Open Thread
By bluegal Monday Jan 05, 2009 9:30pmA video in support of The Alternative Invocation blogswarm.
PS. The Weblog Awards voting has started. In an embarrassment of riches, Crooks and Liars is competing with its own writers David Neiwert (Orcinus) and Blue Gal (Blue Gal) for Best Liberal Blog. Our own Susie Madrak (Suburban Guerrilla) is up for Best Midsize Blog, and regular C&L contributor Driftglass is up for Best Individual Blogger. You can vote once in each category every 24 hours. Open thread below...
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That embarrassment of riches is why I come here every day.
and I'm not saying who I voted for! Hah!
(That wouldn't be prudent, you know.)
even on the first night, that our Driftglass is behind in the votes to a Pajamas Media blogger. I have no problem losing to John Amato myself (happens every day lol). - BG
The Anchoress is beating Driftglass? I checked out that site in case I was missing something awesome. I wasn't. Whose tabulating votes for this thing? Diebold? The thing that really disturbs me is that I might have to throw David and you under a metaphorical bus to do my part in putting C&L in the position it deserves to be. I am conflicted.
I voted for driftglass!
But only because Ysbadadden's name wasn't up there. ;)
Are scientists one step closer to ending breast cancer?
A prosecutor wants Maddy jailed without bail. I guess you have to rape Haitians with plungers while on the force to get an exception. Speaking of Giuliani's New York, seven hospitals are charged with Medicaid fraud worth $50 million. Silver Spoon Suckerfeller has the gall to criticize Panetta's lack of "experience". Worst predictions of '08.
The only Bush you can like died: the family cat.
The U.S. opens its Iraqi embassy in a pretend showing of non-occupation. Madoff was probed for 16 years.
Cancer Cured For Good
By Bill Sardi and Timothy Hubbell
October 2008
It works 100% of the time to eradicate cancer completely, and cancer does not recur even years later. That is how researchers describe the most convincing cancer cure ever announced.
The weekly injection of just 100 billionths of a gram of a harmless glyco-protein (a naturally-produced molecule with a sugar component and a protein component) activates the human immune system and cures cancer for good, according to human studies among breast cancer and colon cancer patients, producing complete remissions lasting 4 and 7 years respectively. This glyco-protein cure is totally without side effect but currently goes unused by cancer doctors...
Deserves the award for his piece on the Bush Family connections with the Nazi's.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_08_31_dneiw...
I don't see enough of this type of investigative journalism here at C&L.
The Anthrax Case has all but been forgotten. Election Reform hardly gets mentioned. And history such as the Bush Family history and the history of war crimes, terrorism, and false flag terrorist attacks don't get nearly enough attention. Good on ya David.
Who is doing the investigation and who is prosecuting? New
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 20:47 — ron
You all seem to forget about the attorney generals that were fired. Wasn't one of them from New Mexico? Wasn't he fired because he didn't go for phoney voter fraud cases? Who replaced him, another loyal Bushie? Wake the fuck up.
This could be another KKKarl Rove phoney set up. Remember Don Siegelman?
What about the investigation of Jeff Gannon, Armstrong Williams, and other media complicity with the same criminal class that runs this country. The fact that some of the 9/11 highjackers trained in the U.S. and are claimed to be alive and well according to the BBC etc.
Blair to accept top US medal in Bush's last week in office
Fine Christian fellow he is.
That is a pair I wouldn't want to draw to.
Destroying our Country while the majority of us sit and wait and stare and do nothing.
"freedom", based on the awarding of such an honor to these thieves of it.
Cheney et al have used 1984 as an instruction manual.
Hell, even Bush's constant butchering of the English language could be seen as his attempt to come up with an equivalent of Newspeak.
"for their efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad".
Promote democracy: install dictator or corrupt leader.
Human rights: establish torture as routine.
Peace abroad: permanent war.
