resident evil (Photo credit: ginl-illustration)Sunday Classics chronicles: Revisiting Richard Strauss's "Capriccio"
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 minutes ago
*R. STRAUSS: Capriccio, Op. 85: Introduction (Sextet)*
*Vienna State Opera Orchestra members, Karl Böhm members, cond. Live
performance, May 15, 1960*
*Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra members, Clemens Krauss, cond. Broadcast
performance, 1953*
*Vienna Philharmonic members, Ulf Schirmer, cond. Decca, recorded December
1993*
*Members of the Southwest German Radio (SWR) Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart,
Georges Prêtre, cond. Forlane, recorded live in Mannheim, May 29-31, 1999*
*by Ken*
As I mentioned last week, I have begun the arduous process of importing the
Sunday Classics posts i... more »
CrisisActors.org blaming Iran for Sandy Hook: Seriously...
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
https://www.facebook.com/CrisisActors
*Matt's thoughts: *
Check it out, people. One couldn't make this stuff up. They are saying that
anyone who asks questions about Sandy Hook is a "terrorist", "exposing
America to danger", towing the line for Al Jazeera and Iran, and other
nonsense, all to deflect their potential involvement in the entire Sandy
Hook "shooting" scenario. If this group isn't a mechanism of the police
state developing in the the US, I'll eat my hat. It's also starting to seem
that the entire website and group is run by a single individual, and that
other individuals ... more »
"We, However..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 36 minutes ago
“Most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the
window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. In this
way they have a certain security... We, however, are not prisoners.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Libertarian Senator Rand Paul Stands Tall Against Besieged Palestinians
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 44 minutes ago
* Senator Paul To Besieged Palestinians: Go To Hell.*
An excerpt from, *"U.S. Senator to Abbas: U.S. rejects Palestinian's
intention to join UN agencies"*:
RAMALLAH, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senator Rand Paul informed Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas of his country's opposition to the Palestinian
intention to join United Nations agencies, a well- informed Palestinian
sources said Monday.
The source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity the Republican Senator
told Abbas after a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah that *the
United States will impose sanctions on the Pales... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Falling Through Time”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 48 minutes ago
2002, “Falling Through Time”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn5SjXaxc74
MN GOP Outlook is Good News!!!
2old2care at Because I Can - 51 minutes ago
*From the Washington DC Roll Call*
“A decade or more ago, I could have credibly placed the Minnesota GOP as
one of the most talented and organized in the country,” Larry Jacobs, a
politics professor at the University of Minnesota, said. “Now, the party is
in financial shambles. It’s really caught in a political civil war.”
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the Republican Party of Minnesota hit
rock bottom.
It’s even more difficult to determine its path to recovery this cycle, if
one even exists.
The state party kicked off last year nearly $2 million in debt. In April,
it faced... more »
OPPT: Questions From Croatia; Various OPPT CVAC Interim Govt UCC Filings
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 56 minutes ago
*From:* Vladimir Peric
*Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2013 1:00 AM
*To:* Heather Tucci-Jarraf; Caleb Skinner; Randall Hillner
*Subject:* Questions from CROATIA
Hello you great people,
I watched closely what you did at AK website (and yours too) and I must
congratulate you from bottom of my heart.
I see that things are changing, from within every man and women and I
know consciousness is the source of this changes. I myself experienced
quantum jump in consciousness recently and became aware that I am free only
if I say so and act as a free man, recognizing only myself as an au... more »
'Idle No More' Round Dance New Mexico State Capitol
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 58 minutes ago
Jan 15, 2013 Photo Tina Garnanez
http://www.occupynewmexico.org/
Over 100 Native Americans, First Nations Canadians now residing in New
Mexico, and non-native allies, including members of (un)Occupy
Albuquerque, Occupy Santa Fe, and Occupy Taos, turned out despite
freezing cold weather at the New Mexico State Capitol on Tuesday,
January 15 to sing, drum, dance, pray and peacefully
Video: Sandy Hook Occult Sacrifice vs. 'Fakery' Disinfo
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
Child sacrifice rituals are common in many civilizations. Ours is no
different. According to the ruling elite, it is best to keep quiet about
this evil reality.
Video Title: Sandy Hook Occult Sacrifice vs. 'Fakery' Disinfo. Channel:
thetruthergirls. Description:
Everyone is latching on to the idea that nobody died at Sandy Hook and this
has become one of the most discussed topics in the conspiracy theory
community. From the beginning, I felt that this was not the case, that it
was based on speculation without any real evidence. As more and more info
emerges, I am finding that ever... more »
Chief Spence asks Canada for meeting Jan. 24, 2013
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Also see:
Amnesty International says Canada Prime Minister must commit to full and effective participation with Indigenous Peoples
http://www.amnesty.ca/get-involved/take-action-now/canada-prime-minister-must-commit-to-the-full-and-effective-participati
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"Some spiral galaxies are seen almost sideways. NGC 3190, one such galaxy,
is the largest member of the Hickson 44 Group, one of the nearer groups of
galaxies to our own Local Group of galaxies.
*Click image for larger size. *
Pictured above, finely textured dust lanes surround the brightly glowing
center of this picturesque spiral. Gravitational tidal interactions with
other members of its group have likely caused the spiral arms of NGC 3190
to appear asymmetric around the center, while the galactic disk also
appears warped. NGC 3190 spans about 75,000 light years across and is ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “A Life Sentence”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“A Life Sentence”*
by Chet Raymo
“’We each only really speak one sentence in our lifetime. That sentence
begins with your first words, toddling around the kitchen, and ends with
your last words… in a nursing home, the night-duty attendant vaguely on
hand.”
Where did that come from? A review by David Kirby of poet Mary Ruefle's
new book, quoting Ruefle on a thought that Ezra Pound learned from Ernest
Fenollosa... OK, OK, forget the provenance, or who the heck is Ernest
Fenollosa. It's that lifelong sentence I'm interested in, the one that
begins with ma-ma and ends with… We... more »
More on the U.N. "death toll" in Syria
Left I on the News at Left I on the News - 1 hour ago
I wrote recently about the improbability of the U.N.'s claim that the
Syrian death toll is 60,000. I noted that that claim would require that 96
people had been killed *every single day* since the conflict began. Nearly
700 people a week.
Today's news illustrates my point. AP reports (emphasis added):
A rocket slammed into a building in Syria's northern city of Aleppo and two
suicide bombers struck near a mosque in the south Friday, *capping a
particularly bloody week in the country's civil war with more than 800
civilians killed.*
When 800 people (or should I say an alleged 800 p... more »
The Late Lt. General William Odom's Views On Iran
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
*Wikipedia:*
William Eldridge Odom (June 23, 1932 – May 30, 2008) was a retired U.S.
Army 3-star general, and former Director of the NSA under President Ronald
Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly
specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement
from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university
professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and
warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. He died of an apparent heart
attack at his vacation home in Lincoln, Vermont.
Lt.... more »
"Better Not To..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
"Better not to search for who you are until
you decide who it is you want to find."
- Robert Brault
A truly nasty comment about Laura Robson by Matthew Norman
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
I was shocked to find the following comment about Laura Robson in yesterday's
Matthew Norman column in The Telegraph
'...Robson ought to reach the top four and a grand slam final within two
years given the obvious capacity for improvement. She moves with the speed
and grace of an arthritic hippo'
I am staggered by that remark. Laura Robson is an athlete, an Olympic
tennis silver medallist and WTA Newcomer of the Year for 2012.
