Chicken salad please; hold the Superbug - whadya mean you cannot!

Canada, Greece, US everywhere or so it seems chicken is in the marketplace and in restaurants loaded up with drug resistant bacteria. Since poultry went global, really global 10-15 years ago, the problems with disease and flu and now Superbug have continued to climb.



So, you wanna cut spending on food inspection and leave it to the Col.? I did not think so. So tell your market, tell your Congressmember and stop buying it til you know it is safe.

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Superbugs in Canadian chicken? Yes, and US too

Chicken bought at major supermarkets across Canada is frequently contaminated with superbugs — bacteria that many antibiotics cannot kill — an investigation by CBC TV’s Marketplace has found.

Two-thirds of the chicken samples had bacteria.

Some of the bacteria found were resistant to six, seven or even eight different types of antibiotics. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Save your part of the world and your AmeriCorps Programs

I served two years as a not-so-grumpy elder - grin. Helps kids, families, elder for next to nothing. Let them cut the spending and watch your community sink faster and farther just so someone else can have their tea.



What does AmeriCorps do? Check it out and then sign the petition y'all!

http://www.americorps.gov/

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Continue Funding for AmeriCorps and Teach for America

The continuing resolution (CR) proposal that the Republicans are proposing calls for cutting all funds for AmeriCorps and by doing that cutting Teach for America as well.

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Budget fix - fix budget - End WarsSince 2001, military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost over one trillion dollars, and it is estimated that another $800 billion plus will be added to the ta before the wars are ended. End the war before you cut off someone's heat! http://amplify.com/u/aq92g

Border Minute Man supporter guilty of murger of father and 9-year old duaghter.

A little justice can go a long way toward settling bad feelings and uncover hate and fear's worst effects on us all.

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Militia Figure Shawna Forde Found Guilty of Arizona Murders

Concluding a three-week trial that exposed the most unsavory side of Arizona’s militant border vigilante movement, a jury on Monday found Shawna Forde guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the May 2009 killings of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter in the border town of Arivaca, Ariz.

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Valentine's Day Call - Support safe, affordable, and sustainable food

Give some love to each and every one of us - by supporting good food in USA!

I’m working on a campaign to support food that is safe, affordable, and
sustainable; and a food system that is fair for farmers and consumers. As
a first step, we need President Obama to finalize and implement the fair
livestock marketing rules that the USDA proposed from the last Farm Bill
– back in 2008. In order to make that happen, I’m helping to generate
hundreds of phone calls into the White House today. This can’t wait any
longer. Can you make a quick call? It only takes a minute and makes a big
impact. Here’s the number and a sample script:

1. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 between 9am- 5pm EST. (call again if there is a back up)
2. Tell them your name and where you’re from, and then simply ask
that President Obama finalize and implement the fair livestock
marketing rules that USDA proposed from the last Farm Bill.

Or use this sample script:
“Hi. My name is ______ and I live in (city, state). As a constituent, I urge
President Obama to finalize and implement the fair livestock marketing
rules that USDA proposed from the last Farm Bill. Thank you for your
time today.”

Every call counts. When you’re done, shoot me a quick reply so I can keep
track of all the calls we’ve made today. Thanks for helping us in this fight for
a fair Farm Bill!

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U.S. postpones meeting with Pakistan and Afghanistan

U.S. postpones meeting with Pakistan and Afghanistan

Have to wonder: Raymond Davis US Diplomat? Employee of US Consulate? Or contractor from Xe/Blackwater? Negotiate his release and tell truth about circumstances - would be our best move.

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Mabrook Egypt! http://amplify.com/u/apw2z

Drones in Pakistan Nuture Anti-American Frenzy

Our US Embassy employee may have been defending himself but the Pakistani reaction to the problem is based in the rage from all the innocents killed by drones that killed civilians based on bad information. Now we are truly between a rock and a hard place and may trigger a total meltdown of the Pakistan government. The Lebanese, Iranian Green, Egyptian and Tunisian revolts are not lost on Pakistani people - karma all over the place...!

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Circling the Lion's Den A glance at the conflict in Afghanistan

US aid strategy in Pakistan beset with problems.

When Raymond Davis, a US Embassy employee, allegedly shot dead two men on a motorbike in Lahore on 26 January, he precipitated a major crisis.

