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Description: Newspaper clipping USA, Woodrow Wilson signs creation of the Federal Reserve. Source: Date: 24 December 1913 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Official picture of Janet Yellen from FRBSF web site. http://www.frbsf.org/federalreserve/people/officers/yellen.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Gold and silver report December 8 , 2013 - China continues to devour gold and the West continues to send its gold to the East and middle East......GLD ETf continues to be drained ( down to 835 tons ) .... Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report December 7 , 2013 ( News , data and views on or touching upon the precious metals )

Catharsis Ours - 11 minutes ago

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-08/china-october-gold-imports-surge-second-highest-ever China October Gold Imports Surge To Second Highest Ever [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/08/2013 12:18 -0500 - China - Exchange Traded Fund - Hong Kong inShare1 Overnight, China reported its biggest trade surplus in almost five years, when November net exports hit $33.8 billion, up from $31.1 billion in October, and 50% above the $21.2 billion consensus estimate. This was driven by a surge in exports which rose by 12.7% (more than the 7% ex... more »

Presaging A Take Over In India By The Right-Wing BJP, The Supreme Court Reinstates A Sick 1861 Colonial Law Against Gay Sex

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 30 minutes ago

I'm not sure if the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been officially designated a hate group, but-- despite their claims that their only interest is preventing same-sex marriage-- their president, Brian Brown was in Moscow in June testifying in the Duna against gay adoption in "countries that allow gay people to marry." Hate groups like NOM have been working in other countries to stir up hatred against the LGBT community, hatred that has often led to violence. Same with the crazy right-wing World Congress of Families in Illionois, which has been promoting international ... more »

(Sen. Warren Blows Bloomberg Frauds Away!) The Latest Salvo in the Transfer of Working Class People's Money to the 1%? (Getting A Decent Policy Under Obamacare If You're Poor? (Impossible))

CirzeatWelcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 34 minutes ago

As Cuba Gooding says in The Murder of Crows*, "If money talks, all I've heard it say is 'Goodbye!'" You'll want to watch this very short video if only for the joy of seeing one program on TV which isn't Koch-funded propaganda (or even Bloomberg's) about how we need to impoverish (starve) both the old and young now in order to assure riches for those real "entitled" (being taught to complain

Horses are Sacred, A View from Nohooka' Dine'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 48 minutes ago

Horses are Sacred A View from the Nohooka Dine' Thank you to Leland Grass for sharing with Censored News. Read online at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/191244836/Horses-are-Sacred-View-from-Nohooka-Dine Horses are Sacred, View from Nohooka Dine' posted on Scribd by brendanorrell

John Boehner: "Are you kidding me?"...(video)

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago

*No, John, we're not kidding you.* But you, quisling that you are, just made life-long enemies of the very people who have supported you. P.S. You look like a fool and the only person who has lost "all credibility" is you. Dope! *Don Bongino* has a message for you: An open letter to the establishment GOP. I am serving you with divorce papers. For those who are unaware of what happened, the establishment wing of the Party has openly declared war on the grassroots. For those who say this fight is hurting the Republican “brand” I reply; it is those on both sides of the aisle wh... more »

do you see what i see ?

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 1 hour ago

Mascota navideña con mensaje especial de Navidad

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 2 hours ago

[image: Imagenes Gratis para Navidad y Año Nuevo 2014]

President Obama nominates Stanley Fischer as Federal Reserve Vice Chair - This truly Global Bankster and the recent head of Israel Central Bank now holds the number two position at the US Fed ! With Janet Yellen allegedly an uber dove on monetary policy , how will things work with alleged monetary hawk Stanley Fischer ? So , who whispered in Obama's ear for this selection ? Just another reason not to trust the totally untrustworthy Federal Reserve Bank ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago

Obama Nominates Israeli Bankster as Federal Reserve Vice Chair - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] Stanley Fischer will guide QE Infinity along its destructive path *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com December 12, 2013 [image: Dual American-Israel citizen Stanley Fischer has sterling globalist credentials. Photo: World Forum] Dual American-Israel citizen Stanley Fischer has sterling globalist credentials. Photo: World Economic Forum The Obama adminis... more »

Bad Bear's Photos Longest Walk 4 Folsom City, Calif.

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago

Thanks to Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone Long Walker, for today's photos of the Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz walking through Folsom City, Calif. The five month walk began in Dec. on July 15, and is nearing Alcatraz. Walkers arrive on Dec. 21, with a Sovereignty Gathering on Dec. 22.

John Hodgman, from the un-chic part of Brooklyn's Park Slope, wishes his Manhattan-bound neighbors the de Blasios well

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

*"The end of the world is a little like death":* *At TEDxMidwest, 2011, self-styled "deranged millionaire" (and former "minor television personality") John Hodgman owns up that he hasn't gotten around to preparing his "go bag" for the predicted nuking of NYC, where he lives.* "Now you may say, 'That John Hodgman, he's crazy.' Yeah, that's how I *opened* this. I said I was *deranged.* [*Waving his hand dismissively*] There goes your argument there." -- *John Hodgman, on the Coming GlobalSupercollapse and Total Superpocalypse* *"[Park Slope resident John] Hodgman said [the de Blasios... more »

Obama Birth Certificate Verifier Is Lone Fatality In Small Plane Crash - amazing that things like this happen ? Wonder if she had started chirping ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago

Director Who Released Obama Birth Certificate Dies in Mystery Plane Crash - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] Long form document stoked suspicions of forgery *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com December 12, 2013 The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, which some claim was a fraudulent document, has died in an unexplained plane crash in Hawaii, it was announced today. Was Loretta Fuddy’s p... more »

Puerto Rico sees its debt placed on review to junk downgrade by Moody's - with 70 billion in debt overall and 52 billion subject to the downgrade , this could make Detroit look like a walk in the park for Bond Land.....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 3 hours ago

Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:58 AM Moody's Puts Puerto Rico on Downgrade to Junk Review Citing Very High Debt, Pension Obligations, Chronic Deficits; Exodus Underway Deficit spending and untenable pension obligations frequently go together, and always cause problems when they do. Coupled with a buildup of debt, and a very bloated public sector (which also go hand-in-hand) Puerto Rico is about to fall to junk level. Please consider Moody's puts Puerto Rico on review for downgrade. Citing Puerto Rico's weak finances and economy, Moody's Investors Service put the comm... more »

East China Sea tensions rising December 8 , 2013 - different perspectives offered....

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago

China.... http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1375702/china-confident-no-military-conflict-over-air-defence-zones China confident of no military conflict over air defence zones None of the governments involved want to risk instability in the region, analysts say, as Australia calls for a reduction in tensions PUBLISHED : Sunday, 08 December, 2013, 6:27am UPDATED : Sunday, 08 December, 2013, 6:27am Minnie Chan and Agence France-Presse Most Popular - VIEWED - SHARED - COMMENTED 1. Work and pay woes put Hong Kong residents in doldrums compared to China's cities 2... more »

LISTEN: Creepy AI Telemarketer Sounds Human, Denies Being a Robot

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 3 hours ago

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 *Activist Post* Time Magazine is investigating a healthcare telemarketing firm who has been using an amazingly realistic robot caller which seems to operate on advanced and a bit creepy artificial intelligence. The Florida firm Premier Health Plans Inc. is responsible for "employee" Samantha West heard in the exchanges below. After cleverly filibustering, she repeatedly insists she's a real person and not a robot. Listen to the newest recording below:

CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 4 hours ago

Stop wasting global resources on militarization. These precious resources are urgently needed to deal with climate change. Convert the global war machine now. Remember the seventh generation!

WHO IS WATCHING WHO?

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 4 hours ago

Congress provided the legislative vehicles for the NSA’s massive spying programs—and it’s time to roll them back. The incredible abuse of government power demonstrated by the NSA spying programs shows the grave threat that secret and unchecked government surveillance programs present to democratic freedoms. Act now to back legislation that repeals the surveillance state sections of the Patriot Act and FISA.

Physical abuse of accused to obtain confession justifies stay of proceedings

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 4 hours ago

R. v. Singh, 2013 ONCA 750: [46] Yet the police had provided no response to the testimony of the appellant and Maharaj on the stay hearing. Indeed, they have not done so to this day. The absence of any meaningful disciplinary measures is telling, in my view, because the inability or refusal of the police to muster a pointed response in the face of such unchallenged allegations of serious criminal conduct by state actors during a criminal investigation makes the case for a stay under the residual category all the more compelling. Just as the fabrication of evidence by the poli... more »

Only 32 Democrats Had The Guts To Vote No On The Ryan-Murray Budget

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago

What do you get if you cross Paul Ryan and Patty Murray? This is a budget that is profoundly against the interests of working families. It passed 332-94. 62 crazy right-wing fanatics voted against it because it wasn't harsh enough. These are the 32 Democrats who just said no: *•* Karen Bass (D-CA) *•* Judy Chu (D-CA) *•* David Cicilline (D-RI) *•* Yvette Clarke (D-NY) *•* John Conyers (D-MI) *•* Pete DeFazio (D-OR) *•* Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) *•* Keith Ellison (D-MN) *•* Lois Frankel (D-FL) *•* Marsha Fudge (D-OH) *•* Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) *•* Colleen Hanabusa (New Dem-HI) *•* Rush Holt (D-... more »

Afghanistan policy confusion involving the US hits new limbo lows - Top Officials perplexed when asked death count of Americans for 2013 and what is the cost of the War ? And then the big drop dead date of the end of December 2013 for President Karzai to sign the BSA or else --- now is not so drop dead after all ? January would be fine ( well , how about February , March or April 2014 ? ) How many times are we planning to show the world our foreign policy is toothless , incoherent and not serious ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-afghanistan-is-such-a-mess-in-two-unanswered-questions-2013-12 Why Afghanistan Is Such A Mess, In Two Unanswered Questions GEOFFREY INGERSOLL 40 MINUTES AGO 12 - - inShare - - - EMAIL - MORE [image: Dana Rohrabacher] www.youtube.com "Holy Cow!" As part of the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) asked three top officials two simple questions: How many Americans have died in Afghanistan this year? And how much is the war costing the U.S.? Awkward excuses and befud... more »

Excelentes imégenes gifs, de Santa Claus y bellas flores de Navidad

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 5 hours ago

Enough Already

Sophia LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago

You hold the keys to the kingdom. They’ve been hidden beneath layers of subservience, until now. The reason for their hiding does not matter. You’ve found them. It is upon you to remember that you hold them in your hands. There are others showing up now, making demands, attempting to push you back down, to douse your light. They are saying “We hold the keys to your freedom. Do this as we command. We will grant your release if you comply.” As the key holder, you wonder… “Who are these others, making demands?” “Why do they not show themselves?” “How is it that they hold t... more »

NEOCON GODFATHER CALLS FOR STRIKE AGAINST IRAN

Damian LataanatTelling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 5 hours ago

Norman Podhoretz, often regarded as one of the Godfathers of neoconservatism, has a piece in the *Wall Street Journal* calling for the bombing of Iran. In it he argues that the alternative is to accept that Iran will get a nuclear weapon and that it will be used against Israel despite the certainty of Israel launching a devastating retaliatory nuclear strike that would destroy Iran. He writes: *…that the prospect of being annihilated in a retaliatory nuclear strike, which had successfully deterred the Soviets and the Chinese from unleashing their own nuclear weapons during the Cold ... more »

Friday Morning Ramble: ‘’Twas the fortnight before Christmas, and all through the House…” edition

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 5 hours ago

“Parliament is full of whores … The Whore Index of New Zealand Politics simply looks at how much of a whore each party is, measured by how many dollars they spend per vote.” So which two parties are far and away the biggest whores? (Write your answer down before you click.) *The Whore Index of New Zealand Politics* – The Pitchman, WHORES & GANGSTERS “The parliamentary year ended yesterday, and so it is time for the school prizegiving.” *Of musical chairs and other absurd carryings-on* – Claire Trevett, NZ HERALD Submissions detailed in a report titled *A House Divided,* released ... more »

Best Little Drummer Boy, evah! Not to be missed!...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 6 hours ago

for your listening pleasure. *Behind the Scenes of Little Drummer Boy*

Seymour Hersh is a gritty investigative journalist of U.S. government, wars, and military intelegence who can and will explain all he has learned if asked. Amy Goodman: "In the end, President Obama chose not to strike Syria because the American people just overwhelmingly said no." Seymour Hersh responds: "He didn’t—I’m telling you, he didn’t do it because the American people said no. He knew it because he didn’t have a case. And there was incredible opposition that will be, one of these days, written about, maybe in history books. There was incredible operation from some very, very strong-minded, constitutionally minded people in the Pentagon. That’s the real story. I don’t have it; I could just tell you I know it."

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago

------------------------------ *MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013* Original Here Seymour Hersh: Obama "Cherry-Picked" Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack to Justify U.S. Strike http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/9/seymour_hersh_obama_cherry_picked_intelligence Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins us to discuss his new article casting doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the chemical attacks in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta earlie... more »

Mass Insight into Evansville: Gates, Broad, and Joyce in Indiana

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 6 hours ago

By Doug Martin The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation is fighting to keep its recently hired Boston-based Mass Insight Education turnaround company. Mass Insight Education was hired last school year for $600,000 to help “turn around” Glenwood’s Leadership Academy and four other schools in the corporation which have received poor grades over the last few years. According to a recent *State Impact Indiana* story, Mass Insight Education isn't too happy about the state department of education looking too closely into its gig, calling another “lead partner” in the Evansville sc... more »

Teachers Fleeing New Mexico Districts

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago

This article will be updated as more formal reports are released. Thanks to an orchestrated drive to punish good teachers and reward those who follow the rules (yes, there is a big difference), the number of early retirements and resignations in districts throughout New Mexico are increasing rapidly. There is always turnover to be expected, […]

Guest Post By Ed Pawlowski, Candidate To Replace Tom Corbett As Governor Of Pennsylvania

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

Earlier in the year, we started a series of guest posts by the candidates running for governor of Pennsylvania, hoping to find an alternative to New Dem Allyson Schwartz. With her recent exposure as a co-chair of the virulently anti-family, pro-Wall Street, conservative group Third Way, we thought it was time for another installment. This guest post is by Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski. Feel free to check out earlier guest posts by John Hanger and Tom Wolf at the links. *Guest Post* *by Ed Pawlowski* One of the things I enjoy most about being Mayor of Allentown is the fact that, wi... more »

Corporate War Veteran

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 7 hours ago

*corporate war veteran*I suspect, and I don't like revealing this to you all, that I've just WASTED my whole entire life, frittered it away watching the world go by, hoping that it would one day have a revelatory moment and go, "Shit, this place truly sucks." I don't want you to pity me (that's not the point of this), I want you ALL also to realise, "We're in the same boat." All that great stuff, that Creativity, that Passion, that Kinship, we promised our younger selves we'd accomplish got SHAT ON by our own Complacency in a Society and an Economy that's rotten to the core, totall... more »

No Excuses for the Poor; Affluenza for the Privileged

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 8 hours ago

What happens when a white rich boy gets drunk, drives, and kills 4 people and paralyzes 1? No jail time--he is suffering from affluenza. Really--that's the defense that worked and now is recorded into case law. From Time: For most people, conviction for vehicular manslaughter due to drunk driving warrants a lengthy sentence, but not in the case of Ethan Couch, a wealthy young man from the state of Texas. The Keller, Tex., 16-year-old has a rare condition that a judge believes is best remedied with anything but dealing with the consequences for causing a DWI wreck that killed four ... more »

Hungry

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 8 hours ago

Some days I just despair for the future of my progeny. Are we so far gone as a society to find it acceptable to watch our elderly and disabled slide into abject poverty while casino capitalists on Wall Street are raking in billions of nearly tax free winnings and corporate CEOs make 475 times more than their workers, who have reached the human capacity for increased productivity while sharing none of the gains? With House Republicans hell-bent on cutting food stamps, some Congressional Democrats believe they can strike a "compromise" in the upcoming Farm Bill by "only" taking $90... more »

Dear God: What have we become? Obamacare ad linking to "Getcovered" featuring a rapping fake Obama...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 8 hours ago

*in which the libtards insult the intelligence of the American public and every decent black person.* I seriously cannot believe what I just saw. You won't either. H/T Weasel Zippers

There's war of conservative aggression in the House

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 8 hours ago

Thing about Tea Party cons, they will never back down. It's the prime rule of the crackpot credo. No compromise. No surrender. Never admit you're wrong. So now we're on day two of the BigCon Grifters versus John Boehner. Apparently John has found that mason jar with his balls in it that Charlie Pierce keeps talking about. Channeling his inner honey badger, Boehner don't care what the fuck they do anymore. Admit I'm admiring him just a little today for finally standing up to them. Wondering how long it's going to last though. This from a charter member of the House Crackpot Caucus o... more »

Michael Voris: "You can't dialogue with someone who hates you"...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago

*this is a message for all conservatives - not just Catholic conservatives. * *See also:* Newsbusters: *Five Years of H8 from NOH8* Matt Walsh: * Next up: force the churches to perform gay weddings*

The Importance of Angry Letters

Phil ArenaatDuck of Minerva - 9 hours ago

Editor’s Note: this is an abbreviated version of a post that originally appeared on my personal blog. How can international institutions foster cooperation given that they lack enforcement capability? One view, quite simply, is that they can’t. This view is shared by realists and many outside the academy. Many would argue this critique is unfair. Continue reading

Former Israeli central banker offered top position at Fed

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 9 hours ago

Yesterday, *The Jewish Daily Forward* (citing *Reuters*) reported that Stanley Fischer, the former head of the Israeli central bank, has been offered a top position at *the Jewish-controlled Federal Reserve* by the Obama administration: *Former Israeli central bank governor Stanley Fischer has been offered the position of vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve*, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. “He’s been offered the job” the source, who declined to be named, said. The source added that the process would still require approval by the U.S. Senate. Wor... more »

Senior Funeral Exploiter

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago

I don't really have anything to say about this, other than to say that it's not the first time. Or the second time. In fact, the evidence strongly suggests that there is, somewhere (at the RNC? Fox News?) a Senior Funeral Exploiter whose job it is to carefully monitor all funerals, memorial services, and other potentially solemn occasions in which Democratic politicians are expected to attend with the goal of finding some "inappropriate" behavior. And once it's identified, it spreads rapidly through the GOP-aligned press. The classics of the genre are the Paul Wellstone funeral, and... more »

The Wisdom of Dr. Seuss

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 9 hours ago

The wisdom of Dr. Seuss...... You are never too young nor too old to learn a valuable lesson.

Newhouse's Tremonton, Utah Movie Revisited

KRandleatA Different Perspective - 9 hours ago

I hadn’t planned on doing this simply because it was more work at this point than I wanted to take on, but there seems to be a real interest in the film and there is a lot of misinformation floating around about it. These are distortions that I believe are lodged in the belief structures of the various commentators rather than in the facts of the case. I’m using as many of the original sources as possible, including the reports of others who interviewed the photographer after the event, sometimes years afterwards and will point out that when I interviewed him, I just wanted to conf... more »

Too fake and phony to be self-governing!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 10 hours ago

*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013* *Maddow debuts in the Post:* In our view, a whole lotta piddle’s been going on in the major op-ed columns. But good lord! This morning, the Washington Post debuted its new monthly columnist—and it’s Rachel Maddow! In our view, Maddow’s cable work has been tumbling down hill fast. This morning’s perfectly worthless column hastens our sense of descent. Wow! You get a spot in the Washington Post and *that’s* what you burn it on? Except as tribal snark, the piece is pointless in every way. It isn’t even written well, unless you like your cicadas in groves ... more »

Don't blame poverty for thoughtless animal cruelty

Jody PatersonatA Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 10 hours ago

Coquetta In the wake of the truly awful death of a little dog in our neighbourhood on Sunday, I've had a lot of conversations this week about animal cruelty in Honduras. The poor dog was scalded with boiling water by a restaurant worker trying to shoo her away, and died eight slow, suffering days later from her massive injuries. The news completely horrified me and virtually all of my Canadian friends, for whom that level of casual animal cruelty is incomprehensible. Were anyone to scald a dog to death in my hometown of Victoria, B.C., I am quite sure there would be somethi... more »

Haiti and it's Place within the New World Order

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 10 hours ago

What do AIDS and the 2010 Haitian Earthquake have in common?

A humor format keeps murdering sleep!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 10 hours ago

*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013* *Too dumb to be self-governing:* Years ago, we used to do a humor segment two mornings a week on WBAL-AM, Baltimore’s “good guy” news station. Occasionally, we did a format called “The too dumb to be self-governing file.” In those days, we thought of this as a joke. We remember only one such offering: A gubernatorial candidate in Texas unveiled his ten-point education plan. When reporters counted its bullet points, they discovered that the ten-point education plan only had nine points. That sort of thing can happen! Today, though, we’re often struck—i... more »

The Obamacare Scam -Trifecta: The 20,000% Mark-Up!...(video)

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago

*in which Bill Whittle, Stephen Green, and Tammy Bruce explain just how badly the American people were fleeced of their money. *

Mandela and Other Oathtakers

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 11 hours ago

"*The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; * *and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." * *The President and the Press* *April 27, 1961* Don't ever take an Oathtaker at his word - he's not for you, he's sworn a higher loyalty to something else which you may not know and probably aren't a party to. Lawyers and police swear an oath to the Constitution (which says a Negro is 3/5ths of a human being). Doctors swear an oath to sell medicine rather than heel people or supply cures... more »

New DiCaprio Wall Street Movie Whitewashes Republican Corruption Out Of The Film

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

My friend Michael took me to a press screening for the new Leonardo DiCaprio film, *The Wolf of Wall Street* last night. It was a really good movie-- so good in fact that when a song I published came on-- "Never Say Never" by RomeoVoid; thank you, Robbie Robertson-- that wasn't even the highlight of the film for me! The movie is based on the real life story of Wall Street fraud and depravity-- the Stratton Oakmont predatory brokerage firm and its founder and CEO, Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio). The Stratton Oakmont scandal had already inspired one film in 2000, Boiler Room starring Be... more »

What Are Tests Really Measuring?: When Achievement Isn’t Achievement

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago

What Are Tests Really Measuring?: When Achievement Isn\’t Achievement. via What Are Tests Really Measuring?: When Achievement Isn’t Achievement.

Does a snowfall mean more than that it is snowing?

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 11 hours ago

A climate fearmonger called Jared Huffman (D-Calif) who is ironically employed as the U.S. Congressman has said some "audacious" things in the U.S. Parliament: We've Reached The Point Where Climate Change Deniers Need To Be Reminded That It Snows Every Year (The Huffington Post) He tried to "remind" his colleagues that "a snowfall in December does not disprove climate change". Well, the only problem is that it does. I am not talking about the tautological climate change – the self-evident fact that the climate is changing and has been changing for 4.6 billion years, something... more »

Book Page Bracelet

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 11 hours ago

Certain books and quotes stick with you forever. As an avid reader, I actually keep a small book of quotes that really hit home for me. This quick and easy bracelet makes a wonderful gift for the reader in your life. You can use any book or make it really special by using a favorite quote from loved book. If you use a classic, you have a high chance of being able to find a copy at your local thrift store for a great price. You will need: An old book A smooth bangle, wider is better Mod Podge a foam brush Cut your book pages into strips anywhere from a quarter to a half inch wide. ... more »

The Good Old Days

Steve SaidemanatDuck of Minerva - 11 hours ago

When people lament about how broken academia is now (for example Higgs of Higgs-Boson), I am so tempted to generalize about the olden days: Many, if not most, jobs were not advertised publicly and many job processes were really old boys networks at work. The job market may not be efficient and does induce heaps Continue reading

Mea Culpa

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill)atDAMMIT JANET! - 11 hours ago

Yesterday on Twitter, I was having a cozy gloomy shared among several buds, when this reply popped up. @fernhilldammit @canteach It's Never too late to Fight for your Rights & What is Right!! #IdleNoMore #ElsipogtogSolidarity — RedBrown-TWC-NA (@IamRedBrown) December 11, 2013 I was shamed. It struck me that the total disdain and disregard with which the CONtempt Party of Canada treats all of us -- well, except their rich, oily pals -- is much like the disdain and disregard that First Nations people have endured for centuries, when they weren't actively being murdered, starved, ... more »

Vellacott's Last Gasp

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill)atDAMMIT JANET! - 11 hours ago

In the other recent yawn story, Maurice Vellacott is taking his last kick at the abortion can. He's moving two motions to 'study' the abortion issue. Full text of both here. Both motions are almost certainly doomed to fail. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been consistent on having no desire to reopen the abortion debates in Canada, and his party has shut down numerous efforts by pro-life caucus members to do so. Vellacott expects the votes to take place within a couple of days of the House of Commons returning in January. This is the last chance Vellacott has to bring the matte... more »

Why we like the Clash, and the Who

SteveatThinking Aboot - 11 hours ago

Is it possible that I will not be CEO I got so much stimulation could there be no chance I will not lead the nation if I can not be number one' what can i DO everyone else hates me for stepping over them so I could go to the press with an interview So I failed to lead I did not hold up when the best option was to fold. What we see today is that the royals can be brought down but with their demise is a great comprise Not for me to be the authority Janie Jones by the Clash

Pause, Then Politicize

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago

After Mandela died last week, Dave Weigel wrote an item telling people to "Go Ahead, Politicize Mandela"in response to some twitter requests to cut out the partisan sniping for a while. I'm sympathetic to that point of view...but I also think there's an etiquette issue here, too, as I also said a while ago. And I think that for at least a short while -- a pause -- the etiquette issue deserves precedence over the politics. Basically, it's polite to wait a short bit before jumping into partisan or other political point-scoring, and people should be polite. I want to emphasize: short ... more »

Going Past Fifty Percent

SteveatThinking Aboot - 12 hours ago

This is not a good idea, no matter what cause you will stress out something and its bound to fail. Even in your personal lives where logic is not a big determiner like th2 mechanical I would say, do not push to hard over fifty percent will leave you at home alone and hard. If you ever build anything do a fifty percent o3v3r build. Cause standard is like eating from a dumpster.

MOAR cops more better NOT

SteveatThinking Aboot - 12 hours ago

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-12/cops-capita-who-has-worlds-most-and-least-concentrated-police-force

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 12 hours ago

Aurora over Maine farmhouse. [photo via]

Deep tweets

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 12 hours ago

Not sure of context. Assume presser. Actual question to a congressman just now: “ You keep saying this is a step forward. Is it really kicking the can down the road?” — daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 11, 2013

GOP infighting heats up the House

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 12 hours ago

Looks like the one lesson old guard Republicans learned from 2012 is the Tea Party's crackpot conservatism is toxic for the Republican brand. Showing a rare flash of public irritation, it's cear John Boehner has had enough of *those* people. The crackpot cons were not amused: Club For Growth issued a statement in response to Boehner's remarks, but didn't mention him by name, and instead lit into the budget agreement he and Ryan are vouching for. "We stand with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Tom Coburn, Rand Paul, members of the Republican Study Committee and every other fiscal conservati... more »

cant hurt to watch

SteveatThinking Aboot - 12 hours ago

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/12/10/video-of-the-day-pirate-party-founder-explains-swarm-intelligence/

Argentina: Unusual "Light Movement" Witnessed by Fishermen in Puerto Madryn

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours ago

*Source: VISION OVNI (Andrea Pérez Simondini)http://www.visionovni.com.ar/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1208Date: 11.13.2013* Location: Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina Date: Saturday, 2 November 2013 Time: Between 0200 and 0500 hours Witnesses: Two (2) younger anonymous witnesses and an older one Vicky Zeigler, a researcher with the VISION OVNI team, has been closely following the events taking place in the city of Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, due to the characteristics of these events: Lights are seen entering and departing from the water, remaining suspended over the oce... more »

Mexico: New Anomalous Lights Over Popocatepetl

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours ago

Contributing Editor *Ana Luisa Cid* (Mexico) has shared some intriguing images of an anomalous light over the Popocatepetl Volcano. They were obtained by the TELEVISA monitoring camera at 05:44 hours on 5 December 2013. To watch the video in its entirety (1:13), please visit: http://youtu.be/qYsSbdUKqc8 Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean

Former Federal Budget Director David Stockman: Budget deal a 'joke and betrayal'...(video included)

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago

*"It's the final surrender of the House Republican leadership to Beltway politics and kicking the can and ignoring the budget monster that's hurtling down the road." * Is there really anyone in this country that doesn't understand that the federal and state governments steal money from the producers and spend it on nonsensical programs, grants, and as a way to line their own pockets? Just this morning, I read where the feds are handing out a grant of over 200K dollars to "study how kids order food in restaurants" in order to prevent obesity. You may think 200K is a drop in the buc... more »

Anti-union, Nonprofit Shill Attacks AFT

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago

On December 10, 2013, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) (don’t believe the name) sponsored a full-page ad in the New York Times attributing the “high school slip in global rankings” to a single issue: The failure of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to promote merit pay for teachers. The ad reads, We have fallen […]

Jay Saper on TFA and Subsequent KIPP Recruiting Experience

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 12 hours ago

I talked with an amazing young man the other day about his getting booted out of TFA during the early fall of 2013. His name is Jay Saper, and, despite his recent experiences, he remains articulate, confident, and eager to become a real teacher with real teacher preparation and credentials. From our long conversation, it became apparent to me that he is much too empathetic to be successful in an organization like Teach for America, which values achievement scores and its corporate branding over the welfare of children and parents. This is not to deny that there are many well-intenti... more »

VISIONS OF PISA: Weingarten, Ravitch lose the NAEP!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 13 hours ago

*THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013* *Part 4—The liberal world’s rolling incompetence:* The misstatements tend to be general when you read Diane Ravitch, who tends to be excessively partisan in support of whichever side she is currently on. We assume that Ravitch is well intentioned. In certain ways, her new book, Reign of Error, is very useful, at least theoretically. But Ravitch tends to overstate toward the goal of winning each partisan point. As an example, let’s consider something she said in a post this Tuesday. The post was aimed at the D.C. schools, one of her favorite targets. S... more »

ON THE INSIDE TRACK

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 13 hours ago

A very interesting look inside of North Korea from the seats of five New Zealanders on motor bikes. Some really strikingly beautiful nature scenes in the video and it is obvious that they encountered many wonderful people. It reminds me how much our view of North Korea is tainted by years of unrelenting US propaganda. Take a look and see for yourself.

Security Situation In Southern Iraq November 2013

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago

November 2013 saw southern Iraq return to its annual average in terms of attacks and casualties. There were two waves of car bombings during the month, but otherwise violence was scattered and low level across the region. That was different from the previous two months that saw a huge amount of fatalities. Compared to the rest of Iraq the south remains relatively peaceful despite the best laid plans of insurgents. November saw a decline in deaths from the previous two months. There were 29 incidents for the month. Almost half, 14 were in Babil, which is a militant hotbed. After ... more »

Opportunistic soundbite

sueatIs the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago

Interesting feature on Today with Justin and a defender of the London university ‘gender apartheid’ debacle. I’ve boiled down the item till it’s reduced to half its volume. Lady opens with famous burka manoeuvre - “who are *we* (UCL) to interfere with a woman’s right to wear/sit where she likes?” Justin counters with “Women are probably *coerced* into choosing segregation” Closing move: ”Libertarian universities can never ‘dictate’ *rules*.” Labour business secretary *Chuk**s* in “*Labour* government wouldn’t *allow*gender apartheid” (impliedly invoking *Umunni*ty from own responsib... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago

*With dear friends like Big Oil, are we our own worst enemies? ~Mark Moseley, The Lens* *Sand from Ship Shoal used to build barrier project south of Port Fourchon ~Amy Wold, Advocate* *Review: Federal Flood Drama Is Paul Walker's Finest Hour ~Joe Leydon, CBS* *James Andrews To Lead New Orleans Second Line For Nelson Mandela ~Jocelyn Ninneman, offBeat*

Third World Justice

SteveatThinking Aboot - 15 hours ago

Come on, really. Do not mess with Texas because its hurtin freedom. http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/11/teen-who-killed-four-while-driving-three-times-over-the-limit-gets-off-because-his-rich-parents-papered-him/

Cruel And Unusual Punishment

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 15 hours ago

Jim Flaherty vows that the budget will be balanced by the next election. But at what cost? Daniel Tencer, of *The Huffington Post, *writes: Job creation in Canada this year has been the weakest in a non-recession year in more than a decade, and the low quality of the jobs being created is causing some economists to raise concerns about the country's economy. Looking at StatsCan’s latest job numbers, released last week, BMO economist Benjamin Reitzes notes that Canada created fewer than 175,000 net jobs in the year to date (meaning all of 2013 except December). It's not just abou... more »

The Top 10 Anti-Cancer Vegetables by Chris Wark - Cancer Survivor

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago

The Top 10 Anti-Cancer Vegetables by Chris Wark Chris Beat Cancer Blog If you haven’t noticed, we are constantly bombarded with pleas from charities for cancer research money. “Race for the Cure, Stand Up to Cancer, Buy Pink products, grow a Movember mustache….” This is often accompanied by the message that “we are running out of funding for cancer research”. And of course this is a problem, because “without funding for more research, we will never find a cure”. Cue the shots of bald women and children poisoned by chemo, accompanied by dramatic music. Then insert a hi... more »

Volcker Rule: Each Ending Is A New Beginning For Banksters And Their Lobbyists

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

As we mentioned Monday, all but one Republican (Walter Jones) voted to exempt private equity fund investment advisers from regulatory registration and reporting requirements. They were joined by 36 Democrats led by Wall Street whores Steve Israel ("ex"-Blue Dog-$800,019) and Jim Himes (New Dem-$1,853,26). Ever since Boehner became Speaker, whittling away at Dodd-Frank has been top priority-- and he knows there are always a couple dozen corrupt Democrats to tag along for the goodies. Conservatives hate the Volcker Rule banning high-risk bank trades but it was something Boehner, th... more »

ECFA Successes Just Keep Rolling In

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 15 hours ago

*Resolutely thinking about the future of Taiwan. Via Motao. * One of the merriest, most penetrating minds I know collected a bunch of info on the recent trade stats and sent it around. Not pretty at all. For November, via the Taipei Times: Exports to ASEAN countries dropped to US$4.37 billion last month, down 9.3 percent from a year earlier and marking the lowest level since July last year. The weakness in shipments to ASEAN offset a 6.5 percent increase in exports to China and Hong Kong, which reached US$10.59 billion last month, the report said. Yeh said Taiwan’s full-year expor... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago

Happy Birthday to Mayim Bialik, 38. Good stuff: 1. Sarah Kliff on the people who may fall through the cracks. 2. Jamelle Bouie on demographics, the parties, and the future. Regular readers know I strongly agree with his argument. 3. See also Reihan Salam's response. 4. Ed Kilgore on Republicans, counterrevolutionary ideology, and internal party conflict. I'm not as convinced as Kilgore is that a substantial and influential group of Republicans sincerely believe in a "constitutional conservative" ideology...but I do think he's on very firm ground in thinking of (many within) the GO... more »

East-West Center Analysis of Taiwan the ripe melon gets plenty of buzz

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago

*East Coast Tableaux* An East-West Center analysis of Taiwan's situation is getting plenty of buzz. Taipei Times summarizes: Under Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), the leadership in Beijing is well-positioned to exercise “strategic patience” over the Taiwan issue, he added. “Beijing’s patience is predicated on the belief that time is on Beijing’s side, for reasons of economics, military, and the perceived attention deficit of the US,” the academic wrote. “As more sectors of the Taiwanese society become reliant on cross-strait commerce, this economic dependency has the potentia... more »

A Harvard Victory

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 16 hours ago

Congratulations to the Harvard Fed Challenge Team, which recently won the national title. Here is a picture of the team, together with a soon-to-be-unemployed Harvard alum.

Test your US Taiwan policy knowledge

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago

*Love this spot. Past it is nothing but gorgeous views.* Noted political scientist John Mersheimer recently gave a talk on Taiwan's future in a world where China's growth has never stopped and China is now a hyper-power. The talk is a fantasy and entertaining as far as it goes, but it contains this statement... ...The “Anti-‐Secession Law,” which China passed in 2005, says explicitly that “the state shall employ non-‐peaceful means and other necessary measures” if Taiwan moves toward de jure independence. *It is also worth noting that the United States does not recognize Taiwan a... more »

Snow in Toronto?

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 17 hours ago

Is sunlight proving hazardous to the TPP ? Will Opposition in the US and Overseas Derail the Toxic TransPacific Partnership?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 17 hours ago

Will Opposition in the US and Overseas Derail the Toxic TransPacific Partnership?Posted on December 12, 2013 by Yves Smith Given the extreme measures the Obama Administration has gone to to keep the pending trade deal known as the TransPacific Partnership under wraps, it’s hard to be certain where things stand. Public Citizen has been relentless in publicizing leaks in combination with detailed analysis that show that this pact is not about trade, but about setting up a pro-corporate regime that would strengthen intellectual property laws (including drug patents) while allowing for... more »

Rod Peterson Cured Cancer Using Dr. Simoncini's Baking Soda Method

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago

*Published on Jul 20, 2013* Cancer is cured with Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate) Rod Peterson was diagnosed with end stage cancer and was advised to see a psychologist, since the doctor basically told him he was going to die. Instead, Rod turned to Dr Simoncini's Baking Soda treatment. Cancer is cured with Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate) Mirror of a very helpful video showing cancer is not an incurable condition, but is actually a fungus that is cured with sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda). JudeoChristian Dr Simoncini shows sodium bicarbonate cures colon cancer in 5 days 1- S... more »

Shotgun exit wounds

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 17 hours ago

"Unlike exit wounds created by rifled weapons, shotguns do not generally give rise to exit wounds unless there is a contact wound to the head, for example (where the exit wound is actually a reflection of the explosive effect of the gases expanding in the enclosed cranial vault), or where there is a 'through-and-through' wound to a limb at close range. Head wounds demonstrate ragged and irregular exit defects due to fragmentation of cranial contents with everted edges. ... Where the body is struck at increasing range, the shotgun pellets do not have enough energy to traverse the b... more »

Vile, disgusting animal cruelty in Gaza - Warning, extremely graphic video

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 17 hours ago

This piece of video from Gaza of extreme cruelty to animals is simply disgusting. I couldn't watch it all the way through. I wonder how many pro-Palestinian (which really means anti-Israel or often anti-Semitic) activists will decry this video and how many will somehow blame Israel/the Jews? *Thanks to Israelly Cool for the spot.*

Thomas: Charter schools not a smart investment for S.C. (The State, Columbia, SC)

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago

Thomas: Charter schools not a smart investment for S.C. (The State, Columbia, SC). via Thomas: Charter schools not a smart investment for S.C. (The State, Columbia, SC).

The one hundred and sixty-seventh weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 17 hours ago

This week's award goes to Ruud Koopmans from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center for his research which reveals the simply amazing information that: 'Two thirds of the Muslims interviewed say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live. *Three quarters of the respondents hold the opinion that there is only one legitimate interpretation of the Koran.'* 'No shit, Sherlock' More on this study soon...

Quadrillion-dollar finance house spams Reg reader with bankers' private data

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago

*What if... computers and routers also become sentient with the rising energies... and they realize that they too are Eternal Essence... part of the One... after all what is a brain, but a network of neurons? Just sayin'... -Bill* *Quadrillion-dollar finance house spams Reg reader with bankers' private data* Fat fingers dump network dumps in 20,000 emails By Iain Thomson, 11th December 2013 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/11/quadrillionaire_finance_house_spams_iregi_reader_with_clients_data/ *Exclusive IT staff at the world's largest securities transaction clearing house are... more »

Prophets and prophecy-independent scientists

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 19 hours ago

Today, the winner of the $3 million 2014 Milner Prize (see candidates) will be announced in San Francisco along with five winners of the $3 million Milner-and-few-pals Award in Life Sciences (I hope that I remembered the official name of the honor exactly). One $3 million prize for a psychic (no kidding) will be decided in January. Watch the news. A week ago, Nima Arkani-Hamed gave a talk on a one-day symposium in Stony Brook; click here if the HTML5 video tag below doesn't work for you. Your browser does not support the video tag. His talk about the exotic methods to calculat... more »

21 Days to Go? Now only 20...

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 20 hours ago

Nigel Farage speaks the truth... and it's scary.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo – "Long Walk to Freedom"

BatocchioatVagabond Scholar - 21 hours ago

RIP Nelson Mandela.

wired

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 22 hours ago

This is how it starts, people. First we get our chatbots to sound and act realistic and then we get them to convince everyone they're actually human. Listen to this crazy conversation between Time's Michael Scherer and a telemarketing robot who refuses to admit her true artificial nature. meet samantha west

the highway

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 22 hours ago

Ed Felien : A Good [Angry White] Man With a Gun

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 22 hours ago

Image from The L Magazine. Pissed-off patriot: ‘A good man with a gun’ These angry white men are doing their best to bring back an idealized past that never really existed By Ed Felien / The Rag Blog / December 12, 2013 “The only thing that stops a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun.” -- Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association Paul Anthony Ciancia believed he was that good man.

Cape Dorset

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 22 hours ago

Never underestimate the resilience of the goat

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 23 hours ago

Un groupe de chamois se fait prendre dans une avalanche au dessus du refuge du Roc de la Pêche (www.rocdelapeche.com) - Pralognan la Vanoise. Vidéo réalisée par un de nos clients en avril 2013. Heureusement tout se termine très bien pour les chamois, ils n'ont pas d'ABS mais ils s'en sortent pas mal!!

RAINBOW UNIVERSE

Anonataangirfan - 23 hours ago

Some scientists believe that with 'different energies' ( or wavelengths or frequencies) we can experience different worlds (or space-times). *"Rainbow" Universe* David Icke writes that the universe consists of an infinite number of frequencies or dimensions of life that share the same space, just as television and radio frequencies do. Icke believes that some people can tune their consciousness to other wavelengths, which is what psychic power consists of. *hubblesite.org The greater the energy, the shorter the wavelength (and the larger the frequency)* *According to the 'Rainb... more »

Pope Francis named Person of the Year by Time Magazine

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago

*Can you smell what The Pope is cooking?* Pope Francis is an excellent politician, and a great spiritual teacher. He became a good pope the moment he chose the name Francis. The fact that he is unnerving so many people means he is doing a good job at breaking ideological, social, political, and cultural barriers. Here is an excerpt from, *"Pope Francis Is Not Liberal Or Conservative: He is Prophetic"* by Tom Krattenmaker: Prophetic is probably the best word for the role the pope is playing -- not in the sense of predicting the future, but of standing outside of business and politi... more »

The Realist Report - Horus the Avenger

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago

On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Horus the Avenger of *WhiteRabbitRadio.net*. Horus and I will be discussing the anti-White narrative found in the mainstream media and educational establishment, and the very real dangers facing the White race globally. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant links for this program: - *WhiteRabbitRadioTV* - YouTube - *Sullivan County, NY: Black Mayor Gordon Jenkins Arrested for DUI, Calls Wh... more »

To sleep not, perchance to view a slide show . . .

