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John Stewart's break down of John McCain's speech

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:55:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow. At about the 5 minute mark, freaky and I feel a little sick watching this again. Get out the vote people!

Clip Source: www.theinformationparadox.com

Jon Stewart Obliterates McCain's Acceptance Speech

This clip clearly illustrates that Candidate McCain is absolutely, undeniably no different than the asshat currently sitting near the red phone waiting to push the button.

Tags: daily show, john stewart, indecision 2008, john mccain, george bush, speech, rnc

A Return to the Cash & Carry Economy

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:05:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fascinating article in Slate.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

The Death of the Credit Card EconomyCar leases, student loans, no-money-down mortgages, and high credit limits are vanishing.

The most revolutionary notion in commerce today is one of the oldest. If you want to buy something, you may actually have to pay for it. We are reverting from a "borrow and buy" economy to the "cash and carry" model of our grandparents.

Tags: credit, cash, economy, money, finance

Audrey Hepburn Photo Gallery

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:06:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Style inspiration. I love her.

Clip Source: www.audreyhepburn.com

Tags: audrey hepburn, gallery, photos

From Slate: If Obama Loses

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:18:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whether you are comfortable with the discussion of race or not. Whether you believe race is still an issue or not. This is a very interesting article.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

If Obama LosesRacism is the only reason McCain might beat him.

If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.

Tags: race, politics, obama, 2008, election

Hospitals deporting immigrants

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:05:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This just reminds of a video they have in LA of a hospital dropping off a woman at the homeless shelter because she did not have health insure. She was still in her hospital gown & they just dropped her off on the corner in downtown LA. Something is really wrong with our health care system. Seriously seriously wrong.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals

JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.

Mr. Jiménez’s benchmark case exposes a little-known but apparently widespread practice. Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. Medicaid does not cover long-term care for illegal immigrants, or for newly arrived legal immigrants, creating a quandary for hospitals, which are obligated by federal regulation to arrange post-hospital care for patients who need it.

Tags: healthcare, health, hospitals, deportation, immigrants

Hipster Racism - what is it?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:21:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here is an interesting blog post about hipster racism. I've never heard of the term until today. Also about the New Yorker Obamas cover.

Clip Source: www.racialicious.com

The New Yorker and Hipster Racism

I define hipster racism (I’m borrowing the phrase from Carmen Van Kerckhove) as ideas, speech, and action meant to denigrate another’s person race or ethnicity under the guise of being urbane, witty (meaning “ironic” nowadays), educated, liberal, and/or trendy. This racist and sexist balderdash that’s the New Yorker cover fits squarely into that definition. So, honestly, does the behavior of my partner, who prides himself on coming from a California family of educators who taught him to be colorblind and on working at a magazine renown for being, well, urbane, witty, educated, liberal, and trendy yet likes to view me as the Angry Negress.

Tags: new yorker, obama, cover, racism, hipster

Scary & stupid but hey it is kind of cool

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:35:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My friend shared this with me. It is CRAZY! What the hell? I don't know. It's scary enough in the ocean but "jumping a shark?" yeah, no thanks...

Clip Source: www.funnygarbage.com

Suicide Surfing?

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Tags: shark, surfing, jumping, crazy

Damn he's got a fabulous smile.

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:43:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm not even going to start talking politics and I'm not in the mood to read anyone else's opinion but you know, comment away.
But Barack Obama has one of the best smiles ever.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Upside of Being Knocked Around

Tags: smile, barack obama

From Weblogged-ed: Young Children Online

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:43:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My sister/brothers let their kids go online without a moments hesitation. A lot of parents do (I see this all the time at the p.l.). So, I thought I would post this because it's a pretty interesting study.

Clip Source: weblogg-ed.com

Study: Young Kids Online

We discovered that the digital world offers a wealth of opportunity for young children to play and learn. But even in this small sample of 10 families we found–too easily, in several circumstances–repeated examples of attempts to manipulate children for the sake of commerce.

The entire study, “Like Taking Candy from a Baby: How Young Children Interact with Online Environments” (pdf) is available for download. And, you can see excerpts from the video journals on YouTube.

