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So glad Rachel had the story on the Saints fans celebrating in drag for that cool sportscaster’s memory.
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I hate to leave good company, but i’m pooped, y’all. Good night.
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:06 pm
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Nite nite…..a href=”http://www.freesmileys.org/smiley < s.php" title="Smiley">
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Follow the $$$$$$$$$
here’s a little taste of the Power of Money in the Cali Gov Zombie Race
Major fireworks unfolding this morning over in the Zombie Death Cult gubernatorial primary, as Steve Poizner’s campaign is calling for a federal investigation into Meg Whitman’s efforts to push Poizner out of the race and clear the field for him to run for the US Senate nomination in 2012. From a Poizner campaign email blast:
Republican candidate for governor Steve Poizner today revealed intimidation tactics from Meg Whitman in which her top political advisor threatened to spend $40 million “tearing up” Commissioner Poizner. Last week, Meg Whitman’s trusted advisor Mike Murphy contacted multiple people connected to the Poizner campaign and attempted to intimidate Poizner out of the race. In return for dropping out, Meg Whitman offered to deliver to Commissioner Poizner the Republican nomination for the 2012 U.S. Senate race against Dianne Feinstein.
Poizner’s people sent a letter to AG Jerry Brown, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of CA, and the local FBI asking for an investigation into “threats and intimidation” in violation of at least the California Election Code. The link includes an email from Whitman campaign strategist Mike Murphy that Poizner’s people are claiming shows the “threats and intimidation.”
My take: Poizner is absolutely not going down without a fight. His polling numbers in the GOP primary aren’t great, but he seems to believe he has the chance to take this from Whitman. Given public dislike of CEOs and large corporations, Poizner definitely has an opening to make it a competitive primary. While Jerry Brown needs to get to work on his own campaign, it certainly helps if Poizner and Whitman are locked in a vicious battle.
Pass the popcorn!
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
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I need more than popcorn for that fight, Kel. Maybe Brown is waiting to see who he has to run against. I agree that he ought say something if he’s going to run, but just theorizing…………
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:59 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:02 pm
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Whoa! Steele is not going to run again for RNC chairman.
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:09 pm
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heard that….
i guess having the steele token didn’t pay off so well for repubes….
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
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shocker!!!!!
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
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He’s jockeying for a pundit spot on Fox????????????
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February 1st, 2010 at 11:41 pm
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will not happen … his best bet is hoping for a role as the D-Bag on MSNBC alongside Pat BuKlanan and MissRonChristie
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um….ko talking about nasa…..
the spin seems positive….
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2010-02-01-nasa-moon-obama_ N.htm?csp=34
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:05 pm
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Yeah – Just saw that. It does seem positive – streamlined – exploring more of the solar system (doing new stuff instead of sending folks to the moon). I liked that astronomer KO had on.
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:08 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:19 pm
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:nocomment: :justsayin:
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:23 pm
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*snicker*
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
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How has KO been since his come-upense from Jon Stewart? Haven’t had a chance to watch him the past week….
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Winners and losers from Obama’s proposed 2011 budget:
WINNERS
1. K-12 education.
2. Research and development.
3. State governments.
4. Highway and transit contractors.
5. Defense Department.
6. Nuclear power companies looking at building new plants.
LOSERS
1. Charities and universities.
2. Wealthy farmers.
3. Army Corps of Engineers.
4. Moon-travel boosters.
5. Public housing authorities.
6. Low-income workers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010 020101869.html?hpid=topnews
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:49 pm
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Numbers 5 and 6 from Winners list could pay for the whole damn Losers list.
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:53 pm
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Except that NO pay should go to subsidize Wealthy Farmers!
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:54 pm
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Oh, Agreed!!!
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:59 pm
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You got that right Babs.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:10 pm
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could you please pass the corn? ….
or the wheat?
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:50 pm
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pork, beef, chicken, turkey…???
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:21 pm
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Numbers 1 and 6 from the Losers List make my heart burn … surely Big PhRMA can fix that, right
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Since when is the middle class inclusive of households making more than 250,000 a year. Since this morning on CNN.
http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/02/01/cnn-and-the-250k-middle-class/
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If you did not catch the Q&A YouTube with the President you can catch the vid at CITIZENTUBE shortly. I caught some of it just now. Good stuff.
