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Daniel Webster-- Now A Florida Congressman Without A Cult
Last night I took old friend, Wisconsin Democratic Senate Leader Chris
Larson, for dinner at the best vegan restaurant in the area, Crossroads.
Unfortunately, all the desserts are made with sugar so afterwards, we went
down the road to Cafe Gratitude for some sugar-free, gluten-free desserts.
As we were parking and walking over to the restaurant, I explained to Chris
that the place was run by a cult. He seemed stunned. "Oh, they're harmless
enough," I assured him. He seemed skeptical and I explained that I thought
they were affiliated with Landmark, a group that grew out of the wr... more »
The Last Supper - Who said that my party was all over..?
*"Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, but it
has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows...*
*Everything is cellularized. No one has said, 'He must die.' *
*There's been no vote. Nothing's on paper. *
*There's no one to blame. It's as old as the crucifixion."*
Silverado Neil
*Judge: *"Neil Bush was part of a huge scandal that involved the whole
family and dirty dealings with Silverado Savings and Loans and was part of
the collapse of the Savings and Loans. The Savings and Loans had been
corrupted entirely by mob and Intelligence.
Mae thought that besides drugs, the major way that covert operations were
being financed during the 70s and 80s was by draining the paper resources
and the credit off of these S&Ls. She used to talk about what she called
the "missing millions" of all this money that went up in smoke from these
financial institutions that were... more »
Billions Stolen and Millions Paid In Penalties By Wage Thieves, The Screwed (So Screwed!) Class of 2014 Smiles Through the Pain, and Justice for Adjuncts, Education (In General) or Cecily McMillan? (It's Not Yet Part of the Plan)
Don't pay your employees (or for their benefits) properly? Love having the
power to steal from your minimum-wage employees? Also, do you really enjoy
the blessed side effects of not paying the owed Federal, state and local
taxes and thereby impoverishing your hated government? Tea Partyers of the
Right Owners arise! Just don't be surprised when no one buys what you
produce or shops at your
Madeloni Beats TURNcoat Paul Toner for MTA President
Amazing and wonderful! From CPS:
Congratulations to Barbara Madeloni, president-elect, and Janet Anderson,
vice president-elect of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Madeloni,
the former director of the Secondary Teacher Education Program at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, was elected at the MTA's annual
meeting of delegates by a vote of 681 to 584. She pledged to work with
educators, parents and students to defend public education and combat
high-stakes standardized testing.
On her campaign's Facebook page, Madeloni wrote, "What an amazing few days!
The annual m... more »
Housing: Crisis, What Crisis?
The OECD has released a new report suggesting the most unaffordable housing
market in the developed world, measured as a proportion of both wages and
rents, is our own. Little old New Zealand. See:
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In an election year this news there is a clearly evident housing crisis is
about as welcome to the Prime Minister as a fart in an astronaut suit. His
response: Crisis, what crisis?
"Well, it’s not a crisis. A crisis would be one to indicate that you
couldn’t buy a home, well that’s not true – there are houses in quite a
wide range of prices – ... more »
War Watch May 18 , 2014 --Libya descending into further confusion - Families evacuate Benghazi as renegade Libyan general vows more attacks , Fighting spreads in Tripoli as brigades move against GNC attackers; five dead , Omar Al-Mukhtar Brigade has withdrawn from Kufra and may head to Benghazi ......... Iraq in focus -- 78 Killed, 37 Wounded As Iraq Security Ops Continue
Libya .....
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ABYAR/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) - The self-declared Libyan National Army led
by a ... more »
Mike's Story Part 26: Pills
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
From Mike 11-27-2006:
* Ray --*
* I left with [a lawyer], [the] employee file [of the female employee who
was suing Mike for sexual harassment] with the information that it
contained large amounts of exculpatory evidence. X has reported that she
has filed a sexual harrassment complaint with the Dept. of Labor but we do
not have the information yet. [The lawyer]'s information is above and
below. *
* We need to find out where that file is and respond quickly. I am clean
on this. The web site has the full story which will be my testimony.*
* She is banki... more »
Maybe the strangest part about this drunk-man-steals-occupied-limo story is that W. 4th St. and W. 10th St. really do intersect
*Note W. 4th St. bending upward in Manhattan's West Village, at the left
side of our map, to intersect with W. 10th St., W. 11th St., and -- yes,
eventually -- W. 12th St!*
*by Ken*
It seems like a pretty straightforward story of some drunk taking off in a
limo that (oops!) had passengers sitting in the back and a few blocks later
crashing (kerplunk!) into a car, bringing an end to the brief joyride. But
look more closely at where our lad came to rest.
*Drunk Man Steals Limo With Passengers Inside, Police Say*
By Danielle Tcholakian on May 16, 2014 6:57am
*DNAinfo NY caption: "... more »
Air Force: "We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,” . . . " that work has been completed.”
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DID THE US AIR FORCE JUST ADMIT IT WAS USING HAARP FOR WEATHER CONTROL? May
17, 2014 by Joseph P. Farrell
Two regulars of this community, Ms. P.H. and Mr. V.T. both sent this
article to me, so, for that, a big thank you. I have to admit when I first
started reading, I couldn’t figure out why they had. After all, the closure
of HAARP was not big news, and I had already blogged about it before, and
even suggested that the reason HAARP was being closed was because they had
moved on to better and more efficient methods for accomplishing the same
thing, i.e., we... more »
An Open Letter to TFAers Tempted to Diagnose ADHD, Among Other Issues
Dear Teach for America (TFA) Corps Member: In 1985, I graduated from high
school. So did TFA founder, Wendy Kopp. She and I happen to be only five
weeks apart in age. In April 2014, I published a book. Kopp has her own
chapter. She attended college at Princeton from 1985-89. I also attended
college, at […]
Protectingcanadianjobs-hahaha.com
So if I understand the argument correctly, *Restaurants Canada* members
employ 1.1 million workers of which TFWs only comprise 2% - a tiny fraction
and certainly not enough to impact Canadian unemployment - but if
restaurants can't have them they'll be forced to "scale back their business
and even close their doors".
