Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Give 'em the chair...

Brad Drake, Florida State Representative, Proposes Execution By Electric Chair, Firing Squad »

The Huffington Post  |  Alana Horowitz  |  October 12, 2011 at 04:19 PM

Here's a piece of legislation you don't see every day. One Florida state Rep. is proposing a big change to the way his state handles executions. Brad Drake, a Republican, filed a bill Tuesday to eliminate lethal injection and bring back executions by electrocution or firing squad. "We still have Old Sparky. And if that doesn't suit the criminal, then we will provide them a .45 caliber lead cocktail instead," he said in a press release.

[LINK: Huffington Post ]

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WWJD?

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There it is Democracy, here it is revolution.



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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Who Really Owns The NYPD?

Journalists Funded By GOP 'Vulture Capitalist'

Journalists Funded By GOP 'Vulture Capitalist'

New York Times has doc­u­mented, Paul Singer, a Re­pub­li­can ac­tivist and hedge fund man­ager worth over $900 mil­lion, has emerged as one of the most im­por­tant power bro­kers within the GOP. Now, it ap­pears that the re­porters fi­nanced by Singer are at the fore­front of ef­forts to tar­nish the rep­u­ta­tion of 99 Per­cent Move­ment demon­stra­tors:

Jour­nal­ist Who Ad­mit­ted To In­fil­trat­ing Protests To ‘Mock And Un­der­mine’ The Move­ment Works For A Singer-Sup­ported Right-Wing Mag­a­zine. In a col­umn posted last night, re­porter Patrick How­ley ad­mit­ted that he had sur­rep­ti­tiously joined an anti-war spin-off group from the Oc­cu­pyDC protests that planned to demon­strate at a mil­i­tary drone ex­hibit at the Smith­son­ian’s Air and Space mu­seum. How­ley wrote that he “in­fil­trated” the ac­tion and sprinted into the po­lice along with a few pro­test­ers in order to “mock and un­der­mine” the move­ment. Singer is a major donor to the Spec­ta­tor, a right-wing mag­a­zine known for its role in the “Arkansas Pro­ject,” a well-funded ef­fort to in­vent sto­ries with the goal of even­tu­ally im­peach­ing Pres­i­dent Clin­ton.

Jour­nal­ist Push­ing To Dis­credit Oc­cupy Wall Street Is Funded By Singer’s Think Tank. Josh Barro, a jour­nal­ist who has at­tacked the 99 Per­cent Move­ment in the Na­tional Re­view and the New York Daily News, draws a salary from the Wris­ton Fel­low­ship at the Man­hat­tan In­sti­tute, a big busi­ness ad­vo­cacy think tank in New York. Barro makes the same tired ar­gu­ments, that anti-Wall Street pro­test­ers are too inar­tic­u­late and “ex­treme” to be taken se­ri­ously. Singer is the chair­man of the Man­hat­tan In­sti­tute, and even over­sees the Wris­ton an­nual fundraiser.


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U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus

 Schneier On Security

October 10, 2011

U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus

You'd think we would be more careful than this:

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

[...]

"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. "We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know."

Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:38 AM 


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Monday, October 10, 2011

Electing mart people isn't working...

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Sunday, October 09, 2011

I Can Relate

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One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: "We Are Not Helpless!"

One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: "We Are Not Helpless!"

by: Alissa Bohling, Truthout | Interview
 

Rep. Jan Schakowsky. (Photo: davidcharns)

Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Illinois) $227 billion jobs bill was more or less dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House. And while she's proud to say it left its mark on the president's American Jobs Act, that bill is stalled out in Congress. But in a wide-ranging interview last month, Schakowsky insisted that a jobs bill must pass. In a rhetorical landscape overrun with hyperbole, she claims that today's political battles really are "epic," and she remains ambitious on every front, from auditing the military to experiencing firsthand what it means to rely on food stamps. In this conversation with Truthout, Schakowsky envisions a not-so-distant future where food banks set up shop on Capitol Hill, foreclosed homeowners trade their sadness for anger like bankers trading credit default swaps, and the public comes forward "with their hair on fire that ordinary people deserve better."


