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Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 hour ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Last week we took a look at our water footprint, specifically our indirect
water use. What a fascinating and ... more »
Will The Democrats Win Back The House In November? With Steve Israel Calling The Shots?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
I'm always Mr. Optimism. I was thinking that the DCCC might have learned
something from the dismal back-to-back failures of the Great Blue Dog
Apocalypse of 2010 (a stunning 63 seats lost, overwhelmingly by incumbents
following DCCC directives to vote with the Republicans whenever possible)
and then their pathetic failure to even come close to taking back the House
last November, as they tried stocking up the caucus with the kind of
right-wing corporate whores (Blue Dogs and New Dems) grassroots
progressives don't want to support. Funny how the Tories in the U.K. seem more
open t... more »
CNN Exposed: Former CNN Reporter, Amber Lyon, Comes Forward Showing How Network Is Totally Biased And Untrustworthy!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
I and others in the so called real truth movement have said for over a
decade now that every major media outlet on this planet is totally
controlled by criminal (usually Jewish) interests, and has absolutely no
interest of ever getting any truthful information out to the
public....Instead, they continue to put up pure garbage, lies, and
completely biased reports, that they try to pass off as "news".
To show how one of the major "News" networks, CNN, is in itself nothing
more than a totally biased, controlled, and untrustworthy news reporting
network, I want to present the following ... more »
Musical Interlude: Mike & The Mechanics, “The Living Years”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Mike & The Mechanics, “The Living Years”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
Excellent Review of the Challenges of Treating and Managing Contaminated Waste Water From Fracking
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour ago
*Estimating Wastewater Impacts from Fracking*
*Charles W. Schmidt** Environ Health Perspect* 121:a117-a117 (2013).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.121-a117 [online 01 April 2013]
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/121-a117/
[Excerpted] Wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for
natural gas in the Marcellus Shale is already overwhelming disposal options
and will continue to do so as gas development increases, according to newly
published research.1
The investigation did not evaluate environmental consequences of the
wastewater. But lead author Brian Lutz, an assistant prof... more »
Lego retrograde
noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour ago
From here:
Are we really living in 2013? The Lego ads from the 1980s seem more modern
to me.
Now it's a gendered, bubblegum-pink sexist campaign geared to girly-girls -
and most certainly NOT girly-boys!
Indeed. My physician daughter, who in many ways (clothin choices, for one)
resembled the child in the advertisement above, had her own Lego sets in
the 1980s, as well as the full collection of the daring and exciting
adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese
ancestry. That's not the only reason she pursued a career in science;
strong female rol... more »
Lollapalooza or Just Legacy Tour? People Are Finally Catching On To Who The Neolibs Actually Are (And What They Intend To Do To the Rest of US)
Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 hour ago
Outside my door. Karen Garcia at Sardonicky has an erudite, insightful
essay on what she has designated as Obama's Lollapalooza Legacy (about
which many of us (his past and current supporters) are starting to see much
more clearly and are deeply worried about our leadership for the long
term). Read it and see whether you agree with me about her perspicacity. At
the end of her essay is a
End Of An Era: My Dear Friend, Whitewraithe, Is Ending Her Fabulous Work At Pragmatic Witness
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
I have been in many long discussions over the last few months with my
closest ally and a real true friend in this fight against the evils of this
world, Whitewraithe, who writes Pragmatic Witness at
www.pragmaticwitness.com. Sadly, I must inform everyone that she has
decided to quit posting articles at Pragmatic Witness, and she will instead
concentrate on getting her personal life back in order..... It was a very
tough decision, and she asked me many times if it would be the correct
one....I have said that she has to do what is best for her, and that she
has my full support....
... more »
DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S: ‘Daily Telegraph’ openly promoting Libz Party policy
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
*[image: _McGrath001]This week, **Libertarianz** leader Dr Richard McGrath
is coming back a week early just to boast.*
See, I promised I'd be back within a week!
Why so soon? Because, as per the headline, a leading British newspaper has taken
on board a Libertarianz policy--that the poor shouldn't be paying any tax—and
we're proud of the *Telegraph* for doing so.
Oddly, it seems the only Britons against the idea of tax cuts for the poor
are ... yes, you guessed it: *The Guardian* and their left-wing readers.
For pity's sake. Who would have thought it? The champagne socialist
le... more »
What's in a name
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
Biggest
buzz on my interwebs today was about the super colossal revision of
acceptable Big Media syntax. The AP Stylebook banished "illegal
immigrant"from its lexicon. Meanwhile, the world breathlessly awaits to
see if the
NYT will follow suit. No. Seriously. Everybody is talking about it. I
expect we'll have days of deep analysis on why it's good, bad or doesn't
matter at all.
Haven't read a word beyond the headlines myself. All I have to say is,
it's
about damn time. Most of civil society stopped using it years ago. It's
the
contemporary version of wetback, mostly used to deperson... more »
Bulletin from civil-war-torn Damascus: Syria leads the way signing on to the BTAP
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
*Who would have thought Syria would lead the world on BTAP?*
*by Ken*
I know that last night I promised a "for instance" of the abuse of basic
rights of an LGBT citizen so outrageous that, as I wrote, it "had me
punching the walls." You may recall that AZ GOP Rep. Matt Salmon, whose gay
son Matt's "It Gets Better" video we looked at last night, doesn't believe
that LGBT rights are a "legal issue," and so -- as much as he professes to
love his son -- apparently doesn't believe that young Matt is entitled to
any of these rights so absolutely fundamental that most straight people
nev... more »
So why’s everyone so interested in someone else’s marriage?
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
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Bigger pipelines breed bigger disasters
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
The tar sands oil spill cleanup in Arkansas is ongoing, not that you're
going to see it happen. There's apparently a media blackout in place so the
only video is being surreptitiously captured by locals. But here's
something new. It's quite possible taxpayers would end up paying for a
major tar sands oil spill, say if the KXL pipeline was built and
subsequently ruptured. And this is why:
Companies that transport oil are required to pay into the Oil Spill
Liability Trust Fund, giving the government a pot of money for immediate
spill responses. The Enbridge pipeline in Michigan and t... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*LSU spent nearly $1 million on legal fight over firing of coastal
researcher Ivor van Heerden ~Mark Schleifstein*
What philosophers (and everyone else) can learn from economics. And vice versa
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
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Here’s the note about this week’s meeting from our friends at the Auckland
University Economics Group:
Hi All,
This week, we discuss the greatest lesson economics has to teach
everyone else—yet one that few economists even know.
In addition, we will look at what everyone else has to teach
economists—if only economists were able to listen.
We’ll examine:
- one of the great and fundamentally benevolent conclusions of economic
thinking, and the great economist who promoted it; and
- the “axiomatic concepts” that most e... more »
War on Women: Separate and Unequal Law for Pregnant Women
2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago
*You have to watch this video*
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Snips from the - - - - incomplete - - - - Truthout transcript, please
watch the video:
By Laura Flanders, Truthout | Interview
A case in point is Bei Bei Shuai, *who has been incarcerated for more than
a year facing charges of murder *and attempted feticide in Indiana after
she attempted to take her own life while she was in her third trimester of
pregnancy.
"This is really is a national issue," Paltrow told GRITtv. "Will Indiana
become a first state to declare a system of separate and unequal law for
pregnant wome... more »
Showing you the Money - How to Access Your Absolute Value
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
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* *Showing you the Money - How to Access Your Absolute Value*
An Essay by Justin Deschamps
Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 10:29am
With the new lawful landscape we all have a great deal of adjusting to do.
What is this new landscape? Who is in control of it? How do we get
things done like paying our bills and making sure our families are fed?
These questions we all have and we all are seeking to answer but often
what is, and what we consciously see are two different things; especially
as we are all products of the control matrix where money and society are
the only tools of... more »
Dr. Jacob Needleman - "The Difference Between A Cult And A Genuine Spiritual Path"
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago
Source: YouTube Channel BarakaBee.
