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Earth-shaking News!
2008-05-03 12:33:00 Okay, its probably not Earth -shaking… not even window-rattling, get right down to it… But a new blog has come to life, offering NEWS for the service-hungry and the promoters among us! Give a big welcome to Zeolite Service! YOU don’t know what Zeolite is? Uhm, well see, its… its… something GOOD, I think, and natural and clean… But for ... More About: News , Business
Government cracks down on credit card industry practices
2008-05-02 19:31:00 By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer The Federal Reserve and other regulators are moving Friday to crack down on “unfair and deceptive” practices in the credit card industry that have added billions in debt to people already struggling to cope with the economic downturn. In the most far-reaching crackdown on the credit industry in decades, the Fed ... More About: Economy , Government , Card , Credit , Industry
Bill prohibits bias based on genes
2008-05-02 19:27:00 By Amy Harmon A bill that would prohibit discrimination by health insurers and employers based on the information that people carry in their genes won final approval in Congress on Thursday by an overwhelming vote. The legislation, which President Bush has indicated he will sign, speaks both to the mounting hope placed in genetic research to ... More About: Government , Health Care , Bias , Bill , Genes
Obama says he grew up less privileged than rivals
2008-05-01 18:49:00 By Andy Sullivan http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/id USN0143937020080501 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less privileged circumstances than his rivals as he fought a perception among some voters that he is “elitist.” In an interview on NBC’s “Today Show,” Obama sought to explain a series of missteps that have dogged his candidacy ... More About: Rivals , Election 08 , Grew
Exxon profit soars, but misses forecasts
2008-05-01 18:47:00 By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/comp anies/exxon_earnings/?postversion=2008050 109 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Record oil prices netted Exxon Mobil a $10.89 billion profit in the first three months of the year, sharply higher than a year earlier but short of Wall Street estimates and below what was needed to set a new all-time profit record. The profit was still enough ... More About: Economy , Profit , Forecasts
Napa renter with big family wins eviction case
2008-05-01 01:27:00 Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer (04-30) 14:44 PDT NAPA — Two Napa landlords accused of evicting a woman because they felt she had too many children have agreed to pay her $18,000 to settle her housing-discrimination complaint, officials said today. Arlene Dennett and Dottie Rentschler did not admit to any wrongdoing as part of their settlement ... More About: Family , Case , Eviction , Wins
Some common sense from the Supreme Court
2008-04-29 01:50:00 The Supreme Court ruled today that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers ... More About: Sense , Civil Rights , Common , Common Sense
Just another reason to imitate our ?betters? in Europe
2008-04-27 18:25:00 How will the “Europe ans are so much more evolved than Americans” moonbats spin this one? Kids in Europe drinking heavy at early age Some as young as 13 end up in hospital after ‘coma drinking’ A 13-year-old schoolgirl in southern Austria celebrated the start of her spring break with a bottle of schnapps. She ended up in intensive care. In ... More About: World News , Reason
Is waffle-eating the mark of a psychopath?
2008-04-26 18:37:00 The above quote and the waffle remark are both telling us the same thing: That Obama has difficulty keeping up his “nice guy” image. Keeping it up quite simply wears him out. It is not who he really is so keeping up that image tires him and he just HAS to rest from it. It ... More About: Mark , Eating , The Mark , Election 08
Neener neener neeeeeneeeeerrrr! The Democrats Implode!
2008-04-26 17:04:00 Yes, the title of this post accurately reflects its adolescent tone. I have never, in my 46 years, enjoyed a presidential race but I’m enjoying the hell out of this one! You’re racist if you don’t vote for Obama! You’re misogynist if you don’t vote for Clinton! You’re both if you vote for ... More About: Democrats , Opinion , Editorial , Discussion , The Law of Unintended Consequences
North Highlands principal touches racial nerve at test-gap meeting
2008-04-22 20:37:00 By Laurel Rosenhall Principal Jana Fields thought she was doing a good thing for her school when she pulled African American students into a meeting last week to discuss upcoming standardized tests. The school’s African American parents, on the other hand, thought Fields was being racist when she told the children their past scores were lower than ... More About: Civil Rights , North , Test , Highlands
Disparities in Life Expectancy Increasing
2008-04-22 20:23:00 By Amanda Gardner TUESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) — Contrary to popular belief, life expectancies are not rising steadily and uniformly across the United States. In fact, new research shows that between 1983 and 1999, death rates for women went up in many poor counties and, overall, geographical and racial disparities in life expectancy have worsened across ... More About: Life , Health Care
California - the nation?s leader in innovative ways to drive away business?
2008-04-20 17:38:00 Thousands of Bay Area businesses - from boutique hotels to mammoth oil refineries - are poised to pay some of the nation’s first fees tied to greenhouse gas emissions under a plan proposed by regional air pollution regulators. If the proposal is approved next month, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District would charge 4.2 cents ... More About: Global Warming , Business , Economy , Government , California
Thanx, Yale, now I ARE Art Stoont!