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Artists Occupy Wall Street for a 24-Hour Show

Artists Occupy Wall Street for a 24-Hour Show

People mill about the exhibit named  "No Comment," a show with a wide variety of politically themed art at the former building of JP Morgan & Co.   Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
People mill about the exhibit named  “No Comment,” a show with a wide variety of politically themed art at the former building of JP Morgan & Co.
One of the works shown during "No Comment," a politically themed art show located across from the New York Stock Exchange.Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesOne of the works shown during “No Comment,” a politically themed art show located across from the New York Stock Exchange.
Two unidentified men hang a piece during the "No Comment" art exhibit in the former JP Morgan & Co. headquarters.Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesTwo unidentified men hang a piece during the “No Comment” art exhibit in the former JP Morgan & Co. headquarters.

For weeks, a growing collection of protesters have tried to get their grievances heard on Wall Street — even if the police have prevented them from establishing a physical presence on the fabled street.

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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By The Wall Street Protesters - 2011-10-05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8o3peQq79Q


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Here's to the misfits...



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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

RIP Steve Jobs

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Politics =

Politics = poly(many) + ticks(blood suckers) 


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Saturday, October 01, 2011

If you have...

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The Best Among Us

The Best Among Us

by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed
 

An activist from the Occupy Wall Street movement is shown being arrested by police in New York on September 24, 2011. (Photo:Brennan Cavanaugh / Flickr)

There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.

[LINK: The Best Among Us ]

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Friday, September 30, 2011

If you can't afford a doctor...

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Being Grownup

As a young child, I thought "being grown up" meant having all the answers. As an adult, I am realizing that "being grown up" means having all the questions. 
 
Burgandy Alden Smith

Iranian warships close?

BY: RICK GLADSTONE | THE NEW YORK TIMES

The missile program announcement coincided with reports in Iranian newspapers of Iran's plans to deploy Iranian warships close to the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Capitalism isn't ...

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If You’re Not Paying for It; You’re the Product

Everybody wants stuff for free but we seldom question what it means to get something for free. Today's quotable moment is a reflection on what it means when a company gives it all away.

[LINK: LifeHacker ]

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Don't Tread On Me

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Punctuation is everything...

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Quote of the Day: Making Friends all across America

[Rick] Perry was a promising Texas politician but not yet governor, he tried some Eastern North Carolina barbecue from King's of Kinston, which was served at the Republican National Convention in Houston.  "I've had road kill that tasted better than that," Perry was quoted as saying.

[ LINK: Pork chopped: Rick Perry takes heat for barbecue blast  ]

Because some times you just need cute.

A group of giant panda cubs nap at a nursery at the research base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, in southwest China’s Sichuan province.

Friday, September 23, 2011

The revolution continues

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET Bull Poster

The revolution continues...

Thursday, September 22, 2011

23 percent of unemployed Minnesota vets


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“You run into sergeant majors and lieutenant colonels who did 26 years in the military and have college educations, but yet you see them at a job fair looking for work.”

Jeff Holmstrom, 33-year-old staff sergeant in the Minnesota National Guard who spent months job hunting after returning from his second deployment, on the 23 percent of unemployed Minnesota vets.(Source:Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Monday, September 19, 2011

I refuse to believe corporations are people until...

“I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one.”

- Ara Rubya via @DanonNewsNet

Yer'elephant ... but not without value.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Call to non-violent revolution: the New Social Revolution

We must first as individuals and then as a body enter into a non-violent insurgency against forces that remove our self-worth, our self-respect and most importantly our dignity.

The corner stone of our non-violent revolution will be: Living within our needs.

When we break the cycle of desire we will being to escape the trap of materialism.  When we live within our needs we begin to escape the trap that our profit driven captors hold us in.  Succumbing to their fabricated crises of fake hunger and contrived vanity we willingly allow their influence to color our otherwise healthy decision making process.

We must allow ourselves to make better, healthy decisions.

We must live intentional lives, accepting personal responsibility by living to the measure of our needs.

When we deny supporting the driving efforts of desire driven profiteers we throw of the yoke of their false desires.


- Papa

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William Meloney VII
Voice: 270-215-4275


They are ignoring us now.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.


Be aware and not fooled.  They are ignoring us now.  then in their arrogance they will laugh at our broken efforts.  Soon, all too soon, they will meet our actions with violence.  Then we must be the strongest in our posture of non-violent revolution.

