Arlington National Cemetery (June 2011) ...item 1.. Afghan war's deadly toll on US forces hasn't eased (July 02, 2011 ) ...item 2.. Utah News-The Salt Lake Tribune (July 13, 2011) ... (Photo credit: marsmet521)
National Geographic Explorer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)( Noting the 'climate change' hullabaloo, one would have to conclude that the scam is in implementation mode. The usual public reaction to propaganda should be expected : that much sound and fury [ signifying nothing ] will overwhelm good sense and skepticism about science-free 'consensus' i.e. consensus about what, exactly ? Computer games are fun ? )
Raiding the dark animal underbelly of wildlife trafficking – ‘4-star generals kept tigers in cages in their living rooms, bears were behind most restaurants waiting for their paws to be cut off’
[image: Severed bear paws ready to be served as a delicacy in Cambodia.
Photo: Jerrie Demasi / Sydney Morning Herald]
[Part 1: ‘Skull is removed, brains eaten alive’: Like the drug trade,
wildlife trafficking is big business in Asia]
By Jerrie Demasi
19 April 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) – "Mum, you need to be more patient," says nine
year old Cambodian Bo Pa.
Her adoptive mother sits across the table of a red-and-gold-clad Chinese
Restaurant in the heart of Phnom Penh, as they wait for their Mekong
lobster to arrive.
"Bo Pa," she responds sternly.
"If I was built to be patien... more »
Video: J. Michael Fay talks about massive gold mining operations in British Columbia that will devastate the region
21 April 2013 (Talking Stick TV) – Interview with J. Michael Fay, Wildlife
Conservation Society scientist and National Geographic
Explorer-in-Residence, about his recent investigation of mining impacts in
British Columbia. For more info: http://unukriverpost.org/
Technorati Tags: Canada,North America,pollution,deforestation,habitat loss,ecosystem
disruption,fish decline
The Week the Joker Struck and the Shit Hit the Fan in Gotham
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.)
As the Chinese would cynically say, we "live in interesting times."
Adding to the interest is how, in times of great upheaval, life
inevitably imitates art. The one bombing suspect we have left, Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, has a first name that sounds a lot like "Joker", the super
villain who blew up a hospital in Gotham and battled the entire city's
police department to a standstill. At the end of the standoff in Watertown,
Massachusetts, there was even a boat involved that, thankfully, didn't blow
up.
In real ... more »
How to "CISPA Blackout" Your Blog on April 22
This is what I found when I did a search
So here's a few easy steps to achieve the goal of "going dark". I
(currently) have 2 methods to doing this:
Method 1:
Turning your page black, i.e. make the backgrounds, text etc. black. Yes,
I'm taking it literally here, but you're blog is going to be completely
blank. An example can be seen here ( http://robtestblog1.blogspot.com ).
If you need details, you click "Design" in your dashboard.
Then, above your blog layout there's a tab that says "Template Designer".
In this go to Advanced and change every colour to black (#000000).
If you post ... more »
On Climate Change, Money - Or Its Absence - Talks.
I can give you six hundred and seventy four billion reasons to believe the
scientific consensus on climate change.
$674,000,000,000.00 - that's the amount the top 200 energy companies spent,
just last year alone, on exploring for new fossil fuel reserves. Gee,
that sounds an awful lot like two-thirds of a *trillion* dollars, doesn't
it? Yes, yes it does. Even in my world, that's serious money.
So, what does 674-billion dollars have to do with the scientific consensus
on climate change? In fact, just about everything. It shows that, in the
supposed dispute over whether climate ... more »
Morality of global warming: Faith leaders look beyond science, politics – ‘This is about the well-being of the entire communion of life’
[image: The home of Susan Soleil, director of Interfaith Power and Light,
is a geodesic dome with a full complement of energy efficiency measures, 16
April 2013 in Midway, Utah. Photo: Trent Nelson / The Salt Lake Tribune]
By JUDY FAHYS
21 April 2013
(The Salt Lake Tribune) – Rob Gillies and his team gather data on Nepal’s
changing climate for a research project. They log temperatures, raindrops
and snow. They pump the numbers into powerful computers and read the trend
lines the computers spit out.
Gillies sees the numbers in human terms, too. Global warming is likely to
mean ... more »
Watch "FBI fence jump" on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahwSmcZxBAU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fangs for the F-35 - Obama's Light Nuclear Bomber
The United States is refurbishing 200 nuclear bombs for use aboard the F-35
light attack bomber.
The old B-61 gravity bombs are being converted with new tail fin assemblies
that will transform them into guided weapons. They'll be kept at various
bases in Europe from Belgium to Turkey.
*"What will be going back to Europe will be a guided nuclear bomb," [Hans
Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of Nuclear
Scientists] said. "Especially when you combine it with F35 with stealth
characteristics, that expands the targets you can hold at risk from Europe,
becaus... more »
Linkage Week in Review
Our readers may have noticed the lack of Saturday linkage. I was at the
MD/PA/WV/VA combined state Tumbling and Trampoline state championships, in
a facility with Faraday-cage properties. I am pleased to say that my
daughter qualified for National Junior Olympics in her two main events —
trampoline and double-mini trampoline. Along the way she
Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear EPA greenhouse gas challenge – Virginia Supreme Court revives epic suit against Massey Coal
[image: Massey Energy logo. Graphic: Massey Energy]
By Valerie Volcovici; editing by Xavier Briand
19 April 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top industry groups and a dozen states have asked
the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding the Obama
administration's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions generated by power
plants and vehicles.
The parties, which had until Friday to submit petitions to the high court,
are challenging a 2012 decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that
upheld rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The petitioners a... more »
Why did Fitch downgrade the UK?
Whether it *really* matters much or not (and it might do), this week's
downgrade of the UK to AA+ by the ratings agency Fitch has embarrassed
Chancellor George Osborne and been pounced upon by Shadow Chancellor Ed
Balls.
If you read the BBC News website's account, Fitch downgrades UK credit
rating to AA+, you will (I suspect) come away with a vague sense as to the
reason for the downgrade.
The BBC article concentrates on the Plan A v Plan B debate concerning the
government's austerity measures, leading the reader to assume that Fitch's
beef is with the austerity strategy and the... more »
Public editor praises the work of the Times!
*SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013*
*This just in from the best of all possible worlds:* A newspaper isn’t
required to have a public editor.
Press criticism is everywhere now. You might say there’s no particular need
for a public editor/ombudsman at a big newspaper. Indeed, the Washington
Post has just eliminated the position.
That said, the New York Times *does* have a public editor. Although at this
time, she only publishes two columns a month.
This morning, we were struck again by the oddness of her column.
Two weeks ago, Margaret Sullivan wrote an utterly silly column, answering
utterl... more »
Oh Yeah; Cooperation, Followed by Proportional Representation
The not-anti-democratic, constitutional parties should cooperate to defeat
harper, hold him accountable, and implement proportional representation.
