SNAP (Photo credit: AngSocialMed)
Beware of trains (Photo credit: Jim Mead)
beware (Photo credit: qi.Thomas)The SNAPping Point
I'm just going to make this short and sweet because I have other
things to do today (today's first post was dashed off yesterday and put in
the can because I knew I'd be busy).
If you've been paying attention to recent events, you'll know that
President Obama's 2009 Recovery Act (signed into law less than a month
after he took office) ended yesterday at midnight, automatically triggering
$5,000,000,000 in cuts to the food stamp or SNAP program.
Almost a year after Mrs. JP lost her job at the sign shop into which
I'd gotten her a month after she moved up here, we had to... more »
. Truck drivers Beware, Economic prediction
When it comes to extrapolating or predicting as some people call what I do
some are easy to do others are so out outrageous that are only kept in my
private analog diary.
Within a few short years 7 to 12 years form today quite a few families
whose economy depend on driving a truck, must begin to prepare themselves
for the loss of that income today. WHY?
Let's look at some jobs that currently use truck drivers, Garbage/
Refuse, Grocery delivery and Fresh produce drivers. How are these jobs in
danger of disappearing like the horse carriage and the Ice delivery men?
Technology.
Eve... more »
Canada's Right Leaning MSM Is Starting To Realize What Progressives Have Long Known About The Distrubing Character Of Stephen Harper ..
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***
*Andrew Coyne: Harper speech a parody of a parody of an empty cliché
*
*You have to understand: He is not ever going to change. He is not ever
going to admit error or show contrition or "let people see his heart" or
"share his vision" or do any of what the dimestore philosophers in my
chosen trade advise him to do.*
*Every time Stephen Harper comes to a moment where he's supposed to "pivot"
or "raise his game" or "reset," he responds with ... more of the same.
Every speech that is supposed to be an opportunity to broaden his message
or show a new face or signal his concern or ... more »
What Mattered This Week?
The latest filibuster showdown in the Senate matters, both because it might
very well end the filibuster, and because it matters whether or not Barack
Obama's choices wind up on the DC Circuit Court.
I'm not sure what I have for this week, so I'll just repeat the new
research which confirms that open vs. closed primaries don't matter.
That's what I have. What about you? What do you think mattered this week?
Outright hatred coming from 5th graders. This is urban school reform manifest.
I am familiar with a group of fifth graders who are in real crisis. This
isn’t some manufactured, fake, phony crisis like A Nation at Risk or
something. This is real. I see a classroom of children at ten and 11 years
of age so filled with rage and hate and anger that their entire […]
One of our own
From Our Own Correspondent is supposed to be amusing and off beat. It’s the
correspondent’s personal take on a subject, in contrast to their real job,
eagle-eyed reporting of newsworthy incidents, which crop up wherever he/she
is deployed. Listeners hope and trust they can depend on him/her to
enlighten and educate us, after having witnessed, on our behalf, all manner
of happenings in strange lands and faraway places.
Sometimes an episode is quirky, and sometimes informative and entertaining
as well. But the personal take is nearly always pure BBC, especially when
it comes to matte... more »
When Will He Turn On Them?
Some of Stephen Harper's most perceptive critics are on the right. This
week, in the Sun newspapers, John Robson called for Stephen Harper's
resignation:
Unless it is OK for the prime minister to lie repeatedly and openly on an
important matter, Stephen Harper must resign or be dismissed.
And this morning, in the Postmedia papers, Andrew Coyne reviews Stephen
Harper's speech tot e assembled throng in Calgary:
And so we get this damp recital of past slogans, this parody of a parody of
an empty cliché of a speech, this 4,000 word migraine. A strong, stable
national government! P... more »
Why Would Congress Let Wall Street Gamble With Our Families' Futures?
Fred Upton's Monkey Court
On Wednesday, the House voted 292-122 to gut a significant portion of the
Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection law. Irresponsible banisters addicting to
risky gambling will once again be able to take those risks knowing that if
they get into trouble, the taxpayers pick up the tab. As we saw on
Thursday, Wall Street's own political parties-- the Republican Party and
the New Dem Party-- forced the dangerous legislation through. I asked the congressional
candidates endorsed by Blue America who are running against opponents who
voted for the amendment how they see the... more »
Bill Whittle - a great start for Saturday...(video)
From www.BillWhittle.com:
In the first of this 11-part series, the Virtual President discusses the
need for clear, concise, readable and understandable legislation as the
cornerstone of our system and the first step in reclaiming your government.
