Wednesday, April 17, 2013

17 April - Blogs I'm Following

10:24am MDST

Bob Feldman : Civil Rights, SDS, and Student Activism in Austin, Texas, 1954-1973

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 minute ago
Massive march against the War in Vietnam, Austin, Texas, circa 1969. Image from The Rag Blog. The hidden history of Texas Part 13: 1954-1973/2 -- Student Activism and the Anti-War Movement at the University of Texas By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / March 4, 2013 [This is the second section of Part 13 of Bob Feldman's Rag Blog series on the hidden history of Texas.] Inspired by the early

Celebrity foe of climate science Christopher Monckton may retire from public speaking – ‘On this side of the case, there’s no money at all’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 26 minutes ago
[image: British climate change denier Christopher Monckton talking about global warming in 2009. Photo: supplied / New Zealand Herald] By Peter Sinclair 8 April 2013 *New Zealand Herald:* New Zealand’s top climate change scientists have rallied together to slam a visiting sceptic who is touring the country to proclaim global warming as a myth that should be ignored. Dr James Renwick, associate professor of physical geography at Victoria University, dismissed Lord Monckton’s views as “rubbish”. “He’s a great showman and speaker, and climate change is a vehicle to self-publicis... more »

Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Brought To You By Cops Posing As Terrorists - The Big Sleep!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 58 minutes ago
I have received some very disturbing comments over the last few days that shows again how much the propaganda of the media and government, as well as the dumbing down chemicals, have indeed worked so well on the American public. Most of those comments contained some very colorful metaphors and have called me the usual whack job, nutter, and even c***sucker.... I truly have to laugh at some of them, and yet it disturbs and saddens me to see how badly the American public has been brainwashed into a false reality concocted by the criminals that run their own government, and the Jewish... more »

Will the common core claim credit for bogus test score improvement?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
Sent to the New York Daily News. We have been told that the new tests based on the common core will result in low scores (“Just what the kids need,” April 15). What has not been mentioned is that new tests typically result in low scores, and then scores rise for the next few years as teachers and students get used to the test format and content, and teachers learn how to teach to the test. This has been confirmed in studies by Prof. Robert Linn of the University of Colorado. The common core will claim the credit for this bogus “improvement.” The improvement will stop after a few ... more »

Week Update In Pictures

Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour ago
Southern Cousins at the Ancestral Manor Lunch with area geocachers Southern Father hard at "work." At a singles dance. Sadly, Southern Man has not yet mastered the new camera to the point that the low-light dance-floor pics came out. Too bad, as many of them were pretty funny. And by "not mastered the new camera" he means he leaves it in full auto mode and ignores the rest of the settings. Also, Southern Man has learned how over-ride Blogger's default photo-size settings so he will be going through the blog and up-sizing photos as time and interest permits. It sure beats working!

An Islamic Bomb

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 hour ago
Philosopher Sam Harris has the dubious honour of sharing fellow "New" Atheist Christopher Hitchens' bigotry against Muslims. (Richard Dawkins appears to think that Islamic fundamentalism is the worst sort of fundamentalism but I'm not sure that he supports the US-backed invasions of their countries.) While it's not out of line for an atheist to see many things in Islam that are insane and dangerous, it is out of line to believe that Islam is more insane and dangerous than any other religion and to target their populations with military assault (all protests that when one calls for m... more »

Banks to pay for illegal Foreclosures

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 1 hour ago
*This is a very big deal what this means to you is be CAREFUL not to give up your rights for just 50 thousand dollars...* *The first thing you must do is get yourself the services of a title agency to review the CHAIN OF TITLE to see who had the right to foreclose on the property any error, discrepancy, Wrong date on any notarized document, you get the Idea... Abraham Ben Judea* *Any way read the excerpt below pay attention to the underlined part.* Independent consultants, approved by the *Office of the Comptroller of the Currency* and the *Federal Reserve*, will review nearly 4.5 m... more »

MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Professor, professionalize thyself!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013* *Part 3—Harvard man’s fun with Finland:* It’s the mediocrity of public school teachers that gets Jal Mehta’s goat. Sitting in his office at Harvard, the young assistant professor can see their mediocrity quite distinctly. Last Saturday, he explored the failure of this group in a very lengthy column in the New York Times. “America’s overall performance in K-12 education remains stubbornly mediocre,” the troubled young professor wrote—just before he cherry-picked a mountain of data to help Times readers get the impression he wanted to convey. In our view... more »

Appeal Courts will use deference in reviewing interlocutory injunctions

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago
*R v Conseil Scolaire Fransaskois*, 2013 SKCA 35 is a useful case for the proposition that the determination of whether an interlocutory injunction ought to be granted will be considered with deference by an appeal court: [14] In general terms, this Court approaches appeals involving interlocutory injunctions with a reasonable measure of deference. Jackson J.A. described the applicable standard of review as follows in *Culligan Canada Ltd. v. Fettes*, 2009 SKCA 144 (CanLII), 2009 SKCA 144, [2010] 6 W.W.R. 420: 13 As a preliminary matter, it is important to underscore the stand... more »

2013 Provincial Elections Look To Maintain The Current Political Deadlock In Iraq

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 hour ago
Early voting for Iraq’s provincial elections began on April 13, 2013 with the security forces going to the polls. Like the last balloting in 2009, this year’s will take place in fourteen of the country’s eighteen provinces with Kurdistan following its own timetable, and Tamim being excluded, because of its disputed territories. It is unclear as yet whether the 2013 vote will be a game changer like the 2009 one was. Members of Iraq’s Election Commission training for the 2013 vote (*AFP*) The 2009 election was about issues, which resulted in wholesale changes in Iraq’s local gover... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Corps will increase flow down the Atachafalaya ~Nikki Buskey* *Levee berm expected to contain sinkhole brine, oil ~David J. Mitchell * *Vieux Carré panel backs Morning Call proposal ~Danny Monteverde * *Bugs & Brew for Drew ~Blackened Out* *New Orleans Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo *

AP VIDEO: Iraq Elections

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago

WotW: Taking Care of Your Digital Life After You're Dead

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours ago
If you die, and no one is around to see it, who gets all your email? Weird question, but it bears asking. If you die, what happens to all your online data? Is it really yours? Does it become the property of your nearest relative? Do online companies have an obligation to release that data to your family? And does it matter? Ten years ago, nobody would have been asking these questions. Today, they are the stuff of lawsuits. So much of our lives are tied up in various online accounts. We journal online (blogs and social media), our pictures and videos are online, our reputations ar... more »

Misty Mountains

Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 hours ago
A long, long time ago the junior-high-aged Southern Lad and his friends were at a *Star Trek* convention where in one corner were a couple of girls and a guitar. We'd already discovered the wonders of J.R.R. Tolkien by that time and we sat spellbound at their feet as they sang of elves and dwarves and the cold distant Misty Mountains. From *The Hobbit Part I*; music by Howard Shore. A somewhat briefer version of the above. From the animated Rankin-Bass version of *The Hobbit*. A favorite fan cover. This one always takes me back to that convention so long ago...

Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Planting The Seed Of Propaganda - Media Readily Suggests Patriots Are Responsible For Boston Marathon Bombing!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
I am truly surprised that most people cannot see this latest bombing in Boston Massachusetts for what it really is... A definite false flag attack to strike FEAR into the American public.... What needs to be understood is the psychology of Fear itself, and how people who are stricken by fear will want to quickly find a remedy or a solution to dispel that fear... In most cases when a general populace is stricken by fear, they turn to their own government for solutions... And unwittingly allow corrupt governments to pass horrible laws to take away their freedoms! The Israeli Mossad ... more »

How The Economist got it wrong on climate sensitivity

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
[image: Various estimates of climate sensitivity. Graphic: Knutti and Hegerl, Nature Geoscience] By Dana Nuccitelli and Michael E Mann 12 April 2013 (ABC Environment) – *The Economist* recently published a lengthy articleabout Earth's climate sensitivity — how much the planet's surface will warm in response to the increased greenhouse effect if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles relative to pre-industrial levels (something that will happen in a matter of decades if we continue with business-as-usual fossil fuel burning). While we are pleased that *The Economi... more »

We Lost Another Great Canadian With The Passing Of Rita MacNeil ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
* "Rita MacNeil, the Canadian singer-songwriter from Cape Breton with the sweetly powerful voice, passed away Tuesday night following complications from surgery. She was 68.* *** MacNeil’s longtime promoter, Brian Edwards, says MacNeil had entered hospital a few days ago because of an infection. She was advised to undergo what he described as a “routine surgery,” but then developed complications during the recovery.* *** “The operation itself went well and then shortly afterward, she went into a coma and never actually came out of it,” Edwards told CTV’s Canada AM Wednesday morn... more »

'Jewish claims'

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 2 hours ago
*The Commentator* highlights a remarkable reply to one of its readers from the BBC Complaints department. The reader had complained about the headline the BBC News website article about Lord Ahmed, a Labour peer suspended for making anti-Semitic accusations that Jews were responsible for his prison sentence following a fatal motorway crash: Labour peer Lord Ahmed suspended after 'Jewish claims' The reader complained that the BBC's headline avoided the correct word - 'anti-Semitism'. Others complained that the headline was also confusing - i.e. that it might easily misled readers ... more »

The Obama Budget in One Infographic...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago
*from The Foundry - and we thank them.*

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago
Monkey orchid, Ecuador.

Rapid City Journal accused of 'tearing an ugly scab' to sell newspapers

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
The Rapid City Journal, and bordertown newspapers across the US, continue to agitate hate crimes By Brenda Norrell Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com RAPID CITY, S.D. -- The United Urban Warrior Society said the Rapid City Journal, near Pine Ridge, has a history of writing false and damaging newspaper articles about Native Americans. The Warrior Society's  resolution points out

WOW: Women are not Humans - They are Things

2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
Women - thy name is vagina. From HuffPo State Rep. Peter Hansen (R) made the comment, first reported by New Hampshire political blogger Susan the Bruce, in an April 1 email debate with colleagues about a "stand your ground" gun bill. Hansen's colleague, Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R) had delivered a lengthy floor speech about the benefits of retreating instead of using deadly force, to which Hansen replied in an email: The full email from Daily Kos From: Hansen, Peter Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 8:32 PM To: ~All Representatives Subject: RE: HB 135 Speech The Representative from Ma... more »

Cattle Mutilations: Commotion over Animal Attack in Pellegrini, Santiago del Estero

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 3 hours ago
*Source: Vision Ovni (A.P. Simondini) Date: 04/9/2013* *Cattle Mutilations: Commotion over Animal Attack in Pellegrini, Santiago del Estero* Residents found young goats with incisions, without organs and entrails, and with no traces of blood in the area. No reliable explanation has been found. Interior. In recent days, residents of the provincial interior have been shocked by two cases involving animal mutilations that ocurred in remote localities, but having similar characteristics. The first event took place in the Quebrada Esquina wilderness, department of Pellegrini, where a f... more »

Is Obama Throwing Seniors Under The Bus So He Can Keep The Military-Industrial Complex Pork Rolling Along?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Millions of Democrats were outraged that Obama-- apparently in cahoots with Boehner and McConnell-- put forward a proposal, Chained CPI, to reduce the cost of living adjustments for seniors and veterans who depend on meager Social Security payments to live. Although over 100 Republicans already voted for this catastrophic cut to Social Security as part of the reactionary Republican Study Group budget, not even one Democrat voted for it. Obama stuck it in his budget anyway. Plenty of Obama-supporters have wondered how he could possibly betray the most basic and fundamental princip... more »

Have I Got A "Flood" Of Remarkably Easily Offended People For You

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
The *Daily Mail* anticipated the day of the funeral of Margaret Thatcher (a beautiful, extraordinary service) by publishing a piece about BBC bias. More than 100 complaints flood in following BBC's Have I Got News For You quiz show mocking Baroness Thatcher's death - The BBC1 show has drawn 107 complaints since it was broadcast Friday - Guest Ken Livingstone joked about declining an invitation to her funeral - Other jokes were aimed at her son Mark and her former Tory cabinet By PAUL REVOIR *PUBLISHED:* 21:03, 16 April 2013 | *UPDATED:* 23:38, 16 April 2013 The a... more »

CORE-outsourcing/Amanda Lang/iGATE - on the milk carton

Alison at Creekside - 3 hours ago
On Saturday I posted a screencap of CBC's 'senior business correspondent' Amanda Lang as keynote speaker at the upcoming CORE-Outsourcing's 8th Annual Conference* : Fast Forward - What's Next for Outsourcing?*. CORE displayed Lang's bio above the logos of their 'Corporate Sponsors' - which unhappily included iGATE. My link to that page subsequently went down over the weekend: "Oops! The page you are looking for cannot be found." This seemed most unlikely for an "annual global conference" about to open in 6 days so I fixed it. It went down again. Go ahead - try it yourself. I... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Kristine Sutherland, 58. Also, good stuff: 1. Kevin Drum highlights an Elena Kagan dissent. 2. Scalia, not so much with the judicial temperment; Rick Hasen has it. 3. Ed Kilgore notes that Rand Paul's Howard speech seems to have adopted Kevin Williamson's version of party history. To me, that raises the question: could Paul have sounded like a jerk because he really didn't know what he was talking about? Once again, there are costs for having an information structure within a party dedicated to fooling you own followers. 4. And Alyssa Rosenberg has some advice f... more »

The Great Grind Down

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
Tom Walkom writes that The Great Recession has not been like The Great Depression: This slump is not like the Depression of the ’30s. It is not a time of total economic collapse. Rather it is a time of relentless grinding down. Unions are being ground down; wages are being ground down. Jobs are being ground out of existence. With the economy so weak and foreign competition so fierce, domestic firms find it harder to expand. For many, the only solution is to squeeze their workers. Before the Great Recession, goods moved easily across borders. So did capital. But what’s new about... more »

Earthquake swarm Japan - is another BIG ONE due?

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 3 hours ago
Free Planet doesn't normally DO earthquake swarms posts because they happen all the time, but one's going on RIGHT NOW off the east coast of Japan i.e. on the Fukushima side, that started in the far south of Japan in the range of 4.6 and above and has just started unleashing 5.6's and above off/around Sendai. Here's a list this far today off of USGS's (so-called realtime) earthquake monitor: Mag Location Time UTC Lat Lon Dep km 5.7 18km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan 2013-04-17 12:03:31 38.478°N 141.494°E 4... more »

FALSE FLAG meme goes global

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 3 hours ago
"My complication got a complication..." Brazil (1985) was about a bureaucrat in a retro-future world who tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an Enemy of the State. It was about the IRA (and UK gov's association with it) and an ex-Mayor of London suggests that MI5 were at least complicit in either 'terror attacks' and/or 'child porn rings' as leverage tools against politicians in positions of power. And we all remember Operation Gladio... and the US Air Force standing down on September 11th 2001... James Corbett (brave man that he is) illustrates in vivid de... more »

Remember Timothy McVeigh?

2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
Oklahoma City bombing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It would remain the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11, 2001 attacks. Why are the majority of people assuming, first and foremost, that the Boston terrorist is a foreign national? The first major terrorist attack in the US was a homegrown, domestic terrorist.

