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2014 Resolution: Educate the Whole Child to Curtail School Shootings
The professional education community, as a whole, must do a better job in addressing school violence, i.e. school shootings, in 2014 and beyond. Unfortunately, since the devastating event in Sandy Hook, we’ve witnessed twenty-seven school-based shootings. We MUST do a better job in acknowledging the problem, and recalibrating our focus beyond simple test scores. We […]
Pussy Riot have no credentials to advise anyone
*And the boycott of the Olympics is indefensible and mean* Vladimir Putin and friends are working hard on a reconciliation with various foreign political forces ahead of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi (Feb 6th-23rd). Mikhail Khodorovsky, a half-Jewish oligarch (who has lost most of his wealth but that hasn't eliminated him from the list of billionaires) and a prisoner of conscience according to Amnesty International, was freed after almost a decade in prison. He was wise enough to keep a low-key profile. Two Pussy Riot girls were freed after 1.5 years, too. They are primarily famous ... more »
Summary of Professional Conduct Rule 4.04 on Communication with Witnesses Giving Evidence
RULE 4.04 Communicating With Witnesses Giving Testimony Witness Called By You or Witness Called by Party Opposite Sympathetic to You During Yes, on matters not yet covered Yes Chief Between No N/A Chief and Cross During No Yes Cross Between No N/A Cross and ReExam During N/A Yes... more »
Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy
Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy. via Anatomy of Charter School Advocacy.
Friday Nerd Blogging: Winterfest Depression Edition
Sorry folks, but with intermittent wifi in the US (my mother-in-law is a neo-luddite), the best I could do was this: Indeed, I spent part of this break reading less of a dissertation than I should have. So, yeah, there’s that. May your New Year’s Resolutions prove to be more resolute than me.
White Christmas in Prague: 9 in 40 years, no trend
In recent weeks, the weather was often cold but we didn't have a white Christmas almost anywhere in Czechia (as has been correctly predicted since mid December). Klimaskeptik.cz mentions some interesting statistics based on Centrum.CZ, NOVA.TV, PocasiCZ.CZ, and Infomet.CZ articles that make it clear that we shouldn't have expected a white Christmas. Well, during the last 40 years i.e. my lifetime, Prague has only experienced 9 white Christmases. December 24th snow cover in "cm" at six major Czech weather stations looks like this: The black and grey curves near the bottom dis... more »
Ma-Xi Meetup???
It's a common pattern for Ma to float ideas like a meet up with President Xi of China in the foreign press -- in this case a Hong Kong paper -- and then "explain" them to the home media. TT says: The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday defended the possibility of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at next year’s APEC meeting in Beijing, insisting that such a meeting would only be held if supported by Taiwanese and if national dignity can be maintained. The Mainland Affairs Council said that a Ma-Xi Mating would not be on the agenda f... more »
The Usurper's Christmas Message
I'm sort of an all-or-nothing kinda guy. You know, if I don't believe in a religion, then I stop going to church. Canada, and Canadians, are either historical entities trying to build a just, humane society for themselves and others, or they're not. Leftists should either dedicate themselves to achieving change or they should just STFU. Christmas is supposedly a season when Christians celebrate the birth of their saviour, but in our more secular times it's really supposed to be about reaching out to others and gifting each other in the spirit of self-sacrifice that this Jesus charac... more »
25-Plus Drugs In More Than Half Of America’s Drinking Water by Daniel Jennings
25-Plus Drugs In More Than Half Of America’s Drinking Water by Daniel Jennings Off The Grid News, 20 December 2013 You might be ingesting something poisonous each time you drink a glass of tap water — small amounts of prescription drugs. Researchers have found that half the water discharged from large water treatment plants in the United States is contaminated with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, according to a new EPA study. The scariest part? The level of drugs in the water supply is much higher than previously thought, and scientists don’t how these trace amounts o... more »
A tale of two Popes -- the one in the Vatican, who takes Jesus' words to heart, and the one in North Carolina
*As I confirmed during my December visit, there is evidence of backlash against North Carolina oligarchist "Puppet Master" Art Pope's way-far-right agenda.* *by Noah* There are two Popes in the news lately. Both represent organizations that claim to speak for Jesus Christ. One's name is Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is the better-known of the two, and his actions befuddle and anger U.S. Republicans. The other's name is Art Pope. Art Pope is the North Carolina Republican Party's pope. Unlike many past Popes, Francis seems to take the reported actio... more »
Jennifer Aniston - "Sexy, very sexy, sexy"
The scene where Jennifer Anison takes her bra off and her pokies all but are out of control. Jennifer Aniston's nipples always on display in Friends, a truly great series!
Spellings Doubles-Down on “Incredibly Complicated” High-Stakes Testing
While political and popular debates teeter on the brink somewhere between surreal and catastrophic—consider the mess that is Sarah Palin homophobic-splaining the Phil Robertson controversy—the media access afforded Margaret Spellings may be reaching a level that rises about worse-of status for just a single year. I have offered the worst Op-Ed of 2013 and Bruce […]
US 10Y Yield Hits 3.019% on December 27 , 2013 - Highest Since July 2011 ..... and yet , Stocks Surge For Sixth Straight Session ( as of the close of trading December 26 , 2013 ) ...... Two trains racing in opposite directions.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-27/gold-silver-are-jumping ( Hmm , who let the dogs out ? ) Gold & Silver Are Jumping And WTI Crude Breaks $100 [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 09:09 -0500 - Bitcoin - Crude - Precious Metals - Twitter - Twitter inShare As the 10Y broke solidly through 3.00% so precious metals began to move and after testing $20 in Silver overnight a few times, both gold and silver have just run stops through key levels and are jumping like Twitter (or Bitcoin) for a few minutes. *WTI Crude has ... more »
ObamaCare updates - Christmas Eve Edition...... Ho ho Ho from HHS and the White House !
Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
updates through 12/26..... http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/26/coming-up-next-obamacare-taxes-and-fees/ Coming up next: ObamaCare taxes and fees POSTED AT 11:31 AM ON DECEMBER 26, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY This reminder from the New York Post came on Christmas, when few paid attention, but it’s worth noting today. The disastrous rollout of ObamaCare is only the appetizer for Americans, the 2013 lead-in to higher costs and fees built into the so-called Affordable Care Act. What most people haven’t heard — yet — is the new fees that ObamaCare charges for access to those higher prem... more »
Toxic To Civic Health
The conventional wisdom is that the price of political scandal can be measured in money and reputation. But Robin Sears -- an old hand at getting out the vote -- writes that the real cost of scandal is deadly: There is an even higher price. The damage that these scandals do to public trust. Not since the dawn of universal suffrage in the established democracies have voters been more angry at their governors. Nor have so many citizens in so many countries acted on the bumper sticker exhortation: “Don’t Vote! It Only Encourages Them!” In fact, a cynic might conclude that it co... more »
Chinese Media Compares Japan PM To "Terrorists And Fascists"; Blasts Abe's Homage To "Devils", Urges Boycott ....... Only a matter of time before blowback occurs - Japanese Automakers Prepare For Abe 'Shrine Visit' Blowback , Japanese agricultural products also vulnerable !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-27/chinese-media-compares-japan-pm-terrorists-and-fascists-blasts-abes-homage-devils-ur Chinese Media Compares Japan PM To "Terrorists And Fascists"; Blasts Abe's Homage To "Devils", Urges Boycott [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2013 08:07 -0500 - China - Japan - Newspaper - Reuters inShare On Thursday, Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe stunned the world by defying everyone - including the EU and the US whose embassysent a tersely worded letter in which is said that it is "disappointed tha... more »
War Watch - December 27, 2013...... Syria . Af-Pak and Egypt in focus
Syria........ Syrian Kurds Agree To Side With Opposition in Geneva Talks by Mohammed A. Salih, December 27, 2013 Print This | Share This Despite an atmosphere of deep mutual distrust, two major rival Syrian Kurdish bodies have agreed to attend an expected international conference on the fate of Syria, known as Geneva II, on the side of the Syrian opposition forces, Syrian Kurdish sources told IPS. That is contingent on the possibility that only two sides will be allowed to sit at the negotiating table: the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the opposition groups. Although th... more »
ROYAL SEX
*Felix, whom Edward VII tried to seduce.* King Edward VII tried to seduce the homosexual Russian prince Felix Yusupov. (*Prince Felix Yusupov: The Man Who Murdered Rasputin* by Chris Dobson, 1989. Sexual perversion in the royal family,) Edward VII was the son of Prince Albert, whose official father, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was reportedly bisexual stuttering performance But Edward VII also liked women. A gossip columnist once wrote: "There is nothing whatever between the Prince of Wales and Lillie Langtry." In his journal's next edition he wrote: "Not even ... more »
Untitled
*Know the enemy: Saints on Mike Glennon ~Mike Triplett, ESPN* *New Orleans ranks #1 in-migration for 'Prime Workers' ~Don Ames* *Steep flood insurance rate-hikes loom for La. homeowners ~Jordan Bloom, The Advocate* *$1 million project to fight waterborne amoeba ~WWLTV* *Where Y'Eat: Act Two For Tujague's ~Ian McNulty, WWNO*
Top 100 Tweeting Bloggers 2013
That awkward interregnum between Christmas and New Year. What is one to do? For politicos should we go full bore on our hobby horses as if it was a normal week. Or should we ease off and enjoy the wine, the mince pies and our recently-acquired selection of woolly jumpers? I'm all for a mix of both, if I'm honest. A bit of r'n'r, a few reflective/year-in-review postings on here, and business-as-usual on everyone's favourite micro-blogging site. That's the cue to segue into my annual list-a-thon of the Top 100 Tweeting Bloggers on, erm, Twitter. Long-time readers know this is an annu... more »
Time To Rally Again For GMO Labelling In California on January 6, 2014
CALIFORNIA: IT'S TIME TO RISE UP AGAIN! Please share and show up! #California #Sacramento #gmo #labelgmos #needtoknowgmo#freedom2chooz #boycottgmos #prop37 #labelgmossacramento#gmofreeusa RALLY ... Action NOW!! Come and bring a friend!! An impressive line-up of guest speakers will share their knowledge on January 6. The list includes: Pamm Larry initial instigator of Proposition 37 Label GMOs: Grassroots California, Zen Honeycutt, Director of Moms Across America (MAAM), social justice songwriter/musicians Jenn Rogar and Barclay Neumann, Adam Scow from Food and Water Watch, Paul To... more »
I Lived Through a Gardasil Nightmare by Lisa
Lisa I lived through a Gardasil nightmare by Lisa Spokane, Washington 30 October 2013 My name is Lisa and I had a horrible reaction to the set of Gardasil vaccines. It took almost six years to get back to being somewhat normal. Back in 2007 when I was 22, I was going in for a normal woman visit and I had a test come back positive for “abnormal cells.” They were cancer cells caused by HPV. I went in for the whole “cut and burn” procedure and my Doctor told me there was a new vaccine called Gardasil for HPV to protect against cervical cancer. She said I should get it so I don’t ... more »
