Sunday, December 22, 2013

22 Dec - Blogs I'm Following II

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Lamar W. Hankins : Opportunist Narvaiz Takes On Doggett Again in Gerrymandered 35th

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 minutes ago
Congressional candidate Susan Narvaiz and friend. Image from Facebook. Unsolicited advice, Dept.: A Narvaiz strategy to defeat Doggett Narvaiz is a political chameleon who says what she needs to say and does what she needs to do to protect herself from political accountability. By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / December 23, 2013 SAN MARCOS, Texas -- Three years ago, when Susan Narvaiz

Is Marriage Equality Here To Stay... In Utah?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 38 minutes ago
As soon as I had heard there was something big brewing in Utah,the first person to come to mind for an inside scoop was Ryan Combe, a progressive Democrat who ran for Congress last year. He said the day had been "shaping up to be one of the most shocking days in Utah’s political history when around 2pm a ruling from U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby made certain it would go down as the biggest day in politics that this state has ever seen." I asked him to expand on what was going on there from his own perspective and he sent me this: I had been glued to my computer all day as I ... more »

Steve Horn : Keystone XL's Houston 'Fork in the Road'

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Houston's refinery row. Image from Gulf Restoration Network / DaSmogBlog. Keystone XL fork in the road: TransCanada's Houston Lateral Pipeline Houston's LyondellBasell refinery is retooling itself for the looming feast of tar sands crude and fracked oil bounty that awaits the Houston Lateral's completion. By Steve Horn / DeSmogBlog / December 23, 2013 Only Barack Obama knows the fate of the

Lo sentimos mucho....We are very sorry

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 1 hour ago
ABOUT the missing photos... SOBRE las fotos ausentes Las fotos seran re-puestas...lo mas rapido possible... The photos will be reposted as soon as possible... Google is to Blame for uploading the photos posted here to our Cell phones La culpa la tiene Google por SUBIR las fotos puestas aqui directamente a los celulares Seed Newsvine

Gold and silver news , data ( GLD ETF sees 5.4 tons of gold added by an authorized participant - first time in many months - whom and why now , some may be wondering ) and views - December 21 , 2013 - Ed Steer's Saturday Report - with the gold and precious metal data and news updates always provided by Ed - Articles linked include Doug Noland's Friday missive and many additional thought provoking items to ponder this weekend !

Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/lawrence-williams-the-taper-china-and-gold-where-is-this-leading-us ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER There was a bit of a rally in gold during early trading in the Far East on their Friday, but by early afternoon it had petered out. The gold price didn't do much after that until the London p.m. gold fix. That rally took the gold price back above the $1,200 spot price mark. At that point, either the rally got capped, or the buyer disappeared. Gold traded flat for the remainder of the Friday session in New York. The CME recorded the low and high... more »

i hate christmas 2013: christmas in the public library

laura k at wmtc - 2 hours ago
My annual I Hate Christmas post is a mixed bag this year. Last year, I found Christmas less awful than usual, thanks to the absence of both commercial TV and my law-firm job. Those changes are permanent (at least I hope they are!), so I may never need to hide from Christmas quite as much, ever again. On the other hand, Christmas at the public library is a grand opportunity for alienation. The decorations, the displays of children's Christmas books, the Christmas-themed storytimes... and everyone thinks it's all hunky-dory, as long as we stick to Santa and ignore Jesus. No crosses a... more »

Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, "King and Queen"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Moody Blues, "King and Queen"

Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, "King and Queen"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
The Moody Blues, "King and Queen" -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLD6nPQvlZg

The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago
A great error made by those combating corporate reform is in viewing the reforms as separate and distinct one from another. I have noticed as much in discussions about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). However, the “standards” were not intended to “stand” without the entire spectrum of reforms. In fact, the power of a […]

Bitcoin news December 21 , 2013 - BTC China CEO Attempts To Calm The Bitcoin Market After RMB Deposit Shutdown .......... Going forward , one question for Bitcoin will be how do emerging countries and markets view Bitcoin - Jana survey reveals the thinking in 9 emerging markets ......Alleged Top Moderators Of Silk Road 2 Forums Arrested In Ireland, U.S. In International Sweep ...... Additional news items of note for Bitcoin !

