Friday, January 03, 2014

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Constantly saying teachers are “poor” kind of pisses me off. I think we should stop it.

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 21 minutes ago
I get it. We all get it. Relative to other careers with similar education credentials, teachers are underpaid, given that many have graduate degrees. To wit: The average salary for full-time public school teachers in 2010–11 was $56,069 in current dollars (i.e. dollars that are not adjusted for inflation). In constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars, the average […]

Cold Day in Toronto!!!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 32 minutes ago

What Does The Fox Say? Shirt with Layered Heat Transfer

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 35 minutes ago
I was given the Heat Transfer Vinyl to create this shirt. All opinions and instructions are 100% my own. Still singing What Does The Fox Say from yesterday's post? Yeah, me too. Today's shirt was made for my 5-year-old. It is more whimsical with just the ears and the tail and with two fun colors instead of just one. Making shirts with more than one color of vinyl is called layering heat transfer and it is surprisingly easy and just needs a little patience. She absolutely loves her shirt and in the week she has owned it has worn it three times, with me doing extra laundry just so she... more »

LAND OF SCRIPT: Misrepresenting Rice!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 52 minutes ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014* *Part 4—Kirkpatrick keeps script alive:* Modern journalistic practice is marked by at least two widespread problems. One the one hand, our press corps displays a stunning lack of basic journalistic skills. (The ability to paraphrase fairly, and to quote correctly, are two such basic skills.) They also display a devotion to script. Nine years ago, Paul Krugman described the phenomenon: KRUGMAN (8/3/04): *Reading the Script* A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good... more »

National Threat Alert: The Mind Trust’s CEE-Trust, George Bush, and Bill Gates

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 54 minutes ago
By Doug Martin The Indianapolis-based Mind Trust plays a major part in my forthcoming book *Hoosier School Heist,*but many people don’t realize that the group founded by former Democratic mayor Bart Peterson and David Harris is a national leader in the school privatization movement through its CEE-Trust (Cities for Education Entrepeneurship). Loaded with Bill Gates/Joyce and Carnegie Foundation money, CEE-Trust actively works for charterization not only in Indianapolis but in Kansas City, Cleveland, Detroit, Memphis, Dallas, Denver, and New Orleans. In fact, CEE-Trust boasts of 33... more »

Love the One you're with

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 55 minutes ago
First written 6/2012, the following article was featured on Gail Goodwin's beautiful website, Inspire Me Today, again today. Sign up there to receive daily encouragement in this coming year of great changes! This message still holds, *love the one you're with.* ~~~ Fall in love with yourself. This is it. You are here now on purpose, in this unique, exquisite body with your brilliant mind and enormous heart. Burst out of the constraints of “should” and “have to” and just “be”. Gracefully dance into freedom. You are here to love. *The hardest person for you to love is reading these... more »

BRITAIN'S SPIES OUTWITTED BY THE JEWS

Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
*"This book unveils the reality of an inbred caste... and its ... servile substrata of button-polishing bully-boys." - The Observer* *Calder Walton*'s book *Empire of Secrets **tells the story of Britain's spies.* Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – Observer / How Zionist Extremism Became British Spies’ Biggest Enemy / Empire of Secrets by Calder - Telegraph. / Bernard Porter reviews 'Empire of Secrets' / Book review: Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton Calder Walton explains that the British were probably the first to use 'extraordinary rendition'. MI5 would arrest a suspect, m... more »

@johnkuhntx: The Tyranny of the Datum

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
By John Kuhn Data is a big deal. A great deal of innovation is happening right now in the field of data collection, storage, and management in the field of education. There are some well-documented fears among parents and teachers regarding these trends. Who will control the data? How will the data be used? Will […]

@ArneDuncan is suzerain to the vassals

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
The Washington Post (aka Valerie Strauss) reported just days ago that the Secretary of Education intervened in choice of chancellor of NYC schools, discouraging choice of MD Supe Josh Starr. How dare Duncan, yes? Interfering in local education matters. My analysis? NYC is not merely a local education matter. This isn’t Albuquerque. This is New […]

Guest Post: Here’s to a Progressive/Conservative Movement to Take Back Our Schools

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
We met the other day in the kitchen of a retired teacher. We were quite the mix of people, with a far right conservative and a far left progressive; long­time retired teachers, and currently working teachers; elementary teachers, high school teachers and a university teacher. Despite our differences, we all came together out of a single concern: what is happening to public education. Although the meeting began as a discussion of the Common Core Standards, it quickly moved on to all the other aspects of the current so­-called “educational reform movement.” The issues of the most c... more »

Why do Americans still support Israel?

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 hour ago
An article appearing in *The Jewish Daily Forward* the other day highlighted and summarized a Pew Research Center poll recently conducted to gauge American support for the Jewish state of Israel. According to the article, 61% of those polled viewed Israel favorably, while 26% viewed Israel unfavorably. While Americans continue to hold long-time allies like Great Britain and Canada in high esteem, they are pretty divided as to how they feel about some of the government’s other key allies — like Israel. A recently published *Pew Research Center poll* reveals *that 61% of Americans vi... more »

Who killed the Palestinian Ambassador with an exploding safe, and other questions

Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 1 hour ago
First, Happy New Year! I closed my FB page - keeping up with the comments was too time-consuming. Here, I can decide when I want to set time aside to go through comments - there, I couldn't. So I will likely be posting here more often. I love Twitter for sharing news stories, like this one: "The safe that exploded and killed the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic had been in daily

