tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42921490023822233392011-07-30T08:24:31.564-07:0071353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.comBlogger1121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-8417270936243114232009-07-16T02:51:00.001-07:002009-07-16T02:51:16.299-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38107" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38107" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38107" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>What's the administration's specific aim in bailing out GM? I'll give you my theory later.</p><br /><p>For now, though, some background. First and most broadly, it doesn't make sense for America to try to maintain or enlarge manufacturing as a portion of the economy. Even if the U.S. were to seal its borders and bar any manufactured goods from coming in from abroad -- something I don't recommend -- we'd still be losing manufacturing jobs. That's mainly because of technology.</p><br /><p>When we think of manufacturing jobs, we tend to imagine old-time assembly lines populated by millions of blue-collar workers who had well-paying jobs with good benefits. But that picture no longer describes most manufacturing. I recently toured a U.S. factory containing two employees and 400 computerized robots. The two live people sat in front of computer screens and instructed the robots. In a few years this factory won't have a single employee on site, except for an occasional visiting technician who repairs and upgrades the robots.</p><br /><p>Factory jobs are vanishing all over the world. Even China is losing them. The Chinese are doing more manufacturing than ever, but they're also becoming far more efficient at it. They've shuttered most of the old state-run factories. Their new factories are chock full of automated and computerized machines. As a result, they don't need as many manufacturing workers as before.</p><br /><p>Economists at Alliance Capital Management took a look at employment trends in 20 large economies and found that between 1995 and 2002 -- before the asset bubble and subsequent bust -- 22 million manufacturing jobs disappeared. The U.S. wasn't even the biggest loser. We lost about 11 percent of our manufacturing jobs in that period, but the Japanese lost 16 percent of theirs. Even developing nations lost factory jobs: Brazil suffered a 20 percent decline, and China had a 15 percent drop.</p><br /><p>What happened to manufacturing? In two words, higher productivity. As productivity rises, employment falls because fewer people are needed. In this, manufacturing is following the same trend as agriculture. A century ago, almost 30 percent of adult Americans worked on a farm. Nowadays, fewer than 5 percent do. That doesn't mean the U.S. failed at agriculture. Quite the opposite. American agriculture is a huge success story. America can generate far larger crops than a century ago with far fewer people. New technologies, more efficient machines, new methods of fertilizing, better systems of crop rotation, and efficiencies of large scale have all made farming much more productive.</p><br /><p>Manufacturing is analogous. In America and elsewhere around the world, it's a success. Since 1995, even as manufacturing employment has dropped around the world, global industrial output has risen more than 30 percent.</p><br /><p>More after the jump.</p><br /><p>--<em>Robert Reich</em></p><br /><p><a href="http://blog.prospect.org/blog/weblog/2009/06/the_future_of_manufacturing_an.html#115327">MORE...</a></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/future-manufacturing-and-american-worker';<br />digg_title = 'THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING AND THE AMERICAN WORKER.';<br />digg_bodytext = "What\'s the administration\'s specific aim in bailing out GM? I\'ll give you my theory later.\n\nFor now, though, some background. First and most broadly, it doesn\'t make sense for America to try to maintain or enlarge manufacturing as a portion of the economy. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39054" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39054" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k-Ra-kd7uk8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k-Ra-kd7uk8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><br /><p>VA State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) is on the air in Northern VA today with a spot -- titled "Tradition" -- that pitches his endorsement by the <em>Washington Post</em>.</p><br /><br /><p>Script: "On June 9th, which Democrat has the most experience to carry on the policies of Mark Warner and Tim Kaine? The Washington Post says it's Creigh Deeds. Deeds 'would make transportation his first priority.'" </p><br /><br /><p>"Tradition" will air on broadcast and cable stations in NoVA, putting Deeds on the airwaves in every in-state media market through the 6/9 Dem primary. It's his first spot in the vote-rich DC suburbs and airs as <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_VA_602531.pdf">one poll</a> shows him surging past rivals Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran. </p></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/deeds-air-nova';<br />digg_title = 'Deeds On The Air In NoVA';<br />digg_bodytext = "\n\nVA State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) is on the air in Northern VA today with a spot -- titled \"Tradition\" -- that pitches his endorsement by the Washington Post.\n\nScript: \"On June 9th, which Democrat has the most experience to carry on the policies of Mark Warner and Tim Kaine? The Washington Post says it\'s Creigh Deeds. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38279" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38279" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>WASHINGTON -- They might have the WH and Congress, but progressives - gathered this week for a four-day conference billed as "America's Future Now!" - aren't universally pleased with the Obama administration. </p><br /><p>As a coalition of liberal groups announced their union today behind an unprecedented $82M grassroots and advertising campaign to push for health care reform, some consternation remains in the Democratic base about if Pres. Obama is pursuing a sweeping enough package. Others expressed dismay with his decision to increase troop levels in Afghanistan.</p><br /><p>During the question and answer portion of a panel about "The progressive movement in the Age of Obama," held at the Omni Shoreham and featuring Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart and Change to Win chair Anna Burger, among others, Burger was interrupted by a female audience member who barked from the darkened ballroom: "Why not single-payer?" </p><br /><p>"It would be great to have single-payer, but I don't think that's going to happen this year," she said, adding that whatever plan is ultimately adopted, Democrats seem to be moving toward a public option plan that allows people to opt out of the system, will make a difference in people's lives.</p><br /><p>A few minutes later, Deepak Bhargava, with the Center for Community Change, interjected, "I think many of us think the single payer system would be the best system," he said, drawing enthusiastic applause from many activists in the room.</p><br /><p>But then he pivoted. "It is a step on the path," he said.</p><br /><p>A step isn't enough for everyone. After eight years of assailing Pres. Bush's leadership, progressives are regrouping in an effort to leverage their newfound fortune - a WH in Dem hands and a Senate just one-vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority. They even had to change the past name of the annual confab from "Take Back America."</p><br /><p>Some today sounded a broad caution that progressives shouldn't quiet their call for change just because Obama is at the helm or Congress is dominated by members of the president's party.</p><br /><p>The best gift the left can give Obama, said MoveOn.org's Ilyse Hogue, is a "vibrant, vocal progressive movement."</p><br /><p>While Roger Hickey of Campaign for America's future suggested that an "inside and outside strategy" modeled on the civil rights era efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pres. Johnson in the 60s, will help the Democrats shepherd their policy plans through Congress, Hogue suggested the entire movement shouldn't fall in line behind consensus proposals if they don't go far enough or Democrats just because they're Democrats. She named Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), in particular, as one whose stance on the Employee Free Choice Act remains in question.</p><br /><p>"With all respect to Roger, I think our job is not to be inside or outside," she said. "It's to take the doors off the hinges and smash the walls down."</p><br /><p>Progressives have reason so far to be pleased with Obama. From his public support for "card check," as EFCA is called, to his signature of a new equal pay law, he is making good on several campaign promises. But health care - and the shape of the plan he ultimately endorses - could create a fault line in the movement of people who worked so intensely to elect a one-term junior senator from IL.</p><br /><p>Much of the focus of this week's conference seems to be creating unanimity behind shared goals - even if not all can be achieved. A video of Obama addressing the group in '06 and '07 was played for the crowd. </p><br /><p>"It's going to be because of you that we take our country back," he said, at a past conference. The clip was set to upbeat music.</p><br /><p>And several participants mentioned Obama's background as a community organizer. The message to attendees, of course, was that he knows what you do, he's done it himself, and he knows how critical it is to getting approval for his agenda.</p><br /><p>But during that same question and answer session, a male audience member yelled, "Afghanistan!" apropos of nothing being discussed.</p><br /><p>So for some on the left, the president isn't fulfilling all of his campaign promises and is starting to disappoint. Others suggest any divide is overstated. Hogue, for one, said that the media loves to fan the flames of "hot Dem on Dem action," as she called it.</p><br /><p>"The famous firing squad in a circle, I don't think we're anywhere near that," said Helen Brunner, a DC resident attending the conference. </p><br /><p>Change to Win's Burger put it differently. "Are there days when I wake up and think, could he have done more or could he be further out there? Absolutely." She said there will be more days like that, but noted still that Obama is a "transformational" president.</p><br /><p>"We have to make him successful," she said. "We have to make him the best that he can be."</p><br /><p>As for that massive push for health care reform, the groups supporting the effort include Health Care for America Now, the AFL-CIO and Change To Win, the Children's Defense Fund, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, Rock the Vote, National Women's Law Center, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Democracy for America. The money will be used for grassroots organizing (troops are already on the ground in 46 states) and a sizeable advertising campaign. </p><br /><p>During a lunchtime press conference, Howard Dean, recent past chair of the DNC and a doctor, said that it's more important to have a public plan than a bipartisan plan. "Bipartisan," he said, "is not an end in and of itself."</p><br /><p>He said that Republicans haven't helped Obama with the stimulus package nor do they seem poised to offer an assist with approving his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the nation's highest court.</p><br /><p>"If they're in there to shill for the insurance companies, I think we should do it with 51 votes," Dean said, suggesting that it be accomplished via budget reconciliation.</p><br /><p>Dean added: "The American people voted for real change. They knew exactly what he was proposing when he was on the campaign trail."</p><br /><p>(JENNIFER SKALKA)</p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/progressives-divided';<br />digg_title = 'Progressives Divided?';<br />digg_bodytext = "WASHINGTON -- They might have the WH and Congress, but progressives - gathered this week for a four-day conference billed as \"America\'s Future Now!\" - aren\'t universally pleased with the Obama administration. \n\nAs a coalition of liberal groups announced their union today behind an unprecedented $82M grassroots and advertising campaign to push for";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/progressives-divided" 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/>[Source: <a href="http://boston-newsyilpyjo.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Boston News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9159889944007787582-1065520385598293933?l=news-headlines39282.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-headlines39282.blogspot.com/2009/06/progressives-divided.html" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-headlines39282.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Headlines</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6696797883481807392-1467897696517262403?l=online-news30344.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://online-news30344.blogspot.com/2009/06/progressives-divided.html" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://online-news30344.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Online News</a>]<br 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/></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-48601940615741658612009-07-15T22:35:00.001-07:002009-07-15T22:35:25.554-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38325" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38325" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38325" 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Actually enduring the<br /><br />process gave us a much more nuanced opinion <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2011570b5dcdd970b-popup"><img alt="Views_of_a_Foetus_in_the_Womb_detail" class="at-xid-6a00d83451c45669e2011570b5dcdd970b " src="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2011570b5dcdd970b-120wi" /></a> about abortion.</p><br /><p>For us, it was Trisomy 21 -- Down Syndrome. The test came after my<br /><br />wife awoke one night in a pool of blood screaming and thinking she&#39;d<br /><br />suffered a miscarriage. After she ran to the toilet, it fell upon me<br /><br />to call her doctor and then scoop out the remains--that actually<br /><br />turned out to be huge clots--and take them to the doctor the next day.<br /><br />The geneticist said that because of all the bleeding and other<br /><br />complications there was almost no chance the fetus would make it to 20<br /><br />weeks let alone full term. </p><br /><p>My wife says one of my finest moments as<br /><br />her husband came when I somehow made her laugh while she awaited the<br /><br />abortion. My wife doesn&#39;t talk about her feelings of the abortion and<br /><br />the &quot;failed&quot; pregnancy. But we&#39;ve been together for more than a decade<br /><br />and I know she will always be crushed by it. I know we made the right<br /><br />decision for us but it still hurts badly. This was the son we would<br /><br />never have.<br /><br /><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=qHEzkNya0M0:anvJsOZDKnk:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/its-so-personal-regret';<br />digg_title = 'It&#039;s So Personal: The Regret';<br />digg_bodytext = "A reader writes:";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/its-so-personal-regret" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5497407353583349061-5555458151539653298?l=kenosha-news95394.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://kenosha-news95394.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-so-personal-regret.html" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://kenosha-news95394.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Kenosha News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/755593853170617643-446675450563126959?l=wb-news42281.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://wb-news42281.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-so-personal-regret.html" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://wb-news42281.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Wb News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3108543390980766539-5943693630291528976?l=news-herald21734.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-herald21734.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-so-personal-regret.html" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-herald21734.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Herald</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2716484911218452390-7218947865099425026?l=home-news13870.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://home-news13870.blogspot.com/feeds/7218947865099425026/comments/default" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2716484911218452390/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Home News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547677999720679171-5259436316713551577?l=mexico-news4188.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://mexico-news4188.blogspot.com/feeds/5259436316713551577/comments/default" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547677999720679171/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Mexico News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/400337748061659187-9004222182232082589?l=wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com/feeds/9004222182232082589/comments/default" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6846810161958371597-6030908524338388710?l=international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com/feeds/6030908524338388710/comments/default" target="_new">It's So Personal: The Regret</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-4860194061574165861?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-72893855451933314502009-07-15T22:24:00.001-07:002009-07-15T22:24:54.206-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38269" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38269" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38269" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p><span><span><span><span>MOO-ED OFF THE STAGE?</span></span></span></span></p><br /><p><span>After Faux Waterboarding, Mancow Appears To Lose DC</span></p><br /><p><span>How's this for</span> interesting timing? <a href="http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/05/chicago-radio-hosts-waterboarding-stunt.html">Less than a week after an ill-advised "waterboarding" stunt led to a supposed ideological conversion</a>, shock jock turned syndicated talk host Erich 'Mancow' Muller has apparently lost a key radio affiliate.</p><br /><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noctMig5B1U/SiQ2tegurkI/AAAAAAAAE0s/VUUa-0j-o4g/s1600-h/Mancow+-+taze.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_noctMig5B1U/SiQ2tegurkI/AAAAAAAAE0s/VUUa-0j-o4g/s200/Mancow+-+taze.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342455212880604738" border="0" /></a>According to <span><a href="http://www.dcrtv.com/">DCRTV</a>,</span> as well as one of your <span>Radio Equalizer's</span> own sources, the Chicago-based Mancow will be removed later this month from his morning drive slot on DC's WTNT-AM (Freedom 570):</p><br /><p><br /><blockquote><span>DC Times Radio Show To TNT? - 6/1 -</span> DCRTV hears that the most likely spot on the DC radio dial for the new Washington Times morning radio show is Red Zebra righty talker WTNT (570 AM).</blockquote></p><br /><p>The WTNT morning slot is currently occupied by the Chicago-based Mancow. The nationally syndicated Times news and political talk radio show debuts on 6/15 from studios at the Times' New York Avenue headquarters.</p><br /><p><span>Expected to take</span> Mancow's place in DC is a new program featuring former KSFO / San Francisco morning host Melanie Morgan teamed with John McCaslin of the <span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/28/times-announces-hosts-of-new-radio-talk-show/">Washington Times</a></span>:</p><br /><p><br /><blockquote>Longtime radio personality Melanie Morgan and award-winning newspaper columnist John McCaslin have been named the anchors for The Washington Times' new morning-drive radio show, set to debut nationwide June 15.</blockquote></p><br /><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noctMig5B1U/SiQ3DttccgI/AAAAAAAAE08/jI_GVGX4IJM/s1600-h/Morgan+Melanie+Wa+Times+Radio.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_noctMig5B1U/SiQ3DttccgI/AAAAAAAAE08/jI_GVGX4IJM/s200/Morgan+Melanie+Wa+Times+Radio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342455594917589506" border="0" /></a>"America's Morning News" will hit the airwaves from 6 to 9 a.m., five days a week, showcasing The Times' investigative and accountability journalism. The new team will hash out politics, defense, security, policy, culture and entertainment from a newly built, state-of-the-art broadcast facility inside The Times' newsroom.</p><br /><p>"Melanie and John will leverage every ounce of expertise, energy and gumshoe reporting out of The Times' investigative newsroom. They know how to break stories that matter to the American public, are passionate about holding the powerful to account and are committed to unearthing the stories that matter most to Americans - at the dinner table, by the water cooler and inside their pocketbook," Executive Editor John Solomon said. </p><br /><p>Both Mancow and the new program have a syndicator in common, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/28/times-announces-hosts-of-new-radio-talk-show/">the Oregon-based Talk Radio Network</a>.</p><br /><p><span><br />Whether there's a direct</span> connection between the sudden station loss and last week's waterboarding stunt, widely derided as a stunt despite (or because of) Keith Olbermann's ringing endorsement isn't known. But the backlash over what may have been an outright hoax certainly hasn't <span>helped</span> his career, that's for sure.</p><br /><p><span>FOR</span> New England regional talk radio updates, <a href="http://savewrko.com/">see our other site</a>.</p><br /><p><span></span></p><br /><p>Amazon orders originating with clicks here benefit The Radio Equalizer's ongoing operations.</p><br /><p>Your PayPal contributions keep this site humming along. Thanks!</p><br /><p><img alt="" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" border="0" height="5" width="5" />http://cache.blogads.com/196594757/feed.js<img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8729002-2126539960908056865?l=radioequalizer.blogspot.com' /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/host-center-waterboarding-controversy-may-lose-affiliate';<br />digg_title = 'Host At Center Of Waterboarding Controversy May Lose';<br />digg_bodytext = "MOO-ED OFF THE STAGE?After Faux Waterboarding, Mancow Appears To Lose DCHow\'s this for interesting timing? 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9159889944007787582-3323017062834527768?l=news-headlines39282.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-headlines39282.blogspot.com/feeds/3323017062834527768/comments/default" target="_new">Host At Center Of Waterboarding Controversy May Lose Affiliate</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9159889944007787582-1728851577881596129?l=news-headlines39282.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-headlines39282.blogspot.com/feeds/1728851577881596129/comments/default" target="_new">Host At Center Of Waterboarding Controversy May Lose Affiliate</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-7289385545193331450?