By Rebecca Bowe
Photo courtesy Luke Thomas, Fog City Journal
Here’s the scoop: The San Francisco Bay Guardian will get 50 megawatts of wind power, courtesy of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Don’t get excited -- the mayor was only kidding. Newsom’s witty remark came in response to a question by local journalist and blogger Luke Thomas, when he asked the mayor who would own the energy being generated by the municipal wind turbines that are envisionedSource: SFBG Politics RSS Feed
By Bob Parks
I don’t know about you, but it’s near treasonous that a Commander-in-Chief can find the time to go on yet another taxpayer-funded junket (I say junket because we HAVE to pay him; no one said his wife need go) to Copenhagen to push for the Olympics. Soldiers are fighting, the commanders are near pleading for reinforcements, and Barack Obama could be bothered.
President Obama will travel to Copenhagen to make a pitch for Chicago’s Olympic bid, White HouseSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed
Celebrating COMMUNIST CHINA's 60th birthday??!!! What's next, Lenin and Trotsky's birthday's too?
What about Allah while we're honoring our enemies under the "Commie Obammie" administration?
First it was the flying of the Commie flag of China right next to the Stars and Stripes right in our own Rose Garden of the White House last week we blogged and bi*&^%$ about here, now they're gonna honor the birth of Communist China by turning the lighting on the Empire State BuildingSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
Last June, when the dust cleared, there were only 32 Democrats left-- down from 90, then down from 52-- willing to oppose not Bush but Obama on a war supplemental budget. 90 promised and 32 followed through and voted no. When the easy vote came up-- the one that had almost all the Republicans voting for Obama's war funding-- 15 California Democrats voted no:
Sam Farr
Bob Filner
Mike Honda
Barbara Lee
Zoe Lofgren
Doris Matsui
George Miller
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U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington September 26, 2009.
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Drop those links. Engage in debate. Give us trivia and gossip too.
And continue to have a peaceful day.
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The bad economic news keeps rolling in this weekend as we learn a generation of young people may have permanent scars as a result of the failed liberal stimulus bill and its moronic reliance on government jobs programs to lift this nation out of the Great Recession:
The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent — a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. — meaning millions of Americans are staring at the likelihood that their lifetime earningSource: The Strata-Sphere RSS Feed
Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to criminals.
By giving criminal coders free access to malware that steals financial and personal details, the malicious software developers are hoping to expand the capabilities of old Trojans.
According to Candid W?est, threat researcher with security firm Symantec, around 10 percent of the Trojan market is now open source.
The move to an open source business model isSource: DarkGovernment RSS Feed
From a back-filling Washington Post:
Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal testifies in Afghanistan during a hearing in Washington DC June 2, 2009. At Pentagon’s Request, Post Delayed Story on General’s Afghanistan Report
By Howard Kurtz
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
To Bob Woodward, it was the modern-day equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. But to Obama administration officials, the classified assessment of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, if disclosed Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
“NOW IF WE COULD JUST CUT OFF THE ‘HEADS’ OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN, JUST THINK HOW DOMINANT MY SHOW REALLY WOULD BE.”
Story at HuffPost, and a Madkane Moses-like warning to Beck.
Lisa Casey on the cut off your everything GOP Health Plan.
Dave Lindorff at BuzzFlash: The New York Times Trashes Single-Payer.
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Ok. HD TV is manly. Real man stuff.
I just got a 50" HD TV in the game room and had to share. On the wall behind the TV are posters from fights I went to in Las Vegas. Hearns KOed Roberto Duran in 2. Barry McGuigan was defeated by a major underdog Cruz. Cruz was a last minute substitute for a fighter who was injured the week before. And Holyfield and Riddick Bowe where Bowe won in 12 rounds. a GREAT fight! You might notice a few boxing statues on the bottom of the TV. I have about 50 in Source: Bay Area Houston RSS Feed
From the Queens Courier:
After Justice William Erlbaum declined to allow videotaping and restricted the photography in his courtroom stating that he has been inappropriately lobbied by people who want him to decide on a sentence before the trial, the case of the People v. Hiram Monserrate began.
Those who sat in courtroom K-4 of the Queens Supreme Court on Monday, September 21, 2009 finally listened to opening arguments from District Attorney (DA) Scott Kessler and State SenatorSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
Miscellany, miscellany, miscellany… enjoy or not as some of it isn’t very enjoyable, but it is informative.
Christianity Today: Transcending the Worship Wars Motor City Times: Obama Administration Accusing Humana of Sending ‘Fishy Letters’ Perry Noble: Are Your A Slacker? (In your marriage) Big Government: NEA and
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It was somewhat gratifying to see Chris Matthews' right-leaning panel on his Sunday show -- which was, as expected, eager to deny the role of racism in the ugly animus that's been directed at Barack Obama -- at least admit the truth:
David Brooks: What Rush and Glenn Beck are doing is race-baiting. 100 percent. That's race-baiting.