Does Laura Robson look like 'an arthritic hippo' to you?
So that Matthew Norman must have truly high standards then?
Here's Matthew Norman...
Hmmm
Study finds megadrought jeopardizing Amazon rainforest
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: At left, the extent of the 2005 megadrought in the western Amazon
rainforests during the summer months of June, July and August as measured
by NASA satellites. The most impacted areas are shown in shades of red and
yellow. The circled area in the right panel shows the extent of the forests
that experienced slow recovery from the 2005 drought, with areas in red and
yellow shades experiencing the slowest recovery. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
/ GSFC]
Contact: Alan Buis, Alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov, 818-354-0474
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
17 January 2013
PASAD... more »
‘Terrible conditions’ for Australia firefighters in record heat wave – ‘Imagine being in this heat next to a blast furnace’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: Firefighters battle a grass fire in Penrith, Australia, 19 January
2013. Photo: Mick Tsikas / Sydney Morning Herald]
By Ilya Gridneff
19 January 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Hundreds of firefighters battled the most
atrocious conditions imaginable on Friday to contain about a dozen
out-of-control blazes from the state's far south to the Hunter Valley,
desperately hoping a late cool change would bring relief.
By late on Friday, fires near Cessnock, Coonabarabran, Young, and around
Bega were still causing extreme danger for residents and firefighters, as
authorities confi... more »
What's frightening, says Dana Milbank, is that the wacky Steve Stockman of the '90s "no longer sounds like an outlier"
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"[T]hat's the same [Steve] Stockman I found so entertaining back in the
'90s. What's frightening is he no longer sounds like an outlier."*
*-- Dana Milbank, in a WaPo column the other day,*
"A House radical is now in the mainstream"
*by Ken*
The other day Howie was tweeting about one of the elite crazies of the
113th Congress, Texas "domestic terrorist" Steve Stockman, who has now
earned the lead-off slot in the ThinkProgress War Room's post "Impeachment?
The GOP's Most Extreme Reactions to Obama's Commonsense Gun Safety Plan."
Steve earned that spot by announcing plans to introdu... more »
The Northern Cree of Sturgeon Lake Saskatchewan First Nation were doing this long before Stephen Harper came along ...
leftdog at Buckdog - 3 hours ago
... and they will be doing the same a long, long time after he is gone.
I Can't Read You This Bedtime Story From Qatar
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago
Lawyer: Qatari poet gets life for ‘insulting’ emir
*Isn't Qatar an ally that helped out in Libya and is helping in Syria? *
*
**Related: **Calling It Quits With a Qatar Post*
Why Lance's Punishment Should Be a Fine of $2,692,307.70
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 4 hours ago
Recently Team Obama set the limit for any future crime against an
individual or humanity by fining too-big-for-justice banksters at HSBC with
what amounts to five weeks of annual earnings.
Lance is a d-bag in triplicate, no doubt, but his drugging, lies, bullying,
and threats do not come close to being equivalent to the drug cartel money
laundering and the terrorist support networks of banking giant, HSBC.
And yet the corporate media nitwits fans the outrage of citizens against
Lance, and even Oprah gets in the act as persona Christi (in two parts with
commercial interruptions).
... more »
Take It All Off, Boston Globe
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago
Suit says strip club flouts wage law, cheats dancers
Untitled
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago
Texas Part II "----"
"4 dead, 17 hurt when train hits Texas vets parade A freight train slammed
into a parade float carrying wounded veterans on Thursday, killing four
people and injuring 17 others as the float crossed a West Texas railroad
crossing on its way to an honorary banquet, authorities said."
"Texas parade honoring war heroes ends in tragedy" by Juan Carlos
Llorca | Associated Press, November 17, 2012
MIDLAND, Texas — Cheered on by a flag-waving crowd, a parade float filled
with wounded veterans and their spouses was inching across a railroad track
when the crossing gat... more »
Charles Taylor and Jonathan Sacks on The Future of Religion
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: tvochannel]:·
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill
University, Charles Taylor and Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the Commonwealth, Jonathan Sacks discuss The Future of
Religion in a Secular Age.
Freedom to Connect: Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) on Victory to Save Open Internet, Fight Online Censors
BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 6 hours ago
Freedom to Connect: Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) on Victory to Save Open
Internet, Fight Online Censors
Calculated MINIMUM reparation due to slave descendants: $1.5 million to each Black citizen of the USA
Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 6 hours ago
It
is not difficult to calculate a MINIMUM amount of monetary reparation
due to every single Black slave descendant living today in the USA.
If we leave out the reparations for physical violence, genocidal stress,
inadmissibility to superior social classes, etc., and only take into
account the stolen labor, at the today's equivalent minimum wage, then
the calculation for the minimum amount due
US shoots down Syrian Chemical or Hallucingenic Weapon Report
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
Have you all noticed the news or what passes for news about
allegations/denials that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons?
It seems as if the US is doing damage control on a bogus claim made by a
"third party" or "unnamed" US partner.
"*Did not accurately convey the anecdotal information that we had received
from a third party regarding an alleged incident in Syria in December.”*
*Nevertheless, according to CNN, the State Department did ask “a U.S.
partner” to follow up, interviewing Syrian doctors and chemical weapons
specialists.*
Care to take a stab at just which nat... more »
Leonard Peltier's statement on 'Idle No More'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago
Leonard
Peltier 'Idle No More'
By Leonard Peltier
Censored News
Greetings, my Relatives and Friends!
It has come to my attention in the last week or so that a lot of our
young people and women especially are standing up in support of our
Indigenous Brothers and Sisters in Canada. It really does my heart good
to see the activism and concern of the different generations of People
coming
Unemployment Rate = 23% (Notice How Little Talk of It You Hear Now) Don't Be Confused - The New World Order Is US: Attack On Sovereignty
Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 6 hours ago
It used to be the law that you had to tell the citizens of the U.S. the
truth about certain things. From my buddy, Coyote Prime: "Here’s The Real
Unemployment Rate" "Here’s The Real Unemployment Rate"by Jerome R. Corsi
NEW YORK – "The real unemployment rate for December 2012 is closer to 23
percent, not the 7.8 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
according to economist
Podcast No. 18: Interview with Stefano Guzzini
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
The seventeenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Stefano Guzzini of
the Danish Institute for International Studies and Uppsala University .
Professor Guzzini discusses, among other things his intellectual and
educational background, his important work on power in international
affairs, realism, and geopolitics. This podcast is a bit more “bare bones”
than usual. I didn’t put in introductory remarks; I
Continue reading
So You Want to be a Liberal Arts College Professor?
Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
Ok, you went to Oberlin or maybe Swarthmore or Bowdoin or Haverford or
Macalester. It was your first experience away from home — your first real
intellectual stimulation, the drugs, the sex — it was a total mind blowing
experience. You had dinner at a professor’s house and then stayed late into
the night discussing
Continue reading
The Boston Globe's White File
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago
Kevin White’s FBI files released
MuckRock, a website devoted to open records, posted White’s FBI file. The
documents are often heavily redacted, and most names are blocked out.