Free Trade 30: BIPOR and APTIR

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 hour ago
Many national and multilateral agencies are known for being Bureaucracies Instigating Protectionism, Outings and Revelries (BIPOR). For instance, to have real free trade as in freedom to trade by the people, there is little or no need for endless negotiations if economies will declare unilateral trade liberalization, like what Hong Kong has done. Just open the borders to various goods and services from many countries at zero tariff, zero regulations except the trading of guns, bombs, fake and substandard medicines and food products, poisonous substances and a few others that can har... more »

The Trust Deficit

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 hour ago
Frank Graves' latest poll confirms the conventional wisdom: Canadians are losing trust in their democratic institutions. Trust in Canadian democracy has been on the wane for thirty years; but it has continued to decline during Stephen Harper's time in office: So while the Harper government is by no means responsible for the poor democratic health of the country, it certainly hasn’t managed to slow the trend — let alone reverse it. The rating of Canada’s democratic health has been on a straight line downward and is now at a historical nadir. Other polling from 2013 suggests that ... more »

The Observation Gap?

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has become the black hole of education discussions or “debates.” In fact, I’d submit that we spend far too much time and energy arguing for, or against, the CCSS that we’re neglecting other critical aspects of our profession. Case in point: the role classroom observations serve in providing teachers […]

CONFRONTING ISRAELI APARTHEID

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
- The Israeli government is torturing Palestinian children, including keeping them in outdoor cages during winter, according to a new human rights report. A report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel claims children suspected of minor crimes have been subjected to “public caging,” threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation. - Ilan Pappé is foremost among the Israeli "new historians" who have challenged the traditional view of Israeli history, especially the Israeli role in the 1948 ethic cleansing of P... more »

Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students. via Conditions of Teaching Are Conditions of Learning: On Students.

Pauvre Francois Hollande, people just don't want to shake his hand

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
Poor François Hollande, people just don't want to shake his hand.

ALEC PR is Really Their Own Propaganda Regurgitated

2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago
Been fuming over this one ever since I wrote an entry on ALECs twisting of words ( also known by my Mom as LYING) *Bill Meierling, a spokesman for ALEC*, said the organization "maintains no model policy on climate change." "on climate change" - he's being specific - "on climate change" must have some specific mumbo jumbo meaning for ALEC Especially when you consider the document drop the Guardian did in December with Headline and subheads that read ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy• Documents reveal conservative group's anti-green agenda ... more »

Why Doesn't America Allow Drug Importation?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Fred Upton sold out his Michigan constituents to the drug companies long ago I spent the holiday season on a ship cruising around the Galapagos, going from island to island. One day the highlight was seeing a sea lion give birth to her first pup and the next was watching an aquatic iguana rape a female iguana. Another day we saw parent frigates take turns caring for their chick while the other one hunted. The Ecuadorean naturalists helped us put the experiences into context. There wasn't reliable internet access on the ship but I did manage to come across the new Pew Poll about how f... more »

War Watch December 31 , 2013 - Negotiators miss deadline for Afghan security pact , Pentagon plows forward with Afghan War plans despite Intelligence Estimate , Afghan Government releases 650 detainees from Bagram...... Iran, world powers agree to implement nuclear deal in late January , additional articles related to Iran nuclear talks........ Syria misses deadline for removal of chemical weapons , Lebanon Army fires on Syria Copters ....... Turkey corruption scandal updates - PM Erdogan and AKP attempt to fend off the ongoing probes , Another AKP Deputy quits AKP , Gold mining company Koza Atlinhas its activities halted at Cukuralan goldfield - Is the Company on the wrong side politically ? Faced with legal challenges,Turkish government tries to weaken top administrative court

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Afghanistan...... US Ultimatum Fails, Afghan Troop Deal Remains Unsigned'Deadline' Passes Without Karzai's Signature by Jason Ditz, December 31, 2013 Print This | Share This The Obama Administration’s “end of the year” ultimatum for President Hamid Karzai to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) has now officially come and gone, and the BSA remains unsigned. The BSA is designed to keep troops in the nation “through 2024 and beyond,” and the administration had repeatedly warned through November and early December that all US troops would leave if Karzai didn’t sign by the end o... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago
*"Tort reform" = "Stop suing oil companies" ~Library Chronicles* *Louisiana creating one-stop shop for businesses* *Weekend offers Acadiana lots of big-name musicians ~Daily Advertiser*

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie....

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 4 hours ago
Bethlehem Unwrapped has, undeniably, drawn a disturbing number of enthusiastic and positive responses. Such a shame. It’s inflammatory in a wholly negative way, and I’m astounded at the wrongheadedness of the instigators. They may have begun the project with good intentions, but they leapt onto the wrong bandwagon ‘and they don’t even know it!’ The pretence that it was an even-handed symbol of protest at ‘walls’ in general was belied by much of the participants’ graffiti. The ‘This Wall saves Lives’ slogan was defaced, firstly with “Doesn’t” scrawled in black between ‘wall and ‘s... more »

Trifecta: How to Cope with Depressing News...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago
* Scott Ott will blow you away with his answer.*

Call Me Prescient: How My 2013 Employment Law Predictions Fared

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours ago
If you are a regular reader, you'll recall that I made predictions at the beginning of 2013 about what I thought we could expect. How did I do? Call me Cassandra. Here's what I said would happen, and what really did: *1. Even More Active NLRB: Look for stepped up activity against employers on social media restrictions, attempts to suppress worker concerted activities and lopsided agreements. NLRB will do what other government agencies have punted on: help employees.* Sure enough, NLRB didn't disappoint. They were up to full strength by the middle of the year. They continued to pre... more »

