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Praising the Dear One? Videos Raise Concerns Over Use of School Children To
2009-11-05 15:10:00 [From JONATHAN TURLEY] We have been discussing the propriety of public schools putting on worshipful performances about President Barack Obama. While I voted for him and support many of his policies, it does concern me to see children enlisted in such performances, which are not the norm in American education or politics. While some extreme ...
Terracycle makes eco-friendly speakers from orphaned snack bags
2009-11-05 05:00:00 [From Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women] Someone apparently doesn’t believe in the word “waste”. And you bet they are bound to have a few creative genes when they can defy such a powerful word. Well, apparently such creative genes must total much more than one can imagine, for these geniuses from TerraCycle have created the most ... More About: Friendly
Green Party Election Results
2009-11-04 06:07:00 Image of Green Party NY Non-offical returns for all NY Green Party Candidates. Allen Carstensen Town Supervisor, Ulysses Roxanne Marino (Dem) 693 88% Allen Carstensen (Grn) 91 12% Evergreen C. Chou City Council, 20th District, Flushing, Queens Peter Koo (GOP) 8,081 49.6% Yen Chou (Dem) 7,278 44.7 % S.J. Jung (WF) 664 4.1% Evergreen Chou (Grn) 270 1.7% Jennifer Dotson Alderperson, 1st ward, Ithaca ...
Louisiana justice who refused interracial marriage resigns
2009-11-03 23:53:00 CNN reports that a Louisiana justice of the peace who drew criticism for refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple has resigned, the secretary of state’s office said Tuesday. More About: Rights
Have Sex in a Voting Booth
2009-11-03 14:16:00 [From jameswagner.com] You might want to vote also. More About: Voting
Artificial Intelligence Diagnoses Abuse
2009-10-30 15:17:00 Eric Bland, Discovery News A broken bone one day, a particular infection a few months later and depression the following year may appear to be separate, medical issues. However, to a new artificial intelligence program developed by Boston doctors, these are all symptoms of domestic abuse. ... More About: Commentary , Abuse , Intelligence , Artificial Intelligence
Print: Ehren Watada: Free at Last
2009-10-29 15:01:00 [From ] by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH On June 7, 2006, a 28-year-old Army lieutenant named Ehren Watada released a video press statement announcing that he was refusing to deploy to Iraq because the Iraq War was illegal and his “participation would make me party to war crimes.” After three years of trying to convict him ... More About: News , Rights , Free , Print , Violence
Colbert smokes same-sex marriage opponents
2009-10-28 18:26:00 [Via Appetite for Equal Rights ] The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c More About: Humor , Commentary , Marriage
THE END OF POLITICS
2009-10-22 21:11:00 [From UNDERNEWS ] Sam Smith As I tried, for about the seventeenth time, to make sense of the healthcare negotiations, I suddenly realized that I wasn’t watching a political debate at all; rather it was one of those conflicts you read about in other countries that are so hard to understand from afar – the sort ... More About: Politics
Print: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?
2009-10-22 15:46:00 [From The Nation] Where is the Defund Blackwater Act? by JEREMY SCAHILL Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to helping poor and working-class people. Their campaign has gained bipartisan legislative support in the form of the Defund ACORN Act of 2009, which has now passed the House and Senate. ... More About: News , Commentary , Print , Violence
Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: T
2009-10-22 15:42:00 [From RebelReports] While the DoD targets a community group that does no business with the Pentagon , actual corporate crooks go un-confronted and continue to rake in $ billions in contracts. By Jeremy Scahill On Tuesday night, US Undersecretary of Defense Shay Assad, the Pentagon’s top contracting official, sent a memo to the commanders and directors of all branches ... More About: News , Commentary , Problem
Health care reform: who?s your daddy?
2009-10-20 21:39:00 [From Pragmatos] This piece by Robert Reich lays out the worst problems with the current health care legislation. He’s right, of course, but it seems to me a safe assumption that the administration will cave on whatever they need to in order to pass a bill and claim victory. I could be wrong, of course—maybe Obama’s ... More About: Health , Commentary , Health Care , Reform , Rights
Membership Has Its Privileges
2009-10-20 21:36:00 [From iowahawk] [ed. note: republished and amended from a 2007 post] Dear BARACK OBAMA : Congratulations! On behalf of the selection committee, I am pleased to announce that you have been named a 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of your tireless efforts to STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY AND COOPERATION . I am ... More About: Commentary
Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
2009-10-19 17:23:00 [From feministing.com] Ceara Sturgis is a senior at a Mississippi high school described as being exemplary: “a straight-A student, goal on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving”. Despite all of this, Ceara’s school is not allowing her senior photo to be included in the yearbook. Why? Because ... More About: News , Photo , Rights , Girl
What Whoopi Goldberg (?Not a Rape-Rape?), Harvey Weinstein (?So-Called Crim
2009-10-19 17:14:00 By Calvin Trillin This article appeared in the October 26, 2009 edition of The Nation. October 7, 2009 A youthful error? Yes, perhaps. But he’s been punished for this lapse– For decades exiled from LA He knows, as he wakes up each day, ... More About: Commentary , Goldberg , Whoopi Goldberg
Interracial Marriage
2009-10-19 04:42:00 [From The J-Walk Blog] You probably read about that justice of the peace in Louisiana who refused to perform an interracial marriage. The latest: Louisiana JP says he won’t resign over interracial marriage issue. A white Justice of the Peace in Louisiana who refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple says he has no ... More About: News , Commentary , Marriage , Interracial
War is peace, ignorance is strength
2009-10-19 03:06:00 [From New Statesman] John Pilger Obama, the man of peace, is planning another war to add to his impressive record Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative ... More About: Commentary , Violence , Ignorance
Game Show First: Gays on ?Newlywed Game?