Ergo, TFWs are protecting Canadians' jobs! Got it.
Protectingcanadianjobs.com, sponsor of the flyer at left which is also a
petition to MPs, is brought to you courtesy of Smithcom, "a boutique
communications firm dedicated to reputation management."
h/t NTFW
Smith... more »
COMMENTING ON THE UKRAINE MESS
*The comments below are some that are following an impressive article
called *The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit by Michael Hudson. Hudson is
research professor of economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
*EoinW* I find it hard to believe China will sit by and watch Russia fall.
They have to be aware how isolated and vulnerable that would make them. The
Chinese have gone along with the American game because it benefited them.
The more reckless US leadership becomes the more that threat outweighs the
benefits. Going after Russia has got to be as reckless as one can get.
... more »
Godzilla's Love Letter to the US Military
Godzilla and I go back. When I were but a nipper in the early 80s, one of
my favourite cartoons was this. I used to crouch by the family Betamax and
flick the record switch before we left for the Satday morning shopping
trip. However, in a confession what may strike a telling blow to my geek
creds, I never bothered with the rubber-suited Japanese originals. They
just didn't appeal. I did go and see the 1998 Hollywood reboot but it was
all very meh. When you can remember the *Godzilla* toy egg merchandise
better than the movie, you know you're dealing with something eminently
forget... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: It Was Morality Wot Caused It
*“On the premise that a free banking system inadequately served the poor,
the Federal Reserve was formed. On the premise that welfare spending is too
important to be tied down to an objective system of money, the gold
standard was abolished. On the premise that taxpayers have a moral duty to
bail out needy banks and careless depositors, the FDIC was established. On
the premise that we all have a moral duty to help needy, low-income
families 'achieve the American dream,' the **GSEs*
* like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were established. On the premise that
Americans have a moral dut... more »
Spanish Inquisition Day 1
Day 0 was mostly spent flying across the East Coast and Newfoundland and
the North Atlantic...
The Great Circle Route from DFW to MAD.
...and since we were flying east by the time we were boots on the ground in
Madrid it was lunchtime there but three in the morning back in Southern
State. Southern Man just cannot sleep on an airplane so Day 0 kind of just
kind of segued into Day 1.
At Madrid-Barajas Airport. Which is freaking *huge*.
After an hour of riding the city light rail and walking and walking and
more walking (Southern Man may have overpacked) we finally arrived at the ... more »
Life Goes On Parkour/Freerunning In Iraq
With violence increasing in Iraq it is always important to remember that
people there are still trying to live their daily lives and go about their
business. In some parts of Iraq this is easier than others. Najaf is one
such area, which has not seen a single attack there in 2014. Here are some
pictures of young people in the city on May 14 practicing
Parkour/Freerunning a sport that involves a mix of running, jumping, and
acrobatics.
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Human Dead Enders
Some many experts and so little TV
now we have increased bandwidth
and we can hear them all scream
but which one is correct
which one will steer our ciliazation in a different way
I you look at geologic records correctly
we may be the fourth or fifth or even the sixth
human community that thought the world was mind
Yeah we know how to blow it big time
When it come down to pull the trigger
there in no committee
just one man or women
who thinks pulling building seven
is a good plan
History is what the people live
but to the planet its
not even part of the record
all your preening a posture... more »
“The Crash of 2008 has been used to engineer a historic redistribution of wealth in favour of the financial aristocracy”
French leftist Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book *Capital in the
Twenty-First Century *continues to make waves with his argument that rising
inequality is inevitable in mature capitalism, that the rich gets richer as
their capital inexorably snowballs, and his conclusion that “a global
wealth tax” is the only solution.
His conclusions have been enthusiastically embraced by high-taxers and the
envy-ridden, even if few of them have bothered to read his arguments.
Piketty’s book “is meant to be a return to the kind of economic history, of
political economy, written by predecessor... more »
Colleen Hanabusa Can't Tell The Difference Between Bipartisanship And Selling Out
The 2 wings of the Hawaiian Democratic Party
The worst of the corporately-owned conservative Democrats-- shills like Ro
Khanna (CA), Marjorie Margolies (PA), Don Beyer (VA), Wendy Greuel (CA),
Kevin Strouse (PA), Pete Aguilar (CA) and the two from the Republican wing
of the Hawaiian Democratic Party, Donna Mercado Kim and Colleen Hanabusa--
love to bray incessantly about their efforts to work across the aisle in a
"bipartisan" manner. The Hanabusa story is typical of the breed and she's
basing her whole mean-spirited, failing race against progressive leader
Brian Schatz on it.
Democ... more »
China and Vietnam scrums heating up -- May 18 , 2014 --- Over 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat & Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-17/over-3000-chinese-evacuated-boat-plane-vietnams-anti-china-riots-escalate-taiwan-als
Over 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat & Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots
Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"
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China began evacuating hundreds of its nationals from Vietnam (via at least
2 planes and 5 ships) as the anti-China protests have become increasingly
deadly following Beijing's attempt to deploy an oil drill in V... more »
BBC: another non-scandal, another overreaction
It's a strange thing that *Spiked* - which rose from the ashes of *Living
Marxism - *is now one of my favourite magazines, publishing some of the
most unexpected, intelligent articles around on all manner of subjects.
(That I happen to agree with most of their articles probably helps.)
As the following - by Charlie Pearson - is a short article, I'll take the
very rare liberty of quoting it in full as its sums up the BBC's 'The Sun
Has Got Its Hat On' fiasco to a tee:
*Charlie Pearson - BBC: another non-scandal, another overreaction*
There can be no doubting that the sacking of BBC... more »
Conference Finals
We are there, this team has passed and lept over many hurtles. Some
internal for sure, but externally they have move forward over some rough
seas. Humans are quick to criticize and find fault. Its called gossip and
its all part of the Silver apes fault to provide some more than bananas for
the masses. Now we got this team, some elements there but hardly a dream
machine compared to the Rangers who have every desirable free agent from
forever because they want to be famous on the golden mile.
Game one and we are human in fact we were reptilian going into a shell
while directed charges... more »
Solidarity in France with Censored News
With special thanks for solidarity with Censored News in France from Vinz Haymarket, and Chris and Theo!