Yup, sure sounds like something that George Orwell would write.
more black men will become victims of police action now that Obama has been elected.
Video: Calif. cop shoots apparently helpless man in the back
"You think you have rights? No you don't have rights. You have privelages"
George Carlin
Where were that young mans rights?
California has been a police state since before the 70s.
Check out "California Uber Alles" by the Dead Kennedys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quLqEu4mUOU
and of course...the DK's!
I wonder if the cops realize that if they keep this kind of shit up...
That one day...angry citizens are going to rip them to pieces...
He decided to save some underwater sanctuaries.
...and fires the asshole driver who wrote "terrorist" on a Sikh family's packing slip.
Could have happened to a nicer guy!
While I'm at it, I should write the Bakersfield Californian this week congratulating UPS for doing the right thing, and mentioning that a lot of the bigots in Kern County are getting negative mentions in international/internet media (*coughProp8cough*)and that when local people stand for hate, the more disgusted other people look upon our behavior...
it's a new day. Taking a leaf from Blagojevich my blogging votes are up for bid. Bidding is restricted to C&L's marvelous staff. The opening minimum bid is a "Get out of moderation free" card. We'll take it from there. Do I see a C&L coffee mug?
Nothing? I should have known you people were incorruptible.
It would be nice for Obama to invite a cultural anthropologist to put the meaning of the invocation into perspective.
The FBI is finally ready to hire competent people. Another child gets hold of a gun.
Montana's running out of glaciers.
13 Days until the United States of America joins the 21st Century....
Exclusive analysis, Part 1: The staggering cost of new nuclear power. - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/5/163...
A new study puts the generation costs for power from new nuclear plants at from 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour -- triple current U.S. electricity rates
Nuclear is not an option....let me repeat that...nuclear power is not an option. Its insanely dangerous, uninsurable, destructive to environment, and uses tremendous amounts of water (which is running out)...
MUST SEE.....Flow: Who Owns the World’s Water? by Jessica Mosby - http://thewip.net/contributors/2009/01/flow_w...
After seeing the new documentary Flow, my 2009 New Year's resolution is to stop buying bottled water. Over $100 billion is spent annually on bottled water, but it would cost only $30 billion to provide clean drinking water to the entire world. Unlike tap water, bottled water is not regulated for cleanliness. And don't even get me started on the mountains of plastic bottles created by the bottled water industry. For 84 terrifying and informative minutes, filmmaker Irena Salina makes a very persuasive case for stopping the commoditization of water and ensuring that everyone has access to clean drinking water.
While Flow is a wake-up call that documents all that is wrong with the world's attitude toward water, the film also profiles a number of technologies that could dramatically improve international access to clean drinking water at a nominal cost.
Sempra solar energy project makes advances in costs - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-thinsol...
A veteran analyst has calculated that the facility can produce power at a cost of 7.5 cents a kilowatt-hour, less than the 9-cent benchmark for conventional electricity. If that's so, it marks a milestone that renewable fans have longed for: "grid parity," in which electricity from the sun, wind or other green sources can meet or beat the price performance of such carbon-based fuels as coal and natural gas. "We now have an alternative-energy source that can actually deliver cost-competitive electricity with no subsidies," said Mark Bachman, senior equity analyst for Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Ore.
Yet another dagger into the black hearts of Deniers/Extinctionists/'Skeptics' everywhere....
Did the Reagan Revolution actually win? Facing Severe Financial Shortfalls, Local and State Governments are Hopping on the Privatization of Public Services and Assets Bandwagon -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis
- http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/568
Looking at the local level, it seems as if the nearly three decades that Reaganomics has been allowed to survive, if not thrive, have been enough to allow the trickle-down theory to come to fruition. Unfortunately, it is debt -- and not wealth --that has been trickling.
Calling the Kettle...Top Republicans Accuse Dems Of Trying To 'Steal' Election As Franken Declared Winner - http://onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/top...