The time has come to begin the New Social Revolution.

The rains...

The rains have returned
by bentlily

The rains have returned
I forgot
how loud
it attacks
like marbles shaking
in a tin can
underneath it
we try to sleep
wondering why
no one in this wet land
builds gardens on their roofs
to swallow
the falling ocean
turn it upside down
into proud lineups of snow peas
and artichokes
and at night
a blanket of earth above us
to hush
the clamour.

Contradictions: Why this stated position is disingenuous

Perhaps this author is only trying to be cute but the underlying message is devastating.  Moreover, the implication that 'science is horrid' is disingenuous. For it is only by the work of science that "machinery", "mainspring", "hydraulics", and "x-ray" are even possible.  

The Horrid Voice of Science

by Vachel Lindsay

"There's machinery in the 
      butterfly;
   There's a mainspring to the 
      bee;
There's hydraulics to a daisy,
   And contraptions to a tree.

"If we could see the birdie
      That makes the chirping sound
With x-ray, scientific eyes,
   We could see the wheels go 
   round."

And I hope all men
Who think like this
Will soon lie
Underground
.

[LINK: Vachel Lindsay ]

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Oh Charlie Consumer...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Worry often gives...

Eye-popping pay

Eye-popping pay package. The folks at Footnoted.org discovered some breathtaking perks in the employment contract of DFC Global CEO Jeffrey A. Weiss. The most striking is the company’s promise to pay Weiss the equivalent of $300,000 a year for life once he leaves the company. Then there’s an “Incremental Capstone Award” promising him a further $150,000 a year for life. That’s all on top of a $1 million salary and a $1.25 million target annual bonus. Here’s the text of the employment agreement.

[LINK: WSJ ]

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Rick Perry is a Texas governor for people who found Bush too cerebral

Borowitz is on fire tonight! "Rick Perry is a Texas governor for people who found Bush too cerebral."

Every picture tells a story...

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Slow down you crazy child...

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Micky D's in different cultures

MIDDLE EAST

The McArabia is made with grilled chicken or grilled kofta (beef with spices). Comes with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and garlic mayonnaise, wrapped in an Arabic style pita bread.

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Friday, September 02, 2011

BOO!

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

Eight False Things

Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day

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(Note: The words that appear in red are links that you can click.)

There are a number things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the public expects or needs.

Here are eight of the biggest myths that are out there:

1) President Obama tripled the deficit.
Reality: Bush's last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama's first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.

2) President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.
Reality: Obama cut taxes. 40% of the "stimulus" was wasted on tax cuts which only create debt, which is why it was so much less effective than it could have been.

3) President Obama bailed out the banks.
Reality: While many people conflate the "stimulus" with the bank bailouts, the bank bailouts were requested by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. (Paulson also wanted the bailouts to be "non-reviewable by any court or any agency.") The bailouts passed and began before the 2008 election of President Obama.

4) The stimulus didn't work.
Reality: The stimulus worked, but was not enough. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.

5) Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.
Reality: A business hires the right number of employees to meet demand. Having extra cash does not cause a business to hire, but a business that has a demand for what it does will find the money to hire. Businesses want customers, not tax cuts.

6) Health care reform costs $1 trillion.
Reality: The health care reform reduces government deficits by $138 billion.

7) Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.
Reality: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.

8) Government spending takes money out of the economy.
Reality: Government is We, the People and the money it spends is on We, the People. Many people do not know that it is governmentthat builds the roads, airports, ports, courts, schools and other things that are the soil in which business thrives. Many people think that all government spending is on "welfare" and "foreign aid" when that is only a small part of the government's budget.

This stuff really matters.

It's disgusting, man...

Bachmann is just a joke. -God

Just a joke: Bachmann's hurricane message from God
mug.cnnpolitics

(CNN) - Michele Bachmann's press secretary characterized comments by the Republican presidential candidate, when she said Hurricane Irene was a message to Washington, as a joke.

"Obviously she was saying it in jest," Alice Stewart told TalkingPointsMemo Monday.