J’ai vécu le cauchemar du Gardasil par Lisa
*Lisa* *J’ai vécu le cauchemar du Gardasil* par Lisa de Spokane, Washington, 30 octobre 2013 Je m’appelle Lisa. J’ai fait une horrible réaction à l’ensemble des doses du vaccin Gardasil. Il m’a fallu presque six ans pour redevenir à peu près normale. En 2007, quand j’avais 22 ans, je me suis rendue à une visite médicale routinière. Mon test s’est avéré positif. J’avais des « cellules anormales ». Il s’agissait de cellules cancéreuses causées par le HPV. Après m’être soumise à la procédure habituelle « couper et brûler », mon médecin m’a dit qu’il existait un nouveau vaccin appelé... more »
Jacob Bernoulli: a birthday
Welcome back after the Christmas – thanks for your wishes and even gifts. I hope you enjoyed the Saturnalia. Jacob Bernoulli was born on December 27th, 1654, as the first big hero of the Bernoulli family that turned out to be rather remarkable. It included 3 great sons of Niklaus Bernoulli (who was a descendant of some doctors and spice traders etc.) in the 17th century; and 6 additional mathematicians and physicists in the 18th century. I would still say that Jacob Bernoulli (from the group of the 3 sons) was the most important mathematician among these 9 men (Bernoulli numbers, d... more »
dream - WWW - wiremesh wolfman world
as you can imagine, this dream is about a world made entirely of wiremesh, or chickenwire. But let's reverse back three hours. I can say this because (at about 11 o'clock) I challenged the 'forces of the parallel side' to reveal themselves to me. Nothing happened, as usual. I have never seen nothing; no spirit, no demon, no souls. So I called them CHICKENS and said I would 'meet them in my dreams' which was clearly the only place they felt powerful enough to show themselves and 'cause some havoc'. I did it, and it can't be undone. The results were very strange. Wiremesh Wolfman Wo... more »
Watch this Link: Will Heritage Scrub Its Obamacare History?
Mike the Mad Biologist leads me to a host of articles on the crazy things going on at Heritage Foundation, especially since former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina took over as president of the organization. Mike quotes Alex Pareene at length on how the rise of MBAs running both the Foundation (DeMint) and Heritage Action (Michael Needham) has turned Heritage from a respected think tank into a mainly political organization of the hard right. Pareene, in turn, leads to a good analysis by Julia Ioffe in *The New Republic*. As regular readers know, Heritage is an organization that ... more »
(Need Pest/Parasite Control?) We Are Two Nations Surely When One Half Is Glad To Let the Other Starve (They Don't Care) Are We Already France? (Sex, Drugs, Uh-huh!) Or Just the CIA In Its Usual Attack Mode? (Progressive Dems Only Pols Made by Own To Pay for Sexual Indiscretions) Don't Suspect the Bilderbergs, Please!
Edward Snowden announces breathlessly (in a brief Christmas greeting on the BBC's Channel 4) what we in netopia have been screaming about for years. Edward Snowden’s Christmas Message: NSA Surveillance Exceeds Orwell’s Imagination And that once esteemed Chamber strikes the gong for itself: Chamber of Commerce Sets GOP Goal for 2014: ‘No Fools On Our Ticket’ The nation isn't (διχοτομέω) cut
Egypt's Generals List Muslim Brotherhood As A Terror Organization; What Will Become of US-Egypt Ties?
Time Magazine declared Mohammed Morsi to be the "most important man in the Middle East" a year ago. Heading into 2014, Morsi is on lockdown in prison and his group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has been officially designated as a terrorist organization by the interim Egyptian government that is under the management of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who seized power in July on the backs of a nationwide popular revolt to prevent the complete Islamization of his country by the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi tried to take over a historic country with a proud identity without an army. In hindsig... more »
50 years ago today: The Beatles
*On December 26, 1963, hastily pushed up in response to public demand,* *Capitol Records released their first Beatles record, a single of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her Standing There." It wasn't the first Beatles release in the U.S., but it was the first by the group's official label (or any major one), and the first properly promoted and distributed. The rest, as they say, is history.* *by Noah* As a youngster in the early 1960s, I had a portable radio. You’ve heard of "a boy and his dog" going everywhere together. Well, for me it was a boy and his radio. And ... more »
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Some Governors and Common Core: “Hot Friends Cooling”
Hoping to advance your own political career? Better be quiet about Common Core. Amazing how a number of formerly outspoken, pro-CCSS governors have strategically opted for silence (or some other form of distance) regarding the now-highly-charged CCSS. New York: Andrew Cuomo It seems, for example, that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become somewhat of […]
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Is The Long Feared Fukushima Radiation Plume Already Hitting The American West Coast?
