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YouTube - Glenn Beck: Mother Teresa was a 'Freak of Nature'
Seeded on Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:22 PM EDT (YouTube)
The context here was a conversation about health care and how insurance companies do not have a bunch of Mother Theresa-s working for them. Beck feels that is how it should be. People should make 100 million dollars a year for running an insurance company.
New Green Jobs: Fact or Fiction? Anecdotal Evidence
Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:26 PM EDT
I got a JOB! Not just a job, but a job in the "Green" sector. I start work soon at a company that makes semiconductors for cell phones, military and solar panels. I will be closely involved with the development of semiconductors for solar panels.
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Limbaugh: Exercise Freaks Are Driving Up Healthcare Costs
Seeded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:00 PM EDT (The Seminal)
Rush Limbaugh, who's seen as the leader of the Republican party by most people in the country, thinks our health care crisis is caused by "exercise freaks" who's broken bones and sprained ankles are stressing the health care system.
Astronomers lose access to military data - Satellite information on incoming meteorites is blocked
Seeded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:55 PM EDT (News at Nature)
The US military has abruptly ended an informal arrangement that allowed scientists access to data on incoming meteors from classified surveillance satellites.
Practice a NON-Random Act of Kindness. - Happiness Project
Seeded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:34 PM EDT (Slate)
A while back, I posted about Happiness Myth #7: Doing "random acts of kindness" brings happiness. I wasn't arguing that acts of kindness wouldn't make you happy, but only that those acts shouldn't be random.
Banks Trade TARP for Bonuses, Debauchery & Jets
Seeded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:09 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
From Jonathan Weil at Bloomberg: June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Lock up the booze, and hide your wallet. America's most powerful, too-big-to-fail banks are turning in their TARP money. And you know what that means: It's party time again on Wall Street.
Was Ronald Reagan an Even Worse President Than George W. Bush?
Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:24 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Granted, the very idea of rating Reagan as one of the worst presidents ever will infuriate his many right-wing acolytes and offend Washington insiders who have made a cottage industry out of buying some protection from Republicans by lauding the 40th President.
Forget Buy American…Boycott America Instead
Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:25 AM EDT
I've read numerous posts on Newvine from well meaning people that state they do not buy goods or services from people who they perceive to represent the other end of the political spectrum.
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Rush Limbaugh, Bloggers Tell Americans to Boycott GM
Seeded on Tue Jun 9, 2009 6:03 PM EDT (Daily Tech)
Republican pundit and media personality Rush Limbaugh, along with fellow pundit Hugh Hewitt, has assembled a legion of red-state bloggers and are calling for a boycott of all GM vehicles according to Autoblog Green. They say that buying GM is tantamount to patronizing U.S.
The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual
Seeded on Thu May 14, 2009 7:31 PM EDT (fivethirtyeight.com)
My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings.
Cut CIA Footprint In Pakistan - Fake Taliban Operation?
Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 12:38 AM EDT (Pakalert-Wordpress)
The United States Central Intelligence Agency faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into Pakistan has direct or indirect support from Washington.
Bill Would Ban Ads for Viagra, Other ED Drugs Before 10 p.m. or Why Should My Children Have to Watch Dick Commercials?
Seeded on Thu May 7, 2009 8:37 PM EDT (Advertising Age)
For the second time in four years, U.S. Rep. Jim Moran has introduced legislation that would ban erectile-dysfunction and male-performance-enhancement ads from commercial TV broadcasts between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Obama Curbing Tax Havens - Details
Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 7:43 PM EDT (Forbes)
There is no higher economic priority for President Obama than creating new, well-paying jobs in the United States.
May Day turns violent in Turkey, Germany, Greece
Seeded on Fri May 1, 2009 5:11 PM EDT (Reuters)
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - May Day protesters clashed with riot police in Germany, Turkey and Greece on Friday while thousands angry at the government's responses to the global financial crisis took to the streets in France and Spain.
YouTube helped father deliver baby
Seeded on Fri May 1, 2009 4:48 PM EDT (This is London)
Marc Stephens said he had to act quickly when his wife Jo went into labour three weeks early as she had a history of fast births with her previous three children.