Watch Klee Benally in France with Slim Paddy and Vinz (Haymarket)
"Brighter Than Stars" by Klee Benally, Slim Paddy and Vinz (Haymarket) from Christine Prat on Vimeo.
March 1st 2014
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2228
January 8th 2013
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Sweetest Shakespeare
To the generations after, Shakespeare -- described by his contemporary Ben
Jonson as possessing "Little Latin and less Greek" -- was always regarded
as a sort of rustic, untutored, native genius. "Sweetest Shakespare,
Nature's *Child* / Warbles his Wood-notes Wild," wrote John Milton, and
most readers of Shakespeare then would have agreed with the description.
True, he had his sources -- Italian plays (but always cribbed via someone
else's translation), *Holinshead's Chronicles* (the source for most the the
history plays), and a ragtag of old tales and legends that would be known
t... more »
“5 of the Most Dangerous Delusions of the Far Right”
*“5 of the Most Dangerous Delusions of the Far Right”*
Conservatives are outdoing themselves with the crazy on issues like climate
change and abortion.
By Amanda Marcotte
“That the conservative movement is built on a bunch of misinformation,
strange fantasies and outright lies has been the subject of thorough
documentation, particularly in the past few decades. Conservative leaders
deny inconvenient facts, make up lurid tales to justify their beliefs, and
outright lie, if it suits their agenda. But these lies and myths rarely
just sit in amber. They tend to evolve and get stranger a... more »
The Bee that Lived in a Snail Shell
Talking of bees...
This morning's *The Living World *reported on the tiny bullet-shaped *Osmia
bicolor, *a sort of mason bee which seeks out empty snail shells for a
nest.
This was another delightful programme from Trai Anfield.
Trai was walking around the chalk downlands of Dorset with naturalist John
Walters. And not just any old chalk downland.
No, they were investigating the hillside directly above the the Cerne Abbas
giant [the famous chalk figure that depicts the Palestinian Authority
president in a decidedly frisky mood].
The scene sounded lovely. They were investigatin... more »
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*Our Views: Don’t gut 2006 reforms ~New Orleans Advocate*
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*Reginald Adams, free after 34 years, takes to his mother’s porch ~John
Simerman*
*EPA proposes new air quality monitoring plan for refineries ~Rachel Wulff,
WDSU*
*Blogger's arrest shakes up Mississippi Republican primary ~CNN*
#fail
Alan at *Biased BBC* has scooped what I've been watching out for for
months: *Newsnight's *latest viewing figures.
As we've made 2014 'The Year of *Newsnight*' here at "Is", I've been
intrigued to see what effect former *Guardian *deputy editor Ian Katz's
determined attempts to revive the show have actually had on *Newsnight*'s
poor ratings....
....and now we know....
They've fallen by a further 5%, according to *Broadcast*.
How depressing for Ian Katz!
Oh, the irony!
It could be worse though. *Newsnight*'s ratings seem to be stabilising
around the 600,000 mark and their recent... more »
Democratic Party Sheep Join the Attacks on Glenn Greenwald
Pulitzer Prize and Polk Award winning investigative journalist Glenn
Greenwald continues to make the media rounds as he promotes his new book on
the American Stasi entitled "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA,
and the U.S. Surveillance State" and has yet to be arrested by the Obama
administration. The author is not only loathed by authoritarian liars and
scum the likes of departing House Intelligence Committee head Mike Rogers,
the always loathsome former head of the Bush-Cheney CIA and NSA Michael
Hayden, deranged Congressman Peter King and of course the sitting President... more »
Deutsche Bank in trouble again ? May 18 , 2014 News of note --- Deutsche Bank Scrambles To Raise Capital: Will Sell €8 Billion In Stock At Up To 30% Discount ..... This follows selling a Vegas casino and the exit of gold price fixing ........
Deutsche Bank Scrambles To Raise Capital: Will Sell €8 Billion In Stock At
Up To 30% Discount
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- Finance Industry
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- Las Vegas
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Remember this?
This is a chart we have been presenting since last year, updated
periodically, showing just how vast Deutsche Bank's potential
undercapitalization *is/would be*if, as in the case of Lehman, for some
reason *gross exposure *suddenly became*n... more »
Ukraine News For May 18 , 2014 --East Ukraine’s Kharkov region to hold independence referendum - movement “Southeast” ...... Germanys saying " Nein " as to more sanctions ? ( German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for restraint in imposing new sanctions on Russia, as politicians, businesses and the general public in Germany grow ever more skeptical of putting more pressure on Moscow. ) ....... referendum - movement “Southeast” ...... Germanys saying " Nein " as to more sanctions ? ....... Ukraine needs federalization; decentralization not enough - Luhansk Regional Council head ........ Tymoshenko suggests referendum on NATO, EU membership, government system during presidential election
Itar Tass...East Ukraine’s Kharkov region to hold independence referendum -
movement “Southeast”
World
May 18, 16:53 UTC+4
"Our task is not to participate in Ukrainian presidential elections in any
case", - member of the coordinating council of movement Yuri Apukhtin said
© ITAR-TASS/ Sergei Kozlov
KHARKOV, May 18 /ITAR-TASS/. East Ukraine’s Kharkov region will hold a
regional independence referendum following south-eastern Ukrainian cities
of Donetsk and Lugansk, member of the coordinating council of movement
“Southeast” Yuri Apukhtin said at a rally near the monument to Soviet
lead... more »
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery May 15 -16 , 2014 -Malaysian Government CANNOT be trusted - husband of MH370 passenger appeals to world leaders to stop any COVER-UP ......... NOW THERE IS MALFUNCTIONING EQUIPMENT ???? THE so far fruitless search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has suffered another setback af
Catharsis Ours - 11 hours ago
Dear Everyone, You're Part of The Problem
As
everyone in Canada is aware (whether they want to be or not), Ontario
is having a provincial election. Support for the current Liberal
minority was tenuous, and the unofficial Liberal/NDP coalition fell
apart.