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-21139970969657720512009-07-15T21:55:00.001-07:002009-07-15T21:55:39.500-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39122" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39122" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39122" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p><em>by Mark Silva</em></p><br /><br /><p> Now that <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/06/gingrich_on_sotomayor_racist_t.html">Newt Gingrich has suggested that "racist'' was too strong </a>a word to apply to Judge Sonia Sotomayor, radio's Rush Limbaugh is standing on a lonely perch.</p><br /><br /><p> But Limbaugh's still standing:</p><br /><br /><p> "I got a little grief from people for saying that there's no such thing as reverse racism -- just call her a racist,'' Limbaugh says of President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, who is poised to become the first Hispanic on the high court and has suggested that a Latina may have a better perspective on some issues than a white male.</p><br /><br /><p> "So, that is a racist thing to say, and it's bigoted,'' Limbaugh tells FOX News Channel's Sean Hannity. "And she would bring, no question about it, racism and bigotry to the court if she is confirmed."</p><br /><br /><p> In a two-part interview on FOX's <em>Hannity</em>, the first part airing at 9 pm EDT this evening, Hannity discusses not only his feelings about Sotomayor, but also why he believes Colin Powell supports President Obama. </p><br /><br /><p> And once again, race is in play.</p><br /><br /><p> ""I think two things were a factor in his endorsement of Obama, The first one is race, clearly,'' Limbaugh says of the former secretary of state in the second Bush White House and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the first Bush White House. " Nobody has the guts to say that, but, I mean, what else could it be?... Race is clearly a factor.''</p><br /><br /><p> He sees something else behind Powell's support for Obama: "</p></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/rush-limbaugh-flying-solo-now';<br />digg_title = 'Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now';<br />digg_bodytext = "by Mark Silva\n\n Now that Newt Gingrich has suggested that \"racist\'\' was too strong a word to apply to Judge Sonia Sotomayor, radio\'s Rush Limbaugh is standing on a lonely perch.\n\n But Limbaugh\'s still standing:\n\n \"I got a little grief from people for saying that there\'s no such thing as reverse racism -- just call her a racist,\'\' Limbaugh";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/rush-limbaugh-flying-solo-now" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5096864926180688966-5631496915316684929?l=boston-newsyilpyjo.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://boston-newsyilpyjo.blogspot.com/2009/06/rush-limbaugh-flying-solo-now.html" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://boston-newsyilpyjo.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Boston News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7721478074264897354-4904095229736033787?l=abc-7-news30393.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-news30393.blogspot.com/2009/06/rush-limbaugh-flying-solo-now.html" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://abc-7-news30393.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Abc 7 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7669821354042950555-8825473510234872188?l=wesh-2-news63508.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://wesh-2-news63508.blogspot.com/2009/06/rush-limbaugh-flying-solo-now.html" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://wesh-2-news63508.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Wesh 2 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5498698027662902578-7680305747192610689?l=cnn-news33784.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cnn-news33784.blogspot.com/2009/06/rush-limbaugh-flying-solo-now.html" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://cnn-news33784.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Cnn News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5681677332842229843-8728564154153349794?l=nascar-news20580.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://nascar-news20580.blogspot.com/feeds/8728564154153349794/comments/default" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4832637499210087353-3390641399387342831?l=news-299316.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-299316.blogspot.com/feeds/3390641399387342831/comments/default" target="_new">Rush Limbaugh: Flying solo now</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-2113997096965772051?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-14985617431877431792009-07-15T21:46:00.001-07:002009-07-15T21:46:49.562-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38114" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38114" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38114" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced he will seek another term in the Senate, <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&amp;articleid=20090601_11_0_TULSAO896445">Tulsa World</a> reports.<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/PoliticalWire/~4/IoWYfo5823E" height="1" width="1" /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/coburn-will-run-re-election';<br />digg_title = 'Coburn Will Run for Re-Election';<br />digg_bodytext = "Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced he will seek another term in the Senate, Tulsa World reports.";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/coburn-will-run-re-election" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9085695943639428259-7919415456779436465?l=world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com/2009/06/coburn-will-run-for-re-election.html" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com/" target="_new">World News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6846810161958371597-6676175044530988008?l=international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com/2009/06/coburn-will-run-for-re-election.html" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com/" target="_new">International News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6038351097278715261-1201447245380086224?l=cbs-news31907.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/2009/06/coburn-will-run-for-re-election.html" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Cbs News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8901469568964975878-8608806333365867466?l=news-stationeoduohmgr.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-stationeoduohmgr.blogspot.com/2009/06/coburn-will-run-for-re-election.html" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-stationeoduohmgr.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Station</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7669821354042950555-950152426390085340?l=wesh-2-news63508.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://wesh-2-news63508.blogspot.com/2009/06/coburn-will-run-for-re-election.html" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://wesh-2-news63508.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Wesh 2 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4141114909860879173-8199824787724679506?l=boston-news99857.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://boston-news99857.blogspot.com/2009/06/coburn-will-run-for-re-election_09.html" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://boston-news99857.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Boston News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7343422596224180153-3775645510935482517?l=october-news8684.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://october-news8684.blogspot.com/feeds/3775645510935482517/comments/default" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6333490028584390323-4703943884163071923?l=cnn-news60117.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cnn-news60117.blogspot.com/feeds/4703943884163071923/comments/default" target="_new">Coburn Will Run for Re-Election</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-1498561743187743179?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-14068593795192231292009-07-15T21:07:00.001-07:002009-07-15T21:07:45.829-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38073" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38073" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38073" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>Interesting point from <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/01/1948701.aspx">First Read</a>: "We've wondered what Obama's election would do to other senators. For years, senators were told they'd never get to the White House, and the stats proved it. Now, with governors in general less popular now than before, having a well-rounded issue experience that a senator gets may mean more to voters than so-called executive experience."<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/PoliticalWire/~4/WtJ2GNwg5MM" height="1" width="1" /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/will-gop-look-senate-2012-nominee';<br />digg_title = 'Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?';<br />digg_bodytext = "Interesting point from First Read: \"We\'ve wondered what Obama\'s election would do to other senators. For years, senators were told they\'d never get to the White House, and the stats proved it. Now, with governors in general less popular now than before, having a well-rounded issue experience that a senator gets may mean more to voters than";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/will-gop-look-senate-2012-nominee" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9097389061642496430-3774292583734112596?l=television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-gop-look-to-senate-for-2012.html" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Television News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5532113756039952865-3426617022066110899?l=salem-news84780.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://salem-news84780.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-gop-look-to-senate-for-2012.html" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://salem-news84780.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Salem News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/249902301443599551-6518880867008701307?l=television-news29953.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://television-news29953.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-gop-look-to-senate-for-2012.html" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://television-news29953.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Television News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/207158040632929965-6441029527263370399?l=china-news80745.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://china-news80745.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-gop-look-to-senate-for-2012.html" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://china-news80745.blogspot.com/" target="_new">China News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/454606222486849397-2247569693311778309?l=market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-gop-look-to-senate-for-2012_08.html" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Market News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/103579143552855040-1600494520883553680?l=news-leadernhssrzurv.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-leadernhssrzurv.blogspot.com/feeds/1600494520883553680/comments/default" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/112703326348727164-2425827579804949657?l=abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com/feeds/2425827579804949657/comments/default" target="_new">Will GOP Look to Senate for 2012 Nominee?</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-1406859379519223129?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-87256070867934840592009-07-15T19:48:00.001-07:002009-07-15T19:48:00.281-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39148" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39148" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39148" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>Steve Levitt makes an <a href="http://blog.american.com/?p=1514">astounding discovery</a>.</p><br /><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=m52o28o4siM:44S7oZPXOgU:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/some-conservatives-have-heart';<br />digg_title = 'Some Conservatives Have A Heart!';<br />digg_bodytext = "Steve Levitt makes an astounding discovery.\n\n";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/some-conservatives-have-heart" target="_new">Some Conservatives Have A Heart!</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9085695943639428259-5037901070305704834?l=world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-conservatives-have-heart.html" target="_new">Some Conservatives Have A Heart!</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com/" target="_new">World News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6099654664260223145-7270794941292227081?l=news-article93100.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-article93100.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-conservatives-have-heart.html" target="_new">Some Conservatives Have A Heart!</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-article93100.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Article</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6631663308680188874-4033742033237553842?l=sunday-news56886.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://sunday-news56886.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-conservatives-have-heart_08.html" target="_new">Some Conservatives Have A Heart!</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://sunday-news56886.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Sunday News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7942069438028698814-7431380495225769099?l=abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-conservatives-have-heart.html" target="_new">Some Conservatives Have A Heart!</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Abc 7 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4213423329324567219-193804027559055176?l=news-4oobmck.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-4oobmck.blogspot.com/feeds/193804027559055176/comments/default" target="_new">Some Conservatives Have A Heart!</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4213423329324567219/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">News 4</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' 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/></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-25323764439658793532009-07-15T19:44:00.001-07:002009-07-15T19:44:55.891-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39189" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39189" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39189" 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And so the cat and mouse game continues. Perhaps at some point, rather than fighting new technologies and consumer wishes, some of these politicians and copyright holders will decide to embrace the technology and use it to their advantage. Otherwise, they're just going to find that they'll keep passing ever more useless laws, driving people to newer and newer technologies to get around those laws.<br /><br /><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090603/0849225110.shtml">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090603/0849225110.shtml#comments">Comments</a> | <a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20090603/0849225110&amp;op=sharethis">Email This Story</a><br /><br /> <br clear="both" /><br /><br clear="both" /><br /><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=473f46486a1a01c8947b48638e7b03e3&amp;p=1"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=473f46486a1a01c8947b48638e7b03e3&amp;p=1" /></a><br /><a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~ff/techdirt/feed?a=73ynD0L1R8I:UZ4aVzTqE1Q:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/techdirt/feed?i=73ynD0L1R8I:UZ4aVzTqE1Q:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~ff/techdirt/feed?a=73ynD0L1R8I:UZ4aVzTqE1Q:c-S6u7MTCTE"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/techdirt/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/73ynD0L1R8I" height="1" width="1" /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/no-surprise-here-three-strikes-law-creates-opportunity-encrypted-vpn-services';<br />digg_title = 'No Surprise Here: Three Strikes Law Creates Opportunity For';<br />digg_bodytext = "Just as we saw how stricter laws on unauthorized file sharing increased the demand for encryption services in Sweden, Dan alerts us to the news that new encryption services are popping up in France in response to that country\'s recent approval of a law to kick file sharers off the internet. 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/></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-83647267896569009252009-07-15T19:38:00.001-07:002009-07-15T19:38:26.544-07:00<span class='print-link'></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/5060" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Printer-friendly version" title="Printer-friendly version" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Printer-friendly version</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/5060" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Send to friend" title="Send to friend" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Send to friend</a></span></span><p>Filed under: <a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/category/downloads/" rel="tag">Downloads</a>, <a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/category/mmo/" rel="tag">MMO</a>, <a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/category/world-of-warcraft/" rel="tag">World of Warcraft</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.wow.com/2009/06/29/faction-changes-coming-to-the-world-of-warcraft/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/news.bigdownload.com/media/2009/06/wowjune30.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /></div><br />It looks like once you are a Horde or an Alliance member, you are not one of them "all the way", at least not after <a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/tag/blizzard">Blizzard</a> makes some changes to their hit MMO <a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/tag/world-of-warcraft"><em>World of Warcraft.</em></a> Our sister site WoW.com has posted up word that Blizzard is planning to offer a service in the future that will allow players to have their characters switch factions.<br /><br />Blizzard is giving players an early heads-up on this new feature because "you may be seeing bits and pieces of the service in the test builds we use for the public test realms moving forward." However Blizzard admits that this feature may be a ways off from being implemented because<span></span> "we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out." We are betting that this feature will also cost some extra cash but so far there's been no official word on that from Blizzard.<p><a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/06/30/faction-changing-support-coming-for-world-of-warcraft/">Faction changing support coming for World of Warcraft</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://news.bigdownload.com">Big Download Blog</a> on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6></h6><a href="http://www.wow.com/2009/06/29/faction-changes-coming-to-the-world-of-warcraft" />Read</a>�|�<a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/06/30/faction-changing-support-coming-for-world-of-warcraft/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>�|�<a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/forward/19082111/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>�|�<a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/06/30/faction-changing-support-coming-for-world-of-warcraft/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br><br /><a href="http://www.goodtimessociety.com/node/918" target="_new">Faction changing support coming for World of Warcraft</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' 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src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/207158040632929965-869880780288565265?l=china-news80745.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://china-news80745.blogspot.com/2009/06/investigation-links-reality-shows_09.html" target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://china-news80745.blogspot.com/" target="_new">China News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/103579143552855040-5903153419455013702?l=news-leadernhssrzurv.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-leadernhssrzurv.blogspot.com/feeds/5903153419455013702/comments/default" target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/738872024037946969-7669254899997863022?l=rome-newsozfrpdbkyz.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://rome-newsozfrpdbkyz.blogspot.com/feeds/7669254899997863022/comments/default" target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-3901131503672957865?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-76649466303331913072009-07-11T10:58:00.001-07:002009-07-11T10:58:31.385-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39114" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a 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Ezra <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/breaking_how_the_white_house_p.html">seconds</a>:</p>The MedPAC changes under discussion are, in other words, nothing less<br />than a new process for health care cost reforms. They empower experts<br />who won&#39;t be intimidated by the intricacy of the issues and sidestep<br />the filibuster&#39;s ability to halt change in its tracks.&#0160; MedPAC, of course, is restricted to Medicare. But there&#39;s little doubt<br />that where Medicare leads, the health care industry follows.<br /><br /><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=JUXeHxsLIG8:0G43IQXZJpA:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/push-harder';<br />digg_title = '&quot;Push Harder&quot;';<br />digg_bodytext = "Jon Cohn sees an increased Obama emphasis on cost-controls in healthcare reform. Ezra seconds:The MedPAC changes under discussion are, in other words, nothing less\nthan a new process for health care cost reforms. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38255" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38255" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/90984?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Security+stepped+up+at+abortion+clinics+after+doctor%27s+killing%3AArticle%3A1224618&amp;ch=World+news&amp;c4=US+news%2CAbortion%2CLife+and+style%2CWorld+news&amp;c6=Chris+McGreal&amp;c8=1224618&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=World+news&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FUnited+States&amp;c42=World+news%2FUnited+States%2F%2F%7CArticle%7C1224618%7CSecurity+stepped+up+at+abortion+clinics+in+US+after+killing+of+Dr+George+Tiller%7C" width="1" height="1" /><br /></p><p>Controversy sharpens as man arrested in connection with shooting revealed to have links to rightwing militias</p><br /><p>The US ordered increased security for abortion doctors and clinics todayas details emerged of close links between the man held for the murder of one of the country's most prominent abortion ?doctors and rightwing militias with strong anti-government views.