'Anti-Indian Conference' exposed by Intercontinental Cry

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
Anti-Indian Conference By Jay Taber  Intercontinental Cry Reposted with permission at Censored News  The April 6, 2013 NW Round-Up Regional Educational Conference in Bellingham, Washington was sponsored by the foremost Anti-Indian organization in the United States, the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance. Excerpt: " ... Brendale’s wife is a lobbyist and media expert with Eagle Forum, a

Wake Up!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago

Music funds KXL Resistance 'A Mother's Letter to TransCanada, Big Oil'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago
"A Mother's Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil" from Phyllis Cole-Dai on Vimeo. Fast for the Earth Co-Founder Creates Video, Sells Music to Fund KXL Resistance Posted at Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Fast for the Earth co-founder Phyllis Cole-Dai http://www.phylliscoledai.com/  has just released "A Mother's Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil" <https://vimeo.com/64122215 a video

BBC says it won't use "anti-Semitism" because the word is... too long?! - The Commentator

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
' Apparently the word "anti-Semitism" is too complicated or too long for the BBC to use, says an e-mail from the News Online complaints team...' A staggering story of BBC protecting a Muslim Peer. http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3269/bbc_says_it_won_t_use_anti_semitism_because_the_word_is_too_long

Red Ink Magazine: Celebrating Native Voices

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago

NO NEED TO FEAR

Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago
*11-year-old Aaron Hern was one of the victims in the Boston Marathon bombings. abclocal.go.com* * **How should we react to the victims of the Boston Bombs?* Can we feel compassion without feeling some of the suffering of the injured? *1.* *Imagine you are a doctor entering a hospital ward where there is a child victim.* It does not help you, nor the child, if you are shaking and weeping. The good doctor, while feeling compassion, detaches himself from suffering. The good doctor detaches himself from his selfish ego. *It is the selfish ego which produces anger, grief, worry, and ... more »

A Message from Jason Alexander

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 5 hours ago

Dogon Astronomy and Sirius

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours ago
This item captures out present understanding of Dogon knowledge of Sirius. What disappoints me is that we see no suggestion that our star also orbits Sirius which unfortunately suggests that it is more complicated than all that. What we do know is that we are traveling against the motion of the galaxy in the direction of Sirius. Sirius may thus be part of a super cluster and we are not directly orbiting it. This appears to fit our present knowledge. The knowledge on display was not accessible using bronze age technology. Thus the scenario rings true and explains the impor... more »

Nanocellulose Breakthrough

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours ago
This will ultimately be huge. This may be a natural substitute for a wide range of products we presently make from plastic. It will be an important feedstock that can even be produced down on the farm as a matter of course. It will still need consumables and farms are used to dealing with this sort of stuff. This is an important breakthrough and a nice result of genetic engineering that no one eats. We will see it enter the supply chain in perhaps five years and that will produce a flood of replacement solutions hopefully broadly across industry. That will depend on c... more »

Lazarus Effect

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours ago
The science of resurrection continues to advance and we are now to the point is which serious decisions need to be made to improve outcomes. Read this item carefully. I survived a twenty minute interruption of heart activity because the right things were done and I should have survived. Yet in the time and place I won the lottery. Since my event and because of similar survivals, it is now standard to start and maintain CPR. The rest described here needs to also become standard. In my ward, my sense is that a number left in body bags who should also have survived. The habit of... more »

Climate Switch at 5000 BP

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 5 hours ago
The swiftness of this collapse is surprising but also tells us that a humid wet climate existed until just before the Great Pyramid was built. It also tells us that full climatic restoration could be possible provided our conjectures regarding the Pleistocene nonconformity and the impact of goat husbandry. The moisture has not gone away, it is merely no longer been captured and once that changes, there is ample reason to expect that the Sahara can be fully clothed in vegetation. The long existence of the sphinx is also supported as geological work shows us thousands of ... more »

Is there really a crisis in science and math education?

skrashen at Schools Matter - 5 hours ago
Sent to the Austin-American Statesman, April 16, 2013 Lonny Stern’s claim that “Investment in science, math is good business” (April 15) is based on his assertion that there are 2.5 STEM jobs available for every unemployed person. Mr. Stern may want to consult research done by Rutgers Professor Hal Salzman, who concludes that there are two to three qualified graduates for each science/tech opening: There appears to be surplus, not a shortage, of STEM-trained workers. Studies have also shown that there is a “PhD glut”: According to the Atlantic (Feb, 2013), the US is producing mor... more »

The Bishop of London's Lesson at Lady Thatcher's funeral

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
Very nicely delivered with stories of Lady Thatcher's humanity that showed a side of her that the left and the left's leaders (such as the BBC) would prefer we did not know. I also liked the Tolpuddle martyrs hiustory lesson, something for the BBC to remember, not that they will. I think it's clear why The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres DD KCVOhas not become Archbishop of Canterbury!

A Guest Post & Insight by Michael Brine

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago
Source: http://spacefellowship.com/news/art20300/picture-of-the-day-hubble-observes-the-large-magellanic-cloud.html ** ** *The Stars may try to guide us and the mind try to find answers, but in the end we must get out of our own way, for only the love that flows between our souls can guide us, towards each other in the fulfilment of our destinies.* ** Michael Brine To read more of Michael's writings visit: *http://www.missionignition.net/btb/*

If someone tells you that things couldn't get any worse, show them this picture...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama 2016 - Now that's seriously scary!

Dark matter may be a complicated sector

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago
Among the hints of dark matter, I believe that the three apparently decidedly non-background-like events seen by CDMS II represent the strongest hint of a dark matter particle we have seen so far. However, there are other hints, too. Even though the AMS-02 folks haven't told us everything they know yet, it seems very plausible that they have already seen somewhat clear evidence of a rapid drop of the positron fraction at high energies. CDMS suggests a WIMP mass of \(8.6\GeV\); AMS-02 indicates \(300\GeV\) or more; and we also have the Weniger line at Fermi which would imply a WIMP ... more »

What does "reside" mean on the context of bail?

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago
*Gravino*, [1991] O.J. No. 2927 (C.A.), at para. 1: On the authorities, the word "reside" is a word of flexible meaning. While its usual meaning is that it refers to where one sleeps, it has also been held that where a person leaves a residence for a temporary purpose, with the intention of returning, he continues to reside at the same residence. This was a criminal proceeding with penal and monetary consequences and so, in our opinion, the requirement in the recognizance for judicial interim release, that the appellant "reside with his mother" does not preclude temporary absences ... more »

MAN OF STEEL - inspirational trailer - you are not alone

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 9 hours ago
We are all *SUPERMAN*, and this is our Free Planet. On my world *Free Planet* means HOPE. *BONUS MATERIALS - YOU ARE NOT ALONE:* a ransom demand for the People of Earth, how very corporate.

April 15, 1973 (part one)

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago
PRESIDENT: Yeah. I had a call from Kleindienst. EHRLICHMAN: Yeah. I heard you did and I thought you ought to take it. PRESIDENT: Oh sure, sure, I didn't, I didn't refuse. He said "I should see you, and I'd like to see you alone this afternoon. Today." I said fine. That's from a morning conversation this Sunday, April 15. Kleindienst, having finished hearing about Dean's testimony, arranges to report to the president. At this point, however, there's been no deal struct between Justice and Dean -- and if there's no deal, then Dean can still, according to the rules, withdraw his tes... more »

Boston Highlights the Illusion of Terror & Security

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours ago
*April 17, 2013* (LD) - Sometime before 1775, American Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin wrote: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Across much of the West, after September 11, 2001, we have indeed given up our essential liberty, and more over, our dignity in exchange for the illusion of safety. Our streets and public events are filled with militarized police and very literally soldiers wielding machine guns and riding around in armored vehicles. And yet with this militarized security, invasive Constit... more »

BOSTON BOMBS AND THE CIA

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*Department of Homeland Security 2010 warning on Pressure Cookers* *Boston Marathon bombs:* *Inspire magazine, said to be run by the CIA, taught pressure cooker bomb-making techniques.* Investigators say pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon attack. "In fact, most analysts remain convinced the *Inspire* article was the brainchild of X.... an American .... and was edited by Y..... another American citizen... "Last October Z .... accused of attempting to bomb a Federal Reserve Bank building in New York, was said by prosecutors to have read *Inspire*..." His car b... more »

Interviewed For Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
I was interviewed for this article by Afeef Nessouli “Can Iraq meet its oil potential?” which appeared on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN.