Heather: Response of I to Mr. Sino
This is a copy of Heather's response of I to Mr. Sino's purported
communication, as posted earlier this morning
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/11/in-transparency-documentation.html
Response of I to Mr. Sino by breakingthesilence
Untitled
*Did no one even think to call him Pistol Pierre? ~Library Chronicles*
*Mayor Landrieu asks state for $100 million to put City Hall, civil courts
at Charity ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens*
*Whistleblower in jail abuses case being investigated ~Andrew Vanacor, New
Orleans Advocate*
*Miss., Louisiana, Alabama have nation's highest percentage of premature
births ~Clarion Ledger*
The BBC's speed dial terrorist is killed
I have to say that reading various reports on the death of Hakimullah
Mehsud, head of the Pakistan Taleban, the BBC's online coverage has stood
out in respect of its tone.
Compared to the *Telegraph,* *Guardian *and *Sky News, *the BBC's coverage
has concentrated on the negative aspects of his killing by an American
drone, especially its implications for the planned talks between the
Taleban and the Pakistan government.
Even more striking is the obituary of Mehsud published by the BBC. Several
commentators at *Biased BBC* have picked up on its peculiar tone. One calls
it "a disg... more »
The Nation: Sahlins on Confucius Institutes
Just to let you know... excellent critique of the Confucius Institutes at,
of all places, The Nation. So rare to read criticism of China on a lefty
news organ....
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Formula One quiz answer
Yesterday I asked 'When was the last time that three drivers of the same
nationality finished first, second and third in a Formula One Grand Prix
and so shared the podium at the end of the race?'
The answer is the 1982 French Grand Prix when three Frenchmen stepped up
onto the podium of the Paul Ricard. René Arnoux finished first, ahead of
his Renault team-mate Alain Prost, with Didier Pironi finishing third. In
fact yet another Frenchman, Patrick Tambay, finished fourth.
If HMOs Had Control of Our Cars
Mechanics would refuse to fix your car or double their labor rates if
they knew the car had been worked on previously.
Your kid wouldn't be able to drive your car after age 21.
While making increasingly exorbitant car payments each month on your
rapidly depreciating car, you'd still have to cover the first $8000 of any
repair or maintenance plus pay $30-50 for every estimate.
Mechanics would refuse to make certain repairs on the assumption it's
an unnecessary procedure.
You'd be limited to how much repair work you could put into your car
each year.
Garage... more »
Sisters In The UK Refuse The MMR Vaccine
https://www.facebook.com/GMAOQV
Sisters refuse to get MMR jab despite judge ordering them to be vaccinated
after their divorced parents fight over inoculation
by Stephen Adams
Dail Mail Online, UK, 12 October 2013
- *Girls' were told it was in their 'best interests' to get the
injections*
- *But solicitor claims they have no plans to agree to the decision *
- *The case was brought by their father who separated from children's
mother *
- *Parents agreed for children not to receive vaccine when they were
married*
Two sisters ordered by a High Court judge to hav... more »
"A revolving door"?
According to *The Sun*:
*BBC’s Labour hopes*
THE BBC was last night hit by a fresh bias row after it emerged five former
and current staff are in the running to become Labour MPs at the next
election.
Conservative vice-chairman Bob Neill said there was “a revolving door”
between the Corporation and the party. Ex-Beeb journalists Polly
Billington, Clive Lewis, Victoria Groulef and Simon Thomson have all been
selected for top target seats in 2015. And Matthew Turmaine, the
Corporation’s head of client services and fulfilment, is standing for
Labour in Watford.
Some will see it as ... more »
Western Culture and the Third Gender
Well done Germany. German law has been changed to allow for a "third
gender", for legal recognition to be extended to people who are born
intersex. This is entirely welcome - it's high time the legalities
caught
up with nature and acknowledged that not all people are born into one of
two discrete biological sexes. The BBC report notes this has now created
a
problem with the law regarding marriage and civil partnerships which
*are*defined in 'traditional' gendered terms. Still, it'll keep the
lawyers
plenty busy.
