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Chained CPI... Is Suddenly An Orphan
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 minutes ago
America doesn't have a spending problem; America has a problem with its
elites forgetting who they work for
The angry uproar over the Obama-Boehner proposal to lower Social Security
payments through Chained CPI has both parties backing away from it as fast
as they can.
Republicans, including House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner of
Ohio, said Obama's offering-- made Wednesday in his budget plan for the
2014 fiscal year-- did not go far enough to cut spending.
Many Democrats thought it went too far, with House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi of California saying that it should ... more »
Jonathan Winters - thanks for the laughs
Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 minutes ago
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an
American comedian, actor and artist.
Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the
Verve Records label. He also had comedy albums released every decade for
over 50 years, receiving 11 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nominations
during his career, and winning the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy
Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996.
Winters has also appeared in hundreds of television show episodes/series
and films combined, including eccentric characters on The Steve Allen Show,
Th... more »
World View Conversations with Rodney Martin
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 9 minutes ago
*A Conversation with Dr. David Duke*
In this premiere broadcast of *World View Conversations* on the American
Nationalist Network, World View Foundations Director and ANA Co-Founder
Rodney Martin and Dr. David Duke, a man considered the "Dean of our
Movement", will have a wide ranging conversation on Dr. Duke's research,
especially as it relates to Jewish supremacy, corruption, and nepotism in
the halls of higher education in the United States. Rodney Martin and Dr.
Duke will also discuss effective strategies necessary for making "Our Case"
to our people.
Please visit Dr. Duke's ... more »
One Lucky Guy
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 minutes ago
You're a surgeon. A father to five young kids. This is not how you
should be spending your free time.
Kansas’s self-destruct button: A bill to outlaw sustainability
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago
[image: A Vortex 2 rotating supercell severe thunderstorm near Dodge City,
Kansas. Photo: Ryan McGinnis]
By Tom Randall
9 April 2013
(Bloomberg) – Kansas, I love your sense of humor.
It seems like every time the Sunflower State pops up in my news feed, it’s
for something like this: House Bill No. 2366, a proposed law that would
make it illegal to use “public funds to promote or implement sustainable
development.”
Kansas, the place where I spent my formative years skipping school to go
fishing in farm ponds, is populated with thoughtful stewards of the
nation’s breadbasket. It ... more »
Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: ‘We’re trying to buy time for the world to wake up’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago
[image: Environmental philanthropist Jeremy Grantham: 'Anyone who says
government can’t do this, or can’t do that, I say a pox on you'. During a
Keystone XL pipeline protest, he said, 'What we are trying to do is buy
time. Buy time for the world to wake up.' Photo: Martin Godwin / Guardian]
You've probably never heard of him, and for years Jeremy Grantham liked it
that way. But now the man who made billions by predicting every recent
financial crisis is speaking out.
By Leo Hickman
12 April 2013
(The Guardian) – One icy morning in February, a train pulled into
Washington DC. I... more »
EPA delays climate rule for new power plants
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago
[image: National mortality effects from existing U.S. coal power plants,
2010. Graphic: Clean Air Task Force]
By Juliet Eilperin
12 April 2013
(Washington Post) – You might have been wondering whether the Obama
administration was going to impose the first-ever greenhouse gas limits on
new power plants, since the deadline is April 13.
We reported nearly a month ago that the Environmental Protection Agency was
likely to delay the rule to bolster their legal case for imposing the new
carbon restrictions.
On Friday, EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson confirmed that the agency would
n... more »
Arctic nearly free of summer sea ice during first half of 21st century: NOAA study
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago
[image: The amount of Arctic summer sea ice, at center in white, on 16
September 2012 compared with the average from 1979 to 2000 average for the
day, shown with the yellow line. A NOAA study suggests there could be no
summer ice at all as early as 2020. Graphic: Associated Press]
12 April 2013 (NOAA) – For scientists studying summer sea ice in the
Arctic, it’s not a question of “if” there will be nearly ice-free summers,
but “when.” And two scientists say that “when” is sooner than many thought
— before 2050 and possibly within the next decade or two.
James Overland of NOAA’s Pac... more »
Saturday Morning Linkage
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
The above video includes Sean Kay speaking about US-European relations and
international security. Kelsey Davenport: “How to Read the North Korean
Nuclear Missile Threat.” Scott Harold and Lowell Schwartz: “A Russia-China
Alliance Brewing?” More Sino-Russian cooperation on alcohol production
would be awesome! The National Security Archive has a nice roundup of their
materials concerning discussions between Thatcher and Gorbachev.
Continue reading
As Much As The Right Wing Wants Us To Love Margaret Thatcher ... 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' Song Goes To The Top Of The British Music Charts ...UPDATE Liverpool Stadium Cheers Her Death
leftdog at Buckdog - 1 hour ago
Following her death on April 8, the bitter row over Margaret Thatcher’s
legacy continues – with a campaign to get the song “Ding Dong! The Witch is
Dead”, from the movie *The Wizard of Oz, *to number 1 on the U.K. music
charts.
The former Prime Minister, whose time in office was marked by battles with
workers’ unions and the privatization of key industries, continues to be a
divisive figure in Britain. On the day of her death a number of street
parties were held throughout the U.K., some of which turned violent.
Encouraged by an anti-Thatcher Facebook campaign, people are now
dow... more »
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIDEO: Lessons From Iraq's Reconstruction
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 hour ago
Australia to tackle Japan on whaling at UN world court
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: A whale tied to the side of Japanese Research vessel Yushin Maru
No. 2 is dragged through the ocean in Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica, in this
picture provided by Sea Shepherd Australia and taken 15 February 2013.
Anti-whaling activists unsuccessfully tried to intervene in the transfer of
the whale from a Japanese whaling vessel to another for more than nine
hours. Photo: Sea Shepherd Australia]
THE HAGUE, 12 April 2013 (AFP) – Australia is to fire the opening salvoes
in a legal battle before the United Nations' highest court in June aimed at
stopping Japan's whaling research p... more »
Soccer/Football coaches needed
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours ago
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Direct from the Cherry-Pick Hall of Fame!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013*
*One more example of The Way We Are:* Will the Smithsonian ever open a wing
called The Cherry-Pick Hall of Fame?