After that, they can get back to hating each other all they want.
What really happened in Watertown
Everybody's an armchair tactician. One of major sources of contention on
the internets in the last 24 hours has been over how law enforcement
handled the search for the Boston bombers. Early on it was all about
whether they should have crowdsourced the photos. That sequed into the
wisdom, or lack thereof, of shutting down the city. I'm not judging
anybody's take. I'm as guilty as the next guy of second guessing the
primary tactics in any given major event.
Tom Watson made the best case for why shutting down Boston was unwise. I'm
sympathetic to the argument that it sets a bad prece... more »
The practice of imposing "global" sentences for multiple offences is to be discouraged, because it undermines the transparency of the sentencing process
*R. v Hanna*, 2013 ABCA 134 holds:
[5] The sentencing judge did not proportion the totality
discount between the two offences. The practice of imposing “global”
sentences for multiple offences is to be discouraged, because it undermines
the transparency of the sentencing process. Section 726.2 of the *Criminal
Code *requires that reasons be given for sentencing:
726.2 When imposing a sentence, a court shall state the terms of the
sentence imposed, and the reasons for it, and enter those terms and reasons
into the record of the proceedings.
The need... more »
4/21/13 7pm Premiere 350.org - Do the Math
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Just enter your zip code (top right side of page)
*To find an EVENT you can attend NEAR YOU*
Surprised That Freaks And Kooks Like Glenn Beck Are Selling Conspiracy Theories About The Boston Tragedy?
Most of my blogger friends told me that the whole mess around the Boston
Marathon was driving traffic in a big way. We don't sell ads and I couldn't
see what I could possibly add to the tsunami of information-- and
misinformation-- about the bombing and subsequent manhunt, resulting in the
death of Tamerlane and the eventual capture of Dzhokhar. Yesterday, when
looking at the shredding of the Constitution Lindsey Graham was
hysterically screeching about, we had our first mention of the Boston
tragedy. And there's even worse out there than Lindsey.
All week long I watched the bloo... more »
Bachmann (MN-Nut Job) Spends Weekend with Extremists/Fanatics
Wondering what Michele was doing this weekend?
She sure as hell wasn't working on the issues important to the 6th District
in Minnesota.
*Michele Bachmann to Headline Conference with 9/11 & Sandy Hook Truther,
Birthers and Anti-Gay Activists*
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 4/15/2013 11:45 am
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be joining some of the most extreme
right-wing activists in the country at the upcoming Awakening 2013
conference, which is organized by the Liberty University-affiliated Liberty
Counsel. Along with Bachmann, Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) and Jim Bob and
Mi... more »
Rogers (US Congress - ALEC) - Sponsored CISPA
GOP Thinks Privacy Is For Criminals Buying Guns, Not Americans On Facebook
The House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and
Protection Act of 2013 (CISPA) by a vote of 288-127, a nearly veto-proof
majority. It now heads to the Senate, where it died last year.
President Obama has threatened to veto the bill in its current form.
ZDNet‘s Zach Whittaker explains:
For those out of the loop, *CISPA will allow private sector firms to
search personal and sensitive user data of ordinary U.S. residents to
identify this so-called “threat information,”* and to then s... more »
It's About Fair Trade, Not Free Trade
Canada's three major parties now endorse Free Trade. Tom Walkom writes:
Free trade is now orthodoxy in Canada. It used to be debated fiercely. It
no longer is.
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives embrace free trade. So does Justin Trudeau,
the new Liberal leader.
As part of their ongoing effort to pretend that they are not New
Democrats, so do Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats.
The problem is that politicians have reached this consensus just as the
evidence confirms that free trade isn't working. The problem is that what
sounds good in theory never works in practice:
The 19th century the... more »
Satellite eye...
Here's this month's Satellite Eye (it seemed to be a little while coming).
This is my favourite, one of the oldest surviving impact craters on Earth,
now a lake in Quebec.
Untitled
*New Orleans Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo *
*Music and Festivities *
*9:00am Yoga on the Bayou with Swan River Yoga*
*10:00 am Festival kicks off with * *Dj Tj “The Smooth Operator”**, food,
beer, and Green Business Expo open for business *
*11:00 am* *Bayou Kayaks Earth Day Regatta*
*11:30 am * *Flowtribe*
*12:50 pm Chegadão*
*2:15 pm* *Earth Day Second Line with the Stooges Brass Band and the
Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club*
*4:00 pm Panorama Jazz Band*
*6:00 pm* ** *Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk*
*All Day Activities*
• Craft, Food, Non-Pr... more »
A Quick Note on Ed Miliband and George Galloway
According to the *Daily Mail*, George Galloway had a "secret meeting" with
Ed, sparking "rumours that Mr Miliband is considering allowing Mr Galloway
to rejoin the party". It must be a slow day in *Mail* land if this is the
best they can do.
For the benefit of Labour supporters horrified at the prospect of the
Gorgeous One's return, and those on the far left ready to sound the
'betrayal' alarm, folk need to chillax. Gallows isn't coming back.
The Leader's office regularly facilitates meetings between Ed and MPs from
other parties. Whisper it, Ed has even had private meetings with Ni... more »
Ed Miliband shows his lack of judgement
'The Labour leader invited Respect MP Mr Galloway to his Commons office,
where they had a 'cordial and friendly conversation' for nearly an hour.
It has sparked rumours that Mr Miliband is considering allowing Mr Galloway
to rejoin the party.'
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312375/Naive-Miliband-attacked-party-secret-George-Galloway-meeting.html
Sex parties, a gym and a spa: Inside the Saudi prisons where terrorists caught in Saudi Arabia are sent | Mail Online
The Mail have an interesting story as to how Saudis plan to punish
Islamist
terrorists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312136/Sex-parties-gym-spa-Inside-Saudi-prisons-terrorists-caught-Saudi-Arabia-sent.html
It
seems that if you steal you'll lose a hand, commit a homosexual act
then
you'll hang but if you commit acts of terrorism then you'll be sent to a
holiday camp for a few years until the fuss dies down.
It seems to me that Saudi Arabia is saying to AL-Queda "don't worry
chaps,
if you get caught we'll look after you and send you to a holiday camp
until
your time is d... more »
Against Legal Loan Sharking
Payday loans have become something of a sexy political topic. Stella Creasy
has done a great deal of work to get it in the spotlight and Ed Miliband
kicked off Labour's local election campaign with a pledge to give councils
the power to push payday lenders (and bookies) off the high street. Like
the SWP, I'm always happy to clamber aboard a passing bandwagon and, to
this end, I invited Carl Packman to come and speak to Stoke-on-Trent
Central Labour Party's meeting on Friday night. As readers may be aware,
Carl has become the 'go-to' man for payday loan comment and recently had
his ... more »
"Is the BBC biased against Israel?"
As per an article in the *Jewish Chronicle, *a survey by the Institute for
Jewish Policy Research (JPR) has found that an overwhelming majority of
Jews in the United Kingdom believe that the BBC is biased against Israel in
its news coverage.