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Taxing Bitcoin...... How Will the IRS Tax Bitcoin? *online.wsj.com / Laura Saunders / Dec. 20, 2013 7:10 p.m. ET* Despite a recent plunge, bitcoin has had a banner year. Now comes the hard part—figuring out the taxes on it. For the uninitiated, bitcoin is the most prominent of several “virtual currencies”—money that exists only online and isn’t backed by any government. Released in 2009 by an unknown person or group going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin is maintained by a decentralized network of computers, called “miners,” that process and verify transactions. As of Friday af... more »

Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Noah* OK, Chanukah came a little early this year, but for those of you who feel that special joy of giving a gift for Christmas, here be this year’s prime suggestions. Special note: I am assuming that you have already graced all of your friends with last year's Jesus Grilled Cheese-maker or Jesus Toaster. If not, the Father, Son, and Holy Toast can easily be theirs, but here are some other great gift ideas! *1. The Bathe & Brew* What do you like to do first thing when you get up each glorious day? I mean *after* that. For me, it’s take some pills, do some exercises and sit i... more »

Attention the Future your TV has arrived.

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 3 hours ago
Now thats a TV! LG 4K 105 inch Cinematic aspect display. H/T Canada Hi Fi

Turkey & Ukraine afflicted with EU/ private banking/business parasites

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
Found some interesting articles... As usual I will highlight the interesting bits. Turkey is afflicted with the same bloodsucker trying to latch itself onto the Ukraine. *The parasitic EU wants to drain all life from both nations.* *THE EU NEEDS TURKEY* But, does Turkey need or want the EU? Does the Ukraine really want or need to be part of the EU? We have some interesting parallels here- ISTANBUL —* The Turks are increasingly hubristic, and not just in the Middle East. Having seen their total G.D.P. more than double in the past decade, many Turks do not feel that they need the Eu... more »

Summer Reading

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
A few of you were distraught* that I hadn't yet posted my bookstack of holiday reading this year. So here it is, all ready for me to realise I'm going to need a bigger bag. * *Distraught,* adjective, di-ˈstrawt, from the Latin *distractus *meaning somewhere between mildly curious and hardly caring. [image: Posted with Blogsy]Posted with Blogsy Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The source of true friendship

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
H/T to Oldpharte and Globallove Think Tank

Chariots of the Gods new revelations

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 6 hours ago
Any question this depicts spacecraft? These are Mayan disks found 8o years ago. I am not totally sold on extra terrestrial. Another plausible explanation is that earth has had one or more cycles where technology surpassed our own. Thus destroying that civilization so thoroughly we only have a few artifacts remaining. H/T to American Kabuki and oldephartte(in training)

Christmas less Christian, says survey

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
Gus Van Horn spotted some more interesting polling data coming out of the States, summarised by him as "Half of Americans Have Ceased Injecting Faith into Christmas": [O]nly a little more than half [of Americans] actually regard the [Christmas] holiday primarily as a religious celebration. More than one-third say it's more a cultural holiday, a new poll from Pew Research's Religion & Public Life Policy found. This is great news from undeniably the most religious western country, and hopefully a growing cultural trend. As Gus says This calls to mind Leonard Peikoff's classic essay... more »

Fair warning!

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
For the next week, starting tomorrow, once again, Through the Scary door will be the world's BIGGEST blog. The odds are fairly good that this guy will make an appearance.

Is There Such A Thing As Too Extreme On The Right-- Or Does It Always Have To End In An Orgy Of Blood?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
If you want to find out which Senate Republicans have the most reactionary and extreme right voting records, you can access that information at ProgressivePunch. You just scroll down past the most conservative Democrats-- like Joe Donnelly, Joe Manchin, Mark Warner and Mark Pryor-- and past then garden variety conservative Republicans who are getting primaries by teabaggers, like Susan Collins, Lamar Alexander, Thad Cochran and Lindsey Graham, and you get to a land of make-believe. Past right-wing sociopaths like Ron Johnson, Richard Burr, Marco Rubio, Richard Shelby, you find the... more »

PASTOR BUM-SEX AND OIL

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
*American pastor Rick Warren embraces a young man. American pastor Rick Warren has close ties to the "kill the gays" bill supporter pastor Martin Ssempa.* An American called *Caleb Lee Brundidge* admits to having a history of being GAY. *nytimes.com*. One might assume that he may still be GAY. One might speculate that Caleb Brundidge is paid by the CIA to promote a policy of 'divide and rule' in Uganda, which has oil wealth. Caleb Brundidge is one of the American evangelical Christians who went to Uganda to back the homophobes who want gay people to be executed. In March 2009,... more »

The Poet: William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*"The Second Coming"* *․ * "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the... more »

The Axiom of the Abandoned: “I Am the Union”

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
I am pro-union. Teachers need strong representation and advocacy. But it’s broken right now. Just when I thought that the speeches and editorials from Dennis Van Roekel and Randi Weingarten were showing a turn-around back to reality, and just when I thought those two were going to start fighting for public education and their members, […]

