Monthly Archives: September 2011

Inspection- Commercialized Death

September 30, 2011
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Inspection- Commercialized Death

This is about one of those, “What the hell is wrong with humanity?” moments. The other night I was up at 3am watching TV, only because I need a new home computer. Usually I’m on the net, editing, reading, exploring. I go through spats: waking up at some ungodly hour; needing to do anything other than try to go back to sleep for an hour or two. You see if you stay in bed when this happens it just lasts longer. I’m told it’s not uncommon for older people to go through this. I wish to hell I had slept through an ad they played over and over again in the wee AM hours. Ad starts: flaming, smoking towers. Voiceover: serious, mournful: all about how horrible that day was. Then start with the George W. clips. Voiceover cheerily brags about how we, essentially, “took it to them.” Of course no corpses of the innocent, broken families, or fleeing citizens dare apply for a single mention. No talk of how the Taliban promised to give up bin Laden… how we let him escape at Tora Bora, or how we might have been able to skip 99.9% of the whole death and…

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Shouted Down By Big Corporate Bucks

September 30, 2011
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Shouted Down By Big Corporate Bucks

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How America Handles Tragedy and Injustice

September 30, 2011
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Written by Dylan Brody MORNING NEWS We have today an exclusive interview with Convicted murderer Troy Davis, scheduled for execution this afternoon. Mr. Davis, thanks for being with us. TROY I’m happy to be with you. You know, for now. MORNING NEWS Of course. So, listen, I know you’re scheduled to die later on today, I can imagine you have a lot on your mind and I would love to just let you talk, but I am feeling a little bit pressed for time.  

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Passing Gas

September 29, 2011
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Passing Gas

HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian This morning I was sitting in my recliner watching last night’s Rachel Maddow Show over ROKU’s News Channel, while drinking my coffee. I wasn’t really paying attention. Rachel was talking about Rand Paul and his objections to government regulations when the following excerpt was posted on screen. “determine whether mandatory inspections of aging pipelines…. should be expanded to include lines in rural areas.” Wait, what? Back up feed to replay that part, pause on image. EXPANDED to include lines in rural areas? What the heck! Do you mean they are not currently doing safety inspections of rural pipelines? Where do they think the wells are located? The explosion of a 30-inch steel pipeline section leveled 15 acres of homes in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, California and killed four people.

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Obama-cares

September 29, 2011
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Obama-cares

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Corporations Are NOT People

September 28, 2011
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Corporations Are NOT People

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Stupid Voters Enable Broken Government

September 27, 2011
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Stupid Voters Enable Broken Government

Written by LZ Granderson for CNN.com Editor’s note: This is one of a series of CNN Opinion articles on the question, “Why is our government so broken?” LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named Journalist of the Year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and is a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com and the 2009 winner of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @locs_n_laughs. Watch him on CNN Newsroom Tuesdays at 9 a.m. ET. (CNN) — Whenever I visit Washington, I can’t help but think this is the town that elected a crackhead as its mayor. I know, I know it’s not PC to say, but just because it’s insensitive doesn’t mean it isn’t true. But think about this: There is footage of Marion Barry in a room of crack smoke saying, “Bitch set me up.” And yet that image, that video did not disqualify him from being seen as a viable political option in the mind of voters. In fact, not only was he re-elected mayor after serving…

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Class Warfare My Ass

September 26, 2011
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Class Warfare My Ass

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.” – George Bernard Shaw Written by William Rivers Pitt I have been saying this for years upon years, but it bears repeating: the most awesome, fearsome, and effective weapon in the arsenal of the modern Republican Party is their total, utter and complete lack of shame. That weapon – the ability to say or do anything, literally anything, even as it flies in the face of on-the-record comments made just the day before, or contradicts thousands of votes cast in congresses past – is the equivalent of a battlefield-deployed tactical nuclear weapon. It clears the field, but good, and if everything is ashes in the aftermath, so be it. So long as effective spin makes the news cycle, it’s a victory for them, and screw the people who get hurt. The GOP wins when that is the contest, and that is all they care about…and the awful irony comes when the very people getting screwed are up on their feet cheering after the deal goes down, because “their team” won the day.

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Spay or Neuter Your Pets

September 25, 2011
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Spay or Neuter Your Pets

Tragic example of an in-bread cat!

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Food for Life: Fields of Gold

September 25, 2011
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Food for Life: Fields of Gold

Fields of Gold TEXT: Ruth 1:22-2:7 There’s a field of gold outside the city of Bethlehem – a field bursting with barley plants ready to be harvested. Barley is similar to wheat, but with a thicker, longer head of grain that is able to thrive in a variety of climates. As the workers get ready to harvest the barleycorns, there are two places you can stand to watch them work. One perspective comes from above – from higher ground, near the threshing floor, where the barley will be brought to separate the grain from the husks and chaff. It’s the place where Boaz stands, the owner of the field whose wealth comes from the work of those he oversees, literally. The other perspective comes from below – from the level of the field itself; either seen with eyes focused ahead on the rows of grain before you, or as in the case of Ruth, with eyes focused on the ground, intent on picking up the slightest stalk or kernel that the gleaners have let fall to the ground. The view of Boaz and the view of Ruth: Where you stand makes all the difference in the world in how you…

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