Monday, November 18, 2013

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Aside From Steve Israel, Where Does Empty Suit Pete Aguilar Get His Campaign Money?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 minute ago
In 2012 Steve Israel's empty suit candidate lost to TWO Republicans in a D+5 district! Redlands’s unelected Mayor, City Councilman Pete Aguilar, has never actually ever done anything well. In fact, most people regarded him as an unaffiliated conservative or a Republican until Steve Israel encouraged him to run for a nice blue congressional seat as a Democrat. Under Aguilar's leadership, once thriving small businesses in Redlands have been killed by the Wal Mart Aguilar’s administration attracted and now much of the city’s north side is in Detroit-like poverty. 34 year old Pete, simp... more »

The foamer at the mouth, former close associate of the nose picker

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 minutes ago
http://order-order.com/2013/11/18/miliband-foaming-at-the-mouth/ The video of Gordon Brown picking his nose is on this blog, but never shown on the pro Labour BBC

Setting Aside Default Judgment

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 minutes ago
*Royal Bank of Canada v. Datanet Wireless Inc.,* 2013 ONCA 706: [3] The motion judge explicitly addressed the applicable pre-requisites for the setting aside of a default judgment, as described in *HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. v. Firestar Capital Management Corp*., 2008 ONCA 894, 245 O.A.C. 47, leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused (2009), 399 N.R. 398 (note) (S.C.C.), *Morgan v. Toronto (City) Police Services Board* (2003), 34 C.P.C. (5th) 46, 169 O.A.C. 390 (C.A.) and related authorities. He considered all the relevant factors in the context of the evidentiary record befor... more »

Obamacare Press Frenzy Stuff

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 minutes ago
Oy, Kraushaar. Oy, Galston. Oy, half the damn press corps. It's ugly out there, folks. The two that set me off in particular today are Josh Kraushaar's massive overinterpretation of the events of last week, leading him to believe that Democrats are close to abandoning the ACA. And then Todd Purdom on the imminent collapse of "Big Government progressivism" if the ACA doesn't work well (complete with supporting quotes from William Galston). Anyway, here are some links to what I've written in response. There's just a lot of nonsense right now. Which is pretty much what happens when th... more »

Japan's New Emissions Targets

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 35 minutes ago
Last week the Japanese government announced that it would adopt a new emissions reductions target: A government panel on measures to tackle climate change approved on Friday a new goal to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 3.8 percent by 2020 from the 2005 level. . . Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he is sure that Japan can substantially contribute to global efforts to tackle climate change. The government will steadily implement necessary measures to achieve the new emissions reduction target, he said. The new goal means a setback from the target of reducing emissions... more »

Hellzapoppin?

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 38 minutes ago
With visions of stagnant swamps and bubble economies dancing in my head after reading Paul Krugman's column, I wonder if this morning's newsis indicative of the next toxic carbuncle fixing to pop any minute now, spreading its poison all over the globe: In early trading, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index *crossed the 1,800-point mark* for the first time, and the Dow Jones industrial average *surpassed 16,000 points for the first time*. By midmorning, the S.&P. was flat, at 1,798.46 points; the Dow was up 0.3 percent, at 16,003.86; and the Nasdaq composite was off 0.1 percent, at 3... more »

INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABUSE NETWORK?

Anon at aangirfan - 56 minutes ago
* Eric Dejaeger* While Eric Dejaeger was a priest in the community of Igloolik in Canada, between 1978 and 1982, he allegedly had sex with a large number of Inuit children. In 1995, the Canadian authorities knew of Dejaeger's alleged crimes but reportedly allowed him to escape from Canada to his native Belgium just days before he was due to stand trial. In 1990, Dejaeger had been briefly jailed on separate charges of sexually molesting children in Baker Lake. *Canada let priest Eric Dejaeger flee to Belgium amid sex abuse charges: Official* Georges Vervust is the top official wi... more »

Toronto Council Cannot Remove Statutory Powers of the Mayor

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 59 minutes ago
News reports suggest that today's motion will seek to remove all of Mayor Ford's remaining powers. If that is, in fact, the proposal, then Mayor Ford has a Christmas in November situation. The City of Toronto is a statutory body. It is created by Provincial Legislation and cannot exceed the jurisdiction granted by statute. And powers given by statute to the Mayor cannot be removed by the City. Any attempt to remove statutory powers is simply illegal. Story

Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster November 16 , 2013 and Weekend Updates - Top news item in possible start of fuel rod removal at the Spent Fuel Pool ( Reactor Building 4 ) .... New Details released revealing damage at Reactor Building 1 ....... Healths effects hidden by Japan , radiation plumes and health effects on animal life in North American appearing in the West .....

Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
EX SKF.... SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2013 #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: TEPCO Admits Total 80 Spent Fuel Assemblies Had Damages Before the Nuclear Accident, 70 of Them in Reactor 1 Spent Fuel Pool Move over, three fuel assemblies with damaged/deformed fuel rods inside in the Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool! You're nothing. According to Kahoku Shinpo, a Fukushima local paper, TEPCO admitted on November 15, 2013 that *there are 70 fuel assemblies with damaged fuel rods in the Reactor 1 Spent Fuel Pool*, located on the operating floor (top floor) of the reactor building whose air radiation levels ... more »

No THB2 ... At Least for Now

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 hour ago
Not long ago I mentioned on this blog I that I had set to work on an 2nd edition of *The Honest Broker, *my 2007 book with Cambridge University Press After a lot of work and thought I've decided at this point not to press forward with it, for two reasons. One is that after going through the first five chapters I made a few revisions, but mostly very small and very nuanced. I actually really like these chapters as they are. The second is that getting into further details on each of the four ideal types (well, five) means ... getting into the details. I have a lot of interesting mat... more »

Argentina: UFO Sightings are Ongoing in Victoria

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 hour ago
*Source: www.diariovictoria.com.arDate: 11.14.13* *Argentina: UFO Sightings are Ongoing in Victoria* Victoria is a city in [the province of Entre Rios] that stands out for its single-storey houses, its artistic grillwork and their narrow streets laid out in the classic Spanish style. It is also famous for another reason: UFO sightings. This is how Silvia Perez Simondini "discovered" it after seeing an article published in the Clarin newspaper, which made her feel Victoria was her rightful place in the world. "I was living very well in a *petit hotel*l in Villa Devoto, Capital Fe... more »

The Grit-sters Have a New Guru without CIA Connections

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
With the spook-ish Dr. Seligman too scary to mention in contexts involving children, his longtime disciple, Angela Duckworth, does not even mention Seligman in her mini-TED talk that CorpEd is pumping this week on HuffPo's education page. Seligman's work with the CIA as an expert on learned helplessness, and then his work with the Pentagon on how to teach the joys of positive psychology to Iraq vets with PTSD, have made the mention of his name within the chain gang charter movement out of bounds. The new guru in town is Carol Dweck, who is given the credit for grounding Angel Duckw... more »

Demography 20: Presentation at ILS, DOLE, on Population and Growth

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 hour ago
Yesterday, I was one of three speakers in a forum by the Institute for Labor Studies (ILS) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on "From Challenges to Dividents: A New and Healthy Discourse on Gender, Employment, Population and Development" held at The Bayleaf Hotel, Intramuros, Manila. Special thanks to a friend, Bryan Balco, focal point person of ILS on Gender and Development (GAD), for inviting me. The two other speakers were Dr. Juan Antonio Perez, Executive Director of the Commission on Population (PopCom), and Dr. Ramon Benedicto Marcelino, Director for Research, ... more »

Peru: UFO Visible in the Sky over Ica for Two Hours

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 hours ago
*Source: ASTROUFO and Planeta UFODate: 11.14.13* *PERU: UFO Visible in the Sky over Ica for Two Hours* An unidentified flying object remained visible in the skies over Ica (Peru) for at least two hours on Sunday afternoon, 10 November 2013. The first sighting of the object took place at 12:45 pm from the San Juan Bautista sector, where it was seen moving for a few minutes while making changes in its shape, following a constant pattern: sphere, tube, diagonal shape and "old telephone receiver" shape. The white-colored object displayed an intense glow at all times, perhaps a result... more »

Turkey’s Changing Stance Towards Iraq’s Kurds, An Interview With Lehigh Prof Henri Barkey

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago
In just the last few years Turkey’s policy towards Iraq has gone through a dramatic transformation. For decades, Ankara was opposed to any form of autonomy or independence for Iraq’s Kurds, while it denied rights to its own Kurdish population, and fought a long insurgency led by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Since the second term of Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), that has begun to change. Turkey now stands as the largest investor in the Kurdistan region, it has become one of the main backers of Kurdish President Ma... more »

