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Argh! New Parenting Advice? Follow the Dog Whisperer

11-27-09 3:56 A GMT-08
Because you want to have to support and control your kids all their lives like you do your dog. So don't explain things, just control. So much missing in this article. I'm wondering where that rolled up newspaper is hidden. You can't just get kids to obey without question without something to back your up. That back up is usually the threat of punishment or previous bouts of explanation lacking in dog handling because they don't understand us.

Rightwing uproar over Best Buy’s ‘Happy Eid al-Adha’ wish to Muslims

11-27-09 3:49 A GMT-08
RWNJs furious that store celebrates November Muslim holiday instead of December Christian one, RIGHT NOW! Oh dudes? What about Chanukah? Christians don't care as long as they can impose their will.

Sandra Tsing Loh:

11-27-09 3:36 A GMT-08

Thanksgiving Held After Massacre of Pequot Indiians

11-27-09 3:33 A GMT-08
@blogdiva linked to her blog post about a thanksgiving feast held after a massacre of Indians in 1637, after which a day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed. I'm pretty sure that there was an earlier one, but the 1637 incident shows how negligent in feeling white Christian societies have been towards others.

The Nation: Why Not Tax Wall Street?

11-26-09 9:06 P GMT-08
Proposals to reign in Wall Street start to emerge says William Grieder. I certainly hope something in that direction is accomplished before the fever fades.

9 Insider Secrets to Getting Hired

11-24-09 7:07 P GMT-08
I don't know if these tips work, but this US News report at yahoo.com sounds like the extra effort will pay off. Good luck if you're out there searching for a new job. I'm going to put a copy in a personal spot, in case I even need these hints.

WP: Hasan Had More Contacts with American-Yemeni Iman al-Aulaqi (al-Awlaki)

11-21-09 8:04 P GMT-08
Report says the Major and the cleric discussed money transfers and other actions (that has Sen Levin calling the Ft. Hood shooting spree a terrorist action.) Still, there were two terrorists in Massachusetts who never acted because MA has strict gun laws. Texas has very lax codes. Another factor is the lack of full and complete checks of anyone who buys the most dangerous types of guns, like the cop killer that Hasan used.

Lies about ACORN set off Twitter Mob with #acornfacts

11-20-09 5:36 P GMT-08
Twitter is the most fun when the Tweeps start a big mob action themselves. And this one was glorious. Actually better than the Swine Flue mob that erupted last spring.

Washington Post- ABC News Poll President's Numbers Mostly Positive

11-20-09 5:05 A GMT-08
Seeing all the lies told about him, just staying in the plus column is a major victory.
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Goldmans Sachs to Give "A Good Trading Day's Haul" Back to American Public

11-19-09 9:33 A GMT-08
$100m for each of 5 years, or 2.3 percent of 2009 bonuses will be "tithed" out to small businesses over the period.

Poll: Americans Want a Surcharge on the HIghest Earners in US To Help Fund Health Care Reform

11-19-09 9:02 A GMT-08
Oh that's a poll that has to be redone so that Mainstream news can use the second, doctored one as proof that this one was wrong.

Too Many Breast Cancers Diagnosed by Mammograms?

11-18-09 8:08 P GMT-08
LA Lady: I've seen this in my own family. My sister found a series of "lumps" by self examination as promoted in the 80s. Each one caused extreme stress and expensive medical bills as it was removed and examined though we haven't had breast cancer in our immediate family whether post or pre-menopausal type. Luckily, she had good employer based insurance for it. So I'm for the new guidelines. Why get women into unnecessary "pre-existing condition" problems for lumps, even cancerous ones that disappear rapidly. Eat lots of fruit, veggies, whole grains, and other whole foods you can find at a local farmer's market.

The Nation: Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

11-18-09 6:53 A GMT-08
If it seems like Republicans are pushing the news, that's because they are.
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Alert Net at Reuters: Why boosting food output is not enough to beat hunger

11-18-09 6:36 A GMT-08
Inequality, not lack of supply creates hunger as food is priced out of the reach of the poor according to report. Thanks to @Liam_Fox at Twitter.com

Huffington Post: 18 Biggest Falsehoods in Sarah Palin's book

11-18-09 5:55 A GMT-08
You can also vote to tell them which whoppers you think are the worst.

Palingate: So how many abortions do these people claim Sarah had?

