December 17, 2009 06:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
AMERICAblog News: White House thanks Lieberman for blocking president's reform promise, criticizes Dean for defending it. Enough...
Economist's View: Cutting wages won't help
TPM LiveWire: Franken rape amendment included in Defense Spending Bill
Oliver Willis: No longer just a handful of crazyass fringe dwellers, the John Birch Society is BACK!
Constitution Project: We welcome the enhanced transparency recommendations from the Obama administration. The rules for handling “controlled unclassified information” would standardize the system and increase government transparency, but stronger enforcement mechanisms are needed.
Bitch Ph.D.: My 3 least favorite holiday ads
One of my least favorite holiday ads is the Audi ad where Audi owners out do the neighbors' Christmas light displays be simply driving their cars into the drive and turning on their headlights. The idea being the lights of an Audi are the ultimate Christmas lights. If you don't own an Audi, don't even bother to decorate your house. In this economic environment, that sucks!
Now I'll go see what is on the list at Bitch PH.D.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Good morning from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis (12 degrees currently)
I own an Audi, but I dislike that commercial as well. Decorating requires time and effort which I would rather spend blogging, petting my cats, or hanging out with friends.
On another note, tipping my hat to Senator Franken and his amendment successfully making it through the military appropriations bill. The Senate as a whole is dysfunctional, but I am proud to say I at least have a senator representing me.
We did a little multi tasking at home this year. We decorated and spent time loving our dog and cat. I have absolutely nothing against anyone who owns an Audi but their ad people suck.
Twelve degrees huh. Is that enough degrees for everyone in Minneapolis to have at least one? If the day time temp here goes below 70, we get all excited.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Cats...
Love'em
John Amato....send us an update when you get a chance.
Anyone else love the Higgins alerts on Thom Hartmann's show?
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?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5wiSG6T1oQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I like the Higgins alerts, I just don't like the company the advertisements are for.
This time of year the only thing Minnesotans get really grumpy about is if there is NO snow on the ground. The first year I moved up here, there was no snow on the ground for Christmas. Talk about bah humbug for Minnesotans (not me, I don't like the sludge and slosh I have to walk around in)
I was born in Minneapolis, but not yesterday.
At age 9 I was encouraged to move with my parents to just outside of Detroit.
It was this exact time of year. When we left Minneapolis it was twenty below and the snow seemed unusually deep, I was not tall.
When we got to Detroit it was 5° above and there was an ice storm. I remember it perfectly, everything had an inch of ice on it.
The natives were crying at how terrible it was.
We threw open our coats and said, this is not bad, not bad at all, we can live with this.
They thought we were crazy…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
"At age 9 I was encouraged to move with my parents to just outside of Detroit"
When I was four and a half I was put in a car and moved from
Arcadia to Houston. Perhaps if I was only "encouraged" to move
I would have at least considered the pluses and minuses.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
getting Franken's amendment into the appropriations bill, except the article contained this one troubling sentence about the new 'wording' of the amendment:
"It can also be waived for national security concerns -- but the secretary of defense will have to personally explain the waiver."
National security concerns.....that pretty much ensures the law has been gutted and will be meaningless if the contractor is huge enough and puts millions in bribes in the pockets of incumbents. I can;t see that having to 'explain' a waiver like this would be a problem for someone like Rumsfeld or Gates.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
got Franken to roll over and bark on command, ain't it?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
AMERICAblog News …
and Ian Welsh:
My view:
Health care should not be paid by for-profit insurance companies, there is a fundamental conflict of interest. The less health care, the greater the profit.
All of the advanced countries have universal systems, they all recognize the conflict of interest in for-profit payment and NONE of them allow it.
IT IS BARBARIC and we are set to make it mandatory.
In my book, that clearly and decisively eliminates us from the list of advanced countries.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
= Straight Jacket cult
There is no other way to describe them...
They give the clinically insane a bad name...
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?
KILL THE BILL!!! We cannot let the bad, become the enemy of good. How many times has a bill 'gotten better' coming out of committee??? Yeah, exactly.
MUST SEE SPECIAL COMMENT (and see Thom Hartmann article below) - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34455431
Walking the tightrope on climate action: getting to success in 2010 - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-16-walki...
John Kerry delivered a speech in Copenhagen Wednesday. It was inspiring, but look past the uplift and it reveals just how tricky the path forward will be. David Roberts examines the needle Obama and Kerry are trying to thread.