Probably not! But if the museum ever does open that wing, we now have an
op-ed piece which could be the featured exhibit.
We refer to this op-ed column in today’s New York Times. Adding to
Baltimore’s recent shame, the piece was written by Jal Mehta, a 36-year-old
meritocrat who came up right here in this city.
Or rather, a bit outside it.
Mehta is the perfect contemporary meritocrat. Here in Baltimore, he
graduated from the Park School, whe... more »
Sexism and the Dead Thatcher Celebrations
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 2 hours ago
Is this necessary?
I'm no stranger to hating Thatcher, but come on. Since when was it the done
thing to malign the enemies of working people in this way?
In mitigation, there are those who might argue the passion her death has
stirred up is to blame for the sexist "exuberance". But that doesn't make
it any more acceptable. Had Thatcher been black (she wouldn't have been
prime minister, but allow me this), damning her to hell in colourfully
racialised terms would have raised a chorus of condemnation from those who
took to the streets or raised a glass. Unfortunately, sadly, sexi... more »
The Gospel of Judas with Mary Sparrowdancer
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours ago
This is a novel perspective on Jesus and Judas. The second part is also
compelling and has been out there.
We now want to check out the tenth moon of Jupiter to see where that takes
us.
The work is interpretive and speculative. The received knowledge is part
of a book that is now possibly out of print. It is all interesting and
conforms to a number of conjectures I have also made regarding ancient
religious sensibility.
It is a good and thoughtful read.
*The Gospel Of Judas, *
*Barbelo & Long-Kept Secrets*
*By Mary Sparrowdancer*
*Copyright 2006 - All... more »
Power Behind Primordial Soup?
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours ago
This is actually rather promising. It may not be the whole story but it
may well be a key building block. In fact it looks like it may even be
possible to now induce some of the likely steps and slowly work our way
forward. Still a long ways of, but it is certainly a start.
I have dug around this problem enough to understand that it has to be
naturally self starting. This is starting to look right.
Yet it is also sufficiently intractable that gains will be measured in
decades.
*Power behind primordial soup discovered*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Leeds UK (SPX) Apr ... more »
China's Naval Threat
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours ago
Strangely, I consider war as historically practiced to be profoundly
obsolete. Unfortunately that does not stop building out deterrence and then
rationalizing the whole exercise. If China were to collectively lose its
mind then they will still face the nasty problem that their population base
looks like a giant bull's eye and is impossible to protect from a globally
distributed attack. The same holds true generally and war is now all about
wealth destruction and not about the assemblage of wealth.
The USA Civil War destroyed the accumulated wealth of a slave owning
society... more »
Sleep Disorders and Demons
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours ago
Here we get more insight into the dream state and its behavior. The best
take home here is to become mindful during such an episode.
Better still, try to gain data.
It is startling to have a childlike image pop into a demon of all things.
Where in fact does this image come from? It is not part of the natural
pantheon nor is it really something the individual believes in.
Yet we have it represented all over through the centuries. Why not a dog?
Or anything else for that matter. This has no proper aspect in nature, yet
here we have an individual reporting it.
... more »
Cook up
sue at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
It might look as though I spend my sad life trawling through Twitter, but I
promise I don’t.
I do however spend (too much) time scouring other websites and blogs, and I
get this irresistible urge to regurgitate things, but with a twist.
“Yes chef; with a tweest.”
I was sorry to see that Jon Donnison has been nominated for an award. No,
he hasn’t been awarded the honour of cooking for the banquet, but for
‘radio Journalism of the Year’. Obliquely, it *is* for a kind of cookery,
namely cooking up yet more animus towards Israel as if we hadn’t enough of
that already.
I’m beginning ... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*Corps addressing another levee seepage issue, this time on lakefront levee*
*Tax committee members oppose Jindal’s anything-goes approach to unfunded
cuts ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens*
*Robert’s Fresh Market takes control of former Schwegmann’s site*
*Laumeier exhibit explores the shared history of St. Louis, New Orleans*
Your moment of Zen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area, China. [photo via Old Moss Woman]
Wall Street Was Right About Elizabeth Warren-- She's Holding Their Feet To The Fire
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Wall Street financed the Republican campaign against Elizabeth Warren's run
for the Senate. After she won (54-46%), Wall Street went bonkers when there
was talk she might be put on the Senate Banking Committee. Wall Street has
spent billions (literally-- with a "b") making "friends: on Capitol Hill,
lobbying and giving legalistic bribes to Members of Congress (and not just
to Republicans, not by a long shot). Just since 1990 the
finance/insurance/real estate sector has given powerful Democratic senator
Chuck Schumer $18,946,291. Do you think they have some pull with him? In
her m... more »
Caleb Jones (MO - ALEC) Competing for NRA Scholarship to ALEC Annual Meeting
2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
*Missouri Bill Seeks To Coerce Business Owners Into Allowing Guns On Their
Property *
A bill introduced by Missouri state Rep. Caleb Jones (R) would subject
business owners who post “no guns” signs to potentially costly lawsuits,
while immunizing businesses that allow guns from suits resulting from those
guns:
1. Any private business that displays signage which prohibits public
invitees, business visitors, and employees from carrying a concealed weapon
on the premises owned or occupied by such private business shall be liable
for any injury or damages incurred by such public i... more »
Boycott the Royal Bank ... and Amanda Lang - Part 4
Alison at Creekside - 5 hours ago
"Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not
by cheap Indian workers but by better ones."
So says CBC's Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News and* *good
cop to Kevin O'Leary's bad cop on the Lang and O'Leary Exchange, in
yesterday's Globe and Mail.
She wonders if Canadians have returned to 1990 or perhaps to "campaign
trail rhetoric in America" - so aghast is she that people are angry about
the Royal Bank in-and-outsourcing of Canadian jobs to iGATE in India.
