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America's "bought and paid for" Congress is notorious for obstructing any
meaningful action to respond to climate change. Now a group, "Organizing
for Action", is preparing a campaign to target climate change denialists on
Capital Hill. People like these guys:
*Until Thursday, the group had focused on gun control, immigration and the
budget. Climate change did not even rate its own heading on the OFA
website. But Thursday's video and an accompanying petition campaign suggest
that Obama's allies have now decided that climate change is a mainline
political issue.*
Good luck, OFA... more »
The Latest in School Fashion - Body Armour
What's next, Kevlar helmets? The latest sign of America's worsening
dysfunction is ballistic armour for school kids.
Send your child to school with a bulletproof backpack so when the rounds
start flying, and you know they will, the kid has a chance to take cover in
the shelter of her rucksack.
The Manufactured Support of the Marginalized
A prisoner stands before a court and is told to make a decision between
execution and amputation. The prison chooses amputation. Imagine using this
situation to claim that amputation is the right thing to do for a
generalized population because the prisoner chose it. Now, consider
Michelle Alexander in her The New Jim Crow: Yet [...]
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Cheers Eyes Wide Open
I think I figured something out. Surprised?!?
It has always been remarkable to me why we don’t see a prevalence of
charter schools and other hallmarks of school choice in rural communities.
There is just as much poverty, neglect, abuse, and family discord in these
areas. We don’t see “no excuses” approaches or an intense push for
universal college participation. I’m perfectly [...]
RED AND BLUE WITH RACE ALL OVER: Our blue tribe develop its own tribal culture!
*FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013*
*Part 4—Walsh nut-picks:* In 1861, it was blue versus gray.
Today, it’s increasingly red versus blue. To watch the way our own blue
tribe has been inventing its own private tribal culture, you should
consider David Sirota’s now-famous piece for Salon.
When the column appeared on April 16, no one knew who would emerge as the
Boston bomber. Sensibly enough, Sirota was worried about what could happen
“if the bomber ends up being a Muslim and/or a foreigner from the
developing world.”
This was a perfectly valid concern—and the concern is easy to state. But
how... more »
The Return of Lazy Mendacity
Oliver Willis yesterday asked:
what is it with cons[ervatives] who provide links to stories that disprove
their accusations?
Hey, I know that one! It's lazy mendacity.
On a totally different substantive topic, Conor Friedersdorf had a great
example of lazy mendacity, also yesterday -- conservatives linking to a NYT
story about Boston and quoting something from mid-story to support a claim
that the press was ignoring the bombers' religion, when in fact the
headline and the lead (yeah, I spell it that way usually) were about
"Islamic Extremist Beliefs As Motive." In other words, whil... more »
Friday night Lites
*Betel nut production facility.*
The Cabinet approves absentee voting and disincludes Taiwanese in China,
thus quelling fears that China could influence the vote.
According to the amendments, any qualified voter can vote in a polling
station in a city or country where they have not established voting
residency, as long as they apply to do so three months before the voting
day.
It is estimated that less than 5 percent of the electorate would apply for
absentee voting, Huang Li-hsin (黃麗馨), director-general of the Ministry of
the Interior’s Department of Civil Affairs, told a press ... more »
Corn and Black Bean Salsa
[image: Bean and Corn Salsa]
When I left for college when I was 18, I had a goal. To never eat beans
again, ever. I decided I was an adult and nobody could force me to eat
them. I quickly found myself on dates where I had to eat beans or look
foolish, so I ate them. When I got married, I reaffirmed my desire to never
eat a bean again...then we moved to South Texas where beans are a food
group. The first time I ordered a plate with no beans, the waiter acted
like I shot him. So I started taking slow nibbles and I discovered that I
actually love black beans.
I still never want to eat... more »
wind mobile: horrible retail customer service but great follow-up after complaint
I sent this email yesterday.
*To Wind Customer Service:
Re: Mobile Phone # xxx.xxx.xxxx
Transaction:
Tendered On: 24-Apr-2013 01:08 PM
Tendered At: WCMA01
Invoice: xxxxx
I am writing to complain about some terrible customer service I received at
your Square One kiosk (100 City Centre Drive) on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
The transaction information from my receipt is above.
A few days earlier, I had called Wind to enquire about activating
international calling on my phone. I was told I would need a new SIM card,
plus some add-ons, and that I could pick up the new SIM card at no cos... more »
Afterburner: Bill Whittle: Are you being demonized by this administration?...
