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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

say hello

to the daily mmm
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barely out of tuesday

shorter women have a lower risk of cancer

congress members sign letter to doj addressing voter disenfranchisement

and will they just abandon any pretense of civility and call obama the n word?

protestors arrested for heckling boehner from house gallery
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Monday, August 01, 2011

keith o's special message

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skippy's monday night music club

a little on the political side...vallejo "if i was president"...

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skippy's environmental news stories sunday

a day late, and a few dollars short...but here they are. the stories that should be making headlines in your local paper..but, alas...aren't.

power thirsty. - power and water are more interconnected than you might think, and that has serious consequences for a changing world, especially the american west - daily climate

 their smoke, our smog: meet these midwestern power plants. - just under 90,000 people live in indiana county, penn., home of the homer city generating station. they, experts say, are the ones who are most directly affected by the thousands of tons of pollutants that the coal-fired plant releases into the air each year. but the effects are not limited to the midwestern locales where many of the country's biggest coal plants operate - new york city limits

pollution clouds hong kong's future. - to gaze across hong kong's harbour to the city's famed skyline of shimmering skyscrapers and lush, green peaks is to experience one of the world's most spectacular urban landscapes. when you can see it. - bbc

anger builds as 800,000 families still homeless a year after pakistan floods. - a year after devastating floods swept through the pakistani town of nowshera, imtiaz ali is seething with anger as he struggles to rebuild his life with almost no government help. nowshera was one of the hardest-hit towns in pakistan's mountainous north west, where flash floods wiped out entire villages leaving behind tangled branches, mud and many thousands of people needing help - edinburgh scotsman

as china's prosperity grows, so do its trash piles. - as china’s economy barrels onward, waste, a byproduct of prosperity, is piling up. and there's little structure in place to deal with it, aside from the trash pickers — unlikely foot soldiers in an increasingly prosperous china's battle against trash - christian science monitor

cashiers sought for health study. - researchers at the national institute of environmental health sciences are recruiting cashiers willing to have blood and urine samples taken to be tested for a potentially toxic chemical - bisphenol a, or bpa for short - that is used to manufacture the slick receipt paper many cashiers handle on a daily basis - raleigh news observer

oversight lax on new jersey fund to clean polluted land. - the state brownfields fund to help clean polluted properties is nearly broke, and worse yet, officials concede no one knows for sure how well the public's dollars have been spent. - bergen county record

yosemite trees to be chopped down for prettier views-  - yosemite is one of the most beautiful places on the planet and millions of people flock there every year to take in the sights. well, they would if it weren't for the blasted trees. those stupid bushy things are blocking the views, so the park is looking at just chopping the trouble-makers down. um... say what? - treehugger

climate-change-induced wildfires may alter yellowstone forests. - climate change in the greater yellowstone ecosystem will increase the frequency of wildfires and alter the composition of the forests by 2050, according to a team of ecologists who modeled the effects of higher temperatures on fire occurrence - spx

the new normal: billion-dollar disasters. - the us has racked up more mega-expensive natural disasters in 2011 than ever before. So far we've suffered more than five times the huge disasters typical at this time of year. already damage costs have reached nearly $32 billion - mother jones

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"Thank You For Making Noise!"



Anyone who's ever lived in a low-rent tar-paper walk-up can relate to something in this one. Enjoy...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 8:45 PM | 0 comments

long monday

preacher sues rachel maddow for repeating his words verbatim

unemployment up in gop strongholds texas and so. carolina

but, krugman sez the debt deal will worsen unemployment

why pz myers doesn't believe in gods

it was a dark and stormy night
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

what would that galilean carpenter think?

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"Fundamentalism Kills"...

Chris Hedges:

...The battle under way in America is not between religion and science. It is not between those who embrace the rational and those who believe in biblical myth. It is not between Western civilization and Islam. The blustering televangelists and the New Atheists, the television pundits and our vaunted Middle East specialists and experts, are all part of our vast, simplistic culture of mindless entertainment. They are in show business. They cannot afford complexity. Religion and science, facts and lies, truth and fiction, are the least of their concerns. They trade insults and clichés like cartoon characters. They don masks. One wears the mask of religion. One wears the mask of science. One wears the mask of journalism. One wears the mask of the terrorism expert. They jab back and forth in predictable sound bites. It is a sterile and useless debate between bizarre subsets of American culture. Some use the scientific theory of evolution to explain the behavior and rules for complex social and political systems, and others insist that the six-day creation story in Genesis is a factual account. The danger we face is not in the quarrel between religion advocates and evolution advocates, but in the widespread mental habit of fundamentalism itself.

We live in a fundamentalist culture. Our utopian visions of inevitable human progress, obsession with endless consumption, and fetish for power and unlimited growth are fed by illusions that are as dangerous as fantasies about the Second Coming. These beliefs are the newest expression of the infatuation with the apocalypse, one first articulated to Western culture by the early church. This apocalyptic vision was as central to the murderous beliefs of the French Jacobins, the Russian Bolsheviks and the German fascists as it was to the early Christians. The historian Arnold Toynbee argues that racism in Anglo-American culture was given a special virulence after the publication of the King James Bible. The concept of “the chosen people” was quickly adopted, he wrote, by British and American imperialists. It fed the disease of white supremacy. It gave them the moral sanction to dominate and destroy other races, from the Native Americans to those on the subcontinent.