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

*by Ken* Unable to sleep, *New Yorker* cartoon editor Bob Mankoff tells us in his most recent blogpost ("To Sleep, Perchance (Very Good Chance) to Wake"), he turned to Ian Parker's article "The Big Sleep" in the magazine, about efforts by our friends the drug-makers to produce a superior new nocturnal knockout concoction. "I'm pretty sure I got a lot out of Parker's account," Bob tells us, "though unfortunately I can remember very little of it due to Ambien-induced amnesia." I'll leave you to check out Bob's account of Ian's account (and for that matter Ian's account itself), an... more »

Tom Goldtooth: World Trade Org, Capitalism and Destruction of Mother Earth

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

By Tom B.K. Goldtooth Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network Censored News French translation by Christine Prat http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2090 On the Outcome of the World Trade Organization 9th Ministerial Conference that ended Saturday, December 07, 2013 TURTLE ISLAND -- Even though the WTO and its 159 member countries resurrected itself in its first

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Peter Norman and the Black Power Salute

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 20 minutes ago

"They asked Norman if he believed in human rights. He said he did. They asked him if he believed in God. Norman, who came from a Salvation Army background, said he believed strongly in God. We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat. He said, *'I'll stand with you'*." Carlos said he expected to see fear in Norman's eyes. He didn't; I saw love." 15 PETER NORMAN The order of the day having been read for the resumption of the debate on the motion of Dr Leigh— That this House: (1) recognises the extraordinary athletic achievements of the lat... more »

The Global Warming Hoax: The UN Global Warming Hoax Is Slowly Dying (To Me, Not Fast Enough!)

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 hour ago

Up here, in central Canada (and yes, Toronto is not central Canada), the temperatures this time of year have been absolutely unbearable... Right now, we are experiencing temperatures that we usually do not get until mid-January! Everywhere across the Canadian prairies, we have seen recent record cold temperatures, with daily highs not getting anywhere above -20 degrees Celcius (That's -5 Fahrenheit for those still on the non-metric scale). Overnight lows have plunged to the -35C mark (-30F) and wind chill values have been in the -40C (-40F) range... People have noticed this unseas... more »

Rush Limbaugh, the Half-Billion-Dollar Mouthpiece for 1% Rightwing Billionaires, Attacks The New Pope For Them

Big DanatBig Dan's Big Blog - 1 hour ago

Rush Limbaugh has attacked women by calling them sluts & FemiNazis, he attacks poor people, unions, people fighting for a living wage, muslims, made fun of Michael J. Fox's disease, people without health care, and so on. But can something be the ULTIMATE that he could never top? I think he finally did the ULTIMATE: he attack the new Pope! You can't get any higher than the Pope: *Pope Francis Rebukes "Marxist" Attack From Rush Limbaugh & Conservative Media* Rush Limbaugh's "dittoheads" think RUSH is the Pope! That's why he gets away with this. What did the Pope do? He spoke about... more »

“Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.” UPDATED

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 1 hour ago

That, from Harper Industry Minister and Harper MP for Port Moody, James Moore when questioned on the embarrassing levels of child poverty in British Columbia. The only words that don't fail me are, Fucking selfish ... greedy ... scumbag. Typical bloody-minded right-wing puke. Charles Dickens wrote books about people like James Moore. UPDATE: Moore is now claiming he was taken out of context.

Carl Sagan says I told you so

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago

H/T Upworthy

Congress and Federal Reserve continue to gun the pedal - and they won't stop until there is a buyer's strike by foreign buyers of US debt ... Peter Schiff takes the Budget Deal to task , while Russell Lamberti of the Ludwig von Mises Institute hashes notion of trashing the debt ceiling.... Affluenza defense gets one kid off a dui deaths of four " not one percenters " ? ? Heck that is nothing considering what the bankster" one tenth of one percenters " have gotten away with and will continue to get away with .... Affluenza on HGH AND Steroids !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 2 hours ago

Peter Schiff Bashes "Feeble And Fictitious" Budget Deal [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/15/2013 20:28 -0500 - 30 Year Treasury - Bond - Congressional Budget Office - Gross Domestic Product - Obamacare - Peter Schiff - Quantitative Easing - ratings - White House inShare David Stockman's exclamation at the "betrayal" realized within the latest so-called "festerng fiscal" budget deal is taken a step further withPeter Schiff's head-shaking diatribe on Congress' *inability to show that it is truly "capable of tack... more »

About Pearson, the Golden Goose State Standards, And Then Some

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago

On December 13, 2013, Pearson, Inc., agreed to pay a $7.7 million settlement for allegedly using its nonprofit, Pearson Charitable Foundation (PCF), to assist its profit-making parent corporation in developing educational materials– including software. In this post, I would like to offer additional discussion of Pearson the For-Profit, Pearson the Nonprofit, and some friends both […]

Neville Hodgkinson of the Sunday Times on the AIDS Crisis and Non-Existent HIV Test

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 3 hours ago

In 2000, I attended the second of two hearings called by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. He set up an AIDS Advisory Panel after learning of problems and uncertainties in AIDS science. For his trouble, Mbeki suffered intense criticism from the South African and indeed world media At the International AIDS Conference in Durban, there were people with placards saying, *“One dissident, one bullet”. * It was as though we were traitors in a war. But how can you fight a war when you don’t know who or what the enemy is? There is irrefutable evidence, for example, that TB, a mas... more »

Seriously now, is there any reason why Senator McCranky should be taken seriously about military matters -- or anything else?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

*Is Young Johnny McCranky explaining to NY Senators Gillibrand and Schumer about his superior background and experience?* *"The strongest argument for Senator Gillibrand's approach [to curbing sexual abuse in the military] is that the military's been saying the right things for about thirty years on this, and the problem hasn't been fixed."* *-- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by*The New Yorker*'s Evan Osnos* *by Ken* One of the many reasons I'm grateful for Paul Krugman's years of intrepid op-ed service is his ongoing crusade against the concept of "seriousness" as applied to alleg... more »

Bitcoin: What have you got?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 3 hours ago

*In this Guest Post, Paul Van Dinther invites your best arguments against the new digital currency Bitcoins.* At the moment I am tentatively *for *Bitcoins, but I am very keen to hear a good argument *against**.* Here is my own take at present. I have not yet heard what I consider a solid argument against Bitcoins. One of the video bloggers I enjoy listening to is Peter Schiff. He appears a man with great insights and I tend to agree with many of his views. Recently however Peter and many others have taken to criticising Bitcoin, offering a range of arguments against the new digit... more »

Adornos navideños y hermosas postales para Navidad (14 imágenes)

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 3 hours ago

Updates On Syria [12.15]: New Victories By Saudi-US-British Backed Jihadists Spells Doom For FSA, Influential Shiite Cleric Issues Fatwa Saying "Fighting In Syria Is Legitimate," PYD Leader Salih Muslim Says Results of Geneva II Are Meangingless Without Recognition of Kurds

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 3 hours ago

- * New Victories By Saudi-US-British Backed Jihadists Spells Doom For FSA (Fictitious Syrian Army)* *- Influential Shiite Cleric Issues Fatwa Saying "Fighting In Syria Is Legitimate" * *- PYD Leader Salih Muslim Says Results of Geneva II Are Meangingless Without Recognition of Kurds* *1. An excerpt from, "Rise of Islamic Front a disaster for Syria" Al Monitor, December 15:* The ascendance of the Islamic Front sends the Syrian opposition into further, and now near complete, disarray. This column on Oct. 27 wrote that the consequences of Saudi backing of Islamic armed groups was t... more »

Longest Walk 4 Sacramento today Dec. 13, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago

. . Thanks to Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson for sharing photos of the Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz today with Censored News. The walkers five month journey culminates on Dec. 21 at Alcatraz, with a Sovereignty Gathering at Oakland Friendship House on Dec. 22.

Joe Oliver, Stephen Harper Oil Spill Response Fake Out

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 6 hours ago

*Bitumen excluded from data for federal tanker study, documents reveal* * The possible effects of a bitumen spill on Pacific waters were not considered in the oil response preparedness report released last week by the Harper government, the background data study reveals.....** The Genivar study, however, does warn, that if the Enbridge Northern Gateway project does go ahead, the spill risk from diluted bitumen carrying tankers in Douglas Channel and along the north Pacific coast will jump from “low” or “medium” to “very high.” If the twinning of the Kinder Morgan pipeline goes ahea... more »

12 Academic Days of Christmas

Megan MacKenzieatDuck of Minerva - 6 hours ago

Instead of the Monday linkage I thought I would start the 12 days of Academic Christmas. It represents that ‘to do’ list we all struggle to finish before the holidays. We’ll start with the first two and I’ll add another one each day- feel free to add suggestions! On the first day of Christmas my Continue reading

Françafrique

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 7 hours ago

*"Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century"* François Mitterrand, then-minister of the Interior of France, 1957 *Clementine Churchill:* "General, you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies" *De Gaulle (in English):* "France has no friends, only interests." Once again, French television screens are full of images of joyous Africans welcoming French troops. In January, the French military intervened in Mali to help liberate large swaths of the country from *radical jihadists. *Now, for the second time this year, France has sent tr... more »

Did Christie's Inability To Control Himself Just Queer His Chances To Run For President? Bridgegate

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

Last week I was stunned when I heard Rachel Maddow's first report on how Chris Christie took revenge on a mayor for partisan differences by essentially shutting down the traffic on the country's busiest bridge for a few days. Turns out, it's the *world's* busiest bridge-- and Friday, Maddow did a little update (above). The words "dangerous sociopath" come immediately to mind. I wonder how many voters will see this as the ultimate example of why a self-entitled bully like Christie must be kept as far away from lethal power as possible. I sure hope so, because polls seem to show he... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago

Same question, plus a bit more. What's the general consensus of neutral experts going to be by, oh, the end of March on how the ACA is working? Series of disasters? Surprisingly successful, given the fiasco in October? Too soon to know? Or something else? And what of Barack Obama's job in implementing the law. Presumably he'll still be knocked for October, but among liberals, will it look not so bad in retrospect? Sign of all that is wrong with his presidency? Demonstration that he makes at least his share of mistakes, but is good at recovering from them? Or something else?

Mobutu Sese Seko, Glenn Close and the AIDS Crisis

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 7 hours ago

NOTE: The AIDS Crisis *began* in the Congo, in Kinshasa, around 1975. It first affected the (hetrosexual) black urban upper and middle-classes of the Congolese Civil Service, and is believed to have originated radiating outwards from two brothels known to be frequented by government officials and other elites as their primary or sole clientele. AIDS in Africa is primarily a hetrosexual disease and intravenous drugs use is incredibly rare. The US Embassy in Kinshasa was the regional station for all of Southern Africa - the illegal secret war in Angola was run from there, by Philip ... more »

Pope Francis

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 8 hours ago

“There is nothing in the Exhortation that cannot be found in the social Doctrine of the Church. I wasn’t speaking from a technical point of view, what I was trying to do was to give a picture of what is going on. The only specific quote I used was the one regarding the “trickle-down theories” which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and social inclusiveness in the world. The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefitting the poor. But what happens instead, is that when the g... more »

Grumpy Cat Sez, Pt 2

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 8 hours ago

TOP POLITICIAN; NAKED TEEN; ONE BILLION IN CASH

Anonataangirfan - 8 hours ago

* Khadijah Azhari* What links model Khdijah to a top politician? *Top Moslem politician Luthfi, linked to illicit sex, money laundering and huge bribes.* Homophobic politicians who claim to be strong Christians or strong Moslems are usually liars and crooks. The scandal involving *Luthfi* began in January 2013. This was when anti-corruption investigators raided a Jakarta hotel room and found a man called *Ahmad* and a naked teenage student and 1 billion rupiah. *Ahmad* is a personal aide to *Luthfi *Hasan Ishaaq *Luthfi* Hasan Ishaaq was, until he was arrested, boss of Indonesia... more »

Who Needs the Debt Ceiling?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 9 hours ago

*Arguments about the U.S. debt ceiling refuse to go away. That’s a good thing, say Russell Lamberti in this Guest Post. The singular brilliance of the debt ceiling, he argues, is that it keeps reminding everyone that there is a growing national debt that never seems to shrink. That is a tremendous service to American citizens, and others, who live in the dark regarding the borrowing machinations of their political overlords.* US lawmakers reached a(nother) budget deal this week that will avert sequester cuts and shutdowns. These fiscal “roadblocks” supposedly damaged investor con... more »

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago

What's the general consensus of neutral experts going to be by, oh, the end of March on how the ACA is working? Series of disasters? Surprisingly successful, given the fiasco in October? Too soon to know? Or something else?

Democracy Is A Cesspool In Iraq And Everywhere Else

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 9 hours ago

*Source. * Making the "world safe for democracy" is the dumbest idea man has ever come up with in his political history on earth. It's not surprising that the so-called leader who came up with this stupid slogan also gave the world the rotten Federal Reserve Bank. Woodrow fucking Wilson. The idiot to crown all idiots. A century later, Barack fucking Obama, a liberal-progressive in the tradition of Wilson, wants to make Syria "safe for democracy." Enough of this bullshit. Democracy is a cesspool in Iraq and everywhere else. The best thing Syria has going for it right now is Assad,... more »

THE WORLD'S LONG FESTERING TRUTH / ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL GARRISON STATE

Allen L Roland, Ph.DatAllen L Roland's Weblog - 9 hours ago

*The Universal Declaration of human rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly of the United Nations* *65 years ago this week.* *The solution to the Israel / Palestinian problem starts and ends, as it eventually did in South Africa, with the restoration of human rights. Now the world's attention rightfully turns to the Garrison State of Israel where apartheid still rules and 650,000 Israel settlers are illegally living in Palestine territory: Allen L Roland * *Gaza from within the Garrison State* The Palestinian disintegration plot thickens as Gaza is recently flo... more »

THERE IS A WAR GOING ON

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 9 hours ago

Following a deadly U.S. drone strike on civilians in Yemen, members of a dozen peace groups wearing blue scarves gathered yesterday at the entrance of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. With guards and barricades on one side and cars whizzing by on Rt. 123 on the other, they held a vigil in memory of civilians, especially children, killed by U.S. drone bombings in Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The CIA touts that drones are accurate,” said Jack McHale of Pax Christi USA to about 30 protestors from groups including CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace. But, he said, according to ... more »

Hypocrisy, thy name is King

Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago

As NYSED Commissioner King’s traveling Common Core forum circus makes its way around the Empire State we are seeing more and more hypocrisy from New York’s educational leader. Example #1: “Special Interests” I have watched several of the forums, read about others, and attended one. At the first forum in Poughkeepsie King called parents and […]

Against the Ruin of the World

gail zawackiatWit's End - 10 hours ago

A Camellia, in Charleston, South Carolina *Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense - the creative act.* ~ Kenneth Rexroth*, **World Outside the Window* I found that quote in an essay written by Christy Rodgers which, thanks to the creative commons license, I am able to re-post (with deep gratitude) in its entirety, unmodified, other than to add some photographs. But let’s first start with an update of the last couple of weeks, since I’ve been very busy and unable to post here at Wit’s End. Does a road trip qualify as a creative act - performance art, perhaps? First... more »

A warning to teachers unions from collaborators in their demise, @teachplus

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago

Teach Plus is a leadership development program (of sorts) for teachers in urban schools. Now, good leadership to me sounds like someone who distrusts party lines and examines issues from all angles. Our faculty was visited by Teach Plus one morning for a brief presentation, a lot of which focusing, oddly enough, on Common Core. […]

One Hundred KIPP 5th Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They "Earned" Their Desks

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 11 hours ago

KIPP spends a great deal of money promoting their brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled by poverty and the lack of hope. KIPP and its billionaire supporters contend that we cannot wait for an end to poverty to properly educate the children of the poor. No one I know would disagree with this premise, but everyone I know disagrees with KIPP's conception of what "properly educate" means. KIPP sees no irony in requiring the poorest urban children who have received the least in life to ear... more »

Sunday Classics: Three duets from three Verdi operas

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

*Marcelo Álvarez and Sondra Radvanovsky sing the Act II duet from Verdi's A Masked Ball at the Met, Dec. 8, 2012.* *by Ken* In Friday's preview we heard answering soprano and tenor snippets from three great Verdi duets, and I hope you heard what causes them, as I noted, to blend in my head. I assume you also guessed that, although the act numbers (I, II, and III) were given correctly, they weren't from the *same*Verdi opera. Today we're going to listen to a larger chunk from each duet -- still not the full scene, though perhaps one day we'll get to that. Even though the full duets... more »

Grumpy Cat Sez...

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago

Lardbaugh Should Pick His Victims More Carefully: Picking On Pope Francis May Backfire

Manifesto JoeatManifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 11 hours ago

By Manifesto Joe I don't know how many Roman Catholic "followers" Herr Rush Lardbaugh has, but he risks alienating many of them when he trashes the new pontiff, Pope Francis. Quoting recent e-mail alerts, on his radio "show" Herr Lardbaugh apparently referred to the pope as a "Marxist" and implied that Francis was bribed into urging the church toward more tolerant, more charitable (perhaps more CHRISTIAN) views about gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. I confess to having a lot of blue-collar attitudes. When it comes to LGBT causes, I can't say that I've ever had a do... more »

OFF THE AIR

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago

Peter Woodruff and I have had a weekly radio show on WBOR at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine for the past six years. Peter works at Bath Iron Works and is a loyal union man. We've had past union leaders on the show. We talk politics, play commentaries, and put on good music connected to our theme that night. Peter has been the stalwart spending hours each week finding new music and timely commentaries for us to share with our midcoast audience. How many listeners? Know one knows. I used to ask folks to raise their hands high if they were listening so we could count them... more »

Anecdotes on teacher evaluation, horror-show edition @NCTQ

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago

The DCPS IMPACT is considered by many to be a model for the nation, or it was in its heyday just a few years ago. It is now derided, disliked, and distrusted by nearly every DCPS educator with whom I encounter. If not for the impact of IMPACT, namely performance bonuses and the keeping of […]

LUNCH WITH THE FT - BETTY BOWERS

Anonataangirfan - 11 hours ago

I meet Betty Bowers for lunch at *Taco John's* in Des Moines. Betty is 'America's Best Christian' and she is keen to talk about the greatest conspiracy of all - the conspiracy to promote bisexuality and homosexuality. "I can put you straight," says Betty, "Praise the Lord!" Baptist Betty begins tucking in to her hard-shell taco, made with a prefabricated shell. "You know," says Betty "Even my pussy has become bisexual. "The people promoting the gay agenda are putting strange things in cat food. "And you know, my neighbour's son was recently seen wearing a pink shirt. "And his ... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 15th, 2013

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 11 hours ago

Sunday again, and of course time for my weekly rant... Is it just me? Or are others just as disgusted by the continuing world wide praise for the mass murdering terrorist known as Nelson Mandela. I for one cannot see what was so "great" about this man at all. He was a Communist, a terrorist, and definitely a mass murderer. He spent years in prison not for his stance against "Apartheid", but for his actions against the South African government. He called for the violent overthrow of a government, and rightfully should have been hanged for his acts of terrorism against the South ... more »

SWP: 'Comrade X' Resigns

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago

The below comes from 'Comrade X', the woman who, like 'Comrade W' made a sexual assault complaint to the SWP's Dispute Commission about the alleged behaviour of a former leading member. Again, it is worth reiterating that "Delta" has never had charges brought against him and is entitled to the presumption of innocence like anyone else. The scandal, the putrescent stench has always been about the appalling handling of those allegations and hounding of alleged sexual abuse survivors by active SWP'ers. As you can see from X's resignation note (original here via Ciara Squires), her exp... more »

Libya updates- December 15 , 2013 ....Oil ports in Eastern Libya remain closed by Political Bureau of Cyrenaica, conditions not met allegedly by Libya nominal government .....petrol crisis in Tripoli hits third week.....fifty tons of ammunition destroyed in Misrata - that is good news......Sarir power station alleged to be restored to normal power by Wednesday.....more trial delays for Qaddafi aides as expected.....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 12 hours ago

Breaking News – Jadhran now refuses to open oil terminals *By **Aimen Eljali*. [image: Jadhran speaking today in Ajdabia (Photo: Nabba TV)] Jadhran speaking today in Ajdabia (Photo: Nabba TV) *Tripoli, 15 December 2013:* Ibrahim Jadhran, head of the self-styled Political Bureau of Cyrenaica, has refused to reopen oil ports in the east of the country, as promised, on the grounds that the authorities have failed to meet the conditions put forward by his federalist movement. Jadhran had said on Tuesday that he would reopen the oil export terminals at Sidra, Ras Lanuf and Zueitina today on... more »

Snowden still has 1.7 million docs. NSA considering amnesty. Is amnesty for real or just a lie to get Snowden and his documents back in US hands ? And how far does this proposed amnesty extend - are all Federal and State law enforcement Agencies who could potentially charge Snowden with civil , criminal and administrative charges , fines actions of any and all types really on board ? And what about Congress and the President - these parties on board ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 12 hours ago

http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-officials-are-considering-an-amnesty-for-edward-snowden-in-exhange-for-secret-documents-2013-12 ( Amnesty won't happen... think of what that could open up ? ) NSA Officials Are Considering An Amnesty For Edward Snowden In Exchange For Secret Documents [image: The Guardian] SPENCER ACKERMAN, THE GUARDIAN DEC. 15, 2013, 12:19 PM 261 2 - - inShare - - - EMAIL - MORE [image: Edward Snowden] Getty Images National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States... more »

Shocked, Shocked, I Tell You

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 12 hours ago

As the outrages pile up, so does the outrage fatigue. So I'll be brief: Rich people get away with it. When plutocrats misbehave, they get special meetings with the attorney general and set the terms for their own deferred prosecution agreements. When garden variety rich people and spoiled brats misbehave they either go to celebrity rehab, or get off on a novel defense called *Affluenza.* So here's an idea for all you poor slobs out there. Next time you get arrested for robbing a bank because your unemployment and food stamps got cut off, try pleading not guilty on grounds of *Indi... more »

Do you think charter schools “know how to do middle school really well?”

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago

According to DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson, charter schools “know how to do middle school really well.” When it comes to defining the phrase “really well,” are education reformers basing their narrative on quantity over quality, i.e. proficiency rates versus growth? What do you – @thechalkfacers – think? In this piece, you can compare the data […]

"According to [Washington's] self-righteous doctrine, America is the indispensable country.""A person might wonder what is exceptional and indispensable about a government that is a reincarnation of Nazi Germany in every respect. People propagandized into the belief that they are the world’s special people inevitably lose their humanity.""With the exception of the ACLU, constitutional rights groups and independent Internet voices, the American people including the Christian churches have accepted their government’s criminality and immorality with scant protest." -- Paul Craig Roberts

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago

------------------------------ *Washington Drives the World Toward War — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ December 15, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter *Washington Drives the World Toward War* Paul Craig Roberts Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of bo... more »

Bears seen at extreme distance

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 13 hours ago

Crown must prove the offence particularized

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 13 hours ago

R. v. Sadeghi-Jebelli, 2013 ONCA 747: [23] When the Crown charges an accused with an offence, and particularizes the way the offence was committed, it must prove the offence as particularized in the charge. The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed this principle in *R. v. Saunders*, [1990] 1 SCR 1020 at 1023. McLachlin J. said: "It is a fundamental principle of criminal law, that the offence, as particularized in the charge, must be proved". So, for example, if the Crown charges an accused with trafficking in heroin, it cannot, without an amendment to the charge, obtain a co... more »

Fukushima updates - December 15 , 2013 - highly contaminated water in gutters and trenches - source may be reactor buildings...... #Fukushima I NPP: Workers Cleaning Out and Water-Proofing the Drainage Channel in Effort to Prevent Contaminated Water from Flowing into Ocean ( pity the poor workers doing that slave labor ) .... Fukushima is death by a thousand lies from Tepco and Government of Japan

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 13 hours ago

drainage related issues - with high radiation naturally ....... http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/12/high-level-of-contamination-in-gutter-near-reactor2-tepco-doesnt-mention-the-possibility-of-reactor2-leakage/ High level of contamination in gutter near reactor2 / Tepco doesn’t mention the possibility of reactor2 leakage Posted by *Mochizuki* on December 14th, 2013 · 2 Comments Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services *Note : If you are from the international mass media, Don’t read this site before taking a contact with me.* Along a drain, ... more »

They Call That Accountability

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 14 hours ago

Last week, the Harper government announced that it was going to tighten the rules on the transportation of petroleum by rail. But, for this government, the proclamation of the rules and the enforcement of them are mutually exclusive propositions. Cutbacks cripple enforcement. David McGuinty says: “My first concern is the cuts (are) beginning to take effect on the good people at Transport Canada,” he says. “There’s a serious capacity crisis.” Phil Gibson writes that the Harper government doesn't take the Ministry of Transportation seriously: Transport Canada has been “victimized... more »

Who is Watching the President...? - Part 247

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 14 hours ago

"The VIP section was where Obama and dozens of other dignitaries sat, including former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. This area was protected by a short pane of protective glass that covered only those in the first row of seats. Obama and his wife were several rows back. Large crowds were allowed to gather in front of where Obama sat, with *no visible security nearby.* When Obama made his way to the stage to deliver his speech, a South African sign-language interpreter stood an arm's length away. *This man later described himself as schizophrenic with violent tendenc... more »

Vietnamese Woman Rendered Stateless in cruel, hypocritical, racist act

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 14 hours ago

The Taiwan government renders a Vietnamese woman stateless for the crime of having an extramarital affair. This move, so obviously racist in every way... well, no need to comment further. FrozenGarlic describes: A few days ago, the media gave a tiny bit of coverage to the case of Wu Tsui-heng (武翠姮). Wu, who is originally from Vietnam, came to Taiwan in 2005 for work, married a Taiwanese man in 2006, got ROC citizenship in 2010, and gave up her Vietnamese citizenship. She had an extramarital affair, and her husband divorced her in 2011. This week the government notified her that it ... more »

The NSA is Coming to Town

Barbara Ann LevyatWPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 15 hours ago

Texas Is Afflicted By Affluenza

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

Growing up, I never knew any rich people. I'm sure I saw some in movies and on TV but it was like the tooth fairy or a white Santa Claus… not real. I had aspirations but they weren't tarnished and perverted by a lust for money; I was lucky. Susan Berman was my first wealthy friend. Like most wealthy heirs, her money was inherited from criminals. Her father was a Las Vegas mobster, David "Davie the Jew" Berman, a bank robber, crime boss of Minneapolis and, finally, a pioneer in the Vegas gambling business in association with the Genovese Family, Moe Sedway and Bugsy Siegel. Her pa... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 15 hours ago

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago

* George Rodrigue dies at 69* *~Please also see: Musings of an Artist's Wife* *And Statement from the Rodrigue Family * *It’s Not A Trap ~The Angry Who Dat* *Saints vs. Rams 2013: Game Time, TV Schedule, Online Streaming, Radio, Odds and More ~Canal Street Chronicles* *Legislative auditor won’t review legality of levee board’s contract ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *Extra Caffeine Please ~Slabbed* *Sunday: Big Nine Social Aid and Pleasure Club second line parade ~Big Red Cotton, Gambit*

Prioritization of Individualized Programs has Completed

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 16 hours ago

*Prioritization of Individualized Programs has Completed* by ÉirePort Prioritization of individualized programs has completed. Analysis of relevant Star Pattern contributions has begun and will continue for necessary time period. *Meritorious(1) procurements take precedence.* Flashes of Higher Light may be noticed as upgrades continue. ÉirePort | December 15, 2013 at 10:42 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qQ *(1) meritorious* Syllabification: (mer·i·to·ri·ous) Pronunciation: /ˈmeriˌtôrēəs/ adjective deserving reward or praise: a medal for meritorious conduct Law, chiefly North American ... more »

The BBC v free schools (2)

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago

As you may recall, various right-leaning commentators took the BBC to task for spinning a recent report about free schools to make it look worse than it was. They accused the BBC of having an "anti-free schools bias". Toby Young, in particular, specifically charged BBC online education correspondent Hannah Richardson with having written a "misleading article", accusing her of "Left-wing bias". Just to test the grounds for this allegation, I've checked back through the BBC News website and tracked down all of Hannah's articles which focus (to a lesser or greater extent) on the iss... more »

A T Shirt for Princeton Students

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 16 hours ago

Princeton University--the ivy league school known for its policy of "grade deflation"--has been experiencing a small outbreak of Meningitis B, for which students are now being vaccinated. Hence, this T shirt:

Dreams: Behind the Wall of Sleep

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours ago

*Behind the Walls of Sleep* By Scott Corrales (c) 2013 *“But the dream is your enemy…”- Kate Bush* Research into dreams became mainstream in the 1960s thanks to the pioneering work of Dr. William Dement into the nature of sleep and dreaming. By the 1970s, even astronomer Carl Sagan was venturing into this territory in the pages of his landmark The Dragons of Eden from an anthropological and medical standpoint. “Statistical studies,” he writes, “have been made of the most common categories of dreams – studies which, at least to some extent, ought to illuminate the nature of dreams... more »

What constitutes a religion?

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago

This morning's *Sunday *with Edward Stourton did mostly what you would expect *Sunday *with Edward Stourton to do. There were segments dealing with two of the programme's main obsessions - same-sex marriage and priestly abuse within the Catholic Church - plus three distinct features on Nelson 'Madiba' Mandela. The report on same-sex marriage featured a balanced range of voices but did what such reports tend to do on *Sunday*: End with the liberal point of view. (One day, when I've got some spare time, I'll properly test that hypothesis out). It looked at the continuing debate with... more »

Dr Rima Laibow - you heal yourself - 9/11 missile legacy

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 20 hours ago

I was randomly talking to a person who turned out to be a Hypnotherapist the other day and the summary of that conversation is, "You hear yourself." Sure the hypnotherapist has a hand in putting your mind in the right attitude to heal itself, but the hypnotherpist doesn't heal you, you heal yourself. I kinda like how Rima Laibow explains how 'gut feeling' is based on the amount of SERATONIN in the gut as compared to the brain: the gut is an 'emotional entity'. Here's another person who also believes that, "You heal yourself," Dr Rima Laibow, wife of Major Albert Stubblebein III: ... more »

AGE OF CONSENT?

Anonataangirfan - 20 hours ago

Child marriage. Roman women were married off at the age of thirteen. "In the middle ages, Girls were as young as 12 when they married, and boys as young as 17. *"Most of the time, women didn't even know the man before they wed.* "The arrangement of the marriage was based on monetary worth." Marriage - Medieval Times "The good bourgeois of fifteenth-century Siena ... remained convinced that, whatever the preacher said, *it was still better for their boys to chase boys than to mess with the virginity of girls of their own class."* *Sin, sex and the very alien morality of the Romans... more »

What America would look like without the EPA

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 20 hours ago

Pretty much like Shanghai: For the seventh day this month, Shanghai officials have warned children and the elderly to stay inside in a city where 24 hours exposed to the off-the-charts pollution would have hazardous consequences to one’s health. Hundreds of flights and sporting events have been cancelled, while face masks and air purifiers sold out in stores. All week, the pollution level hovered at “heavily” and “severely” polluted, according to Shanghai’s Air Quality Index, at up to 31 times the recommended levels. [...] Officials have ordered vehicles off the road to curb air ... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 20 hours ago

"Monster Sled" at Fenway starting 12/28. [photo via RedSox]

For uncertainty principle, against philosophy

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 21 hours ago

Scott Aaronson was asked five questions about the "progress in philosophy". In this text, I will replace his talkative nonsensical answers by the concise and correct ones and clarify some of his minuderstandings of quantum mechanics, too. OK, the first question is: 1. Why are you so interested in philosophy? And what is the social value of philosophy, from your perspective? The social value of philosophy was hiding in its role of a subject that used to attract – and, to a lesser extent, still attracts – high-IQ people and makes them think about important questions. Historically, ph... more »

Hegemonic Warfare Watch: ADIZziness, while in Taiwan... Sigh

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago

Well, well. The depressing global situation, which pits hegemonic powers against each other, when they need to be attacking global warming and the global economic downturn, just got a little more depressing this week with the US claim that a Chinese ship had attempted to ram a US ship (or create a collision -- take your pick) shadowing the task force around the Chinese carrier Liaoning (WashTimes, Reuters, WantChinaTimes). Such ramming actions are normal for the Chinese, as we have seen over the years, and the incident has the ring of truth. Meanwhile, back in ADIZ land, the commen... more »

Merry Christmas From Parliament Hill ,2013 Edition

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 21 hours ago

*Merry Christmas From Parliament Hill ,2013 Edition* *Written by Robin Mathews* T’is some days before Christmas, and all through The House The PM’s voice drones. He’s attempting to douse The things being said there that all know are true And replace them with rancid and festering brew. His MPs are trained seals, with nary a brain – “Elected” there by voters, completely in vain. His Office is full of appointees with might - All ‘Truthful’ And ‘Honest’, ‘Upholding The Wright’. They strong-arm whoever might step out of line. Or they bribe (if it wor... more »

Old House on the way

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 22 hours ago

I set out to put in some kilometers on the bike yesterday. Intending to ride down to the coast, I hopped on the 140, and then, as so often is the case, I had a never-been-on-this-road moment, and turned down the oddly named Chung-Miao 47 (this intersection). This turned out to be a pleasant, gentle downward sloping ride all the way to Yuanli through rice fields and old farmhouses. At one point I passed this old house and said to myself "Hmm, original wood! Have to have a look!" I turned into the driveway, where a man in his forties was eating breakfast. I asked if I could see the h... more »

Execs Got Bailout Bonuses/Pensioners Get Permanent Cuts? (Investing In Prestige - It's Not Charity, Folks!) JP Morgan Chase, the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act and the Corruption of America (Vampires Continue To Suck!)

CirzeatWelcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours ago

They can own the mass media, who misrepresent every important event, but they cannot own our perceptions of it and them. We know when the Congress, whom we've elected to represent the interests of millions of common citizens, pass laws against our interests and in favor of those who pass riches to them for votes that favor their interests, industries and personal wealth. We are not confused.

Sandy Hook Hoax One Year Later: Fantastic Video - Sandy Hook Hoax Oscars Nominees 2013!

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 23 hours ago

It is now just over one year since the Sandy Hook operation in Newtown Connecticut involving the use of poor actors, a fully compliant media in the hoax, and some other high paid shills…. I have yet to see any evidence that convinces me that this was real, and more and more from what I have seen and what has been sent to me by fellow real truth seekers, I am absolutely convinced that this was indeed an operation carried out to shock the American people into being fully compliant in the acceptance of more freedoms curtailed, and to push for gun control on the entire American nation!... more »

Third Way Strikes Back-- And Strikes Out

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

You know the famous old audio clip of FDR welcoming the hatred of Wall Street plutocrats? It was a long speech but, by far, that line, about welcoming the hatred of America's villains, got the loudest and most sustained applause. I don't mean to equate Adam Green of the PCCC with FDR, but if I were giving him any advise I would tell him to welcome the hatred the consultant-driven world of hacks that Buzzfeed services. "The group is seen as an irritant and a drain, a parasite on liberal successes and a direct-marketing machine better at raising money than at changing policy or win... more »

Las mejores imágenes para Navidad y Año Nuevo 2014 (5)

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

Common Core Math and Teaching to the PISA Test

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

Student Achievement Partners is the outfit headed by David Coleman that Achieve, Inc. and Bill Gates hired to write the Common Core corporate standards. Along with his two partners, Susan Pimentel and Jason Zimba, SAP raked in $3,942,566 in tax exempt money during 2011, alone (see 990 here). Coleman has had a number of other pursuits, including helping to found Michelle Rhee's Students First, and more recently being elevated to the top spot at ETS. Zimba, on the other hand, remains the guiding math light for the SAPs, whose staff has grown from 3 to 27. On December 13, SAP issued t... more »

With the mercy of the Lord, we survive yet another SantaCon

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

*NYT caption*: "*Here Comes SantaCon (Despite the Snow and Rain)*: *The annual costumed bar crawl, which has faced complaints from New York residents, went on despite the snow and cold temperatures."* *"For us, it's a tradition. And nothing is going to stop us."* *-- Amber Tyson, 32, who drove from Philadelphia to NewJersey, then took three trains to get to SantaCon NYC* *by Ken* For those of us unendowed with Holiday Spirit, it's the darkest of many fairly dim days strung from about Halloween (or is it Labor Day now?) through New Year's and beyond. I suppose it's just another pr... more »

The Rabbit has landed

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 day ago

From Universe Today : China scored a stunning, history making success with the successful touchdown of the ambitious Chang’e-3 probe with the ‘Yutu’ rover on the surface of the Moon today, Dec. 14, on the country’s first ever attempt to conduct a landing on an extraterrestrial body. The dramatic Chang’e-3 soft landing on the lava filled plains of the Bay of Rainbows occurred at about 8:11 am EST, 9:11 p.m. Beijing local time, 1311 GMT today. The monumental feat is the first landing on the Moon by any entity in nearly four decades. It was broadcast live on CCTV, China’s state run ... more »

Horus the Avenger on The Realist Report

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago

Subscribe to *The Realist Report on YouTube* Check out *WhiteRabbitRadio.net* Subscribe to *WhiteRabbitRadioTV on YouTube* *The Mantra* *ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!* *Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.* *The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote ass... more »

Having it All? A Male Academic’s Perspective

Josh BusbyatDuck of Minerva - 1 day ago

With Thanksgiving behind us and the winter holidays and family time approaching, the season encourages some stock-taking and reflection. We at the Duck have been having a bit of behind the scenes emailing about the challenges of finding child care, and I wanted to recount a happier story from my own experience here at the Continue reading

Dan Bacher's Photo Essay Native Americans protest at California Capitol

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

Dec. 13 Bay Delta Conservation Plan Protest Photo Essay by Dan Bacher Censored News "Turn the pages and you’ll discover what William Burroughs meant when he observed that, 'a paranoid schizophrenic is simply someone who’s discovered what’s going on,'" quipped Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and board member of

Updates On Syria [12.14]: Washington Publicly Backs Al-Qaeda Sympathizers, Al-Qaeda Kidnaps 120 Kurdish Civilians, US-Backed Jihadists In Syria Pose Security Threat To Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago

*1. An excerpt from, "US Open to Backing Syria’s Islamist Rebels" by Jason Ditz, AntiWar.com, December 13:* But the goal must go on, apparently, and the White House now says its open to the idea of throwing its support behind the Islamic Front, a Salafist group that was involved in mass kidnappings and executions earlier this weekon the outskirts of Damascus. All the US is asking is that they disavow al-Qaeda, who was also involved in those executions. *It wouldn’t do for the US to be backing al-Qaeda, you see, but backing their ideological brethren so long as they’re at least nomin... more »

Movie Review - The Desolation of Smaug

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 1 day ago

Today was the last day of classes so Southern Man celebrated with a light dinner and drinks and then a double feature, in glorious IMAX 3D, of *The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey* at 8:30 and then the midnight release of *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug*. Southern Man's fears (expressed in his original review of *An Unexpected Journey*) were put to rest tonight. Peter Jackson is handling the light-adventure and comic elements of the book with aplomb; for example, the conversation of the Mirkwood spiders is revealed only when Bilbo puts on The Ring. The film also clears up a ... more »

ObamaCare Updates December 14 , 2013 - Healthcare.gov fixed ? Don't bank on it ! October 1st and December 1st deadlines have come and gone , website woes continue.....And come January , more confusion likely as those folks who believe they signed up ( and perhaps even paid that first premium ) , find out the latest circle of hell from Obamacare and Healthcare.gov ! And as far as getting folks to pay - we shall how that plays out but it's not going swimmingly so far ...... Obamacare has even lost the confidence of the uninsured at this point ? That was a major part / point of this effort , right ?....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Weekend items - but first the prior post ! Catharsis Ours: *ObamaCare updates* - *December 9* - 13 , 2013 - top *...* Fixes they say ? Well , Fixes is not exactly the same as fixed...... WSJ: About those Healthcare.gov fixes … POSTED AT 2:01 PM ON DECEMBER 14, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY The Obama administration insisted that they would have a working web portal for ObamaCare by October 1st, but they couldn’t even get people within a dozen clicks of determining their eligibility. Kathleen Sebelius tried pretending that all was well more than once in live events, only to have the webs... more »

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The Final Frontier, Goodbye Dad

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 8 minutes ago

(Please read the below post and you will understand why I reposted this episode in my life..December 16th/2013) *Written By grant G* Anger, frustration, love, jealousy, followed by guilt, fear and finally loneliness........ I left humor out for that is the one secret that Dad and I shared exclusively, never cry, never tell, never show your weakness and when all else fails make people laugh, today my laughter rolls down my cheeks in the form of wet salty tears.... My postings have been down because of medical issues, trip after trip to the big smoke where my humour and presence... more »

The analysts cheer their Uncle Drum!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 10 minutes ago

*MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013* *Drum comes fighting back:* Thirty minutes ago, spirits picked up among the analysts. Their spirits brightened after Kevin Drum offered this new post. It concerns M. Night Shyamalan’s rather peculiar recent statements concerning American education and/or test scores. For our previous post, click this. Shyamalan’s factual statements are crazily wrong. In his new post, Drum says he agrees, though not completely entirely. Here’s his basic framework: “Shyamalan is exaggerating, and I sloppily let it pass because I wanted to address what I thought was his ... more »

BC Liberals Murdered My Dad And Other Seniors At Burnaby General Hospital And Other B.C. Hospitals Over Politics And Trying To Avoid Bad Press

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 19 minutes ago

UPDATED AGAIN, December 16th/2013... Vancouver Sun through recent FOI documents has learned the Fraser Health officials and Government of British Columbia officials knew there was a major C Difficile outbreak ongoing at Burnaby General Hospital, and rather than posting warnings they allowed senior after senior patient and other younger patients to continue to enter that hospital, seniors who grab railings and walls for balance are the most vulnerable.. Documents show that the BC Liberal Government tries to squalch the information..This political cowardice resulted in the needless... more »

SYMPATHY FOR THE EVANGELICAL

Anonataangirfan - 23 minutes ago

*Lisa Biron* We have some sympathy for Lisa Biron, an American lawyer. Lisa became an evangelical Christian Lisa went to work for the anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a network of lawyers aligned with the Christian right. In May 2013 Lisa was sentenced to 40 years in prison. From the New Hamphsire Concord Monitor: Lisa Biron "took a teenage girl to Canada, had her engage in sexual activity and convinced her to let it be filmed..." Other juveniles were subjected to Biron’s sexual activity and drug use. Is Pat Robertson gay? State representative Phillip Hinkle (Repub... more »

Rocketship Education, or Dud Missile?

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 28 minutes ago

From Alternet under the title *Charters Get Kids Cubicle Ready*: *Rocketship charter schools are backed by some of the biggest names in the tech world and claim high test scores. But the schools look a lot like miniature call centers.* *December 16, 2013 * | From Silicon Valley, the Rocketship chain of charter schools is hoping to expand across the country. It’s backed by some of the biggest names in the tech world and claims high test scores. Rocketship leaders brag that they think outside the box. Teachers, for instance—who needs them? The company says it saves half a million do... more »

Federal Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 35 minutes ago

The NSA headquarters are pictured. | AP Photo *Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional* http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/national-security-agency-phones-judge-101203.html?hp=l2 *The ruling is the first significant legal setback for the NSA’s surveillance program. * By JOSH GERSTEIN | 12/16/13 1:36 PM EST A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely to be unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program app... more »

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 45 minutes ago

*Koch Sucker oil group sues Louisiana AG over SLFPA-E wetlands lawsuit ~Kevin McGill, AP*

IN THE SNOW

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 47 minutes ago

We had a big storm yesterday that brought about a foot of snow. I spent hours yesterday and today shoveling and raking off the roof. I enjoy being outside, particularly while the storm is still in motion, in the wind and swirling snow. For me it's a mystical experience and takes me back to my young days in blizzards while living in South Dakota. Those were great times for me in so many ways. The storm ended just in time for the driveway to be plowed and we lit the wood stove in our living room. Then just after it got dark key folks from our recent BIW corporate subsidy campaign ... more »

KISSING THE NSA'S ASS

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 47 minutes ago

CBS TV's show '60 Minutes' used to break many important news stories. In recent years they've taken the dive and increasingly have become apologists for the corporate agenda. This particular show on the NSA runs cover for the agency in order to put the American people at ease. Of course the NSA is lying but what's new. They've fragmented the surveillance state system in such a way that they can offer this kind of "deny-ability about doing harm" and the corporate media has to let them slide. Such is the pervasiveness of the clamp down machine these days.

