February 2012
#DanicaPatrick snubbed by Conservative... →
Danica Patrick spoke at National Press Club last week about how hard it was for her father and herself to break her into the Conservative NASCAR crowd. It was a slow arduous process taking years of working alone. For the first time in NASCAR history, #ClimateChange inclement weather & whiteout conditions caused a late delay in the race until last night. Ms Patrick had the bad luck to get...
@AdamLiptak #NYTimes #SCOTUS reporter update about... →
Liptak says, “The 5 Conservative justices on the Court appear to be ‘quite eager’ to hear the TX #AffirmativeAction case” Anyone care to guess what deviltry they are planning? The Fisher case is analogous to the irate firefighters white power case that they heard last term with Sotomayor recusing herself. Mr Liptak seems to be suggesting in this phone call to @cspanwj that...
Sheriff #JoeArpaio holds #RickSantorum AZ... →
Last Tuesday, Feb 21 Arpaio was the Santorum Keynote speaker for the Maricopa County Teapublican Party Lincoln Day Lunch and Straw Poll [#cspan video.] He announced then that at the request of his Tea Party friends he would make a ‘Big announcement March 1’ about his investigation into continued allegations that our Black President was not born in the US. Arpaio then introduced the...
#Occupied: Reports from the Front Lines | The... →
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#OccupyLondon: the eviction and the backlash →
anonymissexpress:
Posted by George Eaton - 28 February 2012 08:48
Protesters angered by apparent collusion of St Paul’s with the police.
When Giles Fraser resigned as the Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s last year it was, he said, because he could not face the prospect of “Dale Farm” on the steps of the Cathedral. But, to the protesters’ credit, last night’s eviction did not result in violence....
Robert Reich: No Longer Home Sweet Home: The... →
robertreich:
Economic cheerleaders on Wall Street and in the White House are taking heart. The US has had three straight months of faster job growth. The number of Americans each week filing new claims for unemployment benefits is down by more than 50,000 since early January. Corporate profits are healthy….
@iwatch Consider the Source 2012-How have... →
Links to Brennan judicial reports post #CitizensUnited Chief Justice Roberts has written in the past that he wants judges to get more money. He figures its only fair since the average #SCOTUS level judge student debt is over $300K according to Justice Sotomayor. IMAO he wants them to become rich bureaucratic millionaire$ like other #USKleptocracy government officials and members of Congress....
#Sony Music Boss: Censored #YouTube Videos Cost Us... →
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Ernesto, February 24, 2012, via @nofearbioishere
Sony Music’s CEO of international business said in a recent interview that the Internet is a blessing for the music industry. Nevertheless, there are still problems that have to be overcome, such as restrictive copyright enforcement by music rights collecting agencies. The Sony boss says that YouTube revenue running into...
“Look who they are giving us now. What do they think, we’re stupid?” Scott Kanas,...”
– WARREN, Mich. | If you want a sense of the challenges Mitt Romney and the GOP have in Michigan, you could learn a lot from standing on the corner of Mound and East 9 Mile roads in suburban Detroit, Dante Chinni reports. (via newshour)
@WGNNews at midday says turn off Google spying... →
The Chicago news team says that European authorities are calling Google “Big Brother” for not automatically turning this spying feature off for its users. Google claims that users have already had 30 days to review the 25 page change in its legal policy. Follow these directions EXACTLY at https://www.google.com/history/ to clear out & turn off the search History...
Willie Nelson Says We Must #OccupyOurFoodSupply →
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Posted by majestic on February 25, 2012, via @AdamfromNorway
Willie and co-author Anna Lappe write at Huffington Post:
Our food is under threat. It is felt by every family farmer who has lost their land and livelihood, every parent who can’t find affordable or healthy ingredients in their neighborhood, every person worried about foodborne illnesses thanks to...
“It’s a fundraiser, I’m not doing a super PAC event.”
– —Rick Santorum, answering questions from reporters following Wednesday’s CNN debate, incorrectly told reporters that his Thursday appearance at super PAC Red, White and Blue Fund’s fundraiser wasn’t, in fact, a super PAC event. The Fund has spent more than $4 million supporting the former...
Rick Santorum's Despicable And Hurtful Health Care... →
shihtzuman:
You have to want to be President awfully badly to purposely scare the hell out of parents whose children face illness and disability in their lives. You also have to be a perfectly despicable human being.