You can read the full report here.
JPR's summary of this part of the report runs as follows:
The vast majority of respondents (four out of five) considered BBC News’s
coverage to be biased against Israel. Respondents who supported the
Conservative Party were twice as likely to perceive the BBC as being
‘heavily biased’ against Israel as Labo... more »
Should you judge a man by his friends?
Ed Miliband showing that at heart he's still a student activist. Should
Lady Thatcher pass away I trust that if he dares to pipe up with some
unmeant eulogy, he is reminded of this image.
My disdain for Ed Miliband knows no bounds, although he's not as hateful as
Ed Balls, of course.
Art - Keng Lye - alive without breath
Singaporean artist Keng Lye creates unusual three-dimensional images of
animals, using acrylic paint and epoxy resin. Lye's work cross the border
between painting and sculpture in that each resin layer is painted on to
give this amazing 3d effect - similar to (but with far more fidelity than)
the layered glass paintings of Xia Xiao Wan.
Here's one up close just to give you an idea of THE DEPTH OF LYE'S ART.
THE BOSTON BOMBERS
*Tamerlan Tsarnaev (right) with Dzhokhar*
*
*Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are not the Boston Bombers.
They are like Lee Harvey Oswald.
Reportedly, there was a Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans and at the same
time as there was a Lee Harvey Oswald in Japan.
JFK 101 - JFKresearch.com
*"There were no videos like the officials claimed; and they had no images
of the brothers either planting bombs or standing around watching the
carnage. All of that was a lie." Video of Dzhokhar Planting Bomb is
Forgotten*
The FBI knew all about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who *may* have been part of the
CIA... more »
FBI Entraps US Citizen Attempting to Join US-funded Al Qaeda in Syria
Increasingly bizarre US terror-racket inspires human misery from Boston to
Damascus.
*Image: FBI's latest entrapped patsy, Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a U.S.
citizen, attempted to join Al Qaeda's Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.
The irony is, as Tounisi is charged with attempting to provide material
support to a foreign terrorist organization, the US State Department has
announced an additional $123 million in military aid to these very same
terrorists. *
....
*April 21, 2013* (LD) - As the FBI reels from its bungled Boston bombing
case, where the suspects turned out to have been co... more »
Hollywood style over-dramatisation of leg blown off fake victim- Boston Marathon Bombing
Irrefutable proofs of dramatised leg blown off victim using ex-vet
amputees, crisis actors and hollywood production crew. Use of 2 different
wheel chairs over 50 yards. Just incredible. Wake up people! Share, share &
share. Remember their words "Don't let a good crisis go to waste". They are
using this as an excuse to forward their agenda.
Something odd here? The only one with both legs blown off and in critical
condition was wheeled >50 yards to a waiting ambulance, more than 1 hour
after the explosion. Every injured person was put in the ambulance or
wheeled off well before 15... more »
Rule of Law 20: PNP and Rule of Men
The police -- like the Philippine National Police (PNP) -- is supposed to
be the main implementer of many laws protecting the citizens' right to
private property, right to life, right to liberty. Thus, the police should
be in the frontline in going after law violators -- thieves, murderers,
kidnappers, sex traffickers, etc. Whether big or petty crimes, the police
should be upholding the laws, not violating the laws.
Below are some instances where the police are violators of several traffic
or road regulations. Like no counter-flow, no obstruction of traffic, "no
helmet no travel".
... more »
Spring is in the air, and so is change of a most magnificent kind
*Spring is in the air, and so is change of a most magnificent kind*
Through John Smallman
The Oneness that is God has all of creation enfolded within It; It is the
infinite field of divine Love where all Wisdom, all Knowledge, all
Consciousness has its eternal existence. It is a state of utter joy, peace,
and contentment, where no one is, or can ever be in any way, bereft. It is
Reality, where all are free to create abundantly with the skills and
abilities that God has bestowed upon them, and delight in the results.
It is into this sublime state that humanity is to awaken. Your p... more »
Is it contagious?
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* http://just4ublogdotcom.wordpress.com/
*
* *Is it contagious?*
Posted on April 20, 2013 by sojournerbe
I received this in an email this morning. It is a great way to start my
day!! Thank you Saskia. The insight emanating forth from your Eternal
Essence is inspiring. It fits right in with all that is unfolding in a new
paradigm these past few weeks. Let’s keep the Light shining!
by Saskia Davis
Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many
have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people
everywhere could come down with it in e... more »
April 18, 1973
"The P had me in at 8:00 this morning. Said that if this thing goes the way
it might, and I have to leave, he wants me to take all the office material
from his -- ah -- machinery there and hold it for the library."
That's Haldeman's diary, from April 18. The cover-up of the cover-up is
fully underway here, and one of the first things to do is to secure the
evidence. And as Nixon knows, the White House tapes are evidence that will
convict all of them, himself certainly included.
Henry Petersen was busy that day. Dean had mentioned the Fielding break-in
a few days ago, and by now it's... more »
Kierkegaard On Imagination
Related: * *
*Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*.
*Kierkegaard On "Man."** *
*Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.*
*Kierkegaard On God's Love.*
*Kierkegaard On Passion.*
* Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.*
*Kierkegaard On Truth*.
*Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical."*
*Kierkegaard On Religion And Doubt.*
Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His
Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New
York. 2003. Pg. 243.
"The imagination is what providence uses in orde... more »
When the Soul Hits Home
*
When the Soul Hits Home
by Eileen Meyer
*
http://adaptingtograce.com/2013/04/20/when-the-soul-hits-home/
This is in honor of the OPPT and all who are awakening on Planet Earth.
I wrote and recorded the vocals around an existing loop. I love Garageband.
Mark Smith, Democratic Candidate For Pennsylvania Lt Governor, Rocks... In More Ways Than One
I've only been to the Bahamas once; it was to visit the legendary, now
shuttered, Compass Point Studios in Nassau, where one of our bands, the
Ocean Blue, was recording *Beneath the Rhythm and Sound* late in the summer
of 1993. It was a difficult time for the band, who came from a very
conservative religious fundamentalist background and had been coming to
grips that one of it's key members had decided to eschew the closet and
embrace his homosexuality. He had written the band's only real hit and was
the member most liked by the media. But the other band members-- who had
once all... more »
Musical Interlude: Pink Floyd, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
Pink Floyd, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MDHv1xLnlM
The Maddening Sprint Towards "Justice" In Boston Diverts Global Attention From The Facts
"The rhetoric of national emergency also supports the dominant ideology of
the day which is counter-terrorism.
The ideology of counter-terrorism cannot be maintained without the periodic
announcement by the federal government that it "foiled a dangerous
terrorist plot against America," or that, "the FBI captured a group of
terrorists." This government tactic helps to keep alive the fear of
terrorism and reinforces the popular belief in the ideology of
counter-terrorism.
