Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq. "Just think of what happened after 9/11.
the lytro light field camera has been announcedsee image here lytro is the focus / matrix camera that has a number of different focusing "fields" so after you take a picture you c …
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Canon introduced this tuesday 10/18 a new flagship / top of the line camera -- the 1D X (a full frame which replaces both the 1D APS-H sensor camera and the 1D-S full frame camera.This camera has a full frame sensor with expanded / larger pixels for better low light / dynamic ran …
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The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate leaders, including some Republicans, who are expressing increasing alarm over Washington’s new austerity and an …
This phony debt crisis has now passed through the looking glass into the realm where madness reigns.
<blockquote> "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain ~
If you had only paid a 6% tax rate over a 4-year period, accumulated $7 billion in offshore profits not subject to US taxes, had over 150 accounts in tax-haven countries like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, and used the money from your tax dodging to buy another company, you'd be …
<blockquote>If the debt-limit debate had anything to do with reality, every story about it would include a few basic facts.
Reality - what the corporate right does not want you to understand from the Article: Businesses do not create jobs. In fact, the way our economy is structured the incentive is for businesses to get rid of as many jobs as they can. Demand Creates Jobs
I go into this lengthy explanation not so much to justify my intolerance, but to explain why I have problems suffering the pseudo-patriotism of people in places like Arizona where stupidity has suffocated rational thought.
To All I have basically left newsvine but have stuck around to keep the groups going. This one, The Patriotic People I have the most problems with
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I recently took over this dormant group and would like some help on which way to go with it.
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Delta Airlines is siding with an organization that compares pro-choice groups to Nazis and shuns adoption if the parents happen to be gay. Today, the airline company confirmed that it will stop advertising on the Daily Show after the far-right ant …
The Washington Post recently published a story ("Voter registration down among Hispanics, blacks" May 4th, 2012) that inaccurately claimed that the number of African American and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since 2008; it has not. One of the most important su …
American Style Environmentalism is Destroying The Environment This is the first of a series of articles exploring the failing model of American Environmentalism. In the series I will be outlining the results of considerable investigation and study of the persons and organiz …
If one wants to understand the full complicity of Wall Street in the Great Recession, look no further than the voluminous package of pre-collapse Lehman Brothers documents that have been made available by the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, which has acted as the coroner in the …
I was listening to Limbaugh’s show earlier today (person I was riding with had it on the radio) and I was just blown away by this segment. Someone called into the show and enthusiastically put forth the idea that right wingers who are retired, students, or not employed b …
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