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New Report Hasan had religious bumber sticker, car defaced by fellow soldier

Bill Lenner — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:00 GMT

A new AP report shows that Mr. Hasan had an "Allah is Love" sticker on his car's bumper that was either partially or fully ripped off by a soldier that also cause 4 figure damage by keying the vehicle. Apparently the arrest and fi

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Nedal Malik Hasan Suicidal from Stress and Racist Taunting. Called "Camel Jockey" by Fellow Service Members.

Bill Lenner — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:24:00 GMT

ABC news is reporting that Nadal Malik Hasan suffered from stresses like those he treated in others. At the same time

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Just a Thought on the Fort Hood Shootings

Bill Lenner — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:40:00 GMT

The US Army fought to end slavery and to keep the Union together, yet they are now treated much like slaves themselves. The result is that presidents ha

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Charlie Beck and Willie Bratton's Chocolate Factory.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:08:00 GMT

William Bratton's hand picked successor is stepping into his shoes, but the LA Times wants us to know that the man had to overcome extra resistance because he was the favorite of the former police chief, who had become an expert in manipula

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Don't Blame the Builders Just 'Cause the Bridge Fell Down!

Bill Lenner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT

The Oakland side of the Bay Bridge is of a cantilevered design which proved faulty in a 1989 quake and problematic since. The cheap way to fix the eastern side of the bridge may not be the style which has elegantly survived local earthquakes

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LA Reporter Goes After a Story on Medical Marijuana Doctors and Dispensaries That Could Shut The System Down

Bill Lenner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:04:00 GMT

As an effort to legalize marijuana in California gains steam, one intrepid reporter who thinks it should be legalized goes undercover to sniff out the vagaries of the Medical Marijuana law and it's human enablers right now.The first I heard of t

Poisoned Halloween Candy Shown to Be Urban Myth

Bill Lenner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:39:00 GMT

That Bag of Treats No Longer Needs to Be a Thing of Fear Says ReporterThough this guy should have had his stash X-Rayed for Hidden SpikesStill we can ask why Mainstream News didn't tell us this decades ago when the fears started? Picture allowed

Did LAPD Chief William Bratton Pick His Own Spawn To Replace Him?

Bill Lenner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:01:00 GMT

There was a system in place to pick the new police chief in Los Angeles, that we were informed about in August, a couple of months ago thanks to the LA Times "La Now" blog in "How Los Angeles will search for the next LAPD chief".&

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Washington Post Report Shows that Yes, Uncle Sam Is Supposed to Pick Up the Tab On Privatized Space Exploration

Bill Lenner — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:03:00 GMT

So the help we could get from private space exploration through Internet billionaires and other Jor-els does turn out to be expected to be financed by you and I.It would be like the US Postal System. We could go from $.44 a letter to $5.00 a le

Los Angeles: County DA and City Attorney Work to Neuter California's Medical Marijuana Law

Bill Lenner — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:26:00 GMT

Right on the Shelves in Czech RepublicBut do you smoke it or eat it?Picture allowed via Creative Commons license. No support of nor further contribution to this blog by photographer/artist implied. Thanks to "elka_cz" at flickr.com. Click

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Buzz Aldrin Wants A Robust Public Option -- On Space Exploration. Why the times have changed too much for such adventures.

Bill Lenner — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:18:00 GMT

Mr. Aldrin wants to go adventuring, and appears to endorse a public-private plan that might rival the idea that Congress is working on for health care where it becomes a partially private partially public funded system. I think that's what

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82% of National Debt Was Created by Republicans

Bill Lenner — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Free graphic for you too.

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Keep Our Hands Off? Not a Good Idea. Medicare Goes Broke in 2017 Unless Health Care Reform Passes.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:21:00 GMT

I am amazed at the word sharks telling older people that they don't want health care reform because it would some how ruin Medicare.Medicare is on it's way to going broke. 2017 is the target year agreed to by liberal and conservative sou

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More Facts on the Nozette (Accused Secret Agent) Case

Bill Lenner — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:21:00 GMT

Laura Rozen has more facts on the case of a former government aerospace scientist who was turning over information to Israeli sources and a federal agent pretending to be a Mossad guy.( I usually do put such change over links under Linkblogs, but I t

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Accused Spy Stewart David Nozette Gave Technical Info To Company Owned By Israeli Government

Bill Lenner — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Ooops!Though the first reports didn't show any Israeli complicity in Stewart David Nozette's past, there appears to be a direct line from the Israeli government to information extraction from the aerospace scientist. Officials in Jerusa

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Holy GPS Batman! Depths of Fear Over 2010 Census Revives Questions of Worker's Death

Bill Lenner — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:54:00 GMT

Nothing in the 2010 census is news a Boston Globe article "Night of the census taker"

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AP Turns the Screws Into Shepard Fairey for Obama "Hope" Poster

Bill Lenner — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:30:00 GMT

Bloggers take action. See bottom for what we can do to help Mr. Fairey and ourselves to be able to continue to act independently. Funny, how the AP is now working like an arm of the Republican party. But then reading many of their articles, one

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Tabloid Writer Turns Death of Young Musician Into Anti Gay Cause

Bill Lenner — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:33:00 GMT

A UK writer for the Daily Mail, Jan Moir, has taken the occasion of the death of Stephen Gately a singer with the Boyzone group as an occasion to cast dispursion on gays and the possibility of gay marriage. That lady needs to spend weekends with that

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Carrie Prejean Finally Fired by Trump For Failure to Get Permission for Extracurricular Activities

We Love The Idea of Free Health Clinics, But Will Neighborhood or Charity Health Care Do the Job?

Bill Lenner — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:19:00 GMT

My family and I think the free health clinics that have been held and for which MSNBC is promoting donations are wonderful for some people, but that doesn't mean that charity health care can take care of America like the Republicans claim. The fr

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Jeff Sharlet's "The Family" Exposes How The American Fundamentalist Church Was Converted into a Tool of Big Business and Fat Cats To Keep the Poplulace in Line

Bill Lenner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:17:00 GMT

The American church of most denominations tended to become more progressive at the end of the 19th century and passed the first quarter of the 20th. What happened. Jeff Sharlet's "The Family" shows how religion was used to turn the nation to ...

LA County Board Restricts Access to Reporters Not Lobbyists?

Bill Lenner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:42:00 GMT

And LA blog is complaining that though there are only 3 reporters covering LA County board meetings, the supervisors are complaining that the journalists are causing traffic jams and have restricted them from back rooms.For more than a decade, the ar

Interpol: Syndicates are Running Somali Pirate Rings

Bill Lenner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:38:00 GMT

Interpol is claiming that foreign syndicates now actually control the Somali pirates, and get most of the money from ransoms.See: Somali pirates controlled by syndicates: Interpol If this is true then mainstream's assumptions and reports of warlo

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How to Take the Nation Back to the Days of Eisenhower

Bill Lenner — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:23:00 GMT

Life was good.Family was the center of a person's life.We were strong.Business was booming, yet the race to riches wasn't overdominant even for business people. The rest of us knew we would have time to visit with our families when we g

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The Bible and Redistribution of Wealth

The First Lady's Roots Run Deeply Into America

Bill Lenner — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:15:00 GMT

the NY Times shows that Michelle's great-great-great grandmother was a slave named Melvinia who's parents are a lost record, apparently. As she grew older Melvinia apparently lived the normal life of a slave which may have included bear

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Obama Gets the Peace Prize? It's the Contrast.

Bill Lenner — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Like you I puzzled for a few hours on the reason the Nobel committee chose President Obama for the Peace Prize. Certainly the first year of a presidency is unusual for awarding the esteemed prize. I learned about it last night as I

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Jake Tapper Interviews Roland Hedley Jr. On Twitter

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:03:00 GMT

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

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:19:00 GMT

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.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:18:00 GMT

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

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:04:00 GMT

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

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:26:00 GMT

Must read. No registration required.

Users of Roan Plateau in CO Want Oil and Gas Drillers to Back Off

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:54:00 GMT

My question is how many of those same people were at the GOP convention or at least in solidarity with the chant "drill baby drill". Just a bit ironic, don't you think?

Scott Roeder As John Brown? I can't begin to say all the things wrong with that

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:12:00 GMT

While John Brown was helping fight off pro-slavery murderers in Kansas, the predecessors of Scott Roeder were probably there too, on the other side. And the David and Goliath fight was an arranged battle, not a cowardly assassination against an unarmed man attending church.