“David Kato was one of a group so tiny, hated and hounded—indeed, illegal—that...”
– From our obituary of David Kato, school teacher and leading gay campaigner, who was murdered in Uganda last month. (via theeconomist)
@religionethics #PBS investigates the dissolution... →
Prominent Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was murdered recently. His SMUG replacement Frank Mugisha blames American evangelical pastors, like Massachusetts-based Scott Lively, for helping stoke [LGBT] intolerance in Uganda. Apparently Mr Lively and other Social Conservatives have been using the internet, Facebook, and youtube to encourage criminalization and murder of African gays. It seems...
#US Tentatively Approves #Shell Spill Plan for New... →
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By JOHN M. BRODER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, February 17, 2012, via @AdamfromNorway
In a crucial step toward the ultimate approval of new oil drilling off the North Slope of Alaska, the Interior Department on Friday tentatively approved Shell’s plans for responding to a potential spill in the frigid Arctic waters.
More on NYTimes.com
@CharlieRose #PresidentsDay Roundtable on... →
I found this panel of Presidential historians very amusing. Their statements and predictions mirror things in my recent blogs. They achieved consensus on a number of factoid items:
1. Bush 43 first term was a disaster, with the second term spent mostly patching bridges that were already falling down. One of them even made the prediction that historians were going to treat Bush-brain’s...
“Satan has his sights on the United States of America! The Father of Lies has his...”
– RICK SANTORUM, in a speech delivered in 2008, seeming to “imply that an Obama presidency would be the sign of an impending holy war,” according to the New York Daily News.
And if you still think Santorum was referring to Obama’s environmental policy was he said the President had a “phony theology,”...
Scientists Denounce #ClimateChange Denial,... →
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VANCOUVER, Canada, Feb 21, 2012 (IPS) - Amid revelations of a well-funded U.S. organisation’s plans to deliberately distort climate science, scientists and journalists at a major scientific conference called on the Canadian government to stop its muzzling of scientists. For the past four years, the Canadian government has been denying timely access to government scientists...
Virginia governor no longer fully supports... →
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jessicavalenti:
Props to all the pro-choice activists in VA!
Oh, this is the best news I’ve heard all week. Of course, it’s kind of disheartening that I am relieved after hearing that the governor of my state “no longer fully supports” state rape. But I’ll take what I can get, right?
“Jim Crow has changed. Jim Crow no longer wears a white sheet. Jim Crow no longer...”
– South Carolina United Methodist minister James Williams, to #ReligionEthics #PBS, concerning the draconian measures of the new SC #VoterID law currently under DOJ review. One thing I notice is that this is a variation on older quotes, but the luxury suits keep getting more expensive. As such it has...
A President's Day Message about the Plutocrats
I loudly protested against the US/Central American war involvement back in the 1980s under the doddering Alzheimer’s President Ronald Reagan. Under President HW Bush I protested Desert Storm until we got out. I was privately critical of President Bill Clinton bombing the Sudan aspirin factory and his botched operations against Aristide in Haiti. Publicly, I said we should get the hell out of...
Which Pentagon Budget Numbers Are Real? You... →
oldParasiteSingle: This is why I promptly went to reddit to accuse Panetta of lying 2 weeks ago when he announced that the Pentagon is cutting its own budget growth next year under threat of sequester. They’ve never cut their own growth in their entire history before, so why would they start doing it now? All I expect from the Pentagon is a very slight cosmetic reduction in brass creep. They...
#PrisonAmerica Slavery by Another Name evolves... →
I gather that I’m not the only one impressed by the PBS documentary “Slavery by another Name” about the history of for-profit prisons and other forced-labor in use for booming the US economy. I noticed some excitement on twitter about it from #OccupyChicago In the present day the US at any one time now imprisons more than 3M adults in “corrections.” That statistic is...
US Quackery in Treating Chronic Depression and... →
#60minutes did an excellent job tonight in this segment about Irving Kirsch’s ground breaking research at Harvard on the Placebo Effect. Kirsch used FOIA to get the FDA studies that the drug companies didn’t publish. Namely those unpublished studies that turned up that the Placebo effect and other holistic alternatives often work better than the marketed drugs. In other words...