False Flag Terrorism is the most fundamental government strategy in the
West's war of terror. For the Anglo-Ame... more »
Photos: Honoring Warrior Carter Camp, Ponca
Thank you Cat Carnes for sharing your photos with Censored News!
Honoring Carter Camp at White Eagle, Oklahoma today, April 20, 2013.
.
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Antarctic Ice Melting at Fastest Rate in 1,000 Years
Photo courtesy: Public domain/Public Domain
Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic peninsula than at
any time in the last 1,000 years, new research has shown.
The evidence comes from a 364-metre ice core containing a record of
freezing and melting over the previous millennium.
Layers of ice in the core, drilled from James Ross Island near the northern
tip of the peninsula, indicate periods when summer snow on the ice cap
thawed and then refroze.
By measuring the thickness of these layers, scientists were able to match
the history of melting with changes in tempera... more »
CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd | #CISPABlackout
Anonymous - 5 minutes
GAIA PORTAL: Attunements to Higher Vision in Alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision Occurs Rapidly
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* *Attunements to Higher Vision in Alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing
Vision Occurs Rapidly*
by ÉirePort
Attunements to Higher Vision in alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision
occurs rapidly at this now moment. Those harmonized with Gaia Higher
Purpose receive and are inspired to Be and act upon this Higher Vision.
All such Gaia Harmonics collectively respond to Hue-Being involvement and
Higher Intention, as given by Gaia, as received by individual Hue-Being.
The collective Gaia Harmonics response via collective Hue-Being
participation brings in an amplified effect fo... more »
MN Taxpayers Just Got Screwed for Corporate Profit
So
- if you don't have a checking account
- or you don't want to give the state access to your checking account
you're tax refund will be on a debit card.
Just so that everyone out there realizes that this may impact you – this is
from the Minnesota Property Tax Refund Booklet for 2012.
Note: Tax year 2012 is the last year you will have the option to receive
your refund by paper check. Refunds will be issued via debit card or
through direct deposit.
Debit Cards Replace Refund Checks In 2014
Starting with refunds issued in 2014, the department will replace paper
refund checks wit... more »
Giant African Snail Invades Florida
Giant snail. Photo courtesy: Florida Department of Agriculture/Public Domain
About a month ago, we covered a close call in Australia; a species of large
invasive snails that can eat pretty much anything and reproduce quickly was
found in a port. Thankfully, the snail was discovered and destroyed before
it left the port, but who knows if more than one individual found its way
to Australia... Having no predators there, they could wreck havoc.
These snails, which are originally from Africa, are real globe-trotters,
because they are also invading Florida.
The snails, thought to have be... more »
Boston, you're our home
Feel good video of the day is Big Papi at the Red Sox game today.
In case you can't view it, he said, "This is our fuckin' city." Right on
the TV set where the whole world could hear. Everybody loved it. Last I
heard, the FCC is giving him a "heat of the moment" pass on it.
Cancer Cases Down After Nuke Plant Closure
Cancer Cases Dropped After Nuke Plant Closed: Study April 2013
http://www.stjohnprovidence.org/HealthInfoLib/swarticle.aspx?type=6&id=674913
[excerpted] (HealthDay News) -- There were about 4,300 fewer than expected
cases of cancer among people in Sacramento County, Calif., in the two
decades after the closure of the Rancho Seco nuclear reactor, according to
a new study.
The researchers found declines in cancer incidence in 28 of 31 categories,
including notable drops in cancer among women, children and Hispanics....
Not Enough Retirements In The House To Make Room For New Ideas And Energy?
McKeon (left) with his muse (right)
Crooked Santa Clarita Republican Buck McKeon has been running around
Capitol Hill and his district like a chicken without a head insisting he's
not a lame duck. There were widespread reports last week that he's intent
on retiring... or even resigning. Speculation that his shady dealings with
China-agent/Vegas mobster Sheldon Adelson, an unending river of ethics
scandals, a tough rematch looming with Lee Rogers, and a GOP rule that
requires him to step down next session as House Armed Services Committee
chairman-- the source of all his ready cash-- ... more »
Dinner with Bill Whittle...
*in Coeur d' Alene.*
Taking camera.
Burning question. How tall is Bill Whittle?
Answer coming.
See you all later...
10 Activities for Earth Day and Creative Showcase Link-up
April has flown by around here. I wish it had brought more spring instead
of more snow, but I live in Utah, so I can't be picky. Earth day is coming
up, so I thought I would share 10 fun crafts that involve the Earth or
recycled materials to make this week.
Can you believe this darling wreath is made from egg cartons? This Egg
Carton Wreath is from Homemade Serenity.
I love this Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Mosaic from BluKatKraft.
Seriously how creative!
I absolutely love how simple these Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeders from
The Moffat Girls is.
Recycle those plastic water... more »
Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler
*"He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this
world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to
exist."*
*- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf*
Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler. You were and remain the greatest leader in
modern Western history, and offer unparalleled inspiration and guidance to
us all. God bless you, and may you forever rest in peace.
*Heil Hitler!*
*American Nationalist Network Commemorates Adolf Hitler's Birthday*
*Remembering Adolf Hitler*
*Adolf Hitler - The Greatest Story NEVER Told!*
On U.S. Torture Apologetics, Media Humiliation, Boston Chechens, and Who Sent Townsend (Reporting Why Terrorism Sells)
At this point we still don’t know how much time Tamerlan and Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, the two brothers suspected of committing the Boston Marathon
bombing, spent in Chechnya. . . . To find out more about the history of
Chechnya and how its troubles may or may not have migrated to our shores, I
spoke with Robert W. Schaefer, a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret with
many years experience planning
US Turns Away 1000's of Cancer Patients, but has $123 Million for Terrorists in Syria
*April 21, 2013* (LD) - The US has announced that it will provide militants
in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123
million in military aid - while thousands of cancer patients at home are
being turned away from clinics because of budget cuts. Compounding the the
criminal negligence of telling sick people to seek help elsewhere, is the
fact that the military aid the US is providing terrorists in Syria will be
used to perpetuate an already 2 year long, sectarian-driven humanitarian
disaster.
RT recently reported in their article, "US to give $123 milli... more »
State of confusion
Public obsession number one is still Boston today. The internets tells me
the TV newsers are down to interviewing the cousin of the brother-in-law
who's a friend of a friend who knows somebody who once worked in the very
same store where the bomber was once seen buying a bag of Doritos.
Meanwhile there's a murmuration of post analysis on the print side. Wear
your safety glasses if you wade into that one so you're not blinded by the
sparks from all the grinding of axes.
Most useful post I've seen all day was this interview with the Watertown
police chief. It clears up one point of i... more »
“A Brief And Crucial History of the United States”
*“A Brief And Crucial History of the United States”*
by Information Clearing House
"Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that
skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from
insanity there is no awakening. Whether Americans live in the one state or
the other is the paramount question of this era. For two hundred years
Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and
sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its
absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and
cred... more »
“America's New Math: 1 Wall Street Hour= 21 Years of Hard Work For the Rest of Us”
*“America's New Math: 1 Wall Street Hour=*
* 21 Years of Hard Work For the Rest of Us”*
By Les Leopold
"The new Rich List is out- yet another example of financial pornography.