Obama will be in Copenhagen tomorrow....if he doesn't help deliver something...he will lose 'the left' even more than he already has...and alienate all of the 'middle'/center voters that want action on climate change...
It's the protesters for climate change action who offer the best hope for our planet - Johann Hari - http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commenta...
So at the centre of this summit is a proposition stranger than any number of arrested cows or Nasa-quoting hoodies: we're playing Russian roulette with the climate, and our most powerful governments are filling the barrels with extra bullets, one by one. Yet this conflagration here in Copenhagen is heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once.
Our governments are showing their moral bankruptcy – but a genuinely global democratic movement is swelling to make them change course. Mass democratic agitation is the only force that has ever made governments moral before; it will have to do it again.
They've ensured the corporate lobbyists punching holes in the deal are shamed. Thank YOU!!!! About time someone said it!
Sea levels set to rise more than expected due to 'deeply surprising' Greenland melt - http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40828
The pinnacle of stupidity: The Copenhagen Tea Party - http://www.desmogblog.com/copenhagen-tea-party-0
Americans for Prosperity, one of the leading groups organizing Tea Party attacks on healthcare reform, and now climate solutions.
The AFP is an organization that has recieved millions of dollars in funding over the years from the Koch Family Foundations - Koch Industries Inc., is the largest private energy company in the United States and a major Big Oil force. When it comes to funding the right-wing think tanks and the climate denial industry, Koch makes ExxonMobil look like a minor player.
AFP is a non-profit organization that will not disclose its donors when asked. However, Media Transparency shows that Americans for Prosperity, and their previous incarnation "Citizens for a Sound Economy," have received over $13 million from the Koch foundations.
The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, behind the Cato Institute and the George Mason University Foundation.
To all the dumb @sses that subscibe to this nonsense & afront to history...you are worthless, idiotic, and are enemy #1 in this world...your stupidity is fueling humanity's downfall... How else could anyone possibly describe them? Their idiot king Glenn 'Happy Feet-University of I don't remember' Beck is pulling their strings.... We must prevail in the battle between Science vs Stupidity...
CBO Scores Kerry-Boxer and The News Is Good - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/kerry...
While all the focus is on the UN Climate Summit, the US, of course, still has no cap on its emissions. The House passed Waxman-Markey, which caps emissions and reduces them by 83 percent by 2050 but allows for huge giveaways to coal and is weakened by offsets. The Senate hasn't voted, but its flagship bill, Kerry-Boxer, was scored today by the Congressional Budget Office and the news is positive for sure.
A nation of no Priorities: House Passes $636 Billion Defense Bill --with hardly a whimper - http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/...
The House voted Wednesday to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and assure the jobless don't lose their benefits, spearheading a flurry of legislative activity as lawmakers hurried to finish their work for the year.
Ads for Comcast and Coke on Progressive News Sites More Harmful Than You'd Think - http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/957
Huffington Post just announced a way it plans to use Twitter, a micro blogging site that doesn't even make money for its creators, to generate ad revenue. However, seeing HuffPo's increasingly fluffy celebrity journalism appear next to an ad for an energy company talking about how green it supposedly has become is less shocking than what you might find as their most popular story (this morning we see Tara Reid's Playboy pics fighting Tiger Woods' wife for the top spot in that category).
But when a reader flees such fluff for a progressive bastion such as The Nation or Open Left, one doesn't expect the whitewashing of notorious megacorporations to fill the margins surrounding fearless commentary and journalism.
Ben Bernanke: Time magazine's "Person" of the Year - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2009/12...
In an honor reserved for such lofty individuals as Adolph Hitler, Nazi supporter Charles Lindbergh, Joseph Stalin, pardoned criminal Richard Nixon, unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger, Ayatollah Khomeini and the 9/11 sensationalist Rudy Giuliani, Time magazine has selected Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as it's Person of the Year 2009.
Okay, I know that they also selected Mohandas Gandhi and Pope John XXIII (who organized the saving of thousands of Jewish children from the Nazi holocaust). What exactly is Time trying to say? That he is interesting? Influential? Compelling?
Democrats Lash Out At Obama Over Health Care Disappointments - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/demo...
Letting the 'senate' handle something as important as this...was a bad mistake, we appreciate the respect of the return to the constitution, but our nation is a corporatocracy...the old ways can't get it done anymore...channel FDR, not Clinton, and you'll prosper...follow Milton Friedman at your own peril...
I love Oregon! Jeff Merkley (D-OR)-- first Dem senator to vote against confirming Ben Bernanke as Fed chair - http://merkley.senate.gov/newsroom/press/rele...
Thank you Jeff! You are reaffirming our donations to your campaign on a daily basis, please keep it up!
SEE THE FILM BLUE GOLD: California's water woes worsen - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-16-calif...
WATER WARS are here....don't let water, a human necessity of life become a commodity...stop buying bottled water...
ProPublica: Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Their Water From Gas Drilling - http://www.propublica.org/feature/colorado-to...
Friends of the Earth among activists barred from Copenhagen conference center - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/de...
Will Copenhagen Catalyze a Movement? - http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5279/will...
Thom Hartmann: Healthcare -- First They Came for the Banksters - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/16-3
Con-servatives began a war on textbooks, stripping from them references to the labor movement, so that anybody who went to middle school or high school during or after the mid-1980s can’t today tell you why phrases like “Pullman Porter” or “Haymarket Square” or “Great Flint Sit Down” have any meaning.
Please, President Obama, step up and lead. We’d like some that “change we can believe in” that’s actually the real thing. Kill the bill.
Shame on Obama, using scare tactics was a Bushevik crime: Obama: U.S. 'will go bankrupt' without health care bill - http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theov...
No....reality & common sense (also the rest of the world showing us with their healthcare systems) say that's BS... End the 3Trillion dollar wars for old dirty energy, start the 21st century, channel FDR, and all will be well...
We got to the moon in the 60s, the can do attitude must be returned to Washington...or else this Republic, we won't be able to keep (B. Franklin)
NASA Animates Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research with New Tool (Video) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/nasa-...
Disgraceful: Brutal Use of Force on Peaceful Climate Protesters Caught on Tape (Video) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/bruta...
Is Capitalism to Blame for Climate Change? - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/capit...
While a knee-jerk scoff may be unavoidable to some (namely con-servatives & right wingnuts), a reasoned assessment of this statement may conclude it to be truer than you'd think.
{Getting Too LONG RWH'r. SiteMonitor}
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?
Geez - I sure hope you have donated to C&L. It seems only appropriate.
Every progressive site I go to...and I encourage others to do so as well...
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?
Yesterday, I read several of the articles you posted. They are good reads, but the long post may discourage rather than encourage people to click on the links.
Yeah, I put a variety out there...so anyone can pick and choose and the Mods can take any of the stories and create topics if they want...
Trust me, I can't read all of them either...I try only to put longer excerpts on the ones that really catch my eye...
Some days there are only a few stories I post, others there are a lot...right now there is a lot going on, so a lot of stories are posted.
I've been doing this for a few years now...it is a labor of love.
My complete political awakening occurred on Dec 12, 2000. Ever since then I've been posting these and shortly after C&L came online, I started doing the dailies. Where I am in this country, is quite simply behind enemy lines, so this is the escape... I used to join up with a lot of the regulars here and roast the trolls/freepers/con-servatives that started up crap. While I admit that was a lot of fun, its better to post these stories and allow others to read for themselves. Every once in a while I'll jump in on a thread where a con-servative is asking for it, but the proliferation of information is always the best weapon. Its the foundation of humanity's evolution.
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?
RWH, you could start your own blog - blogger is free - post your entire daily roundup there - and just post a couple of tidbits or a headline here, with a link to your full roundup. That way, you'd stay active in these threads, but there wouldn't be an issue of including all 20 links and summaries, etc.
Any technogeek wonks out there?
I'm stuck on editing my novel. How do you change a text all in upper-case to all in lower-case in Microsoft Works for Words? That happened when I transfered my novel out of Commodore 64, by ASC II.
What was working before, no longer is. I go into format and click on font for the options.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Did you try -
1. Highlight word or words your want to change
2. Go to the FORMAT tab in the row that starts FILE, EDIT, VIEW, INSERT, FORMAT. Click on the FORMAT tab. A drop-down menu will appear and one of the choices will be "Change Case."
If that doesn't work, make a copy of the document and do a save as with a different file extension. Re-open the document and try steps 1 and 2 again.
It has been a long time since I have used Works. Different versions of Works behave differently in terms of features and menus.
Ceart gu leòr,
I copied it and emailed it to my home account to try once I get home.
Mòran taing
Mar sin leibh an dràsda
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...it probably didn't happen.
Less reliance on unnamed administration officials, please.
Good for Franken. The Lieberman game is an obscenity.
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