Our secular and religious fundamentalists come out of this twisted yearning for the apocalypse and belief in the “chosen people.” They advocate, in the language of religion and scientific rationalism, the divine right of our domination, the clash of civilizations. They assure us that we are headed into the broad, uplifting world of universal democracy and a global free market once we sign on for the subjugation and extermination of those who oppose us. They insist—as the fascists and the communists did—that this call for a new world is based on reason, factual evidence and science or divine will. But schemes for universal human advancement, no matter what language is used to justify them, are always mythic. They are designed to satisfy a yearning for meaning and purpose. They give the proponents of these myths the status of soothsayers and prophets. And, when acted upon, they fill the Earth with mass graves, bombed cities, widespread misery and penal colonies. The extent of this fundamentalism is evident in the strident utterances of the Christian right as well as those of the so-called New Atheists...

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sundays, mondays or always

california's electric car rebate program has resumed

monsanto-resistant weeds raise food prices

wisconsin residents must jump through hoops to get voter id card

bar owner sues church for praying successfully for the bar's destruction
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

10:15 saturday night

man survives 3 days stuck in manhole

post office considering closure of 3600 offices

if corporations paid 1960 level taxes, the debt would vanish

bush policies added almost 4 times a much to the deficit as obama's

an investment banker's view of the upper 1%
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Friday, July 29, 2011

say hello

to man are we screwed
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friday night

the unintended consequences that the tea party isn't expecting from the debt ceiling crisis

suit against breitbart survives motion to dismiss

the relentless christian crusade to prevent our children from learning science

the force was not with him: george lucas loses star wars copyright suit in britain

well, he got the "objector" part right, he just needs work on "conscientious"
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

any given thursday

red light cameras aren't the revenue bonanza cities expected

call the white house and tell them to say no to any cuts to medicare and social security

is harry potter a jock?

the defeat of the undefeated

does obama = james buchanan?
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

big wednesday

study finds that marijuana has no effect on long-term cognitive ability

ny gop rep calls police on senior comstituents

u.s. olympic silver medalist skier commits suicide

alec exposed

obama asks america to contact congress about the debt ceiling, and america crashes congressional servers
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

the cult that is destroying america

paul krugman again, calls it like he sees'm. and he's so spot on.
think about what’s happening right now. we have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and democrats in congress are bending over backward to be accommodating — offering plans that are all spending cuts and no taxes, plans that are far to the right of public opinion.

so what do most news reports say? they portray it as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent — because news reports always do that. and we have influential pundits calling out for a new centrist party, a new centrist president, to get us away from the evils of partisanship.

the reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president. once again, health reform — his only major change to government — was modeled on republican plans, indeed plans coming from the heritage foundation. and everything else — including the wrongheaded emphasis on austerity in the face of high unemployment — is according to the conservative playbook. - nytimes

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ruby tuesday

the institute of medicine advocates that insurance companies provide mandatory contraception coverage

attendance @ tea party events is down by 50%

how corporations exploit prison labor

an arkansas high school refused to let black student be valedictorian

"historic" legislation is as lasting as the next election
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Monday, July 25, 2011

monday, monday

the wall street journal becomes fox-ified

8 facts about spending republicans forgot

is the murdoch phone hacking scandal going to swallow up piers morgan?

demand for sarah palin movie high, if by "high" you mean "non-existant"

the new twitter rallying cry: f%^k you washington
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

skippy's sunday night music club

a little louis prima to chase away the blues...

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sure, this alec is smart

but it is tinged with anti-democratic evil.
nichols, a political reporter for the nation, recently wrote the introduction and co-authored two in a series of articles about the relationship that state-based legislators have with a group called the american legislative exchange council (alec). alec is a group that brings together state legislators and representatives of corporations to draft model bills that can then be introduced at the state level of government. an archive of alec documents was recently leaked to the center for media and democracy.

"all of those pieces of legislation and those resolutions [in the documents] really err toward a goal, and that goal is the advancement of an agenda that seems to be dictated at almost every turn by multinational corporations," nichols tells fresh air's terry gross. "it's to clear the way for lower taxes, less regulation, a lot of protection against lawsuits, [and] alec is very, very active in [the] opening up of areas via privatization for corporations to make more money, particularly in places you might not usually expect like public education." - fresh air with terry gross - npr


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tweet of the day

 
democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - aristotle

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environmental news stories sunday

for those pesky stories that somehow get buried in the news glut of celebrity deaths and politicians throwing temper tantrums.