The Beginning of the Road Less Traveled

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 4 hours ago
Let me tell you about my Dream. For years and years I have had dream- a driving urge to create a community. Not just any ol plunked down houses and random people... but to create a true conscious community of people that are creating CHANGE. REAL LIFE CHANGE. I have spent years building various online communities in different areas of the world and with varying focuses. Each has been an awesome learning experience and in each case I have learned vital skills in leadership and in applying those skills within non-hierarchical, no "bullshit bureaucracy" communities. I loved the... more »

WTF Chart Of The Day: Fed Soaks Up Record $200 Billion In Year End Excess Liquidity

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
WTF Chart Of The Day: Fed Soaks Up Record $200 Billion In Year End Excess Liquidity [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2013 12:39 -0500 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-31/wtf-chart-day-fed-soaks-record-200-billion-year-end-excess-liquidity A week ago the Fed announced its latest expansion to its Fixed-Rate Reverse Repo facility, which boosted the maximum allotment per counterparty to a whopping $3 billion from $1 billion (initially this was "only" $500 million), to wit: "this week the Committee authorized the Desk to modify the terms of the exer... more »

Evidence of the relationship is admissible in domestic abuse cases even where such incidentally shows bad character

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
R. v. Carroll, 2014 ONCA 2: [122] First, in cases of domestic homicide, evidence may be admitted during the case for the Crown, including evidence of extrinsic misconduct, that elucidates the nature of the relationship between the spouses. This evidence may tend to establish animus or motive on the part of one spouse, and thus be relevant to prove that the killer of the deceased was the spouse with the animus or motive, rather than someone else, and that the killing was murder: *Moo*, at para. 98; *R. v. Cudjoe*, 2009 ONCA 543, 251 O.A.C. 163, at para. 64; and *R. v. Van Osselae... more »

It Won't Change. Unless ...

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 5 hours ago
... unless we DO SOMETHING. Do you understand this? I'd like to read about genuine strategies for change when I go online. Not endless, pointless internet bitch festivals. Nothing is going to change unless we DO SOMETHING. Global warming is going to bring hell on earth inevitably. Do you believe this or not? If you do, ... what do you propose to do about it? Join someone else's rally for an afternoon to "demand" change from governments in thrall to the oil industry? And if your "demands" aren't met after you all go home, then what? Notice how, for all our anger and criticism and "... more »

Icelanders Erupt: Overthrown Government and New Constitution

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 5 hours ago
[image: Just Wondering – Alternative News and Opinions] Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 - Tweet - - [image: Icelanders-overthrow-government] *[More manifestations of awakening are continuing to bust out, Iceland being a prime example of grass roots, bold and brave activism once again. Of course the US media are silent on the issue, just as any totalitarian regime would be. "Mustn't encourage the natives, they might get even more restless..." Damn these controllers, it's time to take them down any and every way we can.* *Non compliance is the perfect starter and ende... more »

STRONG WOMAN SONG - Sung by Lisa Muswagon and Raven Hart-Bellecourt

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
Lyrics: *A strong woman* *is one who feels deeply* *and loves fiercely.* *Her tears flow* *just as abundantly* *as her laughter.* *A strong woman* * is both soft and powerful.* *She is both* *practical and spiritual.* *A strong woman* *in her essence* *is a gift to the world.*

IXI ISIS - L'Esquisse Du Lys - Official Video 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago
*Published on Dec 26, 2013* IXI ISIS - L'Esquisse du Lys - Music, Lyrics & Vocal By IXI ISIS *Video By : Revival Musik : https://www.youtube.com/user/RevivalM... The First One Composed and Entire Produced By IXI ISIS. Check Out Single on ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/les... Like & Follow IXI ISIS: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IXIISIS.FANPAGE Website: http://www.ixiisis.com Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102640814761909170855?cfem=1#102640814761909170855/posts?cfem=1

One of every two Americans are now in poverty or low income. We’re not just hungry for food. We’re hungry for jobs, homes, for schools, for the basic necessities of life. We are hungry for justice! Democrats and Republicans, the bipartisan corporate parties in Congress (the only parties allowed in our faux democracy), reached a budget deal that will restore full military spending while allowing food stamp and unemployment cuts to move forward. The dominant culture in the United States tells us that we have rights to abstract concepts such as freedom but not to the tangible basic necessities of education, housing, health care, jobs and more. (Exerpts from this highly researched and well written essay)

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago
------------------------------ AlterNet / *By* *Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers* Original Here America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet — Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way? *This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?* Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/corgarashu*December 14, 2013* | This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was drafted by a commis... more »

January is Human Trafficing Awareness Month - Let's End Slavery In The 21st Century

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago
January is Human Trafficing Awareness Month *It's shameful what people will do for money. This is a billion dollar industry worldwide. It's shameful that this form of slavery still exists in the 21st Century.* *Here in Sweden it's girls from eastern Europe being used in the sex trade, businesses doing it with the help of the gov. believe it or not and pretty much 80 to 90 % of all immigration is human trafficing through smugglars who get from 10 to 20,000 USD to make all arrangements. It's a big cash cow.* For More Information: *Huffington Post - Human Trafficing Link* ... more »

Nima Arkani-Hamed debates a novelist

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
*...on differences between science and arts...* The Science Museum organized a 55-minute conversation of Nima Arkani-Hamed with Ian McEwan, an English novelist. Note that Nima is dressed in an unusually elegant, formal way, to show that physicists are culturally superior. Relatively to him, McEwan is dressed like a rank-and-file physicist. ;-) The female host mentions that Nima is an avid reader; she doesn't even have to say that he is a spectacular piano player, too. *The video starts with a 16-minute test of patience. Jump to 15:45 if you're sure that you would be able to pass t... more »