One of the interesting asides in the BBC piece is its rundown of
'third... more »
In Transparency: Documentation, Conversations and purported letters from Mr. Sino and Swissindo and Delegates
Continued from
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/11/declaration-of-deposit-receipt.html
....from Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf
.....I AM also sending over for post tonight, the Skype conversations that
I have in Skype, emails, and the most recent documents/hierarchy structure
that they sent me for review.... regarding a transparency tool,
specifically the tool perceived and purported to be SWISSINDO........:
1. Emails from Melanie Spencer/Mel Ve with attachments (not attached, I
will forward the email directly)
2. Skype convos with Ani/Pieta/MelVe post sept 17, 2013 (attac... more »
[DOESN'T] REPRESENT THE US,AMERICANS [?]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=691451234199361
(posted in its entirety, nothing changed)
Global Public Alert - (Unite Yourself Together)
@Tina Boldt: " omg, why can't the computer hackers, hack this video and put
it on every government website, and every mainstream media website....?????
that would be f*cking great to see.....".
>> MR. USA LYING SACK OF SH!T DOES NOT REPRESENT THIS AMERICAN; BLATANT
PSYCHOPATHIC NARCISSIST! <<
http://youtu.be/7Lm2QcKmk1Y
Published on Oct 17, 2013
The personal is political, the political personal. When you see the big
picture, you see how e... more »
ITALY'S NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE
[image: Pompeii]
*Pompeii, near Naples.*
Mobsters have dumped vast amounts of toxic waste, including nuclear waste,
in the Naples area, in Italy.
The Italian Senate is investigating a link between buried waste and a rise
of almost 50 per cent in tumours found in the inhabitants of towns around
Naples.
*dailymail*
*Francesco Schiavone of the Camorra, the Naples area mafia, which has links
to the Jewish Russian mafia.*
In classified documents from 1997, now released to the public, Francesco
Schiavone, once the world's number one mafia fugitive, said: "The
inhabitants are all at ri... more »
New Banking Documents: Original PDFs
HATJ DECLARATION OF DEPOSITORY DEPOSIT.pdf
DECLARATION OF RECEIPT.pdf
DECLARATION OF CONVERSION.pdf
DECLARATION OF ACCOUNT.pdf
WILL AND WORD DECLARATION OF I.pdf
Updates On Syria: Mirage-Like Opposition Refuses To Negotiate, Removal of Syria's CW Going Smoothly, Angry Reaction To Turkey's New Soviet-esque Wall
Title: Syria: "No Geneva-II without opposition", says Brahimi. Source:
RuptlyTV. Date Published: November 1. Description:
Lakhdhar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, said that the
Geneva-II conference will not take place unless the Syrian opposition
participate, on Friday during a press conference in Damascus.
Brahimi also stated his opposition to the arming of either side of the
Syrian conflict, arguing that there is no military solution to the conflict.
Title: UN Envoy Says Syria Chemical Weapons Plan On Track. Source: IBTimes
UK. Date Published: November. Descrip... more »
UPDATED: The Adrianne Haslet-Davis Fraud in Pictures
Boston Bombing — 18 May 2013
http://nodisinfo.com/Home/the-adrianne-haslet-davis-fraud-in-pictures/
Updated with additional photos and commentary, updated, again, May 22, 2013
*
The Adrianne Haslet-Davis Fraud in Pictures*
* *
In the enduring drama of the Boston bombing hoax the identity of the
individual known as Adrianne Haslet-Davis is a kind of CIA-like psy-ops
creation. Pictures really are worth a thousand words, and, thus, at least
initially, rather than quote what are largely lies the pictures surely the
photographs alone could e relied upon to demonstrate the truthfulness... more »
Transcripts of Recent Conversations with SWISSINDO Representatives and Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf
Continued from a prior blog post....from Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf
.....I AM also sending over for post tonight, the Skype conversations that
I have in Skype, emails, and the most recent documents/hierarchy structure
that they sent me for review.... regarding a transparency tool,
specifically the tool perceived and purported to be SWISSINDO........:
1. Emails from Melanie Spencer/Mel Ve with attachments (not attached, I
will forward the email directly)
2. Skype convos with Ani/Pieta/MelVe post sept 17, 2013 (attached).....due
to "Skype" wiping out all my convo histories pre-... more »
Message from SaLuSa by MADAD - November 1, 2013
Message from SaLuSa by MADAD - November 1, 2013
Date: Friday, 1-Nov-2013 20:58:36
The higher reality is upon those who chose to experience it as soon as they
complete the necessary transformation of their beings, into those aligned
with higher energy flow. Throughout their first experiences in their higher
realities in this process of Ascension, all others will have great source
of information when they decide to finish their own preparations. It will
be stored in collective consciousness of all Humanity on Mother Earth and
every one that desires to experience more will be guid... more »
JFK50 - Frank Sinatra
Suddenly (1954) from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Assuming a role that clearly strays far from his acting comfort zone, Ole'
Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra portrays a pint-sized low-level mob
hoodlum hired to carry out a paid hit.
