gop.com: Fire Pelosi (Photo credit: Kyle Rush)$3.1-billion : Now is the time to commit accounting
*The Sixth Estate : Who is the Auditor General Protecting on $3 Billion
Boondoggle?*
*
*Auditor General Michael Ferguson on As It Happens yesterday :
"... or maybe in fact it was spent on things other than the public, uh, the
anti-terrorism-type initiatives. Now there was also the ability for
government, for departments, to get approval to re-allocate some of the
funding so that could have been part of the story as well."
So $3.1-billion, nearly 25% of the Public Security and Anti-Terrorism
Initiative, was perhaps re-allocated to "things other than the
anti-terrorism initiative" i... more »
May 1, 1973
Two pieces of news on this day, the day after Nixon finally let his top two
staff members and his Attorney General go and fired John Dean.
The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, sponsored by liberal
Republican Charles Percy calling for a special prosecutor.
And Nixon was shocked to find the FBI had sealed off the offices of Bob
Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, at the orders of new White House Counsel
Leonard Garment. Haldeman, Ambrose tells us, had comes to his old office to
start preparing for his appearances before the grand jury and the Senate
Watergate Committee, but an FBI a... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by Mike Delaney of *
Prothink.org* and *TruTube.TV* and Scott Roberts of *TheForbiddenTruth.net*.
We'll be discussing a variety of topics in what will be a fairly laid back
informal conversation. Calls will be taken throughout the program.
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!
Thursday Morning Linkage
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage. Back on the Africa theme from a
couple of weeks ago, here are some good reads from the week: More reports
on the elephant poaching crisis in CAR Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by
poachers with the help of park rangers; time for Kruger fences to come back
up Alex
Continue reading
It’s called a constitution
Already, in the first 100 days of his second term, the Prez is discovering
that even in its current state a constitutional republic is not quite yet a
dictatorship.
Which is the real point of having a written constitution, right?
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Tick, Tick, Tick... Will The GOP Actually Lose A South Carolina House Seat In Less Than A Week?
I suspect that Rand Paul was less reluctant about following Papa Paul in
endorsing habitually dishonest South Carolina philanderer Mark Sanford than
I was in endorsing Elizabeth Colbert Busch. After all, he's more of a party
hack than I am and, after all, the Tea Party Establishment has rallied
'round Sanford after opposing him in the primary. Tuesday the Koch
brothers' FreedomWorks, one of the groups Rand is dependent on, got on
board.
GOP congressional candidate Mark Sanford was formally endorsed Tuesday by
Sen. Rand Paul, a Tea Party favorite whose support could help in the f... more »
Art Transforms “Failing” School in Roxbury MA
There’s always so much talk about what can we do to replace the high stakes
standardized tests. I am so tired of hearing the same old conversation
about what might replace this disastrous policy. Yet, once again, a school
proves that children can be motivated, inspired and ready to learn by
introducing them to the [...]
Disseminating Moon Phase - Moon in Capricorn/Aquarius
http://oraclereport.com/
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
*Disseminating Moon Phase - Moon in Capricorn/Aquarius*
Ruling Mahavidya - Chinnamasta
While a purging of grief and a breakdown of old, restrictive, beliefs and
systems is underway, simultaneously, beams of energy are being sent in to
not only support, but also replenish the structure as a whole. This goes
for everything - the world at large and ourselves as individuals.
Picture it this way: An implosion is underway inside of us and energetic
pieces are flying off. But at the precise moment a piece leaves, a beam of
light is shot ... more »
One gay rainbow does not a mayoralty make
It’s astonishing how quickly Maurice Wimpianson’s star has risen. From a
bumbling politician sacked by his leader and unsure which way is up to a
man everyone wants to talk up. It seems one big gay rainbow and the
charming inability to pronounce the word “celibacy” was enough to give him
delusions of adequacy, catapulting him to international fame and, now, a
tilt at the Auckland mayoralty.
The only good thing about that is that i she he won he would leave
parliament. That’s the *only* good thing.
Why do I say that? Well, as I see it the biggest problem facing Auckland is
not ma... more »
New York Field Testing- the madness is not over.
New York Parents, Field testing is coming to your child’s school soon. If
your child is in grades 3-8 they just finished 6 days of grueling
assessments, yet NYSED and Pearson expect your child to waste more time in
test mode. High School students are also impacted with field testing,
taking away valuable time as [...]
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Pedro Gatos and Val Liveoak on Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Global South
From
left, Pedro Gatos, Rag Radio's Thorne Dreyer, and Val Liveoak, in the
studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, Friday, April 26, 2013. Photo by
Roger Baker / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio podcast:
Pedro Gatos and Val Liveoak on changes
in Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Global South
We discuss the legacy of Hugo Chavez, the state of the Cuban revolution,
the landmark genocide trials in Guatemala, and the
Documentary: GODSPEED TAIWAN, Friday 3 pm
This was passed around...
*++++++++++++++++++++*
The new documentary GODSPEED TAIWAN pursues the complicated -- and often
controversial -- issue of Taiwanese politics through interviews with top
politicians in Taiwan, the US and Japan. Los Angeles-based production
company Gatling Pictures has created the first international documentary in
more than a decade to look Taiwan’s history of martial law and its
uncertain political future. Interviewees include former Taiwanese president
Lee Teng-hui, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, US congressional representatives,
media mogul Jimmy Lai, filmmake... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Alpha”; "Where We Make Our Stand"
Vangelis, “Alpha”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jG--3elufo
•
*"Where We Make Our Stand"*
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it
everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every
human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy
and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator
and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple
in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor... more »
Another Message from Off World
Another message today, with some more information about disclosure and
this weeks hearing:
*“Sophia, here is a deeper understanding of this event. *
*What is always interesting is how "the most sacred wish when fulfilled
is
unnoticed". But this is the way the Universe was created;) *
*Much Peace and Love to You!”
http://www.tnetimes.com/article/585-ufo-and-extra-terresterial-disclosure-debbie-west-warner-von-braun-citizen-hearing-stanton-friedman-outer-space-treaty-brazil-edgar-cayce-haarp-archaeology-osmanagich-tellinger-daniken-vatican-sumerian-essenes-law-one-Bible/
*
... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This huge ball of stars predates our Sun. Long before humankind evolved,
before dinosaurs roamed, and even before our Earth existed, ancient globs
of stars condensed and orbited a young Milky Way Galaxy. Of the 200 or so
globular clusters that survive today, Omega Centauri is the largest,
containing over ten million stars. Omega Centauri is also the brightest
globular cluster, at apparent visual magnitude 3.9 it is visible to
southern observers with the unaided eye.