Davis should never have been armed

Further problems have been caused by the failure of US officials to offer a clear explanation of what Davis was doing in Pakistan. Read more at circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com

 

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Super Pig Farms in EU - Just Say No

Why? The Superbug that threatens people in hospitals and other locations - resistant to most medicines and eats you - started in Denmark among pig farms that used too much anti-biotics. American supported Big Ag firms and partners want to export our 1,000 plus pig farm messes to EU for more Euros in their accounts regardless of whether it kills us later or not.

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Opposing industrial-scale pig farming — in Europe

At the European Parliament today, three national representatives — Janusz Wojciechowski of Poland, José Bové of France and Dan Jørgensen of Denmark — declared their opposition to industrial-scale swine agriculture

As I’ve written before (long archive here and here),the MRSA strain ST398 arose on Dutch pig farms in 2004, among pigs that had been given prophylactic doses of antibiotics, especially tetracycline. It has since spread through the EU, Canada and the United States, affecting not only farm workers and veterinarians, but also hospital patients with no connection to agriculture. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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"Family" group preaches: Native American Immorality Led to Being Conquered

This man's historical and cultural ignorance is perhaps equaled by his not understanding how hate and fear colors all his life. His ignorance will support more years of violence and hate against those who settled this land before Europeans came and well most know the history of dishonor against Native Americans. The American Family Association seems to be un-American, anti-family and a closed society for people filled with fear and hate.

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Bryan Fischer: Native Americans morally disqualified themselves from the land

The native American tribes at the time of the European settlement and founding of the United States were, virtually without exception, steeped in the basest forms of superstition, had been guilty of savagery in warfare for hundreds of years, and practiced the most debased forms of sexuality.  Read more at action.afa.net

 

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Fan Fun w Jane Fonda and JLo

Well - not everything is politics and doom and gloom - grin.

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PRE-OSCAR PARTY AT CHATEAU MARMONT

party co-hosted by Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger

I had an opportunity to tell Jennifer how incredible I thought she was in the film she did several years ago with her husband, Mark Anthony, “El cantante.” Read more at janefonda.com

 

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End Bird Flu Pandemic Threat - Cull Industrialized Poultry Farming

When the natural system sees that there is an overpopulation of any species - birds in particular - it "creates" a situation that allows killer viruses to mutate and re-balance the system by killing birds. Creating in this case means that birds are stressed and in close quarters both conditions facilitated/trigger an outbreak of a virus - and the result is a system that re-balances itself by reducing the number of animals in a confined space.



Culling the birds stops the immediate outbreak but continued industrialized breeding starts up the virus cycle again. Raising fewer birds and in less confined space reduces the outbreaks. Additionally, cleaning out urine and feces often and putting it in digesters that can kill all viruses, produce methane gas for energy production, and clean fertilizer. Another by-product? Fewer outbreaks of the "normal" flu which all start from an interaction between people, poultry, and pigs.

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Japan culls another 190,000 chickens

It has now sacrificed more than half a million birds in efforts to contain H5N1 avian influenza.

This 10th outbreak was in the Miyazaki prefecture where it is proving difficult to find places to dispose of carcasses. It is the seventh outbreak since Jan. 22 in southwestern Miyazaki Prefecture. Read more at www.atlanticfarmfocus.ca

 

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You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor - does not apply to Anti-Gay Christian Group?

It is never a surprise that extreme groups often lie to raise funds and convince prospective "supporters" to support their "true" cause but in today's cyber-world, I wonder why they think they will get away with it for long. I guess telling the truth and finding out the facts - if they disagree with what you want to believe - is painiful enough to make lying OK?

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Anti-Gay Christian Group Uses Deception to Raise Funds – Again

The Christian Seniors Association (CSA)

claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

makes the Bible illegal

the intent of the law is to “outlaw Christianity.”

“Nothing … in the law shall be construed to prohibit any constitutionally protected speech – including the exercise of religion protected by the first amendment.” Read more at www.splcenter.org

 

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You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor - does not apply to Anti-Gay Christian Group?

It is never a surprise that extreme groups often lie to raise funds and convince prospective "supporters" to support their "true" cause but in today's cyber-world, I wonder why they think they will get away with it for long. I guess telling the truth and finding out the facts - if they disagree with what you want to believe - is painiful enough to make lying OK?

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Anti-Gay Christian Group Uses Deception to Raise Funds – Again

The Christian Seniors Association (CSA)

claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

makes the Bible illegal

the intent of the law is to “outlaw Christianity.”

“Nothing … in the law shall be construed to prohibit any constitutionally protected speech – including the exercise of religion protected by the first amendment.” Read more at www.splcenter.org

 

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Illinois Representative OK with Date or Drug Rape?