Tom Friedman Signals New Education Rhetoric and the Same Old Crap
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 6 hours ago
I have been dismissing Tom Friedman for a long time, but occasionally I do
find something of interest in his column that someone else said. His
latest column follows that pattern, in that it is based largely on quotes
from Tony Wagner, a Harvard prof who has made a career of trying to do in
education what Tom Friedman has done in politics, i. e., represent an
abstract middle-brow version of progressivism that wraps neo-liberal social
engineering plans in gauzy, good-smelling paper. When you look closely,
however, you will still find a turd inside.
Friedman begins by citing with ... more »
Kansas - Deceased: Cause of Death, Extremism
2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago
*An obituary as printed in the Hutchinson News*
*Kansas 1861-2013*
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*By Jason Probst*
TOPEKA - The Great State of Kansas passed away on March 31, 2013, after a
long and difficult battle with extremism that became markedly more
aggressive in 2010. The struggle left the state so weakened it could no
longer fight against the relentless attacks by the fatal disease.
Kansas was born on Jan. 29, 1861.
The state is preceded in death by fair taxation, good highways, strong
education, family farms, a good public parks and wildlife system, open
government, neighborliness and belief in ... more »
Bad week for tarsands astroturf
Alison at Creekside - 6 hours ago
*"British Columbians for International Prosperity* is an independent group *of
concerned citizens *looking to promote practical resource development,
international trade expansion, manufacturing development, and other
initiatives bringing prosperity to British Columbia, Canada, and our Global
partners."
Dear retired oil execs*: Don't run astroturf ads under the rubric
"independent group of concerned citizens" unless you feel like disclosing
who those other concerned citizens are and who made and paid for the glitzy
ad you just shot in my back yard.
Also, about your claim that Ca... more »
Interior Department Allows Death and Destruction Near Grand Canyon
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago
B. Loomis (2013, April 1) Canyon Uranium Mine Draws Ire: Environmentalists,
Tribe Sue After Feds Allow Company to Proceed Despite Ban on New Mining
Near Grand Canyon. The Arizona Republic
[Excerpted] Energy Fuels Resources intends to reopen its [Grand] Canyon
Mine despite a 20-year federal ban on new uranium mining, imposed early
last year by the Interior Department, that covers 1 million acres near the
Canyon.
The company says the ban doesn’t apply because its rights are
grandfathered, and the federal government agrees.
Environmentalists and the Havasupai Tribe counter that... more »
The Time of Remembering
Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 7 hours ago
We have known this always. We have put it in our books and movies, our
legends and sacred texts. We are not just these rock hard abs and pearly
whites! We are eternal essence, embodied. We have entered the Time of
Remembering.
Yoda said it simply – “Do or do not. There is no try.” Watch this clip
until the end:
Believe it. We’ve done fear, disbelief, doubt and excuses until we are
tired of our own story - Time for something new.
If I was Source, I’d want to get every possible ounce of juice out of it
all before I was done. I’d want *absolute knowledge*... more »
David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In US History
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
Obama Ben Bernanke is to America what Osama bin Laden was to Islam: poison.
The Federal Reserve has exhausted its legitimacy. It is a morally, legally,
and politically bankrupt entity.
"What I do know is that this market lives and dies by the last word of the
Fed and the people at the Fed have no clue what they're doing. Bernanke is
the most dangerous man ever to hold high financial office in the history of
the United States." - David Stockman, former Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (1981–1985).
Video Title - David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In ... more »
Another hockey stick that never existed
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
It’s like the anatomy of a whole scam in microcosm.
After the first famous “scary” reconstruction of historic
temperatures—widely touted by the IPCC and warmists everywhere as
“proving” modern temperatures are historically unprecedented, before being
exposed as fraudulent by Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre—comes another
“scary” historic reconstruction purporting to show the same thing:
historically unprecedented modern temperatures that are frighteningly,
catastrophically, taking off. See:
Trouble is, despite this latest “hockey stick” being touted by the likes of
the *New Yor... more »
BBC yet again promotes the notion of Israel as a racist society | BBC Watch
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Brilliantly observed post at BBCWatch
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/04/02/bbc-yet-again-promotes-the-notion-of-israel-as-a-racist-society/
Oy, Reich
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago
I'm not gong to get full-on cranky at Robert Reich's column today...only
somewhat cranky.
Reich's complaint is that politicians are happy to follow public opinion
when it comes to marriage equality, guns, and immigration...but on raising
taxes for rich people politicians ignore public opinion. To his credit, he
cites real research, from Page and Bartels, on the question of politicians
ignoring the poor and even the middle-class. So I won't get too cranky.
But really...well, I'll give you some context before I complain:
Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politi... more »
Michael Sona Charged By Elections Canada In Connection To Robocall Scandal
leftdog at Buckdog - 8 hours ago
*Lawyers for Mr. Sona released the following today:*
*Neither Mr. Sona or I will be making any public statements beyond the
following statement at this time.*
*Although the charge is disappointing, it represents an opportunity for Mr.
Sona to finally address the allegations in a court as oppose to in the
media and resolve it permanently. I cannot help but comment, that if the
government was interested in the public being fully informed and the issue
of robocalls being properly addressed, a Full Public Inquiry would be
called, rather than a charge laid against a single individual who... more »
Rich Coleman, The Bald-Faced Liar, Continues To Tell Whopper Lies, Exposed
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 8 hours ago
Why does Rich Coleman continue to be an habitual liar, below is some cut n
paste from a Black Press Daily, The Chilliwack Times..
Rich Coleman made an outrageous lie, the Chilliwack Times allowed the
whopper lie to be printed and distributed, Rich Coleman needs to retract
his bald-faced lie and the Chilliwack Times needs to correct the public
record.
The Chilliwack Times interviewed Rich Coleman and Laurie Throness, the
interview came in the form of Questions asked and Answers given..I`m only
going to concentrate on one question that was asked and one big fat lie
response by Rich... more »
OK, The GOP Wants To Rape And Plunder The Environment-- What About The Democrats?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
The wonders of tar sands oil comes to beautiful Michigan
I was uneasy about Obama right from the start. I did vote for him in 2008,
despite my fears that he was a corporate shill masquerading as a
progressive. When his first term proved me right, I had no problem at all
voting for a third party candidate in 2012. But I must say, there was one
policy area where I actually did trust Obama and believed everything he
said: the environment, especially in regard to global warming. His
administration hasn't lived up. They're obviously not a bunch of rapacious
plunderers like any garden vari... more »
Wrestling with a pig—debating intellectual property
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours ago
For the last three or four years, an oaf called Stephen Kinsella has
poisoned the libertarian world on the subject of intellectual property,
persuading naive libertarians and Austrians about the supposed “virtues” of intellectual
communism, i.e., that it is okay to steal someone else’s ideas, work,
writing, inventions, software, trademarks, films, designs, logos … in
short, everything that constitutes intellectual property.
Unwilling to wrestle with a pig on the basis they’ll get muddy themselves,
most saner folk have demurred debating the oaf.
But on April 1st, economist Robert W... more »
Tipping the balance part 2
sue at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
*Complaints.*
This is an example of a complaint from the PSC which in my opinion has
little substance.
It concerned Martha Kearney’s interview with Mark Regev, which took place
around the time of the death of Rachel Corrie.
Rachel Corrie was allegedly mown down by an IDF bulldozer as she was
protecting a Palestinian home. That’s their story and they’re sticking to
it.
Much doubt has been cast on the veracity of that tale, but suffice it to
say that the late Rachel Corrie’s so-called heroism is legendary in the
world of anti-Israel activism. A play has been written about her, and ... more »
AMS-02: dark matter announcements
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
Wednesday, April 3rd, is the day when the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will
announce its first, potentially interesting results that will have some
implications for our knowledge about dark matter.
First, at 5 pm Prague Summer Time (11 am Boston Daylight Time), you will be
recommended to listen to Samuel Ting at webcast.cern.ch...
At 1:30 pm Washington DC Daylight Saving Time i.e. 7:30 pm Prague Summer
Time i.e. 2.5 hours later i.e. 90 minutes after the talk above is over, you
may open NASA TV at www.nasa.gov/ntv which will air a briefing from NASA
headquarters.