Correcting a liar or a fool

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
I have been engaged in a Twitter debate with another anti-Israel type whose grasp on reality is poor. This one goes by the handle @The_Mitch92 and has tweeted that both 9/11 and 7/7 were false flag operations, but more of that later. @The_Mitch92 sees no place for a Jewish state, except maybe in Antarctica, says that Jews have no historical connection with the land of Israel and tries to blame Israel and America for all the troubles of the world. Here's one example of @The_Mitch92's output and my responses... @The_Mitch92's response was not to try and justify his initial claim but... more »

You must be dreaming

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago
I read this with my jaw on the desk. Would this turkey, a man who was first elected on a backlash vote, actually quit? Are you smoking crack? Stephen Harper believes in one thing - Stephen Harper. The man is not your run of the mill sociopath. He believes that we, a nation of peace seekers, truly want everything to be exactly as he learned in five semesters of economics and the wisdom he

Wide Asleep in America's 20 Most Popular Posts of 2013

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 9 hours ago
(Flickr) A New Year is upon us. Reflecting on the year gone by, I feel that a few thank yous and shout-outs are due. First and foremost, thank you to you, the one reading this right now and those who have ever visited this site with an open mind and without an agenda. Your eyes are everything. In February 2013, I was lucky enough to join the incredible staff at Muftah, an online magazine

Greg Hunter, “Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.3.14”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.3.14” * By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The top story is the official start of Obama Care. Look at the mainstream media headline: “Health Care sign-ups top 1 Million.” Here’s what they are not telling you. People who have turned negative on government-run health care are at record numbers. A CNN poll says 63% think the new law will make health care more expensive. Here is probably the biggest headline, and it comes from Harvard. 56% of young people ages 18 to 29 give Obama Care a big thumbs down and are rejecting it. It is critical to get young healthy ... more »

Health Care Dollars Keep Luxury Car Market Upticking and From iPhone to Cisco Routers - NSA Hacks It All (Heritage Scrubs Up) New Paradigm Arising? (2014's Promises)

And you thought no one had made any money since the Financial Crash (2008)? You probably won't be surprised at who did (and still does). It appears that some have gotten fabulously wealthy since the devastation to so many millions' portfolios. Time to reformat that resume! From "Your Health Care Dollars At Work": Outside of Minneapolis, for example, Morrie's Luxury Auto received 16 of

“The Santa Claus Lie – A Gateway Drug to Collective (Self) Deception”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*“The Santa Claus Lie – * *A Gateway Drug to Collective (Self) Deception”* By Cognitive Dissonance “I spend what some might imagine is an inordinate amount of time thinking about lies and self deception. But from my point of view it is a fundamental flaw that cripples us as individuals and as a society. Lying and lies permeate our culture from top to bottom in ways we often never perceive and rarely wish to see. Essentially it is the foundational building block that supports all that is wrong with us and why we continuously repeat our oftentimes disastrous personal and societal mis... more »

Panic, Predictions and Propaganda:Endless Empty Estimates on Iran's Nuclear Program

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 11 hours ago
President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, March 21, 2013 (AP) "As you know, Iran is just a week away from a nuclear weapon. 'They have been for the past 20 years...,' says people who would like to bomb Iran." - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, November 12, 2013 ***** It has been three years since I published "

Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
Moody Blues, “Dawning is the Day” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3ym7PnXRs

Soaring Caracas Stock Exchange Undergoes 1000 For 1 "Stock Split" ......... Is further commentary required ? ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-02/soaring-caracas-stock-exchange-undergoes-1000-1-stock-split Home Soaring Caracas Stock Exchange Undergoes 1000 For 1 "Stock Split" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/02/2014 21:17 -0500 - Bolsa - Google - Japan inShare For generating the greatest "wealth effect" and highest return of any global stock market in the world in 2013, the Caracas stock exchange, which closed the year at the ripe level of 2.7 million, is getting surprisingly little attention or love (maybe because unlike other countries... more »

Updates On Syria [1.2]: MV Cape Ray To Destroy Syria's CW In The Mediterranean Within Weeks, Calls For A Ceasefire Grow, Health Crisis In Syria Reveals WHO's Lack Of Authority

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
*1. An excerpt from, "Here's The Massive Ship Tasked With 'Unprecedented Mission' To Destroy Syria's Chemical Weapons" by Mathieu Rabechault, Agence France Presse, Business Insider, January 2:* With special machinery installed in the hold of this American cargo ship, the MV Cape Ray is poised to embark on an unprecedented mission to destroy Syria's lethal chemical agents at sea. At a shipyard in Virginia, the 650-foot (197.5-meter) ship from the Maritime Administration's reserve fleet has been outfitted with two portable hydrolysis systems designed to neutralize the most dangerous ... more »

I Am Back!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours ago
Yes, I am back! First, I must reiterate what I have been saying for some time... I truly do hate hospitals.. The food truly sucks, and I barely had any sleep for the 3 nights that I was stuck there. I just spent the entire day today catching up on some much needed sleep..... I have been suffering over the last month at least with on and off coughing, fever, and chest congestion. It is the primary reason why I took that "week" off recently to try to work on getting myself healthy... However with the condition not improving, I had decided by last Saturday that if I was not better... more »

In Memorial: Listen to Charlie Hill at AIM's 40 Year Reunion

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago
In Memorial: Listen to Comedian Charlie Hill at the American Indian Movement's 40 Year Reunion in San Francisco Discover Entertainment Internet Radio with Brenda Norrell on BlogTalkRadio Charlie HIll on Richard Pryor 1977 AIM audio recorded by Censored News and Earthcycles By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Oneida Comedian Charlie Hill appeared on stage with

2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 4: A great anniversary approaches!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*Plus more "Quote of the Year" nominees* *[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]* *by Noah* One of the greatest anniversaries in our nation’s history will happen this year. Forty years ago, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned! It was either that or certain removal from office via impeachment, and it was bipartisan. That’s how bad it was. If Nixon wanted to retire with a pension and perks, it was the only way. The anti-semitism. The racism. The criminality, the paranoia, and the screaming down the halls of the White House. Psychosis. "I am not a crook." Yes ... more »

I'm back at the ASSA; you don't know how lucky you are, boy; back at the ASSA.