</p><br /><p>The killing of Dr George Tiller at his ?Kansas church on Sunday, and the arrest of 51 year-old Scott Roeder as he fled the scene, has added fresh impetus to the abortion debate shortly before congressional hearings begin for Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's nominee to the supreme court, at which she is certain to be pressed for her views on the issue.</p><br /><p>In Washington the attorney general, Eric Holder, ordered the US marshals service to step up protection of abortion doctors and their clinics, many of which have routine protection after years of being ?targeted by extremists and mainstream anti-abortion groups. Nine abortion ?doctors, clinic workers and others have been murdered in recent years. Tiller was wearing a bulletproof jacket when he was shot in the head, and frequently travelled with bodyguards after he was wounded in an earlier assassination attempt.</p><br /><p>Obama denounced the killing. ?"However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence," he said.</p><br /><p>But some prominent anti-abortion activists came close to justifying it. ?Randall Terry, founder of the largest anti-abortion group, Operation Rescue, issued a statement that fell short of condemning the murder and tried to shift attention to the political fight by warning that Obama would now use it to pressure organisations which describe themselves as "pro-life".</p><br /><p>"George Tiller was a mass murderer.We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God," he said."I am more concerned that the Obama administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name: murder."</p><br /><p>Dave Leach, editor of an anti-abortion newsletter, Prayer and Action News, to which Roeder occasionally contributed told the New York Times he had once met the alleged killer. "To call this a crime is too simplistic," Leach said. "There is Christian scripture that would support this."</p><br /><p>Roeder's family said in a statement they were "shocked, horrified and filled with sadness at the death of Dr Tiller". "We know Scott as a kind and loving son, brother and father who suffered from mental illness at various times in his life," the family said. "However, none of us ever saw Scott as a person capable of or willing to take another person's life."</p><br /><p>Others painted a picture of a more extreme man. Roeder has been identified as the likely poster of questions about Tiller on Operation Rescue's website. Among other things, a man with his name suggested going to Tiller's church to confront him and other members of the congregation over his work.</p><br /><p>"Blaess (sic) everyone for attending and praying in May to bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp," he wrote. "Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there?"</p><br /><p>In 1996, Roeder was convicted over the discovery of explosives and bomb-making equipment, along with a military rifle, gas mask and ammunition, in his car and sentenced to two years in prison. But his conviction was overturned on appeal on the grounds that the police had illegally searched his car.</p><br /><p>The FBI identified Roeder as a member of the anti-government Freemen group, which described itself as made up of Christian patriots, whose leaders were sentenced to prison terms after a three month armed stand-off with law enforcement forces in Montana 13 years ago.</p><br /><p>The Kansas City Star newspaper quoted a man identified as commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia in the mid-1990s, Morris Wilson, as saying he knew Roeder at the time. "I'd say he's a good ol' boy, except he was just so fanatic about abortion," Wilson said. "He was always talking about how awful abortion was." Operation Rescue denounced the killing as "vigilantism" and cowardly.</p><br /><p>It said it instead wanted to see Tiller "brought to justice" for what it regards as the murder of the unborn.</p><br /><p></p><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa">United States</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/abortion">Abortion</a></li><br /></ul><br /><p><a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yes&amp;site=News&amp;spacedesc=rss&amp;system=rss&amp;transactionID=12438960414534605269405895374338"><img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yes&amp;site=News&amp;spacedesc=rss&amp;system=rss&amp;transactionID=12438960414534605269405895374338" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> ? 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Do we get mad?</p><p>Nah. The guy&#39;s doing his best. Let&#39;s give him another chance. <br /></p><p><br /><br /><a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/06/03/9662976-cp.html">Canadian Press: </a></p><p>OTTAWA - Canadians appear to be willing to cut Finance Minister Jim Flaherty a little slack over his deficit shocker.<br /><br /> <br /></p><p><br />A Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll shows few Canadians think the<br />finance minister should resign just because he made a $16-billion<br />mistake on his deficit projection. </p><p><br />The survey of 1,000 people finds only 28 per cent who want Flaherty to<br />step down, while 59 per cent think he should stay on the job. </p><p><br />Even among Liberal supporters, 54 per cent don&#39;t think he should lose<br />his position because the budget deficit has ballooned to more than $50<br />billion - not the $34 billion predicted in the budget four months ago. </p><img src="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/aggbug.aspx?PostID=286951" width="1" height="1" /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/whats-16-billion-among-friends';<br />digg_title = 'What&#039;s $16 billion among friends?';<br />digg_bodytext = "How Canadian can you get?The Finance Minister understates the deficit by $16 billion. Do we get mad?Nah. The guy\x26#39;s doing his best. 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Here you will find inspiration from vintage style mavens, ranging from 93-year-old model Mimi Weddell, to a dude from Seattle whose fine legs are displayed in stockings and who is topped off with a blazer and cap. Then there's fabric designer Elizabeth Sweetheart, who dresses entirely in green - a different outfit every day. She was recently profiled in New York magazine where she explained the genesis of her eccentric but bizarrely successful look. "I began wearing green nail varnish and it just spread all over me."</p><br /><p>Cohen, 27, started the blog last summer. He works in the bookstore at the New Museum but originally came from Seattle where his best friend was his grandmother. "I adored my grandparents. Older people's style has evolved and they don't mind what other people think so much. They just aren't so self-conscious." He says that when he moved to New York last May he noticed immediately how vibrant and stylish older people in the city were, and wanted to start a project to bring that into focus. </p><br /><p>The site is gathering momentum along with a mood of greater acceptance and respect for the older practitioners of style consciousness. "People have started to notice older people more," explains Cohen. "You can learn so much from the way an old person wears a coat that they have had for ever with maybe a hat, for instance - these are the last people around who know how to dress formally and they have a confidence about them that younger people just don't have."</p><br /><p>Recent trends spotted on the site include bright red lipstick and huge dark glasses - neither of which are age specific but do look fabulous on the denizens of Advanced Style. There's no doubt that when the fat lady finally starts singing, she will do so in Balenciaga, with a slash of red lipstick and possibly some kid gloves taken out of a closet and smelling of the lavender in which they were for decades preserved. </p><br /><p>? Emma Soames is editor-at-large of Saga magazine.</p><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/fashion">Fashion</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/older-people">Older people</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa">United States</a></li><br /></ul><br /><p><a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yes&amp;site=Lifeandstyle&amp;spacedesc=rss&amp;system=rss&amp;transactionID=12438985813662884068053805164146"><img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yes&amp;site=Lifeandstyle&amp;spacedesc=rss&amp;system=rss&amp;transactionID=12438985813662884068053805164146" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> ? Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms &amp; Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a><br /><br /></p><p /><br /></p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/blog/emma-soames-fashion-and-style-older-generation';<br />digg_title = 'Emma Soames on fashion and style for the older generation';<br />digg_bodytext = "My cup of sartorial joy brims over with the discovery of Ari Cohen\'s blog, Advanced Style, which chronicles the style of the chicest, wackiest and best dressed of America\'s older generation. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38107" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38107" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>What's the administration's specific aim in bailing out GM? I'll give you my theory later.</p><br /><p>For now, though, some background. First and most broadly, it doesn't make sense for America to try to maintain or enlarge manufacturing as a portion of the economy. Even if the U.S. were to seal its borders and bar any manufactured goods from coming in from abroad -- something I don't recommend -- we'd still be losing manufacturing jobs. That's mainly because of technology.</p><br /><p>When we think of manufacturing jobs, we tend to imagine old-time assembly lines populated by millions of blue-collar workers who had well-paying jobs with good benefits. But that picture no longer describes most manufacturing. I recently toured a U.S. factory containing two employees and 400 computerized robots. The two live people sat in front of computer screens and instructed the robots. In a few years this factory won't have a single employee on site, except for an occasional visiting technician who repairs and upgrades the robots.</p><br /><p>Factory jobs are vanishing all over the world. Even China is losing them. The Chinese are doing more manufacturing than ever, but they're also becoming far more efficient at it. They've shuttered most of the old state-run factories. Their new factories are chock full of automated and computerized machines. As a result, they don't need as many manufacturing workers as before.</p><br /><p>Economists at Alliance Capital Management took a look at employment trends in 20 large economies and found that between 1995 and 2002 -- before the asset bubble and subsequent bust -- 22 million manufacturing jobs disappeared. The U.S. wasn't even the biggest loser. We lost about 11 percent of our manufacturing jobs in that period, but the Japanese lost 16 percent of theirs. Even developing nations lost factory jobs: Brazil suffered a 20 percent decline, and China had a 15 percent drop.</p><br /><p>What happened to manufacturing? In two words, higher productivity. As productivity rises, employment falls because fewer people are needed. In this, manufacturing is following the same trend as agriculture. A century ago, almost 30 percent of adult Americans worked on a farm. Nowadays, fewer than 5 percent do. That doesn't mean the U.S. failed at agriculture. Quite the opposite. American agriculture is a huge success story. America can generate far larger crops than a century ago with far fewer people. New technologies, more efficient machines, new methods of fertilizing, better systems of crop rotation, and efficiencies of large scale have all made farming much more productive.</p><br /><p>Manufacturing is analogous. In America and elsewhere around the world, it's a success. Since 1995, even as manufacturing employment has dropped around the world, global industrial output has risen more than 30 percent.</p><br /><p>More after the jump.</p><br /><p>--<em>Robert Reich</em></p><br /><p><a href="http://blog.prospect.org/blog/weblog/2009/06/the_future_of_manufacturing_an.html#115327">MORE...</a></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/future-manufacturing-and-american-worker';<br />digg_title = 'THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING AND THE AMERICAN WORKER.';<br />digg_bodytext = "What\'s the administration\'s specific aim in bailing out GM? I\'ll give you my theory later.\n\nFor now, though, some background. First and most broadly, it doesn\'t make sense for America to try to maintain or enlarge manufacturing as a portion of the economy. Even if the U.S. were to seal its borders and bar any manufactured goods from coming in from";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/future-manufacturing-and-american-worker" target="_new">THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING AND THE AMERICAN WORKER.</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/454606222486849397-7817470619433158568?l=market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com/2009/06/future-of-manufacturing-and-american.html" target="_new">THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING AND THE AMERICAN WORKER.</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: 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The story was just on ABC. They tended to downplay Nance's comments, but I have to admit, i was wondering about the possibility of terrorism as well. Obviously, it's too soon - and it's suspicious that no terrorist group is claiming credit, since they're usually not very shy about such things.<img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3798595-5713449872040273057?l=www.americablog.com' /></p><br /><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ugTl6l_tVaRnAskr3ffN-LzKEYQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ugTl6l_tVaRnAskr3ffN-LzKEYQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ugTl6l_tVaRnAskr3ffN-LzKEYQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ugTl6l_tVaRnAskr3ffN-LzKEYQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><br /><p><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=xLxKPByz2X8:sCC__xGdG_0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?i=xLxKPByz2X8:sCC__xGdG_0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=xLxKPByz2X8:sCC__xGdG_0:QXVau8BzmBE"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?d=QXVau8BzmBE" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=xLxKPByz2X8:sCC__xGdG_0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=xLxKPByz2X8:sCC__xGdG_0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?i=xLxKPByz2X8:sCC__xGdG_0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Americablog/~4/xLxKPByz2X8" height="1" width="1" /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/abc-news-analyst-50-50-chance-explosion-brought-down-air-france-jet-rio-paris';<br />digg_title = 'ABC News analyst: 50-50 chance that explosion brought down';<br />digg_bodytext = "John Nance, the former FAA administrator, and now an aviation consultant to ABC News, says that there\'s a 50-50 chance that the missing Air France jet went down in an explosion. 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No new rights or anything like that, but we got a proclamation. </p><br /><p>Obama wants us to know he "continue[s] to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans." That's good. But, he's President now, not a candidate. A lot of worked very hard to elect Obama, due in part to his campaign promises of equal rights for LGBT Americans. But, now, we need action or at the least the inklings of a plan of action. So far, we've seen no indication of how Obama is going to turn his support of those measures into reality. We've seen words, nice words like the ones below, but nothing really concrete on the legislative front, besides the Hate Crimes bill, which already passed both the House and Senate back in 2007. </p><br /><p>Here's the proclamation:<br /><br /><blockquote>Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans. </blockquote></p><br /><p>LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this country's response to the HIV pandemic. </p><br /><p>Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my Administration -- in both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism. </p><br /><p>The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect. </p><br /><p>My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States. </p><br /><p>These issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. </p><br /><p>NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists. </p><br /><p>IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third. </p><br /><p>Very nice and appreciated. But, this is 2009, not 1993. We need more than words, we need real action. And, from watching how activists on other issues are making progress with Team Obama, one thing is clear: we're going to have to be pretty forceful, loud and unrelenting about what we want if we expect any movement. </p><br /><p>Also, as I've noted before -- and will continue to note, <a href="http://www.glad.org/doma">GLAD filed a lawsuit</a> aimed at finding Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional. The government's answer is due by the end of June. During this LGBT Pride Month, if the Obama administration chooses to actually defend DOMA (and they do have a choice), that will speak much, much louder about his continued support for gay Americans than this proclamation. (I actually think if Obama wasn't hindered by his political advisers and consultants, he'd be much better on the issue. You know, in an off-the-record kind of way, he probably already is.)<img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3798595-4571283176204853193?l=www.americablog.com' /></p><br /><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lzJnHo4d9R8Xk3T63YkSxYwI_wc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lzJnHo4d9R8Xk3T63YkSxYwI_wc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lzJnHo4d9R8Xk3T63YkSxYwI_wc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lzJnHo4d9R8Xk3T63YkSxYwI_wc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><br /><p><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=zHb1_lvE-R8:vwfBCGWg0R4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?i=zHb1_lvE-R8:vwfBCGWg0R4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=zHb1_lvE-R8:vwfBCGWg0R4:QXVau8BzmBE"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?d=QXVau8BzmBE" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=zHb1_lvE-R8:vwfBCGWg0R4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?a=zHb1_lvE-R8:vwfBCGWg0R4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/Americablog?i=zHb1_lvE-R8:vwfBCGWg0R4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Americablog/~4/zHb1_lvE-R8" height="1" width="1" /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/we-got-proclamation-its-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-month';<br />digg_title = 'We got a proclamation! 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It's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://kenosha-news95394.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Kenosha News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8816575880529502289-8230794492592061128?l=channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-got-proclamation-it-gay-bisexual-and.html" target="_new">We got a proclamation! It's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Channel 6 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/112703326348727164-4837572946975501950?l=abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com/feeds/4837572946975501950/comments/default" target="_new">We got a proclamation! It's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/112703326348727164/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Abc 7 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5681677332842229843-7316560882453337227?l=nascar-news20580.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://nascar-news20580.blogspot.com/feeds/7316560882453337227/comments/default" target="_new">We got a proclamation! It's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month"</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-1773491143559069828?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-21515884590821570562009-07-02T03:43:00.001-07:002009-07-02T03:43:24.544-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39115" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39115" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39115" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>Kim Jong Il has named his youngest son, Kim Jong Un as his heir. Writing for <em>The Washington Post</em>, Blaine Harden <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/01/AR2009060103750.html?nav=hcmodule" target="_blank">reports </a>that the younger Kim is a great fan of former basketball player Michael Jordan and action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme. Like father, like son, I suppose. Kim Jong Il is known to be a movie buff himself, the Imelda Marcos of DVDs with a collection reportedly numbering some 20,000 films.</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">The implications of this news for U.S. policy are fairly obvious. President Obama, a fellow baller, should name Michael Jordan head of the U.S. delegation to the six-party talks. The Belgians, led by Van Damme, should take Russia?"s place in the negotiations. And if we can convince the Chinese to appoint Jackie Chan as their representative, the Kim clan will be positively giddy. We?"ll call it a ?Scelebrity surge,? and in their rush to get autographs and photographs with the stars, the Kims will quickly agree to whatever MJ asks for.</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Could this really be any <em>less </em>effective than the six-party talks have been? Wooing Kim with Hollywood, I think, has real promise. And with celebrities leading the way, the American delegation might actually voice some real concern for human rights in North Korea. Wouldn?"t that be something?</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><em>Michael Mazza is a research assistant at the <a href="../www.aei.org" target="_blank">American Enterprise Institute</a>.</em></p></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/how-deal-north-korea-try-celebrity-surge';<br />digg_title = 'How to Deal with North Korea? 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Try a Celebrity Surge</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6038351097278715261-2721445694302875198?l=cbs-news31907.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-deal-with-north-korea-try.html" target="_new">How to Deal with North Korea? Try a Celebrity Surge</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Cbs News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2716484911218452390-8344120349040574285?l=home-news13870.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://home-news13870.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-deal-with-north-korea-try.html" target="_new">How to Deal with North Korea? Try a Celebrity Surge</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://home-news13870.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Home News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4579068420682356936-2041687227533115753?l=news-argus27929.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-argus27929.blogspot.com/feeds/2041687227533115753/comments/default" target="_new">How to Deal with North Korea? Try a Celebrity Surge</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4579068420682356936/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">News Argus</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3205036470350492714-8266895070884249789?l=advertising-newspkzzypvrr.