I felt it was about time. Especially as, in my view, the Wynne Liberals
had introduced a budget that tried to out NDP the NDP. People called it
the most progressive budget ever. I
Carl Kassell says "I've got to do something" now that he's retired from "Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!"
*Not to worry -- just because (longtime but now-retired Morning Edition
anchor) Carl Kassell at 80 is retiring from NPR's Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell
Me! doesn't mean he won't continue recording voice-mail greetings for show
winners.*
*"Carl is now officially Wait Wait's Scorekeeper Emeritus, but will
continue to record voice mail greetings for winners on the show. (He's
already done more than 2,000.)"*
*-- 31 words from the end of Roxanne Roberts's WaPost tribute toretiring **Wait
Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!** announcer Carl Kassell*
*by Ken*
Carl Kassell already retired from his 30-ye... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, May 18th, 2014
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Sunday, and again time for my weekly rant....
This is "Victoria Day" weekend here in Jewish occupied and controlled
Canada. This is an annual holiday to celebrate the reign of that ugly
Jewess that sat on the British throne for about 70 years until the turn of
the 20th century. To me, it is ridiculous that Canada still has a national
holiday dedicated to a long dead Queen of a foreign nation.
I honestly cannot figure out in this modern age WHY this nation, Canada,
still has the fraud sitting on the British throne as our "head of
state".... It is bad enough ... more »
Idaho - Vote No to ALEC
Did a bike tour across Idaho a couple years ago.
Nice state - beautiful -
Nasty politics though.
Primaries are coming up so voters need to be aware of who is who in their
state.
*#VoteNo2ALEC*
*How do people get on an ALEC list?*
That question comes up all the time. The most common are:
They serve on ALEC task forces
They have paid ALEC dues through their campaign finances
They self identified themselves somewhere , anywhere as an ALEC member.
They have been shown as a signatory on an ALEC letter.
They have been listed by ALEC as a member, in ALEC documents.
They have bee... more »
Mike's Story Part 25: Sinking
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
* Having asked for some water, Mike inspected the glass dubiously, like a
connoisseur of housekeeping; the fluted part at the base was murky.*
* "Jenna, we're going to have some work to do," he laughed.*
* "I scrubbed and scrubbed," I protested.*
* "Don't you use the dishwasher?" *
* "I don't know how." *
* This was within two or three days of his arrival; we were still at the
guest/host stage, which was why he hadn't gotten his own water. As for the
dishwasher, I hadn't grown up with or ever used one and had read that they
wasted water, so ev... more »
SUNDAY SONG
Money & Corruption / I Am Your ManWritten by: Ray Davies (The Kinks)
We are sick and tired
Of being promised this and that.
We work all day, we sweat and slave
To keep the wealthy fat.
They fill our heads with promises
And bamboozle us with facts,
Then they put on false sincerity
Then they laugh behind our backs.
*1st Chorus*
Money and Corruption
Are ruining the land
Crooked politicians
Betray the working man,
Pocketing the profits
And treating us like sheep,
And we're tired of hearing promises
That we know they'll never keep.
Money and Corruption
(Etc. repeat 1st Chorus above)
Promis... more »
Listening To Suzuki
Jeffrey Simpson wrote last week that the present Government of Canada defines
itself by the enemies it makes:
By identifying enemies or hostile institutions, or by picking fights with
individuals or institutions, Mr. Harper can better galvanize his
supporters. The idea of appealing to as many people as possible in the
search for maximizing votes is not how he governs. Instead, he looks to his
party’s core vote, tries to energize it as often as possible, then finds
slices of the electorate to add to the core.
And certainly one man near the top of the prime minister's Enemies List... more »
Free Reading Redux
Free Reading Redux. via Free Reading Redux.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS:
Becoming Radical
CREATING PRETEXT FOR WAR
US intel source claims Ukraine part of NATO secret campaign Gladio;
psychopathy tests for our leaders; and a mainstream host storms out the
studio after a vicious exchange on false flags.
Separate Lives
On the one hand, the intolerant, angry left-wing elitists did have much
more of an impact at one time than they do now. A lot of our values
(environmentalism, gay rights, feminism, anti-racism) have become
mainstream now, and many people we wouldn't recognize as allies embrace at
least some of these notions themselves.
But on the political front, we don't count for as much. I wonder is it
because we're so meek and mild or is it because we've lost our fire? Did we
alienate too many people when we had the megaphone, or have the Archie
Bunkers of the world simply gotten more assertiv... more »
Only Connect
I suppose it would be quite hard to calculate how many news items over, say
the last couple of years, were Islam-related, and then perhaps to compare
that number with all non-Islam related news put together.
Apart from turmoil in the “Arab World” and Africa, there is no shortage of
Islam-related violence in the West. The Trojan Horse phenomenon is taking
place right under our noses and the Islamisation, or normalising of alien
practices in areas where there is a high proportion of Muslims in Britain
and Europe.
Certain crimes seem to be committed, disproportionately, by ‘Asians’. Th... more »
Is Lindsey Graham About To Lose His Senate Seat? Beltway Pundits Will Let You Know In November
Opposition is bipartisan… but not from Lindsey Graham
Although the Beltway pundits of conventional wisdom-- like the brain
scientists at Cook-- rate Lindsey Graham as "safe," I wouldn't want to be
forced to put any money on that. Nate Silver claims Lindsey has a 97%
chance of being reelected, just 1% less than Tim Scott and 7% better than
Al Franken's reelection odds. I have a feeling Nate-- not to meantion the
stiffs at Cook-- don't watch *Southern Charm* and are unaware of Tom
Ravenel's kamikaze jihad against Lindsey *in the general election*. Ravenel
can't beat him, but can he dra... more »
Immigration - some facts
At the start of this video of Douglas Murray speaking at the Oxford Union
there are some facts that are rarely heard, or maybe it would be better say
allowed to be heard.
Do listen to the whole of Douglas Murray's speech, it's not quite twelve
minutes long.
He also covers some of the points I've made about the lie that Britain is a
country of immigrants. The comparative figures of Hugenots and Ugandan
Asians to recent immigration should be used whenever a Labour spokesman or
BBC presenter tries to use this lie.
Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty
Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty. via Autonomy Must Precede
Accountabilty.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
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*The secret to becoming a millionaire: Go to university and get a degree,
according to official British figures which show one in five graduates are
worth £1m or more*
*Mostly due to increases in property values, however*
One in five graduates who hold at least one university degree goes on to
become a millionaire, according to new data.
Official figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 20 per
cent of all adults who complete higher education, which is equivalent to
more than two million people, have a wealth of £1million or more.
In contrast only three per cent of... more »
US warns China on oil rig "provocation"- Updated!
* The US warns China not to raise tensions in East Sea*
*The White House has described China's placement of an oil rig in Vietnam’s
waters as a provocative act and warned Beijing not to raise tensions in the
region.*
Scuse my language, I have just woke up, pretty much, but- WHAT THE HELL!
Apparently only the US can 'raise tensions' and undertake all sorts of
provocations and dictate to every other nation on the planet regarding the
way that nation conducts their affairs?!
China's deployment of its drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 at 15 degrees 29
minutes 58 seconds north latitude a... more »
USA INC Predatory Government Betrayal - Deborah Tavares Dr Ed Spencer
*May 15, 2014*
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A Predatory Government that is taking away the very soul of the people is
what we now have. Incorporated... USA INC... unrepresentative
Government....is what we really have and not a Government by the people. In
this interview by Deborah Tavares she outlines our "Government" as grabbing
more control but having less accountability. To object to this is Patriotic
and she points out many of the problems and solutions.
Ban on Terminator Robots Postponed at United Nations Convention
Saturday, May 17, 2014
*Update on the move to ban killer robots.*
image: NASANicholas West
*Activist Post*
Ethics is very often the final concern of science, especially where
military endeavors are concerned.
Drones and robots are finally becoming front page news after a series of
warnings from prominent scientists and researchers who are beginning to see
some of the darker side to what is being unleashed upon humanity.
These warnings led to the U.S. military itself to seek out more information
about creating moral, ethical robots that could thwart any potential for
runaway assass... more »
Christian Science Monitor and Free Planet agree Sia rhymes with Chandelier
THIS POST IS LABEL'D MK-ULTRA, deal with that first then tell me why this
new video by Sia (a song about an out-of-control party girl, called
*Chandelier*) shouldn't shock and disturb the millions of victims of that
Canadian-hosted programme of Under-age Killers, Mind Control Zombies and
Sex-Death Fantasists and Serial Throttlers given too much prominence in
Geo-political Machinations i.e. MK Ultra, Super Soldier, Government
3-letter-agency Asset, the White Wig of both a Star Child and an Assassin's
Disguise...
And, surprisingly, the Christian Science Monitor website is the most
e... more »
Airbus A400M Makes First Visit To Mexico
[image: A400M]The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter landed today for
the first time in Mexico, where the aircraft will show its performance in a
series of demonstration flights.
Flown by the Experimental Test Pilot Ignacio “Nacho” Lombo, the aircraft
landed at Mexico D.F. International Airport at 13.50 (local time).
“I’m very proud to bring the A400M to Mexico to show how this aircraft is
transforming the world of heavy transport. It will be a honor to
demonstrate its capabilities to meet the challenges of this country”, said
Nacho Lombo.
Read more
Iraq Buys Aircraft from Pakistan Following Iran, Syria & Saudi Arabia
[image: MFI-395 ‘Super Mushshak’]Iraq like its neighbors Iran, Syria and
Saudi Arabia, has placed an order with Pakistan to buy MFI-395 ‘Super
Mushshak’ trainer aircraft.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a high level meeting with Iraqi
officials committed to extend full support to Iraqi Defense Forces in
imparting necessary training to its personnel and development of
infrastructure to meet Iraqi security needs.
The Prime Minister apprised visiting Iraqi officials that Pakistan Air
Force has one of the best aviation training institutes and training staff
in the world.
R... more »
Libyan army declares no fly zone over Benghazi
[image: Libyan fighter jet]The Libyan army imposed a no fly zone over
Benghazi on Saturday in a direct challenge to a retired general who has
been using airpower to press a campaign against Islamist militants there.
Khalifa Haftar, who lived in exile in the United States before returning
home to lead ground forces in the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled
Muammar Gaddafi, heads what he calls a "National Army".
On Friday his paramilitary force, backed by warplanes and helicopters,
pounded Islamist militiamen in Libya's second city and pitched battles with
the ex-rebels.
Read more
RAF's £70 million F-35 fighter 'may be cancelled because of poor performance'
[image: F-35 Lightning II]Britain's long-delayed £70 million stealth
fighter may have to be cancelled because of its poor performance, according
to analysis by a senior US Air Force officer.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter being built for British and US forces is
based on outdated ideas of air warfare, it is claimed. The aircraft could
be unable to evade enemy radar and be too expensive for long campaigns.
The critique in the US Air Force’s own journal concludes that the new
fighter may even have “substantially less performance” than some existing
aircraft.
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Kiowa helicopter squadron at JBLM to be inactivated
[image: Kiowa helicopter]The Army’s postwar downsizing will take another
bite out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord this year, as a 400-soldier helicopter
squadron will be shut down.
The plan to inactivate the Kiowa helicopters and crews of the 4th Attack
Reconnaissance Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment became inevitable when
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced in February a proposal to phase out
the Army’s entire Kiowa fleet.
Lawmakers in the the U.S. House did not challenge Hagel’s proposal last
week when they considered the 2015 defense budget, so the plan is moving
forward.
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Pope in the Holy Land, Oz refugees, Roger Scruton, aggrieved Muslims, 'Hallelujah', business ethics, Baha'i & homophobia and the C of E
Was this morning's *Sunday *as bad as I feared? Here's what happened.
*1. Edward looks ahead to Pope Francis' upcoming historic and politically
sensitive visit to the Holy Land with Vatican Correspondent for the Irish
Times Paddy Agnew.*
We got the background to the trip from Paddy Agnew: The Pope is going at
the invitation of the Patriarch of Constantinople and visiting "Israel,
Jordan and Palestine". He will go to the banks of the Jordan, the Church of
the Nativity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Yad Vashem, and refugee
camps "in Palestine".