Yuck! Another Foul Odour Is Coming From The PMO .. This One Smells Like Robo-Calls Coverup

leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago
*"At the same time as some Conservative party staffers allege meeting with Michael Sona and reporting that he told them of his involvement in the robocalls controversy in the riding of Guelph, travel records show that Sona was vacationing on the island of Aruba. Sona is charged with violating the Elections Act in a controversy stemming from the 2011 election wherein robocalls directed voters to the wrong polling stations.[...] Elections Canada has heard complaints of dirty tricks in the 2011 election from over 200 ridings. Many of the grievances don’t amount to much, sources say, ... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Saints' faith in Garrett Hartley pays off ~Mike Triplett, ESPN* *Plaquemines seeks optimum shoreline options ~Amy Wold, The Advocate* *TUCP Direction Presents: A Lecture by Angela Davis * *Tornadoes rip through Midwest, killing 6 and devastating neighborhoods ~CNN* *Doris Metropolitan: International Steakhouse Opens in French Quarter ~M.D. Dupuy, NOLA DEFENDER*

Tartarstan

Paul Coker at News Spike - 3 hours ago
*"What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" * *- Zbignew Brezynski, * *La Monde, 1998 * The Republic of Tartarstan lies on the banks of the Volga. *Right near all the oil Hitler was trying to get to in 1942.* *"If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must liquidate this war."* *—Adolf Hitler* *“One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you... more »

LOOKING BACK AT DRONE CONFERENCE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago
- I am heading home after the weekend drone conference here in DC. Yesterday I spoke in a workshop along with David Swanson and Clare Hanrahan who I've know since my Florida days. Clare is doing some great organizing in the south educating people about the environmental impact of military production sites across the region. - During my time in the workshop I talked about how space technology coordinates all Pentagon warfare these days. I read the words of former Air Force Maj. Gen. James Poss (he helped oversee the Predator drone's development) who... more »

Standing In The Way Of History Is Often Fatal-- As Both Republicans And Conservative Democrats Are About To Find Out

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
The Republican Party, particularly the congressional wing, has one issue they're gearing up for the midterms: Obamacare. After doing everything in their power to sabotage it, from inception to roll out, the, Republicans want to focus all their attention on howling about what a failure it is. But are people buying their message? Over the weekend we saw how a Republican primary in northeast Louisiana resulted in a loss for the Establishment, party-line candidate and a win for a candidate who ran explicitly on expanding Medicaid for working families. That doesn't fit the GOP narrativ... more »

Ripples: Your Daily Howler keeps getting results!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013* *To his credit, Bill Keller backs down:* Incomparably, your Daily Howler just keeps getting results! This morning, right there in the New York Times, Bill Keller starts backing down: KELLER (11/18/13): *The decline of our education system is exaggerated* but real, especially in the scientific and technical fields. Say what? “The decline of our education system is exaggerated?” Where in the world did *that* come from? Back in August, Keller was saying this about our K-12 schools. His column that day concerned the new Common Core: KELLER (8/19/13): Thi... more »

Brady disclosure

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
*Brady v. Maryland*, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) holds that withholding exculpatory evidence violates due process "where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment". This is similar but arguably more limited than the Canadian position. In Canada all material evidence (subject to privilege) held by the prosecution must be disclosed. In America request for disclosure is (usually) required. A defendant's request for "*Brady *disclosure" requires the prosecution to disclose material exculpatory evidence to the defense. Exculpatory evidence is "material" if "there is a re... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Jamie Moyer, 51. I'm obviously not alone in this, but he was my guy: the last player older than me in the majors. Or anywhere in organized ball, as far as I know. Ah well. My cohort was obviously pretty lucky in that respect. A wonderful career. Good stuff: 1. As one who agrees with the courts that partisan gerrymandering is kosher by the Constitution, I nevertheless agree very much with Rick Hasen about voter suppression and the Constitution. That is, courts "should hold that when a state passes a law that burdens voters, it must demonstrate, with credible eviden... more »

Mixing Scholarly with Blogging Identities

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 4 hours ago
[Note: This is a guest post from Mira Sucharov and Brent E. Sasley. Mira Sucharov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She blogs at Haaretz.com and at Open Zion. Follow her on Twitter. Brent Sasley is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Continue reading