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://advertising-newspkzzypvrr.blogspot.com/feeds/8266895070884249789/comments/default" target="_new">How to Deal with North Korea? Try a Celebrity Surge</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-2151588459082157056?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-11810606482442713462009-07-02T02:28:00.001-07:002009-07-02T02:28:05.833-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39118" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39118" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39118" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p><b>How Canadian can you get?</b></p><p>The Finance Minister understates the deficit by $16 billion. Do we get mad?</p><p>Nah. The guy&#39;s doing his best. Let&#39;s give him another chance. <br /></p><p><br /><br /><a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/06/03/9662976-cp.html">Canadian Press: </a></p><p>OTTAWA - Canadians appear to be willing to cut Finance Minister Jim Flaherty a little slack over his deficit shocker.<br /><br /> <br /></p><p><br />A Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll shows few Canadians think the<br />finance minister should resign just because he made a $16-billion<br />mistake on his deficit projection. </p><p><br />The survey of 1,000 people finds only 28 per cent who want Flaherty to<br />step down, while 59 per cent think he should stay on the job. </p><p><br />Even among Liberal supporters, 54 per cent don&#39;t think he should lose<br />his position because the budget deficit has ballooned to more than $50<br />billion - not the $34 billion predicted in the budget four months ago. </p><img src="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/aggbug.aspx?PostID=286951" width="1" height="1" /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/whats-16-billion-among-friends';<br />digg_title = 'What&#039;s $16 billion among friends?';<br />digg_bodytext = "How Canadian can you get?The Finance Minister understates the deficit by $16 billion. Do we get mad?Nah. The guy\x26#39;s doing his best. Let\x26#39;s give him another chance. \n\nCanadian Press: OTTAWA - Canadians appear to be willing to cut Finance Minister Jim Flaherty a little slack over his deficit shocker.\n\n \n\nA Canadian Press";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/whats-16-billion-among-friends" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/738872024037946969-8943696558496881214?l=rome-newsozfrpdbkyz.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://rome-newsozfrpdbkyz.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-16-billion-among-friends.html" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://rome-newsozfrpdbkyz.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Rome News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547677999720679171-8580955435109134820?l=mexico-news4188.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://mexico-news4188.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-16-billion-among-friends.html" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://mexico-news4188.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Mexico News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4320782320250306679-4168478996960953491?l=state-news88125.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://state-news88125.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-16-billion-among-friends_07.html" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://state-news88125.blogspot.com/" target="_new">State News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6099654664260223145-1815658109537906742?l=news-article93100.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-article93100.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-16-billion-among-friends_09.html" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-article93100.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Article</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9085695943639428259-6017342708377431551?l=world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://world-newsnxymoaji.blogspot.com/feeds/6017342708377431551/comments/default" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9085695943639428259/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">World News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3205036470350492714-7164972229528752481?l=advertising-newspkzzypvrr.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://advertising-newspkzzypvrr.blogspot.com/feeds/7164972229528752481/comments/default" target="_new">What's $16 billion among friends?</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-1181060648244271346?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-40217283234520982082009-07-02T01:05:00.001-07:002009-07-02T01:05:07.377-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38347" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38347" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38347" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>As I stated in the last update the Book, <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342515455100308530" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P2ak2vb2Zv0/SiRtgCRJzDI/AAAAAAAACnM/Bo85hOyJHN8/s400/978-0-578-01387-9cov.jpg" border="0" /><br />WILL begin printing this month, June 2009 and I will have and begin signing, numbering and shipping the copies to those who ordered a signed/numbered copy THIS month, June 2009.<br />As for the process inwhich Barnes and Noble goes through in ordering books I cannot tell you at this point. I will tell you that Barnes and Noble has not once listed information correctly as is listed by Books In Print or Bowker Indentifiers.<br />I will receive the copies ordered directly from the printer when printing begins shortly and when that starts I will post it here for all to see as well as on the company web site at <a href="http://www.sinclairpublishingllc.com/">http://www.sinclairpublishingllc.com/</a> .<br />Once printing begins I will then post a link on the Company web site where the book can be ordered directly through Sinclair Publishing, Inc for anyone wanting to do so.<br />Again, let me make it clear, printing of the book WILL begin this month as will shipping of those signed/numbered copies ordered through this blog.</p><br /><p><span>Copyright 2009 by Larry Sinclair/larrysinclair.org/larrysinclair-0926.blogspot.com/LarrySinclair0926.com and Larry SinclairBarackObama.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</span><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5254072349281204072-8402568861732732441?l=larrysinclair-0926.blogspot.com' /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/due-numerous-emails-i-post-following-book-update';<br />digg_title = 'DUE TO NUMEROUS EMAILS I POST THE FOLLOWING BOOK UPDATE';<br />digg_bodytext = "As I stated in the last update the Book, WILL begin printing this month, June 2009 and I will have and begin signing, numbering and shipping the copies to those who ordered a signed/numbered copy THIS month, June 2009.As for the process inwhich Barnes and Noble goes through in ordering books I cannot tell you at this point. 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They are: historian Martin Gilbert, economist Arnold Harberger, William Kristol, and the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society honorees will be the Society's four founders -- Spencer Abraham, Steven Calabresi, David McIntosh, and Lee Liberman Otis -- and its two long-time leaders -- Eugene Meyer and Leonard Leo.</p><br /><br /><p><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/the-bradley-prizes/"> Herb London</a>, in the Washington Times, explains why the Bradley prizes matter. In essence, they fill the "cultural void" created by the fact that just about all of the other glittering prizes in contemporary America routinely are awarded to those on the ideological left.<br /><br /> <br /><br /></p><br /><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/auOfNpkUFEJl4SQOXarjB4afUCQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/auOfNpkUFEJl4SQOXarjB4afUCQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/auOfNpkUFEJl4SQOXarjB4afUCQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/auOfNpkUFEJl4SQOXarjB4afUCQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><br /><a href="http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?a=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?a=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?i=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?a=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?i=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?a=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?a=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:Dxe0ylyTE9U"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/powerlineblog/livefeed?i=8IuXzKiFfsU:huCmB3QCyIU:Dxe0ylyTE9U" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/powerlineblog/livefeed/~4/8IuXzKiFfsU" height="1" width="1" /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/why-bradley-prizes-matter';<br />digg_title = 'Why the Bradley prizes matter';<br />digg_bodytext = "Tonight, the Bradley Foundation will honor the winners of the 2009 Bradley Prizes. 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Eight<br />in 10 say the US is seeking to impose American culture on Muslim<br />countries (80%). Six in ten say it is not a goal of the US to create a<br />Palestinian state. These numbers are virtually unchanged from 2008.<br /><br /><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=sodeI_tDSrk:YaRvS3QlQlc:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/those-skeptical-egyptians';<br />digg_title = 'Those Skeptical Egyptians';<br />digg_bodytext = "You can see the gulf in the world that Obama is trying to bridge when you compare the shock that some in Washington feel when they see Obama actually trying to stop illegal West Bank settlements and the latest poll from Egypt:Large majorities continue to believe the US has goals to weaken and\ndivide the Islamic world (76%) and control Middle East";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/those-skeptical-egyptians" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4020684359704019301-8956554768496484423?l=mma-news34212.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://mma-news34212.blogspot.com/2009/06/those-skeptical-egyptians.html" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://mma-news34212.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Mma News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5172103009664682351-2003277729288870408?l=home-newspbypbhtw.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://home-newspbypbhtw.blogspot.com/2009/06/those-skeptical-egyptians.html" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://home-newspbypbhtw.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Home News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7213090349307604756-8316995695439319328?l=broadcasting-news89901.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://broadcasting-news89901.blogspot.com/2009/06/those-skeptical-egyptians.html" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://broadcasting-news89901.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Broadcasting News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3205036470350492714-3132714386874749414?l=advertising-newspkzzypvrr.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://advertising-newspkzzypvrr.blogspot.com/feeds/3132714386874749414/comments/default" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3205036470350492714/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Advertising News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9097389061642496430-2152469208877653134?l=television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com/feeds/2152469208877653134/comments/default" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9097389061642496430/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Television News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5096864926180688966-6799511586836194842?l=boston-newsyilpyjo.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://boston-newsyilpyjo.blogspot.com/feeds/6799511586836194842/comments/default" target="_new">Those Skeptical Egyptians</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-6239397436471293474?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-14131302891768350112009-07-01T21:16:00.001-07:002009-07-01T21:16:02.093-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38235" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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I will tell you that Barnes and Noble has not once listed information correctly as is listed by Books In Print or Bowker Indentifiers.<br />I will receive the copies ordered directly from the printer when printing begins shortly and when that starts I will post it here for all to see as well as on the company web site at <a href="http://www.sinclairpublishingllc.com/">http://www.sinclairpublishingllc.com/</a> .<br />Once printing begins I will then post a link on the Company web site where the book can be ordered directly through Sinclair Publishing, Inc for anyone wanting to do so.<br />Again, let me make it clear, printing of the book WILL begin this month as will shipping of those signed/numbered copies ordered through this blog.</p><br /><p><span>Copyright 2009 by Larry Sinclair/larrysinclair.org/larrysinclair-0926.blogspot.com/LarrySinclair0926.com and Larry SinclairBarackObama.com. All rights reserved. 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Taliban presence, by district, in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Helmand provinces. Information on Taliban presence obtained from open source and derived by The Long War Journal based on the presence of Taliban shadow governments, levels of fighting, and statements from ISAF commanders. Map created by Bill Raymond for The Long War Journal. Last updated May 26, 2009.</td><br /></tr><br /></table><br /></div><br /><p>As Afghan and US forces complete an operation that targeted a Taliban stronghold in northern Helmand province, another area is identified as a Taliban safe haven that hosts al Qaeda training camps.</p><br /><p>The Baghran district in northern Helmand hosts several camps run by al Qaeda's paramilitary Shadow Army, several military and civilian sources told The Long War Journal. Hundreds of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have rotated through the Baghran camps. The Shadow Army, or the Lashkar al Zil, is al Qaeda?"s paramilitary force that closely operates with the Taliban and other jihadi groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan [see LWJ report, <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/al_qaedas_paramilita.php">Al Qaeda's paramilitary 'Shadow Army'</a>].</p><br /><p>The trained fighters are then sent to conduct operations against Afghan and Coalition forces in Uruzgan and Kandahar provinces. "Some relatively well-trained Talibs come out of these camps," an intelligence official said. "They are trained to operate in small units, and expertise on IED [improvised explosive devices or roadside bombs] and suicide attacks are passed on to some fighters."</p><br /><p>Some of the complex attacks in Kandahar and Uruzgan are thought to have been carried out by fighters trained at the Baghran camps, including the Feb. 2 <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/taliban_assault_mini.php">suicide attack</a> inside a training center for police reservists in the town of Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province. Twenty-one Afghan police were killed and seven more were wounded in the suicide attack.</p><br /><p>Baghran, the northernmost district in Helmand, is located in a remote and mountainous region, and serves as an ideal sanctuary for the Taliban and al Qaeda operating in southern Afghanistan. There are no Coalition forces present and the region is largely unpatrolled.</p><br /><p>The district was the scene of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6930292.stm">a major US airstrike</a> in August 2007 that targeted what the US military called a "sizable meeting of senior Taliban commanders." Hundreds of Taliban fighters and leaders were said to be gathering in a village in Baghran to conduct a public execution of two "spies." </p><br /><p>Mullah Dadullah Mansour, at the time the military commander in the south, and Mullah Abdul Rahim, a senior commander in Helmand who operates from Pakistan, were both reportedly in attendance. Both leaders survived the strike. Locals claimed that more than 50 civilians were wounded but the US military maintained that only Taliban fighters were killed or wounded.</p><br /><p><b>Nearby Nad Ali district also an al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold</b></p><br /><p>The district of Nad Ali in Helmand also serves as a safe haven for the Taliban and al Qaeda and hosts camps for the Shadow Army. </p><br /><p>In that district, Afghan and Coalition forces recently completed a four-day operation in the village of Marja, which was described by the US military as a "key militant and criminal operations and narcotics hub in southern Afghanistan" and "a main command node." According to Quqnoos, an English-language Afghan news outlet, Marja has been under Taliban control for more than a year and a half [see LWJ report, <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/05/afghan_and_us_forces.php">Afghan and US forces battle Taliban in northern Helmand stronghold</a>].</p><br /><p>The military said <a href="http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&amp;id=34001">more than 60 Taliban fighters were killed</a> during the operation as the Taliban "mounted an ineffective and uncoordinated defense" of the village. No Afghan or US troops were reported killed during the fighting, and more than 223 tons of narcotics and 37 tons of materials used to make explosives were seized.</p><br /><p>Afghan and Coalition forces cordoned the town's main bazaar, where Taliban command and control centers and narcotics and bomb factories were located, and then called in airstrikes to destroy the buildings.</p><br /><p>US and Afghan military officers deemed the operation a major success. "The commandos thoroughly demolished a vital operational, logistical, and financial hub for the enemy and completed this mission victorious as the militants and criminals crawled away defeated and operationally-neutered," Ministry of Defense spokesperson Major General Mohammad Zahir Azimi said in a US military press release..</p><br /><p>But Afghan and US forces did not remain in Marja to deny the Taliban and al Qaeda the opportunity to reestablish control of the region, according to <a href="http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3084&amp;Itemid=48">a report in Quqnoos</a>. </p><br /><p>"The troops have left the area after the operation and the area is again under the control of the Taliban," said Daud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the governor of Helmand.</p><br /><p><b>US Marines moving into Helmand in force</b></p><br /><p>A US military officer said the raid in Marja is the best that can be done at this time because too few forces are available to secure all of the territory in southern Afghanistan.</p><br /><p>"Until the additional troops are available, search and destroy operations like the one in Marja are the best we can do," the officer said. "The operation succeeded in its limited objective, and that command center needed to be taken out, but we won't make serious headway in the south until we can hold the ground in places like Marja."</p><br /><p>This summer, the US will <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/17/america/NA-US-Afghanistan.php">send an additional 17,000 troops</a> to help stabilize the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. More than 8,000 Marines and 9,000 soldiers will be deployed to Afghanistan by this summer. The bulk of these troops will be deployed to the eastern and southern provinces where the Taliban control wide swaths of territory. </p><br /><p>The fighting in Helmand is expected to intensify as the Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade are deploying in the province and will also be operating in neighboring Farah province. The Marines have established two bases, <a href="http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/UkAndUsCommandersMeetInHelmand.htm">Camp Dwyer</a> and <a href="http://www.nato.int/isaf/docu/pressreleases/2009/05/pr090516-372.html">Camp Leatherneck</a>, to support operations in the south. </p><br /><p>Camp Dwyer is a forward operating base that will host the majority of the Marine forces. Leatherneck will host a battalion of Marines and the brigade's air combat element, which has more than 60 Harrier and Hornet attack aircraft, 12 Cobra attack helicopters, and more than 90 transport helicopters.</p><br /><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/blog/al-qaeda-shadow-army-camps-located-northern-helmand" target="_new">Al Qaeda Shadow Army camps located in northern Helmand</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com" target="_new">Good Times Society</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4320782320250306679-2698789626839822529?l=state-news88125.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://state-news88125.blogspot.com/2009/06/al-qaeda-shadow-army-camps-located-in.html" target="_new">Al Qaeda Shadow Army camps located in northern Helmand</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://state-news88125.blogspot.com/" target="_new">State News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3108543390980766539-945829734767063672?l=news-herald21734.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-herald21734.blogspot.com/2009/06/al-qaeda-shadow-army-camps-located-in.html" target="_new">Al Qaeda Shadow Army camps located in northern Helmand</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-herald21734.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Herald</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6038351097278715261-7248462722991241855?l=cbs-news31907.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/feeds/7248462722991241855/comments/default" target="_new">Al Qaeda Shadow Army camps located in northern Helmand</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6038351097278715261/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Cbs News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7213090349307604756-6008241943772466223?l=broadcasting-news89901.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://broadcasting-news89901.blogspot.com/feeds/6008241943772466223/comments/default" target="_new">Al Qaeda Shadow Army camps located in northern Helmand</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7213090349307604756/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Broadcasting News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4020903452897572279-6685243374609019247?l=nbc-news87891.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://nbc-news87891.blogspot.com/feeds/6685243374609019247/comments/default" target="_new">Al Qaeda Shadow Army camps located in northern Helmand</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-5038166290901295814?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-14409347591324733252009-07-01T18:02:00.001-07:002009-07-01T18:02:37.342-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38267" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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I asked if I could post his letter to generate discussion because I know he&#8217;s not the only one out there who had this reaction to my <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/searchG/?cx=partner-pub-3264687723376607%3Atlvacw-gkue&amp;cof=FORID%3A11&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;q=pam+spaulding&amp;sa.x=0&amp;sa.y=0&amp;sa=Search#942" target="_blank">recent blog posts</a> about the topic.