A3 Newsletter: Four Score and One Too Many Years

angola3news at Angola 3 News - 11 hours ago
*(Artwork by Emory Douglas)*Today, April 17, 2013, marks 41 years that Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been unjustly incarcerated in solitary confinement in Louisiana. This is 41 years of living in concrete and metal cages of 6 x 9 feet; 41 years of being separated from their families and loved ones; 41 years of being wrongly accused of a murder they did not commit. Over 41 years ago, prison officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka 'Angola'), an 18,000-acre former slave plantation, were first confronted by the Angola 3's challenge to the obscene human rights atroci... more »

Mircea Eliade On Going Down Into The Belly of A Monster

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago
Related: *Mircea Eliade On The Modern Man's Passion For Historiography*. *Mircea Eliade On The Eleusinian Mysteries*. *Mircea Eliade On The Fury of The Berserkers*. Below is an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's book, *"Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities." * Harper & Row, Publishers: New York. 1960. Pg. 225. What we have here is an initiatory adventure undertaken to gain an item of secret knowledge. One goes down into the belly of a giant or a monster in order to learn *science* or *wisdom*. That is why the Lapp shaman remai... more »

Drink up, and be happy

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 hours ago
[image: image] Happiness is nowhere near as complex as you might have been led to believe. For scientific research now confirms merely a taste of beer can trigger a rush of chemical pleasure in the brain. Proving again that beer didn’t just build our civilisation, it made it happy too. Or as Benjamin Franklin was supposed to have said, *"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."* Cheers! (Hic.) Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Suspected Faults Under Oi Nuclear Reactors in Japan: Court Rejects Shutdown Request

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago
Reuters (2013, April 16) Court rejects request to shut down Oi nuclear reactors, The Asahi Shimbun, http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201304160084 [Excerpted] A Japanese court rejected a petition to close down the country's only two operating nuclear reactors, in the country's first legal ruling on atomic power since the Fukushima disaster a little over two years ago... ...The country's new nuclear regulator is still investigating whether the suspected fault under the station is active. [end]

Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might find the following quick links helpful: - The #CTWW Gang - The Honor Society - My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge - This Week's Challenge How did your Eco-friendly spring cleaning go last week? I made the switch to natural cleansers quite some tim... more »

When Miss McConnell Passes Will "Ding Dong" Top The Charts?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
The British Establishment-- and the kind of American Tories who fought on the British side against the Patriots during the American Revolution-- are busy trying to make Margaret Thatcher a right-wing saint. Millions of ordinary Britons don't feel that's merited and responded by driving the 1939 classic "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead," from *The Wizard of Oz* up the music charts. Tens of thousands of Brits rushed out to buy the single but Conservatives warned the BBC, which plays chart songs, not to dare play it. They played a 5-second version (once) with the network's new boss, Tony... more »

The Game

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
This is about all that you have ever believed was real and true and how all of that is about to change. You are not only what you see in the mirror. Your worth comes from a place unseen by human eyes. It is not so much what work you do in this physical world that you are here doing. It *is* that, yes, for things that you came to experience and to learn about. Yet while you sleep on this earthly plane, you are still working and doing. Not so much learning; yet it is true that learning is something you cannot escape – but DOING. It is in your ‘dream work” that you are f... more »

Adrian Dix And Christy Clark, A Contrast In Leadership

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 12 hours ago
Today Adrian Dix showed what I call "real Leadership"...After accepting the candidacy of Dayleen Van Ryswyk to run in the of Kelowna-Mission.. Clearly the vetting process failed, on the first day of the writ period it was leaked that this woman has uttered some very racist slurs towards French Canadians and Canada`s First Nations, there is no need to repeat what she said, these statements in the form of comments on an internet site were uttered in 2009... Racism comes in all forms, Dayleen Van Tyswyk will have to live with those statements, no doubt the locals will forgive her, I ... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
“One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful M81. This grand spiral galaxy lies 11.8 million light-years away toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major). *Click image for larger size.* The deep image of the region reveals details in the bright yellow core, but at the same time follows fainter features along the galaxy's gorgeous blue spiral arms and sweeping dust lanes. It also follows the expansive, arcing feature, known as Arp's loop, that seems to rise from the galaxy's disk at the upper ... more »

Chet Raymo, “A Universal We?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
* * *“A Universal We?”* by Chet Raymo “I have a few words to say about Oxford anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse, and his thoughts on ritual as "the glue that holds social groups together." I was drawing on a story in the 24 January issue of “Nature.” He is quoted further: "Emotionally intense rituals have bound us together and pitted us against our enemies throughout the history of our species. It was only when nomadic foragers began to settle down did we discover the possibilities for establishing much larger societies based on frequently repeated creeds and rituals." The big... more »

"After All..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain." - William James

"A Civilized Society..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written l... more »

Attack Ad Against Justin Trudeau

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours ago
I'm really unhappy about Justin Trudeau. Seems to me that he's what stands between the bankrupt Liberal Party of Canada (a "vision" for Canada that appears to be some incoherent mish-mash of corporate inhumanity and vaguely progressive rhetoric) and its eventual demise. With his name and his looks he'll kindle enough interest to help spoil the NDP's chances of reducing the harpercons to a minority. Regardless of all that (and not that I have any high hopes for the NDP under Mulcair) I find those harpercon attack ads against Trudeau to be sickening. I'm tired of these asinine attac... more »

The Realist Report with John Friend

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 13 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Scott Roberts of *The Forbidden Truth*. Scott and I will be discussing a variety of subjects, including his awakening to the problems facing our nation and race, his thoughts on Christianity, religion, and spiritual matters, the need to overcome our differences and work together productively, his thoughts on the American Nationalist Association, and related matters. Be sure to check out *Scott's TruTube.TV page*, where you can find a number of videos he has produced. Calls will be taken throughout the conversation. You c... more »

Will Thatchers Legacy Become the US's ALEC Led Reality???

2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago
A little ALEC / Thatcher background to start. *ALEC Policy Forum 2002* Privatization as we know it began in the late 1960s, mainly practiced by local governments. In the 1980s Ronald Reagan brought the idea to the federal government at the same time Margaret Thatcher was revolutionizing Britain through the same process. *ALEC Atlantic Connection 2006* Chris Heaton Harris (International ALEC Legislator) It reminded me a lot of growing up in the late 1980´s in a confident Great Britain that had been economically transformed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. *Inside ALEC 2007*... more »

Issue Estoppel

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago
*Penner v. Niagara (Regional Police Services Board*) 2013 SCC 19 deals with issue estoppel. The legal framework governing the exercise of the discretion not to apply issue estoppel is set out in *Danyluk v. Ainsworth Technologies*, 2001 SCC 44, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 460. This framework has not been overtaken by the Court's subsequent jurisprudence. While finality is important both to the parties and to the judicial system, unfairness in applying issue estoppel may nonetheless arise. First, the prior proceedings may have been unfair. Second, even where the prior proceedings wer... more »

Glenn Greenwald and the Leveretts Talk Iran—and How Two Former Spear-Carriers for Empire Got “Radicalized”

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours ago
*Glenn Greenwald and the Leveretts Talk Iran—and How Two Former Spear-Carriers for Empire Got “Radicalized”* *By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett * *GoingToTehran.com * *Published on April 10, 2013 * Glenn Greenwald interviewed us for a “Podcast Discussion with Two of America’s Leading Iran Experts: The Leveretts,” now published by the *Guardian (*click on the podcast screen above or here). We admire Glenn deeply for all he has done and continues to do to bring reality and principle back into America’s ongoing debates about national security and about civil liberties—and to... more »

Elizabeth May's Pipeline Warning to You Eastern Canadians.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours ago
Her e-mail is self-explanatory. When it comes to Stephen Harper and bitumen pipelines, you can keep your opinions to yourself. *Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline runs straight through major Canadian cities, including Sarnia, the GTA and Montreal, passing 9.1 million people, and nearly 100 towns and cities.* ** *Installed in the mid-1970s, this aging pipe system is set to be modified. A proposal is in place to reverse the flow of this pipeline and expand its carrying capacity.* ** *But if you are one of the millions of Canadians along its route who wish to communicate legitimate concerns ab... more »