The assassination of the President of the United States by rifle fire from
an upstairs window using a high-velocity rifle with mounted scope on the
presidential motorcade during a hastily arranged whisltestop tour.
This was produced in *1954*, by the way.
*Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal American (26th February, 1956)*
"Success has not changed Frank Sin... more »
Sunday Classics TV Watch: "White Collar" 's Neal Caffrey's Mozart is Leporello's little list
*On last week's White Collar episode, "Out of the Frying Pan," Mozzie
(Willie Garson) and Neal (Matt Bomer) planned a caper.*
*LEPORELLO*: My dear lady, this is a catalog
of the beauties my master has loved,
a list which I have compiled.
Observe, read along with me.
(1) *Gabriel Bacquier (b), Leporello; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir
Georg Solti, cond. Decca, recorded Oct.-Nov. 1978*
(2) *Ferruccio Furlanetto (bs), Leporello; Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von
Karajan, cond. DG, recorded Jan. 1985*
*by Ken*
I thought I was going to be really topical tonight, pouncing on Neal
Caf... more »
Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Documents
There is more to a website than the information accessed by clicking
its active links. This I learned years ago in my dealings with statistics
software that utilizes both windows and code. Armed with such knowledge,
yesterday I spent six hours combing the Louisiana Department of Education
(LDOE) website searching for useful information “hidden in plain sight,” so
to […]
How in heaven's name could I have missed this?...
*today was*
Head over to the official *Fountain Pen Day site *to see all the
outstanding companies sponsoring Fountain Pen Day. They have a list of a
gazillion contests relating to pens and inks. Yay!
I love fountain pens!
*Two of my fountain pens. The smaller one on the bottom is an old Sheaffer
that my Mom received for a graduation gift from high school. The other one
is a mismatched (body and cap) vintage Sheaffer that has an awesome nib. *
*I have a wonderful Cross for everyday use. My next pen? See video below.
*
Property Tax Cost of Living Comparison
A
quick discussion on Twitter about relative property tax rates between
Edmonton AB, London ON and Cambridge ON started me wondering, what do
these various property tax rates mean to a homeowner's bottom line?
Property taxes are a tax calculated using a rate and the assessed value
of a home. What determines their affordability is your income. Ideally
you want to live in an area where your
NEW BANKING DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY HEATHER ANN TUCCI-JARRAF 1 November 2013
On Nov 1, 2013, at 5:17 PM, ciinc group wrote:
In love, gratitude, peace, joy and transparency:
Okkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!! Rock n roll!!!!!!!!!!!!
Attached are the will and word/declarations......I built them with the
concept of lego pieces...each piece lawful...and with the intent to honor
the perception of each inbodyment every NOW moment...any inbodyment can
choose the pieces that resonate with them....
If an inbodyment chooses to "play" with the banks (all lawfully and legally
foreclosed)....then they can take the following in to any bank teller and
the bank HAS to accept them a... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Sun City, Arizonastan, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“America’s Wealthy Are Even Wealthier And Have A New Name: Point-Seveners”
* *
*“America’s Wealthy Are Even Wealthier*
* And Have A New Name: Point-Seveners”*
By Steven Rosenfeld
“The old cliché is true. The rich are getting richer. And there’s a new
name for the upward transfer of wealth and richest people in America and
worldwide—now called the “point-seven percent”—according to The Wall Street
Journal, which, in its typical cheerleading way, boasts that Americans rule
the top of the wealth pyramid.
“Forget the 1 percent—the statistic that 1 percent of people in the U.S.
hold 40 percent of the wealth” brags Jason Bellini on a WSJ video report.
“It b... more »
"Alas..."
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.”
- Thomas Gray
Declaration of Deposit, Receipt, Conversion, & Account: Banking Documents
Are you ready to Rock & Roll? Now it's TIME!!!! The following are the
banking documents that many people have been waiting for.
The email I just received from Heather:
In love, gratitude, peace, joy and transparency:
okkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!! Rock n roll!!!!!!!!!!!!
attached are the will and word/declarations......I built them with the
concept of lego pieces...each piece lawful...and with the intent to honor
the perception of each inbodyment every NOW moment...any inbodyment can
choose the pieces that resonate with them....
if an inbodyment chooses to "play" with the banks (all l... more »
I thought that Stephen Harper said he had personally reviewed Pam Wallin's expenses .. and they were ok??