* Click image for larger size.*
Cataloged as NGC 5139, Omega Centauri is about 18,000 light-years away and
150 ... more »
More than Technology
Our View: A life-saving moment for Hannah, and a landmark for Peoria -
Peoria, IL - pjstar.com pjstar.com/opinions/ourvi…
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) May 1, 2013
The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?"
* "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?"*
"Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives-
tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey,
hanging from the branches of the young locust trees,
in early morning, feel like?
Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you?
Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides
with perfect courtesy, to let you in!
Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass!
Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over
the dark acorn of your heart!
No wonder we hear,... more »
More REAL History Revealed: The TRUTH About The Origins Of World War II - The Unexpected Views Of Four Key Diplomats Who Were Close To The Events
As a student of true history, I have long said that the so called "History"
that has been shoved down into our brains in the false and fraudulent so
called "education system" is nothing more than a pack of lies... These lies
have been done on purpose by criminals who want to keep us unaware of our
real history, and as a method of giving us a false history to believe in.
The purpose of the false history is only to help these same criminals as
they now push for their ultimate aim of world domination... And our
enslavement as a result!
I have long studied the facts behind the greatest... more »
Man, these wacko VA Republicrooks should be easy pickings for . . . oh, Terry McAuliffe -- never mind!
*Is Cuckoo Ken trying to tank this election?*
What spell was cast by businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. to induce
forgetfulness and truth-shading from Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and
the man who would succeed him, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II? What
powers of alchemy does Mr. Williams, a major campaign donor, possess that
prompted those two officials, the state's most powerful elected
Republicans, to flagrantly disregard Virginia's already flimsy disclosure
laws?
*-- the start of a Washington Post editorial,*
"Virginia's deepening scandal"
*by Ken*
You don't normally l... more »
Paulo Coelho, "The Seagull and the Mouse"
*"The Seagull and the Mouse"*
by Paulo Coelho
"A seagull was flying over a beach in the Black Sea when it saw a mouse.
It swooped down from the skies and asked the rodent, “Where are your
wings?” Each of them spoke a different language, and the mouse did not
understand what the seagull said, but did notice that the animal standing
before it had two big strange things emerging from its body. “It must
suffer from some disease,” whispered the mouse.
The seagull noticed that the mouse was staring at its wings and said
quietly, “Poor thing! It was attacked by monsters that left i... more »
Chet Raymo, “The End of Vernaculars”
*“The End of Vernaculars”*
by Chet Raymo
“In the early 1770s, East Tennessee was a tinderbox waiting to explode
into warfare. Settlers and traders from the Carolinas and Virginia were
moving into the country of the Cherokees. Some leaders of the tribe had
been invited to Charleston, and had even visited London. They were well
aware of the overwhelming material and technological superiority of the
Europeans. For these tribal elders, resistance to the whites seemed futile;
better to make the best deals one could manage and get on with it. The
young warriors, however, were not so... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Know your history
“Australian Football is the oldest football code in the world. The first
set of
rules were writ in May 1859, predating soccer and rugby by four years.”
- Earl O’Neill, The Footy Almanac
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The Most Honest And Truthful Video I Have Seen In A While... Believe It Or Not, It Comes From The Mainstream Media!
I am on the road to recovery... I have been taking some extra time off
recently to fight off this horrendous virus that has been knocking me for a
loop.... I have missed work, been at home sick, and have been listless and
coughing up a storm.... But it does appear that finally it is beginning to
vacate my body, and I can safely say (now) that I am getting better... I
sincerely want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding...
I came across this video just today, thanks to my great friend, Noor, who
writes the blog: Snippits And Snappits at
www.snippits-and-slappits.blog... more »
FILM / Jonah Raskin : Robert Redford 'Keeps Company' with the Sixties Underground
'The
Company You Keep':
Robert Redford's overambitious
take on the Sixties underground
He clearly wanted to make an epic about then and now, about Sixties
radicals and their kids, and he couldn’t pull it off.
By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2013
The Company You Keep, released in December 2012, was directed by Robert
Redford with a screenplay by Lem Dobbs based on the novel of the
"Singing To The Deer"
*
*
*"Singing To The Deer"*
by Patricia Monaghan
“At solstice, the woods were bright in a snowy way, the sky pearl gray
above the stately maples and gnarled burr oaks. An Alaskan marooned in the
urban Midwest, it took me years to find this nearby patch of relatively
undisturbed land where I can sense the power of wildness. Now I go there
often, watching the seasons unfold their changeful unchanging patterns in
the increasingly familiar forest. I especially like to walk among the
sleeping trees in the half-lit silence of winter dawns. The trail I follow
winds and twists, new patc... more »
"No Mercy..."
“People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of
love.
Then, when you’re dead, when they’ve killed you by what they made you go
through,
they say you didn’t have any character. They weep big, bitter tears– not
for you.
For themselves, because they’ve lost their toy.”
- James Baldwin, “Another Country”
Just one of those crazy accidents
Story got such wide play, I wasn't going to talk about the five year old
kid who killed his two year sister with his very own gun. Then I saw the marketing
stats for "My First Rifle."
They are available with different barrel and stock designs, including some
made in hot pink to appeal to young girls.
Business has boomed since the company's inception in 1996, according to its
website. In its first year, it had four employees and produced 4,000 rifles
for kids; by 2008 it had greatly expanded its operations, with 70 employees
and an output of 60,000 rifles a year.
