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The Resentment Strategy

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:19:23 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "What the G.O.P. is selling, in other words, is the pure politics of resentment; you’re supposed to vote Republican to stick it to an elite that thinks it’s better than you.
And when Mr. Bush turned out not to be that smart after all, and his presidency crashed and burned, the angry right — the raging rajas of resentment? — became, if anything, even angrier. Humiliation will do that.
That said, the experience of the years since 2000 — the memory of what happened to working Americans when faux-populist Republicans controlled the government — is still fairly fresh in voters’ minds. Furthermore, while Democrats’ supposed contempt for ordinary people is mainly a figment of Republican imagination, the G.O.P. really is the Gramm Old Party — it really does believe that the economy is just fine, and the fact that most Americans disagree just shows that we’re a nation of whiners.

But the Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. Resentment, no matter how contrived, is a powerful force.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts — the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business — really keep a straight face while denouncing “Eastern elites”?

Can the former mayor of New York City, a man who, as USA Today put it, “marched in gay pride parades, dressed up in drag and lived temporarily with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu” — that was between his second and third marriages — really get away with saying that Barack Obama doesn’t think small towns are sufficiently “cosmopolitan”?

Yes, they can.

But don’t be fooled either by Mr. McCain’s long-ago reputation as a maverick or by Ms. Palin’s appealing persona: the Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side.

What’s the source of all that anger?

new vows

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:04:33 GMT

clipped by: mjmuldoon

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Do you, Elizabeth and David, acknowledge that you have a bad relationship?
(We Do)
Do you admit that you fight constantly, hardly ever have sex and drive each other nuts?
(We Do)
And do you agree to stick it out anyway and spend your lives together in misery but at least happy that you aren't apart?
(We Do)

How many relationships slip unconsciously into that kind of entanglement? In our view, far too many. We propose a new approach. Conscious loving is founded on a set of principles and practices completely opposite from the ones David and Elizabeth considered.

What would a new set of wedding vows be based on? Emotional transparency, for sure. In working with thousands of couples, we have heard the complaint "You never tell me how you're feeling" many thousands of times. It takes courage, and a great deal of practice, to be able to talk about feelings in a straightforward way. We've seen many arguments stop when one person has the courage to say "I'm scared" or "I'm sad."

Greetings from "the angry left"

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:21:04 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Great column...Read all for the full bene's.
Speaking about Bush's jingoistic label...
So then, trust me when I say, try as they might, "the angry left" won't stick. As anyone with the slightest sense of history and poetic justice knows, such a jab is merely the final, desperate wailings of the bankrupt, the shameful, and the doomed.

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

"Fellow citizens, if the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry left never will."
-- George W. Bush, RNC '08

What's wrong, buttercup? Right-wing politics got you down? RNC '08 making you gag? Toxic and inexcusable events of the past eight years make you deeply sick to your stomach, spleen, heart, mind, spirit and even your kneecaps? Or is it the wretched notion that the bizarro-world McCain-Palin agenda wants to continue more of the same?

Or maybe it's this: Maybe it's all this terrifying new evidence that there still seems to be this huge pile of Americans who aren't all that concerned with -- or even aware of -- just how violently the GOP continues to dump all over their very heads. Is that what's making your blood boil? Aww, there, there, now.

terrified throngs (aka "Bush's base"): You know who should be running this country if and when I don't make it through my first term? Hot chicks with guns!

Ghostbusters on usb stick

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:57:31 GMT

clipped by: akujin

Clip Source: www.custompc.co.uk

Ghostbusters is first film to be released on USB stick

Now there’s something you don’t see every day: PNY’s 2GB flash drive comes with Ghostbusters pre-loaded

Why Dewdrops Stay on the Rose

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:38:28 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Feng is mentioned, but no Shui. Must not be working together on this.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

A carpet of minuscule bumps covered with even tinier ridges makes the dewdrops stick. Image credit: Dreamstime

Ah, roses. Their heady fragrance and delicate petals glistening with dew could soften the hardest heart.

But take a sharper look at the dewdrops. They bead, rather than spread—and that's because the material composing the petal surface doesn't bond well with water.

Yet the droplets don't roll off. What binds them to the petals?

To find out, a team of chemists led by Lin Feng of Tsinghua University in Beijing peered at the petals with a scanning electron microscope. What they saw was a carpet of minuscule bumps covered with even tinier ridges. To confirm that those structures — and not the chemical makeup of the petals — are what grip the water droplets, Feng's team made a plastic cast of the petal surface. As with the original petal, water droplets stuck to the cast, even when it was turned upside down.

Monogamous offspring stick closer together

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:27:15 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: Fish have a lateral line, that can pick up electronic impulses. Perhaps they like being with a frequency they're familiar with?

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Darren Osborne

Birds of a feather stick together, and the same is true for guppies with the same father, say Australian researchers.

Offspring from a single sperm donor spent more time shoaling and were closer together

Research into the behaviour of the small tropical fish known as the guppy (Poecilia reticulate) has found pairs of full-siblings spend significantly more time shoaling compared to pairs of half-sibling.

Dr Jonathan Evans and Dr Jennifer Kelley, from the University of Western Australia, believe their finding indentifies an unknown cost of polyandry (fertilisation of eggs by more than one male).

"Very few people have looked at the costs of polyandry, particularly the cost to social cohesiveness," says Evans.

Their research appears in the latest edition of the Royal Society's Biology Letters.

Shoaling, or crowding close together, is a common survival trait among fish.

"We don't know

What we think is going on is that they are using some kind of phenotype matching."

Problems with employee-referral programs..

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:41:40 GMT

clipped by: connorcl
clipper's remarks: I have experienced this... One of the best ways to kill a productive team is to populate it with friends of another staff.