2008-04-20 10:36:00 Thanks to Iowa Hawk, here’s the MP3 of “You CAN be an Art Student, at Yale!” IF… Your red scarf matches your eyes, You close cover before striking, Your father had the ship-fitter blues and Loving you has made me bananas! Graphic: One of Yale’s famed ‘artistes’ bringing up ‘art’ for display. More About: Podcasts , Opinion
Supreme Court upholds use of lethal injections
2008-04-16 19:19:00 By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer The Supreme Court upheld the most common method of lethal injections executions Wednesday, clearing the way for states to resume executions that have been on hold for nearly 7 months. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, turned back a constitutional challenge to the procedures in place in Kentucky, which uses three ... More About: Government
Local communities reach for power over energy
2008-04-16 19:14:00 Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer Marin County residents want more solar and wind power. San Francisco officials think they might be able to strike better energy deals. Some cities in the San Joaquin Valley want to build their own power plants. From the North Bay to Hollywood, California communities are trying to exert more power over, well, ... More About: Economy , Government , Power , Energy , Local
The View? Elite, Elevated, Condescending?
2008-04-15 02:59:00 “But what has Barack Obama accomplished that entitles him to look down on his fellow Americans?” Some cogent analysis by Kristol , in (of all places!) the New York Times… It is very easy for persons of good will to ‘give Obama the benefit of the doubt’, and that IS a reasonable choice. For ONE or, over a ... More About: The View , View , Elite , Election 08
Does THIS Look Good to YOU?
2008-04-12 11:23:00 Another great image from Urban Infidel, and a hearty Hat-Tip here! This Obama reminds me of a Post Turtle. Post Turtle. You know, when you’re driving along a country road? And see a turtle up on top of one of the fence-posts? Its clear that he didn’t get up there by himself, and now he’s up there, ain’t much he ... More About: Opinion , Editorial , Good
Not a Pretty Picture
2008-04-12 11:00:00 Hat tip Urban Infidel for this one. We were going to post the recording of Obama’s most recent revelation, his revealing gaffe about those jobless, bitter whites of Ohio and Pennsylvania who cling to their religion, guns and racism… Want catsup with that foot sandwich, Obama? More About: Opinion , Picture , Editorial , Pretty , The Law of Unintended Consequences
Corruption plagues Egypt?s bread
2008-04-10 23:14:00 By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer ... More About: War On Terror , Egypt , Corruption , Bread , Plagues
Israel cuts off Gaza fuel after attack
2008-04-10 23:13:00 By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer ... More About: War On Terror , Israel , Fuel , Gaza , Cuts
When Bullies Get a Subpoena to Wield?
2008-04-04 03:52:00 We watch the law around here, and I want to be among the first to Call BS! on this obvious bullying tactic! It could happen to you, Friend! Grumpy More About: Opinion , Editorial , Bullies
Zogby Notes Disunity?
2008-04-04 03:21:00 John Zogby , respected scientific pollster, discusses Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton. With little change of tone, however, and in only a few carefully-chosen words, he describes the gaping wound now bleeding the Democrat Party, when he notes that, in order to win, it ‘will have to heal some serious differences…’ And therein lieth the rub… Grumpy More About: Notes
A Star is Born!
2008-04-02 07:00:00 Kudos to Zombie, an intrepid photo-blogger whose photo-essays were for years hand-coded into the website ZombieTime.com Now, however, Zombie has initiated a BLOG! Actually, its a ZomBlog! Click on over and leave a comment! More About: Star
Superdelegates Can Rock the Vote
2008-03-25 18:23:00 The instant it was apparent that neither fierce Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama would get the 2025 delegate votes needed for the Democratic nomination, the spotlight fell heavily on the party?s 800 super delegates. The super delegates are congresspersons, governors, party regulars, and honored party elders such as Jimmy Carter. They are the ... More About: Rock , Vote , Election 08
Clinton camp tags Obama for ?the audacity of nope?
2008-03-25 18:20:00 http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/poli tics/blog/2008/03/clinton_camp_tags_obama _for_th.html by Mark Silva The Clinton campaign will not let go of the discounted Democratic primary votes in Michigan, where Sen. Hillary Clinton ?won?? as the only major candidate on the ballot, and in Florida, which Clinton ?won?? in an uncontested election. The argument seems somewhat moot, now that the Michigan legislature has given up on the ... More About: Obama , Tags , Camp , Audacity
Obama?s Speech After Wright
2008-03-24 07:07:00 Obama’s aim in the speech was to place Wright ’s outrage in context, which means history: which means the history of white racism, according to Obama. Obama says, in his speech, “We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country,” but then he proceeds to do exactly that. And awaiting ... More About: Opinion , Editorial , Obama , Speech
Pentagon?s Peculiar Ritual
2008-03-24 06:13:00 From the Weblog of media critic and pundit Eric Alterman at the Media Matters for America Website. “It is 110 yards from the “E” ring to the “A” ring of the Pentagon . This section of the Pentagon is newly renovated; the floors shine, the hallway is broad, and the lighting is bright. At this instant the ... More About: War On Terror , Opinion , Media Bias , Ritual
Obama Uplifts!
2008-03-22 06:32:00 A couple more Obama noid songs for the politically incorrect among us: One Night in Politics (Right-Click and “Save File as…” to share with friends & foes, OR click link and listen now!) Dial 1-900-REA-LITY (Right-Click and “Save File as…” to share with friends & foes, OR click link and listen now!) Aloha Snackbar, Resort to Violence! (Right-Click and “Save File as…” ... More About: Podcasts , Opinion , Editorial
Some Wright (Obama) Quotes NOT Yet in the MSM
More articles from this author:2008-03-21 08:18:00 ?The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing in 1959 and 1960. I was a part of the student sit-in movement of 1960 and 1961. I saw white Christian racism up close and ?in my face? as a freshman and sophomore in college ? all while pledging the fraternity of my father, Omega Psi Psi, ... More About: Opinion , Editorial , Quotes , Obama , Wright 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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