Declaring that there is "no longer any doubt as to the outcome," Democrats are declaring Al Franken winner of the protracted battle for a Senate seat from Minnesota. A top Republican, however, is accusing Democrats of trying to "steal" the election.
Congratulations to Senator Al Franken, lets keep reminding him of why he is there....
Fox News' Twitter Hacked, Says Bill O'Reilly Is Gay - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/fox-news-t...
The PT Barnum Factor in American Healthcare: One Prescription at a Time - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/05
But we've also got a system that's a messy mix of profit-taking and misinformation that makes it nearly impossible for the vast majority of patients to truly advocate for themselves in any way that could be relied upon as a cost containment strategy. And the profit-taking and dishonesty is bursting the public programs like Medicare that otherwise provide the best model for reform - and that's also a truth we're often not told. We've become the suckers born every minute in the circus tent of U.S. healthcare. And it's costing patients and the nation billions and billions of dollars - and an awful lot of lives. For that we are all responsible.
Obama's Stimulus Plan - http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/01/pr2009010...
America if you want your country repaired, then let the filibustering republicans know about it...when they obstruct, you suffer...
Obama seeks swift passage of U.S. fiscal package - http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/i...
Guilty: Coulter's latest book filled with falsehoods - http://mediamatters.org/items/200901040002
Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland - http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rel...
The truth has always been vastly different: The overwhelming majority of those recruited into Amway/Quixtar motivational organizations lose money. Instead of promised wealth, they wind up with garages full of products, motivational tapes, and sales booklets, for which they paid a handsome price.
Why Big Finance Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank - http://www.alternet.org/workplace/116859/
Instead of making loans to help the economy, they're shoring up their own finances and buying up their competitors.
Yet another 'miracle' of the 'free market'....eh?
David Sirota: FDR Prolonged the Depression? Really? - http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/...
Busting right wingnut myths up...
New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family - http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdb...
A brand new investigation of the Bush family reveals a religious narrative that strays from the official story circulated to supporters and the press. How many conversions did George W. actually have and why? How did a blue-blooded Episcopalian family come to represent the evangelicals of America?
Like his faux persona cooked up by Karl Rove, this cowardly silver spoonfed Yale cheerleader was 'transformed' into a cowboy (afraid of horses, mind you) to represent faux populism and get elected by Texas yahoos who bought this crap; hook, line, and sinker....
Unlike a method actor....Bush will never wake up from this role he's been playing for 25+ years...
Al Franken's Victory Statement - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/us/politics...
Republican Hypocrisy = without peer: Obama Pitches Economic Stimulus Plan to Capitol Hill Republicans Who are Suddenly Concerned About Our Debt, After Running It Up to Record Levels the Last 8 Years - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nearly had to drag President-elect Barack Obama away from reporters as he returned to the Capitol today to take on his new job because, he said, "the people's business cannot wait."
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
2008 Third Worst Year for Weather-related Insurance Claims - http://www.desmogblog.com/2008-third-worst-ye...
Climate change....an expensive reality for the industry in the business of risk management...
South Australia Bans the Bag - Plastic Checkout Bags, That Is - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/south...
Solid State Drives Getting Ready to Take Over - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/solid...
Solid state drives are not only going to make businesses and gadget consumers happier, but also those of us concerned with cutting back on energy consumption, and avoiding e-waste at every turn.
Smart Grids Are the Big Thing of 2009 - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/smart...
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2009/01/05/letterma...
I'm really surprised that this scam has remained in business for so long. Of course, now, it is small potatoes, but they've been loading closets and garages with useless crap for years.
I've got lumps of it...heh...heh...heh...
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/643519.html
So many responsibilities--working on his GED, reading up on parenting duties, visiting mom in jail--so little time...
He showed me he has a sense of humor...but I still want to give him a good shin kickin.
The times are still a changin' - but his music is still current.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJNMbRVPLQ&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5T1mOXWNiY
Thank you very kindly C&Lers
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