have mentioned one or two. In 1996, Lamar Alexander ... more »
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