ABC's buddy, the cult-run Washington Times, calls
AIDS "the gift of the gays"

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 18 June 2008 07:32:00 AM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Nice. And as I wrote the other day, ABC is actually giving the cult-run Washington Times credibility by now doing joint investigations with the Moonie tabloid. (Apparently, the National Enquirer wasn't available.) Gee, so can we look forward to ABC doing an investigation of AIDS as "the gift of the gays"? Terribly sleazy of ABC to lie down with these dogs.

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You Be the Pundit: What are the Numbers

post from Boyda Bloc on 18 June 2008 07:31:00 AM. © Boyda Bloc

A friend of ours says blogging isn't just about exposure- shoving a story out for people to see- but it's really about a conversation between the person blogging and the people reading and writing comments.

So, to fill what seems to a slow news day, we'd like to hear your gut instincts about where the Republican primary really is at this point. We've seen these poll numbers:

Mid-April 08 (from the Jenkins Campaign)
Ryun..........50
Jenkins.......34

Mid-May 08 (from the Ryun Campiagn)
Ryun..........65
Jenkins.......21

So...which one is closer? Has Jenkins closed the gap? Has Ryun pulled ahead? We've had a couple of people comment here about a rumored Jenkins poll that was in the field a few weeks ago...what did it show?

And what about Congresswoman Nancy Boyda? What's does her district think of her? We know there hasn't been any public polling on that point...but we're interested in your gut reaction

Have fun!

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The Morning News

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 18 June 2008 07:30:00 AM. © Docudharma - Front Page

The Morning News is an Open Thread.Surprise! I'm filling in for ek this morning and it's Mishima's day off. So to start your day, here's 28 stories from home and around the globe. What else is happening?USAWaPo - Halliburton Subsidiary Faulted For[...]

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Winners of my 3rd & 4th grade poetry contest

post from African American Opinion on 18 June 2008 07:27:00 AM. © African American Opinion

LTH POETRY CONTEST 06/18/08
Here are the winners of my first LTH Poetry Contest held in Hillside NJ. All poems were Haikus submitted by 3rd and 4th graders of a local school.

You can see the winners as well as read their winning poems below.

Kristen, John Blanc, Caitlyn Laryea, Lauryn Campbell_Harris

3rd Grade Winners
Caitlyn Laryea
My land has freedom U.S. is my home country I love where I live
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Lauryn Campbell-Harris
Bees fly by the trees Buzzing past the pretty flower Catching the cool breee
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4th Grade Winners
John Blanc
Father
Smart, handsome leading, teaching, eating never gives up on me awesome
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Kristen
Superstar popular, entertaining singing, supersizing, fantasizing strut it girl famous

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McCain's Energy Flip Flop

post from MyDD on 18 June 2008 07:21:09 AM. © MyDD

On Tuesday, John McCain announced that a pillar of his energy plan is to lift the ban on offshore drilling. Sen. John McCain on Tuesday proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help[...]

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Cornucopia Wednesday

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 18 June 2008 07:17:39 AM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

Do you think that as a child Senator Obama ever pondered the lyrics of The Byrds' Roger McGuinn?

I wanna grow up to be a politician
And take over this beautiful land
I wanna grow up to be a politician
And be the old US of A's number one man

Damned if I know, either. So for the moment: stop in for a look at news items outside the headlines, in the arts and sciences; foreign news that generates little notice in the US media and ....well, just plain whimsy.....
BUSINESS NOTES #1 - we're always told not to worry about executive pay, as "pay for performance" guidelines are quite rigorous. But as the AP's Rachel Beck notes, it really tends to be heads-I-win, tails-let's-flip-again.

ART NOTES #1 - several busts by French Enlightenment artist Jean-Antoine Houdon are at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia through September 7th.

MUSIC NOTES #1 - like many orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has financial difficulties; their situation seems a bit more tempestuous than others.