From YouTube:
Bill Whittle walks viewers through the efforts by liberals to politicize
murder and terror. Why does the left advance their paranoid mythologies
about race and conservatism even when it is irrelevant to the issue at
hand? Whether its the Newtown mass murder, or the Boston Marathon terror
attacks by radical muslims, liberals always target America and forgive the
real enemies. Hear why liberals and the mainstream media love to blame the
Tea Party movement and the right for every wrong in America, on this
Afterburner.
Friday morning linkage
Red lines or red lights on Syria? It’s not just about Syria. What if the
Tsarnaevs had been shooters instead of bombers? Playing out academic feuds
in the press…Reinhart and Rogoff respond. Fodder for PTJ: What do
scientifc studies tell us? Very persuasive: I spent three hours yesterday
on the tarmac at O’Hare delayed
Continue reading
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*South Louisiana Mother Culture of Festival International de Louisiane
blends music, dance, arts, food, people and place*
~Editilla Festivalas~ FINALLY, I's here this year! What a breath of fresh
air, my first visit to the city is filled with acclimating to a different
way... or speed if yous will, which has nothing to do with New Orleans,
Jazz Fest or whatever. This is mo'like a big cast iron pot of South
Louisiana Mother Culture. *Y'all can follow my twitta* and *@FestivalIntl*as we move about beautiful downtown Lafayette!
Hyundai ix35 unfit for suicide by CO2
All the media have informed about the following Hyundai ad that was quickly
suspended:
The man tries to commit suicide by inhaling the gases from the exhaust
pipe. But Hyundai ix35 only has "water emissions", whatever it exactly
means, so he fails.
Understandably, some people – including surviving dependants of people who
did commit suicide in a car – were upset. Well, suicides are present on the
maternal side of my DNA chain but I wasn't offended. Instead, the video
looks boring to me. It had to be very cheap to shoot it, too.
Also, it seems clear to me that well over 99 perc... more »
Israel: Flippin & Floppin' on Syria alleged chemical weapon use?
I notice there are more then a couple articles questioning why Israel
dropped the chemical weapon meme bomb? What is up with thissecond
guessing? Admitting to being a bit stumped and having to think this
over... So, anyone with some relevant thoughts, leave them..
*Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and
analysis division.*
[image:
http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2012/05/F120522NM13-635x357.jpg]
Why did the IDF’s top analyst drop his Syria WMD bombshell? Was Itai Brun’s
public declaration that Assad’s forces have used n... more »
RWNJ's NCP Calls Activists "radical race agitators" and "loons"
Yesterday the extremist right-wing organization “National Center Policy
Experts” crashed the J&J stockholders meeting to complain about the fact
that J&J had dumped ALEC.
Here’s their press release after the stockholder’s meeting.
National Center Policy Experts Quiz Pfizer CEO Ian Read and Johnson &
Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky
Johnson & Johnson Issue 2: Justin Danhof noted that he had thanked
then-Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon at last year's shareholder
meeting for not caving in to the left-wing demands of the Color of Change
organization to drop membership in the American Leg... more »
Loss Prevention Is Lying To You
So you're called into the back room. It's a tiny one with no windows and
only one door. In the room is someone who identifies himself as being from
Loss Prevention. He seems so nice. He tells you he's there to help you save
your job. If you only tell him what he wants to hear, you can go back to
work.
He's lying! Don't fall for it. Everything you say can and will be held
against you. Be careful.
He asks you some questions that make it clear you're being accused of doing
something wrong. Maybe it's stealing from the company. Maybe just punching
in wrong. Maybe a violation of some po... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: Mashing Up GoT
It has been a week or two since we have FNB-ed. After last week’s events,
we could use some extra silliness:
Lack of TCE Warning Has Residents Steamed
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 3 hours ago
By: Nathan Lamb
A recently discovered cluster of contaminated wells has residents of Wake
Forest, North Carolina asking why they weren’t warned about the problem in
2005, according to this NBC news story.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing over the past year has
discovered the carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE) in 21 wells across a
500-acre area around Stony Hill Road in the town of Wake Forest.