*“I have looked at the numbers. Her travel costs are comparable to any
parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country over
that period of time,”*
*Stephen Harper*
*Prime Minister of Canada*
--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
*
**RCMP allege that Senator Wallin defrauded Canadians with her Senate
expenditure claims! *
Longest Walk 4 arrives in Utah!
The
Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz walked out of Grand Junction,
Colorado, and across the Colorado River, walking and running, the walk
arrived at the Utah border late Friday!
Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Bad Bear Samspon
Colorado Longest Walk 4 Photos by Bad Bear
Longest Walk Grand Junction Halloween
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/10/
Spain based Fagor ( Europe 5th largest appliance maker ) going down.... bankruptcy seems likely after its parent firm Mondragon has declined pouring good money after bad....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-01/spain-based-fagor-europes-fifth-largest-appliance-maker-verge-bankruptcy
Spain-Based Fagor, Europe's Fifth Largest Appliance Maker, On Verge Of
Bankruptcy
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2013 17:46 -0400
- China
- Creditors
- France
- Gross Domestic Product
- Market Share
- Poland
- recovery
- Unemployment
inShare
There has been much media insinuation in recent months that just because
Spain's economy has virtually shuttered, and imports have slid to
unprecedented lo... more »
Are "good Christians" really incapable of understanding why this is so offensive -- not to mention (one hopes) illegal?
*There's audio on the DNAinfo website.*
*by Ken*
One of the favorite lies of the Christian Right is that the U.S. is a
"Christian country." There is, of course, no basis in fact for this
assertion, either historical or documentary. And since one of the favorite
habits of right-wingers of every stripe is telling lies about our revered
Founding Fathers, naturally they love to tell the bare-faced lie about them
being good Christians. On the contrary. As one of my favorite New York City
walking-tour leaders, Justin Ferate, likes to point out whenever the
subject comes up (or he can *m... more »
An open letter to #AERA. No thank you.
Dearest American Education Research Association (AERA): This week, I
received yet another solicitation to renew my membership to AERA. And once
again, I will ignore this email and decline membership renewal. But this is
the first time I’ve chosen to respond. In this message, AERA is being
touted as the following: Your membership helps make a difference […]
Republicans Fret As GOP Brand Continues To Disintegrate In California
Santa Clarita Assemblyman Scott Wilk is the kind of commonsense, mainstream
Republican from the old days-- not hopeless... and still worth reasoning
with. Today he's the co-chair of elections for the Assembly GOP Caucus and
he's worried that some of his sleazy colleagues, particularly the ones in
Washington, are spoiling his party's brand even more than it has already
been. He was optimistic about holding three Republican seats against strong
Democratic attacks next year. And now he's worried. "Unfortunately," he
wrote yesterday for the *FlashReport*, "some people place their perso... more »
Friday Night, Sunday Morning
Radio 4's obituary programme *Last Word *gave its closing spot today to Lou
Reed. [You can hear this edition here, for the foreseeable future.]
It featured extracts from some of Lou's legendarily prickly interviews,
where he made the interviewer's life less than easy - to say the least;
though given the tedious predictability of the questions asked, I found
myself rather rooting for Lou.
I liked his answer to this question, from a later, mellower interview:
Q: What's 'The Last Shot' about? The line in it which says, "I shot a vein
in my neck". Have you ever done that?
A: Steve, t... more »
Today manchurian candidate killer at the LAX - not a TSA worker , allegedly Paul anthony Ciancia held strong anti- government views ( aka a domestic terrorist ) ....looks like someone needed to change the subject after a week's long NSA / ObamaCare / Benghazi screw ups " tommy hammering " .....
LAX shooting - not a TSA worker after all......maybe dead , maybe alive
http://www.infowars.com/lax-shooter-identified-as-off-duty-tsa-worker/
UPDATE: Flip-Flop: LAX Shooter Was Not a TSA Worker, May Have Had ‘Strong
Anti-Government Views’
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Facebook][image: Infowars store]
*Infowars.com*
November 1, 2013
UPDATE: UPI reports that the suspect, 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia who
is reportedly not a TSA officer as previously reported, h... more »
Pakistan attempts to open talks with Pakistani Taliban - hard to see this leading anywhere if Drone strikes have killed the Head of the Pakistani Taliban and other key Taliban members !