"What Can We Know?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We Have A Moral Obligation To Fix US Inequality, Orwell Triumphs Regretted As Gov't Lies and Warrantless Wiretapping Continues, and More Cass Sunstein Legerdemain For the Unseeing Masses (Or Will It Ricochet)? Bankers Now Sitting In Barber Chair (Waiting for Trim?) Just A Quick Haircut As BoA Foreclosure Scams Revealed (Rape Victims Names Now A Commodity)

Robert Reich has a Christmas message for US. Ninety-five percent of economic gains since 2009 have gone to the 1 percent. We have a moral obligation to fix this. It’s the season to show concern for the less fortunate among us. We should also be concerned about the widening gap between the most fortunate and everyone else. the biggest lottery of all is what family we’re born into. Our life

NSA backlash hits US tech as foreign countries balk at doing businesses due to concerns of NSA spying aided by Big Tech complicity .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/encryption-companies-install.html NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors: Was the Law Broken? Did Obama Know? (By Juan Cole) Reuters gets the scoop: the National Security Agency gave internet security firm RSA some $10 million to use an NSA encryption formula in its BSafe software. RSA is now a subsidiary of the EMC corporation, and they have urged customers not to use BSafe since the revelations by Edward Snowden made clear that the NSA’s formula in fact allowed the agency access to all the information supposedly encrypted with it. T... more »

Nevando en Navidad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 10 hours ago
[image: Imagenes Gratis para Navidad y Año Nuevo 2014]Click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver toda la colección

Sovereignty 101: Installment 1 - Sea of Chains

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
You are swimming in a sea of chains. There are so many and they are so thick, you cannot tell what yours are attached to – but yes, you are shackled. It is not as if your very life depends on what’s at the end of that shackle – *it is that you believe that it does. *It is that belief that keeps you bound. Keeps you moving to wherever it drags you. Keeps you asking to be released. It is your belief that holds you, your mind that binds you. The effort to control you focuses on a constant stream of programming as well as entertainment and food, to keep you fat and happy, mesmer... more »

ObamaCare update December 21 , 2013 - Did President Obama and HHS , by partially exempting millions from the Individual Mandate unilaterally , de facto repeal the Individual Mandate for everyone ? How can the act of Insurers following the law and canceling insurance plans that were not in accord with Obamacare ( rendering millions suddenly with out insurance plans ) , be deemed an " unexpected human caused event " ? In other words , is ObamaCare itself a " hardship " and if so , what other exemptions will be bestowed on random groups / subsets of citizens by HHS as ObamaCare continues to unravel ? As the economics fall apart , what subsidies will be unilaterally given to insurers ?

Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
View from right and Left on Obama individual mandate exemption tossed out Thursday evening Leftish view..... http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obamacare-let-thirtysomethings-sign-up-for-medicare-20131220,0,5071725.story#axzz2o8H2TS6p A *real* Obamacare fix: Let thirtysomethings sign up for Medicare - [image: print] - Comments 14 - Email Share 8 - [image: Obamacare] Copies of the application and instructions for the government health insurance marketplace from the Department of Health and Human Services. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg... more »

"You Can Be Sure of It..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." "If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." - "A Farewell to Arms" ◆ Never, ever forget that nothing in this life is free. Life demands payment in some form for your "right" to express yourself, to condemn and ... more »

will you obey ?

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
obey

Black Budget:: US Govt Clueless About Missing Pentagon $Trillions

noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 11 hours ago

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours ago
Sunday, and honestly I did want to skip doing this rant for one week while I am trying to get some rest and relaxation, but what I found this last week has made me decide to absolutely not miss this one at all... First I do want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.... And yes, it is still CHRISTMAS.. Not that garbage of "Happy Holidays" that the Jewish scumbags want to permanently put in its place...I have spent enough time over the last few weeks going shopping, and everywhere I go I have been wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas"... It is so amazing the dirty looks I have received f... more »

Predictably, the Washington Post releases a major CIA story during a week when no one is paying attention

Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 11 hours ago
The best times to read the paper are Friday nights and holiday periods. That's when the more sensitive stories the CIA doesn't want you to read are often put out. It's happened over and over through history. This holiday season, the Washington Post released an important story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?wpisrc=al_national) on covert

Sunday Classics: It's "The Nutcracker" -- the whole deal! (again -- our last annual encore presentation)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
*With the "Nutcracker Suite" sequence of Disney's Fantasia now unavailable, I thought to kick off we'd just look at this little teaser from Helgi Tómasson's San Francisco Ballet staging.* *by Ken* [*To repeat, this is an "encore presentation" of last year's encore presentation of 2011's complete-Nutcracker post, which I thought came out pretty darned well. You probably think it's a huge labor-saver just running a post "rerun." Perhaps I thought so too, but it never works out that way.*] The plan is pretty simple. As promised in Friday night's preview, when we heard (once again) tw... more »

