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Adventures In Linux ? Or How I spent Labor Day!
2009-09-07 23:30:00 I bounced out of bed this morning and decided that I was bored. I drank my coffee, I checked my email, but I was still bored. I have lots of projects that need to be worked on, there are at least five books waiting to be read, but somehow my heart was not into it. ... More About: Linux , Labor , Adventures , Op-Ed
Caylee Anthony?s Mom?s Defense Team At It Again
2009-09-07 20:08:00 The mother of the murdered toddler, Casey Anthony claimed her daughter had been kidnapped 31 days before they even bothered to report it to the police. She told authorities that her 2 year old daughter, Caylee Anthony had been taken by the Nanny, whom she named to be a Zenaida Gonzalez. After a thorough investigation ... More About: Defense , Team
Couple Files Lawsuit Number Two over Asbestos Exposure
2009-09-07 19:31:00 A couple has filed a second asbestos related lawsuit, this time naming eighteen companies as defendants according to a recent report. In the lawsuit the couple, Gilbert and Bonita Harper, have claimed that Mr Harper’s exposure to asbestos was wrongfully caused during the course of his work. In this second lawsuit the couple is now looking ... More About: Lawsuit , Couple , Files , Number Two , Exposure
Book Review: ?Below Zero: A Joe Pickett Novel? by C. J. Box
2009-09-07 17:44:00 April Alive? It can?t be possible that their foster daughter, April, who died in the botched raid of the soverign cult as described in ?Winter Kill?, could be alive. It?s been six years and the family of Game Warden Joe Pickett, his wife Marybeth, daughters Lucy and Sheridan has moved on though a lot of trouble ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Book Review , Book Reviews , Review
Michael Moore: New Movie, Nothing New
2009-09-07 17:12:00 I doubt if many people take Michael Moore as seriously as he takes himself — if, indeed, he is serious in his many attacks on big business. Moore is, after all, an entertainer and entertainers give the people what they think the people want — not necessarily honest facts. Controversy andallegations sell many more ... More About: Movie
Comments on Comments
2009-09-07 15:59:00 I had not noticed that some of my postings to BNN had generated comments — mostly critical and assuming that I am not a loyal and proud to be American. Let me state here that our country has many good features. It is, however, somewhat isolated from the rest of the world which does a ... More About: Comments
The REAL Number Out of Work in the U.S.!
2009-09-07 15:20:00 I mentioned in a recent blog the contrast between other nations that report the real numbers out of work and our reporting only those who have been searching for jobs recently. This discrepancy completely distorts any comparison in the progress of national economies. The NY Times article is a heart breaker with stress placed on elderly ... More About: Work , Real , Number
Death by Lipstick?
2009-09-07 07:35:00 Although that email hoax of a couple years ago, claiming lipstick caused cancer, was a bit over the top, it is a bit worrisome that the FDA has indeed found lead in some of the most widely used brands of American lipstick. How much lead are we talking? Well, the FDA found lead in all ... More About: Lipstick , Death
Haleigh Cummings ? BNN Radio Wrap Up For Sept 6
2009-09-07 05:21:00 Our panel this week consisted of the Barrett’s, TJ Hart, Denny Griffin, William ?Cobra? Staubs, and Art Harris. I had a feeling it was going to be a lively program and I was right. A lot is happening in this case, and it is happening very quickly. Sure, it has taken six months, but suddenly the ... More About: Radio , Sept , Wrap
Book Review: Deep Dive by Richard Horwath
2009-09-07 01:54:00 How many managers believe that strategic thinking plays a key role in the survival of his or her company? Let’s see a show of hands please. Everyone? Good! That’s what I thought. Now, bear with me when I ask another question. Just what is strategic thinking, anyway? Or more specifically, how many of you feel ... More About: Book Review , Book Reviews , Review , Book , Deep
Book Review: Gathering of the Clan by Thomas Richard Harry
2009-09-07 01:51:00 The number of Independent voters has increased dramatically since 1995. Depending on whose statistics you read the proportion of Americans registering as political Independents (or decline to state their affiliation) is currently between 38 and 40%; and this is scaring the hell out of both the Democrat and Republican Parties. But Thomas Richard Harry , author ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
Polarized, Politicized, And Pasteurized
2009-09-07 01:49:00 This nation is polarized, national issues are politicized, and politicians? misdeeds are pasteurized. The nation is polarized by career politicians blaming the other political party?s members for the nation?s troubles in order to obscure their incompetency. Consequently, brainwashed conservative and liberal Americans, consumed with this false premise, engage in this divisive struggle amongst themselves. The internet ...
Bill Moyers Says It Right!
2009-09-06 21:12:00 As a social/political/legal philosopher, I am repeatedly appalled by the morally criminal practices that now characterize the U.S. To call the U.S. a model for democracies and other nations evolving around the world is an obscene joke. We have been almost totally corrupted by powerful vested interests. Our labor unions are a pale shadow of ... More About: Bill Moyers , Bill
Book Review: Why We Dont Kill Spiders by Bo Macreery
2009-09-06 20:22:00 Bo Macreery, the author of the novel “Why We Don’t Kill Spiders,” is one of those rare writers who can pull a long forgotten period of history off a dusty book shelf and breathe fresh, new life into it; turning it into a rich and vibrant tale that resonates with the world we live in ... More About: Book Review , Book Reviews , Review , Book
Van Jones?A Battle Won, Stay Focused On the War
2009-09-06 20:18:00 I woke up this morning to the wonderful news that Van Jones , the radical, self-avowed communist, had resigned as “Green Jobs Czar” amid an outpouring of protest from Americans nationwide.First and foremost, I am happy and relieved to see that our liberty, freedom of speech, and conservative values still carry weight in this rapidly declining ... More About: Battle , Stay
Book Review: ?Defending Violet? by Jennifer Louise Jefferson
2009-09-06 18:45:00 Ginger Rae Reddy practices law in the city of Port Grace, located somewhere along the northeastern seaboard hard against the Atlantic. A city that, like herself, has seen tough times and still sees them and yet survives despite all odds. Ginger Rae is practicing Family Law these days which is primarily about the final collapse ... More About: Reviews , Book Review , Violet , Book Reviews , Review
Wall Street?s Latest Scam?