Watch "CAMERA Video Brief Exposes Economist and al Jazeera Anti-Israel Bias" on YouTube

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-XYV43ddBc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The Facts Are Catching Up With Them

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
Haroon Siddiqui writes that, in the end, buffoonery won't bring Rob Ford and Stephen Harper down. Eventually, the truth that they are not who they say they are will catch up with them: Both play the outsider. Harper of Etobicoke, pretending to be a Calgarian, says he “didn’t go to Ottawa to join private clubs or become part of some elite.” He’s there only to take on the civil servants, “the courts,” the “union bosses,” the media, etc. Ford, a fellow-Etobian, is “watching every dime” at City Hall, taking on lazy unionized workers and the media “maggots.” But his claim of havin... more »

TRIBE AND RACE: Race-fueled street fight on the left!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago
*MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013* *Part 1—Perlstein belittles Winfrey:* Last week, historian Rick Perlstein took out the knives in a street fight he launched against Oprah Winfrey. Or did he? This street fight, which we have imagined, concerns the role played by race in the denigration of President Obama. In the course of disagreeing with Winfrey’s view, Perlstein displayed his rather obvious sense of white privilege. Or at least, a person could *say* that he did! In a lusty, name-calling piece at The Nation, Perlstein claimed that the tea party is just the latest example of a well-know... more »

Tepco commences fuel rod assembly removal at the Spent Fuel Pool - Building 4 ! Keep your fingers crossed that Tepco pulls this off safely - also keep in mind the overall operation will take a year ! Highlights on the Fukushima ongoing nuclear debacle from Energy News !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Fukushima operators begin risky nuclear fuel rod removal Published time: November 18, 2013 09:00 Edited time: November 18, 2013 10:40 Get short URL [image: This handout picture taken by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) on November 18, 2013 shows a cask (C) of nuclear fuel being lifted and moved by TEPCO workers as TEPCO started operations to remove fuel rods from a pool at the unit four reactor building of TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma in Fukushima prefecture (AFP Photo)] This handout picture taken by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) on November 18, 2013... more »

Hope the tree doesn't blow over!!!

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

Fukushima- Dangerous fuel rod removal begins

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago
Links for information can be found at the end of the post The decades-long decommissioning process at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant is about to take what Tokyo Electric Power Co. says is “an important step,” as the utility starts removing fuel rod assemblies from the spent fuel pool high up in reactor building 4 . *“Usually, spent fuel rods are safely stored in sturdy reactor buildings, but reactor building 4 experienced a hydrogen explosion, so it has lost its full containment capability,”* said Kiyoshi Takasaka, an adviser on nuclear issues to Fukushima Prefecture. *The hyd... more »

BitCoin crosses 600 this morning - shortly before a Senate Hearing on BitCoin .... between China allowing BitCoin for Real Estate transactions and friendly noises coming from US agencies such as the Department of Justice and SEC , we may be entering a blowoff phase for BitCoin !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Bitcoin Soars Above $600: Rises 20% In One Day Ahead Of Senate Hearing [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/18/2013 07:57 -0500 - Bear Market - Bitcoin - China - Department of Justice - NASDAQ - Real estate - Securities and Exchange Commission - Yuan inShare While the relentless multiple expansion (if not so much earnings growth and certainly not revenue contraction) looks set to push all three main stock indices over the key psychological levels of 16000, 1800 and 4000, with the all time bubble high on the Nasdaq in... more »

Annie Machon on Edward Snowden | London Real

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours ago
*16 Oktober 2013* Annie Machon is a Former MI5 Intelligence Officer turned Whistleblower and now a writer, commentator and public speaker on issues like the war on terrorism, the war on drugs, and the war on the internet. She is also a director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). *http://anniemachon.ch/* Add caption

Another windy day

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago
It's easy to forget the weather especially in Southern Ontario. (Nunavut is another story). But last night, taking shelter by the indoor pool of a hotel, as tornadoes moved through the area I was forcibly reminded of the nature and danger of storms!

Ir wasn't just Barack Hussein Obama who lied, Hillary Rodham Clinton did too

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours ago
'In 2007, campaigning in Iowa, Clinton like Obama, promised Americans that if they liked their plans they could keep them. Clinton, also like Obama, left out the fine print that her plan had a provision similar to Obamacare which would have kicked millions off of their own insurance plans.' For when Hillary Clinton becomes the next saviour of the United States and the media (including the BBC) get right behind her after all the USA has never had a woman President.

