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Does The NRA Like Your U.S. Senator?
Jeff Sessions (KKK-AL) finally gets an A+ on something
The NRA grades every Member of Congress based on how they vote and what
bills they sponsor. And not every Republican gets an A, nor every Democrat
an F. Here they are state-by-state for all 100 senators. The names in bold
also have taken NRA blood-money:
ALABAMA-
*Jeff Sessions* (R)- A+
*Richard Shelby* (R)- A+
ALASKA
Mark Begich (D)- N.A.
*Lisa Murkowski* (R)- A
ARIZONA
*Jeff Flake (R)*- A
*John McCain* (R)- B+
ARKANSAS
*John Boozman* (R)- A
Mark Pryor (D)- C-
CALIFORNIA
Dianne Feinstein (D)- F
Barbara Boxer (D)- F
COLORADO
Ma... more »
Arizona Snowbowl Protest Photos Feb. 9, 2013
Photos
Dawn Dyer. Thank you for sharing with Censored News
Native Americans protest the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort today,
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in Flagstaff, Arizona, in solidarity with Idle
No More. The Arizona Snowbowl has acted in total disregard for Native
Americans. Thirteen area Indian Nations hold the San Francisco Peaks
sacred. However, the Snowbowl is now spraying the
Actual changes in NCR law - thanks to Anita Szigeti for this
Here is the actual proposed language of the changes in Bill C54 - check
out the new section at the heart of Review Board law - see if you can spot
what's wrong - the answer is below....as is the link to the whole Bill
(C54.)
*9.* The portion of section 672.54 of the Act before paragraph (*a*) is
replaced by the following:
*9.* Le passage de l'article 672.54 de la même loi précédant l'alinéa *a*)
est remplacé par ce qui suit :
2005, ch. 22, art. 20
Dispositions that may be made
*672.54* When a court or Review Board makes a disposition under subsection
672.45(2), section 672.47,sub... more »
February 9, 1973
They're in San Clemente for the weekend; the president wants his men to
figure out the strategy for the next step. First, Nixon and Haldeman talk,
to be followed by a staff meeting the next day. Haldeman's diary shows them
still flailing:
--
[Nixon] got into Watergate strategy. He wants to get our people to put out
that foreign or Communist money came in in support of the demonstrations in
the campaign, tie all the '72 demonstrations to McGovern and thus the
Democrats as part of the peace movement. Broaden the investigation to
include the peace movement and its leaders, McGovern a... more »
Photos Journey of Nishiyuu arrives in Wemindji
The
Journey of Nishiyuu. The arrival yesterday afternoon in Wemindji.'Ms.
Tuckatuck' is the only Inuk young woman on the trek. Photos 1 and 3 by
John Kawapit. Photo 2 Emily Kakabat. The youth trekkers continue on
their journey to Ottawa, in solidarity with Idle No More.Saturday, Feb.
9. 2013 posted at Censored News.
Why is the New York Times Creating Teenage "Rebel" Heroes in Syria Through Selective Reporting
A Faceless Teenage Refugee Who Helped Ignite Syria’s War Feb 8, 2012 New
York Times by Kareem Fahim and HWAIDA SAAD
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/middleeast/a-faceless-teenage-refugee-who-helped-ignite-syrias-war.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130209&_r=0
[excerpted]
this young man carries a burden — maybe an honor, too — that
almost no one else shares. He knows that he and his friends helped start
it
all. They ignited an uprising. It began simply enough, inspired not so
much
by political activism as by teenage rebellion against authority, and
boredom.... Majia here:... more »
Natives rally against tarsands Keystone pipeline in Tulsa
Casey
Camp-Horinek speaks about Idle no More and the Keystone XL
By Great Plains Tarsands Resistance
Censored News
Tonight a large group of natives from a number of tribes, as well as
allies from Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance rallied and danced outside
the Brady Theater in Tulsa, OK. This Idle no More event was organized
to bring attention to the disproportionately high impact that
WE ARE MURDERING PEOPLE WITH NO EVIDENCE
RT talks to John Kiriakou - former CIA official who blew the whistle on the
agency's torture practices. After 9/11 John Kiriakou served as chief of
counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. And now, years later, John
Kiriakou is heading to prison. He was just sentenced to two and a half
years in jail.
He concludes the interview saying, "I think the Obama administration is
largely an extension of the Bush administration."