Ed wondered: What about the Pope... more »
Geosecurity 101: Washington And Moscow's Military Bases In Latin America - Analysis
[image: Viktor Leonov in the Port of Havana]In spite of ongoing tensions in
Ukraine, which have seriously soured relations between Russia and the U.S.
and Europe, Moscow has not altogether forgotten the Western Hemisphere.
A case in point is the recent visit by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sergey Lavrov to four Latin American nations in April (Chile, Cuba,
Nicaragua and Peru).
While Lavrov’s trip did not end in any particularly major deals between
Moscow and his Latin American hosts, the visit came months after
declarations by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that the ... more »
Iran Threatens US Navy with 'Suicide Missions'
[image: Iranian FPB]Iranian naval commander said that he is prepared to
order suicide attacks, drone strikes, and missile technology to “destroy
the U.S. Navy” in any upcoming confrontation, according to an interview
printed in Iran’s state-run media.
Iranian Naval Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, a member of Iran’s elite
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that Iran is constantly
training and preparing for a clash with the United States, according to a
recounting of his remarks provided by the Middle East Media Research
Institute (MEMRI).
Fadavi revealed that Iran “co... more »
Nuclear staff shortage sparks MoD safety alert
[image: Vanguard class SSBN]The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is suffering a
severe and worsening shortage of skilled nuclear engineers that could
threaten the safety of nuclear weapons and submarines on the Clyde.
Official figures released by the MoD reveal that one in 10 nuclear safety
posts - both civilian and military - are vacant. The MoD's own safety
watchdog has warned that the staffing crisis poses "a significant threat to
the safe delivery of the defence nuclear programme".
The revelations have been described as utterly shocking by the SNP's
Westminster defence spokesman, Angus... more »
Nuclear-powered submarine launched
[image: HMS Artful]Britain's latest nuclear-powered submarine has been
launched.
Artful, a 7,400-tonne, 106-yard-long attack submarine, was edged out of its
giant construction hall at the Devonshire Dock Hall in Barrow-in-Furness,
Cumbria, on Friday and was carefully lowered into the water the following
day.
Artful, the third of seven highly complex Astute-class submarines being
designed and built for the Royal Navy, will now begin the next phase of its
test and commissioning process ahead of sea trials next year.
Read more
MH370 shot down in South China Sea - gains traction
*First book on MH370 mystery blames US war games*
EXCLUSIVE
One theory: Flight MH370 posits that there was a cover-up.
Seventy-one days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, the
first book about the disaster will go on sale on Monday with a theory about
what might have happened.
And as the international search continues for the aircraft Irene Burrows,
the Queensland mother who lost her son and daughter-in-law on the flight,
said it was too soon for a book.
Flight MH370 The Mystery, which is made available by NewSouth Books in
Sydney, doesn't claim to have any answers ... more »
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*Scientists Condemned For Political Bias On Climate Change*
*If you doubt global warming you should be*
*The journal says the Bengtsson paper was rejected on academic grounds. It
would be interesting to see the actual reviewer reports to see just what
those "academic" grounds were. I'll have a bet that they were very
shallow. But given compulsive Warmist secrecy, I doubt that we will ever
see that. "Hiding" things is essential to their modus operandi*
Climate scientists who vilified a colleague for advising a think-tank are
“blind to their own biases”, according to a former s... more »
Godzilla, an anti-environmentalist blockbuster
Godzilla (2014) is a new U.S.-Japanese movie based on the paradigm of the
Japanese monster that premiered on Friday in the U.S.
Its budget is $160 million and happily enough for the people behind the
team, the investment is going to be repaid sometimes next week, within less
than a week. Not bad. On Friday itself, it earned $38.5 million and is
likely to get $100 million over the three-day weekend.
I have not seen the movie and I have no idea whether I will like it. But
what's interesting is that this is not another movie parroting the
intellectually inferior a dishonest "environm... more »
Courage Campaign… Reborn
I was so happy to see that Paul Song had been elected to a non-profit board
I serve on. Friday was our annual meeting and I got to meet him in person.
He's done an incredible job as Executive Chairman of another organization,
Courage Campaign. He started running Courage when Rick Jacobs, the founder,
became Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles. I was thrilled to learn that Paul has
expanded the scope of the organization and that the main focus has shifted
in a direction which has them spending more time and energy fighting
against economic inequality.
During the lunch break, he actually st... more »
Emerging Oneness:Our Singing Heart
[image: Picture]
The purpose of life is individually determined yet collectively
accomplished. There is not a right or correct path versus a wrong or
incorrect path to take. There is one central idea. It underscores every
other and becomes the unifying force. This idea supposes that information
begets growth which in turn results in more life. We are here not to
learn, is if students or children, but to collect information. This
information advances our collective knowledge and leads ultimately to
expansion, diversification and growth.
We are more accurately called scien... more »
There Is No Valid Climate Science and No Competent Climate Debate
The WUWT site has a post on alarmist "pseudoscientists' claims debunked",
containing a statement that I find absolutely incompetent, and to which I
respond here:
*"Let us be as precise as They are vague. The existence of the greenhouse
effect is definitively established both in theory and in experiment and
needs no 'consensus' to prop it up."*
*You call that precise? The "greenhouse effect" touted to the world's
citizens is this, and this alone: The global mean atmospheric temperature
at the Earth's surface (or at any given pressure level) supposedly
increases with an increase in th... more »
IT'S THOSE FOSSIL FUELS
Self-defense forces are on full alert in East Ukraine's newly proclaimed
Donetsk People's Republic. The region cut ties with Kiev after a popular
vote last Sunday - and activists are expecting a new wave of government
crackdown. Tensions are highest in the city of Slavyansk that's been
besieged by troops for weeks. Reinstating control over the restive region
isn't the only agenda driving Kiev's ongoing offensive.... follow the money
and the fossil fuels.