11-18-09 2:47 A GMT-08
I get lost in the long winding narrative. But they seem to imply that Trig is a rent a baby. But if a woman has an abortion why rent a baby about the time hers was to be born?

Exxon Gets their Iraqi Oil Field Deal

11-16-09 12:45 A GMT-08
Exxon gets 80% of "one of the largest" oil fields "in the oil rich south" according to the UK Telegraph. I know this is old news to some, but I just wanted a record here of the fact, and to inform anyone who hadn't heard yet. It did happen as we said it would. bTW, Telegraph, isn't the name of the largest partner usually first in news about a partnership? WTF?

Jenny Sanford Endorses Opponent to Husband For Next Year's Governor's Race

11-12-09 6:12 P GMT-08
Mrs. Sanford is no political lightweight either. This could send ol' Mark off to Argent... Oh wait. The pretty journalist isn't going to need a washed up old pol. Well maybe he can pitch a tent on the Appalachian trail, or join the soup lines with the rest of the unemployed homeless, the folks that Republicans usually ignore.

Massachusetts Man Says He Was Fired for Telling Colleague Her Gay Marriage Is Wrong

11-11-09 8:08 P GMT-08
Link goes to Fox News. Just wanted to make a comment. I've been there. You're taught by the fundie church that by standing up to "the infidel" you're going to win brownie points with God and get ya closer to the big man on that sea of glass when you die. And in the meantimes you're earning creds with your Christian buddies, a war story to tell and make yourself look good. Or maybe you know you're a tool for the Christian dominionists. Don't play martyr, now. I'ts just makes you look like a fool.

Examiner.com -- Robert Taylor: The Fort Hood massacre: more blowback from America's interventionist foreign policy

11-10-09 9:17 A GMT-08
Good piece. Agrees with the Bible that They who live by the sword will die by the sword.

Health Care Around the World: Why American Health Care for Uninsured is Like that Of 3rd World Nations

11-07-09 7:39 P GMT-08
Interview with TR Reid on the 4 methods of health care in the world and the types of insurance and other bundled medical programs in the developed world found in the nations of the world.

Neda's Mother: She Was Like an Angel

11-07-09 7:16 P GMT-08
Her mom, talks about Neda's life. New: Neda found it impossible to get work because she was divorced.

Why negative thinking makes the world a better place

11-07-09 5:32 P GMT-08
Writer's brush with positive thinking program illustrates how focusing on a positive outlook can hurt in the long run. 'come to think of it, positive thinking started out as a busineess ploy, didn't it? A ploy by already powerful and rich white men to ingnore the harm their business practices have on the world. Maybe they should go back to the EST scam. Oh yeah.that was for underlings. h/t @R_A_W at Twitter.com

Jake Tapper Interviews Roland Hedley Jr. On Twitter

11-07-09 7:03 A GMT-08
Over his new book based on his Twitter posts. (Has to be a first.) The Insufferably sufferable journalist opens up to the ABc's Political Punch columnist, or not. Now I know what I want for Christmas.

Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer's Beliefs Are an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre

11-06-09 9:19 P GMT-08
Fort Hood and it's vicinity have have a lot of problems with killings and low morale. The fact that Hasan did not act until the day before he was to be deployed shows his actions were more about being denied his right to avoid war than because of his religious beliefs. Hat tip @ontd_political at Twitter.com for link

New book tells how Right Wing and business push mainstream news media into a right wing bias.

11-05-09 4:18 A GMT-08
Calls liberal bias of news media "and urban legend" and shows how the right forces news media to back up their own propaganda. Hat tip Twitter colleagues, probably either @maafa or @mparent77772

Meg Whitman's radio whoppers

11-02-09 5:04 P GMT-08
Right Now Ms. Whitman is a California concern, but such things go on in your state as well, and it's good to see some reporting on them which we do this far from the election. Beside should she win the governor's seat she's likely to be running for president by 2016 at the latest.

ROFLMAO Slate Imagines Barack Obama's Facebook Wall

11-02-09 4:26 A GMT-08
Must read. No registration required.

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51% of Likely California Voters would Reject California Initiative Against Gay Marriage

posted 07-30-08

An proposal on the California ballot this fall that would codify into the state constitution that marriage should be between a man and a woman would be defeated if the vote were held at this time.  Forty-two percent of likely voters would vote to approve the measure according to a report at the LA Times "".