I have been tracking events pertaining to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March, 2011, for well over two and one half years now, and what I see is a situation that is absolutely not improving at all.... The fact is, readers, that the media and our own governments have been lying their asses off now for that entire period of time, and this disaster is absolutely NOT under control, period.... There has been growing fear that the full brunt of the Fukushima radiation would be hitting the west coast of both the United States and Canada by the end of this year, or even sometime in earl... more »
Back From A Much Needed Break
Yes, I am back... And I will be resuming writing articles, and of course my weekly rant, very shortly.. It was a much needed break... I was seriously suffering from burnout the last few weeks with a horrendous work schedule, family issues and needs, and of course trying to keep up with this blog..... It does get very depressing to see how bad this planet has been ruined by the Jewish criminal elite, and even I have a feeling of helplessness at times in not reaching enough people to fight their sick goal of world domination. I have watched over the last while as factions within this... more »
before the onion, before the yes men, there was the post new york post
One day, as I was getting off the subway on my way from Brooklyn to my workplace on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, people were handing out these tabloids. I never learned who made them, where they came from, or where they went. But I'm so glad I saved my copy all these years. It's a whole newspaper - news, sports, weather, ads for fake movies, personal ads. Brilliant. In case you can't read the date, it was 1984. And special bonus from one decade later, *The National OJ*. I had to scan them in two parts, but they are each tabloid size.
after eight years, i have a less-than-ideal observation about ontario health care
Since moving to Canada in 2005, my experiences with Ontario's health care system have been extremely positive. Through the public system, my partner and I have been able to access health care whenever we needed it, in convenient and pleasant settings, at no cost - that is, paid for with our taxes. The quality of care has been at least as good, and often superior, to anything I experineced in the United States. I love our public health care system, and I would love to see it expanded.* Single-payer, nonprofit health care is the only system that makes any sense. When I fractured my f... more »
"I Have Nothing BUT Contempt for This Court..."
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge on Tuesday twice expelled Ramzi bin al-Shibh — one of five Guantánamo Bay detainees facing a death penalty trial — from a courtroom at the military base there in Cuba after he disrupted proceedings by shouting about his treatment. Col. James L. Pohl, the judge presiding over the pretrial military commission hearing, clashed with Mr. bin al-Shibh at the start of both the morning and afternoon sessions. Each time, Mr. bin al-Shibh began loudly complaining about torture instead of answering a question from the judge about whether he understood his r... more »
Ed Snowden's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
Well, of course. The US Government asked Verizon if they could put in a man-in-the-middle tap on ALL their customers communications, and they said "Yes. " Because that's totally legal. It's their property, their hardware, their infrastructure. They just didn't tell their customers. But why should they? They're not obliged to. They certainly never said that they wouldn't. What's your point, Ed?
The Idiocracy Files (Redux), Part 2: Beware the Girl Scouts, Sheldon Adelson, and more
[*We continue the encore presentation of Noah's 2012 Idiocracy series. When I told him I was rerunning the series (begun last night with Part 1), he replied, "Running Idiocracy works fine. Repug nuttery is, unfortunately, timeless." And don't forget his new "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?"*] *FOX "News" in the age of Idiocracy* *"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now beg... more »
DNA presence or absence and transference not mere "common sense"
R v Pruden, 2013 CanLII 83110: [13] The nature of the DNA evidence in this case was not straightforward and I agree that expert evidence was required to explain the significance of its *presence* or *absence* in respect of particular locations. See *R. v. F.M.*,2009 ONCA 485 (CanLII), 2009 ONCA 485 at para. 20, 250 O.A.C. 257. That is, the requirement for expert evidence regarding the transference of DNA can also include situations where the jury is asked to draw an inference from its presence as well as from its absence. See *R. v. Robinson (C.L.)*,2003 BCCA 3... more »
Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart"
Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTAFGIM_0w
Egypt and Turkey: Destabilization and Destabilization
Unsurprisingly, truly unsurprisingly, the new *saviours* (alleged) of the Egyptian people have now labelled Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization" Yawn. This convenient branding will be used to further degrade and destabilize Egypt. But,* Egypt i*s not going to be alone in this campaign of destruction. The labelling or branding/rebrand of Muslim Brotherhood as a 'terror' group bodes very ominously for* Erdogan and the Turkish people.* As I had mentioned way, way back in this July post: *Rebranding the Arab Spring to Reorder the Middle East/Africa* *Brief digression for back... more »
NETANYAHU WANTS WAR WITH IRAN, OBAMA DOESN’T; IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
If only it were. If it were just up to Obama there would be no war until he decides there will be. But he’s just the President and, while he wields a lot of clout, at the end of the day he has a Congress to answer to. If Obama put his foot down and said ‘no’ to Netanyahu launching a strike against Iran then Netanyahu wouldn’t do it. While there’s been a lot of talk of Netanyahu launching a unilateral strike against Iran, there is no way that he would do such thing without knowing that the US would come to Israel’s aid if Iran decided to retaliate – which it almost certainly would.... more »
ALEC PR Poobah - Twisting the Words to Protect ALEC's ...
