Mike's Blog Roundup
The Baseline Scenario: Bankster loving Dems sneak loophole language into Barney Frank's financial regulation bill
The Progressive Puppy: Anti-Gay Music: Pepsi's "mistake," Grammy's deadly homophobia
The KC Blue Blog: In a major turn of events, a newly released police report states that the woman was not only allegedly beaten by Republican Speaker turned powerful consultant Rod Jetton, but was allegedly forced against her will, drugged, tied with a belt and raped.
AlterNet: Meet the billionaire brothers funding the Right-Wing war on Obama
The Sideshow: Assorted Stuff
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: How a Crock of Sh*t gets to your breakfast table...Why journalist Gary Webb died...New rightie media mogul...Gretchen Carlson dumbs down...Bumper sticker analysis...Pro-War corporate media...Worse than useless...They even wanted Dobbs...Dana Milbank still an assh*le... I rest my case...It's how they roll...The further adventures of Peggy Noonan
United States of Climate Change - the 50 States - http://www.sightline.org/maps/maps/Climate-50... & http://www.sightline.org/maps/maps/Climate-St...
MUST SEE: A global perspective on U.S. climate emissions - http://www.grist.org/article/a-global-perspec...
To mark the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Eric de Place is trotting out maps with states labeled with the names of countries that are their greenhouse gas equivalents.
Inside the Battle to Save the Earth's Climate - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/insid...
As Copenhagen Conference Begins, America Finally Takes a Look at all the Pollutants in the Nation's Water System - http://blog.buzzflash.com/greenisgood/026
With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference well under way, it seems that the U.S. government has put environmental issues at the forefront of the national debate. Their newest project is an in-depth look at the nation's water system, with yesterday's hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works about federal drinking water programs and a scheduled hearing tomorrow in the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment on "Drinking Water and Public Health Impacts of Coal Combustion Waste Disposal."
The nation seems due for an overhaul of its water system after being faced with a multitude of instances in which Americans have been exposed to unsafe drinking water supplies. Last year's Kingston fly ash spill certainly put the issue into perspective, dumping more than 5 million yards of cubic ash over the eastern half of Tennessee.
What's more, a recent New York Times report found that more than 20 percent of the nation's water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Water Drinking Act over the last five years, providing more than 49 million people with unsanitary drinking water. According to the EPA, since 2005 more than three million Americans have been exposed to drinking water with illegal concentrations of arsenic and radioactive elements like uranium.
Climate Migration Will Affect the World’s Security - http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/1...
So all you Extinctionists/Deniers/'skeptics' out there....the Pentagon, the CIA, and several other worldwide security organizations confirm this....what else you got????
Death by Gazprom...Did Russia Hack the E-Mails to Scuttle Copenhagen? - http://www.desmogblog.com/did-russia-hack-e-m...
The computer hack, said a member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, was a highly sophisticated, politically motivated operation. The guiding hand behind the leaks, according to one allegation, was that of the Russian secret services.
Much of Russia's vast oil and gas reserves lie in difficult-to-access areas of the far North. One school of thought is that Russia, unlike most countries, would have little to fear from global warming, because these deposits would suddenly become much easier and cheaper to access.
I think I can answer this....is the sky blue? Is the Fed corrupt? Are con-servatives serious?
Obama meets with environmental groups ahead of Copenhagen trip - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-09-obama...
President Obama met with U.S. environmental groups and business leaders on Wednesday ahead of climate talks in Copenhagen, the White House said.
Kyoto: Congress’ disgrace, not ‘Al Gore’s mistake’ - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-09-kyoto...
A specter hangs over the U.S. negotiators at the Climate Summit: the Kyoto Syndrome. Conventional wisdom holds that the Clinton Administration, and Al Gore in particular, blew it by agreeing to the Kyoto Accords without building the foundation for the Senate to ratify it, which it never did.
Reminder to con-servative morons: Spill is among worst ever on North Slope - http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/prudh...
Drill baby drill! Leak baby leak! Officials have found a 24-inch jagged rupture in a pipeline that began pouring oil and water Nov. 29, creating one of the biggest North Slope crude oil spills ever. The on-scene coordinator for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Tom DeRuyter, said Tuesday that the breach on the bottom of the pipe was the biggest he had ever seen and indicative of the incredible pressure the pipeline was under when it split.
Durbin: Banks And GOP Made A Pact To Kill Regulatory Reform - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/durb...
n a little-noticed but potentially explosive remark last Friday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) accused Republican leadership of signing a political pact with the banking industry: in exchange for help defeating a measure that would make it easier for homeowners to restructure failing mortgages, GOP leadership in the Senate would help banks defeat any additional efforts at regulatory reform.
