NICOTINE PACIFIER
The displaced and ubiquitous huddled souls of this country's Smokers' ghettos take heart! The SuperSmoker will send the taste and nicotine of a four cigarettes into your gullet without flame or smoke. And, if you're still hungry, eat your MEAT CARD.
(Suggested by TECHCRUNCH)
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Country Watch: France | F is for French Fry
LUNCH AS A TEACHING TOOL
France and Japan use school meals as an educational tool to instill proper eating habits and good manners. The French government, recognizing that students only eat one meal each day at school, emphasize that the purpose of the meal is to "assure an elementary formation of taste" and to help provide nutrition education. Lunches should incorporate lessons on the vocabulary of taste, regional specialties, food preparation techniques and culinary heritage, the government suggests, adding that the midday meal "is much more than nutrients and calories."
(Suggested by ALTERNET)
France and Japan use school meals as an educational tool to instill proper eating habits and good manners. The French government, recognizing that students only eat one meal each day at school, emphasize that the purpose of the meal is to "assure an elementary formation of taste" and to help provide nutrition education. Lunches should incorporate lessons on the vocabulary of taste, regional specialties, food preparation techniques and culinary heritage, the government suggests, adding that the midday meal "is much more than nutrients and calories."
(Suggested by ALTERNET)
DOA: LIBERAL GOPers
Only twice since the Civil War have both U.S. senators from Pennsylvania been Democrats. If you knew that you'd understand just how far the Republican Party has fallen in its ancestral homeland. Liberal to moderate Northeastern Republicans once were as much a part of the political landscape as today's liberals from Massachusetts. Now, they live mostly in the history books. Que lastima.
(CNN, suggested by ALTERNET)
Only twice since the Civil War have both U.S. senators from Pennsylvania been Democrats. If you knew that you'd understand just how far the Republican Party has fallen in its ancestral homeland. Liberal to moderate Northeastern Republicans once were as much a part of the political landscape as today's liberals from Massachusetts. Now, they live mostly in the history books. Que lastima.
(CNN, suggested by ALTERNET)
Monday, May 04, 2009
Caught on Tape: Military Officials at Bagram Urge U.S. Soldiers to Evangelize in Afghanistan | War on Iraq | AlterNet
"HEAD HUNTING" FOR JESUS?
A new Al Jazeera video purports to show U.S. military forces in Afghanistan being instructed to 'hunt people for Jesus' as they spread Christianity to the Muslim population. Trying to convert Muslims to another faith is a crime in Afghanistan. The fact that the video footage is being broadcast guarantees that it will be seen throughout the Muslim world and will more credence to the perception that the U.S. neo-crusader forces are engaging in a war on Islam.
(ALTERNET)
A new Al Jazeera video purports to show U.S. military forces in Afghanistan being instructed to 'hunt people for Jesus' as they spread Christianity to the Muslim population. Trying to convert Muslims to another faith is a crime in Afghanistan. The fact that the video footage is being broadcast guarantees that it will be seen throughout the Muslim world and will more credence to the perception that the U.S. neo-crusader forces are engaging in a war on Islam.
(ALTERNET)
Friday, May 01, 2009
Raising Bill Gates - WSJ.com
RAISING BILL GATES
Bill Gates was a headstrong 12-year-old and was having a particularly nasty argument with his mother at the dinner table. Fed up, his father threw a glass of cold water in the boy's face. "Thanks for the shower," the young Mr. Gates snapped. His parents brought him to a therapist. "I'm at war with my parents over who is in control," Bill Gates recalls telling the counselor. Reporting back, the counselor told his parents that their son would ultimately win the battle for independence, and their best course of action was to ease up on him. They backed off. They enrolled their son in a school that they thought would give him more freedom. That was the private Lakeside School, now known as the place where Bill Gates discovered computers.
(WALL STREET JOURNAL)
Bill Gates was a headstrong 12-year-old and was having a particularly nasty argument with his mother at the dinner table. Fed up, his father threw a glass of cold water in the boy's face. "Thanks for the shower," the young Mr. Gates snapped. His parents brought him to a therapist. "I'm at war with my parents over who is in control," Bill Gates recalls telling the counselor. Reporting back, the counselor told his parents that their son would ultimately win the battle for independence, and their best course of action was to ease up on him. They backed off. They enrolled their son in a school that they thought would give him more freedom. That was the private Lakeside School, now known as the place where Bill Gates discovered computers.