In 2000 61% of voters passed a law that would prevent same sex marriage.   It was that law and other discriminatory ones that were found to be illegal earlier this year the article adds.

And as you may know that led to the availability of same sex marriage in the state. 

Advertising hasn't started on the proposal, yet and it's attracting money from across the nation.  Each side has raised million of dollars.

The article links to a map showing larger Californian cities and their donation profiles.  It also shows the amount of money reported to have been collected from within and outside the state .  A greater percentage of the money to pass the ban on same sex marriage has been collected from other states, but the opposition to the measure has raised more money overall.   Los Angeles and San Francisco counties lead the way in opposing the ban.  Orange and San Diego counties are leading in supporting it.  Anyone in the state could have guessed this though.

The New York Times today reports that Massachusetts has voted to end their ban on marrying out of state same sex partners (unless their home state approved the union).  The governor says he will sign the measure the paper reports in " ". 

Why let California get all that wedding money? ( Still, most of the weddings I heard about were low key affairs between people who were just happy to be able to declare their union).

An earlier report in the Times reports on a group, 'Californians Against Hate' organizing boycotts of large donors supporting the California proposition through their Facebook page.  Though political conservatives maintain that donating large amounts of money is "freedom of speech" according to what we have heard from them before, now they claim that choosing whether or not to spend money with a business because of such large donations is not freedom of speech, but bullying tactics, and have used one such boycott in fund raising appeals that sound eerily like typical televangelist tactics.

Where have we heard stuff like that before?  Oh yeah, when Japan declared that calling a boycott on pro whaling nations (many of whom had their dues and travel expenses to the IWC paid by the nations doing actual whaling) would be "Economic Terrorism",  and, indeed, not one of the intrepid news sources that we were able to find listing or indicating some of the pro-whaling countries dared name the entire list of countries who supported ending the ban on whaling even without advocating a boycott.  We were able to discern all but two of the nations though reading a few dozen articles, but sadly to say our boycott wasn't complete because the press failed to do their job.  Never heard from Japan either.

Read NYT article " ".

 Apparently, since I left the fundamentalist church and joined a Presbyterian one a new sin has been codified with the fundies.  I had heard indications of it some of their speech, but searching I can also find specific mention.

 The new sin is tolerance of those you think are sinning.

And indeed the Bible in a letter does warn about tolerating sin.  The catch is that it is talking about tolerating sin that insults many within the the local church group itself, not outside in the world.  

The church is free to be intolerant within it's own group, but no real mention of forcing one's beliefs on nonbelievers (or members of the local believing community) is part of the New Testament strictures.  I know at this point though, suddenly fundamentalists go to Old Testament words to show that they can force their culture on others.  Yet should you start comparing the violent Old Testament to the violent features of the Quran (which many Christian neocons maintain shows that Muslims are inherently evil) our friendly fundamentalists would claim that we are creatures of the New Testament now (well, that remains to be seen since fundies are some of the main supporters of the war on Iraq).

And, indeed the New Testament does supercede the old, unless everyone wants to go back to avoiding pork and a lot of other stuff we partake of.  Therefore, tolerance had better be seen in the New Testament light.

We've already had a guy in Tennessee who felt he had the right to kill Unitarians because of their 'tolerance'.  And the US is becoming a laughing stock in the world for tolerating intolerance as a nation changing creed. 

BTW, if anyone thinks that boycotting people from opposing sides is just a liberal thing they are free to check out .  I went to check and see if there were a way to apply for getting on his list.  It might be good for increasing readership.

All I could find there was a list of movies to boycott.  The reasons for boycotting the movies were not given as actions, words, etc in the movies and one TV show  (way to go Bill Maher.  I'm betting Jon Stewart is green with envy) but  because of people who acted in them. 

Therefore, it's obvious that the boycott is about people and their political beliefs. 

A type of boycott was held by Free Republic a hard core right wing forum that the Bush administration has used to covertly disperse and acquire information when it published a list of supposedly 'terrorist connected businesses'.  The list contained the name of Nick Berg's father's company because the father had ties to peace activism and may have been the reason that the younger Mr. Berg, who was representing his father's company looking for rebuilding opportunities in Iraq was detained by the FBI for 10 days in 2004 preventing him from safely leaving the country.  You may remember that Nick Berg was the subject of the decapitation video widely viewed on the web.

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