Native Round Dance to oppose Nevada Bear Hunt Feb. 11, 2013
NATIVE AMERICANS OPPOSE
NEVADA BEAR HUNT
By AIM Northern Nevada
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
NATIVE AMERICANS WILL DANCE AT LEGISLATURE TO SUPPORT S.B. 82, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT BEAR HUNTING IN NEVADA
Bear is Sacred Animal for Nevada Native Americans, and Native Americans Believe their Rights Have Been Violated by Bear Hunt
On Tribal Day, Monday, February 11,
Julius Evola on Traditional Views of The Center of The World
*Wikipedia:*
"Midgard is the name for the world (in the sense of oikoumene) inhabited by
and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of
the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology. This name occurs in Old Norse
literature as Miðgarðr. In Old Saxon Heliand it appears as Middilgard and
in Old High German poem Muspilli it appears as Mittilagart. The Gothic form
Midjungards is attested in the Gospel of Luke as a translation of the Greek
word οἰκουμένη. The word is present in Old English epic and poetry as
Middangeard; later transformed to Middellærd or Mittelerde ("M... more »
U.S. GOVERNMENT BECOMES JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER BY-PASSING ALL JUDICIAL PROCESS
The Department of Justice’s latest White (Wash?) Paper has effectively
allowed senior members of the US government – politicians and public
servants – to become both judge and executioner of anyone they regard as an
enemy even if they are US citizens. The presumption of innocence, judicial
process and all other legalities associated with justice in any democracy
are entirely ignored and by-passed.
It seems the US government and its agencies will now decide who the enemy
is stating that they may be either members of al-Qaeda or “its associated
forces”. Furthermore, it seems, the US... more »
Millionaires In China? Sure-- And Billionaires. They've Become More Like The U.S. Lately
When I was president of Reprise I was based in Los Angeles, but also had
offices in New York and London and I was in NY so frequently that I had a
home away from home there-- the Palace Hotel down the street from our
office. I actually arrived late one night-- just after midnight-- on
9/11... yes *that* 9/11. Needless to say that was a miserable week to be in
NYC and the hotel workers-- who mostly lived in the outer boroughs--
couldn't get in to work. The hotel sort of came to a grinding halt.
My Palace home was in a semi-separate part of the hotel called The Towers
and because I... more »
The Zain Dean Case: Various statements
A couple of weeks ago the news broke that Zain Dean, a UK national, had
escaped Taiwan using someone else's passport after having been sentenced to
four years for allegedly hitting someone with his car while driving drunk.
Here are several statements about the case from Dean and others....there
are some good comments in the forums at Taiwanease.
Dean's own statement at Taiwanease.
An additional statement from Dean.
Dean's 2010 statement
News: Dean's girlfriend detained. Prosecutors say no deal for Dean. Ministry
asks for Dean's extradition.
*REFS*: A few years ago, Brian Kennedy... more »
Study: Diet Soda Increases the Risk of Diabetes
One thing I never see: a thin person drinking a diet soda. The only people
who consume these drinks are fatties. And clearly, drinking zero-calorie,
artificially flavored drinks is not making them thin. A new study out of
France suggests they may be worse for one's health than sugary sodas, and
it is well established just how unhealthy eating any products with sugar is.
Yet another study confirms what people have been saying for ages: Stop
drinking diet soda. Like, right now. Drinking just one 12-ounce can of an
artificially sweetened fizzy drink per week can *increase your risk... more »
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Regő Rejtem
*The Moon and the Nightspirit official webkingdom*.
"The Moon and the Nightspirit is a Hungarian folk music duo founded in 2003
by Ágnes Tóth und Mihály Szabó. Their songs deal mostly with pagan fairy
tales and shamanism." - *Wikipedia*.
Fifth (or Sixth) Storm of the Century Damages US But No Real Plans For Change and America Couldn't Care Less About President's Plans For Murder? (Just Wondering)
Wonder about the storm damage and how it relates to the national denial
(ignorance) of climate change? (Or not?) Wonder about what Barack Obama
really studied as to anything about economics or history or science or math
when he was at Occidental Community College (or just pleasing those who
paid his way)? From our woman at Sardonicky, who is never afraid to speak
what the rest of us even
Women and alcohol...
http://twitter.com/SallyCinnamon_1/status/300369015463890945/photo/1
Please Mister Postman, look and see
The United States Post Office has been in deep trouble for a long time. For
many it seems its imminent demise is no big deal. In the upscale, urbane
world where the demand for instant information grows as fast as kudzu in
Georgia, "snail mail" feels as quaint and outdated as hoop skirts and
stagecoaches. They see no problem with the local P.O. going the way of the
buggy whip.
The other world of people who depend on the USPS is largely invisible to
them. The elderly who don't have a clue about computers still depend on it.
The homeless and other poor transients who need an affordab... more »
you call that a Super storm...Really?
Check this out these pictures of the 1888 storm, it makes this 2013 storm
like a back yard flurry....
The storm of 1888 dropped 58 inches in someplaces...
Super storm of 2013 yeah right....
This is what a super storm looks like...
Super storm of March 1888 58 inches in some places 400 dead...HPA 982
Streets in Brooklin March1888
Now this is a snow storm....