<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><p>I am a twenty-one-year-old white, gay male living in California. I campaigned for ridiculous amounts of time (seriously, I had a huge void in my life when President Obama was safely elected&#8212;a sign that I was addicted! Or something.) for Obama and against Proposition 8. I was part of the effort in San Diego, California and frequently rubbed arms with POC (as you call them in your HuffPo) people while campaigning for both things.<br /></p><br /><p><br />I wanted to say I just read your post on &#8221;<A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-spaulding/black-gay-and-reclaiming_b_208013.html" target="_blank">Black, Gay and Reclaiming &#8216;Civil Rights&#8217;</a>&#8220; and I found it to be very inspiring. It also reignited my interest in working toward some form of outreach toward the local black community. I found that while I spoke about Obama and why he was the right choice for America, etc, I had the focus of the people I was talking to 100% (assuming they weren&#8217;t McCainites) but when I tried to segue into Proposition 8 a lot of people would slip into an interesting&#8230; defensive stance? Their demeanor completely shifted to what I liked to call &#8221;I am not listening to anything you said while trying to think of a way to escape from this conversation&#8220;. Anyway, I noticed that certain members of the black community were quick to dismiss me as some kind of white, gay racist. I am not sure when this became such a widespread stereotype, nor am I sure why I of all people was labeled a racist for bringing up a collection of quotes from MLK and Coretta Scott King. My boyfriend is bi-racial (he doesn&#8217;t like being called &#8216;black or white&#8217; and dislikes people being labeled and sorted into groups) and I had to do a lot of convincing to get him to march with me, and to go out and talk to people about Prop 8.<br /></p><br /><p><br />On two separate occasions, while trying to use him to display that I am not at all racist, <B>he was told by the black people we were talking to that he &#8216;gave up&#8217; being black when he decided to be gay.</b> I&#8217;ve also tried explaining that my two best friends growing up were both black, though I imagine that probably worked more against me than for me. This isn&#8217;t just an issue within minorities and several of the white people outwardly called me a faggot on multiple occasions (I live in an oddly socially conservative part of California).<br /></p><br /><p><br />So I guess what I am asking is&#8230; how do I establish the dialogue? How do I get through to members of the black community that seem to think if I sneeze on them they will catch some gay disease? I am going to work my ass off again in 2010 and beyond, but I am not able to do it all by myself and you seem to be very educated on the subject.</p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />Well, I&#8217;m not exactly well-educated about such things, so much as I have had to deal with inhabiting two worlds that frequently have problems with my very existence because it challenges assumptions they would like to remain intact.<br /></p><br /><p><br />That out of the way, I want to thank you and your boyfriend for being willing to step outside of your comfort zone and take the predictable abuse in order to challenge these black residents on their bigotry. Most people are so scared of being labeled racist by perfect strangers that they avoid the outreach. Honestly, those in the black community who are homophobic don&#8217;t get challenged enough&#8212;the charges they lob is a defense for not wanting to engage. They know they can play the dreaded race card&#8212;<B>even at black gays</b>, denying their blackness, something I&#8217;ve personally experienced (and it occurred yet again, in the comments of that HuffPost piece).<br /></p><br /><p><br />My suggestions are below the fold. Contribute yours in the comments.<br /><br /></p><br /><p>You see, they have no sense of their own hypocrisy&#8212;that not all white gay men are racist, just as not all blacks are homophobic. Both groups tend to cling to the generalizations because there is always a factual basis for any bias or stereotype. The fact is the faces of the LGBT community are largely white gay men. There are no insurmountable reasons for this in this day and time, yet the lack of diversity (including class) in the visible leadership in our organizations continues. It should be no surprise to hear this charge.<br /></p><br /><p><br />However, one should always use a face-to-face interaction as a mutual learning opportunity by actively listening and testing assumptions. When you come up against that wall of resistance&#8212;when the &#8220;white, gay racist&#8221; retort comes up&#8212;it&#8217;s going to sting. You can&#8217;t help feeling slighted but you have to move past it and acknowledge the truth in the statement. You could have said something on the order of:<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><p>&#8220;I understand why you may feel that way; there are too many in the LGBT community who have not visibly engaged in struggles affecting the black community, but I can&#8217;t change the past. What I am offering, with my presence here today, is to work for change across the board&#8212;and why this election is important. I want to address all instances of discrimination that have gone long unaddressed. As part of that I would like you to consider voting against Prop 8 because it represents instituting government-based discrimination.&#8221;</p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />You are: 1) acknowledging a truth; 2) representing that you are both taking personal responsibility as a white gay man to counter racism in the LGBT community; and 3) asking her for support in stopping all discrimination.<br /></p><br /><p><br />BTW, it&#8217;s doubly difficult sometimes if you bring up MLK or other black civil rights leaders since the people you&#8217;re meeting with may object out of the box to the &#8220;appropriation&#8221; of that movement&#8217;s figures. In fact, some try to explain away or ignore black leaders still with us who support LGBT civil rights, such as John Lewis, Ben Jealous of NAACP national and Julian Bond.<br /></p><br /><p><br />That&#8217;s my two cents; I&#8217;m sure others will be glad to contribute in the comments.<br /></p><br /><p><br />My suggested answer, of course, <B>doesn&#8217;t even address religious objections to homosexuality</b>; if it hasn&#8217;t been brought up as a defense shield yet, would likely come up next. One way to respectfully approach scripture being tossed out or that religious freedom is under attack is to discuss the church state separation issue, but the conflation of state/civil marriage with anti-gay people makes this a tough nut to crack. A better approach is to say that this kind of discrimination:<br /></p><br /><p><br />1) Opens the door for government to allow religious discrimination&#8212;ask them about why they would vote for a measure that discriminates against other faiths, including other Christian ones, that DO want to marry gay and lesbian couples.<br /></p><br /><p><br />2) That placing civil rights at the whim of a majority vote at the ballot box endangers all civil rights.<br /></p><br /><p><br />I&#8217;m sure other readers have other ideas for you. There is no answer that can cover every encounter you may have when engaging on this challenging topic, but just know that by doing something, rather than sitting back and doing nothing out of fear and the desire to avoid discomfort, that you are making a difference.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Over at <a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11241/blend-workshop-how-to-engage-on-the-topic-of-race-and-lgbt-civil-rights" target="_blank">my pad,</a> someone suggested that the writer&#8217;s partnering with his boyfriend on these outreach efforts was in itself racist. My reply:<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><p>I don&#8217;t see partnering with his boyfriend on these outreach efforts as racist; it&#8217;s a reality that the people they are encountering often refuse to acknowledge that there are POC LGBTs and start right into the attack mode. Obviously his BF went willingly (if apprehensively, knowing what was coming), and the fact is his presence allows the conversation to turn away from invisibility to <b>their ownership of the fact they consider he&#8217;s turned in his black card. That&#8217;s their public admission of bigotry.</b><br /></p><br /><p><br />That&#8217;s why I have advocated that when canvassing POC neighborhoods that may be hostile to LGBT rights, whites should pair up with someone of color to take that &#8220;weapon&#8221; out of the hands of those you talk to. These are people who are rarely challenged about their own prejudices. The major problem with this is we have to tackle the racism in the LGBT community that makes it difficult for POC to feel they will be accepted if the come out. So that leaves a movement with precious few POC to rise to the challenge of taking the almost-certain abuse by members of their own communities of color for the goal of full civil equality. A tall order.<br /></p><br /><p><br />If you read through the HuffPost column, POC who were anti-gay tried repeatedly to turn the argument around to &#8220;what about racism in the white LGBT community?&#8221;. That&#8217;s not an answer to the question being asked (and I&#8217;ve covered that before anyway), nor does it explain away the problem at hand. No one is denying the racism exists in that sphere, it&#8217;s about pointing out that it&#8217;s not one way either. You can&#8217;t address the problem if it&#8217;s not acknowledged or if it is deflected by tossing out a different question. The bottom line is a good number homophobic POC want to change the subject rather than own up to the problem that is costing those community lives&#8212;exploding HIV/AIDS rates&#8212;because of their silence and promotion of homophobia in the pews.</p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />***<br /></p><br /><p><br /><a href="http://www.thedallasprinciples.org/The_Dallas_Principles/Home.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/pspauld/BlogPix/DP150px.jpg" align="left" title="" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="2" /></a>NOTE: These discussions are essential and <A href="http://www.thedallasprinciples.org/The_Dallas_Principles/Principles.html" target="_blank">The Dallas Principles</a> are something to keep in mind when you are facing this uphill battle, particularly 3-6 in this context. Kevin and his boyfriend are participating in the kind of activism that does change hearts and minds. Even for those who disagree, they have been in engaged in a way that forces them to confront their biases.<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><p>1. Full civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals must be enacted now.&nbsp; Delay and excuses are no longer acceptable.<br /></p><br /><p><br />2. We will not leave any part of our community behind.<br /></p><br /><p><br /><b>3. Separate is never equal.<br /></b></p><br /><p><br />4. Religious beliefs are not a basis upon which to affirm or deny civil rights.<br /></p><br /><p><br />5. The establishment and guardianship of full civil rights is a non-partisan issue.<br /></p><br /><p><br />6. Individual involvement and grassroots action are paramount to success and must be encouraged.<br /></p><br /><p><br />7. Success is measured by the civil rights we all achieve, not by words, access or money raised.<br /></p><br /><p><br />8. Those who seek our support are expected to commit to these principles.</p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />Related: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-spaulding/black-gay-and-reclaiming_b_208013.html" target="_blank">Black, Gay and Reclaiming &#8216;Civil Rights&#8217;</a><br /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/workshop-how-engage-topic-race-and-lgbt-civil-rights';<br />digg_title = 'Workshop: how to engage on the topic of race and LGBT civil';<br />digg_bodytext = "by Pam Spaulding\n A reader of my blog named Kevin wrote me the other day to say that he is interested in building bridges with people of color (POC) about race and equality but doesn\x26#8217;t know how to engage when the conversation turns tense. 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On the rear of<br /><br />his car was a Christian fish symbol with the word &quot;Jesus&quot; inside...</p><br /><p class="blockquote">Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas<br /><br />City Planned Parenthood clinic in 1996. Roeder walked into the clinic<br /><br />and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist, she said.</p><br /><p class="blockquote">&quot;Robert<br /><br />Crist came out and he stared at him for approximately 45 seconds,&quot; she<br /><br />said. &quot;Then he (Roeder) said, &#39;I&#39;ve seen you now.&#39; Then he turned his<br /><br />back and walked away, and they were scared to death. On the way out, he<br /><br />gave me a great big hug and he said, &#39;I&#39;ve seen you in the newspaper. I<br /><br />just love what you&#39;re doing.&#39;&quot;</p><br /><p>And this:</p><br /><p class="blockquote">In April 1996, Roeder was arrested in Topeka after Shawnee County<br /><br />sheriff&#39;s deputies stopped him for not having a proper license plate.<br /><br />In his car, officers said they found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse<br /><br />cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder and two 9-volt batteries, with one<br /><br />connected to a switch that could have been used to trigger a bomb.</p><br /><p class="blockquote">Jim Jimerson, supervisor of the Kansas City ATF&#39;s bomb and arson unit, worked on the case.</p><br /><p class="blockquote">&quot;There<br /><br />wasn&#39;t enough there to blow up a building,&#39;&#39; Jimerson said at the time,<br /><br />``but it could make several powerful pipe bombs...There was definitely<br /><br />enough there to kill somebody.&#39;&#39;</p><br /><p>The fusion of religion with politics is a dangerous, dangerous thing.</p><br /><p><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=ybgz6DJC3Mc:tMqPNd5SBNM:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/why-its-religious-terrorism';<br />digg_title = 'Why It&#039;s Religious Terrorism';<br />digg_bodytext = "McClatchy\x26#39;s story helps explain the fuller context:In the rear window of the 1993 blue Ford Taurus that he was driving was\na red rose, a symbol often used by abortion opponents. On the rear of\nhis car was a Christian fish symbol with the word \x26quot;Jesus\x26quot; inside...Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas\nCity";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/why-its-religious-terrorism" target="_new">Why It's Religious Terrorism</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/400337748061659187-5906257241673895800?l=wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-it-religious-terrorism.html" target="_new">Why It's Religious Terrorism</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Wb News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4213423329324567219-6698486397064874861?l=news-4oobmck.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-4oobmck.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-it-religious-terrorism.html" target="_new">Why It's Religious Terrorism</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-4oobmck.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News 4</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4832637499210087353-8502268744125290835?l=news-299316.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-299316.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-it-religious-terrorism.html" target="_new">Why It's Religious Terrorism</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-299316.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News 2</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2954081804793956971-4359292026813664082?l=sun-news71407.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://sun-news71407.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-it-religious-terrorism.html" target="_new">Why It's Religious Terrorism</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://sun-news71407.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Sun News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5193137500690327758-4740300138756926951?l=la-news63537.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://la-news63537.blogspot.com/feeds/4740300138756926951/comments/default" target="_new">Why It's Religious Terrorism</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-6963268731319409705?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-48159616774513171362009-07-01T16:47:00.001-07:002009-07-01T16:47:52.873-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39114" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39114" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39114" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>Jon Cohn sees an increased Obama <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/06/02/obama-puts-down-a-marker-on-costs.aspx">emphasis</a> on cost-controls in healthcare reform. Ezra <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/breaking_how_the_white_house_p.html">seconds</a>:</p>The MedPAC changes under discussion are, in other words, nothing less<br />than a new process for health care cost reforms. They empower experts<br />who won&#39;t be intimidated by the intricacy of the issues and sidestep<br />the filibuster&#39;s ability to halt change in its tracks.&#0160; MedPAC, of course, is restricted to Medicare. But there&#39;s little doubt<br />that where Medicare leads, the health care industry follows.<br /><br /><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=JUXeHxsLIG8:0G43IQXZJpA:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/push-harder';<br />digg_title = '&quot;Push Harder&quot;';<br />digg_bodytext = "Jon Cohn sees an increased Obama emphasis on cost-controls in healthcare reform. Ezra seconds:The MedPAC changes under discussion are, in other words, nothing less\nthan a new process for health care cost reforms. They empower experts\nwho won\x26#39;t be intimidated by the intricacy of the issues and sidestep\nthe filibuster\x26#39;s ability to halt change";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/push-harder" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8901469568964975878-3301567459214868791?l=news-stationeoduohmgr.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-stationeoduohmgr.blogspot.com/2009/06/harder.html" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-stationeoduohmgr.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Station</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/207158040632929965-4459926555207511165?l=china-news80745.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://china-news80745.blogspot.com/2009/06/harder.html" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://china-news80745.blogspot.com/" target="_new">China News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/400337748061659187-3512651074093029239?l=wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com/2009/06/harder_07.html" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://wb-newsgjfvhc.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Wb News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7343422596224180153-7166611384235570510?l=october-news8684.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://october-news8684.blogspot.com/feeds/7166611384235570510/comments/default" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7343422596224180153/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">October News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863192406484640895-1338189475256125985?l=11-alive-news99969.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://11-alive-news99969.blogspot.com/feeds/1338189475256125985/comments/default" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7863192406484640895/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">11 Alive News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6846810161958371597-120334446471950246?l=international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://international-newsaujrswahizz.blogspot.com/feeds/120334446471950246/comments/default" target="_new">"Push Harder"</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-4815961677451317136?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-48112242891378545352009-07-01T15:58:00.001-07:002009-07-01T15:58:52.982-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38279" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38279" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38279" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>WASHINGTON -- They might have the WH and Congress, but progressives - gathered this week for a four-day conference billed as "America's Future Now!" - aren't universally pleased with the Obama administration. </p><br /><p>As a coalition of liberal groups announced their union today behind an unprecedented $82M grassroots and advertising campaign to push for health care reform, some consternation remains in the Democratic base about if Pres. Obama is pursuing a sweeping enough package. Others expressed dismay with his decision to increase troop levels in Afghanistan.</p><br /><p>During the question and answer portion of a panel about "The progressive movement in the Age of Obama," held at the Omni Shoreham and featuring Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart and Change to Win chair Anna Burger, among others, Burger was interrupted by a female audience member who barked from the darkened ballroom: "Why not single-payer?" </p><br /><p>"It would be great to have single-payer, but I don't think that's going to happen this year," she said, adding that whatever plan is ultimately adopted, Democrats seem to be moving toward a public option plan that allows people to opt out of the system, will make a difference in people's lives.</p><br /><p>A few minutes later, Deepak Bhargava, with the Center for Community Change, interjected, "I think many of us think the single payer system would be the best system," he said, drawing enthusiastic applause from many activists in the room.</p><br /><p>But then he pivoted. "It is a step on the path," he said.</p><br /><p>A step isn't enough for everyone. After eight years of assailing Pres. Bush's leadership, progressives are regrouping in an effort to leverage their newfound fortune - a WH in Dem hands and a Senate just one-vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority. They even had to change the past name of the annual confab from "Take Back America."</p><br /><p>Some today sounded a broad caution that progressives shouldn't quiet their call for change just because Obama is at the helm or Congress is dominated by members of the president's party.</p><br /><p>The best gift the left can give Obama, said MoveOn.org's Ilyse Hogue, is a "vibrant, vocal progressive movement."</p><br /><p>While Roger Hickey of Campaign for America's future suggested that an "inside and outside strategy" modeled on the civil rights era efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pres. Johnson in the 60s, will help the Democrats shepherd their policy plans through Congress, Hogue suggested the entire movement shouldn't fall in line behind consensus proposals if they don't go far enough or Democrats just because they're Democrats. She named Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), in particular, as one whose stance on the Employee Free Choice Act remains in question.