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We're Still at War . . .

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for December 27, 2010 2:30 AM PST

Secretary of the Navy Ray E. Mabus, center, boards a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft after speaking with U.S. Marines and Sailors at Forward Operating Base Jaker in Afghanistan Dec. 17, 2010. Senior leaders made a day trip to Sangin and Marjah to speak with Marines and Sailors in support of the International Security Assistance Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Lindsay L. Sayres/Released)

New Mother Jones mag cover… We know you were all tired of looking at the 50-foot Palin.

Zina Saunders

"It's not that there aren't enough clues on the cover of the new issue of Mother Jones—the headline, for one—but since you asked:"

..the animation rocks!

Explosive-laden Calif. home to be destroyed

ABSTRACT:


Do I anticipate something going wrong? No. But even in a controlled burn, things occasionally go wrong."

He said the burning of the house would provide "an amazing textbook study" for bomb technicians in the future.

San Diego County authorities plan to burn the home Wednesday but need near perfect weather, with no rain, no fog, and only light winds blowing toward the east, away from the city. They have warned residents in the danger zone that they will be given less than 24 hours notice to evacuate their homes for a day, and that nearby Interstate 15, connecting the area to San Diego, will be closed.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency, and hospitals will be on standby in case there is a rash of people getting sick, Newman said.

Some 40 experts on bombs and hazardous material from across the country and at least eight national laboratories are working on the preparations.

They have analyzed wind patterns to ensure the smoke will not float over homes beyond the scores that will be evacuated. They have studied how fast the chemicals can become neutralized under heat expected to reach 1800 degrees and estimate that could happen within 30 minutes, which means most of the toxins will not even escape the burning home, Newman said.

The county has installed 18 sensors that will measure the amount of chemicals in the smoke and send the data every two minutes to computers monitored by the fire and hazardous material departments.

Experts also have mapped how far the plume will travel and predict it will not go beyond Interstate 15. They calculate that if there is an explosion, it would probably throw the debris only about 60 feet.

And so this is Christmas

abstract from great piece:

It's thanks mainly to Julian Assange and Wikileaks that people around the world finally have a little insight into the brutality and venality of US foreign policy. Assanges' quest to let people all over the world know the truth and his refusal to stand mute in the face of duplicity and injustice deserve our praise. Moral courage of that calibre is rarely seen nowadays, and people need to know what is really happening and why. If he didn't publish these documents you can bet we would never have known the truths they contain.

Yet a concerted program of personal vilification and an international manhunt continues. After all, hell hath no fury like bruised, frustrated Capitol HillillHill and Wall Street egos. Do political leaders really believe that Assange is the only person on the planet who wants governments to be open, transparent and accountable? Do they think he's the only person who understands that our governments are almost pathologically incapable of telling the truth, or that they authorise the commission of despicable acts in our names behind hypocritical calls to freedom and democracy?

..read the entire piece at And so this is Christmas

I don't think even Beck knows what Beck is trying to say anymore | Media Matters for America

"I don't think even Beck knows what Beck is trying to say anymore"

abstract:

What does Glenn Beck think communism is? His definition seems to change from month to month. That's why, for example, he could decide in July 2009 that Van Jones is a "communist-anarchist radical," and then, in March of this year, tell his audience that communism and anarchism are opposites. But as much as he's contradicted himself on the topic in the past, last night is probably the first time that he did so in under a minute.

Gillian Welch joins [The Decemberists]

Gillian Welch joins [The Decemberists]

"Men Are Not Hardwired for Infidelity: Why Does Pop Culture Insist on Biological Differences Between the Sexes? ..Grasping after certainty about gender roles has fostered some bad science and stereotyping that harms both sexes."

"Men Are Not Hardwired for Infidelity: Why Does Pop Culture Insist on Biological Differences Between the Sexes? ..Grasping after certainty about gender roles has fostered some bad science and stereotyping that harms both sexes."

" One week after 2010 Midterms, 'GOP Hopefuls Jockey for Donors' "

"The Republican Party's 2012 hopefuls haven't announced their presidential bids yet, but that's not stopping them from skirting federal campaign-finance laws."

PermAnence

 
Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. 

 

Acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef; he won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years after the publication of his book Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics.

George Lakoff on the Politics of Language in the Mid-Term Elections

"Even in President Obama’s post-election press conference, his inability to speak in broad moral terms was clearly revealed. That, according Cognitive Scientist and Linguist, George Lakoff, is one of the Democrats greatest shortcomings."