Seed Newsvine
Pakistan's Factory Fires
"Blazes at 2 factories in Pakistan kill 85" by Adil Jawad and Zaheer
Babar | Associated Press, September 12, 2012
KARACHI — Factory blazes in two of Pakistan’s major cities *killed 85 people
* and injured dozens more Tuesday, including some who leapt from the
burning buildings to escape the flames.
The deadliest blaze occurred in the southern port city of Karachi. At least
60 people were killed when the fire broke out at a *garment factory*.
The head of the emergency department at the Civil Hospital in Karachi,
Tariq Kamal Ayubi, said Wednesday morning that many of the bodies were ... more »
Factory Fires in Bangladesh
*First the temples, now this.... *
"112 die as fire ravages Bangladesh garment factory" by Vikas Bajaj | New
York Times, November 26, 2012
MUMBAI — At least *112 people died* Saturday and Sunday in a *fire* at a *garment
factory* outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, in one of the worst industrial
tragedies in that country.
It took firefighters *all night to put out the blaze* at the factory,
Tazreen Fashions, after it started Saturday about 7 p.m. local time,
according to Salim Nawaj Bhuiyan, a retired fire official who spoke by
telephone from Dhaka, the capital.
Scores of workers were ta... more »
Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) Has A Plan That-- With A TINY Bit Of Tweaking-- Could Erase The Budget Deficit Forever And Clean Up Washington
Thursday we looked at how strongly the Republican Party Establishment
backed sequestration. Even Speaker Boehner, who normally doesn't vote, but
who had a loud message to send, voted in favor of it-- as did every single
Republican Party leader, from Cantor and McCarthy all the way down the food
chain to Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon, who's been whining
about it ever since. But now they're *all* whining about how it will
devastate the economy-- which they seem to have picked up from hearing
President Obama drill through their heads. But Boehner claims it's "our
ves... more »
Kung hei fat choi
Kung hei fat choi or happy new year to all my Chinese speaking readers.
*Yes I know Chinese isn't a langauge but I believe the above is Cantonese
and pretty similar to the Mandarin which is Gong Xi Fa Cai.*
Now that's what I call simulacrum
I used to be a regular reader of the Fortean Times and one of their
sections was devoted to simulacra, seeing faces or other patterns in
natural objects or where there was no such pattern. The above is of a
'face' forming part of the International Space Station.
UCC FILING VIDEO UPDATE
The UCC Filing Video is being redone. It will be back online soon.
Blackberry Z10 Review
Let
me start this review by answering the question at the top of all your
minds, "Catelli, as an ardent Blackberry fan, do you like the new
Blackberry Z10?"
After 5 days, with absolutely no reservations whatsoever, I can answer
with an unqualified "I'm not sure."
I'll wait for you to pick yourself up from the floor and recover from
the shock that resulted from that statement.
If I could design
Burned Alive in Brazil
"With some exits locked, Brazil club fire kills 233" by Simon Romero |
New York Times, January 28, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO — A *fire* ignited by a flare from a rock band’s pyrotechnic
spectacle swept through a *nightclub* filled with more than 1,000
university students early Sunday morning in Santa Maria, Brazil, leaving at
least *233 people dead*, police said.
Colonel Guido Pedroso de Melo, Fire Department commander in Santa Maria,
said *security guards had locked secondary exits*, which *intensified the
panic* as people in the club stampeded for the doors. Most of the victims
died ... more »
ROSA PARKS AT 100: Sullivan buys the whole pile of piddle!
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013*
*Interlude—Gwen Ifill, utterly daft:* We’ve been doing some research today
on the Rosa Parks front. Starting Monday, we’ll do several more posts in
our award-winning series.
But good God! Gwen Ifill was utterly fatuous in her handling of this topic
this week. And Andrew Sullivan purchased the whole bloomin' package!
More specifically, Sullivan praised the ludicrous blog post Ifill prepared
after her interview with Professor Jeanne Theoharis on Thursday’s NewsHour.
Sullivan reprinted the part of Ifill’s post which follows, saying that
Ifill had “correcte... more »
Don't Compare Us to ALEC - Says ALEC Member
ALEC Mini-mes?????
ALEC Regional Mini-mes?
*(my [ALEC] notations in the article snip)*
*Louisiana lawmakers start up Gulf Coast legislators organization*
Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com | The
Times-Picayune
on February 08, 2013 at 6:43 PM, updated February 08, 2013 at 7:25 PM
A group of Louisiana legislators have launched an effort to bring together
lawmakers from states across the Gulf Coast to discuss shared issues and
allow the region to speak with a single voice when lobbying the federal
government.
"We're really excited about it," said ... more »
Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon
Video Title: Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon . YouTube Video Description -
[Channel: ImperiumUltimum]:
Martin Lings at the Temenos Academy
This lecture is a personal response from Martin Lings, who was closely
associated with both Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon. This is an important
introduction and commentary on the significance of these two important
contributors to the elaboration of the Sophia Perennis that is particularly
relevant to our times. Taken from Seriousseekers.com (in three parts,
RealPlayer Audio format), merged and republished.