Clip Source: www.hrworld.com

Excessive reliance upon an employee-referral program can lead to an inbred organization that lacks breadth of ideas, and it can foster a "stick-together" attitude that masks underlying problems in organizational behavior. Relying too heavily on an employee-referral program can also create cliques within an organization, leading to resentment and friction with other employees.

Tags: hr, recruitment, management

How To Style African-American Hair 2

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:34:05 GMT

clipped by: sapphira

Clip Source: lifestyle.msn.com

How To Style African-American Hair

How to work with the hair you've got.

Ben Goldstein/Studio D

Spritz a thermal protective spray through dry hair to prevent damage.

Use medium-sized hot rollers and roll two-inch sections all the way up. Let rollers sit until they're nearly cool (about 10 minutes).

Mist with a hairspray and unroll hair for voluminous curls that stick around.

MARIE CLAIRE RECOMMENDS

ROLLERS like BaByliss Ceramic 20 Roller Hair Setter, $39.95.

HAIRSPRAY like Got2B 2 Sexy Voluptuous Volume Hairspray, $5.99.

THERMAL PROTECTIVE SPRAY like TRESemme Thermal Creations Heat Tamer Spray, $4.

Tags: hair, style, african-american

Energy Ball brings a quiet wind turbine to your roof

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:51:49 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver

Clip Source: dvice.com

Looking for a small, quiet wind turbine to stick on your roof and generate free energy for you whenever there's a breeze? Take a look at the Energy Ball. A small, beautifully designed turbine, it'll generate more energy than any other personal turbine while remaining whisper quiet.

The spherical Energy Ball takes advantage of the Venturi Effect, something that measures the pressure created when water moves through a contained space. By taking that principle into effect, the Energy Ball is able to bring extra efficiency to the table that allows it to generate energy even with very slow wind speeds. What are you waiting for? We're talking free energy here!

Tags: environment, clean energy

cerdo y cranberrys

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:37:23 GMT

clipped by: Julian Ospina
clipper's remarks: La caserola no se deve tapar porque la comida se vuelve sogui

Clip Source: www.prairiepublic.org

One to1 1/2 lbs boneless pork, sliced into 2 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch strips
1 T southwestern seasoning of choice &endash; or combine 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp chili powder, 1/4 tsp ground cayenne, 1/2 tsp ground oregano, and 1/4 tsp salt

1-2 chipotle chiles in adobo, minced

1 tsp ground cumin

1/2 tsp ground oregano (preferably Mexican)

1/2 tsp Lime zest

juice of 1/2 lime

1 T honey, or to taste

1/4 cup chopped cilantro

salt & pepper to taste

Heat oil in 10 inch skillet (preferably non stick) over medium high heat. Saute' shallots until soft. Add cranberries and cook for 5 minutes. Add seasoned pork, chipotle chiles, cumin, oregano, and lime juice. Saute' until pork is cooked through and mixture is dry. Keep heat on and add honey to glaze. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve pork with warm tortillas, shredded queso fresco or jack cheese, and lime wedges. Sprinkle with cilantro. Black beans and rice is a great accompaniment.

Stompernet The Net Effect

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:13:41 GMT

clipped by: stompernet01
clipper's remarks: Stompernet The Net Effect

Stompernet The Net Effect - On StomperBlog.com, we’ve had a few questions and comments about the pricing. I mentioned yesterday that STSE2 was developed to be a $497 retail product. Some people thought that was a GREAT price. Some people expressed that they STILL wouldn’t be able to afford it.

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Clip Source: stse2.stompernet.net

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Tags: stomping the search engines 2, the net effect, stompernet the net effect, stse2, stompernet

How to Disown a Body Part

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:09:17 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org

Here's a trick to make a rubber hand come to life. Hide your right hand under a cloth and stick the rubber hand where your right hand should be. Now have someone stroke your right hand and the fake hand at the same time. Before you know it, you'll begin to "feel" sensation in the rubber hand. But what happens to your real right hand? New research suggests that your body begins to disown it.

Enlarge Image

Hand fake. A volunteer with a fake right hand (middle).

Credit: Lorimer Moseley

Psychologists have used the rubber-hand illusion for years to study how people perceive body boundaries. How, for example, does your brain know where you stop and a bicycle begins? Brain scans reveal that the premotor cortex, the part of the brain that integrates vision and touch, helps the body adopt the rubber hand, but no one had looked at what was going on with the hidden, real hand.

Tags: science, human, body

'Diddy' offers his unique (moronic) insight into Sarah Palin

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:45:13 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT
clipper's remarks: Moron assumes there are no black people in Alaska, then equates them with 'crackheads' and 'crime'. He should stick to telling people that BK is open late, or turning classic songs into pure shit.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: obama, lunatics

How to study

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:12:44 GMT

clipped by: jeremythegeek

Clip Source: collegeuniversity.suite101.com

Time management. Plan, plan, plan. Before finals begin, get out your calendar and schedule as much of your finals week as possible. Then stick with the schedule.

Prioritize. You have limited time to study and will have to choose what to spend the most time with. You could spend hours and hours on that math exam because if you do really well, you might be able to pull of a C. Or you can spend hours and hours on a history exam because if you do well, you've got a good shot at an A. It's up to you.

Ask your professor for help. If you're confused about your notes or the readings, go to the resident expert. This works much better if you don't put off studying until the last minute. It's a good idea to read through all of your notes before you start to study, so that you can inquire early about things that confuse you.

Ice Cream Comic

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:46:28 GMT

clipped by: sunnysideup
clipper's remarks: Funny joke

Clip Source: www.mordantorange.com

Tags: ice cream, comic, stick