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Make Someone's Day Over There

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:08:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is actually my own design. What do you think? It's intended to be both whimsical and practical, it could be vital field equipment for a lot of soldiers - but you know how it is; it won't be issued. <br><br>
It might be particularly useful for getting orders on the record - just, you know, in case.
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For most, I hope, it will be a really simple way of making a video diary for the folks back home.

Clip Source: www.cafepress.com

Military Flip MinoHD

A video war diary for you or someone "over there." The Flip Minos are ideal for this misson; simple, compact and easy to use. It's solid state and ready to rock and roll.

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Holds 60 minutes of HD-quality video on 4GB of built-in memory

Tags: cafepress, video, video cameras, hd video, military, flicr, diary

Yeah. It's Like that.

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:53:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Blogging, of course, is a particularly unrewarding form of solitary vice.

What's even worse is that this silly post will be my money shot for the month, because it has "jacking off" and "Porn" in it.

I'm just too jaded to take this any further, other than to say that the mindless ejaculations of Palin Supporters DO remind me of the mindless ejaculations of the fans of Hot Wife Porn over on flickr.

Except that it seems somehow less degrading to everyone involved.

Clip Source: men.style.com

It occurred to me, as I sat there watching an interracial couple banging, that jacking off in a hotel room was not unlike the larger experience of campaign reporting. You watch two performers. You kind of like it when one of them gets humiliated. You know they’re professionals, so you don’t feel much sympathy for them. You wish you could participate, but instead you watch with a hidden envy and feel vaguely ashamed for watching. You think you could probably do as good a job or better. You sometimes get a glimpse, intentionally or not, of society’s hidden desires and fears. You watch the porn week after week, the scenes almost always the same, none of them too memorable. The best ones get sent around the Internet.

Tags: bloging, campaign 2008, porn, politics

Now this could be the perfect gift this season...

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:26:40 GMT

clipped by: graphictruth
clipper's remarks: ...and perhaps a way to ensure a copy of it for your grandchildren. They might have to keep it hidden in the secret room, though.

Clip Source: www.citydweller.net

Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug

$10.99

Pour in a hot beverage and watch your civil liberties disappear! Mug features the complete text of the Bill of Rights, but temperature sensitive print responds to the change and shows what remains thanks to the Patriot Act!

**These are back in stock -- place your orders now!

Tags: bill of rights, activism, shopping, free speech, first amendment, patriot act

This Is Not Baghdad, is it?

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:15:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But when cops - who were not wearing badges, according to veteran's accounts - charge uniformed veterans, assault them and arrest them for "disorderly conduct" that, well, seems to amount to bleeding without a permit, it's not far away.

Clip Source: nyc.indymedia.org

Here are photos of the incident last night in which Nassau County Police used horses and batons to brutalize Iraq-war veterans.

Iraq Veterans Against the War led a march up to the gates of Hoffstra demanding that the candidates, about to begin their final "debate", allow them to personally ask a question to each on the issue of the Iraq occupation and the treatment of returnig veterans here at home.

By ally http://www.ivaw.org

Tags: police, politics, abuse, corruption, nassau county, free speech, first amendment

The End of America?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:18:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: During a question-and-answer period after the speech, Natasha Cohen (CAS’12) asked Bacevich how internal change might be brought about.

“We need to live within our means, as individuals in our households and in terms of the services provided for by government at various levels,” he answered. “I’m no economist, but I do believe there is no free lunch. Everything has to be paid for.”

Clip Source: www.bu.edu

Consumerism, expansionism undermine democratic way of life, Bacevich says

One week after the September 11 terrorist attacks, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was quoted as saying, “We have a choice. Either to change the way we live, which is unacceptable, or change the way they live. We chose the latter.”

In his latest book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Andrew Bacevich argues that the American culture of consumerism, among other things, has undermined basic democratic values. Photo by Frank Curran

Andrew Bacevich,

argued that it was time for Americans to abandon that thinking and instead look inward. We must change the way we live before it’s too late, the retired U.S. Army colonel urged.

“Can anyone possibly think at this stage that changing the way ‘they’ live is plausible or affordable?” he said. “To persist on the course that we are following will only lead to ever-greater debt and ever-greater dependence.”