SANDY HOOK HOAX, CONSPIRACY, BLACK OP...
*Sandy Hook child with large head?** cluesforum.info*
*Woman Claims Sandy Hook Coroner admitted Shooting was a Hoax.*
*http://t.co/ebUJ6Lj0*
On Friday, January 25, 2013, on the The Power Hour w/ Joyce Riley, a woman
by the name of ‘Bonnie’ called in and reported that the Sandy Hook coroner,
Dr. H. *Wayne Carver* II, was spotted in Las Vegas.
The woman claims she has information that she obtained from a close friend,
who owns a business in the area.
She claims: “He just got back from Las Vegas, now mind you, this business
owner is not like one of us... he was in Las Vegas and he... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Holly Wood Lincoln'
MNN:
HOLLY WOOD LINCOLN
Posted on February 9, 2013
HOLLY WOOD LINCOLN
MNN. Feb. 9, 2013. Hollywood has created a new “hero”, Abraham Lincoln,
for their patriotism program. President Obama swore on the same Bible as
President Lincoln at both his inaugurations. In his 2009 speech he
declared that “the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve”. He vowed to
finish Lincoln’s Indigenous genocide
Mohawk Nation News 'Holly Wood Lincoln'
MNN:
HOLLY WOOD LINCOLN
Posted on February 9, 2013
HOLLY WOOD LINCOLN
MNN. Feb. 9, 2013. Hollywood has created a new “hero”, Abraham Lincoln,
for their patriotism program. President Obama swore on the same Bible as
President Lincoln at both his inaugurations. In his 2009 speech he
declared that “the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve”. He vowed to
finish Lincoln’s Indigenous genocide
Mohawk Nation News 'Holly Wood Lincoln'
MNN:
HOLLY WOOD LINCOLN
Posted on February 9, 2013
HOLLY WOOD LINCOLN
MNN. Feb. 9, 2013. Hollywood has created a new “hero”, Abraham Lincoln,
for their patriotism program. President Obama swore on the same Bible as
President Lincoln at both his inaugurations. In his 2009 speech he
declared that “the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve”. He vowed to
finish Lincoln’s Indigenous genocide
What Mattered This Week?
I'll try some wishful thinking: Perhaps the confirmation hearing for John
Brennan was a sign that the Senate will start taking their responsibilities
more seriously -- and that issues of war, peace, drones, torture, and the
rest will be a bit higher-profile.
Hmmmm...I don't have a good "doesn't matter" one. I suppose I can go with
the decision for who would give the SOTU response; then next week, I can
use the SOTU response itself!
That's what I have. What did you notice? What do you think mattered this
week?
REPORTED FROM OUR HOUSE
In the middle of the storm we had a knock on the door and a young woman
from Malaysia asked if she could use our back yard as a backdrop for her
weather report that will be beamed back home. Sure we said and even
offered her a coat - but she appeared to be in a big hurry to do the spot
and split.
She was kind enough to send me the link but I don't have any idea what she
was saying. The wind was blowing hard and I figure that is what she told
them.
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, and Your Economists, Too
Click here to read my column in Sunday's *NY Times*.
Requisition me a beat!
They say the world looks down on the bureaucrat/They they they're anal,
compulsive and weird/But when push comes to shove/You've got to do what you
love/Even if it's not a good idea.
Casting Off Fearful and Hateful Dogmas Is the Key
Steven Goddard has a post on the saving grace of the Internet today, where
he concludes: "Information is the key to keeping the tyrants at bay." My
response follows:
*I think a true sense of morals--above all, honesty over self-interest, and
logical reasoning over unquestioning acceptance of received "wisdom", or
dogmas--is the key. I have known, ever since I discovered the Great Design
of the "gods", that unquestioned dogmas were the key, and the universal
threat to man, in this time. That's because I found that all of the
"ancient mysteries"--and hence, all the earliest and most s... more »
Interventionist Leadership - a poem
This matter is no longer
Up for discussion.
If you want to discuss this matter you must do so
In your branches.
If you do discuss this matter
In your branches it is not binding,
Unless
You circulate discussion documents by
Internet.
Discussing matters through the internet is
Wrong.
There will be no more factions
And no recall conference as this matter is no longer
Up for discussion.
People will be expelled for discussing
This matter.
There will be a one-day conference for discussing
This matter
And there will be no expulsions.
The result of the conference will be that we were
Right all alon... more »
Religion-based hate crimes against women...
This happened.