THEATRE NOTES - first he became artistic director of London's Old Vic Theatre; now Kevin Spacey has been named as a visiting theatre professor at Oxford University, succeeding Patrick Stewart.

BELIEVING THAT THEY get a bad rap, The Guardian speaks In Praise of Sharks noting that (among other things) they keep away predatory fish that deplete scallop stocks. I'm amazed that they didn't reference "Jaws" once in their essay.

SEPARATED at BIRTH #1 - the Washington Times' Brian DeBose and Saturday Night Live's Keenan Thompson.

BUSINESS NOTES #2 - Germany's old industrial heartland The Ruhr is in the midst of a painful transition to newer industries.

SADNESS in learning that high school yearbooks have fallen on hard times these days.

BUSINESS NOTES #3 - the BBC suggests the 50 worst office jargon terms, compiled from reader offerings.

WEDNESDAY's CHILD is Muschi die Katze - a German kitty who has been the best friend of a black bear at the Berlin Zoo ..... seven years running. Speaking of black cats ...

WHILE MANY of THEIR reasons are whimsical: in the wake of this past Friday the 13th, the Kitten Rescue organization's Top Ten reasons to adopt a black cat listed as the #1 reason: "They are the least likely to be adopted".

POLITICAL NOTES - though Britain's Conservatives have made a long-awaited comeback, financial corruption - which helped sink them in 1997 - hasn't been eliminated completely.

THE LAST PANEL of this Tom Tomorrow cartoon had me burst out laughing.

HAIL and FAREWELL to the NBC sportscaster Charlie Jones who has died at age 77.

To me, he was the voice of the old American Football League's Western Conference.

MUSIC NOTES #2 - the French first lady Carla Bruni has a new song with these lyrics: "You are my drug/ More deadly than Afghan heroin/ More dangerous than white Colombian."

The Colombian government is .... well, not amused.

NAUTICAL NOTES - explorers have found a 1780 British warship submerged at the bottom of Lake Ontario - and amazingly preserved to this day.

LITERARY NOTES - in advance of a feature film of the legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas a reporter follows the trail "from the pubs of Swansea to his home in Laugharne".

SEPARATED at BIRTH #2 - Evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins

and former Alabama governor Don Siegelman now freed from jail (no thanks to Karl Rove).

ATTENTION CAT OWNERS - MeowMix has announced a Whose Cat Wants to Be a Millionaire? contest with ... a $1 million prize.

LANGUAGE NOTES - more than ten years after coming under Chinese control, Hong Kong is undergoing something of a linguistic identity crisis.

RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES have finally brought charges against three men in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya two years ago, although the alleged shooter remains at large.

ART NOTES #2 - The natural history illustrations of Maria Sibylla Merian are at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California through August 31st.

Anf finally, a YUK for today - Tim McGirk of Time magazine reports that for all of the travel that Condoleezza Rice has undertaken, "Israeli TV announcers have even coined her name as a verb, meaning to go endlessly around in circles, accomplishing nothing."

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Will airline luggage policies cause even more
problems

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 18 June 2008 07:15:00 AM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

I think this opinion piece is onto something. It's time the airline industry ditched it's consultants and executive management teams and started thinking about customers again.

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And then there will be 7... in 2012

During the Cabarrus County Commissioners meeting this past Monday, the commissioners made a decision on their board expansion plans. Remarkably enough it's not one of the options they had considered before.
After a lot of folks showed up and spoke up against the idea of quickly expanding the board haphazardly before the November election this year, Commissioners decided to expand the board in 2012 not in 2008.

There also seemed to be a majority on the current all republican board in favor of going to district representation and not keep the current at-large system. The consensus seems to be to have 5 members represent districts and have 2 at-large members next to that.
It will be interesting to see how those districts will be drawn. The final districting plan will more than likely be voted upon in a referendum on the ballot in 2010. We should all keep a close eye on this one.