Murder in the city, daily life and tourism
paul at Paying attention - 7 hours ago
Honduras took another hit this week when a British tourist was shot and
killed in San Pedro Sula, the biggest city.
The headlines in the British media, naturally, weren’t good. Most stories
noted Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world, which seems to be
the main thing people know about the country.
Honduras, for tourists, isn’t dangerous. My partner’s son and his family -
including boys 11 and 13 - just spent six weeks here, feeling secure and
welcome everywhere they went.
But Kaya Omer, the 33-year-old British tourist, had a different,
tragic experience.
It’s hard to tel... more »
Globe Shot of Wild Turkey
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago
Turkeys wear out welcome in Newton
“We have a lot of children who are walking to school who are now afraid to
walk to school because the wild turkeys are coming after them.” Some
complained of aggressive groups of turkeys, while others wanted the city or
state to curb the influx of coyotes blamed for the disappearance of cats
across the city. “I’m all for nature and all that, but....,”
*Related*: Wild turkeys in Brookline: Bring out the broomsticks
*Take a walk on the wild side....*
"Brookline High employee faces child porn charges" by Martine Powers and John
R. Ellement | Globe... more »
More on the GOP Senate Budget Resolution Obsession
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago
Over at PP today, I talked a little about what budget resolutions are, and
said that GOP demands for the Democratic Senate to pass a budget are purely
symbolic...but as symbolic demands go, it's not particularly unreasonable.
I didn't remember to note, however, that whatever one thinks of the
Senate's obligation to pass a budget resolution right now, it's hardly
without precedent. Whose precedent? Why, the Bush-era Republican
Congresses. As a 2010 CRS report explained: "At least one budget resolution
has been adopted every year except 1998 (for FY1999), 2002 (for FY2003),
2004 (for ... more »
So, Wondering Which Committees The Democratic Freshman Were Assigned?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
First off, no freshmen were put on the top plum committees, Appropriations
or Ways & Means. Nor did any freshmen get slots on Education & Workforce,
Energy & Commerce or Rules. Here are the assignments that have been
announced:
*Agriculture*
Suzanne DelBene (New Dem-WA)
Gloria McLeod (CA)
Filemon Vela (New Dem-TX)
Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM)
Ann Kuster (NH)
Rick Nolan (MN)
Pete Gallego (Blue Dog-TX)
Bill Eynart (IL)
Juan Vargas (New Dem-CA)
Cheri Bustos (IL)
Sean Patrick Maloney (New Dem-NY)
There are two Democratic vacancies left on this committee, which has
traditionally, under C... more »
Dine' Bidziil 'One Mind, One Voice, One Prayer'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
ANNOUNCING
DINE BIDZIIL: "One Mind, One Voice, One Prayer"
Listen to radio interview with Norman Patrick Brown
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/purposefocusedu/2013/01/18/dine-bidziil-one-mind-one-voice-one-prayer
Where: Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, Arizona
When: SATURDAY JAN. 19/2013 - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Topics: Presentation/Panel discussions:
1. April 19/20, 2013 1000 FAMILY HOZHO
Get on t'internet...
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
“Comrades need to stop complaining on the internet and bring their concerns
to branch meetings”. I paraphrase, but variations on this canard are
repeated quite often sometimes with an addendum along the lines of, “we
need to engage with the real world”.
We do need to engage with the real world but moral injunctions about branch
meetings are just the opposite of such engagement. Revolutionary socialists
advocate direct discussion and open voting against closed meetings and
secret ballots, but this fine, hard won principle is not being applied
intelligently.
Any medium is by defini... more »
Hollywood's Cultural War on America Enters New Level of Intensity
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
*Paul Revere: A hero to patriots, a villain to traitors.*
Read:
*New AMC Sitcom “We Hate Paul Revere” to Demonize Patriot Hero*.
*Alex Details Operation Paul Revere*.
New AMC Sitcom "We Hate Paul Revere" to Demonize American Patriot Hero (HD)
New AMC show called "we hate Paul revere"
Divided Over Whole Foods
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago
Whole Foods accents two halves of Charlestown
*
**I **heard** the food isn't that good anyway.*
*Maybe this will help you wash it down*:
"Mass. moves to save water sources" by Beth Daley | Globe Staff, November
29, 2012
Massachusetts officials are scheduled to unveil a *new framework* Thursday *to
allocate water* from streams and rivers, a long-awaited plan that aims to
prevent waterways from running dry but could translate into *higher water
rates* and more bans on lawn watering.
The new guidelines are expected to require communities to work harder to
fix leaky pipes and inject ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Can Stop War'
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
MNN:
INDIGENOUS CAN STOP WAR
http//www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN: INDIGENOUS CAN STOP WAR
MNN. JAN. 17, 2013. US & CANADA corporations merged on
February 4, 2011. They have the same shareholders, owners and business
plans for illegal resource extraction. Canadians and Americans have not
been informed. The EU Times in Europe made the announcement on January
17,
GOP's slow-mo cave on debt ceiling
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
The GOPers held a little retreat this week and figured out they can't blow
up the world economy without dying in the explosion themselves so they came
up with a new strategy to save face for John Boehner. Johnny announced
today, well okay House will agree to pay the bills for the next 3 months.
But it comes with a catch:
Under the bill, Congress would increase the debt limit through mid-April —
long enough, House Republicans say, to give both chambers time to pass a
budget agreement. Turning up the pressure on the Senate, the measure would
withhold Congress’s paychecks if either c... more »
Dr. Steve Pieczenik - Al Gore: Ne Plus Ultra of Political Corruption and Business Incompetence
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
Al Jazeera is peddling bullshit about Syria, so it is fitting that they
found a partner in Al Gore. Bullshit attracts bullshit.
*Title - Al Gore: Ne Plus Ultra of Political Corruption and Business
Incompetence [Channel: Steve Pieczenik, Posted on YouTube: January 10, 2013]
*:
On this episode of Steve Pieczenik Talks, Dr. Steve Pieczenik who served
under 5 presidential administrations, exposes in detail the shortcomings of
the politically corrupt and incompetent Al Gore.
SEE MORE AT:
http://SteveTalks.tv
https://StevePieczenik.com
Kaley Cuoco before she was Penny - Friday Night Rule 5
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
The Big Bang Theory's Penny, aka Kaley Cuoco, in 8 Simple Rules from 2002 -
nice thong!
U.S., China in deal on U.N. North Korea rebuke; Russia to back it
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N.
Security Council resolution condemning North Korea for its December rocket
launch, U.N. diplomats said on Friday, and Russia predicted it would be
approved by the council.
The resolution would not impose new sanctions, but would call for expanding
existing U.N. sanctions measures against Pyongyang, the envoys said on
condition of anonymity. They added that China's support for the move would
be a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang.
The 15-nation council could adopt the compromise resolution next week, the... more »
They're shocked when sports scribes don’t check facts!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013*
*Neither did Liasson, Schieffer:* We’re puzzled by all the puzzlement.
At the Atlantic, Hampton Stevens is amazed by the journalistic breakdown
concerning Manti Te’o’s non-existent doomed girl friend.