Oh, my - - - - - - On Stand Your Ground - which was pushed by ALEC legislators from 2005 to April 2012 - #LicenseToKill *Meierling was quoted *as saying. “Every single person also knows that we no longer have any model policy on that issue, or any firearms issues for that matter.” Push come to shove -* that's not true, really - not true* Some of the "policies", not found on ALECs webpage. On welfare drug testing - which was introduced to ALEC legislators at the November 2010 ALEC meeting. *Meierling declined to say *if the staff at ALEC endorsed the idea of drug-testing welf... more »
The man accused of killing a TSA agent in LA last month has his trial scheduled for February 2014
Three or four months for a high profile first degree murder case. Hmmn. In Canada we'd be looking at two years minimum. Maybe closer to three to four years ,,,
Annual Report of the Red Mountain Pilgrimage
Well, I’ve survived yet another trip around the sun, and I hope you have, too. It’s been an interesting year, and a good one. I’m busy doing the work I was meant to do, and it’s finding an audience that appreciates it, and respects me. It’s a bit sad that I spent so many years hauling stone blocks up the latest pyramid, but I was always learning, too. It takes time to make sense of this world. I never imagined that, at this point in my life, there would still be so many fascinating new things to learn I’ve been living in the hermitage for four and a half years now, on a wee b... more »
Leonard Peltier's Christmas Message 2013
By Leonard Peltier Censored News Greetings my relatives, friends, and supporters: In this season of giving, receiving and acknowledgement of blessings, I want to acknowledge all of the people who have helped me all of these years and I want the supporters outside the United States to know I appreciate them also. Sometimes I am at a loss for words. Some of you probably have experienced
Is Turkey As Corrupt As Wall Street? New Jersey?
Last night you may have heard me grousing about how Martin Scorsese left out the real life political corruption in the story of the Jordan Belfort scandal that shook Wall Street in the '90s. Belfort gave thousands of dollars to notorious Wall Street shill Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and, at D'Amato's urging, a check for $100,000 to the RNC in a vain hope to get the FBI off his back. Scorsese left that out iof his 3-hour film, *The Wolf Of Wall Street*, which opened yesterday. Maybe Scorsese left that chapter of Belfort's corruption out of the movie because no one would even fin... more »
A story of revolution….
The King and his policymakers gather in a large building making laws for the people in lands far from the towers of the capital. The leaders imposed a biased system of judgement that took away the opportunities for localities to make their own decisions. People proclaimed that citizens should be judged by their “peers” instead […]
Esto es cancer....fotos
*Como es la costrumbre de hacer comentarios propios antes de los articulos. Se le sugiere que lean el articulo publicado en el 2006 de una revista de salud en la Gran Brettania.* *Se trata de una posible cura....Un estudio secreto que aun no se ha publicado. Esta al final* *Otro asunto, En los estados unidos no hay, ni permiten injecciones de Vitamina C no gasten su tiempo preguntandoles a sus doctores Americanos. La unica solucion es ingerir tabletas de Vitaminas C con accion prolongada/demorada, por la sencilla razon de que nuestro cuerpo no puede almacenar la Vitamina C como lo ... more »
ALECer DirectTV Spreading Trash Across USA
Been awhile - had some issues to deal with - but I'm back now. Had an interesting discussion today about DirectTV - ALEC member - DirectTV. DirectTV putting those ugly dishes on top of every roof they can and then - - - abandoning them. *True story - * Person I work with bought a house that had a DirectTV dish on the roof. They wanted a higher level of service - so DirectTV comes out to put a new dish on their roof. While they are there my collegaue asks them to remove the old dish - DirectTV says no and leaves. Now my co-worker climbed up on the roof - removed the ... more »
Bitcoin news - December 23 , 2013 -- Thousands of Hoarded Bitcoins Flood the Block Chain in Mystery Transaction ( caused by old time miners , large exchanges , long term early adherents , Silk Road or other blow us ? ) .... Singapore Regulators decline to interfere with Bitcoin.....News anchor learns valuable lesson about BitCoin security.....4 Million buck Icelandic BitCoin mining consortium....Silk Road Accused wants his BitCoin back from the Government .....
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
December 24 , 2013...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/bofaml-asks-end-bitcoin BofAML Asks "Is This The End Of Bitcoin?" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2013 17:13 -0500 - Bitcoin - China - Renminbi - Switzerland - Volatility - Yuan inShare Following David Woo's initial $1300 fair-value price target for Bitcoin, the BofAML strategist has had to suffer through some significant changes; not the least of which is China's increasingly strict Bitcoin regulation. The shifts, he notes, *raise key ques... more »
BBC Openly Sides With Regime - Portrays Protesters as Violent, Anti-Democratic
A regime run by a convicted criminal hiding abroad would be unacceptable in any other country in the word and it is unacceptable in Thailand too. What's unacceptable worldwide, is also unacceptable here.*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Thailand is currently run by Thaksin Shianwatra. Thaksin was not on the ballot during the last general election, nor was he even in the country, but as the New York Times reported in their article, "In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype," he is still very much in charge: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the mo... more »
Catholics behaving badly...