Deliciosos postres navideños para disfrutar en familia

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 hour ago

A Gentle Detox & Stress Reducer That You Can Do In Your Bathtub At Home

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 1 hour ago

Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sense/154468647938561 *I have taken such baths many times with good results. There are other oils you can use and this knowledge can be easily gotten with a little research. This treatment would be good for a number of aliments. Perhaps for those who have had chemo in the past or have taken drugs for many years and have stopped. These poisons froms vaccines, prescription drugs and chemicals in the environment can be stored in the body for many years.*

Holiday Pin Art

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago

We introduced my 5-year-old to pin art this last week. You remember pin art from elementary school, right? A simple project with really pretty results. My 5-year-old was capable of doing it pretty much all by herself. She enjoyed it and it kept her busy for quite a long time. You will need: construction paper a coloring book page (in this case, we used holiday pages) a pin with a head on it tape Rip your coloring page out of the book and tape it to the center of the construction paper. We used mostly red and green paper for Christmas. Take the pin and poke small holes all around ... more »

Johnny Rocket Roppongi

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago

This is a burger joint that sits a little above the superhighway that bisects Roppongi from the sky. Its something about Japan that I can not take away. Even though its a burger joint that want more money from me and you. It tried the burger it was not fine, it was even worse considering that from a twenty I would not be able to pay the smallest bar fine. But something about Johnny Rocket an American Invention was sitting high above Roppongi a area long remembered for other affections, makes me want to sit there , coldly staring at all the people who have no idea what it means to h... more »

Only one Rocket named Richard

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago

The Rocket he ricochets in my brain like a oxy synapse gone wild, with a half life of a lifetime. Fire on Ice this is my life. Not an easy thing to do considering the dichotomy. (hey I spelled it write without spell check) I could not get a red glare in my eyes without compromise. I tried the pipe and I liked it. My eyes glows red and I was the Rocket brought up from the dead.

Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner Jr., Chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Committee on the Judiciary, demands that the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper be removed from his position and prosecuted for lying to Congress. Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defends Clapper as a “direct and honest” person. In this matter, I stand with the Republican.

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago

------------------------------ Original Here Blogs / Ray McGovern's blog / Fire the Liar *Fire the Liar* *By Ray McGovern - Posted on 11 December 2013* Obama Urged to Fire DNI Clapper December 11, 2013 (Editor Note) Last March – before Edward Snowden revealed the NSA’s sweeping collection of phone and other data – Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said no such operation existed. Now, a group of ex-national security officials urge President Obama to fire Clapper. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJ... more »

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Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago

UN's Syria "Aid" Appeal is Bid to Relieve Trapped Terrorists

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 2 hours ago

*December 17, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - In August 2011, the Telegraph reported in an article titled, "Libya crisis: Rebel leaders hoping to starve Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte into submission," that: Rebel leaders hope to starve Colonel Gaddafi's home town of Sirte into submission, laying siege to his last remaining stronghold in an attempt to avoid mass bloodshed, according to the man spearheading efforts for a peaceful takeover. Assisting them in the starvation of the 100,000 civilians who populated the coastal city of Sirte was NATO who rained bombs down upon the besieged city re... more »

Benjamin Fulford - Dec 16, 2013: Nuclear terror perpetrators in Japan to be included in ongoing Asian purge of cabal flunkies

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago

Monday, December 16, 2013 *Benjamin Fulford - Dec 16, 2013: Nuclear terror perpetrators in Japan to be included in ongoing Asian purge of cabal flunkies* 2011 nuclear terror perpetrators in Japan to be included in ongoing Asian purge of cabal flunkies The execution last week of North Korean number 2 Jang Song Thaek and the arrest of former China security chief Zhou Yongkang mark the beginning of a purge of cabal influence in Asia, according to Chinese and North Korean sources. The purge has been long planned and will lead to the ouster of over 20,000 people, according to a Chine... more »

How Many Senate Seats With The Republican Civil War Cost The GOP Next Year?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago

I wish I could remember where I read it-- because it was so funny-- but I did come across an assertion that Mitch McConnell doesn't want to be Senate Majority Leader if he has to preside over a bunch of Know Nothing sociopaths that include Steve Stockman (R-TX), Joe Carr (TN), Milton Wolf (KS), Richard Cash (R-SC), Paul Broun (R-GA), Erick Bennett (ME), Chris McDaniel (MS). No need to mention Matt Bevin (KY), for obvious reasons. And then there are GOP extremists in non-Republican-held seats that can't be all that exciting to McConnell either-- Ron Maness in Louisiana, Greg Branno... more »

H.U.G.S. - Helping Us Grow Spiritually

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago

Space News:"Comet ISON mysteries continue..."

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago

Glitch Gloating? Good

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 3 hours ago

I'm not sure whether it was in response to my earlier item or not, but Andrew Sprung tweets: So constructive to have all hands in a major political party poised to highlight & gloat over every glitch in major new gov service. Presumably he's being sarcastic, but you know what? It is constructive! It's absolutely a good thing to have a major political party poised to highlight every glitch in what government is up to. Not so much the gloating, but that's not doing any harm. The highlighting is definitely a good thing. One of the strong points of the two-party system is that it leave... more »

Snow fell at the Sphinx in Egypt, for the first time in 112 years!

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago

* On December 13th snow fell at the Sphinx in Egypt, for the first time in 112 years! *

"Cosmic Awareness" on the Nature of ISON...

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago

*As with all channeled information use higher discernment as channelings are sometimes mixed with the personal beliefs and views of the channeler... I found this one of interest... -Bill* *Excerpted piece with info about ISON from the PDF of a channeling of "Cosmic Awareness" found HERE...* ...this Awareness is happy to announce that it can no longer be so, there are many reporting on Ison and the peculiarities of Ison. That they who try to squash will be unable to do so entirely. However, they will certainly mislead and those who do not wish to search deeper, who have no inter... more »

Rachel Maddow is a nightmare!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 3 hours ago

*MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013* *Rachel Maddow is Fox:* By now, there can be little doubt. Rachel Maddow is an official party-line, partisan hack. She’ll fill your head full of stupid shazam. Last Friday night, the current episode continued. For our previous report, click here. Good God! Once again, Maddow *opened her show* with a 17-minute segment about Chris Christie and the traffic lanes leading onto the George Washington Bridge. She could have been discussing something that actually matters—the interests of low-income children, let’s say. Rachel Maddow doesn’t care about the in... more »

Peter O'Toole

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours ago

Peter James O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an Irish actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his film debut in 1959. He achieved stardom playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. He received seven further Oscar nominations – for Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (... more »

On Measuring Changes in Income

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 3 hours ago

To divert attention from the disastrous rollout of his health reform, President Obama has decided to change the national conversation to discuss increasing inequality. This phenomenon is not new--the trend started about four decades ago--but it is real and important. In case you are a new reader of this blog, you can find my personal views on the matter in this paper. This national conversation has generated renewed attention to the highly influential Piketty-Saez data. It is worth pointing out, therefore, some limitations of these data, which have been stressed by Cornell econom... more »

Murder Ruins Christmas for One Percenters

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 3 hours ago

A guy gets shot to death at an upscale mall, and the ensuing investigation is interfering with conspicuous consumption at the only emporium in Jersey that caters to the obscenely wealthy. Oh the humanity. This was the actual headline in today's *New York Times*: *Fatal Carjacking Makes Christmas Shopping at US Mall a Nightmare* *Police on Monday were seeking an armed pair of suspected carjackers who a day earlier shot to death a man Christmas shopping with his wife at a high-end New Jersey mall and then fled in the couple's luxury SUV, prosecutors said.* Never mind a lifetime ... more »

Decarbonization Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 4 hours ago

While I was working on *The Climate Fix* I published several peer reviewed articles on climate policies of the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. In recent months I have updated these analyses and summarize the updates here. (Note: for information and links to data sources, just click through to the various analyses referenced below). *United Kingdom* In my 2009 paper (here, open access) on the emissions reduction targets mandated by the UK Climate Change Act I wrote: Given the magnitude of the challenge and the pace of action, it would not be too strong a conclusion to suggest ... more »

'BIG MEAT' CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Anonataangirfan - 4 hours ago

The evil 'big meat' corporations, which supply fast food firms and supermarkets, run the equivalent of concentration camps. On a typical pig farm, 10,000 pigs are crammed into tiny cages, shit is piled three feet high, there are bleeding snouts and the cries of broken-legged pigs. Each pig spends four or five years in a tiny crate, is kept perpetually pregnant, is made sick from breathing in its own waste and is fed food packed with growth-promoting drugs, and garbage. Sometimes the factory farm workers torture the pigs. In factory farms, dairy cattle have teats leaking pus, ... more »

Nullification vs Article 5 Convention...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago

*important.* *From Reaganite Republican:* *Who's Next to Follow South Carolina's Lead on the FULL State Nullification of Obamacare? (Yoo-hoo, Rick Perry...)* *From Publius Huldah:* *Fair warning: * This article is lengthy with many links. It is not an easy read, but a very necessary read. *I happen to agree with this very brilliant woman. *Also please access her many links on the sidebar. A wealth of information. *Mark Levin Refuted: Keep the Feds in Check with Nullification, not Amendments!* [...] The claims of the nullification deniers have been proven to be false. To *... more »

Russia to dangle carrot of loan for Ukraine?

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago

And perhaps lower gas prices? While the west offers up destabilization. *Irish Times* A Kremlin aide made clear today that* Russia was ready to extend a credit to Ukraine to help Kiev cope with its economic problems* and keep the country in Moscow’s orbit. Economic adviser Andrei Belousov said it was possible that a credit could be agreed at talks tomorrow between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, who has turned to Moscow for help after spurning a free trade deal with the European Union last month. “I do not rule out that, if there is a re... more »

Blame Obamacare/Disappearing Obamacare

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 4 hours ago

Kevin Drum notes that everyone is blaming Obamacare for things that would happen anyway, and that the incentive structure calls for this to continue, for a while at least. Sam Baker had a longer, and also good, item about this last week. I'm gonna be churlish and say: Called it! Way back when I was a wee baby blogger, and months before the ACA passed: On health care, it's safe to predict (if the bill passes) that even though few provisions will go into effect before the 2010 and 2012 election, Obama and the Democrats will totally own health care, at least for high-information GOP p... more »

Iraq Improves On World Bank Ranking Of Doing Business

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 5 hours ago

For the last several years the World Bank has released its Doing Business report on laws rules, and taxes that regulate business around the globe. Iraq has done poorly on these reports since it has yet to shake off the yoke of years of socialist state-run economic planning from the Saddam years. As the United States Agency for International Development pointed out, Baghdad gives lip service to loosening the role of the government over the economy, while doing little in practice. Despite that Iraq did slightly better in 2013 than 2012 according to the World Bank due to some less c... more »

TELEGRAPH VIDEO: Iraq's Christian Community In Struggle For Survival

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 5 hours ago

Trey Gowdy: Executive power overreach? President is abusing his power? ...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 5 hours ago

*starting the week off right.* South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said Sunday that the Obama administration’s deliberate flouting of congressional law “has reached an unprecedented level,” claiming the time is now ripe for Congress to take the White House to court over executive overreach.

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago

*Sean Payton is (rightfully) pissed off ~Federico Ferrari, Who Dat Dish* *Letter: With Oil & Gas Industry, state is subsidizing its own failure ~New Orleans Advocate* *In The Bagneris? ~Adrastos, Humid City* *Louisiana Tech opens digital trenchless technology reference room ~Shreveport Times* ~The Trenchless Technology Center evolved from the Trenchless Excavation Center at Louisiana Tech, established in 1989 by Tom Iseley, with a primary focus on microtunneling and horizontal directional drilling. Expanding its reach to other trenchless technologies, the structure and name was chan... more »

Special request...

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago

I'm having some issues with my Mac since October, and its worse after upgrading my Mac to OSX Mavericks (which seems to have a few bugs that are not yet addressed). I need to revert my Mac to the prior release of OSX Mountain Lion so that I can do videos and timely blogging, the Mac "finder" app keeps crashing on me which is causing me no end of frustration. For those of you with PCs its the equivalent of Windows Explorer that your browse files with on the PC. I also really think my Mac was compromised once I announced I was coming to Morocco...its not been working correctly si... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 6 hours ago

Happy Birthday to Steven Bochco, 70. I'm traveling and in meetings early this week, so posting may be sporadic, but that's no excuse for skipping the good stuff: 1. I mostly blame the mainstream conservatives who make up the bulk of the GOP conference for the shutdown; here's a perspective that puts Speaker Boehner at fault. I disagree, but plausible! 2. Josh Huder on the future of the filibuster. 3. And Dan Drezner: Yankees, or North Korea?

The War on Christmas

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 6 hours ago

Yes, it's that time of year again when the silly season gets even sillier when right-thinking Christians impose on the rest of us how we ought to be spending a pagan holiday. Such as the above gift idea for that gun-clutching relative every family has and pretends to tolerate every Christmas. And what better way to silence blasphemous liberal tongues calling for background checks and national registries than to figuratively shoot their tongues off with these semi-auto ice cubes? Imagine the looks on your liberal relatives' faces when they look into their drinks and see this ba... more »

The Same People

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 6 hours ago

As finance ministers meet today, Jim Flaherty argues that our fragile economy can't afford enhancing the Canada Pension Plan. It's the latest version of an old argument -- the very argument that got us into our mess in the first place. Paul Krugman writes that Flaherty's world view is at the heart of the problem, Focusing on the United States, he writes: Start with the numbers. On average, Americans remain a lot poorer today than they were before the economic crisis. For the bottom 90 percent of families, this impoverishment reflects both a shrinking economic pie and a declining ... more »

FIVE KEYS AND ELEVEN SOLUTIONS: M. Night Shyamalan, educational expert!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 6 hours ago

*MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013* *Part 1—Flamboyantly wrong on his facts:* Film director M. Night Shyamalan has been busy proving our various points. Five years ago, Shyamalan decided to become an educational expert. In September, he published a book with a lengthy title: “I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America’s Education Gap.” Are there really five keys to “closing America’s education gap?” If so, does Shyamalan know what they are? We’ll consider those questions later this week. For today, consider some things Sh... more »

Is Marijuana Legalization Now Part Of The Political Mainstream?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago

Over the weekend, David Freedlander did a story for the *Daily Beast* on The New Politics of Pot: The 2014 Candidates Who Want to Legalize It. "Forget decriminalization or medical marijuana," he wrote in way of introduction. "Bolstered by state ballot victories, top-tier contenders in 2014 are seeking full legalization, the drug’s highest-profile advocacy ever… Advocates for marijuana legalization say the 2014 elections represent the first time that serious, top-tier candidates for major state and federal offices are advocating for full legalization of the drug. The pro-pot cand... more »

Greece updates December 16 , 2013 - Lack Of Cash Flows Ends Greek Export "Miracle" ..... Health workers about to be placed in mobility scheme ......Greece close to deal with troika on EAS that would secure 1-bln-euro tranche ......... Report questions transparency of troika's use of financial consultants

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 6 hours ago

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-16/lack-cash-flows-ends-greek-export-miracle Lack Of Cash Flows Ends Greek Export "Miracle" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/16/2013 07:59 -0500 - China - Greece - Hong Kong - International Monetary Fund - Markit - World Trade inShare1 While cash flows may be an anachronism in a time when the return of the dot com bubble means only future corporate prospects of growth matter, and the lower the actual profits or earnings the greater the upside stock potential due to ridiculous future P... more »

Saudi involvement in 9/11 and the US cover up into the role that wealthy Saudi hardliners , Saudi diplomats and Intelligence Officers played in the high crimes ( helping not just financially but also logistically ) - slowly trickling to the surface with details and names of the Saudi Officials and Agents involved ! Fascinatingly , on the same date of this stunning report , we see a Saudi Prince blasting Obama as being indecisive - maybe he should all the Saudi taunt by being decisive about releasing the missing / redacted 28 pages of thee 9/11 Investigative report covering not just the role of the Saudis , but also the role of the US to cover for the Saudis . Maybe folk will ask why this has been allowed to not just happen , but still be covered up for all of these years ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 7 hours ago

Two Congressmen claim secret report on 9/11 pins the blame on Saudi Arabia POSTED AT 8:23 AM ON DECEMBER 16, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY What we *know* from the New York Post’s report on the claim from Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch and Republican Rep. Walter Jones is that two administrations have kept 28 pages of a 2002 report on the 9/11 so highly classified that they don’t contain redactions — just an ellipsis noting their absence. Lynch and Jones claim that the report from Congress after the attacks that left 3,000 Americans dead contain material that “absolutely shocked” them — a... more »

Argentina: More on the "Giant Humanoid" Photograph

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 7 hours ago

We are still awaiting an official analysis from Luis Burgos and the FAO team on the nature of the alleged "Giant Humanoid" photograph taken on the beaches of Necochea. In the meantime, *Mundo Esotérico Paranormal* ( *http://www.mundoesotericoparanormal.com/fotografia-muestra-humanoide-gigante-argentina/*) had the following to say on its 10 December 2013 post, translated below: *Photograph Displays a Giant Humanoid* *MEP - 10 December 2013* *Last year, media reported on a surprising photograph that appeared to show a transparent alien creature photographed by a police officer ... more »

Links n stuff

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 8 hours ago

Todays factoid, from a discussion on Forumosa: "I'm sure it is true of civil servants all over the world, but Taiwan may be a special case. A quick Google search shows that the US fires 0.55% of federal employees each year. Taiwan has about 320,000 civil servants (including employees of state enterprises). If it fired at the rate the US government does, you would expect to see 1,760 civil servants lose their job each year. Taking a quick look at the 2012 statistics from the "Commission on the Disciplinary Sanctions of Functionaries", it appears that just 15 civil servants lost the... more »

Thailand: Ending the Regime's "Red Terror"

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 8 hours ago

Breaking down the barriers of fear and intimidation. *December 16, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The Bangkok Post reported today in their article titled, "Reds surround Dem house, burn effigy," that: About 100 red-shirt demonstrators rallied in Ubon Ratchathani province on Sunday against the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) movement. Pichet Tabudda led the red shirts to block an outbound section of Chaeng Sanit Road in front of former Democrat list-MP Vithoon Nambut's home in Muang district. The demonstrators blasted PDRC leaders, including former Democrat ... more »

A common mistake but surely the BBC should know better

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 8 hours ago

This BBC article about 10 common Christmas card dilemmas makes a rather stupid, albeit common, mistake. Number 2 dilemma runs thus: *2. Round robin revival? * The round robin letter - usually sent out with the Christmas cards - has become something of a seasonal joke. "Darling Theo is doing frightfully well in his eurhythmy lessons at Charterhouse - and little Imogen has gone back to advising Ban Ki-moon at the UN." Simon Hoggart, Guardian columnist and author of The Cat That Could Open the Fridge, a collection of round robin letters, is not a fan. "Round robins are hopeless because ... more »

Can you spot any pattern?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 9 hours ago

This is a French language map of the countries in the world where the penalty for homosexuality is death (marked in red), where it is a prison sentence of over 10 years (marked in orange) or a prison sentence of less than 10 years (marked in yellow). Can you spot any pattern?

Soldiers's Suicides: Too Little, Too Late

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 9 hours ago

So retired general Rick Hillier is calling for action, a public inquiry, a Royal Commission, something, into the recent spate of soldier suicides, and, as well, he offers qualified criticism of the harpercons' Veterans Charter: The other area Hillier pointed to for improvement was the new Veterans Charter, in particular the part of the charter that replaced a pension for life or payment system with lump-sum awards and allowances. "Many of us, certainly, almost all of us, agree that the charter is now lacking," he said. He said the system now does not provide ill and injured veterans... more »

Stephen Harper`s Relentless attack on Canadian Workers Exposed

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 9 hours ago

As written here many times, Canada`s current advertised by the Federal Government labour shortage in Canada is nothing but BS and a deliberate attempt to drive down wages.. Read the shocking story here..courtesy *The Tyee...* _________ *As Foreign Temp Program Rolls on, Oil Patch Workers Replaced* * http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/16/Oil-Patch-Workers-Replaced/* *________*and for good measure, a double shot of Stephen Harper hypocrisy..courtesy *The Tyee* *______*http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/12/16/Harper-Mandela/ The Straight GoodsCheers Eyes Wide Open

State Legislators Propose Changing Constitution To Limit Federal Government by Tara Dodrill

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours ago

State Legislators Propose Changing Constitution To Limit Federal Government by Tara Dodrill Off The Grid News, 14 December 2013 A movement to call a constitutional convention and tweak America’s founding document in order to limit the federal government appears to be gaining momentum among conservatives. Approximately 100 legislators from a total of 32 states recently converged at George Washington’s home in Mount Vernon, Virginia, to debate the possibility of calling a convention of the states. Article V of the US Constitution details the process state lawmakers could utilize... more »

GAY CHRISTIAN HOMOPHOBES VERSUS GAYS

Anonataangirfan - 11 hours ago

*One of the most beloved of Roman emperors, Trajan, who was also well known for his homosexuality and fondness for young males. * Before the Roman Empire became Christian, several of the Roman Emperors were in same-sex marriages. Timeline In the year 390, the Christian emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and Arcadius declared that homosexual sex was illegal and that those who engaged in gay sex were to be burned alive in public.[22] In the year 390, the Christians began burning homosexual boys in Rome. Sin, sex and the very alien morality of the Romans *Saint Bernardino of Sien... more »

Sony Xperia E2 Hadir di 2014

Jack WillatYaya Blog's - 11 hours ago

Sony diberitakan akan segera merilis sebuah smartphone android baru yang masih dalam varian Xperia E di tahun 2014 mendatang. Nantinya smartphone yang akan beredar ke pasaran dengan nama Sony Xperia E2 ini sudah menggunakan Android 4.4 KitKat sebagai OS dan akan mendukung aktivitas penggunanya hingga jaringan 4G LTE. Selain itu, berdasarkan lansiran tersebut, smartphone Xperia E2 ini juga akan

Smartfren Andromax I2 dan Andromax G Resmi Meluncur

Jack WillatYaya Blog's - 11 hours ago

Smartfren Andromax I2 dan Andromax G Resmi Meluncur. HP Android tersebut diluncurkan untuk memenuhi harapan masyarakan akan HP android harga terjangkau dengan spesifikasi yang mumpuni serta fitur-fitur terbaru. Smartfren Andromax I2 adalah smartphone penerus dari generasi Andromax New-I. Andromax I2 hadir dengan desain lebih tipis dengan ukuran 9,9 mm dengan sistem operasi Android 4.1

PlayStation 4 Masuk Indonesia pada Januari 2014

Jack WillatYaya Blog's - 12 hours ago

Akhirnya perangkat game terbaru PlayStation 4 dipastikan hadir di Indonesia pada january 2014. Sony secara resmi sudah memulai penjualan perangkat ini di Asia Tenggara, dengan salah satu negara sasarannya adalah Indonesia. Kedatangan PlayStation 4 di Indonesia akan diresmikan pada Januari 2014 mendatang. Rilis ini sama dengan beberapa negara Asia Tenggara lainnya seperti Thailand, Filipina, dan

Hasil Benchmark Xperia Z1 Mini

Jack WillatYaya Blog's - 12 hours ago

Hasil Benchmark Xperia Z1 Mini terungkap di media. Hampir dapat dipastikan versi mini dari Xperia Z1 bakal mengusung sebutan Xperia Z1s. Tidak seperti versi mini dari hp android kelas atas lainnya yang hadir dengan spesifikasi yang lebih rendah, Xperia Z1s menggunakan jeroan yang persis dengan Xperia Z1. Berdasarkan data resmi yang dimiliki oleh AnTuTu, Xpria Z1 tercatat memiliki skor sebesar

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 12 hours ago

Aurora Borealis over Iceland. [NASA photo]

And that's that

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago

Just as a coda to the BBC's Nelson Mandela coverage, here's some more statistical evidence that the BBC went OTT with its coverage. Comparing the number of BBC website articles that were published about Margaret Thatcher over the ten days between her death and funeral (8-18 April 2013) with those published about Nelson Mandela over the ten days between his death and funeral (5-15 December 2013) reveals: *287 *News articles about Margaret Thatcher on the BBC website following her death *451 *News articles about Nelson Mandela on the BBC website following his death ...which is* 57%... more »

Steve Israel And Paul Ryan-- Working Together To Screw Military Veterans

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

Israel and Ryan, bad for veterans, bad for America Although the NRCC has a deal with Steve Israel not to back Republicans who oppose his reelection efforts, Stephen Labate, a straight-shooting 25-year Army officer now in the Army Reserve, is taking him on again. On Friday, after the Ryan-Murray "compromise" passed in the House, Labate explained how Israel-- and Paul Ryan, so, essentially, the corrupt transpartisan Beltway Establishment-- betrayed military veterans to benefit their wealthy campaign contributors who are part of the Military Industrial Complex. "Yesterday," wrote Labate... more »

Peter Norman and the Black Power Salute

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 15 hours ago

The Global Warming Hoax: The UN Global Warming Hoax Is Slowly Dying (To Me, Not Fast Enough!)

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 16 hours ago

Rush Limbaugh, the Half-Billion-Dollar Mouthpiece for 1% Rightwing Billionaires, Attacks The New Pope For Them

Big DanatBig Dan's Big Blog - 16 hours ago

“Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.” UPDATED

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 17 hours ago

Carl Sagan says I told you so

SteveatThinking Aboot - 17 hours ago

H/T Upworthy

Congress and Federal Reserve continue to gun the pedal - and they won't stop until there is a buyer's strike by foreign buyers of US debt ... Peter Schiff takes the Budget Deal to task , while Russell Lamberti of the Ludwig von Mises Institute hashes notion of trashing the debt ceiling.... Affluenza defense gets one kid off a dui deaths of four " not one percenters " ? ? Heck that is nothing considering what the bankster" one tenth of one percenters " have gotten away with and will continue to get away with .... Affluenza on HGH AND Steroids !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 17 hours ago

About Pearson, the Golden Goose State Standards, And Then Some

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago

Neville Hodgkinson of the Sunday Times on the AIDS Crisis and Non-Existent HIV Test

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 18 hours ago

Seriously now, is there any reason why Senator McCranky should be taken seriously about military matters -- or anything else?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago

Bitcoin: What have you got?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 18 hours ago

Adornos navideños y hermosas postales para Navidad (14 imágenes)

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 19 hours ago

Updates On Syria [12.15]: New Victories By Saudi-US-British Backed Jihadists Spells Doom For FSA, Influential Shiite Cleric Issues Fatwa Saying "Fighting In Syria Is Legitimate," PYD Leader Salih Muslim Says Results of Geneva II Are Meangingless Without Recognition of Kurds

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 19 hours ago

Longest Walk 4 Sacramento today Dec. 15, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago

Joe Oliver, Stephen Harper Oil Spill Response Fake Out

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 21 hours ago

12 Academic Days of Christmas

Megan MacKenzieatDuck of Minerva - 22 hours ago

Françafrique

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 22 hours ago

Did Christie's Inability To Control Himself Just Queer His Chances To Run For President? Bridgegate

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago

Mobutu Sese Seko, Glenn Close and the AIDS Crisis

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 23 hours ago

Pope Francis

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 23 hours ago

Grumpy Cat Sez, Pt 2

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours ago

TOP POLITICIAN; NAKED TEEN; ONE BILLION IN CASH

Anonataangirfan - 1 day ago

Who Needs the Debt Ceiling?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 1 day ago

Democracy Is A Cesspool In Iraq And Everywhere Else

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago

THE WORLD'S LONG FESTERING TRUTH / ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL GARRISON STATE

Allen L Roland, Ph.DatAllen L Roland's Weblog - 1 day ago

THERE IS A WAR GOING ON

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

Hypocrisy, thy name is King

Chris Cerroneat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Against the Ruin of the World

gail zawackiatWit's End - 1 day ago

A warning to teachers unions from collaborators in their demise, @teachplus

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

One Hundred KIPP 5th Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They "Earned" Their Desks

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

*Last updated 12/15/13*: The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) is the largest corporate charter school chain in the U. S, with 141 schools and 50,000 students in 20 states. KIPP was launched in 1994 by David Levin and Michael Feinberg, two former Ivy-Leaguers and Teach for America (TFA) corps members assigned to teach in Houston, where the first KIPP school was created. Since 2000 when KIPP students performed a skit at the Republican National Convention, KIPP has become the poster school model for “no excuses” education, and today it receives hundreds of millions in donations from... more »

Sunday Classics: Three duets from three Verdi operas

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Grumpy Cat Sez...

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago

Lardbaugh Should Pick His Victims More Carefully: Picking On Pope Francis May Backfire

Manifesto JoeatManifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 1 day ago

OFF THE AIR

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

Anecdotes on teacher evaluation, horror-show edition @NCTQ

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

LUNCH WITH THE FT - BETTY BOWERS

Anonataangirfan - 1 day ago

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 15th, 2013

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago

SWP: 'Comrade X' Resigns

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago

Libya updates- December 15 , 2013 ....Oil ports in Eastern Libya remain closed by Political Bureau of Cyrenaica, conditions not met allegedly by Libya nominal government .....petrol crisis in Tripoli hits third week.....fifty tons of ammunition destroyed in Misrata - that is good news......Sarir power station alleged to be restored to normal power by Wednesday.....more trial delays for Qaddafi aides as expected.....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Snowden still has 1.7 million docs. NSA considering amnesty. Is amnesty for real or just a lie to get Snowden and his documents back in US hands ? And how far does this proposed amnesty extend - are all Federal and State law enforcement Agencies who could potentially charge Snowden with civil , criminal and administrative charges , fines actions of any and all types really on board ? And what about Congress and the President - these parties on board ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Shocked, Shocked, I Tell You

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 1 day ago

Do you think charter schools “know how to do middle school really well?”

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

"According to [Washington's] self-righteous doctrine, America is the indispensable country.""A person might wonder what is exceptional and indispensable about a government that is a reincarnation of Nazi Germany in every respect. People propagandized into the belief that they are the world’s special people inevitably lose their humanity.""With the exception of the ACLU, constitutional rights groups and independent Internet voices, the American people including the Christian churches have accepted their government’s criminality and immorality with scant protest." -- Paul Craig Roberts

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 1 day ago

Bears seen at extreme distance

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Crown must prove the offence particularized

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Fukushima updates - December 15 , 2013 - highly contaminated water in gutters and trenches - source may be reactor buildings...... #Fukushima I NPP: Workers Cleaning Out and Water-Proofing the Drainage Channel in Effort to Prevent Contaminated Water from Flowing into Ocean ( pity the poor workers doing that slave labor ) .... Fukushima is death by a thousand lies from Tepco and Government of Japan

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

They Call That Accountability

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 day ago

Who is Watching the President...? - Part 247

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

Vietnamese Woman Rendered Stateless in cruel, hypocritical, racist act

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 1 day ago

The NSA is Coming to Town

Barbara Ann LevyatWPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 1 day ago

Texas Is Afflicted By Affluenza

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago

Prioritization of Individualized Programs has Completed

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

The BBC v free schools (2)

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago

A T Shirt for Princeton Students

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago

Dreams: Behind the Wall of Sleep

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day ago

What constitutes a religion?

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago

The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Alan Grayson-- The Essential Member of Congress

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 minutes ago

event featuring Grayson. I blogged about it that day and again last July on the occasion of Britain granting one of World War II's greatest heroes, Alan Turing, a posthumous pardon for the crime of being gay. That day at the Brave New Films studios was a wonderful day for... more »

The Anglo American Establishment

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 hour ago

"The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and continues to exist to this day. To be sure, this secret society is not a childish thing like the Ku Klux Klan, and it does not have any secret robes... more »

Censored News Year in Photos 2013: Ten Indelible Images

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago

Censored News Photos of the Year 2013 Jan. 25, 2013: Police in St Louis today use compliance pressure on protesters, as Navajos demanded to talk with Peabody Coal http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/01/navajos-and-appalachians-protest.html Jan. 27, 2013: Debra White Plume, Lakota, "Do they think we are not fighting anymore because we are not at Wounded Knee with ak47's? During winter

One Third of NJ Urban Students in Unfit, Dilapidated Buildings

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 2 hours ago

As Chris Christie's hopes for a presidential run diminish day by day, his record on education in New Jersey is enough to disqualify him as presidential material and should actually get him impeached. Another four years of gridlock on the George Washington Bridge, no infrastructure improvements on the rails to NYC or the tunnels but lots of empty photo ops isn't going to cut it. His education policies have been devastating for public schools in the state as he touts higher standards, accountability for teachers, and vouchers. Christie refused to raise taxes on millionaires and billio... more »

A tenured sociologist gets a bit of the #teacherprep treatment, more like #teacherperp @scottjaschik

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago

In a nutshell, a tenured professor at UC-Boulder is leaving the university because the administration is no longer allowing her to implement a lecture on prostitution that includes a role-play, whereby teaching assistants for the course play dress up as various kinds of “whores” and get interviewed by the class. You know, you’re just going […]

Sandy Hook Exposed: The Realist Report Discusses The Latest On The Sandy Hook Fraud, And Updated Video By Sofia Smallstorm

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago

To this day, I am still shocked that people do NOT see the obvious... That is of course the fact that the "shooting" that occurred over one year ago at Sandy Hook "Elementary" School in Newtown Connecticut was a complete hoax. I have long said that it was a preplanned and well orchestrated simulated shooting operation that the criminals decided to go "live". I am also stating again that I am fully convinced more than ever that absolutely NOBODY died in this operation. I want to present the following important link to John Friend's "Realist Report" for today, December 17th, 2013... more »

"Surely a country that honors the devotion of family members to each other should want to make it at least a little easier for them to do their jobs" (E. J. Dionne Jr.)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

*"At a time when the political news is dominated by a debate between do-little conservatism and do-nothing conservatism -- which is to say, between a right-tilting Republican establishment and the radical tea party -- [Senator] Gillibrand's package includes building blocks for a broader counter-vision inspired by the idea of an Empowering Government."* -- *E. J. Dionne Jr., in his* Washington Post *column* "Family values hypocrisy" *by Ken* We talk a lot about families here -- but actual families and their actual hopes and needs, not the crap blithered about the phony-baloney avata... more »

Quote of the Day: On Women

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago

*“If women ran the world we'd still live in caves, but with **really fancy curtains.**”* - Kate at Small Dead Animals Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Syria and Afghanistan updates - December 15 , 2013 - Syria item of note....With FSA Supreme Military Commander Idris literally run out of Syria by the islamist / jihadist / Al Qaeda forces - looks like the US is preparing to get in bed with terrorists - these same fighters will without questions use any US weapons provided to them against either Israel and / or the US interests down the road... Regarding Afghanistan - we need to stay there because of Al Qaeda - that would be the same franchise islamist tyep fighters we are meeting with on Syria ? What is our foreign policy regarding aiding terrorists again ?

Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago

Syria....... Print This | Share This The brief rebel-offensive against the Damascus suburb of Adra, and the Syrian military is once again in control. As usual, it was the civilians that bore the brunt of the clash, with reports of mass kidnappings and 80 civilians executed by the rebels before they were ousted. The rebels, identified as al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra faction by locals, began targeting Druze, Alawite and Christian residents early on in the siege of the city, kidnapping them en masse. The military insisted that the rebels were using the kidnapped as human shields, but ... more »

The truth in my view is that most offenders don’t belong in prison. Prison is deadening to the soul, destructive, the very admission of societal defeat. It rehabilitates almost no one. It takes remarkable strength for anyone to emerge less damaged than before.

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago

Story

Panda in Blizzard

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago

Stay of civil proceedings on Court's own motion to be granted rarely

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago

would work as injustice because it would be oppressive or vexatious or an abuse of the process of the court and that the stay would not cause an injustice to the plaintiff. [55] In my vie... more »

Lots of Ravens

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago

Useful rubes

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago

[Ed Stein cartoon]

George Zimmerman, rip off artist

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago

Apparently, when the hero of the gun crazy crowd isn't busy murdering unarmed teenagers for inciting his personal terror of Skittles, or threatening women, he's taken up more artistic pursuits. Zimmerman's first painting fetched a cool 100K when he put up for auction at EBay this week. And if that's not enough to gag you, he has fans: A well-wisher expressed love and support for Zimmerman in a question posted on the eBay auction, telling him there were many people on his side, and the artist replied. “Thank you so much for the words of kindness and support. I do know how many gr... more »

Libya Updates - December 17 , 2013 .....Security or the lack thereof items of interest , petrol shortage in Tripoli finally resolving , economic and political matters of note .......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago

Police officer killed while securing Tripoli petrol station *By Houda Mzioudet.* *Tripoli 17 December 2013*: A police officer was shot and killed early on Monday morning while securing one of Tripoli’s petrol stations. The officer, Ahmed Hussein Ismail, he was shot at a petrol station near Bab Ben Ghashir as car owners clashed with police after drivers began trying to force their way into the petrol station. Mohamed Swesi, a official for Tripoli Security Directorate, told the *Libya Herald* that Ismail was rushed to Tripoli Central Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after a... more »

Western Governors University's Path to Becoming a Teacher in NJ

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 4 hours ago

The Christmas gift that keeps on giving. Teaching jobs abound in New Jersey. Western Governors University is recruiting heavily for part time adjuncts in New Jersey to stay in their pajamas and conduct on line courses for NCATE approved "evaluations." If you are looking for a job as a data evaluator, with no benefits, no job security and no office, then this is for you. Now that they are dismantling teacher unions and public schools, it's a free for all. Just sign up, pay some money

, take some on line courses and you are sure to be an "effective" teacher. Just follow the script. Y... more »

The reason for the season?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago

It’s the Christmas season. Yuletide. The festive season. And the reason for the season is …. not what you think it is. Let’s start with a Christmas joke: Q: "What's the difference between God and Santa Claus?" A: "There is no God." Ha ha ha. The fact is, dear readers, at least Santa—well, Saint Nicholas at least—was a real figure, if not a real bloke, even if the other inspirations for the Santa Claus character were not. And the harsh fact is, I’m sorry to have to tell you, Christ himself was never even *in* Christmas --except in fiction and by order of the firs Popes. [The ... more »

Will you print your next house.

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 5 hours ago

You can do it today, thanks to Wikihouse.

A Teacher’s 12 Days of Christmas

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago

On the first day of Christmas my students gave to me: A Well Deserved Day Alone On the second day of Christmas my students gave to me: Two Misplaced Gloves and a Well Deserved Day Alone On the third day of Christmas my students gave to me: Three Broken Pens Two Misplaced Gloves and a […]

West's Support For Sunni Extremism In Syria Is Triggering Chaos In The Region

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago

An excerpt from, *"Extremist Syrian faction touts training camp for boys"*by Joby Warrick, Washington Post, December 16: At first glance, the training camp appears no different from the many others shown in propaganda videos posted by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. Hooded recruits in camouflage shoot at targets or march in formation under the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But look closer and the “fighters” appear quite small. The tallest are barely chest-high to their instructors, and the shorter ones wear ill-fitting uniforms and appear to struggle under the wei... more »

Fukushima: The Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan

Spike EP at News Spike - 6 hours ago

In 2011, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan assisted with rescue operations after the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. At least 51 members of the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan have now developed radiation-related illnesses. It is thought that the ship's desalinization systems took in radioactive water which the crew drank, cooked with and bathed-in. Charles Bonner, attorney representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan said "They have testicular cancer, they have thyroid cancers, they have leukemias, they have rectal and gynecological bleeding, a host of problems ... more »

Doug Martin on Justin Oakley's Radio Show Wednesday, December 18

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 6 hours ago

By Doug Martin I will be joining Justin Oakley on his Just Let Me Teach radio show on Wednesday, December 18 from around 9:15 to 10:00 pm. I will be launching the pre-order phrase of my book, *Hoosier School Heist*, which is scheduled to be released in February and details the Walton Family, Jeb Bush, New York hedge fund managers, the DeVos family of Amway fame, plagiarists, and Republican campaign donors who run charter schools in Indiana, just to name a few. People interested can pre-order the book on an ad on the Indiana Talks website pages (scroll down on the right hand side), ... more »

The Elephant in the Room

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago

*The Elephant in the Room* By American Kabuki December 17, 2013 We are in an amazing time of transition. Nothing is staying static, not you, your relationships, your interests. Even your very body is changing and in transition. The old ways of being, class, "knowing your place", acceptance of abuse as just part of life, is rapidly becoming clear as the mental programming that separated your mind from your heart. You were taught to distrust your heart. The awakening journey is a highly personal one. How it begins is different for all of us. So is the ending, its all tailored ... more »

FOX surrenders in the War on Christmas

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago

This is hilarious. Apparently FOX has defected to our side in the War on Christmas. Wonder if anyone has told Megyn or Bill O yet? [Media Matters screen capture via Oliver Willis]

Jack Monroe and the Sociology of Selling Out

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago

Selling out. Been there, done that. So has cookery blogger and *Graun*regular Jack Monroe, apparently. Not a household name by any means, but someone who was catapulted to Twitter fame after attracting the attention of *The Mail*'s Richard Littlejohn following a party political broadcast for Labour. You can read her reply here. Now, I'd be lying if I said I followed Jack's work. Food columns and cookery writing just ain't my thing. Food is something to nom on and that's it for me. It's fodder, not a petit bourgeois distraction from the class struggle on a plate. I also gathered fro... more »

Monsanto Marijuana Initiative Grows in Uruguay?