In her rousing paeon to globalization and "the natural forces of
capit... more »
The Lessons RBC Should Teach Us
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours ago
It's my bet that, when historians look back at this decade, they will point
to the temporary workers debacle as the incident which hastened Stephen
Harper's exit. They will note that what happened last week crystallized
something for Canadians -- the realization that Stephen Harper wasn't
working for them.
Not that temporary workers don't have their advantages. But last week
clarified who, exactly, were the advantaged. Michael Harris writes that the
government program is:
certainly a good thing for multinational corporations, a term Prime
Minister Harper often confuses with the... more »
Seemingly Unconnected Facts about a certain Chen Wei-ting
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
The Taipei Times had a great moment in its piece on a student charged with
violating the Social Order Maintenance Act for reporting about a kidnapping
attempt:
Chen, the administrator of the Facebook page “I live in Hsinchu City”
(我住新竹市), posted a message on March 28 warning that a man had allegedly
tried to kidnap a child in Hsinchu County, but the child’s family spotted
him and he ran off.
“The next day, I got a phone call from the neighborhood’s management
committee, asking me where I got the information. I said a Facebook user
passed the information to the ‘I live in Hsinchu Ci... more »
Explosive Device Found on HSR?
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
*Local puppies on the prowl. Locals sometimes warn us, owners of two black
dogs, that black dogs have the sweetest flesh and thus, we should be
careful lest they are kidnapped for a local dog meat restaurant.*
CNN reported last night:
The Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. train stopped at Hsinchu City after
someone found the explosives in two pieces of luggage shortly after 9 a.m.,
according to police.
Police said the luggage was emitting white smoke, and people nearby could
smell gas. The setup included 5 liters of gasoline and an activated timer
device to trigger them, police said.
... more »
Warlords
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 5 hours ago
Montreal Simon's post alerted me to the fact that 2014 is going to mark 100
years since the First World War. This is as good a time as any, then, for
me to say that Tim Cook's book *Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King* *and
Canada's World Wars* is a good book.
The part about Borden and the First World War does a great job of showing
how that conflict really put Canada through the wringer. Not only did it
pit English against French, but also rural against urban and workers
against employers, like never before. Reading it, I felt like I was reading
about recent Canadian politics whil... more »
The Staggering Costs of Taiwan's Psuedoscience Stupidity
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
*Bamboo farm outside Taichung.*
My man Greg McCann, who works on tiger and forest preservation in SE Asia,
alerted me to this piece on Mongabay about this study on trade in Tokay
geckos, accounting for millions of deaths:
The study found that a spike in tokay gecko demand due to rumors that it
could cure HIV/AIDS was relatively short-lived, lasting from 2009 and early
2011. Nonetheless geckos are still traded in large numbers, with
over-collection impacting wild populations across much of the reptile's
range, especially in Thailand and Java.
The study notes that *Taiwan has declar... more »
Why is Cameron letting Labour, which last won 29% of the vote, gain 77% of the appointments? The Tory Diary
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2013/04/why-is-cameron-letting-labour-which-last-won-29-of-the-vote-gain-77-of-the-appointments.html
My
theory is that Conservative party doesn't realise that this is a war, a
war that socialism is winning.
6 Foods and Herbs for Arthritis and Other Inflammatory Pain
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
6 Foods and Herbs for Arthritis and Other Inflammatory Pain
by Paul Fassa
Natural Society, 13 April 2013
We’ve been conditioned to accept pharmaceutical prescriptions from doctors
or to buy over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceuticals for pain relief. Some
prescriptions can be addictive and all of them have unhealthy, and
sometimes dangerous side effects. Many of these drugs are taken to treat
some type of inflammatory-related pain, especially that stemming from
arthritis. But there are plenty of foods and herbs that can be taken or
used to relieve this arthritic, inflammatory-relate... more »
Meet the Man Called ‘Crazy’ By Doctors Who Cured His Own Colon Cancer by Anthony Gucciardi
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
by Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society, 12 April 2013
Telling your mainstream medical doctor that you’d like to forfeit
chemotherapy and instead adopt an organic lifestyle full of juicing and raw
nutrition to treat your own cancer could lead him or her to label you as
‘insane’, but it could also save your life. In the case of one man with
stage 3 colon cancer given a 60% chance to live for a maximum of five more
years under chemotherapy, he decided to forfeit chemo and venture into a
natural health lifestyle only to be more than satisfied 9 years later.
At 26 years of age, Chri... more »
mmm bacon
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
Don't tell my rabbi, but I love bacon... Even vegetarians love bacon, even
if they deny it!
The Awful State of US Punditry on the North Korea Crisis: Bill Richardson called Kim Il Sung ‘Kim Yun Sum,’ or something like that, on CNN Yesterday
Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 9 hours ago
I know what you’re thinking, I’m being a show-off area specialist, Asian
language names can be hard for anglophones (and vice versa), and who cares
about KIS anyway, because this crisis is about Kim Jong Un? All of that is
true of course, especially the first one, but come on… Richardson isn’t
just any old
Continue reading
The Most Persuasive Arguments for Legalizing Drugs
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
A retired U.S. police captain makes an utterly compelling case for
abandoning the war on drugs.
SYRIA: NEOCONS NOW UTTERLY CONFUSED AND DIVIDED OVER WHOM TO BACK
Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 9 hours ago
When the rebels began their revolution the neocons backed them and called
for the US to support the rebels just as happened in Libya. But from the
very start of the revolution it was destined to turn into a civil war – a
war that would attract foreign fighters, including jihadists and other
assorted Islamic fighters. They came with their years of fighting
experience and weapons scored from earlier ‘Spring Revolutions’ across
North Africa as well as from Iraq and elsewhere. They also came with
financial support from various Middle East nations including Saudi Arabia
and Qatar. As a ... more »
THE REAL JESUS?
Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
www.smc-mb.net
The early Christians had various theories about Jesus.
Jesus did not become 'officially' divine until 325 AD.
