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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.

Tags: obama approval numbers

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.

Tags: goldman sachs tithing bonuses trading day insulting to americans

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.

Tags: poll health care reform surtax on wealthy

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.

Tags: medicine breast cancer mammograms

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

Tags: world hunger niger food inflation inequality

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.

Tags: sarah palin going rogue political lies

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?

Tags: sarah palin abortion rent a baby

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?

Tags: exxonmobil royal dutch shell iraqi oil

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.

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Balloon Boy Parents Reach Deal to Stop Deportation of Mother

11-12-09 6:05 P GMT-08

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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.

Tags: christians proselytizing fox news massachusetts same sex marriage

Blaming Muslims For the Fort Hood Massacre Will Only Create More Victims

11-10-09 5:30 P GMT-08

Tags: fort hood muslim extremists violence

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.

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Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel

11-10-09 6:57 A GMT-08

Tags: teabaggers teaparty elie wiesel holocaust survivor

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.

Tags: tr reid health care health insurance univeral health care

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.

Tags: neda agha soltan iran iran protests divorce

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

Tags: positive thinking est brainwashing reality based community

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.

Tags: roland hedley jr doonesbury jake tapper

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

Tags: fort hood texas massacre 1991 george hennard jr iraq war vietnam war killeen waco

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

Tags: mainstream news media right wing organizations propaganda

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.

Tags: meg whitman elephant killer former ebay ceo ebay sold ivory ivory sales kill elephants ivory sales kill people

ROFLMAO Slate Imagines Barack Obama's Facebook Wall

11-02-09 4:26 A GMT-08

Must read. No registration required.

Tags: obama emmanuel robert gibbs joe biden joe lieberman arnold schwarzenegger

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

11-02-09 3:54 A GMT-08

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?

Tags: colorado roan plateau gas drilling fracking oil drilling ecology nature

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

10-30-09 3:12 P GMT-08

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.

Tags: george tiller scott roeder abortion rights womens rights ebay auction

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

10-25-09 7:11 A GMT-08

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

Tags: glenn beck rush limbaugh

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

10-25-09 12:27 A GMT-08

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.

Tags: unemployment lobbyists health care reform

"Swine" Flu Declared a National Emergency

10-24-09 9:22 P GMT-08

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.

Tags: h1n1 swine flu hospitals emergency rooms federal government

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

10-22-09 7:17 A GMT-08

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

Tags: sarah palin ronald reagan going rogue going rouge mudflats hat tip shadowfax_rulz at twittercom

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

10-20-09 5:31 P GMT-08

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.

Tags: scientific american phsychology comedy racism bigotry

The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.

Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.