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 6 hours ago

Well, well well...... THAT certainly explains a lot, doesn't it? Monsanto Marijuana Initiative Grows in Uruguay? By Staff Report - December 13, 2013 *Uruguay becomes first nation to legalise marijuana trade ... T* - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34833/Monsanto-Marijuana-Initiative-Grows-in-Uruguay/#sthash.uz9pI0mj.dpuf Monsanto Marijuana Initiative Grows in Uruguay? By Staff Report - December 13, 2013 *Uruguay becomes first nation to legalise marijuana trade ... The Uruguayan government hopes legalising the sale of marijuana will tackle drug cartels ... Uruguay... more »

Bad Bear's Photos Longest Walk 4 Dec. 17, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago

. . Thanks to Bad Bear (photo above) for the photos each day! Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz taking those final steps toward Alcatraz, with arrival on Dec. 21. A Sovereignty Gathering will be held on Dec. 22 at Oakland Friendship House. Thanks to Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone long walker, for sharing his photos each day! Longest Walk will be at Sogorea

When Facebook friends fall out

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 6 hours ago

I just did my first "unfriend" on Facebook. I never would have thought that anybody could get my back up enough to want to unfriend them, because I'm one laid-back person when it comes to allowing people their say. But it turns out that even I have limits. In my six years on Facebook I've accepted almost anyone as a friend as long as they seemed like a real person. I spent so many years as a "public figure" writing for the Times Colonist that Facebook just seems like an extension of that part of me rather than a fenced-in place that only my genuine friends can access. I'... more »

The Total Compliance Charter Model Has Come to Your Neighborhood

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago

From Alternet: KIPP Forces 5th Graders to 'Earn' Desks By Sitting On the Floor For a Week James Horn One hundred 10-year-olds spent the first week of school sitting on the floor. What was it they were supposed to have learned? *December 17, 2013 * | The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) is the largest corporate charter school chain in the U. S, with 141 schools and 50,000 students in 20 states. KIPP was launched in 1994 by David Levin and Michael Feinberg, two former Ivy Leaguers and Teach for America (TFA) corps members assigned to teach in Houston, where the first KIPP school wa... more »

Is Economic Justice The Ticket For Democrats-- Or Should They Compete With The GOP For The Economic Inequality Vote?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

The Republican civil war is pretty front and center and getting quite a lot of media attention. There is also something of a Democratic civil war brewing, a more ideological/less careerist based one. You may have seen sparks of it last week when the Wall Street owned ConservaDem group, Third Way, went on the attack against Elizabeth Warren and the progressive populism she espouses. Third Way, the Blue Dogs and the New Dems are the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. A virtual whore house of corruption and opportunism, it's the ugly side of the Democratic Party that has nothi... more »

Christy Clark`s Most Excellent Families First Drunken Adventure

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 7 hours ago

*Christy Clark`s Most Excellent Families First Drunken Adventure* *Written by Grant G* By now many of you have heard that Christy Clark thinks it is okay for parents to bring their children of all ages in to Alcohol only establishments, into bars, nightclubs and legions.. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Happy+hour+coming/9296994/story.html My gawd, Christy proves once again that she missed the brain train at youth and rode the braindead one way ride to densecity.. First off, restaurants that serve liquor have always allowed children to come in and eat with or without pa... more »

High Stakes Standardized Tests Help Fuel Drug Company Profits

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago

Don't you just love how the entire education industrial complex is intertwined with corporations like pharmaceutical companies? Just think of all the stress, physical ailments and behavioral problems that will result from the continuous test and punish, value added, and merit pay for high test scores education deform can yield. Even the rich kids of the 1% find drugs can help them compete and perform better in high pressure environments. In a society that values competition over collaboration, privilege over justice and test scores over children's health and well being, what do you... more »

When Megyn Kelly was good!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago

*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013* *Her interview with Bill Burton:* Is Santa Claus white? On occasion, he has been. At other times, plainly not. We were watching in real time when Megyn Kelly made her now-famous remarks on this controversial topic. We thought her remarks were odd at the time, though we’ll have to admit we hadn’t noticed that she was addressin herself to the “kids” when she made them. Last night, watching CNN, we saw Don Lemon insist, several times, that no one is “demonizing” Kelly. For the most part, we’ve been active fans of Lemon down through the years. At this ti... more »

Fantásticas postales de Navidad y Año Nuevo con diseños hermosos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 8 hours ago

Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination The FBI’s War on Rock Stars By Salvador Astucia - Chapter 2: The Motive

Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago

*DISCLAIMER: * *THE POSTING OF STORIES, COMMENTARIES, REPORTS, DOCUMENTS AND LINKS (EMBEDDED OR OTHERWISE) ON THIS SPIKE1138 DOES NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, NECESSARILY EXPRESS OR SUGGEST ENDORSEMENT OR SUPPORT OF ANY OF SUCH POSTED MATERIAL OR PARTS THEREIN.* *I do not endorse everything Astucia had to say about the Jewish experience under Nazism - but I do feel that the following is worth knowing and bearing in mind about Glenn Close and her family: * *http://spikethenews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/mobutu-sese-seko-glenn-close-and-aids.html* *The role also ... more »

Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination The FBI’s War on Rock Stars By Salvador Astucia Chapter 1: The Crime Scene

Paul Coker at News Spike - 8 hours ago

*DISCLAIMER: * *THE POSTING OF STORIES, COMMENTARIES, REPORTS, DOCUMENTS AND LINKS (EMBEDDED OR OTHERWISE) ON THIS SPIKE1138 DOES NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, NECESSARILY EXPRESS OR SUGGEST ENDORSEMENT OR SUPPORT OF ANY OF SUCH POSTED MATERIAL OR PARTS THEREIN.* *Contents* *Lennon Home Page* *Main Home Page* *Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination* *The FBI’s War on Rock Stars* By Salvador Astucia *PART I: LENNON’S MURDER* *Chapter 1: The Crime Scene* *The Dakota* John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, at about 10:50 pm, as he and h... more »

Thailand: Mass Mobilization Sunday December 22, 2013

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours ago

The Who, What, and Why's of Thailand's Ongoing Protests. *December 18, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - This coming Sunday (December 22, 2013) will be the third and potentially largest mass mobilization yet by the anti-regime movement in Thailand. The counter-color revolution against Wall Street-backed Thaksin Shinawatra and his regime's attempt to transform Thailand into yet another vassal of Western influence has gained immense traction - already forcing the proxy prime minister, dictator Thaksin Shianwatra's sister, Yingluck, to dissolve parliament and call for new elections. However,... more »

“Australia’s Stonehenge,”: the basis of all knowledge

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 9 hours ago

My highlights in blue as usual. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/12/14/australia-s-stonehenge-and-so-much-more/ “Australia’s Stonehenge,” and so much more! Posted by The Watcher on December 14, 2013 in categories Archeology, Featured stories What follows is the “Conclusion/Hypothesis” taken from our archaeological paper written on the Standing Stones found within 40 kilometers of Mullumbimby, Australia. During the brief period this site was first investigated before it was reluctantly destroyed, Frederic Slater (President of the Australian Archaeological and Educational ... more »

RUSSELL BRAND, WOOLWICH TRIAL, JOHN LENNON

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago

*Russell Brand * *According to Russell Brand:* *1.* Michael Adebolajo, the alleged killer of soldier Lee Rigby, "is severely mentally ill". *2.* Michael Adebolajo is like Mark Chapman, the alleged killer of John Lennon. *3.* Mark Chapman's mental condition was related to the book 'The Catcher In The Rye'. *Woolwich | Russell Brand - Huffington Post* *Mark Chapman and John Lennon* Reportedly, Mark Chapman was brainwashed by the CIA. Reportedly, the book *Catcher In The Rye* was part of the brainwashing of Chapman. *Catcher In The Rye* is used in the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind-con... more »

Tuesday Afternoon Linkage: A Dish Best Served Cold

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago

I hope cold links are good as the temperature up in Ottawa is now just at 0F (known as the temperature where dogs whine and snot freezes in one’s nose). Anyhow, here are my last links of 2013: Lots of stuff out there on the Chinese Air Defense ID Zone, so here is one that Continue reading

What is This "War on Women" of Which You Speak, Stranger?

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 10 hours ago

The National Socialist Party Republican Party of Michigan became thelatest stateto pass a rape insurance bill into law. And it doesn't even make exemptions for rape victims, one of the reasons why Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a similar, earlier bill. And Republicans still laughably try to claim there's no war on women, which was sort of the rationale we used to kill two million Vietnamese in the 60's and 70's. "War? What war? We didn't *officially *declare war on Vietnam." The GOP has advanced women's rights about as much as Jack the Ripper. And even Jack had the sense to s... more »

New York Time, September 4th 2001: "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits" by Judith Miller

Paul Coker at News Spike - 10 hours ago

Over the past several years, the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons. The 1972 treaty forbids nations from developing or acquiring weapons that spread disease, but it allows work on vaccines and other protective measures. Government officials said the secret research, which mimicked the major steps a state or terrorist would take to create a biological arsenal, was aimed at better understanding the threat. The projects, which have not been previously d... more »

Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago

December 16, 2013 *Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs* http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/business/glaxo-says-it-will-stop-paying-doctors-to-promote-drugs.html By KATIE THOMAS The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors t promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write, its chief executive said Monday, effectively ending two common industry practices that critics have long assailed as troublesome conflicts of interest. The announcement appears to be a first for a... more »

Russia commits to Ukraine bonds and slashes gas prices and more......

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago

*Definitely a beneficial agreement for the Ukrainian people* *Russia will invest $15 billion from one of its sovereign wealth funds in Ukrainian government securities and cut the price of natural gas it charges its neighbour by about a third, President Vladimir Putin said.* *Economic relief for Ukraine ... Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, left, react after signing an agreement in Moscow on Tuesday. * "Considering the problems of the Ukrainian economy linked to the world financial crisis, and to support the budget of the Ukra... more »

My December 2013 Michigan Board of Education Testimony

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago

In November 2013, I was asked if I would testify at the December 17, 2013, Michigan State Board of Education meeting. Michigan is considering emulating the New Orleans so-called model Recovery School District (RSD) (including the supposed “parental choice” afforded by open enrollment) as well as using letter grades for schools. Since I could not be in […]

Vitamins are a waste of money? Really?

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 10 hours ago

Really, now. let us look at the study below. *FLAW # 1* The study and the university say that they studied *Healthy well nourished individuals.* *That is the major, major flaw in the study* If we are going to study a fix on something we don't do it on something that needs NO fixing, period. *FLAW # 2* The form of Vitamins taken, *they used defective vitamins in the form of uni-pills *such as the pink ones pictured below. Why does this author say defective vitamins? What are Uni-pills? Uni-pills are those pills that have all the multi-vitamins and minerals ALL packed into a single pil... more »

Playing the Dream

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 11 hours ago

I do not consider myself a gambler when it comes to structured games. I have lost a few hundred at the Casino and a few more over a lifetime of poker games. I am rational enough to realize that such purists odds on will end in tears. If the morons want to gamble to pay the stupid tax so they can get a better meal than soylent green then that is that. There was a time in this fine line we live where getting ahead meant hard work saving and storing for tough times ahead. More or less the clever gentleman have ripped economic safety from what was considered the golden rule. How did thi... more »

The Realist Report - Kelley from Tulsa & Sofia Smallstorm

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 11 hours ago

On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Kelley from Tulsa and Sofia Smallstorm, two independent investigators of the alleged shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School last December. Kelley, Sofia, and I will be discussing their investigation and conclusions regarding the Sandy Hook "shooting," and the political and cultural agenda which has been and continues to be advanced in its aftermath. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant link... more »

Time for a panda

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago

Stay of civil proceedings on Court's own motion to be granted rarely

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago

Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation, 2013 ONCA 758: [54] While s. 106 of the *CJA* entitles the court to grant a stay on its own motion, the circumstances under which it may appropriately do so are rare. As stated by Epstein J. in*Gruner v. McCormack* (2000), 45 C.P.C. (4th) 273 (Ont. S.C.J.), at para. 30, To justify a stay, the defendant must satisfy the court that a continuance of the action would work as injustice because it would be oppressive or vexatious or an abuse of the process of the court and that the stay would not cause an injustice to the plaintiff. [55] In my vie... more »

Kate Braun : Winter Solstice Falls on Saturn's Day

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours ago

Saturnalia by Ernesto Biondi, 1909. Io Saturnalia! Winter Solstice 2013 This seasonal celebration takes from many traditions, including the Roman Saturnalia, Druid customs, the German 'Yule,' and the birth of Jesus; and Queen Victoria popularized the lighted Christmas tree. By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / December 17, 2013 Saturday, December 21, 2013, marks Yule, the Winter Solstice, also

Satan's Key Operative In The Vatican Loses A Major Post-- Bye Bye Burke?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

Pope sends GOP's fanatic, hate-filled cardinal, Ray Burke, a message If you're not from La Crosse or St. Louis, it's possible you first heard about the curia's most anti-Jesus cardinal, right-wing hack Ray Burke, here at DWT. As soon as it was clear that the new Pope was an actual follower of Jesus' message, we started urging him to get rid of Satan's man in the Vatican. Burke was a partisan extremist in America, a GOP operative in a cardinal's gown and he;s been a nightmare in Rome. Burke has worked hand-in-glove with right-wing Republicans in trying to defeat Democrats electorally.... more »

A Big Money Cabal of Bench-Slappers

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 11 hours ago

Vindication is sweet today for fans of the Fourth Amendment. But let's be realistic. With billions and billions, even trillions, of dollars at stake, the NSA and the private contractors enriched by the fascistic Deep State will not be going gently into that good night. I imagine that the Obama administration is busily judge-shopping even as we speak, and will find some compliant fellow or lady to knock down the somewhat passive-aggressive (delayed, pending Obama judge-shopping) ruling yesterday against the mass collection of phone records of United States persons. Because, let's ... more »

Saturday Meanderings

Southern Man at Southern Man - 11 hours ago

After a few hours in the office to get some grading done Southern Man went to the monthly geocachers luncheon-slash-Christmas party... Mr. Gator. The Gift Table. A Festive Gathering. Look what I won! Manly men thinking manly thoughts. After a few more hours at the office Southern Man cut by the mall for a little last-minute Christmas shopping. It looked like Black Friday! But there was an all-male choir and Southern Man listened to good Christmas music for a good long while. *God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay...* And then much to his surprise he stumble... more »

Dine' CARE urges federal probe of BHP Navajo Mine transaction

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago

Federal Investigation Urged over BHP Navajo Mine Transaction to Navajo Nation By Dine' CARE Censored News DILKON, Arizona – On behalf of all Diné people, Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment (Diné C.A.R.E.) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Deputy Inspector General, Mary Kendall on December 12, 2013, requesting an investigation into the Bureau of Indian

Gildan, maquillas, model cities and simplistic responses to complex problems

paul at Paying attention - 12 hours ago

It’s amazing how simple the problems of Honduras seem to some people a few thousand kilometres away. A handful of slogans, some recycled rhetoric and unsupported claims, and presto, a theory. A fine example has been the blind libertarian enthusiasm for a plan to create “model cities” in Honduras, effectively independent fiefdoms, run, at least initially, by the investors. Another was offered in a recent Internet opinion piece on Canadian textile company Gildan’s manufacturing centres in Honduras. The 20,000 employees, the piece said, “are basically slaves, and their status will likely... more »

1978: Milton Friedman on Socialized Medicine...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago

*how was he able to predict the future?* Because it has to do with economics which is math. Math doesn't lie. Some things are very easy to predict for those of us that can add, subtract, and study history.

Breaking: Rachel has a bridge to sell you!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago

*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013* *Three teases, two full segments:* Remember when Camus wrote the following, if only in translation? “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know.” For some reason, we thought of that as we tried to summarize last evening’s Maddow program. Our reinvention would go like this: “Rachel did two teases and three segments tonight. Or three teases and two segments maybe, we don’t know.” We refer to the way Maddow devoted the second half of last night’s program to the Christie Bridgegate outrage and scandal. The teases started early, with the first one g... more »

Technical Announcement

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago

(From the man behind the curtain to whom nobody, indeed, pays any attention.) The comment settings have been set back to where they were before so that now anyone can comment, which should make Constant Reader Comrade Rutherford happy. Hopefully, the spambots will have learned their lesson and have moved on to other pastures.

Resurgence Of Iraq’s Insurgency In Ninewa Province

MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 13 hours ago

Iraq’s Ninewa province and its capital city of Mosul have returned as a central hub for the country’s insurgency. After the Surge in 2007 many militant groups fled north to places like Mosul where they were then reduced by American and Iraqi forces. Now insurgents are making a comeback. They are attempting to assert their will over the governorate’s population and economy, and targeting the local security forces. (*Wikimedia*) It now appears that insurgents have free reign in Mosul and southern areas of Ninewa. One provincial politician said militants controlled an areastretching... more »

Anti-Capitalist Santas deliver coal to Port of Metro Vancouver

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago

Photos credit: MURRAY BUSH - FLUX PHOTO Flood the Port By Rising Tide Vancouver Censored News VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – This morning Port of Metro Vancouver staff and security responded with physical force when 6 Santa Clauses arrived at their offices to deliver sacks of coal to the offices of the Port of Metro Vancouver, along with thousands of peoples’ wishes

MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking

Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago

MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking http://t.co/edCbAClW1g — Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) December 17, 2013 MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking via Professor Diane Ravitch

Algonquin land protectors force Quebec logging protection

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago

Tuesday, December 17, 2013Algonquin’s land protection camps forces Quebec to Agree to a Process to Protect Sensitive Zones from Logging: Next Step Implementation of Landmark Co-Management/Revenue Sharing Agreements By Community members of Barriere Lake Censored NewsKitiganik, Algonquin Territory (Dec. 17, 2013) – After community members of the Barriere Lake First Nation established a land

AMY GOODMAN: "A bipartisan budget deal to avert another government shutdown comes before the Senate this week. The House approved the two-year budget agreement last week in a 332-to-94 vote. The bill eases across-the-board spending cuts, replacing them with new airline fees and cuts to federal pensions. In a concession by Democrats, it does not extend unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people, which is set to expire this month." DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: "Well, this deal is actually a big win for the Paul Ryan Republicans. They will avoid the embarrassment, shame, and political damage of shutting down the government, and they obtained this from the Democrats without touching at all the major issues. The corporate loopholes aren’t being closed. The tax-avoidance techniques of billionaires, who can legally live tax-free if they choose to, are not being shut down. The hedge fund and private equity managers will continue to be advantaged. And we’re going to kick 57,000 poor children out of Head Start, which means we’re going to narrow their economic futures and make all of us worse off in the future. We’re cutting a billion-and-a-half dollars from medical research to save lives. Why? Because the very richest people in America, those who have benefited most from being in this market, don’t want to pay for that kind of services. And the Pentagon is getting an extra $20 billion out of this deal. We already spend 42 percent of all the money in the world on our military." DAVID L GRISCOM: "If this is what the Democrats in Congress believe is a good deal, I'm going to join a party that believes its representatives should put the stuggling 99% above the filthy rich 1%."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago

------------------------------ *MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013 .* "Makes Absolutely No Sense": David Cay Johnston on Budget Deal That Helps Billionaires, Not the Poor http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/16/makes_absolutely_no_sense_david_cay A bipartisan budget deal to avert another government shutdown comes before the Senate this week. The vast majority of House members from both parties approved the two-year budget agreement last week in a 332-to-94 vote. It is being hailed as a breakthrough c... more »

Blogging Awards Nomination Update

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago

The nominations are trickling in, but there’s more work to be done. We had some major IR blogging events this year — Snowden, Egypt, Syria, Russia, etc…. and we’re looking for nominations for the best work out there in 2013. We’re still taking nominations through the end of the month. Sage is co-sponsoring the Awards Continue reading

FIVE KEY POINTS AND ELEVEN SOLUTIONS: Joe Nocera’s ride back in time!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago

*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013* *Part 2—In the footsteps of Ravitch and Ripley:* Joe Nocera’s new column is highly instructive, in that it’s woefully clueless. Nocera writes about a topic he manifestly knows nothing about: what constitutes good teaching in an “inner-city school?” What constitutes good teaching in low-income schools? With respect to this very important question, Nocera has watched a documentary. He has also read, or read about, a new report by a national policy group On the basis of these inputs, he ends up saying what follows. Within the *journalistic* context, the ... more »

Attacks On Iraqi Forces And Infrastructure Dominate Anbar Violence November 2013

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago

The number of attacks remained high in Iraq’s Anbar for November 2013. As usual most of those were concentrated in the province’s cities especially Fallujah and Ramadi. Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), the power system and transportation were the main targets. Despite that the number of fatalities was dramatically lower than the previous two months. Levels of violence in Anbar remained the same in November, but the overall number of casualties was down. There were a total of 75 reported security incidents in the press. That was roughly in line with previous months such as October wh... more »

The manuscript of survival – part 380

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 14 hours ago

*The manuscript of survival – part 380* *Aisha North* *December 16, 2013* As you have noticed, the frequencies that are buffeting you now are indeed a far cry from the ones you have been bathing in for quite a long time now, and rightly so, as these last few days a whole new set of energetic encodings have transformed the very atmosphere around you. And, as usual, with these new encodings comes a whole host of energetic reactions, both on the physical but also on the mental levels. And for many of you, these new currents have literally dislodged the very deepest residue that your ... more »

VAMboozled by Empty-Suit Leadership in SC

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago

VAMboozled by Empty-Suit Leadership in SC. via VAMboozled by Empty-Suit Leadership in SC.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago

*Rush to oppose coastal reclamation suit exposes weakness of Jindal’s case ~Sandy Rosenthal, The Lens* *Oil and gas association challenges AG’s approval of contract for coastal lawsuit ~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate* *AGL, SOL still at odds? ~Heather Miller, The Daily Iberian* *Fasten Your Seat Belts ~Brian P. Moore* *Music Video: Beau Jocque, "Beau Jocque Boogie" ~David Stafford, WWOZ*

NO MONEY FOR WHAT?

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago

AVB on Dragons Den?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 14 hours ago

A vaguely amusing video from TalkSport

Tenure and Due Process at the University of Colorado

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 14 hours ago

The Boulder Daily Camera reports: University of Colorado officials acknowledged Monday that sociology professor Patti Adler's lecture on prostitution led them to suspend her from teaching her popular "Deviance in U.S. Society" course next spring -- but they denied firing her or forcing her into retirement. The issue here involves a skit that Professor Patricia Adler put on in her class back in November in which students dress up as different types of prostitutes and engage in a roll play before the class. Adler is a full professor here at CU in the Department of Sociology, and whil... more »

Battered Woman Syndrome

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago

Battered woman syndrome is a model that was developed by Dr. Lenore E. Walker to describe the mindset and emotional state of a battered woman. A battered woman is a woman who has experienced at least two complete battering cycles as described in dating and domestic violence. According to Walker's The Battered Woman Syndrome (pp. 95-97), there are four general characteristics of the syndrome (which have been further developed into a series of symptoms not included here): 1. The woman believes that the violence was or is her fault. 2. The woman has an inability to place responsi... more »

In A Dark Place

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago

The Harper Party has changed its name three times. First it was the Reform Party. Then it was the Canadian Alliance. And, finally, it called itself the Conservative Party. The last label is entirely disingenuous. Both Rob Ford and Stephen Harper claim they are Conservatives. Those claims are as fatuous as the name which the present federal government proclaims. Andrew Coyne writes: So no, Ford is neither a product of conservatism, as such, nor a particularly sterling example of it; nor should Conservatives be tainted by association, except in so far as they associate themselves wi... more »

Do Cruz, Rubio, Paul And Senate Right-Wingers Have what It Takes To Crash The Budget Deal Today?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

The do-nothing House is on vacation already, again. But the Senate is still working. It still haven't approved the awful Paul Ryan-Patty Murray "compromise," in which the plutocrats compromise nothing (as usual) and all the compromise is on the backs of working people. Amazingly, though, it's Senate Republicans threatening to kill the whole thing. There are probably only 3 progressive Democrats in the Senate willing to vote no today. (32 voted no in the House last week.) NBC's Chuck Todd says the budget will pass with little fanfare, even though Reid has to cobble together a clotur... more »

Zions Bancorp issues stunner -Under the published Volcker rule, the Company would no longer have the ability to hold disallowed securities until the anticipated recovery of their amortized cost. Therefore, as of December 15, 2013, Zions anticipates that in the fourth quarter of 2013 it will reclassify all covered CDOs that currently are classified as “Held to Maturity” into “Available for Sale,” and that all covered CDOs, regardless of the accounting classification, will be adjusted to Fair Value through an Other Than Temporary Impairment non-cash charge to earnings. The net result would eliminate substantially all of the accumulated other comprehensive income adjustment to equity related to the covered securities. As First Volcker Rule Victim Emerges, Implications Could "Roil The Market"

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago

As First Volcker Rule Victim Emerges, Implications Could "Roil The Market" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/17/2013 08:13 -0500 - Barclays - Bond - CDO - Collateralized Debt Obligations - Federal Reserve - Mortgage Loans - NASDAQ - recovery inShare Yesterday afternoon, Zions Bancorp, Utah's biggest lender, stunned the financial community with a regulatory filing in which it announced that as a result of the final Volcker Rule implementation, it will need to make some very dramatic changes to its balance sheet, wh... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago

Happy Birthday to Bob Ojeda, 56. Mainly because he always reminds me of Blue Sox hero Steve Olin, who would have been 48 now. Sad. Also, because in the 30+ years I've known her, my wife really cared about baseball for about a two week stretch: Mets vs. Astros, Mets vs. Red Sox. The good stuff: Jon Krasno and Gregory Robinson make the case for shifting the filibuster burden from the majority (needing 60) to the minority (needing 41). I'm okay with this, but I've never really believed that it would make much difference. Nor do I think it's a likely compromise position and more. So n... more »

Can My Employer Make Me Socialize With Co-Workers? Whether you say yes or no to office events, here are your legal rights

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours ago

It's holiday party time, so this question I received from a reader is timely: *I just read your article about social media passwords, and I have a question for you that my HR person cannot seem to answer for me. My boss told me that I am not relating to the other employees (I didn't realize that I wasn't) and wants me to go to lunch with them or go shopping with them on the weekend. They are mean and spiteful people who look for any way to manipulate people. She asked me about my personal life and made me feel like I had to answer so I did tell her some things. (I won't make that ... more »

Fukushima updates December 17 , 2013 - contamination from radioactive materials continues ( in fact the water contamination problems really picking up ) as Japan is slowly turning into a wasteland..... no wonder the secrecy law was passed posthaste , no wonder the change the subject antics with China and military bravado chest thumping !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago

Energy News....... 05:39 PM EST on December 17th, 2013 | 11 comments Tokyo Press Conference: Cancer is clearly increasing in Fukushima children, many experts starting to get concerned — Tepco has committed a crime; We’re going to the police tomorrow (VIDEO) 01:54 PM EST on December 17th, 2013 | 35 comments AP: ‘Tritium rain’ to result from disposal of Fukushima contaminated water? Expert: You may be interested to know radioactive rainfall occurs around nuclear plants during normal operations (VIDEO) 10:18 AM EST on December 17th, 2013 | 63 comments Official: Fukushima fuel melted “on... more »

War watch December 17 , 2013 - Marginalization of FSA continues in Syria ........Afghan Military Cedes Checkpoints to Taliban in Helmand ........ Iran FM Complains to Kerry About Latest Sanctions EU Prepares to Ease Sanctions on Iran ...... Death dealing in Iraq continues unabated

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago

Syria...... West Tells Syria Rebels: Assad Must StaySNC Member: West Open to Assad Running for Reelection by Jason Ditz, December 17, 2013 Print This | Share This Members of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) report that they have been told by Western officials that they believe President Bashar Assad must remain in power to prevent an al-Qaeda takeover of the country. “Some do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” noted one SNC member. That’s not sitting well with the SNC, but it may not matter. Western diplomats confirmed the shift, saying that the rebels have been w... more »

Sweden SÄPO Puts Pressure on Internet Providers For Data Access

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago

[image: Puffbild Säpo Möte] SÄPO puts pressure on internet providers for data access Sweden Radio News, 17 November 2013 The Swedish Intelligence Service, SÄPO, is continuing to put pressure on telecom and internet operators to join a system which would automatically send customer's phone-call and internet-surfing details to the secret service, Swedish Radio News reports. The operators are currently obliged to hand over the information by law if there is a request by a prosecutor, but do it manually to make sure there is an official request by a prosecutor first. Many of them ... more »

A Citrus Immune Boosting Smoothie by Diana Glasser

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago

*For the recipe, please click on the link provided below:* *The Kitchen Rag*

SPOT THE ODD ONE OUT

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago

*Kevin Terry* of *Kevin Terry and Predestined* is a popular gospel singer. A video leaked to the internet shows Kevin Terry having sex with a young man. Gospel Singer Kevin Terry *Jim Swilley* is the pastor of a Georgia megachurch with thousands of followers. He is the father of four children. He decided to publicly declare that he is gay. "I know a lot of straight people think orientation is a choice. I want to tell you that it is not," Jim Swilley said. Swilley has recently reached his 5,000-friend limit on Facebook and his wall is adorned with praise for his decision to co... more »

Third World America

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 16 hours ago

What the heck is wrong?

Amazon Warehouse Workers Strike in Germany Over Pay, Sweatshop Conditions ....... Amazon earning a black eye for abusive warehouse practices , in particular in Germany. At least the Germans workers are standing up to the abuse by striking !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago

Amazon Warehouse Workers Strike in Germany Over Pay, Sweatshop ConditionsPosted on December 17, 2013 by Yves Smith Amazon is rapidly becoming the poster child for what is wrong with the so-called new economy. Critical to the online retailer’s success is its warehouse operation, which have been repeatedly found to demand unreasonable work output from its “pickers” as well as often being physically demanding, which is compounded by the warehouses too often being uncomfortably hot or cold. From a post last July: Amazon has been repeatedly cited here and abroad for abusive conditions ... more »

Enoch/Matthew and the Tares

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 18 hours ago

[image: BPEarthWatch] BPEarthWatch * Dec 16, 2013* A Parallel. Free Bible Software http://www.e-sword.net The Book of Enoch Online http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/b... Solar and Quake Links.. http://www.bpearthwatch.com

NORTH KOREA!!!!!

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 18 hours ago

Last summer, North Korea's mad ambitions to attack the United States [actually desperate blustering in the face of USA/South Korean provocations] were all over the news until a bomb exploded at the Boston Marathon. "Poof!" North Korea's inscrutable threat vanished into the thin air from whence it came. But now North Korea is back in the news. Supposedly the boy-dictator is killing family members and stuff. It's either the tonic for a slow news day or North Korea is being targeted. (Not that I have any respect for that regime.)

Message From The Hopi Nation About Japan

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago

*March 17, 2011* This is a historic moment for our planet to hear them speak. The Hopi Elder have come forward with a message to the world in response to the tsunami and earthquake disaster in Japan. They give humanity a simple message for our future and how to overcome these difficult times. *Hopi original letter:* The Hopi are praying the people of Japan and for the people around the world as we face crisis in our world out of balance. We are all in a time of great change upon mother earth and these events have been foretold by our Elders. Through our Prophecies and our Ce... more »

BBC Drops Propaganda Hammer on Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours ago

Jonathan Head of BBC does disingenuous hit piece on Thai conflict. Exposing the BBC's lies - point by point. *December 17, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - When the BBC isn't taking cash to fix the news, as exposed by the Independent, or deceiving viewers with fake footage posted in documentaries, or posting pictures from atrocities committed by the West in Iraq on news articles for Syria, it is meddling in every other corner of the world, manipulating public perception for the benefit of the corporate-financier interests it gladly shares the Chatham House's corporate membership with. In... more »

Mining 38: Canada's $7.8 B a year tax revenues vs PH's $0.3 B

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago

* This is my article today in Mining Week. ---------- Two weeks ago, this report from Resource Clips bannered a bold story, *Mining industry has paid Canada $71 billion in last 10 years*. Excerpts: *“The Mining Association of Canada released its annual report on December 3 about mining industry payments to Canadian governments, prepared by ENTRANS Policy Research Group. Now in its tenth year of publication, the report found mining payments to federal and provincial government coffers total an estimated $71 billion from 2003 to 2012 in aggregate mining taxes and royalties, corporate ... more »

Useless or harmful: hand soap, vitamin pills, raw milk

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago

Today, the news outlets are full of reports that some "common supplements" of the modern life that are believed to aid our health are claimed to be useless if not harmful. I will mention three independent major stories: FDA against anti-bacterial soaps Papers against vitamin pills Paper counting illnesses caused by raw milk The common theme is that it seem incredible to me that after so many years and after the sale of tens of billions of these products for hundreds of billions of dollars, the question whether these things are helpful seems completely open. *A typical Czech raw mi... more »

Updates On Syria [12.17]: Hezbollah Comes Under Attack, Kurds In Syria Agree To Form New Union Ahead of Geneva II, Jihadist Terrorist Groups Execute 80 Civilians Because Of Their Religion

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago

*1. An excerpt from, "Car Bomb Hits Hezbollah Stronghold in East Lebanon" AP, December 17:* The National News Agency said in its report that the explosion occurred about two kilometers (mile) away from a Hezbollah center on the road between Sbouba and Wadi Abu Mousa. The car bomb was "intercepted" at a Hezbollah checkpoint and exploded after members of the checkpoint fired on it, the report said. It was unclear if the car detonated from the gunshots or if the driver set off the explosion. The NNN said there were multiple casualties and that ambulances were rushing to the area, whi... more »

USA'S SICK SAILORS

Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago

In 2011, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan assisted with rescue operations after the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. At least 51 members of the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan have now developed radiation-related illnesses. It is thought that the ship's desalinization systems took in radioactive water which the crew drank, cooked with and bathed-in. *51 Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan Suffering Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Tumors After Participating in Fukushima Nuclear Rescue Efforts * Charles Bonner, attorney representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan said ... more »

Tutorial: Thumbprint Ornament

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours ago

Every year, I like to involve my daughter as much in the gift making process as possible. It gives us something to do together and gifts always seem to mean a little more when she is involved in making them. This year we decided to take the Thumbprint Necklace from Rae Gun Ramblings and turn it into a simple ornament. These ornaments were easy to pull together and look even better in person. You will need: Clay Parchment Paper Plastic knife disposable straw Ribbon Metal Stamps Non-food rolling pin Start by taking a small section of clay and warming it up it your hands. Work with ... more »

For the Last Generation, the Range of Permissible Opinion with Respect to the Program - Which Most Americans Depend On for Nearly All of Their Income in Old Age - Ranged from Conservatives Who Wanted to Abolish Social Security Altogether, to Press-Anointed "Progressives" and Token Democrats Who Merely Wanted to Cut Social Security Benefits

Cirze at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago

Elizabeth Warren has changed the calculus of the much-feared Social Security insoluable conundrum. Believe it or not, people are now actually talking about increasing what Social Security pays out instead of increasing what people must pay in to get less of a payout. Imagine! (Peak behind the curtain, kiddies!) Dean Baker explains the whole situation even better (at the end of this essay).

Will Utah Revert To Polygamy Again?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Religion is a weird thing and I'm not comfortable with government getting involved in even recognizing it as legitimate. If people want to worship a sky god or a rock or ancestors or whatever, they should be free to do that-- unless they harm others and commit crimes. Mormonism is obviously nonsense from start to finish but is it any more ridiculous and any more of a hustler tradition than any other religion? Maybe. Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups, a right-wing Mormon freak who George W. Bush appointed to the judiciary (and confirmed by the Senate by unanimous co... more »

Allen Young : Ralph Dungan, the 'Good Liberal'

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago

Ralph Dungan in Chile, 1966. Photo from The Washington Post. Discretion, valor, and the 'good liberal' In the most patronizing tone, Mr. Dungan said if we opposed U.S. policy, we should 'return to the U.S. and run for Congress.' By Allen Young / The Rag Blog / December 16, 2013 The October obituary of Ralph Dungan, one of President John F. Kennedy’s top aides who later served as ambassador

Haitian Child-Slave Becomes Miracle

John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day ago

[image: (Photo by John Carroll--December, 2013)] (Photo by John Carroll--December, 2013) During the last two decades I have had the opportunity to meet hundreds of people who have cared for Haitian Hearts children in their homes before and after the children have had heart surgery. These host families from all over the United States have been wonderful. In 2003 Haitian Hearts brought six Haitian children on the same flight from Port-au-Prince to the Tampa International Airport. All were sick and needed heart surgery soon. Three of the children would be operated at All Children’s... more »

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Antalya (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Atatürk at the library of Çankaya Köşkü Presidential Residence on July 16, 1929. His dog can be seen lying on the floor, under the table. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk visits the reorganized Istanbul University on December 15, 1930. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

He is in Bursa Public speech (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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HEROIN, HAIRLESS BOYS, 9 11 HIJACKERS, TURKISH HISTORY

Anonataangirfan - 2 minutes ago

*Ataturk* Turkey is famous for heroin and hairless boys. Ataturk, the leader of Turkey from 1923-1938, is still the most popular man in Turkey. According to Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross, *Ataturk had sexual "adventures with young boys*, if the opportunity offered and the mood, in this bisexual fin-de-siècle Ottoman age." According to Irfan and Margaret Orga, in *Atatürk*, Ataturk "was used to ... the craze for handsome young men, (and) fleeting contacts with prostitutes... His body burned for ... a boy." According to H.C. Armstrong, in *Mustafa Kemal, An Intimate Study*, Ataturk... more »

Las mejores imágenes de Navidad y Año Nuevo que podrás disfrutar y compartir

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 16 minutes ago

A Merry Banksy Christmas

AlisonatCreekside - 37 minutes ago

Five years ago, BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool walked from Nazareth to Bethlehem, retracing the route taken by Mary and Joseph by donkey as told in the Bible. For ten days he and his donkey successfully negotiated the queues, turnstiles and x-ray machines at some military checkpoints while being turned away at others despite his foreign passport and Israeli press credentials. On the morning of December 22 on his trek, he talked to a New Yorker who had emigrated to the Jewish settlement of Shilo built on Palestinian land in the middle of the West Bank. ... more »

jack nicholson explains ufos

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 52 minutes ago

Today’s Tests vs. “Better” Tests

Timothy D. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 58 minutes ago

I sent this letter to the editor (below) in response to Alan J. Borsuk’s article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinal. In the article Professor Borsuk laments low standardized test scores and over testing and then simply (with the help of Marc Tucker, CEO and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy) offers […]

Reddit: a major "share a random URL" server bans climate skeptics

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 1 hour ago

I know the reddit.com server as one of the servers where you may "share an URL". Why someone would visit this server has always been completely incomprehensible to me – the pages on reddit.com look like a collection of trash – some random URLs– and the discussions attached to these URLs seem to be overwhelmed by trolls. I have been thankful to reddit.com as one of the sinks of the trolls' energy – a place where this foam of the Internet interacts with itself so that it has less time to annoy decent Internet users. Even Reddit's official logo seems to confirm that this is the mis... more »

Forgotten Audio Gems - Tim Binnall Interviews Scott Corrales

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 hour ago

Forgotten audio gems: *Community Video* over at the *Internet Archives*(archives.org) has hosted an episode of *Tim Binnall*'s "Binnall of America" in which he interviews yours truly, Scott Corrales, on the Chupacabras and sundry matters. *https://archive.org/details/Season2Episode5ScottCorrales*. It was a lively and informative exchange. Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 hour ago

*More massive tar mats from BP oil spill discovered on Louisiana beaches ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*

Another heartwarming rescue by Eldad Hagar of Hope for Paws...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 hour ago

Please consider a donation to *Hope for Paws* this Christmas season.

The Fight Against School Reform Is a Fight for Children

John ThompsonatSchools Matter - 2 hours ago

Why did commenters say that Diane Ravitch's, "What Happens to Kids Who Don't Graduate?" is her best post ever? Ravitch reviews the dramatic drop in Kentucky and New York pass rates after instituting Common Core assessments: *In New York, the “passing” rate on the Common Core tests was 30% statewide. Only 3% of English learners passed, and only 5% of students with disabilities. The pass rate for African American and Hispanic students was 15-18%. * If reformers "continue to insist upon a wildly unrealistic passing mark," Ravitch reminds, "the percentage of students who do not gradu... more »

Bone Doc

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 2 hours ago

Southern Man got the call yesterday from the Bone Doc and saw him (or, rather, his PA) this morning. That fracture blister was swollen to epic proportions and the pic is sufficiently disburbing that Southern Man is going to make you click on the link to actually see it. Fracture Blister They usually wait for these to go down on their own but this one was so large that they lanced and drained it before applying the splint which means that Southern Man must remove the splint, remove the dressing, clean the wound, apply all manner of topical ointments and gels and such, re-dress the ... more »

Caching On Crutches

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 2 hours ago

You don't think a minor setback like a fractured fibula is going to keep Southern Man from geocaching, did you? Dedicated cacher or just plain crazy? You be the judge.

Parents Opting Out of Tests: What is Your Goal?

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago

After doing a segment on the local Albuquerque news channel about refusing the state tests, I received a few responses. Most were questions or suggestions for the website, which were all very good. Then, I received a letter that was full of stuff I’ve heard over and over again, and to which I’ve responded too […]

There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago

From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Travis Rathbone) *There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections* *One of the earliest examples of ingenuity in the Western Hemisphere is composed of gourds and twine* By Neil Baldwin Smithsonian magazine, December 2013, Subscribe As a nomadic cultural historian, my subjects have led me in wildly different directions. I spent every Friday for five years in a dim, dusty reading room in West Orange, New Jersey, formerly a laboratory on the second floor of Thomas Edison’s headquarters, deciphering the blunt-... more »

Who Remembers Romney's 47% Host, Marc Leder? Now He's Raising Money For Another Economic Reactionary, Ro Khanna

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago

Shady billionaire-backed Ro Khanna primarying Mike Honda Blue America has endorsed only 2 House incumbents facing reelection difficulty. And one, Mike Honda, represents Silicon Valley-- CA-17, a heavily Democratic area-- D+20 which Obama took with 72% last year. Honda even did better than that, beating his Republican opponent 74-26%, more than 100,000 votes separating them. The plutocratic interests in the district-- and across the country-- know they can't beat Honda, a lifelong staunch advocate for working families, with an outright Republican, so now they're trying to a stealth Re... more »

Heavenletter #4771 Oneness Will Sing Its Song and Do Its Dance, December 17, 2013

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago

Image courtesy: http://www.onenessblessingarkansas.com/ *This one jumped out at me. Heather was walking on the beach the other night doing some meditation and a dolphin jumped out of the water and landed in front of her. She got in the surf and pulled it back into the water "this will not do she told it..." as it would have died if it stayed on shore. We've been puzzling over the symbolism of it all since... and here comes this curious post.... -Bill* *Heavenletter #4771 Oneness Will Sing Its Song and Do Its Dance, December 17, 2013* God said: You are My seed that has sprouted. ... more »

The Realist Report - David North: Center for Immigration Studies

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 3 hours ago

On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by David North, a fellow at the *Center for Immigration Studies*. David and I will be talking about EB-5 visa programs and the "China City" project currently scheduled for development in Sullivan County, New York, along with other issues related to legal and illegal immigration policy in the United States. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant links for this program: - *China City: A perfect storm... more »

Pittsburgh School Board Reconsiders TFA Deal As Real Teachers File for Unemployment

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 4 hours ago

From the Post-Gazette: The board of Pittsburgh Public Schools heard from a dozen people Monday -- most of them teachers -- who oppose the district's plan to bring in Teach for America teachers to take hard-to-fill jobs at its most challenging schools. The outgoing school board voted 6-3 in November to approve a contract with Teach for America, despite a petition that asked them to defer the decision to the new board -- with four new members -- that took office early this month. During a presentation last week by a Teach for America representative, several board members challenged the... more »

Provocation

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 4 hours ago

The criterion to be applied in order to determine whether there is any provocation sufficient to reduce murder to manslaughter is a dual test, the classic formulation of which was pronounced in Wright, [1969] 3 C.C.C. 258 (S.C.C.).Fauteux J. (as he then was), after quoting s.203(2) [now s.232(2)], said (at 261 and 262): One must then first consider the effect, on an ordinary person, of the particular wrongful act or insult relied on. In the words of Lord Simonds, L.C., the purpose of this objective test is "...to invite the jury to consider the act of the accused by reference... more »

FIVE KEY POINTS AND ELEVEN SOLUTIONS: The New York Times and the PISA cult!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 4 hours ago

*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013* *Interlude—Functional illiterates:* As many have noted, sometimes unwisely, anti-intellectualism can be a troubling strain in the American fabric. We liberals tend to focus on the anti-intellectualism associated with the red state South. We tend to look away from the anti-intellectualism which pervades our mainstream and liberal cultures. That powerful strain of anti-intellectualism may service the needs of our global elites. In a relentless series of columns, Paul Krugman has shown how our economic discourse is shaped by such elites, then enabled by t... more »

The snowboarding crow

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 4 hours ago

That crows are intelligent and use tools is understood but a crow snowboarding... Now that's an intelligent and fun loving bird!