Trying to do a two-step confuse you - not working. This guy thinks he knows what's best for all women and is more than ready to force his will on women.

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Lipinski Finally Opens Up About "Forcible Rape" Law

The rape clause in the bill doesn't take into consideration types of rape where the sexual assault isn't accompanied by other violence. This could have far-reaching ramifications to victims of drug-induced rape, statutory rape victims and victims of incest. Read more at chicagoist.com

 

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Be just, love mercy, walk humbly with the universe http://amplify.com/u/ao50u

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Déjà vu - 1968 - Will things turn out any better 2nd time around?

Anyone else feeling more than a bit of déjà vu - 1968 Anti-war protests, urban centers rising in anger, Detroit, DC, NYC, Paris, Great Leap Forward, Bobby, Martin, Viva La Raza, Watts, French Republic, Red Brigade, SDS, anarchists, hope, love, bombs, right-wing coups, left-wing coups... Sympathy for... Street Fighting Man

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Cholera from Haiti, to Dominican Republic, to Massachusetts?

So, how safe is our food? What can be the result of not stopping serious disease outbreaks around the world? Get with it world has changed and our responses have not - that could kill all of us!

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Mass. Has Cholera, Flu

Image by Paul Keleher from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Two serious illnesses are making waves in Massachusetts. One is common and one isn't.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed six cases of cholera in the Bay State that are linked to a wedding in the Dominican Republic last week. Over 110 cases were reported in Venezuela from the January 22 wedding at Casa de Campo in. The sickness is traced to contaminated lobster.

See more at bostonist.com

 

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Overmedicated farm animals may kill us and themselves

Pesticide and drug addicted industrialized farming is thinking protect profit while they may be killing us, their animals and ultimately their profit as well. We need to stop them!

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Farm antibiotics, human illness and what connects them. (It has legs.)

That the use of antibiotics on conventional/confinement farms provokes the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria really isn’t in dispute; it’s been proven, over and over again, for about 30 years now.

FoodNet, monitors the prevalence of 10 illness-causing organisms, but doesn’t test for antibiotic resistance.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest says yes. In a white paper published this week, the group documents 35 outbreaks between 1973 and 2009 for which epidemiologic and microbiological links are clear. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Environment of hate in Arizona = two 9-year old girls shot and killed

We really need to learn how to live together and live up to the challenges to "love one another, as I have loved you." "Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love."

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Brisenia Flores, the other 9-year-old AZ shooting victim

LatinaLista.net -- The Tucson region has the dubious distinction of being a place where two nine-year-old girls were horrendously murdered -- Christina Taylor Greene and Brisenia Flores.

Brisenia was also 9-years-old, but unlike Christina, Brisenia was in a place where she deserved to feel safe and protected -- her home.

Currently, the woman blamed for these senseless, hateful murders is on trial in Tucson. Read more at www.latinalista.net

 

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Pandemics more likely in today's 24/7 world - Haiti is flashpoint #1!

Used to be that when we wanted to ignore the impact of disease and starvation someplace - we could and not worry about it effecting anything more than our morals/ethics. When 450 people who attend a wedding in the Dominican Republic - get cholera that came from Haiti - and then are in Venezuela, Spain, Canada, USA and Mexico within 24 hours - get the picture? Help Haiti - because we should and to protect ourselves as well.

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Spreading cholera, maybe polio: Now will we care about Haiti?

The confirmed cholera and possible polio cases underline, one more time, that infectious diseases do not respect borders — as China found out during SARS and Nigeria when it refused polio vaccination. For as long as Haiti suffers these post-earthquake epidemics, there will be a risk of those epidemics traveling to the rest of the world. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Are you listening UK Tories? Find a Plan B or Fail!

If there is anyone who should know how the economy runs in Britain, it is Soros. You should listen or move out of Number 10 and get a life.

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George Soros tells David Cameron: change direction or face recession

Mix of tax increases and spending cuts unsustainable, speculator says, as World Economic Forum gets under way

Soros made his reputation in 1992, when his large-scale speculative attacks on the pound forced John Major's government to remove sterling from the exchange rate mechanism, and when Cameron was an aide to chancellor Norman Lamont. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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Help! and I Wanna Hold Your Hand! leads to degree in Beatles

Former Juno award winner for outstanding and upcoming vocalist - happy to be the first.

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Canadian graduates in Beatles class

Mary-Lu Zahalan, a 53-year-old music instructor at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ont., was handed her diploma at a ceremony on Wednesday in Liverpool before being ushered to the city's Penny Lane — subject of one of the band's most famous songs — for a photo session celebrating her landmark scholarly achievement. Read more at www.canada.com

 

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Bill Action: Introduced: S. 91: A bill to implement equal protection under t...