New York Times Doesn't Just Bury the Lead, They Bury the Story

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 11 hours ago
The Sunday *New York Times* has a front page story about ballooning class sizes with this headline: Subtract Teachers, Add Pupils: Math of Today’s Jammed Schools COATESVILLE, Pa. — The recession may have ended, but many of the nation’s school districts that laid off teachers and other employees to cut payrolls in leaner times have not yet replenished their ranks. Now, despite the recovery, many schools face unwieldy class sizes and a lack of specialists to help those students who struggle academically, are learning English as a second language or need extra emotional support. The ... more »

exit

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
Exit Through The Gift Shop *by AceVideos*

A Smoothie Recipe From Kids For Kids

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago
Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/KIDS-saying-NO-to-GMO-and-Monsanto/532725250123850

Quarter Four Local By-Election Results 2013

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago
Party Number of candidates Total vote % +/- Q3 Average/ contest +/- Q3 +/- Seats Conservative 72 25,133 20.3% -7.0% 349 -4 -3 Labour 63 42,668 34.5% +1.0% 677 +193 +6 LibDem 55 13,570 11% +0.6% 247 +30 0 UKIP 62 15,933 12.9% -4.0% 257 -11 0 SNP* 7 7,186 5.8% +5.8% 1,027 +1,027 -2 Plaid Cymru** 4 1,022 0.8% -0.5% 255 -290 0 Green 32 2,938 2.4% -1.5% 92 -80 0 BNP 7 348 0.3% +0.2% 50 -70 0 TUSC 13 570 0.5% -0.1% 44 -43 ... more »

Local Council By-Elections December 2013

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago
Party Number of candidates Total vote % +/- Nov Average/ contest +/- Nov +/- Seats Conservative 20 4,893 16.8% -3.7% 245 -124 -1 Labour 15 9,148 31.5% -2.7% 610 -66 0 LibDem 14 2,670 9.2% +0.0% 191 +0 0 UKIP 19 4,202 14.5% -0.3% 221 -101 0 SNP* 2 1,680 5.8% +4.5% 840 +294 0 Plaid Cymru** 2 786 2.7% +2.7% 393 +393 0 Green 8 855 2.9% +0.9% 107 +37 0 BNP 2 81 0.3% -0.1% 41 -35 0 TUSC 7 338 1.2% +0.7% 49 +7 0 Independent*** 12 3,425 11.8% +1.7% 311 -12 +1 Other***... more »

"Holocaust" satire

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago
*satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.* You may have read in some obscure part of the internet that the Holocaust of six million Jews during WWII is a hoax - it didn't happen - and that all of the heroic survivors and eye witnesses of Nazis atrocities are actually embellishing or outright fabricating their entire experience during WWII. Some even go so far as to claim that much, if not all, of the infamous photographic and video i... more »

Teens & Kids On GMOs

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours ago
https://www.facebook.com/TeensAndKidsAgainstGmo

Y'know all those "made in BC" jobs Christy Clark promised ...

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours ago
Well, the actual contract hasn't even been inked yet and Seaspan is looking offshore to fill the positions necessary for the vessels they will (supposedly) build. Seaspan is a Canadian shipbuilding firm which has recently been given a contract to build 17 ships for the Canadian Navy. Now they need skilled workers to move to Vancouver and help build the vessels – and they have got their eye on

TUDA victor go the spoils?

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
The recently published 2013 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) has received a great deal of attention, especially in regards to the District of Columbia Public Schools. Although leading education reform advocates express cautious optimism, they claim the results as “evidence” that the 2008 education reforms in D.C., vis-à-vis former DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, were, not […]

Steve's year in review

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 12 hours ago
*Person of the Year* Edward Snowden by a long shot. Will his heroic truth telling save humanity from big brother and the Man? To soon to tell but sadly it seems no. Just like every other bad thing we are forced to live with, climate change, war, banksters and invisible hands, the surveillance society is here to stay. Maybe knowing all about it will raise the collective angst to unbearable levels. Ironically the bad guys now are fully informed, so the only people caught in the net will be joe six pack citizens and their advocates, especially the advocates. *Worst Person of the Year... more »