HT, Mother Nature...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:59:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Evolution, in action; documented and happening in ways we didn't anticipate. Real Science with Real Data.

Oh, and the evolutionary pressure? Pollution and Climate Change.

Clip Source: ecoworldly.com

Scientists Discover Fish in Act of Evolution in Africa’s Greatest Lake

In what could be a first in the world, a fish species known as cichlids has been observed by scientists in the act of splitting into two distinct species in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake and one of the world’s biggest fresh water bodies.

This may be remarkable because what is causing them to diverge are adaptations to their vision as animals and plants try to cope with increased pollution and the effects of climate change. The change is also happening without geographical isolation, which was thought to be a precursor for evolution.

The researchers showed that the eyes have adapted to this difference so that fish that live in deeper water have a pigment in their eyes that is more sensitive to red light, while shallow-water fish were sensitive to blue.

So THAT'S a Post Turtle

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:49:23 GMT

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Clip Source: attackerman.firedoglake.com

Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher
whose hand was caught in a gate while working with cattle,
the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually,
the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to to be a heartbeat
away from being President.

The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.”

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post
turtle was.

The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you
come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”

He continued, “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t
belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, if she
tries to make a move she’ll fall down hard, and you just wonder what kind
of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.”

Rednecks For Obama

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:23:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Apparently even crackers from the deep south are disgusted with McCain

Clip Source: www.pamshouseblend.com

My sister said she told him she was canvassing for Barack Obama and then asked him if he'd decided if he was going to vote, and if so, who he planned on voting for. His response, she said, about knocked her off the porch.

"Well," he said. "I'm gonna have to vote for that nigger 'cause I sure as hell ain't votin' for McCain. That Obama fella knows sumpin' about folks like us. All McCain knows is war and I've had enough of war."

She said he went on to explain that he has a son who's on his third tour in Iraq, which he said "jest ain't right".

"I done my duty in Vietnam and then came home. He's done his duty and they should let him come home. Let some other folks go over there and fight if they think it's that damned important."

Tags: political, mccain, obama, iraq war

Ed Tinsley Beats Rep. Bachman for Worst Person

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:16:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is what came in second for Keith.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) told the website OneNewsNow:

"[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet -- we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.

Third place is reserved for a police chief that wants to turn Manhattan into a gated prison for stockbrokers. I wonder what Snake Pliskin would have to say about that?

Clip Source: dccc.org

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Republican candidate Ed Tinsley was roundly booed at a local candidate forum after making the outrageous accusation that his opponent, Democrat Harry Teague, will cut the throats of our troops. Watch the video for yourself.

Energy 2.0

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:27:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Energy 2.0 will do for us what the web has already done - decentralize energy production to the point where two or three giant firms cannot even envision controlling the energy markets.

Clip Source: revolutionaryparadigm.blogspot.com

Times Online - Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum'

“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”

Mr Pal is a senior director of LS9, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have spurned traditional high-tech activities such as software and networking and embarked instead on an extraordinary race to make $140-a-barrel oil (£70) from Saudi Arabia obsolete. “All of us here – everyone in this company and in this industry, are aware of the urgency,” Mr Pal says.

Small Fuel Refinery for Ten Grand.

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:36:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Feed stock, used to make the fuel, will cost about $1 per gallon, he said.

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“Henry Ford started the automobile revolution using ethanol, predicting that this renewable and accessible fuel would become the ‘fuel of the future,’ ” he said during the May launch of the Microfueler. “If not for the Prohibition laws in the 1920s and the subsequent rise of the oil industry, ethanol may never have lost its public appeal. E-Fuel will deliver on Ford’s prediction and enable consumers to bypass the costly oil infrastructure and their reliance on fossil fuels.”

Butterfield is excited to be working in the field of alternative fuels again. He’s convinced that this time around, the oil market is not going to stabilize and prices will continue to rise.

“I thought in 1980 the world was running out of oil. All the signs were there,” he said. “That was true back then, it’s just we were able to stave it off for 25 years. Now we can’t.”