*via the Blaze.* Like a ton of other houses of worship on Wednesday, St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach held a Christmas Day service. And like most congregations, St. Patrick’s offered those assembled in the sanctuary some special music to celebrate one of the holiest days on the church calendar. But it’s safe to say few, if any, had Andrea Bocelli singing during communion. *read the rest* Now check out what some in the congregation did immediatly after receiving the body and blood of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Catholics believe in the true presence - or at least... more »
THINKING ABOUT SWORD AND CROWN
*MB and I with our favorite gals at the Addams-Melman House yesterday. We were looking at the new book called "Even Aliens Need Snacks"* *Our neighbors house grows icicles* - MB works for an organization that runs a homeless shelter/soup kitchen in Portland. It's a 45-minute drive from here. In Maine jobs are few and far between so people have to move around to work. She must be "on call" during the holidays because her turn came up in the supervisor’s rotation. So last night, Christmas night, at 12:30 she was woken by the beeper signaling her that she had to ... more »
VAM, Sham, Thank You Ma’am
Here’s a short, but hopefully sweet, three-minute speech on why I believe VAM is an unfair measure. ~ @angelcintronjr Tagged: teaching, vam
The Foisting of the Rejoicing
It's time once again to (belatedly) dust off that old seasonal standard, *Barack and Michelle Do Christmas.* Talk about Deja Vu all over again*.* No wonder Thomas Friedman is reportedly Obama's favorite columnist. Not only do these chin-stroking dudes share the delusion that endless repetition is a virtue, they share the same audience: an exclusive set of elites who never tire of being told how virtuous they are when they temper their endless acquisitions with an occasional spurt of noblesse-oblige. So without further ado, The Obama Christmas Carol, 2013 version: THE PRESIDE... more »
Things to make your life easier...
*like how to store those Christmas lights.* For years I've wound my strings of light around egg cartons. It works well, but does take up more space so I switched to pieces of cardboard. Here's another neat idea: How to Store Christmas Lights Around a Coat Hanger
John Foster Dulles vs William O. Douglas-- The Conservative Mind vs The Progressive Mind
Lately, I've been writing a bit about a book I'm reading, Prediposed by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith and John Alford. As I mentioned the other day, one of the themes is that "liberals and conservatives report distinct personality and psychological tendencies and have different tastes in all sorts of things from art and sports to personality traits and vocational preferences… Conservatives' cognitive patterns reveal a comfort level with clarity and hard categorization while liberals are more likely to value complexity and multiple categories." Another book I'm reading-- and loving th... more »
The Fordham Strong Arm of Letter Grades for State Standards
In my previous post, The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform, I cite the 2009 Broad Foundation report in which a number of major reformer “participants” told America of the reforms it might expect to be in place in 2012– one of which is the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Among the list of “participants” […]
Childish, anti-White ADL Jews denounce John Friend as "anti-Semite"
Two days ago, Access ADL, the official blog of the White-hating, Jewish supremacist propaganda and intelligence gathering organization known as the Anti-Defamation League, *posted a blog* denouncing yours truly as an "anti-Semite" in an effort to not only defame me, but also David North, a fellow at the *Center for Immigration Studies*. Mr. North *appeared on The Realist Report* last Wednesday, where we discussed the EB-5 visa program and the proposed "China City" scheduled to be built in New York state. True to form, the pathetic, childish, classless Jews writing for Access ADL spe... more »
Thailand: Regime Escalates Conflict - Deadly Mayhem Ensues
*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters sought to occupy the Election Commission venue at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok for the third day today in attempts to disrupt the regime's show-elections scheduled for February 2, 2014, but were met instead by regime police. Clashes ensued, with police firing rubber bullets indiscriminately at protesters, bystanders and journalists alike. Tear gas flooded the streets of the densely populated urban district, forcing residents to flee and schools to prematurely close for the day. Police restrained and th... more »
My Best Books in 2013
This year I am joining The Perpetual Page Turner in an end of year book survey. If you want see all 110 books I read this year, I would love for you to friend me on Goodreads. 1.Best Book You Read In 2013 by genre? - Contemporary YA – The Fault in Our Stars, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic – The Testing - Historical Fiction – Dark Triumph and Grave Mercy - Paranormal – Clockwork Princess and the Vampire Academy Series - Science Fiction – Parallel - Fantasy – Siege and Storm - Fairy Tale – Entwined 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought ... more »
Crackdown On Protest Site In Iraq’s Anbar Province Seemingly Averted
After several attempts at reconciliation between Anbar’s provincial government and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end the on-going protests there events turned for the worse in December 2013. The premier claimed that the demonstration sites were a base for Al Qaeda and demanded that they be ended, and hinted at a crackdown. Just before that Sheikh Hamid al-Hayes accused the death of his nephew upon the Ramadi protests as well, and threatened to use violence unless the perpetrators were turned over to him. It seemed like either the government or Hayes’ tribe was about to storm ... more »
Interview With Global Politics On Iraq In 2014
Here’s a recent interview I did with Bob Tollast for Global Politics entitled “Who can bring unity to Iraq in 2014?”
Celebrating Arbaeen In Iraq's Karbala Dec. 22-23, 2013
In the middle of December 2013 thousands of Shiites from around the world celebrated Arbaeen by making a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala where the Shrine of Imam Abbas resides. These pictures are from Agence France Presse's Mohammed Sawaf showing pilgrims in Karbala on Dec. 22 and 23, 2013.
"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"
*"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"* by Bill Bonner "It's been "Bureaucrat Appreciation Week. Just when we had lost all respect for them, we notice a countertrend. It's time for us to get in step. So, today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank the people who rule us... To the TSA agents at airports... to the IRS agents who audit our tax returns... to the NSA agents who read our emails... and to zombies everywhere... To all of you, we'd like to say a heartfelt "Go f***k yourself." No... no... no... We meant to say THANK YOU! Yes, dear reader, we'v... more »
World's BIGGEST blog - day 4
Lake Superior - the world's BIGGEST lake
Trifecta: How to Make Obamacare "Cool"...
