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Sarah Palin To Resign as Alaska Governor

Bill Lenner — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:00 GMT

This is not a joke. Sarah Palin has announced she will resign as governor of Alaska within a few weeks. She will not run for re-election (well duh, but that's the order the news report put the news down in).Not much info on this yet a

Former Head of CIA's Bin Laden Unit (as interpreted by Glenn Beck): A Lack of an Attack from Bin Laden on the US is an Attack by Bin Laden

Bill Lenner — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:44:00 GMT

See video for details.(Warning: This obvious fact does not apply to time frame of the Bush administration when, in fact, it was an obvious fact known as "They're keeping us safe from terrorists".)The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thu

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How Steve Jobs Used the Power of the Purse To Get a Quicker Liver

Bill Lenner — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:07:00 GMT

Steve jobs wasn't just traveling through Memphis Tennessee missing and needing a new liver when

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CIA Killed Neda? Iran Leaders Lying Again. The Proof is Here

Bill Lenner — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:13:00 GMT

The Iranian leaders are lying about the death of poor Neda Agha-Soltan and there is proof right in their own words.Andrew Sullivan records from an interview by Wolf Blitzer of Iranian Ambassador Mohammed Hassan Ghadir:BLITZER: Are you seriousl

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Doctor Who Tried to Save Neda's Life Has Fled Iran

Bill Lenner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:25:00 GMT

Blogger Paulo Coelho writes that the doctor who tried to save Neda's life after she was shot in the heart and lungs has fled Iran and gone to London apparently fearing reprisal.Dr. Arash Hejazi apparently feared for his life after being identifie

Iran Threatens Future of Players Who Wore Green Arm Bands

Bill Lenner — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:39:00 GMT

In the most juvenile action of the crackdown the leaders of Iran have banned soccer players who wore green arm band in the teams qualifying round with Korea for life from playing professional soccer in Iran. The authorities have also take

Al Arabiya: Will Iran's Ahmadinejad Reach for the Zimbabwe Option?

Bill Lenner — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:26:00 GMT

The banned (from Iraq) news service Al Arabiya is making a decent guess at a best case scenario on what can be done to help Iranians recover their democracy, at least a reduced form of it.The service suggests that Ahmadinejad might use Robert Mugabe&

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No Wonder Khamenei Went for a Big Crackdown. People, Especially Women, Were Getting Through To Basiji.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:51:00 GMT

We saw the pictures early on of protestors protecting Basij if the security people got isolated. You would hope that would have had more of an effect. I read somewhere that there are 300,000 of them, some armed, some on motorcycles, some

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High Court Refuses to Uphold Civil Rights

Bill Lenner — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:32:00 GMT

As anti minority intimidation is increasing the US Supreme Court led but Chief Justice John Roberts has refused to uphold the protection of civil rights in an important challenge to the Civil Rights Act. A Texas district has won the right via a

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Pictures At a Revolution

Bill Lenner — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:17:00 GMT

Early on there was the picture of the lone woman defying advancing security troops some have called Tehran's Tiananmen Square Moment. This Picassa account apparently has many pictures s. I have linked to picture 210 of 500 which is a good

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Iranian Opposition March June 21, 2009

Bill Lenner — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:17:00 GMT

After a while in this video they begin to chant "Marg Bar Diktator" which means "death to the dictator". It has been quite common in demonstrations so I thought you might like to know. If you click on the video you wil

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Iran: Rafsanjani's Daughter 4 Other Family Members Arrested

Bill Lenner — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:00 GMT

The daughter of former Iranian president Rafsanjani has been arrested by Iranian security forces for attending and speaking at demonstrations which have followed a perceived flawed election on June 12, 2009. (Just one reason for that perception

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Senator's Girlfriend's Salary Doubled During Affair. Ensign May Have Had A Dalliance Years Earlier

Bill Lenner — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:49:00 GMT

Nevada's Senator Ensign who voted for President Clinton's impeachment and repeated called for his resignation may have had an affair in 2002 according to information in AP report ""

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Iran to Check for Voters "Gouging at the Pump"

Bill Lenner — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:11:00 GMT

Ok I kid you. Remember when Bush firmly declared after hurricane Katrina that the US govt. would get any service station owners 'gouging at the pump" when the real problem was the wholesale price of gasoline was being gamed by Big Oil?