</p><br /><p>"With all respect to Roger, I think our job is not to be inside or outside," she said. "It's to take the doors off the hinges and smash the walls down."</p><br /><p>Progressives have reason so far to be pleased with Obama. From his public support for "card check," as EFCA is called, to his signature of a new equal pay law, he is making good on several campaign promises. But health care - and the shape of the plan he ultimately endorses - could create a fault line in the movement of people who worked so intensely to elect a one-term junior senator from IL.</p><br /><p>Much of the focus of this week's conference seems to be creating unanimity behind shared goals - even if not all can be achieved. A video of Obama addressing the group in '06 and '07 was played for the crowd. </p><br /><p>"It's going to be because of you that we take our country back," he said, at a past conference. The clip was set to upbeat music.</p><br /><p>And several participants mentioned Obama's background as a community organizer. The message to attendees, of course, was that he knows what you do, he's done it himself, and he knows how critical it is to getting approval for his agenda.</p><br /><p>But during that same question and answer session, a male audience member yelled, "Afghanistan!" apropos of nothing being discussed.</p><br /><p>So for some on the left, the president isn't fulfilling all of his campaign promises and is starting to disappoint. Others suggest any divide is overstated. Hogue, for one, said that the media loves to fan the flames of "hot Dem on Dem action," as she called it.</p><br /><p>"The famous firing squad in a circle, I don't think we're anywhere near that," said Helen Brunner, a DC resident attending the conference. </p><br /><p>Change to Win's Burger put it differently. "Are there days when I wake up and think, could he have done more or could he be further out there? Absolutely." She said there will be more days like that, but noted still that Obama is a "transformational" president.</p><br /><p>"We have to make him successful," she said. "We have to make him the best that he can be."</p><br /><p>As for that massive push for health care reform, the groups supporting the effort include Health Care for America Now, the AFL-CIO and Change To Win, the Children's Defense Fund, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, Rock the Vote, National Women's Law Center, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Democracy for America. The money will be used for grassroots organizing (troops are already on the ground in 46 states) and a sizeable advertising campaign. </p><br /><p>During a lunchtime press conference, Howard Dean, recent past chair of the DNC and a doctor, said that it's more important to have a public plan than a bipartisan plan. "Bipartisan," he said, "is not an end in and of itself."</p><br /><p>He said that Republicans haven't helped Obama with the stimulus package nor do they seem poised to offer an assist with approving his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the nation's highest court.</p><br /><p>"If they're in there to shill for the insurance companies, I think we should do it with 51 votes," Dean said, suggesting that it be accomplished via budget reconciliation.</p><br /><p>Dean added: "The American people voted for real change. They knew exactly what he was proposing when he was on the campaign trail."</p><br /><p>(JENNIFER SKALKA)</p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/progressives-divided';<br />digg_title = 'Progressives Divided?';<br />digg_bodytext = "WASHINGTON -- They might have the WH and Congress, but progressives - gathered this week for a four-day conference billed as \"America\'s Future Now!\" - aren\'t universally pleased with the Obama administration. \n\nAs a coalition of liberal groups announced their union today behind an unprecedented $82M grassroots and advertising campaign to push for";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/progressives-divided" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4020684359704019301-131064141857835848?l=mma-news34212.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://mma-news34212.blogspot.com/2009/06/progressives-divided.html" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://mma-news34212.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Mma News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9097389061642496430-4780535887348172186?l=television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com/2009/06/progressives-divided.html" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://television-newsytrotry.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Television News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547677999720679171-3382179378329375158?l=mexico-news4188.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://mexico-news4188.blogspot.com/2009/06/progressives-divided.html" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://mexico-news4188.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Mexico News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4320782320250306679-1490707060837098688?l=state-news88125.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://state-news88125.blogspot.com/feeds/1490707060837098688/comments/default" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4320782320250306679/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">State News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8816575880529502289-1514938002992491825?l=channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com/feeds/1514938002992491825/comments/default" target="_new">Progressives Divided?</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-4811224289137854535?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-10455690782579008152009-07-01T14:58:00.001-07:002009-07-01T14:58:50.422-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38071" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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We traced O&#39;Reilly&#39;s troubling rhetoric <span></span><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/a-far-right-assassination.html">here</a>, <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/oreillys-judgment-day.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/oreillys-grandstanding.html">here</a>, and readers checked my reaction <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/dissents-of-the-day-1.html">here</a>. We chronicled the disturbing role of Operation Rescue <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/operation-rescue-and-tiller-the-killer.html">here</a>, <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/terrys-moment.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/terry-digs-in-deeper.html">here</a>, and commentary from the far right <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/other-far-right-response.html">here</a>, <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/a-thread-on-a-kansas-farmers-forum.html">here</a>, <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/words-words-words.html">here</a>.&#0160; A noteworthy voice on the far-right was Robert P. George, who <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/quote-for-the-day-15.html">struck</a> the perfect chord. We also aired personal accounts of abortion <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/its-so-personal.html">here</a> and <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/kansas-stories.html">here</a>.</p><br /><p>A traumatic Sunday, to say the least. For the right approach to religion, <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/weeds-are-beautiful.html">listen</a> to Bob Wright.</p><br /><p><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?a=qnfljqGfz50:lp4oK4U2Il8:H0mrP-F8Qgo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/andrewsullivan/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0" /></a></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/weekend-wrap-tiller-assassination';<br />digg_title = 'The Weekend Wrap: The Tiller Assassination';<br />digg_bodytext = "The Dish was all over yesterday\x26#39;s big story - the assassination of George Tiller by a crazed Christianist. We traced O\x26#39;Reilly\x26#39;s troubling rhetoric here, here, and here, and readers checked my reaction here. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39072" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39072" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Neil-Patrick-Harris-1006552.aspx?rss=breakingnews"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Content/090601/News/Todays_News_Our_Take/3_wed/090603neilpatrickharris_tonys1.jpg" width="210" height="305" alt="Neil Patrick Harris" /></a>Neil Patrick Harris fans hoping to see their fave be a cut-up as host of Sunday's Tony Awards (airing at 8 pm/ET, on CBS) will probably get some satisfaction. But those wanting to see the <em>How I Met Your Mother</em> star cut a rug or break out into song might come up empty.</p><p><br /></p><p>"They have an opening planned that is bigger than they have ever had in Tony history. But I don't think I'm going to be involved in it," Harris shared in a press conference call.</p><br /><p>Instead, Harris says he will take a cue from Hugh Jackman ... <br /><br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/neil-patrick-harris-1006552.aspx?rss=breakingnews">Read More &gt;</a></p><br /><br /><br /><p>Other Links From TVGuide.com<ul><br /> <li><a href="http://movies.tvguide.com/harold-kumar-white/137482?rss=breakingnews">Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle</a></li><li><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/neil-patrick-harris/167741?rss=breakingnews">Neil Patrick Harris</a></li><li><a href="http://movies.tvguide.com/harold-kumar-escape/293101?rss=breakingnews">Harold &amp; Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay</a></li><br /></ul></p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/blog/will-neil-patrick-put-show-tonys-plus-dr-horrible-and-kumar-sequel-scoop';<br />digg_title = 'Will Neil Patrick Put on a Show at the Tonys? 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Plus Dr. Horrible and Kumar Sequel Scoop</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-5929482435337587400?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-51771356984604031442009-07-01T13:47:00.001-07:002009-07-01T13:47:33.804-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38333" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38333" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38333" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/21916?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Red+lipstick+and+flat+caps+-++it%27s+street+style+for+older+folk%3AArticle%3A1224574&amp;ch=Life+and+style&amp;c4=Fashion%2CLife+and+style%2COlder+people+%28Society%29%2CUS+news&amp;c6=Emma+Soames&amp;c8=1224574&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Feature%2CNews&amp;c11=Life+and+style&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FLife+and+style%2FFashion&amp;c42=Life+and+style%2FFashion%2F%2F%7CArticle%7C1224574%7CRed+lipstick+and+flat+caps+-++it%27s+street+style+for+older+folk%7C" width="1" height="1" /><br /></p><p>My cup of sartorial joy brims over with the discovery of Ari Cohen's blog, Advanced Style, which chronicles the style of the chicest, wackiest and best dressed of America's older generation. Here you will find inspiration from vintage style mavens, ranging from 93-year-old model Mimi Weddell, to a dude from Seattle whose fine legs are displayed in stockings and who is topped off with a blazer and cap. Then there's fabric designer Elizabeth Sweetheart, who dresses entirely in green - a different outfit every day. She was recently profiled in New York magazine where she explained the genesis of her eccentric but bizarrely successful look. "I began wearing green nail varnish and it just spread all over me."</p><br /><p>Cohen, 27, started the blog last summer. He works in the bookstore at the New Museum but originally came from Seattle where his best friend was his grandmother. "I adored my grandparents. Older people's style has evolved and they don't mind what other people think so much. They just aren't so self-conscious." He says that when he moved to New York last May he noticed immediately how vibrant and stylish older people in the city were, and wanted to start a project to bring that into focus. </p><br /><p>The site is gathering momentum along with a mood of greater acceptance and respect for the older practitioners of style consciousness. "People have started to notice older people more," explains Cohen. "You can learn so much from the way an old person wears a coat that they have had for ever with maybe a hat, for instance - these are the last people around who know how to dress formally and they have a confidence about them that younger people just don't have."</p><br /><p>Recent trends spotted on the site include bright red lipstick and huge dark glasses - neither of which are age specific but do look fabulous on the denizens of Advanced Style. There's no doubt that when the fat lady finally starts singing, she will do so in Balenciaga, with a slash of red lipstick and possibly some kid gloves taken out of a closet and smelling of the lavender in which they were for decades preserved. </p><br /><p>? Emma Soames is editor-at-large of Saga magazine.</p><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/fashion">Fashion</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/older-people">Older people</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa">United States</a></li><br /></ul><br /><p><a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yes&amp;site=Lifeandstyle&amp;spacedesc=rss&amp;system=rss&amp;transactionID=12438985813662884068053805164146"><img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yes&amp;site=Lifeandstyle&amp;spacedesc=rss&amp;system=rss&amp;transactionID=12438985813662884068053805164146" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> ? 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Excluding the charge, Dell earned 24 cents per share, or a penny better than analysts had predicted, according to a Thomson Reuters survey.</p><br /><p><br />Sales dropped 23 percent to $12.3 billion, lower than the $12.6 billion analysts had predicted for Round Rock, Texas-based Dell.</p><br /><p><br />In a conference call, Chief Financial Officer Brian Gladden said sales picked up toward the end of the quarter, but that is normal for the time of year. Gladden said May was no better than the first quarter, and looking ahead he said orders and conversations with customers yield "mixed signals."</p><br /><p><br />"We would hope that we would see improved demand in the later part of the year," Gladden said. "Hopefully sooner versus later."</p><br /><p><br />Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, Mark Hurd, has expressed similar caution. Speaking at an investor conference Thursday, Hurd would not say when he thought the PC market would begin to rebound.</p><br /><p><br />That is in contrast to Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel Corp., the world's biggest supplier of PC microprocessors, who has said sales already appear to have bottomed out and returned to normal seasonal patterns.</p><br /><p><br />At Dell, sales of laptops and the smaller, less powerful netbooks, which together make...</p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/dell-profit-falls-63-percent-pc-sales-stay-soft';<br />digg_title = 'Dell Profit Falls 63 Percent as PC Sales Stay Soft';<br />digg_bodytext = "Dell Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 63 percent as the recession continued to crimp computer sales around the world.\n\nThe results, coupled with a cautious outlook from the world\'s top PC seller, Hewlett-Packard Co., indicate that the computer market has not improved much since last year\'s economic meltdown led to a holiday";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/dell-profit-falls-63-percent-pc-sales-stay-soft" target="_new">Dell Profit Falls 63 Percent as PC Sales Stay Soft</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4832637499210087353-3630617909508709101?l=news-299316.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-299316.blogspot.com/2009/06/dell-profit-falls-63-percent-as-pc.html" target="_new">Dell Profit Falls 63 Percent as PC Sales Stay Soft</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-299316.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News 2</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7942069438028698814-1658303692417087420?l=abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com/2009/06/dell-profit-falls-63-percent-as-pc.html" target="_new">Dell Profit Falls 63 Percent as PC Sales Stay Soft</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Abc 7 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2716484911218452390-1054130084117536452?l=home-news13870.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://home-news13870.blogspot.com/2009/06/dell-profit-falls-63-percent-as-pc.html" target="_new">Dell Profit Falls 63 Percent as PC Sales Stay Soft</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://home-news13870.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Home News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406016055870424419-8225661184397959980?l=world-news85669.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://world-news85669.blogspot.com/feeds/8225661184397959980/comments/default" target="_new">Dell Profit Falls 63 Percent as PC Sales Stay Soft</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-6500978162572752410?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-36300292202126144722009-07-01T11:37:00.001-07:002009-07-01T11:37:53.676-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39148" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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Christ, I think I&#8217;m going to be sick. Look at what Randall Terry said at today&#8217;s press conference. (<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/terry-declares-tiller-reaped-what-he-sowed-then-asks-if-someone-will-buy-him-lunch" target="_blank">Right Wing Watch</a>):<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/37eu8MSXdP8&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/37eu8MSXdP8&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="225" height="144"></embed></object><p>&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><br />Terry: The point that must be emphasized over, and over, and over again: pro-life leaders and the pro-life movement are not responsible for George Tiller&#8217;s death. George Tiller was a mass-murder and, horrifically, <b>he reaped what he sowed</b>.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Q: So who is responsible ...<br /></p><br /><p><br /> Terry: The man who shot him is responsible ...<br /></p><br /><p><br />Q:&nbsp; ... because that makes it sound like you were saying that he [Tiller] is responsible.<br /></p><br /><p><br /> Terry:&nbsp; The man who shot him is responsible.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Q: What did you mean by &#8220;he reaped what he sowed&#8221;?<br /></p><br /><p><br />Terry: <b>He was a mass-murder.&nbsp; He sowed death. And then he reaped death in a horrifying way</b>.<br /><br /><br /></p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />And Kyle at RWW said the presser ended with this outlandish statement:<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><p>The event came to an utterly bizarre ending when Terry said that <b>Tiller&#8217;s murder &#8220;can be a teaching moment for what child-killing is really all about</b>&#8221; ... and then seemed to ask those in attendance <b>if they&#8217;d be willing to buy him lunch - he likes Guinness and chicken wings</b>.<br /></p><br /><p><object width="225" height="144"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pT1MhKhpqjA&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pT1MhKhpqjA&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="225" height="144"></embed></object></p><p><br /></p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />People, this is frightening. The eliminationists and womb-controlling domestic terrorism advocates believe a doctor who ran a medical practice performing legal services got what he deserved.&nbsp; This is sick - between this guy and O&#8217;Reilly, the Tiller family is suffering all over again. This won&#8217;t be the end of this kind of violence, I&#8217;m afraid. This man is fanning the flames of the crazies&#8212;we have to fear domestic terrorism more than anything coming from abroad.<br /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/randall-terry-presser-tiller-reaped-what-he-sowed';<br />digg_title = 'Randall Terry presser: ??Tiller reaped what he sowed?"';<br />digg_bodytext = "by Pam Spaulding\n Jesus H. Christ, I think I\x26#8217;m going to be sick. Look at what Randall Terry said at today\x26#8217;s press conference. 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Argus</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6038351097278715261-9008661295809155615?l=cbs-news31907.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/2009/06/randall-terry-presser-tiller-reaped.html" target="_new">Randall Terry presser: ??Tiller reaped what he sowed?"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://cbs-news31907.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Cbs News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9159889944007787582-2916229238349020003?l=news-headlines39282.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-headlines39282.blogspot.com/feeds/2916229238349020003/comments/default" target="_new">Randall Terry presser: ??Tiller reaped what he sowed?"</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a 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</a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Reality-Shows-Suicide-1006532.aspx?rss=breakingnews"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Content/090601/News/Todays_News_Our_Take/2_tues/090602najai-turpin1.jpg" width="300" height="206" alt="Najai Turpin" /></a></p><p>Is there a link between reality shows and suicide?<br /><br />An investigation by <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/article/thewrap-investigates-11-reality-show-players-have-committed-suicide_3409?page=1">TheWrap</a>, an entertainment website, found that 11 people have killed themselves "in tragedies that appear to be linked to their?experience on television shows." <br /><br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/reality-shows-suicide-1006532.aspx?rss=breakingnews">Read More &gt;</a></p><br /><br /><br /><p>Other Links From TVGuide.com<ul><br /> <li><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/extreme-makeover/100144?rss=breakingnews">Extreme 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target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://sunday-news56886.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Sunday News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/112703326348727164-4471024695796376087?l=abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com/2009/06/investigation-links-reality-shows_07.html" target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://abc-7-news86697.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Abc 7 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7942069438028698814-4225779405147116332?l=abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com/2009/06/investigation-links-reality-shows.html" target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://abc-7-newsxvxsyf.