This was when the Council of Nicaea, set up by the Roman emperor
Constantine, decided that Jesus, like many Roman Emperors, was divine.
Most scholars agree that Jesus did actually exist.
"Amy-Jill Levine states that ... 'there is a consensus of sorts on the
basic outline of Jesus' life' in that most scholars agree that Jesus was
baptized by John the Baptist, debated Jewish authorities on the subject of
God, performed some healings, gathered followers...."... more »
Business 360 6: Peace and Prosperity in Asia
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 10 hours ago
* This is the article that I sent to B360 in Kathmandu late last month, for
their April 2013 issue.
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*Peace and Prosperity in Asia*
Asia is in a unique position in the world today in both economic and
political parameters. Economically, three of the four biggest economies in
the world by purchasing power parity (PPP) valuation of GDP are in Asia –
China, India and Japan, ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th, respectively in 2012.
South Korea and Indonesia also ranked 12th and 15th in GDP size.
Among the fastest growing economies in the world are also in Asia, the five
countries mention... more »
Roger Ebert (1942–2013)
Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 11 hours ago
It's
hard to adjust to a world without Roger Ebert, not because he was the
most famous American film critic, but because he was amazingly prolific,
ubiquitous, a talented and smooth writer, reflective and honest, and
thus quite insightful. He had an extremely deep love of film, from the
moviegoing experience to the moviemaking process to the medium itself,
appreciating all its strengths,
GERMANY REJECTED THATCHER/REAGAN MODEL
Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
*German children, in 1951, encounter Dwight Eisenhower and Vernon Walters*.
www.stripes.com
*Lead letter in the Financial Times:*
"Thatcher’s foes predicted that her policies would decimate the middle
class.
"They have been vindicated.
"A great deal of the economic prosperity of the Thatcher years was really
more because of the North Sea oil bonanza, rather than the Iron Lady’s
policies.
"Outside of the US, few nations have ever embraced Thatcher’s
slash-and-burn methods...
*"Germany, for example, still has some of the most powerful unions in the
world, as well as a heavily ... more »
Key to Peace in Korea - Remove US Presence
Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago
*April 14, 2013 *(AltThaiNews-Tony Cartalucci) - On March 26, 2010, the
ROKS Cheonan is hit by what appears to be a German-made torpedo, sinks
while claiming the lives of 46 South Korean sailors. The world, America at
the lead, was quick to point its finger at North Korea before South Korea
itself ruled them out as a suspect. North Korea adamantly insisted it was
not behind the attack, and despite their paranoid and isolated posture,
little beyond insanity could serve as a motive.
Despite evidence adding up otherwise, to no one's surprise a joint
"international" investigation by t... more »
April 12, 1973
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
I'll start the day, for a little context, with Tom Wicker's NYT op-ed.
Wicker was very much an establishment columnist -- a liberal, and no friend
of Nixon, to be sure, but still, reading him gives some of the context of
what people were thinking at the time:
--
For by now it is clear that these Nixon men are not merely trying to cover
up whatever responsibility they may have for the Watergate affair. They are
the same men who have gone to unprecedented lengths to seize the power of
the purse from Congress, who are conducting unauthorized war in Cambodia in
contradiction of the Pr... more »
Sunday Classics preview: A haunting little piece that tells us less than we would think about its composer's roots
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
*Max Bruch (1838-1920)*
*by Ken*
You might think that the haunting brief Adagio (8:53 in the
Piatigorsky-Ormandy recording, 9:56 in the Starker-Dorati) we're hearing
tonight, based on one of the most solemn of Hebrew chants, is a product of
its composer's deeply felt heritage. as Paul Affelder explained in his note
for the Starker-Dorati-Mercury recording, this is far from the case.
It is a sort of musical compliment to Max Bruch's long devotion to folk
music that what is considered one of his most representative works should
have sprung from an alien tradition. Along with his Fir... more »
Media culpa: Margaret Wente and quotes: Who said that?
Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours ago
Media culpa: Margaret Wente and quotes: Who said that?:
'via Blog this'
Carol Wainio providing more quality control for the Globe. And God love
her, because the brain trust on Front Street obviously won't do it.
This Blog Features Only The Very Best Economists That Money CAN'T Buy. These include Republicans as well as Democrats. Their common denominators are deep understanding of macro economics and intellectual honesty.
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago
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* the**REALnews
Permalink*
***Obama's "Cat Food" Social Security Reform*
Michael Hudson: Obama's "bargain" on social security reform will push more
retirees into poverty in exchange for a minor increase in high end income
tax - a class that receives most revenue from capital gains - April 11, 13
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Michael Hudson is a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the
University of Missouri, Kansas City. His two newest books are “The Bubble
and ... more »
Congratulations, Raj
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours ago
My Harvard colleague Raj Chetty has won the John Bates Clark Medal.
Even DUMMIES & IDIOTS Are Catching On To FAKE TERRORISM & THE RADIO NEWS BRIEFS & The False Left/Right Paradigm
Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 14 hours ago
Here we go again! Our FAKE government, FAKE news, FAKE liberals
(Democrats), & FAKE conservatives (Republicans) are at it again! With more
FAKE terrorism, FAKE news, & FAKE left/right "fighting".
They rolled out our discredited FAKE "terrorist" Adam Gadahn for GUN
CONTROL. I've mentioned and posted many videos of FAKE Jewish "terrorist"
Adam Gadahn on the blog here over many years. By rolling him out for
ANYTHING, it is a insult to our intelligence. It's ARROGANCE to think we're
this stupid.
I've posted this video about FAKE media "terrorist" Adam Gadahn over the
years, oh, about ... more »
Christy Clark, Canada`s Newest Federal Conservative
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 14 hours ago
Sweet justice, karma, incompetence, missed opportunity, misguided, advisers
from a Conservative hell-hole, whichever line you like, my smile beams from
ear to ear..