“Slouching Toward... Hell on Earth”
*“Slouching Toward... Hell on Earth”*
by John Atcheson
“In 1961 Joan Didion released a collection of essays titled, "Slouching
Toward Bethlehem". The first essay, “Dreamers of a Golden Dream,” contains
the following: “October is the bad month for wind, the month when breathing
is difficult, and the hills blaze up spontaneously… Every voice seems a
scream. It is the season of suicide, divorce and prickly dread…”
She was talking about the Santa Ana’s… searing 100 mile-an-hour winds that
shriek down the mountains and scorch everything in their path. Back in
1961, it was common knowled... more »
New York City cab driver defends National Socialism
Here is a courageous cab driver who refuses to back down from the
politically correct Jewish establishment:
From *Dominican Today*:
A New York City cab driver of Dominican origin has been suspended for 30
days for wearing a Nazi swastika armband while on duty.
The Taxi and Limousine Commission (T&LC) decided to suspend the operator's
license for a month and not to fire him. It is against TLC rules for
drivers perform any act that is against the best interests of the public.
However, Gabriel Diaz, 27, defended his choice of attire to the New York
Post, saying, “*We’ve been told li... more »
Doonesbury Watch: When Joanie Caucus applied to law school
*DOONESBURY -- Way back when*
*DOONESBURY -- Friday, February 8, 2013*
*Top*: *When last we left "historic" Joanie, she'd entered the day-care
industry at Walden commune.* *Bottom*: *Latter-day Joanie is feeling the
pressure of her new job -- as by far the oldest member of Elizabeth
Warren's Senate staff. Here, even much-loved granddaughter Alex has trouble
getting through. (Alex has since given birth to twins, making Joanie a
great-grandmother.) [Click on either strip to enlarge.]*
*by Ken*
It didn't occur to me until I began sifting through these voluminous
"flashbacks" Garry Tr... more »
Zombie Apocalypse Revival- Numerology and 8888?
* The zombie apocalypse meme keeps reappearing.* *WP had a piece about the
other day linking back to a self proclaimed Foreign policy "exclusive"
regarding the Pentagon plan to 'stop the zombie apocalypse'*
* Quoting from FP-*
Buried on the military's secret computer network is an unclassified
document, obtained by Foreign Policy, called *"CONOP 8888.*" It's a zombie
survival plan, a how-to guide for military planners trying to isolate the
threat from a menu of the undead -- from chicken zombies to vegetarian
zombies and even "evil magic zombies" -- and destroy them.
"This plan ... more »
Zen things
The tool is a "jembe," a Kenyan hoe made by Mr. Joseph Ogola. Many people
in Kenya do all their farm work with this one tool.
Greens bed is coming along slowly. Turnips, radishes, bok choi, tatsoi,
kale, collards and chard mostly, with some marigolds and such.
The ducklings a week ago. They will be released into the poultry moat today.
A few fogs have heralded the change in weather. We have gone over 90F,
though it is much cooler today. I have been firewooding the branches of the
ash tree. It is slow but meditative work. As I do it, I try to focus on a
few Zen observations that... more »
Iranian Students Continue to Face Discrimination from U.S. Sanctions
Iranian
students, studying in the United States and reliant on Bank of America
debit cards and ATMs for access to their foreign bank accounts, have
recently had their assets frozen. According to Ryan Costello and Jamal
Abdi of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), “Due to a sudden,
unnecessary and — most of all – discriminatory change in bank policy,
Iranians and Iranian Americans
Anxiety Attack
Oh dear Lord, this looks bad.
Here's Radio 4 *Sunday*'s itinerary for tomorrow. (Just to quote the *Sunday
*website is enough to show the sheer scale of the bias to come.)
Read on and weep:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has published guidance on tackling homophobia
in Church of England schools. But how does the church square this message
with its opposition to same-sex marriage? Rev Jan Ainsworth and Bishop Alan
Wilson discuss.
Edward looks ahead to Pope Francis' upcoming historic and politically
sensitive visit to the Holy Land with Vatican Correspondent for the Irish
Times Padd... more »
Global Swarming
It's been far too sunny today to bother with the BBC and its bothersome
bias, but I did listen to Paddy's *Saturday PM. *
It discussed (1) the abducted girls in Nigeria (*'Now look 'ere,
Goodluck!')*, (2) the Co-op (*'Don't mention the Labour Party, Pike!'*),
(3) Nigel Farage's 'car crash' interview on LBC (*'He's doomed! DOOMED!'*),
(4) liberalising cannabis in the U.S. (*'Stupid Republican dinosaurs!'*)
and (5) bee swarms (*'Don't panic! 'Don't panic!'*)
Paddy talked about the UKIP story with John Major's press secretary, Sheila
Gunn.
She wasn't impressed with the UKIP spin do... more »
Revisiting No2EU
If it wasn't for UKIP, it's fair to say most people wouldn't know European
elections are in the offing. Yet while the media buzzes about Farage's
one-man party and what the mainstream are doing about it, the ballot paper
is littered with anti-EU also rans. Here in the WestMids there's the BNP
and English Democrats fare. We are also blessed with sitting ex-UKIP MEP Nikki
Sinclaire for 'We Demand a Referendum' and Mike Natrass - another former
'kipper - for the naughtily-titled 'An Independence from Europe - UK
Independence Now' list. Hopefully, this Little England gang bang will see ... more »
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METRO PODCAST | Thorne Dreyer holds forth with Central Texas environmental
activists Robbins, Cortez & Baker.
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Republican Party Has Cut Off Funding For Mikey Suits Grimm's Reelection Efforts
Classic sociopath, Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm
God sent a freak rain storm to tell Staten Island die-hard Republicans
that, "no, Mafia congressman Mikey Suits Grimm is *not* getting a raw deal;
he's getting his just desserts." Another force-- the Beltway GOP
Establishment-- is sending a signal of their own: they are drying up
Grimm's funding.