appalachian poverty concentrated around mine sites, wvu study says. - poverty in appalachia is concentrated in the communities around mountaintop removal mines, and people living in those areas suffer greater risk of early deaths, according to a new scientific paper by a west virginia university researcher - charleston gazette

farmer: gas driller has invaded property. - the gas company eqt is drilling on his neighbor's land. twice in the past eight months, workers have spilled fluids onto spencer wooddell's farm. wooddell is too scared to keep his prized mares at home - charleston gazette

texas gov. perry as president would transform epa. - as governor of texas, rick perry has argued that the u.s. epa has strangled business and interfered with state environmental efforts, and he has championed a half-dozen lawsuits challenging federal air pollution and greenhouse gas regulations. how would a president perry treat the epa? - austin american statesman

epa program on children's toxic exposure "flawed." - according to a new report released friday by the epa's inspector general, efforts to protect children's health have been fatally blocked by american industry’s refusal to submit information on the commercial use of chemicals. - the investigative fund

drought is taking toll on texas aquifers. the ferocious texas drought is clobbering crops, thinning out cattle herds, decimating wildlife, and drying up streams and reservoirs, but it's also wreaking havoc deep underground, where the state's aquifers are dropping at a precipitous rate, experts say - forth worth star telegram

epa seeks to tighten ozone standards. - this week, the map of the united states lit up with orange warnings of high ozone levels. But recent science suggests that the levels of ground-level ozone in the air were even more harmful than those health advisories suggest. the epa wants to tighten its ozone standards - weekend edition

texas should stop pretending epa isn't serious. - texas has plenty of alternatives for cleaning the air and creating reliable power — which it should get busy pursuing instead of pretending the epa isn’t serious about clean-air standards. it’s time for texas to stop complaining and start complying - dallas morning news

in seattle, real estate sector to 'green' its buildings as economic fix-it. - seattle's real estate industry is spearheading a first-of-its-kind green building initiative to help boost property values and lure businesses - solve climate news

mmmmm....bloodsicles.

some michigan airports are growing their own fuel. airports need lots of room for planes to leave and land. and airplanes spew a lot of greenhouse gases. idea: grow crops on airport property to power the planes, and maybe help offset carbon emissions. it's an idea that may be taking off in michigan. yep, taking off. - treehugger




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sunday morning coming down

want to block all rupert murdoch websites? there's an app for that

oslo killer posted youtube depicting obama as a marxist

did msnbc fire cenk uygar becuase he was too hard on obama?

the gang of six budget plan cuts medicare by $298 billion

romney now tied w/obama
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Requiescat in Pace, That's All She Wrote



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only on a saturday night

suspect in oslo terror attacks is right-wing. anti-muslim christian

murdoch u.s. scandal brewing?

even dick lugar thinks that the gop has gone overboard

alec exposed

should obama raisw the debt ceiling himself?

rest in peace portrait painter lucien freud
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Friday, July 22, 2011

thank god it's friday

suspect in oslo terror attacks is right-wing. anti-muslim christian

surprise! murdoch's paper responds to the phone hacking scandal with an incredibly tasteless cartoon

tim pawlenty gets a cease-and-desist order from abc sports

some demographics are more equal than others

the goldilocks story is proven to be historically accurate, using biblical logic

rip ed flesh, designer of the wheel of fortune
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

the chair of obama's national campaign finance committee

hates workers. she wants them toast....literally.
it was already approaching 100° at 8 a.m. when I arrived at the park hyatt where, after 22 months of stalled negotiations, hotel workers were staging a one-day picket to protest the hotel chain's intolerable treatment of their housekeeping staff.

In case you didn't know, hyatt is owned by the pritzker family. heiress penny sue pritzker chairs obama's national campaign finance committee. she is also big player in democratic party politics as well as in the world of anti-union, corporate school reform and was recently appointed by mayor rahm emanuel to a seat on the chicago school board.

pritzker's response to the park hyatt strikers was to turn on the hotel's powerful heating lamps to try and bake the workers into submission on this brutally hot day. but this seemingly inhuman and probably illegal response seemed to have had just the opposite effect. picketers began chanting, "hyatt can't take the heat, but we can!" the lamps were left on until word got out and media began to show up. - mike klonsky's smalltalk blog

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thursdays

alec: puppetmaster of the right

rebuilding the alabama democratic party one district at a time

fox & friends: mitt romney is obviously not a christian

michele bachmann gets migraines

that long island woman who screamed that she was "too educated" to be told to quiet down has hired a pr firm
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

it's in our dna to celebrate

happy birthday, gregor mendel!

from pharyngula!

from greg laden!

from google!

from amout.com, whose gardening page gives us recipes for peas
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wednesday week

mortgage company screws up soldier's account, soldier's credit rating plummets; jury awards soldier $21 million

new obama action figure, now w/samarai sword

after a long stint at fdl, here's marcy wheeler's new home, where she most astutely asks why push elizabeth warren to join america's most ineffective legislative body?

did you know that the pope is the anti-christ?

and what's cuter than arctic fox pups?
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

pie in the sky

someone just tried to pie rupert murdoch @ the news of the world hearings in parliment in london
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tuesday afternoon

rupert murdoch and julian assange: compare and contrast

meanwhile, newscorp stocks plummet

al sharton to replace cenk uygur on msnbc?

and over @ pushing rope, they are ranting against "the middle"
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