2009-09-06 17:32:00 I was startled to have a young woman call me (illegally — unsolicited business calls not allowed) to try to sell me life insurance at my age — 76. We gave that up years ago when my pension had assured us of sufficient living income. Now it becomes apparent that such life insurance for the ... More About: Wall Street , Street , Wall , Scam
Haleigh Cummings ? Action Moves To Massachusetts
2009-09-06 16:20:00 The Cape Cod Times are running an article that officers from a Florida Sheriffs office interviewed a local couple about the February 10th disappearance of then five year old Haleigh Cummings. The Cape Cod Times said: Deputies from a Florida sheriff’s office questioned the local couple yesterday afternoon at the South Yarmouth state police barracks in ... More About: Action , Massachusetts , Moves
BNN Radio ? Drugs, Death And Despair - Addiction Recovery
2009-09-06 14:27:00 In our second look at the drug issue in America we decided to bring in a special guest. Dr Michael Provines is the COO for two Jacksonville, Florida drug treatment facilities. Also joining us on the panel was author Armando Aldazabar. Armando has two very drug-centric books in print What You Are Turning Me Into ... More About: Radio , Recovery , Drugs , Addiction , Death
Terminal Sedation: What it is, and what it is not
2009-09-06 09:08:00 Once while filling in at an emergency room. I heard a conversation between an attending physician and the doc who had just arrived to work the evening shift. The attending physician asked him to check the X ray to ensure that the NG tube he had just placed was in the correct position before they ... More About: Terminal
Self-Censorship About Putin at Condé Nast GQ Magazine, Limited Coverage by
2009-09-06 05:49:00 The popular New York blog site Gawker is reporting that “in an act of publishing cowardice, Condé Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a “GQ” article criticizing Vladimir Putin .” Condé Nast publishes such widely read magazines as “Vanity Fair,” “The New Yorker,” and “Vogue.” In Russia, it publishes “GQ,” ... More About: Magazine , Censorship , Limited , Coverage
Dominance by the Greedy Power Interests?
2009-09-05 22:53:00 When I began my graduate studies first in theology and then legal philosophy in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a reasonable balance existed between management, labor, and governmental powers. Our established churches were focused on social justice — civil rights and poverty reform. And good things emerged ranging from civil rights legislation to Medicare. ... More About: Power , Interests
MSNBC on Crime and Punishment?
2009-09-05 20:00:00 About 10 years ago I had cataract surgery on one of my eyes which aborted and which two corrective surgeries failed to heal so that I was left with only totally distorted vision in that eye. Needless to say I delayed a second operation on my remaining eye with apprehension that I might lose vision ... More About: Crime , Punishment , Crime and Punishment , MSNBC
Associated Press Disregards Family Wishes for Deceased Marine?s Photo
2009-09-05 17:10:00 The Associated Press has released a photo of Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, which graphically portrays the Marine shortly after being hit by a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) during a firefight in the Helmland Province of Southern Afghanistan. LCpl Bernard later died from the injuries suffered in the attack. The parents of LCpl Bernard were shown ... More About: Family , Photo , Deceased
American Racism Lingers on?
2009-09-05 16:07:00 When I first started teaching in the mid l960s the number of African American and Latino students in my various colleges — Vassar, CCNY, Hunter — could be counted on the fingers of one hand. One of the two at Vassar told me that a Vassar interviewer had told her she would not be happy ... More About: Racism
Sabotaging Medical Reform?
2009-09-05 14:09:00 Medical reform under Truman was sabotaged by the American Medical Assn. But the AMA then was a voluntary organization made up mainly of doctors determined to protect their incomes from government restrictions. My authority for this statement was Dave Rogers with whom I shared a summer cooperative camp and who was variously dean of two ... More About: Medical , Reform
Reasonable Security Practices For UID Project..in India..A Draft for Debat
2009-09-05 07:14:00 The Unique ID Project (UID) project has been announced by the Government of India under the leadership of Mr Nandan Nilekani and a body known as UID Authority of ... More About: Security , Draft
Music Review: Fame Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2009-09-05 04:42:00 From film to television to stage to television and back to film, the Fame story has traversed all types of entertainment venues in the past three decades and is now working to reclaim the theatrical screen at the end of this month. But though fans will have to wait til the end of September to ... More About: Music , Reviews , Film , Review , Original
Green Job Czar: Anti Asian bigot?
2009-09-05 03:50:00 Lots of hyperventillation on the right wing blogs about the “truther” who was picked by the president as his “green job” Czar, Van Jones. I’m not sure what a “green job” czar is supposed to do, but if they fired every Democrat who lauded conspiracy theorist Michael Moore the Congress would be half empty. But Van Jones’ ... More About: Green , Asian , Anti , Bigot
Music Review: Gamer Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
More articles from this author:2009-09-05 03:30:00 Opening with two memorable tracks from the ’90s (Marilyn Manson’s cover of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and Bloodhound Gang’s “The Bad Touch”), the soundtrack for the upcoming film Gamer , an explosive follow-up to the directing duo’s two Crank films, let’s the listener know immediately what kind of film to expect: twisted action with ... More About: Music , Film , Review , Original 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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