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A little light reading:
Budget Of the U.S Government Fiscal Year 2011
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/budget.pdf
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February 1st, 2010 at 12:59 pm
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The budget will include a $4 billion increase over FY 20101 for K-12 education, but $1 billion is contingent on passing an ESEA reauthorization bill. The budget will collapse a number of small competitive grant programs (38 programs in all) into 11 new programs.
The budget will include $405 million for Teachers and Leaders Pathways:
School Leadership ($170 million)
Transition to Teaching
Teach for America
3 other programs
The budget will also include $950 million for the Teacher and Leader Innovation Fund:
Teacher Incentive Fund
Advanced Credentialing
The budget will include $450 million (increase of $37 million) for a new Effective Teaching and Learning in Literacy program, collapsing 6 programs:
Striving Readers
Even Start
Literacy through Libraries
Reading is Fundamental
Ready to Learn
National Writing Project
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Bleak times for public education in California
The annual Educational Opportunity Report from the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education & Access paints a grim picture of the recession’s impact on California schools. Its survey was conducted with a representative sample of 87 principals from across the state, revealing common themes across socioeconomic and demographic diversity, but also differences in the degree of impact on families and school programs. Seventy-four percent of elementary principals and 54 percent of secondary principals were forced to increase class sizes. Seventy percent had cut back or eliminated summer school, and 58 percent had either reduced or eliminated textbook purchases. Forty-three percent reported teacher layoffs, and 25 percent reported cuts to school psychologists, social workers, and nurses. More than half of the principals reported a sharp increase in student needs for health, psychological, or social services; many reported extremely high social needs — “an epidemic of hunger” — with children receiving no food when they go home for the night or weekend. Educators have responded by connecting students and families with social service providers or by contributing food and clothing, but budget cuts to social welfare programs and school services have left the system with less capacity to respond to these growing needs.
See the report: http://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/educational-opportunity-report
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February 1st, 2010 at 11:23 am
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you have no idea how bleak it is looking here on the public education front.
if (when) eMeg wins the governorship, she will immediately strip the last penny that is going to the schools.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:03 pm
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It looks horrible. What a country we’ve become….
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:25 pm
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Blue Cali is looking like it might go Red — a la Mass.
I’m at a loss here. There’s no one to even work for … for free, natch … no Dem Gov campaign, nothing happening for B. Boxer. Seeing lots of bumper stickers for Meg Whitman and (YIKES!) Chuck DeVore already.
they’re saying Latino vote is predicted to be very low b/c they are VERY scared and that will be the tipping point.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_14304049
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
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this isn’t good at all….
obama has already implored congress that he can’t do it alone….
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:34 pm
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Keeeeryst! He tells even lowly little ol’ me every week that he can’t do it alone … and he asks for “help”
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
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(yeah….got that email)
obama says, “work WITH me, people”
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:36 pm
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in all seriousness, kitty, in my MANY years of political involvement, always rising a little above the fray with the comfort of knowing, at least I’m in Cali., I’ve never seen anything like what is happening here now.
there is NOTHING happening here now with Dem campaigns. It’s downright freaky!!!!!!
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:59 pm
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i don’t understand what they’re afraid of….
other than eMag’s $$$ as you mentioned below…..
if anything, a good candidate could use that against her….
didn’t the terminator do ENOUGH damage???
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February 1st, 2010 at 11:43 pm
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eMeg plays ultra dirty. she makes Ahnuld look like a girly-man
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
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If the Latinos are scared things are bad. They don’t scare easy.
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:46 pm
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what’s really scary is that it seems every possible candidate is SCARED to run against emeg’s MONEY!!!!
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“Tomorrow, Congress will be holding its first hearing in 17 years on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the 1993 law that bars gay men and women from serving openly in the military. LGBT leaders expect that Defense Secretary Robert Gates will announce that while Congress and the administration work on a permanent repeal of the law, the Defense Department “will not take action to discharge service members whose sexual orientation is revealed by third parties or jilted partners, one of the most onerous aspects of the law.” Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen aren’t, however, “expected to offer a specific legislative proposal to repeal the law.”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/28/gates.military.gay/?hpt=T1
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have you completed your holiday shopping, rangers?????
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:59 am
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Are you registered anywhere, Miss
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:03 am
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oh, durnit! Mah faux hog fur is at the cleaners.
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And one last piece from NYT. Paul Krugman on the boring safety of the Canadian banking system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/opinion/01krugman.html?th&emc=th
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This is a good opinion piece on “Sex-ed in Washington.” In the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/opinion/01douthat.html?th&emc=th
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Morning all, sunny and 14 degrees in this bit of vt.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:46 am
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Good morning, y’all. 49 and gray glooms. Thought of you when I was reading this piece on Math in the NYT, Noch.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/from-fish-to-infinity/ ?th&emc=th
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The dawn of a terrible day… the President axes exploration & return trip to the Moon.
Boo Mr President! Boo on you!
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:26 am
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Argh!!!
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February 1st, 2010 at 5:08 pm
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An especially cold, harsh blow considering this is the 7th anniversary of the loss of Columbia and her crew : (
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:30 am
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Saw that bit of news yesterday and thought of you, Noch.
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February 1st, 2010 at 5:09 pm
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Thanks… and my thoughts are for all the wonderful people across many states who will lose their jobs, and more importantly their dreams. It was a crushing blow.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:35 am
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BUT more $$$ is going into eduction and NCLB will be reformed.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:08 am
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Here’s some of the detail on that, also from the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/education/01child.html?th&emc=th
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February 1st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
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Well… what’s the point of funding STEM when you make it clear that NASA is no long important?
I know a University student who has been studying to become an Astronaut so she could go to the Moon. After the announcements she quit college and went home. After 6 years of studying. She will probably go back, but that is the effect the news is having for thousands of people across the country.
What kid dreams of growing up and becoming a scientist for Dow Chemical?
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February 1st, 2010 at 5:31 pm
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Some highlights in the proposed NASA budget:
Extend the life of the space station to 2020 or beyond; it had been scheduled to be ditched in the Pacific Ocean in 2015.
Spend $7.8 billion over five years on new technologies “that reduce the cost and expand the capabilities of future exploration technologies,” including ways to refuel spacecraft in orbit and keep astronauts going on long missions without supplies from earth. There would be robotic missions to the moon and nearby asteroids, as precursors to eventual flights by astronauts.
Build new heavy-lift rockets with improved materials — but not the Ares I and Ares V boosters in the Constellation project. To save money and development time, they relied heavily on components from the space shuttles, which will be retired in a year after five more flights.
Spend $6 billion over five years to jump-start private companies to take over the job of launching astronauts and cargo.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/obama-budget-nasa-moon-program-cancel ed-private-companies/story?id=9718472
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:10 pm
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Actually the shuttle program ends in September with STS-133. The next launch is Sunday, the last night launch ever.
A lot of that money for R&D goes to private companies, outsourced from NASA… The same companies that failed to follow through on previous contracts. Nice, eh?
Basically… he turned NASA into an office to channel your tax dollars through to private companies.
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:14 pm
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Capitalism
* TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
o You have two cows.
o You sell one and buy a bull.
o Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
o You sell them and retire on the income.
* ENRON CAPITALISM
o You have two cows.
o You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
o The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
o Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
o The public buys your bull.
* AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
o You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
* A FRENCH CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You go on strike because you want three cows.
* AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
o You have 2 cows.
o News limited buys them for an inflated price.
o They eat clover for months and produce nothing.
o Rupert gets pissed at another one of his children.
* A JAPANESE CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
o You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.
* A GERMAN CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and Milk themselves.
* A BRITISH CORPORATION
o You have two cows. Both are mad.
* AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
o You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
o You break for lunch.
* A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You count them and learn you have five cows.
o You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
o You count them again and learn you have 12 cows.
o You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
* A SWISS CORPORATION
o You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
o You charge others for storing them.