We have heard his death reported many times before, this time it may be
accurate - we shall see....
CIA Drone Kills Pakistan Taliban Leader on Eve of Peace talks with Islamabad
Posted on 11/02/2013 by Juan Cole
The CIA drone strike in North Waziristan yesterday killed 25 persons and
targeted a high-level meeting of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i Taliban
Pakistan or TTP). It finally killed TTP leader Hakimu’llah Mahsoud of the
large and important Mahsoud tribe in the Federally Administered Tribal Area
(FATA) of northern Pakistan. Mahsoud’s death by drone has been repeatedly
announc... more »
Bott on earth?
One blog I always look forward to reading is that by Damian Thompson at the
*Telegraph. *
Though neither I nor Sue share his Roman Catholicism, we still tend to like
what he writes on many issues.
His latest blogpost includes a section that, I suspect, matters more to me
than to Sue.
It concerns BBC Radio 3, and I agree with it either 97.26% or 102.372% [I
can't make up my mind which]:
*National treasure jumps ship*
Radio 3 under Roger Wright has, miraculously for the Beeb, preserved most
of its authentic ethos; presenters such as Petroc Trelawny are the
apostolic successors to... more »
Beautiful Day
During the work week Southern Man is on the road before dawn and doesn't
get home 'till well after dark so beautiful days often slip right by but
this morning he stepped out of The Trailer into a gorgeous fall morning.
Sure, it's a raw red-earth blue-sky kind of beauty but Southern Man loves
it. The cool air, the fall colors (such as they are), the sound of wind and
water...*Lord, I am so blessed to live here. Thank you for the beautiful
world you've made for us. Amen.*
"Do we not count?"
Blogs about BBC bias tend to focus on the big political issues, but it's
the lesser issues that seem to rile up the people I know - the people who
don't read blogs about BBC bias.
Take, for example, this week's storms.
We up in't North, especially here in't North West, barely saw a leaf blown
off a single tree, whilst some of you Southerners saw your wheelie bins
blown over and four people killed.
My 80+ dad was fuming at something James Naughtie said on *Today *- or
something someone said to James Naughtie on *Today,* he's not quite sure
which - about how we in't North were ge... more »
Halloween Party
A kitchen full of characters.
Scary Food! Photo by Joanna, our lovely hostess; well, photo cribbed from
her Facebook page.
Party theme: Zombie Apocalypse. Photo by Joanna.
Another Zombie Hunter. Photo by Joanna or Jeri or Patricia, who knows.
The Mummy apparently didn't get the memo about the party theme. Photo by
Joanna, maybe.
Toilet Terror! Photo cribbed from Jeri's Facebook.
Avast, surrender ye candy or prepare to be boarded!
Saucy wenches.
Storm and Captain America! But in these modern times even Storm carries a
corporate ID badge on her belt.
Get Ready to Rumble….. NSA vs. State
OK, so it’s not exactly Ali vs. Frazier, but NSA and the State Department
are not happy with each other. From this morning’s Cable at Foreign Policy,
Yochi Dreazen reports: Secretary of State John Kerry touched off the furor
when he said some of the NSA’s overseas surveillance efforts — which also
included tapping into
Continue reading
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps
*I had a man with military connections tell me there are 3G wireless
transmitters in the chipsets of mother boards with Intel i5 and i7 CPU
chips (the latest chips). The motherboards can be accessed remotely (I am
told) by cell towers. The wireless attennas for this are said to be
embedded in the circuit traces of the printed circuit boards which means
complete cooperation with the security agencies by motherboard designers
and the plants in China. Not surprising I suppose since the USA
Corporation is just a Chinese owned corporation. I have not been able to
confirm that rumo... more »
Eight years
This blog has been going for eight years. In that time we have seen
political practice and public opinion shift continually to the right
(especially among the young). From 1990 (approximately) to 2005 the public
moved and largely remained on the left. There was nothing that collected
and organised this opinion, save for the period when Stop the War was a
membership organisation and not a brand name, the salad days of the
anti-war movement 2001-2003. The Labour Party spent most of its time in
power trying to convince its supporters they were more right wing than they
thought.
With h... more »
WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving
extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing
universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a
blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s
leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented
efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
None of this is really possible without global military disarmament. We
can't afford militarism and poverty eradication. We have a choice to make.
Tweet, and be damned?
Oh, good grief!