*hear the latest bad healthcare idea.* "Embrace the suck young Americans" Young people are not interested in enrolling in Obamacare. Some have suggested making Obamacare cool. Is this even possible, and will Obamacare "cool" encourage the young and uninsured to sign-up for Obama's signature health care plan? Find out.
EPIDEMIC RADIATION EXPOSURES AND DEATHS IN JAPAN DUE TO THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR MELT-DOWN HAVE BEEN COVERED UP BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. ALSO COVERED UP HAVE BEEN LOWER BUT UNRELENTING QUANTIES OF WIND-CARRIED RADIONUCLIDES REACHING NORTH AMERICA. THIS RADIOACTIVE FALL-OUT IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT LEAST TO 2020. SO EDUCATE YOURSELFS AND YOUR LOVED ONES OF THIS THREAT AND LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY!
------------------------------ Gundersen: All of Japan is contaminated, gov’t covering up enormous exposures to public; Epidemic is just beginning — Evacuee: We are in fact dying in Fukushima; What happened to us will soon affect all Japanese people (VIDEOS) Published: December 16th, 2013 at 8:54 pm ET Original Here By ENENews Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds, Dec. 16, 2013: The Japanese parliament has just passed the state secrets law. It’s really an information ‘iron curtain’ that’s preve... more »
Our Politics And The Loss Of Community
*The Tyee* has dusted off a piece which Murray Dobbin wrote four years ago. It's worth a read. Dobbin maintains that progressives have been infected by the same consumer culture that is destroying our politics and our planet: We have known for years that our consumer culture is out of control and our obsession with having more and more stuff has reached the status of a virus. Our consumer-driven global economy is a lethal threat to the planet and every one of its ecosystems. The lock that consumerism has on Western so-called civilization is formidable -- a virtual death-grip on o... more »
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*We thought the LSU football story was a joke; now we learn Koch & smart-ALEC is buying entire university departments ~Louisiana Voice* *Washington Post: U.S. Loss of Ecologically-Sensitive Wetlands Staggering ~Gulf Seafood Institute* *Wood product said rotting in 'green'-built homes ~Richard Thompson, New Orleans Advocate*
Predictions 2014
God Reveals. This is the year all the teasers of this cycle of civilization are revealed. Men now have the power of Gods at their fingertips. The wisdom gap remains huge. Stephen Harper. He drops out. Well not quite he gets a seven figure job. Jim Prentice is the new leader of the PC. USA Congress goes back to democrats. Americans will no longer pay to eat a shit sandwich. Afghanistan goes back to normal. A medivels society where pedophilia is not only part of the culture, it defines the problem. After defending pedophilia for a decade, the west says, so hard to turn around a perve... more »
Christmas Was Yesterday-- But It's Never Too Late For These Words Of Warning From The AFL-CIO
The New York State AFL-CIO did the above video in regard to their own state. But there isn't a state in the Union that it doesn't apply to. Where is this not relevant: "We need to start looking at things from the perspective of the workers who call our state home, not the corporations who call Ne York their tax break layover." And they offer solutions that aren't in the forefront of politicians who cater to the 1%-- the entire Republican Party and the whole Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- Blue Dogs, New Dems, Third Wayers, et al. "We need to develop industries that crea... more »
Pointless Sacrifice
Thinking Aboot Edward Snowden. Will his sacrifice make any difference? Thinking Aboot the fate of the Chinese Tank Commander. And IO9 reminds me how Superman Man of Steel went off the rails. Movies cost millions to make, is there no one left who can say, thats just stupid, cut it out? BTW I do not Think Aboot the video as gospel. I was in Hong Kong that day, it was fantastic, and millions in the streets protested. It changed nothing.
Cadillac a metaphor for America
When I was growing up, a very common expression was it was the Cadillac of something. Thats the Cadillac of hockey sticks. Thats the Cadillac of steaks. etc etc. I think this idea ended the day they brought the Cinarom to market. Today Cadillac is fighting its way back to the top. Sadly it can no longer carry America in its trunk.
Local shop
So. The M & S thing turned out to be a molehill, not the mountain it was cracked up to be. The current ‘truth’ appears to be (at the time of writing) that one solitary devout Muslim checkout assistant refused to handle pork’n’booze, whereupon the management okayed their fundamental right to practice quaint cultural practices. So. Not, as was recklessly disseminated in the media, M & S management dictating a policy of appeasement with all the unforeseen ramifications and counter-productivity entailed. It seems that the group who most objected to this impracticable proposal were M... more »
"[T]he only [U.S.] data from 2011 that we had was on newborns with hypothyroidism. Every baby in this country, every newborn baby is tested for certain diseases, one of which is hypothyroidism. And we looked at California ... and we looked at the changes in the rates of hypothyroidism for the nine months after Fukushima compared to the previous year, and we found a 26 percent increase in the rate of hypothyroidism." "[T]he doses in Japan are hundreds, thousands of times higher than they were on the West Coast. Unfortunately, there have really been no studies in Japan except for one, and that is one that's being done by the Fukushima Medical University. They haven't looked at hypothyroidism, but what they've done is this: they have taken 200,000 children under age 18 who live relatively close to Fukushima, and they tested for two things ... [one of which] was thyroid cancer. And they have found up to 59 children have thyroid cancer. In a normal population, it's very rare in children. In a normal [case] we would expect one or two. They have 59." "Second thing that they found is they through ultrasound look at the child's thyroid gland for precancerous lumps, you know, what they call cysts and nodules. And so far, 56 percent of children near Fukushima do in fact have a precancerous cyst or a nodule. And every year it gets higher--two years ago, 35 percent, last year 45 percent, this year 56 percent. Pretty soon we're going to find that almost every child in the area has a precancerous growth on their thyroid gland."