Alan Waldman : ‘A Touch of Frost’ Was Excellent, Clever British Cop Series

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours ago
Waldman's film and TV treasures you may have missed: Beloved comedy star David Jason achieved new and long-running acclaim as crusty, amusing detective inspector Frost. By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / April 16, 2013 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas, mysteries, and comedies from Canada,

Bits'n'Pieces-- Guns And Religion

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
*How Far Will McConnell Step Over The Line?* You know with all the hubbub over the surreptitiously taped McConnell staff meeting where they were planning a strategy for smearing Ashley Judd and other potential opponents, one thing that seems to have gotten by our watchdog media is the transcript itself. The McConnell camp used "3rd party" to submit an open records request for Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. So who, exactly, was that "3rd party" referred to by the McConnell mob? Was it a shady right-wing SuperPac McConnell was illegally coordinating with? Or wa... more »

GAIA PORTAL: Activated Solar Gateway Connects to Enhanced Gaia Transforms

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago
*Activated Solar Gateway Connects to Enhanced Gaia Transforms* by ÉirePort Activated solar gateway connects to enhanced Gaia transforms. This allows (encourages) full awakenings for all humanity, on all stages of consciousness. "Brilliance" of human energy is increased rapidly via connection of activated solar gateway with enhanced Gaia transforms. Individual human grids connect enabling global humanity-to-Hue-manity transformation. ÉirePort | April 16, 2013 at 17:55 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-kZ

silence is consent

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 16 hours ago

Energy Econ 9: Blowin in the Wind Fooly

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 16 hours ago
The mystique of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources keeps floating, mainly to help 'save the planet". It's a mystique and paranoia at the same time that drives certain energy policies in many countries to irrational levels. Like pouring lots of taxpayers money to subsidize these renewables, or jacking up the cost of electricity to households and businesses. Here is a good situationer on global energy consumption in 2010. After all these years of pouring lots of taxpayers' and energy consumers' money to wind and solar, they have contributed only 0.5 percent and 0.06 percen... more »

Kind (D-WI) Working for TurboTax???

2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago
From Pro-Publica – my emphasis throughout – but let’s start with these two paragraphs out of sync The industry group behind the program boasts that almost all taxpayers can use software like TurboTax or more primitive electronic forms for free. But access to the more sophisticated software is limited by income. *Only about 3.5 million taxpayers used Free File last year, according to a Treasury Department tally through the end of April*. *The pact governing the partnership, which counts Intuit as a member, includes a sweet deal for the industry:* *In return for the companies offer... more »

GAIA PORTAL: Gaia Transforms Activated

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 16 hours ago
*Gaia Transforms Activated* by ÉirePort Gaia transforms activated at this moment. These are global in nature, and includes all levels of Beingness. Such transforms are based upon the principle of healing, or rectification, bringing awareness of Wholeness, Unity, of all humanity, of all Creation. These Gaia transforms are able to activate now, as sufficient Hue-manity (Rainbow humans) are present with Gaia at this time. ÉirePort | April 16, 2013 at 17:29 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-kX

Spirulina and LPS; and, Maybe Trans Fats are Not the Devil?

George Henderson at The High-fat Hep C Diet - 16 hours ago
One of the very minor controversies in Paleo-land is whether algal foods or supplements are healthful. For what it's worth, pond algae appeared in the Paleolithic menu (according to the 2008 book Feast: why humans share foodby Martin Jones). Spirulina and Chlorella supplements have both been used in the treatment of Hepatitis C with interesting results: (music - Free Kim Dotcom by The Puddle featuring Matthew Bannister) * * *Efficacy and safety of Chlorella supplementation in adults with chronic hepatitis C virus infection * http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581996/* * Eight... more »

RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Anti-Gun Violence Activists John Woods & Claire Wilson James

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 16 hours ago
Claire Wilson James and John Woods at the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, April 5, 2013. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast: Anti-gun violence activists John Woods and Claire Wilson James John's girlfriend was killed at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Claire was shot by UT tower sniper Charles Whitman in Austin in 1966, losing her unborn child. By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog /

Little or Nothing But Life

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 17 hours ago
Wit's End exists mostly to educate people - to curate the information - about trees dying, everywhere, from pollution. There is no lack of new research, articles, or evidence...but it is quite difficult to repeat it with much frequency and besides, other terrible things are happening in the world. The last post was about birds and bees and other insects, which happen to have an intimate relationship with the plants that they pollinate. Starting today, it is possible to watch a new release, The Wings of Life, online. It will set you back about $15 to purchase it on Amazon, but g... more »

GW Intimates - He Can Read

2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours ago
The next question is - at what grade level. George W. Bush: 'People are surprised I can even read' By Justin Sink - 04/15/13 09:24 AM ET Former President George W. Bush knows that his retirement hobby of painting has surprised many, but he said in an interview published Sunday he takes "great delight in bursting stereotypes." “People are surprised,” Bush told the Dallas Morning News. “Of course, some people are surprised I can even read. Second grade level????? George W. Bush had important business to attend to onSeptember 11th:reading a book, The Pet Goat, with second-graders ... more »

ALEC Corp Member Files Bankruptcy

2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours ago
If you didn’t already know – as part of the failed re-branding attempt of the American Legislative Exchange Council – they have renamed their private sector BOARD to an ADVISORY COUNCIL. Doesn’t matter what they call them, the Board/Advisory Council – facilitates the private sector writing legislation and then handing it off to ALEC state legislators to implement in YOUR state. Anyhoo ….. Considering ALEC’s PUSH for privatization of everything – because the private sector supposedly does such a damn good job – better, more economically (according to ALEC) – here’s snip about ... more »

Stay tuned

risa bear at A Way to Live - 18 hours ago
The term "ethics" -- along with some of its synonyms and part synonyms -- has been in trouble with materialistic biologists for the last hundred years or so. The website Resilience has recently taken a look at the reputed problem: "The relevance of the lurking inconsistency to conservation biology and steady-state economics should be evident — conservation and sustainable scale are, after all, purposes that are ruled out in a world governed only by chance." Yes, well. I am a "neo-Darwinist" as the term is used by Herman Daly, the author of the piece, though it is properly a "desig... more »

Elsewhere: Torture, Budget, OFA

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours ago
Over at PP today, I brought back my argument for how to prevent another round of torture: pardons plus Truth Commission. And two new(ish) columns to link to. My Salon item over the weekend suggested that people who want to support Barack Obama's agenda shouldn't donate to OFA -- their money is better spent on candidates in the 2014 cycle. While at TAP, I talked about what people think they're talking about when they talk about balanced budgets. Oh -- just a quick update for Watergate readers. There's been so much over the last few days that I've fallen behind. I'm scheduled to work... more »

An Injustice Compounded: Amnesty International demands an end to the cruel and inhuman treatment of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace

angola3news at Angola 3 News - 18 hours ago
*(Below, reprinted in full, is a new Amnesty International statement that has just been released. --Reprinted by Angola 3 News)* Herman Wallace (left) with Albert Woodfox (right) *AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI index: AMR 51/019/2013 16 April 2013 An Injustice Compounded Amnesty International demands an end to the cruel and inhuman treatment of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace* On the anniversary of the forty-first year since they were placed in prolonged isolation in Louisiana prisons, Amnesty International demands that Louisiana authorities immediately transfer Albe... more »

Margaret and Me

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 18 hours ago
I'm in London on Wednesday. Not for Thatcher's funeral, but for reasons more mundane. That said I cannot let the jamboree pass without saying something, especially as I first became interested in politics under her reign. But not as a critic or an activist that stood with the labour movement. Quite the opposite, actually. When I was 10, my junior school ran a parallel contest to the 1987 general election. Obviously, before then I was aware of such a thing as politics - of the blonde lady in Downing Street, of something called the 'Labour Party'. I have hazy memories of the Falkland... more »

