MOVE ON
Rather than acknowledging the party's failed policies and reaching out to new constituencies, the GOP's dominant faction is retrenching around the anti-government, free-market, fundamentalist strain of Republicanism last championed by Barry Goldwater when in 1964 he steered the party to one of its most crushing defeats.
(ROLLING STONE)
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
ON CHENEY
Andrew Sullivan's reflections are more than just a chillingly accurate criticism of the former Veep, they hold true for many others:
Andrew Sullivan's reflections are more than just a chillingly accurate criticism of the former Veep, they hold true for many others:
It confirms the very worst of [him], and reveals just how callow, just how arrogant, and just how reckless and unrepentant [this man] is and has long been. There was not a whisper of regret or reflection; there was a series of lies and distortions, a reckless attack on a graceful successor, inheriting a world of intractable problems, and a reminder that while serious men and women will indeed move on, [Cheney] never will.
(ATLANTIC MONTHLY, suggested by WEST VIRGINIA BLUE)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Welcome to BayFest - Mobile's Music Festival
BAYFEST POSTER IS STUNNING
BayFest has announced the winner of its competition to design the official event poster and it is a stunner. The winning piece was created by Fairhope resident Sam Gambino and is sure to make the Mobile event stand out. More information and samples of Gambino’s other work can be found at www.samgambino.com.
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Associated Press: Despite embargo, Cuba imports daiquiris from US
BUT WE CAN DO BUSINESS WITH THEM?
Amid calls for a fresh start in U.S./Cuban relations, sales of high-end treats and other seemingly nonessential items highlight the inconsistencies in the current American policy. The waiver is so broad that it includes beer, soda and a host of inedible items such as beauty products, artwork, utility poles, kitchen cabinets and Alabama newsprint, which totaled $6 million in sales last year.
(GOOGLE, suggested by CUBAN WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST)
Amid calls for a fresh start in U.S./Cuban relations, sales of high-end treats and other seemingly nonessential items highlight the inconsistencies in the current American policy. The waiver is so broad that it includes beer, soda and a host of inedible items such as beauty products, artwork, utility poles, kitchen cabinets and Alabama newsprint, which totaled $6 million in sales last year.
(GOOGLE, suggested by CUBAN WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST)
Connecting Americans & Cubans through the freedom to travel - opencuba.org | supported by orbitz.com
HELP END THE BAN
Obama has made it easier for Cuban Americans to visit their families in Cuba. Opinion polls show that the overwhelming majority of Americans believes that all U.S. citizens should have the freedom to travel to Cuba. Seize the opportunity to help end the 50-year travel ban by signing this petition.
(ORBITZ, suggested by CUBAN WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST)
Obama has made it easier for Cuban Americans to visit their families in Cuba. Opinion polls show that the overwhelming majority of Americans believes that all U.S. citizens should have the freedom to travel to Cuba. Seize the opportunity to help end the 50-year travel ban by signing this petition.
(ORBITZ, suggested by CUBAN WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
AFP: Fallen Chinese leader reveals Tiananmen secrets
TIENANMEN MEMOIR PUBLISHED
The memoir of Zhao Ziyang, a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with the 1989 pro-democracy protests, has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent.
(GOOGLE)
The memoir of Zhao Ziyang, a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with the 1989 pro-democracy protests, has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent.
(GOOGLE)
Thursday, May 07, 2009
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)
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)
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)
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