Seriously. Sixty ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Loveland, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"The Pig Farmer"
* *
*"The Pig Farmer"*
by John Robbins
"One day in Iowa I met a particular gentleman—and I use that term,
gentleman, frankly, only because I am trying to be polite, for that is
certainly not how I saw him at the time. He owned and ran what he called a
“pork production facility.” I, on the other hand, would have called it a
pig Auschwitz. The conditions were brutal. The pigs were confined in cages
that were barely larger than their own bodies, with the cages stacked on
top of each other in tiers, three high. The sides and the bottoms of the
cages were steel slats, so that excremen... more »
Kierkegaard On Individualism [Plus Commentary By Abraham Joshua Heschel]
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.*
* Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.*
*Kierkegaard On Truth*.
*Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical."*
*Kierkegaard On Religion And Doubt.*
* Kierkegaard On Imagination.*
*Kierkegaard On Objectivity And Subjectivity.** *
*Kierkegaard - God Is Love.*
*Kierkegaard On Man's Relation To God*.
Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections f... more »
"I'm Sure..."
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are
not.
Both are equally terrifying."
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too
intelligent to come here."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Our precious Bunni has crossed the Rainbow Bridge...w/ Update
*may God bless her and keep her in his loving arms. *
*Update: *
*Carol, proprietor of Amusing Bunni's Musings blog, passed away last Sunday
from an aggressive cancer that was only diagnosed shortly before last
Thanksgiving.*
*I apologize to anyone who thought "Bunni" was, well - a bunny. On the
other hand, Carol would find it amusing. ;-)*
*RIP Bunni! *
*You brought great joy, laughter, and love to all of your fans.*
*You will be missed! *
“Klingon Worlds”
*“Klingon Worlds”*
by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
“The latest planets turned up by NASA's Kepler telescope are- like the
kids in Lake Wobegon- gratifyingly above average. These new worlds offer
both promise and insights, because they've got traits that are both
appealing and mildly disconcerting.
In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and
confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand
additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to
be other-worldly orbs. Compare this track record... more »
Dine' Louise Benally: Greed, climate change and the dirty coal industry
Louise
Benally/Photo by Brenda Norrell
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
May 1, 2013
BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. -- The lease extension continuing the dirty coal
industry on Navajoland comes as no surprise to Louise Benally, whose
family has been resisting forced relocation and the genocide of Peabody
Coal on Black Mesa since Peabody began destroying the earth and the
health
Here’s what separatism looks like up close
*Iwi are taking the pot of taxpayers’ gold given them by Chris Finlayson et
al and are now “exploring long-term autonomy”—Tuhoe for example, after
their $170 million settlement, are looking at "**the possibilities that
'Mana Motuhake' opens up … to develop as its own nation in the decades to
come**," or at least to “**eventually achieve something close to
independence**."*
*But what would this look like? And since Maori separatists with the ear of
Government have been talking up ideas like iwi “self-rule” and
“self-governance” for some time, isn’t it worth looking at how these th... more »
"Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets"
*"Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets"*
by Robert Scheer
"A recent article in The Wall Street Journal by Google Executive Chairman
Eric Schmidt, “The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution,” makes for very
scary reading. It is not so much because of what he and co-author Jared
Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, have to say about how dictators can
use new information technology to suppress dissent; we know those guys are
evil. What is truly frightening is that the techniques of the totalitarian
state are the same ones pioneered by so-called democracies where co... more »
The Many Faces of NYSUT
Reblogged from An Antique Teacher: I am really confused by NYSUT these
days. A letter was printed in the Albany Times Union by the TEACHER OF THE
YEAR whose face graces the cover of NYSUT UNITED. You can read his letter
using this
link: http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Academic-excellence-to-the-core-4463752.php
But, wait........isn't NYSUT planning a RALLY on June 8? Why yes, [...]
Bomb explodes in Dagestan. Russia. You know Boston Bombings???
*Bomb explodes in busy shopping area of Dagestan* .
Interesting timing? Considering the Boston false flag?
Considering allegations of links between Boston patsy and Dagestan?
Considering Russian round ups? Considering ‘resets’? Early warnings?
Considering the already dead ( for nearly a year) Canadian man who is today
being linked to Tsarnaev. He,William Plotnikov, who allegedly who went to
Dagestan but was killed by Russian Security Forces while there? Considering
Georgia and the fighters from Dagestan?
Etc.,
Payback? Continued destabilization? Narrative Creation?
You want options? We... more »
Obama Derangement Syndrome is destroying us
The only surprise here is Sen. Pat Toomey was so explicit in admitting his
fellow GOP Senators suffer from terminal ODS. He explains why the
Manchin-Toomey admendment failed.
"In the end it didn't pass because we're so politicized. There were some on
my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he
wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it," Toomey
admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the
offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa.
This is not exactly news. It's been the publicly announced... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic policy disaster
[image: The never-ending Euro crisis - Anatomy of an economic...]
*Here’s this week’s note from our friends at the **University of Auckland
Economics Group** who are proud tonight to bring you a presentation by one
of New Zealand's leading thinkers, Dr Oliver Hartwich of The New Zealand
Initiative.*
*About the event:*
As the Euro crisis is now in its fourth year, policies to keep the common
currency alive have become increasingly complex. The European Financial
Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism, Longer Term
Refinancing Operations, Fiscal Compacts and Banking Un... more »
the spinning dancer
The Spinning Dancer appears to move
both clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Yes, Ted Cruz Could Win the Presidency
This morning's big story was Robert Costa's report that Ted Cruz is
actively running for president. Well, no one says it that way, but it's how
I think of it. In Josh Putnam's formulation, whether or not Cruz will be
running *in* 2016, he is currently running *for* 2016 by doing all the
things that he has to do right now to be a viable candidate going forward.