The bottom line:

Tags: kids, children, online, study, weblogg-ed, links

Now I know what Photobombing Is

Thu, 08 May 2008 03:23:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I was reading bits & bobbins & she posted a link to this post about photobombing. It cracked me up and also horrified me. And all these photos are from MySpace (WT?!?) right? right.
Anyway, it is pretty funny and I too have been a victim of the photobomber. Watch out..there's a whole lotta boy butts. Why do boys always have to moon someone?

Clip Source: listoftheday.blogspot.com

Photobombers Of The Day

Photobombers = people who hilariously ruin your nice little picture. A superb idea from Jocelyn; all photos from Facebook.

WTF? Is that a ghost?

Tags: photobombing, hilarious

5 Flat Belly Foods receipes

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:05:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: delish.

Clip Source: www.prevention.com

Meet the 5 Flat Belly Foods

These ingredients hold the power to truly transform your body, not to mention lengthen your life. The secret is their magical "MUFA" (Aka good fat!)

1. Oils

Grilled Portobello and Roasted Pepper Burgers

2. Nuts & Seeds

Vietnamese Beef Salad

3. Avocado

Chicken with Citrus-Avocado Salsa

4. Olives

Low-Fat Frittata with Smoked Salmon and Scallions

5. Chocolate

Chocolate Pudding with Bananas and Graham Crackers

Tags: food, diet, flat belly diet, prevention mag

Where are these troops going to come from?

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:09:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yeah. Shocking - we don't have enough troops ; the troops in Fort Bragg live in a literal cess pool ; there is not enough health care (physical or mental) for the troops coming back ; enlistment is down (even though I've heard otherwise) - yes, there is a problem and we are already over-working the troops in Iraq & Afganistan and in turn, destroying families. I don't get it and this just pisses me off.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

The Army's Math ProblemWe don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless we take some out of Iraq.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wants to send 7,000 more U.S. troops—about two brigades—to Afghanistan, according to the May 3 New York Times. But there's a problem, which the story underplays: We don't have any more troops to send. The Army is in a zero-sum state: No more soldiers can be sent to Afghanistan without a one-for-one reduction of soldiers in Iraq.

Let's look at the numbers.

Tags: war, iraq, increase, troops, afganistan, slate

Tips for saving money $100 a month

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:16:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gotta start small right?

Clip Source: finance.yahoo.com

Save in Small Bites

Saving an additional $100 a month means (obviously) you'll have saved an extra $1,200 in a year. If you had put an extra $1,200 in your kindergartner's college fund this year, it would be worth $2,263 by the time she heads to college. That assumes a pretty conservative 5% growth rate.

So, there's plenty of incentive to figure out how to save that extra $100 every month. To get you started, here's a list of savings ideas that don't require any major lifestyle changes. You may have to do a little research, but you won't have to sacrifice your morning jolt of caffeine. Combine a few and you might hit $100 in savings without doing much at all.

• Contribute an extra 1% of your salary to your 401(k) or other workplace retirement plan. Because the money is withdrawn before taxes, you'll lose less than 1% from your take-home pay. You'll probably never even notice the money's gone, but your retirement fund will start to fatten up faster.

Tags: finances, motley fool, saving, money

The Cans Festival - check it out if you are in London

Mon, 05 May 2008 02:38:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I read about this a couple of days ago and thought I would look it up. How could would it be to witness this? My brother used to do a lot of graffiti art when he was younger and now is getting back into it. When I was in San Diego last, we went and checked out a park that is set aside for graffiti artists. It was pretty amazing some of the stuff out there. Better to have the kids hanging out there then getting arrested or getting into other kinds of trouble.

Clip Source: www.thecansfestival.com

Tags: graffiti, cans, festival, london, 2008

Home of the Sleazy Sound

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:01:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am digging this site! Thanks tiffanybbrown. I love these sounds reminds me of the Cocktail Escapades show I did with Jason K. & Chi-Yu. Delectable.

Clip Source: www.tittyshakers.com

Untouchables "CRAWLIN' (THE CRAWL)" Rello

Pure unadulterated sleaze - the horns on this just ooze with the promise of sin.
Highly sought after for its Beatnik themed flip side which has made it onto several compilations over the years, here at tittyshakers.com it's the lesser known flip side which is the highly coveted side for its outrageously dirty horns and slinky melody. Recorded some time around 1960, if anyone should ask you "what's a tittyshaker?" then this could be the 45 you play them. At the moment this is my number one tittyshaker 45 of all time.

Tags: music, site, sleazy, good stuff, ilike