Senator Wicker wants to control all woman's rights because he knows what is best for women - not!

 

 

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Bill Action: Introduced: S. 91: A bill to implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and unborn human person.

via Active Legislation -- Tracked by GovTrack.us on 1/24/11

Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS] introduced this bill. [This event matched these trackers: Active Legislation ]

 

 

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S. J. Res. 2:proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to Citizenship

S. J. Res. 2: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to... (GovTrack.us)

Senator wants to gut 14th amendment, bring back slavery and make himself an illegal alien?

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Pray, hope that Lebanon does not implode!

It is way too easy for things to come apart in Lebanon and the Lebanese have suffered enough and seem to be making progress. So please - take a step back and seek peace!

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In all cases, I truly hope the destructive behavior on the streets won’t last, and will never be repeated, from either side of political parties… Read more at mayazankoul.com

 

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Greenwashing Victory for Nestlé: to receive 2011 Gold Medal in Sustainable Development

Nestlé S.A. to receive 2011 World Environment Center Gold Medal in Sustainable Development

Sustainable development? Well they do give money to NGOs which gets them a greenwashing pass-go-get-out-of-jail-free card.
They also own a number of bottled water and mineral water companies around the world packaged in both plastic and glass.
It was reported on Apr 17, 2006 ... Nestlé Obtains a Patent on Genetically Modified Coffee Plants.
They have switched palm oil suppliers after a campaign this past year but have not stopped using palm oil in its products.

They have done a good job of greenwashing and this award will be used to try and make them look like a good guy company.

Do a little search on your own when you see a for-profit firm getting an award for being sustainable. And check out the companies giving "awards/grants/cash" based on your "voting" for your favorite charity. Their purpose? Spend a little to buy a whole lot of good feeling while they kill your community or planet, and maybe export your job out of the country.

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BBC cuts websites to save money

Why not try saying what it is doing clearly instead of in double-speak? How do you close 200 sites to "reshape" for digital age. Sounds more like BBC is stuck in the analog age and does not know how to blend audio, video and cyber content.

 

 

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BBC cuts websites to save money

via ABC News: Top Stories on 1/24/11

The BBC says it is closing 200 of its websites, with the loss of 360 jobs over the next two years, in a drive to cut overall costs and reshape online content for the digital age.

 

 

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Repression and Dissappearing - Opponents Goes on in Sri Lanka

His family and readers will not forget, not matter how much you hope they will. Today - with the worldwideweb - tyrants can no longer count on time to cloud people's memories. If you killed him tell the truth - if he is still alive - let him go!

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No news of political cartoonist one year after his disappearance

The situation for journalists in Sri Lanka continues to be very disturbing. Under the system of media control and intimidation established by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government, state media journalists are censored and journalists with the privately-owned media censor themselves. Those that dare to criticize the president or his associates, as Prageeth did, risk serious reprisals.

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Just the facts please; we can decide ourselves if EPA is good or bad

Wall Street Journal put up your facts or stop claiming lies are true! That is the challenge - think they will bite?

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An Open Challenge to the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal

editorial

accused

Environmental Protection Agency

“rewriting environmental law with almost no scrutiny,”

“re-regulating conventional air pollutants, often bypassing the usual notice and public comment.”

Prove it. Read more at switchboard.nrdc.org

 

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Magic is Alive - CBC Interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie

Gotta listen!

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie : Biographie , Interview - Video  CBC The Hour March 17, 2010-Part 1

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Noa launches the Life Political Party in Israel - the world?

Thinking about it - not a bad idea - a good idea - in fact. Let her you know you are joining by visiting her blog and telling her. Thanks. Life is a good thing to support.

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about LIFE, the party...

Since the political situation in my country, and everywhere, is nauseating and depressing to say the least, I have decided to start a new political party. It’s called, very simply, LIFE.

Our virtual headquarters are, for the moment, in my heart. But we’re looking for appropriate real-estate. Feel free to join! All you have to do is….. Read more at noa-the-singer.blogspot.com

 

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Greed-based Spin About GM Chickens Conquering Flu

Industrialized farming of poultry over the past decade - chickens, duck, geese, turkeys - and its massing of birds raised to profit from the world market caused nature to respond with the lethal H5N1 avian influenza as a means to "re-balance" an out of balance system. The "scientists" proclaim themselves as masters of nature and that "their" (soon to be patented) GM chickens will end the threat of H5N1 in chickens. What the development of a monoculture of chickens will do is trigger another attempt by the natural system to develop another, perhaps even more lethal virus to "re-balance" the system again.