While nearly 15 million Americans still can't find jobs due to the 2008
Wall Street-created crash, the top hedge manager, David Tepper, earned
$1,057,692 an HOUR in 2012- that's as much as the average American family
makes in 21 years! America's new math: 1 Wall Street hour = 21 years of
hard work for the rest of us.
Together the top 10 hedge fund managers waltzed off with $10.1 billion in
2012, whi... more »
NYT: FBI Hatches Terror Plots
NYT reports in 2012 FBI's habit of fabricating terror attacks to make
high-profile arrests - now Boston suspects' family claims sons were led
every step of the way by the FBI.
*April 21, 2013* (LD) - In an April 2012 New York Times article titled, "Terrorist
Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.," it is revealed that many of the high-profile
terror attacks foiled by the FBI, were in fact fabricated from start to
finish by the FBI itself. The article states:
The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in
recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomb... more »
Arizona - Screwed Again - By Choices Made in the Voting Booth
Holy crap! This is scary.
When you talk about the fox guarding the hen house - this one may take the
cake.
Pro-corporate extremist members of the American Legislative Exchange
Council in charge ofproviding protections for consumers - not a chance in
hell.
There are days when I feel so sorry for states like Arizona - where
everywhere you turn is the extremist American Legislative Exchange Council
running their state. But there are other days when it just pisses me off
that people are so damn dumb that they keep re-electing ALEC members to
government.
Arizona Corporation Commissi... more »
Rep. Steve Southerland In For The Fight Of His Life
Phony smiles aside, FL-02 will be one of the big battlegrounds for control
of Congress
It's not easy getting politicians to answer questions. They want to talk
about what *they* want to talk about, not answer questions other people
want to throw at them. Asking DCCC-backed candidates about Chained CPI--
the scheme Obama and Boehner are trying to perpetrate to reduce Social
Security payments to the elderly and disabled veterans-- is a thankless
task. As soon as you bring up the topic, it's like an automated Steve
Israel chip kicks in and nothing but generalities comes through. This is... more »
Gaping holes in the BBC's reporting?
You would, I hope, expect that a House of Lords report claiming that the
scale of European Union fraud is massively more than than the European
Commission has presently admitted would be widely reported - especially by
any media organisation which claims to be a leading source of news.
Most newspapers did indeed carry the story:
The Times: *Real cost of fraud in EU could be £4.3bn, warns Lords report *April
18 2013 Billions of pounds are disappearing from the coffers of the EU
because of gaping holes in attempts to tackle fraud, peers have warned. In
an alarming assessment of the... more »
I Understand The Strategy, But Obama May Be Making Worst Mistake Of His Career
By Manifesto Joe
I've taken a lot of time to weigh the pros and cons of President Obama's
proposal for a "chained CPI" to bring about cuts in Social Security, etc.
I've read a piece in defense of it, from the Democratic perspective. And,
of course, it's not hard to find plenty of excoriations from the left.
I've decided that my sentiments are more with the left. I can appreciate
that Obama is a practitioner of "real politics," but he's already tried
that with the Republicans for over four years. They've made clear that
they're not interested in actually governing.
Obama now stands ... more »
Souls Tormented by Devils
*It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals
are its tormented souls.*
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Spring is really here, and the rain obligingly watered my garden last
night. Thank you, rain!
New birds are thronging around the feeder in the Japanese maple, whose pale
delicate leaves are unfurling.
How could a day with so many signs of life, a fragrant breeze, an azure
sky, demand a quote as bleak as Schopenhauer's?
The forsythia along the paddock fence is brilliantly golden.
The quince is just opening its buds, with a promise of hard, round fruit in
the fall,... more »
C is for clueless
I make it point to avoid the right wing crackpots as much as possible so
I'm not exactly sure what the genesis of this particular bit of
cluelessness is about. I gather it has something to do with the general
pants wetting that went on among the crowd that sees evil Mooslim
terrorists in every shadow. When they heard the Boston bomb kids were born
in Chechnya, they apparently started calling for immediate retribution
against the evel furriners. The problem being they were confusing Chechnya
with the Czech Republic, or more probably the now defunct Czechoslovakia.
Which led the Czech... more »
Gotta Love the ALEC Fighting OKC Firefighters!!!!
Before I get started - is there anything planned for the Oklahoma City ALEC
meeting?
If anyone is planning a protest against ALEC in OKC
they are doing a damn good job of keeping it secret
If they keep the secret well enough
no one will know the ALEC OKC protes is happening
and no one will know to show up.
OKC - ALEC protest should be all over the web - it is only two weeks away.
*The first union ever to actually mobilize their members and march against
ALEC.*
*Hot diggity damn.*
*ALEC is coming to OKC*
Posted On: Apr 17, 2013
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is h... more »
Thank You For Blowing Things Up: D.C. Lobbyists For Al-Qaeda Push For Intervention In Syria
Al-Qaeda's lobbyists in Washington are pushing for a U.S. intervention in
Syria. The move would further strengthen Al-Qaeda's grip on some of the
northern cities in Syria and challenge Assad's rule.
Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups have received money and arms
from the U.S. government and its Arab allies since the start of the
conflict. Such support has come to light due to independent investigative
reporting.
So far, Washington has denied its role in propping up terrorist forces in
Syria. The Obama administration has decided to act covertly, following in
the fashio... more »
Media of Mephistopheles: State Journalists Trick The Public About Boston Bombings And Threat of Terrorism
"Now, it's a great puzzler to well-trained Christians to come across the
trickster hero because he's both a kind of devil and fool, and the creator
of the world. He comes in as an upsetting factor. He breaks through. He
even breaks through the notion of what a deity ought to be.
Now, that trickster trait turns up in deities like Yahweh. Yahweh is a
trickster. He lets people build a building and then because it gets to be
three stories high and he's afraid it's going to wreck heaven, he comes
down and floods the world. That's a trickster stunt. That's a ridiculous
act. We think i... more »
5/2/13 - Rally AGainst ALEC Member Duke Energy- Charlotte NC
Have Your Voice Heard! Duke Shareholder Meeting on May 2 nd
Rally, Press Conference, and Ratepayers’ Stakeholder Meeting
Download the announcement PDF
*>>>HERE<<< *
Harman praises 'hero' immigrants who send welfare handouts home | Mail Online
' Harriet Harman has praised 'heroic' immigrants who claim welfare payments
in Britain and use the cash to support families living abroad.
She said the Government should make it easier for them to send the money
home and called for tax refunds to encourage more immigrants to follow
suit, in particular those who paid for their children to be educated in the
Third World.