Visiting us from some distant land, Stevens says he finds the journalistic
conduct “incredible:”
STEVENS (1/17/13): *Incredible, isn't it? Not one of the highly-paid,
well-respected journalists at SI or ESPN even bothered to check the most
basic facts of their stories.* Charlie Rose and CBS, with all that staff,
with all that preaching about "original repo... more »
Alberta Tories Bought One Vote, Mine
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
It's enough to make your blood boil. Alberta Conservatives are bent onmeddling in British Columbia's
upcoming provincial election. They're running a campaign to raise Alberta
donations to support Christy Clark and her faux Liberals.
*Rod Love, the chief of staff to former premier Ralph Klein, and Allan
Hallman, who ran Jim Dinning’s 2006 Alberta Conservative leadership
campaign, asked Calgary’s business elite to pay $125 each to help out the
Liberals — British Columbia Liberals, that is.*
*“If your company or organization does business in British Columbia (or
perhaps if you or y... more »
Actually existing news
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
Thanks to a court order we now know that in recent royal consent has been
sought on 39 parliamentary bills, which both the Queen and Prince Charles
have had the power to block (and on at least one occasion did block). An
internal Whitehall pamphlet states:
[T]he Queen's consent is likely to be needed for laws affecting hereditary
revenues, personal property or personal interests of the Crown, the Duchy
of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall.
Consent is also needed if it affects the Duchy of Cornwall. These
guidelines effectively mean the Queen and Charles both have power over laws
... more »
Actually existing news
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
Thanks to a court order we now know that in recent royal consent has been
sought on 39 parliamentary bills, which both the Queen and Prince Charles
have had the power to block (and on at least one occasion did block). An
internal Whitehall pamphlet states:
[T]he Queen's consent is likely to be needed for laws affecting hereditary
revenues, personal property or personal interests of the Crown, the Duchy
of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall.
Consent is also needed if it affects the Duchy of Cornwall. These
guidelines effectively mean the Queen and Charles both have power over laws
... more »
Domestic threats
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours ago
[photo via Alaska Dispatch]
An organization connected to the West Point Military Academy released a new
study showing extreme far-right groups in the United States "while diverse
in their causes, are similar in their use of violence" to "draw attention
to and emphasize their given ideology."
Unsurprisingly the crackpot conservative contingent on Capitol Hill, as
with a previous study done in 2009, is taking it personally.
A Republican congressional staffer who served in the military told The
Washington Times: “If [the Defense Department] is looking for places to cut
spending, th... more »
Actually existing news
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
Thanks to a court order we now know that in recent royal consent has been
sought on 39 parliamentary bills, which both the Queen and Prince Charles
have had the power to block (and on at least one occasion did block). An
internal Whitehall pamphlet states:
[T]he Queen's consent is likely to be needed for laws affecting hereditary
revenues, personal property or personal interests of the Crown, the Duchy
of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall.
Consent is also needed if it affects the Duchy of Cornwall. These
guidelines effectively mean the Queen and Charles both have power over laws
... more »
Paul Krugman, “Fiscal Affinity Fraud”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Fiscal Affinity Fraud”*
by Paul Krugman
“Innocent that I am, I never heard the term “affinity fraud” until the
Bernie Madoff affair hit the news. But once you hear it, the concept is
obvious: people are most easily conned when they’re getting their
disinformation from someone who seems to be part of their tribe, one way or
another. And I found myself thinking about that reality when the
predictable reaction to today’s column came in: irate and, I believe,
sincere if often incoherent voice mails etc. declaring that I must be an
idiot, evil, or an evil idiot for saying that t... more »
Panetta calls for more agile NATO with wider strategic focus
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Friday for NATO to reinvent itself
as a more agile alliance with a broader outlook embracing the Asia-Pacific
and able to respond to new threats from Islamic militancy.
Panetta said as the alliance winds down the Afghanistan war and cuts
defense spending to fit shrinking budgets, it would still face challenges
from Islamist militants as well as countries like Iran and North Korea.
"NATO can no longer be an alliance focused on a single type of mission,
whether deterring the aggression of another superpower or conducting
stability operations li... more »
Twenty foreigners still caught in hostage crisis
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
More than 20 foreigners were still being held hostage or missing inside a
gas plant on Friday after Algerian forces stormed the desert complex to
free hundreds of captives taken by Islamist militants, who threatened to
attack other energy installations.
Thirty hostages, including at least seven Westerners, were killed during
Thursday's assault, along with at least 18 of their captors, said an
Algerian security source.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/18/us-sahara-crisis-idUSBRE90F1JJ20130118
Baileigh Karam vanishes the same day shocking video of her being brutally attacked at school is posted online
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
A bullied teenager is missing after a video surfaced online of her being
struck repeatedly by a classmate.
Baileigh Karam, 14, of Carlsbad, California, disappeared last Friday
when
the cell phone video was posted on Facebook.
In the video, a female student strikes her as a crowd of fellow students
watch and cheer. Karam is heard begging her attacker to stop.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264535/Baileigh-Karam-missing-Bullied-girl-14-disappears-video-attacked-posted-Facebook.html
Chief of the Defence Staff,
Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago
I've
just had a bizzare conversation that once again makes me think you
really ought explain to all ranks that the Prime Minister is not
Canada's 'boss' and that the oath they swore is, in fact, to the Queen.
In my day that much at least was explicitly clear.
Mind you, I am assuming you understand this idea a little better than
some of your fellows.
It was bad enough that I had to watch
No donkeys were harmed in the making of Street View: Google denies killing animal after accusations of hit-and-run in Africa
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Google said the animal was 'perhaps enjoying a dust bath'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2264462/Google-donkey-Google-forced-deny-killing-donkey-Street-View-car-Botswana.html
"The Coxeyites, the Bankers, and the Political Class"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*"The Coxeyites, the Bankers, and the Political Class"*
by Jeffrey Tucker
"In 1894, a scraggly band of misfits made their way from Ohio to
Washington, D.C. They had a plan to present to the political class, one
that they said would bring an end to the economic depression that had been
sparked by the Panic of 1893 and guarantee a future of endless prosperity
for all. Their plan was for the politicians and the government to print
unlimited amounts of money. Surely, that would solve everything! After all,
most of these people knew exactly what was wrong with their lives. Their
o... more »
THE CIA'S BELMOKHTAR IN ALGERIA
Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*Belmokhtar*
Some British citizens are missing and feared dead after a rescue attempt
in Algeria.
The Brits were being held by the CIA's Al Qaeda terrorists.
"After a fierce day of fighting, Algerian officials said the rescue
operation was over.
"They said at least 11 Islamist militants, including Tahar Ben Cheneb, a
prominent commander in the region, were among the dead, along with three
Egyptians, two Tunisians, two Libyans, a Malian and a French citizen."
*The Al Qaeda-linked terrorists are led by veteran jihadist Mokhtar
Belmokhtar.*
dailymail.co.uk/
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, "a... more »
David Brooks writes a very strange novel!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013*
*The headlong descent continues:* Is it just us? Or is David Brooks’ new
column one of the strangest ever?
The opinion piece is written in the form of a novel—a novel about what
unnamed Washington Democrats are supposedly telling themselves.
There are a million novels in the capital city. Brooks has written the one
in which the Democrats decide it's time to destroy the other party.