Greed-based science is not the cure, it will likely be the "disease" that will kill us all.

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Roaming Herds = the right way to farm sustainably

Sounds strange but when you think about it this guy is right. Grasslands that fed buffalo ins North America, and savannas in Africa that host all sorts of herding animals "evolved" to stay healthy together! Fence the land and don't let animals roam naturally and the grass and soil begins to die - Observe nature and learn! Don't Fence Me In!

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Words: Choose them wisely. You can't take them back.

Thanks Mimi for good advise and thoughts.

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Words: Choose them wisely. You can't take them back.

No words needed

Whew! I feel better. Thanks for listening. Sixty seconds flew by. I think my blogsomnia is cured. Lights out.

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Loose lips +

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Will Arizona Senate Leader Welcome President Obama or “Require Papers”?

A month ago, Pearce, one of the main architects and proponents of the SB 1070 anti-immigration law in Arizona, infamously joked at a Judicial Watch panel: “I can tell you that the best thing about 1070 is that Obama may not be visiting Arizona because we actually require papers now.”

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Palin prays nothing she has said/done contributed to Giffords tragedy

It would have really been quite refreshing and brave if she had made such a statement or expressed those thoughts instead of attacking her attackers. I hope that she can some day she may add compassion to her passion.

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Sarah Palin brands media's attacks over Arizona shooting as 'blood libel'

Politician breaks silence on Giffords shooting and lambasts opponents with controversial choice of language

Sarah Palin today accused her opponents of manufacturing a "blood libel" by suggesting her rhetoric and campaign tactics had anything to do with the Arizona shootings.

Palin's bizarre use of language is sure to provoke further controversy – a blood libel refers to the false claim that Jews murder children to use in religious rituals. Giffords is Jewish. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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Be Indignant! Calling for Return to Finest of French Values

"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" - not expulsion, dis-unity, enmity, and inequality. This may be the beginning of 1968 deja vu worldwide? Can we make it right this time - in peace, joy and love because the opposite will... The title in the piece is wrong - I think being indignant is different from being angry.

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Indignez-vous

written by a 93-year-old activist and former member of the French Resistance against the German occupation of the Second World War.

It is incumbent upon each of us to work together so that our society remains one that we can be proud of: not this society of undocumented workers, of expulsions, of suspicions towards immigrants, not this society where retirements benefits and social welfare programs are put into jeopardy, not this society where the media is in the hands of the rich. Read more at www.indypendent.org

 

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Pride + Addiction to Publicity + Hate = Almost Unbelievable Reaction to Tucson Shootings

When the society gives "support" to political extremism - "lone and crazy" folks delude themselves into thinking their acts will bring them fame and approval from those they admire.

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The Radical Right Responds to the Tucson Shootings

Fred Phelps and his rabidly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church

In a flier posted to the WBC website

“God appointed this rod for your sins! God sent the shooter!”

“Your federal judge is dead and your (fag-promoting, baby-killing, proud-sinner) Congresswoman fights for her life. God is avenging Himself on this rebellious house! WBC prays for your destruction — more shooters, more dead carcasses piling up, young, old, leader and commoner — all. Your doom is upon you!” Read more at www.splcenter.org

 

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An Afghan Poet Tears at the Truth of Her Being

My hope for her is that 10 years from now, someone will say: "Amazing that women were not fully appreciated back then - look at all they have done, now, to move us forward!"

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A World of Luck

If I were not a woman the day I was born Mom wouldn’t have suffered. Dad wouldn’t have warned her: You’ve brought shame to the house!

If I were not a woman I would never be a hurt, never be ashamed.

Roya Read more at www.awwproject.org

 

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Respect for Constitution?

Republicans respect the Constitution so much that four of them submitted Amendments to it yesterday. Some would take that to mean they thought the Constitution was somehow deficient, or that they think that all Americans before them and who will come after them were/are/will be too dumb to get things right. Good thing that these same four do not have as much respect for their religious beliefs; they'd be trying to amend God to suit themselves - grin.

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Disunion: First South Carolina. Then New York?

Does this apply today - substitute Arizona for NYC?

 

 

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Disunion: First South Carolina. Then New York?

via NYT > Opinion by By JOHN LOCKWOOD and CHARLES LOCKWOOD on 1/6/11

The South wasn't the only part of the Union contemplating secession in January 1861. So was New York City.

 

 

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