The Labour Deputy Leader, who is also the party's spokesman on
International Development, derided 'those who say we should look after our
own first' in the recession and vowed to fight any attempt to cut the £9.4
bil... more »
5/9/13 - Demonstration - ALEC Member RJ Reynolds - NC
Source so you can send out to others:
*GET THE PDF *
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
Info:
May 9, 2013
RJR Shareholders Meeting
Winston-Salem
9:30 meet at LLoyd Presbyterian Church
10:00 Demonstration at Reynolds Headquarters
11:00 March through Downtown Winston-Salem
Could we get some ALEC protesters there?
Learning to Live Within Your Own Skin - Japan's Grand Experiment
The Japanese have become perhaps the greyest of the greying nations of the
developed world. This is discussed in *The World Today*, the public
journal of *Chatham House*, perhaps the world's most venerable and
certainly most prestigious think tank.
*Everybody knows that Japan is ground zero for global ageing. The youngest
of the developed countries as recently as the mid-1970s, it is now the
oldest – and its age wave will continue to roll in for decades to come.*
*By 2050, the proportion of Japanese who are 65 or older is on track to
reach 39 per cent, up from 23 per cent in 201... more »
Watertown aftermath: What happened to the naked guy?
*American Scofflaw*
This story gets weirder and weirder. The arrested suspect, seen in a CNN
video, looked like Tamerlan and had a very muscular physique, which looks
like Tamerlan with his short off as seen here. However, when I turned on
the TV and one suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead and the other, Dzhokhar A
Tsarnaev, on the run, I asked, who’s the naked guy?
They are from Kyrgyzstan, a (wait for it...) Muslim country. Obviously, no
answers will be possible from Tamerlan, and I rather doubt that Dzhokhar
will survive his encounter with the police, which means we will not be... more »
A Bleak Look at the West's Vision for Syria
Terrorist controlled areas are scenes of sectarian brutality, fear,
kidnappings, mass murder, collective punishment, and pillaging - the
obvious end game of Western-backed regime change.
*April 20, 2013* (LD) - Reports are starting to creep into Western media
regarding sweeping atrocities committed by the so-called "Syrian rebels."
Areas held by terrorists have become bleak landscapes both literally and
socioeconomically - with sectarian extremists running the vast majority of
civilians from towns and leaving whoever remains in perpetual fear for
their lives, and in utter despair f... more »
Presenting the filibuster challenge!
*SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013*
*What should the Post have written:* Kevin Drum almost always loses us when
he starts talking semantics. This doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
But so it was when he extended the recent discussion about last week’s gun
bill votes. This is the question at issue:
When Manchin-Toomey got 54 votes in the senate and failed, should that have
been called a filibuster? Drum says yes, thanks to the “academic”
definition of filibuster he offers in the second highlighted part of this
passage:
DRUM (4/19/13): The key question is a semantic one. What's the definition
of a fil... more »
International support for Tsleil-Waututh Treaty to Protect Sacred from Tarsands
National
and International Indigenous Leaders Support Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Signing International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands
Projects
Newswire
Censored News
TSLEIL-WAUTUTH/COAST SALISH TERRITORY, VANCOUVER, BC, April 19, 2013
/CNW/ - A group of influential Indigenous leaders joined Chief Maureen
First-past-the-post + divided opposition = harper win
This sanctimonious, falsehood-filled, ethically bankrupt article is good
for something. harper will probably win the next election if things
continue as they are going.
And, no. I don't want to go to a street corner somewhere and pointlessly
protest something for an hour or so.
I wish we spent more time working on getting power and less time bewailing
the latest atrocities.
Yangtze porpoise down to 1,000 animals, with population cut in half in just 6 years – ‘The Yangtze River is one of the world’s most damaged, degraded habitats, and it is extremely depressing to carry out conservation projects there’
[image: Neophocaena phocaenoides, Finless Porpoise, captive. A survey in
late 2012 found that the Yangtze finless porpoise population has been cut
in half in just six years. During a 44-day survey, experts estimated 1,000
river porpoises inhabited the river and adjoining lakes, down from around
2,000 in 2006. Research Centre for Aquatic Biodiversity and Resource
Conservation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wuhan, Hubei Province,
China. Photo: WWF]
By Jeremy Hance
16 April 2013
(mongabay.com) – A survey late last year found that the Yangtze finless
porpoise (*Neophocaena asiae... more »
ALEC Seeks Support for XL Pipeline
On ALEC’s blog site today you will find the following post by Karla Jones –
From LinkedIn
Karla Jones
Director of International and Federal Relations at American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
Washington D.C. Metro Area | International Affairs
*Comments of support for the Keystone XL Pipeline needed by Monday, April
22, 2013*
Karla Jones | April 19, 2013 | Add a comment
The U.S. Department of State will accept comments through Monday, April 22,
2013 on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for
the Keystone XL Project. Comments of support for... more »
Happy 420
It's 4/20, or 420 or 4:20 a day of celebration in downtown Vancouver at the
Vancouver Art Gallery and other centres such as Haight-Ashbury, Parliament
Hill and Major Hill's park in Ottawa. It's the day when people gather and
celebrate marijuana and the cannabis culture. They sell it, they buy it,
they smoke it, they eat it.
We don't have any 4:20 celebrations in my geriatric town. We find it's
not a good idea to let seniors have matches.
In Harper and CON universe, bullies rule. (Part 2)
The opposition has raised questions about former RCMP Bruno Saccomani's
qualification given this, another Harper patronage appointment, as the
Canadian ambassador to Jordan.
*[...] NDP international development critic Helene Laverdiere, herself a
former diplomat, said there is no reason to believe Saccomani has the
skills required to fill such an important ambassadorial position.*
*
* *“At the moment it is one of the hottest region in the world,” she told
reporters in French. “We have specialists, professionals who have been in
the diplomatic service for years who know the issues... more »
The Land After Time: American Hero Alex Jones Gets Under The Skin of The Dinosaur Media
Time Magazine = Slime Magazine.
The age of the mainstream press is over, and, naturally, they can't handle
it. Online media outlets and commentators are teaching failing media
enterprises such as CNN a lesson in journalism.
They know that they no longer have the ability to lie to the public,
defend government crimes, and cover up government brutality. The public is
being successfully de-brainwashed. More and more people are turning to
alternative Internet sites to get their news. They know the corporate and
government media is channeling a fantasy world to the viewer and th... more »
What Mattered This Week?
Ugh. What didn't matter this week?
I suppose a lot of this is in the we-don't-know-yet category. Of course,
the events in Boston and in Texas certainly mattered to the people
involved. Whether they matter beyond that...well, we'll be getting tighter
security at sports events for a long while, at least. But we're yet to know
any larger importance for the marathon bombings.
As for the Texas explosion, was it a sign of lax regulation and more to
come unless there are changes? Or was it a freak event?