At any rate, the early prognostication is that his chances are somewhere
between slim and none. Jonathan Chait Dan Amira*, for example:
What are Cruz's prospects for winning the GOP nomination in 2016, and then
the presidency?... more »
Yellow Thunder Camp -- First Hand, First Year
Copyright
Scott Barta
Posted with permission at Censored News
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On April 4th, 1981 my favorite cousin, Ihanktunwan Hoksina "Yankton Boy"
Greg Zephier, Sr., brought three Tipis (borrowed from brother Al who
was on the Pierre Indian School Board) to Porcupine, SD on the Pine
Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation to take on the caravan that would take us
into the Sacred Black
BBC News - Gatwick Airport: Controlled explosions carried out
Testing security systems? Trying to disrupt Gatwick without actually
planting any explosives?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22374309
Stay of prosecution only proper to stop continuing or future abuse
Antorisa Investments Ltd. v. Vaughan (City), 2013 ONCA 287 provides:
The issue, however, was whether a stay of proceedings was the only remedy
to address that abuse in accordance with the test set out by the Supreme
Court of Canada most recently in *R. v. Nixon*, 2011 S.C.C. 34 at para. 42.
As has repeatedly been said by the Supreme Court of Canada, a stay of
proceedings is a prospective remedy; it is to protect against the abuse
continuing to be manifest, perpetuated or aggravated through the conduct of
the trial or by its outcome and when no other remedy is reasonably capable
of... more »
Do The Millions Of Dollars In Bribes To Afghan Warlords Get Sequestered Too?
What do you know... the same cheerleaders for the disastrous war in
Iraq,
the endless, draining occupation of Afghanistan and the intervention in
Libya are the very same people and special interests urging--
demanding--
that we attack Syria. Israeli dreams coming true! And believe me,
Lindsey
Graham and John McCain don't give a rat's ass that the new CBS/*NY
Times*pollshows that the majority of Americans-- across the political
spectrum--
don't want *anything* to do with the mess in Syria.
Sixty-two percent of Americans continue to say the United States does
not
have a responsibili... more »
Holland has a new King and Queen - how they won our hearts
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 8 hours ago
link: http://youtu.be/BC9w3UoYzOs
During the evening of inauguration day (30 April 2013) with many
festivities in Amsterdam a surprise took place: Link:
http://youtu.be/YNK1e7mFiWU
Well-known DJ *Armin van Buuren*, performing with the likewise famous Dutch
"Concertgebouw Orchestra", unexpectedly got royal visitors on the royal
inauguration day. The new Dutch *King William Alexander, Queen Maxima* and
their children entered stage! Both King and Queen are very popular in The
Netherlands. They are "close to the people" in a modernized monarchy. What
you'll see in that movie can virtu... more »
Phil space
The latest from Cassini mission. Its spring in Saturn's northern
hemisphere.
Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin
*
* *
* *Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin*
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a
watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite
like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all
Americans, and indeed to people all over the world, who find the spectrum
of foreign-policy opinion in the United States to be unreasonably narrow.
Until Ron Paul and his new institute, there was no resolutely
anti-interventionist foreign-policy organization to be found.
Neoconservati... more »
Hey Hamas supporters, do you support this?
National Post reports this rather nasty news. News that the usual Hamas
supporters and apologists that I debate with would rather wasn't made
public as it rather queers their claim that Hamas are misunderstood and
really rather cuddly, not Islamist terrorists.
'It is three weeks since his arrest, but Ismail Halou still has streaks of
purple bruising on the soles of his feet.
The 22-year-old was filling cars at his family’s petrol station in Gaza
City at 5 p.m. on April 4 when a black jeep pulled into the forecourt and
police stepped out to order him into the car. He was blindfolded ... more »
GOOGLE'S SCHMIDT; FALSE FLAGS; PROPAGANDA
Pistol Packing Pandas | Facebook.
The internet has been used to expose false flag operations.
The internet has been used by the CIA to promote its propaganda.
*Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen.* CIA Money Launched Google
What happens next?
*Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen* have written* "The New Digital Age:
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business." *
*Engine of humanity: 'The New Digital Age' - FT.com - Financial Times*
Pistol Packing Pandas | Facebook.
*According to Schmidt and Cohen:*
1. Most people are moderates and the internet allows moderates to w... more »
The Daily Beast Takes the Bait on Anti-Iran Propaganda
Over
at The Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet, which serves as a news aggregator, a
post went up today with the eye-catching headline: "Iranian President
Ahmadinejad Arrested."
The blurb accompanying the post claims:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested Monday while on a
visit to a book fair in Tehran, where he was held for seven hours and
questioned by the Revolutionary Guards'
Way of the Future: Medical Abortion, Private, Safe, Cheap
This TIME writer has the right idea (my bold).
As both pro-choice and pro-life forces attempt to put Kermit Gosnell to use
to argue the moral rectitude of their position, and the jury in his trial
continues to deliberate, there is a danger that we will lose sight of what
Kermit Gosnell really is — an *anachronism*.
. . .
Gosnell was a stop of last resort for woman late in their pregnancies. They
sought an abortion past the point of fetal viability — a choice illegal in
Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. For these women, Gosnell and
his ilk are their only option.
But reg... more »
Untitled
*What’s gonna happen to Chess Piece Face? ~moosedenied*
Duncan (ALEC-ALUM) - Legislating "The Market"
Snips *from HuffPo* this morning -
*GOP Census Bill Would Eliminate America's Economic Indicators*
Posted: 05/01/2013 7:31 am EDT | Updated: 05/01/2013 9:06 am EDT
Rep. Jeff Duncan has introduced a bill to stop nearly all U.S. Census
surveys. ,
WASHINGTON --
The bill, introduced last week by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), would bar the
U.S. Census Bureau from conducting nearly all surveys except for a
decennial population count. Such a step that would end the government's
ability to provide reliable estimates of the employment rate. *Indeed, the
government would not be able to... more »
Look at all the hungry people
Think Progress looks at real world effects of Meals on Wheels cuts brought
to you by the GOP sequester clown car.
Directors of Meals on Wheels programs across the country spoke with
ThinkProgress about how they are coping with decreased funding. Some, like
Meals on Wheels of Western Broome in New York, are private nonprofits that
don’t rely on government funding and will therefore be shielded. But by and
large, the heads of these programs described facing deep cuts after having
already slimmed down in response to lean times over the past few years.