(WALL STREET JOURNAL)
StumbleUpon WebToolbar - 25 logos with hidden messages – Amazing Graphic Designing tricks! | Graphic Design Blog
SUBLIMINAL ADS
Okay, so you've seen the FedEx logo a million times. But, have you noticed the arrow in the logo? This is a charming little piece by a graphic designer that explores logos and explains their hidden or, as Wilson Bryan Key would have labeled it, their subliminally seductive meaning.
(GRAPHICS DESIGN BLOG)
Okay, so you've seen the FedEx logo a million times. But, have you noticed the arrow in the logo? This is a charming little piece by a graphic designer that explores logos and explains their hidden or, as Wilson Bryan Key would have labeled it, their subliminally seductive meaning.
(GRAPHICS DESIGN BLOG)
Stallings, former players set reunion | TuscaloosaNews.com | The Tuscaloosa News | Tuscaloosa, AL
GETTING IT TOGETHER
One of the keys to Siran Stacy’s long and painful emotional recovery after his wife and four children were killed in a car accident didn’t happen in his home state, rather in the warm and friendly confines of a Texas ranch.
(TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
One of the keys to Siran Stacy’s long and painful emotional recovery after his wife and four children were killed in a car accident didn’t happen in his home state, rather in the warm and friendly confines of a Texas ranch.
(TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
Truthdig - Arts and Culture - Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan
REAGAN REVISITED
Here's some interesting commentary on James Mann's new book “The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War” by The Gipper's biographer Lou Cannon. Somewhere in all this, are the seeds of the truth.
(TRUTHDIG)
Here's some interesting commentary on James Mann's new book “The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War” by The Gipper's biographer Lou Cannon. Somewhere in all this, are the seeds of the truth.
(TRUTHDIG)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
YouTube - Past is present in Latin America Pt2
WHILE YOU WERE AWAY
Depressed and panicky about the election of Obama? Yeah, well imagine how we felt when Too got elected. And, our despair only worsened as his administration became engorged with the long-running cast of characters from the Viet Nam Syndrome/Watergate/Contra shadow government (Rumsfeld, Negroponte, Abrams, Poindexter, Wolfowitz, Bolton, etc.). (CHECK OUT THIS SITE FOR INFO ON THESE FOLKS) Well, as this (admittedly propagandistic) little news blurb shows, while Bush's golpe de estado centered its attention on the Middle East, the past was reconstructing itself in our hemisphere.
(REAL NEWS)
Depressed and panicky about the election of Obama? Yeah, well imagine how we felt when Too got elected. And, our despair only worsened as his administration became engorged with the long-running cast of characters from the Viet Nam Syndrome/Watergate/Contra shadow government (Rumsfeld, Negroponte, Abrams, Poindexter, Wolfowitz, Bolton, etc.). (CHECK OUT THIS SITE FOR INFO ON THESE FOLKS) Well, as this (admittedly propagandistic) little news blurb shows, while Bush's golpe de estado centered its attention on the Middle East, the past was reconstructing itself in our hemisphere.
(REAL NEWS)
Tide hosts rematch with S. Alabama | TuscaloosaNews.com | The Tuscaloosa News | Tuscaloosa, AL
TIDE SEEKS REVENGE
The University of Alabama baseball team traveled to Mobile a week ago and a football game broke out. At least that's the way it appeared on the scoreboard, with South Alabama scoring a 21-16 victory over the Crimson Tide. The Jaguars scored 10 runs in the third inning, going through four Alabama pitchers in that inning. South Alabama pounded out 22 hits in the game, including four doubles and a home run. The two teams return for a rematch tonight when the Jaguar hit men travel to Alabama's Sewell-Thomas Stadium at 6:35 pm.
(TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
The University of Alabama baseball team traveled to Mobile a week ago and a football game broke out. At least that's the way it appeared on the scoreboard, with South Alabama scoring a 21-16 victory over the Crimson Tide. The Jaguars scored 10 runs in the third inning, going through four Alabama pitchers in that inning. South Alabama pounded out 22 hits in the game, including four doubles and a home run. The two teams return for a rematch tonight when the Jaguar hit men travel to Alabama's Sewell-Thomas Stadium at 6:35 pm.
(TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
Monday, April 27, 2009
Democracy Corps » The Congressional Battleground Also a Surprise at 100 Days
NOT FADE AWAY
A new survey by Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research in the 40 most marginal Democratic seats shows Democratic incumbents holding strong in the territory where nearly all expect Republicans to reclaim lost ground. With Congress poised to vote on the president's budget, the Democratic incumbents are winning over 50 percent of the vote – stable over the last three months – and hold a double-digit lead against their generic challengers even in the 20 most difficult seats.
(DEMOCRACY CORPS)
A new survey by Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research in the 40 most marginal Democratic seats shows Democratic incumbents holding strong in the territory where nearly all expect Republicans to reclaim lost ground. With Congress poised to vote on the president's budget, the Democratic incumbents are winning over 50 percent of the vote – stable over the last three months – and hold a double-digit lead against their generic challengers even in the 20 most difficult seats.
(DEMOCRACY CORPS)
TARP Tales | Once upon a time...
NO TARP COVERUP
TARPtales, a project of CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), seeks to be a central repository for information about how our taxpayer dollars are being used to stabilize our failing institutions during this period of economic turmoil. The site posts all the TARP-related information available, and hopes to "arm journalists, watchdogs, and the general public with the tools to keep track of the government's bailout activities." Worth a look.
(CREW)
TARPtales, a project of CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), seeks to be a central repository for information about how our taxpayer dollars are being used to stabilize our failing institutions during this period of economic turmoil. The site posts all the TARP-related information available, and hopes to "arm journalists, watchdogs, and the general public with the tools to keep track of the government's bailout activities." Worth a look.
(CREW)
When Politics Disappoints, the Young Turn to Allen Ginsberg | | AlterNet
HOWL
Allen Ginsberg's spirit was invoked in the Bowery Poetry Cub, a scruffy, card-table-chair space in New York. Matvei Yankelevich, a poet in his twenties who looked half East European, half Midwestern and whose hair stood up and lay down in unusual places, was about to read 'Howl' in Russian. He ruffled the loose pages of Cyrillic splayed on a music stand, the verses that Ginsberg endlessly revised in his Berkeley apartment during the fall of 1955.
(ALTERNET)
Allen Ginsberg's spirit was invoked in the Bowery Poetry Cub, a scruffy, card-table-chair space in New York. Matvei Yankelevich, a poet in his twenties who looked half East European, half Midwestern and whose hair stood up and lay down in unusual places, was about to read 'Howl' in Russian. He ruffled the loose pages of Cyrillic splayed on a music stand, the verses that Ginsberg endlessly revised in his Berkeley apartment during the fall of 1955.
(ALTERNET)
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Kerry: Administration lacks 'real strategy' for handling Pakistan - USATODAY.com
KERRY CRITICIZES OBAMA AFGHAN POLICY
Just back from a visit to Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry says the Obama administration's plan for that volatile country, rolled out last month with great fanfare, "is not a real strategy." His statement amounted to one of the sharpest appraisals by a Democrat of one of the President's signature foreign policies. They also marked a change from his initial reaction to Obama's announcement of his plan for the region in a speech March 27, when Kerry issued a statement calling it "realistic and bold."
(USATODAY, suggested by OUR TROOPS NEWSLADDER)
Just back from a visit to Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry says the Obama administration's plan for that volatile country, rolled out last month with great fanfare, "is not a real strategy." His statement amounted to one of the sharpest appraisals by a Democrat of one of the President's signature foreign policies. They also marked a change from his initial reaction to Obama's announcement of his plan for the region in a speech March 27, when Kerry issued a statement calling it "realistic and bold."
(USATODAY, suggested by OUR TROOPS NEWSLADDER)
Friday, April 24, 2009
Mom-to-be hit by car while fleeing bear is OK | ajc.com
WALK AWAY FROM THE BONG!:
A pregnant woman who was fleeing a bear when she was struck by a car said she would honor the animal by giving her baby the middle name "Bear."
(ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION)
A pregnant woman who was fleeing a bear when she was struck by a car said she would honor the animal by giving her baby the middle name "Bear."
(ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION)
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