http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/cell-phone-radiation_n_864799.html Important info. to consider...especially for constant cell phone users. ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Dispatches from the End of Empire -- a must-read!
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-michael-green/36487/dispatches-from-the-end-of-empire Once again, the astute David Michael Green has hit the nail on the head. This essay says it all. It remains to be seen if the majority of American voters will turn to sanity (don't hold your...
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Bigfoot Video -- sure looks real: What do you think?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/29/bigfoot-video-spokane-washington_n_868560.html...
Polls show most Americans are not opposed to gay marriage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/28/gay-relationship-marriage-debate-us_n_868515.html I think the rise in the poll numbers on this issue, since 1996, when just 27% of Americans approved of gay marriage, is due to education through TV shows, movies, documentaries, news and medical reports, and online...
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Please Sign for Elizabeth Warren's appointment to go through!
Republicans want to weaken the Consumer Protection Bureau!!! Their corporate/Wall Street masters do not want Elizabeth Warren, a proven and outspoken champion of the people's right to be protected from cheats and fraud, to be appointed as head of that Bureau. Please click on the credoaction.com link...
Friday, May 27, 2011
Lawrence O'Donnell: An MSNBC cable newsman with substance
By Brent Budowsky http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/brent-budowsky/36438/msnbcs-lawrence-odonnell-a-cable-star-with-substance I agree with the author: O'Donnell is a rational journalist who, unlike many others on FOX and on other channels, only presents facts that can be backed up with ...
Sweetest video ever -- mother cat hugging her shivering kitten
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/mother-cat-hugs-her-adorable-baby-kitten/...
Video tour of Sarah Palin's new Arizona home
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/sarah-palins-new-home-may_n_867861.html Take the tour and see what you think. Not what you'd call a cozy little place. Cold, concrete, ugly (in my humble opinion) but huge -- a fitting place for Sarah and her tribe. Only cost a million and a quarter -- pocket...
Good info. - tomatoes/sauce lowers LDL levels
http://www.realage.com/tips/lower-cholesterol-lycopene-benefits-tomatoes?eid=1098957002&memberid=31518633 Finally! Something delicious that is actually GOOD for you! (~.~) ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
GOP is attacking American Consumers - IMPORTANT TO READ
There is no mystery as to what the Republican Party is all about -- they serve their masters on Wall Street. And we, the people are the losers. We have lost our democratic republic, which has been replaced by an oligarchy, whose self-enriched royal members are answerable to no one but themselves. ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Sarah Palin: The Movie It's a-comin'!!!
She's a'comin; round the mountain...and she's moving to Arizona (Lucky Alaskans -- poor Arizonans). Time for the Tea Party to get REAL EXCITED! Their dream candidate is cookin' up a new recipe for 2012 in the GOP Bake-Off (so many entries, but nothing...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
FOX News is bad for journalism, America, and the GOP
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/6036-fox-bad-for-journalism-america-and-the-gop An excellent article by Mark Howard. By their behavior, the Tea Party types of right wingers prove they have no ability to discriminate real news from faux news. They swallow whole whatever Fox...
Some revealing facts about the American Cancer Society
Before you donate any more money to the American Cancer Society, you might want to read this: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/24/american-cancer-society--more-interested-in-wealth-than-health.aspx EXCERPT: In the report titled AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY—More...
Monday, May 23, 2011
Rapture did happen -- partially
Republican Candidates Vanish From Earth Gingrich Left Behind NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In what some fundamentalist preachers are calling a “partial Rapture,” all credible candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination have mysteriously...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Want to know the real truth about the JFK Assassination? It's all on youtube!
Go into this site and then search other links offered: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5xgNH-P6M&NR=1 There are many video links to follow, many of them short but full of information -- you will find truth about the assassinations of JFK and RFK, too. The same CIA operatives...
Good article on Roger Ailes and FOX "News"
From NEW YORK magazine, and a "must-read" if you want to know the power of Ailes (real leader of the Republican Party) and the inner workings at FOX. Very interesting: http://nymag.com/news/media/roger-ailes-fox-news-2011-5/ ...
Saturday, May 21, 2011
How things REALLY work in the right wing: the Schwarzenegger story
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/21/schwarzenegger.times.story/index.html?hpt=C1 Right wingers love to bash the "liberal" press -- and they won't believe their right wing heroes have feet of clay. Even when the stories are proven to be true, they will live in denial, rather than believe them. They lash...
Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice
You won't see this in the major media. When a cancer cure can't make money for Big Pharma, it is always ignored and/or swept under the carpet. Worse yet, those doctors and scientists who can help people recover from cancer are usually ridiculed and called "quacks" -- their offices are...
Friday, May 20, 2011
An OH, YES! Quote
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always exceeded the demand." --Josh Billings, humorist ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Great documentary on Netflix
Under Our Skin is an enlightening documentary re. Lyme disease -- If you missed it in the movie theater, it's a 5 star documentary, well worth watching. Is now in Netflix Instant Play. Here's a review of it: Informative documentary about a highly controversial subject: the chronic effects of Lyme disease...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Interview with Nuclear Engineer re. Fukushima
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/interview-with-akira-toku_b_863297.html EXCERPT: ...a strong dose of a deep understanding of the Japanese culture. "There is a cultural element in this. The Japanese do not want to be embarrassed. ... TEPCO is a large entity which only has to answer to the...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Documentary "I Am" -- my review
I saw the documentary I Am last night at a local theater. (A trailer of it can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtfnONazTU) I highly recommend it. In it, the writer/director asked 2 questions in interviews with journalists/teachers/philosophers/quantum physicists/scientists/leaders: What...
Monday, May 16, 2011
Koch Brothers under Attack by Robert Greenwald - YAY!
For those interested in who the Koch brothers really are: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/5948-koch-brothers-under-attack-by-robert-greenwald AND New Yorker article by Jane Meyer on the Koch brothers: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer ...
Lincoln wouldn't recognize Republican Party today -- and would cry to see it
Lincoln would weep over today's GOP By E.J. Dionne http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/16/lincoln_would_weep_109862.html ...
America is being held hostage by the oligarchy
Paul Krugman | America Held Hostage Paul Krugman, The New York Times EXCERPT: "This is a hostage situation. If the president and his allies operate on the principle that failure to raise the debt ceiling is an unthinkable outcome, to be avoided at all cost, then...
Trump will be sorely missed -- by Comedians
May 16, 2011 Comedians Beg Trump to Reconsider 20,000 Jokers March on Trump Tower NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Distraught at the news that Donald Trump will not seek the Republican nomination for President, the nation’s comedians took...
The epitome of self-glorifying egomania
An even better description of Donald Trump could also be: Total Asshole (but I don't use such language) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/donald-trump-not-running-president-2012_n_862514.html Trump maintains (now that he's not running and can never prove his boast) that he would win the primary and the general...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Good article on self-compassion being more important than self-esteem
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43025669/ns/health-behavior/ and another article: How to Foster Self-Compassion in Your Children: http://www.livescience.com/14144-parenting-tips-compassion-esteem.html ...
Friday, May 13, 2011
TEPCO Now Admits Nuclear Meltdown, but US media wants to keep it quiet
As usual, in a case where widespread public health may be at risk, our news media is downplaying the nuclear plant disaster, which FINALLY the Japanese are admitting is a complete nuclear Meltdown, the worst possible case -- as bad or worse than Chernobyl. In order to keep "we, the sheeple"...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. reports: nuclear plant is in meltdown
Not good news from Japan on Friday, the 13th. More about this at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8509502/Nuclear-meltdown-at-Fukushima-plant.html No.1 reactor is in a "meltdown" state Tokyo Electric Power Company says the No.1 reactor at ...
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Rand Paul (Idiot): "Right to Health Care is Slavery"
An Idiot Speaks Absolute Nonsense http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/11/kentucky-senator-rand-paul-right-to-health-care-is-slavery/ by Eric W. Dolan How did this fool ever get elected? Do Kentucky voters have any brains? I wonder how Kentuckians are liking his assessment...
Gingrich running for President --let the fun begin
Did you ever feel you were caught in one of those Grade-Z movies? That's how this world is beginning to feel to me. Just look at the field of candidates the GOP is coming up with this time around...not a one with enough brains to run for dog catcher, let alone President. And yet, the Tea...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Political disaster in Florida
And Floridians like to ridicule California! They should look to their own state for the shabbiest of politics. The Tea Party mentality is the lowest of the low, so typical of Republican thinking these days... EXCERPT from article: They despise government so they take as ...
Monday, May 09, 2011
The Protection of bin Laden throughout the Bush Years
The author, a man who sees clearly, makes some excellent points here. I have often wondered about Bush's lack of interest in really pursuing bin Laden, starting with allowing all the bin Laden relatives who lived in the U.S. to leave after 9/11, without being interrogated, and even providing them...