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Reuters at Haaretz: 80% of Israelis Could Live With Nuclear Armed Iran

Bill Lenner — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:56:00 GMT

Four out of five of Jewish Israelis would take no extraordinary measures if Iran was able to create a working nuclear weapon because they don't believe the weapon would be used against their nation. That being said 59% of the nation's Je

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Washington Post: Poll Shows Ahmadenijad Most Likely Won. Juan Cole and Jon Cohen See It Differently

Bill Lenner — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:27:00 GMT

I'd hate to use such a raving pejorative as duplicitous against information in an article by the fact checked (as they tell us) mainstream press, but a Washington Post article on the recent election in Iran by Ken Ballen and Patick Doherty,

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Are Iranian Riot Police Composed of Lebanese Hizbollah (Hesbollah)?

Bill Lenner — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:17:00 GMT

Iranian Twitter users are reporting that the riot police riding motorcycles and beating protesters of what the demonstrators conceive as a stolen election are not Iranians (who might refuse to attack their own people), but instead speak Arabic (as op

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Don't Ask Don't Tell Spreads? The Army is shocked, Shocked! to find White Supremacist In Their Midst

Bill Lenner — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:08:00 GMT

The White Supremacist gunman who killed a guard at the Holocaust museum blocks from the White House was discovered to be an army veteran

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Kristof: The Reality of Single Payer Health Insurance

Bill Lenner — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:29:00 GMT

I might not be like what you've been told.Nicholas Kristof reports on one woman's experience with both American style health insurance and and Canadian Single Payer.His report "" might be something you want to print out and leave ar

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Single Payer Advocate Busts Big Lie by Lobbyist for Private Healthcare Industry

Bill Lenner — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:56:00 GMT

On Monday's "To the Point" podcast from KCRW (NPR station in Santa Monica, CA hosted by Warren Olney) a lobbyist for the private health care industry asserted that in France (which a single payer advocate was holding up as a good exampl

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

Bill Lenner — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:27:00 GMT

So of course, the former beauty queen says it's because of her views on gay marriage.BTW, posing for Playboy, Carrie? Did you really want to go there?Maybe there is a non salacious side of the mag that I never noticed while checking out friends&#

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Miss USA Scandal Publicity Stunt or Tacky Morality Play?

Will Stimulus Spending Create Inflation? New Study Shows Reality

Bill Lenner — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:58:00 GMT

This is crazy. It turns out that non military spending actually does not create inflation in nations. In fact non military spending tends to retard inflation. Military (and one can assume wasted spending like the world's war deb

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Birth Control Pills Are Murder?

Bill Lenner — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Yeah, I know, the bloating, it might feel like virtual death in this society which over values anorexic figures, but that's not what is being talked about here.The anti-choice crowd decided some years back that now most birth control pills are mu

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Major Actors in Fight Against Global Small Arms Trade Lost on Flight 447

Bill Lenner — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:44:00 GMT

This is sad. Two people who have been key in fighting the cross boarder transfer of small arms, especially in Latin America were on flight 447, making it likely that the real death toll of the crash will continue for years.Excerpt Sunday Herald

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Operation Rescue President Calls Doctor Killer a "Fruit" and a "Lunatic"

Bill Lenner — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:55:00 GMT

Thank you Scott Roeder for showing people that the group can get doctors who perform necessary abortions killed, but your usefulness is up and you now are a liability to them. Derision is therefore the better part of their cowardice thoug

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Doctor Killer Had Ties To Operation Rescue. Interview With KC Clinic Operator Shows Roeder Could Have Been Stopped by FBI Using Existing Laws Before He Killed

RIP Former Beatles, Stones Manager Allen Klein 77

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:00 GMT

Apparently he was a pretty good hussler for himself too.