The list is depressing but olds g... more »
Best and worst jokes from the weekend’s big dinner!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013*
*Obama, O’Brien both score:* We’re sorry to return to Maureen Dowd, but we
were struck by the joke she chose to belittle in this morning’s column:
DOWD (5/1/13): How can the president star in a White House Correspondents’
Association dinner satirical film pretending to be Daniel Day-Lewis playing
Barack Obama in Steven Spielberg’s movie “Obama,” and not have absorbed the
lessons of “Lincoln”?
“Some folks still don’t think I spend enough time with Congress,” *he said
in an alleged joke at the dinner Saturday night.* “Why don’t you get a
drink with Mitch McCo... more »
Toronto Maple Leafs - 2013 Playoffs | Shake It Out
Toronto Maple Leafs - 2013 Playoffs | Shake It Out. Source: AMANJOTROCKS.
Bedroom Tax Bedroom Definition
The bedroom tax. An entirely punitive policy allegedly designed to shove
“under-occupying” social housing tenants into size-appropriate properties
when there is a massive shortage of one bedroom homes. Not that it matters
to the Tories, of course. Very few people hammered by this policy are
likely to place their cross against the blue party anyway come election
time.
But there has been something of a black hole in the rules governing the
bedroom tax. It boggles the mind, really. If you are creating legislation
designed to punish those who do not use all the bedrooms in their house ... more »
Michael James : Hope Springs Eternal
Comiskey
Park, Chicago, 1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book,
Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Hope springs eternal on
opening day at Comiskey Park
By Michael James / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2013
[In this series, Michael James is sharing images from the past,
accompanied by reflections about -- and inspired by -- those images
She's so sorry
I'm sure you heard retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor issued
a sort of pseudo-mea culpa the other day. She didn't apologize for
inflicting the Bush years on us by voting to appoint him president, but she
was very sorry SCOTUS took the case at all because, in retrospect, it made
the court look like a gaggle of politicking assclowns.
Today Linda Hirschman at TNR unearths a tasty bit of historical trivia
making it rather clear Justice O'Connor voted her personal politics in Bush
v. Gore.
Although most of O’Connor’s papers are private, her legendary secrecy could
not p... more »
Telewarrants not to be granted merely as a convenience
R. v. Lao, 2013 ONCA 285 holds:
[65] It will be recalled that s. 487.1 of the *Criminal Code *permits
an application for a search warrant application to be made by
telecommunication where it would be "impracticable" to attend personally.
The trial judge found that while it would have been inconvenient for DC
Wallace to attend in person to apply for the warrant, it was not
impracticable. Having found that the standard of impracticability had not
been met, use of the telewarrant procedure was in breach of s. 8 of the *
Charter*.
[66] In reaching this conclusion, the t... more »
Dirty Coal on Navajoland: Hold the media responsible
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Navajo horseback ride to protect Black Mesa
The
media, like the Navajo Nation Council, is responsible for that vote for more
dirty coal energy from the Navajo Generating Station. The media has
refused to tell the real story. Reporters that could have been out
on Black Mesa all these years talking to the people, never bothered to
MORE TALKING STUFF
My workshop at the weekend conference in Syracuse.....
@teachingquality, please tell me this is a joke. It has to be. @edushyster?
Am I missing something? Teacherpreneurs, this sounds like a joke. Is this
author serious? Exhibit A: I know what you’re thinking. You want to make an
impact beyond your classroom while feeding your creative passions (which
probably drove you into teaching in the first place). Thirty years of
teaching in a silo might not sustain [...]
Harry Targ : Speaking Truth About Violence
Window
into violence: A boy and his bird in Gaza. Image from
chemicalcollisions / Tumblr.
Towards a just society:
Speaking truth about violence
Violence engendered by the rich and powerful and responses from the poor
and powerless are embedded in the system of structural violence.
By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2013
Establishing causal connections between “variables” and violence is a
ALEC, Legislation Without Representation
*TODAY - on the floor of the Ohio House and Senate
s pushing the ALEC right-to-work language.
The projection is that Ohio will be a right-to-work-for-less state
BY THIS FRIDAY.
By Friday - Ohio will be Michigan #2. *
*They are limiting the debate.
They are limiting public input. *
AND THEN this
*From Greenpeace today on the ALEC “Electricity Freedom Act” –which
previously HAD BEEN seen as a possible victory against ALEC in NC.*
Bitter from a lack of support for his attacks on clean energy incentives,
North Carolina *Representative Mike Hager is promising some new, dirty
tricks to r... more »
Into The Lair Of The Beast... Bula Journeys To A Paul Ryan Town Hall In Elkhorn
Yesterday our Wisconsin correspondent, Bula, covered Paul Ryan's town hall
meeting at the Monte Carlo Room in Elkhorn the Walworth county seat. Last
November it was heavy big margin Ryan had rolled up in Walworth County that
helped him overcome Rob Zerban's big win in Kenosha County.
*Has The Shine Worn Off Paul Ryan In The Conservative Heart Of WI-01?
- by Bula*
That was the question I wanted to find out at a Paul Ryan town hall meeting
in Elkhorn, WI.
This is not an election year for the Congressman, so I was curious to see
the turnout. The parking lot was only half full, but th... more »
ALEC Legislators Subsidizing Private Education Profit with Taxpayer $$$'s
*EXCELLENT* article this morning, brought to my attention at Crooks & Liars
Almost a month old and missed the mainstream somehow.
Here's only two snips - an excellent read
*>>>HERE<<< *
*The Corporations Colonizing our Public Schools*
April 10, 2013 - Culture Brew, News Brew - Tagged: April 15-May 15 Issue,
Brooklyn, Charter School, education, Impact Schools, Michael Bloomberg,
poverty, Queens, Restart School, schools
In an era of corporate aggression into the public sphere, not even the
classroom is safe. As the corporate reach extends into public schools, our
kids are increasin... more »
I don't think I'll be doing either today...
*sigh.*
H/T *Jon Acuff*
Watergate and Conspiracy Theories
For those who don't read the Watergate posts, I want to draw your attention
to a terrific comment from the April 30 edition. I'm just going to make a
post of it...this is all commenter Adam: I'll come back and add a bit more
at the end:
--
One of the key things this retrospective has taught me is not just the
limitations of Presidents, but the limitations of *conspiracies*. These
posts should be required reading for anyone tempted to believe in a
conspiracy theory.