And then there was everything else that happened this week. To tell the
truth, I'm st... more »
Lindsey Graham, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Drones, Constitutional Guarantees
Lindsey Graham seems to think the U.S. Constitution begins and ends with a
very crimped interpretation of the Second Amendment. In his view it
mandates that anyone can, willy-nilly buy any weapon he wants without any
kind of government regulation. Most people not in thrall to the NRA do not
interpret the Second Amendment that way. And to Graham, the rest of the
Constitution just doesn't seem all that important. Friday, for example, he
let loose with the above tweet. If the authorities fail to read the
suspect, no matter how heinous the crimes he's accused of, his Miranda
Rights-- ... more »
‘Skull is removed, brains eaten alive’: Like the drug trade, wildlife trafficking is big business in Asia
[image: 'Chhouk' the amputee elephant. Abandoned as a baby in the Cambodian
forest, his mother was taken by poachers, Chhouk was rescued by Wildlife
Alliance and given a prosthetic leg. Photo: Jerrie Demasi]
By Jerrie Demasi
19 April 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Would you purchase an endangered tiger's tooth as
a cure for acne?
Perhaps not, but in many Asian countries, you could.
The fact that the animal may be critically endangered can actually make the
purchase more lucrative, as the rarer the animal, the more potent it's good
fortune and healing properties.
Like the drug t... more »
Christy Clark Lies On CKNW RADIO, Forced To Retract
(A reposted story, the real story on BC Ferries, Christy Clark lies on
radio, forced to retract, Christy Clark`s defense of the $million dollar
man David Hahn, Christy Clark blathers lies on air without any facts, the
Christy Clark pattern, dumb as a sack of hammers..Grant G.April 20th/2013)
_____________
In 2001 Gordon Campbell took power in BC.....He immediately announced a
massive cut in corporate taxes and income taxes, Gordon Campbell quickly
squandered the $1.6 billion dollar surplus the ndp Government left him...
The surplus was gone, the deficit for Campbell`s first year... more »
RNA interference Modified Food to Hit Markets
Frankenapple: Bad News No Matter How You Slice It By Katherine Paul and
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association 20 April 13
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/448-farm-and-food-policy/17032-frankenapple-bad-news-no-matter-how-you-slice-it
[Excerpted] Thanks to the biotech industry's relentless quest to control
our food, McDonald's, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be
able to serve up apples that won't turn brown when they're sliced or bitten
into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification technology,
called RNA interference, or double strand RN... more »
Climate inaction likely to deepen EU divisions - paper
[image: Aerial view of El Atazar reservoir, 16 March 2012. A lack of rain
in Spain has caused the El Atazar reservoir to drop precipitously. El
Atazar is the largest reservoir in Madrid and Spain is under severe drought
conditions which have parched farmland with the driest winter in seven
decades. Photo: hungeree.com]
By Barbara Lewis, with additional reporting by Charlie Dunmore; editing by
Jane Baird
19 April 2013
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union must take measures to prevent the
destruction of crops and property by extreme weather or face instability
and deeper social ... more »
Did Obama really say this?...
*apparently so. *
I was at work when the capture of "suspect 2" happened. Obama proceeded to
make a statement warning us not to jump to conclusions. Avoidance of the
sound of his voice is a high priority for me, so the first time I read what
he said was just a few moments ago via* Laughing Conservative *who linked
to *The Tea Party News Network. *
Tea Party News: *Robotic, Emotionless President Obama Gets Boston Victim’s
Name Wrong*
Seriously? He has a gazillion handlers, speech writers, and advisers and
he *gets a victim's name wrong*? Not just a little bit wrong - but,
re... more »
Dear fellow Americans, Stop believing everything you are told by the corporate-owned mainstream media and pay more attention to the news that they suppress. Orwell's "1984" will soon become reality if we fail to recognize and oppose it...
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*Boston Marathon Bombing*
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April 19, 2013 | *Original Here*
Boston Marathon Bombing
Dear Readers,
A number of you have asked me my take on the Boston Marathon Bombing and
subsequent events.
I am flattered that so many look to me for leadership on so many issues.
However,
I have not followed closely the Boston event. My website hasn’t the
resources to field an investigative team, and in my opinion the TV and
print news is part of the misinformation or disinformation. While driving
(April 19) I listened to a NPR program... more »
New EPA Rules on Waterways Waste from Powerplants
The Sierra Club sued the EPA over power-plant waste. The details of the
new
rules haven't yet been decided.
EPA proposes rules to curb power-plant waste in waterways, Washington
Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-proposes-rules-to-curb-power-plant-waste-in-waterways/2013/04/19/a99aaad6-a961-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
Southern California marching toward fourth-driest year since 1877, firefighters deploying early – ‘People are going crazy now. When you’re a farmer in Central California, you watch the water as much as you watch your kids.’
[image: A crew from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation cuts
foliage, on 9 April 2013, to help contain a wind-driven brush fire that
broke out near Fillmore, forcing evacuations and threatening homes.
Southern California is marching toward its fourth-driest year since 1877,
and that has firefighters increasingly girded for battle. Photo: Al Seib /
Los Angeles Times]
By Hector Becerra
19 April 2013
(Los Angeles Times) – Southern California is marching toward its
fourth-driest year since 1877, and that has firefighters increasingly
girded for battle.
In the hills of L... more »
Not Your Typical 5K, Run The Color Run (Coupon Code)
It has been years since I have run a 5K, bad health has always stopped me,
but not this year. I am feeling great and I finally in condition to run
again. What better 5K to make my running re-debut than The Color Run
complete with colorful chalk to change your white shirt into something much
more fun!
The Color Run 5K event is coming to Salt Lake City, UT on August 24th of
this year. What I love so much about this race, is that it is less about
how fast you can run the race and more about having a great time with all
of the other runners. Runners are covered in different colors at ... more »
ALEC Legislators Manipulating the Market for ALEC Corporations
*PLEASE *
* *
*Read the whole article*
This is important for you to know.
I am going to rinse and repeat during this one – cause the rinse and repeat
is important.
This article is important!!!
*Susan Crawford: Let cities build better Internet access networks*
Print Email
3 hours ago • SUSAN CRAWFORD | Bloomberg View columnist and law professor
Last month, a majority of the Georgia House of Representatives voted
against a proposal that would have barred cities from investing in their
own Internet access networks. The bill failed because Georgia
municipalities, businesses and m... more »
Photo gallery: Three years after the BP oil spill, tar balls and oil sheen blight Gulf Coast
[image: Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, stands
on what remains of Cat Island, holding pelican bones, 18 April 2013. Three
years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, tar balls and oil sheen
blight Gulf Coast. Photo: Julie Dermansky / The Atlantic]
Julie Dermansky
20 April 2013
(The Atlantic) – April 20 marks the three-year anniversary of the *Deepwater
Horizon* disaster, which took the lives of 11 men and resulted in the
largest oil spill in American history. BP, along with Transocean and
Halliburton, are still in the midst of a civil trial held in ... more »
Guest Post - The Breakdown on Vinyl by Nathan Lucas
You have probably heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is the
result of non-biodegradable plastic waste. Since it’s already larger than
the size of Texas (a state that takes at least twelve hours to drive
across) wouldn’t it make sense to reduce the use of non-biodegradable
plastic? Decreasing use of anything from disposable silverware and soda
bottles to sheets of vinyl used for advertising and industrial grade PVC
could help slow down the growth of waste accumulated in the environment.
Fortunately, there are already companies taking action to reduce the amount
of non-b... more »
Bill Maher's Anti-Islam Smear
On his *RealTime* programme last night, Bill Maher couldn't wait to get
into his shopworn, anti-Islam theme about the Muslim faith being unique in
promoting violence.
As I listened to his diatribe I so wished I could ask him just one
question. *Since the turn of this century, how many innocent Muslims have
died at the hands of Christian forces and how many innocent Christians have
perished at Muslim hands?*
My guess is that the ratio would be at least several hundred to one and
would utterly reduce Maher's endless rant.* *
The fact is we've been putting the boots to the Muslim w... more »
handiwork
"Such a great Man is he...
behold His handiwork."
girl, virgin, mother, wife, lady, maid, and widow
"From woman, man is born;
within woman, man is conceived;
to woman he is engaged and married.
Woman becomes his friend;
through woman, the future generations come.
When his woman dies,
he seeks another woman;
to woman he is bound.
So why call her bad?
From her, kings are born.
From woman, woman is born;
without woman, there would be no one at all.
O Nanak, only the True Lord is without a woman"
......Guru Nanak......
Patriotic Anti-Terror Cult Rises Again
Our long five-day national nightmare isn't over till it's over. Now begins
Part Two of the long national nightmare of media frenzy, political pablum,
the noblesse oblige honorifics from the austerian ruling class to the brave
first responders whose wages and ranks they're freezing and whose pensions
they're raiding, mindless flag-waving, obsessive-compulsive quoting of
biblical scripture. It won't stop, until we all lose interest and it stops.
The stoppage will be sudden and as if by mutual consent of all the
players. But do look for non-stop non-stoppage throughout this slow-news
... more »
JOURNEY INSIDE IRAQ TODAY
A deeply touching and outrage-inducing documentary about contemporary Iraq
from the perspective of a taxi trip through the country.
Along the way the film maker and taxi driver speak to many ordinary people
who share stories of Iraq past and present. One man said, "They
[Americans] are still here....their aim is to create disorder in Iraq".
The order "to kill our best people" by death squads and militias "comes
from outside the country."
In Falluja the film maker interviews a hospital administrator who reports,
"In 2005 we noticed a spectacular increase in genetic malformations ... more »
Untitled
*Saints to open Dirty Birds in Superdome!*
*Plaintiffs unsure if levee breach lawsuit is worth it*
*State will contribute to Terrebonne floodgate *
*Floodwaters rising after storms deluge heartland *
*How to Dine on a Train*
*Bucket Brigade Brings Earth Day by the Bayou*
*Crawfish boils, Fortier Fest, Family Day!*
Judges presumed to know the law
*Cook v. Podgorski*, 2013 NSCA 47 holds:
[43] The fact that the judge does not refer to the* Halliday* case does
not mean that he made an error of law. *Halliday* was argued before the
judge. He is presumed to know the law and there is no need for him to
recite the case or to explicitly set out the principles in it. The real
question is whether correct principles were applied:*Lawrence v. Toronto
Humane Society*, 212 O.A.C. 263 at ¶ 59; *Hug v Bliss*, 112 B.C.A.C. 242 at
¶ 12.
CLA deplores LSUC in its decision against Joseph Groia
April 19, 2013 – *The Criminal Lawyers' Association (Ontario) "CLA"
deplores the decision of the Law Society of Upper Canada in its decision
released today against Joseph Peter Paul Groia.*
The Law Society of Upper Canada today released its decision with respect to
penalty in regards to its discipline proceedings involving Joseph Groia.
The Law Society imposed a sanction a two-month suspension and costs of
almost $250,000. The alleged misconduct occurred in Court and the Trial
Judge himself never expressed any concern that the conduct of Mr. Groia was
deserving of sanction.
... more »
EtTu MSNBC?
By Capt. Fogg
I had MSNBC on most of yesterday. I can't stand the sight of Wolf the
Weasel and what other choice is possible?
I'm disappointed. When the evening network news came on I began to learn
facts the cable guys never mentioned, That the FBI had investigated these
boys, for instance and they managed to give us the facts without the
constant theme of "*you can see that it's been worth it to give up our
privacy*." Cowards! Is this what it means to be a Liberal today?
Sacrificing freedom for some imagined and miniscule increase in safety?
Needless to say, I don't think s... more »
Pervez Musharraf Returns To Pakistan, Declares He's Running For President And Is Arrested For Crimes Committed Last Time He Was In Office
Well liked by the American popular media for his anti-Taliban militancy,
Pervez Musharraf was a brutal military dictator who originally seized power
in Pakistan in a 1999 military coup d'état. Since being forced to retire in
2008, he's been living in luxurious exile in London and Dubai until
returning to Pakistan March 24 to run for president. There were arrest
warrants pending when he returned including one for his involvement in the assasinations
of Benazir Bhutto and Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti. Police arrested
him and took him into custody Friday to face charges in r... more »
Removing All Doubt
At Margaret Thatcher's funeral this week, Stephen Harper couldn't resist
the opportunity to attack Justin Trudeau. Even though the reporter who
asked the question made no mention of Trudeau's comment that we should try
to understand the "root causes" of terrorism, Harper said:
“When you see this type of violent act, you do not sit around trying to
rationalize it or make excuses for it or figure out its root causes. You
condemn it categorically, and to the extent you can deal with the
perpetrators, you deal with them as harshly as possible."
It was vintage Harper -- the same kind... more »
Failed ALEC Policy - Costs Milw/Racine Schools $75 Million per Year
Private school vouchers from WEAC on Vimeo.
*From ALEC Exposed*
*Through ALEC, corporations, ideologues, and their politician allies voted
to spend public tax dollars to subsidize private K-12 education and attack
professional teachers and teachers' unions by: *
- Promoting voucher programs that drain public schools of resources by
using taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school profits, and specifying
that those schools must remain unregulated. Voucher programs have been
pushed in the following ways:
- Offering private school vouchers with "universal eligibi... more »
The Paradigm Paradox
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
'It is difficult to understand why so-called "progressive", "liberals", and
"leftists," who so vehemently opposed the Vietnam War, now belong to the
Council on Foreign Relations.
If you have read this blog before, you must know then that I have serious
problems with 'so-called' liberals/progressives not the least of which is
that too many lack the courage of their convictions; too many have tried to
bargain with Satan. Too many are uncommitted, to be sure. But, more
importantly, to what --precisely --should we be committed?
Clinton's 'tria... more »
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