What a great NDP fiscal plan, what timing, small tax hikes on big
corporations(overdue), and the one demographic that still supports the
corrupt BC liberals is the well-to-do rich fat cats, they will see an
income tax increase.... Broadening the base of the carbon tax to include
big oil and gas flaring LNG companies is fantastic too, we get ripped off
at the pump no matter what the barrel price, if the barrel price rise... more »
Graph of the Day: Bitcoin market capitalization, May 2012 - April 2013
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Bitcoin market capitalization, May 2012–April 2013. Graphic:
http://blockchain.info]
By Felix Salmon
3 April 2013
(Medium) – A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew
past $1 billion for the first time ever. That’s an impressive achievement,
for a purely virtual currency backed by no central bank or other authority.
It’s also temporary: we’re in the middle of a bitcoin bubble right now, and
it’s only a matter of time before the bubble bursts.
There are a couple of reasons why the bubble is sure to burst. The first is
just that it’s a bubble, and any... more »
Acid reflux provides a defence to Over 80
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago
*R. v. Coffey*, 2013 ONCJ 178 holds:
*[32] *I find that I accept Mr. Coffey's evidence that he
was actually experiencing acid reflux symptoms during the breath tests. I
found his evidence credible and he was unshaken in cross-examination.
Having come to this conclusion, I find that it has been established that
there was a real possibility that some alcohol may have been in Mr.
Coffey's oral cavity when the tests were taken. There was therefore a real
potential for false readings from the instrument.
Here's a link:
http://www.canlii.ca/en/on/oncj/doc/2013/2013... more »
MARGARET THATCHER: GREAT STATESWOMAN OR WARMONGERING NEO-FASCIST?
Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 15 hours ago
In life, Margaret Thatcher succeeded in dividing a nation, and it seems in
death, decades after leaving politics, she divides a nation yet again.
Some say that the fact that she is so divisive is what makes her great.
That may be so, but is that really accolade? Being ‘great’ because one is
divisive is hardly a plus. As for being called a ‘stateswoman’, I think
not. Great statesman/women bring their peoples together; not polarise them
as Thatcher did. Great statespeople don’t drag their country into knee-jerk
wars overseas and nor do they abuse the working classes and the
impoverish... more »
Some straight people really are grasping that LGBT people really are entitled to basic human rights like hospital visitations -- but lots of them aren't
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*Research Medical Center's behavior would have been revolting and
unacceptable even if there weren't any applicable law, but in fact there is.
*
*by Ken*
I suppose you could look at it the other way: that it represents progress
of a sort when racists and bigots get crazy when you call them racists and
bigots. Once upon a time they wouldn't have given a damn.
Same deal now with anti-LGBT bigots. Where once they would have been proud
to be called that, now more and more of them bristle at the notion that
they're hate-mongers. They're just deeply immersed in their faith, they
insist.... more »
RIP Jonathan Winters
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 17 hours ago
If anybody deserves a state funeral, it's this guy. His brand of insanity
kept a lot of us sane over the years.
Social cons and the new back alley abortions
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours ago
If the story wasn't so impossibly horrible, it would be amusing to see the
half the internet claim Kermit Gosnell's illegal abortion mill is being
ignored in the media. Even more bizarre is the accusations are coming from
social cons who see some dark cover-up by the "right to choose" lefties.
What makes this especially stupid is the trial is being widely covered
locally. Moreover, the anti-choice cons didn't say a word when right to
choose feminists were reporting on this story in 2011 when it first broke.
Not seeing why the anti-choicers think is a winner for them. Sure the gory
... more »
Question Time: The Mrs Thatcher edition......(Plus Eddie Mair)
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Well, it comes to something when I actually find myself enjoying watching
an episode of the BBC's *Question Time*.
Last night's edition was broadcast from Mrs Thatcher's former constituency
of Finchley. The panel was well-chosen, consisting of Ken Clarke and
Charles Moore from the Right and David Blunkett and Polly Toynbee from the
Left. In the middle was Sir Ming Campbell - a man who has described himself
as being "of the Centre-Left" but who is also a member of a party in
coalition with the Conservatives and who gave several robust defences of
Mrs Thatcher throughout this partic... more »
World's Oceans at Risk from Fukushima Radiation
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours ago
Majia here: Radioactive water from Fukushima has contaminated the ocean in
an ongoing fashion for the last two years.
In an interview in October 2012, titled ‘Fishing for Answers off
Fukushima,’ Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole noted that ‘the nuclear power
plants continue to leak radioactive contamination into the ocean’:
K. Buesseler (26 October 2012) ‘Fishing for Answers off Fukushima’, Science
Magazine, 338, 480-482.
Majia here: Buesseler has expressed concerns about the state of the site
given the amounts of water being used to cool the reactors and the
difficulties of capturing... more »
Judicial notice in sentencing
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours ago
R. v. Sansalone, 2013 ONCA 226 deals, albeit obliquely, with the use of
judicial notice in sentencing. The Court approves of its use where a fact
is "notorious". This seems quite consistent with established principles.
The Court holds:
[15] The appellant raises one issue on his sentence appeal. He
submits that the trial judge erred by treating as an aggravating factor on
sentencing the fact that GHB "is commonly used to put into the drinks of
unsuspecting third parties, mainly women, so as to render them unable to
effectively resist others who seek to take sexual advantage ... more »
The children's education fund: Even really stupid commitments should be honoured
paul at Paying attention - 19 hours ago
Martyn Brown raises an interesting point about the NDP pledge to kill a
really stupid piece of public policy the Campbell government put in place
in 2007.
The Children’s Education Fund never made any sense. The Liberals said the
government would put $1,000 for every child born in the province into a
fund. Beginning in 2025, when the a teen graduated from high school, he or
she would get the money, plus interest, for postsecondary training or
education. Figure $2,200.
It was a goofy policy, pulled out of thin air when Gordon Campbell needed
something to announce at the party’s 2006 co... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
“It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that
created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. Nicknamed the Eight-Burst
Nebula and the Southern Ring Nebula, the glowing gas originated in the
outer layers of a star like our Sun.