Which isn’t to say conspiracies don’t happen. This is, after all, an actual
criminal conspiracy at the highest levels... more »
Ottawa "loses track" of 3.1 billion dollars meant "to fight terror"
Muddying the waters
Between 2001 and 2009, Ottawa awarded $12.9-billion to 35 departments and
agencies charged with ensuring the safety of Canadians to use for public
security and fighting terrorism. The money was allocated through the Public
Security and Anti-Terrorism Initiative......
But Auditor-General Michael Ferguson said only $9.8-billion of that money
was identified in reports to the Treasury Board as having been spent
specifically on anti-terrorism measures by the departments and agencies. *The
rest was not recorded as being used for that purpose. *
* "The rest was not ... more »
3 More People in Custody in Boston Bombing Case - NYTimes.com
3 More People in Custody in Boston Bombing Case - NYTimes.com:
"BOSTON — Three additional people were taken into custody Wednesday in
connection with the Boston Marathon bombings last month, according to
Boston police and a federal law enforcement official."
'via Blog this'
Chief Arvol Looking Horse's Message May 2013
Reposted with permission from Raven Redbone
'Make No Bones About It'
http://ravenredbone.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/chief-arvol-lookinghorse-message-for-may-2013/
Photo by Mark Johns Colson
Hec'el oinipikte (that we shall live)
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the
Sacred White Buffalo Pipe
Mitakuye Oyasin!
My Grandmother shared with me a powerful time when the people
Aaronson's anthropic dilemmas
If you read my previous observations on Scott Aaronson's book including all
the comments, you will see my remarks about all the chapters up to Chapter
15 about the quantum computation skeptics – where I agree with almost
everything Aaronson writes although he seems to focus on the dumb
criticisms and writes too little about the more intelligent ones (and e.g.
about the error-correcting codes).
Chapter 16 is about learning; perhaps too much formalism if we compare it
with the relatively modest implications for our understanding of the
process of learning.
Chapter 17 is the most har... more »
Climate change compounds rising threats to koala – ‘The koalas are highly susceptible to heat stress and dehydration’
[image: A koala and its baby. Koalas are susceptible to heat stress, and
recent Australia temperatures have been beyond their 'climatic threshold'.
Photo: John Giustina / Getty Images]
Australia's iconic marsupial is at risk from shrinking habitats, road
traffic and dog attacks – and increasingly, global warming
By Neena Bhandari for IPS, part of the Guardian Environment Network
30 April 2013
SYDNEY (guardian.co.uk) – Australia's iconic marsupial is under threat.
Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now
struggling to survive as habitat dest... more »
Policy-Relevant Research, Redux
e-International Relations asked me to write a piece about doing
policy-relevant research. I thought I’d cross-post it here, especially
timely given recent posts on this blog along with Ronald Rogowski’s screed
that our work is too policy-relevant but policymakers just don’t want to
hear what we are saying (HT: The Monkey Cage). Here is the
Continue reading
Why not support the site which is right!
*WEDNESDAY,
MAY 1, 2013*
*We’ve been right since 1972 and since 1999:* In this morning’s major
post,we blow our own horn about the statewide test-score scam we
uncovered a few
years ago.
Of course, when it comes to education issues, we’ve been right since
1972!
In that year, we first approached the Baltimore Sun about the problem of
cheating in Baltimore schools on the city’s standardized tests.
In February 1981, we wrote an op-ed column about some Baltimore schools
which had impossibly strange scoring patterns. To peruse the text of
that
ancient column, just click here.
The nation... more »
Your government at work: Terrifying video...
*let's make it go viral.*
H/T *Cold Fury*
An open admission from a “scholar.” #highered #AERA13
I am not a writer. I am not an author. I’ve written. I’ve authored. But I
am not a writer. I am not an author. I’ve written many papers. I’ve
authored book chapters and articles. Being halfway decent at writing these
documents is likely what set me up to pursue a PhD. It’s not as [...]
Jonathan Karl asks a sensible question!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013*
*As Dowd gets her usual pass:* It was left to Obama himself to mock the
absurd Maureen Dowd.
Two Sundays back, Dowd wrote her usual gong-show column about the way
Weakling Obama can’t make the Congress do what he wants. Just before
passing out on her shag, Dowd authored this ludicrous thought:
DOWD (4/21/13): *The White House should have created a war room full of
charts with the names of pols they had to capture, like they had in “The
American President.”* Soaring speeches have their place, but this was about
blocking and tackling.
Dowd had seen President... more »
ALEC – MORE Secretive, Intentionally HIDING Stuff
*What is the American Legislative Exchange Council HIDING? Why do they
need to hide it?*
* *
*Excellent, important read at PRWatch* this morning that documents ALEC’s
CURRENT deceptive practices to circumvent any type of transparency about
the organization.
Snips below - PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
*ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting*
by Brendan Fischer — May 1, 2013 - 8:18am
What's on the agenda for this week's meeting of the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) in Oklahoma City?
Hard to say.
Despite ALEC trying to spin itself as a "tr... more »
Iraq’s Oil Industry Still At A Plateau
After hitting a 30-year high in oil exports at the end of 2012, Iraq’s oil
output has since faltered. March 2013 was no different as the amount of
petroleum shipped out fell from February, and matched the average for last
year. The Oil Ministry tried to cover that up by claiming that the
aggregate numbers and revenue were up for the month, but that’s because
March has 31 days compared to February’s 28. Overall, the country’s leading
industry has hit a plateau for at least the short-term.
Tanker docked at one of Iraq's new mooring points in Basra (*Reuters*)
March witnessed a drop i... more »
Peters (SD-ALEC) Dems Will Benefit from ALEC
More
In relation to South Dakota forcing Dems to belong to ALEC.
Don’t blame me – this is what the paper wrote.
Group membership fees divide SD lawmakers
South Dakota Democrats say it's inappropriate for the state to pay for
lawmakers' membership in an organization they believe is a conservative
group dominated by Republicans and large corporations.
