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Thursday, September 29, 2011

thursday

six examples of petty homophobia by perry supporter sam brownback

sign the petition: end coporate personhood

people hate congress

diebold voting machines can be hacked w/$10 in parts
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

waiting for wednesday

feds: the drug cartels are here, and they're taking our jobs!

correcting the abysmal ny times coverage of #occupywallst

citizens rise up against citizens united

it's banned books week!
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

tuesday night music club

dirty little red state secret: welfare disguised as defense spending

pepper-spray cop @ #occupywallst accused of civil rights violations during 2004 gop convention

surprise, surprise, joe liberman is screwing the democrats again

why netflix is splitting in two
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Monday, September 26, 2011

skippy's monday night music club

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stormy monday - occupy wall street edition

#occupywallst protestor gets held down and maced

here's one peaceful protestor's account of her arrest and detention

32 pictures of police brutality @ #occupywallst

and only keith olbermann calls out the media blackout on #occupywallst
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

environmental news stories sunday

for those pesky little environmental stories that, well, might not have been mentioned on the corporate talking head shows.

swirling dust is our destiny. - nobody has a handle on arizona's dust storms, known as haboobs. scientists who study "aeolian transport" say more research is needed but two things are clear: we have contributed to the problem, and it is going to get worse - tucson daily star

phoenix area’s bad air tied to storms. - maricopa county violated federal dust-pollution standards a record number of times this year, but local officials hope to convince federal regulators that this year’s particularly dry monsoon weather and a series of summer dust storms are to blame - tucson sun

the murky environmental price tag of grocery sacks. - last week, a maker of reusable bags settled a lawsuit filed by a plastic-bag manufacturer over competing numerical claims on bags' impact on the environment. the lawsuit laid bare how much remains unknown about bags' environmental impact. - wall street journal

everest's ice is retreating as climate change grips the himalayas. - climate change is altering the face of the himalayas but research seeking to confirm this is yet to catch up with the mountain communities sounding the alarm - london observer

professors: global warming is real. - gov. rick perry wasn't anywhere near texas on saturday, but that didn't stop climate scientists and politicians from poking a bit of fun at his position on global warming during an event on the subject at the pearl brewery. - san antonio express news

supersize salmon are the reel deal. - huge salmon are being caught in scottish rivers this year, leading angling experts to claim the king of fish are growing bigger than they have for decades. jon gibb, an angling expert, believes the changing temperature of the north sea, caused by climate change, is at the root of the situation - edinburgh scotsman

eating ethically -- it's complicated. - you're trying your best to choose the most ethical, environmentally-friendly apples and chickens, but here are some more factors to consider before you decide to eat local - marketplace

italian scientists on trial over deadly earthquake. - the trial of seven italian scientists began this week. they're charged with manslaughter, for failing to adequately warn the residents of l'aquila, italy about the risk of an earthquake in 2009 - weekend edition

mark ruffalo to present gov. cuomo with alternative energy plan. - the actor who stars as the hulk in the upcoming movie “the avengers,” is playing an even bigger role in his fight for clean energy: finding solutions to replace carbon fuels such as gas and oil with renewable energies such as solar, wind and geothermal power - middletown times herald

governor says jersey shore water quality is perfect. - there’s a strip of coastline in the united states where the quality of the water is better than good, according to the governor. "the water quality in the ocean is perfect," gov. chris christie said. some environmental experts disagree - newark star ledger

biking to go green for the planet. - local groups say central north carolina needs to fight pollution, after a forbes magazine article named the triangle the number one gas guzzling metro area in the country. about 200 triangle carpoolers and bicyclists joined in moving planet day saturday, a worldwide effort, in durham's central park - nbc 17

jennifer granholm on the challenges for green jobs. - as governor of michigan from 2003 to 2011, jennifer granholm was involved in a grand experiment for greenville, michigan, to reinvent itself through green technology

stop the train. - sometimes bipartisanship cloaks something else, as when a republican and a democrat share sponsorship of a bill to cripple the epa. if there is any goal americans should share, it is to expedite the path toward cleaner air and water. Stop this train, because our children are tied to the tracks - fredericksburg free lance star

keystone pipeline lobbyist works all the angles with former colleagues. - in lobbying for a presidential permit to construct a massive oil pipeline stretching from canada to the gulf coast, transcanada’s paul elliott — who served as secretary of state hillary rodham clinton’s national deputy campaign manager in 2008 — has tried nearly every angle. - wapo

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every day is like sunday

joe mcginess is to journalism as sarah palin is to politics

can someone upset rick perry's race to the top? yes we cain

here's the complete texts to chuck lorre vanity cards (the logos at the end of two and a half men & etc)

who wouldn't want to play the blackwater video game
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

skippy's saturday night music club

just came back from the don henley concert at the santa barbara (county) bowl. wow. amazing. this is one of the songs that he performed that just got me misty. enjoy.

