1st Lt. George W. Bush in uniform Español: Teniente George W. Bush mientras estuvo en la National Guard. Svenska: George W. Bush i sin nationalgardsuniform. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tandem Jump with Sgt. 1st Class Michael Elliott (top), a Golden Knight tandem instructor, who was also the tandem partner for former President George H.W. Bush during his 2007 jump. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Former President Bush with son and daughter-in-law, Governor George W. and Laura Bush, at the George Bush Presidential Library Dedication in College Station, Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The first public exhibit of the Friedrich Kellner diary, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, April - May 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Coat of arms of Nova Scotia, Canada. Français : Armoiries de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Kelly Ayotte in Amherst, New Hampshire, at the 4th of July Parade. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Review - Live. Learn. Love. Eat and Mocha Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe
When I first considered the idea of switching to a plant-based diet, I
envisioned a life of rabbit food ... raw carrots and celery ... morning,
noon and night. Yes, I knew that it would be healthy and understood that it
was better for the planet but ... the adventure didn't sound all that
exciting.
In truth, it was difficult to know what to eat. Searching the Internet
garnered recipes containing weird-sounding ingredients and as for
nutritional advice ... well, it was available but made me feel like I was
"cramming" for a college course instead of cooking.
Oh to have had a copy of ... more »
Will Her Fealty To The NRA Cost Kelly Ayotte A New Hampshire Senate Seat?
Will McCain & Lindsey be able to find a third Stooge in 2016?
Half the voters in New Hampshire are telling pollsters they are less likely
to vote to reelect Kelly Ayotte because she voted against the bipartisan
background check amendment last week. And her approval rating is
underwater, down 15 points since her blatant NRA asskissing. An editorial
from Sunday's *Portsmouth Herald*" If you want gun control, vote Ayotte out
of office:
New Hampshire voters who care passionately about sensible gun legislation
can contribute to the effort by defeating U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the only
se... more »
How Coincidental: Canada's Foiled "Terrorist Attempt" Coincides With Debate Of Intrusive Anti-Terrorism Bill
I have been watching the local Canadian BS Jewish controlled mainstream
media news over the last few days about the absolutely ridiculous and
almost laughable "terrorism attempt" here in Canada where two Muslims (of
course) were caught attempting a "bombing" of a VIA rail passenger
train.... When I first heard about this Canadian "terrorist" attack, I
began to wonder if there was something going on here in Canada that they
would roll out this fraud "terrorist attack" at just this time....
Well, it does seem that the timing of this "terrorist attack" here in
Canada was absolutely no... more »
In the context of a right to trial within a reasonable period of time, there is no duty on an accused to bring him or herself to trial
R. v. MacIntosh 2013 SCC 23 upholds, unanimously, the decision of the Nova
Scotia Court of Appeal in R. v. MacIntosh, 2011 NSCA 111. That case is
clear that an accused is not to bear the blame for systemic trial delay:
[47] It is the responsibility of the state to bring any accused
to trial. There is no common law duty to assist the police (see *Rice v.
Connolly*, [1966] 2 All E.R. 649 at p. 652; *Thomson Newspapers Ltd. v.
Canada (Director of Investigation and Research, Restrictive Trade Practices
Commission)*, 1990 CanLII 135 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 425).
[48] ... more »
George W. Bush: Smart and classy...
*two views from those who knew him.*
Keith Hennesy: * George W. Bush is smarter than you*
Joseph Curl: *W outclasses Barack and Bill, without even trying** *
and he's a painter, too!
Satire: “First Bush Library Quietly Celebrates Eleventh Anniversary”
*“First Bush Library Quietly Celebrates Eleventh Anniversary”*
by Andy Borowitz
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA (The Borowitz Report)— “While former Presidents and a
star-studded cast of other dignitaries gather in Dallas, Texas, today for
the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the
first library opened by Mr. Bush, located in Guantánamo, Cuba, celebrated
its eleventh anniversary in January with considerably less pomp. And for
Harland Dorrinson, who curates Mr. Bush’s other library, the lack of
attention stings.
“We’re actually the first George W. Bush lib... more »
VIDEO II Voices from the Border: O'odham Solidarity Project
Published
on Apr 25, 2013
VIDEO II Voices from the Border
During the O'odham Solidarity Project Spring Gathering at the border in
2013, supporters shared their feelings about the real story of the
militarization of Tohono O'odham land by the US, and the continual abuse
of O'odham by US Border Patrol agents. Video II, interview on the
western portion of Tohono O'odham land in Arizona.
Morning Brew w/ Gwen Caldwell Interviews Brian Kelly Apr 24
*Morning Brew with Gwen Caldwell Interviews Brian Kelly April 24*
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A big thank you to KP for putting together the Mp3's together! Mahalo
Brother! ~BK
Links to the Mp3's can be found on Brian Kelly's Blog here.
Topics Discussed:
1. Brief History of Paradigm Report & OPPT
2. Point those needing additional info on history of OPPT to
http://understandingtheoppt.info/
3. False Flag Attacks
4. OPPT Show will now be 2 hours every Wednesday starting at 8am pacific
time (looking for people who would like to share their stories live on the
air. If inter... more »
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: IAEA Says Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years!
I have watched over the last two weeks the constant barrage of reports and
stories everywhere about the Boston Marathon operation (Yes that is an
operation!), and it does seem that news elsewhere in the world has been
badly overlooked.... We have seen the bombing at Boston and worries about
fraudulent "terrorist" attacks, and the world has continued to badly
overlook the still dangerous and deadly situation with the failed nuclear
reactors at Fukushima Japan...
I came across the following article that I definitely want to share with my
own readers... It comes from the Japan Times on... more »
Is America's Military Technology Domination Slipping?
Imagine a world in which the U.S. and the rest of us could not count on
America having the dominant military technology. Put another way, imagine
China, not the U.S., having the "latest and greatest" things that go boom.
Imagine us being the technological underdogs, vulnerable to a less than
friendly country's superiority. Imagine the arm twisters becoming the arm
twistees. Ooh, ooh, child.
The head of America's military science & technology apparatus, DARPA or the Defense
and Research Projects Agency, warns that America's technological lead could
be wiped out before long.
*Less... more »
Hegel's View of Böhme And The Hermetic Tradition
Related: *Hegel On God, Religion, And Eckhartian Mysticism*.
*Wikipedia:*
Jakob Böhme (probably April 24, 1575 – November 17, 1624) was a German
Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker
within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as
Aurora, caused a great scandal.
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While Böhme was famous in Holland, England, France, Russia and America
during the 17th century, he became less influential during the 18th
century. A revival, however, occurred late in that century with interest
from German Romantics, who considered Böhme a foreru... more »
So what would YOU have said at the opening of Chimpy the Ex-Prez's (giggle) library?
*Perhaps the elder former President Bush was learning this afternoon that
his boy George now has a library bearing his name?*
*by Ken*
For starters, this whole business of the launch of the Chimpy the Ex-Prez
Immemorial Presidential Library has the unmistakable ring of waiting a
decade to deliver the punch line of a joke. After all, it wasn't that deep
into the criminal nincompoop's constitution-shredding that wags -- like
those of NPR's *Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!* -- were already riffing on
this eventual spectacle. It might have been, but probably wasn't, Mo Rocca
who answer... more »
The World's Most Exclusive Club
A mighty wind, about an F-5 on the narcissism scale, bore down on Texas
today. It was a nationally televised club meeting to which you weren't
personally invited. If you did have the effrontery to show up anyway, and
you got just a little too close for their comfort, you got your ass kicked.
No matter that you were an Iraq veteran whom the club members all professed
to love and honor. Besides, the corporate media were more interested in
FLOTUS's couture and what Babs and Barry were burbling on about than in the
hundreds of protesters gathered outside the gates.
The wind soared melli... more »
You Can't Begin to Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like If This Happens
A strong warning from the 6th *European Conference on Space Debris. *The
conference, hosted by the European Space Agency, offers scientists an
opportunity to gather to assess the state of the problem of junk whirling
around in space.
What they're trying to figure out are the odds of a "cascade" or
chain-reaction in which space debris starts hammering satellites and other
orbiting products, causing them to explode into clouds of ever more space
debris until the debris reaches a critical mass at which it effectively
takes down all our satellites and renders space unusable for years... more »
"Americans Under Siege– Has Tomorrow Become a Reality?"
*"Americans Under Siege– *
*Has Tomorrow Become a Reality?"*
By Backdoor Survival
"Just a little over a year ago, President Obama signed an Executive Order
titled National Defense Resources Preparedness. This act stirred up a
hornets nest of controversy– both for and against. At one end of the
spectrum were those that thought this was an overt act signalizing
unilateral militarization of our country. Others felt this was a ho-hum
restatement of existing presidential controls. Whatever your feelings at
the time, it is now a year later and events of the past couple of weeks
bri... more »
Decisions, Decisions
*The Tyee* has me tied up in knots.
According to the paper, the BC NDP are poised to mop the floor with
Christy Clark and her decidedly-conservative Liberals, ending their twelve
year reign of terror. That's the good news.
The bad news from *The Tyee* comes from their riding by riding outlook. My
riding, formerly a Liberal stronghold, is judged "too close to call."
Adrian Dix has the appearances of being ready to govern the province. I
would almost certainly support the NDP if I thought the outcome of the
election was in doubt. Much as I'd like to see the Liberal hold on my
ri... more »
The Top 50 Things to Disappear from Store Shelves during an Emergency...
*how many of these would you be rushing to the store to get?*
(I admit to rushing to the library for extra books.) *
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*From: The Survivalist Blog *
*The Top 50 Things to Disappear from Store Shelves during an Emergency*
By Tom Sciacca
Have you ever noticed how, whenever a big storm is predicted, people start
rushing to stores to clean them out of ever food item and supply they have
on the shelves? In one sense, it’s probably good that they are trying to
anticipate the emergency, despite being last-minute about it. It sure beats
those people who don’t bother to prepare at all, then... more »
The Bad And The Ugly
I`m not sure if layoff notices at British Columbia`s major daily newspapers
sent shockwaves through print media personalities or is this just the usual
tanking for the BC Liberals the corporate media engages every pre-election
period, or perhaps these propaganda artists were ordered to get the BC
Liberals elected or else....
Even the freebie paper 24 hours showed the worst of journalistic standards,
they posted a guest opinion piece by Diamond Isinger, a young girl who has
been partisan twittering for the BC Liberals for months, I have no problem
with Diamond having an article post... more »
Untitled
*911 operators answer hundreds of calls every day related to police
officers’ moonlighting ~Tom Gogola, The Lens*
Major Steam Release Visible TBS Cam Now at Fukushima Daiichi
I've been watching the steam release from Fukushima. It is clearly a steam
release and NOT encroaching fog.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tbsnewsi/featured
I have to leave for work now. I'll post the screen shots late. Beware
people downwind.
Mount Taylor faces 'permanent and severe' adverse cultural impacts
Mt. Taylor Faces ‘Permanent and Severe’ Adverse Cultural Impacts
Draft Environmental Impact Statement Reveals Forest Service Plan to ‘Deviate’ from Existing Laws
By Klee Benally @eelk
GALLUP, NM — The Cibola National Forest Service (CNFS) has issued a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a mine proposed on Mt.
Taylor that will violate the existing Forest Management Plan.
How to grow old with grace, dignity...
*and a whole lot of humor. *
Sure to lift your spirits...
From YouTube:
With the timing of a professional comedian, this diminutive "little old
lady" shines a very funny light on the foibles of aging, to the delight of
an audience filled with senior-care experts.
A friend of the couple who founded Home Instead Senior Care, Mary Maxwell
was asked to give the invocation at the company's 2009 Convention.
Initially it seemed like a normal prayer, but it soon took a very funny
turn.
Unemployment Hits New Highs in Spain and France
As if there were not already abundant proof of the failure of austerity in
the eurozone, the BBC reports today that both Spain and France have hit new
unemployment milestones.
In Spain, unemployment has jumped from February's 26.3% to a first-quarter
rate of 27.2% (implying an even higher figure for March). In March 2012, it
was "only" 24.1% (see source in table below).
In France, there are now 3.2 million unemployed, more than at any time
since the country began keeping records in 1996. Complete EU unemployment
data for March should be released in early May.
For a fuller picture o... more »
Beinart wants to make you like him again!
*THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013*
*To do so, he treats you like fools:* Just this once, we’re going to let
you ask us about our business!
No, we aren’t big fans of Peter Beinart. We don’t refer to the
war-mongering Beinart did in the run-up to Iraq. We’re talking about a
minor slight the gentleman extended our way just about ten years back.
Some of the children are quite *naughty* children. It’s our impression,
from that one incident, that Peter may be such a child.
That said, we were struck by the phoniness of his piece at The Daily Beast,
“Are the Tsarnaevs white?” Since Beinart is tech... more »
Drug Innovation 10: Cancer, H7N9 and Government
Various types of cancer is among the leading causes of mortality (death)
and morbidity (sickness) in the Philippines and around the world. It is a
non-infectious or non-communicable disease (NCD) that is caused more by
genetics and/or lifestyle. For instance, tobacco-related lung cancer, and
alcohol-related liver cancer, are the top two killers among cancer for men
in the Philippines, according to the article by Reiner Gloor of PHAP below.
A friend in the free market movement here, Joshua Lipana, died this week at
a young age of 21, due to a rare and aggressive cancer (T-Cell
Lympho... more »
TARSANDS RED RIVER SHOWDOWN: Protester encases arm in concrete!
BREAKING: Lula, OK—Thursday, April 25, 7--A
protester with the group Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance has stopped
construction of the Keystone XL pipeline by locking his arm into a
concrete capsule buried directly in the pipeline’s proposed path.
Fitzgerald Scott, 42, is the first African American to risk arrest while
physically blockading TransCanada’s dangerous tar sands pipeline,
Professing and the Policy World
There is so much criticism of the academic enterprise these days, asserting
that professors are too focused on research and not enough on teaching and
not enough on relevance to the policy world. These critiques are hardly
new, but bear more weight in a time of austerity. It is easy to point to
some work
Continue reading
Rhetoric...
*and why it's important.*
May I recommend this series from The Art of Manliness?
It's been a gazillion years since I attended college. A refresher course
in the basics is always good for our brains.
Have I ever mentioned that I keep a big fat notebook labeled "Study
Notebook" (three subject, college ruled) in which I keep copious notes?
Oh sure, I could cut and paste pertinent information into Word and just
print it out, but, trust me, it's not the same as actually writing notes in
longhand. I use a fountain pen, too. Writing notes engages the brain in a
way that cut and past... more »
You Might Be A Republican If... You Think First Graders Should Scrub Toilets If They Wants To Eat Lunch
My friend-- and favorite chef-- Michael Voltaggio, got his start cooking at
the elegant, world-famous Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia. Though both Huntington, which sits in the middle of Appalachia,
where Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia meet on the other side of the state,
and White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County are in Nick Rahall's 3rd
congressional district, the area is by no means progressive or Democratic,
although it certainly used to be. Greenbrier County is now represented in
the West Virginia House of Delegates by a reactionary Republican, ... more »
Five Videos On Egypt
Bassem Youssef Criticizes Egypt, Not Qatar | HPL. Source: HuffPost Live.
Tourism in Egypt Post-Revolution. Source: BLOUIN ARTINFO.
Real Estate: The bright spark in Egypt's economy. Source: Al Qarra English.
Opposition coalition criticises Egypt state of emergency. Source: Euro
News.
Egypt - on the way to democracy. Source: Steffen Braun.
PRIMETIME! STEPHEN BASSETT ON ET FIRST CONTACT RADIO 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern
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Because of the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure will Stephen Bassett be my
guest on ET First Contact Radio.
Times: 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern / 9 PM GMT /22:00 Central European Time.
For other Timezones check:
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TO LISTEN GO TO:
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Stephen Bassett is an exopolitical activist and a leading advocate f... more »
Fun at the George W Bush library opening
Trick
title. These pro-forma ceremonious occasions are never really fun.
Though I'll admit, Barbara Bush's remarks in this pre-opening
interviewwere amusing. Even she's had enough of political dynasties. She
thinks her
Jebby is the best man for the job but should opt out of 2016 anyway. And
of
course, there's the usual media concern trolling on what it all means to
Obama's agenda.
Read that stuff if you're interested. All I have left to say is in
pictures. This one is my very favorite of the lot I've seen. That's
Daddy
Bush in the pink socks. Finding it oddly endearing.
[Charles ... more »
Bush, Principles, and Presidenting
The discussion of George W. Bush's intelligence, or lack thereof,
continues. My position on this, as I've said many times, is that I've heard
him speak on baseball and he sounded sharp enough; I attributed the
evidence of his presidency not as a lack of innate intelligence, but as a
consequence of his lack of interest in the world of public affairs and
policy.
Two new contributions worth looking at. Kevin Drum looks at Keith
Hennessey's anecdotes intended to show Bush's smarts and sees, instead,
impatience and lack of interest in details. And Ed Kilgore wants to blame
GOP orthodoxy... more »
Shakabuku
Minnie Driver: You know what you need?
John Cusack: What?
Minnie Driver: Shakabuku.
John Cusack: You wanna tell me what that means?
Minnie Driver: It's a swift, spiritual kick to the head that alters your
reality forever.
John Cusack: Oh, that'd be good. I think.
Shooting for Fantastic
Welcome to our 5th day. You probably don’t want to hear methods or ideas
or best routes to our destination. You probably just want to feel amazing.
We are shooting for fantastic. Agape and Freedom promise spectacular.
Contemplating both, here’s what your day looks like:
You leap out of a warm comfortable bed. Remember how you did that as a
kid? You can’t wait to see what comes next! You run into the kitchen and
enjoy a meal of fresh food, which you have plenty of. You then spend the
day engaged in DOing.
Your “work” includes always your passion. You are unrest... more »
Life's little mysteries
Apparently I have a Sulia page which I only discovered because someone I
don't follow and who doesn't follow me posted it to the twitter. The page
that comes up at the link looks like Facebook. Not sure how that happened.
I'm certain I didn't sign up for it myself. I still haven't figured out
what the point is with Sulia and I can't keep up with the social nets I'm
already active on. I haven't even joined Tumblr or Pinterest, which I'm
told is mandatory these days.
Not complaining. Often stumble across various sites that post my work. They
don't steal it outright, just a blurb and ... more »
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Boston Marathon Bombing & their Physics of Impossibilities.
They must really be short of funds to hire such sloppy cheap-charlie
photoshop touch-up artists. More physics of impossibilities. Instant
flowering Monsanto formula to reflections of blown windows without glass.
Staged inside job, NAH! Impossible!..... But then in the Unbelievable
States of Amazement (USA), even the impossible comes to life....Hollywood
aka BPGOD Style.
Fool me once (911)........shame on me
Fool me twice (BPGOD)....shame on you
Fool me thrice (BMB).......shame on the world. WWIII here we come.
Now They're Coming for the Krill
People of the Pacific northwest know full well that krill are the
foundation of our marine food chain. Krill process plankton. Krill feed
the fish that feed the fish that feed the fish. We eat the fish that ate
the fish that ate the fish that ate the krill. We're all connected. Even
the humpback and other giant baleen whales would starve without their diet
of rich krill.
Which is why it was alarming to read in *Asia Times Online* that giant
fishing trawlers from Europe and Asia are now stalking krill in Antarctic
waters.
*Penguins are a protected species, but the factory-si... more »
A new post written @huffingtonpost on the #commoncore
I don’t know, some things are appropriate for the Huffington Post. This
came from conversations I’ve had with proponents of the CCSS. There is a
rabid insistence that it’s not a curriculum, it’s just standards, as if
that makes it less intrusive or more palatable. If that insistence is
ideological, I get it. But if [...]
Signs from Saturn - have a look!
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 9 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/VMYGG4lR4T4
When you go outside to watch Saturn (in a binocular or telescope) mind the
rare lunar elliptical halos that occur these days. Although still rare they
are more often spotted these days for unknown reasons ('ice age is
coming'?). All reasons to throw a glance at the skies when you intend to
turn in for the night. Enjoy a good weekend,
John
Land Pics
These were shot mainly to use up the rest of the film in the disposable
camera used for the Worlds of Fun photos and will serve as "before" photos.
Hopefully there will be an "after!"
The Woodshop, Barn, and Trailer.
Same view from a slightly different vantage to show Southern Man's
impressive collection of brick and stone.
This washout will one day be a lovely garden pond.
Southern Man is a little obsessive about collecting, cutting, and stacking
firewood. No, he does not yet have a fireplace.
A couple of boats that he's had for nearly twenty years. They've yet to be
on the ... more »
Bill Clinton At George W. Bush Library Opening
So many easy jokes that I could drop here. Not doing it. The whole Election
2000 through Inauguration 2009 period still makes me mad. Good thing we
have a former president who can go to crap like this and yuck it up so we
don't have to. Every president gets to have a party and a library, so cue
the Big Dog. Here's G.W. Bush's speech. President Clinton is now on
twitter, where he tweeted out this picture of the five surviving
presidents.
Congratulations George and Laura on opening @thebushcenter. Proud Hillary
and I could be here. twitter.com/billclinton/st…
— Bill Clinton (@billcli... more »
Worlds Of Fun
The Church Of The Nazarene will once a year rent out amusement parks for
Nazarene Night. Southern Man has been to many down south at Six Flags but
with Teen Daughter living up north he went to Worlds of Fun with her this
year.
There's nothing like an evening at an amusement park with a pack of middle
school aged girls.
After driving seven hours to get there Southern Man went straight for the
Go Karts.
Teen Daughter and friends in the Old Time Cars.
In line at the Timberwolf.
The Mamba.
Teen Daughter was worn out by eleven so Southern Man took her home (nabbing
a Missouri g... more »
The Liberals' Renaissance in Quebec.
Quebec's federal and provincial Liberals appear to be enjoying something of
a renaissance. The *Toronto Star's* Chantal Hebert figures the Trudeau
Libs now give Mulcair's New Dems' Quebec-centric power base a serious
challenge.
*In an ever-expanding forest of positive polls for the Liberals, the latest
CROP snapshot of Quebec public opinion stands out but not necessarily for
the usual Justin Trudeau-related reasons.*
**
*...the poll suggests that Quebec is undergoing a Liberal revival, with
both the federal and provincial parties in first place in voting intentions
at 38 per cent.*... more »
The Sad Death of Off-the-Record
One of the very useful bits of education I had as a grad student were the
frequent visits from politicians, other political actors, and journalists
to small lunch seminars hosted by Nelson W. Polsby's Institution of
Governmental Studies. Some of them didn't depart from their normal talking
points, but most of them spoke reasonably openly. Many of them also spent
the day hanging out in Nelson's office, or stuck around for tea at the IGS
later in the day. Some would also make guest appearances in undergrad
classes, or otherwise share their time.
Again, some of them were basically a wa... more »
Viking Moses - Crosses
Viking Moses - Crosses. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: ThePerse23]:
without love life is gone
without life love goes on and on
so take me in your arms
bring me back with ivory horns
and break me in your arms
break my pride in all its forms
without love life is gone
without life love goes on and on
crosses 'side the road
cross his eyes, cross his nose
cross his little toes
crosses stand in rows and rows
without love life is gone
without life love goes on and on
This song was included in a limited release album called The Golden Apples
of the Sun. This album is a compilation of indi... more »
Society of Ob-Gyns Wants Boys Vaccinated for HPV
Canada's Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists has set the cat among the
fundamentalist pigeons this time. They want all Canadian provinces to
follow Prince Edward Island's lead and make HPV vaccination available to
boys as well as girls.
HPV, or human papillomavirus, is generally considered a disease transmitted
unknowingly by infected males to females. There's a mistaken belief that
males are unaffected by HPV and that the virus only plagues females. Not
so. HPV can cause a variety of cancers in males also.
Because HPV is sexually transmitted it gets plenty of straight-la... more »
Why Does the F-35 Have Just One Engine? Blame It On Those Damned JarHeads.
A huge limiting factor of the F-35 is that it has just one engine. In a
vast, sparsely populated country with extreme weather (yes, that would be
Canada), twin-engine reliability is a huge bonus. One engine goes out -
from a bird strike or mechanical failure, whatever - and you've still got
one to let you limp back to the barn.
The F-35's vastly more capable big brother, the F-22, has twin engines.
So why just a single, massive jet engine for the F-35? There is an answer.
When the F-35 was conceived it had to be designed to suit a lot of
potential users. It was supposed to re... more »
Photos O'odham Solidarity Project Spring Gathering 2013
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O'odham Solidarity Project Spring Gathering 2013
The award-winning Waila band Papago Warrior, featured at the Native
American Music Awards and winner of Mul-Chu-Tha Battle of the Bands,
donated three hours of music for the spring gathering on the border.
O'odham youths, up and coming photographers and videographers,
documented the band.
VIDEO INTERVIEW with
US Unveils Iraq WMD "Curveball-Style" Lies Vs. Syria
As NATO terror front collapses in Syria, US attempts to justify
intervention by drumming up familiar WMD lies.
*Image: From Independent's "Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths
confesses all: Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to
make the case for 2003 invasion." In retrospect, the corporate-media has no
problem admitting the insidious lies that were told to justify the invasion
and occupation of Iraq - the lead up to the war was another story. A
verbatim repeat of these admitted lies are being directed at Syria amidst
the West's failure to overthrow the gov... more »
Wild Bill: Obama is an enemy of freedom...
*summed up well by Wild Bill.*
Europe's Dynamic Genetic history
The unexplained period of genetic turnover surely coincides with the
emergence of Bronze Age technology which certainly spread village to
village by a natural apprenticeship program. This brought in the advanced
technology as well as the genes. A similar thing happened during the
Middle Ages with the movement of Judaism which brought improved commercial
skills.
That also explains how these shifts actually take place. Skilled young
men move onto the next attractive community and provide skills while
marrying directly into the community itself. It is not an invasion becau... more »
How Canada Dominates African Mining
This writer comes from an anti development mindset and is quick to bite on
whatever flimsy grounds can be drummed up. Yet the core narrative is
correct. Canadian mining has become a global force in wealth creation and
job creation in the whole resource extraction industry.
In fairness, it is essentially unbeatable and this will continue simply
because it is now completely global. Observe that 90% of all exploration
and development capital is raised in Canada. Without that component, the
rest is rubbish. Thus the trend continues.
Mining expertise always needs to be imp... more »
Chinese Bubble
Without question China is seriously in need of a credit crash and a long
period of consolidation during which consumer finance is properly funded
and established throughout society.
Right now the money creation is flooding the top end of society which
merely promotes gross speculation. This is surely a repeat of the South
Seas Bubble. Smarter is to subsidize credit throughout to massively
increase demand. That has yet to happen and it should have happened four
years ago. The bull is satiated and needs to rest a long time in order to
digest its excess.
In the meantime gro... more »
Driverless Cars Imminent
What is truly eminent is the capacity to step out of your door and have an
automated electric vehicle immediately pick you up and then travel at a
rapid clip to your destination. Freeways will naturally operate at close to
one hundred miles per hour. Better yet, roads will become lanes and street
parking will evaporate as the vehicles will rarely park there except to
pick up and drop off. It will be valet service 24/7.
Our urban space can become vastly more civilized and generally
comfortable. Fumes will become a distant memory.
There will certainly remain a culture deter... more »
Crunching the F-35 Numbers. It's Anything You Want.
There's one thing F-35 pilots won't be seeing as much as they'd like - the
inside of an F-35. Instead they'll be spending a good deal more time
pretending to be inside an F-35, in a simulator inside some cavernous
hangar.
Now how the balance between actual stick and rudder time and simulator time
is struck will depend on a lot of factors, some of them political.
One of the big political issues of the day, at least to prospective
purchasers and operators of the F-35 light attack bomber, is the cost of
operating the warplanes. Some critics seem to think they'll be very
expensive ... more »
What Has The Republican Party Done To The American Economy
Is this just too simplistic? The Republican Party nihilists crashed the
economy with their ideologically and greed-driven Austerity Agenda under
Bush and then obstructed every effort President Obama and the Democrats
have made to fix it. I mean, there are nuances-- like Obama's own inherent
conservatism and misplaced belief in Austerity and compromise-- but, in
effect, that sentence describes what's happened to the American economy
since 2000. Yesterday the *NY Times* editorial board took a shot at
focusing in on one catch-all aspect-- sequestration-- and explaining why
it's a dis... more »
A Stark Choice (A Reply to PLG)
Purple Library Guy spaketh thusly:
If I thought that the collaboration thing was both necessary and sufficient
to get proportional representation, I'd certainly support it. I'm skeptical
for tactical reasons. At a minimum, I'd like to see non-Conservative
parties get together in a sort of joint policy development process and come
up with an electoral system they all support, up front, and craft a bill
that they all will commit to. Then maybe it might be worth talking about
collaborating in the election to get in and pass that bill. Until you've
got at least that, there are some se... more »
da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer,
botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other
figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been
described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable
curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered
to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most
diversely talen... more »
Political Fights - Marquis Of Queensbury Rules VS A Kick In The Nuts ........
*(How some Liberals & New Democrats would like to conduct Political Fights
with Conservatives)*
*(How Conservatives actually conduct a Political Fight)*
*
**Quess who's winning .........*
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
As the fourth “annual” fund-raising drive turns!
*THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013*
*We survey The One True Channel and the public schools:* What will MSNBC be
like in the coming years? How about Salon?
We think it’s important for liberals to badger the news orgs which are
starting to define the liberal world. We’re going to try to be more polite
about the work we see at such outposts.
But liberals need to fight for better performance from these entities. If
you agree with us on that point, we will ask you to impoverish yourself as
part of our fourth or fifth annual fund-raising drive.
After some fifteen years!
In the coming year, we wi... more »
Bruce Melton : Calling all Earthlings
Alien
beings emerge from “What Was Once Lake Buchanan” as the water level
falls. Photos by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.
Calling all earthlings:
Climate change communications
may as well be from aliens
Relative to most of the 20th century, Austin’s January highs and lows
were not 2.9 and 1.4 degrees above normal, but 9.9 and 10.4 degrees
above normal!
By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / July 25,
Even the EPA Sees the Keystone XL Pipeline as Threatening the Ogallala Aquifer
Washington Post: EPA wants State Dept. to rework analysis of Keystone XL
pipeline By L. Bernstein and J. Eilperin (2013, April 22),
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-wants-state-dept-to-rework-analysis-of-keystone-xl-pipeline/2013/04/22/1c6e9812-ab9f-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html
[Excerpted] The Environmental Protection Agency objected Monday to the
State Department’s latest review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline,
suggesting that more work must be done before the Obama administration
can
determine whether to approve the 1,179-mile northern leg of the pr... more »
They Needed Extra Space for the Popup Books
Every Thursday on Twitter, there's a popular hashtag,
#throwbackthursday, in which users are encouraged to do a little time warp
and bring attention to people, fashions and events from a bygone era. Since
right wingers keep colliding with irony and bathos, it should come as no
surprise to anyone that one of the biggest news items of today happens to
be George W. Bush opening the doors of his presidential library at Southern
Methodist University in Texas.
Therefore in the spirit of #throwbackthursday, let's do a little time
warp of our own and pretend we're in the salad day... more »
The Importance of Carbon Capture to the Climate Debate
Dan Sarewitz and I have a piece just out in The Atlantic on the
importance of carbon capture to the debate over climate change. Here is how
the short piece starts out:
Today, more than 85 percent of the world’s energy still comes from fossil
fuels. Despite centuries of growing use, these fuels remain abundant.
Powerful economic and political interests are organized around the
fossil-energy system, as are complex social arrangements (consider, for
example, the dependence of rapidly expanding cities on conventional
electrical grids).
These realities have made a mockery of the 20... more »
Breaking: A striking report from Dagestan!
*THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013*
*A portrait of life lived in tribes:* A few days ago, we read something
which almost made us feel sorry for poor Joseph Stalin.
How many different peoples can one man be asked to subjugate? That was our
question after reading a detailed Wall Street Journal profile of the
Tsarnaev family.
Anzor Tsarnaev is the father of the alleged Boston bombers. As it turns
out, he crossed an ethnic line when he married his wife:
CULLISON (4/22/13): Back in the 1940s, Anzor Tsarnaev's parents were
deported to Kyrgyzstan from their native Chechnya after Josef Stalin's
re... more »
U.S. believes Syrian government used some chemical weapons: Hagel
A gal can't even have lunch in peace
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http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/17e/news/world/article11543103.ece/ALTERNATES/w220/web-hagel-syria-0425.JPG]
*This is ominous................*
"U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday said the U.S. intelligence
community believes the Syrian government has used sarin gas on a small
scale against rebels trying to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad.
“This morning the White House delivered a letter to several members of
Congress on the topic of chemical weapons use in Syria. The letter ...
states that the U.S. intellige... more »
George Bush interviewed by Diane Sawyer...
*remember when our presidents acted like gentlemen in public? And first
ladies were actually ladies?*
Hey, maybe Obama can "bust a move" and Mooch can wiggle like a hoochie-mama
at the Bush Library dedication today.
CONFIRMED: Both FBI & CIA Watched Boston Bombing Suspects for Years
FBI & CIA now admit to putting Boston bombing suspect on 2 "watch lists,"
directly contradicting previous public statements. CIA most likely
sponsored suspect's trips to meet US-backed terrorists in Chechnya, Russia.
*April 25, 2013* (LD) - It is now confirmed that Russian investigators contacted
the FBI at least as early as 2011 in regards to Boston Marathon bombing
suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and again just 6 months before the Boston attacks.
Additionally, it is now revealed that both the FBI and CIA had Tsarnaev on
at least 2 terrorist watch lists, contradicting previous FBI state... more »
Labeled Kids Art Supplies Buckets
[image: Kid art supply organization]
I live in my craft room. Seriously, I do. I would say I spend at least half
of my waking hours in that room each day. Whether I am blogging, sewing,
painting, or creating something completely random, it is all done in my
craft room.
When I was first planning my craft room, I had so much I wanted to fit in,
a sewing table, my computer, fabric, there wasn't a lot of room to spare,
but I know I needed a kid's corner. As much time as I spend in my craft
room, I really wanted my four-year-old to be comfortable too. I didn't want
to spend all of our t... more »
Adrian Dix interview with Bill Good, live streamed..NOW
http://www.cknw.com/nwelection/index.aspx
The Straight goods
Cheers Eyes Wide Open
Kauilapele's Blog: Rachel Maddow on 4-24-13… “A Lesson in How to ‘Push’ Disinformation”… (and Why I Have Stopped Watching Rachel, and Pretty Much Anyone Else, on MSNBC)
*
* *I don't often watch MSNBC since Dylan Ratigan left the TV network but
I
did see this episode yesterday when Rachel was promoting a novelized
version of the 9/11 report and a comic book version of it. I was
stunned!
Here's the woman that did fantastic job exposing the corruption of the
Bush administration, now flogging that administration's Casus Belli. So
much for my estimation of Rachel Maddow's intelligence... -AK*
http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/rachel-maddow-on-4-24-13-a-lesson-in-how-to-push-disinformation-and-why-i-have-stopped-watching-rachel-and-pretty-mu... more »
Tom Hayden : Earth Night
Is
'Earth Night' coming? Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Earth Night
Al Gore wrote in 1992, 'the maximum that is politically feasible still
falls short of the minimum that is truly effective.' Making it
'politically feasible' to tackle extreme climate change remains the task
two frustrating decades later.
By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog/ April 25, 2013Monday, April 22, 2013,
marked the 43rd
IA ALEC State Chair -" ALL House and Senate - Members of ALEC"
OOPS in Iowa
IOWA DEMS – better ask the accounting department if accounting paid for
Dems to be ALEC members this year.
The accounting department should immediately verify which legislators were
made members of ALEC by the state automatically paying ALEC dues
Why ... Cause the DEMS opted OUT- - - -
OOPS in Iowa
My emphasis
Rep. Greg Forristall ignored a request to release information about the May
2-3 meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where he
will serve as Chair of the Education Task Force, according to
correspondence released by Progress Iowa tod... more »
RED AND BLUE WITH RACE ALL OVER: Sirota’s point was easy to state!
*THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013*
*Part 3—Why did he state it so strangely:* Shortly after the Boston
bombing, David Sirota wrote a column at Salon with a slightly peculiar
headline:
“Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American,” that slightly
odd headline said.
Sirota’s piece is still being mocked on Fox. But in its essence, his column
was built around an obvious and simple idea—an idea which is easy to state.
It’s easy to express the concern which lay at the heart of Sirota’s column. In
today’s Washington Post, E. J. Dionne describes a basic concern he felt
when he lear... more »
Give Me a Boilin' Hot Cup of Joe
Ol' Joe is in the hotseat in the House of Commons today. The New Democrats
plan to grill NatResMin Oliver over his remarks smearing leading climate
scientist James Hansen. Oliver who is openly inimical to parts of the
country, including the entire province of British Columbia, accused the
former head of NASA's Goddard Space Laboratory as "always crying wolf" for
his opposition to the Athabasca Tar Sands and the Keystone XL pipeline.
Slackjaw Joe is also on record as claiming that he heard somewhere that the
whole business of global warming is less than true. That is a remarkable
... more »
Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit : Can We 'Downsize' and Survive?
Sewers
under construction, north bank of the Thames looking west. Image from
End of More.
The end of more:
Can we 'downsize' and survive?
We continue to delude ourselves that 'downsizing' will somehow allow us
to carry on with our current lifestyle with perhaps only minor
inconveniences.
By Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit / The End of More / April 25, 2013
"Healthy citizens are the
Mohawk Nation News 'Brown Face, White System'
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FACE, WHITE SYSTEM
Posted on April 25, 2013 by admin
MNN. Apr. 25, 2013. Beware Injun Conferences where we have to listen to
Indian Act or Federal Indian Law sell-outs spout the glories of
colonialism. They are the “Finder’s Fee Indians”. The speakers are
mostly band or tribal councilors, or those who are trained to conduct
treason against
Burning Bridges
Deborah Meier and Elliott Witney have been attempting to bridge differences
about ideology and practices associated with Knowledge Is Power Program
(KIPP) charter schools, a “no excuses” view of children, poverty,
education, and the world. I admire Meier’s patience and diligence in this
discussion and strongly reject KIPP and other “no excuses” schools as
racist and [...]
Part 3- Boston Bombing : NATO, Oil and the battle for Chechnya
Continuing on from Part 1: *Boston Bombing: NATO- Taking the fight to
Russia via Georgia/Chechnya ??*
Where I first introduce the premise of taking the battle to Russia to
further the agenda of destabilization.
For multiple reasons. Bolstering that narrative with: *Pt 2- Boston
Bombing: NATO, Oil and the Battle for Chechnya*
Hoping to make it very clear, here in this installment, the third, that
the Boston bombing frame up has a clear beneficiary in the NATO global war,
pipelines, control of resources and geopolitical destabilization.
We are going to start, again, with the words of... more »
Untitled
*Survey: Americans nationwide willing to shell out personally to save our
coast ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
*New Mississippi "personhood" amendment drive to begin*
*Eight New Orleans Fairgrounds Horses Aim Towards Kentucky Derby*
*Jazz Fest poster captures essence of Aaron Neville ~Dean Shapiro*
**~Hat Tweet @lunanola ~Today at LA Music Factory @ 210 Decatur: One Mind
Brass Band @ Noon; Smoking Time Jazz Club @ 1 PM; Billy Iuso @ 2 PM! Johnny
Sansone w/ Anders Osborne, Stanton Moore, & Robert Mercurio @ 3 PM! Dukes
of Dixieland @ 4 PM, @*Bonerama* @ 5 PM, and Hot 8 Brass Band @ 6 PM! ... more »
Fouad Ajami’s Flawed Argument For The Iraq War
Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, and a long time
commentator on Iraq. For the last several years he has argued that the
Middle East’s autocrats gave rise to Islamist terrorists, and that was what
led to 9/11. Because Saddam Hussein was a perfect example of that type of
dictatorial rule he advocated that he be deposed to stop future terrorism.
This was an idea based upon changing the entire Middle East and North
Africa, not necessarily taking on those that were directly responsible for
attacking America. Ajami shared many ideas with the neoconservatives, and
... more »
ALEC Legislators Plagiarizing Legislation
Making the rounds this morning is a great article on *CommonDreams* by Jim
Hightower.
I* recommend reading the whole thing *– I just wanted to pull out his
wisdom in the article about ALEC.
*'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals*
Gagging on 'Ag-gag' laws
Oddly, each of these state proposals is practically identical, even
including much of the same wording. That's because, unbeknownst to the
public and other legislators, the bills don't originate from the state
lawmakers who introduce them. Instead, they come from a Washington-based
corporate front ... more »
Another great image a la #cpsboycott, racism in chicago
Self-explanatory. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary
Tagged: chicago, closures, cps boycott, testing
O'odham Solidarity Project: Voices on the Border
O'odham
Solidarity Project: Voices on the Border
A supporter of the O'odham Solidarity Project shares her feelings and
insights after spending time with Tohono O'odham in their ancestral
homeland. She describes the reality of the system in the United States
and what it means here.
She reacts to learning of the militarization of O'odham homelands, the
constant abuse of O'odham by US Border
Guest Post By Jay Stamper, Who's Running For The Senate Seat Lindsey Graham Is Occupying
*Profiles in Courage and Cowardice
-by Jay Stamper*
I’ve given a lot of thought to the courage of the Marathon runners who ran
toward the blasts and then kept on running to donate blood to the injured.
I've also thought about less courageous moments.
In the days following the bombings, Lindsey Graham suggested that Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen, should be denied Miranda rights and tried as an
enemy combatant in a military court. Graham must have been thinking that
our anger and disgust at a horrific crime would make us forget about the
Bill of Rights. Thank God he was wrong.
... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Christopher Newman, 58. Nope, I never heard of him,
either. But he was on the crew -- assistant director or some such
on...ready? Match Point; Sense and Sensibility; Much Ado; Brazil; Return of
the Jedi; The Great Muppet Caper; and Supermans II and III. Also, Rome --
and he's a producer on Game of Thrones. And lots more. That's not bad!
Enough to even mean we should forgive whatever contributions he had to,
alas, The Phantom Menace.
Good stuff:
1. Sean Trende on the possible electoral effects of passing immigration
reform.
2. Okay, there are lots of good reasons... more »
Government By Distraction
Bill S7 is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. Its provisions for
"preventative detention" and forcing people to answer questions are
unlikely to pass a Supreme Court challenge. But the bill passed yesterday
amid all the yelling and screaming about political attack ads. Susan
Delacourt writes in *The Toronto Star*:
While the stage had been set in Ottawa for a debate over whether MPs are
free to speak their minds, a new wave of ads created a battle over the
freedom to wage partisan advertising wars instead.
Liberals are crying foul at yet another set of looming Conservative attac... more »
Funding ALEC - Tax dollars should not be used
Three great 20 second audio clips to listen to on the following link.
These comments are after the SD House passed a half a million dollar travel
bill for legislators in SD - which included travel to ALEC meetings AND
paying the dues for EVERY South Dakota legislator, EVERY legislator.
*Each clip is priceless audio:*
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
ALEC
South Dakota tax dollars should not be used to fund a partisan organization
like this
very partisan ... not how you spend public tax dollars
Anti-public education, anti-worker, and I think anti-rural America ...
They do not need to exist on South D... more »
DRESSING UP A WAR CRIMINAL
The George W. Bush presidential library extravaganza is a disgrace to law,
morality, justice, and truth.
The man should be tried and put behind bars as a war criminal - right
alongside of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Colon Powell and the
rest of the crooked bastards.
Obama will now go and proclaim all the great things Bush did which is
disgraceful and demeaning to all those innocents who Bush and company had
killed. It indicates how the corporate oligarchy works - good cop and bad
cop - but in the end they all protect one another. Just like the mob -
it's a crimina... more »
The Left’s Top 6 Boston Bombing Lies | FrontPage Magazine
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/excusing-jihad
Won’t Let You Opt Out? Try All “A” Day
It is heartening to see the testing boycotts in Chicago, Portland, Seattle
and elsewhere, and yet there is so much more to do to bring down the high
stakes testing that has turned our schools in profit centers for
corporations, while killing learning and teaching. So boys and girls, if
your parents are skittish about [...]
A Message From Move To Amend Anouncing New Hampshire and Maine Speaking Tour
* * * PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WIDELY:
David Cobb, a fiery speaker and former Green Party presidential candidate,
is touring New Hampshire and Maine to give his talk "Creating Democracy &
Challenging Corporate Rule."
David will be traveling with Daniel Lee, a member of the Move to Amend Exec
Team and Affiliate Coordinator of Move to Amend Los Angeles.
This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action!
All events are free and open to the general public. Move to Amend finances
these tours, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Click the
li... more »
Smash Facebook!
In my experience, anarchists are either the funsome tricksters of
revolutionary politics; or the most terribly po-faced, super serious folk
going. There is no happy medium. So I can't quite decide if Anarchists: We
need to talk about Facebook is serious polemic bemoaning the lack of
revolutionary responsibility, or a wind up.