$3 Billion Emergency Mortgage Assistance Plan Close To House Passage - http://onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/eme...
A $3 billion emergency mortgage assistance program for unemployed homeowners –- authored by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) and based on a successful Pennsylvania program that Fattah helped create as a young state legislator -– could soon be approved by the House of Representatives.
Thomas Frank: The Real Chicago Way - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274...
President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call "the Chicago way." As imagined by the right, the men in the West Wing are like a demonic cross between the antiwar demonstrators who gathered in Grant Park in 1968 and the Chicago cops who cracked their hippie skulls. Tremble, men of commerce, before this infernal combination. Myths like this are fun to invent. The problem, as ever, is reality.
Palin's "Boycott Copenhagen" Op-Ed: Annotated - http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/12/palin...
Digging Out The Allentowns - http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/200912500...
Tracking down Exxon's man in Copenhagen - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-09-exxon...
ExxonMobil 'climate advisor' Brian Flannery surfaced at a panel on environment and energy in Copenhagen, talking up nukes, biofuels, and carbon sequestration. Jonathan Hiskes tells you why he matters and what he thinks of the climate talks.
WHO: Smoking kills 5 million every year - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091209/ap_on_he_...
'Wake up, gentlemen', world's top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker - http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busines...
Con-servative/Bushevik malfeasance: New Report Highlights Medicare Advantage Insurers’ Higher Administrative Spending - http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?opt...
Medicare Fraud = solely perpetrated by for-profit 'insurance' companies in the 'healthcare' game...
The end of The Washington Times and Rev. Moon's right-wing charity - http://mediamatters.org/columns/200912080004
Bush broke it: $10 million is smuggled out of Afghanistan daily, official says; The culprits are drug cartels and corrupt officials and businesses, Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal says. U.S. and Afghan officials believe much of the cash is going to the Taliban.
- http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/...
Fighting to keep above the waves Stephen Cole reports from the Maldives Islands where global warming is the biggest topic of conversation
- http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=co...
Republicans Slouching Toward Gomorrah: A BuzzFlash Interview With Max Blumenthal -- BuzzFlash Interview
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/interviews/164
The goods on these sickos and their machinations...
For the idiots out there: Hacked Climate Email Event Fully Explained in Under 10 Minutes (Video) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/hacke...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
I have to wonder if any other country's President had won the Nobel Peace Prize, would the people of that country criticize their President the way the US is criticizing theirs. It doesn't matter whether you watched msnbc this morning or fox, the criticizism was the same.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Does winning the Nobel Peace Prize make being a warmonger ok?
It didn't work for Kissinger.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
damaging. Pardon me. It is too early for cocktails so I cannot slur when doing my Peggy Noonan impression.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Cranks get up early to watch those programs. What is your excuse?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Perhaps in the interest of fairness and to avoid jury prejudice, Mr. Jetton's trial should be moved to NYC.
Of course, should he be convicted, his sentence should also be served in NYC. I think Riker's Island would be appropriate. I'm sure he'll be very popular there.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
sentence:
http://wonkette.com/412625/alleged-violent-ra...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Jettons lawyer claims that the two parties agreed that green balloons was the safe word?
How does that square with the woman saying that they hardly knew each other?
Did the cheap bastard take the 2 bottles of wine with him when he exited the home?
If so, would that be considered tampering of evidence?
Tuesday Jetton "shuttered" his consulting business. seems to me that the: Local, County,State,Federal, Authorities need to secure the office and its contents.
There seems to have been some foot dragging in Missouri on this case.
Rank has its privelage, and this guy is rank.
'Talk to the hand'
You're being polite.
He's is truly a piece of shit.
I'm no prude, and I understand that politicians (like many men) cheat on spouses, etc.
But it seems to me that so many more of these right wing types have serious issues with regard to their view of and treatment of women
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Sarah Palin wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post urging President Barack Obama to boycott the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. Former Vice President Al Gore described deniers like Palin as existing in an “air of unreality.” The Nation’s Chris Hayes discusses.
Some stuff you can't make up!
She's an expert. She can see the atmosphere from her private jet.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Tell me it isn't so! /s (I guessed before opening the link, lol)
Boorish.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
dealt with them before. They wanted all of us construction workers to take a 5% pay/benefit cut to work in one of their lovely refineries. If you've ever been to Minnesota in the winter time, working there was a real treat anyway.
They threatened to get cheap labor from down south to work there but after the first winter they had to relent because all of the scabs 'dragged up' and we got our pay back plus 5%.
Would that make them Gomorrons then?
It's Go-Morans!
;)
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