Brooks starts by saying that, in his opinion, Washington pols should spend
the next four years learning to be constructive again. This is what he
imagines:
BROOKS (1/18/13): ... more »
Obama warns Cameron Britain must stay in a 'strong EU' hours before Algerian hostage crisis forces PM to abandon Big Speech
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Barack Obama last night warned Britain must remain part of a 'strong
European Union' as David Cameron raised the prospect of 'drifting towards
the exit'.
The US President used a call to London to stress the EU's role in spreading
'peace, prosperity, and security' around the world. Downing Street was
forced to deny a rift, insisting the call was 'friendly'.
But the warning from the White House against Britain severing ties with
Brussels came hours before Mr Cameron dramatically called off his
long-awaited Europe speech to deal with the Algeria hostage crisis.
Government sources sugg... more »
Germany's federal police carry out 18-month surveillance operation complete with an assigned officer... to capture a TOILET PAPER thief
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
A department of Germany’s equivalent of the FBI installed surveillance
cameras and assigned a surveillance officer to capture a suspected toilet
roll thief on their premises.
The Landeskriminalamt, which track white collar criminals, organised gangs
and terrorists, spent thousands on the investigation after cleaners
reported an ‘unusally high’ usage of toilet paper.
A secret camera was installed in the stairwell of House 5 in Waltersleben,
Thuringian and a detective who used to listen to covert telephone
recordings of crooks was assigned to overall command of ‘Operation Bog
Roll,’ ... more »
Gatitos enamorados junto a las flores posando para la foto
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 10 hours ago
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Una bonita amistad llena de amor entre cachorritos
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Taxi Driver Ichhpal Bhamra who killed Tom Ridgway and carried his body on car bonnet for 90 metres before smashing into a tree is fined just £35
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
A taxi driver who killed a 20-year-old cyclist after hitting him with his
cab and driving into a tree has walked free from court with a fine of just
£35.
The family of student Tom Ridgway hit out at the 'insulting' fine,
insisting the punishment did not do justice to the 'enormous tragedy' of
his death.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264400/Taxi-driver-Ichhpal-Bhamra-killed-cyclist-Tom-Ridgway-fined-just-35.html
Tarjetas de amor para el Dia de San Valentín
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Regalos para el 14 de febrero - Chocolates
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Postal para el dia del amor y la amistad
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UKIP Nigel Farage .. fighting the rise of the EU Nazi super state .. I am spartacus
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Nigel Farage Says EU Debate A Smokescreen - Question Time
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
Pequeños festejando el amor y la amistad que los une
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BC Liberals, A Family Of Alcoholics
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 11 hours ago
*Canadian official fined
for driving drunk on Maui*
------------------------------
*By Gary T. Kubota**gkubota@starbulletin.com**LAHAINA >> After drinking
three martinis and some wine, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell
drove erratically on Maui, speeding and nearly crossing into a lane toward
another vehicle.**Campbell pleaded no contest yesterday to drunken driving
and three other offenses.*
*As a first-time offender, Campbell was fined $500 for the petty
misdemeanor of driving under the influence of alcohol. He also was ordered
to pay $50 for failure to drive on the right ... more »
Nigel Farage: Democracy and Self-Government now Staging a Fightback
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Cleric Qadri: 'Best time for people's revolt in Pakistan is now'
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Rise of the Right: Radicals rock polls ahead of Israel election
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Friday Means Fish For Lunch
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago
*Because I'm a good Catholic, and I don't want a **peanut butter** sandwich.
*
"Bill carries fines for mislabeled seafood" by Jenn Abelson | Globe
Staff, January 18, 2013
Massachusetts would levy fines on supermarkets and restaurants that
mislabel seafood and become the first state in the nation to ban the sale
of escolar, an oily species known as the “ex-lax” fish that is often served
as sushi, under legislation expected to be filed Friday.
The bill, proposed by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Consumer
Protection and Professional Licensure, comes more than a year after a
Bo... more »
Tulipanes adornando el mensaje "Te quiero mucho"
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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Burning inferno in Australia as country struggles with record heat
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Will Mint Juleps Be Served, Too?
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago
It always amazes me on Twitter and elsewhere on the intertubez when
right wing nut jobs bristle at the thought of being reminded of their
racism and their adopted political party's enduring love affair with
fascism. One such person denounced what I'd said about the Republican
Party's stubborn adherence to Nazi policies by using the hashtag
#GodwinsLaw.
But where does it say that Godwin's Law necessarily involves
falsehoods and spurious charges of fascism? It's one thing to label someone
as a fascist and another thing entirely to be able to quantify it. And
anyone who kno... more »
Blue Dogs Show Their True Colors Again-- Red
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Tuesday evening Boehner was finally forced by Northern Republicans-- like
Frank LoBiondo (above)-- to allow a vote on aid for the victims of
SuperStorm Sandy. LoBiondo sounds pissed off... and threatened his
Confederate colleagues in Mississippi, Florida (and California) who refused
to vote for funds. The bill passed, 241-180 but with only 49 Republican
votes. 179 Republicans and one slimy Blue Dog-- Jim Cooper of Nashville
(who had successfully lobbied for federal money for Tennessee flooding in
the past)-- voted against the relief fund. But before the final bill, there
were 9 r... more »
Diamantes entre los suaves pétalos de rosas
José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 11 hours ago
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This is disturbing...
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
*and frankly, a bit disgusting.*
Obama to Create Mass Organization Devoted to Obama
Cupido rompe corazones listo para empezar
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A Scourge of Imaginary Friends
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 11 hours ago
Reality assuredly bites, so the temptation to retreat into the cocoon
of delusion is always there. It's just a part of being human. But too
many lies and cons and fairytales have a tendency to build
precariously upon themselves. And when they come crashing down, they tend
to come crashing down all at once. I am talking to you, corporate
media courtiers of America.
The Big Story today of course is about Heisman trophy hopeful Manti Te'o
and the dead girlfriend who wasn't and the usual institutional cover-up of
the fake dead girlfriend who wasn't and the usual journalistic
lackadaisi... more »
Deborah Farley Arrested After 7 year old Son Takes Gun To School
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
Police in New York City have arrested the mother of a seven-year-old boy
who took a gun and ammunition to school in his rucksack.
Deborah Farley was arrested on Friday on several charges including criminal
possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
Police say the 53-year-old's son had taken the handgun to his Queens
elementary school on Thursday.
http://news.sky.com/story/1039940/mother-arrested-after-son-takes-gun-to-school
Notwithstanding Jon Stewart's ridicule of Paul Krugman's suggestion that the U.S. Treasury mint a trillion-dollar coin to avert austerity, all of the top economists who have not gone over to "the dark side of the force" (aka the neoliberal kleptocracy) know that (1) the platinum coin is but one of many viable ways to avert austerity and (2) imposition of austerity is a sure recipe to crash the economy, bringing great suffering to all but the top 1%. Here, top economist Bill Black relates the deep history of austerity, revealing it to be a self-serving right-wing dogma rather than a scientifically determined necessity.
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago
------------------------------
* the**REALnews
Permalink*
January 18, 2013
*Stewart vs Krugman and the Religion of Austerity*
Bill Black: Obama has options, including the trillion dollar coin, to
refuse to negotiate under the gun but he's taken them off the table; both
sides subscribe to the dogma of austerity
*Watch full multipart The Black Financial and Fraud Report*
More at The Real News
*Bio*
William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE,
teaches economics and law at the Uni... more »
Freed British Hostages Praise Algerian Army
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
British hostages have spoken of their ordeal in Algeria, praising the army
rescue team that saved their lives.
