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Come Saturday Morning: Recipes

post from Firedoglake on 21 November 2009 10:30:31 AM. © Firedoglake

I’m kinda fried after following Polly Ticks all week. Making myself an omelet. (I wave my magic wand, point it at myself, and say: “You’re an omelet!”)Coffee’s ready, and there may be bacon sizzling somewhere. Got steel[...]

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This Week in Science

post from Daily Kos on 21 November 2009 10:30:03 AM. © Daily Kos

The righties are abuzz with a recent hack stealing thousands of emails from climate and other scientists over the last 15 years. Needless to say the usual suspects have combed through the material looking for anything that can be misconstrued. This is an example of about the best they've come up with via Realclimate:

No doubt, instances of cherry-picked and poorly-worded "gotcha" phrases will be pulled out of context. One example is worth mentioning quickly. Phil Jones in discussing the presentation of temperature reconstructions stated that "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." ... Scientists often use the term "trick" to refer to a "a good way to deal with a problem", rather than something that is "secret" ...

In short, no orders from shadowy X-files climate conspirators to perpetuate the 'hoax,' no liberal/commie schemes or scams infiltrating NASA's GISS database, nothing about how to fake photos showing glaciers in retreat, just a bunch of science, journalist, and academic types arguing, explaining, and agreeing with each other over one subtle point or another.

Who are the biggest techno-venture capitalists in the world? According to John Wasik, it's literally Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Chu.

Three cheers for the Brits: Evolution now mandatory in UK primary-public schools.

Presented for your approval, two very different sides of the same coin, a company caught in the age old human struggle between right and wrong: Genetech the good; Genentech the not so good. Quick, the suited figure by the sign post up ahead, it's the Lobbying Zone!

What killed of Ice Age megafauna? Could be a combination of things including overkill. But one of the results was a big change in the landscape after they disappeared.

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Senate Debate of Health Care Bill Begins On
CSPAN-2

post from Firedoglake on 21 November 2009 10:07:13 AM. © Firedoglake

Senate convening CSPAN 2.The Republicans decided they'd rather hear themselves talk than have the bill read aloud.[...]

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Darcy Burner discusses what's behind DeFazio's
remarks that Geithner & Summers should go

post from Open Left - Front Page on 21 November 2009 10:00:00 AM. © Open Left - Front Page

On Wednesday, Chris wrote a quick hit on Representative DeFazio's statement that there was "growing[...]

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Speaking with Palin, Dennis Miller transitions
from calling Newsweek cover ’sexist’ to calling Hillary Clinton ugly.

post from Think Progress on 21 November 2009 09:37:00 AM. © Think Progress

Earlier this week, Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page that Newsweek’s choice to use a Runner’s World photo of her in running shorts for its cover was “unfortunate” and “sexist.” Palin’s criticism has since been echoed on both the left and right. Interviewing Palin on his radio show yesterday, Dennis Miller added his voice to those calling the cover “sexist.” But he then did something that most of the other critics haven’t done. He immediately followed it with a joke about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that could also be easily characterized as sexist:

MILLER: Listen, Sarah, I have to ask you. This Newsweek cover. First off, I have two thoughts on this. To me it seems blatantly sexist and secondly I’m just glad they didn’t decide to do it with Hillary during the primaries. But your thoughts on it. You a little POed at this? I mean this was for another magazine, right?
PALIN: Yeah, yeah, it was for a health and fitness profile where I could tout the great outdoors of Alaska in Runner’s World months ago. And yeah, Newsweek. That was really snarky and cheesy and quite indicative though too, Dennis, of the state of journalism today. I think it stinks.

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As ThinkProgress noted earlier today, it is conventional wisdom on the right that conservative women get harsher treatment than liberal women. But Miller’s hypocritical comments and Palin’s lack of concern with them, give weight to those who argue that Palin and her conservative followers have a selective perception of social bias.

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Is Friday Nov. 13 Destined to Be The Turn Date

post from Jutia Group on 21 November 2009 09:36:58 AM. © Jutia Group

Minutes before I was ready to go on the air with my radio program I received a call from my long-time good friend Ian Gordon, who predicted the market would peak on Friday, Nov. 13. In addition to his usual work, Ian was basing his views on the core of work carried out by W.D. Gann, a brilliant market forecaster in the past who is known for his analysis of cycles and trading patterns in equities as well as commodities. It remains to be seen if this Friday, Nov. 13, was the top of the B wave up. If it…

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Why The House Bill Is Much More Conservative Than
The Senate

post from Firedoglake on 21 November 2009 09:31:20 AM. © Firedoglake

While the House health care reform bill is the one favored by progressives, it also happens to be more small ?c? conservative than that Senate bill. This is not about the public option, the size of government subsidies, or regulation. The House bill is[...]