The expansion is accelerating due to negative enough pressure

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago
*...no strings attached...* In recent years, I got used to the fact that Sean Carroll is confused about some very basic physics – the postulates of quantum mechanics as well as thermodynamics (and the very basic insight due to Boltzmann and others that its laws are microscopically explained by statistical physics and not, for example, by cosmology). And I won't even threaten your stomach by memories of the Boltzmann brains, doomsdays, and similar delusions. But I thought he could rationally think at least about classical general relativity. His book was pretty good, I thought, altho... more »

the War On You by Corporate Initiative NG/152-XXX - it's not what you 'discover'

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 10 hours ago
there's been a helluva lot of distractionary material out there on the internet of late relating to SURVEILLANCE, ooh the big Stasi-like bogey man. Is it fair to say that in a Corporate War situation with Stasi-like Full Dominance Surveillance/Hacking, Advanced Interrogation Techniques, Weather Weapons, Metering, Top Six (Energy, Media, Defence) Companies Monopolising and The Rules of Corporate Take-over applied to each and every 'competitor' in their war i.e. You The Individual. Isn't it ture that cyber-attack-sponsored Corporate War is an Ugly Game that is NDA'd beyond the moral c... more »

Liz Cheney-- Rotten To The Core

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Dick Cheney with a blond wig-- and rabies I've been savoring every moment of Barton Gellman's book on how Cheney took over the Bush presidency, Angler and I recommend it highly. (You can buy at at the link in the last sentence, which goes right to the *DWT Book Store*. Gellman begins his book with how Cheney systematically fucked over all the legitimate Republican choices for vice president, one after the other. Laytre he had an army of henchmen but that early in his career of evil he counted on the rotten daughter, Liz, the one running for the U.S. Senate against Wyoming conservativ... more »

Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Briogeo

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours ago
Welcome to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our green community. [image: A link-up for green blogs on Reduce Footprints Blog] Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site:
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Descarga esta bonita postal navideña y compártela con tus amigos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 13 hours ago
[image: Imagenes Gratis para Navidad y Año Nuevo 2014]

Cascada del paraíso - Paradise waterfall

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 13 hours ago

Paisaje natural, el lago y la comunidad rural...

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 13 hours ago

Miradas en el bosque Great Otway, Victoria, Australia.

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 13 hours ago

Christy Clark`s Preposterous LNG Fantasy, Equity Partner Edition

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 14 hours ago
Earlier this year Petronas, the Malaysian Government`s state owned energy company surprised Stephen Harper and definitely caught him off guard when they announced this...... ___________ *"Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas plans to spend $35 billion to develop shale gas assets in Canada and build a liquefied natural gas(LNG) export terminal linking the country to energy hungry Asian markets, company officials said.* *The estimate is $15 billion higher than the figure previously announced, since it includes costs associated with drilling wells in British Columbia and taking over... more »

What Would Plato Say About, For Example, Cutting Food Stamps?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
The Republican position on food stamps is to cut the program back by $40 billion. If the U.S. had a political party that represented working families instead of just wealthy campaign donors, it's position would be to raise taxes on multi-millionaires to stimulate the economy and get people off food stamps by providing a vibrant economy that creates jobs. Instead, we have a Wall Street-dependent Democratic Party who's response to the Republican demands is to offer a smaller number of billions in cuts. A compromise will ruin the lives of thousands of struggling families, already vic... more »

OUR SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 16 hours ago
From Moyers & Company: Have you ever dreamed of quitting your day job to work on something you really believed in? That’s exactly what this week’s guests, Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers, did when they left their careers behind as medical doctors. Both saw that holding political office largely depended on how much money you have, which in turn enabled injustices to be fashioned into law and public policy. Outraged and angry, they decided to stand up and take action. “When people ask me ‘what kind of medicine are you practicing?’ I usually say, ‘I’m practicing political medicine b... more »

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mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 16 hours ago
*EVIDENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF SNAKES* Snakes belong to the suborder *Serpentes* in the order *Squamata* (the scaled reptiles). There has been a considerable controversy over their evolutionary origin. The two basic theories are 1)they evolved from terrestrial burrowing reptiles and 2)that they evolved from aquatic reptiles and are closely related to the extinct mosasaurs. In both cases the loss of the legs would aid rather than inhibit mobility. The paleontological evidence is equivocal. In 1997 Michael Caldwell of the University of Edmonton reported a 100-million-year-old fos... more »