DeChristopher pleads not guilty in false bids for land lease disruption
Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:48 PM EDT (Deseret News)
Activist Tim DeChristopher concedes he's had concerns at the prospect of spending 10 years in prison for disrupting a federal auction of oil and gas leases.
Bank of America May Need $70 Billion More, FBR Says
Seeded on Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:40 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. needs $60 billion to $70 billion of capital, according to Freidman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. analyst Paul Miller, who cited stress tests performed by his firm.
Pecora Part II? or Who Will Properly Investigate Wallstreet's Role in the Economic Failure?
Seeded on Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:13 PM EDT (PBS)
Investigating Wall Street? The demand is growing for new Pecora hearings, the 1930s investigation into the causes of the Great Depression. But just who WAS Ferdinand Percora, and what changes did the investigation bring about?
FL Congressman is Illegitimate Grandson of an Alligator ?
Seeded on Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:45 AM EDT (The Colbert Report)
Have you heard the rumor that FL Congressman Bill Posey's grandmother had her alligator baby out of wedlock?
Tea Parties - Just Partisans Letting Off Steam?
Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:31 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)
In the self-segregating partisan echo chambers this is all being built up as a battle royale. But as an independent who distrusts the idea of joining a group to gain an identity, I question how all this hype will end.
Bozo the Clown can get a Credit Card? No wonder we're in trouble!
Seeded on Fri Apr 3, 2009 9:02 PM EDT (YouTube)
WGN Channel 9 Chicago - Home of the Bozo the Clown show, had a unusual piece of mail delivered to the world's favorite clown - a credit card offer!
Job Scams - Beware and Do Your Research
Fri Apr 3, 2009 1:39 PM EDT
My mother often says, "Take a job, any job until you can find what you want".
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Can't sell your house? Hire an Insta-Family! Builder Hires Model Family to Sell Homes : NPR
Seeded on Wed Apr 1, 2009 9:22 PM EDT (NPR)
In Southern California, a home builder is battling a softening real estate market by taking advantage of an abundant local resource: actors. The Centex company has hired four actors to play a family "living" in one of their model homes -- a performance called Homelife.
Mandatory Random Drug Testing for Recipients of State Money
Seeded on Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:02 PM EDT (Salina Journal)
TOPEKA -- A bill requiring random drug testing of people receiving cash assistance from the state faces an uncertain path through the Kansas Senate. The Kanas legislature has run some numbers showing the benefit of the testing would outweigh the costs.
Where are the new clean energy jobs coming from? Danish royalty help launch Colo. turbine factories - Forbes.com
Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:10 PM EDT (Forbes)
The Danish royal crown Prince came to the opening of a new Vestas Wind System turbine plant in Brighton CO. Green collar jobs are starting to show up on the economic horizon.
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Fox News Runs Old Palin Campaign Footage, Reports It As Book-Signing CrowdsLast week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was.
- No, It's not Elitist to Think the Tea-Baggers Are Idiots
Theirs isn't the justified anger of ordinary working people. A post over at the Seminal is taking "liberal elitism" to task for not taking the Tea Party people seriously, and that that will lead to the election of Sarah Palin and other such ilk.
- 99 Year Old Receives $35,000 Medicare Reimbursed Surgery; Young Go Hungry
"She's just a peek into the future," said Dr. Steven M. Greenberg, a Long Island cardiologist who performed Mrs. Homer's surgery, for which the average Medicare reimbursement at the time was $35,000.
- The Warning: Must See Frontline Video
This is a great American story about a lonely heroine Brooks Lee Born who tried in vain to challenge the radical free market views of Allen Greenspan and Robert Ruben during the Clinton administration as the seeds of our financial destruction were sown.
- The Lingering Preference for Ideology Over Fact
While President Obama and congressional Democrats have haltingly advanced legislation aimed at reshaping the health insurance landscape, Republicans have dug in their heels, spouting bromides about tax cuts and the need for change, but opposing substantive steps of any kind, and …
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Fox News Runs Old Palin Campaign Footage, Reports It As Book-Signing Crowds
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