I am a bit con... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 8 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by historian and
author Thomas Goodrich. Tom and I will be discussing a variety of subjects
relating to American and European history, in particular the destruction of
Nationalist Socialist Germany during WWII and after, the War of Northern
Aggression commonly known as the American Civil War, and Indian-American
warfare in American history. Tom is the author of *Hellstorm: The Death of
Nazi Germany, 1944-1947*, *The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866
*, *The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Trage... more »
Tipping the balance
sue at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
The BBC insists it receives as many complaints about pro-Israel bias as
anti. I found that claim hard to believe because I couldn’t understand what
the haters of Israel have to complain about.
We have to accept the BBC’s word that someone counts up the tally of
complaints received over time, finds an equal amount from both sides, and
concludes that the BBC must be “getting it right”.
I think I now see what’s happening. Complaints about pro-Israel bias must
come from the kind of people who feel insulted at the mere sight of Mark
Regev on their television screens; folk who pen furi... more »
The United States of FUBAR
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
Despite everything that has been visited upon them since the "Reagan
Revolution" - the stagnation of their incomes; the deliberate and unearned
transfer of enormous wealth from the blue and white-collar middle class to
the richest of the rich; the offshoring of their manufacturing base and
jobs; the waging of two failed wars in conjunction with tax cuts for the
rich, all financed with borrowed money on the kid's credit; the
transformation of the mightiest economic engine in the world into a hapless
succession of bubbles; all this and so much more - wait for it -
*The results of a ne... more »
April Events!
Alex Lotorto at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 8 hours ago
*April 4 - 1:30PM* *DELIVER OUR RESPONSE *at the Pike County Court House,
Broad St, Milford PA. We will be delivering our response to TGP's complaint
against us in their pursuit of a permanent injunction against civil
disobedience.
*April 5 - POETS ON MAIN *at 620 Main St, Boonton NJ
5PM - Bobby's News & Gifts , Open mic. for poets of all ages and levels
8PM-8:30PM - "Wendie Goetz is performing an exo/performance poetry set. Her
work can be found on iTunes or Reverbnation. Wendie's Words is a poetic
musical experience. Enjoy words your soul feels. Be uplifted by the
incredible, and s... more »
Wild Bill: Message for the lefties...
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 8 hours ago
*"you're not going to get away with it."*
A Train Full of Eternal Hearts
Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
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As we contemplate who we really are, consider this - it only takes one of
us to remember our eternal heart; we cannot keep it to ourselves. All will
join in our remembering! Just watch.
*We are (the) One.**
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~Sophia* *
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Empathy Down, Narcissism Up?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
A University of Michigan study of 14,000 university students found empathy
is in serious decline, especially over the past ten years, while narcissism
has soared.
*The research, led by Sara H. Konrath of the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor and published online in August in Personality and Social Psychology
Review, found that college students’ self-reported empathy has declined
since 1980, with an especially steep drop in the past 10 years. To make
matters worse, during this same period students’ self-reported narcissism
has reached new heights, according to research by Jean M.... more »
On the road....again??
Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 9 hours ago
Food vendors selling to a second-class bus in La CeibaI've been on a heck
of a lot of buses lately. With a new commitment to visit the more distant
regions of my organization this year, I'm fast becoming an expert on the
good, the bad and the ugly of Honduran bus travel. So here's a little
primer that might serve you well should you ever be down this way, or in
any of the other developing countries that I've been to with remarkably
similar transportation options.
*First-class bus*: If money's no object and you can fit your travel to the
bus company's schedule, this is certainly the ... more »
Israel Matzav: Rockets here, rockets there, rockets, rockets everywhere
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
Here's some news that you won't find on the institutionally anti Israel
BBC.
'Earlier on Tuesday, two rockets were shot at Israel by terrorists in Gaza.
One landed in the Eshkol region, while the other has not yet been found,
but apparently landed in Gaza. This evening, a rocket was shot into Tel
Fares in the Golan Heights. '
More here
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/rockets-here-rockets-there-rockets.html
Calling All Eternal Hearts
Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
I believe this beautiful message from Jenna to be both timely and spot on.
Anger, hate, fear, hostility, aggression, or any combination thereof, have
no place in where we are going. The bracelet I wear around my wrist 24/7
says it all; on one side it reads "LOVE IS THE WAY," and on the other side,
"BELIEVE." :)
When all Eternal Hearts wake up to this Truth, the world as we know it can
shift in an instant.
In Absolute Gratitude Jenna,
~ Brian
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*Calling All Eternal Hearts*
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http://newworldoflove.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/calling-all-eternal-hearts/
by Jenna Lavo... more »
SAVILE, CANADA, FRANCE, ELM, KINCORA, BRYN ALYN...
Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
In 1984, a severely mutilated woman escaped from a house near *Auxerre*, in
France.
She led police to a cellar where she and two others had been imprisoned and
tortured.
The police discovered a list of 50 people who had paid to torture the women.
Top people were involved, reportedly.
*aangirfan: GIRLS GET KIDNAPPED?*
humorchic.blogspot.com
Between 1999 and 2002, a large paedophile ring operated in the town of *
Angers* in France.
Some of the abused children talked of a group of men who arrived at the
abuser Franck V.'s apartment wearing suits and ties, with their faces
hidden ... more »
This madness has to stop
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
From the BBC travel website (*my emphasis*)
M25 Greater London, clockwise between A127 [M25 junction 29] and A13
Lakeside [M25 junction 30]
M25 Greater London - *M25 closed*, queueing traffic and long delays
clockwise between J29, A127 (Romford) and J30, A13 (Lakeside), because of
accident investigation work. Diversion in operation - via the hollow
triangle, the A127, A128 and the A13 to rejoin at J30. Congestion to J27
M11.
A406 North Circular Road West London, southbound between Abbey Road and A40
Western Avenue
A406 London - *A406 North Circular Road in West London closed*, se... more »
We keep waiting for Krugman to turn the corner!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013*
*Joan Walsh aping the right:* We keep waiting for Krugman to turn the
corner about who and what we are.
In a new blog post, he starts with a “bonkers op-ed” column by Liz Cheney.
As he proceeds, he notes the lunacy of an argument which has long been made
on the right.
The claim in question makes no sense, but conservatives just keep making
it. We will shorten his argument a tad:
KRUGMAN (4/2/13): The stirring quote from Ronald Reagan [in Cheney’s
column] comes from the recording he made for Operation Coffee Cup, a 1961
project organized by the AMA to mobi... more »
Dwindling AGW and retired Hansen
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
*Post-retirement Hansen has no reasons for self-glorification*
Juliet Eilperin, an alarmist hired gun at the Washington Post, is among the
reporters who took notice of some results from a new U.S. Pew Research
Center survey.
Two thirds of Americans favor the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline
which is sensible because the project will make the transfer of oil more
efficient and will politically improve the composition of energy sources
that America relies upon.
The number of folks infected by the AGW hysteria dropped by 6 percentage
points since October 2012 but 60% of the ... more »
The nation’s top superintendent gets charged!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013*
*Unless you’re reading the Post:* Does politics affect the way new events
get reported?
Consider what happened when a bunch of teachers, principals and school
administrators got indicted in Atlanta last week.
Last Friday, 35 people got indicted. They were charged with committing
crimes in a massive cheating scandal in Atlanta’s public schools.
One indictment went to Beverly Hall, Atlanta’s former superintendent of
schools. In 2009, Dr. Hall was named national superintendent of the year by
the American Association of School Administrators. Today, she faces ... more »
What I Would Do, If I Were Kirk Sorensen
Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 11 hours ago
Kirk Sorensen has kept his cards very close to his chest since he and a
business partner established Flive Energy. Officially, Kirk is as committed
to the LFTR, Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, as much as always. Long term,
I would not expect that to change, but in the short term, if I wanted to
make money, I would not focus much attention on LFTR development.