2009-10-15 17:19:00 ‘Star Trek’ actor and gay activist George Takei and husband Brad Altman this Tuesday, October 13th, become the first same-sex couple to ever appear on ‘The Newlywed Game, which now airs on the Game Show Network. More About: News , Commentary , Gays
Football, dog fighting, and brain damage
2009-10-15 12:36:00 [From The New Yorker] OFFENSIVE PLAY How different are dogfighting and football? by Malcolm Gladwell An offensive lineman can’t do his job without “using his head,” one veteran says, but neuropathologists examining the brains of ex-N.F.L. players have found trauma-related degeneration. ne evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in Nashville with his wife and some friends. It ... More About: News , Football , Fighting , Brain
Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell: Now With Double Meaning
2009-10-14 20:53:00 [From boneinthefan ] Like Razzles (both a candy and a gum), the phrase “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” now serves double duty. More than just a discriminatory policy, it’s also apparently the answer to the question of when, exactly, it will be chucked. Sure, President Obama told the crowd at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner this ... More About: Double , Meaning
Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right
2009-10-14 20:37:00 Applause For Finland : First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right Posted using ShareThis More About: Commentary
Curse Removal Fee
2009-10-14 01:48:00 [From The J-Walk Blog] One of my favorite scams: Woman at NY mall charged in curse scam; Offered to get rid of it for $1,250. A woman claiming to be a psychic was arrested Friday for trying to scam a Long Island woman out of more than $1,000 by telling her she was cursed and ... More About: Commentary , Curse
Obama Undeserving of Nobel Peace Prize
2009-10-10 06:07:00 [From The Progressive] By Matthew Rothschild, October 9, 2009 I’m sorry, there’s a lot I admire about Barack Obama , but he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not while he’s waging a war in Afghanistan, which he’s already escalated, and may be about to escalate again. Not while he still hasn’t pulled U.S. troops out of Iraq, nor while ... More About: Commentary
On The Obama Peace Prize ? Reverend Billy
2009-10-10 05:35:00 [From Vote Reverend Billy ] Now we have to change all our words around. I never thought of Peace as a word that was moveable. All our words have been shifted by Consumerism and Militarism. Democracy is gone, America and Freedom are gone. Peace always stayed there in one place. Peace patiently waited for us to notice the ... More About: Obama
Obama Peace Prize?
2009-10-09 16:08:00 Just yesterday the odds on winners for the Nobel Peace prize this year were Chinese dissidents. Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the 60th since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. (Huffington Post) From the same article: U.S. ... More About: News , Commentary , Obama
Take Two Aspirin And A Hysterectomy And Call Me In The Morning [Playing Doc
2009-10-09 01:42:00 [From Jezebel] Jack Wennberg found that in the city of Lewiston, Maine, an overwhelming number of women were having hysterectomies. And, unlike apparently everyone else, he found this weird: In a piece off-puttingly titled “The Tell-Tale Womb of Lewiston, Maine,” NPR talks about the “eureka” moment (or, you know, the bad equivalent) for Dr. Jack Wennberg, whose ... More About: News , Rights , Morning , Aspirin , Call
New Oklahoma Law Will Put Details Of All Abortions Online [Roe Vs. World]
2009-10-08 23:01:00 [From Jezebel] A new Oklahoma law will require the details of every abortion to be posted on a public website. Proponents say this will prevent abortion — apparently by shaming and burdening women and doctors. The law (which you can look at here — it's HR 1595) mandates that a 34-item questionnaire be filled out by abortion ... More About: News , World , Online
How Mobile Phones Contribute To Female Progress In Developing Nations
2009-10-08 16:41:00 [From Jezebel ] By Latoya Peterson For those in developing nations, a mobile phone is more than a communications luxury. These tiny handsets act as hubs for mobile banking, entrepreneurship, fact-checking, and public health announcements – and they may be the key to women’s economic equality. Currently, the market for cell phones is exploding as the technology ... More About: News , Mobile , Africa , Female , Mobile Phones
Woman?s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws
2009-10-08 02:05:00 [From Dvorak Uncensored] Woman ’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws – NYTimes.com — I challenge you to read this entire article. When I was a kid, it was common for families in the USA to all have a meat grinder and grind our own hamburger. What changed? Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. ... More About: News
Ex-Liberal chief steals $800,000
More articles from this author:2009-10-07 17:33:00 [From Times Union] Raymond B. Harding admits pension fraud; Dallas adviser guilty By RICK KARLIN, Capitol bureau ALBANY — The former head of the state Liberal Party pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony securities fraud charges in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing investigation of corruption in the state pension fund. “This is a fatally flawed system,” Cuomo said in ... More About: Chief 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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