It's Wednesday...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 5 hours ago

*what's going on.* Last Refuge: *Seriously ? – Pajama Boy Now Represents The Image of ObamaCare* American Thinker: *Left to Die in Benghazi* iOwnTheWorld: *Mr. T Gets Unfollowed in Droves on Twitter For Saying Something RADICAL* Angry White Dude: *QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF KRYSTAL’S IDEA? * Proof Positive: * President Selfie is 111th Most Influential Person in History * I'm a Man. I'm 41: * Apple Approves An App That Allows Homosexuals To Meet Up With Other “Gays” As Young As 12-Years-Old* Jammie Wearing Fool: *CBS/NYT Poll: Only 15% of Insured Say ObamaCar... more »

Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 5 hours ago

Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy. via Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy.

Low Level Attacks Characterize Violence In Iraq’s Ninewa November 2013

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 5 hours ago

According to the United Nations Iraq’s Ninewa has been the second deadliest province for most of 2013. That’s because the governorate capital Mosul is the major urban base for the insurgency. Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Baathist Naqshibandi and others have been able to assert control over wide swaths of the city and surrounding area. Unlike places like Baghdad where mass casualty bombings are the norm, in Ninewa violence consists mostly of low-level shootings and roadside bombs but with no less deadly results. November 2013 saw the most reported attacks in Ninewa since the beginning o... more »

Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny

P. L. ThomasatSchools Matter - 5 hours ago

At The Answer Sheet, Valerie Strauss confronts What’s wrong with this headline?: What’s wrong with this headline speaks to what’s wrong with a lot of the debate about school reform today. The problem is the indiscriminate and inaccurate use of the word “accountability.” While politicians and the media continue to pound at one nail—teacher quality—almost no one confronts the nearly universal lack of credibility or expertise among those politicians and much of the media—both of which remain, somehow, above the accountability they constantly call for impacting others, specifically tea... more »

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 5 hours ago

2014 Educators’ Agenda

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago

Begin a movement to create and fund Deliver for America, temporary driver pool to replace full-time drivers at FedEx. (See FedEx Celebrating Holidays with TFA Donations.) Call for a nation-wide evaluation of political leaders based on value added methods measuring their positive impact on the people they represent; standardized tests administered for every elected official should include […]

Birnam Wood Is Moving

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 6 hours ago

The year end interview with CTV's Bob Fife is off. That's because there's nothing Stephen Harper wants to talk about. It's been that kind of year. It's been the kind of year that Eric Grenier believes may well have sunk the good ship Harper: The polls have gone from bad to worse for Harper, as his government plumbs the depths of its time in power. Never before has support for the Conservatives dropped so low for so long since they defeated Paul Martin in the 2006 election. Challenges by Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, who both led Liberals into first place in the polls for ... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 6 hours ago

Happy Birthday to Alan Rudolph, 70. Travel day yesterday, so I hardly saw any good stuff, but there are these: 1. Andrew Sprung, as usual, listens to Obama better than most of us. 2. Keith Bentele and Erin O’Brien track black voting and restrictions on voting. 3. And really, no more (blogging) Dan Drezner?

What the Koran says - something for @sambarnet to read and listen to

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 6 hours ago

Earlier this year Robert Spencer was on the BBC Asian Network and at one point the host (Nihal) asked him to quote verses from the Koran or the Hadiths that he finds reprehensible. Robert Spencer quickly responded with several verses from the Koran and one from the Hadith. Note that the Imam (Dudwallah ?) to provide the proper ‘context’ for these verses, since he objected to them being out of context. Note that he was unable to do so and when put on the spot he claimed that this is Robert Spencer’s field, not his. I did enjoy Nihal responding incredulously "But you're an imam!" Also ... more »

Is The Senate Actually Starting To Function Again?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago

Monday there were two votes in the Senate on Presdient Obama's nomination of Jeh Johnson to be Secretary of Homeland Security. First came a cloture vote. There were 57 ayes and 37 nays, with 6 Republicans not voting. Under the bad old rules, that would have ended the chance to confirm the first African-American ever nominated to that position. The only Republicans who broke with McConnell and crossed the aisle to vote with the Democrats were Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). That was at 5:59 pm. Because shutting down a filibuster on most nominations no longer requires... more »

A blogger using the pseudonym "teacherken" collects a number of quotes by Bill Moyers and uses them as context bearing on his own history-based sense of what We the (99% of American) People currently confront, i.e., living under an extractive plutocracy, and how this nightmare fits in our history.

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 7 hours ago

------------------------------ *teacherken* Daily Kos member Profile Diaries (list) Stream Original Here ------------------------------ SAT DEC 14, 2013 at 09:33 AM PST I am going to ask, no insist, that you read something by teacherken ------------------------------ Bill Moyers recently gave a speech at the Brennan Institute. If you go to his website, you can read an edited version of that speech, titled The Great American Class War: Plutocracy Versus Democracy. Simply put, Moyers provides context ... more »

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justices Should Stay If They're Able To Work

Len HartatThe Existentialist Cowboy - 7 hours ago

*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Some liberals have recently called on Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire so that President Barack Obama can choose her replacement. At 80, she is the oldest justice on the court. Some fear that if she chooses to stay, a Republican succesor to Obama might nominate another A. Scalia. God help us! But Justice Ginsburg believes that Supreme Court justices should not be influenced by political assessments of a party's future prospects with respect to the court. One of Ginsburg's shining moments came with the dubious ascension of one George W. BUsh to... more »

Widespread Snow On Christmas Eve/Christmas For The UK & Ire 2013?

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 7 hours ago

*Widespread Snow On Christmas Eve/Christmas For The UK & Ire 2013?* The latest weather models are indicating that a rather wet and windy picture will develop for the 2013 Christmas period across many parts of the UK & Ireland. A significant area of low pressure is set to feature across the country in or around the Christmas Eve period (24th). This will also bring a period of exceptionally windy conditions, with some severe gales developing in places. However, it is also set to turn noticeably cooler across many parts of the country from next week and as we head into the start of t... more »

Mild December? + What is really going on? + IMPORTANT rest of December & January update

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 7 hours ago

*Mild December? + What is really going on? + IMPORTANT rest of December & January update* High pressure will be a dominating feature throughout the start to this week, resulting in relatively dry and more settled weather across a good bulk of the country. It will also feel rather mild for the time of the year, with the increased risk of some heavy rain and strong winds developing later in the week (especially in parts to the west). However, as with November, what is being projected by standard weather models in the upper atmosphere, may not necessarily be reflected upon in actual s... more »

Weather Wars Update & My Accuracy

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 7 hours ago

*Weather Wars Update & My Accuracy* *Weather Wars: Met Office denies predicting three months of exceptionally cold weather amid reports of Britain's coldest winter ever!* *http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/weather-wars-met-office-denies-predicting-three-months-of-exceptionally-cold-weather-amid-reports-of-britains-coldest-winter-ever-8973755.html* So it's not acceptable when the Met Office are misquoted in articles or headlines are misinterpreted! For example the recent six inches of snow headline (please see link below). I did feature within the article, but I simply sta... more »

Trifecta: President Obama Says Income Inequality is the Defining Challenge...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 7 hours ago

*as he heads off for seventeen sun soaked days in Hawaii. *

Breaking News: Russian Scientists Call For A 10 Year Ban On GMO

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago

Breaking News: Russian scientists urge 10-year ban on genetically modified products. READ: http://rt.com/news/gmo-ban-russian-scientists-293/ *Source:* *GMO Free Canada*

Serbia Bans The Growing Of GMO Crops

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago

Serbia will not allow the cultivation of GMOs in its territory, Minister of Agriculture Dragan Glamocic stated, despite pressure to accept GMOs from the WTO. "We have to harmonize our legislations with the EU acquis, which does not mean tha...t we will allow the cultivation of GMOs," the minister told Radio and Television of Serbia, stressing that the citizens should know that 95 percent of meat, milk, eggs that are imported from other world countries are coming from animals which were fed by GMO soy products. A draft law, which is underway, will clearly label all imported produc... more »

Citibank pulling out of Philadelphia and shutting regional branches in Cherry Hill and Lawrenceville ( both in NJ ) , as well as branches on US 202 North of Wilmington , Del !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 8 hours ago

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Citibank-shutting-Philadelphia-.html Citibank pulling out of Philadelphia Share Tweet Reddit Email 69 COMMENTS [image: (AP Photo / Mark Lennihan)] (AP Photo / Mark Lennihan) AP Travel Deals $615 & up -- 3-Nt. Vegas Trip w/Spa Discount & Extras from Philly See all travel deals » Weekly Circulars 50% Off Kids' Xersion(JCPenney) PetSmart Celebrate The Season 2013 Gift Guide(PetSmart USA) See More Circulars » Joseph N. DiStefanoPOSTED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013, 12:48 PM Citibank, the global Manhattan-based loan and investment company, is ... more »

AT&T patents tech that can block copyright pirates (and anything else) in real-time

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 8 hours ago

*Its not a small step to go from banning a video to banning a forbidden document or web page... they're analyzing content and scoring the results in a database... And then acting as judge and law enforcement, who needs Judge Dredd when you have AT&T? Now do you see why they consolidated the Internet Provider Services by subsidizing the Telecom giants with nice billion dollar wiretap contracts with the NSA and FBI? They can easily pressure the major telecom CEOs to comply but they could never do that without public exposure to the thousands of ISP providers that existed in the lat... more »

Gardasil: My Daughter’s Worst Nightmare by Donna Malone

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago

Allie Malone Gardasil: My daughter’s worst nightmare By Donna Malone Murfreesboro Tennessee Sane Vax, Ince, November 27, 2013 Cancer is a frightening word. Any parent in the world would do whatever was in their power to protect their child from this terrible disease. I had no idea adding Gardasil to our list of protective measures would turn our lives into a nightmare. Allie is my beautiful 12 year old daughter. She is the youngest of my three children. Having been born 12 years after her brother and sister, she was a little spoiled. Allie made every day a party. For several y... more »

If my favorite textbook hasn't simplified things enough for you...

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 8 hours ago

My friend and former student Miles Kimball takes a stab at explaining some basic macroeconomics through the vehicle of a child's storybook.

The #ChristmasMyths, #1: The Myth of the Miraculous Birth

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 8 hours ago

[image: image] Christians claim the miraculous Christmas story of the Nativity and all its trappings as unique to their own particular heresy, apparently as unaware of the story’s origins as they are of its paucity of even Biblical support—failing to notice that that there is nothing at all miraculous in Paul’s two quite minor references to Jesus’ birth (the earliest written reference), nothing at all in Mark (the earliest Gospel), two quite different and incompatible versions of the birth written later and attributed to Matthew and Luke (prompting many historians to contemplate ... more »

Gardasil : le pire cauchemar de ma fille par Donna Malone

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours ago

*Gardasil *: le pire cauchemar de ma fille Par Donna Malone, Murfreesboro, 27 novembre 2013 (Sanevax) Le mot « Cancer » est effrayant. Tous les parents du monde feraient n’importe quoi pour protéger leurs enfants de cette terrible maladie. Quand j’ai ajouté le Gardasil à toutes les précautions que nous avions prises pour la santé, notre vie est devenue un véritable cauchemar. Allie est ma jolie jeune-fille de 12 ans. Elle est la plus jeune de mes trois enfants. Comme elle est née 12 ans après son frère et sa sœur, elle a été quelque peu gâtée. Pour Allie, chaque jour était un jour... more »

Thai Crisis: Alternative Thai News Round Up

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 9 hours ago

*December 18, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - With the ongoing counter-color revolution unfolding in Thailand against the Wall Street-backed regime of Thaksin Shinawatra, here are some stories published on Alternative Thai Newsthat weren't yet posted on Land Destroyer. Thailand: Inside the Mind of a Thaksin Regime Supporter Disturbing 2009 interview with pro-Thaksin demagogue reveals mentality of regime's supporters - utter ignorance regarding human rights, basic human freedom, and the very concept of democracy they claim to be defending. *December 16, 2013* (Forward by Tony Cartalucci) - ... more »

Watch this kitten...(video)

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 9 hours ago

*and learn something.* Seriously.

Can you hear the sound of teeth being gritted at the BBC?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 9 hours ago

This is the top of the BBC UK News home page If you think you can hear the sound of gritted teeth as the BBC report this news, you're probably right. Incidentally the BBC report about the UK jobless rate ends thus: Average weekly earnings growth including bonuses picked up by 0.9% in the three months to October compared with a year earlier, the ONS said, a slight improvement on the three months to September. Excluding bonuses, pay grew by 0.8%. But this is still well below the level of inflation - currently running at 2.1% - meaning that people's living standards are falling in r... more »

Fun with German compound words

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 10 hours ago

Even if you have no German language skills this video should still make perfect sense and amuse...

STRIP SEARCH LEADS TO USA-INDIA 'WAR'.

Anonataangirfan - 12 hours ago

*Diplomat Devyani * Devyani Khobragade is India's deputy consul general in New York. On 12 December 2013, she was taken into custody just as she was dropping her daughter off at school. She was handcuffed in public. *She was strip-searched.* *She was put in a cell with drug addicts and subjected to DNA swabbing.* *Devyani* Devyani was arrested because her maid had complained she was being payed less than the minimum stipulated under US visa requirements. INSIDE-JOB: MUMBAI. / CIA'S DAVID HEADLEY PLOTTED MUMBAI MASSACRE *Now, remember that it was the CIA that reportedly carried ... more »

Math is the language of the true culture of modern times

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 12 hours ago

*...and math skills are unavoidable side effects of skills that turned some humans into heroes of natural selection...* *Copenhagen:* I haven't been to theaters in Boston too many times ;-) but it was at least once when we went to see Copenhagen. You may watch Bohr and Heisenberg in a 90-minute BBC-4 movie now. Via Joseph S. Three days ago, Sabine Hossenfelder wrote a text about the role of mathematics in the society: Mathematics, the language of nature. What are you sinking about? Edward Measure's brief response proved that mathematics plays a much smaller role in the society of p... more »

Bane sings Elton John

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 13 hours ago

In a casting choice that's as vile and puke-making as Matt Damon playing Liberace's toy boy, actor Tom Hardy has upcoming central roles in both Mad Max (Fury Road) and the Elton John biopic (Rocketman). There's probably a real news story hiding underneath this cheapshot stab at humour, but really it's just for laughs.

dream - dead cat returns - with kitten and an old work colleague

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 13 hours ago

this was kinda weird, in that I didn't know this particular cat was a) dead or b) associated with an ex-work colleague whose funeral we all attended on September 11th 2001. I met the guy in the street, in passing. It was in London, as I was running to catch a train, he had a younger brother with him and a moustache. I can't remember if it was he or the younger brother who had the moustache, but then a cat appeared. And I nearly didn't recognise it as it had grown greyer than I remembered it. But the way it pushed its face at the back of my hand, and the thinness at the end of its t... more »

today is chelsea manning's fourth birthday behind bars

laura katwmtc - 13 hours ago

Private Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning), who risked her freedom and her life so that people would see the truth about the US occupation of Iraq, is spending another birthday in prison. This is Manning's fourth birthday behind bars. She was held in solitary confinement (a recognized form of torture) for 10 months, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for releasing the video now known as Collateral Murder and other information to Wikileaks. Not one person was harmed as a result of the information becoming public. On the other hand, the men who cooked up the highly profit... more »

open letter to james moore

laura katwmtc - 13 hours ago

To the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry: In answer to your recent question, yes, it *is* your job to feed your neighbour's child. And it's my job, and it's my neighbours' jobs, too. It is all of our jobs to feed every hungry child, because we live in a society, and that's what society is for. It is appalling that anyone in government would ask such a question. Mr. Moore, you may have been cornered into an apology by public outcry, and of course you tried the old "I was quoted out of context" route, but we know the truth when we hear it. And that comment was the true fac... more »

rtod

laura katwmtc - 13 hours ago

Revolutionary thought of the day: ...something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. Suzanne Collins, *Mockingjay*

Tutorial: FROZEN Anna Cloak

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 13 hours ago

I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. We are completely FROZEN obsessed in this house. About a generation ago, my family came to America from Norway, my mom's brother and cousins still live in Norway, and so when we heard that Disney's FROZEN has Norwegian influences we were thrilled. Being Norwegian has always been a big part of my identity, an identity my mom always took care to share with me, but I was unsure of how to share it with my daugh... more »

Updates On Syria [12.18]: West Says Assad Could Remain In Power In A Limited Capacity, Syria-Linked Extremists Target Alawites In Lebanon, Vatican Is Negotiating The Release of Kidnapped Nuns

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 14 hours ago

*1. An excerpt from, "West Tells Syria Rebels: Assad Must Stay" by Jason Ditz, AntiWar.Com, December 16:* Members of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) report that they have been told by Western officials that they believe President Bashar Assad must remain in power to prevent an al-Qaeda takeover of the country. “Some do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” noted one SNC member. That’s not sitting well with the SNC, but it may not matter. *Western diplomats confirmed the shift, saying that the rebels have been warned that any “transitional administration” would have ... more »

Alan Grayson-- The Essential Member of Congress

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

Blue America doesn't do many live events. But on November 12, 2011 we were very excited to offer all of our Southern California members an opportunity to meet Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson at the Brave New Films studios in Culver City. John Amato, Digby and I had worked with Robert Greenwald to host the free event featuring Grayson. I blogged about it that day and again last July on the occasion of Britain granting one of World War II's greatest heroes, Alan Turing, a posthumous pardon for the crime of being gay. That day at the Brave New Films studios was a wonderful day for... more »

The Anglo American Establishment

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 16 hours ago

Censored News Year in Photos 2013: Ten Indelible Images

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago

Censored News Photos of the Year 2013 Censored News most shared and viewed photos of 2013 An incredible year of women and youths in resistance Jan. 25, 2013: Police in St Louis today use compliance pressure on protesters, as Navajos demanded to talk with Peabody Coal http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/01/navajos-and-appalachians-protest.html Jan. 27, 2013: Debra White Plume, Lakota, "

One Third of NJ Urban Students in Unfit, Dilapidated Buildings

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 17 hours ago

A tenured sociologist gets a bit of the #teacherprep treatment, more like #teacherperp @scottjaschik

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 17 hours ago

Sandy Hook Exposed: The Realist Report Discusses The Latest On The Sandy Hook Fraud, And Updated Video By Sofia Smallstorm

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 17 hours ago

"Surely a country that honors the devotion of family members to each other should want to make it at least a little easier for them to do their jobs" (E. J. Dionne Jr.)

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago

Quote of the Day: On Women

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 18 hours ago

Syria and Afghanistan updates - December 15 , 2013 - Syria item of note....With FSA Supreme Military Commander Idris literally run out of Syria by the islamist / jihadist / Al Qaeda forces - looks like the US is preparing to get in bed with terrorists - these same fighters will without questions use any US weapons provided to them against either Israel and / or the US interests down the road... Regarding Afghanistan - we need to stay there because of Al Qaeda - that would be the same franchise islamist tyep fighters we are meeting with on Syria ? What is our foreign policy regarding aiding terrorists again ?

Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago

The truth in my view is that most offenders don’t belong in prison. Prison is deadening to the soul, destructive, the very admission of societal defeat. It rehabilitates almost no one. It takes remarkable strength for anyone to emerge less damaged than before.

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 18 hours ago

Story

Panda in Blizzard

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 19 hours ago

Stay of civil proceedings on Court's own motion to be granted rarely

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 19 hours ago

Lots of Ravens

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 19 hours ago

Useful rubes

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 19 hours ago

[Ed Stein cartoon]

George Zimmerman, rip off artist

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 19 hours ago

Libya Updates - December 17 , 2013 .....Security or the lack thereof items of interest , petrol shortage in Tripoli finally resolving , economic and political matters of note .......

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 19 hours ago

Western Governors University's Path to Becoming a Teacher in NJ

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 19 hours ago

The reason for the season?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 20 hours ago

Will you print your next house.

SteveatThinking Aboot - 20 hours ago

You can do it today, thanks to Wikihouse.

A Teacher’s 12 Days of Christmas

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 20 hours ago

West's Support For Sunni Extremism In Syria Is Triggering Chaos In The Region

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 21 hours ago

Fukushima: The Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan

Spike EPatNews Spike - 21 hours ago

Doug Martin on Justin Oakley's Radio Show Wednesday, December 18

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 21 hours ago

The Elephant in the Room

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago

FOX surrenders in the War on Christmas

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 21 hours ago

This is hilarious. Apparently FOX has defected to our side in the War on Christmas. Wonder if anyone has told Megyn or Bill O yet? [Media Matters screen capture via Oliver Willis]

Jack Monroe and the Sociology of Selling Out

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 22 hours ago

Monsanto Marijuana Initiative Grows in Uruguay?

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 22 hours ago

Well, well well...... THAT certainly explains a lot, doesn't it? Monsanto Marijuana Initiative Grows in Uruguay? By Staff Report - December 13, 2013 *Uruguay becomes first nation to legalise marijuana trade ... T* - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34833/Monsanto-Marijuana-Initiative-Grows-in-Uruguay/#sthash.uz9pI0mj.dpuf *edited: 12/18/2013 10:19am: comment from Judge Dale:* Comment: The reason Monsanto does not want farmers to harvest seeds from one year to be used to grow next years crop is because NATURE eliminates the GMO modifications. So the following ye... more »

Bad Bear's Photos Longest Walk 4 Dec. 17, 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago

. Thanks to Bad Bear (photo above) for the photos each day! Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz taking those final steps toward Alcatraz, with arrival on Dec. 21. A Sovereignty Gathering will be held on Dec. 22 at Oakland Friendship House. Thanks to Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone long walker, for sharing his photos each day! From Corrina Gould Hello

When Facebook friends fall out

Jody PatersonatA Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 22 hours ago

The Total Compliance Charter Model Has Come to Your Neighborhood

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 22 hours ago

Is Economic Justice The Ticket For Democrats-- Or Should They Compete With The GOP For The Economic Inequality Vote?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago

Christy Clark`s Most Excellent Families First Drunken Adventure

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 22 hours ago

High Stakes Standardized Tests Help Fuel Drug Company Profits

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 23 hours ago

When Megyn Kelly was good!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 23 hours ago

*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013* *Her interview with Bill Burton:* Is Santa Claus white? On occasion, he has been. At other times, plainly not. We were watching in real time when Megyn Kelly made her now-famous remarks on this controversial topic. We thought her remarks were odd at the time, though we’ll have to admit we hadn’t noticed that she was addressing herself to the “kids” when she made them. Last night, watching CNN, we saw Don Lemon insist, several times, that no one is “demonizing” Kelly. For the most part, we’ve been active fans of Lemon down through the years. At this ti... more »

Fantásticas postales de Navidad y Año Nuevo con diseños hermosos

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 23 hours ago

Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination The FBI’s War on Rock Stars By Salvador Astucia - Chapter 2: The Motive

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 23 hours ago

Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination The FBI’s War on Rock Stars By Salvador Astucia Chapter 1: The Crime Scene

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 23 hours ago

*DISCLAIMER: * *THE POSTING OF STORIES, COMMENTARIES, REPORTS, DOCUMENTS AND LINKS (EMBEDDED OR OTHERWISE) ON THIS SPIKE1138 DOES NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, NECESSARILY EXPRESS OR SUGGEST ENDORSEMENT OR SUPPORT OF ANY OF SUCH POSTED MATERIAL OR PARTS THEREIN.* *Contents* *Lennon Home Page* *Main Home Page* *Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination* *The FBI’s War on Rock Stars* By Salvador Astucia *PART I: LENNON’S MURDER* *Chapter 1: The Crime Scene* *The Dakota* John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, at about 10:50 pm, as he and h... more »

Thailand: Mass Mobilization Sunday December 22, 2013

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 1 day ago

“Australia’s Stonehenge,”: the basis of all knowledge

Breaking The SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 1 day ago

RUSSELL BRAND, WOOLWICH TRIAL, JOHN LENNON

Anonataangirfan - 1 day ago

Tuesday Afternoon Linkage: A Dish Best Served Cold

Steve SaidemanatDuck of Minerva - 1 day ago

What is This "War on Women" of Which You Speak, Stranger?

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago

New York Time, September 4th 2001: "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits" by Judith Miller

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

December 16, 2013 *Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs* http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/business/glaxo-says-it-will-stop-paying-doctors-to-promote-drugs.html By KATIE THOMAS The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write, its chief executive said Monday, effectively ending two common industry practices that critics have long assailed as troublesome conflicts of interest. The announcement appears to be a first for a... more »

Russia commits to Ukraine bonds and slashes gas prices and more......

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 1 day ago

My December 2013 Michigan Board of Education Testimony

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Vitamins are a waste of money? Really?

Abraham Ben JudeaatAbraham says - 1 day ago

Really, now. let us look at the study below. *FLAW # 1* The study and the university say that they studied *Healthy well nourished individuals.* *That is the major, major flaw in the study* If we are going to study a fix on something we don't do it on something that needs NO fixing, period. *FLAW # 2* The form of Vitamins taken: T*hey used defective vitamins in the form of uni-pills *such as the pink ones pictured below. Why does this author say they used defective vitamins? What are Uni-pills? Uni-pills are those pills that have all the multi-vitamins and minerals ALL packed into a ... more »

Playing the Dream

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago

The Realist Report - Kelley from Tulsa & Sofia Smallstorm

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago

Time for a panda

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Stay of civil proceedings on Court's own motion to be granted rarely

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Kate Braun : Winter Solstice Falls on Saturn's Day

thorne dreyeratThe Rag Blog - 1 day ago

Satan's Key Operative In The Vatican Loses A Major Post-- Bye Bye Burke?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

A Big Money Cabal of Bench-Slappers

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 1 day ago

Saturday Meanderings

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 1 day ago

Dine' CARE urges federal probe of BHP Navajo Mine transaction

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

Gildan, maquillas, model cities and simplistic responses to complex problems

paulatPaying attention - 1 day ago

1978: Milton Friedman on Socialized Medicine...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago

Breaking: Rachel has a bridge to sell you!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago

Technical Announcement

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago

Resurgence Of Iraq’s Insurgency In Ninewa Province

MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago

Anti-Capitalist Santas deliver coal to Port of Metro Vancouver

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking

Robert D. Skeels * rdsatheneatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

Algonquin land protectors force Quebec logging protection

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

AMY GOODMAN: "A bipartisan budget deal to avert another government shutdown comes before the Senate this week. The House approved the two-year budget agreement last week in a 332-to-94 vote. The bill eases across-the-board spending cuts, replacing them with new airline fees and cuts to federal pensions. In a concession by Democrats, it does not extend unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people, which is set to expire this month." DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: "Well, this deal is actually a big win for the Paul Ryan Republicans. They will avoid the embarrassment, shame, and political damage of shutting down the government, and they obtained this from the Democrats without touching at all the major issues. The corporate loopholes aren’t being closed. The tax-avoidance techniques of billionaires, who can legally live tax-free if they choose to, are not being shut down. The hedge fund and private equity managers will continue to be advantaged. And we’re going to kick 57,000 poor children out of Head Start, which means we’re going to narrow their economic futures and make all of us worse off in the future. We’re cutting a billion-and-a-half dollars from medical research to save lives. Why? Because the very richest people in America, those who have benefited most from being in this market, don’t want to pay for that kind of services. And the Pentagon is getting an extra $20 billion out of this deal. We already spend 42 percent of all the money in the world on our military." DAVID L GRISCOM: "If this is what the Democrats in Congress believe is a good deal, I'm going to join a party that believes its representatives should put the stuggling 99% above the filthy rich 1%."

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 1 day ago

Blogging Awards Nomination Update

Jon WesternatDuck of Minerva - 1 day ago

FIVE KEY POINTS AND ELEVEN SOLUTIONS: Joe Nocera’s ride back in time!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago

*TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013* *Part 2—In the footsteps of Ravitch and Ripley:* Joe Nocera’s new column is highly instructive, in that it’s woefully clueless. Nocera writes about a topic he manifestly knows nothing about: what constitutes good teaching in an “inner-city school?” What constitutes good teaching in low-income schools? With respect to this very important question, Nocera has watched a documentary. He has also read, or read about, a new report by a national policy group. On the basis of these inputs, he ends up saying what follows. Within the *journalistic* context, the ... more »

Attacks On Iraqi Forces And Infrastructure Dominate Anbar Violence November 2013

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago

The manuscript of survival – part 380

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

VAMboozled by Empty-Suit Leadership in SC

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

VAMboozled by Empty-Suit Leadership in SC. via VAMboozled by Empty-Suit Leadership in SC.

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago

NO MONEY FOR WHAT?

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

AVB on Dragons Den?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago

A vaguely amusing video from TalkSport

Tenure and Due Process at the University of Colorado

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day ago

*UPDATE Dec 18*: It appears that CU officials have come to their senses and are wisely backing down, at least according to this new article in *The Daily Camera*. Kuods to Sarah Kuta for her reporting on this. *Original post follows . . .* The Boulder Daily Camera reports: University of Colorado officials acknowledged Monday that sociology professor Patti Adler's lecture on prostitution led them to suspend her from teaching her popular "Deviance in U.S. Society" course next spring -- but they denied firing her or forcing her into retirement. The issue here involves a skit that Pro... more »

Battered Woman Syndrome

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

In A Dark Place

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 day ago

Do Cruz, Rubio, Paul And Senate Right-Wingers Have what It Takes To Crash The Budget Deal Today?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Zions Bancorp issues stunner -Under the published Volcker rule, the Company would no longer have the ability to hold disallowed securities until the anticipated recovery of their amortized cost. Therefore, as of December 15, 2013, Zions anticipates that in the fourth quarter of 2013 it will reclassify all covered CDOs that currently are classified as “Held to Maturity” into “Available for Sale,” and that all covered CDOs, regardless of the accounting classification, will be adjusted to Fair Value through an Other Than Temporary Impairment non-cash charge to earnings. The net result would eliminate substantially all of the accumulated other comprehensive income adjustment to equity related to the covered securities. As First Volcker Rule Victim Emerges, Implications Could "Roil The Market"

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 1 day ago

Can My Employer Make Me Socialize With Co-Workers? Whether you say yes or no to office events, here are your legal rights

Donna BallmanatScrew You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day ago

Fukushima updates December 17 , 2013 - contamination from radioactive materials continues ( in fact the water contamination problems really picking up ) as Japan is slowly turning into a wasteland..... no wonder the secrecy law was passed posthaste , no wonder the change the subject antics with China and military bravado chest thumping !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

War watch December 17 , 2013 - Marginalization of FSA continues in Syria ........Afghan Military Cedes Checkpoints to Taliban in Helmand ........ Iran FM Complains to Kerry About Latest Sanctions EU Prepares to Ease Sanctions on Iran ...... Death dealing in Iraq continues unabated

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

10:24pm MST

McKeon Has Found The One Career That Normal People View As Even Less Ethical Than Congressmembers

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 24 minutes ago

Buck McKeon, Boehner's uber-corrupt head of the House Armed Services Committee, is getting ready for his next career as a lobbyist. A bunch of relatives have already started the firm and McKeon is busy lining up clients by making sure the Military-Industrial Complex gravy train is not interrupted by any sequestration. He has been busy tanking the chances of Randy Forbes to succeed him as Chair because he isn't as much a shill to arms makers and war contractors as McKeon's handpicked choice, corrupt Texas congressman Mac Thornberry. The revolving door between Congress and K Street ... more »

Thailand: Red Terror - Regime Thugs Firebomb Protest Leader's Home, Threaten Opponents

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 26 minutes ago

*Image: Protest leader, Chitpas Bhirombhakdi.**December 19, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - After weeks of cyber-stalking by the Thaksin Shinawatra regime's paid-PR machine, including disgraced former-Reuters editor Andrew Marshall, regime thugs have fire-bombed the home of anti-regime protest leader Chitpas Bhirombhakdi. In Bangkok Post's article, "Protest leader's house firebombed," it was reported: Four men early on Thursday morning threw a molotov cocktail at the family home of Chitpas Bhirombhakdi, a former deputy Democrat Party spokeswoman and now one of core protest leaders under t... more »

A Catastrophic and Catalysing Event: Millennial Futurology

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 29 minutes ago

*1993* "To preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades, the Department of Defense must move more aggressively to experiment with new technologies and operational concepts, and seek to exploit the emerging revolution in military affairs. Information technologies, in particular, are becoming more prevalent and significant components of modern military systems. These information tech- nologies are having the same kind of trans- forming effects on military affairs as they are having in the larger world. The effects of this military transformation will have profound i... more »

Page charges for appeal transcripts

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 hour ago

R. v. J.W., 2013 ONCA 723: [16] In the circumstances, I am satisfied that the application should be granted and an order should be made in accordance with the CSD policy. Therefore, I find that for transcripts prepared for the Court of Appeal, the court reporter is entitled to and shall be paid a fee of $3.75 per original page. However, if the transcript has previously been transcribed and produced at the lower court level for any reason, the reporter is entitled to charge, for an appeal, $0.55 per page per copy for portions previously transcribed, and $3.75 per page for any... more »

I am because you are... thank you for stopping by

Sandra GuzmanatSandra Guzman - 2 hours ago

Here are my favorite posts of 2013: *Reflecting on what it means to be a bitch* *Immigration Debate 2.0: No Human Being is Illegal* *What makes a Hispanic Hispanic anyway? * *Mickalene's Magnificence* *Why playing is good for your brain* *Love re-defined* *Don't Cry for me: I am a Vegetarian* *Favoritism will get you a job, and keep you employed* *Are your cultural beliefs keeping you from achieving your potential?* *Is being a good girl killing you softly?*

Months without their cherished rooster-brand sriracha? Can spicy-food addicts survive?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

*It looks like it'll be months before Huy Fong Foods resumes providing hot-sauce-starved gastronomes with its "most popular hot sauce."* *by Ken* It figures it would be the doing of some California buttinskies, who don't know what it means to mind their own beeswax. As a result, Huy Fong Foods has been forced to shut down production of its "most popular hot sauce," the sriracha in the clear plastic squeeze bottle with the rooster logo and green cap. Shock waves are rolling through hot-food aficionados from coast to coast, with early reports of sriracha-deprived users jonesing. And... more »

David Coleman's Common Core Shows How Less Can Be More, Boring

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 3 hours ago

Somehow I missed this in October from Perdido Street, but it is priceless: NYSED ELA Lesson Module - 17 Days On One Short Story As I posted earlier this week, the teachers who have had the misfortune to have to use the Common Core lesson modules provided by NYSED at a website they call Engage NY have found that the material is so full of mind-numbing, soul-sucking drudgery that they had lost the interest of students by the second week of school. I have heard many complaints from teachers about one module that has students read and re-read one short story over and over and over and ov... more »

The Stevie Claus . . .

EdstockatThe Galloping Beaver - 3 hours ago

Thank-you, Radio 3.

Gold and Silver Report - December 18 , 2013 Harvey Organ post highlights , data of the day and more news and views.....

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago

http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/12/dec-182013gld-loses-another-42-tonnes.html Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Dec 18.2013:/GLD loses another 4.2 tonnes of gold/SLV remains constant/USA tapers by 10 billion dollars/gold and silver slammed by the bankers/ Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Gold closed up $4.90 to $1236.10 (comex closing time ). Silver was up 22 cents at $20.01. then came the FOMC report and the announcement of a 10 billion per month taper: Closing prices for gold and silver at 5:15 pm from the access market gold: $1218.50 silver: $19.72 Gold was all ove... more »

India blast US for ignoring diplomatic immunity for its female Deputy Consul - Devyani Khobragade ...... degrading treatment on a alleged false visa application for a nanny brought arrest , repeated strip searches and cavity searches ! India has immediately retaliated as expected - India of course has become more sensitive to female mistreatment due to numerous recent rape cases in India . Apart from the rape angle , this is figurative " mistreatment " of the nation of India - what if India started enforcing its laws against Americans - such as by arresting same sex diplomatic couples ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago

Indo-U.S. Ties Hit Logjam Over Indian Diplomat's Arrest The arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York has sparked furor in New Delhi, damaging Indo-US ties. [image: sanjay-kumar-q] By Sanjay Kumar December 19, 2013 2 8 0 2 *12* Shares *7* comments Whether you call it a reaction or overreaction (or vengeance), India has initiated a number of reprisals against the United States after the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York last week, thereby putting at stake friendly ties between the world’s two largest democracies. In a series of unprecedented measures, New Delhi scaled down ... more »

Faith's vision

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago

*AK Note: **What follows in Faith 's vision. Consider it for what it is, data. Use your own higher discernment. In some ways the vision corresponds to what Sheldan and others have described at the time of the planetary ascension of Earth. I can't say this is what will happen. We will find out. **I don't know the reason or context for the Templars and Dragons within this vision, but I do know the financial system is full of Templars and Dragons, so I present it as Faith wrote it. I am not promoting Freemasonry or any other Templar faction and neither is Faith. I have slightly ... more »

Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points…

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago

*Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points…* by ÉirePort Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points, prior to commencement of next phase. This is a vital step on path to global Ascension. Corollaries are now abandoned; primes are on point. Flash points have been reached; required sparks follow in short order. Release of all projection-with-resultant-fear scenarios is primary at this moment. All is at Peace with Gaia. ÉirePort | December 18, 2013 at 20:13 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qS

Marlene Swetlishoff’s Incredible Photo – Pillar of Light in Canada

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago

COLUMN OF LIGHT! Photo by Marlene Swetlishoff ©2013 *Marlene Swetlishoff’s Incredible Photo – Pillar of Light in Canada* Posted by Stephen Cook on December 17, 2013 Reblogged from: http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/marlene-swetlishoffs-incredible-photo-pillar-of-light-in-canada/marlene-beach/ On Sunday’s episode of Lift Your Spirit: Our 2013 Journey – Part 2 on InLight Radio (the show that has everyone talking following Fran Zepeda’s revelations about her own incredible Ascension journey) Blossom Goodchild was guided to tell us all about a particular photo that appears on Marlene Sw... more »

The beauty illusion demonstrated

SteveatThinking Aboot - 5 hours ago

Laughing Squid

Not all orders to non-parties are final

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 5 hours ago

Ambrose v. Zuppardi, 2013 ONCA 768 [6] *Smerchanski *was further weakened in the subsequent decision in *Royal Trust Corporation v. Fisherman* (2001), 55 O.R. (3d) 794 (C.A.), in which this court, following *Sun Life**,* emphasized that *Smerchanski* does not stand for the proposition that all orders in which the court denies a request to obtain information from non-parties are final. Simply put, if the motion requesting information is dismissed where the information sought from the non-party may still be available from the parties to the action, the order is interlocuto... more »

Teaching in Finland, Denigration in the U. S.

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 5 hours ago

We know what to expect when the NYTimes moneymen call on their token minority, Brent Staples, to craft an Editorial of the Absurd on CorpEd's antiquated reforms that have effectively blown up public education along with the teaching profession. Staples' most recent effort does not disappoint, as he uses the most recent PISA release to apply his pretzel logic and funhouse lenses to make sense of the U. S. middle-of-the pack-rankings. Rather than regarding PISA as the most recent example of how CorpEd's policies have failed again to improve U. S. standings in the international testi... more »

Happy Christmas? Dimon Daze? Pigs Snort In Glee - Clown Representatives Triumph! NC Crushing Unemployed and Employed: What’s Happened in North Carolina Since July Is an Indication of What Will Happen Nationwide (ALEC's Extreme Legislative Agenda for 2014)

CirzeatWelcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 5 hours ago

We can't blame the right wingers for everything, I guess. Although at this season of the year it's beginning to seem a lot like Grinchmas. Everywhere we look. Surprise! Paul Ryan’s Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy: Mr. Realism Returns to Extortion The GOP wants concessions from Democrats in exchange for not allowing the U.S. to default on its debts this spring, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Fox News

Ronnie Biggs, MK-ULTRA and the Fourth Reich

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 6 hours ago

http://jimhougan.com/wordpress/?tag=the-great-train-robbery "How Biggs, while hiding out in Rio, came to live at Scott Johnson’s apartment, where he was patronized and protected by Huber and the others, is an important question. [An anecdotal account of Biggs' life in Rio, which discusses his friendship with Johnson and Huber, can be found in Biggs: The World's Most Wanted Man, by Colin Mackenzie, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1975.] Among other things, it suggests the possibility (indeed, the likelihood) that the firm which provided cover (or an alibi) for Jim Jones’s activ... more »

Western backed mercenaries intensify their targetting of Christians & Allawites

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago

One news item that says so much about the *western backed mercenaries *brutal war of divide to conquer in Syria.NATO. The blood of so many innocents stain the nations that participate in this endless imperialism. Yes, that includes Canada *Militants have intensified attacks against Christians and Allawites* A survivor of an August attack that killed nearly 200 people in the regime stronghold of Latakia province walks near graves of some of the dead. This month, rebels attacked the town of Deir Atiyah north of Damascus.* Militants who participated in the attack alongside more moder... more »

Evil in a suit

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 6 hours ago

A petition for the House of Commons to debate the issue of hunger and food banks in Britain is successful. Iain Duncan Smith, the Minister for the Department of Work and Pensions, fucks off when the debate starts. He is of course a man determined to destroy welfare in Britain and terminally poison the idea of collective provision for at least a generation. Austerity is the Tory bid to reorganise society further in its favour (and that of the capitalist class). Any normal person would be ashamed to do the things IDS does. But stuff like this is water off a duck's back to Mr Smith. He ... more »

Summer Reading: What’s yours?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 6 hours ago

Around this time every year, I generally post a pile of summer reading I’m trying to stuff into my pack. I’ll probably do that in a few days, but in the meantime, what books are you stuffing into your pack or eBook reader this summer? And what books would you recommend to others? Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Hope in the holiday season

urupiperatYesterday 's Lies - 6 hours ago

by Jon Rappoport December 18, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com Untold millions (billions?) of people across the world are waking up to official lies, cover stories, and conspiracies. These people are crossing the bridge, so to speak, to see what's on the other side. The question is, do they stay there once they've crossed over, or do they try to retreat back to their former positions as ordinary citizens with dimmed perception? It's quite a trick to a) maintain the status of "normal person" while b) seeing through the enormous ruse. In fact, in the long run, it's impossible. Therefore... more »

Meyer Lansky, the Jewish Mob and the Nazi Underground Reich

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 6 hours ago

"A revealing insight into this international f inancial and in- dustrial network was given me by a member of the Bormann organization residing in West Germany. Meyer Lansky, he said, the financial advisor to the Las Vegas-Miami underworld, sent a message to Bormann through my West German SS contact. Lansky promised that if he received a piece of Bormann’s action he would keep the Israeli agents off Bormann’s back. *“I have a very good relation with the Israeli secret police” *was his claim,although he was to be kicked out of Israel later when his presence became too noted —and ... more »

Previously enormous story gets bigger!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 6 hours ago

*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013* *Rachel continues bridge work:* As of Monday, the story had become enormous. Or at least, so a little bird said: MADDOW (12/16/13): The George Washington Bridge traffic jam story that started as the teeny, teeny, tiny, tiniest little political story in the entire world has just gotten enormous. That was one of the teases on Monday’s Maddow show. Last night, we learned that the previously enormous story had somehow become even bigger: MADDOW (12/17/13): All right. If New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was hoping that today was the day that people stopp... more »

Fat Free Econ 50: Growth, Bubbles and the PH Economy

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 6 hours ago

* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com --------- MANILA - A few weeks ago, an article from forbes.com written by contributor Jesse Colombo, “Here’s why the Philippines’ economic miracle is really a bubble in disguise,” went viral in the social media. One may not agree with the analysis and conclusion but many data presented were useful. The Philippines’ recent strong economic performance -- like the 7.4 percent GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2013 -- is it a miracle or a bubble in disguise, as Mr. Colombo and a few others would put it? *Chart 1. Quarterly GDP gr... more »

Has Cheri Bustos Earned Reelection?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

Who's worse to be hanging with, Pete Peterson or Rahm? In 2010, the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature gerrymandered the state-- in the same anti-democratic way that Republican-controlled legislatures did in states like North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan-- to create more congressional seats for its own party. One of those seats, IL-17, was expressly designed to defeat freshman Republican Bobby Schilling. The awkwardly-drawn district starts up in Rockford and the suburbs of Dubuque and Davenport and works its way down and across into the Democratic p... more »

I really don't give a rip what Barbara Walters said to Piers Morgan about Obama being the "Messiah"...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 7 hours ago

*and I don't really care that both of these people have faces that move about as much as a cement sidewalk. * However, I *do* find it interesting that they have both pumped so much Botox into themselves that nothing moves. Piers Morgan's forehead would make a marble statue jealous.