Before my illness, I focused a good deal of attention on uranium fueled
Molten Salt Reactors with or without added thorium. Such reactors might
require much less research and development than the LFTR. Uranium fueled
Molten Sa... more »
ALEC State Sovereignty Policy - A FAILURE
2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours ago
ALEC policy pushes
limiting the Federal Government
strengthening state government
(so they say - and those are the ALEC legislators that ALEC
corporations control).
so you would eventually end up with
*Fifty States - Fifty Different Sets of Laws*
Ask this woman from Minnesota how
fifty states and fifty different set of laws
is working for her.
*Moorhead mom shocked by her New York gun arrest*
Fargo - Beth Arneson Ferrizzi and her husband will welcome their first
child together in June, but it might seem less laborious after what she
went through delivering his handgun to him l... more »
The unseen victims of austerity addicts
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago
According to the very important punditry, the sequestration spending cuts
are just a big joke because -- ha ha -- the world didn't end and nothing
happened to the well off Villagers, so what's the big deal? Of course they
don't mention the cuts haven't really taken full effect yet. They're only
just now beginning to filter out around our country. Sam Stein and Amanda
Terkel collected 100 instances where the spending cuts have started.
Already social safety programs like Meals on Wheels are being cut,
thousands of jobs are being lost, and those who are lucky enough to keep
their jobs... more »
Spain: The Enigmatic Disappearance of the "Reina Regente"
Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 11 hours ago
*Spain: The Enigmatic Disappearance of the “Reina Regente”*
*By Angel Carretero Olmedo – Andalucia Misteriosa*
Both here and at the Andalucia Misteriosa website I’ve spoken of the
“Alborán Triangle” and its mysteries, omitting discussion of certain
subjects in order to keep the articles from becoming excessively lengthy.
Very interesting things have happened between the borders of the aforesaid
“triangle” and Province of Cádiz, specifically. The case we are about to
discuss is celebrating an anniversary, and we must go more than a century
back in time.
The Spanish cruiser “Reina ... more »
James Hansen Leaving NASA to Campaign on Climate Change
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
The U.S. government's most prominent science voice on climate change, James
Hansen, is leaving NASA.
*In an e-mail Monday, Hansen wrote that he decided to step down “so that I
can spend full time on science, drawing attention to the implications for
young people, and making clear what science says needs to be done.”*
*Climate activist Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, said Hansen, 72,
decided to step down so he could engage in lawsuits and protests full time.
Hansen was arrested in February in Washington in a protest against the
Keystone XL pipeline plan. He participated in th... more »
Jim Rogers: “Taking People’s Bank Accounts Is Going To Happen”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
Jim Rogers: “Taking People’s Bank Accounts Is Going To Happen”
- http://beforeitsnews.com/banksters/
James Hansen: Responsible Scientist and Advocate
noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 12 hours ago
Via the *New York Times*, James Hansen, long time NASA scientist and
advocate for action on climate change, announced that he was retiring from
the government:
His departure, after a 46-year career at the space agency’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, will deprive federally sponsored
climate research of its best-known public figure.
At the same time, retirement will allow Dr. Hansen to press his cause in
court. He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the
federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions, for
instance, as we... more »
Queens State Senator Malcolm Smith And A Gaggle Of Corrpt Republicans Arrested By The FBI
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, handcuffs not visible
How does on even explain to a non-New Yorker who and what state Senator
Malcolm Smith is? It's not enough to point out that one of Congress' most
corrupt members, Joe Crowley, is the Capo di tutti capi of the miserably
corrupt Queens Democratic Party Machine, out of which Smith, who represents
Hollis, crawled. Nor is it enough to mention that Smith has been the
ultimate Democrat-Republican opportunist in the contemporary history of New
York politics.
The 56 year old Smith started in politics as a senior aide, a protégé, of
outrageousl... more »
Total SA dumps Canada oil sands project for $1.65 billion loss
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: A Landsat satellite took this natural-color image of the Athabasca
Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada on 15 May 2011. Photo: Robert Simmon / NASA
Earth Observatory]
[Hopefully, the market will decide against further expansion of this
disaster.]
By Jen Alic, OilPrice.com
31 March 2013
France’s Total SA (NYSE: TOT) will sell its 49% stake in its Canadian oil
sands project to Suncor Energy Inc. for $500 million, netting the French
oil giant a $1.65 billion loss on the beleaguered project.
Total would have had to spend another $5 billion (at least) on the Alberta
oil sands Voyage... more »
Of the Not Normal, We're Really Not Normal
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours ago
Look, there was a thing going around the blogs yesterday about the
twitters, which started when Nick Beaudrot said something smart. Or at
least, it sounded smart to me. And then Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias and Kevin
Drum all said things about it. Beaudrot has a follow-up today.
I could get into it more, in which case I'd probably take a position about
twitter working differently for different people, and not being for
everyone. But here's the problem: Drum talked about "the verbal,
well-educated, politically conscious social group that most bloggers belong
to," but the truth is tha... more »
A day in the life
risa bear at A Way to Live - 13 hours ago
After coffee and breakfast, Risa lets the poultry out, checks their food
and water, collects duck eggs, and waters the flats in the "greenhouse"
(potting shed with glass south wall).
Besides the potting bench in the greenhouse, she keeps a "spring bench" on
the north wall of the house, halfway to the garden, for hardening off. Not
only is this easy on the back, it's a far piece for slugs and snails to get
into the pots. Here we have peas, yellow storage onions, and assorted
greens. Below is the garden kneeler, some spuds "chitting," and the
planting-out tray. The flats, tray and ... more »
Record-sized Lake Erie algae bloom of 2011 likely to become regular occurrence, study says – ‘Everything is trending in the direction of conditions conducive to more large blooms’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago
[image: This sequence of satellite photos of Lake Erie's western basin
shows the progress of the 2011 algae bloom. A: June 1, soon after a surge
of fertilizer-loaded storm runoff from the Maumee River has flowed into the
lake basin; B: July 19, as the bloom begins to grow; C: July 31, about two
weeks after the bloom's start; D: August 11, as the bloom spreads east
toward the central basin; E: Sept. 3, as the bloom reaches the central
basin and a second phase forms on the basin's north shore; F: Oct. 9, as
the bloom begins to decline in the western basin. Photo: University of
Wisco... more »
CUT DOWN BY MANGANESE
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
International steel magnate Samancor is charged with putting profits before
workers' rights. Former employees at their Johannesburg, South Africa plant
are dying from manganese poisoning.
There is growing concern that many workers at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in
Maine are exposed to manganese poisoning as they cut steel to make Navy
destroyers. The dust created is inhaled and over time destroys the person.
There are stories that many workers have been developing symptoms similar
to those in this video but when they went to the doctors provided by BIW
they were asked if they "wanted t... more »
Monbiot on the "Inveterate Bastards" Who Have Hijacked Our Democracy
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
He writes of the plight of Britons but he could as easily be speaking to
you.
*Most of the world's people are decent, honest and kind. Most of those who
dominate us are inveterate bastards...*
*"With a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people's eyes
reproach them of their blindness." This government, whose mismanagement of
the economy has forced so many into the arms of the state, blames the sick,
the unemployed, the underpaid for a crisis caused by the feral elite – and
punishes them accordingly. Most of those affected by the bedroom tax,
introduced today, are disa... more »
Your moment of Zen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours ago
White bird. [Charles Glatzer photo]
Video: Two very different reports on China’s ghost cities
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
Desdemona has been following the “ghost city” story since *Business Insider*first collected satellite
photos of new, empty cities in China in 2010. NBC News did a story on the
ghosts that haunt China’s landscape in 2012. *Business Insider *has a new
story for 2013: Scary new satellite pictures of China’s ghost cities. Now,
Wade Shepard provides another perspective.
First, here’s the *60 Minutes* report from 3 March 2013.
Contrast that with the *Vagabond Journey* report from 29 March 2013.
By Wade Shepard
29 March 2013
(Vagabond Journey) – “We discovered that the most populated ... more »
Air pollution linked to 1.2 million premature deaths in China
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Shanghai in January. Researchers said the toll from China’s
pollution meant the loss of 25 million healthy years in 2010. Photo: Aly
Song / Reuters]
By EDWARD WONG
1 April 2013
BEIJING (The New York Times) – Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2
million premature deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 percent of the global
total, according to a new summary of data from a scientific study on
leading causes of death worldwide.