Speaking to state television, one unnamed man said: "I think they did a
fantastic job, I was very impressed with the Algerian army.
"I feel sorry for anybody who has been hurt."
Another, Darren Matthews, said: "I feel safe at the moment but I won't feel
100% happy until I'm back in the UK, until I see my family."
http://news.sky.com/story/1039636/freed-british-hostages-praise-algerian-army
Corazón de rosas rojas para compartir
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What Kind of Crazy Are the GOP?
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
Dan Drezner suspects "large swathes of the GOP elite simply lack
instrumental rationality." My verdict: not quite correct. But not all that
wrong, either.
He has two counts against them, so I'll take them one at a time. The first
is that now, after Chuck Schumer has declared he'll vote for Chuck Hagel, a
GOP-aligned group is organizing to raise money to take Schumer on. Drezner
suggests that Hagel's nomination is a sure thing by now, and so "there are
at least ten other ways to spend this money that would be more efficient
than trying to oppose Hagel right now."
Is that correct? Le... more »
WSJ: EDF Turns to Chinese Partner for UK Nuclear Plants
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago
Friday Jan 11 2013 p. B5 by S. Williams and G. Amiel
[paraphrasing] Electricite de France is discussing building nuclear power
plants in the UK with China Guandong Nuclear Power.
[Excepted] The arrival if the well-financed Chinese company could ease
fears about the future of nuclear energy in Britain. Plans for a fleet of
new reactors have been beset by delays...
A deal would give the Chinese utility, which already collaborates with EDF
on new reactors in China, a foothold on a new market.
The British government meanwhile would get a boost for its plans to use
nuclear power to kee... more »
West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S.
Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far
right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports *“civil
activism, individual freedoms and self-government.”*
The report issued this week by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., is titled “Challengers from the
Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.”
The center — part of the institution where men and women are molded into
Army officers — posted the report Tuesday. *It lumps limited government
activists with three movements it identifies ... more »
2 reports on Athabasca oil sands paint a dire picture
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: The capacity to produce petroleum coke (petcoke) in American
refineries has doubled since 1999, largely because of the ongoing boom in
Canadian oil sands production. Graphic: Oil Change International / data
from Energy Information Administration]
By JOHN M. BRODER
17 January 2013
(The New York Times) – Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and the heavy
Canadian crude oil that it would carry released two reports on Thursday
asserting that the environmental impacts of the project are worse than
previously estimated, and urged the Obama administration to veto it.
One report... more »
China: One-child policy is here to stay
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: Parents play with their children at a kid's play area in a shopping
mall in Beijing on 10 January 2013. Alexander F. Yuan / AP]
By Le Li and Alastair Jamieson
16 January 2013
BEIJING (NBC News) – China has quelled speculation its controversial
"one-child" policy is to be scrapped, instead announcing Wednesday that
family planning laws to curb the birth rate will remain.
"The policy should be a long-term one and its primary goal is to keep a low
birthrate," Wang Xia, minister in charge of the National Population and
Family Planning Commission, said*.*
The pronouncement co... more »
Arctic Drilling Defeats: Insanity in an Era of Peak Oil
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago
As Shell’s Arctic Drilling Hopes Hit Snags, Its Rivals Watch by C Krauss
and J. Broder Jan 17 2013 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/business/energy-environment/rivals-watch-travails-of-shell-arctic-drilling.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130118&adxnnlx=1358525060-jtZ/7sNBuv0IsqWhv689ZQ[excerpted]
— Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program is now officially in
jeopardy
and its prospects will depend on the findings of two continuing federal
inquiries. One review is on the grounding of the Kulluk drill ship on
New
Year’s Eve after it was set a... more »
Bouncing Along in My Boston Globe
Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago
Bounce houses a party hit but kids’ injuries soar
CHICAGO — They may be a big hit at children’s birthday parties, but
inflatable bounce houses can be dangerous, with the number of injuries
soaring in recent years, a nationwide study found. Youngsters often crowd
into bounce houses, and jumping up and down can send other children flying
into the air, too.
The numbers suggest 30 US children a day are treated in emergency rooms for
broken bones, sprains, cuts, and concussions from bounce house accidents.
Most involve children falling inside or out of the inflated playthings, and
many ... more »
Center for American Progress: Why we now oppose drilling in the Arctic
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: Center for American Progress: Why We Now Oppose Drilling in the
Arctic. Illustration by Aisha Franz / Bloomberg]
By Carol Browner and John Podesta
17 January 2013
The Arctic Ocean is subject to some of the most volatile weather patterns
on the planet. Geologists believe it also contains vast undersea oil and
gas reserves.
Last year, the Arctic’s ice cover shrank to the lowest levels in recorded
history and, not coincidentally, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) received the
first permits in decades to begin prospecting for oil and gas in federal
waters north of Alaska’s wilder... more »
21st Century Work: Low-Wage, Part-Time, and Without Voice
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago
Majia here: The new economy that is emerging is non-union, low-wage, and
part-time
As manufacturing bounces back from recession, unions are left behind By
Jim
Tankersley, Published: January 16 The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-manufacturing-bounces-back-from-recession-unions-are-left-behind/2013/01/16/4b4a7368-5e88-11e2-90a0-73c8343c6d61_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
[Excerpted] U.S. manufacturers have added a half-million new workers
since the end of 2009, making the sector one of the few bright spots in
an
otherwise weak recovery. And yet th... more »
Letter to Seattle Board Members and Superintendent
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
Here are the addresses: superintendent@seattleschools.org,
schoolboard@seattleschools.org
Dear Board Members:
You are to be congratulated for your leadership in spawning a group of
educators at Garfield High who understand their mission is "to improve
learning, rather than to prove it" (Dan Stufflebeam quote from 30 years
ago). Stufflebeam knew then what most reformers still don't about the
purpose of evaluation, and he also knew that trying to direct traffic from
20,000 feet can be very dangerous and confusing for those on the ground,
even though things look quite orderly from a... more »
4.8 Magnitude Earthquake OAXACA, MEXICO - 18th January 2013
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
Magnitude
4.8
Date-Time
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 15:31:43 UTC
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 09:31:43 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
15.908°N, 96.588°W
Depth
31.3 km (19.4 miles)
Region
OAXACA, MEXICO
Distances
23 km (14 miles) NW of San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico
Things that make sense to the New York Times!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013*
*One way to improve the Congress:* We know, we know:
The New York Times is widely seen, at least among liberals and
mainstreamers, as our smartest newspaper. In some areas, the Times may even
do some good smart work.
But good God! The types of things which make sense to the Times! We thought
we’d mention the Sunday Dialogue the paper ran last week.
In some ways, the Sunday Dialogue isn’t a half bad idea. Each Wednesday,
the Times publishes an “invitation to a dialogue”—a short piece by some
assistant adjunct associate professor on some issue, concern or o... more »
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA - 18th January 2013
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 14:05:53 UTC
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 05:05:53 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
53.930°N, 163.235°W
Depth
11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Region
UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
Distances
103 km (64 miles) S of False Pass, Alaska
Sarah Jory - Last Horizon. A woman of steel...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 13 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/zuI23wEa8Bg
Kind of sexy playing, ain't it?