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welcome to the new world of "employment"

from the world of amazon
the newspaper interviewed 20 people who worked in an amazon warehouse in the lehigh valley in pennsylvania. they described, and the newspaper verified, temperatures of more than 100 degrees fahrenheit, or 37 degrees celsius, in the warehouse, causing several employees to faint and fall ill and the company to maintain ambulances outside. Employees were hounded to “make rate,” meaning to pick or pack 120, 125, 150 pieces an hour, the rates rising with tenure. tenure, though, wasn’t long, because the work force was largely temps from an agency. permanent jobs were a mirage that seldom came. and so workers toiled even when injured to avoid being fired. a woman who left to have breast cancer surgery returned a week later to find that her job had been “terminated.” - nytimes referring to an article on mcall.com

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happy birthday jim hensen...where ever you are

and the joy that you brought into the world

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saturday in the park i think it was the fourth of july

why don't people like the republican candidates?

is facebook the new myspace?

lobbyist dies; obit asks thatin lieu of flowers, people contribute to rick perry

beware of drunken mooses
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Friday, September 23, 2011

skippy's friday night music club

thinking of that 6 ton satellite speeding toward a collision with earth tonight.a very early david bowie.

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because school lunch kids are poor

why not give them crappy food...and of course michele bachmann doesn't even want you to know the food is crappy.

some 40,000 pounds of frozen ground beef that was intended to be served for lunch at six school districts in georgia is being recalled because it may be contaminated with e. coli O157:H7, the u.s. department of agriculture's food safety and inspection service (fsis) said late friday.

in a news release issued at 9:49 p.m. eastern time, the fsis said palo duro meat, of amarillo, tx, processed the frozen beef on sept. 9 and shipped it two warehouses in georgia for further distribution to institutions, including the six school districts in georgia associated with the national school lunch program.

on sept. 22, the company reviewed lab test results for the ground beef that confirmed a positive result for e. coli o157:H7, but the frozen beef had already been "inadvertently shipped into commerce," perhaps "as a result of a sample tracking error," the fsis said. - food safety news

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friday night

how "small government" conservatives raise your taxes w/stealthy back-door fees

a girl, 6 years old, digs up fossil, 160 million years old

e = mc2, right? er, maybe not

elizabeth warren is doing well in early polls against scott brown

and here's mad kane's ode to a new obama
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

outlook for thursday

oddly enough, the idea of taxing millionaires polls really well among independents and moderates

how rick perry put teachers' retirement money in his cronies' hands

also: crony wife capitalism

is sarah palin headed for divorce?

can eagles steal small children? no
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

say hello

to the jane cerva daily
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elizabeth warren

telling it like it is....


"there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. nobody.
you built a factory out there—good for you! but i want to be clear.
you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate."

this woman has some spinal fortitude...

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wednesday week

it's clash of the clueless: friedman vs. santelli

outsourcing america: not a good answer to economic problems

here's an update on occupy wall street protests

and rip tom wilson, creator of ziggy
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

nice teeth on that horse you're given us

while we are happy to hear president obama talk tough, we certainly wish he'd act like this when he's not trying to get elected.
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Difficult Not to Notice

Usually, the Clinton Global Institute meeting is dominated by Captains of Industry. Jim Rogers, who led Cinergy ("I make 1% of the pollution in the world") and later Duke Energy has been prominent in the past, as have a lot of other people who would prefer I didn't use their names.

Don't get me wrong: there are NGO and Charitable organizations as well. Sooner or later, "Fran Drescher from Cancer, Shmancer" will speak from the audience. Not to mention leaders from Foundations the world over.

But this year has been different.Even if you ignore the Plenary, the speakers who are championing innovation and investment are from the Government (Thomas Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy is leading major investments in alternative energy projects), and Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers which, along with the AFL-CIO, have started investing in rebuilding American infrastructure.

Maybe there is no industry left in the USA. Or, at least, the Captains of Industry have Gone Scrooge, counting their monies instead of using them.

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tuesday heartbreak

clint eastwood: "i don't give a f*ck if gays marry"

sc gov nikki haley takes another vacation on the tax payers' dime

dueling steamboats on the colorado river

microsoft windows 8 introduces a kinder, gentler blue screen of death
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