Archive for October, 2009

Beached Blue Whale in Fort Bragg, CA

Filed under: California | Environment — by Will Kirkland 10/28/2009 @ 8:52:04 PM
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A friend from Fort Bragg sends this along… poor fella, and poor noses for the Braggites in the next weeks! … [Keep reading >>]

Public Option: One More Push

Filed under: Action! | Health & Welfare — by Will Kirkland 10/28/2009 @ 8:29:04 PM
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Robert Reich: Push Now!

Dear MoveOn member,
We’re closer than ever to winning a historic victory on health care.
I should know: I served as Secretary of Labor under President Clinton … [Keep reading >>]

Iraq Closes 2,500 Schools: H1N1

Filed under: Health & Welfare | Iraq | Middle East — by Will Kirkland 10/27/2009 @ 8:16:54 PM

While all the news and scary headlines about H1N1 (Swine Flu) we’ve seen have been about the U.S. — refusals to use the vaccine, the slow ramp-up of supplies, deaths, … [Keep reading >>]

The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films

Filed under: Movies — by Will Kirkland 10/24/2009 @ 2:59:25 PM
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For my small week-end contribution you could read The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films posted on my own blog, www.AllInOneBoat.org. Powerful stuff in a war-wracked … [Keep reading >>]

Health Care Group Targets Obama

Filed under: Action! | Health & Welfare — by Will Kirkland 10/24/2009 @ 12:41:59 PM
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[lifted from TPMDC]
Progressive Group Ad Targets Obama For Imperiling Public Option
Brian Beutler | October 24, 2009, 12:51PM

Responding to news first reported by … [Keep reading >>]

Michelle: All Jumpy

Filed under: Obama Administration | Politics — by Will Kirkland 10/24/2009 @ 11:24:11 AM
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Charles’ Blow, NYT, is one happy man:

The Magic of Michelle

Forgive me in advance for fawning, but Michelle Obama is the coolest first lady ever. She clinched it for me this … [Keep reading >>]

Health Care Bill

Filed under: Action! | Health & Welfare — by Will Kirkland 10/21/2009 @ 9:55:18 AM

Finance Committee Health Bill Deeply Flawed

NOW is the time to let the main players know!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Sen. Max Baucus, the Finance Committee chairman; Sen. Christopher Dodd, a … [Keep reading >>]

George H.W. Bush – Hypocrisy Anyone?

Filed under: FrontPage — by Carole Mills 10/17/2009 @ 12:01:35 PM

George Herbert Walker Bush added his voice to the, well groundswell may be too strong a word, let’s just say nattering, of voices from the more reasonable right who are … [Keep reading >>]

The Cheney’s Magical Mystery Tour

Filed under: FrontPage — by Carole Mills 10/14/2009 @ 6:34:26 PM

Watching Liz and Dick Cheney on their tireless and apparently never ending revisionist tour of the airwaves has been a surrealist experience unlike anything we’ve seen since those heady days … [Keep reading >>]

Massive Ordnance Penetrator Rushed To Production

Filed under: Weapons — by Will Kirkland 10/14/2009 @ 11:25:04 AM
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MOP to Be Ready in 10 Months

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Swine Flu, a Most Un Brilliant Illness

Filed under: Action! | Health & Welfare — by Will Kirkland 10/14/2009 @ 8:20:11 AM
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Local Marinite and friend, Larry Brilliant, now relieved of his duties at Google’s philanthropic arm, found time to get sick with the swine flue.  In case any of you are … [Keep reading >>]

Iraqi Drought Refugees

Filed under: Environment | Middle East — by Will Kirkland 10/14/2009 @ 7:57:48 AM
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As if Iraq didn’t have a banquet of troubles, there is this:
Over 100,000 people in northern Iraq have been forced to evacuate their homes since 2005 because of severe water … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison, 1795



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