Enjoy your weekend!
John
Untitled
Disaster MapNet at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Any Hope For Justice From The NFL Died Today With Jonathan Vilma’s Lawsuit
~Saints Tailgate*
Wild weather: Extreme is the new normal
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago
[image: Lines of scorched earth and huge smoke plumes from wildfires in
Australia were visible from the International Space Station on 8 January
2013. Photo: Chris Hadfield / NASA]
18 January 2013 (New Scientist) – All eyes have been on Australia in recent
weeks as a blistering heatwave triggered huge wildfires. The result has
been a slew of amazing stories, including a family escaping by jumping into
the sea and meteorologists adding new colours to heat maps.
But Australia's fires are just the most dramatic of a cluster of ongoing
extreme weather events, including droughts in the... more »
Scottish streets became opaque to Higgs
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
Scotsman.com runs an amusing, light story.
*Peter Higgs became a toy model capable of explaining the physics of
Margaret Thatcher.*
For decades, the sidewalks of the Scottish capital Edinburgh were almost
perfectly transparent to Higgs' excitations while Higgs was obscure: his
cross section was almost as low as the cross section of dark matter.
However, those good old times are gone, mainly due to the official
discovery of the God particle on July 4th, 2012.
These days, strangers constantly intercept Peter Higgs when he is trying to
propagate through the streets. These fans wa... more »
Duress
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
R v. Ryan 2013 SCC 3 clarifies the law of duress:
[81] The defence of duress, in its statutory and common law forms, is
largely the same. The two forms share the following common elements:
• There must be an explicit or implicit threat of present or future death
or bodily harm. This threat can be directed at the accused or a third
party.
• The accused must reasonably believe that the threat will be carried out.
• There is no safe avenue of escape. This element is evaluated on a
modified objective standard.
• A close temporal connection between the threat and the harm th... more »
PEDDLING RHEE: The way it works!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013*
*Part 4—The reign of “conventional rhetoric:”* Paul Krugman’s new column is
highly informative. And not only that! The column concerns a highly
important federal budget topic.
That said, there is little chance that Krugman’s column will affect the
ongoing public debate about the federal budget. For one thing, other
journalists *won’t* discuss the info his column contains.
At one point, Krugman explains why this is. Note the two highlighted
phrases:
KRUGMAN (1/18/13): The point is that the case for urgent action now to
reduce spending decades in the futur... more »
Jakarta floods forces tens of thousands out of their homes
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
Sydney endures hottest day ever recorded – Emergency services council warns government of worse to come
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Hourly temperature in Sydney, Australia, 18 January 2013. The
mercury topped 45.8 at Sydney's Observatory Hill at 2.55pm, breaking the
previous record set in 1939 by half a degree. Graphic: Fairfax Media /
Source: Bureau of Meteorology]
By Ilya Gridneff, Tom Arup, and Jacob Saulwick
19 January 2013
SYDNEY, Australia (SMH) – Sydney endured its hottest ever day on Friday,
with records smashed across the city and thousands of people suffering from
the heat.
The mercury topped 45.8 at Sydney's Observatory Hill at 2.55pm, breaking
the previous record set in 1939 by half a degr... more »
No relief in sight for drought-stricken Plains – U.S. declares Wheat Belt a natural disaster area
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, 1 November 2012 - 31 January 2013.
Dry weather was predicted to continue through at least the end of January
in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains. NOAA]
By Sam Nelson, with additional reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City;
Editing by Dale Hudson
18 January 2013
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dry weather should continue through at least the end of
January in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and a blast of Arctic cold air
in the Midwest early next week poses a threat to unprotected livestock and
possibly some wheat, an agricultural meteorologist said o... more »
Dennis Kucinich Makes Fox News Debut With Bill O'Reilly (VIDEO) Will Obama’s gun plan pass congress?
Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 14 hours ago
Dennis Kucinich made his official debut as a Fox News contributor on
Thursday's "O'Reilly Factor."
The left-wing ex-congressman probably startled many supporters when
he announced that he was on the Roger Ailes payroll on Wednesday, but he
appeared eager to chat when O'Reilly introduced him.
"Wow, what a conversion!" O'Reilly joked. "Congressman, how did that
happen? You know all the people on Fox News are far-right crazy people!"
"Together again at last, Bill," Kucinich said. "So you're the same
left-wing nut we know and love," O'Reilly said. Kucinich pointedly noted
that, un... more »
Dietary shifts driving up phosphorus use – World phosphorus footprint increased 38 percent since 1960s
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Global mined phosphorus use for food per capita, 1961 and 2007.
Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp increase in the
amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average
person over the course of a year. Metson, et al., 2013]Contact: Chris
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17 January 2013
(mcgill.ca) – Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp
increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food
consumed by the average person o... more »
Eastbound and Down
Southern Man at Southern Man - 14 hours ago
Southern Man's Friday morning lab runs from 9:00 - 10:40. Be eleven o'clock
he plans to be on the interstate headed to Fort Meade, MD to deliver Teen
Daughter The Elder's car. Photos and commentary will be appended to this
post over the course of the weekend.
In the meantime, here's a little Jerry Reed from one of the truly great
road trip movies.
urgent: help defend ontario's endangered species!
laura k at wmtc - 14 hours ago
The Government of Ontario is poised to gut the province's Endangered
Species Act.
Right now, according to the David Suzuki Foundation, Ontario's Endangered
Species Act is one of the strongest in Canada. Under the ESA, companies
that intend to develop land or extract resources must apply for permits
that leave the species better off than where it started.
Last month, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources quietly proposed *exempting
most industries from meeting these requirements - and giving industries the
power to regulate themselves*.
Exempted activities could include logging,... more »
Book Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 14 hours ago
In the Seven Kingdoms, some children are born just a little bit different.
Some can swim or juggle better than anybody else and some are blessed with
fighting or in the case of Katsa killing. These special abilities are
called Graces and although these people are a benefit to many the Graced
are shunned and even feared by most people.
Graces are practically impossible to hide, as they cause the eyes of the
Graced to turn two different colors. As soon as a child's eyes change, they
are given to the king of their land to serve him as he sees fit. Katsa
discovers what her Grace is wh... more »
Redigi to Land in Europe and Sell Music and Books!
Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 14 hours ago
Are we about to see the demise of the lack of a first sale doctrine on
digital files? Although ReDigi is still locked in a US court case with
Capitol records accused of copyright infringement they now plan to
bring their service to Europe. Amazon is releasing its AutoRip service
which gives buyers of the physical they can resell and a digital copy for
life in the cloud. Others a queued up watching as many start to push the
boundaries on digital media, the right to resell and the whole question of
the licence you get when you buy digital media.