As a teenager, I made it my weekly mission to tune in, of a Saturday
afternoon, to Paul Gambaccini's American chart show on BBC Radio 1. Paul G
counting down the latest hits stateside [as DJs would say back then] was an
unmissable part of my youth, back in the early-to-mid '80s.
Now, Paul Gambaccini has been arrested under Operation Yewtree.
He strongly denies the allegations.
The Twittersphere has been abuzz today, putting two and two together, after
the story broke. The clue given - on which they fed so frenziedly - was
that the BBC DJ in question was aged 64.... more »
By-Election Results October 2013
Party
Number of Candidates
Total Vote
%
+/- Sept
Average/
contest
+/-
Sept
+/-
Seats
Conservative
29
11,749
22.1%
-10.5%
405
+34
-2
Labour
27
19,317
36.3%
+7.9%
715
+328
+4
LibDem
21
7,077
13.3%
+3.9%
337
+159
+1
UKIP
24
5,596
10.5%
-10.8%
233
-26
0
SNP*
4
4,960
9.3%
+9.3%
1,240
+1,240
-2
Plaid Cymru**
2
236
0.4%
+0.4%
118
+236
0
Green
12
1,234
2.3%
-1.0%
103
-11
0
BNP
3
115
0.2%
-0.2%
38
-82
0
TUSC
1
21
0%
+0.0%
... more »
Snowman Kids Ornament
It is the time of year when I start breaking out my Holiday crafts and
ideas, so you can be well done with your crafting by the time Christmas
rolls around. I have some fun Thanksgiving ideas too, but I thought we
would kick of the holiday crafting season with a kids craft. This craft is
perfect for those younger kid and elementary school students. It is easy to
pull together and really open to individuality.
You will need:
Large Popsicle sticks, the tongue depressor type
Felt or foam in a few colors, we used purple for the scarf and black for
the hat
google eyes
a black m... more »
Is Obama finished?...
William Gensert, who wrote "Stick a Fork in Obama", over at American
Thinker seems to think so.
He's already received over 400 comments - some agree with him and some
don't.
Pop over and read the article and let me know what you think. I'll reserve
my opinion until I ponder it a bit.
*Stick a Fork in Obama*
I thought the chicken breast was particularily appropriate given that my
demo today is Chicken Cordon Bleu. I do plan on cooking mine, though...
*There. That's better.*
Our final World Series in Boston post!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013*
*Stood up by the old Boston Braves:* Fenway Park certainly makes a
fantastic TV set.
When the camera peers in from center field, the fans behind home plate are
so close that they seem to be handing you hot dogs. And then, good lord,
those glorious walls!
From right center field all the way over, Fenway's walls are 17 or 37 feet
high. With all those potential bounces!
With that in mind:
The best seat in baseball must be the one directly along the left field
line, halfway up in the section. You’re maybe fifteen feet off the field,
looking in at home pla... more »
TOURING THE JEJU MESSAGE
Catholic nuns continue blocking Navy base construction gate in Gangjeong
village on Jeju Island in South Korea. Priests and nuns have become
increasingly determined in their actions in recent months.During the last
couple of weeks Maine filmmaker Regis Tremblay has been touring the new
documentary The Ghosts of Jeju. Starting in Massachusetts he then went on
to the San Francisco Bay area for a couple showings and then up to Santa
Rosa before heading to Seattle. He's now dipping back down to Oregon for a
couple more showings of the film and then moving on to Minneapolis,
Minneso... more »
FUKUSHIMA - DON'T PANIC
A number of websites WRONGLY stated that the above diagram shows
radiation
from Fukushima.
In reality, this diagram was produced in 2011.
It was made by the *National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)*to show the tsunami of 11 March 2011, based on data recorded in
the
Pacific.
*NOAA website*
This is explained by Audrey Garric at *le monde* on 29 Oct 2013 (also
*Le
blog de Wendy*)
In a study published this month in the journal *Deep-Sea Research*,
scientists have studied the path in the ocean of cesium-137.
"The plume of cesium-137 resulting from the disaster is ex... more »
Hedge Fund Operative Gordon Hendry Joins Indiana State Board of Education
by Doug Martin
*Jennifer Wagner** : "I've heard it's (Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error) a
lovely piece of fiction."*
When Mind Trust board member and Bill Bennett operative David Shane (whose
wife is a former Eli Lilly Endowment "education consultant)" recently
stepped down from the Indiana State Board of Education, I was not shocked
when Mike Pence quickly picked Democrat Gordon Hendry to join the state
board.