Figured another way, the researchers said, China’s toll from pollution was
the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population.
The da... more »
Iraq’s Oil Exports Recover in February 2013 After Two-Month Decline
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
December 2012 and January 2013 saw a large drop in Iraq’s exports from what
were record highs in the previous months. Finally, in February, foreign
shipments were able to recover, while prices went up as well. Iraq’s oil
industry is still at a plateau, which has happened in the last several
years.
Tanker docked in southern Iraq. The southern pipeline carries the majority
of the country’s exports and saw an increased flow in Feb. 2013 (*AFP*)
The flow through Iraq’s two major pipelines increased in February 2013. The
southern pipeline saw an average of 2.196 million barrels a day ... more »
Chris Hedges Takes Down Intellectual America - Iggy's On His List Too
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
To Chris Hedges, America's *intelligentsia* are a pack of sell-outs who
showed their true colours when they lined up to support George w. Bush's
war on Iraq. And Hedges is naming names:
*The war boosters, especially the “liberal hawks”—who included Hillary
Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Al Franken and John Kerry, along with academics,
writers and journalists such as Bill Keller, Michael Ignatieff, Nicholas
Kristof, David Remnick, Fareed Zakaria, Michael Walzer, Paul Berman,Thomas
Friedman, George Packer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Kanan Makiya and the late Christopher
Hitchens—did what th... more »
...And Hilarity Ensued: The CKS Design Contest Pwned
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago
*The Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall website at about 6 pm today. The CKS
Design Competition is on the right sidebar, in glorious pink.*
The Ministry of Culture really did it this week with its announcement of a
CKS Design Contest (event website). The purpose of the contest -- no I'm
not kidding you, please finish chewing all the food in your mouth and don't
drink anything for the next minute or so -- was to commemorate the tenth
anniversary of the death of Soong Mei-ling, celebrate the love that Chiang
Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling had for one another, and of course, celebrate
Chines... more »
ACTION: Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning
2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
From common Dreams
Published on Monday, April 1, 2013 by Common Dreams
An Outpouring of Love and Support for Bradley Manning to Receive the Nobel
Peace Prize
by Norman Solomon
During the last week of March, more than 30,000 people signed a petition
urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to
Bradley Manning. While the numbers continue to mount on the petition website,
so do the comments from individual signers.Pfc. Bradley Manning (Portrait
by Robert Shetterly / AmericansWhoTellTheTruth.org)
Thousands have already written personal notes to explain their... more »
Former TFA Corps Members Planning TFA Protest in Chicago
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours ago
Click to enlarge.
Earth-cooling schemes need global sign-off, researchers say – ‘How do you get a consensus with seven billion-plus stakeholders?’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago
[image: Grimsvotn volcano erupts in Iceland in 2011. Solar radiation
management schemes spray particles into the atmosphere to simulate cooling
effects of volcanic eruptions. Photo: Egill Adalsteinsson / EPA]
By Ian Sample, science correspondent
31 March 2013
(The Guardian) – Controversial geoengineering projects that may be used to
cool the planet must be approved by world governments to reduce the danger
of catastrophic accidents, British scientists said.
Met Office researchers have called for global oversight of the radical
schemes after studies showed they could have huge and... more »
ACTION:A Million Comments Against Keystone XL
2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
from 350.orgDEADLINE - April 22nd Easy to do - a VERY EASYLess than a
minute of your timeA Million Comments Against Keystone XL
The State Department's official public comment period on Keystone XL
Pipeline is now open -- and it's a crucial opportunity for us to flood them
with comments. We'll take your comments and deliver them directly and
immediately to the the State Department.
*If you missed the hints*
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Mexico: Paranormal "Shadow Play" in Yucatan
Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 15 hours ago
*Source: Revista Voces del Misterio
Date: 04.02.13*
*Mexico: Paranormal “Shadow Play” in Yucatan*
*By Jorge Moreno – SIPSE*
Today it is our readers’ turn to tell us their paranormal experiences and
stories. This time, Mr. Sebastian Pech contacted us about an “evil shadow”
that can be seen in such places as Sitpach and Cholul, commissariats of
Mérida located right across from each other.
Sebastián says that his uncle, whose name is Marcial Pat, told him that a
long time ago his grandfather spoke of “the shadow that chases you”,
referring to a shadow that had a life of its own and... more »
GATEKEEPERS DOWN: Sisters’ fact at the Washington Post!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013*
*Part 2—Close enough for newspaper work:* Are white males
disproportionately numbered among the nation’s mass shooters?
Presumably, it depends on how you define “mass shooter.” However you define
the term, we will assume that males *in general* are disproportionately
numbered among that group.
That said, among the men who engage in mass shootings, are *white* men
disproportionately numbered? We have no idea—and there is no particular
sign that Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress know the answer either.
That said, facts and logic aren’t required when y... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*State Farm never called Katrina 'water' storm, adjuster testifies ~Anita
Lee, Sun Herald*
*A “Nowdygram” on the latest developments in USA Ex Rel Rigsby v State Farm
~Slabbed*
*Student newspaper editor sues LSU governing board over search for president
*
*A Quick Drink: Brandy ~Blackened Out*
*Rescue Effort for Tujague’s, a New Orleans Mainstay ~Roger Simonson, NYT*
Read more here:
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/04/01/4563908/state-farm-never-called-katrina.html#wgt=rcntnews#storylink=cpy
Raise your Integrity
noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 15 hours ago
At the *Financial Post* (Canada) Ross McKitrick has a very good op-ed on
the Marcott mess and its larger consequences:
In recent years there have been a number of cases in which high-profile
papers from climate scientists turned out, on close inspection, to rely on
unseemly tricks, fudges and/or misleading analyses. After they get
uncovered in the blogosphere, the academic community rushes to circle the
wagons an denounce any criticism as "denialism." There's denialism going on
all right -- on the part of scientists who don't see that their continuing
defence of these kind of prac... more »
My Favorite Book "Boyfriends"
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 16 hours ago
Have you linked your projects/book reviews up to Creative Showcase yet
this week?
My husband always jokes that he has to share me with all of my
"boyfriends." I have loved to read ever since I was a child and I read
anywhere between two and eighteen books in a single week, so he has often
found himself eating cold cereal while I enjoy dinnertime with a favorite
read. Here are some of my favorite "swoon worthy" men from my latest reads.
I am linking up with the Broke and the Bookish.
1. Will Herondale from The Infernal Devices- In the first Infernal
Devices book Will is abra... more »
Are South Carolina Republicans Going To Hand Elizabeth Colbert Busch A Path To Victory Today?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Today is run-off day in South Carolina's first congressional district, a
strip of coast below Myrtle Beach and Georgetown almost as far as
Savannah's suburbs (including white Charleston south of Calhoun Street). On
Saturday we pointed out that underdog Curtis Bostic had Man-On-Dog Rick
Santorum campaigning for him-- as well as hilarious endorsements from Ann
Coulter, religious right charlatan James Dobson, and the district's former
congressman, once-removed, Henry Brown.
Conventional wisdom has it that this deeply red district-- Romney beat
Obama 58.3-40.2% (mostly because the lat... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Clark Gregg, 51.
Good stuff:
1. Melissa Harris-Perry on NSF Funding and Political Science.
2. Good catch from Dave Weigel: once sequestration hit, people lost interest,
at least in "sequestration" as a topic. Presumably fully media and
politician driven.
3. While sequestration actually is doing pretty much what was expected, as
Sam Stein and Amanda Terkel report.
4. And Dylan Matthews has a nice in-on-chart on the various budget proposals.
My main caveats: it matters how detailed the plans are (Ryan's,
notoriously, are not). It matters, too, as a few of us discu... more »
Why I Am Going to DC April 4-7
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
JIM HORN: WHY I AM COMING TO OCCUPY THE DEPT. OF ED. IN DC
Posted on March 3, 2013
I am coming to ODOE2 to remember and honor so many who cannot come and for
so many of the forgotten victims of high stakes standardized testing.