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 16 hours ago
I am at the Philly Allied Social Science Associations conference now and over the next few days. Terrible weather, great cheese steaks. The publisher of my favorite textbook will be promoting the new edition--the 7th. If you would like to get a peek, stop by the Cengage booth. Tomorrow (Friday), I will be hanging around there from about 3:30 to 4: 15 pm.

2013 - 2014. Different date, same liberal genocidal agenda

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours ago
2013 was a year of absolute liberal lunacy. The New Year is already shewing signs of continuing the ever-accelerating march to the total genocide of the European nation and all that we hold dear. In 2013, the liberal bigots shewed their true colours in their hypocritical reactions to the deaths of Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Whilst anti-Internationalists treated the deaths as simply a welcome end to an equally odious pair of servants of International Finance Imperialism, the liberal bigots reacted to each quite differently. Whereas Thatcher's death was greeted with street ... more »

Teaser trailer for United Opt Out’s annual spring event #optout

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
Embed and share widely. UOO takes their fight to Denver, CO this year, March 28th to 30th, 2014. Check their website over the coming months for updates and details. In the past two years, UOO’s events in Washington, DC attracted grassroots activists and prominent figures nationwide. They’ve kindled uprisings and awareness in numerous communities. If […]

Sun Dance continues

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 18 hours ago
Our dear Sol is partying like it's still New Years Eve. After a bit of a "quiet" spell - and as SDO and SOHO have been bouncing up and down like freakin yo yos with huge black outs of data, thats only conjecture- the sun is once again ramping up with lots of excitement. in the past 48 hours we've had 4 M Class solar flares, one of which was an M9.9- which is just a hair off of being an X Class. Spot 1936 had two M flares plus one on Dec 29th, but is just about to rotate over the limb and be not geoeffective to earth any more. BUT.... the two today came from spot 1944, which is ju... more »

Gold and Silver articles of note - January 2 , 2014 - highlights from GATA and Jesse's Cafe Americain !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Gata..... IMF paper warns of savings tax and debt repudiation Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-01-02 20:57. Section: Daily Dispatches 4:05p ET Thursday, January 2, 2014 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The International Monetary Fund study cited below by The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, warning of defaults, a tax on savings, and higher inflation to repudiate excessive debt, is posted at the IMF's Internet site here: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13266.pdf Evans-Pritchard's report on the study cites "financial repression." He writes: "Financial repression can t... more »

National Security Agency news for January 2 , 2014 .......NSA stands for ‘No Such Amendment’: Intelligence agency violates US Constitution - states former CIA officer Ray McGovern........ ​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption ....... Regardless of discussions of toothless , meaningless " reforms " , NSA will not be stopped by neither any politicians in DC nor the Courts - and they are acting as if they ave absolutely no concerns about these discussions !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
​NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ to break all forms of encryption Published time: January 02, 2014 22:18 Get short URL [image: Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch] Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch Share on tumblr Trends NSA leaks Tags Intelligence, Internet, Snowden, USA The National Security Agency is building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking any encryption used to protect the most vital records around the world. The US spy agency, shown to have deliberately weakened encryption standards, is seeking an advanced-speed, *“cryptologically useful quantum computer”* that can bypass encryption tha... more »

More amazing archaelogical discoveries in 2013

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 18 hours ago
I just discovered this site (thank you Nick and JJ!). They have a very cool selection of articles on some very interesting topics. As I posted the article on monday about the Archeological discoveries of 2013, I thought you might enjoy Message to Eagle's list- and again, no doubles from the previous lists I posted, lol. The one thing I will point out, is the number of "archeology" discoveries that have happened in countries where the US and G8 have been actively meddling...... Sudan, Turkey, Syria, Ethopia,..... hmmmmmmm..... kinda like a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan, eh? htt... more »

Thoughts for the Brain - yet more Sherlock

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 18 hours ago
Let’s use the new series of Sherlock as a jumping off point to talk about some stuff. It is great to have our man back. I enjoyed the first episode for what it was meant to be. It was a bricolage and sort of had to be in order to tie up the last series and open the new one. It could not really be taken too seriously, and it was a fun and funny episode. The ambiguities left over, such as who is this new villain and why would he want to almost kill John Watson, need to be taken up soon in the next episode, and I’m sure they will. The first part of the new episode was very self-consci... more »

Thoughts for the Brain - yet more Sherlock

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 18 hours ago
Let’s use the new series of Sherlock as a jumping off point to talk about some stuff. It is great to have our man back. I enjoyed the first episode for what it was meant to be. It was a bricolage and sort of had to be in order to tie up the last series and open the new one. It could not really be taken too seriously, and it was a fun and funny episode. The ambiguities left over, such as who is this new villain and why would he want to almost kill John Watson, need to be taken up soon in the next episode, and I’m sure they will. The first part of the new episode was very self-conscio... more »

Imágenes bonitas de los tres reyes magos en sus camellos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 18 hours ago

Plaintiff fails to prove damages but gets second chance at new trial

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours ago
TMS Lighting Ltd. v. KJS Transport Inc., 2014 ONCA 1: [83] It is well-established that where the absence of evidence renders it impossible to assess damages, a plaintiff may be entitled to only nominal damages. *Goldfarb*, for example, says so. But this is not invariably the case. Where a plaintiff proves a substantial loss and the trial judge errs in the assessment of damages arising from that loss, the interests of justice may necessitate a new trial on damages. Although the quantification of damages flowing from the established loss may prove difficult, nonetheless t... more »

A STATE FUNERAL FOR THE BUTCHER OF SABRA AND SHATILA?