*Click image for larger size.*
In this reprocessed color picture, the hot purplish pool of light seen
surrounding this binary system is energized by the hot surface of the faint
star. Although photographed to explore unusual symmetries, it's the
asymmetries that help make this planetary nebula so intriguing. Neither the
unusual... more »
RIP Luci
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 20 hours ago
I hardly knew her.
She was just an annoying little min pin (miniature pinscher) who'd
pretend to rush anything she saw within a block of her house then dart away
at the slightest sign of movement. Just two days ago, the guy below us was
walking his new puppy on his inlaws' adjoining property and Luci was
running back and forth, yipping and yapping from across the street,
charging, retreating, charging, retreating.
She seemed to be street smart. When she got to the sidewalk that
should've defined her territory, she'd scamper back into the driveway or
the front yard at t... more »
Joe Barton (R-TX) And A Buy Bull Environmental Strategy-- Soaked In Oil, Of Course
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
Joe Barton (R-Oil)
I don't watch much TV but, aside from Rachel Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell
and Chris Hayes, I spend most of my TV time watching the History Channel.
Not *Swamp People*, *Ax Men*, *American Pickers*, *Counting Cars*, or that
kind of garbage, but the quality stuff, like *Ancient Aliens*, *Vikings*and
*The Bible*. I have this innate ability, though, to not mix up the real
world with the TV world... even though I was tweeting back and forth a
couple weeks ago with Ragnar Lodbrok and shieldmaiden Lagertha.
Texas Congressman Joe Barton (AKA, "Oily"Joe Barton, the former c... more »
Pt.2: Giving Canadians and everyone,everywhere, a Cypriot Style Haircut- “to the wood”
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 20 hours ago
I am strongly suggesting that you all read Part 1,before jumping into this
section:
Pt.1: Giving Canadians and everyone, everywhere a Cypriot Style Haircut-
"to the wood" *Back to the plan for plunder: the so called budget:*
*“This will reduce risks for taxpayers"*
How will this reduce risk for taxpayers? Aren’t depositors and taxpayers
pretty much one and the same?
Of course they are!
* "The Government will consult stakeholders on how best to implement a
bail-in regime in Canada*
*Implementation timelines will allow for a smooth transition for affected
institutions, investors and ... more »
Anonymous hands @cselley his ass | #Rehtaeh #RapeCulture
Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 20 hours ago
"How would you respond to columns like Chris Selley’s in the National Post
that say your efforts are not needed?
Wow, you picked a real winner there. Well, no offense to Chris Selley or
the National Post, but he seems to insinuate that if the police screw up
and a few rapists get off the proper response is “tough shit,” move on to
the next case. For that, I think he's a moron. Let's slow down for one
second and assume that I did release the names of those rapists... what law
am I breaking? I suppose they could sue me for slandering them. Of course,
to do that they'd have to prove I ... more »
The Lonely & Lovely “Look” of Iranian Photographer Newsha Tavakolian
Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 20 hours ago
A
photo from Newsha Tavakolian’s “Look” series
A new photography exhibition, which opened Thursday April 11, 2013 at
the Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City, showcases the talent of
world-renowned, award-winning Iranian artist Newsha Tavakolian.
Her latest series, entitled “Look” (and a sort of a sequel to her
previous project “Listen”), in the words of the exhibition’s press
release, “
Ralph Branca passed an important test!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 20 hours ago
*FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013*
*But Brother Scott wrinkles his nose:* For our money, Jackie Robinson is
one of the secular saints of the last century.
(He was also a world-class athlete. So was his older brother, Mack
Robinson, who finished second in the 200 at Adolf Hitler's Olympics.
Imagine doing something like that and being the *second* biggest athletic
hero in your family!)
Reading this morning’s New York Times, we were struck by one part of A.O.
Scott’s review of the new film about Robinson.
On Opening Day 1947, Robinson integrated major league baseball. Scott
describes the worl... more »
Sacred Hopi masks sold in Paris auction, court gives go ahead
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
Auction sells Hopi masks in Paris for nearly $1 million
(Reuters) - An
auction of ancient masks revered as sacred by a Native American tribe
fetched more than 750,000 euros on Friday, disappointing prominent
opponents of the sale after a French court ruled it should go ahead.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/12/entertainment-us-france-masks-idUSBRE93B0AH20130412
Hopi said earlier that
Will the Greens Back Trudeau, Shun Mulcair?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago
Tom Mulcair and the NDP will need all the help they can get for the 2015
election. It's too bad Tommy burned his bridge to the Green Party.
*“Over the last two years, I found Justin Trudeau to be collaborative and
friendly,” May told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.*
*For the Saanich–Gulf Islands MP, collaboration is important. During the
Green party’s convention last summer, she received a mandate to seek
cooperation with the NDP and the Liberal party to defeat Stephen Harper and
the ruling Conservatives.*
*Her experience so far with New Democrats has been “discouragin... more »
Religious right rebels against GOP rebrand
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours ago
It may be true there's a fool born every minute, but the big time grifters
of the religous right are smartening up. They're telling their flocks, time
to stop being useful fools.
The president [Tony Perkins] of the Family Research Council, a top
religious political group, said Thursday night that conservative activists
should withhold their political donations to Republicans until the party
decides where it will stand on social issues.
Of course, Mr. Perkins would encourage the faithful to continue
contributing to *worthy* candidates and trusted family value organizations,
say, s... more »
Chet Raymo, “Games of Gore”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*“Games of Gore”*
by Chet Raymo
"Last week the New York Times had a full two-page ad for "The Game of
Thrones", an HBO television series now in its 3rd season. The blurbs were
fantastic. Sounded like the greatest thing since sliced bread. To tell the
truth, I had barely heard of the series, which is based on a Tolkienesque
series of fantasy-fiction books by George R. R. Martin. We only have
television half of the year, and HBO not at all. But I noticed the college
library has Season One on DVD and thought I would check it out. The first
five minutes offered two decapitations a... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Boycotts'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago
BOYCOTTS
Posted
on April 12, 2013
Mohawk Nation News
www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. Apr. 11, 2013. Nothing happens without a reason. Our situation
today is the result of policies which serve interests of someone else.