Republicans say the American Legislative Exchange Council involves both
parties, along with businesses, and is aimed at developing better policy.
The South Dakota Legislature's Republican-dominated executive board voted
recently to pa... more »
Seeds of the Dogmatic Scholar
The think tank as a pseudo-scholarly mechanism to promote free market
ideology depends on the dogmatic scholar. All aspects of education in the
U.S. have been directly and indirectly impacted by the rise of think tank
advocacy and dogmatic scholars, even as departments in flagship state
universities such as the school choice advocacy coming out [...]
THE PROFESSORIATE FAILS US AGAIN: This is the way our system works!
*WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013*
*Interlude—An earlier failure:* Why didn’t anyone fact-check the
world-famous Harvard professors?
Three years later, why was this task left to three graduate students?
Yesterday, we asked these questions about the case of Reinhart and Rogoff,
the bungling economics professors who managed to skew the world’s economic
discussion. Let’s quickly review the facts:
Early in 2010, Reinhart and Rogoff released a paper which became extremely
influential. We’ll ask Paul Krugman to give us the thumbnail account:
KRUGMAN (4/19/13): *At the beginning of 2010, two Harvar... more »
14 Year Olds Denied Their Civil Rights...
*will it never end?*
*
**The FDA is Pulling 14 Year Olds to the Dark Ages or Something*
Here’s what those “civil rights” organizations really wanted to say
The original post here. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary
Tagged: civil rights, copaa, dfer, easter seals, Education Trust, letter
DRONE STRIKES ARE THE FACE OF AMERICA
Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemeni youth activist and writer, testified April 23 at
a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
Rights and Human Rights chaired by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on the moral,
legal and constitutional issues surrounding targeted killings and the use
of drones.
It is time for public school advocates to become “irate.”
This video is of a Boston man going into a beautiful rant against
right-wing conspiracy nuts affiliated with radio host Alex Jones, who
believe that the FBI purposely set the bombs during the marathon. I’m not
suggesting we make comparisons between “education reform” and terrorism or
vast government conspiracies. However, some are out there pushing [...]
A Luminous Doom
First daughter rides her newest horse
Sleeping In The Forest
~ Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
gr... more »
Why Should Young Voters Be Embracing Cynicism? Barack Obama
Keith Ellison is as crystal clear as one can be-- without coming out and
trashing Obama completely-- that the president's willingness to compromise
with America's mortal enemies (the Republican Party and the oligarchs and
plutocrats who own them) is bad for American working families. Yesterday
Alex Isenstadt explained the politics of this in a *Politico* piece for
people who have been sleeping for the last several months. He explains how
Obama has blurred the lines-- lines going back 100 years-- between
Democrats and Republicans on protecting working families with popular
social ... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Von Joshua, 65. What's not to like? Picked up on waivers
from the Dodgers just in time for a freakishly good 27 year old season,
then let go 40 games into the next year after he turned back into a 4th
outfielder at best. I suppose the downside is that his "emergence" might
have had something to do with giving away Garry Maddox, but the Giants in
those years were foolish enough to have done that anyway, alas.
Good stuff:
1. Steve M. on "the low-information media." Oy.
2. Andrew Rudalevige has something to say about "juice," too.
3. Yes, Obama beats McCain without ... more »
One May Smile And Smile
Tom Walkom writes that no one should be taken in by the cosmetic changes to
the Temporary Workers program, which Jason Kinney announced two days ago:
The backpedaling Monday by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney underscores a
bitter truth about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
It has been forced to retreat marginally from its long-running campaign to
push down wages in Canada. But it hasn’t given up the war.
Kenney’s tactical retreat was announced with much fanfare. As cameras
clicked, the minister announced numerous changes to Ottawa’s temporary
foreign wor... more »
FCC Nominee Wheeler - Former Telecom Industry Lobbyist
Awhile ago – I put up a request for people to sign a White House petition
for Susan Crawford to be the new Chair of the FCC
My update to that entry was:
*It is so disappointing to me - when people shoot themselves in the foot*
and
that is exactly what the readers of this entry are doing.
You are going to end up with some DAMN old fart from the Telecom industry
running the FCC - because you are choosing not to take this blog entry
viral - Shame on you. Don't you dare complain about Comcast. CenturyLink,
AT&T screwing you - here you have the chance to make a major contribution
to ... more »
Untitled
*John
Georges buys The Advocate*
*The Advocate: 1 SomeTimes-Picayune: 0 ~Ryan Chittum*
*Former Times-Picayune editors will lead Baton Rouge Advocate, which has
a
new owner ~Andrew Beaujon*
*Happy 42nd Birthday Amtrak!*
~*Today marks the 42nd birthday of Amtrak, America’s Railroad, and
there’s
a lot to celebrate. Not only have we connected more than 500
destinationsacross the country, but we’ve employed tens of thousands of
Americans,
including the more than 20,000 folks who keep your trains running 365
days
a year. *Special thanks for Photo above of the City of New Orleans as
she
c... more »
Unreasonable verdict
The principles applicable when there is an allegation of unreasonable
verdict are summarized in *R. v. R.P.*, 2012 SCC 22 (CanLII), 2012 SCC 22,
[2012] 1 S.C.R. 746. Deschamps J., for the majority wrote:
[9] To decide whether a verdict is unreasonable, an appellate court
must, as this Court held in *R. v. Yebes*, 1987 CanLII 17 (SCC), [1987] 2
S.C.R. 168, and *R. v. Biniaris*, 2000 SCC 15 (CanLII), 2000 SCC 15, [2000]
1 S.C.R. 381, at para. 36, determine whether the verdict is one that a
properly instructed jury or a judge could reasonably have rendered. The
appellate cour... more »
Lin Yi-shih's family gets a walk
*Sand dunes along the seashore south of Yuanli.*
Former Executive Yuan Sec-General Lin Yi-shih got an interesting sentence
yesterday. The Lin case had been closely watched. Before you read the Taipei
Times account below, go back and read my long post on some of the political
fallout and prosecutorial issues. Lin got 7+ years, basically two years for
one count and five for the other.