The UK Daily Telegraph reports that Israel is preparing to give the war criminal Ariel Sharon a state funeral. The report was prompted by Sharon’s rapidly deteriorating health as he approaches his ninth year of being in a coma after having a debilitating stroke on 4 January 2006. In 1982 Ariel Sharon commanded Israeli Defence Forces in Lebanon and directly facilitated the massacres of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Phalangist and other right-wing irregular forces. Israeli forces had surrounded the camps preventing anyone from leaving and provided flares to light up the camps to al... more »

Not All Savages Are Republicans

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
I spent New Year's Eve watching undisturbed wildlife on the Galapagos Islands. It was truly awe-inspiring. The animals are so unafraid of humans that they are almost oblivious to our presence. One newborn baby sea lion mistook one of our party for its mother and tried to get close. We were all briefed in advance, of course, not to touch any animals. In the case of a baby sea lion it could be life and death. If the mother were to get back and call her baby and the baby responded and then the mother smelled something different on the baby-- like eau-de-human-- she would reject and ... more »

The EVENT Puzzle

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 19 hours ago
Sophia is seriously on a roll right now- along with several other brilliant writers/bloggers who've been putting out some amazing articles in the past few weeks. "This event will happen when all pieces of the puzzle are inserted.... ....There is no way to know just when the final puzzle piece will drop into place." So many have gone through this journey looking for the biggest answer of "WHEN?". We have read old prophecies, looked at the stars for answers within their alignments, listened to hour after hour of radio shows talking about the subject, read countless pages of channe... more »

Afghanistan

Paul Coker at News Spike - 20 hours ago

Lyndon Johnson Sometimes Did the Right Thing

Paul Coker at News Spike - 20 hours ago
This is very interesting - I had never before seen this prior to right now. This is an excellent example of Lyndon Johnson actually doing something right and, at a key moment refusing to be handled. Contrary to popular myth. LBJ's brief initial statement at Andrews is rightly deemed to be completely forgettable - what I find extremely interesting and frankly rather surprising is that he has clearly personally amended the prepared remarks the staff, and done so in such a way as to completely excise the entire Cold War dimension and all hints of nationalism from the words so as to ... more »

RIGHT-WING RISE IN EUROPE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 20 hours ago
Nothing seems to be able to stop Europe's lurch to the political right. With only tentative signs of economic growth and precious little good news for deeply indebted countries like Greece and France, it's a movement that seems difficult to reverse. RT's Peter Oliver takes a closer look at a continent in search of new answers to hard problems.

The common core ignores the evidence

skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
Sent to the Los Angeles Times, Jan 2 Al Austin, in his letter to the Times (Jan 2) notes that the common core calls for "a sharp reduction" in literature in schools in favor of increased exposure to informational text. This policy was created without any empirical evidence. The common core designers ignored (or were not aware of) not only studies showing that reading literature contributes to an "enhanced theory of mind," described in the Times by Robert Sapolsky ("Another use for literature," Dec. 29) but also the massive amount of published research showing that self-selected "... more »

Do Teachers Matter?

P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
I am seeking ways to address teachers and workers—and the conditions impacting all workers—as a focus of my public work in 2014. Recently, I came across a wonderful piece about Roberto Clemente: Common bond for uncommon men: Clemente and King shared a hatred for discrimination, by David Zirin. In part, this piece speaks to the importance of solidarity and community, the sense of empathy any one person can feel and act upon in solidarity with others. Zirin highlights Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on Clemente: David Maraniss quotes Clemente's feelings about King in his 2005 biograp... more »

The Far Left's Prospects in 2014

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 21 hours ago
On paper the far left agree on many things: the exploitative character of capitalism. The primacy of the working class. The unity of democracy and socialism. The inescapable necessity of revolution. The pro-imperialism of the AWL. And yet it remains as divided as ever. The regroupment projects of the last 20 years have, at best, come to nothing. At worst they have given rise to new animosities - especially north of the border. It's not a matter of piss-poor leadership and dismal routinism, though that has a role to play. The far left is in a structural bind. Neoliberalism is (un)dea... more »

Terror in Volgograd

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours ago
*Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT to discuss the recent terror attacks in Volgograd, Russia. Draitser explains the political and geopolitical context within which the bombings should be examined. He notes the connections to the upcoming Sochi olympics, as well as Russia’s policy in Syria, as possible motivations.*

BBC Radio 4 - PJ Harvey edit TODAY - Denis Halliday: 'The U.N. Security Council - Dump The Wolves'.