There are ways to prevent corporations from getting away with the
theft of Indigenous resources? A boycott is not using a product,
refusing to buy or deal
"Conscious Happiness..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
"The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the
conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves."
- Oliver Goldsmith
Life Skills: "Emotional Attacks: Choosing Not to Be a Target"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
*"Emotional Attacks: Choosing Not to Be a Target"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"It is important to remember that if you are being attacked emotionally,
it is more than likely not about you at all. Hurtful confrontations often
leave us feeling drained and confused. When someone attacks us emotionally,
we may wonder what we did to rouse their anger, and we take their actions
personally. We may ask ourselves what we could have done to compel them to
behave or speak that way toward us. It’s important to remember that there
are no real targets in an emotional attack and that it i... more »
The Avengers
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago
*Comments in red are mine. -AK*
http://just4ublogdotcom.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/the-avengers/
The Avengers
Posted on April 12, 2013by sojournerbe
Let’s talk about those ‘Divines’ that humans religiously give power over
to, pray and refer to in their supplications.
It is no surprise or secret that the ‘message’ is in the movie and one way
the PTW use to disclose, thereby fulfill a requirement to continue their
nefarious ways. In the movie “The Avengers” the scene where Loki desires
to rule as king forcing the crowd on a NYC street to kneel before him,
clearly states hu... more »
Obama Tracks W. Approval...Still
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours ago
Barack Obama's Gallup approval rating ticked up to 50% today. It's the
third time he's reached that mark over the last couple months, but both
times previously he fell below 50% the next day; he hasn't had consecutive
days at or above 50% since late February. In fact, there's a clear break:
through the reading ending February 28 he was at or above 50% all but four
days beginning with the November 7-9 survey; after that, 50% has been the
peak.
What's fun to look at, at least for me, is that he's still closely tracking
George W. Bush's approval ratings. Of course, that wasn't the case... more »
Pt.1: Giving Canadians and everyone, everywhere a Cypriot Style Haircut- "to the wood"
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 21 hours ago
*This haircut post is in 2 parts. It is lengthy. There are many, many
external links. It will take you less time to read this two part post, then
it took me to dig all this stuff up, organize and write it all up.*
*Share your thoughts, spread the post if you feel it should be read by
others*
*Together we can get the real news out. Thanks for reading :) *
* “To the wood” *refers to an extremely close to the skull haircut.
Sometimes known as a “buzz cut” Or alternatively a shaved head. Either way,
the head is largely or entirely devoid of hair!
Canadians with money in the banks wil... more »
Tattood Miley Cirus - A Rule 5 Friday post - NSFW
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
And I thought she was still a sweet girl...
The Moon Illusion
gail zawacki at Wit's End - 21 hours ago
The Moon Illusion * has never been explained despite many studies from
various disciplines of science and psychology. I like to think of it as
more evidence, as if any were needed, that our collective brains and
behavior are overwhelmingly determined by ancient genetic codes so that,
regardless of what we think we know, much of what we see, feel and do is
beyond our intellectual control. There are some relatively rare individual
exceptions (mutations?) but together, our species overwhelmingly responds
to the immediate over the future, regardless of the consequences. Much
appre... more »
One of the Greats, Jonathan Winters, Dead at 87
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
Winters improvs with Dean Martin
Rethinking our solar system - Mission to Pluto and why!
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 22 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/R_ZGFx6-xXs
Imagine such an 'asteroid' wanders to the Sun...? Have a good weekend!,
John
Chris Hedges Finds the U.S. Is Using Human Rights as a Cover for Pre-Emptive War and Empire
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
If you thought America's aggressive excesses were going to end with the
departure of Bush-Cheney from the White House, think again. Chris Hedges
writes of "*a new wave of 'humanitarian interventionists' ...who naively
see in the U.S. military a vehicle to create a better world*."
*"They know little of the reality of war or the actual inner workings of
empire. They harbor a childish belief in the innate goodness and ultimate
beneficence of American power. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of
innocents, the horrendous suffering and violent terror inflicted in the
name of their ... more »
Jonathan Winters On Mork & Mindy
Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 22 hours ago
There's a lot going on in this not-very-funny clip from an episode of *Mork
& Mindy* that aired in the early 80s. First and foremost, it features the
great comedian Jonathan Winters who died today at the age of 87 (NPR looks
back at his legacy here). This was one of my earliest TV memories. As a 7
year old, I was over the moon for Robin Williams, who I only knew as Mork,
the alien from Ork. The Winters played Mork and Mindy's son, who aged
backward, Benjamin Button-style. I had no idea what a comedian was at the
time, much less that I was watching the great Williams and the even grea... more »
Den of Thieves
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
"*People, don't begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the Free
Market system.*" - Barack Obama, Commander in Chief for Chief Executive
Officers, February, 2010
The day after submitting his 2014 budget proposal to Congress that
included a vastly unpopular and completely unnecessary Chained CPI that
essentially capped the COLA (Cost of Living Adjustments) for Social
Security recipients, it was quietly revealed that this had occurred:
President Obama met at the White House Thursday morning with a group
of ... more »
Triple Divide: Documentary Screening to benefit the Stop the Tennessee Gas Pipeline! Campaign
Tumbleweed at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 22 hours ago
Join the Stop the Tennessee Gas Pipeline! campaign at the Milford Theater
on *Saturday, April 27th* at *5pm for a barbecue* to meet the filmmakers and
* **6pm for a screening* of the new film *Triple Divide*! *Suggested
donation is $5-$10*, with a 50/50 raffle drawing after the screening. A
question and answer period will follow!
Before it gets to Milford and North Jersey, the Tennessee Pipeline
stretches its way across Pennsylvania's northern tier where the most dense
drilling in the Marcellus Shale is occurring. Gathering pipelines from
hydraulically fractured, or "fracked" gas wel... more »
Ayn Rand's "Vision of Paradise" in Today's America? Try Tennessee.