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Abc 7 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5497407353583349061-8657630582008658063?l=kenosha-news95394.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://kenosha-news95394.blogspot.com/feeds/8657630582008658063/comments/default" target="_new">Investigation Links Reality Shows, Suicide</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-3031083175423870135?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-48161705857698952372009-06-30T11:53:00.001-07:002009-06-30T11:53:14.491-07:00<span class='print-link'></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><span class='print-link'><span 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href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com/bloggers/adam-gretz/">Adam Gretz</a><p>Filed under: <a href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com/category/nhl-free-agency/" rel="tag">NHL Free Agency</a></p><em><img hspace="4" border="1" align="right" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/nhl.fanhouse.com/media/2009/06/jaybouwmeesterfreeagentpreview.jpg" alt="" />July 1 is a significant day in the National Hockey League. It's the day that unrestricted free agents are finally able to negotiate with any team they want. Even with a fading economy, it's a safe bet that money will be spent, and it will probably be spent freely by at least some teams. With this big day in mind, FanHouse offers up a position-by-position look at the top free agents, as well as some guys you may want your team to avoid.</em><p><a href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2009/06/30/nhl-free-agency-preview-defensemen/">NHL Free Agency Preview: Defensemen </a> originally appeared on <a href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com">NHL FanHouse</a> on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST . Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2009/06/30/nhl-free-agency-preview-defensemen/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com/forward/19082467/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&amp;fc=1&amp;url=http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2009/06/30/nhl-free-agency-preview-defensemen/" title="Linking Blogs">Linking Blogs</a> | <a href="http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2009/06/30/nhl-free-agency-preview-defensemen/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br><br /><a href="http://www.goodtimessociety.com/node/916" target="_new">NHL Free Agency Preview: Defensemen</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-4816170585769895237?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-80437338679295927092009-06-29T17:16:00.001-07:002009-06-29T17:16:10.935-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38075" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38075" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38075" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>IT'S ON!...<br />Dems are attacking Republican Representatives in radio ads for not spending enough taxpayer money!<br />Really!<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SiPjLQXvjKI/AAAAAAAAb0w/qdt2n-kVAgY/s1600-h/obama+deficit.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SiPjLQXvjKI/AAAAAAAAb0w/qdt2n-kVAgY/s400/obama+deficit.jpg" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342363365504158882" /></a><br />Barack Obama will <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-will-nearly-quadruple-deficit.html">quadruple</a> the deficit this year.</p><br /><p>Democrats believe they have a winning formula for 2010.<br />They are airing ads attacking Republican Representatives for not voting on the massive Democratic spending bills this year.<br /><a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_137/politics/35326-1.html">Roll Call</a> reported:</p><br /><blockquote><p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running radio advertisements for the next week targeting six House Republicans, according to details obtained by Roll Call. The committee blasted these GOP Members for voting against Democrats?" Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which passed earlier this year.</p><br /><p>Radio advertisements, automated calls and e-mails will target Reps. Don Young (Alaska), Brian Bilbray (Calif.), Tom Rooney (Fla.), Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.), Peter King (N.Y.) and Charlie Dent (Pa.).</p><br /><p>?SDid you know Congressman King voted against the economic recovery plan?? says an announcer in the spot running in King?"s district. ?SHe opposed an $800 tax cut and opposed creating or saving 215,000 New York jobs. Tell King to put New York first.?</p><br /><p>In addition to the radio advertisement, which is scheduled to air during drive time, automatic phone calls will run in each of the Republicans?" districts. The automated calls refer to specific projects in the districts that could be funded by the stimulus, such as widening a road in McCotter?"s district.</p></blockquote><br /><p> <em>Obviously,</em> the democrats <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/05/lib-california-speaker-karen-bass-says.html">didn't get the message </a>from the California voters 10 days ago.<img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8852689-3858782784756945547?l=gatewaypundit.blogspot.com' /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/bring-it-dems-targeting-gop-reps-not-spending-enough';<br />digg_title = 'Bring It!... 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Dems Targeting GOP Reps For NOT Spending Enough</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://murder-newsuawjwohg.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Murder News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5193137500690327758-966778951873350230?l=la-news63537.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://la-news63537.blogspot.com/feeds/966778951873350230/comments/default" target="_new">Bring It!... Dems Targeting GOP Reps For NOT Spending Enough</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5193137500690327758/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">La News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-8043733867929592709?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-58551110562426550012009-06-29T17:14:00.001-07:002009-06-29T17:14:09.876-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/39155" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39155" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39155" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body">Following up on yesterday's White House health care reform strategy session with a group of Democratic Senators, today, the President sent a letter to Senators Kennedy and Baucus reiterating his support for the public option. We got a copy of the letter:<blockquote>The plans you are discussing embody my core belief that Americans should have better choices for health insurance, building on the principle that if they like the coverage they have now, they can keep it, while seeing their costs lowered as our reforms take hold. But for those who don't have such options, I agree that we should create a health insurance exchange -- a market where Americans can one-stop shop for a health care plan, compare benefits and prices, and choose the plan that's best for them, in the same way that Members of Congress and their families can. None of these plans should deny coverage on the basis of a preexisting condition, and all of these plans should include an affordable basic benefit package that includes prevention, and protection against catastrophic costs. I strongly believe that Americans should have the choice of a public health insurance option operating alongside private plans. This will give them a better range of choices, make the health care market more competitive, and keep insurance companies honest. </blockquote>I want health care like members of Congress and their families have. Actually, if members of Congress and their families had health insurance like most of us have, this system would have been changed years ago. But, we are where we are. And, we're ready for real health care reform legislation to pass. <br /><br />According to <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-spells-out-healthcare-stance-to-lawmakers-2009-06-03.html">The Hill</a>, this progress on the public option should make us liberals happy:<blockquote>By plunging into the details of the reform rather than cheering from the sidelines, as he has done for months, Obama raises the political stakes for the summer?"s big legislative battle, and will hearten liberals who have yearned for his intervention to put a public sector option on the table.</blockquote><a href="http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/president_obamas_strong_support_for_public_health">Health Care for America Now </a>(HCAN) liked Obama's letter: <blockquote>We are thrilled to see President Obama's strong, unambiguous commitment to reform that includes the choice of keeping private health insurance or joining a new public health insurance option. The choice of a new public health insurance plan is the only way to control costs, guarantee coverage, ensure quality and transparency, and set a benchmark by which patients will know whether their private health insurance is truly giving them what they're paying for. <br /><br />There is tremendous unity among President Obama, key committee leadership in both the House and the Senate, the broad coalition represented by Health Care for America Now, and the American people for reform based on the choice of private or public health insurance plans. It is now clearer than ever that this choice will be a fundamental part of the reform sent to the President's desk this year. </blockquote>Okay. Let's get this moving NOW. The public option is going to send the insurance industry into a lobbying frenzy. But, it has to be part of the package. <br /><br />Obama wants the legislation on his desk by October. Congress better get it done. And, better not screw it up. 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Since the start of the 2nd quarter 4/1, McDonnell's camp says it has raised $3.7M from 2,159 donors (making the average donation per individual right around $1,700). When combined with monies still left over from the 1st quarter, McDonnell's camp claims "nearly" $4.9M cash on hand, according to a release.</p><br /><p>This weekend's nominating convention was just a formality for McDonnell, who's been running unopposed for the GOP nomination since January. He's still waiting for VA Dems to choose his opponent from three contenders: ex-DNC chair Terry McAuliffe, state Sen. Creigh Deeds and ex-Del. Brian Moran. Dems are set to make their selection in a statewide primary 6/9.</p><br /><p>The fundraising numbers are something of a formality, too. Along with the hotly contested NJ gubernatorial race, VA GOV is seen by both national parties -- but particularly by the beleaguered Republicans -- as a harbinger of '10's congressional cycle. Both parties are expected to pour vast amounts into VA's general election contest, making it tough for either nominee to grab a monetary advantage in the race. It's also hard to determine exactly what candidate fundraising totals foretell in a state with no contribution limits.</p><br /><p>Still, McDonnell has shown that he's ready to fight hard to pull the purple VA back into the red column in Nov. Most polls show him leading a general election matchup against the Dem, even after an expensive statewide ad campaign <a href="http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/05/common_sense_va.php">targeting him</a> run by the DGA through a VA-based 527.</p><br /><p>There's also the boisterous Dem primary fight, which has focused even more attention on McDonnell criticisms. But the Republican's campaign says all the noise coming from the Democrats has been a good thing for McDonnell. </p><br /><p>"We continue to build the resources we need to win this November," McDonnell's campaign manager, Phil Cox, said in the statement announcing the fundraising numbers. "And we are doing this while our potential opponents are waging an expensive and increasingly negative primary race. This is a crucial advantage as we take Bob McDonnell's positive message of new jobs and more opportunities to every voter in Virginia."</p><br /><p>(EVAN McMORRIS-SANTORO)</p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/va-gov-mcdonnell-campaign-cash-nearly-49m';<br />digg_title = 'VA GOV: McDonnell Campaign Cash &quot;Nearly&quot; $4.9M';<br />digg_bodytext = "Ex-VA AG Bob McDonnell, the GOP gubernatorial nominee in Virginia, announced some campaign fundraising numbers today, the Monday after he was officially nominated at the VA GOP\'s state convention over the weekend. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38338" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38338" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/71452?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Arson+attack+in+Iran+leaves+5+more+dead%3AArticle%3A1224631&amp;ch=World+news&amp;c4=Iran+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CMiddle+East+%28News%29%2CWorld+news&amp;c6=Ian+Black&amp;c8=1224631&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=World+news&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FIran&amp;c42=World+news%2FIran%2F%2F%7CArticle%7C1224631%7CArson+attack+in+Iran+leaves+5+more+dead%7C" width="1" height="1" /><br /></p><p>Second pre-election incident in border town<br />President seeks to pin blame on 'foreign enemies'</p><br /><p>Iran suffered a further bout of violence in the run-up to next week's presidential elections when five people were killed and dozens more injured today in an arson attack in the border town where 25 people died last week in a mosque bombing.</p><br /><p>State media said the incident targeted the Mehr Financial and Credit institute in Zahedan, a largely Sunni Muslim town near the eastern border with Pakistan. Iran partially closed the border.</p><br /><p>News of the latest violence coincided with reports of arrests over last Thursday's suicide bombing of a Shia mosque in Zahedan. Both it and a small bomb found on an internal flight to Tehran at the weekend have been blamed on Iran's foreign enemies by state media. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran's "supreme leader", warned yesterday of an "enemies' conspiracy ? trying to harm national unity," the Irna news agency reported.</p><br /><p>Analysts suspect that whoever is behind these incidents is being exploited by supporters of the hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is being challenged in the 12 June vote by three other candidates, two of them reformers seeking improved relations with the west and blaming the incumbent for the country's current isolation.</p><br /><p>Ahmadinejad told a rally that if he was re-elected he would continue his tough talk. "We are sorry that certain people inside the country have joined the Zionists in opposing those of us calling the Zionists liars, killers of children and murderers," he said. Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan, deputy commander of Iran's security forces, said that "a number of individuals who intended to create insecurity" in Zahedan had been detained.</p><br /><p>Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, home to Iran's mostly Sunni ethnic Baluchis. Near Pakistan, the region sees frequent clashes between security forces and smugglers and bandits.</p><br /><p>Three men convicted of involvement in the mosque bombing, the deadliest such incident in Iran since the eight-year war with Iraq, were publicly hanged on Saturday. A Sunni opposition group named Jundullah (God's soldiers), which Iran says is part of al-Qaida and backed by the US, claimed responsibility for the mosque bombing.</p><br /><p>Manuchehr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, said Jundullah was linked to "foreign forces" in Afghanistan. Jundullah says it fights for the rights of Iran's Sunnis and has claimed responsibility for a dozen terrorist attacks in Iran.</p><br /><p>The recent incidents are reminiscent of a similar outbreak of violence days before Iran's last presidential election, in 2005, which brought Ahmadinejad to power. Bombs then hit Tehran and the south-western city of Ahvaz, which has a sizable Arab minority, killing eight people and wounding scores more.</p><br /><p>Israel warned meanwhile that Iran could have enough fissile material for its first nuclear bomb by the end of this year. Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, head of the research division of Israel's military intelligence, made the remarks to a foreign affairs committee of Israel's parliament.</p><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran">Iran</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan">Pakistan</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middleeast">Middle East</a></li><br /></ul><br /><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> ? Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms &amp; Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a><br /><br /></p><p /><br /></p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3m8ojWtDM5acg_ZMS97cViaXUc8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3m8ojWtDM5acg_ZMS97cViaXUc8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3m8ojWtDM5acg_ZMS97cViaXUc8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3m8ojWtDM5acg_ZMS97cViaXUc8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><br /><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/blog/arson-attack-iran-leaves-5-more-dead';<br />digg_title = 'Arson attack in Iran leaves 5 more dead';<br />digg_bodytext = "Second pre-election incident in border townPresident seeks to pin blame on \'foreign enemies\'Iran suffered a further bout of violence in the run-up to next week\'s presidential elections when five people were killed and dozens more injured today in an arson attack in the border town where 25 people died last week in a mosque bombing.State media said";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/blog/arson-attack-iran-leaves-5-more-dead" target="_new">Arson attack in Iran leaves 5 more dead</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4620682698582396081-2512836124563932502?l=daily-newststhoclzif.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a 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href="http://wb-news42281.blogspot.com/2009/06/arson-attack-in-iran-leaves-5-more-dead.html" target="_new">Arson attack in Iran leaves 5 more dead</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://wb-news42281.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Wb News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2586455663079370888-7899693192276199738?l=chocolate-news68645.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://chocolate-news68645.blogspot.com/2009/06/arson-attack-in-iran-leaves-5-more-dead.html" target="_new">Arson attack in Iran leaves 5 more dead</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://chocolate-news68645.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Chocolate News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-1290707856269069481?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a 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/></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-57055457494602341332009-06-27T16:22:00.001-07:002009-06-27T16:22:44.119-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38244" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38244" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38244" 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/><p>The Buckinghamshire studio, which is home to James Bond and Harry Potter films, is planning a 40-hectare, ?200m expansion that would allow it to compete with the US and eastern Europe. The redevelopment could create up to 1,600 jobs. The company also wants to build up to 1,400 flats to accommodate casts and crews.</p><br /><p>If Pinewood gets the go-ahead, the complex will include a Venetian canal, a Parisian square, a Roman amphitheatre and the streets of London. Some sets could be visible from the M25.</p><br /><p>They would allow film-makers to shoot more scenes at the studio, without having to go on location. But a director wanting to film a scene set on Lake Como will still have to travel to Italy: the studio was forced to scrap plans to create a replica of the lake due to locals' concerns that it could adversely affect wildlife.</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> ? 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The";<br />digg_skin = 'standard';<br /><br />//--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><br><br /><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/blog/more-movie-magic-pinewood-aims-be-one-stop-studio" target="_new">More movie magic Pinewood aims to be a one-stop studio</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/" target="_new">Good Times Society - by The American Illuminati</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8816575880529502289-4873683196845948459?l=channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-movie-magic-pinewood-aims-to-be.html" target="_new">More movie magic Pinewood aims to be a one-stop studio</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://channel-6-news77446.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Channel 6 News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/753737169173592085-196067655854802499?l=news-weekly48399.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-weekly48399.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-movie-magic-pinewood-aims-to-be.html" target="_new">More movie magic Pinewood aims to be a one-stop studio</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-weekly48399.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Weekly</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4579068420682356936-266180238487517443?l=news-argus27929.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://news-argus27929.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-movie-magic-pinewood-aims-to-be.html" target="_new">More movie magic Pinewood aims to be a one-stop studio</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://news-argus27929.blogspot.com/" target="_new">News Argus</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/454606222486849397-7778099458722730689?l=market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://market-newskdqltifefm.blogspot.com/feeds/7778099458722730689/comments/default" target="_new">More movie magic Pinewood aims to be a one-stop studio</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/454606222486849397/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Market News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6436220334210163340-8560659830744782512?l=cbs-news17433.blogspot.com'/></div><br><br /><a href="http://cbs-news17433.blogspot.com/feeds/8560659830744782512/comments/default" target="_new">More movie magic Pinewood aims to be a one-stop studio</a> <br /><font size="-2"><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6436220334210163340/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25" target="_new">Cbs News</a>]<br /></font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4292149002382223339-5705545749460234133?l=onion-news16021.