The French Presidential Election 2012: Up Date

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 22 April 2012 11:56:29 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow GazetteUp Date: Socialist Party candidate François Hollande garnered 28.4% of the vote beating Nicholas Sarkozy who came in second with 25.5%. The surprise was the third place showing by the far right National Front[...]

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How Can We Make The Case For Public Employees If
This Is How Some Conduct ThemselvesHouston Public Works Staff Need To Get To Work Just As We Need To Fight For The Role Of Government

post from Texas Liberal on 22 April 2012 11:42:09 PM. © Texas Liberal

A recent Houston Chronicle article discussed the large numbers of City of Houston employees who have been disciplined or fired for poor conduct on the job. From The Chronicle— “While working on the taxpayers’ dime, Houston’s Public Works employees have smoked pot, driven drunk, packed guns, falsified meter readings and stolen scrap metal, not to [...]

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 22 April 2012 11:30:11 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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But seriously, Happy Earth Day. Open Thread below....

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Open thread for night owls

post from Daily Kos on 22 April 2012 11:30:03 PM. © Daily Kos

Via the "stuff that's been sitting in my browser for a while" file, from HuffPo:

And now there's the new study linking conservative ideologies to "low-effort" thinking. [...]
Bar patrons were asked about social issues before blowing into a Breathalyzer. As it turned out, the political viewpoints of patrons with high blood alcohol levels were more likely to be conservative than were those of patrons whose blood alcohol levels were low.
But it wasn't just the alcohol talking, according to the statement. When the researchers conducted similar interviews in the lab, they found that people who were asked to evaluate political ideas quickly or while distracted were more likely to express conservative viewpoints.
"Keeping people from thinking too much...or just asking them to deliberate or consider information in a cursory manner can impact people's political attitudes, and in a way that consistently promotes political conservatism," Dr. Eidelman said in the email.

Hmm. Just ... hmm.

Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2009:

Boy, we knew that Obama's inexperience would soon catch up to him, causing him to make an error as egregious as this one, as Lincoln Diaz-Balart points out:
Advocates for Castro [at the Summit of the Americas], [s]omehow, they knew that President Obama would refer to Castro?s totalitarian fiefdom as 'Cuba.'
Yup, can you believe that Obama called the nation of Cuba, well, "Cuba"? He should've known better. That's what we get for electing someone so inexperienced and naive as Obama! Of course, I'm not sure what this says about Diaz-Balart himself, as Giancarlo Sopo notes:
Even for Lincoln Diaz-Balart, this is nutty, especially since he himself referred to Cuba as ?Cuba? four times in his speech (:12, 1:30, 3:05, 3:18). I wonder if this implies now that he is no longer a Cuban-American congressman, but rather ?the totalitarian Castro fiefdomite congressman from Miami?? Should CANF change its name now to the Totalitarian Castro Fiefdom-American National Foundation?

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"Look, Rupert's the CEO. He wanted to tweet. I'm not going to second-guess him." NYTMag Q&A w Joel Klein. http://t.co/...
? @davidfolkenflik via web

High Impact Posts are here. Top Comments are here.

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Late Night FDL: Happy Earth Day

post from Firedoglake on 22 April 2012 11:00:58 PM. © Firedoglake

It's painfully ironic that Dagwood Bumstead finally got around to celebrating Earth Day today, by napping instead of mowing the lawn, at the same time Earth Day became more of a wake than anything to celebrate. Thanks to our brain-dead media and[...]

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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Dr. John

post from Crooks and Liars on 22 April 2012 11:00:08 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Title: Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya YaArtist: Dr. John

Got a favorite from New Orleans?

Gris Gris

Price: $6.99 (As of 04/22/12 07:06 pm details)

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Sunday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 22 April 2012 10:49:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

Happy 75th birthday to Jack Nicholson ? I could be here all night sorting through clips to put up here, from ?Chinatown,? ?Five Easy Pieces,? ?One Flew Over The Cuckoo?s Nest,? ?Batman? even, and many other films, but this will do (from ?A Few Good Men,? of course)...

...and here?s a tune to listen to between the raindrops.

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Bland on Bland

Republican "insiders" (which is a nicer way of describing the "not completely batshit insane" wing of the party) are still licking their wounds after being burned by the Great Palin Immolation of 2008, so this go-around they're looking for a nice steady[...]

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NYT Pub Ed: Is Obama Manchurian Candidate

Today the New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane threw in his lot with those who say President Obama was never truly 'vetted' during the 2008 campaign and that Times itself was a major part of that failure. Vetting is very much in the eye of the[...]

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