The Hurricane

The Hurricane

by William Carlos Williams 

The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

The deal about theology

 

Theology is to truth like a model globe is to the earth. A globe is spherical and represents the proper placement of the continents and oceans. But a globe is not wet, contains no dirt, lacks any living creatures, and is a bit on the small side.  When we build theology we take the raw materials of revelation, tradition, community, and experience and build the best model we possibly can. We are thankful that in many ways we have built an excellent model of truth, but absolute adherence to even the best model is somewhere between hubris and lunacy.

 

-- Overheard 

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Nobody but yourself

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight --- and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

But can he take the heat?

Texas' Perry rejects manmade global warming

By STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press
Published: 
Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:42 AM CDT
BEDFORD, N.H. — GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming, calling it a scientific theory that has not been proven.

“I think we’re seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists that are coming forward and questioning the original idea that manmade global warming is what is causing the climate to change,” the Texas governor said on the first stop of a two-day trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state.

He said some want billions or trillions of taxpayer dollars spent to address the issue, but he added: “I don’t think from my perspective that I want to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective is more and more being put into question.”

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Ya see? That's what you get for jailing anti-corruption activists. D'oh!

Anna Hazare, India's Leading Anti-Corruption Activist, Refuses to Leave Delhi Jail

BY: SIMON DENYER, RAMA LAKSHMI | THE WASHINGTON POST

NEW DELHI - Indian police jailed a leading anti-corruption campaigner and detained thousands of his supporters Tuesday morning, hours before the veteran activist was due to begin an indefinite hunger strike to demand tougher laws against graft.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

How soft drinks impact your health

Harmful Soda

[ LINK: Old School ]

You might be a conservative if...

1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W. Bush earned every minute of his leisure time (196 days at the same point in his presidency).

2: You’re happy with your 40 hour work week, paid vacations and company-provided healthcare, but you’re strongly anti-union, because those commies haven’t done anything for you lately.

3: You strongly support the First Amendment and it’s guarantee of religious freedom to all, but you don’t think Muslims have a right to build an Islamic Community Center in Manhattan.

4: You believe Ronald Reagan was a devout Christian, even though he hated going to church, but any president who spends twenty years going to the same Trinity United Church in Chicago must be a Muslim.

5: You believe when a Republican governor creates a healthcare package with an individual mandate for everyone in his state, that’s a good idea. But when a Democratic president does it, suddenly it’s unconstitutional.

6: You’re so enthused about demonstrating your Second Amendment rights, you can think of no finer place to brandish your pistol in public than at a presidential rally.

7: You believe Bill Clinton was responsible for Osama bin Laden’s escape ten years ago, but thankfully George W. Bush caught up with him and killed him in Pakistan.

8: You believe in putting American jobs first, except when president Obama rescued 1.5 million GM and Chrysler autoworkers, because that was socialism.

9: It angers you that you can’t communicate with the Mexican busboy at your local Olive Garden, but when you took a vacation to San Francisco’s Chinatown, you thought it’s quaint that so many Chinese-Americans are holding fast to their traditional language. Because that’s America!

10: You deny that the lunatic who tried to murder Gaby Giffords was a conservative, even though he targeted a Jewish, pro-choice, pro gay rights, Democratic Congresswoman.

11: You thought it was perfectly normal that every president in history had an untethered right to raise the debt ceiling when warranted, but when Obama asked the GOP held congress to do it, you thought it only natural that it be tied to cutting Social Security and Medicare.


12: When the new 112th Congress was sworn in, you swooned as they promised to focus on “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” But when they pivoted, and went after NPR, Planned Parenthood and gay rights, you cheered.

13: You accuse president Obama of raising your taxes to the highest point ever, even though they’re lower today than at any time since 1950.

14: You believe the wealthiest Americans are “job creators,” and they are — but it doesn’t bother you that all the workers in those positions are in India, China and Malaysia, and they’re doing the jobs that our fathers once did.

15: You believe gays are anti-American, because their lifestyle is a threat to the children… unless they’re married to Tea Party-backed presidential candidates from Minnesota.

16: You strongly defend individual freedom, but that freedom doesn’t include a woman’s right to decide her own healthcare needs.

17: You believe corporations are people too, and are deserving of the same rights as the rest of us. Just not the same obligations to pay personal income tax free of corporate loopholes, or penalties for massive criminal behavior and tax evasion. In these matters, corporations are deserving of special rights.