Dine' Ed Becenti: Ask not what your Navajo Nation can do for you

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago

Ask not what your Navajo Nation can do for you By Ed Becenti, Dine' Letter to the Editor Censored News With the death this week of Nelson Mandela, we thought of people like him and John F. Kennedy who really cared about their countries. Kennedy’s quote “Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country”

1963

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 7 hours ago

1963: Act I - The Good We Oft Might Win... from Spike EP on Vimeo. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt” *Measure for MeasureAct I, Scene IV*

Mohawk John Kane 'There is no victory for us in U.S. or Canadian Courts'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago

There is no victory for us in U.S. or Canadian Courts By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk) Censored News The embarrassing failure of the U.S. prosecutor in the Three Feathers Casino trial is not a win. It's not even a draw! Surviving the persecution and prosecution of their law enforcement agents, lawyers, judges and juries is a good thing, but it is not justice. It is not justice when

Mohawk Nation News "Great Peace on Earth!'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago

GREAT PEACE ON EARTH! Posted on December 18, 2013 Mohawk Nation News MNN. Dec. 18, 2013. The US dollar started with the theft of Indigenous land and resources here on Great Turtle Island. No one helped us resist. Now it’s a worldwide problem. It will end soon! The only impediment to peace on earth is the 13 crime families now known as the bankers. When you follow the great white

Mohawk Nation News 'Shut the F--- Up about Ford!'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago

SHUT THE F— UP ABOUT FORD! Mohawk Nation News MNN. DEC. 15, 2013. The recent uproar in Prime Minister Harper’s caucus when the Finance Minister swore at Jason Kenny, “To shut the f— up about Rob Ford”, has Mohawk origins. “Flaherty’s profane rebuke to Kenny’s Rob Ford comments.” See.’2010 update on Flaherty’s Mohawk land grab’. Jim and Christine & Flaherty fam’ heading out to

Jacob Ostreicher escaping Bolivia

CarlosatViva Bolivia - 8 hours ago

So the story is that a gang of kidnappers set upon Jacob in Santa Cruz, demanded a ransom and threatened to kill him...but decided to be nice and deliver him to his home thousands of miles away in Brooklyn. OK. Some believe it, some don't. At Chaplins and other comedy clubs in La Paz, this is a joke; the Russian customers call it skazka - fairy tale. The sad part is that there are two sides left hurt in this - the Jewish Community and the La Paz government - but the real culprits are the drug dealers, extortionists and political opportunists; the latter of whom exasperated the La Pa... more »

Updates On Syria [12.18]: Erdogan's Brand Takes Another Hit While Assad's Image Is Recovering, 9 Reasons Why Kurds Are Defeating Al-Qaeda, Syrian Minister Says Regime Will Not Relinquish Power At Geneva II Conference

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 8 hours ago

*1. An excerpt from, "Assad Stays While Erdogan Goes?" by 'b', Moon of Alabama, December 18:* Yesterday the police in Istanbul arrested dozens of people related to Erdogan's AK Party including the sons of three ministers involved in a number of graft cases. Just hours later the five police leaders responsible for the case were fired and two new prosecutors were named to oversee the whitewash of the issue. More police chiefs were fired today after the justice minister intervened. This hasty cover-up seems to show that the cases are valid. This corruption and justice scandal comes on... more »

HEROIN, HAIRLESS BOYS, 9 11 HIJACKERS, TURKISH HISTORY

Anonataangirfan - 8 hours ago

Las mejores imágenes de Navidad y Año Nuevo que podrás disfrutar y compartir

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 8 hours ago

A Merry Banksy Christmas

AlisonatCreekside - 9 hours ago

jack nicholson explains ufos

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 9 hours ago

Today’s Tests vs. “Better” Tests

Timothy D. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago

Reddit: a major "share a random URL" server bans climate skeptics

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 9 hours ago

I know the reddit.com server as one of the servers where you may "share an URL". Why someone would visit this server has always been completely incomprehensible to me – the pages on reddit.com look like a collection of trash – some random URLs – and the discussions attached to these URLs seem to be overwhelmed by trolls. I have been thankful to reddit.com as one of the sinks of the trolls' energy – a place where this foam of the Internet interacts with itself so that it has less time to annoy decent Internet users. Even Reddit's official logo seems to confirm that this is the mis... more »

Forgotten Audio Gems - Tim Binnall Interviews Scott Corrales

Inexplicata (IHU)atInexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours ago

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago

*More massive tar mats from BP oil spill discovered on Louisiana beaches ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*

Another heartwarming rescue by Eldad Hagar of Hope for Paws...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 10 hours ago

Please consider a donation to *Hope for Paws* this Christmas season.

The Fight Against School Reform Is a Fight for Children

John ThompsonatSchools Matter - 10 hours ago

Bone Doc

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 10 hours ago

Caching On Crutches

Southern ManatSouthern Man - 11 hours ago

You don't think a minor setback like a fractured fibula is going to keep Southern Man from geocaching, did you? Dedicated cacher or just plain crazy? You be the judge.

Parents Opting Out of Tests: What is Your Goal?

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago

There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago

Who Remembers Romney's 47% Host, Marc Leder? Now He's Raising Money For Another Economic Reactionary, Ro Khanna

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

Heavenletter #4771 Oneness Will Sing Its Song and Do Its Dance, December 17, 2013

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago

The Realist Report - David North: Center for Immigration Studies

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago

Pittsburgh School Board Reconsiders TFA Deal As Real Teachers File for Unemployment

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 12 hours ago

Provocation

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 12 hours ago

FIVE KEY POINTS AND ELEVEN SOLUTIONS: The New York Times and the PISA cult!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 13 hours ago

The snowboarding crow

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 13 hours ago

That crows are intelligent and use tools is understood but a crow snowboarding... Now that's an intelligent and fun loving bird!

It's Wednesday...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago

Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago

Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy. via Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy.

Low Level Attacks Characterize Violence In Iraq’s Ninewa November 2013

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago

Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny

P. L. ThomasatSchools Matter - 14 hours ago

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago

*Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit? ~Janet McConnauhey* Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/12/18/3165351/hearing-which-court-should-hear.html#storylink=cpy *Study Shows Gulf Dolphins in Poor Health following Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill* *HUD: State must negotiate with HUD on Gulfport port project or face funding loss ~Anita Lee, Sun Herald* Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/12/18/5204760/hud-state-must-negotiate-with.html#storylink=cpy *Mid-City residents worry about railroad tracks ruining St. Patrick Playground ~Della Hasselle, Mid City Messe... more »

2014 Educators’ Agenda

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 15 hours ago

Birnam Wood Is Moving

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 15 hours ago

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago

What the Koran says - something for @sambarnet to read and listen to

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 15 hours ago

Is The Senate Actually Starting To Function Again?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

A blogger using the pseudonym "teacherken" collects a number of quotes by Bill Moyers and uses them as context bearing on his own history-based sense of what We the (99% of American) People currently confront, i.e., living under an extractive plutocracy, and how this nightmare fits in our history.

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 15 hours ago

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justices Should Stay If They're Able To Work

Len HartatThe Existentialist Cowboy - 15 hours ago

Widespread Snow On Christmas Eve/Christmas For The UK & Ire 2013?

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 16 hours ago

Mild December? + What is really going on? + IMPORTANT rest of December & January update

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 16 hours ago

Weather Wars Update & My Accuracy

rss2009atGlobal Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 16 hours ago

Trifecta: President Obama Says Income Inequality is the Defining Challenge...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 16 hours ago

*as he heads off for seventeen sun soaked days in Hawaii. *

Breaking News: Russian Scientists Call For A 10 Year Ban On GMO

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago

Breaking News: Russian scientists urge 10-year ban on genetically modified products. READ: http://rt.com/news/gmo-ban-russian-scientists-293/ *Source:* *GMO Free Canada*

Serbia Bans The Growing Of GMO Crops

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago

Citibank pulling out of Philadelphia and shutting regional branches in Cherry Hill and Lawrenceville ( both in NJ ) , as well as branches on US 202 North of Wilmington , Del !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago

AT&T patents tech that can block copyright pirates (and anything else) in real-time

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 17 hours ago

Gardasil: My Daughter’s Worst Nightmare by Donna Malone

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago

If my favorite textbook hasn't simplified things enough for you...

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 17 hours ago

My friend and former student Miles Kimball takes a stab at explaining some basic macroeconomics through the vehicle of a child's storybook.

The #ChristmasMyths, #1: The Myth of the Miraculous Birth

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 17 hours ago

Gardasil : le pire cauchemar de ma fille par Donna Malone

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago

Thai Crisis: Alternative Thai News Round Up

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 17 hours ago

Watch this kitten...(video)

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 18 hours ago

*and learn something.* Seriously.

Can you hear the sound of teeth being gritted at the BBC?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 18 hours ago

Fun with German compound words

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 19 hours ago

Even if you have no German language skills this video should still make perfect sense and amuse...

STRIP SEARCH LEADS TO USA-INDIA 'WAR'.

Anonataangirfan - 20 hours ago

Math is the language of the true culture of modern times

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 21 hours ago

Bane sings Elton John

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago

dream - dead cat returns - with kitten and an old work colleague

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 21 hours ago

today is chelsea manning's fourth birthday behind bars

laura katwmtc - 21 hours ago

open letter to james moore

laura katwmtc - 21 hours ago

rtod

laura katwmtc - 21 hours ago

Revolutionary thought of the day: ...something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. Suzanne Collins, *Mockingjay*

Tutorial: FROZEN Anna Cloak

Debra HawkinsatHousewife Eclectic - 22 hours ago

Updates On Syria [12.18]: West Says Assad Could Remain In Power In A Limited Capacity, Syria-Linked Extremists Target Alawites In Lebanon, Vatican Is Negotiating The Release of Kidnapped Nuns

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 22 hours ago

Alan Grayson-- The Essential Member of Congress

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

The Anglo American Establishment

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

Censored News Year in Photos 2013: Ten Indelible Images

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

One Third of NJ Urban Students in Unfit, Dilapidated Buildings

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

A tenured sociologist gets a bit of the #teacherprep treatment, more like #teacherperp @scottjaschik

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Sandy Hook Exposed: The Realist Report Discusses The Latest On The Sandy Hook Fraud, And Updated Video By Sofia Smallstorm

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 1 day ago

"Surely a country that honors the devotion of family members to each other should want to make it at least a little easier for them to do their jobs" (E. J. Dionne Jr.)

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Quote of the Day: On Women

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago

Syria and Afghanistan updates - December 15 , 2013 - Syria item of note....With FSA Supreme Military Commander Idris literally run out of Syria by the islamist / jihadist / Al Qaeda forces - looks like the US is preparing to get in bed with terrorists - these same fighters will without questions use any US weapons provided to them against either Israel and / or the US interests down the road... Regarding Afghanistan - we need to stay there because of Al Qaeda - that would be the same franchise islamist tyep fighters we are meeting with on Syria ? What is our foreign policy regarding aiding terrorists again ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

The truth in my view is that most offenders don’t belong in prison. Prison is deadening to the soul, destructive, the very admission of societal defeat. It rehabilitates almost no one. It takes remarkable strength for anyone to emerge less damaged than before.

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Story

Panda in Blizzard

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Stay of civil proceedings on Court's own motion to be granted rarely

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Lots of Ravens

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Useful rubes

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago

[Ed Stein cartoon]

George Zimmerman, rip off artist

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago

Libya Updates - December 17 , 2013 .....Security or the lack thereof items of interest , petrol shortage in Tripoli finally resolving , economic and political matters of note .......

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Militia withdrawal “so slow it has almost stopped”: Elbadri *By Ahmed Elumami.* [image: Tripoli Local Council leader Sadat Elbadri addressing the local councils' conference (Photo: Aimen Eljali)] Tripoli Local Council leader Sadat Elbadri addressing the local councils’ conference (*Photo: Aimen Eljali*) *Tripoli, 17 December 2013:* The process or removing militias from urban areas, was going so slowly, that it had almost stopped, Sadat Elbadri, head of Tripoli Local Council, complained to fellow Libyan municipal chiefs in Tripoli today. Elbadri, told a forum representing 34 local cou... more »

Western Governors University's Path to Becoming a Teacher in NJ

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

The reason for the season?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago

Will you print your next house.

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago

You can do it today, thanks to Wikihouse.

A Teacher’s 12 Days of Christmas

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

West's Support For Sunni Extremism In Syria Is Triggering Chaos In The Region

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago

Fukushima: The Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan

Spike EPatNews Spike - 1 day ago

Doug Martin on Justin Oakley's Radio Show Wednesday, December 18

Doug MartinatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

The Elephant in the Room

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

FOX surrenders in the War on Christmas

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago

This is hilarious. Apparently FOX has defected to our side in the War on Christmas. Wonder if anyone has told Megyn or

Failure (Photo credit: StormKatt)

Tree Nativity (Photo credit: Uriel 1998)

10:29pm MST

The #ChristmasMyths #5: So, What’s With All That Frankincense?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 minutes ago

*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas Myths,* one day at a time. Today, the story and pagan origins of the Divine Child being recognised and presented with gifts…* *So the Magi arrive at the house (if you’re reading Luke’s story of the Nativity) – or the shepherds arrive at the stable (if you’re Matthew’s story of the Nativity) – or no one arrives anywhere at all (if you’re reading Mark or John’s story of the Nativity, because they didn’t see or hear or dream up of any events they considered important enough to write down) – so they arrive at t... more »

Want To Help Rickie Lee Jones Record Her New Album?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 29 minutes ago

In 2006, Blue America worked with a group of various artists to promote several dozen little known challengers to Republican House incumbents. The video above, which we did for Kirsten Gillibrand in her first run for Congress against powerful, entrenched incumbent John Sweeney, may have helped her win her 53.1- 46.9% victory. She's now a U.S. Senator and someone on the list of future potential national leaders. That same year we did similar videos and songs for John Yarmuth (D-KY) and now Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT). All three have music that was contributed by the key members of... more »

Another BigMedia fail

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago

While I've been offline for a few days President Obama held a presser. I didn't see it but Betty Cracker did and reports: UPDATE: Conference underway. PBO started off talking up the economy, deficit reduction and healthcare enrollment. Noted that a budget passed. Called for an extension of unemployment benefits, saying GOP should have passed it before they left town. She runs down the questions our prima donnas of the insider media asked POTUS. Of course almost none of them addressed the substance of his remarks. My personal favorite: What is your New Year’s resolution? Notably... more »

The Way Forward for 2014 .......JIM WILLIE: IN 2014 THE FAILURE BEGINS ! The Hidden Motives Behind The Federal Reserve Taper Strange things afoot involving gold ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago

http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-in-2014-the-failure-begins/ By Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com The year 2013 will go down in history as the year of great transition, tremendous disruption, numerous financial breakdowns, widely adopted hyper monetary inflation, exposure of hidden devices, panorama of popular awakening, and indisputable evidence of a systemic failure. The following titles of significant events, organized by topical theme, are mindboggling and comprehensive so as to attest to the global failures. The breakdown touches almost every part of global life. The Ameri... more »

You don't mean to say you fell for this "royal baby" hoax?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

*by Ken* The woman in the alleged photo above is alleged to be a certain "Duchess of Cambridge," aka "Princess Kate," who is alleged to have given birth to a royal prince just 89 days before this photo was allegedly snapped. As gazillions of women all over the world will tell you, "No way, José." Next they'll be telling us that men have walked on the moon. And Hillary Clinton didn't have all those people murdered. Naturally the alleged British press is all over the alleged story. For all those who were wondering whether Kate has snapped back into shape following the birth o... more »

The Project Mogul Double Standard

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 4 hours ago

Here’s an interesting question that is generated by the recent discussions of Delbert Newhouse and his UFO footage. There are those on the skeptical side of the fence who reject his close up description of objects that were gunmetal-colored disks because that description doesn’t appear in the written record until nearly two years after the fact. One debunker seemed to be outraged that I had mentioned that this was what Newhouse told me because I didn’t talk to him until 1976. Of course, I was merely pointing out that I had talked to him and that this description of the UFOs had come... more »

Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago

*Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”* by ÉirePort Nova Gaia Energetics have "taken flight", as former paradigm energy grids have closed, and necessary Nova Gaia portals have opened. Energetics are now fully aligned with Ascendant Gaia. Timelines are now integrated into a single stream, and all discrepancies healed. Nova Gaia has been boarded, and Hue-manity has accepted fully invitation for the "Higher Ride". ÉirePort | December 21, 2013 at 23:30 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qU

Cocaine - by Aleister Crowley

Paul Coker at News Spike - 5 hours ago

Aleister Crowley Cocaine In its original publication, in The International XI(10) for October 1917 EV, this article carried this editorial note: ` `We disagree with our gifted con- tributing editor on some points, but nevertheless we regard this article as one of the most important studies of the deleterious effects of a drug that, according to police statistics, is beginning to be a serious menace to our youth.'' Now, some sixty years later, it is more relevant than ever, especially to Americans, since Crowley was residing in, and largely... more »

How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned ? Examining US drone death dealing policy in Yemen .....

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago

After Yemen Wedding Strike, US Drone Policy Comes Under New ScrutinyUS Claims More Care in Drone Strikes Not Holding Water by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2013 Print This | Share This The Obama Administration’s claims on its global drone assassination policy have rarely been internally consistent, arguing regularly that the strikes were incredibly accurate and that they were going to exercise more care in the future. Then a wedding happened in rural Yemen, and US drones were quick with a “signature strike” against the procession, killing at least 12 civilians. Carloads of civilians were... more »

Winter Solstice

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 5 hours ago

December 21, 2013 We had rain last night. As the temperature dropped below freezing, it froze on the tree branches turning them to crystal by the time I woke up this morning. Lovely. As the temperature rises above … Continue reading →

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago

And the sun begins to win again against the darkness. Stonehenge on Solstice day.

Felicita a tus seres queridos con estas encantadoras imágenes

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 6 hours ago

Conservative Unions Backs Conservative Candidates-- Let's Look At Hawaii's Senate Race

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

*Hanabusa with her longtime friend, anti-gay legislator Sam Slom (the only GOP State Senator in Hawai`i). She calls him "Sammy" during their frequent joint appearances on conservative talk radio in Honolulu. * Historically, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has always prided itself on being among the most progressive labor unions. For four decades, starting with its founding in 1937, the ILWU was led by radical Harry Bridges. Opposing FDR because the New Deal didn’t go far enough, Bridges was always skeptical of labor partnerships with mainstream politicians. He regarde... more »

Education policy “wonks” + pop culture = train wreck

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 7 hours ago

Michael Petrilli, the executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, D.C., and, according to his profile, “one of the nation’s most trusted education analysts,” apparently has a lot of time on his hands. I’m not against having fun at work, and I even applaud these so-called policy wonks’ attempt at creating […]

JP Morgan Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach ! 2 Million Chase customers could be impacted by 100 buck limit in daily cash withdrawals and 300 buck total purchases daily limit ( does this remind you of Cyprus ? ) Time limit fo restriction ( not immediately given ??? ) ..... some help at Chase branches available but how many folks will find out about these restrictions while shopping ? And how many banks will follow Chas with these de facto capital controls , which look like they will last until debit cards are canceled and replaced for Chase customers ? !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago

WTF ? Capital controls imposed by Chase on customers who used debit cards at Target between Thanksgiving and mid - December ? http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/21/21998899-chase-limits-debit-card-use-for-customers-at-risk-in-target-breach?lite Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, told customers Saturday that they would be limited to $100 in cash withdrawals and $300 in total purchases per day if they used Chase debit cards at Target during a recent sec... more »

Why Is Blackstone Gobbling Up Homes? (Source: Bloomberg)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago

An excerpt from, *"Meet Wall Street: Your New Landlord"* Zero Hedge, December 20: Blackstone Group appears to be trying to oligopolize the business of renting single-family homes in the U.S.. As Bloomberg reports, after the housing crash left more than 7 million foreclosed homes in its wake, the investment firm has spent more than $7.8 billion purchasing about 41,000 single-family homes for rental conversion. The world's largest private equity firm has quickly become the largest landlord (of rental homes) in the U.S. and in October, Blackstone offered the first-ever "rental-home-ba... more »

SILENCE OVER THE SECRET BLACK BUDGET

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 8 hours ago

The Pentagon has secured a $630 billion budget for next year, even though it's failed to even account for the money it's received since 1996. A whopping $8.5 trillion of taxpayer cash have gone to Pentagon programmes - none of which has been audited. This black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud, as Gayane Chichakyan reports. Some years ago a journalist who writes for Jane's Defense Weekly studied the US black budget to try to determine where this secret budget architecture came from. He came to the conclusion that the Nazi operatives smuggled into the US after WW I... more »

Pandemic watch December 21 , 2013 - Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to humans ...... Does the possibility of a release ( accidental or otherwise concern scientists ) Reminds me of the start of 28 Days Later , just not the " Rage " virus ..... When you consider the continuing dangerous releases from Fukushima debacle - impacting not just Japan and the countries in that region , but the West Coast of North America ( and let's not forget the sailors on US ships at the time of Fukushima debacle on March 11 , 2011 ) , contaminated foods , Mystery illnesses , insecticides in the food chain ........ Is there a conspiracy to cause mass deaths ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago

Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to humans - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Steve Connor* Independent.co.uk December 21, 2013 [image: Coalition of leading scientists claim ferret experiments could lead to a pandemic / via independent.co.uk] Coalition of leading scientists claim ferret experiments could lead to a pandemic / via independent.co.uk Some of the world’s most eminent scientists have severe... more »

China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago

http://blogs.naturalnews.com/china-rejects-over-1-million-pounds-of-u-s-gm-corn-as-unsafe/ *China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe* By Paul A. Lauto, Esq. Posted Friday, December 20, 2013 at 03:39pm EST Keywords: China, corn, Exports, GM Food, GMO Label Law by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq. http://www.liattorney.com Over 60 countries around the world either prohibit, restrict or require genetically modified (GM) food to be labelled, excluding the United States. In fact, one thing the U.S. government and the government of China have in common, is th... more »

Morocco Diary #2 Unusually calm sea in spite of the winds...

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago

By American Kabuki Thought you might be interested in the unusually calm Mediterranean Sea near us, despite the howling winds. This has been going on for several days. The sea has been like glass... you could water ski on it. I've lowered the sound volume some as there's a lot of wind noise on this iPhone made video. Below are some lion tracks I found on the beach the day after Heather's encounter with the dolphin. Seems like a lot of animal life is showing up... my foot is on the right I wear a size US size 12 shoe (Euro size 45 cm).

Interesting stuff

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 9 hours ago

You've heard about peak oil, and the debate about said concept, but we may also be reaching peak agriculture. Global crop yields are struggling, and there needs to be a 60% increase in the amount of food produced (by 2050) to keep pace with demand. Projections of food production were based upon "one time innovations" such as breeds of wheat, artificial fertilizers or pesticides. There is, of course, the problem of soil exhaustion, and let's not forget global climate change (agriculture has a huge effect on the climate). Any civilisation, let alone one dedicated to competitive accum... more »

Alberto Juantorena's World Record breaking 1976 Olympic 800 gold medal run - commentator David Coleman

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago

David Coleman RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTG-QwbNsE&feature=youtube_gdata_player This isn't the "opens his legs and shows his class" commentary. That was from the same Olympics but in an earlier race I think...

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago

Sure, why not do this one? Let's see...I'll go with the nominations that made it through the Senate. Yes, there was some foot-dragging that successfully delayed others, but nothing that's really a big deal, and the ones that got through are now done. Plus there were new judicial nominations this week. Both the number of judicial vacancies and vacancies without nominees -- most of them blue slip issues -- remain stubbornly high, but things are better than they were. Obviously this week's silliness -- Pajama Boy, White Santa Claus, Duck Dynasty, whatever else -- didn't matter, and onc... more »

Is California “Common Core Unrest State #23″?

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago

In response to my post, UPDATE: Common Core Unrest in 22 States, I received the following comment: You should include California. It is the sleeping giant that no one is paying attention to and here is why: First, this past summer, California Republican Party overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Common Core. Based on your above analysis, this […]

JB Campbell on The Realist Report

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 11 hours ago

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Ducking the Truth: The Real American Dynasty

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago

(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) "*Start with homosexual behavior and just morph from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.*" - Phil Robertson, GQ "*Free speech is an endangered species: Those 'intolerants' hatin'& taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion take on us all.*" -Sarah Palin from her Mooselini Twitter balcony There are many things that do not subscribe to common sense in the Phil Robertson storm raging across the internet. The first that comes to mind is w... more »

Why It Makes No Sense To Travel With A Conservative, Even A Nice One

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

When I was 13-- and all my friends were studying for their bar mitzvahs-- I was making my first big hitch-hiking excursion. My grandparents were in South Beach, which was very grandparent-friendly back then, for Easter and I decided to see what hitching would be like. Brooklyn to Florida with $20 and a toothbrush in my pocket. I got as far as the New Jersey Turnpike and got arrested. They made my father come pick me up. He gave me the dough for a Greyhound. But it wasn't about the destination. I wanted to try out hitchhiking. I had plans. A couple years later-- having sent farmin... more »

priceless !

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago

the three stooges

Thailand: Protesters Must Stay Out of the Gutter

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours ago

Key to winning the nations back is winning the hearts of those who disagree with you most. *December 21, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The regime of Thaksin Shinawatrabuilt itself upon a foundation of corruption, deceit, fear, intimidation, bigotry, violence, and mass murder. Its followers, the "red shirts," are notorious thugs, having barricaded schools threatening teachers and parents, slapping university lecturers, and even going as far as hacking their opponents to pieces, committing massive city-wide arson, and armed insurrection. Though they only represent at most 7% of the popula... more »

The Ed-ventures of Edysseus

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago

Edysseus lived on the island of Paideia with his wife, Sophia, and son, Foiti̱tí̱s. Far away, on the island of Columbia, the “war of the pedagogues” threatened to spread to the peaceful island of Paideia. Although Edysseus tried to avoid entering the war, it was no use, as he had sworn to the gods of […]

Ted Cruz speaks...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago

*we should be listening.* It's up to us...

WEATHER CHANGES

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago

MB and I are on Cape Cod, Massachusetts to attend a wedding. We went for a walk this morning along the ocean. The weather here is quite mild for this time of year. When we left Maine yesterday there was almost two feet of snow on the ground. After nearly a six hour drive south we found no snow here when we arrived last night. And much higher temperatures. We return home tomorrow and the weather report calls for an ice storm in Maine as we head back north. It's quite amazing how just a few hours difference can usher in such huge changes in weather conditions.

The Big Chill

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 12 hours ago

Why, asks Lewis Lapham, are there no 21st century Mark Twains around to lambast the malefactors of great wealth and the corrupt politicians enabling them, making us collapse with laughter as we revel in the skewering? Part of the reason is that independent newspapers, for which Twain once wrote, have been subsumed by six media conglomerates controlling 90% of everything we see, hear and read. And so, Lapham observes, We have today a second Gilded Age more magnificent than the first, but our contemporary brigade of satirists doesn’t play with fire. The marketing directors who produc... more »

No te puedes perder estas lindas imágenes de Navidad, Año Nuevo y gifs

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 12 hours ago

Libya disaster just keeps getting worse every day......Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit..... Just three 4x4s to patrol 120 Jufra desert weapons stores ...... UN Security Council Concerned At Worsening Security, Political Divisions in Libya

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago

Libyan military colonel assassinated Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit. Last updated: 20 Dec 2013 22:05 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Libya has been plagued by growing lawlessness since the 2011 war that toppled Muammar Gaddafi [File: EPA] Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, the newly appointed chief of military intelligence in Benghazi, has been assassinated during a visit to his family in the e... more »

Liberalism: A Mental-Developmental Disorder

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 12 hours ago

What is Liberalism? Is it a political, economic or social ideology? Is it a faith? No. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder; a disorder resulting from a failure to develop from a child to an adult. When one debates with a liberal, one is not debating with another adult; one is debating with a person who has the outward appearance of an adult, but inwardly has the mentality of a child - and a spoilt child at that. Liberals will not listen to reason. This is because they are incapable of seeing the world from any perspective other than their own; in exactly the same manner as children... more »

With Syria and Iran becoming yesterday's news ( from the view of where will the next limited kinetic action occur ) , is Africa the new " hotness for 2014 ? US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan ....... ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in Central African Republic

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/us-aircraft-un-helicopter-attacked-south-sudan US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2013 11:31 -0500 - China - France - goldman sachs - Goldman Sachs - Iran - Middle East - Reuters inShare With a wave of detente spilling over the Middle East, following the surprising US overture to calm relations with Syria and Iran just months after it nearly launched an offensive war in the country over a few fabricated YouTube clops Looks li... more »

Gold and Silver report - December 19 - 20 , 2013 - P.M. Kitco Roundup: Gold Slumps To 6-Month Low Post-FOMC, And Amid Stronger U.S. Dollar ........Comex registered gold slumps to new multi-year lows ( 490 , 000 ounces ) , JPM takes deliveries as Customer or Eligible gold rises notably ( Turd Ferguson wonders if JP Morgan is buying for China in an interesting post ) ..... Meanwhile London's gold vault' virtually empty .... What gives is the question that should be asked ?That question and how broadly are those chinese buyers smiling as gold price suppression continues unabated along with chinese buying of physical gold ? Additional news , data and views on Gold primarily.......

Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago

December 20 , 2013...... http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/12/jp-morgan-takes-on-more-gold-61790.html 20 DECEMBER 2013 JP Morgan Takes On More Gold, 61,790 Ounces Come Out of Mocatta The big stopper JPM added about two tonnes of gold, and 61,790 ounces of bullion came out of the Scotia Mocatta registered inventory. This brings the total deliverable (registered) ounces of gold down to 432,612 which is a number that we have not seen in this inventory category since the early 1990's, well before the gold bull market. Supposedly Simon Weeks of Scotia Mocatta, who is also t... more »

Wild Bill: Dancing with Ducks...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago

*"If you want to make a liberal mad, tell him the truth."*

Major computer security firm RSA took $10 million from NSA to weaken encryption

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 13 hours ago

** *Amazing... they sold their company's future reputation down the drain for only $10 million? -Bill* *Major computer security firm RSA took $10 mln from NSA to weaken encryption* Published time: December 20, 2013 23:48 Get short URL RSA SecureID electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna)RSA SecureID electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna) The National Security Agency arranged a clandestine US$10 million contract with computer security power RSA that allowed the spy agency to embed encryption software it could use to infiltrate the company’s widely used products, Reuters r... more »

ObamaCare updates December 19 , 2013 - As Many Uninsured Oppose Obamacare as Favor It , which is not what the expectation would have been ! In other news , note the shocker of the day -- Surprise: Insurers extend deadline to pay first month of ObamaCare plan premiums until January 10th ....... And on the new head of Healthcare.gov.......

Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago

http://www.infowars.com/boehner-calls-for-one-year-obamacare-delay/ Boehner Calls for One Year Obamacare Delay - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com December 20, 2013 House Speaker and Ohio Republican John Boehner has called for a one year delay in the individual mandate under the Obamacare bill. Boehner made the suggestion on Friday following the Obama administration’s announcement it would exempt people who had ... more »

Has the GOP Inspired Prejudice about Texas?

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 14 hours ago

*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* For some reason, millions of people who have never been to Texas persist in spreading lies, and misconceptions about the state, "dissing it" though they have never bothered to confirm their prejudices by actually visiting the state. Nevertheless --they are convinced or have convinced themselves that Texas is a horrible and backward place. How much blame must be directed at Bush for having destroyed the reputation of a state that had been Democratic/progressive for over one hundred years The fact is, Texas is not a 'backwater'. Second only to ... more »

Meaningless Sentence of the Day

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 14 hours ago

This *NY Times* story on the middle class's struggle with the new healthcare law is generally pretty good, but this sentence struck me as comically meaningless: Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent of annual income. What the heck does this mean? The typical American spends more than a third of income on housing. Does that make housing unaffordable? Presumably not. What makes 10 percent the magic threshold for health insurance but not for other categories of crucial spending? Who are these experts, and what criterion do they use to determin... more »

New York Times bungles test scores again!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago

*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013* *The era of living incompetently:* On Thursday morning, the New York Times reported, or tried to report, the new NAEP scores for New York City. For reasons you can review, we described the news report as the work of functional illiterates. That was *before* we fact-checked the newspaper’s factual claims. Yesterday, we fact-checked their claims. Truly, we are all trapped in the era of living incompetently! What did Al Baker and Motoko Rich claim in their multiply bungled report? As you can recall at the link we’ve provided, this was the passage we foun... more »

Hypocrisy Squared

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago

There was something a little hollow about Stephen Harper's praise for Nelson Mandela. Murray Dobbin writes: In 1989 Harper was a member of the Northern Foundation (NF) about the same time that he became policy chief of the Reform Party. The exclusive mandate of the NF was to counter the serious efforts of the Canadian government of Brian Mulroney to pressure the South African government to release Nelson Mandela from prison and to end apartheid. Certainly, when it comes to the matter of justice, the two men live on different planets. Steve Sullivan delineates their differences:... more »

LGBT Equality In The Enchantment State-- New Mexico Democrats Are Jubilant While DCCC Hack Is Mum

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

“Denying same-gender couples the right to marry and thus depriving them and their families of the rights, protections, and responsibilities of civil marriage violates the equality demanded by the Equal Protection Clause of the New Mexico Constitution,” Justice Edward Chavez wrote for the five-member court, which ruled unanimously Thursday, making New Mexico the 17th state jun the Union to back marriage equality for LGBT citizens. New Mexico is a pretty live-and-let-live kind of state. Bigots and haterstend, like everywhere, to gravitate towards the Republican Party, which now has j... more »

The lawyer, the wife and the boobs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago

The lawyer is Cameron Diaz, the wife is Leslie Mann and the boobs is Kate 'sweet smelling sweat' Upton. Joblow.com have examined, very closely, the above video and created their highlights only version...

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago

*How much will Saints, Panthers tweak? ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*

And What Is Everyone Doing About Toronto's TTC Fare Increase?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours ago

Just to bring non-Torontonians up to speed: Toronto has gone from having what was widely regarded to be a good public transit system to having what is widely regarded as being a bad transit system. Bus service in the outer city is deplorable. Long waits to get on over-crowded buses, or to watch over-crowded buses pass your stop. Streetcar service that can mean it's faster to walk from Yonge to Bathurst than it is to wait for a streetcar. An over-crowded subway system prone to signals breakdowns and other interruptions. This has happened because for the past few decades, neo-liberals... more »

Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago

Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine. via Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine.

Pearson's $300 Toll Road to Teaching

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago

If you need some extra holiday cash, you might consider working part-time from home to help Pearson decide who will become teachers and who won't. It's easy--just complete a few online tutorials, and Pearson will send you a bunch of student teaching portfolios, complete with video clips of student teachers and classes with students whose parents have no idea that Pearson now has in their permanent libraries. All to become part of Big Data. In working for Pearson, you will help universities to decide the curriculum for teacher candidates, for remember, what gets tested gets taught. ... more »

War watch December 21 , 2013 - Syria Peace Talks crumbling as the Syrian rebels crumble , coupled with Iran not attending ....... Pakistan passes symbolic reolution against US drone death dealing , while Pakistan Civilian leadership passively agrees with US drone death dealing policy - and the Government still wants that 1.6 billion in US blood money .... Iran nuclear talks continue even as the US Senate tries its best to derail the nuclear talks with ever more sanctions against Iran...

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago

Syria......Geneva Peace Talks D.O.A Geneva Peace Talks Crumbling: Syria Rebels, Iran May Not AttendUS Is Still Trying to Keep Iran From Being Invited by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2013 Print This | Share This The Geneva II peace talks were initially scheduled for June, and after months were finally set up for January 22, with a watchmakers’ convention forcing the talks to Montreaux. Even though these talks have been “set” for weeks there remains doubt over whether they’ll actually happen. That’s because as the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) loses what little credibility it had among t... more »

Delivering

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago

"The health care website problems were a source of great frustration.... I now have a couple million people, maybe more, who are going to have health care on Jan. 1. And that is a big deal. That's why I ran for this office,"

Provocative thoughts and thinking - December 17 , 2013 ....Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis ........ Nukes on the Loose...... The Most Dangerous Woman In America

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago

http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2013/12/obama-allows-great-lakes-water-to-be-sold-to-china-as-half-the-u-s-faces-extreme-water-crisiss-2579664.html Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis Monday, December 16, 2013 17:17 0 (Before It's News) [image: Drought Monitor December 2013]What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? At a time when the United States is facing the greatest water crisis that it has ever known, Obama is allowing water from the Great Lakes to be drained, bottled and shipped to China and other countries around t... more »

Lost your corkscrew? All is not lost.

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago

A nifty way of opening a bottle of wine if you're minus a corkscrew.

Quatermass

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago

*"I wish Bernard were here..."* *"Chance'd be a fine thing - British Rocket Group's got it's own problems..."* The Quatermass Experiment - Episode 1 - "Contact Has Been Established..." (Tx.18 July 1953) from unpersonal on Vimeo. One morning, two hours after dawn, the first manned rocket in the history of the world takes off from the Tarooma Range, Australia. The three observers see on their scanning screens a quickly receding Earth. The rocket is guided from the ground by remote control as they rise through the ozone layer, the stratosphere, the ionosphere, beyond the air. ... more »

The #ChristmasMyths #4: The Birthplace and Surroundings of the Little Baby Jesus

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago

*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas Myths, one day at a time.* Today, the story and pagan origins of where Jesus was said to be born…* [image: image] Jesus was born in a manger and visited by shepherds, say the authors of *Luke*.** No, say the authors of *Matthew*, he was born in a house in which he and Mary were visited by an unconfirmed number of Magi from the East ( *three* being a later gloss). There were no little drummer boys. The authors of *Mark* and *John *don’t bother with any of this carry on. To them, it clearly doesn’t matter a... more »

Home Grown - A Song by Keith Cross

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago

*Published on Novemer 6, 2012* Grow your own and free yourself!!! Get the song at keithcrossmusic.com https://www.facebook.com/KeithCrossMusic

The Mexican Government Reveals Mayan Documents Proving Extraterrestrial Contact

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago

*The Mexican Government Reveals Mayan Documents Proving Extraterrestrial Contact* December 18, 2013 by Joe Martino. The reality of extraterrestrial contact with human civilization is becoming more clear by the month as streams of information about the extraterrestrial presence and past influence hits. While some of us still have our doubts about ET contact, many are starting to realize the truth that has been talked about for centuries. One big story involves the Mexican government who has released documents and images of objects found on the site of Calakmul, Mexico which help... more »

Divine Law

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago

Source: http://notesalongthepath.com/2013/12/20/divine-law-a-guest-post-from-jamie-sams-and-david-carson/#respond

5 Hot Benefits of Hot Peppers and Capsaicin by Elizabeh Renter

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago

5 Hot Benefits of Hot Peppers and Capsaicin by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 21 November 2013 *Containing a compound known as capsaicin, cayenne peppers have been found to aid in weight loss, lower blood pressure, and reduce inflammation, all while giving your food a spicy kick. So, what’s the evidence of cayenne pepper benefits? Read on.* As mentioned, the compound credited with the health benefits of cayenne peppers is known as capsaicin. It’s also the compound that makes the peppers so spicy. Capsaicin has been found to reduce inflammation, which can aid in the treatmen... more »

Don't Dismiss Slacktivism

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 19 hours ago

*From Catherine Buca* talesfromtheend: I’m not kidding about this, and I’m not being hyperbolic. If I had to name the worst thing about my industry, it would absolutely be this. It’s a cancer within, and it’s worse than all the other problems we have, and it makes me angry and ashamed. I don’t want to look at it anymore. We need to stop pretending that it’s nothing, that it’s just some kids letting of steam, or whatever nice little comforting story we tell ourselves that lets us gloss it over time after time. It needs to stop. It really needs to stop. These assholes aren’t making ... more »

Buying your wife and/or girlfriend sexy lingerie for Christmas? Have you thought of smartening up your own underwear?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago

Buying your wife and/or girlfriend sexy lingerie for Christmas? Have you thought of smartening up your own underwear? This video makes the point rather nicely.

Growing Trend: More American Teenagers Choose Organic

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago

Research shows teens are turning to organic foods. Some recent studies dish up hope: Youths do not live by Flamin’ Hot Cheetos alone. In fact, many consider it cool to munch on chemical-free kale. A survey released in October by the investm...ent firm Piper Jaffray & Co. said, “Teens are increasingly choosing organic food options, with 39 percent eating organics versus just 33 percent two years ago.” SAY NO TO GMOs & PESTICIDES! *READ MORE:* *http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/17/4699398/more-young-people-turn-to-organic.html* *#teens* *#HealthyFood* *#organic* *#gmo* *#NoGMOs*... more »

HOT SEX IN THAILAND?

Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago

*Photo-shopped?* *Allegedly*, the photo above shows a British diplomat on holiday in Thailand in September 2013, and, a young boy dressed as a girl. *Of course the photo could be quite innocent.* *Or, it could have been photo-shopped, and be part of a disinformation campaign.* *Interestingly, there appears to be no Michael Easton working at the British Embassy in Moscow. * *British Embassy Moscow - GOV.UK* The following is from *CHUOONG HUA,* 20 December 2013: "The ... 'diplomat' is ... a British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6) agent working undercover in the British Embassy... more »

A Message To New Hampshire; Live In Food Freedom Or Die

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago

NEW HAMPSHIRE is looking for some boots on the ground. Send us a message if you're from NH and you'd like to get involved with GMO education and outreach. Please spread the word! Thank you *Note:* *Mike's 2 cents. Perhaps their motto should be, "Live in Food Freedom or Die"* *Source:* *GMO Free USA* The New Hampshire State Motto is: Live Free Or Die

Organic Gingerbread House Recipe

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago

*Make some holiday memories this season by making a GMO Free gingerbread house with your family. Bake the house using your favorite recipe and a re-usable mold or find a template online. Or keep it simple, and start with ready made Organic G...**raham Crackers. Our Royal Icing recipe is a simple way to glue the house together and decorate. Be creative!* *Here are some suggestions - please share your own!:* Re-usable molds: Amazon.com Organic Graham Crackers: Annies; Erewhon Decorations: TruSweet Organic Candy Canes TruJoy Organic Starlight Mints UnReal Candy M&Ms Candy Tree Orga... more »

in which my library career takes another step forward

laura k at wmtc - 20 hours ago

I am very pleased to announce that I've landed my first full-time librarian gig! It's a temporary position, for six months, in the "Readers' Den" Department of the Mississauga Central Library. Readers' Den takes in all the fiction, magazines, movies, and very importantly, the Youth department, both teen fiction and teen programs. I'll be working with teens again, something I love, I'll be sharpening my readers' advisory skills, and I'll be able to work as a full-time librarian while I wait for a permanent position to post. Please forgive my bragging, but I must tell you that I tota... more »

Alan Guth: a talk at Hunter College

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago

Alan Guth of MIT was one of the nine inaugural winners of the $3 million prize. He was awarded for his cosmic inflationary theory. In May 2013, he gave a 80-minute talk at the Hunter College, CUNY, New York: The video was posted on the YouTube channel of the Milner physics prizethat you're invited to look at – it's full of acceptance speeches by the winners, aside from long talks by Polchinski, Linde, and others. Alan was introduced as a postdoc from 1979 who was visited by a muse and biked to his office at Stanford or SLAC. Then he won the Milner Prize a year ago. How did it fe... more »

BBC News ask 'How did Michael Adebolajo become a killer?'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago

The answer is, to the BBC obvious: '... could another government scheme have stepped in? Whitehall had poured millions of pounds into an extensive programme of preventing violent extremism and a parallel programme of deradicalisation. But when some of that funding was pulled after the 2010 general election, one of the groups that lost out was an initiative called Street, based in south London. Its founder Abdul Haqq Baker told the BBC's Panorama that before Street lost its funding, members of his team had identified Adebolajo as a possible threat. "Some of my youth workers knew [A... more »

BBC News - NHS 'was too powerful to criticise' says regulator

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago

The trouble with this BBC report is that whilst it starts thus: 'The NHS "became too powerful to criticise" despite many patients receiving a "wholly unsatisfactory" service, the health regulator has said. David Prior told the Daily Telegraph that even the most senior staff were afraid of speaking out.The Care Quality Commission chairman said the NHS should not be treated as a "national religion" beyond criticism.' It is, of course, the BBC and their fellow travellers on the left of politics who most often treat the BBC as 'a "national religion" beyond criticism"'. More reporting... more »

SCHOOL SEX; CALDICOTT SCHOOL; HORACE MANN SCHOOL

Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago

*Nick Clegg, after he left Caldicott* Britain's Deputy prime Minister Nick Clegg was 'head boy' at Caldicott Prep School, a fee paying school in Buckinghamshire, for boys aged 7-13. On 17 December 2013, a former headmaster of Caldicott, Roland Peter Wright, was convicted of multiple sex offences against pupils at Caldicott between 1959 and 1970. *Peter Wright* Three other teachers, Hugh Henry, Martin Carson and John Addrison have also been convicted of similar offences in the 1960s and 1970s. After university, Nick Clegg went to work for the EU Commissioner and senior Conserva... more »

F is for Fake

Paul Coker at News Spike - 23 hours ago

The Simplest Explanation is Usually the Correct One

Paul Coker at News Spike - 23 hours ago

The real explanation is that he used to attach endless earmarks for his district and his far-right interests to unrelated bills that could not fail to pass Congress and then vote* "No" *on them when they came to the floor. And then pretend he has moral scruples and principles.

IF ISRAEL UNILATERALLY STRIKES IRAN, WILL THE U.S. CONGRESS PRESS FOR AMERICA TO SUPPORT ISRAEL MILITARILY?

Damian Lataan at Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is - 23 hours ago

There is an interesting article in the neoconservative *Weekly Standard*online magazine this week that is well worth a read. The writer, neoconservative Uri Sadot, a research associate with the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that Israel, based on its historical record of successes in pulling off seemingly impossible military operations, might very well consider a pre-emptive unilateral strike against Iran. Netanyahu has already stated that, because Israel was not part of the deal struck between Iran and the so-called P5+1, the US, UK, France, Russia and China being the 5 and Ge... more »

Almost Christmas

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago

I'm still alive. Just really busy with real life this week. And it's almost Christmas so time for some music. Possibly the best rendition of this Christmas carol ever by my friend Mike Finnigan.

Diamonds and the Apartheid States

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

Disclaimer: I do not endorse Murray Rothbard, or his ecconomic theories - however, his analysis of the history of the Rhodes-Round Table Commodity Cartel of DeBeers and other German, Belgian and Dutch Zionists in the Colonial conquest, occupation, exploitation and neocolonial reconquest of Africa beginning with the Cape Colony in this case is valuable. I would also like to further make the point that American and European Jews of both an Orthodox and Hassidic background in particular have been admirably and disproportionately courageous in their criticism and condemnation of the Z... more »

Sunday Classics preview: The gala Sunday Classics "Nutcracker (The Whole Deal)" returns AGAIN (one last time!)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

*You'd want to think twice before bidding on this record. The ABC Command label tells you it's one of the inferior later pressings; you want an original gold-label issue. (Note: Unfortunately, last year's preview-opening video clip of the Nutcracker Suite segment of Walt Disney's Fantasia has disappeared -- not entirely surprisingly, I guess. To be honest, I don't like it much anyway.)* *by Ken* As far back as the mind recalls, Sunday Classics has celebrated the holiday musically at least in part with music from Tchaikovsky's ballets, and two years ago I went whole hog and offered ... more »

Ralph McGehee

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

"The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies."

Whose Side Are You On?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago

Do you stand with the victims or with the aggressors? Do you stand with the tortured or the torturers? Do you stand with the oppressed or with the oppressors? Do you stand with the raped or the rapists? Do you stand with the weak or with the strong? Do you stand with the poor or with the rich? It's amazing how many "conservative" bloggers stand on the wrong side of things, isn't it?

Acclaimed Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi's New Film Comes to American Screens

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago

(Credit: Memento Films International) "Le Passé" (or "The Past"), the new film by celebrated Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, was released in select U.S. cities today. Already highly acclaimed for its beautiful and intricate storytelling - a hallmark of filmmaker Farhadi - "The Past" is another unflinching exploration of love, trust, deceit and family and a fitting follow-up to his last

Musical interlude: Elton John- "Border Song" W/ Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Elton John- "Border Song" W/ Lyrics -mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kVgrvOpf9A

Really? "Duck Dynasty" isn't a ripoff of beloved cartoon ducks like Donald and Daffy?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

*Jumpin' Jehosophat! I thought maybe it wasDaffy Duck who said those terrible things.* *by Ken* As God is my witness, I thought *Duck Dynasty* was a cartoon show, and I'm not thinking of live-action animation. No, I thought it was, like, a ripoff of some of our classic cartoon ducks, like maybe Daffy -- that would have fit the story, wouldn't it? Or more properly, when you think about a "duck dynasty," who would you think of but our Donald and his Uncle Scrooge and his mischievous nephews Huey, Louie, and Dewey? Yesterday, as the *Washington Post's* Matea Gold reports, conserva... more »

The Worst People in the World - by Hunter S. Thompson

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago

*The Worst People in the World * *Memo to my editor:* It was the morning after Election Day when I finally made the decision to apply for the journalist-in-space program. I stayed up all night and drove down to the post office at dawn to pick up the official application form. There was only one press seat, according to the people at NASA, and the competition would definitely be fierce. Walter Cronkite was the natural choice, they said, but he was far too old for the weight training and his objectivity was suspect. Ten years ago, or more, Walter had taken a profoundly personal in... more »

Drones, Cheap Tablets, The Cloud, Robots and Publishing!

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 1 day ago

This month we have read of the $38 tablet, Amazon’s statements on the potential use of Drone technology to delivery local parcels and the growth of stuff that is now and predicted to be connected to the Internet. Some would suggest that these are interesting but don’t apply to their world, others would suggest that they are part of the relentless march of technology which is now promising so much, whilst threatening so much at the same time. *Drones* Drones have started to revolutionise warfare in the same way that communications did before them. The move from open warfare, to in... more »

What Your Beer Says About You

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago

So, turns out I’m a direct, aggressive reader of Nietzsche who embraces change, has a drunk mother-in-law, and hides a heart of gold behind my thick skin. Or something. [image: What Your Beer Says About You] What does *your* beer supposedly say about *you*? *PS:* What do New Zealand’s ten best beers for 2013 say about *us *as a culture? (And I say that as someone who in no way truly gives a shit.) Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Irish banking world rocked as three financiers in court

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

*Irish banking world rocked as three financiers in court* published by Tom Sullivan on Fri, 2013-12-20 20:56 A former chief executive of Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) and two other former bankers will stand trial on charges of conspiring to mislead Anglo Irish Bank investors in the run-up to the banking crisis of September 2008. One of the three men charged is Denis Casey (54) from Raheny, Dublin, who becomes the first chief executive officer (CEO) who was in charge of an Irish financial institution during the crash to have charges brought against him. The trials will be closely... more »

Navajo Councilman Leonard Tsosie pushing for uranium mining to poison Navajo water

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

Friends, Leonard Tsosie representing Littlewater, Pueblo Pintado, Torreon, Whitehorse Lake, Baca/Brewitt, Casamero Lake, Ojo Encino, Counselor NM Please be advised that the following actions are currently taking place and we need your help to tell the Navajo Nation Council Delegates to vote NO on Navajo Nation Legislation 0373-13. Navajo Nation Council Delegate Leonard

First Nation Terrance Nelson 'The Image of Canada'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

The Image Of Canada By Terrance Nelson Roseau River Anishinaabe Censored News Stephen Harper loves to point the finger at other countries for human rights violations. Iran is a constant target for the Conservative Government of Canada. The rights of women in Iran is a favorite subject for the Harper Government. The rights of indigenous women in Canada is far less an issue

Hermosas imágenes que te regalamos para esta Navidad y Año Nuevo

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

A Tale of Two Protests: Ukraine and Thailand - Part II

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago

As unrest continues in both countries, a sharp, hypocritical divide widens for the "intentional community." *December 21, 2013* (Tony Cartalucic) - For audiences around the world watching pro-EU protests unfold in the streets of Ukraine's capital of Kiev, they may have noticed flags bearing a lifted hand giving a "three-fingered salute." This is the reformed Nazi salute of right-winged nationalist group Svoboda. Along with other racist, bigoted, extremist political parties including "Fatherland," Svoboda has filled the streets, clashed with police, occupied government buildings an... more »

The Importance of Screening

Phil Arena at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago

Editor’s Note: this is an abbreviated version of a post that originally appeared on my personal blog. In my previous post, I articulated one way international institutions can deter bad behavior. In this post, I’ll argue that even if we assume institutions don’t have access to information that isn’t already available to states, they still Continue reading

“The Prophet”, “The Farewell”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

* “The Prophet”, “The Farewell”* by Kahlil Gibran “And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that has spoken." And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was I not also a listener? Then he descended the steps of the Temple and all the people followed him. And he reached his ship and stood upon the deck. And facing the people again, he raised his voice and said: People of Orphalese, the wind bids me leave you. Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I must go. We wanderers, ever seeking t... more »

Bad Bear's Photos: Longest Walk 4 Final Day Walking to Alcatraz

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago

. Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson. The final day of the five month walk to Alcatraz. On Saturday, Dec. 21, walkers arrive on Alcatraz. On Dec. 22, a Sovereignty Gathering will be held at the Inter-tribal Friendship House in Oakland. Longest Walk in San Francisco December 21- The Walk will start at 5:00 AM sharp from the Marin Vista Point of the Golden

Grey Lady talks Hockey Prospects

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago

Its not often the lens of the lady falls on our sport.

Any Cause for Carolling will do

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago

Lest you think the title of that last post followed by an ominous silence meant anything well, no, it didn't...only that the pre-Christmas rush has left little time for blogging and, despite there being so much of importance going on in the news and in the world of BBC reporting, this post is just to say that things will be very slow here in the coming couple of weeks (well on my part anyway), bursting out anew in 2014. Actually, it's not *just* to say that at all. The one BBC programme I've had the time to listen to closely was Jeremy Summerly's *A Cause for Carolling* on Radio ... more »

More Retirements-- Or Will Some Of Them Be Carried Out Of Congress In Boxes?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

That Buck McKeon is finally retiring from Congress is no longer news in the L.A. area and especially not up in Santa Clarita. Everyone already knows he cut a deal with sleazy carpetbagger Tony Strickland and everyone knows that GOP McKeon-haters have drafted the most far right and extreme state Senator in California, bizarre hate-monger Steve Knight. And the McKeon family already has an office ready for ole Buck at the family lobbying firm, which Buck collecting clients for now. So will we see an outburst of Beltway hubbub when he finally makes the official announcement, the way we... more »

The Law of Time: False Paradigm to Control Reality

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago

I'm sending out a HUGE thank you to Justin for getting this article out when I just could not (I was catering a party and cooking for 2 days straight! lol). I finally had a moment tonight to repost this excellent article that really struck me as.... timely. Some of the comments made when this article was discussed in the Energy Workroom: nick : Not even sure how to put it into 'English'. During reading through the article, I kept getting the connection between the mechanical construct of time and the 'worship' of that construct. One major commonality between most of the world rel... more »

All You Need To Know About Liberals And Morality

Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day ago

Hat tip to Gay Patriot. Click on the link; the folks in the comment thread make some interesting points.

Airshow MacKay rolls out more of that "Compassionate Conservatism"

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago

First it was James Moore, telling us he was fine with Canadian children starving; then it was that nasty little shit, Flaherty, making it clear that the elderly can continue to eat cat food. Next up? None other than Elmer MacKay's entitled brat, Peter "Airshow" MacKay. MacKay said poor offenders could pay the fine back over time or consider selling some of their belongings to pay off the

English: The delegation at St. Michael's Cathedral. From left to right: Senator Richard Burr, Mrs. Brooke Burr, Senator Judd Gregg, Mrs. Kathleen Gregg, Mrs. Karyn Frist, and Senator Bill Frist. Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: NORFOLK (March 29, 2010) West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin III stands with a custom-painted C-2A Greyhound from the Rawhides of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 before boarding the plane for a flight to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Governor is embarking Harry S. Truman as a distinguished visitor. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Weinert/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Where are they Now? - A-Z of Bristol bands - Songwriters - Musicians (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred)

Turkeys in Folsom (Photo credit: rckenned)

European Union (Photo credit: ana branca)

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

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 56 minutes 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 CresswellatNot PC - 1 hour 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. [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)

Disfruta estas imágenes de pinos, postales y muñecos de nieve realmente sorprendentes

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 hour ago

The source of true friendship

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour ago

H/T to Oldpharte and Globallove Think Tank

Chariots of the Gods new revelations

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 hour 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 CresswellatNot PC - 1 hour 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!

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 2 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?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 2 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

Anonataangirfan - 2 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)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 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 Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 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)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 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)

CirzeatWelcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 3 hours ago

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 WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 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 »

La mejor colección de imágenes para Navidad y Año Nuevo

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 4 hours ago

Nevando en Navidad

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 5 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 LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 5 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 - 5 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)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 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 ?

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 5 hours ago

obey

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

noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!)atSay No To Corporate America - 6 hours ago

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 6 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 LisaatReal History Blog - 6 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)

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 6 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

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 6 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

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 6 hours ago

Exit Through The Gift Shop *by AceVideos*

A Smoothie Recipe From Kids For Kids

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago

Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/KIDS-saying-NO-to-GMO-and-Monsanto/532725250123850

Quarter Four Local By-Election Results 2013

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 6 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

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 6 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 FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 6 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 LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago

https://www.facebook.com/TeensAndKidsAgainstGmo

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

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 7 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 - 7 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

SteveatThinking Aboot - 7 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 WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 7 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 HornatSchools Matter - 8 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 Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 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 Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 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. Slekarat@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 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

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 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

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 9 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

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 9 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)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 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 »

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 9 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 SilenceatRemoving The Shackles - 10 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 MortonatMorton's Musings - 10 hours ago

Links.... alas, too busy to blog

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 11 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. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 11 hours ago

Happy holidays to everyone.

Sunday Question for Everyone

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago

What's a gift you would like to give to a politician you like? This is for sincere, not sarcastic, gifts, but creative ones if you can think of them.

Chris Geo of Truth Frequency - amazing Ayahausca purging - meets the Holograph Maintainers!

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 12 hours ago

This is labelled under 'big pharma' but it's more useful to think of this as a 'little pharma' experience. A couple of days ago, Chris Geo of Truth Frequency (who have featured put up with 'yours truly' on a couple of occassions) celebrated his first anniversary of marriage to wife Sheree by going on a massive Ayahuasca purging. Like, three times the standard dose, in the safe-ish hands of shaman William Whitecrow, to face his fears and confront his demons. It's a spectacular personal journey and one worth micro-quoting, thus: *“You asked for the truth Chris, this is the cold hard... more »

EXPECT DEFLATION FOLLOWED BY INFLATION?

Anonataangirfan - 13 hours ago

*Steen Jacobson* Last year, Steen Jakobsen, the chief economist at the Danish Saxo Bank, predicted that gold would drop in price to $1,200 an ounce and that shares in the USA would rise sharply in price. Those predictions were correct. *Some of his other predictions were wrong.* *Here are his predictions for what MIGHT just happen in 2014:* *1.* The global recovery will falter. *2.* There will be deflation. The oil price will fall to $80 a barrel. *3. *Technology stocks (shares in such companies as such as Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Pandora Media and Yelp) will fall greatly in ... more »

Volunteers Needed For A GMO Free Ohio

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago

OHIO is working on a Constitutional Amendment that will put GMO Labeling on the ballot in 2014. Volunteers needed - sign up at www.labelthetruth.org. Signature gathering will begin soon - 600,000 signatures are required so much help is need...ed. OHIO, COLORADO & OREGON take it to the people to vote in 2014. WE NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S GMO! *#Ohio* *#labelthetruth* *#gmo* *#labelgmos* *#freedom2chooz* *#boycottGMOs* *#gmofreeusa* *#Colorado* *#Oregon* *Source:* *GMO Free USA*

Elixir of youth: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 14 hours ago

Alchemists were hired and transferred to Prague by our leader, Austrian Emperor Rudolph II (reign in Bohemia 1576—1611), and one of their tasks was to develop the elixir of youth for the monarch who was aging, despite his blue blood. He was aging so quickly that at night, "they" were clearly hearing how "their" arteries are hardening with calcium and other waste products (arteriosclerosis). Days ago, the research project funded by Rudolph II was finally completed. Well, maybe, if we believe the optimistic reports. Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back ... more »

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Paul CokeratNews Spike - 15 hours ago

*Professional journalists and Federal Agents have been killed for telling you the story I am about to tell you.* *"The crash was covered decently and modestly by the medias. The Lockerbie-people saw and felt a somehow stronger version: I am very familiar with Lockerbie, both the locality and the circumstances surrounding PA103.* *My family spoke of that dreadful night with a horror that is hard to describe. Of course newspapers and television use discretion when publishing photographs of crash-sites. They usually publish photographs of a teddy-bear or a broken doll to s... more »

Football discussed at a higher level than on Match of the Day - well the interviewer tries

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 15 hours ago

Monty Python of course

And you think you have it rough ...

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 16 hours ago

Journalist Michelle Stewart can probably put those feelings to rest. All the best, Michelle. All any of us can do is hope this is a Christmas that brings you some joy. You deserve it.

We received one billion dollars

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 16 hours ago

I was pleased to learn that along with Dick Lindzen, Anthony Watts, Marc Morano, and a few other pals, we have received one billion dollars just in 2013! Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian) Congratulations to all of us. A possible problem – one pointed out to me by the Galileo Movement via Twitter – is that I may find out that we just "may have received" the billion instead of the phrase "did receive" it. Meanwhile, if you send a few tens of dollars via PayPal, it will be noticed and appreciated. ;-) Just ... more »

Weekend Fun 53: Mayor Days be Merry and Binays

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 16 hours ago

*Mayor days be merry and bright* *and Mayor all Christmas be white.* *Binays (be nice), be not naughty* *Santa Claus is coming to town.* *Mayor Christmas always Binays.* *Mayor dreams in Malacanang not come true. :-)* These are some of the revised Christmas carols here in Manila after Makati Mayor Junjun Binay's Dasma gate. Typical Pinoy humor. On the famous umbrella at night and it was not raining, here are some comments in facebook... *may iba nagpayong at gabi pa... mainit ba buwan?* *Oo nga, bakit pinapayungan sa gabi? Nilalamig ang bumbunan!?!* *I can understand Imelda Marco... more »

Exercise of right to silence not evidence of guilt

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 16 hours ago

R. v. Snelson, 2013 BCCA 550 (CanLII): [56] If an accused person has a right to silence, it is an empty right if the Crown is permitted to seek an inference of guilt from the exercise of this right. An accused person also has a right to consult with a lawyer and no inference of guilt can be drawn against Mr. Snelson for the exercise of that right. See *R. v. Belowitz*, (1990), 56 C.C.C. (3d) 402 at 412-13 (Ont. C.A.).

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 17 hours ago

Snow Queen, one of the largest snow sculptures in the world, measuring 35m high and 200m long.

White Elephant

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 17 hours ago

If I had won that big Megabucks lottery a few days ago, I would have funded this project myself. Brilliant. And how cool is it that you can make a living at origami? Backstory: Now the 33-year-old artist is appealing to Indiegogo’s crowdfunding angels to help him realize his ambition of folding a life-size elephant out of a single sheet of 50 x 50 meter (164 x 164 foot) paper. (So far he’s raised $13,843 of his $24,000 goal with 3 weeks to go.) Mabona says his aim is to show what a single sheet of paper can do by using it to create a replica of one of the world’s most imposing... more »

BATTLE TO COVER-UP CHILD ABUSE AND MURDER

Anonataangirfan - 17 hours ago

On 22 December 2013, we read, yet again, that a top UK Conservative Party politician, a former Thatcher Cabinet minister, is facing arrest in connection with child abuse. Police investigate former Thatcher Cabinet minister over child sex abuse -Herald Scotland The politician is being investigated by detectives leading Operation Fernbridge, which is investigating claims that politicians and others sexually abused boys at various places in the UK. The police say that the charges relate to seven victims aged between nine and 15, with the alleged offences taking place in the 1970s an... more »

PEDOPHILE RING IN ISRAEL?

Anonataangirfan - 18 hours ago

*'Eyal Golan'* In late November 2013, it was reported that the popular Israeli recording artist Eyal Golan had been detained for questioning at Tel Aviv Police Headquarters, in connection with allegations that he engaged in unlawful sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old minor. Reportedly, Golan was at the center of pedophile a ring that included his father, his manager and other associates who sought out teenage female fans during concerts for post-show sex and drug parties. Israel's Eyal Golan Center of Sex Scandal Two famous Israeli singers were said to be involved, plus a med... more »

The #ChristmasMyths #5: So, What’s With All That Frankincense?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 19 hours ago

Want To Help Rickie Lee Jones Record Her New Album?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago

Another BigMedia fail

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 20 hours ago

The Way Forward for 2014 .......JIM WILLIE: IN 2014 THE FAILURE BEGINS ! The Hidden Motives Behind The Federal Reserve Taper Strange things afoot involving gold ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 21 hours ago

You don't mean to say you fell for this "royal baby" hoax?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago

The Project Mogul Double Standard

KRandleatA Different Perspective - 23 hours ago

Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago

Cocaine - by Aleister Crowley

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned ? Examining US drone death dealing policy in Yemen .....

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Winter Solstice

theozarkeratThe Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 1 day ago

And the sun begins to win again against the darkness. Stonehenge on Solstice day.

Felicita a tus seres queridos con estas encantadoras imágenes

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

Conservative Unions Backs Conservative Candidates-- Let's Look At Hawaii's Senate Race

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Education policy “wonks” + pop culture = train wreck

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

JP Morgan Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach ! 2 Million Chase customers could be impacted by 100 buck limit in daily cash withdrawals and 300 buck total purchases daily limit ( does this remind you of Cyprus ? ) Time limit fo restriction ( not immediately given ??? ) ..... some help at Chase branches available but how many folks will find out about these restrictions while shopping ? And how many banks will follow Chas with these de facto capital controls , which look like they will last until debit cards are canceled and replaced for Chase customers ? !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Why Is Blackstone Gobbling Up Homes? (Source: Bloomberg)

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago

SILENCE OVER THE SECRET BLACK BUDGET

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

Pandemic watch December 21 , 2013 - Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to humans ...... Does the possibility of a release ( accidental or otherwise concern scientists ) Reminds me of the start of 28 Days Later , just not the " Rage " virus ..... When you consider the continuing dangerous releases from Fukushima debacle - impacting not just Japan and the countries in that region , but the West Coast of North America ( and let's not forget the sailors on US ships at the time of Fukushima debacle on March 11 , 2011 ) , contaminated foods , Mystery illnesses , insecticides in the food chain ........ Is there a conspiracy to cause mass deaths ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

Morocco Diary #2 Unusually calm sea in spite of the winds...

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

Interesting stuff

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago

Alberto Juantorena's World Record breaking 1976 Olympic 800 gold medal run - commentator David Coleman

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan BernsteinatA plain blog about politics - 1 day ago

Is California “Common Core Unrest State #23″?

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

JB Campbell on The Realist Report

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 1 day ago

Subscribe to *The Realist Report on YouTube*

Ducking the Truth: The Real American Dynasty

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago

Why It Makes No Sense To Travel With A Conservative, Even A Nice One

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

priceless !

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

the three stooges

Thailand: Protesters Must Stay Out of the Gutter

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 1 day ago

The Ed-ventures of Edysseus

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Ted Cruz speaks...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago

*we should be listening.* It's up to us...

WEATHER CHANGES

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

The Big Chill

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 1 day ago

No te puedes perder estas lindas imágenes de Navidad, Año Nuevo y gifs

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

Libya disaster just keeps getting worse every day......Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit..... Just three 4x4s to patrol 120 Jufra desert weapons stores ...... UN Security Council Concerned At Worsening Security, Political Divisions in Libya

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Liberalism: A Mental-Developmental Disorder

Rufus News From AtlantisatNews From Atlantis. - 1 day ago

With Syria and Iran becoming yesterday's news ( from the view of where will the next limited kinetic action occur ) , is Africa the new " hotness for 2014 ? US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan ....... ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in Central African Republic

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Gold and Silver report - December 19 - 20 , 2013 - P.M. Kitco Roundup: Gold Slumps To 6-Month Low Post-FOMC, And Amid Stronger U.S. Dollar ........Comex registered gold slumps to new multi-year lows ( 490 , 000 ounces ) , JPM takes deliveries as Customer or Eligible gold rises notably ( Turd Ferguson wonders if JP Morgan is buying for China in an interesting post ) ..... Meanwhile London's gold vault' virtually empty .... What gives is the question that should be asked ?That question and how broadly are those chinese buyers smiling as gold price suppression continues unabated along with chinese buying of physical gold ? Additional news , data and views on Gold primarily.......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Wild Bill: Dancing with Ducks...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 1 day ago

*"If you want to make a liberal mad, tell him the truth."*

Major computer security firm RSA took $10 million from NSA to weaken encryption

AMERICAN KABUKIatAMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

ObamaCare updates December 19 , 2013 - As Many Uninsured Oppose Obamacare as Favor It , which is not what the expectation would have been ! In other news , note the shocker of the day -- Surprise: Insurers extend deadline to pay first month of ObamaCare plan premiums until January 10th ....... And on the new head of Healthcare.gov.......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Has the GOP Inspired Prejudice about Texas?

Len HartatThe Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day ago

Meaningless Sentence of the Day

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago

New York Times bungles test scores again!

bob somerbyatthe daily howler - 1 day ago

*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013* *The era of living incompetently:* On Thursday morning, the New York Times reported, or tried to report, the new NAEP scores for New York City. For reasons you can review, we described the news report as the work of functional illiterates. That was *before* we fact-checked the newspaper’s factual claims. Yesterday, we fact-checked their claims. Truly, we are all trapped in the era of living incompetently! What did Al Baker and Motoko Rich claim in their multiply bungled report? As you can recall at the link we’ve provided, this was the passage we fo... more »

Hypocrisy Squared

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 day ago

LGBT Equality In The Enchantment State-- New Mexico Democrats Are Jubilant While DCCC Hack Is Mum

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

The lawyer, the wife and the boobs

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago

*How much will Saints, Panthers tweak? ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*

And What Is Everyone Doing About Toronto's TTC Fare Increase?

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago

Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine

plthomaseddat@ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago

Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine. via Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine.

Pearson's $300 Toll Road to Teaching

Jim HornatSchools Matter - 1 day ago

War watch December 21 , 2013 - Syria Peace Talks crumbling as the Syrian rebels crumble , coupled with Iran not attending ....... Pakistan passes symbolic reolution against US drone death dealing , while Pakistan Civilian leadership passively agrees with US drone death dealing policy - and the Government still wants that 1.6 billion in US blood money .... Iran nuclear talks continue even as the US Senate tries its best to derail the nuclear talks with ever more sanctions against Iran...

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Delivering

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

Provocative thoughts and thinking - December 17 , 2013 ....Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis ........ Nukes on the Loose...... The Most Dangerous Woman In America

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Lost your corkscrew? All is not lost.

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago

A nifty way of opening a bottle of wine if you're minus a corkscrew.

Quatermass

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

The #ChristmasMyths #4: The Birthplace and Surroundings of the Little Baby Jesus

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago

Queen bee 2 (Photo credit: quisnovus)

Keystone XL demonstration, White House,8-23-2011 Photo Credit: Josh Lopez (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Best of Moody Blues Alternate (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

10:38pm MST

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

thorne dreyeratThe 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?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 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 dreyeratThe 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 JudeaatAbraham 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 katwmtc - 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)atRunning '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)atRunning '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

deutsch29at@ 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?

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 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.

SteveatThinking 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

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago

Summer Reading

Peter CresswellatNot 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)

Disfruta estas imágenes de pinos, postales y muñecos de nieve realmente sorprendentes

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 6 hours ago

The source of true friendship

SteveatThinking Aboot - 6 hours ago

H/T to Oldpharte and Globallove Think Tank

Chariots of the Gods new revelations

SteveatThinking Aboot - 6 hours ago

Christmas less Christian, says survey

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 6 hours ago

Fair warning!

RoobinatTHROUGH 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?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

PASTOR BUM-SEX AND OIL

Anonataangirfan - 7 hours ago

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

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

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

Kris Nielsenat@ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago

"What Can We Know?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning '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)

CirzeatWelcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours ago

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

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 9 hours ago

La mejor colección de imágenes para Navidad y Año Nuevo

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 9 hours ago

Nevando en Navidad

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 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 LoveatAMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago

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

"You Can Be Sure of It..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago

will you obey ?

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago

obey

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

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

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

NortherntruthseekeratNortherntruthseeker - 11 hours ago

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

Real History LisaatReal History Blog - 11 hours ago

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

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

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

freetoteachatSchools Matter - 11 hours ago

exit

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago

Exit Through The Gift Shop *by AceVideos*

A Smoothie Recipe From Kids For Kids

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger 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

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago

Local Council By-Elections December 2013

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago

"Holocaust" satire

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 12 hours ago

Teens & Kids On GMOs

Stranger in a Strange LandatStranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours ago

https://www.facebook.com/TeensAndKidsAgainstGmo

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

DaveatThe Galloping Beaver - 12 hours ago

TUDA victor go the spoils?

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Happy, Merry, and Peace

Jon WesternatDuck of Minerva - 23 minutes ago

The semester is over, the papers are graded, and the departmental meetings are over (for a while). The shopping is done, the house is clean, the presents are wrapped, the relatives are here, and the kids are bouncing off the walls. All that is left to do is relax, reflect, and enjoy. Wishing all of Continue reading

Unemployment Insurance Cut-Off Further Imperils The Fate Of Republican Gary Miller

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Take a look at those poll results above that PPP found when they surveyed CA-31 (the Inland Empire). The very extreme right Republican incumbent, multimillionaire Gary Miller, has one of the most dismal job approval ratings of any incumbent in any district in America-- 27%. If the election were held today-- with no campaigning at all-- he would lose to any Democrat 48-39%. But if there is campaigning and the Democratic candidate lets voters know that Miller backed the Tea Party scheme that shut down the government, he loses by a much bigger margin. His 39% core stays solid but the... more »

The spirit of man . . .

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John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 51 minutes ago

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Dr. Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Studies recently testified to a joint committee of the United States House of Representatives that Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) couldn’t help but overstep itself. During the early part of the Iraq War the Islamist organization tried to impose its foreign version of Islam upon Iraq, and intimidated and executed those that disagreed with it. It was actions such as those that eventually turned many Iraqis against it. Today, AQI is making a comeback establishing bases again within the country and carrying out a dizzying array of... more »

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Yesterday the Edmonton Journal reported : More than 75 environment officers who watched over oil industry activities left the provincial environment department this fall, to take higher paying jobs with the new industry-funded *Alberta Energy Regulator*. Another 75-plus are expected to leave in the spring. In mid-November, the department also began handing over to the regulator thousands of files on oil industry activity pertaining to the Public Lands Act, according to documents obtained by the Journal. This shift in staffing and the moving of years of files out of a government dep... more »

Consecutive translation better but simultaneous acceptable

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R. v. Jesuthasan, 2013 ONCA 779: [8] The additional time required for consecutive interpretation, particularly in the context of a jury trial, the difficulty of finding qualified interpreters to meet the needs of the courts, and the difficulty of creating a record of simultaneous interpretation are all factors which could properly bear on this decision. It may be that technological changes would now permit at least provision of an audio digital record of simultaneous interpretation, however the whispered and simultaneous nature of the activity may make even that difficul... more »

OIL CONFLICT IN SOUTH SUDAN

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Conflict in South Sudan over control of oil. Profits from the oil not making their way down to the people. The hand of Mr. Big in this mess is obvious.

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New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 1 hour ago

*2 top officials leave BP oil spill claims office ~WDSU* *Levee around 26-acre Texas Brine Sinkhole cracking again ~AP* *Vaccaro out for rest of season ~The Advocate * *St. James Parish preps for Christmas Eve bonfires ~Ellen Couvillion* *Audit: UL lacked controls to prevent, promptly detect misappropriated assets ~Megan Wyatt, The Advertiser*

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Letter 44 update

SteveatThinking Aboot - 2 hours ago

You can read issue one on line here. I just finished issue two. This is the first true graphic novel that I have read, or maybe its just me buying comic books for the first time in decades. My primary motivation was a little bit of speculative fun. A excellent copy of issue one Walking Dead goes for about $2000. Letter 44 is already selling for $15, and has already been optioned for TV. IMHO the premise is far more interesting than another dystopia. The President (read GWB) leaves a letter not written in crayon for his successor. He explains away all his bonehead moves with the thr... more »

IMPACT scores in DCPS show errors. Is this not evidence enough for its immediate overhaul?

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago

This from the Washington Post. But an interesting choice of words at the end there: In October, researchers from the University of Virginia and Stanford University who have examined IMPACT reported that its rewards and punishments were shaping the school system workforce, affecting retention and performance. The study found that two groups of teachers were inspired to […]

JOIN US AT VANDENBERG

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 2 hours ago

*Global Network 22ndAnnual Conference* *March 14-16, 2014* * Santa Barbara, California* The 2014 Global Network space organizing conference will be held near Vandenberg AFB, California on March 14-16. We will meet at the La Casa de Maria Retreat and Conference Center in Santa Barbara. On Friday, *March 14 *we’ll organize a 4:00 pm *vigil at the front gate of Vandenberg* and on the evening of *March 15* we will hold a *public event* at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara. Speakers at the March 15 event will include: David Krieger (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation), Dave Webb... more »

Income Inequality in Global Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 2 hours ago

In the *Financial Times* today, John Gapper analyzes changes in global income in recent decades. It concludes: [T]he rise of China and India – two poor but populous countries – has made global inequality (measured by the disparity in individual incomes, regardless of where people live) less pronounced. The world’s Gini index of inequality fell between 2002 and 2008 – perhaps for the first time since the Industrial Revolution – and the growth of Indonesia and Brazil is pushing in the same direction. “China is like a sumo wrestler who is fighting against global inequality,” says Bra... more »

The Euro Crisis explained by Al Murray

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 2 hours ago

Pure Genius... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVTDLtTLtE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Dogs Don't Vote "

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago

*"Dogs Don't Vote"* *by *Bill Bonner "As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, menacing humans who remain and overwhelming the city's ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths. They are among the victims of a historic financial and political collapse. Detroit, a former auto-manufacturing powerhouse, declared the largest US municipal bankruptcy on July 18 after years of decline. The city had more than $18 billion in long-term debt and had piled up an operating deficit of close to $400 million. Falling revenue force... more »

Vacuity and Celebrity

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 3 hours ago

In Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, Eurasia's grand project is to replace English with Newspeak, a language so carefully constructed that it is completely incapable of articulating critical thought. Far-fetched perhaps, but between the hours of 21:00 and 23:50 last night Channel 5 screened a close approximation of it - the *50 Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of 2015*. Of course, we don't live in the dystopic world of Winston Smith and Big Brother. I wasn't forced to watch, but I do so every year. Is there a part of me that likes it? If this blog exists to promote one thing, that is... more »

Merry Christmas

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 3 hours ago

QQ: Why would it cost a low-income school in SE DC to host student teachers? @urbanteacherctr #DCPS

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 3 hours ago

When I was a professor and teacher educator for four years, we did NOT cost our placement schools anything. In fact, we offered mentor teachers a modest stipend. And by modest, I really do mean modest. In any case, why would a school be charged with the privilege of hosting student teachers? And how much […]

Wikipedia...sigh

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 3 hours ago

For better or worse, Wikipedia is a go-to site for information. Often it is quite good. Sometimes it is not. I happened to notice over my Wikipedia entry this sentence about the student walkout several years ago: "Mankiw published his class attendance at the end, and it showed more students showed up to class that day than on average class day, as many counter-protested by coming." This is false. In fact, I do not even take attendance in ec 10 lectures. I know anecdotally that some counter-protestors did come to that class (as I noted in this article, the only thing I published... more »

Merry Christmas

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 3 hours ago

It seems to me that Dickens had it right. We live in a bipolar world. Your life and the lives of your children depend on good fortune and the world in which you live. It is either the best of times or the worst of times: It is the age of wisdom, it is the age of foolishness, it is the epoch of belief, it is the epoch of incredulity, it is the season of Light, it is the season of Darkness, it is the spring of hope, it is the winter of despair. And that is why, at Christmas, my thoughts always return to *A Christmas Carol*. Scrooge was the arch-typical Neo -Conservative. Dickens ... more »

Al Murray - Australia & Spain NSFW language...

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 4 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wu6_oXpRHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Al Murray - Scots, Scousers and Geordies

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 4 hours ago

A treat for Christmas Eve... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX98LGnvc1E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Scientific American Beyond the Pale

Charles BartonatThe Nuclear Green Revolution - 4 hours ago

*This is the second of two reposts, which I wish to refer to in defense of my work as a pro-nuclear, pro Molten Salt Reactor blogger. I have taken an extended vacation from my blogging in Nuclear Green, although I continue to use my face book page as a blog. The topic of the post is my sorrow because one of my teenage loves, Scientific American had betrayed my love, but selling out the the anti-scientific enemies of nuclear power.* As a teenager I use to walk to the Oak Ridge Public Library to read the magazines. Scientific American was always one of my favorites. I regarded SA as... more »

Christmas Eve in Florida

Capt. FoggatThe Impolitic - 4 hours ago

By Capt. Fogg We can forget the Norse Gods here -- their trees and fires. The Winter nights aren't all that cold or long and we don't need their help. The inns don't have room in tourist season if you don't have reservations, and there aren't many of them. But if you have to sleep outdoors in the balmy night behind the dumpster at the Winn-Dixie or even on the beach it's not so bad. Not hard to find an old cooler to put the baby in. Hey, I know an abandoned car if it rains. No shepherds in Florida. Thank God. But watch for the cops and no worries, any wise men from the east won't ge... more »

War watch Update - December 24 , 2013 - Afghanistan and Israel seek to take advantage of US foreign policies weaknesses , indecision and the burning desire to reach a deal ( any deal ) ...... Syria and Iran related items of note ....... Obama nuclear plan to cost a staggering 355 billion ( scheme 150 over budget ) - tell me again about fighting deficits ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 4 hours ago

Afghanistan and Israel plot to seize opportunities to maximize US foreign policy weaknesses , foibles , incoherencies and backtrackisms ..... http://news.antiwar.com/2013/12/23/as-afghan-deadline-nears-us-backtracks-on-ultimatum/ As Afghan ‘Deadline’ Nears, US Backtracks on UltimatumLeaving Afghanistan 'Still Possible,' Says US by Jason Ditz, December 23, 2013 Print This | Share This The Obama Administration miscalculated badly with the December 31 ultimatum on Afghanistan. They threatened to withdraw outright from the country if President Hamid Karzai didn’t sign the Bilateral ... more »

What Gets Chris Christie Sauced? And What Gets Him Flambéed, Poached Or Grilled?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago

The best thing that could happen for America in the 2016 presidential race would be for the GOP to give the far right extremists and crazed teabaggers exactly what they want to happen in the Republican Party primary: a win by Ted Cruz. Cruz is a smart, well-educated guy and he will be able to make a cogent and articulate case for right-wing extremism. When Romney lost to Obama last year, the true believers of the right fringe said it was because Romney wouldn't or couldn't make the case effectively. When Cruz gets crushed by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election… they'll ha... more »

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb (of MK-Ultra), Mobutu and the The AIDS Crisis

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 4 hours ago

“Bill Close … had come to Congo just before Independence as a missionary worker, though he was a trained physician. Somehow he became President Mobutu’s personal physician as well as director of the biggest hospital in the country. “But this didn’t fully explain the extent of his power and influence in Zaire. He was a mysterious man, thoroughly likable, with an unmatched knowledge of Zaire and connections at all levels in society.""By the early 1960s Gottlieb's techniques and potions were being fully deployed in the field. Well-known is Gottlieb's journey to the Congo, where h... more »

Make new Boat People

SteveatThinking Aboot - 4 hours ago

Fukushima is getting worse. Every day hidden in the back pages are horror stories. The latest Japanese children in large numbers getting thyroid cancer. I have said from day one, lets bring hundreds of thousands of Japanese to Canada. Like the Vietnamese boat people these are nation building immigrants. There are lots of factories in the death zone, lets make a deal these move to Canada as well.

Israel's (theocratic state) Parliament bans Christmas tree display

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago

Isn't it ironic? As zionist christians fall all over themselves to cater to followers of Judaism. *A Christmas tree cannot be displayed in Israel*: *Israel's parliament bans Christmas tree display* *It seems Israelis are unconcerned with catering to Christians? * The office of the speaker of Israel's parliament says he has rejected a Christian lawmaker's request to publically display a Christmas tree in the building. Eran Sidis, a spokesman for Yuli Edelstein, said Monday that the speaker rejected yesterday's request, but said the parliamentarian could display a Christmas tree i... more »

Christmas is not complete without kittehs...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago

*says no dog ever. *

How Two Bushes Sold Out America

Len HartatThe Existentialist Cowboy - 5 hours ago

*Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* China is a leech in more ways than one. By way of Wal-Mart, it has destroyed decent wages and productive job creation in the U.S. See the CIA'S own list: China is No 1 with the world's LARGEST POSITIVE Current Account Balance; the U.S. (thanks to Wal-Mart) is DEAD LAST with the World's largest NEGATIVE Current Account Balance. (formerly called the Balance of Trade Deficit We don't have far to look for culprits. They are not hiding behind bushes. They ARE the 'Bushes". Let's take a look at the history before it gets re-written: 1. Any Democ... more »

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Chanukah, Gong Xi Fatt Chai

SteveatThinking Aboot - 5 hours ago

May you start every day on top of the grass and be a take fiber to heaven while the Devil is still searching for you on dial up. Looking forward to a great 2014. Thanks for all your support. Jones Spaceman AKA Steve

Shattered cover by Julie Andrews

SteveatThinking Aboot - 5 hours ago

They should remake the sound of music with Rock and Roll covers. H/T Four Habs Fans

An Easy Like Heaven mashup for Christmas Eve

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 5 hours ago

The Commodores' Easy meets The Cure's Just Like Heaven... gorgeous

Paul Craig Roberts celebrates Christmas while recalling that "people were able to fight for liberty because Christianity empowered the individual" and lamenting that "we now have a police state." He notes that "Liberty is a human achievement. We have it, or had it, because those who believed in it fought to achieve it." And he concludes that "There is not much that we can do about [the current] assaults [on our Constintutional rights], but we should not through ignorance enable the assaults," and finally wonders if "[a]s the West sinks into tyranny, will Western peoples defend their liberty and their souls, or will they sink into the tyranny, which again has raised its ugly and all devouring head?"