Awkward...Breitbart blogger vouches for Media Matters' research

Awkward...Breitbart blogger vouches for <em>Media Matters' </em>research

Special Report: segments on GOP gubernatorial wins omit mention of News Corp.'s RGA donation

Fox News segments on GOP gubernatorial wins omit mention of News Corp.'s RGA donation

The George Walker Bush Rehab Begins

"The Bush Rehab Begins: The former president has a new book. Republicans are on the edge of victory. Bryan Curtis on the team poised to plump his reputation—and why 'W' himself won’t play ball. ..On Sunday night, just two days before the Democrats were to be on the receiving end of what George W. Bush once called a midterm “thumpin’,” Bush was at Game Four of the World Series in Arlington. It felt like some prelapsarian time before Hurricane Katrina and 20-percent approval ratings. Perched on a motorized cart, Bush and his father drove in from the outfield like America’s relief pitchers, called in to get the country out of a jam. When W. hurled the first pitch, the crowd went nuts."

Sarah Palin ♡'s Tom Tancredo for Colorado

Palin Hearts Tom Tancredo For Governor of Colorado

Letters to Washington, Monday November 1, 2010

Coverage on SB 1070 Hearings in Arizona, Midterm Elections Eve coverage as well as on Karl Rove types!

Letters to Washington - November 1, 2010 at 10:00am

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With a Victory, Chicago Parents End Elementary School Sit-In!!

In this day's headlines: Chicago Parents End Elementary School Sit-In with Victory and Library!!

Letters to Washington, Thursday October 28, 2010

Great Conversation with both brilliant guests.

In conversation with Dr Cornel West and Ralph Nader.

Letters to Washington - October 28, 2010 at 10:00am

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Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition

Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition:



"A preliminary deal has been reached between Chicago Public Schools and a group of parents who have occupied a field house at Whittier Elementary School for thirty-seven days to prevent its demolition. The Chicago Public Schools have agreed... -- Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition -- "

6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, Writer and Environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams Asks "Where Is Our Outrage?"

"..Six months ago, BP’s oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and triggering the worst oil spill disaster in US history."

Anti-Gay Fervor in Uganda Tied to Right-Wing US Evangelicals

"Human rights activists in Uganda are warning that the lives of gay people are in danger after a newspaper published a front-page story featuring the names and photographs of what it called Uganda’s 100 "top" gays and lesbians alongside a yellow banner that read 'Hang Them.'  We look at the ties of the anti-gay movement in Uganda to the far-right evangelical movement here in the United States with Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy.


...And he had learned the meaning of bipartisanship from the Family was that Jesus didn’t come to take sides, He came to take over."

Letters to Washington, October 20, 2010

Conversation with Fatima Bhutto, niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benezir Bhutto & granddaughter of the country's first elected President Zulfikar Bhutto. She is the author of the new book Songs of Blood and Swords.

Letters to Washington - October 20, 2010 at 10:00am

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Exclusive: British Novelist John le Carré (the pen name of David Cornwell) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor"

Glenn Beck, Historian Emeritus

Media Matters "put together a timeline tracking [Glenn] Beck's alternate American history from the country's founding to the present day (and beyond). It's based on Beck's own mangling of history and the peculiar views of the historians and curricula he approvingly cites.

Enjoy, and be enlightened."

; )

"Kilmeade 'misspoke' about all terrorists being 'Muslims' -- twice"

"After repeatedly claiming that "[n]ot all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade "clarif[ied]" his comment and claimed that he "misspoke." In fact, Kilmeade not only made the claim at least twice in a single day, but he also questioned whether "moderate Muslims" need to prove "you're not one of them," which is in line with his history of bigoted and anti-Muslim statements."

"Math is hard: Dumbest Man on the Internet @gatewaypundit, CNS News make argument based on fabricated economic claim"

"Not only is this not an apples-to-apples comparison, it's not even apples to oranges. It's more like comparing an abacus to an iPhone. That's why the points made by Hoft, CNS, and Powers are meaningless."

TANF benefits are still small and shrinking even more. http://www.offthechartsblog.org/tanf-benefits-small-and-shrinking/

Green Party Candidate Excluded from California Governor's Debate

Green Party Candidate Excluded from California Governor's Debate

LCD Soundsystem, Home (Official video - HD)

one of many astronomical coincidences that happen to be occurring this month.

The Echo Park Time Bank

The Echo Park Time Bank: Clean up Echo Park Lake September 25th

Clean up Echo Park Lake September 25th

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Troy Anthony Davis, On September 23, 2008, came within two hours of lethal injection before the Supreme

Two years later, almost to the day, Virginia Executes First Woman in Nearly 100 Years

Virginia Executes First Woman in Nearly 100 Years

"I tried reading some of it. It really could have used an abstract."