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago
this morning, musician PJ Harvey was guest editor of Radio 4's three-hour TODAY programme and had Julian Assange on as *Thought For The Day*, but the most important speech was done by Denis Halliday the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from 1 September 1997 until 1998 and it was titled 'The U.N. Security Council - Dump The Wolves'. Here's a link to the BBC iPlayer stream of this morning's TODAY show: scroll to the 49:00 mark to experience Denis Halliday's powerful words, sorry if this link doesn't work with non-UK countries: maybe someone will youtube/vimeo this land... more »

BIG IN ALBANIA - NORMAN WISDOM

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago

Two tribes, becoming more tribal!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014* *Getting to know our own tribe:* Are the two tribes becoming more tribal? If not, we can’t imagine why. By now, powerful orgs are urging each tribe in the direction of true belief. Such conduct is profitable, and easy to do. It helps drives tribes apart. Of course, tribal beings can only see the tribalism in the *other* tribe. We thought of this after perusing this post by Kevin Drum, who isn't at fault in our story. Uh-oh! A new Pew survey has explored belief about evolution. In the new survey, 48 percent of Republicans said they believe that “humans a... more »

Hockey today

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 22 hours ago
In my blood as thick as any football hooligan. Capable of making me equally stupid. I am very not satisfied with the product on ice. Sure the marketeers can milk us but what is the future. Hockey is a fringe sport on the world market. It depends upon excitement. Like baseball hockey is on a death spiral because it refuses to harness that. I could not care less about basketball. However what it allows is the stars to show what makes them stars. Hockey has chocked the chicken on that to appeal to non fans. Anyone who has played Civilization knows it is so easy to defend and so hard t... more »

Sovereignty 101:Installment 6 - The Force of Freedom

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
The force with which you live your life very much imitates the depth of feeling held regarding liberation. Those who consider themselves to be tightly shackled will not move around much – either figuratively or physically. They will tend to conform – only going places in their minds and with their bodies that are “allowed” or “suggested” by the ones doing the shackling. A glance at the population gives you a clear picture of which ones of us are in fact unchained. If we take this vision to an extreme – it will show us something quite disturbing to accepted belief systems. Tho... more »

Alignment with Higher D “Blue Earth Star” harmonics is recommended for Hue-Beings at this moment

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
*Alignment with Higher D “Blue Earth Star” harmonics is recommended for Hue-Beings at this moment* by ÉirePort Terrestrial concepts from prior paradigms are now dissolved and will not hold those attempting to attach to such. This includes such arenas as "environmental care", oceanographics, planetary species "saving", "dangers to the environment"... and many others. Current supported paradigm includes all dimensional levels of existence and thus, former 3D-only oriented paradigms are not useful, nor results-yielding. Energy harvesting from such 3D-only oriented paradigms is compl... more »

Social Studies National Curriculum: Pearson and Gates Ready for Next Push

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 23 hours ago
Even as 22 states are rethinking, restricting, or dropping prior commitments to national Common Core corporate standards for schools, this has not stopped the CorpEd machine from quietly pushing forward with another prong of its overreaching and lucrative exercise to increase testing, standardize thinking, and undercut diversity in American schools. On September 11, 2013, a group drunk with money from the Gates Foundation published *College, Career, and Civic Life: C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards*. Short on specifics and long on intent, the new C3 cram down crew of... more »

For the idiots who believe the 9/11 conspiracy theories, including @The_Mitch92

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
I often read conspiracy theory nuts who state that 9/11 was an inside job and that the buildings couldn't have fallen so quickly etc. etc. Can I suggest that such people either seek psychiatric help or read this Popular Mechanics report.

John Kane recipient of media award in New York

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
John Kane is Recipient of Community Leader Media Award from the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York John Kane By Liz Hill Censored News WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 2, 2014) – John Kane, Mohawk activist and national expert commentator on Native issues, will receive a Community Leader Media Award from the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York.

Thailand: Regime Plans to Counter January 13 Rally with Bused-in Mayhem

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours ago
*January 2, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci) - In a last desperate bid to cling to power, the regime plans to once again bus in mobs of its fanatical "red shirts" on January 13, 2014, just as anti-regime protesters announced plans to stage a massive, city-wide rally on the same day. Thai PBS reported in its article, "UDD to stage counter-rally on January 13," that: The pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will stage a rally in Bangkok to counter the People’s Democratic Reform Committee’s “Bangkok Shutdown” mass demonstration on January 13. UDD co-leader Jatup... more »

Hey, kids, cramming for your Geography final? Don't forget Snoopy Island!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
Twittter user @tekken8810 *@etienneeshrdlu*: "Exactly as Nostradamus predicted. A new Snoopy-shaped island rises from the sea near Tokyo" *"Hiroshi Ito, a volcanologist with the Japanese coastguard, said the island could erode after the eruptions cease. 'But it could also remain permanently,' he told the FNN news network."* *-- from "Japanese 'Snoopy' island created byvolcanic eruption," in* The Guardian *by Ken* Boy, you can bet the creationists will have a field day with this one. As our pal Mai Armstrong, the indefatigable blogger of the (NY-NJ) Working Harbor Coalition, wri... more »

Global Poverty Rates and Economic Growth

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours ago
The figure above comes from a recent, excellent paper by Martin Ravallion, The Idea of Antipoverty Policy, which shows a dramatic acceleration in the reduction of global poverty since 1950, Ravallion makes two observations based on the graph (of which he notes, "Neither observation has been made before to my knowledge"): The middle of the 20th century saw a marked a turning point in progress against poverty globally. Figure 2 plots two series for the $1 a day poverty rate, from Bourguignon and Morrisson (2000) and Shaohua Chen and Ravallion (2010). There is a long list of data prob... more »