I am coming to DC for that Louisiana 4th grader in 2002 whose heart could
be heard pounding across the desk by the teacher who had to tell him he
would be in the 4th grade for the third time because he didn’t pass the
state test.
I am coming to DC for that other 4th grade child who scooted from his
wheelchair and hid under the bed, for god’s sakes, because he... more »
Profoundly Ignorant
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Natalie Brender writes, in the *Toronto Star*, that the federal
government's decision to withdraw from the UN anti drought convention is an
enigma:
The Harper government’s latest nose-thumbing at the UN is a baffling move
that lacks any obvious political advantage to balance out the sizeable
blows it inflicts on the government’s domestic and international
credibility. It is taking this government’s foreign policy past the sphere
of contentiousness into the realm of unfathomability.
The reasons offered for the decision make no sense:
The $350,000 savings to taxpayers from leavi... more »
April Is World Autism Awareness Month
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
Source: http://www.homefromhomecare.com/
ALEC Ag-Gag Bills Cannot Be Ignored
2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours ago
If you think the current edition of the ALEC ag-gag bills can be ignored -
because you are not an animal acitivist - think again. There is so much
more that has to be considered.
Remember amendments to laws happen all the time!!!
The history of the ALEC Ag-Gag Bill
Most people don’t realize that the Ag-Gag Bill by ALEC has been around for
over 10 years.
In an article written in 2003 the following snips are important to remember
about the initial intent of the ALEC ag-gag bill.
9/29/2003
Model Legislation Targets Ecological Terrorists
Model legislation creating penalties for perso... more »
Christian Exodus in Middle East
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
The immediate and easy answer to Muslim oppression is migration to any
part of the Non Islamic world. What is worse, it has become progressively
easier. Traditional ties to the land have become irrelevant with the full
advent of modernism. You really do not want to live there anymore.
All of my many ancestors left small tracts of hereditary land and
centuries of folk traditions behind and left their so called homelands.
Those were proud traditions but still completely dispensable.
The twentieth century saw many such corrective migrations. All eliminated
oppression ... more »
Flow Batteries Advancing
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
We are still in the laboratory, but the technology is so basic that the
technical problems will be overcome. Type is not mentioned here and cost
does matter. The real take home is that inexpensive and stable energy
storage is a huge fix to our present system. It will easily double our
available energy if not a lot better than that. Add this to automotive
energy storage and you have a densely distributed energy system that can
run full out 24/7 filling batteries as efficiently as possible.
It also becomes immune to grid failure. This is a huge boost in
reliability as ... more »
Rutile Reveals History
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
Yes rutile will survive and gather information. It also happens to be the
best mineral for titanium extraction which pretty well explains its ability
to survive.
This sounds as if we are able to do far more with a scant sample than we
ever imagined.
Thus rutile will serve a key application as a pathfinder to mineral
deposits and their ancient formation.
*A tiny grain helps reveal the history of a rock*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Gothenburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 27, 2013*
*
"We can identify the rock from which the rutile originates, even if we only
have a tiny grain of rut... more »
Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
I have not fully voiced this paradigm, but life extension is now becoming
feasible. It is even hinted at in the cultural data and powerfully stated
in the original colonizing report in Genesis. The rate of understanding is
accelerating and it is becoming reasonable to expect this outcome.
Generally though, we will chose our time of death and this will be
generally in the third century. Obviously that is a superior outcome to the
present dispensation.
This curious fable makes the argument that it is time to invest heavily.
On the other hand, it is more correct to note ... more »
UCSC study: sea lions like Backstreet Boys
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours ago
*...but the metronome is pretty good, too...*
The University of California in Santa Cruz – where I spent the first half
of the year 2000 – has done research into the question which mammals aside
from humans like Backstreet Boys. And I must emphasize that this is not an
April fool's joke.
The winner is Ronan, a sea lion.
You might conjecture – and people have conjectured – that pinnipeds and
similar mammals are way too primitive. Unlike humans and parrots – the
latter are role models for many humans while they see other humans as their
role models, sea lions don't display vocal... more »
Obama use school shooting to disarm America? posted August 2010, thread locked.
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 19 hours ago
I've tried, as much as possible, to stay out of ANY debate on the Sandy
Hook school slaughter incident. Why? It was just rotten, rotten to the
core. I mean, I did a little piece about it, about Sandy Hook, in fact
about the Sandy Hook Tribute To The Victims which arrived on Vimeo and
other video sharing sites in NOVEMBER of 2012.
Even if you believed that 'some hacker' group or individual had gone about
glad-fingeredly altering datestamps on relevant FB and YT files, you didn't
even need to look into it. You didn't need to 'get involved'. There was so
much 'factionism' and 'in-figh... more »
Five Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 19 hours ago
From Olivier Blanchard.
IPR and Medicines 27: More on Glivec and India's SC Decision
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
A friend in our local health coalition, CHAT, commented in my earlier
article, Novartis' Glivec and India's IPR Ruling and argued that
*(A) medicine to be patentable should be NEW. This in essence only
disallows evergreening of patents which seems to be what Novartis tried in
the India case. And which most super power countries like the US and EU
where most MNCs are from, would like to change through the insertion of
TRIPs plus provisions in bilateral FTAs. *
*Precisely why the TRIPs flexibilites are in place is to promote the
primacy of public health and ensure that developing and... more »
Quarter One Local By-Election Results 2013
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 21 hours ago
Polls have their place, but only actual, real elections quench the
psephological thirst of many a politics anorak. Wishing to "give something
back" to "the community", I've been tracking local by-election results over
the course of this last quarter. You can find them below.
Party
No. Contests
%
Vote
%
Average
Wins
+/-
Conservative
36
97
13,322
21.9
370
6
-7
Labour
33
89
23,033
37.8
698
18
+3
LibDem
28
76
7,750
12.7
277
8
+4
UKIP
24
65
5,668
9.3
236
2
+2
SNP*
3
2,223
3.6
741
0
-1
Plaid Cymru**
1
54
0.1
54
0
0
Green
15
40
1,929
... more »
dream scale - massive global alien invasion - where does the dreamer source such sensory resolution and the emotional depth?
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 21 hours ago
*where do they get this scale from?*how do people do it?
how do us 'mere humans' go about organising the internal turmoil, grief and
panic to create such spectacular scenes such as Global Alien Invasion?
how are dreamers like you, me and all those before us able to imbue our
nightly 'domestic sorting duties' with such spectacularly apocalyptic
detail, in terms of both pixel resolution, sound and entities within the
simulation, if these things aren't a) real events from our past or future
b) real events from a different 'dreamer' planet or c) we're just a lot
more creative AT EVERY L... more »
At last something for every lefty in Britain - Guardian Goggles'
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
I presume that this is an April Fools Day spoof, but I am sure that there
are many at the BBC just crying out for such a device.
CREATING YOUR REALITY?
Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
"Recently I took a trip from California to the East Coast with my older
very bossy and vocal cat, who has never been outdoors except for annual
visits to the vet.
"She cries out loudly every time she is put into the carrier and shivers
nervously until we are on our way home.
"I knew that the plane ride could either be a nightmare with her being
upset, meowing loudly and disturbing other passengers, or shivering and
causing me alarm...
"I told my kitty we were going on an adventure.
"I said, 'You’ll be with me every moment. You’re going to feel safe, loved
and secure and you’ll b... more »
Time and the Soul - Interview with Dr. Jacob Needleman
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
*Wikipedia:*
Jacob Needleman (born October 6, 1934) is an American philosopher. He is
professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University.
He was educated in philosophy at Harvard University, Yale University and
the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Needleman has published many books, most of which draw from G. I. Gurdjieff.
Video Title: Time and the Soul - Interview with Dr. Jacob Needleman.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Michael Goorjian. Uploaded on May 22,
2012]:
Based on the writings of internationally acclaimed philosopher Jacob
Needleman, Time and the Soul f... more »
Anti-Smoke Belching Racket, Part 5
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 23 hours ago
The Anti-Smoke Belching Units (ASBUs) of various city governments in Metro
Manila are now among the modern highway robbers and road terrorists.
