Organizing for America's Christmas card: "I wish for health reform"

Barack Obama and the Democrats' permanent-campaign organization, Organizing for America," has produced a loving Christmas card, okay, they call it a "holiday card," that they suggest I e-mail to my two senators, Dick Durbin and Roland Burris.
Leave it to the liberals to politicize and ruin everything. Even Christmas...uh, I mean "the holidays."

In 2010, they'll get a big lump of coal in their stocking.
Oh...does anyone expect Durbin and Burris to vote against whateverSource: Marathon Pundit RSS Feed

Murderer of pregnant woman should be charged with 2 killings

From the Daily News:
Queens prosecutors say boyfriend Derrick Redd, angry with Delain for refusing to have an abortion, stabbed her six times in the stomach, killing her and the unborn boy she planned to name Aidan.
"I either avoid the problem or I eliminate it," Redd said, according to investigators who interviewed him after Delain's body was found.
Redd, 36, faces a murder charge for the Oct. 25, 2008, slaying of Delain, 25, but nothing for the death of the unborn fetus.
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CBO: Stimulus Netted 600K – 1.6M Jobs

From the ‘Director’s Blog’ at the Congressional Budget Office:

Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009

November 30th, 2009

Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the economic stimulus package, certain recipients of funds appropriated in ARRA (most grant recipients, contractors, and subcontractors) are required to report the number of jobs theySource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

Mauric Clemmons Islam Connections

Maurice Clemmons who brutally shot and killed four police officers (and has since been shot and killed by a policeman at a routine stop), may have had connections to the Nation of Islam. Clemmons, the Last Crusade has learned from an Arkansas law enforcement official, became a member of the Nation of Islam while serving time in the Cummins Prison. Gateway Pundit cannot verify this. What can be confirmed is: BLACK MUSLIMS CONDUCT CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF WASHINGTON STATE COP KILLER .

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Blowblack: The massacre in Maguindanao

The Massacre in Maguindanao in the Philippines

Maria A. Ressa
Head, ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs
Former CNN Jakarta Bureau Chief

You can’t escape the laws of physics. Newton’s third law of motion states: “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” In the world of governments and their security forces, it’s called blowback – a term first coined by the US Central Intelligence Agency in classified documents to describe US andSource: AC360 RSS Feed

Boom Times: Wall St. Luxury Spending Rises. So Does Food Stamp Use!

From the New York Times, we find out just how many Americans now qualify for food assistance:

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

With millions of jobs lost and major industries on the ropes, America’s array of government aid — including unemployment insurance, food stamps and cash welfare — is being tested asSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

Likudniks Blast 'enemy of the Jews' Obama ~ They Are Correct!

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a news conference in his office in Jerusalem November 25, 2009. Israel announced on Wednesday a plan to limit settlement construction for 10 months in a bid to revive peace negotiations with the Palestinians who said the partial moratorium did not meet their terms for talks.

Likudniks blast 'enemy of the Jews' Obama over settlement freeze

Haaretz.com

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Sunday Classics: Just for fun -- American treasures

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was always a Leonard Bernstein specialty. This is Part 1 of a 1976 performance in which he plays and conducts the London Symphony; Part 2 is here. (The luscious "big tune" finally emerges at 3:03 of Part 2.)
by Ken
No grand propositions to prove this week. Just some deliciously wonderful music, in the Thanksgiving spirit.
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
George and Ira Gershwin (center and right)at the keyboard with Fred Astaire
When ISource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Expanding Renewable Energy and Efficiency in the Air Force

Solar arrays are seen at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV. The Air Force can start using more renewable energy and become more energy efficient while saving taxpayers money.  This guest post by Alexandra Kougentakis, Tom Kenworthy, and Daniel J. Weiss was first published here.

Listen to a press call on the report with retired Air Force Officer Paul Clarke, Shangri-La Construction CEO Andy Meyers, and CAP Senior Fellow Daniel J. Weiss (mp3)

Reliance on foreign energySource: Climate Progress RSS Feed

Selected News Items For Nov 28 – Dec 4

This thread is for the busy bees of S&L to post articles that demonstrate the distortions and biases of our establishment media.

To make the articles as readable as possible, please use the format described here.