The argument runs like this. Anarchist collectives have expended enormous
reservoirs of labour and resource constructing a parallel architecture of
tough-to-crack servers and hard-encrypted email facilities. And yet, to
their dismay, rather than hang out at th... more »
5 Scientifically-Supported Tips for (Nearly) Instant Happiness by Elizabeth Renter
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/TFarmacy#!/TFarmacy
5 Scientifically-Supported Tips for (Nearly) Instant Happiness
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 23 April 2013
Some people are naturally happy. You probably know one, or maybe you
*are*one. These people are quick to smile or offer the “bright side”
when
encountered with a friend who needs a boost. Minor setbacks are seen by
this crew as just that—minor, rather than the serious life-changers that
otherwise unhappy people experience. And while there is no true
scientific
formula for achieving happiness, there are indeed ways to ... more »
Lawyers may be sued by someone other than client for trial conduct:
Amato v. Welsh, 2013 ONCA 258 is a pleadings case. Accordingly it needs
only to find a proposition of law is tenable. That said, it is a very
important decision holding a lawyer may be sued by someone other than the
lawyer's client for things said or done during trial. Whether this will
open the floodgates to litigation, especially in a family law context, will
be seen. Disappointed family law litigants often complain the other lawyer
was wrongfully in cahoots with their client - many doubtful law society
complaints are seen in this context:
[83] Notably, in *Demarco*, Kreve... more »
chemtrails - PHOTO OF THE DAY - non-persistent contrail in a chemtrailed sky
it's about 0920 hours on Thursday 25th April 2013, and here's a lovely
example of a 'normal' non-persistent contrail from a commercial jet heading
north to south at cruising altitude in a just CHEMTRAILED SKY
in the wider shot, below, the skylong white line indicated from A to B
(west to east) has just been laid down, literally FIVE MINUTES AGO as I
watched.
both planes were at cruising altitude: explain.
April Taxcast from Tax Justice Network
This month's Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network highlights the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' major data dump from
leaked documents, the agreement of the Group of 20 that automatic exchange
of tax information should be the global standard, the imminent collapse of
banking secrecy in Luxembourg (yes, you read that right!), and phantom
foreign direct investment into India.
Enjoy the podcast!
How to combat World Hunger
Sam Kinison had his own views on combatting world hunger.
An apologia for firewalls
*Anniversaries*: there are lots and lots of birthdays and deathdays of
mathematicians who influenced physics today, including Felix Klein, Siméon
Denis Poisson, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Felix Berezin.
A decade ago, I would enthusiastically read many or most papers authored or
co-authored by Joe Polchinski who would be a fountain of crisp, creative,
and perfectionist physics. I may have voted for him as the world's #1 most
clearly thinking physicist.
Sadly for me, I unregistered from the club of regular readers of his papers
after I looked at several important places in this new AMPS... more »
How the GOP's Disinformation Campaign Could Tarnish Obamacare
*BY MARC McDONALD*
Like many progressives, I've never been a big fan of the Affordable Care
Act. After all, in many ways, it's really nothing more than a warmed-up
revision of the Heritage Foundation/GOP health care proposal from the 1990s.
However, given the awful state of the current bloated, inefficient U.S.
health care system, Obamacare is bound to be an improvement (if only
because it's impossible for the system to be much worse than it is now).
And if Obamacare improves access to health care for millions of Americans,
it will pose a big problem to the GOP in elections for year... more »
DZHOKHAR'S DOUBLE?
*3* *on cap *
*7** on cap*
*Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or his double?*
*Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or his double?*
*Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or his double?*
*
**
**Dzhokhar in hospital, allegedly*
*
**
**The real Dzhokhar*
*
*The Boston police chiefs are total liars, reportedly.
*"Two unnamed U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that the
surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured
him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard.*
"The report contradicts the Boston police department's own account of
Dzhokar Tsarnaev's capture on Friday - after *commissi... more »
dream - very smooth space potato - enormous asteroid tears through the Earth
yup, had the MASSIVE ASTEROID dream, no idea what it means, but it was big,
and it sorta raced through like this:
NOBODY KNEW NOTHING.
Jerry Looked Up At Him At One Point and Said, "You See, Comedy Is What We're Really About. The Music, Yeah, This Music Thing Is All Well and Good, But Comedy Is What We're Really About."
When the events in our world get just too unbelievable for words (like this
week's). Some of us turn to the memory of that echoing chant "GRATEFUL
DEAD! GRATEFUL DEAD! GRATEFUL DEAD!" for comfort and enlightenment. Rolling
Stone has done us a good turn in this month's issue. Thank you, Bob and
Phil. And Jerry, most of all. Furthur Keep the Dead Alive at Historic New
York TheaterQ&A: Bob
Is the United States the best country in the world? Not even close. Among the 29 countries evaluated by UNICEF, the U.S. ranks from between 23rd to 27th in all six categories considered (the 27th being in education).
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*UNICEF: U.S. kids worse off than many of their Western counterparts*
Posted by Caitlin Dewey and Max Fisher on April 18, 2013 at 11:48 am
Data source: UNICEF
American children are on average worse off than children in Western Europe
and barely better off than their counterparts in the Baltic states and the
former Yugoslavia, according to a recent report from United Nation’s
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on the welfare of children in developed countries.
The report, which compares kids in 29 Western countries, measures
well-being across f... more »
Hegel On God, Religion, And Eckhartian Mysticism
Related: *Glenn Alexander Magee - Goethe the Alchemist*.
Below is an excerpt from Glenn Alexander Magee's book, *"Hegel and the
Hermetic Tradition."* 2001. Cornell University Press: Ithaca. Pg. 224-27.
"In the *Philosophy of Right*, Hegel states that "The content of religion
is absolute truth, and consequently the religious is the most sublime of
all dispositions" (Knox, PR 270; 165-66). Speculative philosophy, Hegel
insists, is not hostile to religious belief: "nothing is further from its
intention than to overthrow religion, i.e., to assert that the content of
religion cannot *... more »
20 Tips for adding value to our lives
Our last SURVEY asked the question, *"Were you raised green?"* It was a
close race but the winner was "Yes".
The comments were interesting. In most cases people shared that they grew
up in families where common-sense principles were taught ... things like
conserving resources, planting food, and avoiding waste. I had the sense
that regardless of when they officially began living green, their early
lives paved the way.
One comment suggested that green living is cultural. After a little
research, I was surprised to learn that green-living is a middle-class
trend. So could it be tha... more »
Ugly On The Outside
There are some good things about getting older. Being less swayed by the
superficial is certainly one of them. I've heard more than a few people
remark that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is handsome. I've heard people say they
thought Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are pretty. When I look at
Dzhokhar, Sarah and Michele those aren't the attributes that come to mind.
Rotted evil is.
Politics industry trade rag, *The Hill* announced their 10th annual "Most
Beautiful" List and they're opening it up to the White House, Cabinet
departments and executive agencies. In the past it has mostly been a... more »
Diné Hada’ Asídí: A Peaceful Revolution against the Internal Enemies
Navajo child protests at Salt River Project in Tempe, Ariz.
Diné Hada’Asídí
Navajo Vigilant Ones
A Navajo People’s
Public Interest Organization
We need a Peaceful People’s Revolution against the internal enemies
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NGS: It’s All About
Water (Today’s ‘Blue Gold’) and Disloyal Insiders
Navajo Generating Station (NGS) is not Navajo, but uses our
coal, water, land, and
Thursday Morning Linkage
If last’s week Thursday morning linkage was Africa-themed, this week’s
links are China-related and inevitably harken back to the events in Boston:
Laurie Garrett, as she is wont to do, wonders if this recent bird flu
outbreak in China is “the big one“ Beijing air is so bad they are canceling
recess, kids at grave
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Right Wing Fringe Group To Harass J&J About Dumping ALEC
*Conservative Group to Urge Johnson and Johnson to Rethink Its Decision to
Stop Working with Mainstream Conservative Group at Behest of Left-Wing
Extremists
Also Will Ask Health Care Giant to Endorse Plan to Repeal ObamaCare's
Medical Device Tax*
*New Brunswick, NJ / Washington, D.C.* - Today, at the annual meeting of
Johnson & Johnson shareholders in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the National
Center for Public Policy Research plans to criticize Johnson & Johnson CEO
Alex Gorsky's decision to stop working with a respected, 40-year-old
national organization of supporting state legisl... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This beautiful, bright, spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the
Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its heavy-lidded
appearance in telescopic views. M64 is about 17 million light-years distant
in the otherwise well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices. In
fact, the Red Eye Galaxy might also be an appropriate moniker in this
colorful composition of narrow and wideband images.