Already in financial trouble because he's diverted hundreds of thousands of
dollars in campaign funds into a high dollar law firm keeping him out of
prison, Grimm now faces an NRCC that doesn't want to waste more money on
his. The GOP version ... more »
Obama Worshippers Only Enable the Collapse
Having just finished reading a column from Patrick J. Buchanan entitled "A
Left-Right Convergence?" in which the longtime paleoconservative mused
about a coming alliance between anti-fascist elements of the left and the
right I must admit that I have been pushing this idea for years and it is
nice to see someone like the old warhorse himself bring it up. It has long
been the ONLY logical way to seriously challenge the corrupt bipartisan
warfare state and the rigged system of spoils to benefit an American
oligarchy grown fat, arrogant and rotten beyond mere words that is
protected ... more »
Obama is golfing today. Yesterday he spun his skanky ass all over a counter where people have to eat food...
*not kidding.*
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - The White House did not immediately comment on whether
it was aware of WUSA9 reports of recent violations and a prior health
closure order at the DuPont Circle Shake Shack where President Obama and
Vice President Biden dined Friday. source
He da man, doncha know.
Cheered on by his sons and daughters.
Gangs, Countergangs and Pirate Clans.
*"I think this is the time to deploy a globally concerted effort against
all tewwoar suggs... a Global concerted effort led by US, Europe, the UK
and Russia on all sources of tewwoar; the same kind of stwuggle as our
Forefathers had against Piwacy on the High-Seas"*
*Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak,*
*9/11/01, c11:00 am EST.*
*"Our country is adrift... Fearful that it has no new frontiers and
entering its late middle age, America has no great purpose or unifying
cause... it begins to divide among clans, tribes and gangs."The Patriot,
by Senator Gary H... more »
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*New Orleans Saints sign former Tulane safety Devon Walker ~WhoDat Dish*
May 17:How utterly stupid we are!
It's pretty sobering to look at the tremendous problems we have created for
the near future - problems of food supply, climate, wildly overstrained
resources. problems of immense overpopulation, problems that no nation, no
person, can escape by being rich or powerful.
These are problems so great it will take all of us, all cooperating, to
have even a hope of softening the blow.
And we're not doing a damn thing except fighting each other.
I was reading the last few days of the Christian Science Monitor, once a
quite respectable newspaper by North American standards. What I read was
... more »
America Is Finished: THIS Is a Clear Example Of The Collapse Of The American Education System - "Debate" American Common Core Style!
I have been saying for quite some time now that America is truly finished
as a society... I have been more and more disgusted in what the United
States passes off as an "education" system, where we are watching people
graduate from schools and colleges even though they are fully
illiterate! What is also disgusting in the failed American education
system is the constant pushing through of visible minorities, that can
neither read or write, just to fill "quotas" and to enable schools to
receive federal funding! What the hell ever happened to schools actually
caring about childre... more »
A Review of My Book by Someone Who Had Never Heard of Me
D. Forman had never heard of me. She had never read my blog, and she did
not know that I had recently published my first book, A Chronicle of
Echoes, a well-researched whistle blower on numerous major players
exploiting American public education in the name of “reform.” She found my
book when perusing the Amazon.com site; read the […]
TFN
By Capt. Fogg
Seems as though I'm alone in worrying more about Russian aggression in
Europe than about rooting out and punishing obnoxious racial opinions
expressed in private. But in fact I'm starting to worry about freedom of
speech and it's de facto abuse even though that abuse isn't coming from the
government.
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Police Commissioner Robert Copeland was overheard
sounding off in a restaurant last March, complaining that he hated watching
television, because every time he turns it on, he sees “that f-cking
n-gger.” TFN, of course, being the president of t... more »
Old English
The land now known as England was originally inhabited by an unknown
culture of people, sometimes referred to as "Megalithic" people (a
reference to the standing stones they left at, among other places,
Stonehenge). These people were displaced by Celtic tribes, who in their
turn were pushed back to the peripheries of the island by three Germanic
tribes -- the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes -- who arrived in the fifth
century to fill the power vacuum left by the departing Roman colonizers.
We know little of their culture, though, and nothing of their literature,
until the momen... more »
Does The Silicon Valley Really Want A Serial Election Fraudster As A Congressman? Meet Ro Khanna
We've been doing some reporting here about what a sleazy character Ro
Khanna is and how, from his earliest forays into politics, he's been
subverting the rules to win. Predictably, Khanna is up to his old tricks in
the CA-17 race against progressive icon Mike Honda. In their endorsement of
Honda yesterday, the PCCC told their supporters that "Progressive
Congressman Mike Honda is facing a conservative primary challenger on June
3 who calls himself a Democrat-- but is he really? Honda's opponent is open
to cutting Social Security. And he opposes the congressional progressive
budget... more »
Top Ten Reasons Operation American Spring Went Flat
Operation American Spring, the Tea Party protest which was expected to
draw 10-30,000,000 people to the nation's Capitol yesterday, turned out to
be a huge flop. Rather than the tens of millions hoped for, only a few
dozen showed up and the turnout was so dismal, even the conservative
outlets *The Blaze* and the *Washington Times* couldn't even begin to spin
it. But there were several excellent reasons why yesterday's protest in
Washington DC wasn't quite what was hoped for. What were they?
*10) *We done tried but couldn't get away from Benghazi.
*9)* Klan costume got yellowed ... more »
Best legacy for Michelle is to keep this conversation going
May the hills ring with our conversations about disordered eating in
the wake of Michelle Stewart’s death. I know it would please her to think
that we weren't just going to let that elephant in the room pass unnoticed.
What I mostly know about the various disordered-eating illnesses is
they aren't about disordered eating at all. Eat a lot, eat a little, obsess
about burning it off, throw it up, fixate on it – food is ultimately just
fuel for the body, but for some people it becomes a way to manage the bad
feelings of your life. For me it seems almost like cutting, where ... more »
today is the international day against homophobia and transphobia
May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia,
sometimes called IDAHO or IDAHOT.
This day is the perfect example of how I view all social progress: we have
come a long way, and we still have a long way to go.
Come a long way: yesterday at the library, I put up a IDAHO display in the
youth area. I found more gay- and lesbian-themed youth fiction than I could
fit on the display. This filled me with such joy, knowing that gay and
lesbian teens in my area can see their authentic selves reflected in the
world around them, the way LGBT people in their parents' and gr... more »
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