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
If there's one State that practices what Ayn Rand preached, it would be
Tennessee and the results are predictable. From *AlterNet:*
*If you’re worried about where America is heading, look no further than
Tennessee. Its lush mountains and verdant rolling countryside belie a
mean-spirited public policy that only makes sense if you believe deeply in
the anti-collectivist, anti-altruist philosophy of Ayn Rand. It’s what you
get when you combine hatred for government with disgust for poor people.*
*Tennessee starves what little government it has, ranking dead last in per
capita tax re... more »
No, Republicans Are Not Going To Offer Brooks
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
David Brooks suggested an offer for Republicans to make as an alternative
grand bargain: basically, leave taxes out, run higher short-term deficits
than Republicans say they want, cut Social Security and Medicare spending
now, but accept the discretionary spending that Democrats want. Matt
Yglesias says that it would be a hard offer for Democrats to deal with.
I suspect that what Yglesias is concerned about is (from his perspective)
the oddity of Democratic insistence on raising taxes, rather than on
protecting programs they care about, as their bottom line in budget
negotiations.
... more »
Margaret Thatcher Breaks Into #3 Spot on British Pop Charts
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
*It's currently behind something called "Need U (100%)" by Duke Dumont and
A*M*E at No. 1 and P!nk feat. Nate Ruess’ "Just Give Me A Reason" at No. 2.*
But "*Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead"* from *The Wizard of Oz*, is currently
selling 2,000 copies a day online in the U.K., propelling it to a third
place on Brit pop charts.* *
Meanwhile, *Irish Central* lambastes *The New York Times* for kissing
Margaret Thatcher's cold, dead ass* *by sanitizing her true record in power.
With All Due Regrets, Click Youse Meme-ber & Go Stifle Yourself
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours ago
Thanks to Nan Socolow for sharing this (useless, she says) response to a
query about her *New York Times* commenting profile:
In order to change your profile picture you first must be logged into your
account. When you are logged into your account on nytimes.com, at the top
right hand corner of the screen you click on your memeber (*sic*) ID. When
the drop down box appears click my profile. Once on your profile the change
your photo will be the first available option to you.
If there is anything else we can do to help you, please e-mail us at
customercare@nytimes.com or call us at 1... more »
Huelskamp (KS-ALEC) - And His "So-Called" Tolerance
2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours ago
From Raw Story – who stole the story (with attribution of course) from Think
Progress
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) said in a radio interview on Tuesday that he
finds it “discouraging” that the Republican Party is attempting to reach
out to “so-called Hispanic voters.”
SNIP
“That’s not going to go through the House,” he continued. “What is
interesting and very distracting and very discouraging is, Steve, after the
election, the general discussion from Republicans in Washington was, we’ve
got to do everything we can to win votes from the so-called Hispanic voter.
And I say so-call... more »
Obama's Grand Betrayal of Ordinary America
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
Barack Obama's carefully nurtured image as a man of the people has been
blown to shreds. Rob Urie, writing for *CounterPunch*, captures the
event in one paragraph:
*With Barack Obama putting his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare
expenditures into writing in his Federal budget proposal the ability of
those who voted for him to credibly deny his years of publicly stating he
would do so disappeared. The pathetic pleas from liberals and progressives
who only a few short months ago were assuring the unwashed masses Mr. Obama
was on the cusp of a ‘liberal’ renaissance if only do... more »
The Economy: “The Fed’s Attack on the Elderly”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
*“The Fed’s Attack on the Elderly”*
By Dennis Miller
“The Federal Reserve is, of course, a bank. So after it has a meeting, it
issues a statement outlining the discussion — a “bank statement.” Hmm… Now
that I think about it, that must be where the acronym “BS” comes from.
I pride myself on explaining complex financial situations in everyday
language. However, when it comes to the Federal Reserve, I readily admit
that I am sometimes befuddled. I used to watch Alan Greenspan testify
before Congress when he was Chairman of the Fed, and I often ended up
asking myself, “What did... more »
Karl Denninger, "Cyprus: $17 Billion Isn't Enough"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
*"Cyprus: $17 Billion Isn't Enough"*
by Karl Denninger
“Oh, but everyone believed that if Cyprus "came up with" $7 billion (by
stealing deposits) and shutting down the banks, along with capital
controls, the $10 billion was "enough." Oops- it's not. As I noted at the
time the destruction of jobs that came from pilfering small and medium
sized business bank accounts was going to lead to monstrous layoffs- and
thus fewer tax receipts. Now the number has gone up to $23 billion- six
billion more- which incidentally is twice what the government was first
told they had to find on t... more »
Do We Really Want to Save a Place for Our Grandkids? It Sure Doesn't Look That Way.
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago
It's claimed by those who study such things that civilizations that
collapse do so suddenly and while they're at their peak. In a way the
process resembles a balloon bursting. It gets bigger and bigger and then -
pop.
How are we to know when we're nearing that civilization bursting point? My
theory is that we can see it when we reach the point where we simply ignore
perils and challenges because we don't want to change. It's looking as
though we're there.
Britain is hosting the G8 summit now underway. As host, the Brits get to
decide what's on the agenda. Syria is on the... more »
What Are These "Fireball" Phenomena at Fukushima?
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
All the webcam watchers have seen them repeatedly. They are a relatively
new sighting, arising within the last few months. They are increasing in
frequency.
We've concluded that they are NOT vehicles because of their speed and
trajectories.
They are usually yellow, but sometimes appear greenish.
They've been captured on the TBS cam several times. Here are the latest
captures by Kat2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvoF8ZERuQ&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEmGzj73kg&feature=youtu.be
Buck McKeon Throwing In The Towel?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
According to FlashReport, corrupt windbag Buck McKeon is quietly telling
key people he may retire in 2014.
In the past few weeks United States Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon
(CA-25), Chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee, has been
talking with prominent political leaders in his district, informing them
that he may be retiring at the end of his current term. I’ve personally
spoken to several of the folks who spoke with McKeon, who confirmed for me
that they had spoken with the senior Republican who was first elected in
1992, and is currently serving in his 11th... more »
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