I never thought I'd be writing a post like this but Paladino's latest idiotic and frightening comments are just too much for me. I can accept that different people feel different ways on issues of sexuality but there is a line that cannot or should not be crossed. Saying that you don't approve of certain behavior is one thing, but making comments like he did this weekend are … [Read more...] about Cuomo For Governor
Nobel Peace Prize for Liu Xiaobo
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Howard Dean Going Out on (Broken) Limb? Predicts Democrats Will Hold the House
Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean is going against the (increasing) political wisdom that the song "Wipe Out" may be the theme song played when the votes come in on Democrats running for House of Representatives. He predicts the Dems will hold the House: A pipe dream? In fact, conventional wisdom has always been fluid. Even the meticulous Nate Silver, in making his … [Read more...] about Howard Dean Going Out on (Broken) Limb? Predicts Democrats Will Hold the House
Paladino Strikes Again II: Calls Gays “Dysfunctional”
Carl Paladino strikes again. You really now have to wonder how many New Yorkers of both parties and no party and now screaming "Oh, Mommy, please make him stop, Mommy, make this man shut up": Carl Paladino says it’s not okay to be gay. "There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual," the Republican gubernatorial candidate told a small Hasidic group … [Read more...] about Paladino Strikes Again II: Calls Gays “Dysfunctional”
Femiphobia, Homophobia, Hate and Justice
It looks like femiphobia, “man’s fear of becoming a woman,” exacerbated the homophobic hate in the story of those nine young men who lured a gay man to a party that was instead a night of torture that NYC police call the worst antigay attack in recent memory. From the NYTimes follow-up: Mr. Mendez, who the police said was the ringleader and was known by the street name … [Read more...] about Femiphobia, Homophobia, Hate and Justice
Small Business Tax Credit Tucked Into Health Care Bill
If you own a small business, or you know someone who does, you (or they) need to check out this little-reported feature of the health care bill: The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit can cover up to 35 percent of the premiums a small business pays to cover its workers. In 2014, the rate will increase to 50 percent. Writing at the HuffPo, Linda Bergthold uses … [Read more...] about Small Business Tax Credit Tucked Into Health Care Bill
Video: Wasserman-Schultz Takes On Cantor Over Young Gun Candidate & Nazi Re-Enactment Admirer
The video via Think Progress: And the full post at Think Progress. I've maligned the Young Guns program before, but here's what the program says about itself: America is standing at a critical crossroads, and Young Guns candidates give America the best opportunity to move our country in the right direction. Founded in the 2007-2008 election cycle by Congressmen … [Read more...] about Video: Wasserman-Schultz Takes On Cantor Over Young Gun Candidate & Nazi Re-Enactment Admirer
Google’s Got An Automated Car
And they drove it from Mountain View, CA, to Hollywood Boulevard. Google says their self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles: Our automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps (which we collect using manually driven vehicles) to navigate the road ahead. This is all made possible by … [Read more...] about Google’s Got An Automated Car
President McCain’s Midterm Woes
If the 2008 presidential election had gone the other way, would there be a Tea Party today? Unless the economy had magically recovered with nothing but tax cuts, a voter uprising seems inevitable. And would it have targeted only Congressional Democrats without spreading to "the treachery" of President John McCain, never accepted as a true believer by the Rush Limbaughs of … [Read more...] about President McCain’s Midterm Woes
Nobel Peace Prize is Biased Toward the West: Global Times, People’s Republic of China
Does the West, through the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, unfairly single out China for criticism? According to this editorial from China's strictly state-run Global Times, awarding Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo with the Peace Prize was a 'display of arrogance and prejudice against a country that has made the most remarkable economic and social progress.' Once again, the … [Read more...] about Nobel Peace Prize is Biased Toward the West: Global Times, People’s Republic of China
Kim Jong Un Makes His Debut
Probable new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a major North Korean rally, offering further proof that he is destined to take over for his ailing father. Under most circumstances the potential succession in a demented nation like North Korea would be of little import to the outside world, but with Kim Jong Beiber having possible control over nuclear weapons, it is … [Read more...] about Kim Jong Un Makes His Debut
How America’s Civil War Defines the U.S. South, and Perhaps One Day, Europe: Rue 89, France
Sometimes when the foreign press publishes interviews with Americans, it reveals more about them then it does about us. With the U.S. in the midst of a bitter midterm election campaign, this interview from France with two residents of the South by Rue 89 correspondent Damien Spleeters has the Americans warning the Frenchman that a War of Succession may soon be in their … [Read more...] about How America’s Civil War Defines the U.S. South, and Perhaps One Day, Europe: Rue 89, France
Windows Phone 7 A Marketing Mistake?