Clip Source: www.sanluisobispo.com

Floyd Butterfield, in his research facility in Paso Robles, won an award in 1981 for a small plant that made ethanol from alcohol. Now he’s working to build trash-to-fuel plants in the Midwest and ethanol makers for personal use.

Making fuel from foodstuff is similar to wine production, Butterfield explained. The key ingredient is starchy waste foods. The fuel plants on which Butterfield is working in the Midwest will start with outdated soda pop, old bread, tortillas, cereals, or waste grains or sugar from food manufacturing companies.

A process of fermentation and distillation follows. Chemical processes along the way create a vapor gas that becomes liquid ethanol.

“Our vision is it will be a lot like doing a load of laundry. Instead of putting clothes in, you’ll put in feed stock, close the lid, press a button, a few days later you have gallons of ethanol,” he explained.

Lefty Blogosphere Petitions Dems to Drop Lieberman

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:53:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The piece goes on:

Next week, Democratic activists and liberal bloggers plan to deliver the petition to members of the Senate Democratic Steering Committee, which will make recommendations on committee assignments next Congress to Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader. They also plan to keep the grassroots pressure on the Democrats until those decisions are made after the November elections.

Leaders of this effort hope to mirror the success bloggers had in fueling the candidacy of businessman Ned Lamont, who beat Lieberman on an anti-war platform in the Connecticut 2006 Senate Democratic primary. Running as an Independent, Lieberman later defeated Lamont in the midterm elections.

Now that Liberman's stumping for McCain and a continued majority in the Senate is a leadpipe cinch, dems really should kick Joe out on his ass.

Screw him. They need this guy like a boat needs a drain.

Clip Source: thehill.com

Liberal groups plan to deliver a petition to Capitol Hill next week calling on Democrats to oust Sen. Joe Lieberman from his committee chairmanship in the 111th Congress.

The liberal Los Angeles-based production company Brave New Films is trying to capitalize on those concerns. Last week, the company released a Web video carrying controversial statements made by Lieberman and launched a petition drive to request Democratic leaders to strip Lieberman of his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. So far the petition drive, which has been highlighted on prominent liberal blogs Huffington Post and Open Left, has amassed more than 41,000 signatures, according to the website LiebermanMustGo.com.

Clip Source: bravenewfilms.org

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Tags: news

Why Abstinance-Only?

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:57:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Studies show that Abstinance-Only sex ed works no better than nothing. So why the literal evangelical fervor for shoving it down our children's throats? To "save them from hell" - and of course, those who are NOT saved don't matter.

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

Consider the contrast between the emphasis on making pregnancy as inevitable as possible with militant opposition to consider any social fail-safes for mistakes, accidents, poor decisions or the unpredictable circumstances of life, isseus that are of concern to any person of genuine Evangelical Christian faith, or indeed, anyone who takes the words of Jesus to be important and morally instructive.

I'm sorry if that seems arrogant, but those who discount the positive importance of the words of Christ while treating 19th century Dispensationalist twaddle as if it were Scripture are, aside from being grouchy, mean-spirited, spiteful, intolerant, fearful and judgmental prudes with an unhealthy interest in the bodily functions and private affairs of others, have also stretched the definition of "Christian" to the point where Christ Himself would not recognize it.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

"Autism Speaks" So We Don't Have To...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:37:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...and if we do, we Aspies and Auties get Cease and Desist letters from their lawyers.

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

When the A in AS stands for Assholes

Nor are they surprising. While this instance dates from February of this year, more recent instances of equally frivolous and illegal intimidation of autistics speaking for themselves have become public. We can only presume that finding and stamping out the dissenting voices of Autistics is a

one of their very highest priorities, other than fund-raising, of course.

My Favorite quote versus Michael Savage et al

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:25:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A quote for the true patriots
And those who think they are.

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: TexDem

Sat Jun 21, 2008

My favorite quote or I should say my contemporary favorite quote is from journalist Sidney J. Harris. Sidney's quote although made several years is very relevant today and directly addresses the likes of Michael Savage and most of this administration.

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest,' but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Ernie1812's diary reminded me of Sidney's quote, it could very well become one of your favorite quotes. Use it as a refute to those who claim to be patriots but are really only nationalist and bigots.

Tags: nationalism, patriotism, michael savage, sydney j. harris