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Kathleen Parker: What Rush Limbaugh and Beck did in those twoSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
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Why is it so hard for the media to discuss the obvious racial overtones of so much of President Obama's opposition? The right-wing fanatics are not even trying to cover it up and still the media try to avoid the obvious by framing it as a pundit problem.
Howard Kurtz wonders why the media is having problems these days with Americans in terms of perceptions about their accuracy. (Pew: Press AccuracySource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
I would like to ask how many people atoneutah.org had ever heard of the ACORN scandal, or ACORN for that matter, till I brought it up? This shows just how pathetic the so called “mainstream” media has become. It is why they are dying Dinosaurs while alternative media such as Fox News, blogs, talk radio and the international press are flourishing. It’s sad when you get more news from the foreign press than the so called free press of the United States.
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I do note that this page is fast turning into a who's who of criminal enterprise in Zimbabwe. More and more people are being caught throughout the globe having been up to no good - and many of them are imprisoned in various places all over the world - although it must be said that many of the prisons elsewhere in the world are a better prospect than life in Zimbabwe.
"The four men convicted of robbing Harare businesswoman Dr Jane Mutasa of US$20000 and a Mercedes-Benz S350 Source: The Bearded Man RSS Feed
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CNN's Rick Sanchez to Fox News... You Lie!
SANCHEZ: And I welcome you back. I'm Rick Sanchez here in the world headquarters of CNN.
All right, there's something that I got to tell you now. If you watch this show every day, as I mentioned a while ago, you know that I usually don't suffer fools gladly, especially when it comes to the fools who perpetuate falsehoods.
Well, today, thousands of youSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
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From AP via KCCI:
The Justice Department announced the settlement Friday involving Des Moines, Iowa-based Guideone Mutual Insurance Co. and two authorized agents, which had advertised special homeowners’ and renters’ benefits called FaithGuard to "churchgoers" and "persons of faith."
Under the agreement, the defendants must pay a total
Earlier, MM posted a link to Valerie Jarrett letting us know that the FLOTUS will knock the Olympic Committee dead , but I must say, after today’s performance on health care, maybe Michelle should just stay out of it:
Michelle Obama said women are being “crushed by the current structure of our health care” because they often are responsible for taking care of family illnesses, arranging checkups and monitoring follow-up care.
“Women are Source: Right Voices RSS Feed
More great news from the land of Obama this morning from a suburb south of Chicago proper, and why I'm a registered firearms owner and would have shot this f'er dead long before he got close enough to shoot me through my windshield, like he did here to this poor unarmed man.
So here's a little message to you road rager's out there in this city like that guy...... if you ever see this car below next to you in Chicagoland and decide you wanna mess around with me, you had better be bothSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
Those downstate guys have all the fun, don’t they? it’s difficult to imagine a piece like this getting acceptance here, but it was probably a winner for Democrat Richard Aborn who is running for Manhattan D.A.
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Homo Neanderthalensis
by H.L. Mencken
(July 29, 1925)I
Such obscenities as the the forthcoming trial of the Tennessee evolutionist Pace, Florida, High School principal and athletic director, if they serve no other purpose, at least call attention dramatically to the fact that enlightenment, among mankind, is very narrowly dispersed. It is common to assume that huma n progress affects everyone -- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say,Source: Pensacola Beach Blog RSS Feed
Originally posted at http://www.kylesisk.typepad.com/ last night by Kyle Sisk , but bringing the truth to the masses this afternoon on WMD courtesy of my friend Matt Hurley!
Ohio governor Ted Strickland's hand-picked Ohio Public Safety Director Henry Guzman (2nd from the left) with Strickland himself sitting squarely in the middle of this picture
Some of you are going to think I’ve lost my mind (if you hadn’t already), but former State PublicSource: Weapons of Mass Discussion RSS Feed
The prolonged fantasizing over the breadth and impact of the weekend tea-bag fest on the D.C. mall continues unabated. A self-desrcibed "near-successful" screenwriter at Pajamas Media has now "scientifically" proven that at least 850,000 people showed up (not the 70,000 or so that credible news sources report). That would mean more people showed up to impersonate G.I. Joe or Yankee Doodle than did those who came from across the country to watch the inauguration of America's Source: Marc Cooper RSS Feed
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From This Week with George Stephanopolous, some good news for those of us who want to be vaccinated. Remember, you minimize your risk of side effects by getting it a few weeks apart from your regular flu shot. I got my flu shot this week, I'm getting the pneumonia vaccine in two weeks and the swine flu shot two weeks after that:
Amid concerns that H1N1 swine flu vaccine will come too late this flu season,Source: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
Peter Mandelson, speaking on Today an hour or so ago, came out with an untruth that even by his standards was simply jaw-dropping in its audacity:
"I did ask him [Nick Robinson] recently, when exactly the Prime Minister had defined this as simply and crudely as "Labour investment versus Tory cuts", and Nick was unable to put his finger on any such quote."