The Brezezinski Doctrine

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
INTERVIEW WITH INTERVIEW WITH DR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI-(13/6/97) (Preliminary talk) INTERVIEWER: Thank you very much for being willing to do an interview. I'll start by asking about arms control: what were the Administration's arms control objectives when they came into office? ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: It was essentially to limit, first of all, the arms race, and then, if possible, to scale it down. I remember vividly how committed the newly elected President was to the idea of a significant cut in the nuclear weapons on both sides. That was kind of a central goal of his. INT: How ... more »

PJ's Today

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Hahahaha. Today I've been mostly listening to PJ Harvey’s Today programme. What a shocker!! (as they say on the tabloids) It’s just the type of thing I would’ve come up with, had I been invited, when I was about fourteen. No, twelve. Of course what she really wanted to do, the imp, was to make Today, Radio 4 into a teen-pop programme like, say, BBC three, amateurish but without the wit. All the items I heard seemed to be survivors of self-awareness-ectomies. Or should that be otomies. Pilger! Actually he said many spot-on things about media manipulation but forgot to mention that h... more »

Did Supreme Court Justice Roberts "set a trap" for Obamacare?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*Bill Dunn over at American Thinker thinks so.* Bill Dunn is virtually smacking his lips at the cleverness of John Roberts who, in his wisdom, saw the upcoming debacle known as Obamacare. Supposedly, according to Dunn, he (Roberts) could in some last minute burst of light foresee that the roll out of Obamacare was going to be a disaster which would doom the Democrats, Obama, and the future political career of Hillary Clinton. One of the most overlooked aspects of the year just ended is the vindication of Chief Justice John Roberts -- a vindication that showed up as the national... more »

Aftermath of Shutting Down Ramadi Protest Site In Iraq

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
On December 30, 2013, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in conjunction with Anbar Governor Ahmed Diab took down the protest site in Ramadi. The province was already inflamed by the arrest of Parliamentarian Ahmed Alwani two day before from the Iraqi Islamic Party who was one of the leaders of the demonstrations. Immediately fighting broke out in Ramadi and Fallujah, which has continued to the present time. This has brought the internal divisions within Anbar to the forefront with different groups and individuals coming out for and against Baghdad in this conflict. In the bigg... more »

Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters. via Classroom Teaching Experience and Whose Voice Matters.

My Antarctic diary

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
*Guest blog by Dr Alexander Ladislav Mrdelka* As a member of the Czech Globe, an EU excellence institute proving that the Earth is dying, I was honored to have been the only Czech researcher who participated on the Antarctic mission. Our goal was to demonstrate that the last ice in Antarctica is melting away. Due to the unsustainable crime against Nature known as the "economic growth", Florida and other states and countries will soon be submerged. *We were intrigued by the photographs from the previous expedition that investigated the impact of global warming on Antarctica.* Also... more »

LAND OF SCRIPT: Still misquoting Rice after all these years!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014* *Part 3—Benghazi script survives:* Our modern “journalistic” culture is heavily built around script. What the heck is script? Nine years ago, Krugman defined it: KRUGMAN (8/3/04): *Reading the Script* A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good to see ourselves as others see us. *I've been finding The Daily Howler's concept of a media “script,” a story line that shapes coverage, often in the teeth of the evidence, particularly helpful in understanding cable news.*... more »

Updated: Morocco Diary #3

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
By American Kabuki January 2, 2014 They have a saying in Morocco, "Morocco was the first nation to recognize America when it became a nation. America promised to return the favor...and Morocco is still waiting." A lot of truth in that. Morocco regained its independence from France in 1955, yet it remains largely forgotten by America. For a country as friendly as it is to the USA it doesn't get a lot of American visitors. Moroccans are naturally friendly to Americans, but they don't often see them here. Caleb wants to create what he calls *"Caleb's House of Nerds"*, a communi... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Tulum, Mexico, view from my cabana - 1990s.

The Eleven Intentions by Lynda Terry

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
Source of Poster: http://notesalongthepath.com/2014/01/02/the-eleven-intentions-a-guest-post-from-lynda-terry/

@johnkuhntx Teaching: The Card Game

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
By John Kuhn In the spirit of “War” and “Old Maid,” I present a card game called “Teaching.” (Note: there is something inherently icky about symbolizing students with numbers or, in this case, playing cards. I didn’t create this game to imply that students are merely numbers or that some students are “worth more” than […]

Passing of Justice Webber

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
I knew him mainly as an arbitrator/mediator. He was a sensible lawyer and a very decent man; he will be missed. THE HONOURABLE JOHN B. WEBBER, Q.C. 1933 - 2013 Suddenly at home on December 26, 2013 - best friend and beloved husband of Janet (nee Johnson) and devoted father to Wendy Jackman (Dan) and Michael (Katherine). Proud grandfather of four wonderful grandchildren: Mallory, Walton, Rachel and Avery. Born September 11, 1933 in Oakville to Geoffrey and Estelle Webber. John practiced law in Brampton as a senior partner with Lawrence, Lawrence, Stevenson and Webber, was appointed... more »

Wild Bill: Welfare Warpath...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*"Anyone who is capable of rioting is also capable of getting a job and doesn't need welfare."*

What Does The Fox Say Shirt with Files

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
I was given the Heat Transfer Vinyl to create this shirt. All opinions and instructions are 100% my own. What Does The Fox Say? If you love or hate the video, you have to admit that it is everywhere right now. My 5-year-old walks around singing it at the top of her lungs on a daily basis, even my little nephew knows most of the words. My daughter loves the music video so much, that I am pretty sure she would wear a full on fox costume if I would let her. She was absolutely thrilled to get a Fox shirt of her very own and wants to wear it every day. This shirt is 1 of 2 Fox shirts, ch... more »
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