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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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Huh? Hillary Supporters For McCain Not Really Making Sense Unless.... Well, yes I do find evidence that one of the main leaders of the movement donated to John McCain many years ago.

posted 08-29-08

Some of the Hillary supporters who are going for McCain are just not making sense if you follow their spoken reasonings.

Now I'm just talking about a few I was reading about in an article in Salon.  But the only way their arguments make sense is if they are really McCain supporters who are posing as Hillary supporters trying to drag other Hillary supporters over to the Republicans.

Again. I'm not saying that every Hillary supporter, man or woman is this way but read this by Rebecca Traister at Salon.com report ""

The journalist writes that one of the PUMAs  (called 'Carlson' in this excerpt) says:

"Our foremothers marched in the streets so that our voices could be heard. We will not be silenced now."

I asked Carlson why, if she was offended by being called "Sweetie" and invested in the legacy of her foremothers, she would express her disappointment over Obama's nomination by supporting a man who would rob women of their reproductive rights and who does not support equal-pay legislation. "We are really sick and tired of having women's rights held over our heads as a threat," she said. "It's country over party now."

So they are fighting for women's rights, but they are irrelevent because "Country First, Country  First!, Country First!" 

That's just weird. 

You will also find other Limbaughisms scattered through the speech of some of these PUMAs.  Funny, but no matter how they feel Democrats just don't get into Limbaughisms, and I doubt that they would be so heavily into the McCain camp as to be pushing his prime slogan like that.

There is something seriously wrong with the PUMA group, or at least some of them.

Through the wonders of the internet, I've talked to hundreds, maybe thousands of Democrats across the nation.  I've found them to be rational people, sometimes a little excitable, but not completely bonkers.

 I've also talked to the GOP (and related grass root) trolls.  (I'm not talking about all Republicans and certainly not about Independents)  They are irrational, slogan dependent, over the top people who are actually a little scary to talk to.  They really seem like people who might start severe civil disturbances if their guy doesn't win the election in the one race they understand, the presidency.  After all they did take guns to Florida in 2000.  And some GOP aides started a riot that stopped vote counting.   In fact, they seem like the product you'd expect from listening to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and similar talk show hosts

I can only guess that some of the PUMAs have actually been GOP for a long time, not recent converts from the Democrats.  

Well, back to the web to read more:

Hmmm: 

A New York Post writer OpEd writer John P. Avalon notices the same thing in " ":

The PUMAs' online world is a hothouse of intrigue: One site accuses the Obama camp of "fraud, death threats and disgusting intimidation tactics - all perpetrated by the most conscience-free band of cultists in the history of the Democratic Party." They've cultivated a cottage industry of hatred for Obama that brings to mind Rush Limbaugh in the heyday of the Bill Clinton impeachment.

I'll have to intterupt this excerpt right here.  He must have too much to do to participate in politics online in the last decade, because that never stopped.   Now we will return to the regularly scheduled excerpt:

PUMAs come in two breeds: the loyal Hillary supporters (essentially sober, conservative Democrats who believe that she was more the experienced candidate in a time of war) and the unhinged Obama-haters.
 

Well, I disagree with the experience part.  Obama seems to have a little more experience, in fact,  than Abraham Lincoln who managed a war pretty well.  But I think that Mr. A. has noticed something important.

Well, back to the web again.

lets us know that Obama is just total evil to the Irish.

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Dahlia Lithwick at Slate.com says in " ":

These disgruntled women—whether they plan to vote for John McCain, sit out the election, or simply gobble up airtime—are tacitly working toward electing McCain; a candidate who claimed last week at a presidential forum at Saddleback Church that life begins "at the moment of conception" and who voted against legislation ensuring equal pay for women. These women must be well aware that a vote for McCain is a vote to overturn Roe. I assume they don't care. But my real problem with the Hillary Harridans—and the media's relentless focus on them—is that they give new life to Paleozoic stereotypes about irrationally destructive older women.

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...But as Taylor Marsh has pointed out, they've now become victims of the same sexist media machine that turned Clinton herself into a parody of a madwoman. They have fallen prey to an "echo chamber that promises hope, but only delivers deceit by offering claims of something that will not come." They are given unlimited airtime, so long as they continue to threaten to topple the entire edifice of the Democratic Party in pursuit of some ephemeral, unreachable sweet revenge.

and 

Everyone is entitled to speak and be heard, but there is a cost—a tangible cost—for women who insist on speaking in the irrational, angry, and vengeful voice of an outdated literary archetype. Particularly in 2008, when we don't need to invent "mad doubles" in order to topple the patriarchy. We can do that just by showing up.

I should read the Taylor March article above, but since Ms. Lithwick gives us the link, I think I'll let you read that right now and go back to the search engine and see what else I can find out.

From the Star-Trib.com site apparently the online presence of a paper serving Terra Haute and Vigo Counties comes

Stephanie Salter:

TERRE HAUTE Many years ago Hillary Rodham Clinton likened herself to a national Rorschach test. She’s the enigmatic inkblot on which millions of disparate individuals project their own thoughts, feelings, values and fears.

Those who love her, those who despise her, it makes little difference. Their impassioned take on one adult American female is almost totally about them, not her. Their gushes or gripes, the halo they affix to her head or the diabolical powers they assign to her soul, speak volumes about themselves, not her.

After all, presidential politics, in general, have become as much about our individual projections on the candidates as they are about the reality of the candidates.

The last eight years, for example, were made possible by people who deeply believed that a Yankee blue-blood, Ivy Leaguer and reformed alcohol abuser was really just a clod-kickin’ everyday Joe who’d fit right in over brewskies at the corner pub.

Ha ha.  Very well put, Ms. Salter.

Much more good stuff from Ms. Salter at source, though I think the PUMAs and HONOs resemble Limbaugh heads of either sex than radical feminists of the 60s.

The journalist mentions one woman Darragh Murphy the founder of PUMA PAC and apparently the center of some of the online PUMA emotion.  PUMA PAC is linked to from PUMA Ireland  linked above as are many other anti-Obama ads. 

Now some of the names I have encountered above  that belong to PUMA and other anti Obama voters show people who have put lots of money and work into Hillary's candidacy and therefore apparently they are owed something.  Kudos to them for being strong supporters.  Some have no donation record I can find.

But Darragh Murphy does have a donation on record, to John McCain long before this election cycle. 

Hmmmm.

Now I'm going to go read Taylor Marsh's article.  Funny that Google doesn't seem to know about it.  No that's not so funny, really.  For years now it seems that anti-war sites have been slighted by Google, even libertarian AntiWar.com. 

And if you don't think Google doesn't take instruction from the US government, go look at the .  It's blank.  Major highways stop right at the border, suddenly disappearing as they try to cross.  There are no indications of where roads are in the nation.  Azerbaijan and Armenia are blank too.  You can get satellite images, but no road maps at Google.

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