18: And since corporations are now people too, you must believe in their right to a driver’s license, the right to marry, to adopt children, etc. These rights shall not be denied to Exxon, Halliburton and BP (but still immune from the right of the People to try, convict and sentence to death any corporation that conspires to commit a felony… because at that point, they’re suddenly not people again.)

19: You still believe Climate Change is a myth, and the recent record highs, lows, floods and droughts around the world coinciding with climate scientist’s predictions are all an amazing coincidence. Oh, and Al Gore is FAT!

20: You believe when George W. Bush took the national debt from $5 trillion to $11 trillion, it was necessary for him to do so to keep America safe. But when Barack Obama added to it by trying to rescue the country from a second Great Depression, he was deliberately trying to destroy America!

21: You believe America is a God fearing country, and that the Almighty protects those who believe just as you do. But it’s never crossed your mind that the majority of tornados, hurricanes and floods all occur in the Bible Belt.

22: You believe that no matter who’s in the White House, the office, if not the man himself is deserving of your respect. The only exceptions to this rule, are if his middle name sounds Muslim, and if he’s not at least as white as that black guy who works down in the mailroom at the office.


[ LINK:  Addicting Info ]

Consumer confidence:

Consumer Confidence
[ LINK: Ted Rall ]

Monday, August 15, 2011

What makes America look unreliable


"What makes America look unreliable isn’t budget math, it’s politics. And please, let’s not have the usual declarations that both sides are at fault. Our problems are almost entirely one-sided -- specifically, they’re caused by the rise of an extremist right that is prepared to create repeated crises rather than give an inch on its demands." 

-- Paul Krugman in yesterday's Times

[LINK: Stolen entirely from Deus Ex Malcontent ]

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Rage Queen

The ship that faced a thousand lunches.


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michele bachmann: corndogs are people too

...the Democrats to my eternal bafflement

“I think the U.S. has every chance of having a good year next year, but the politicians are doing their damnedest to prevent it from happening — the Republicans are — and the Democrats to my eternal bafflement have not stood their ground,” Ian C. Shepherdson, chief United States economist for High Frequency Economics, a research firm

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Revisionist History: Whitewash

New Film 'The Help' Whitewashes the Civil Rights Struggle into a Heartstring-tugging Hallmark Card

The film completely trivializes the suffering and hard work that went into making civil rights a reality.
 
This week, disgusted by The Help’s revisionist history, scholar and pundit Melissa Harris Perry began livetweeting the film halfway through it. This one summed it up best: “I just timed it. Miss Skeeter's date got same amount of screen time as Medgar Evers assassination. #TheHelpMovie sigh.”

[LINK: Whitewash ]

Monday, August 08, 2011

It is a sad state of affairs

It is a sad state of affairs when a leader is criticized for not attacking his opponents. 

Leadership is not about who can scream the loudest at their political opponent.  Leadership is about sitting down with friend and foe, finding common ground to do what is right for the people.  These times are too perilous to do otherwise.  That is why I believe in Steve Beshear.  Both his record and his judgment give Kentuckians the confidence that he is the right person at the right time to lead Kentucky. 

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Happy President Mister Birthday

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Mike Luckovich

Friday, August 05, 2011

Thursday, August 04, 2011

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Worlds from before

We must remember the worlds our ancestors traveled.  Always wear the songs they gave us.  Remember we are made of prayers.  Now we leave wrapped in blankets of love and wisdom. 

 

Luci Tapahonso Diné (Navajo)  

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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Living the unresolved

I beg you . . . to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps then, someday for in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

 

Rainer Maria Rilke

  

    

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Monday, August 01, 2011

Getting take to the cleaners...

Robert Reich | Ransom Paid
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America's wealthy and most fortunate - who are now taking home a larger share of total income and wealth, and whose tax rates are already lower than they have been, in eighty years." 
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Every time...

Every Time You Watch Jersey Shore, A Book Commits Suicide [PIC]
Every Time You Watch Jersey Shore, A Book Commits Suicide [PIC]

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Monday, July 18, 2011

The Yardist...

How conveeeenient...

News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious

• Sean Hoare profile: A courageous and distinguished reporter

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Choices

Making choices


There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.

 

Angeles Arrien 

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