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Mary Matalin "slaps" one on Sarah Palin

post from Crooks and Liars on 21 November 2009 09:30:02 AM. © Crooks and Liars

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This morning my crazy thing locator pointed to this pro-Palin oped by Mary Matalin, who pooh-poohs complaints in Palin's book about the rough, nasty and foul-mouthed staffers inside the McCain campaign:

Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how to choose your words carefully or get your job done more diplomatically. If someone isn't in tears every day, that day wasn't all it could be advancing the campaign. I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy... and no one thought anything of it, starting with the woman. In fact, she would have been insulted if anyone told her she should have been insulted.

Yes, politics is a hard job full of lots of pressure, long days, and high-stakes high-stress decision making. And many of the personalities attracted to that kind of work are narcissistic, most to the point of tantrums, and more than a few to the point of violence, and think it's no big deal. Matalin isn't just dishing about a specific instance here; she's pimping her insider importance--you bet she can remember just exactly the specific "ad buy" mistake that "deserved" the workplace assault and battery--and contrasting that insider importance to Palin's relative political naivete.

Matalin should be ashamed of herself, her politics, and her "professionalism" on a daily basis. That she actually points to an instance of physical assault of a female employee by a male superior as "the way it is in a campaign--get over it" just puts everything that's wrong with her argument in high relief. Does anyone wonder what would happen if that kind of thing happened in the private sector, or the outrage if a former corporate employee reported such physical assault as "acceptable in the business we're in" hearsay on the pages of CNN's website?

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"A Gentleman's Agreement": great moments in radio
reporting

post from They gave us a republic... - Front Page on 21 November 2009 09:01:25 AM. © They gave us a republic... - Front Page

Not.

This is the thirty-third post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB

An unsigned post at the KOKO radio website, reporting on Wenesday's campus protest:

...Among the protesters rallying against the current Board of Governors were former University Board of Governors members Deleta Williams and Dee Hudson. Also marching against the board in protest were University professors Michael Bersin and Bob Yates...

One of the individuals at the protest stated that Greg Hassler had parked next to her vehicle in the parking lot in his radio station vehicle as she was waiting for the start of the march. She expected that he would be in attendance and was surprised that he wasn't.

Well, evidently somebody from the station did attend. Or they watched from a distance. There was a reporter from the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal, and I believe a photographer from the Muleskinner, the student newspaper (I didn't ask). I was was there for Show Me Progress, clearly wearing my ID. Do you suppose if Greg Hassler had actually mingled with the crowd some of us would have asked him about this? You betcha. Also.

The one thing indicative of the "reporting" contained in the KOKO radio website account of the march? I contacted Bob Yates, explaining that the radio station stated that he was there and asked him if he attended the march. I received the following reply:

No I wasn't. I guess they weren't there either.

Either that, or somebody needs to get better binoculars.
Our previous coverage:

Three steps behind, and to the right (January 25, 2008)

Three steps behind, and to the right, part 2 - a microcosm of our universe (September 21, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"? (October 15, 2009) (transcript of a portion of the live radio broadcast)

It wasn't just about a tree (October 21, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": I heard it on the radio (October 21, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": let's not get cut out of the will (October 22, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": $87.75 will get you one sheet of paper (October 23, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": They're not playing hardball, they're playing cat and mouse (October 23, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": a cola and some scoreboards (October 24, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": a few more pieces of the puzzle? (October 28, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your silence means consent (October 29, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: let's not get cut out of the will, part 2 (October 30, 2009)

Old media irony impairment (October 30, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement?": I heard it on the radio, part 2 (October 31, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: where everybody knows your name (October 31, 2009)

Methinks that someone is paying attention! (November 2, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: Bond, Stadium Bond (November 4, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: where everybody knows your name, part 2 (November 4, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: I heard it on the radio, part 3 (November 5, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: nothing succeeds like success (November 6, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your Friday news dump (November 6, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: nothing exceeds like excess (November 7, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a grade for Accounting 101 (November 7, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: there ought to be a law (November 8, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: there's gotta be a contract around here somewhere (November 9, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: there ought to be a law, part 2 (November 10, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: Garbo speaks! (November 12, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle (November 13, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"? Follow the money and it reveals the timeline (November 14, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: the new president search consulting contract (November 18, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a march on a cold and rainy day (November 18, 2009)

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: raise their voices (November 19, 2009)

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Scam targeted 30 black churches and got each for
$45,000

The California State Attorney General is investigating four individuals who scammed at least 30 black churches in California. These individuals got the churches to buy computer kiosk that did not work for $45,000 a piece even though they were suppossed to be free.Read more here http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

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