And:

• Only post ‘hard news’ from establishment media outlets.
• Avoid editorials and ‘thought pieces,’ unless they are truly newsworthy.
• Eschew ‘major news’ items that most people will likely have seen elsewhere.
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the lauderdale paradox

Monthly Review | Today orthodox economics is reputedly being harnessed to an entirely new end: saving the planet from the ecological destruction wrought by capitalist expansion. It promises to accomplish this through the further expansion of capitalism itself, cleared of its excesses and excrescences. A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital — the credo of economic liberalism from AdamSource: subrealism RSS Feed

Which way is MORI going to go next?

UKPollingReport

Can you predicts its next set of numbers?

I don’t think that there’s been a poll in recent times that has had such an impact on the media narrative that the November Political Monitor from Ipsos-MORI.

Even though it’s now four days since it was published and nearly a week and a half since the fieldwork close the general election outcome that it suggested is still being mulled over by “serious” commentators.

So what do you thinkSource: Political Betting RSS Feed

Checking in With Our Troops In Afghanistan

Along Afghanistans porous border with Pakistan, the U.S. Army is focused on reaching out to Afghan villagers and building local institutions. Immense Mountains and abject poverty stand out as obstacles to success, but it is the human terrain that presents the greatest challenge.

In this mini-documentary, Lt. Jake Kerr Combat Platoon out of a remote outpost in the Dangam District of eastern Afghanistans Kunar province,

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More news of ourSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed

Bloomberg bad, but lame press even worse

From the Daily News:
Here's what you missed while Mayor Bloomberg was running for a third term - because he kept it under wraps until after the ballots were counted:
• The city budget deficit isn't as bad as he said.
• The NYPD was quietly exempted from the budget cuts at almost every other agency.
• A $60 million tax loss that gave Bloomberg a soap box to rail against the state Senate has magically vanished.
But that's all just numbers. What really drives the Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Who's better for the economy?

While Republicans blame Democrats for everything and call President Obama a socialist for his efforts to rescue the economy, it's time someone took a look at who does a better job.

I have.

Using the broadest measure of economic activity, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as detailed on the government's Bureau of Economic Analysis website, I prepared the attached chart showing the change in GDP during each president's four-year term of office since Harry Truman's second term.Source: The Albany Project RSS Feed

Judge Rules Army To Blame For Katrina

From an overjoyed Associated Press:

Water is pumped out of New Orleans’ flooded Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina. Katrina negligence ruling may cost feds

November 19, 2009

NEW ORLEANS — The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval onSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

America’s Obsession with Guns

Out of my cold, dead hands

I was driving to work last night and happened to follow a red van with an American flag in the back window, surrounded by bullet hole decals and an NRA sticker.  The van had these bumper stickers, from left to right:

1. “Charlton Heston is my President”
2. “FUBO”
3. “McCain/Palin”
4. “Out of my cold, dead hands”

License plate: NRA R US

This reminded me of the Teabagger protest where the secondSource: rochesterturning.com RSS Feed

LA Invite: Amy Goodman, Breaking the Sound Barrier

You’re invited to join us this Thursday, Nov. 19th at 3:00pm for a Brave New Conversation with Democracy Now’s acclaimed host, Amy Goodman. The award-winning  journalist and author joins us in our studios to chat with Robert Greenwald about her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier.

This new collection of articles breaks through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites and silence. In place of the usual suspects, the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little Source: Robert Greenwald RSS Feed

Breaking news! Obama Superman Win!

In what can only be called an Epic Win, President Obama has turned his back on Superman!

USA rules!

With this daring breach of protocol (at the risk of a super-wedgie) Obama has done what no American President has ever done – disrespected Superman.

I think we can all agree that this is truly a great day to be an American!

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CNN to Dobbs: Here's $8 Million, Now Just Go Away

3475 Plays

Wow. Look how much CNN wanted him out of there:

CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned.

"They wanted him out," according to a source.

Dobbs, who a source said had a year and a half to go on his $12 million contract, shocked viewers last Wednesday by announcing he was quitting.

CNN boss Jonathan Klein and Dobbs, 64, had been publicly feuding over the kind of reporting DobbsSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed