Adams:
"The smart bet in this country for decades has been to 
Boohunney:
Naw.
Look to Elizabeth Warren. Call me crazy if you wa 
Ten Bears:
Imhotep probably has it right, but it wouldn't surprise 
someofparts:
Actually, 2016 has been my worry all along. Guess it's
someofparts:
If Jeb runs, I'll be the first one at the polls when th
Boohunney:
@ NormanLake. Politics and SEC football are great! Gets
Boohunney:
Doubt it will happen this election.
Jeb may be the las 
susie:
I suspect it's always been that way, we just have more 
NormanLake:
The more I pay attention to politics, the scarier this' 
steveeboy:
The TPM obit is pretty much a model of how it should be 
Imhotep:
Baker is dead on concerning Clinton and Obama doing the 
jawbone:
Oh. And un-oh. Looks like a Democratic governor has ag
jawbone:
Question: I'm positive we used to be able to use blockq
jawbone:
The MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) descriptions of Br
Ten Bears:
I think I'll open my (broadcast) radio show with this t 
odd man out
Bill Maher showed photos of hip-hip stars posing with wads of cash in their hands, or in their mouths, and then a photo of Mittens and his whiter-than-white homies at Bain Capital, in similar poses with money. More here.
This certainly sounds like a big factor, if not the main reason, for Snowe’s decision not to run for reelection. Maybe it was the final straw, since Snowe was also facing a primary challenge from the Tea Party: Last August, while Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, was in the midst of an intensive round of fundraising for her 2012 reelection bid, a four-year-old civil lawsuit alleging fraud by an education company in which she and her husband are heavily invested became [...]
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It’s also a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Sorry! Back in 1990, the National Institutes of Health began funding a long-term study of stroke and cardiovascular risk factors among of urban adults. Known as the Northern Manhattan Study and housed at Columbia University, the project enrolled thousands of people from the community and subjected them to medical testing while recording their food-consumption habits. Among its results, a surprising one has emerged (recently published paper available here): people who drink at least [...]
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It’s astounding that they’re actually saying what the rest of us already know: WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made itself a crucial counterterrorism partner in the eyes of American diplomats. Now, in sworn statements that seem likely to reignite the debate, two former senators who were privy to top secret information on the Saudis’ [...]
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Just kidding! I’m sure this would never be used against the enemies of the status quo: Japanese scientists with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology claimed this week that they have developed a novel new weapon by combining two specialized technologies in such a way that they are now capable of rendering someone unable to speak. While it’s not technically a weapon, their “portable speech-jamming gun” could certainly be used as one, especially against political leaders or [...]
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Useful piece in the Times this week about how some colleges are adapting to an influx of veterans (and in some cases, not trying to adapt at all). It makes a big difference in whether the vet is going to succeed: “There are some great colleges and universities that deserve an A+,” said Mr. Garcia, a former Marine. “But there are some colleges and universities that perform varying unscrupulous practices, and they deserve an F.” An area needing immediate improvement, [...]
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Who’da thunk it? Capitalism has been put on trial in the 2012 presidential election. Romney, who will be the Republican nominee, has been forced to defend Capitalism. But it wasn’t the OWS movement which forced Mitt to do that. It was his Republican opponents who injected the issue of Capitalism into the race. Defending the legitimacy of Capitalism was the last thing that the oligarchy (1%) wanted to do in the 2012 election. But this issue isn’t going away any time soon. So the 1% is now scrambling to retool the Republican (Capitalist Party) message to try and blunt their Capitalism problem. Thanks to OWS.