*The leader of a dissident Amish sect was sentenced on Friday to 15 years
in prison for a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks on other
Ohio Amish that drew national attention.*
*
* *Samuel Mullet Sr., 67, the leader, was sentenced in Federal District
Court in Cleveland for coordinating assaults that prosecutors argued were
motivated by religious intolerance. Fifteen of his followers, including six
women, were given lesser sentences, ranging from one year and one day to
seven years.*
*
* *The breakaway Amish were convicted of multiple counts of conspiracy ... more »
Sharp cut of black
There is a reason we are here. We wanted to see what we were made of. This
dimension of duality gives us the contrast needed to do just that.
Without the sharp cut of black, there is only light. A fish does not know
water until it is on the beach. We are looking to know ourselves. This is
the life when we clearly see the light that we are. It is the dark that
provides the stage for our greatest show. We are in the midst of that show
right now.
The dark players are masters at deception. Right now we must question
everything. For several years these blogs, Quests... more »
It's the Poverty Stupid
More empirical evidence that poverty is at the root cause of education
problems in the United States. Will this important information and science
continue to be ignored by politicians and the business community as they
dismantle a public education system that took 200 years to build? Chicago
is just latest city where students are begging to keep their community,
public schools open as charters and for-profits move in to take over. They
starved the beast, the public schools and the teachers unions, and now they
can go in for the kill.
Stanford Report, January 15, 2013
Poor ranking... more »
Just a little is enough
Source: google.com via Meg on Pinterest
Alex Loves Hillary Clinton
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: *Iran, the Militarization of
American Diplomacy, and Hillary Clinton’s Legacy as Secretary of State*.
Inside Story Americas - Hillary Clinton's legacy as top US diplomat
I Love It When The Democratic Bench Rocks-- Mass. State Rep Carl Sciortino Decalres For Markey's House Seat
I can't wait to tell you about Carl Sciortino but since he announced for
Congress yesterday, let's hear directly from him first:
“I am running to continue the strong progressive leadership that the
families of the Fifth District have always counted on. I look forward to
bringing my record of accomplishment to Washington to fight for our
progressive values.
“I am proud to call Ed Markey my Congressman and I am dedicated to helping
elect him as our next U.S. Senator. His record on behalf of Massachusetts
families-- fighting for jobs, consumers’ rights, and a healthier
environment... more »
Barack the Unbalanced
Millions of people are stranded or without power and heat today in the
aftermath of the fifth or maybe sixth Storm of the Century to have hit in
the past year, the direct result of a stunning lack of attention to climate
change on the part of our leaders. Millions of us remain unemployed and
underemployed, a fifth of us are in poverty, with almost half us in danger
of becoming destitute within three months of a job loss or other
catastrophe. Fifty million still lack basic health care. And millions of
those who do have insurance still can't afford to see a doctor because of
high copa... more »
The Dummy American
It is tempting, always, to try to explain why some things are important,
important to every single soul of us...those of us here or those of us
reading blogs that same the exact opposite of what this one does. However,
the rule of change is that it must come from within. As in a chemical
reaction, there may be a catalyzing agent, like the match that starts the
bonfire...but what catches and flames must be "ready" to become a
conflagration. Otherwise, the match is wasted and the brief spark is
extinguished.
That is to say, if an explanation be necessary, it is often because the
m... more »
Soot from oil-burning ships may be geoengineering by accident
[image: Global shipping lanes. Graphic: The Royal Society / Castner]
By Jeff Hecht
9 February 2013
(New Scientist) – Geoengineering is being tested - albeit inadvertently -
in the north Pacific. Soot from oil-burning ships is dumping about 1000
tonnes of soluble iron per year across 6 million square kilometres of
ocean, new research has revealed.
Fertilising the world's oceans with iron has been controversially proposed
as a way of sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to curb global
warming. Some geoengineers claim releasing iron into the sea will stimulate
plankton bloo... more »
Unable to stop climate change, EPA prepares for it – ‘Too bad we didn’t do more a few decades ago to keep all of this from happening’
[image: Beachfront homes in the Rockaways, New York destroyed by Hurricane
Sandy. Graffiti on a bare foundation reads 'Global Warming'. Photo: Jenna
Pope]
By Philip Bump
8 February 2013
(Grist) – "We live in a world in which the climate is changing."
This statement from the EPA, the first line in its draft “Climate Change
Adaptation Plan” [PDF] released today, is basic. But that the EPA is saying
it is important.
For two reasons. The first is that the agency is advancing an argument it
will need to make more forcefully later this year as it pushes for curbs on
greenhouse gas p... more »
Is This How We Are Going to Go Down, After All?
I'm exhausted because I've been working so hard with so many competing
obligations. Ugh.
I came home yesterday and read *The Wall Street Journal* and discover the
following headline:
"Japan Claims Russia Breached its Airspace: Moscow Denies Accusation; Abe
Government Already Sparring with Beijing, Now Faces Island Headache Up
North as Well" 2/8/2013 p. A14 by C. Dawson and B. Spegele.