ReDigi move to Europe is within the... more »
Untitled
Disaster MapNet at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*New Orleans area levee improvements already outpaced by science,
engineering, engineer says*
*Two Storms, Two Cities: Not Many Parallels Between Sandy, Katrina ~Roberta
Brandes Gratz* ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg
*Bobby Jindal was Against taxes before he was For taxes*
*Businesses warned of Super Bowl restrictions*
*Bead Mosaics Cover Da World! ~Leigh Ann Sturart, The Advocate*
~Mardi Gras parades are infamous for, among many things, the piles of
unwanted plastic beads they leave in their wake. While many might be quick
to dismiss the gaudy neckwear as fool’s gold, one man has proven such... more »
Near The Bottom
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
The Conference Board of Canada -- not a left leaning think tank -- has
released a report on Canada's environmental health. The news is not good:
The study ranks Canada 15th out of 17 developed nations on environmental
performance, ahead of only The United States and last place Australia.
The bottom three are also the largest nations surveyed in terms of land
mass and all depend on natural resources for a large part of their economic
output.
And the Harper government's push to make Canada an "energy superpower" is
doing nothing to improve our environmental well being:
On per ca... more »
Philadelphia Subway Attack: Suspect Held By US Police
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
Police investigating a horrific attack on a woman on the Philadelphia
subway have arrested a man.
Surveillance video shows the 23-year-old woman being viciously punched and
then dragged across the platform.
She is then pushed onto the railway track at the station in the city's
Chinatown neighbourhood.
The attack happened around 3.30pm on Tuesday, after the suspect initially
approached the victim and asked for a light.
http://news.sky.com/story/1039842/subway-attack-suspect-held-by-us-police
Bolshoi Ballet Boss Has Acid Thrown In Face
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
The Bolshoi Theatre's artistic director has been hospitalised with
third-degree burns and may lose his eyesight following an acid attack by a
masked man in Moscow.
Sergei Filin, 43, was attacked as he got out of his car outside his home,
according to Arkady Bashirov, a spokesperson for the city police.
http://news.sky.com/story/1039790/bolshoi-ballet-boss-has-acid-thrown-in-face
4.7 Magnitude Earthquake NIAS REGION, INDONESIA - 18th January 2013
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
Magnitude
4.7
Date-Time
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 12:25:44 UTC
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 07:25:44 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
0.266°N, 97.703°E
Depth
21.8 km (13.5 miles)
Region
NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
Distances
202 km (125 miles) SW of Sibolga, Indonesia
Self-portrait with cropped hair.
noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 15 hours ago
[image: Frida Kahlo. Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair. 1940]
It was two years ago that Lhasa de Sela died of cancer at the age of 37.
My
post.
I have been thinking a lot about Lhasa recently; the *Idle No
More*movement as well as the season's reminder of family members and
friends who
died in December and January stir these memories.
In late November, I viewed the AGO exhibition *Frida and Diego* with my
daughter.
It was an intense and powerful learning experience; if you're able to
see
it before it closes on January 20th, do go!
Frida's shorn hair self-portrait is echoed in Lh... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Jason Segal, 33. It was really nice to have the Muppets
come back, I thought.
And a bit of good stuff:
1. Andrew Rudalevige takes a closer look at exactly what Barack Obama did
on guns this week.
2. Ezra Klein is looking for discharge petitions to make the House work. I
don't think that's going to happen.
3. And Carah Ong at the Miller Center has been looking through the oral
histories for Inaugural stuff. This one is brilliant:
Well, first thing that happened, they got in deep do-do with Speaker
O’Neill and they never recovered the whole four years. Hamilton Jor... more »
Andrew Cuomo-- The Anti-Progressive Running For President In Progressive Clothes
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
For many non-New Yorkers the video above might have been their first look
at 2016 presidential hopeful, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. He sounds like a
passionate progressive, taking on the extremist gun nuts and the NRA,
right? Yes, but "sounds" is the key word in that sentence. Andrew Cuomo is
anything *but* a progressive, passionate or not. He's figured out how to
make high profile social issues-- like marriage equality and gun laws--
work for him but where it really matters most, Cuomo is another Wall
Street-owned political hack serving the interests of the one percent, not
the in... more »
Friday Morning Linkage….Mali Edition
Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 15 hours ago
New term alert: France is worried that Mali and the region is turning into
“Afrighanistan.” If you didn’t see this on Wednesday, go back and read
Adrienne LeBas’s piece here on Duck. Some evidence of Malian support for
intervention? Mohammed Adow at Al Jazeera’s Africa blog also thinks so.
Gregory Mann believes the intervention was necessary
Continue reading
The Time Has Come To Talk A Little Bit About The Lenient Rape Convictions In Sweden - A Guest Post by Inga
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
The time has come to talk a little bit about the lenient rape convictions
in Sweden.
Maybe, maybe, the time has come to talk a little bit about the lenient rape
convictions in Sweden. To save face we have put out the big lie to the
world that Sweden is very tough on sex criminals, almost like we have a no
tolerance for sexual crimes. I guess it would be more truthful to say that
we have a lot of tolerance when it comes to the perpetrators and that we
always should feel sorry for them. In some cases they are too young to
understand the meaning of their actions. This happens whe... more »
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: # 8
laura k at wmtc - 15 hours ago
At the branch library where I'm currently working as a page, the magazine
section is along a back wall forming an L shape - the long part full of
magazines, the short part with teen magazines and comic books. This isn't
the graphic novel section; it's Archie, Amazing Spider-Man, and such.
Around another corner from that short wall is a cozy reading area arranged
among the youth novels.
The other day, as I was beginning to file a big pile of magazines, I came
upon a girl, maybe tweens or early teens, wearing a hijab (not unusual),
standing in the very corner of the L, looking throug... more »
"Vigilantees implementing Islam upon your own necks"
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago
See what unfettered immigration and the creed of multi-culturalism is
bringing to the streets of London. Islamic thugs patrolling their
self-proclaimed "Muslim Area" and forcing Sharia on non-Muslims.
Today East London, tomorrow...? Compliance with these thugs is dhimmiism,
although they'd intimidate many. However standing up to them would probably
be deemed Islamophobic.
Thanks to Gates of Vienna for the video spot.
Weird Or Not, Beliefs Are Protected Religion
Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours ago
A recent case where a vegan claimed she was protected from religious
discrimination has caused some wailing and gnashing of teeth on the
management side of my profession. The court said this about her claims:
[I]t is plausible that Plaintiff could subscribe to veganism with a
sincerity equating that of traditional religious views.... Accordingly, at
this early stage of the litigation, the Court finds it inappropriate to
dismiss Plaintiff's claims for religious discrimination based on her
adherence to veganism.
I, on the other hand, was not surprised. Indeed, I predicted this in my ... more »
Videos
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours ago
Doing other things today ...
This is a good listen.
This was interesting.
Hopefully.
Ronald Reagan Era US Military Trained The Leaders Of The Mali Al-Qaeda To Fight The Old USSR ...
leftdog at Buckdog - 16 hours ago
*Remember Afghanistan??? ... Well ... here we go again .. Stephen Harper
won't be able to resist throwing Canadian troops into yet another conflict
with guerrilla forces that can't be defeated in an open field of war. *
*"A lot of the terrorists the French are battling in Mali were well-trained
by the US and know how US special forces operate, and can use that
knowledge against American troops." *
*Michael Maloof *
*Former Pentagon Official *
*RT Question More*
*Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof told Russia Today that many of the
terrorists in Mali were well-trained by the... more »
5.4 Magnitude Earthquake WESTERN SICHUAN, CHINA - 18th January 2013
Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
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