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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

tuesday morning

diamonds are a sham and it's time we stopped getting engaged with them

how wal-mart forces its employees to live on the dole

the gay lobby inside the vatican

the way we treat our veterans is disgraceful
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Monday, June 17, 2013

skippy's monday night music club

always thought this song needed more cowbell...i mean cowsill...


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dull monday

is the republican party really committing suicide?

the real story in the nsa scandal is the collapse of journalism

wealthy aren't job-creators, middle claas workers are

and rip the founder of second city, bernie sahlins
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

skippy's sunday night music club

a little sunday music from the man in black.

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why aren't the banksters in jail?

seriously.... and i wonder if all this spying on americans involves the banksters...probably not, yet they have done more damage to our country than any "terrorist" has. let's call them what they are. financial terrorists.
bank of america rewarded staff with cash bonuses and gift cards for meeting quotas tied to sending distressed homeowners into foreclosure, former employees said in court documents.

mortgage workers falsified records and were told to delay u.s. loan-assistance applications by requesting paperwork that the bank had already received, according to statements from ex-employees filed last week in federal court in boston. the lender improperly disqualified applicants to the home affordable modification program, according to a May 23 statement from simone gordon, a loss-mitigation specialist who left the company in 2012. - denver post

 

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environmental news stories sunday

some of those pesky stories that might not have gotten to the front page...above the fold.

some great listening from best of the left - #719 400 parts per million.

water wars: who controls the flow? rivers don't follow political boundaries — they flow through states and over international borders. so what are our legal rights when it comes to water? and who decides? there are two doctrines that govern surface water rights in the u.s. — one for the west and one for the east - all things considered

is bpa making girls obese? a kaiser permanente study suggests bpa, which leaches out from things like food cans, some plastic packaging, and even cashier's receipts, could increase the risk for obesity in preteen girls - mother jones

al gore presses obama on power plant carbon rules, calls keystone "atrocity". al gore is urging president obama to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, a step the white house has not publicly embraced to date - the hill

we deserve to know what's in our food, despite what monsanto says. what the biotech industry is pushing is much different than the gradual selection of preferable traits by food growers. what we're observing now is a whole lot of dead bees, as well as an increase in food allergies and serious human diseases - syracuse post standard

how climate change makes wildfires worse - grist

winery adapting to climate change. a new report suggests that by the year 2050 as much as half of south africa’s wine growing region will no longer be able to grow grapes as a result of climate change - living on earth

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sunday morning coming down

the gender gap in silicone valley

google bans google glasses from its own sharehilder meeting

rise of jellyfish reveals sickness of world's oceans

how kodak failed
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

saturday night out

bachmann, gohmert and steve king admit to glenn beck's audience: "we're losing"

the 11 most polluted rivers in the world

some bizarre statements from the faith and freedom coalition conference

chained cpi would severly affect seniors
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Friday, June 14, 2013

keep our heads ringing (it's friday)

implications of an older workforce

how rem sleep regulates negative emotions

researchers may have found the wreckage of amelia earhardt's plane

florida courthouse to see nation's first atheist monument
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

skippy's thursday night music club

a nod to the honey bees out there.

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bee afraid

very very afraid
one third of all honeybee colonies in england did not survive winter. more than a third of all honeybee colonies in england died over the winter, according to figures from the british beekeepers association – the worst losses since its winter survival survey began.- the guardian
why honey bees matter. like the warnings surrounding the changing climate, the collapse of honey bee colonies reflect the unintended consequences of manmade ecosystem disruption that ultimately threaten our own existence in ways difficult to predict with certainty or even imagine - milwaukee journal sentinel





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this thursday



mozilla, aclu, greenpeace and over 80 other organizations protest u.s. surveillance programs

denver is the mile-high city, and we do mean high

ny legislature introduces bill to reinstate lever voting machines

bank lobbyists help draft financial laws
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kangaroo cull

halted by non-kangaroo court. roo's won't rue the day.
the lives of nearly 1,500 kangaroos that roam the open spaces of canberra have been spared after a tribunal sided with animal rights campaigners to halt a planned mass cull of the marsupials. - the guardian

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

skippy's wednesday night music club

hey, nsa....monitoring americans' phones and internet activity? hey, i told you before...you can't do that.


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bad tux

has some bad news.
the stated purpose of this vast dragnet of data — to detect and catch terrorists — is utter balderdash.
go read more of the partyin' like it's 1984 penguin's post.

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waiting for wednesday

american workers losing ground on wages

federal courts rule it is not illegal to film police

government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich

scientists discover giant, fluorescent pink slugs on a mountain in australia
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

organic farmers wither

in monsanto's legal spray
the u.s.. court system is refusing to protect the organic growers from future monsanto lawsuits in the event that traces of genetically engineered genes accidentally end up in the farmers’ crops. that’s because of a single paragraph on the biotech giant’s website that says it has no such litigious intentions.

monsanto’s gang of lawyers frequently sues farmers who grow the company’s genetically engineered crops without paying royalties — despite claims by many of the farmers that the seeds and genes ended up in their fields through no fault of their own. they didn’t want the stuff on their land to begin with, so they naturally wonder why they should have to pay royalties for the privilege of growing it. (the danger of rogue contamination was recently illuminated when an oregon farmer found illegal monsanto gmo wheat growing on his farm.) - grist

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skippy's tuesday night music club

in honor of san francisco being named the #1 romantic city in the country.


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tuesday heartbreak



study shows overwhelmong racial bais in marijuana arrests

mitt thinks obama was helped by sandy

and here's 5 reasons you might care about what mitt thinks about obama

the biggest explosion ever seen on the moon
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Monday, June 10, 2013

skippy's monday night music club


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if we were really interested in safety

instead of wire tapping everyone, put some gun laws into serious affect.

something to think about from think progress

since the sandy hook elementary school massacre in december, more people have been killed by guns than the total number of american troops killed in the iraq war.

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maurice sendak

happy birthday...where ever you are!

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some kids go hungry in summer

and, although the rethuglicans in d.e. think that is just fine and dandy, the usda is trying to help...and trying to make people aware of the situation...and urging people to take action. because if kids don't eat...they don't get the nutrition they need. when they don't get they nutrition they need, they don't learn as well. when they don't learn as well, they can't score well on required tests. when they don't score well on required tests, teachers are blamed and taken to task for not being able to teach, when it really isn't their fault their students can't learn because they don't eat.
"usda's summer feeding initiative supports programs that keep children active and engaged when school is out, reducing learning loss that often occurs during the summer months," said vilsack. "we must do all we can to ensure that children get nutritious food year-round, so that they are ready to learn during the school year and have a greater chance to succeed."

usda continues working with first lady michelle obama on the let's move! initiative, which is helping to promote healthy eating and physical activity while supporting the health of american families. through the combined efforts of usda and its partners, the united states is beginning to see progress and improvements in the health of our nation's children. - usda

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double monday

monsanto concedes defeat to europe's opposition to gmo

immigrants put more into the health care system thanthey take out, study finds

attacking the social safety net

the world's oldest torah found in italy
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Sunday, June 09, 2013

sunday morning call


how the gop lost young voters

is msnbc's devotion to political coverage the reason for its bad ratings?

if we changed the smoking culture we can change the gun culture

the real scandal? the republican party
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