* A CHINESE CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You have 300 people milking them.
o You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
* A SOUTH AFRICAN CORPORATION
o You have 2 cows.
o You eat them and steal 2 more tomorrow.
* A BELGIAN CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o You ignore them and eat some more chocolate…
* A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
o You have two cows.
o That one on the left is kinda cute…
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:23 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:24 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:33 pm
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The Enron Capitalism was spot on… to funny!
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
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Brilliant. I like the Belgian version as well.
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February 1st, 2010 at 11:45 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:44 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 11:44 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:37 am
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February 1st, 2010 at 4:52 pm
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I guess those kids can always dream of growing up and being an Astronaut for China…
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:57 am
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obama being mocked at a debate by mccain for senate legislation that gave $1 million+ (?) to the adler planetarium (here in chi-town) comes to mind…..
i don’t have all the information about this, noch…..
i am a huge supporter of science, space exploration, etc….
however i am NOT a fan of nasa and their vast history of animal cruelty in the name of :cough: “science” like bashing chimps in the head with a hammer until they die to see how much trauma the brain can withstand before dying (searching for video—it will make you ILL), subjecting/injecting chimps to various experiments/drugs for their entire lives, and now the most recent $1.75 million to microwave monkeys to study the effects of radiation…..
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2 813http://www.animalalerts.org/2010/01/time-is-running-out-to-save-mon keys-at-nasa/
sorry….don’t get how these torturous acts are great steps for mankind….
mankind….kind of an oxymoron IMO
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:34 am
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hmmm….can’t find the video now….i wonder why….
i guess if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, it DOESN’T make a sound…. *snicker*
oh well….other links here (one above not working) re: the new radiation study (yes, it’s been dones before) and other extracurricular activities that primates enjoy at nasa….
have a wonderful day….
http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-monkey-radiation-study-draws-grou ps-ire.html
http://www.aavs.org/researchMilitary.html
http://biotech.indymedia.org/or/2009/10/10750.shtml
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February 1st, 2010 at 9:36 am
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(yes, it’s been done before)
:iguessiizn’ttwosmart:
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February 1st, 2010 at 4:46 pm
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All of that is old news Kitty… Doesn’t make it right, but it isn’t a secret either. They even made a Hollywood movie about it. The experiments of banging a chimp on the head was actually first done by the Air Force, and the military subjects chimps to far worse things than NASA ever has. Hell, the military experiments on soldiers too! Don’t hear much crying about that though.
So I take it you don’t wear cosmetics, take prescription drugs, use automobiles or cellphones, or eat food… etc etc all of which have been safety tested on animals. Just sayin…
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:35 pm
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oh i dunno–3 months isn’t THAT long ago to talk about a new “experiment” for “safety”….
and plus i’m such a staunch supporter of nukes, bombs, WMDs, the military, and blowing up stuff in general, so it’s actually okay when the military conducts these experiments, but not nasa….
heck, i might even pick up a hammer myself and bang a chimp to death for my country….USA!!!
and i haven’t worn makeup that tests on animals or contains animal products in over twenty years…..i specifically read the labels before putting anything on my skin….that is, when I even bother to wear makeup….hair-natural—color and texture provided by mother nature….
prescription drugs, automobiles, and cellphones….well…you got me there….. i even like soap…
and the food thing…..okay…..even though i haven’t eaten mammals in 20 years, chickies & fishies in 3 years….i guess i owe the experimental animals my thanks for the vegetables and *gasp* eggs i now consume….
gotta check out the hollywood movie you allude to…sounds like a fun time…
*snicker*
what a wonderful world we live in….
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:42 pm
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kitty – are you familiar with Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine? It’s a terrific group – they work hard to get medical/vet schools from doing needless experiments on animals — so much is being computerized now days.
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:49 pm
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yes i am….they’re actually the main group petitioning nasa to stop this experiment….
einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results….
there’s gotta be a better way….
and might i add, i was the only one in my high school class that refused to cut up the fetal pig in science class…..this was before i ever even heard of “animal rights”…..each child chopping up their own pig just didn’t seem necessary….or right….
my teacher let me take the exam by just identifying the parts…..not cutting anything…..
my parents certainly had their work cut out for them….