These photos I took last February 14, 2013, afternoon. I was riding an
air-con bus and have a good, elevated view of the other side of Buendia,
Makati CBD-bound.
These people flag down closed vans, AUVs and pick ups that run on diesel
engines. They NEVER stop jeepneys or government (red plate) vehicles that
also run on diesel engines.
Below are some troubling comments from ordinary motorists. The 5th comment,
below, was made only this morn... more »
GLADIO; TURKEY
Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Gladio B* - Genie at The world we swim in
"Connecting NATO's Gladio operations to Turkish paramilitaries and
ultra-nationalists...
"How the operation continues through cooperation with terrorists and the
Islamization of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
"From Abdullah Çatlı's remarkable life (and death) to the rise of Fethullah
Gulen's $25 billion (CIA-supported) Islamic network to the NATO takeover of
the Afghan poppy crop in the wake of 9/11, you won't want to miss a moment
of this riveting conversation."
*Air Force chemtrails manual extracts*
Tapestry at the tap
Wanna Know How Cyprus (And the Rest of the Countries Already In Line) Could Crash the Currency-Centered Crowd? Clusterfuck Alert!
Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago
Here's how John Mauldin tells the tale (and it's a long'un so get a tall
drink before you get started): . . . Cyprus is a former British colony that
gained independence in 1960 after years of resistance. The island covers a
total of 9,251 km² (roughly half the size of Connecticut) and is split
along ethnic lines between the northern third, which is largely Turkish
Cypriot, and the southern
The Humor Of The Global Warming Nutters Never Ceases To Amaze Me: Irish Newspaper Claims That Spring Snows Are A Sign Of Global Warming (!)
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
Right now, there is about 3 feet of snow still on the ground around here,
and daytime temperatures in this part of Canada are hovering some 5-10
degrees Celcius below seasonal normals. We just completed what may be one
of the coldest months of March on record, and there is little change now
starting in April. It is again further proof that the nutjobs behind the
Global Warming scam should be running to the hills for trying to continue
to claim falsely that the world is heating up!
But fear not, for the nuts behind the Global Warming scam are still trying
desperately to convince ... more »
Pinos en la orilla del rio de agua clara
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Hermoso amanecer en las montañas de flores
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Hada blanca con su varita magica
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Bella isla junto a las montañas cubiertas de nieve
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Love And Marriage, Horse And Carriage... Conservatism And Corruption
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
A few days ago I happened to mention-- just in passing-- that there is no
way, and has never been a way, to separate conservatism from corruption.
The two have always gone hand in hand, as they do today. And I'm not just
talking about the Republican Party, the Blue Dogs and New Dems or even just
the United States. All through history and all over the world conservatism
and corruption have had a symbiotic relationship. Tyler Durden uncoveredhow it worked in the big Cyprus bank robbery.
A little background: Cyprus' new president, Nicos Anastasiades, is a
right-wing hack politician, h... more »
Thinking about my summer vacation in Chicago...
2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
I've got cabin fever - time for sunshine and other things.
MM...MM...MM August 7 - 9
This Is No Joke: Newest Canadian Budget Has Made Bank Accounts In Canada As Safe As Those In Cyprus!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
It is April 1st, and traditionally, this is the date that many pranksters
come out and pull their puns on unsuspecting individuals, only to finish
the prank by saying "April Fool".....
But what I have seen in a recent article from the Activist Post website, at
www.activistpost.com, is absolutely no joke... For it appears, according to
this article, entitled: "Canadian Deposits As Safe As Cypriot Deposits",
that the criminal Canadian Harper Regime in Ottawa has quietly and sneakily
placed a major provision in their 2013 Canadian federal budget that calls
for Canadians to be on the h... more »
EUROZONE: The Finance Ministers’ Salon
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*
* *
* *The Finance Ministers’ Salon*
by Paula Humfrey
April 1, 2013
I can't help it: the whirl of 'Eurozone finance minister' imagery in the
articles that I've been reading since Cyprus' crash began in earnest last
week is so evocative that there's no way I can resist bi-locating back to
Paris, to the weeks just before the start of the French Revolution. Think
1789. The Bastille is still standing, but it won't be for much longer. We
already know this.
I find myself channeling Julie Lespinasse, one of the more storied
salonnières of the French Enlightenment. She knew how to brin... more »
Video Interlude With Nature: James Horner, Soundtrack, “Legends Of The Fall”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
James Horner, Soundtrack, “Legends Of The Fall”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtxdl36WnC8
Re-post from January: A Conversation w/Heather Tucci-Jarraf
Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*Re-post from January: A Conversation w/Heather Tucci-Jarraf*
Thanks D for the idea of re-posting this video. This is the first recorded
conversation we had with Heather from back in early January. Many people
have reported to have gone back and re-listened to this dialogue and it
helped them to put some of the pieces together. One day soon, the need to
find answers beyond ourselves will be a thing of the past. Until then, I am
happy to continue pointing those searching in the direction of Truth. Much
Love and Gratitude to ALL <3
~ Brian
"A Look From The Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A
compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the
International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music.
Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in
thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of
Earth's thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the
video progresses. The green parts of auroras typically remain below the
space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple
auroral peaks. Solar panels of... more »
Chet Raymo, “Into The Pool”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Into The Pool”*
by Chet Raymo
“Let's start with a bit of late-Victorian soft porn, “Hylas and the
Nymphs”, painted in 1896 by the Pre-Raphaelite John William Waterhouse.
(Click to enlarge.) Hylas is one of the Argonauts, sailing with Jason in
quest of the Golden Fleece. While the ship is stopped at an island, he goes
in search of fresh water. As he stoops to fill his jug at a woodland spring
he encounters a bevy of naiads, who fall madly in love with the
heartbreakingly handsome youth. They invite him into the pool- and he is
never heard from again.
Did he find with thos... more »
Do-it-yourself gated communities and police in Honduras
paul at Paying attention - 1 day ago
Gated communities are different in Honduras.
New subdivisions in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, the two big cities,
tend to be built behind walls and gates. But that happens in North America
too.
But people in existing neighbourhoods also throw up their own barricades
and gates, blocking city streets into the neighbourhood with concrete
blocks or corrugated steel and allowing limited, controlled entrance.
There are no permits, or traffic studies. One day you can drive through,
and the next you can’t - at least without showing ID and explaining where
you’re going.
La Prensa reported... more »
Is this photo grounds for death? [updated]
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: One of the pictures Amina posted on social media.]Should this photo
be grounds for death?
It is in a Moslem country:
Two weeks ago, a young Tunisian woman known only by the name “Amina” posted political
self portraits to Facebook to protest the continued oppression of women in
the Arab world’s first democracy.
Posing topless, one photo (right) featured Amina smoking with the
Arabic declaration “my body belongs to me, and is not the source of the
honour of anyone” scrawled across her chest; the other showed Amina
standing defiantly, her middle fingers raised to camera... more »
Wherein I praise Lady Gaga for the first time
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
I appreciate her worth ethic and her originality but I've never cared much
for her music. Nonetheless, I'm impressed Lady Gaga turned down $1 million
to perform for the RNC. And they pitched hard to get her:
Jennings, whose company is being sued by AAN, was instructed by Meachum to
try to make the offer to Lady Gaga more tempting by telling her it would be
an event "honoring women who run for public office."
"Also, tell them that $150,000 will go towards a domestic violence
shelter," Meachum further instructed Jennings in an effort to make the
offer harder for Lady Gaga to refuse.... more »
U.S. dominated global disaster losses in 2012: Swiss Re
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
[image: This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of
Atlantic City, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes its approach, 29 October
2012. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already
mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed
away earlier in the day. Photo: Dann Cuellar / 6abc Action News / AP Photo]
By Andrew Freedman
1 April 2013
(Climate Central) – The insurance industry had its third-most expensive
year on record in 2012, with global economic losses from natural
catastrophes and manmade disasters totaling $186 ... more »
Cease & Desist Orders for Bankers
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Paula Humfrey wrote:
AK, following below is a manifesto to park in front of Eurozone Cease &
Desist orders for bankers (also found below):
Manifesto:
There was always destined to be a single trigger to bring down the
Eurozone, which is recognized as an inherently unstable system. Cyprus
appears to be pulling that trigger.