*Click image for larger size.*
The enormous dust clouds obscuring the near-side of M64's central region
are laced with the telltale reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star... more »
Crabs in a Bucket"
"*Crabs in a Bucket"*
by Sarah Robinson
"When I was a little girl, I lived very close (and hour and fifteen
minutes) to the Florida panhandle beaches. Which meant we spent a TON of
time there. Early evening was one of my favorite times to walk the beach
with my mom and my older brothers. We were all clean and fed and slightly
sun weary but still desperate to be outside. So, we would grab flashlights,
dip nets and a bucket and search the ocean’s edge for crabs. We would catch
a bucket full in an evening and drag them back home where my mom or my
grandmother would cook them up i... more »
Canadian KXL Minister - Not Very Neighborly
From Rw Story - snips
*Canadian official attacks U.S. climatologist James Hansenover Keystone
pipeline*
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 20:37 EDT
Canada’s natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, rarely bothers to hide his
dislike for critics of the country’s carbon-heavy tar sands or the
controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
But it still came as a surprise to hear Oliver lash out at one of America’s
pre-eminent scientists, climatologist James Hansen, during a visit to
Washington DC.
The charm offensive evidently did not apply to Hansen. In remarks made... more »
Memes galore
The advice animal periodic table... in case you were wondering.
To support the end of overtesting, consider putting your facebook profile on pause @dianeravitch
Courtesy of Jean Schutt McTavish. Put your profile on pause to boycott
test-driven education. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary
Tagged: boycott, facebook profile thumbnail, pause, testing
Round up of links from the student #CPSboycott today. Congrats!
Pretty shameless, but I must first plug our special radio episode today
with veteran Chicago arts educator Ellen Gradman, live from the events
downtown. Then, a Yahoo News article in which Mark Naison and I are quoted.
We also have a piece from Common Dreams and Huffington Post. Look for a
special episode with student [...]
Dirty Wars
Jeremy Scahill's Dirty Wars video trailer http://dirtywars.org/
“How Do We Humans Ever Make Good Decisions?”
*“How Do We Humans Ever Make Good Decisions?”*
by Jim Taylor, Ph.D.
“It’s a wonder that good decisions are ever made by the species known as
Homo Sapiens. The reality is that the cards are stacked against us whenever
we are faced with choices, especially when the decisions are of
consequence. Think about all of the horrendously bad decisions that have
been made in recent history and how obviously bad they look in our
rear-view mirrors. The Iraq war, securitizing mortgages, Congress not
voting for background checks on gun purchases, another season of The
Bachelor, the list goes... more »
Judy Gumbo Albert : Writing for the Hell of It
Yippie
Girl: Judy Gumbo Albert on the cover of the Berkeley Tribe, 1970. Image
from Babylon Falling.
How to bug a Yippie Girl:
Writing for the hell of it
My 1960s and '70s had been a Dostoyevskian drama of love, honor,
loyalty, and betrayal embedded in the American revolution of my time.
By Judy Gumbo Albert / The Rag Blog / April 24, 2013
Listen to the podcast of Thorne Dreyer's April 13,
DPP Job Opening
*Hillside near Houli.*
From several venues... one of the DPP departments is interested in a
researcher. Contact Jerome Keating (jkeating@ms67.hinet.net), he'll forward
the email along.
*Here are the specs:*
*--a MA degree in public policy(international relations, foreign affairs,
etc)*
*--fluent in English (mainly) or Japanese (with excellent writing skill)*
*--NGOs(Taiwan/international) experience*
*--under age of 40*
*--a minimum starting salary of $NT 40,000*
_______________________
[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its
sidebars for events, links ... more »
MORE Questions About The Boston Marathon Bombing.......
This goes with my last post *Questions About The Boston Marathon Bombing*.
(Big Dan: YOU have to be a MORON to believe this "OFFICIAL STORY". There's
no hope for you. Just watch some more TV and then go back to sleep...you'll
believe ANYTHING!)
*Was Boston Bomber Radicalized at U.S.-Sponsored Workshop?*
*Tamerlane Tsarnaeva recruited via the Georgian Foundation. One of the
organizers of the terrorist attack in Boston, studied at the workshop held
in conjunction with the Georgian special services Americans*
*A speaker of Russian, he traveled to Russia and back on ultra-sensitive
m... more »
Last year the OCJ took in 560,000 new criminal cases
And 2,000,000 provincial offences.
TV Watch: Newfangled ways of measuring time (1): From "Nurse Jackie" 5/1 to 5/2 (and "Mad Men" 6/2 to 6/3)
*The new All Saints ER doctors: Carrie Roman (Betty Gilpin) and Ike
Prentiss (Morris Chestnut)*
*by Ken*
For any readers who noticed my recent disappearance, let me say that it:
(1) was planned and (2) seems to have achieved its objectives with great
success. I'm back home with a new knee that already seems to be working
better than the original-equipment one, though that's not saying much.
It's an oddity of our times, though, that when the spring TV-season
announcements were made, it occurred to me almost at once that I would be
home for the Season 5 premiere of *Nurse Jackie*, a... more »
7 charged with smuggling bladders of endangered fish to China
[image: This March 2013 image provided by the US Attorney's Office shows
Totoaba bladders displayed at a US border crossing in downtown Calexico,
Mexico. Seven people have been charged in a scheme to sell the bladders of
an endangered Mexican fish considered a delicacy for use in Chinese soup,
US prosecutors said on 24 April 2013. Photo: US Attorney's Office via AP]
By Elliot Spagat
24 April 2013
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Seven people have been charged with smuggling bladders
from an endangered fish in what authorities said Wednesday may be a growing
international practice in which the bla... more »
Musical Interlude: Afshin, “Prayer of Change”
Afshin, “Prayer of Change”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9oZ5A548Ak
Woman must remove niqab to testify
A Muslim woman must remove her niqab before testifying against two men
accused of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, an Ontario judge
ruled Wednesday.
The decision by Justice Norris Weisman comes after years of legal
wrangling, pitting the accused's right to a fair trial against the
complainant's freedom of religion. The case went all the way to the Supreme
Court, where a split decision effectively sent it back to the lower court.
While Judge Weisman wrestled with the implications of making the woman —
who can be identified only as N.S. — choose between her religious
conv... more »
MAINE DRONE SURVEILLANCE BILL HEARING ON THURSDAY IN AUGUSTA
I've just learned that the Maine state legislative* drone bill (LD 236)* is
being discussed again tomorrow *(Thursday)* by the Judiciary Committee in
Augusta at *1:00 pm on the 4th floor* of the capital building.
It would be very important to come to this work session if you can or at
least to contact members of the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary to
let them know you demand that the police must have warrants before doing
drone surveillance of citizens in Maine.
It appears that Maine's Attorney General Janet Mills (a Democrat) is
pushing hard to *gut the warrant requireme... more »
Stephen Harper Is Running Scared, Soiled Underwear
* *Stephen Harper is running scared, his underpants are soiled, Justin
Trudeau, the newly appointed leader of the third place Federal party has
Harper and the Cons freaked out, polling data has Justin Trudeau winning a
minority Government if an election were held today..Justin is a phenomenon,
Justin Trudeau has starting running his own ads to counter Harper`s
childish antics, a polite ad, a non-personal ad..Justin Trudeau is taking
the new winning approach to politics, ala Adrian Dix..
Stephen Harper is so bland, so old, so boring, a pathetic corporate
bootlick..
Anyone who def... more »
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