January 2012
No Frack Friday Tomorrow! Call OBAMA and demand...
godhatesarkansas:
Food and Water Watch and GASLAND needs you to call OBAMA: Make a call for No Frack Friday: 888-925-7006 The national movement against fracking needs Obama’s attention. We cannot allow him to move forward with fracking for natural gas. We must demonstrate our power by flooding the White House with thousands of calls on Friday. When you dial 888-925-7006, you’ll hear a ...
More iPhones Sold Than People Born Every Day →
The 37.04M iPhone figure divided out over the period of 98 days in the quarter gives us a slightly lower number at 377.9K sold every day, but it’s still higher than the world’s average birth rate which clocks in at 371K per day.
I do not see how we can support or sustain this.
How Does Google See You?
azspot:
Off on age, by almost a decade, in the wrong direction :(
See what it thinks of you here.
On my notebook computer (logged in to the same Google account, must be due to cookie content variance on the client machine), an even grimmer pronouncement, off by nearly two decades — Age: 65+.
So it has aged me a fair bit — 65+ — and it figures I am male. I am not too sure how...
Yes, you can make money without exploiting the... →
I was (briefly) a guest on a BBC World Service radio program this morning discussing Obama’s state of the union speech and income inequality in general. To my mind, this has always been a no-brainer. My argument is: we’ve done this experiment (of lowering taxes on the rich) twice now, once in the 1920’s and again in the 1980’s (and doubled-down in 2000). We have also done the control experiment....
An Excerpt From “Killing the Competition: How the... →
During the past decade, a few giants have managed to fence in market after market for hardware, software, and content. Some did so simply by buying up their competitors. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once said that acquiring another company was “a confession that there’s a failure to innovate.” But Ellison himself decided to opt for the more reliable profits that come from buying one’s competitors,...
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Patriotism by Ellie Schoenfeld →
My country is this dirt that gathers under my fingernails when I am in the garden. The quiet bacteria and fungi, all the little insects and bugs are my compatriots. They are idealistic, always working together for the common good. I kneel on the earth and pledge my allegiance to all the dirt of the world, to all of that soil which grows flowers and food for the just and unjust...
"When Facts Aren’t Facts" →
azspot:
The criterion, according to Politifact, seems to be that a fact isn’t a fact if it helps a Democratic narrative.
Jared Bernstein watches the train wreck. Obama said:
In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005. which is just true. Period.
But Politifact rated it as only “half true” because he was...
Eric Cantor needs to go
anticapitalist:
Through the wonders of reddit, I discovered who is running against Eric Cantor in 2012: Wayne Powell.
Here’s a quote from him (Wayne Powell):
1) I am against both SOPA and PIPA. I believe in a free internet. 2) An educated public will impose term limits, but if that doesn’t work a Constitutional Amendment would be in order. The way money is corrupting politics, I think we...
“If you can’t even speak for a whole minute on a political issue without invoking...”
– Rick Santorum thinks pregnancy through rape is God’s gift? Seriously? | Kate Harding | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via chroniccheesylust)
Yep I know I am supposed to be ignoring the Republican candidates rather than picking on them, but….
Michael Hughes: Gingrich Centers Campaign on... →
The last thing this country needs at this (or any) juncture is a narcissist at the helm whose decisions will be influenced by eschatological interpretations of scripture. Based on America’s damaged global standing due to financial mismanagement, unrivaled inequality and destabilizing military excursions, now is not the time for arrogance and hubris from a U.S. president. In sum,...
I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't... →
cassket:
velocicrafter:
nessuno:
pr0fessah:
please sign
It’s at just over 71,000, and we need 75,000.
Come on. I know we can do this!!
It’s at 74,461 & now they’re saying the goal is 100,000.
whatever, sign it.
please sign it
“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005.
In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business. Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
GOP Nostalgia is a Symptom of Privilege →
Author Melissa Harris-Perry recently appeared on “The Colbert Report” to speak about her new book, Sister Citizen, which examines a number of stereotypes of African-American women. As he often does, Colbert teed up a common conservative talking point about “going back to he good old days.” Perry’s response kept ringing in my head for days afterward.
She said that there is no time in American...
“Well, Newt Gingrich is an idiot.”
– Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, on The Colbert Report. (via reallyfoxnews)
“Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown. …There is something so hopelessly...”
– Some small-time children’s book author named MAURICE SENDAK, to Stephen Colbert, on The Colbert Report.
Where the accurate things are.
(via inothernews)
“It’s not fair and true for the President to attack Republicans in Congress as...”
– Mitch Daniels, in his State of the Union rebuttal.
Must
(via think-progress)
Obviously the man has been in a coma for the last few years.
Haves and soon to be halfs
men (?!?) (another damn throw back) of prime working age — 20 year olds (?) guys who could really swing a pick axe
"Arizona's decision to sell off its state capitol... →
motherjones:
And as with any other drunken eBay transaction, Arizona has apparently recovered from its bender and is frantically trying to hit “undo.”
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The move will cost the state $105 million out of its current budget surplus. Brewer press aide Matthew Benson said the state has the cash.
Benson acknowledged the state actually got only $81 million ...
Republicans Use Democratic Values To Rip Romney...
liberalsarecool:
Take a guess who said this yesterday:
“Voters are just now meeting the Real Romney — the buyout tycoon who executed takeovers, bankrupted businesses, and sent jobs overseas while killing American jobs.”
MoveOn.org? No, it was Rick Perry.
Let’s try another one:
“Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of...
Jet Lag: What's Causing One of the Driest, Warmest... →
climateadaptation:
“The chief suspect behind the mysterious weather is an atmospheric pressure pattern called the Arctic Oscillation, which circles the high Northern Hemisphere. Its lower edge is known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Together, the related features influence the path and strength of the jet stream. The jet itself is an air current that flows west to east across the ...
“Despite their bleak performance this year, the nation’s top six banks paid out...”
– Van Jones & George Goehl (via kateoplis)
Does this make any sense?
There is no evolution debate
mohandasgandhi:
anticapitalist:
The evolution debate was over decades ago, if not earlier.
Shut up.
Can you please come to my ConLaw classes with me? Evolution is constantly a debate because people all over the country are always filing suit demanding creationism be taught, not as a supplement to evolution but in place of.
Evolution is a theory in the exact same way gravity is a theory.
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The United Nations Believes That Guantanamo Bay Is... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
The United States’ continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba is a “clear breach of international law,” United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said today, Reuters reports. Only six trials have been completed in 10 years, while eight detainees have died at the prison. “While fully recognizing the right and duty of states to protect their people...
So who won the debate?
mohandasgandhi:
Amur’kah lost.
Pretty much what I was going to reply
GOP Debate
elledark:
Everything those nasty and not-very-bright political opportunists are saying in the GOP debates simply serves to emphasize that America is the greatest danger facing the world today ..
How Genetically Modified Foods Could Affect Our... →
kp777:
January 11, 2012 | From the page: Chinese researchers have found small pieces of rice ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will bind to receptors in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol from the blood. …
This study had nothing to do with genetically modified...
mohandasgandhi:
Mitt Romney wants us to “beat” the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to withdraw droops and the end the war? It costs us $50 million per Taliban death. $50 million. As long as we’re in Afghanistan, the Taliban rebuilds its numbers. Ever heard of valleyism?
So, really, we should stay in Afghanistan and spew out money forever because that’s what “beating” the Taliban entails.
Oh,...