Supai Waters 'Stories to appease the opposing'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Havasuapi Supai Waters/Photo Dawn Dyer Front line appeasements By Supai Waters Damon Watahomigie Censored New Here are the stories  to appease the opposing. When in any direction given for you to travel and seek solitude, to look for and protect the sacred and the holy, there you meet confrontation which can be, and will be, the tricksters at play.  Then and there in those moments of

New Mexico Grad Requirements Mean Trouble

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago
Just in time for high school juniors and seniors to give thanks for all that Hanna Skandera has given them (headaches, stress, prescriptions for anti-migraine medications), the New Mexico Public [sic] Education Department has released its final version of the requirements needed to graduate with a diploma. This is great news! It means that the […]

Kissinger vs. LaRouche - Is Nancy Kissinger a Pædophile Beard?

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
Get Kissinger! On February 7, 1982, two LaRouchians met the Devil, not in a graveyard at midnight, but in the well-lit terminal at Newark International Airport. They abandoned their literature table and rushed to exorcise him with a barrage of hostile questions. "Jesus Christ," muttered Dr. Henry Kissinger, their longtime hate figure. He and his wife, Nancy, kept walking toward the boarding area, en route to Boston, where he was scheduled to undergo triple-bypass heart surgery. "Dr. Kissinger," shouted twenty-eight-year-old Ellen Kaplan, "is it true that you sleep with young boys... more »

ISRAEL GETTING READY TO STRIKE IRAN

Netanyahu is becoming increasingly desperate to start his war against Iran. According to a report in *Haaretz* citing a report in Britain’s *Sunday Times*, Saudi Arabia has offered help to Israel in order to facilitate an attack against Iran. According to the report, Saudi Arabia will allow Israeli strike aircraft to transit Saudi airspace in order to reach targets in Iran. Saudi Arabia will also allow refuelling tanker aircraft, drones and rescue helicopters to be in Saudi airspace. According to another report, Yaakov Amidror, who only recently left his position as Israel’s nationa... more »

Her Grace

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
Pat Storey, Bishop of Meath and Kildare Well, not quite good night... Returning to this week's edition of *Sunday*, the programme dealt yet again with the issue of women bishops within the Anglican communion. Another vote at synod will take place this week and the programme readied us for a discussion on the subject between a supporter and an opponent. Unfortunately, the opponent of women bishops had got "lost" on the way to the studio, so we were left (at no fault of the programme's) with just the pro-women-bishops guest. Edward Stourton suggested she might be less forthright in... more »

Guest Post by Joseph Rella: A letter to @arneduncan

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
Secretary Arne Duncan U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue,SW Washington, D.C. 20202 Dear Secretary Duncan: My name is Joseph Rella. I am the Superintendent of Schools in the Comsewogue SchoolDistrict located in Port Jefferson Station, New York. I am writing to you as a non-white surburban mother to express my deep concern over recent comment that you made regardingcriticism […]

"England's funniest joke"

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
Now, some at *Biased BBC *suspect the aforementioned Tom of being a hoax - which after I've forced some of you to scroll so far down the blog to get to the next-but-one post might seem a little annoying, if true... ...which, of course, would call for a joke. So here's one voted the funniest in England by the University of Hertfordshire (which is a real university for sure): Two men are sitting on a bar stool. One starts to insult the other one. He screams, “I slept with your mother!” The bar gets quiet as everyone listens to see what the other man will do. The first again yells, ... more »

Quebec and the NDP #Fail

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago
It seems the NDP leader has said he will "wipe the floor" with Justin Trudeau. Why? Because the Liberal leader holds to the Clarity Act and says Quebec cannot leave Canada without a clear question and a clear majority on a referendum. The NDP says 50% plus one will do. I was impressed with Tom Mulcair. But not here. 50% plus one is not what the Constitution says but more it suggests Canada would abandon Anglo Federalists and the semi autonomous region of Nunavik. Unless these groups also seek separation to say 50% plus one is a betrayal of English speakers and Inuit. I app... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours ago
What's the underreported Obama Administration success? What's the underreported Obama Administration failure?