A Liberal's Hit List: Limbuagh's Crew Misses Hoax and Treats Obama Thesis Satire as Truth

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:11:00 GMT

Yeah, so Limbaugh got scammed. Well it is important,because though his listeners call him a comedian, they treat him like a news reporter (a similar lack of skepticism is found in Glenn Beck fans. Therefore with Limbaugh and Beck, who make lots of money and can afford quality help it's almost criminal that they don't avail themselves of them. Apparently though TV advertisers are more sensitive to the standards of a show host. After Limbaugh spread racism a few years ago, a concerted effort was made by a large number of liberals to get his advertisers to give him the heeve ho, without much of the success that one group has had getting advertisers to drop Glenn Beck due to his racist remarks. Hat tip @crewislife at Twitter.com

Can You Get a Six Figure Job from the Unemployment Line?

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:27:00 GMT

I think it would take many years of training and experience. Who's going to hire someone to totally screw Americans unless they know that person is without scuples or compassion. Still Pett's cartoon makes a good point.

"Swine" Flu Declared a National Emergency

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:22:00 GMT

Order will allow hospitals to place separate H1N1 emergency rooms further from main hospitals. Too bad our government (including Congress) can't fight the oligarchy created by campaign donations from the wealthy as quickly and effectively.

New Book Coming Out in November on Sarah Palin "Going Rouge"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:17:00 GMT

No, actually I spelled that correctly. A book about Sarah Palin will be out the same day as her book. The only thing that scares me about the former governor is that we laughed so hard at Ronald Reagan until one day we woke up and he was the president-elect. Hat tip shadowfax_rulz at twittercom

Sci American Podcast: Racist Jokes Are Only Funny to People Who Think They're True

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Scroll down on Sci Am 60 Second Psych page to which I've linked to It's Funny Because It's True" link. If I link straight to the podcast itself it is likely to bring up ITunes or other player. So Rush Limbaugh is only a comedian. Only? Not exactly.

Support Creative Commons with donation or by purchasing Shepard Fairey T Shirt

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:52:00 GMT

With all his problems Mr. Fairey seems to have given time to design an emblem for a T Shirt for Creative Commons. Click on notice on Creative Commons page. (Linkblog wouldn't accept link to purchase page.)

BadTux: US Isn't Innovating and Has Done Little Real R&D for 30 Years

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:28:00 GMT

The only good news is that competing nations aren't inovating either, just developing 30 year old ideas and tweaking current products. (And, of course this isn't really good news.) Read the original. I'm not a tech person myself and probably can't explain even the sunrise as well as BadTux can.

Radio host Tom Joyner's Great Uncles' Murder Convictions Overturned

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:00:00 GMT

With the help of Henry Gates Jr. (yes, the Harvard professor) radioman Joyner learned that his great uncles were executed for the death of a Civil War Soldier. South Carolina overturned their convictions today, after reexamining the case. Details at link

Why Don't Reporters Ask the GOP When They Are Going to Stop Being Obstructionists?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:51:00 GMT

They should ask Republicans when they are going to cooperate so we can get beyond the health care issue (which would help people in New Orleans too) and back to helping this nation recover from the triplet disasters of war, Katrina non recovery, and economic melt down that they and the Bush administration left behind. Liberal Media, My A..

Fox News: Limbaugh Urged to Sue For Defamation Over Losing Place in Team Bidding

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:18:00 GMT

I guess CNN and MSNBC can then sue him for ten times the defamation jabs Limbaugh often throws their way. But shouldn't the suit be at the man who published the claim in a book? And wasn't the time to claim back when the book was published? Is Limbaugh an idiot who didn't know this was printed in a book?

Democratic Hero, Rep. Alan Grayson Attracts Carpetbagging Republican Opponent

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:59:00 GMT

I guess the GOP believes there are a lot of Central Floridiians that want to die quickly if they get sick. Nasty bugger Armando Guttierez Jr. is moving from South Florida, says all the property he owns around Lakeland gives him local creds. Isn't that the Republican't way. You are what you own.

AP: Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:20:00 GMT

Ha Ha! Now "The Ego" really has landed!!

People Magazine Has Exclusive Jaycee Dugard Interview and New Picture (Story at Yahoo shows cover photo of the young woman)

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:42:00 GMT

Welcome back, Jaycee