While the EPA has installed water filters to alleviate the problem, several
residents were outraged to learn that the state discovered TCE
contamination in a neighborhood well i... more »
Conspiracy Theory Lunatics Are Now Part of The Republican Party's Shrinking Tent
Wednesday evening Rachel Maddow introduced her listeners to the false flag
mania that has swept first late night radio, then the extreme right and has
now seeped into the Republican mainstream. The seepage, of course, is
inevitable because so many freaks and nuts from the fringes are now in the
heart of the Republican Party power structure. Rachel starts with Glenn
Beck admirer/New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Rockingham). Even
New Hampshire Republicans are worried that Tremblay, who has been publicly
claiming the U.S. government staged the Boston marathon bombings as p... more »
Untitled
*Saints’ Mickey Loomis confident with draft strategy ~Sheldon Mickles*
*Bywater second-line protests city live music "crackdown" ~Tania Dall *
*Jon Cleary's Alchemy of the Groove*
*Second Lines, Mardi Gras Indians, and Brass Bands at Jazz Fest, Friday
April 26*
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Pablo Schreiber, 35.
Some good stuff:
1. Josh Barro notes: "There is still no Republican health policy agenda."
2. Adam Serwer on the guest worker problem and the provisions in the Senate
immigration bill.
3. The Hawaii Democratic Senate primary, reported by Scott Bland.
4. Do Members of Congress have any idea how the ACA works? Aaron Carroll
says: looks like they don't.
5. And Molly Ball on women running for office.
Limits to BBC interest in Middle East historical sites | BBC Watch
' the BBC's generously staffed Jerusalem Bureau has so far shown no
interest whatsoever in reporting this story. So, whilst critical reports on
Israeli projects to preserve important archaeological and historic sites
are thick on the ground, the destruction of a prominent ancient
archaeological treasure by a terrorist organization remains unreported. '
More here
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/04/26/limits-to-bbc-interest-in-middle-east-historical-sites/
Another example of the BBC's incessant anti Israel coverage. They really
are an institution filled to the brim with anti Israel sentime... more »
UK Jews: BBC biased against Israel - Israel Culture, Ynetnews
'Online poll finds nearly four of five Jews believe British network is
unfriendly towards Jewish state'
More here http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4370127,00.html
Maybe the BBC should release the Balen Report to try and reassure British
Jews that the BBC is not biased against Israel... Unless the Balen Report
showed that the BBC was biased against Israel!
A Dark Future
Stephen Harper -- that fountain of sweetness and light -- has stepped up
his attack on Justin Trudeau. He tries to paint Trudeau as weak because Mr.
Trudeau wants to know why young men who have lived in Canada for a long
time turn to radical Islam. Harper says:
“This is not a time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression . . . .
these things are serious threats, global terrorist attacks, people who have
agendas of violence that are deep and abiding threats to all the values
that our society stands for,” Harper said.
“I don’t think we want to convey any view to the Canadian ... more »
ALEC Privatization Legislation - Rank and Foul
This story is so important - - I didn't want to see it have a one news
cycle run -
So I held onto this all week, to see if it could get traction again at the
end of the week.
I have repeatedly noted that people have to watch Michigan – cause it
definitely is the nastiniest legislature and governor in the entire United
States. Nowhere are we seeing the wholesale destruction of democracy – as
we are seeing happen in Michigan.
One of the most prolific and informative blogger on what is happening in
Michigan is *Ecletablog*.
Today – the following snips from a post on their site.
(M... more »
Scottish hotel cancels Jewish event after "threats" - The Commentator
' tudent from St Andrews University have reportedly been stopped from
holding a charity event due to threats sent to the venue - the St Andrews
Golf Hotel.
Jewish students were due to hold a black tie Matzah Ball at the prestigious
location with almost 100 expected to attend from around the UK. Money
raised was to be sent to seven Israeli charities supported including the
Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF).
But following pressure from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
(SPSC), as reported by the Jewish Telegraph, hotel manager Niall Th... more »
Senate committee representative: CISPA will almost certainly be shelved due to privacy concerns
Madison Ruppert
The highly controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act
(CISPA), which passed the House last week, will “almost certainly be
shelved by the Senate,” according to a representative of the U.S. Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
This comes the day after it was revealed that the government is already
carrying out activities like those legitimized under CISPA by issuing
so-called 2511 letters. CISPA would have given programs that may currently
be illegal a solid legal foothold.
However, it seems that it very well may be dead, at lea... more »
Climate Science Is Doomed
I have submitted the following comment, on CO2 climate sensitivity, to the bishop
hill site:
*The ongoing CO2 climate sensitivity debate is a festering parade of
incompetence. Outside of 1975-2000, the up-and-down global temperature
record does not correlate with the level of CO2 in the air (but it does
correlate, quite well, with the multidecadal ocean oscillations, on top of
a presumed half-degree-per-century of warming since the Little Ice Age--so
why bother with CO2 at all, why treat the CO2 "greenhouse" theory as sound
and settled, is the proper scientific question). When one l... more »
BOSTON BOMBERS AND RICHARD DART
*Richard Dart - 'Militant Moslem' or recruit to the security services?*
Boston Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly originally said that Tamerlan and
Dzhokhar were headed to New York to 'party'
Raymond Kelly then made "a complete 180 degree turn on his statement."
He now says that the brothers were going to New York to carry out a terror
attack.
*http://www.dailymail.co.*
*Mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva and father Anzor Tsarnaev, currently in Russia.*
The mother of the Boston suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, says that her sons
are being framed and that the site of the 'bombings' were a 'rea... more »
Imagine: a Boston bombing every week - The Commentator
Some very good points in this article, many of which I have made previously
re the 'security wall' etc. One bit caught my eye:
'... every Palestinian death receives somewhere in the order of 28 times
the attention of every Chechen death.'
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3359/imagine_a_boston_bombing_every_week
Texas STAAR Guarantees Failure of Special Ed Students
Not hyperbole, but sad and inhumane fact. The headline from the Dallas
Morning News April 22 was New STAAR test standards guarantee some Texas
special education students will fail The guaranteed failure of the most
vulnerable students has long been a fact in Texas and elsewhere, but for
the State now to admit as much [...]
Free Planet - decimal day, decimal year.
over thousands of years of cultural indoctrination and 'just plain
superstition', mankind invented a year of 365.25 days, a day of 24 hours,
an hour of 60 minutes etc... now there are all sorts of cultural
superstitional societal reasons for this set of values, including the
shipping industry's invention of Arbitrary Time Zones.
But let's look at the real evidence.
The Earth goes round the Sun ONCE a year.
The Earth rotates ONCE a day.
We know when the Sun is in its highest point in the sky on each day i.e.
noon is always known despite the shifting tilt of the planet through the
ye... more »
More evidence of a Staged Inside Job in Boston Marathon Bombing
Really funny. Caught on camera. OOPS! The prosthetic dropped, the EMT
picked it up and fixed it with both hands. In a real EMS where every
seconds count, there is no time for any "pit stop" to hold the prosthetic
in place. Stay tuned for more "funnies".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4tIYKHssxYU#!
If you think these videos and series of still-shots can be taken within 2
minutes of the wheel chair circus ride; then you must be in a chronic state
of delusion. Your state needs help. Flush out the toxic Zionist OMAR in
your toilet govt system. Further delay ... more »
Cancer Doctor Explains How Cooking with Turmeric Leads to Amazing Health Benefits by Elizabeth Renter
Cancer Doctor Explains How Cooking with Turmeric Leads to Amazing Health
Benefits
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 26 April 2013
It’s one thing to read all the studies, to keep informed through breaking
news and research about natural health, but it’s another to hear it from
the people who put it into practice. When you can combine the practical
applications of natural health *with* the scientific background, the
evidence can be awfully convincing. This is where Johns Hopkins medical
oncologist *Dr. Saraswati Sukumar* comes in, explaining how you can get the
most out of th... more »
Democritus on the QM operating system
This reading report will be much more favorable than the previous one, one
on minds and machines.
Chapters 5, 6, 7 etc. are dedicated to the classes of problems that may be
solved in a reasonable time. They are full of arguments showing that if one
type of a problem may be solved [at all AND/OR with some limitations on
time AND/OR with some limitations on memory AND/OR with some probability of
success AND/OR with some secret hints etc.], then another type of a problem
may be solved at all.
This leaves a network of classes of algorithmic problems that are not known
to coincide. This... more »
A Guest Post About Vaccination Damages by Michael Brine
Source: http://www.kathleendunkelberger.com/?page_id=22
**
**
*Vaccinated kids have 2 to 5 times more diseases than unvaccinated ones!
This follows a study done in September 2011 in Germany on about 8000
UNVACCINATED children. *
Dear readers - Once again I am trying to bring to your attention the damage
that vaccination does to our bodies. This is especially true for our
children who are now vaccinated at such a young age, for this is when the
damage starts. It sets the stage for their health – or more correctly their
lack of it - for the rest of their/our lives! I will now q... more »
Oh Crap My Leg Fell Off!
Phoney leg bone falls off...purported victim.
What is Taqiyya? Lynne Jones (@lynnejones_exMP) please take note.
*Question:*Are Muslims permitted to lie?
*
Summary Answer:*Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be
truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to "smooth over
differences."
There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under
certain circumstances, *taqiyya* and *kitman*. These circumstances are
typically those that advance the cause Islam - in some cases by gaining the
trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat
them.
*
The Qur'an:*Qur'an (16:106) - Establishes that there are circumstances that
can "... more »
Piri Reis Reinterpreted
I spotted this first on Dale Drinnon's Blog and it provides a valuable
re thinking of the much referenced Piri Reis Map.
The key take home is that the southern portion of the map is
not Antarctica but the deliberate shifting of the south american coastline
to the East for rather pressing political reasons of the day. Even better
they tried also to place the known geography of the Chinese coast in the
Caribbean. Understanding both easily clarifies the real anomalies in the
map.
A lot of inference has been drawn from the Antarctic assumption that can
all now be simply dismis... more »
Creation Without GOD
In my own work, I have reduced the moment of creation to the simple
decision to be. Thereafter the mathematica alone imposes the world we know
and if another creation is initiated, it is the same laws and generally
convergent to any sister universe. What remains to be discussed is the
nature of the decision itself. The mathematica that I have laid out shows
us that it is immensely simple and thereafter entirely inevitable.
Simple as creation is, it is also clear that GOD is naturally post
creation, claims to the contrary notwithstanding. In addition time as we
under... more »
Nocturnal Neanderthals
Much of what passes for interpretation here is rather thin on the ground,
but what is extremely important is that we are dealing with a nocturnal
hunting life way. That alone explains everything. It was also never
hinted at in any of the material I have seen over the years.
This means that our Neanderthals were largely designed for small group
stalking and hunting at night which is a generally easy life way. The
Sasquatch or Bigfoot and most other carnivores continue this life way.
Humanity learned instead to build out in a larger community and operated
as both hunte... more »
Scale of Yellowstone Magma Chamber Clarified
A back of the envelop calculation tells us that we are describing ten to
twenty thousand cubic kilometers of basaltic flow potential that easily
conform to the known flows that cover thousands of square miles and are a
mile thick in places and are well known as the Snake River Basalts.
It should be clear that even a small eruption is going to be a mess and we
already know what a big one looks like.
This gives us an excellent picture of the size and scope and we now have
no illusions over just how huge this is. At least we have already tracked
it all the way east ... more »
Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.26.12”
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.26.12”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
New news about the Boston bombing suspects, and it is not pretty. It is
reported that Russia contacted the U.S. government “multiple times” about
Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He’s the older brother that was killed in a shootout
with police and FBI. The FBI’s excuse for not taking Russian warnings
seriously was the FBI thought Tsarnaev did not pose a threat. Lawmakers are
looking into what went wrong and how to stop future terror plots.
It looks like Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is green lighting attacks
on both Syr... more »
April 25, 1973
Nixon arrived back in Washington on the 24th, still without having resolved
anything. Also on the Tuesday the 24th, John Mitchell testified in front of
a grand jury -- but not the Watergate one; this was an investigation
related to financier (later fugitive financier) Robert Vesco.
At the White House, Haldeman and Ehrlichman meet with their lawyers, who
then meet with Nixon. They're at a stalemate; Nixon clearly wants them to
resign, but the lawyers don't want them to go, and Nixon isn't willing to
force the issue yet.
The three co-conspirators -- the president, his chief of staff,... more »
dream - dreaming in tandem - a vertical crack in space
I don't remember much about this morning's Civil War dream but I DO
REMEMBER that in this dream there were TWO PEOPLE, there were two of us on
a mission in like a crowded slum city and this city
was not on Earth.
I was accompanied by another person in the dream, a colleague or co-agent I
know not, male or female I know not. There were a lot of street battles,
with pistols. There was a scene in the back of a Chinese restaurant, where
we seemed to be asking those who were eating to 'move to another table'.