Sunday Classics: Wotan's bad behavior goes back even before the carving of the spear

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
*1st NORN*: At the World-Ash-tree once I wove, when fair and green there grew from its branches verdant and shady leaves. Those cooling shadows sheltered a spring; wisdom's voice I heard in its waves; I sang my holy song. A valiant god came to drink at the spring; and the price he had to pay was the loss of an eye. From the World-Ash-tree mighty Wotan broke a branch. and his spear was shaped from the branch he tore from the tree. As year succeeded year, the sound slowly weakened the tree; dry, leafless, and barren -- death seized on the tree; whisper waters then failed in the spring; grie... more »

Perhaps the only thing proven by @arneduncan’s latest flub…

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago
… is that he’s really an idiot without the skills and expertise to really understand what it is that he’s supposed to be doing. That is all. Tagged: arne duncan, secretary of education

Rob Ford spoofed on late night shows

LeDaro at LeDaro - 20 hours ago
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Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours ago
When, if ever, do you think a significant number of (elected) Democrats will turn against the ACA? Between now and 2014? After the 2014 elections? After the 2016 elections?

Turkey confronts policy missteps on Syria

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 20 hours ago
*It appears the the tide is turning..... on Turkey* A group affiliated with al-Qaeda controls the road leading south into Syria from this key border crossing on the front line of the debacle that Turkey’s Syria policy has become. For more than a year,* Turkey turned a blind eye as thousands of foreign volunteers from across the Muslim world streamed through the country en route to fight alongside Syria’s rebels, perhaps calculating that the fighters would help accelerate President Bashar al-Assad’s demise.* Now the extremists whose ranks the foreigners swelled are gaining ascenda... more »

On another BBC-bias-related blog

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
Oh dear, it's "Blimey-this-is-long,-and-I-ain't-gonna-read-it" time again... But, go on, go on, go on (as Mrs Doyle would say), give it a read. It will only take you ten minutes! (Think of it as being just two ad breaks in the middle of *I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!*). There's a typically lively and interesting exchange going on over at *Biased BBC* at the moment between Tom and many of the regulars at* B-BBC. *As all engaging blog exchanges (ideally) should, it's got me thinking. So I'll share my thoughts with you here. Tom, new to commenting at *Biased BBC*, has started ... more »

Could November 22 , 2013 be another infamous date in History ? On the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy - as we hear endlessly about that , some things pop out........ While President Obama will not be in Dallas on November 22, 2013 , his schedule does note the he will host the King of Morocco at the White House .......Coincidences in November ( White House Down released November 5th / White House Tours resumed November 5th / FBI weapons theft November 8th Secret Service Shake up November 13th ) We can see Obama's poll number are falling swiftly..... ObamaCare a disaster and getting more confused by the day ..... Foreign policy embarrassments multiplying like Tribbles on Star Trek ........ Confidence in Obama both home and internationally has never been lower and trend is for that to worsen ........One has to ask , might a stunt be in order to help revive a flailing second term ? Might a tragci event be ordered up to rescue a flailing agenda ? Fair questions considering the times we find ourselves in ......

Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/11/16/obamas-clintons-to-lay-wreath-at-jfks-grave-in-50-year-remembrance/ ( High profile outdoor event.... something to keep an eye on..... ) Obamas, Clintons to lay wreath at JFK’s grave in 50-year remembrance [image: Flowers are left at the memorial for U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Hyannis, Massachusetts November 14, 2013. November 22 will mark the 50th anniversary of his assassination in 1963. Credit: Reuters] President Barack Obama will join former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday in a wrea... more »

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 22 hours ago
the artifacts

Doing the DOO

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 23 hours ago
Establishment Dems, no longer quaking and quivering before the Republicans' Keep Your Plan bill, were making the rounds of the Sunday shows hurling their own DOO (Defense Of Obamacare) at the naysayers. It was not easy. Martha Raddatz of ABC-Disney wanted to talk about Kirsten Gillibrand's presidential plans, and Kirsten Gillibrand wanted to talk about her trip to the E.R. with her asthmatic son. Raddatz was all about Obama's suffering numbers instead of actual suffering people. Gillibrand wanted to talk about poor moms with sick kids. Martha Raddatz is a rich mom with insured kids,... more »