John Gruber and Dan Benjamin diss the name Windows Phone 7: Benjamin: Most absurd name for a device ever... Gruber: They should not have called it Windows, It's as if they called the iPhone the Mac phone... I think it's stupid. Benjamin: It's a mistake. Their marketing critique sent me back to the now classic video, Microsoft designs the iPod package: It turned out … [Read more...] about Windows Phone 7 A Marketing Mistake?
Some Notes to Republican Candidates
To the guy running for the senate against Russ Feingold in Wisconsin: Why do you think your experience as a plastics manufacturer qualifies you for a senate seat? Does Feingold's experience in politics qualify him to run a plastics company? To Christine O'Donnell in Delaware: Please take the catch line "I'm you" out of your commercials. Every time it appears it reminds me of … [Read more...] about Some Notes to Republican Candidates
Honey In India: A Cocktail Of Antibiotics?
I love honey. I used to gift honey, especially from Germany, to my close relations on my return from my travels abroad. Now I have stopped gifting honey and even stopped eating it. My friend Sunita Narain, an indefatigable public-spirited person, tells us that even health-conscious companies, in this case from Australia and Switzerland, "do not check antibiotics in products … [Read more...] about Honey In India: A Cocktail Of Antibiotics?
Google Gets a C- From BBB
ReadWriteWeb Biz points to Mike Blumenthal, a blogger who specializes in local search, on Google's poor Better Business Bureau rating: The bulk of the issue apparently is the fact that Google has not responded at all to 47 complaints. They were not judged on whether they satisfied the complaint, not whether they complied with their agreements… to a large degree, just whether … [Read more...] about Google Gets a C- From BBB
Lured Into a Trap, Then Tortured for Being Gay
That's the headline from a story on the front page of the NYTimes this morning. So graphic it's hard to read, we're moving closer to calling hate what it is: HATE. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture — he was sodomized, burned and whipped. All punishment, the … [Read more...] about Lured Into a Trap, Then Tortured for Being Gay
UK Gets Midterm Fever
Even the UK is getting Midterm fever. Check out this fascinating article from the UK’s premier left leaning paper, The Guardian (link). Lloyd Marcus, a black Tea Party ‘patriot’, gives readers some personal insight to why he is against Barack Obama and supports the Tea Party agenda. Now I ignorantly thought that black Tea Party members didn’t exist. Why you ask? Well … [Read more...] about UK Gets Midterm Fever
It’s called fraud
The fraud committed by the banksters was not only ignored by regulators and the courts they were rewarded with tax payer money in the form of TARP. It seems like the scam may be falling apart and the fraud is becoming so obvious that it can no longer be ignored. Ezra Klein interviewed Janet Tavakoli, the founder and president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc., to get some … [Read more...] about It’s called fraud
What a difference two years makes.
CNN is touting a new poll which shows that Americans think Barack Obama is performing marginally better than George W Bush as President of the United States: "Americans are divided over whether President Barack Obama or his predecessor has performed better in the White House, according to a new national poll. By 47 to 45 percent, Americans say Obama is a better president … [Read more...] about What a difference two years makes.