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago

------------------------------ *The Greatest Gift for All — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ December 23, 2013 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter Dear Readers, thank you for your support in 2013. Although you have kept me working past retirement age, I find it encouraging that there are some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will be those people. My tra... more »

Will China Attack Taiwan? Yes, of course, if it wants to

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 6 hours ago

*An egret lands.* This week Beijing called for an exchange of media offices with Taipei. This means that a bunch of reporters, many pro-Beijing, will go to Beijing from Taiwan, and a bunch of espionage agents, political warfare specialists, and propaganda experts will come to Taiwan from China. The always hilarious propagandists of Beijing piously observed: Zhang Zhijun, the director of Taiwan Affairs Office under the State Council, told a forum organized by Beijing's CCTV for Chinese and Taiwanese media that Beijing is more than willing to speed such exchanges, adding that he ho... more »

Las mejores postales que puedes regalar en estas fiestas decembrinas

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 7 hours ago

The world's BIGGEST blog - day 2

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago

[image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris]VY Canoris Major, very volatile, the largest star in the known universe, this is it venting gas and plasma. If it was dropped into the solar system its surface would reach the orbit of Saturn.

THE FILM HATED BY THE RICH ELITE

Anonataangirfan - 7 hours ago

*It's a Wonderful Life.* The 1946 film *It’s a Wonderful Life *was hated by the rich elite. In this film, a banker called Henry Potter is portrayed as a greedy and evil thief. The rich elite, and the FBI, labeled the film as possible 'communist' propaganda. *It’s a Wonderful Life’ alleged Communist propaganda: the FBI files and HUAC hearings* *Banker Henry Potter (seated)* Among the most powerful people who tried to present the film as 'communist' was the American fascist friend of the elite known as *Ayn Rand*. Ayn Rand did not believe in the Christian idea of sacrificing ones... more »

The Scottish Threat Environment: Insecurity, Fears and Independence

Brandon ValerianoatDuck of Minerva - 8 hours ago

This article is cross posted from the Scottish Global Forum. In this form it is slightly modified and hyperlinked. The Nature of Threats to Scotland In March of 2015, a cry goes out in the town centre, everyone reacts quickly. Valuables are hidden underground; women and children are stored in hideaways to be kept safe Continue reading

The #ChristmasMyths #7: Why December 25?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 8 hours ago

*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas Myths,1 one day at a time. Today, the reason we celebrate on December 25 …* As every child knows, Christmas falls on December 25th every year. Every year. But is it because it says so in the Bible? Hell no! The early Christian churches who did observe the Nativity2 celebrated it sometimes in May, sometimes in April, occasionally in January. So clearly they had no clue when legend had it their Saviour was born. Nor did they know even *which year* he was supposed to have been born, the celebrated census cau... more »

Quantum gravity and afterlife

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 9 hours ago

Afterlife in quantum gravity might be a natural topic for this year's Christmas Eve, a blog post that follows one on the elixir of youth. ;-) Even though the combination of the quantum gravity and afterlife keywords returns over 350,000 Google hits, it's a topic that hasn't been discussed on the part of the blogosphere we know, not even by the "most audacious" commenters. *This guy (just another Jew, as I was taught by my PhD adviser) was or wasn't resurrected 1980 or 1983 years ago. Just to be sure, he was born during Christmas – exactly 2014-2019 years ago – and died during East... more »

On June 13 , 2013 , 6-foot tsunami that hit near New Jersey nuclear plant may be first of its kind in U.S. — People injured, swept out to sea by wave detected as far as Puerto Rico — NOAA said continental shelf may have slumped, now suspects ‘atmospheric event’ ....... Note this was completely uncovered by major media , just getting some coverage in science related newsletters and science meeting during late Fall 2013 !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 10 hours ago

http://enenews.com/6-foot-tsunami-that-hit-near-new-jersey-nuclear-plant-may-be-first-of-its-kind-in-u-s-people-injured-swept-out-to-sea-by-wave-detected-as-far-as-puerto-rico-noaa-said-continental-shelf-may-hav 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting — CODAR Ocean Sensors & Rutgers University, Dec. 14, 2013: Tsunamis are generally thought of as low-frequency waves that are generated by an underwater disturbance be it an earthquake or landslide. A tsunami can also be generated by an atmospheric disturbance such as a rapid pressure change. These tsunamis are referred to as meteotsunamis because ... more »

The Christmas Truce of 1914

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 12 hours ago

A moment of sanity amidst the infinite stupidity of war. In the end, we have more in common with the furthest flung foreign common man than the closest corporate-fascists that presume dominion over our lives. If only the British & Germans realized it was the greed of their own banking houses that had them in the trenches and not some irreconcilable difference amongst themselves... Knowledge is power, ignorance literally can mean death. When will we start being leaders in our homes, communities, counties, and provinces - driving our own destiny rather than being driven? ....

Time For A Joni Mitchell-Morrissey Story

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago

Like Obama's, this was a tough year for Morrissey. When his band wasn't being food poisoned at gigs, he was in the hospital with serious health problems. He was forced to cancel so many concerts that he lost the ability to get tour insurance. On the other hand his book, *Autobiography* entered the British charts at #1 and sold more copies its first week than Keith Richards' did. The year started with Morrissey stepping into a political controversy, telling an interviewer he had toyed with the idea of voting for England's version of the Tea Party, UKIP. "I nearly voted for Ukip. I ... more »

Mistaken Gender: 5-Alpha Reductase Hermaphroditism and Biological Reductionism in Sexual Identity Reconsidered

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 13 hours ago

Another for the reference library. Also.. a bit too close to home, the way some were treated. Mistaken Gender: 5-Alpha Reductase Hermaphroditism and Biological Reductionism in Sexual Identity Reconsidered Gilbert Herdt, Academic Room 2012 Hermaphroditic infants are sex-assigned as *kwolu-aatmwol*, not as male. Those assigned as female are mistaken as normal females. Hermaphrodism is regarded as a sad and mysterious quirk. The *kwolu-aatmwol*, unless distinguished as a shaman or war leader, is quietly disparaged. Yet several *kwolu-aatmwol* are well known in local history, and one... more »

The Boy

Way Way UpatFort McMurray Adventures - 14 hours ago

When he's not occupied by his fascination for trains or ride-on lawn mowers, charming the ladies with his deep blue eyes or playing the part of a GQ junior model, the boy just loves to relax of course. Merry Christmas, son. Daddy loves you.

Who is Watching the President...? - Part 3849

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 14 hours ago

This is a good one. Bare in mind, the woman on the left is the Commander in Chief of the Arizona National Guard, commanding 5,206 troops and a total of 7,627 men at arms during this conversation. And none of them like him very much. They just had a liberal congresswoman shot in the head over there. *This is not safe.*

Expert evidence

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 14 hours ago

Cinar Corporation v. Robinson 2013 SCC 73: [49] For expert evidence to be admitted at trial, it must (a) be relevant; (b) be necessary to assist the trier of fact; (c) not offend any exclusionary rule; and (d) involve a properly qualified expert (*R. v. Mohan*, [1994] 2 S.C.R. 9). These criteria apply to trials for copyright infringement, as they do in other intellectual property cases:*Masterpiece Inc. v. Alavida Lifestyles Inc.*, 2011 SCC 27, [2011] 2 S.C.R. 387, at para. 75. [50] The Cinar appellants argue that the second crit... more »

Agreement expert qualified to give opinion evidence does not add weight to expert's opinion

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 15 hours ago

R. v. Strickland, 2013 NLCA 65: [18] The issue regarding expert evidence as argued on the appeal did not extend to all aspects of the test for admissibility of expert evidence as set out in *R. v. Mohan*, 1994 CanLII 80 (SCC), [1994] 2 S.C.R. 9 [1994] S.C.J. No. 36 ("*R. v. Mohan*"). *R. v. Mohan* requires the trial judge to consider four criteria: (i) relevance, (ii) necessity in assisting the trier of fact, (iii) the absence of an exclusionary rule, and (iv) a properly qualified expert. It was criterion (iv), whether Constable Emberley was a properly qualified expert, on... more »

Christmas 2013: Christmas and Civil Society

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 15 hours ago

*Merry Christmas friends. Nice weather here, cloudy everyday, brief rain showers sometimes in the afternoon. Wish you nice vacation. Me, have articles to edit, and a PH economic review to submit before the year end. Am not complaining, I like writing. Cheers, and merry Christmas once again.* I posted that message in my fb wall yesterday, thanks to 80+ likes from friends, plus comments. My two girls complained yesterday why I could not join them and their mama in the malls, well I was stuck in the office. But no complains. J I left the office 7pm yesterday, dinner, then I drove the ... more »

I09 picks Upstream Color as top film of 2013

SteveatThinking Aboot - 15 hours ago

My review is way better eh! However I09 is the leading Sci Fi site on the web and it gives me some satisfaction when their learned opinion agrees with mine. Upstream color was also my runner up for movie of the year. Certainly if I was choosing Sci Fi movie of the year it would be hands down, This year its going to be hard to beat Gravity. Its not a great sci fi movie but its a very well made movie that knows how to tug on the old emotions.

Gail Collins on Chris Christie's Internet gambling vision: "This cannot possibly be a step in the right direction"

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

*"Earlier this year, Governor Christie signed a bill legalizing Internet gambling in New Jersey. The idea was to help resuscitate the Atlantic City economy and raise a projected $150 million in tax revenue. Very few people believe the state will really make that much, but the number did help Christie to run for re-election waving what appeared to be a balanced budget."* *-- Gail Collins, in her NYT column* "Candy Crush and Mr. Christie" *by Ken* Gail Collins, it seems, has some forebodings about the sociopolitical vision of a certain governor of a state tucked between New York and... more »

Phil Robertson Returning To Duck Dynasty as A& E and Cracker Barrel quickly beat a retreat.... Whether you like the Show or Phil Robertson , a message to take away is that the threat of a serious protest directed to corporate interests ( and which the corporate interests deem serious ) , will cause folks to back up and back away ....Whether it's the " Endless War Policies " , NSA spying , Bankster plundering , excessive governmental inrusions such ObamaCare - Americans need to do more than whine - boycotts the corporate and political interests pushing thes policies and they will back away from them if the financial and political pain is substantial enough...

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 16 hours ago

- Phil Robertson Returning To Duck Dynasty - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Robert Rich* Microconservative.com December 23, 2013 It has now been revealed that Phil Robertson will be returning to Duck Dynasty on January 15. A&E said they have no plans to fire the star. Image: Phil Robertson (YouTube). It appears as though the war on Phil Robertson and his freedoms of free speech and religions aren’t quite so savage. Although *A&... more »

Wut We's Got's To Do

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 16 hours ago

My point about the lack of a response to the TTC fare increase was that I, who have been told several times that my plans are too grandiose, am pointing out the sheer invisibility of the standard leftist response to problems. If I had my druthers, I'd be organizing a transit-users' strike, or an occupation of City Hall and Queen's Park, until said powers-that-be find the goddamned revenues from out of their tax-cuts for the rich or their general corruption funds, to pay for the existing service levels and to invest the billions more that are needed to restore the system to a state o... more »

Now why would Nick Clegg push that line?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 16 hours ago

It is reported that Nick Clegg has issued a warning that he won't accept any further curbs on immigration from the European Union. How ridiculous, until you remember that his EU pension is, at least, partly dependant on his not going against the EU's interests.

Whatever It Takes

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 17 hours ago

You would think that Stephen Harper's recent troubles might spur a little self examination. Not so. Jeffrey Simpson writes: Instead of rethinking, the Prime Minister has doubled down on his long-term strategy, which depends on polarizing the electorate and identifying and mobilizing the Conservative vote. He reshuffled his cabinet to add younger ministers of the same type as the more experienced ones: hard-edged communicators and sharp-elbowed partisans. He regrouped people in his office and at party headquarters who are unreserved loyalists. There are no even mildly discordant vo... more »

NOT SO HOLY LAND

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 17 hours ago

Richard Falk, who is a professor Emeritus of international law at Princeton University, was appointed in 2008 to a six-year position as the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. Falk is catching hell from the Obama administration and other Israeli allies. I say good for Richard Falk for just telling the truth about the current plight of the Palestinian people.

Thats not a police car in your rear view mirror

SteveatThinking Aboot - 18 hours ago

Conniving CONs . . .

EdstockatThe Galloping Beaver - 19 hours ago

THE SENATE HOO-HA'S origins, as seen by my friend Scanner, who I believe has created an accurate account of how things came to be. I wish the RCMP every success, good luck and good weasel-hunting. I have written this before but in light of SJH's unequivocal answer to the question whether he was aware at the time of a plan to have the Conservative party reimburse Mike Duffy for his

Pope's Mass: Our souls should not have a 'do not disturb' sign

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 19 hours ago

Video Title: Pope's Mass: Our souls should not have a 'do not disturb' sign. Source: romereports. Date Published: December 23. Description: December 23, 2013. In his daily morning Mass at the Vatican, Pope Francis talked about what it really means to prepare for Christmas. Amid all the parties and celebrations, he said, there must be room for God.

My kind of ice storm ,,,

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 20 hours ago

The #ChristmasMyths #6: The Slaughter of the Innocents

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 20 hours ago

*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas Myths,* one day at a time. Today, the story and pagan origins of the story of King Herod’s slaughter of every child under two…* [image: File:0 Le Massacre des Innocents d'après P.P. Rubens - Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique (2).JPG]*Massacre of the Innocents*, Peter Paul Rubens The story is familiar enough in the telling. The infant is put in danger by the ruler’s fear that the new baby will usurp his reign: A heavenly voice whispered to the foster father … and told him to fly with the child across... more »

Why The Inland Empire Congressional Race Is In The National Spotlight This Year

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago

If you're a Blue America member, you already saw the letter we sent out from Eloise Reyes, the progressive running to win the bluest seat in America held by a Republican, CA-31, the Inland Empire (San Bernardino, Uplands, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Loma Linda, Colton). A typical DCCC misstep-- backing an empty suit who is too conservative for the district, Pete Aguilar-- cost the Democrats this D+5 district in 2012. Aguilar was beaten by *two* Republicans and because of him there was no Democrat on the general election ballot when Obama beat Romney 57-41%. Instead, the district ... more »

Is the real world?

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 20 hours ago

...not one book ...not one painting.I don't think it's a coin toss between love or fear, I think it's a myth that we are. We never are, until the moment of our death, happy. Tonight, a dream?

Danger and Denial

Barbara Ann LevyatWPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 20 hours ago

Apocalyptic Planet

What Is SustainableatWhat Is Sustainable - 20 hours ago

Craig Childs is a nature writer and globetrotting adventure hog. He’s been thinking a lot about apocalypse lately. It’s hard not to. The jungle drums are pounding out a growing stream of warnings — attention! — big trouble ahead. The Christian currents in our culture encourage us to perceive time as being something like a drag strip. At one end is the starting line (creation), and at the other end is the finish line (judgment day). We’re speeding closer and closer to the end, which some perceive to be the final Game Over for everything everywhere. Childs disagrees. “We are n... more »

Quiz: Radio 4 presenter anagrams

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago

As every website seems to feel the need to do a Christmas quiz, here's one for you tonight. Can you unscramble the following anagrams of BBC Radio 4 presenters? 1. Dire media (5,4) 2. Hoard clerics (7,5) 3. Aha, me using jet! (5,8) 4. A rotund red swot (6,8) 5. I shun Islam? Ha! (6,6) The answers lie in the comments section below.

Hard things to think Aboot

SteveatThinking Aboot - 21 hours ago

Canadian Voters take note. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-23/former-goldman-banker-head-cmhc-canadas-mortgage-monster If the wolf is not at the door, is it in your bedroom?

The Maned Wolf - a lesson in deductive dentition

George HendersonatThe High-fat Hep C Diet - 21 hours ago

This is a South American canid, the Maned Wolf. [image: File:Maned Wolf 11, Beardsley Zoo, 2009-11-06.jpg] This "dog" is a true omnivore, not unlike homo sapiens. It supplements a diet of meat (frogs, fish, lizards and other small game) with fruit, tubers, and sugarcane. These supply up to 51% of its diet. It does not do well in captivity without vegetable foods, In the wild it is susceptible to infestation by the Giant Kidney Worm (*Dioctophyme renale)**, *a potentially lethal roundworm it is exposed to by eating fish. It prefers the fruit of the Wolf Apple (*Solanum lycocarpum*) o... more »

Juventud eterna, ya a la venta?

Abraham Ben JudeaatAbraham says - 22 hours ago

Conjunto compuesto anti-edad para ensayos en humanos después de dar vuelta el reloj para ratones Profesor Nueva Gales del sur en Estados Unidos revierte los indicadores clave del envejecimiento para hacer two-year-old ratones aparecen seis meses de edad Investigadores australianos y estadounidenses esperan un compuesto anti-ageing podría ser probado en seres humanos tan pronto como el próximo año, tras un avance clave que vio el proceso de envejecimiento invertido en ratones. El estudio, que incluyó la Universidad de Harvard y la Universidad de NSW, descubrió una manera de rest... more »

The Infinite Monkey Cage

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago

I do rather like Radio 4's *The Infinite Monkey Cage*. It's a robustly pro-science programme in the network's overwhelmingly arts-dominated schedule and almost every edition features *bona fide*scientists sharing their insights with the listening public. The results can often be fascinating and informative and the programme has covered a vast range of scientific fields over the course of its nine series. Today's edition, for example, featured immunologist Dr Sheena Cruickshank of Manchester University. She specialises in parasitic worms and shared something that I found very inter... more »

Death of a Gunsmith: Mikhail Kalashnikov 1919 - 2013

SteveatThinking Aboot - 23 hours ago

What a legacy he has. Kalashnikov often expressed regret at the killing power he had unleashed. However he put the blame squarely on failed leadership not good design. Because of the perfection of the 1946 design who can say how many have been made, but well over 100 million for sure. Sixty eight years later it remains to be the gold standard in assault rifles. "The deadliest weapon in the world is an American Marine and his rifle" -General Black Jack Pershing 1918 It was not until 1962 that US Marines were issued a modern assault r... more »

Duty of disclosure and presiding Justice of the Peace in provincial regulatory matters

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 23 hours ago

R. v. Ul-Rashid, 2013 ONCA 782 grants leave to the Court of Appeal to decide whether the Crown must ensure disclosure have been provided, regardless of request, and the presiding Justice must inquiry as to such delivery, for provincial regulatory matters. Additionally leave is granted to review the scope of assistance required of the presiding Justice for an unrepresented accused. Quaere, should not an unrepresented accused have some burden to investigate the nature of their rights before and during trial? The Court holds: [42] The applicant raises the issue of whether a... more »

Turkey: Halkbank - Role in Iran Gold Transactions Legal

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 1 day ago

*Ht anonymous commenter!* *UPDATED BELOW * Pertinent background: **Turkish PM Erdogan threatened/challenged by Fethullah Gulen?* **Turkey & Ukraine afflicted with EU/ private banking/business parasites* As usual I will highlight the interesting bits. * Halkbank Says Role in Iran Gold Legal After CEO Arrest* Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS (HALKB),* the state-run bank* that slumped 19 percent since a graft probe implicating four ministers erupted last week, said it has acted lawfully after police arrested its chief executive officer. *Payments made by the bank on behalf of companies ex... more »

And Some Songs, You Just Feel in Your Soul...

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Gov't Mule, “Forevermore” -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3YFgSwmRww

This Time The Sex Predator Is A Democrat-- Well A Certain Type Of Democrat… Meet Dennis Gabryszak

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Gabryszak-- from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party Poor New York state Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak. Not many people outside of Buffalo (and Albany) ever heard of him until he entangled himself in a sexual harassment scandal that's ending his political career. So now all they know about him is that the 62 year old Democrat from Cheetowaga is that he's married with 2 children and that he was hitting on young female staffers-- at least 5 so far-- to a point behind merely creepy. He brought one woman, in her 20s to a massage parlor within 2 weeks of hiring her and he had a hab... more »

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Cover of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

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4:43am MST

My Christmas Post

deutsch29at@ THE CHALK FACE - 13 minutes ago

On most mornings, as part of my morning routine, I listen to T.D. Jakes of the Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas. As my Christmas present to my readers, I offer one of my favorite Jakes sermons. It is about love. I think it will surprise most listeners. Merry Christmas.

Which was the 'worst government ever' of Britain? According to Al Murray

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 26 minutes ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IOO-xQ_Vew&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Pagan Sun Worship - Happy Winter Solstice - Happy Feast of Saturnalia

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 45 minutes ago

*here's Unlce Attis in his festive cap*FEAST OF SATURNALIA and the WINTER SOLSTICE Merry Christmas to you all, hope Santa brought you all your worthies, you slaves to the Roman Empire. What, Mike? It's been proven (again and again) that *Christ-Mass* is nothing more than a cynical amalgamation of all sorts of pre-historic, Pagan and Roman nature-worship all schlammed together so that you'll be a compliant-if-fractious bunch of goggle-eyed fucking half-wits at this time of year running round Consumerist Marketplaces or MAUL(sp)s elbowing each other out of the way to buy, buy, buy t... more »

Blessed Christmas...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 2 hours ago

*Now may the Godof hope fillyou with all joy and peacein believing, sothat you will aboundin hope by the powerof the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13*

From when children weren't treated as passive imbeciles by broadcasters - Merry Christmas

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 2 hours ago

An excerpt from "Pinky and the Brain" season 1, episode 48: 'KS: I am honoured by your visit. Let me show you our assembly line. First, sheets of sheer synthetic sheepskin are slit into several Kicky-Sack shoe shapes in shapely shoe sizes by six sitting sheet slitters. B: I only see five sitting sheet slitters. KS: The sixth sitting sheet slitter's sick. His son Sammy's subbing 'til the sick sixth sitting sheet slitter's back, sitting pretty. P: You're not the sheet slitter? S: No, I'm the sheet slitter's son. P: Well.... You keep on slitting sheets until the sheet sli... more »

PROJECTION AND LOVE-BOMBING

Anonataangirfan - 3 hours ago

"Christmas time," explains the psychologist Oliver James, "is a fixed ritual setting which triggers historic enmities like nothing else... *"The shit really hits the fan at this time of year...* To avoid the usual tensions, Oliver James suggests that we identify what role we occupy in our family, then do the exact opposite. OLIVER JAMES Recently I was at a Christmas party, feeling reasonably jolly and beneficent, when a lady came up to me and said that I looked rather unhappy. As the lady looked utterly miserable, I assumed that this was an example of what Sigmund Freud called ... more »

Gaudete!

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 3 hours ago

Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 3 hours ago

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 4 hours ago

Thailand's Upcoming Sham "Elections"

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 5 hours ago

Like tyrants throughout history, Thaksin will use "elections" to lend himself legitimacy he otherwise doesn't have. *December 25, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Elections alone do not make any given regime legitimate. Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, held regular elections - of course, Hussein was the only viable candidate running and easily was returned to power, time and time again (See BBC's "Saddam 'wins 100% of vote'"). He enjoyed immense popularity especially as he stood up against the unwarranted aggression of the United States, however no one would describe his government as particul... more »

Day 2 - continued - the world's BIGGEST berk

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 5 hours ago

Luckily, Alan Turning Wasn't From Box Elder County In Utah

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago

You may have read today that Queen Elizabeth II granted Alan Turing a formal pardon "on Monday for his conviction in 1952 on charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in Britain." This isn't the first time we've looked into Turning here at *DWT*. Several years ago, Blue America invited Alan Grayson to speak at the Brave New Films studio in Culver City. For many of the attendees, myself included, that was the first introduction to the 20th century's greatest mathematician, Alan Turing. You can watch the 4-minute Turing part of the chat above. A couple of years befor... more »

Pottersville Is Capitalist Dream and Bedford Falls Is A Commie Nightmare - Meet the Press Has Been Painful for Years (But It's On Its Last Legs!) Al Goldstein Lives Forever (Be Very Afraid - Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Is Deliberately Shrouded in Secrecy, A Trade Deal Powerful People, Including Obama, Don’t Want You To Know About)

CirzeatWelcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 6 hours ago

Don't they believe in angels? Then why should they be surprised when they see one? . . . That's right. Attaboy, Clarence! I have wondered many times in the past how long it would take some clever scamp (or just someone connected to self-serving money interests) to turn the scenes of It's A Wonderful Life into a Potter-serving landscape. Not so long as you might think, it seems. There's

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Anonataangirfan - 6 hours ago

*Merry Christmas to all our wonderful readers.*

Thank heaven, Christmas comes but once a year -- we wish a very merry one to one and all (except maybe you, Bill O)!

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago

[*Click on any of these cartoons to enlarge it. Cheers!* -- Ken] *HAPPY HOLIDAYSTO ALL!* #

so this is christmas

OberonatGlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

The Call of Mr. Beckon

Grant GatThe Straight Goods - 10 hours ago

*The Call Of Mr. Beckon* *Written by Grant G* Curiosity and my friend the cat are inseparable, like sugar and spice n everything nice, like choosing friends and accepting family, bitter pills swallowed hard because behind the curtain are not pockets aces, only rags of reality... One reader named Elwood in comment form expressed passionate dismay Mulcair hasn`t come out against Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal only Enbridge`s northern gateway pipeline and I did ponder answering his comment with soothing assurances, only I had no words at the ready, or at least no words that wo... more »

Resveratrol, Take 2 times a month

Abraham Ben JudeaatAbraham says - 10 hours ago

Resveratrol Sinclair and his group have been studying the fundamental science of aging -- which is broadly defined as the gradual decline in function with time -- for many years, primarily focusing on a group of genes called sirtuins. Previous studies from his lab showed that one of these genes, SIRT1, was activated by the compound resveratrol, which is found in grapes, red wine and certain nuts. Ana Gomes, a postdoctoral scientist in the Sinclair lab, had been studying mice in which this SIRT1 gene had been removed. While they accurately predicted that these mice would show si... more »

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 10 hours ago

Okay, out with the snark of creepy plastic peeping elves and in with the true meaning of Christmas: carols with just the right touch of snark, self-deprecation, levity and irony. First, the Roches do the Brooklyn honors. Or maybe it's De Bronx. Whatevah. And what would the Decade of Extreme Income Inequality be without indulging in a little feudalism nostalgia? Let's all go a-Wassailing from here to Twelfth Night and beyond, to demand our share of the wealth. We definitely aren't going to wait around for any of that phony Trickle Down. Read these lyrics and see if they don't sarc... more »

Revolution - the ONLY Solution

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 11 hours ago

There's just no other way. We cannot "reform" capitalism. At least not in the way that US Democrats, Canadian Liberals and "social democrat" NDPr's want to do it. They want painless reform, ... as in reform that doesn't anger the powerful. It can't happen. It's their mewling "vision" of compassion and social justice that's produced this sorry state. The root of all the terrorism and war and most of the problems in the world is human greed. The movement of liberal democracy produced substantial benefits to many people since the 16th Century. But liberal capitalism grew along with it,... more »

Imágenes de Navidad, Año Nuevo y postales con mensajes para compartir

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 11 hours ago

Click sobre el link para ver esta colección de imágenes

Bad Bear's Photos Longest Walk 4 arrives at Alcatraz!

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago

Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, thank you! Walkers on the five-month Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz arrived on Alcatraz Island on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013, returning home the sacred staffs. The walk upheld Indigenous Sovereignty and began in Washington DC on July 15, 2013. Walkers followed the route of the original Longest Walk in 1978, from DC

The art of snow

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 11 hours ago

We're not doing news today. Instead have some snow paintings made by foot. By Simon Beck creates snow drawings by walking in pristine snow for hours. They're huge. No idea how he figures out the grids. The images change according to the light of the sun. More photos at the link.

Mohawk John Kane 'Pope Francis: A Gimmick or a Game Changer?'

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago

Pope Francis: A Gimmick or a Game Changer? By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk) Censored News We are hearing much about this new Pope and his radical support for the poor, but the truth is there will remain a gaping hole in his posture until the papal bulls responsible for the Doctrine of Christian Discovery are addressed. Only a full repudiation of the papal bulls of Pope Nicholas V (1452) and

Navajo Council gives BHP dirty coal 'free ride' for poisoning Navajos

brendanorrell@gmail.comatCENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago

“Speak UP! Navajo Nation Waived BHP liabilities Now, Navajo Nation set to Waive Sovereign Immunity Rights ” Ash ponds close to Chaco wash DINE' CARE CENSORED NEWS FARMINGTON, NM – Two months ago (October 23), the Navajo Nation Council waived BHP Billiton of past, present, and future liabilities associated with BHP Navajo Mine. This translates to the Council agreeing to never

Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 12 hours ago

Rather then every year, for six years running now, expressing the same wish : Peace I will let a song express the sentiment. A song I hadn't heard for some time, until just the other day. Two very different crooners, yet, their singing together makes one very harmonious song Hope you enjoy it as much as I do?! *A bit of background: An odd story of holiday harmony* *Cheers!* *And, all the best to you and yours.* * To friends near and far.* *Where ever you all are. * *Be happy. * *Healthy. * *And present.............*

For Profit Lobbying Should Be Illegal But Until Then, Congressmen Who Become Lobbyists Should Lose Their Pensions

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago

Mac Thornberry and Buck McKeon, shameless tools of the Military Industrial Complex Last Friday, we looked at some of the speculation on which Members of the House are most likely to announce retirements over the next few months. The big giveaway for Buck McKeon, for example, was when his family started an armaments-oriented lobbying firm and bought his favorite chair that no one is allowed to sit in for the plush empty corner office. Most of the vaguely sentient retirees-- so scratch Howard Coble and, if he finally goes for it, Ralph Hall-- will become lobbyists. Lobbyists is, litera... more »

Auld Lang Syne (Teacher Version)

Angel Cintron Jr.at@ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago

Should C.C.S.S. be for not, Or not erased in time, Should C.C.S.S. be for not, Our job remains divine. Our job remains divine, my dear, Our job remains divine. We’ll defend the art of teaching yet, For our job remains divine. We, too, have students in our hearts, And teach our babies’ minds. We teach […]

ANOTHER GOOD ONE

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 14 hours ago

ONE OF MY FAVES

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 14 hours ago

REMEMBERING A CHRISTMAS

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 14 hours ago

Celine Dion & Josh Groban, "The Prayer"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago

Celine Dion & Josh Groban, "The Prayer" -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbviXG_56ss

Festeja regalando estas hermosas imágenes en Navidad

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 15 hours ago

Click sobre el link para ver esta colección de imágenes

The Newhouse Utan Movie - Part Two

KRandleatA Different Perspective - 15 hours ago

Well, as I have said, repeatedly, nothing is simple in the world of the UFO. Skeptics have made a big deal out of a letter written by Dr. James McDonald in which he quotes from his 1970 interview with Delbert Newhouse that he, Newhouse, was “…positive they had cut the first 10 or 20 feet [of the film], which were shot when the objects were very much closer…” There was also discussion by Newhouse that he had not received the original film back and that seems to be borne out by various letters and memos contained in the Project Blue Book files. Given a review of McDonald’s letter, it... more »

Merry Christmas, 2013

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago

Please accept our very best wishes to have joyous seasonal celebrations and safe but eventful holidays!

Mass arrest of corrupt government officials and bankers in Turkey

Obi-Wan KabukiatAMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago

via CNN

Your moment of Zen

Libby SpenceratThe Impolitic - 16 hours ago

Christmas in Gapyeong, South Korea. [Via New York Post, more photos at link.]

Mayor's Weather Event Guide. Coles Notes Edition.

CatelliatNot Quite Unhinged - 16 hours ago

When faced with a major weather event, keep this shortlist handy. The full guide can be found somewhere within city records somewhere, but what mayor has the time to read? Instead keep this one-page list handy as a quick reference guide. Remember: There's a fine line between being a leader and making people dependent on you. You must teach the core principals of self-reliance and independent

Happy, Merry, and Peace

Jon WesternatDuck of Minerva - 17 hours ago

Unemployment Insurance Cut-Off Further Imperils The Fate Of Republican Gary Miller

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago

The spirit of man . . .

EdstockatThe Galloping Beaver - 17 hours ago

Binge drinking: A reflection of our debauched culture

John FriendatJohn Friend's Blog - 18 hours ago

Al Qaeda In Iraq’s Excesses That Could Eventually Cost It

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 18 hours ago

RUSSIA TODAY VIDEO: Year of Bloodshed In Iraq Interview With Iraq Body Count

Joel WingatMUSINGS ON IRAQ - 18 hours ago

Bruce Carson and the tarsands fox - streamlining the henhouse

AlisonatCreekside - 18 hours ago

Consecutive translation better but simultaneous acceptable

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 18 hours ago

OIL CONFLICT IN SOUTH SUDAN

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 18 hours ago

Conflict in South Sudan over control of oil. Profits from the oil not making their way down to the people. The hand of Mr. Big in this mess is obvious.

Untitled

New Orleans LadderatNew Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago

Have Yourself a Creepy Little Christmas

Karen GarciaatSardonicky - 19 hours ago

Letter 44 update

SteveatThinking Aboot - 19 hours ago

IMPACT scores in DCPS show errors. Is this not evidence enough for its immediate overhaul?

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 19 hours ago

JOIN US AT VANDENBERG

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 19 hours ago

Income Inequality in Global Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)atRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 20 hours ago

The Euro Crisis explained by Al Murray

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 20 hours ago

Pure Genius... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVTDLtTLtE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Dogs Don't Vote "

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago

Vacuity and Celebrity

PhilatA Very Public Sociologist - 20 hours ago

Merry Christmas

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 20 hours ago

QQ: Why would it cost a low-income school in SE DC to host student teachers? @urbanteacherctr #DCPS

Shaun Johnsonat@ THE CHALK FACE - 20 hours ago

Wikipedia...sigh

Greg MankiwatGreg Mankiw's Blog - 20 hours ago

Merry Christmas

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 21 hours ago

Al Murray - Australia & Spain NSFW language...

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 21 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wu6_oXpRHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Al Murray - Scots, Scousers and Geordies

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 21 hours ago

A treat for Christmas Eve... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX98LGnvc1E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Scientific American Beyond the Pale

Charles BartonatThe Nuclear Green Revolution - 21 hours ago

Christmas Eve in Florida

Capt. FoggatThe Impolitic - 21 hours ago

War watch Update - December 24 , 2013 - Afghanistan and Israel seek to take advantage of US foreign policies weaknesses , indecision and the burning desire to reach a deal ( any deal ) ...... Syria and Iran related items of note ....... Obama nuclear plan to cost a staggering 355 billion ( scheme 150 over budget ) - tell me again about fighting deficits ?

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 21 hours ago

What Gets Chris Christie Sauced? And What Gets Him Flambéed, Poached Or Grilled?

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb (of MK-Ultra), Mobutu and the The AIDS Crisis

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 21 hours ago

Make new Boat People

SteveatThinking Aboot - 21 hours ago

Israel's (theocratic state) Parliament bans Christmas tree display

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 22 hours ago

Christmas is not complete without kittehs...

AdrienneatAdrienne's Corner - 22 hours ago

*says no dog ever. *

How Two Bushes Sold Out America

Len HartatThe Existentialist Cowboy - 22 hours ago

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Chanukah, Gong Xi Fatt Chai

SteveatThinking Aboot - 22 hours ago

Shattered cover by Julie Andrews

SteveatThinking Aboot - 22 hours ago

They should remake the sound of music with Rock and Roll covers. H/T Four Habs Fans

An Easy Like Heaven mashup for Christmas Eve

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 23 hours ago

The Commodores' Easy meets The Cure's Just Like Heaven... gorgeous

Paul Craig Roberts celebrates Christmas while recalling that "people were able to fight for liberty because Christianity empowered the individual" and lamenting that "we now have a police state." He notes that "Liberty is a human achievement. We have it, or had it, because those who believed in it fought to achieve it." And he concludes that "There is not much that we can do about [the current] assaults [on our Constintutional rights], but we should not through ignorance enable the assaults," and finally wonders if "[a]s the West sinks into tyranny, will Western peoples defend their liberty and their souls, or will they sink into the tyranny, which again has raised its ugly and all devouring head?"

David L GriscomatCherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago

Will China Attack Taiwan? Yes, of course, if it wants to

Michael TurtonatThe View from Taiwan - 23 hours ago

Las mejores postales que puedes regalar en estas fiestas decembrinas

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

Click sobre el link para ver esta colección de imágenes

The world's BIGGEST blog - day 2

RoobinatTHROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago

THE FILM HATED BY THE RICH ELITE

Anonataangirfan - 1 day ago

The Scottish Threat Environment: Insecurity, Fears and Independence

Brandon ValerianoatDuck of Minerva - 1 day ago

The #ChristmasMyths #7: Why December 25?

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago

Quantum gravity and afterlife

Luboš MotlatThe Reference Frame - 1 day ago

On June 13 , 2013 , 6-foot tsunami that hit near New Jersey nuclear plant may be first of its kind in U.S. — People injured, swept out to sea by wave detected as far as Puerto Rico — NOAA said continental shelf may have slumped, now suspects ‘atmospheric event’ ....... Note this was completely uncovered by major media , just getting some coverage in science related newsletters and science meeting during late Fall 2013 !

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

The Christmas Truce of 1914

Land DestroyeratLand Destroyer - 1 day ago

Time For A Joni Mitchell-Morrissey Story

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Mistaken Gender: 5-Alpha Reductase Hermaphroditism and Biological Reductionism in Sexual Identity Reconsidered

Zoe BrainatA.E.Brain - 1 day ago

The Boy

Way Way UpatFort McMurray Adventures - 1 day ago

Who is Watching the President...? - Part 3849

Paul CokeratNews Spike - 1 day ago

Expert evidence

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Agreement expert qualified to give opinion evidence does not add weight to expert's opinion

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Christmas 2013: Christmas and Civil Society

Nonoy OplasatGovernment and Taxes - 1 day ago

I09 picks Upstream Color as top film of 2013

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago

Gail Collins on Chris Christie's Internet gambling vision: "This cannot possibly be a step in the right direction"

KenInNYatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Phil Robertson Returning To Duck Dynasty as A& E and Cracker Barrel quickly beat a retreat.... Whether you like the Show or Phil Robertson , a message to take away is that the threat of a serious protest directed to corporate interests ( and which the corporate interests deem serious ) , will cause folks to back up and back away ....Whether it's the " Endless War Policies " , NSA spying , Bankster plundering , excessive governmental inrusions such ObamaCare - Americans need to do more than whine - boycotts the corporate and political interests pushing thes policies and they will back away from them if the financial and political pain is substantial enough...

Fred WaltonatCatharsis Ours - 1 day ago

Wut We's Got's To Do

thwapatthwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago

Now why would Nick Clegg push that line?

Not a sheepatNot a sheep - 1 day ago

Whatever It Takes

Owen GrayatNorthern Reflections - 1 day ago

NOT SO HOLY LAND

Bruce K. GagnonatOrganizing Notes - 1 day ago

Thats not a police car in your rear view mirror

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago

Conniving CONs . . .

EdstockatThe Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago

Pope's Mass: Our souls should not have a 'do not disturb' sign

Saman MohammadiatThe Excavator - 1 day ago

My kind of ice storm ,,,

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

The #ChristmasMyths #6: The Slaughter of the Innocents

Peter CresswellatNot PC - 1 day ago

Why The Inland Empire Congressional Race Is In The National Spotlight This Year

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Is the real world?

Mike PhilbinatPROGNOSIS II - 1 day ago

...not one book ...not one painting.I don't think it's a coin toss between love or fear, I think it's a myth that we are. We never are, until the moment of our death, happy. Tonight, a dream? *DAY LATER UPDATE:* so, like you care, but... there's this Disassociative Crisis connected with the MK Ultra training, alters. I've never been in any state-sponsored institution, of course, but I was BROKEN by age five. Domestic issues. Complex. I had an experience today that filled me with adrenalin, it was like 'being back there' and I froze, as I should have. I suspect that's how '... more »

Danger and Denial

Barbara Ann LevyatWPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 1 day ago

Apocalyptic Planet

What Is SustainableatWhat Is Sustainable - 1 day ago

Quiz: Radio 4 presenter anagrams

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago

Hard things to think Aboot

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago

Canadian Voters take note. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-23/former-goldman-banker-head-cmhc-canadas-mortgage-monster If the wolf is not at the door, is it in your bedroom?

The Maned Wolf - a lesson in deductive dentition

George HendersonatThe High-fat Hep C Diet - 1 day ago

Juventud eterna, ya a la venta?

Abraham Ben JudeaatAbraham says - 1 day ago

Conjunto compuesto anti-edad para ensayos en humanos después de dar vuelta el reloj para ratones Profesor Nueva Gales del sur en Estados Unidos revierte los indicadores clave del envejecimiento para hacer two-year-old ratones aparecen seis meses de edad Investigadores australianos y estadounidenses esperan un compuesto anti-envejez (*Resveratrol*) podría ser probado en seres humanos tan pronto como el próximo año, tras un avance clave que vio el proceso de envejecimiento invertido en ratones. El estudio, que incluyó la Universidad de Harvard y la Universidad de NSW, descubrió u... more »

The Infinite Monkey Cage

CraigatIs the BBC biased? - 1 day ago

Death of a Gunsmith: Mikhail Kalashnikov 1919 - 2013

SteveatThinking Aboot - 1 day ago

Duty of disclosure and presiding Justice of the Peace in provincial regulatory matters

James C MortonatMorton's Musings - 1 day ago

Turkey: Halkbank - Role in Iran Gold Transactions Legal

PennyatPenny for your thoughts - 1 day ago

And Some Songs, You Just Feel in Your Soul...

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime)atRunning 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Gov't Mule, “Forevermore” -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3YFgSwmRww

This Time The Sex Predator Is A Democrat-- Well A Certain Type Of Democrat… Meet Dennis Gabryszak

DownWithTyrannyatDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Jingoist Rock

jurassicporkatWelcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago

Jingoists, Jingoists, KKK hoods Jingoists swing their Jingoist bats Snowjobs, and blowing up Planned Parenthoods Now the Jingoist pointy hats. Jingoists, Jingoists, Jingoist tools Jingoists mansplain like Banshees in pain Dancing and prancing like racist fools As they’re put on the air. What a white time, it's the right time To lock your rights away Anytime is a swell time To hunt gays for us to slay. Giddy up, Robertson, embarrass your clan. You shouldn’t be sucking cock. Mix in some racism if you can Cracker Barrel’s keeping you in stock. (Dingbats, Dingbats, yeah, Dingbats, Dingbat... more »

Imágenes bonitas y postales con mensajes para Navidad y Año Nuevo

José Luis Ávila HerreraatFOTOFRONTERA - 1 day ago

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