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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.
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.
Where Palin Fits On The Creation - Evolution Scale
11-19-09 4:59 P GMT-08
Tags: intelligentdesign evolution
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.
Tags: newsweek
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.
Tags: mark sanford jenny sanford
Balloon Boy Parents Reach Deal to Stop Deportation of Mother
11-12-09 6:05 P GMT-08
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.
Blaming Muslims For the Fort Hood Massacre Will Only Create More Victims
11-10-09 5:30 P GMT-08
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.
Tags: fort hood shooting
Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
11-10-09 6:57 A GMT-08
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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Bush White House Used Aides as Political Instruments in 2006 Election
posted 10-17-08
The Bush White House had aides travel using taxpayers moneys to campaign events for embattled Republican Congressionals says a Washington Post report "Report Details Bush Officials' Partisan Trips "
lThe report, in particular, cites the travels of the head of the Bush administrations Office of National Drug Policy who apparently went around distributing half million dollar grants only to areas in which Republican House members were in danger of losing their seats.
Politicking went on during the Clinton years too, but the Bush administration went far beyond what any other administration had done according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
See details at link above.
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