------------------------------ Original Here *Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster* Nuclear expert and researcher Joseph Mangano explains his research in connecting the increase of hypothyroidism in newborns on the West coast to the Fukushima nuclear disaster - *December 23, 2013* More at The Real News *Bio* Joseph Mangano MPH MBA is a health researcher, and Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP). The group is the only one in the U.S. with a specific mission of producing research on health hazards of nuclear ... more »
War Watch December 26 , 2013 - US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’ , meanwhile Baghdad Christians targeted during Christmas holiday ......Iran MPs Push Enrichment Bill to Retaliate for US Sanctions .....Truce Set to End Siege on Town Outside Damascus - The rebel-held town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, on the outskirts of Damascus, is set to disarm as a condition for the military ending its siege against the town.
Iraq....... US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’Experts Doubt Move Will Halt Soaring Violence by Jason Ditz, December 25, 2013 Print This | Share This Eight months of worsening violence in Iraq have many concerned, and the Obama Administration is rush shipping large numbers of drones and missiles to the Maliki government to “confront al-Qaeda” with. Sectarian violence has been soaring in Iraq throughout the summer and into the winter, with spillover from Syria and internal resentment over Maliki’s reneging on power-sharing agreements combining to start a bloody civil... more »
The Etymology of "Miracle": On the Politics of Lies
My doctoral work was a trifecta of marginalized scholarship since I attained an EdD (shunned second cousin to the PhD) by preparing a qualitative dissertation (closeted step-cousin of the sainted quantitative paradigm)—an educational biography (a mish-mash of a non-academic field, education, with a popular but lowly literary genre, biography) of Lou LaBrant (Thomas, 2001). My scholarship on biography helped me understand the roots of why academia shuns the biography: Biography began as hagiography, fabrications spun to praise manufactured heroes instead of scholarly tomes crafted to... more »
Jaws in 30 seconds, performed by cartoon bunnies
Sheer genius!
wmtc winter break goes low-tech
Every year I seem to break the holiest commandment of the holiday season: I'm not busy. I always hear how "everyone is so busy this time of year" and "this is such a crazy time of year, you can't get anything done," but that never reflects my experience. We don't travel to see family, we have no extra social events, and we don't do Christmas shopping. Many years ago, we used to send a huge pile of winter-holiday cards, but we've gone digital with that, and we don't do it every year. So Christmas is an extra day off, and here in the Commonwealth, we have Boxing Day, too. Two days o... more »
Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle
*Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle* by ÉirePort Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle. Planetary Energetic Healing streams are purposed to hu-being energetic correction as well as Hue-Being energetic upgrading. Birthing of what has been called "Nova Gaia" is now in process, and likely completes within the so-named "2014" period. Mastery classes are ongoing for all Hue-Beings, at Higher Levels of awareness. ÉirePort | December 25, 2013 at 19:47 URL: h... more »
Johnny Depp - Transcendance - full trailer
We've all seen The Lawnmower Man... ...actually, we haven't. Only I saw it, with a few of my pervy chrome-sex friends; one night at a teenage video+beer party. It looks like Johnny Depp has now remade that film, sorta ... calling it TRANSCENDANCE. Filed under: NUCLEAR WEAPONS because this is where the future lies, irradiated.
JFK, THE MAN IN THE MASK, SATANISM, STEPHEN WARD
*Stella Capes, aka Mariella Novotny. "Mariella was part Jewish, she was actually quiet proud of that and spoke Hebrew." *(NightHawk: The Czech Night Hawk) *Mariella Novotny* played a sex game, called 'nurse and patient', with *JFK.* She was suspected of being a Communist from Czechoslovakia and of being a tool of the British security services. She may have been used by some shadowy elite that involved agents of Mossad, the KGB, the CIA and MI6. According to fellow prostitute Christeen Keeler, Mariella was originally Stella Capes, but she changed her name to Mariella Novotny beca... more »
Edward Snowden's Christmas Message Video 2013
*December 25, 2013 * NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his 'Alternative Christmas Message' via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have "no conception of privacy." READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vkc7ab
Don't Be Foolish By Those In Authority In 2014
Washingtons Blog, 24 December 2013 Don’t Be Foolish Albert Einstein said: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth. Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to *absurd lengths *- and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said. Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us. In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely *running* D.C. and on ... more »
Edward Snowden - Christmas Message - Asking is Always Cheaper than Spying.
So, it's 'all very nice' that whistleblowers like Edward Snowden have taken it up themselves to unsheet the spectre of surveillance that was haunting all our movements, transactions, ways of life. He was even kind enough to deliver a Christmas Day Message from his new home in Russia: But what is THE SECRET SERVICE really for? It's definitely NOT for 'our safety at home and abroad'. The Secret Service exists to maintain 'the security of corporate ownership' via patents pending where profit is won or lost on the random revelations behind some corporate non-disclosure agreement. Th... more »
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