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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.

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?

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.

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

10-20-09 3:52 P GMT-08
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

10-18-09 5:28 P GMT-08
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

10-17-09 6:00 A GMT-08
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?

10-16-09 7:51 P GMT-08
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

10-16-09 6:18 A GMT-08
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

10-16-09 4:59 A GMT-08
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

10-15-09 1:20 A GMT-08
Ha Ha! Now "The Ego" really has landed!!

"Bash America" becoming the brand of the GOP?

10-13-09 6:28 P GMT-08
Lady ends asking if this is the same thing Democrats did to Bush. Not really because Obama hasn't started any illegal wars lately. There is a difference.

Dylan Ratigan: The Cost of Corporate Communism

10-11-09 4:33 P GMT-08
My synopsis: In the end we have a relatively small group of Americans controlling the government which in turn favors them right back. Industries grow old and inefficient, but are retained because of the largess of the government they control. But in this case, the power emanates from corporations who then use the government as their own piggy bank. Pls read for yourself and see if I'm right.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking

10-11-09 4:14 P GMT-08
It turns out that positive thinking is a type of arrogance and foolishness which requires ignorance of reality.

Rush Limbaugh Agrees with Taliban, Iran

10-11-09 6:53 A GMT-08
Also, we heard recently that Limbaugh had lost 90 lbs. Looks like he's found it.

France floats law requiring Photoshopped images carry a warning

10-10-09 9:45 P GMT-08
Good. If they don't ban it, they should carry a warning. The Ralph Lauren ad that got attention recently should have had one that warned about making one want to burn one's eyes out.

Apple, others Drop Out of Chamer of Commerce

10-10-09 9:41 P GMT-08
Finally the CoC steps even on the toes of big comapnies that were for it protecting their rights to profits, and efforts to block unions before they realized what a nut house it was over cliimate change. CoC response illustrates their r/w nuttiness.

Why Have Mainstream Media Neglected the Recession's Human Costs?

10-10-09 9:25 P GMT-08
One word Ms. Vanden Heuvel: Oligarchy You do show how the media tends to promote the needs and problems of the wealthy and business. Kudos

The Real Model Photoshopped by the Ralph Lauren Folk

10-09-09 4:41 P GMT-08
Word in comments at Boing Boing says the Ralph Lauren people stretched her body when she gained a few pounds leading manipulators to stretch her body to lose them. But they must have gone much further. I've seen women who look like the photoshop, but they are often very ill. The real model is beautiful even in a pound adding photo. See at link.

Just in Time for Holloween. Photoshopped models are becoming truly frightening.

10-08-09 7:36 A GMT-08
From CA_Lady: Must say "Way to go @xenijardin The lady in a Ralph Lauren ad has become the proverbial stick figure thanks to photoshopping. As one guy said, "Dude her head is bigger than her hips!" Lauren company is trying to sue it's way out of the disgrace. Fair use republishing is heavily invested in comment and criticism and I don't see how Lauren can call the image on Ms. Jardin's blog Boing Boing anything other than criticism.

Get the Real Facts on Bertha Lewis (ACORN chief) Presser. Most of mainstream news is going wild on mistaken communication

10-06-09 7:41 P GMT-08
Jim Ruttenberg got an explanaiton for the $5 million. That was not the amount embezzled! Most mainstream bloggers I've seen so far are just running with the mistaken allegation that $5m was embezzled. So much for fact checked and verified!

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.

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