Derivatives will take down the entire zone very shortly, and the global
cascade that follows this event will be immediate. There is no ‘ring
fencing’, no preventative to ‘contagion’, when the exposure of even the
smallest of Eurozo... more »
Let's hear directly from AZ GOP Rep. Matt Salmon's gay son Matt
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*The "It Gets Better" video posted by "Matt in Phoenix"*
*"It's impossible to be brave without first being afraid."*
*-- young Matt, replying to a comment posted on his video*
*by Ken*
Howie wrote this morning ("Republican Homophobia in Arizona? Jeff Flake Vs
Matt Salmon") about the weekend TV babbling of a couple of Arizona
right-wingers, Rep. Matt Salmon and Sen. Jeff Flake, dancing around the
issue of same-sex marriage.
The interesting wrinkle is that Representative Salmon has a son who happens
to be gay. The congressman made clear that on the issue of marriage
equality he's n... more »
Legacy Lollapalooza
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
What's
more absurd -- the national obsession over a *New York Times*obituary
co-celebrating a female rocket scientist's domestic and
professional skills, or the national obsession with the legacy of a
president who's only halfway through his eight-year gig? There are
tasteless obits and then there are tasteless obits. But to be frank, I
find
the hoopla over Stroganoff-gate to be no less silly than the endless
awful offal about how every Obamian burp, tooth-flash and fart will
contribute to his almighty Legacy.
Google "Obama Legacy" and you get 94,100,000 hits. Google "President
Clin... more »
Morality of Capitalism
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Is capitalism in crisis? Is it in *moral* crisis? Is capitalism itself
moral?
Important questions.
Ayn Rand Institute head Yaron Brook answers them, respectively: no, no,
hell yes, Philosopher David Schweickart responds, by contrast: yes, yes,
hell no. They debate:
[Hat tip Laissez Faire]
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OLIVER STONE ON JEJU
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Regis Tremblay interviewed filmmaker Oliver Stone for his new documentary
on Jeju Island. Here are some outtakes from the interview that took place
last week.
Removing the Shackles: Notes from Heather and D from April 1st
Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*AK Note: The following is from D's blog post today. I have fixed some of
spellings and formatting for this blog, and changed the Galactic Federation
from a mix of GFL and GF to only GF. There appears to be a bogus group run
by the divines posing as the Galactic Federation of Light (GFL), and then
there's the Galactic Federation (GF) a real group of Galactics who are here
to help out. Its a different brand name if you will... You've probably
noticed a sharp decline in channelings from GFL sources since January. The
channelers mean well, the "divines" and immortals fooled many p... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Torrance, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“The Adventure of My Defunct Hard Drive”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“The Adventure of My Defunct Hard Drive”*
by Alexander Reed Kelly
“In the everyday game between man and corporation, it is taken for granted
that the house always prevails. Apple’s winning streak hit a snag last week
however, when I won an exception to the company’s policy governing the
replacement of warrantied hard drives.
My laptop stopped working late at night Friday. When I sat down at my
desk, an icon of a folder with a question mark in the middle blinked in and
out of the screen’s white glow, while a soft clicking came from beneath the
keyboard. I bought the machine... more »
ALEC Legislators Forced to Eat Hotel Food
2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
Couldn’t help thinking about this today:
From about a week ago – a right-winger whining about ALEC being picked on
and he wrote:
The New Hampshire branch of the liberal wing-nut industry is anchored by
Granite State Progress. Their current obsession is the American Legislative
Exchange Council, or ALEC.
ALEC invites members of state legislatures to go to conferences, eat hotel
food, sit through PowerPoints, and share legislative ideas.
Oh my – those ALEC members are going to be forced to EAT HOTEL FOOD.
forced to EAT HOTEL FOOD
forced - - - - - - to EAT HOTEL FOOD
Well – a cou... more »
Satire: “Citing Exhaustion, Kim Jong-un To Stop Threatening The World On Weekends”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Citing Exhaustion, Kim Jong-un To Stop *
*Threatening The World On Weekends”*
by Andy Borowitz
PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)— ”Saying that he could “no longer keep up
the punishing pace of sabre rattling seven days a week,” North Korean
dictator Kim Jong-un said today that beginning this month he will take
weekends off from vowing to incinerate the world.
After the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a revised
April Threat Schedule showing that Kim’s declarations of war and doomsday
ultimatums would be limited to Monday through Friday, North Korea’s Supre... more »
American English
Russell Potter at History of the English Language - 1 day ago
The history of American English usage marks the most recent, and in some
ways the most dramatic set of changes in English since the days of Chaucer
and Shakespeare. And yet, in this change, there was no single author, no
single literary or political influence to credit, or blame; like the United
States itself it was a patchwork affair, arrived at by degrees and with
contributions from both immigrants and indigenous peoples over a period of
more than four hundred years.
There is, however, one name that is often linked to some of the key changes
in spelling and usage which made Amer... more »
Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
Related: * *
*Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*.
*Kierkegaard On "Man."** *
*Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.*
*Kierkegaard On God's Love.*
*Kierkegaard On Passion.*
Below is an excerpt from, "The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His
Journals." Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New
York. 2003. Pg. 229-30.
There is one thought which has been in my soul and occupied it from my
earliest years, inexplicably deeply rooted, a thought which has to do with
Socrates as a model, the man to whom I have been inexplicably related from ... more »
"I Insist On The Right..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and,
exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her
perpetually."
- James A. Baldwin
•
Me too, James, me too... and I will.
We can do *so* much better, *be* so much better...
- CP
Cyprus and the Unravelling of Fractional-Reserve Banking
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: Photo of Joseph T. Salerno]*Why is Cyprus important? Because for
one moment the curtain slipped, and modern banking was revealed again as
just the latest version of the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes.’ Guest poster Joseph
Salerno explains:*
The “Cyprus deal” as it has been widely referred to in the media may mark
the next to last act in the the slow motion collapse of fractional-reserve
banking that began with the implosion of the savings-and-loan industry in
the U.S. in the late 1980s.
This trend continued with the currency crises in Russia, Mexico, East Asia,
and Argentina in ... more »
DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S: My Asian Expedition, (the Other) Hitchens on Guns, and Cowperthwaite on Statistics
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*[image: _McGrath001]This week, **Libertarianz** leader Dr Richard McGrath
has been allowed out.*
I write this from the "land of the free" - from a country never colonised
by Western powers: Thailand. More specifically, my better half and I are
spending a few days at the Sheraton Hotel in Hua Hin, three hours drive
from Bangkok. And I've got to say, it's pretty damn good here - we're
staying at a luxury resort on the western coast of the Gulf of Thailand,
with cooling offshore winds that offer relief from the otherwise
unrelenting heat (lately 35 degrees during the day, dipping to... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Rodney Martin,
Director of *World View Foundations* and Co-Founder of the American
Nationalist Association. This is the premier broadcast of The Realist
Report on the American Nationalist Network, the new home for the American
Nationalist Association. Rodney and I will be discussing the *Statement of
Purpose and Statement of Objectives of the American Nationalist Association*,
including our position on *Christianity, religion and spiritual matters*and on
*the necessity of combining nationalism with historical revisionism* ... more »
Ginsburg and the Senate
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Over the weekend, I had a Salon column arguing that Ruth Bader Ginsburg
should retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term (with retirement
taking effect upon confirmation of her replacement). Today, I did a
follow-up looking at where the votes would fall in the Senate.
A few more thoughts...first: I don't understand the objections that this
line of thought is insulting to Ginsburg, or what I think is a related
argument that SCOTUS should be above politics. I think that's a real
misunderstanding of the Court. It's true that Supreme Court justices don't,
and shouldn't, simply... more »
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