Red States Lead in Divorce, Teen Pregnancy, and Online Porn

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:45:00 GMT

Family values, indeed.

LAT: Medical bills behind most bankruptcies in 2007

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:52:00 GMT

Almost 78% of medical related bankruptcies were in spite of the affected families carrying private health insurance at the onset of their medical problems. We can haz public option plez?

NYT: Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:42:00 GMT

Oops! Money flowed to Taliban and terrorists before 911. The Saudis try to dig out from under a growing pile of evidence.

Public Favors Public Option in HealthCare Plan

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:59:00 GMT

Having a public option also the best way to keep costs under control. Write or call your Congress person and ask them to make sure the American public is given a real choice and health care reform is given a real chance.

My favorite Mainstream Picture of Iranian Demonstrations

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:35:00 GMT

Read the yellow sign. I think that says it all.

Green Icons to Support Iranian Democracy Movement

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:52:00 GMT

Foreign Policy: What's Really Behind Israel's Call for 'Natural Growth' of Settlements in West Bank

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:49:00 GMT

I also contend that what is at stake here is cheap (free) land for 'settlers'. Imagine the popularity of the government that can offer such a deal for adventurous types. That's why Olmert wanted to seize Lebanon up to the Litani when Israel was considering giving back West Bank. What politician dares go against the hunger for cheap land in Israel?

Reuters: Spring Break Swine Flu May Have Been Around for Over a Decade

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:24:00 GMT

The immediate ancestors of H1N1 Swine flu that emerged from Mexico during Spring Break are likely to have been around for more than a decade. The current outbreak most likely started in January in that nation. More evidence that the Mexican govt doesn't really care about its people.

Report from Gaza: 'We are a human experiment'

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:13:00 GMT

Pension Groups Take Chrysler Sale to Supreme Court

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:54:00 GMT

Also, owners of previously purchased vehicles are worried about the car company's liability if their automobiles are shown to be defective.

Spreading Rogue Protein Responsible for Alzheimers

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:34:00 GMT

A rogue protein called tau can spread throughout the Alzheimers' brain to destroy tissue. The protein is being compared to the "prion" of vJCD (and mad cow disease).

Slate: Tragic -- Former Animal Tester Exposes the New Cruelties

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:03:00 GMT

Are new methods really better than old ones?

Washington Post: Sotomayor's Gun Rights Decision Similar To New Ruling by Revered Conservative Circuit Court Judge

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:01:00 GMT

7th Circuit panel found the knock down of DC's gun right law was okay. 2nd amendment applies only to federal govt or federal enclave like DC. The Decision was a unanimous ruling by 3 Republican appt jurists including Richard Posner.

Alter Net: The Tiller Murder Wasn't a Lone Killer's Sick Plot; It Came Out of the Radical Anti-Abortion Movement

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Hat tip @AlterNet at Twitter.com

Badtux: It's Not Just Doctors That Gun Goons and Religionists Are Targeting. Judges are often threatened, too.

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:46:00 GMT

The new motto of the US: If someone doesn't agree with you, you hunt 'em down and kill 'em, apparently.

Tweet Tees

Sun, 31 May 2009 17:10:00 GMT

How about 1 that says "Can't breath! Need more room." or "We can haz 200 letters B4 we scratch ur eyes out?"

Republicans Get Ugly Over Sotomayor

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:21:00 GMT

Video: Shocking! Hear Supreme Court Nominee Tell Congress of Dependence on Ethnic Heritage to Guide Judgement (this is not the Sotomayor comment you've already heard)

Sun, 31 May 2009 06:52:00 GMT

Someone gets their backside handed to them.

Signs Say Recession Ending. Will We Bump Along the Bottom?

Thu, 28 May 2009 17:51:00 GMT

I'm guessing yes, because the Wall Street banks who got the money don't want to lend it. They'd like to make Obama look bad so they can have their War and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich' Party back on top.