Taipei District Court spokesman Huang Chun-min (黃俊明) said the court ruled
Lin had not violated the Anti-Corruption Act (貪汙治罪條例) because as a lawmaker
at the time, he was not in a position to decide wit... more »
China's Labour Camp Expose
It has been clear for some time that we have a real civil war happening
between the two factions of the Chinese government and they are certainly
playing with fire. The reform faction does not have sufficient power to
forcibly purge the so called bloody hands faction outright although they
certainly have the moral high ground and the apparent leadership high
ground.
This explains the ongoing agitation taking place on China's borders that
serve no conceivable purpose whatsoever except to possibly trigger a nasty
border incident and induce all those countries to strengthe... more »
Ancient Microraptors Adapted to Fish
It is also pretty clear that larger pterosaurs were likely eating fish by
the expedient of diving into the water and going after the fish. They also
appeared to be nocturnal. This explains why some apparent extant creatures
are rarely seen.
The microrapter may have used similar methods.
The take home is that fish were hunted during the age of dinosaurs by
flying creatures as almost a preferred strategy. Such hunters would
generally be immune to most attackers themselves.
*Fish was on the menu for early flying dinosaur*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Ap... more »
Paper on Chinese Rice Lead Retracted
This article is a really good examination of the real difficulties every
scientist faces in his attempts to produce good data. Yes, these folks
muffed it and they should have done much better, but that it happened at
all is a reminder that most data gathering starts of with a ton of
mistakes. Then you figure out what works and all is good.
Let me share a story with you. When we assay for copper values in a
strange piece of rock, we send it to the lab and a value comes back. All
good if the chemistry is something the lab is used to.
However imagine instead that we are d... more »
Plesiosaur Updates
We have come to a pretty clear grasp of the life way of the pleiosaurs
that remains extant. I will also add though that there are additional
observations that suggests that we have more than one species involved.
However they all reside most of their lives in the deep ocean under the
thick surface layer, putting them well out of our reach.
Present observation is quite poor simply because we make an awful lot of
noise when we are at sea and thus never catch them unaware when they do
come to the surface. This did happen during the days of sail. The result is
rare sightings ... more »
Bad Economic Development Ideas from Conservatives
Good Jobs First today released a new study debunking so-called “business
climate indexes” and showing them to be cover for an ideological agenda of
cutting taxes and cutting wages.
“Grading Places: What Do Business Climate Indexes Really Tell Us?” is
written by University of Iowa emeritus professor Peter Fisher, a well-known
expert on investment incentives and fiscal policy, with a preface by Good
Jobs First director Greg LeRoy.
This is an ambitious study that analyzes six different indexes published
by five different groups. Four are simple combinations of a wide variety of
p... more »
Five Most Popular Posts for April
The five most read posts of the month were:
1. A Vile Product
2. The Demonisation of Paris Brown
3. Thatcher
4. A Quick Note on Ed Miliband and George Galloway
5. Dogging and Dogging Tales
Thatcher passes into the night and still the two hideous *Daily
Mail*scandals from the last four weeks trump her. An unremarkable post
pushing a
common sense interpretation on the "secret" meeting between EdM and
Gorgeous George got a surprising amount of traction while my pondering
of,
ahem, dogging pulled in the numbers too. I always knew you were a mucky
lot. What will feature next month? Your g... more »
“College and Career Ready” Contest Begins!
There it is again! Arne Duncan and John King said it at almost the same
time! “College and career-ready.” If someone would give me one dollar for
every time I hear that phrase come out of some Common Core supporter’s
mouth, I could probably leave work an hour early every day. Arne Duncan,
Barack Obama, [...]
Genus 5+ supermoduli space is not split
*In multiloop diagrams, superstring theory is more than bosonic string
theory with a cherry on a pie*
Three weeks ago, I discussed the possible shapes of the two-dimensional
torus. They were parameterized by the parameter \(\tau\in\CC\) with an
extra symmetry, "modular invariance" \(SL(2,\ZZ)\), identifying countable
sets of values of \(\tau\).
The torus may be considered as a genus-one Riemann surface (a sphere with
\(h=1\) added handle to it) and it plays the role – aside from other roles
– of the 1-loop "thickened" Feynman diagram in string theory (with purely
closed strings).... more »
DUTCH ROYALS; NAZIS; PEDOPHILE RINGS
*Holland gets a new King. Qatar's Sheikha Moza bint Nasser al Misned,
Morocco's Princess Lalla Salma and Prince Albert II of Monaco.
http://www.dailymail.*
The Dutch Royal family is popular because of its alleged links to Nazism
and pedophile rings?
*New Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima*
Simon Kuper (The Beatrix factor) writes in the Financial Times:
*Holland's "Willem III liked to stand on the balcony of his Swiss villa on
Lake Geneva and open his bathrobe when a tour boat steamed past. *
"In Dutch slang, he was a 'pencil salesman'."
According to The New Yo... more »
wut d kidz r list n 2 deez daze
Stuck standing on the GO bus becauz all d yung-ass punx wanted to hear deez
muther-fukkerz:
sut=vevah
Your moment of Zen
Red tulips mean I love you. [Source unknown]
Was Kaesong a Hole in the Korean Iron Curtain, or a Subsidy to the Kim Monarchy?
So it increasingly looks like the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial zone is
closed for good. (The Wikipedia write-up is a pretty good quick history of
it.) The zone was set-up during the Sunshine Policy period (1998-2007). It
was to do 3 things: 1) Lead to some liberal-capitalist spill-over in the
North, 2) Expose regular North Koreans
Continue reading
Ypsilanti Vampire May Day
- As for the crisis of our own lives, in 2009 Matt Taibbi assigned blame to
the banks, calling Goldman Sachs “a great vampire squid wrapped around the
face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that
smells like money.” Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan,
referring to the Emergency Manager which was wrapped around the face of his
city, said “he’s for the corporations that suck the life out of people.”
Banks, insurance companies, and corporations belong to the total circuit of
capitalism whence the sucking originates. When Alan Haber, the fi... more »
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