A couple of days ago, Japan verbally and publicly attacked China:
Wall Street Journal Wed Jan 6, 2013 p. A1, A9 by Y. Hayashi, J. Page, and
J. E. Barnes
[Excerpted] Japan accused China's navy of lo... more »
Peer-mediated buzz
James Fowler, a professor of psychology at UCSD, found that messages
from our peers are more likely to initiate action than messages delivered
by a political committee [ link ]. Last year, Obama’s reelection committee
learned the same thing. They developed a system that leverages database
technology and social-media to deliver their messages. In an instant, this
system allows them to:
1. mobilize grassroots support for White House concerns
2. provide White House support for local concerns
Apparently they took an extra step, conducted surveys ..and learned that
nothing e... more »
Anti-Choice Tag Team
Thar's gold in them thar uteri.
Keeping the abortion debate alive is very lucrative for a number of
anti-choice entrepreneurs. Churches and 'right to life' groups are only the
most obvious.
There are the born-again anti-choicers like Abby Johnson, who once were
blind but now they see.
There are the 'Conceived in Rape' mongers, like Rebecca Kiessling.
And now, a new-to-me brand of huckster -- the faux women's rights defenders.
Via Kady O'Malley, we learn that sex-selective abortion promoter opponent
Mark Warawa had a bunfest planned for Thursday, aka The Day Senator Brawler
Brazea... more »
HOMER DON'T WANNA GO OUT
- They are reporting almost 30 inches of snow across the state since
yesterday. We have more snow here than we can ever dream of shoveling.
The wind is blowing at 32 mph. I shoveled for 1/2 hour early this morning
just to make it possible for Homer to get out the door to pee.....what a
mess. MB spent last night in Portland (45 minutes south of Bath) at a
co-worker's house and had to walk to work at the homeless shelter today.
She said more than 200 homeless are crowded into Preble Street Resource
Center at this point. Not sure she can make it home tonigh... more »
From Russia, With Laughs
What follows is part of a hilarious set of 32 of the most bizarre
photographs to recently come out of Russia. Naturally, this is irresistible
to a guy who once belonged to a captioning community before he became a
blogger.
*Moscow, Nov. 2012: The Angry Birds: The Ballet premieres at the Bolshoi,
prompting a craze among seniors unseen since the leaked Yeltsin porno videos
. *
*"I'm not going to try. You try." "I'm not going to try. Hey, let's get
Misha." "Misha won't like, She hate everything." Russia's abortive Life
Cereal commercial.*
*"Hey, comrades. Little help, please? Hu... more »
The Blizzard of 2013
*I don't have to read about it because I lived it*:
Massive storm builds by the hour
Two storms converged at ‘perfect’ spot
Warnings heard, a hush falls over Boston during storm
Amid the turmoil, Patrick is calming voice of caution
Travel ban surprises many, pleases some
*I wasn't necessarily against it; I'm just angry at the way he did it, and
that it was made a crime. He could have just pleaded and asked, not put out
an empty threat left to arbitrary enforcement.*
MBTA riders tweak schedules for shutdown
Boston bars warm up locals during storm
In Marblehead, marveling at the fury, ma... more »
A Moral Theory of Online "Hate" Harassment and Attacks
First of all: most of the links in the beginning of this post are in
Swedish - English links are highlighted with bold text. My direct
familiarity with the issue is from Sweden, hence the language of most
links, but I know that the issue is general and is discussed in many
settings around the world.
Second of all: a quick little addendum was made just now (5 minutes after
1st posting) regarding the "internet dickwad" theory, that Fredrik Falk
made me aware of. See further below......
In my country, there have been repeated public debates about the completely
unacceptable and many ... more »
Appalling and Disappointing
The travails of Patrick Brazeau and Mike Duffy have once again led to calls
for reform or abolition of the Senate. The argument is that the Senate has
always been a House of Patronage, not a House of Sober Second Thought. The
two aforementioned senators appear to prove the first proposition. But Tasha
Kheirriddin asks some important questions, which appear to be getting lost
in the nasty details:
First, shouldn’t someone in the government have known about them? Second,
if they did, why did the prime minister proceed with the nomination? Third,
if they didn’t know, why didn’t the... more »
"Emergent Phenomenon", or Design
The wuwt site has a post putting forth the idea of global temperature
variations, or climate, as an "emergent phenomenon", and hopefully
suggesting that idea might be a new paradigm for understanding "climate". I
submitted the following comment:
*The mean global temperature of the atmosphere is not an "emergent"
phenomenon, but simply a designed one. No one has yet demonstrated to my
professional scientific satisfaction that there has even been any real
global (as opposed to regional) warming over the period of modern
temperature records; it is entirely unclear that climate scientis... more »
MOVE TO AMEND
In my latest episode of *This Issue* I interview Jerry Provencher of the
Bath group Move to Amend. That is, "move to amend" our Constitution...to
firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not
corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Move to Amend
rejects the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other
related cases.