For now I want to thank all the folks who showed up at the Board meeting or who made their voices heard in another way. Thanks to all of you sanity prevailed on this issue.

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WHY DO REPUBLICAN SENATORS HATE WORKING
FAMILIES-- OR AT LEAST WHY DO THEY VOTE AS IF THEY DO

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Most Republican senators don't think unemployment is a national problem. No really; they don't. Remember how excited we were last week when the House passed the unemployment benefits extension bill with a nice bipartisan veto-proof majority?

Bush said he would veto it and McConnell and McCain moved into action, through their deputy dog, Arizona's other far right senator, Jon Kyl, who led a filibuster maneuver since-- unlike the cowardly McCain and McConnell-- he won't have to face the voters in November.

The House-passed joblessness bill would extend unemployment insurance in all states by 13 weeks beyond the 26 weeks already authorized under law. States with high unemployment-- a total rate of at least 6 percent, or an insured unemployment rate of 4 percent or higher-- would get an additional 13 weeks.

Republicans in both chambers, as well as the White House, want any extension to focus only on states with high unemployment rates, arguing that the national rate of 5.5 percent is low by historical standards.

The only thing that is low by historical standards are the ethics of this Regime which lies about everything, including statistics. The Bushites have found ways to exclude millions of unemployed people from being counted as unemployed and their numbers are meaningless. Real unemployment is estimated at between 11 and 14%.

Every single Democratic Senator, even reactionaries like Ben Nelson, (NE) Mary Landrieu (LA) and Tim Johnson (SD) voted for the extended unemployment benefits. Aside from Olympia Snowe (ME) and Bob Corker (TN), the only Republicans crossing the aisle and voting with the Democrats were fake moderates deathly afraid of being defeated in November-- rubber stamps-at-5-year-stints Susan Collins, Norm Coleman and Gordon Smith. True to their rubber stamp nature were Republican extremists like Elizabeth Dole (NC), Roger Wicker (MS), Lamar Alexander (TN), Ted Stevens (AK), John Cornyn (TX), Lindsey Graham (SC), John Sununu (NH), Pat Roberts (KS) and, of course, the execrable James Inhofe (OK), sworn enemy of working families.

Inhofe is being challenged by Oklahoma state Senator Andrew Rice, someone who has been working every day in Oklahoma City to solve the problems Inhofe and Bush have been creating. I called him this morning and asked him what he makes of Inhofe's vote against extending unemployment benefits to Oklahoma families. Andrew went beyond this one instance of betrayal. "In vote after vote, Senator Inhofe has refused to acknowledge the devastating impact these economic hard times are having on working families, veterans and seniors living on fixed incomes. The unemployment extension was just another in a series of common sense proposals opposed by Sen. Inhofe that would help working families manage their way through the Bush economy of high fuel costs, rising food prices and shrinking credit."

If you'd like to be part of the movement to trade in the worst of the Bush-era retreads-- and no one is worse than Inhofe-- for serious progressives who want to clean up the mess, there's no better investment than contributing to Andrew Rice's campaign. Andrew is the linchpin to a filibuster-proof Senate majority.

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Eco-Healthy Homes

Great article in Black Enterprise on people leading in the design industry. Robin Wilson works on bringing efficiency expertise to clients through product management. Here's an excerpt from her site :

Robin Wilson is the voice behind RobinWilsonHome, founded in 2000 and based in New York. She has earned the moniker "The Efficiency Expert," assisting clients in home redesigns, project management and architecture/contractor selection.

Robin and her team ensures that clients can look past the day-to-day issues in their renovation projects, although they are involved in the process at every step. This allows their vision to be realized with a clear plan, clear estimates, and management of interruption to their business or home life.

Working with clients prior to the start of their project to develop the Scope of Work, assisting with the selection of contractors, coordinating the expediting projcess for the building department are some of the key areas of expertise.

Take a look at her site : Robin Wilson Home

Article on her sight on eco-health : Eco-Healthy Homes