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>71353http://www.blogger.com/profile/00155122654747944450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4292149002382223339.post-16916088300949899862009-06-25T16:36:00.001-07:002009-06-25T16:36:42.973-07:00<span class='print-link'><span class="print_html"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/print/38336" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38336" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38336" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>I tried to respond to <a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/06/my-two-cents.html">Publius</a> and <a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/06/in-which-i-disagree-with-megan-mcardle.html">Hilzoy</a> at their place, but the comments system wouldn't let me.&nbsp; So I'll have to carry the debate on here.</p><br /><p>Why the analogy to slavery, or Hitler?&nbsp; It's inflammatory, and rarely advances the debate.&nbsp; Such analogies too often degenerate into "Hitler was a vegetarian too, you tofu-eating Nazi!!!*"</p><br /><p>But in this case, I think the analogy to slavery is important, for two reasons.&nbsp; First of all, it was the last time we had an extended, society-wide debate about personhood.&nbsp; And second of all, as now, there were structural political reasons that it was much harder--nearly impossible--to change slavery through the existing political process.</p><br /><p>Listening to the debates about abortion, it seems to me that really broad swathes of the pro-choice movement seem to genuinely not understand that this is a debate about personhood, which is why you get moronic statements like "If you think abortions are wrong, don't have one!"&nbsp; If you think a fetus is a person, it is not useful to be told that you, personally, are not required to commit murder, as long as you leave the neighbors alone while they do it.</p><br /><p>Conversely, if Africans are not people, then slavery is not wrong.&nbsp; Or at least it's arguably not wrong--if Africans occupy some intermediate status between persons and animals**, then there is at least a legitimate argument for treating them like animals, rather than people.</p><br /><p>The difference between our reaction to the two is that now we know Africans are people.&nbsp; It seems ridiculous to think that anyone ever thought they might not be people.&nbsp; They meet all the relevant criteria for personhood in twenty-first century America.</p><br /><p>But of course, those criteria are socially constructed.&nbsp; The definition of personhood (and, related, of citizenship) changes over time.&nbsp; It generally expands--as we get richer, we can, or at least do, grant full personhood to wider categories.&nbsp; Except in the case of fetuses.&nbsp; We expanded "persons" to include fetuses in the 19th century, as we learned more about gestation.&nbsp; Then in the late 1960s, for the first time I can think of, western civilization started to contract the group "persons" in order to exclude fetuses.</p><br /><p>But that conception was not universally shared.&nbsp; And rather than leave it to the political process, the Supreme Court essentially put it beyond that process.&nbsp; Congress, the President, the justices themselves, have been fighting a thirty-five year guerilla war over court seats.&nbsp; Presidents try to appoint candidates who will support their theory of Roe, Congress strategically blocks change, and the justices refuse to retire until they know they will be replaced by someone who supports their side.&nbsp; To change the outcome, a pro-life political coalition would have to gain a supermajority in Congress for twenty years--long enough for a few liberal justices to die in office.</p><br /><p>It is theoretically possible that this could happen, just as it was theoretically possible to come to some political accomodation over slavery.&nbsp; But a combination of supreme court rulings and the peculiar federalist structure of American meant that the only way for either side to gain decisive results was violence.&nbsp; At every turn, the pro-slavery forces no doubt slyly congratulated themselves on their political acumen, while also solemnly and sincerely believing that they preserved an important right.&nbsp; But they made war inevitable.</p><br /><p>If you interpret this murder as a political act, rather than that of a lone whacko, than this should be a troubling sign that the political system has failed.&nbsp; So why do so many people think that the obvious answer is simply to more firmly entrench laws that are rightly intolerable to someone who thinks that a late term fetus is a person?</p><br /><p>I am accused, in the comments of Hilzoy's post, of loving violence and terror.&nbsp; Well, call me a terrorist sympathizer, but I believe that most terrorists do what they do because they, at least, genuinely believe that there is no other way to seek justice.&nbsp; Indeed, they are usually right, for all that I radically dissent from both their idea of justice, and their right to seek it through violence.&nbsp; But I am also humble enough to recognize that my own morality on a topic like abortion is constructed in context of two important facts: virtually all my friends are pro-choice, as is the social milieu in which I was raised, and a lack of access to abortion would significantly restrict women's autonomy.</p><br /><p>These are not bad arguments in favor of abortion--I think modern America is more right than not about most moral questions, and the right to bodily integrity is important.&nbsp; On the other hand, in the face of fetal personhood, they are not very good arguments either.&nbsp; My parents significantly restrict my autonomy by continuing to be alive--if they died, I would inherit some money, which would increase my choices.&nbsp; But I still shouldn't be allowed to kill them in order to collect my inheritance--a moral insight which seems to be much more obvious and fundamental, I might add, than the wrongness of slavery or the rightness of abortion.&nbsp; Every society I know of forbids slaughtering your parents.</p><br /><p>(Not that I want to, I hasten to point out.&nbsp; Hi, Dad!&nbsp; We're pricing out a nice GPS for father's day!)</p><br /><p>I am aware that I have constructed my beliefs about personhood in the face of these things--like any good undergrad, I know the answer I need to reason to in order to ensure both social comfort and maximum personal freedom.&nbsp; I like to think that I am too rigorous a thinker to be seduced by such ephemera.&nbsp; But I am also aware that a lot of very fine thinkers were seduced into reasoning that Africans weren't people.&nbsp; Whatever evidence they thought they had, we're pretty sure how they arrived at their conclusions:&nbsp;&nbsp; African personhood would have caused enormous personal and social upheaval.&nbsp; Thousands of their friends and family would have personally suffered enormously without their slave wealth.&nbsp; Ergo, slaves weren't people!</p><br /><p>And if I look at my own reasoning, well, frankly, it's not even reasoning.&nbsp; I've never sat down and thought, "how do I know that Africans are human beings?"&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; And I'm enough of a Chestertonian to be okay with that way of knowing.&nbsp; But presumably if I'd been raised in 1840 Alabama, I'd know just as certainly that they weren't. </p><br /><p>Perhaps I find the certainty of the pro-choice side so disturbing because it feels a lot like the certainty of the warbloggers in the run up to the Iraq invasion.&nbsp; As some of Hilzoy's commenters point out, I was myself too caught up in it, which makes me cautious of getting caught up again.&nbsp; The pro-choicers seem to be acting as if people who shoot abortion doctors are some weird species of moral alien, whose actions can only be understood in Satantic terms, and who cannot and should not be negotiated with, because they only understand raw displays of power.&nbsp; Yet it seems to me that if I were in a society that believed fervently in the personhood of a fetus, I would very possibly agree, and view Tiller's murderer the way I'd view someone who, say, assassinated Mengele.</p><br /><p>I realize that this opens many other questions, like "What does it mean to have access to the political process?" and what constitutes personhood.&nbsp; But I remain stuck with a fundemantal problem:&nbsp; I can understand their moral logic.&nbsp; When someone whose moral logic I can understand, even endorse&nbsp; (without endorsing the underlying judgement about the personhood of the fetus) is driven by that moral logic to kill, I think there may be a problem that society needs to solve.&nbsp; When more than one kills for the same cause, I assume that there's a structural problem in the political process that needs to be fixed.&nbsp; I'm not saying the violence is okay--I think Tiller's murderer needs to go to jail.&nbsp; But like many contributors to Obsidian Wings, I can understand the structural forces that contribute to Palestinian terrorism without believing the terrorism is legitimate.&nbsp; Unlike them, apparently, I don't find it all that hard to transfer that understanding to the fringes of our own democratic system.</p><br /><p>*&nbsp; Sadly, I'm not even joking--see my old vegan threads<br />** Go ahead.&nbsp; I triple-dog-dare you to quote me out of context</p><br /><p><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/MeganMcardle/~4/9V70g6pC4iY" height="1" width="1" /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/really-long-post-about-abortion-and-reasoning-historical-analogy-going-make';<br />digg_title = 'A Really Long Post About Abortion and Reasoning By';<br />digg_bodytext = "I tried to respond to Publius and Hilzoy at their place, but the comments system wouldn\'t let me.\x26nbsp; 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/38293" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/38293" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p>by Pam Spaulding</p><br /><p>Jesus H. Christ, I think I&#8217;m going to be sick. Look at what Randall Terry said at today&#8217;s press conference. (<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/terry-declares-tiller-reaped-what-he-sowed-then-asks-if-someone-will-buy-him-lunch" target="_blank">Right Wing Watch</a>):<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/37eu8MSXdP8&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/37eu8MSXdP8&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="225" height="144"></embed></object><p>&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><br />Terry: The point that must be emphasized over, and over, and over again: pro-life leaders and the pro-life movement are not responsible for George Tiller&#8217;s death. George Tiller was a mass-murder and, horrifically, <b>he reaped what he sowed</b>.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Q: So who is responsible ...<br /></p><br /><p><br /> Terry: The man who shot him is responsible ...<br /></p><br /><p><br />Q:&nbsp; ... because that makes it sound like you were saying that he [Tiller] is responsible.<br /></p><br /><p><br /> Terry:&nbsp; The man who shot him is responsible.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Q: What did you mean by &#8220;he reaped what he sowed&#8221;?<br /></p><br /><p><br />Terry: <b>He was a mass-murder.&nbsp; He sowed death. And then he reaped death in a horrifying way</b>.<br /><br /><br /></p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />And Kyle at RWW said the presser ended with this outlandish statement:<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><p>The event came to an utterly bizarre ending when Terry said that <b>Tiller&#8217;s murder &#8220;can be a teaching moment for what child-killing is really all about</b>&#8221; ... and then seemed to ask those in attendance <b>if they&#8217;d be willing to buy him lunch - he likes Guinness and chicken wings</b>.<br /></p><br /><p><object width="225" height="144"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pT1MhKhpqjA&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pT1MhKhpqjA&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="225" height="144"></embed></object></p><p><br /></p><br /></blockquote></p><br /><p><br />People, this is frightening. The eliminationists and womb-controlling domestic terrorism advocates believe a doctor who ran a medical practice performing legal services got what he deserved.&nbsp; This is sick - between this guy and O&#8217;Reilly, the Tiller family is suffering all over again. This won&#8217;t be the end of this kind of violence, I&#8217;m afraid. This man is fanning the flames of the crazies&#8212;we have to fear domestic terrorism more than anything coming from abroad.<br /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/randall-terry-presser-tiller-reaped-what-he-sowed';<br />digg_title = 'Randall Terry presser: ??Tiller reaped what he sowed?"';<br />digg_bodytext = "by Pam Spaulding\n Jesus H. Christ, I think I\x26#8217;m going to be sick. Look at what Randall Terry said at today\x26#8217;s press conference. 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return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Print" title="Print" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Print</a></span><span class="print_mail"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printmail/39165" title="Send this page by e-mail." class="print-mail" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/mail_icon.gif" alt="Email" title="Email" width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />Email</a></span><span class="print_pdf"><a href="http://news.goodtimessociety.com/printpdf/39165" title="Display a PDF version of this page." class="print-pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false" rel="nofollow"><img src="/modules/print/icons/pdf_icon.gif" alt="PDF " title="PDF " width="16" height="16" class="print-icon print-icon-margin" />PDF </a></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="aggregation_item"><div class="aggregation_item_body"><p><object align="right" width="250" height="202"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaGkUkUkU&amp;c1=0x87B58E&amp;c2=0x085110&amp;a=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaGkUkUkU&amp;c1=0x87B58E&amp;c2=0x085110&amp;a=0&amp;sm=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" align="right" width="250" height="202"></embed></object>CNN anchor Anderson Cooper conducted a five-minute long interview of Diane Elder, a woman who decided to let her infant daughter live despite her severe genetic defects, during his program on Tuesday evening. The interview came about after Elder wrote Cooper after watching a similar interview he conducted the previous night of Lynda Waddington, a ?Spro-choice? blogger for the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynda-waddington" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> and <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/lynda-waddington" target="_blank">RH Reality Check</a>, who decided to have a late-term abortion herself (the anchor did not mention Waddington?"s left-wing affiliations during the interview). (audio clips from the interview <a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/06/2009-06-02-CNN-AC360.mp3" target="_blank">available here</a>) <br /><br />On Wednesday afternoon, the network?"s ?SSituation Room? program played an extended clip from the interview, which followed an additional segment with a different parent whose twins were aborted late-term at the hands of murdered abortionist George Tiller. During this second interview, the father of the twins described how Tiller had the two babies ?Swrapped up in a baby?"s blanket? and how the abortionist ?Sbaptized them.? Despite the two-to-one imbalance in the segments, CNN did at least try to balance the segments with the two supporters of late-term abortion with that of the interview of Elder.<br /><br />During the interview with Cooper, Elder described her experiences during the four months after she found out that her daughter had Trisomy 18, a severe genetic disorder, and during the half-day that she shared with her daughter, whom she named Angela. Despite all the hardships that she and her family endured, Elder recounted how after her daughter was born, ?Swe were very taken aback when we found that, when she was placed in our arms, we were happy. We were- we were incredibly happy. And my husband was with me. A lot of family and friends showed up right after the birth. She was passed around from arm to- from arms to arms.? Cooper dealt with the subject very sensitively, and thanked her for her strength at the end of the interview.<br /><br />The full transcript of Cooper interview?"s interview of Diane Elder, which began 20 minutes into the 10 pm Eastern hour of Tuesday?"s ?SAnderson Cooper 360? program:</p><blockquote><p>ANDERSON COOPER: Diane Elder chose not to have an abortion, even though, medically and legally, she had every right to. She joins us now, and Diane, thanks so much for being with us. You actually sent me an e-mail earlier today because of- of an interview you read that we had on last night. We had a woman on who, in the 20- 20th or 21st week, chose to have a late-term abortion, because her baby had a severe- severe genetic defect. You had a similar situation. You made a different choice. Why? <br /><br />DIANE ELDER, CHOSE NOT TO HAVE LATE-TERM ABORTION: Because I wanted my baby to have a natural death. I did not want my child to die at my hands. She-<br /><br />COOPER: What did your baby have? <br /><br />ELDER: My baby had a- had a syndrome called Trisomy 18, which is a very severe chromosomal abnormality that is incompatible with life. That?"s what -- that?"s the phrase doctors used to me. <br /><br />COOPER: And you found this out what- at what stage of the pregnancy? <br /><br />ELDER: I was somewhere in the fifth month of pregnancy. <br /><br />COOPER: And, obviously, I mean, it?"s devastating news. <br /><br />ELDER: It was devastating. I found out on Mother?"s Day, and all I can remember is collapsing to the floor, because I had been trying for this baby for a very long time. So, it felt like a cruel- almost a cruel joke to me that this happened. And so, I- I went forward with the pregnancy another four months, probably the most difficult four months of my life. We were prepared for basically a- a monster, because we were told she was going to not have a brain, and she was going to have possibly cleft palate, club feet, and she was born with all those things. She was born missing part of her brain. She had one club foot, one rocker-bottom foot. She had just everything that goes along with that condition, which is- is bad. <br /><br />But we were very taken aback when we found that, when she was placed in our arms, we were happy. We were- we were incredibly happy. And my husband was with me. A lot of family and friends showed up right after the birth. She was passed around from arm to- from arms to arms. I told the hospital I did not want any extraordinary measures taken, because I wanted what happened to her to be natural. I didn?"t want to try to- to force her to stay alive with needles and tubes, if that would cause her pain and just prolong a very difficult life. But I didn?"t want to kill her either. So, I just decided to completely turn myself over to nature and let it take its course, and the resolution was really a very good resolution. She- she never suffered. <br /><br />COOPER: How long did she live? <br /><br />ELDER: Twelve hours. The nurse woke me up at 5 am, and said, ??Diane, I think you might want to get up now. The baby?"s having trouble breathing, and this might be her time, and she put Angela into my arms.<br /><br />COOPER: You named her? <br /><br />ELDER: Yes, Angela- Angela Diane Elder, and Angela looked- it was funny, because she was able to make eye contact with me, and it seemed as though she were looking into my eyes. I could hear her breath becoming more and more shallow, sort of a rattling breath, and then she took two large breaths, and then a very large breath, literally sat up, and then fell back, and she was gone. And it was a very difficult moment, even at this time. <br /><br />COOPER: Do you- do you regret it, looking back on it?<br /><br />ELDER: Not in one- not one minute of it. She died peacefully, with no pain. The suffering was ours. For two weeks, of course, at least two weeks, really a whole year, we were in mourning for her, as you would grieve over any loved one who dies. That?"s a normal part of life. You can?"t get away from the fact that- that people die and people get sick, and they die. And- but we felt very clean when it was over, and- and as though the situation was- there was closure. There was a resolution, and- <br /><br />COOPER: Obviously, other women, other families in that situation make different choices. <br /><br />ELDER: Right. <br /><br />COOPER: Do you believe that- that women should have the right to make that choice? <br /><br />ELDER: When a baby is a fully formed, living baby, I don?"t think that, really, we have ever had the choice to- to take a life at that stage. I think that- that?"s a -- that?"s a fully-formed baby. I mean, I think you had some of the pictures up there, and you saw her. She?"s a fully-formed baby. She was born early, by the way. She came out at eight months. <br /><br />COOPER: And, when you heard about Dr. Tiller?"s death, your thought? <br /><br />ELDER: Oh, I think that was awful. No one has the right to do that, particularly not someone who considers themselves to be an advocate for life. How can they take another life? It?"s inexcusable. <br /><br />COOPER: Well, I- I appreciate you coming on and talking about this. I know it?"s not easy, and I appreciate you writing the e-mail to me and- and that we were able to have you on today. Thank you very much. <br /><br />ELDER: Thank you so much. <br /><br />COOPER: Thanks. Thanks for your strength. <br /><br />ELDER: All right.? </p></blockquote></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/cnns-cooper-spotlights-woman-who-decided-against-late-term-abortion';<br />digg_title = 'CNN&#039;s Cooper Spotlights Woman Who Decided Against';<br />digg_bodytext = "CNN anchor Anderson Cooper conducted a five-minute long interview of Diane Elder, a woman who decided to let her infant daughter live despite her severe genetic defects, during his program on Tuesday evening. 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It now appears that taxpayers will end up with a 60% stake in the restructured company. Cato scholar <a href="http://www.cato.org/people/daniel-ikenson">Daniel Ikenson</a> has <a href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9804">long suggested</a> bankruptcy as the best course for GM, and <a href="http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=229">now worries</a> about Ford's future: "The government has a 60 percent stake in GM. Who's going to want to own Ford stock&#8212;and therefore, will Ford be able to raise capital&#8212;when the U.S. government has an incentive to tip the balance in GM's favor wherever it can?"</p><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=229">Full statement from Ikenson</a></li><br /><li>"<a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/05/15/an-overdue-reckoning-in-the-auto-sector/" target="_blank">An Overdue Reckoning in the Auto Sector</a>," by Daniel Ikenson</li><br /><li>"<a href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9804">Don't Bail Out the Big Three</a>," by Daniel Ikenson</li><br /></ul><br /><br /><p><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?i=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?i=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?a=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/CatoHomepageHeadlines?i=mtlwByY2rzs:B_q7Uwko8-Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/CatoHomepageHeadlines/~4/mtlwByY2rzs" height="1" width="1" /></p><br /></div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --><div class="diggthis_button"><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />digg_url = 'http://news.goodtimessociety.com/politics/daily/news/bankruptcy-gm-ford-next';<br />digg_title = 'Bankruptcy for GM. 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