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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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Getty to Return Disputed Artwork to Italy
Ouch! That's gotta hurt.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told reporters yesterday that weapons of mass destruction had in fact been found in Iraq, despite acknowledgments by the White House and the insistence of the intelligence community that no such weapons had been discovered.

Hungary Is An Example Iraq Should Follow Says Bush
Funny, but we called Hungary's insurgents freedom fighters, but Iraq's insurgents are less likely to sell Big Oil some cheap crude than the ones in power so they're evil.  Evil!

Republicans Gone Wild
Do they wear bikinis?

US Forced to Admit that Missile Defense System is lame after propagandizing about its use against a possible missile launch from our far east Boogie Man.
I am not happy that we have a bogus NMDS.   We paid billions for this, it should work!!!!  Or we shouldn't have spent the extra money the Bush put into it in the first place.
I am happy that some truth came out of the Bush adminsitration's posturing over the latest crisis.

A witness says gunmen had Interior Ministry IDs. Lawyer was at work on closing arguments.

Lawmakers' Profits Are Scrutinized

Who knew that representing the little people was such a good way to become a fat cat?

FAA Grounds L.A. Sheriff's Drone Air Force
Hey Sheriff  Baca,  You do remember what they did to Saddam for supposedly having drones.   And those things in the pictures don't look like they'd make it through the illegal fireworks, gun shots, and other mayhem we have around here anyway.

4 Diabetes Drugs Are Seen Raising Hope and Profit
Especially profit, I'm thinking

GOP Rebellion Stops Voting Rights Act
Okay, that I have to read

U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Arousal Test for Sex Offender
ditto above

Letter From Ubon: In Northeast Thailand, a Cuisine Based on Bugs
Better learn this type of cooking.  A lot of us might be eating the creepy crawlies after a few more years under the Republicans.

Sex Bias Award Affirmed
Hard to believe this came out of the (They laughed at me when I sat down at the bench for the first time 4 years ago, now I is the Chief!.) Roberts court.

Al Qaeda Deputy Calls for Afghans to Fight US
Iraq insurgency inspiring more action in Afghanistan?  Could be.

Four Found Beheaded in Rosarito (Beach, Baja California, Mexico)
Oh yeah, there was that war on Drugs we forgot to finish.  I guess Bush declared victory, and then cut and run on that one.  If you remember that was supposed to be international war, because it all comes back to us.   But Bush needed his own war on the other side of the world that he could use for propaganda.

Top Court Rules Against Illegal Immigrant

2003 Bird Flu Death In China Reported

Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas

Drug, blood provide clues to healthy aging

Spike in Laptop Thefts Stirs Jitters Over Data
Sounds like time for "More Tracking of Americans" man to step up and do something about this! 

Crimes are beginning to pool into ones that will make money for the perp.  Anyone want to guess why more and more Americans are doing crimes for money.  Maybe because the immigrants got all the step up jobs and minimum wage hasn't been raised in 9 years (according to NPR ATC last night--I though it was longer, will check that out this evening.  ATC is usually accurate though).

Robbery Trend Causes Alarm
Haven't even skimmed this one.  Looks like it might be related to my comment above. 

California Prison Guards' Power Called 'Disturbing'

Video of Ill-Fated Uzbek Rising Offers Haunting, Complex View

Shuttle to Fly Despite Safety Concerns
As a matter of fairness maybe (Nasa Chief Michael D.) Griffin should be first to volunteer to take that ride

MS-13 Gang Uses Deportation to Its Advantage to Flourish in U.S.
Botched Israeli Strike Kills Palestinian in Gaza
Attempt to Steer the News Backfires in Afghanistan
Big business must not control the news media enough in Afghanistan.  Control by the Bushies is working pretty well in the US.  Just count the number of comments on a subject you see, hear or read by members of each party and note the absence of true liberals in most news shows.

New Gas Crisis Threat as Ukraine Signs Coalition Pact

For N. Korean Missile, U.S. Defense Is Hit or Miss

Haunted by One Question: Why?

Adobe to be Google's latest Web search distributor
Will deliver Google's toolbar  with Shockwave. 

Canada Apologizing to Chinese Over Tax

Casualties: New Guidelines Are Reducing Iraqi Civilian Deaths, Military Says
What no more fragging whole families?  No more phosporous?  Certainly we haven't seen the last of the constant lying and propaganda out of the military under Rumsfeld.

Former Defense Officials Urge U.S. Strike on North Korean Missile Site
JHC!  There goes Seoul and Tokyo in retaliation.

Iran Says Answer on Atom Deal Will Take More Than a Month

Immigrant Indiantown (FL) laborer accused of sex with a puppy
I'm most amazed that rape from an immigrant is actually covered by regular news source.  Usually it's covered up, only to appear in World News Daily or some place like that.  The big corporations that run the news don't want Americans finding out how massive the problem of immigrants raping women and now even animals is.  This is a local coverage.  WND does have it.  I've always wondered where WND got their reports on immigrants.  That's where, I guess, but no nation mainstream news source will cover this huge problem.


U.S. Eliminated After Loss to Ghana
You mean money isn't everything in sports?  Who knew?

LSU to host Katrina relief basketball classic in New Orleans

US sets conditions for shooting down N. Korea missile
Huh?

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