Untitled
*Entergy takes blame for Super Bowl power outage but remains unsure of cause
*
*Reports: Saints hire Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator *
*Lee Zurik Investigation: St. Tammany Parish Coroner's salary, wet bar face
scrutiny* *Better enforcement of laws against parade-route squatters asked *
*Cold front could throw showers on Mardi Gras*
*Krewe of Iris* * *
*Uptown 11:00 a.m*.
*Krewe of Tucks*
*Uptown 12:00 p.m*
*Krewe of Endymion* * *
*Mid-City 4:15 p.m.*
*Krewe of Isis** *
*Metairie 6:30 p.m.*
*Krewe of NOMTOC** *
*Westbank 10:45 a.m.*
*Krewe of Bush** Bush 9:00 a.m.*
*Krewe of S... more »
Drones And You
I'm not sure how much I agree with it but I completely respect the work
people are doing in questioning the rights of the Executive Branch to use
drones to kill American citizens without trials. Maybe the Executive should
have a hearing to strip the accused of their citizenship *before* murdering
them. My problem with drone policy, though, is different, the "collateral
damage" abroad and the shredding of Constitutional protections domestically.
As someone who has spent years in places, like Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Mali, where U.S. drones are reigning terror and death down on the... more »
Join Portland Students to Stop High Stakes Testing
From *The Oregonian:*
on February 06, 2013 at 10:10 AM, updated February 06, 2013 at 5:08 PM
About 30 students gathered outside the Portland Public Schools district
office to kick off a campaign urging students to opt out of state
standardized tests.
A group of students from the Portland Student Union and the Portland Public
Schools Student Union are asking students to boycott the annual Oregon
Assessment of Knowledge and Skills exams, which are required by state law.
The students are calling the tests unfair measures of teacher and student
performance, as well as a waste of resourc... more »
"There's No Money in the Pot for Climate Skeptics"
Steven Goddard has a post whose comments quickly turned into a discussion
of the trials and tribulations of those of us who deny the popular, but
tyrannical and false, climate consensus. I submitted the following comment:
*I have gone down a different path than anyone, and don't really fit in
anywhere any more. My epochal discoveries, coming outside of any
professional paid employment or institutional framework, open the door to
the next scientific paradigm--overturning the "undirected physical
evolution" paradigm under which all the earth and life sciences now
operate--but they req... more »
Some links....
- Hegemonic Warfare watch: Japan says China aimed radar at its ships.
China says nyah nyah. The Council on Foreign Relations complains that
more needs to be done about Chinese cyber attacks. What? You mean
bringing them into the international system didn't make them behave like
the foreign policy establishment claimed it would? Who could have predicted
that? US naval officer says China's claims are nonsense and it is a
threat to peace. DPP slams China over Senkakus. China creates new
national level task force to deal with Senkakus. Manila, Hanoi, push
b... more »
More Judicial Abuse?
A couple of cases are in the news lately... first, this open letter from
NATPA, one of the pro-Taiwan organizations in the US and Canada...
We also thank DPP legislators Lee Chun-yi (李俊俋), Mark Chen (陳唐山) and Hsu
Tain-tsair (許添財) for speaking up for former Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corp
(SSAC) chairman and chief executive Kuo Ching-chiang (郭清江), a member of
NATPA allegedly involved in embezzlement and corruption at SSAC.
The three legislators said that the Special Investigation Division (SID),
after conducting the SSAC investigation in 2008, did not further
investigate the case.
Usu... more »
SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE: KABUKI OVERSIGHT
President Obama’s nominee to run the CIA, John Brennan, forcefully defended
Obama’s counterterrorism policies, including the increased use of armed
drones and the targeted killings of American citizens during his
confirmation hearing Thursday.
"None of the central questions that should have been asked of John Brennan
were asked in an effective way," says Jeremy Scahill, author of the
forthcoming book, "Dirty Wars." "In the cases where people like Sen. Angus
King or Sen. Ron Wyden would ask a real question, for instance, about
whether or not the CIA has the right to kill U.S. citiz... more »
World Renown Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease - chronic inflammation from our healthy diets
Dr Dwight Lundell MD has been a heart surgeon for 25 years, performing
operations and recommending corporate-funding medicines/diets to unwitting
patients.
Now, it seems he's had a cathartic, Road To Damascus, reassessment of his
role in life:
*What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods
or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well,
smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is
low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrate... more »
Healing Quest: The Grass Fed Movement
12 July 2012
A revolution is quietly rolling across pastures and kitchens all over the
U.S. Its aim is to foster a new attitude about healthy fats in our diet
and the value of grass fed, pasture raised livestock.
*http://www.healingquest.tv*
*The benefits of eating grass fed:*
*http://www.americangrassfedbeef.com/grass-fed-natural-beef.asp*
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon
Yeah, there are two strong camps who claim either the Appollo missions were
i) real or ii) fake, and I don't wanna get into a debate of all that crap.