Hendry is married to Jennifer Wagner, the former spokesperson for the
Indiana Democratic Party. Wagner has been in bed with the rightwing in
Indiana for some time. Her c... more »
Catch of the Day
I missed this for some reason earlier in the week, but Brendan Nyhan had a
point I agree with completely with regard to this week's sudden obsession
with Barack Obama's old claim that everyone would be able to keep their
current insurance under ACA:
Another possible explanation for the lack of scrutiny given to Obama’s
promises is that the press often takes its cues about the flaws in a policy
from the opposition party, which is part of a pattern of indexing coverage
to the range of debate among political elites. In this case, conservative
politicians and pundits often emphasized ba... more »
Limning Minnesota: Ripley bungled these topics too!
*FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013*
*In the U.S., the improvement was general:* Was Minnesota number two in the
teaching of math around the year 2007?
That’s what Amanda Ripley seems to say in her egregious but ballyhooed
book, The Smartest Kids in the World. But alas! This and several other
claims about Minnesota are either wrong or grossly misleading.
Once again, we present Ripley’s basic text on this topic:
RIPLEY (*page 72*): Of the three American students I followed, Eric was the
only one who did not loathe math. Coincidence or not, Eric’s home state of
Minnesota was one of only two st... more »
Contour Crafting: 3D Printing of Homes
Posted at: Blacklisted News
The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours.
October 31, 2013
Source: Industry Tap
We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized
wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an
entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours.
...
In this video, we see a prototype of a machine called ‘Contour Crafting’
Alabama Reactionaries Bobby Bright And Parker Griffith Reemerging From Their Holes?
Unless you're from Montgomery, Alabama, I wouldn't blame you if you can't
remember who Bobby Bright was. As Mayor of Montgomery, Bright never had to
say if he was a Democrat or a Republican. But when Republican Terry Everett
announced he would not run for reelection in AL-02, a seat that had been in
GOP hands for over 4 decades, Bright avoided the crowded GOP primary by
running as a Democrat, albeit as gay-hating, anti-Choice NRA Blue Dog. He
won the general election by 1,776 votes (just over a half of one percent).
He then went on to accrue the worst voting record of any Blue Dog... more »
The Caligula Caucus
The politically correct are calling it a class war, or even a war
against the poor. But that's putting it too mildly. Because the assault of
the plutocrats on the body politic is now actually reaching the level of
extermination -- or, if you prefer, culling the herd, slow starvation, and
legalized homicide. Here are a few of my recent *New York Times* comments
addressing this largely ignored crisis*. First, in response to Charles
Blow's piece on the partisan hammering that the neoliberal health insurance
reform known as Obamacare is now receiving:
Lost in the circular blame game med... more »
It's not the crack, it's the character flaws
I for one will be very glad when this Rob Ford business is over. He has
been an embarrassing and poorly considered choice for Toronto mayor on all
kinds of fronts, and whether he did or didn't smoke crack on video is
really just one small detail in the long Ford story.
What to do with morally errant politicians? We're all over the map on
that one, but for me it mostly comes down to putting the various specifics
in context and deciding if the picture of the person who emerges is the
kind of person you want running your town, province or country.
For instance, politicians c... more »
Your moment of Zen
Dia De Los Muertos Familiars. [graphic via La Hermosa Bruja]
Well at least now we know ...
... why there are so many photos of Rob Ford squinting up at the sky :
Ford himself has been the target of a police investigation that witnessed
and photographed him in months of on-the-ground and airplane surveillance
...
.
I have lost interest in politics
The following cowboy has succeeded to turn me off of politics - Senate
scandal and now his buddy Rob Ford is in the news again. This time the
video, Ford smoking grass, has become available to police. Too much
depressing stuff.
"It's a madhouse! A madhouse!"
Valerie Strauss’s *The Answer Sheet* has a discussion of Common Core and
text complexity that you must read:
Common Core: How are books judged?
Strauss ends with:
Appendix A of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards has a
long and complicated explanation of “text complexity,” which you can read
here, that reviews research said to show that the complexity of today’s
reading demands for adults have held steady or risen over the past half
century at the same time that the material students have read has gotten
easier.
Another document, titled “Supplemental Information... more »
Two Key Dates In The Duffy / Wright / Harper Scandal ...
*CBC's Peter Mansbridge examines what went on behind closed doors on two
key dates that led up to the current Senate scandal. If you are following
the Senate Scandal ... this is 'must see' viewing!*
*
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