Well, I can. So, just to refresh His Lordship's memory, here's Gordon Brown at PMQs on 10th June 2009:
"TheSource: Mr Eugenides RSS Feed
September 10, 2009, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals came to Washington, D.C. from across the country to show their opposition to Obamacare.
Dr. Shannon Norris, a radiologist from Atlanta, holds a People’s Cube poster describing Obamacare as offering “the efficiency of the Postal Service, the sustainability of Social Security and all theSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
The answer to the health care woes lie in tort reform and the muzzling of unnecessary lawsuits that drive the costs of everything up so astronomically that a cap on awards would solve the problem far before Obama's eventual impeachment.....
Quick story......I, (as regs here know) am an Multiple Sclerosis patient here in Chicago fortunate enough with the family means to have constant access to the best doctors on the planet earth, and my Chicago based neurologists along with their 2Source: Chicagoray RSS Feed
Thousands of right-wing protesters are in DC for the 9/12 Project march today, inspired by Glenn Beck and organized by Republican lobbyists. One rally attendee caught a particularly tasteless sign being distributed to protesters:
Today on ABC’s Good Morning America, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) tried to portray the protesters as a bipartisan group of moderates, saying that “it’s not about President Obama. It’s not about the Democrats. … I’m glad they’re here to
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From Michigan’s very local Flint Journal:
A police officer walks past the scene of a fatal shooting on Friday morning in front of Owosso High School. Anti-abortion activist shot in front of Owosso High School
OWOSSO, Michigan — State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning in front of Owosso High School.
The victim’s identity has not yet been released but Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Few would dispute that Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod are two of President Barack Obama’s key advisors.
I wrote here that Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law Vernon Jarrett, worked with Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, in at least three communist dominated organizations in late 1940s Chicago.
Davis then went on to eventually mentor the young Barack Obama in Hawaii.
David Axelrod too has connections that that stretch back toSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed
Student Bee Reporter is on vacation this week. Here is an assortment of SBR’s favorite WWW items from earlier in the year. Join us here next week for a NEW EPISODE as we beign a whole NEW SEASON of Wednesday Wingnut Watch. Thanks for “watching!”
After Oscars, the buzz grows for Wingnut of the Year. Envelope, please… Alan Keyes.
Hey, do you remember our former Republican Senator, Alphonse D’Amato? Look what he’s upSource: rochesterturning.com RSS Feed
In his speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, President Obama “will press for a government-run insurance option in a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system,” but will also say that “he is open to better ideas on a government plan if lawmakers have them.” Obama is likely to say that a public option will “not provide a level of subsidies that give it an unfair advantage over private insurers.”
Yesterday, the Progressive Change CampaignSource: Think Progress RSS Feed
Do the English have a right to a nationalist movement? Of course they do and if the people of England want an English Parliament then they should have one. I doubt if such a parliament centralised in London would do much more for Cornwall than the UK parliament does now but that's democracy. No matter how rich the current bellyaching from English nationalist is about the 'raw deal' England gets in the current post devolution set-up (think about the centuries of pre-devolution Anglo-dominatedSource: British Blogs RSS Feed
Over the last few days, Jon Henke has laid out the case for the Right more strongly disavowing outfits like WorldNetDaily that actively peddle Birther nonsense. To the extent the mainstream Right has weighed in, it has been to urge Jon to ignore WND and move on, in the interests avoiding an intra-movement civil war. Some have even tried to subtly distance Jon from the conservative movement, saying his views don't represent those of most conservatives. Many on the Right have made the Source: The Next Right RSS Feed
After flirting with Barking Moonbat status since losing the 2004 presidential election, Waffles Kerry has officially joined the club
John Kerry has written an op-ed for the Huffington Post comparing the inaction in response to a heating planet to the inaction of President Bush before September 11th.
Kerry reaches deep into the bag of global warming hysterics to uncork this piece, saying that the fate of the nation hinges upon the passing of some sort of climateSource: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed
Prices of Thai rice (red columns) and Vietnamese rice (black)
Though the second-biggest rice exporter in the world, Vietnam exports rice at nearly the lowest levels in the world. And it is simply because Vietnamese exporters offer to sell rice at low prices.
According to Huynh Minh Hue, Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA), Vietnam’s export rice price is always lower than the price of Thailand’s rice of the same kind. However, the noteworthy thing is thatSource: Chao-Vietnam RSS Feed
