January 2012
6 posts
**Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry | Truthout**
- **http://goo.gl/mo2jo**
**Montana State Supreme Court: Citizens United Not Welcome Here | Truthout**
- **http://goo.gl/m4hQ7**
(H/t to Dr. Roy Schestowitz )
**Farewell Michele | FP Passport**
- **http://goo.gl/MJ0aL** - On the Soviet Union:”What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.” Bachmann will now return to her [normal job](http://dia.so/1LF safeguarding the...
**Richard Stallman Was Right All Along**
- **http://goo.gl/7p9qG** - The crux of the matter here is that unlike the days of yore, where repressive regimes needed elaborate networks of secret police and informants to monitor communication, all they need now is control over the software and hardware we use. Our desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and all manner of devices play a role in...
http://youtu.be/5JgfQq5DLYc
December 2011
38 posts
**parislemon • Dear Google+**
- **http://goo.gl/dTpWg**
This won’t be happening here.
all creatures [great and small] - http://goo.gl/lyaHQ - CHEETA the chimpanzee, who starred alongside Tarzan from the movies of the 1930s through to the 1960s TV series, has died at the age of 80.
Firedoglake - http://firedoglake.com/ - In 2010, over 350 members of the House agreed to a bill designed to punish China for their currency manipulation. In 2011, 68 members of the Senate agreed to a similar bill. But in a year-end report to Congress, the Treasury Department voiced their disagreement, refusing to label China a currency manipulator, instead opting for softer language around their...
Glenn Greenwald: The Real Reason the GOP Primary Is a Pathetic, Incompetent Clown Show | | AlterNet - http://goo.gl/DS26S - But how can a GOP candidate invoke this time-tested caricature when Obama has embraced the vast bulk of George Bush’s terrorism policies; waged a war against government whistleblowers as part of a campaign of obsessive secrecy; led efforts to overturn a global ban on...
“We are Farmers, We Grow Food for the People” - YouTube - http://goo.gl/SFDuK
93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State Capitol For 30 Years Denied Voter ID | ThinkProgress - http://goo.gl/36q9z - A 93-year-old Tennessee woman who cleaned the state Capitol for 30 years, including the governor’s office, says she won’t be able to vote for the first time in decades after being told this week that her old state ID failed to meet new voter ID...
Jimi Santa Hendrix
Berea College Receives $30 Million Promise Neighborhood Grant | BCnow - http://goo.gl/IEUUO
Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring - IPS ipsnews.net - http://goo.gl/WMVt2 - “This wasn’t tear gas, it was something else,” says Hassan. “It burned the skin and lungs, and we all fell to the ground shaking uncontrollably.” A similar gas is suspected of causing the deaths of at least eight civilians in Bahrain since February. In Yemen, doctors reported that anti-government...
I won’t speculate about Joyce’s baking prowess but I can postulate that he knew well that a poem requires the right elements in measure, mixed correctly and then held at the required temperature.
[Ecce Puer](http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19320)
by James Joyce
Of the dark past
A child is born;
With joy and grief
My heart is torn.
Calm in his cradle
The living lies.
May love and mercy
Unclose his eyes!
Young life is breathed
On the glass;
The world that was not
Comes to pass.
A child is sleeping:
An old man gone.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
Round two: Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti Recipe - Allrecipes.com - http://dia.so/1BU 
Ok, here we go … Sunday Morning In The Kitchen (SMITK*) Zested the trangerine, got about a teaspoon - powerful stuff…
Biscotti Recipe - Allrecipes.com - http://goo.gl/B5lS5 
Poll Finds President Obama Is World’s Most Respected Leader - http://goo.gl/A6r6K - Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed chose Obama, which is one percentage point higher than when Harris Interactive asked the same question in November.Getty ImagesPresident Obama and the Dalai Lama rank at the top of a new poll measuring the world’s most popular leaders.Close on his heels is the...
http://www.gapingvoidgallery.com
Defend the Bill of Rights for All of Us. | OccupyWallSt.org - http://goo.gl/MVYuh - The Bill of rights was ratified 220 years ago, on December 15, 1791. It is shameful that today, in the United States, we are forced to come together in defense of the Bill of Rights and our civil liberties, as the representatives of the 1% who rule this country continue to take our rights away.Congress is...
TIME’s Person of the Year 2011 - TIME - http://goo.gl/uCCAh - Runner-Up: Ai Weiwei 
Slackware … it is easy to spot.
Occupy Wall Street ANTHEM Bruce Springsteen Tom Joad OWS - YouTube - http://goo.gl/YWwgw - Search
If the Right is successful in reducing government spending on entitlement programs then isn’t is safe to assume that the responsibility of caring for the hungry, poor and unhoused will then fall to the states? And won’t the states immediately increase taxes to make up for the lack of federal funds?
The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy | The Nation - http://goo.gl/jUL87 
WATCH: The Gingrich Who Stole Christmas (Saunders Cartoon) | Mother Jones - http://goo.gl/oy6tl
Jesus is a Buddha, God’s Plan for Variety in Religion | Provoketive Magazine - http://goo.gl/bQknr
Bacone - Bacon Wiki - http://goo.gl/o6IwB 
Egypt’s ElBaradei: Liberals ‘decimated’ in vote - Yahoo! News - http://goo.gl/oP278 - Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Prize laureate and possible presidential candidate, said he hopes moderate Islamists will rein in the extremists and send a reassuring message to the world that Egypt will not go down an ultraconservative religious path.
Life’s clock
One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.
Carl Jung
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
Michigan’s Radical Assault on Public Education | Mother Jones - http://goo.gl/bkDd3
Underpaid Genius • If the Postal Service has become a subsidized tool… - http://goo.gl/nBX0J
[The singing bus driver](http://bentlily.com/2011/12/01/the-singing-bus-driver/)
by bentlily
It’s all over the news
the bus driver in Ottawa
who sang to his passengers for years
until a few complained.
I expect him to feel defeated
at least frustrated
but he is as chipper in his silence
as he was in song.
Bus loads of commuters defend him anyway
hand out song sheets
belting out...
Save Lives with Charitable Holiday Gifts | Rescue Gifts - http://goo.gl/9oFGk
Was police chief’s computer hacked by journalists? | Naked Security - http://goo.gl/z2ECe
November 2011
46 posts
Anonymous’ Robin Hood Credit Card Fraud Campaign Could Hurt More Than Just Banks | PCWorld - http://goo.gl/CCWCm - Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have joined together in a new campaign that involves compromising credit card details and using them to donate money to charities, homeless people and anti-government protesters around the world.The two hacker outfits, who call their...
The Prevail Project - http://goo.gl/Qmzx7 - I decline to accept the end of man.It is easy enough to say that man is immortalsimply because he will endure: that whenthe last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded fromthe last worthless rock hanging tideless inthe last red and dying evening, that even thenthere will still be one more sound:that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.I...
San Diego police arrest congressional candidate for voter registration in Civic Center Plaza - Boing Boing - http://goo.gl/z0jpm
Paul Barton drags piano to top of mountain to serenade blind elephants | Metro.co.uk - http://goo.gl/MgSsb
One Bite At a Time - http://goo.gl/HepcB
The only political action that matters right now in the United States is to dismantle this Mafioso banking cartel and break the stranglehold that it has on our government and us. Everything else, liberal or conservative, amounts to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.