Despite invasive NSA spying , once again we see they fail to prevent an attack - this time Anonymous hacked US Government sites for a year !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/16/anonymous-fbi ( Wonder why NSA failed to detect and stop this quickly , this with all of their surveillance ? ) FBI warns that Anonymous has hacked US government sites for a year Official memo says that activist collective launched a rash of electronic break-ins beginning last December - Share1687 - - - - inShare54 - Email - Reuters - - theguardian.com, Saturday 16 November 2013 12.07 EST - Jump to comments (387) [image: Anonymous] Campaigners say the Anonymous attacks were in retaliation for overze... more »

Some Kids “Aren’t Brilliant”? This Duncan Blunder Is Bigger Than It First Appears

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
In May 2010, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the first annual “Mom Congress” at Georgetown University. Duncan’s goal, as reported on the USDOE website, was “to discuss how to effect meaningful change in American education and to mobilize millions of parents to become more involved in their children’s learning.” [Emphasis added.] Duncan wants […]

Pop icons...

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 23 hours ago
Five hilarious years, blogging with my virtual roomie fern hill. Time flies when you're having fun deriding venal right wing nut jobs, fundamentalist religious zealots, and vapid political ideologues of all stripe. The video above captures something of the flavour of our dynamic interaction, I think. Happy Birthday to DAMMIT JANET!

The Once and Future World

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 23 hours ago
J. B. MacKinnon grew up on the edge of a Canadian prairie. “I knew the prairie in the hands-in-every-crevice detail that only a child can, and it was, for me, a place of magic.” He developed a healthy relationship with the living ecosystem, an experience that is no longer ordinary. Years later, as an adult, he returned to visit home, and his sacred prairie had been erased by the Royal Heights subdivision. He could find no trace of the red foxes that he had loved so much. It hurt. By and by, curiosity inspired him to spend some time studying books about the days of yesteryear. ... more »

DARK SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL TOUCHES FUKUSHIMA / IT'S TIME FOR ACTION

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 23 hours ago
*To fully understand the current folly and cover-up of Fukushima, you must understand the same folly, cover-up and consequences of Chernobyl in 1987 and recognize that this time we may not outlive the consequences. It's time now for populist direct action and Germany is a stunning blueprint for the success of that process: Allen L Roland* *I thought Chernobyl was bad, until I saw this:* Here's a time lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions that have taken place between 1945 to1998. It starts slowly but skip to 1962 and the buildup becomes overwhelming before the ... more »

Duck Dynasty Beats Cantor And Boehner In Louisiana Congressional Race

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
People pay less attention to politics in one-party states. And with the decline of the Louisiana Democratic Party following the 1964 Civil Rights bill, that state has become more and more of a right-wing Republican bastion. African Americans dominate one (of 6) congressional districts, LA-02, basically New Orleans and the black neighborhoods on the north side of Baton Rouge, 80 miles away. That shockingly gerrymandered district attempts to pack as many African-Americans (and Democrats) into one district as possible and it is 63% African American (the state is 32% African American... more »

What "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" was JFK referring to?

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
During a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City in 1961, President John F. Kennedy described a *"monolithic and ruthless conspiracy"* opposing the United States. President Kennedy had some extremely profound things to say during this speech, entitled *"The President and the Press,"* including the proper role of the news media and the precise purpose of the First Amendment, *which I briefly discussed this past Friday in a blog post*. But what *"monolithic and ruthless conspiracy"* was President Kennedy referring to? L... more »

Mount Etna in Sicily Eruption on 17 November 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
*Published on Nov 17, 2013* Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, erupted on Saturday. The eruption shot up a towering column of ash and fire to light up the night sky over much of eastern Sicily. Several inhabited villages dot the mountain's slopes. The latest lava flow didn't endanger any houses, and no evacuation was ordered. Etna erupts occasionally, its last major eruption occurred in 1992.

Foreign Donations and Customs Bureaucracy

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
This is from a friend, JB Baylon of the I Am PGH (Person Giving Hope) Foundation. He posted this yesterday in his fb wall, about the Customs bureaucracy even for donations to victims of typhoon Haiyan. *EXTRAORDINARY CONDITIONS REQUIRE EXTRAORDINARY RULES. I just saw an email exchange between Gil Santos and someone based in Guam about an aborted effort to donate used X-ray equipment and other supplies from the US, aborted because Customs officials are allegedly assessing each of the four 40-foot containers $12,500.This reminds me of a story of a ship laden with used ho... more »
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