Boston

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
Some 24 hours on from the deeply inhumane bombings in Boston, we seem to be no clearer as to the identity or the motivation of the perpetrators of this hideous crime. The U.S. authorities are still investigating and are remaining cautious in their statements. As so often happens after such events, while the facts are unknown, speculation begins to fill the airwaves and the internet. After the massacre in Norway, there was something of a rush to blame the killings on Muslim terrorists. After the massacre in Toulouse, there was something of a rush to blame the killings on right-wing... more »

Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo II (Aurora)"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo II (Aurora)" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfvKD_SaQdQ

Gold Sell-Off: There Is Only One Question That Matters

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago
*[image: image]**Guest post by Detlev Schlicter* Last Friday, I participated in a short debate on BBC Radio 4's Today programon the future direction of gold. Tom Kendall, global head of precious metals research at Credit Suisse, argued that gold was in trouble. I argued that it wasn't. So yours truly is on record on national radio the morning of gold's two worst trading days in 30 years arguing that it was still a good investment. Is it? I still think what I said on radio is correct. Even after two days of brutal bloodletting in the gold market and two days of soul-searching for ... more »

C.S. Lewis On The Lord of the Rings

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago
*Sauron does not need no stinkin' Constitution.* Related: *The Cosmos Turned Upside Down: Tolkien, The Giant 9/11 Lie, And The Evil War on Terror.* *Ralph Wood - On Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings—A Book for our Time of Terror*. Below is an excerpt from C.S. Lewis's book, *"On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature."* 1966. C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd. Pg. 161-63. How far Treebeard can be regarded as a 'portrait of the artist' must remain doubtful; but when he hears that some people want to identify the Ring with the hydrogen bomb, and Mordor with Russia, I think he might call it a '... more »

"It's All True..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
“Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears...” "This is the Nineties, Bubba, and there is no such thing as Paranoia. It's all true." - Hunter S. Thompson

What is Europe? An update...

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 19 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/6od4eTMaN-g Link: http://youtu.be/7Ri9fuEJe4w Your conclusion? We are 5 years in a crisis with no trustworthy solution near. Bankrupt "banks" still operating. The same (mostly incompetent) peopleat the rudder daily talking the same incomprehensible and contradictory rubbish. People no longer able to buythings or not buying things at all keeping their money outside banks to prevent 'bail-ins'. People using pawnshops to get to some money. Price inflation creeping up. Wages below levels payed in third world countries. Unemployment at astronomical heights. Establish... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago

It's 5:00 pm -- time to walk home!!!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours ago

Republican Party Civil War Roils Illinois And Alaska

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
Joe Miller is back Right wing extremists moved to take over the Republican Party apparatus in Illinois and Alaska. They failed in Illinois and, predictably, succeeded in Alaska-- just in time for the reemergence of neo-fascist politician Joe Miller. And recently, teabaggers nearly succeeded in taking over the Republican Party organization in Michigan and is angling to do just that in Ohio. We'll come back to Alaska in a minute. First Illinois. The state party chair, Pat Brady, an ally of lightly closeted Rep. Aaron Schock (who is eager to run for governor), had told the state's Repu... more »

“The Boston Marathon Bombing And The Limits of Human Empathy”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*“The Boston Marathon Bombing * *And The Limits of Human Empathy”* by Chauncey DeVega "We can grieve and mourn the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. However, the ritual of loss- and of beginning a righteous search (as opposed to a witch hunt where our Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters are abused and harassed, while the White Right and the American militia crowd is treated as de facto above suspicion) for those individual(s) who committed this crime- should not interfere with critical thinking, national introspection, or truth-telling. Moreover, I would also suggest... more »

Counting our blessings after the Boston bombing

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 hours ago
Every time there's a major attack of some kind in America, whether it be 9/11, or Newtown, or yesterday's bombing in Boston, we as a nation are instantly traumatized. We personalize it, as if it had happened to us no matter how remote our connection. Not to minimize the tragedy of the these events, but these are small horrors in the greater world. In the Middle East this sort of violence is part of their "normal" lives. I mean, while we were all glued to the media yesterday, watching in disbelief, this was happening in Iraq: Officials said more than 30 bombings and a shooting hit ... more »

"American People Fight Obama’s Treacherous Cuts to Social Security and Medicare"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*"American People Fight Obama’s Treacherous * *Cuts to Social Security and Medicare"* By Lynn Stuart Parramore "In a spin worthy of the Tasmanian Devil, the mainstream media are casting the reaction to Obama’s proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare as a case of division among progressives. Actually, there is no division; not among progressives, nor among the American people. The vast majority, left, right and in-between, have repeatedly made it clear that they do not want cuts to either of these vital programs. ACBS News poll conducted last month shows that 80 percent... more »

Obama Approves New Exposure Guidelines for Nuclear Emergencies

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours ago
Majia here: These new guidelines are alarming as they significantly increase the levels of radiation that will be allowed in our food and water after nuclear emergencies. Caldicott, Helen (2013) Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket', Global Research, http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-approves-raising-permissible-levels-of-nuclear-radiation-in-drinking-water-civilian-cancer-deaths-expected-to-skyrocket/5331224 [Excerpted] The White House has given final approval for dramatically raising permis... more »

ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The Finance Professional - Villain or Saint?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n] Here’s a note about their next Thursday evening session from our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group: There is probably no more demonised profession today than that of the financier. Financiers, such as the greedy speculators of Wall Street, are often painted as the real villains, the culprits that cause economic misery for millions of people. But is this criticism fair, or even accurate? In this week’s seminar Julian will address this question, by examining whether it is right to vilify the discipline of finance (finance being a... more »

Cost consequences for changing evidence from discovery without notice

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours ago
*Malka v. Vasiliadis*, 2013 ONCA 239 is an example of the failure to give notice that evidence given on discovery is no longer that to be given at trial lead to cost consequences. Such examples are uncommon and that case is useful: [1] We are troubled by the fact that at trial the respondents changed their evidence from what it had been at discovery without giving proper notice. [2] On discovery both Vasiliadis and Lugassy said that the key events with respect to the termination of the lease took place on Friday, February 19, 1999. At trial they changed their ... more »

Lists etc

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 20 hours ago
Tallest mountains (base to peak) in the solar system according to planet/moon/asteroid: Mercury - Caloris Montes Venus - Maxwell Montes Earth - Mauna Kea Moon - Mons Huygens Mars - Olympus Mons Vesta - Rheasivia Io - Boosaule Montes Mimas - Herschel Central Peak Titan - Mithrim Montes Iapetus - Equatorial Ridge Oberon - Limb Mountain

Brian Kelly's Blog: Swissindo as I Understand It

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 20 hours ago
Reblogged from http://briankellysblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/swissindo-oppt-as-i-understand-it.html *UN-SWISSINDO-OPPT As I Understand It* April 16th, 2013 Ask and ye shall receive! This will officially be the first time anyone from the I U/V Exchange (formerly OPPT) Ground Crew has published any of the SWISSINDO information. Let me preface what I have to share today with a Skype chat I just sent to Heather a few minutes ago. 9‎:‎25‎ ‎AM Got a quick minute? 9‎:‎26‎ ‎AM This just came through: UN email from Mr. Sino.AS 9‎:‎27‎ ‎AM My thought is to publish solely for the ... more »

Breaking: Reinhart/Rogoff Shot Full of Holes UPDATED X2

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 20 hours ago
This story is rapidly making the rounds in the blogosphere today, and it is indeed a big deal. One of the most significant economics papers underlying the argument for why high government debt (especially over 90% of gross domestic product) is bad for growth was published in 2010 by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, "Growth in a Time of Debt" (ungated version here). The basic finding of this paper was that if debt exceeds 90% of GDP, then on average growth turns negative. But as Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin report in a new paper (via Mike Konczal at Rortybomb), ... more »

What ought to be done with the Gosnell flap!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 20 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013* *Ought to be done, but won’t be:* Jonathan Capehart brought a touch of comic relief to the flap about Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell is the Philadelphia doctor who is on trial for a wide range of abuses at his abortion clinic. How crazy was Dr. Gosnell? *This* crazy: According to the grand jury report, “The clinic reeked of animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate) freely.” Gosnell is charged with more serious crimes, but that helps paint the picture. Starting on April 11, conservatives began to complain that the mainstream pr... more »

Duncan Celebrates Three Decades of Failed Testing and Accountability Policies

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
On April 16, it will have been 30 years since the publication of *A Nation at Risk* (ANAR), the discredited scare document produced by the Reaganites in 1983 to introduce the beginning of the end of public education in America. Now here is your quiz to test your capacity to predict outcomes based on past history. To acknowledge the beginning of fourth decade of failed education policies inspired by *ANAR*, Duncan will meet with a) public school parents b) public school teachers and students c) public policymakers from local to federal levels d) CEOs from the Business Roundtable... more »

Also Qaeda called for attacks on sporting events

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
'Although no group has claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, a leading al-Qaeda ideologue last year recommended that jihadists in America include sporting events in their list of prospective terror targets. Writing in the online magazine of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),Inspire, the terrorist known as Abu Musab al-Suri listed what he called "the most important enemy targets." ... "This is done by targeting human crowds in order to inflict maximum human losses," he wrote. "This is very easy since there are numerous such targets ... more »

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours ago
Well, some days, you don't have much of a choice, do you? The catch has to go to economists Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin, who have a new paper out demolishing Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff on the effect of high government debt on the economy -- with a big assist to Mike Konczal, who wrote a clear and readable blog post explaining the conflict nicely. The headline here is that Reinhart and Rogoff apparently made a simple computation error, but the Herndon-Ash-Pollin critique goes well beyond that -- as do other critiques previously aired (disclaimer: I haven't ... more »

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL MISERY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 21 hours ago
Abby Martin talks to activist, author and Princeton professor, Cornel West about class warfare, race issues, corporate greed, and the American empire. This is an excellent interview and gets down to the nub of some of the key questions of our time. Highly recommend watching it.

Saudi in Boston Bombing is a "devout Muslim from Medina" - Atlas Shrugs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
'Neighbors of the Saudi student who was detained for 'acting suspiciously' at the marathon finish line said they were shocked to hear he had any involvement in the bombing as he is a 'quiet, devout Muslim who is a huge soccer fan'.' Another terrorist who completely Coincidentally is a devout follower of 'the religion of peace'? http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/04/saudi-in-boston-bombing-he-described-him-as-a-devout-muslim-from-medina-.html

"Now Is The Time..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci "As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of any change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." - Justice William O. Douglas

Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical"

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
Related: * * *Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*. *Kierkegaard On "Man."** * *Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.* *Kierkegaard On God's Love.* *Kierkegaard On Passion.* * Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.* *Kierkegaard On Truth*. Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New York. 2003. Pg. 191-192. The difference between "popular" and "philosophical" is the amount of time a thing takes. Ask a man: do you know this, or do you not know it---if he answers... more »

Why I’m not Blogging about 4/15

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 22 hours ago
Because we don’t know enough to engage in anything resembling responsible commentary. And those things that we can say something worthwhile about–including comparisons with other terrorist attacks past and present, such as what happened on the same day in Iraq; and the socio-political dynamics of the US response so far–don’t exactly demand my input. That’s Continue reading

Oh, I'm Going to Hate This In About Four Years

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago
After Hoover was defeated in 1932, the next incumbent to lose in a general election was Ford, in 1976, followed in short order by Carter in 1980 and Bush in 1992. Add in Johnson in 1968, and incumbents are beaten all the time! But now, with a run of three presidents who were successfully re-elected, get ready for it: you're going to be hearing a lot about how incumbent presidents can't lose under today's conditions. Here's a preview from Tom Edsall, who attributes this effect to campaign finance: The ability of an unchallenged incumbent president to flood the airwaves during the su... more »

Lamar W. Hankins : Fear and the NRA

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours ago
Political cartoon by Mike Luckovich / Atlanta Journal-Constitution / SECFanatics.com. The NRA: Perpetrator of 'fear itself' McClatchy reports that for the last 40 years the NRA has succeeded in limiting and now even preventing research into the effects of gun use, sales, and crime. By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / April 16, 2013 For most of my life, the NRA (National Rifle Association)

Arizona Wilder - Bizarre Experiences Of A Mind Control Slave

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 22 hours ago
"I'm not a speaker. I have a very busy life." sneers *MK Ultra* ritual abuse and mind control slave Arizona Wilder. And it's like there's something UTTERLY FASCINATING behind that little lip curl. Arizona has EXACTLY THE SAME self-effacing solemn voice and blank dead desperate look on her face as Cathy O'Brien and Bryce Taylor and all the others who have suffered in the name of Corporate War... "I knew about Alice In The Wonderland PROGRAMMING," she adds, showing some drawings of the state of her mind during what she calls 'vivisections of alien-human hybrids' without anaesthetic, a... more »

The Boston Marathon Murders were Probably Domestic Terrorism

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago
I'm pretty sure that American authorities are trying to hunt down whoever detonated Claymore mines at the finish-line of the Boston Marathon yesterday. One Indian paper had an account yesterday from an Indo-American special forces vet who ran the race and was at the scene shortly after the bombs/mines went off/detonated. He described multiple amputations, severed legs everywhere, and how he had personally placed tourniquets on six or seven wounded runners. Another account described small ball-bearings littering the blast site. These are the hallmarks of the U.S. military's Claymor... more »

Michelle Rhee's Situational Ethics

John Thompson at Schools Matter - 22 hours ago
The immediate takeaway of "Michelle Rhee's Reign of Error" is that PBS's John Merrow found “the smoking gun,” or the confidential memo warning Michelle Rhee of the extent of cheating that may have occurred in Washington D.C. schools in response to her draconian “reforms.” He concludes with the question that merits a real federal investigation, “What did Michelle know, and when did she know it?” In the long run, that is Merrow's third most important revelation. Merrow has been reporting on D.C. schools since 2007 and, even now, his prime expose is the ongoing story about the nonsto... more »

In the incessant rains ...

risa bear at A Way to Live - 23 hours ago
... new posts are hard to come by. So it goes. March above, April below. As you can see, not much has changed. The Lacinato kale is in bloom. Potatoes coming up, some of which have been knocked back by frost damage. Greens actually are doing well in the middle far bed, beyond the held-over leeks and peasbrush. Raspberry canes look pretty good. The orchard is blooming on schedule but sees few bees in this weather. Buckwheat has sprouted in the fallow bed but is languishing, while weeds grow apace. I've tried to mow the pasture, but as it never dries, it stays ahead of me. I've spen... more »

Steven Lendman is a self-educated retired small business man. He publishes two columns daily on OpEdNews treating worldwide political and economic issues. His writing is kind of choppy, but in a way that engages the reader. From my own knowledge of things, he messages have consistantly been bang on. I suggest that you go to the original and subscribe to his email notifications. Otherwise note that I have posted yesterday the column Lendman that cites by the highly educated and experienced economist Paul Craig Roberts.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago
------------------------------ *Headlined to H3 4/16/13* *Gold Drops Most in 30 Years* *By Stephen Lendman (about the author)* Permalink opednews.com *Gold Drops Most in 30 Years* by Stephen Lendman Market manipulation bears full responsibility. It's getting hammered. In August 2011, it rose above $1,900 an ounce. It was an all-time high. At midday April 15, it was $1,364. It's a 28%+ decline. Silver's also hit hard. In 2011, it exceeded $48 an ounce. It plunged to its midday April 15 $23.45 level. It's more than a 50% decline. What'... more »

Cristiano Tinazzi: A spook that ties Libya to Syria and arms from Italy via Croatia

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 23 hours ago
Recall this news? :* 4 Italian Journos kidnapped in Northern Syria: Who did they get photos of ?* *Way, *way more to this news then initially met the eye. Not a surprise, really. Is anything ever as it seems? A most interesting commenter stopped by named Nikola. Nikola is Italian and has left info for which I have had to use the translate to sort through it all. But, Dammit! It has been worth it! What a saga. Of course, I did a bit of digging on my own. Hoping we can get this narrative filled out. Stay tuned for real life dramatics and intrigue. I am... more »

dream - weird spongy landscape - snow scene

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 23 hours ago
don't ask me what this is about but it was one of those various 'walking in the countryside and/or trying to find a way back home' dreams, but there was something VERY ODD about this one. At first, I thought it was a snowy scene, you know ice here, snow there, melt water running between the two states, bit of boggy ground underfoot leaking into the boot. In fact, it was a really familiar scene or landscape I'd often found myself traversing or having adventures in during other dreams, in what I considered to be three of the other four seasons of the dreaming year. I didn't quite be... more »

Judges are to listen; not to intervene in the fray

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours ago
R. v. Huang, 2013 ONCA 240 holds: [32] We make a final observation. This is the second time in less than one year that this court has allowed appeals relating to judgments of this trial judge on the basis of reasonable apprehension of bias. In both instances, the perception of bias arose because of improper and unwarranted interventions by the trial judge during the examination of witnesses: see *Lloyd v. Bush*, 2012 ONCA 349. In both instances, public resources were wasted, great inconvenience to the parties resulted and the integrity of the administration of justice was... more »

"Free" Trade-- Another Way For Conservatives To Undermine Democracy

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
In the closing to his brilliant book, The Fifteen Biggest Lies About The Economy, Joshua Holland takes on the misleading notion of 'free trade' by pointing out that "Just because politicians say they believe in open markets and free trade between nations doesn’t make it true. In reality, they believe in 'free trade' until someone else gets a comparative advantage, and then their hypocrisy emerges and they become fierce protectionists." Most people still believe that discussions of “free trade” are about ships full of bananas or ball bearings or whatever, crisscrossing the high se... more »

Struggling to force the Sahara back as climate change wreaks havoc in Senegal – ‘If this goes on, the village will have to move’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago
[image: Passkot market in Senegal: aid projects aim to help through reforestation and the provision of money or vouchers so families don't have to sell their animals. Photo: Jenny Mattews] By Paul Cullen 15 April 2013 (Irish Times) – At first viewing here in the remote interior of Senegal, there are just three problems with the Great Green Wall, sub-Saharan Africa’s attempt to stop the continuing advance of the Sahara in its tracks. It isn’t great. It isn’t green. And for now, it doesn’t amount to much of a wall capable of blocking the desert. Far from tarmacadamed roads and pow... more »

Coal and cattle are most damaging businesses to nature

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago
[image: Aerial view of an area deforested for cattle ranching within the 'Legal Amazon', the name given to the area originally covered by the rainforest, seen on 2 September 2009 in the northern region of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Deforestation and forest fires are responsible for 75 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil. Photo: Rodrigo Baleia / LatinContent / Getty Images] 15 April 2013 (Reuters) – Coal-fired power generation in Asia and cattle ranching in South America are the most damaging businesses for nature with hidden costs that exceed the value of their produ... more »

Did Patriots' Day provide motivation?

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013* *Past journalism concerning this topic:* Patriots’ Day has always been fun in Boston, in part because of the annual 11 AM start to the Red Sox game. We're fairly sure we remember this outing from 1968. Having mentioned this fact yesterday, we’ll offer a musing today: Obviously, we have no idea about the motivation for yesterday’s bombings. But yesterday, as some people assumed that the bombings must have come from a foreign source, we found ourselves wondering about a famous domestic bomber. To wit: In the past, haven’t some journalists said that Timothy ... more »

I hope cooler heads prevail, for once.

Eric Whitney at Reality Pimp - 1 day ago
Everybody should (please!) just shut up about the Boston Marathon Bombing until something concrete is known. Stupid speculation about who did the bombing and why is going to hurt innocent people. And no, Obama and Congress, this is not a reason to further restrict civil liberties in the United States, although that may be your immediate spastic reaction. But the government has quite enough power already. Let's not have another reprise of the awful Patriot Act that gutted Americans' freedoms. Let's not go of half-cocked against anyone. The results of doing so are never pretty an... more »

The American People and Conservative Republicans Agree - Legalizing Pot Is a State Right

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Some of the most conservative Republicans in Congress are leading the charge to end their federal government's war on pot. They introduced a bill, the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act, in the House last week. The legislation would mean the feds would have to accept state laws that legalize or decriminalize production or possession of marijuana. *Depending on the state, the legislation would cover both medical marijuana and recreational pot, and would protect not only the users of state-legal cannabis, but also the businesses that cultivate, process, distribute and sell marijuana i... more »

Rat-sized stucco-eating snails invade Florida – ‘The snails attack over 500 known species of plants, pretty much anything that’s in their path and green’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago
[image: A giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster. South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of the snail, which one of the world's most destructive invasive species. Photo: MSN] ORLANDO, Florida (MSN) – South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster. More than 1,000 of the mollusks are being caught each week in Miami-Dade and 117,000 in total since the first snail was ... more »

Foreign Workers Program

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
The purpose of the foreign workers program was to drag down wages in Canada. Full stop. Barack Obama (the great hope of so many deluded pwogwessives) believes that wages in the USA also need to go down. European corporats and their political henchpersons (what is a "hench" anyway?) want to do the same thing to the European working class. The thing is, you see, is that these are mostly insane people, in control of an insane system. Environmentalists say that there should be less consumption. Zero growth. But the nutbars like Obama and whatever mediocrity is currently the president o... more »

...and John Singleton Copley Wept

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) “*We still do not know who did this or why, and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts. But make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this. We will find out who did this, we will find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.*” - President Barack Obama, April 15, 2013 What makes terrorism so effective is in its invariably hideous timing, its genius in fully exploiting the element of surprise. It's a Pamplona that suddenl... more »

10 Books I Recommend Over and Over

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
It is not secret that I absolutely love to read. I am currently in the middle of my 50th book of 2013 and I usually read between 1 and 18 books a week depending on time and if I am in the middle of a great series. I, like any avid reader, get asked to recommend books all the time. It honestly makes me so nervous. You never know what while offend somebody and so I tend to never recommend books. These are 10 that I love so much that I can't hardly keep from gushing about. 1. Grave Mercy- Nun Assassins. Need I say more? Oh how I love these books, they are captivating, interesting and... more »

Putting Bieber in Perspective

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Justin Bieber is prudently laying low after leaving a boneheaded remark in the guestbook of the Anne Frank house proving that kids do really stupid things and so he does. The kid's stupid remark has been a feast for critics around the world but, of the lot, the best must be *The New Statesman's* Eleanor Margolis who writes, "*Bieber is a glorified Furby. Why do we expect him to have views on the Holocaust."* *"We need much more of a Henry VIII-style attitude to celebrities - less adulation, and more 'amuse me minstrels and if you're very, very good I might not have you executed.... more »

At Least One Person Thinks Highly of George w. Bush - Of Course It's George w. Bush

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Former president George w. Bush isn't plagued with regrets over his bungled years in the White House. On the 10th anniversary of his spectacular failed war in Iraq and with Afghanistan heading in the same direction, Bushie says, "*I'm comfortable with what I did*." *Breaking a silence that he maintained through the costly war's 10th anniversary, Mr Bush said it was ''easy to forget what life was like when the decision was made'' to invade.* * **Shrugging off sharp criticism of his legacy from his successor, Barack Obama, Mr Bush also urged Republicans to return to ''the principles ... more »

MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Our nation’s ongoing statistical gong-shows!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013* *Part 2—What does it take to get fired:* Given our clownish intellectual culture, our greatest newspapers strive to spread bogus claims all around. Consider two letters in today’s New York Times about a recent disgraceful column concerning American schools. Today’s letters present a pair of Standard Familiar Dueling Claims—standard familiar dueling claims, each of which seems to be bogus. One of these familiar letters propounds a Standard *Gloomy* Assessment. That recent column, by Harvard’s Jal Mehta, began in standard fashion with the gloomy 1983 report... more »

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