All you need to do (dear reader) is scroll to 38:00 in this documentary "A
Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon" and watch as a head appears IN
FRONT OF a supposed full-window camera view of earth from 'allegedly'
130,000 miles out - just watch what happens when the lights come on,
revealing the 'magician's trick' window shot from *the back of* the lunar
module.
"Free the Citizens of Earth from the Crimes of History and the s... more »
The finest escape from a snooker ever?
Ronnie O'Sullivan from 2008. The second escape is also pretty good.
BAD KIDS; BLAME MOTHERS; NURSERIES CREATE SAVAGES; MENTORS
Why do some kids become savages?
Usually because they have been neglected, or, abused.
Children can be neglected both at home and in a poorly-staffed nursery
school.
Psychologist Oliver James refers to *"childcarers who scrape through school
and are doing it for the money, often spending the day texting their
boyfriends."*
Robert Thompson's parents, Ann and Robert, were heavy drinkers and there
was violence in the home. (Profiles: the Bulger killers, Jon Venables and
Robert Thompson )
Small children need lots of individual attention and love.
Do nurseries make todlers aggress... more »
The Progressive Conservatives and Alberta’s government: one entity, indivisible, under God?
Participants in today’s Alberta Economic Summit solemnly await Premier
Alison Redford’s arrival at Calgary’s Mount Royal University. Many are
called but few are chosen, and they may not appear exactly as illustrated.
Below: Stefan Baranski, Charles Rusnell and Stephen Carter. As befits an
almost exclusively political event, criticism of today’s Alberta economic
summit by the ... more »
Storm Clouds Crawling With Bacteria
While we cannot see them easily, and obviously find them difficult to
sample, the atmosphere is well endowed with its load of single cell life.
We likely completely underestimate it connectivity besides.
Recall that we have conjectured the existence of methane filled bubbles
made by slime molds able to rise into the stratosphere as plausible sources
of certain types of lights in the sky. We have no difficulty positing a
happy slime mold in a pond of water. How about all sorts of critters in the
pond of oxygen rich atmosphere?
The persistence of a significant bacterial bac... more »
Giants of Aztalan Wisconsin
All of a sudden we have the mother lode for giant archeology. It is still
been ignored of course but it is just were it needs to be. There is also
plenty of misinformation here and the evidence has been clearly ignored
except locally. This is a phenomena that I have become totally familiar
with. You start of in ignorance and come across an isolated datum. Then by
scouting likely locales, it is possible to ferret out a little more data
that conforms to the first discovery.
I have already identified the giants with a strain out of Ireland directly
on the Minoan or Atlantic gr... more »
Direct USAF UFO Encounter Witness Report
What I do find interesting here is that a group of men who were not
actively bound under the Official Secrets Act or its equivalent got to
witness an interaction between an UFO and a team of military personnel.
They even got to share the stories with their families without the
knowledge of minders. They also knew better than to make noise.
Yet it also could be entirely made up in the here and now simply because
we know all this now. However if the witness is for real and we have no
reason to think otherwise, the independent confirmation gave him the faith
to share this stor... more »
When Cancer Disappears
This is extremely good news. Someone is finally investigating the dog that
failed to bark. There is a huge mass of data out there that is begging to
be collected and it is surely worth something. What I do know is that the
medical profession has been largely cut out of the loop by these survivors
because they all went out and shopped for fresh ideas and successfully
implemented them and saw little reason to report back.
This nonsense had to end and this will help hugely. Key will be the
recruitment of researchers able to independently collect the reports
properly.
This i... more »
Are tensor products in QM unnatural?
*Off-topic:* Your humble correspondent will be incorporated in the next edition
of the Holy Scripture
One aspect of quantum mechanics that makes beginners – including permanent
beginners – feel uncomfortable is the fact that its "space of possible
states" seems too large to them. The Hilbert space may seem large and if we
want to describe composite systems, we need to employ a tensor product of
the smaller Hilbert spaces. This product seems both large and
mathematically complicated.
For example, a user named Joe asked a would-be historical question that
made is sound as if the te... more »
About That F-35 Bill
The F-35 programme has been underway for, well, eleven years. Current
plans call for completion of testing in 2019. Here's a sobering look at
F-35 development taken from *Aviation Week.*
*The U.S. bill for JSF development and production has increased about
$40-million a day, in 2012 dollars, since the program started - while 400
fewer aircraft are planned. As far as the IOC (initial operating capacity)
goes.. Initial Operating Test and Evaluation (IOTE) - which is necessary
for IOC - will not finish until August, 2019. That would put IOC in 2020.*
Will the F-35 be up to snuff... more »
Schuon's Audience
Video Title: Schuon's Audience. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: ImperiumUltimum]: Mark Perry, Patrick Laude and Seyyed Hossein Nasr discuss Schuon's writings and audience.
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