War watch December 22 , 2013 - Pakistan Aid tied to Nato supply Routes ... Iran Sanctions battle in US set for early January , key test for not just Obama and Congress , but also the Nuclear Talks viability and AIPAC ...... Iraq death dealing report....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
Pakistan related news ...... US bill links Pakistan aid to Nato supply routes ANWAR IQBAL — File photo Published 2013-12-21 07:19:05 Share Email 5 Comment(s) Print WASHINGTON: The US Congress has passed a $552 billion defence authorisation bill for 2014, which also calls for stopping reimbursements to Pakistan if ground supply routes to Afghanistan are interrupted. The bill provides $80.7bn for operations in Afghanistan and $1.5bn for reimbursements to Pakistan in 2014, when the United States plans to withdraw most of its combat troops from the region. The bill is now at the White ... more »

The Memphis Hopson Hustle

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
Unless the public stops the corrupt capitulation by Memphis politicians to the Gates agenda for privatizing American schools, the children of Memphis will soon become the educational property of corporate charter schools that receive public money to subject the poorest children to their cultural and behavioral neutering programs. Here is a telling chunk of a piece on the developments in New Orleans, whose Recovery School District was the model used Tennessee's Tea Party hustlers: . . . . Of the 89 public schools in New Orleans, only five will not be charters next fall, all under th... more »

Our last show of 2013, DC mayoral candidate joins us At the Chalk Face

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
I attended a forum sponsored by the Washington Teacher’s Union on December 9th, which was part of a larger national day of action for AFT affiliations to reclaim public education. Candidates for DC mayor showed up to answer some questions on education posed by the President of the WTU. I was particularly impressed by the […]

Kindergarten and the #commoncore @dianeravitch

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
Some pretty emotional comments were posted to Diane Ravitch’s blog recently from Kindergarten teachers about how they’re teaching was forcefully changed by the Common Core. And by forcefully, I mean that new rounds of observation by new evaluators compel teachers to adjust their instruction in very negative ways. Two points. One, I do sympathize with […]

Battling Education Reform: In the End it must be a “calling.”

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
I am the “new” Dean of a School of Education at a Catholic College in the Midwest. One of the major reasons I was attracted to this position was the prominence of the college’s Dominican values (Truth, Justice, Compassion, Partnership, and Community). Think about it. If a college was committed to these values what would […]

I Don’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
I Don\’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students. via I Don’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students.

Bloated Military Budget Passes-- Here's One The GOP Didn't Filibuster

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
Thursday night, just before midnight, the Senate approved the Pentagon Budget 84-15. Disappointingly, only three Senate Democrats had the guts to vote NO, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden. In the video above, Bernie explains to his colleagues why had decided to vote against it. It's worth watching. The only Republicans who voted against it are just the regular extremists who oppose everything that Obama backs, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Tom Coburn, etc. In his speech Bernie quoted from President Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" speech on April 16... more »

Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis. via Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis.

Musical Interlude: Mary Hopkins,"Those Were The Days"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*For you, little Turtle, and all the great things we would do...* *"Those Were The Days" * by Mary Hopkins "Once upon a time, there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours, Think of all the great things we would do Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we'd choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way Di di di di di di Di di di di di di Di di di di di di di di di di Then, the busy years went rushing by us We lost our starry noti... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*James Gill: It’s official: Louisiana is a ‘hell-hole’ ~New Orleas Advocate* *New Orleans apartment market surges ~Daily Comet* *Employment, wages mostly flat in Louisiana ~AP* * Fats Domino named Honorary Grand Marshal of Krewe of Orpheus ~WVUE*

Review of the Basics: Everything You Need to Know about "money" & "governments"

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 15 hours ago
Today my friends, we are doing a review of the basics of what we know about "Money" "Banking" "Currency" and "Value". None of what I'm posting here will come as a surprise to the regular readers of RTS- this is all information that I've been discussing for a long time now. I am putting out this review because as Maloney in this first video states, it is KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING that is the first step to kNOWing and CHANGING- not just the system itself, but changing OURSELVES and WAKING UP and BEing the Change we wish to see in this world..... and beyond. It is only by kNOWi... more »

Good morning!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago

Links.... alas, too busy to blog

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago
*Had a lot of fun riding down to the Chiayi HSR today. We played follow the HSR line through the farm tracks in southern Yunlin county. Forgot that there are only a couple of bridges across the river into Chiayi. Ended up taking the new tourism bridge in Beigang...with that chilly north wind at our backs, riding was easy. * Too busy to blog today..... *Daily Links*: - Why doesn't anyone care about rising US-China tension? - Latest in the MaWangMess: lesser prosecutor falls victim to influence peddling accusations, which legislators from both major parties argues is t... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 16 hours ago
Happy holidays to everyone.
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