Very big grains of rice. Things were Earth-like but adjusted slightly for
t... more »
SECRETS OF THE FED?
Anna-Marie Crampton, a local election candidate in the UK, has been
suspended from her party.
She reportedly posted "extreme views" on a conspiracy site called *Secrets
of the Fed.*
*
*
Secrets of the Fed
It is the very pro-Israel *United Kingdom Independence Party* (UKIP) which
has suspended Anna-Marie Crampton.
Anna-Marie is alleged to have said that World War II was engineered by
Zionists and bankers to create the state of Israel.
Anna-Marie, 57, is allegedly quoted as saying: "Holocaust means a sacrifice
by fire. Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers... more »
New accurate gravitational wave data
*A new pulsar and his white dwarf pal confirm Einstein's GR again*
The 1993 Nobel prize in physics was given for the discovery of a binary
pulsar, i.e. a rotating neutron star, whose orbiting frequency was changing
exactly as predicted by the general theory of relativity which says that
accelerating masses emit gravitational waves, lose energy, speed up the
orbiting rate, and gradually collapse onto their companion.
Now, 20 years later, astronomers found a new strange couple called PSR
J0348+0432 that allows us to run these tests more accurately than ever
before:
A Massive Pul... more »
Hegel's God
*"Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God"* by Robert M. Wallace.
Brief bio of Robert M. Wallace (*from his website*):
I have a PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University, and I’ve taught there
and at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Pennsylvania, and
Colgate University. I also teach adult education courses in philosophy,
mysticism, and sacred poetry.
Together with a bunch of scholarly articles, I’m the author of
Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom and God (Cambridge University Press,
2005), which you can purchase from the publisher, from Amazon.com,... more »
Your moment of Zen
Fish gotta swim...
... birds gotta fly.
What's for breakfast...
*how about this?*
*Spam & Egg Breakfast Special*
Using:
- Eggo waffles
- Cheddar cheese
- Egg
- Spam (bacon flavored)
- Taco sauce
I love ordinary fried Spam sandwiches. Slice the Spam (bacon flavored
preferred) thinly. Fry it crisply. Spread soft white nutritionally
deficient bread with a ton of mayo, and add a huge slice of iceberg lettuce
(also nutritionally deficient.) Heaven!
But this seems equally yummy...
Directions:
*HERE *
*Oy vey!! *
To have and to have-not
I'm late to this but let's never forget for whom the economic recovery tolls:
The U.S. economy has recovered for households with net worth of $500,000 or
more, a new study shows. The recession continues for almost everyone else.
Wealthy households boosted their net worth by 21.2 percent in the aftermath
of the recession, according to the study released Tuesday by the Pew
Research Center. The rest of America lost 4.9 percent of household wealth
from 2009 to 2011.
Pew attributed the disparity to gains during that period in the stock and
bond markets, benefiting affluent household... more »
LUNCH WITH THE FT - A FORMER HEAD OF MOSSAD
I meet my guest, a former head of Mossad, at the Clonegal Castle restaurant
in Dublin.
'Reuben' prefers that we do not use his real name.
For a starter, I order Dublin Bay prawns with truffle sabayon and prawn
bisque.
Reuben says the prawns may be radioactive and orders chopped herring fillet
with pickled onion and salad in sour dressing.
"So," I ask, "who did Boston?"
"The Irish," says Reuben.
I am relieved to hear it wasn't Mossad.
*Cardinal Spellman, also known as Franny, was reportedly fond of boys and
worked for the CIA. *
*
*
Reuben begins to list some of the spooky peo... more »
Music Video: Papago Warrior, Waila at O'odham Solidarity Project's Spring Gathering
Also
Watch Papago Warrior, Video II, at the Spring Gathering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOhEtqvCAA
Tohono O'odham children and youth video taping Papago Warrior.
PAPAGO WARRIOR!
Censored News
During the O'odham Solidarity Project's Spring Gathering 2013, O'odham
children and youth video taped the award-winning Waila band, Papago
Warrior.
Papago Warrior, featured at the Native
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 Edge 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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by Maartin Horst
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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More information about ET-First Contact Radio:
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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 - 21 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.
More:
Waila Music Video
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
*UPDATE: The journal Climatic Change has a special issue on this subject
just out, it is open access and can be found here. *
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... 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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*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'
BROWN
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 »
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