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:51 pm
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Love the Einstein quote. Glad I missed that science class with the fetal pigs… gads.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:09 pm
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All the makeup that says not tested on animals contains ingredients proven safe by testing them on animals in the past. All those dyes in your all natural hair colouring have been tested on animals. Almost everything that is ingested or used on the human body has been tested on animals.
The safety experiment is actually new… sad to say. Radiation exposure you get in space is different than from a nuke bomb.
I don’t agree with testing on animals at all. I think it is unnecessary to do it this day and age, but I don’t have a say in it.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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Fortunately – more and more people are speaking out – the PCRM is one influential group. More and more med and vet students are speaking out as well – and the policies are changing. It’s slow going, but progress is being made.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
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let’s just do the best we can to be decent people….
and for the record i don’t color my hair…at all…
by “mother nature” i meant jeebus…
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
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The problem with so many of these experiments is that they’ve been done before – a zillion times. How many times do animals need to die to say, yeah, radiation from nukes kills?
It’s a tough call with medicine – but more and more – computerized models work just as well. And much of it is just utterly gd cruel. And how does killing animals in a car wreck help us understand how the impact affects humans? Different physiology/anatomy/everything.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:12 pm
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It’s horrifyingly cruel, and it bugs me when people cry about chimps but not about all the rats and mice.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:13 pm
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Agreed. If it’s biological, it feels pain.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:45 pm
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don’t get me started about the rats, mice, rabbits, cats, dogs…..and yes, unsuspecting humans….ever hear of a little thing called the tuskegee experiment?
so let’s not go there….lots of fun links i could share….
an animal is an animal is an animal and the chimps are no better than any of the others…..
but since this was a CURRENT report re: monkeys/radiation, and you brought up nasa, that’s the ONLY reason i went there…
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:52 pm
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Just what does it take to get you started, kk? :ducksandruns:
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
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I think we could forgo past things and concentrate on the here and now. What’s done is done and can’t be undone. Ducks and runs to find Babs and hide.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:59 pm
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That comment should definitely get her started, kitkat.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:17 pm
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Ouch! I just wanted to say that we need to fix the things that we can fix now and not dwell on history. (not that we should forget it, we shouldn’t forget the Inquisition either BTW), just that we can’t undo it.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:20 pm
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Just be careful with kk..she bruises on the inside.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:22 pm
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‘cuz i’m a karate man!!….i don’t show my weaknesses!!
February 1st, 2010 at 8:22 pm
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is there a karate smiley?
February 1st, 2010 at 8:26 pm
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Ooooooh, I is scared, now.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:14 pm
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:kkgoeslookingforbabsandkitkat:
:allhugandhaveapillowfight:
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:17 pm
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You know, you can’t just go around and shoot people in the kneecaps with a double-barreled shotgun ’cause you pissed at ‘em.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:19 pm
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:i have no comeback for that scene:
looking good, louis!
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:21 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:30 pm
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I bags the feather pillow.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:33 pm
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I bags the feather pillow. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/jumping/jumping0044.gif
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:36 pm
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I bags the feather pillow. [url=http://www.mysmiley.net][img]http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/j umping/jumping0044.gif[/img][/url]
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:42 pm
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what the hell are you doing?
:tapsfoot:
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:53 pm
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Sorry, I’m trying to use a smiley. I was hoping to find a feather smiley but thought this one would do. I’ll get it right sometime. It took me awhile to figure out the embed, but I finally did that.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:06 pm
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Of course I have heard of the Tuskegee experiment…
I brought up the new budget for NASA and how human space flight has been scrapped. You brought up animal testing.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:09 pm
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$1.75 million “new” experiment related to extended space flights….
if budget cuts have to be made, i’d rather not spend our tax dollars on that….
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:20 am
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Morning to you…
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:27 am
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:32 am
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:35 am
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Oh fun. Lite reading – the latest Sue Grafton.
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:10 am
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I like her.
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:35 am
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And hiya Babs!
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February 1st, 2010 at 7:39 am
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:40 am
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