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Current Comcast New Jersey Specials

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:26:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Current Comcast New Jersey Specials.

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Tags: comcast, new, jersey, nj, cable, tv, high, speed, internet, broadband

Cost of Global Warming equivalent to solving ALL the major problems in the world 3x over

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:40:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

To make a simple comparison, the UN estimates that for about £40 billion annually, we could solve all major basic problems in the world - we could give clean drinking water, sanitation, basic education and healthcare to every person in the world.

efforts to reduce the speed of global warming will cost huge sums of money and have a pitifully tiny effect

global warming's total cost will be only about one half of 1 per cent of the net worth of the 21st century; that is the current worth of all the wealth projected to be generated in this century.

£100 billion annually for the rest of the century.

best-case scenario

temperature at the end of the century would be 2.4532342C. The effect is a difference of about 0.00038C - or about one three-thousandth of a degree in a hundred years.

This is the equivalent of delaying the temperature increase by the end of the century by a little less than a week.

But instead we are spending a fortune achieving almost nothing.

we have to come to our senses.

Tags: global warming, poverty, climate change

Major Shift in Faith Voters toward Obama, Survey Finds

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:12:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

Not only is Sen. Barack Obama ahead in general national polls, but a new survey finds that the Democratic presidential candidate has made significant inroads among faith voters.

In comparison to the 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry, Obama has made significant gains among monthly worship attenders. Among this group of voters, who attend religious services once or twice a month, 60 percent support Obama in 2008 compared to 49 percent for Kerry in 2004, according to results from the report, “The Faith and American Politics Survey,” sponsored by Faith in Public Life and conducted by Public Religion Research.

Also unlike the 2004 election, more Americans think the Democratic candidate is friendly to religion than the Republican nominee. Forty-nine percent of Americans say Obama is friendly to religion, while 45 percent say the same of McCain.

The poll also found that 71 percent of Americans say it is important for public officials to be comfortable talking about religious values.

Tags: obama, religion, faith, vote

Nordic Walking Benefits

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:39:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Both men and women benefited with increased oxygen consumption, caloric expenditure, and elevated heart rate in comparison to walking.

Clip Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Field testing of physiological responses associated with Nordic Walking.

Church TS, Earnest CP, Morss GM.

Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications at The Cooper Institute, Dallas, TX 75230, USA. tchurch@cooperinst.org

1: Res Q Exerc Sport. 2002 Sep;73(3):296-300.

caloric expenditure

and heart rate

compared to regular walking. For men, Nordic Walking resulted in increased oxygen consumption

caloric expenditure

and heart rate

compared to regular walking. Nordic Walking, examined in the field, results in a significant increase in oxygen use and caloric expenditure compared to regular walking, without significantly increasing perceived exertion.

Acne Medication

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:48:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Acne-Review is great source for reviews, advice and information on acne and leading acne products.

Clip Source: www.acne-review.com

Tags: health, acne, review, comparison

Dangerous Poison Soymilk vs Wheaties

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:41:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is just laughable.

Clip Source: notmilk.com

Are Wheaties Hazardous to Your Health?

Of course not, but some people would have you believe otherwise.

Wheaties cereal contains phytates.

Dr. Anthony Mercola writes

I chose its phytate content to serve as a baseline for comparison to wheat products.

What a silly claim soymilk detractors make. It is without merit.

Recent investigations have focused on the beneficial effect of food phytates

effects include lowering of serum cholesterol and triglycerides

phytates are healthy for you. Phytates represent a prime example of using food for medicine.

Dairy producers

strategy is to spread rumors about soy because it contains phytates.

Food Phytates

ISBN # 1-56676- 867-5) reveal:

phytates in soymilk is listed as 0.11%.

Durham wheat contains 8 times more phytates than soymilk (0.88%).

Whole wheat bread contains almost 4 times more phytates than soymilk (0.43%). Wheaties, contain nearly fourteen times more phytates than soymilk (1.52%).

Tags: disinformation

Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:05:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain

SARAH PALIN’S post-Couric/Fey comeback at last week’s vice presidential debate was a turning point in the campaign. But if she “won,” as her indulgent partisans and press claque would have it, the loser was not Joe Biden. It was her running mate. With a month to go, the 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race — about “the future,” as Palin kept saying Thursday night — and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain.

Just hours before the debate began, the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan. That state is ground zero for the collapsed Main Street economy and for so-called Reagan Democrats

Not without an economic message. McCain’s most persistent attempt, his self-righteous crusade against earmarks, collapsed with his poll numbers. Next to a $700 billion bailout package, his incessant promise to eliminate all Washington pork — by comparison, a puny grand total of $16.5 billion in the 2008 federal budget

doesn’t bring

the bacon

Tags: mccain, palin, economy

The Fall of John McCain

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:31:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is with deep sadness that I must agree with the NY Times. I used to admire John McCain

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

October 8, 2008

Editorial

Politics of Attack

It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.

They have gone far beyond the usual fare of quotes taken out of context and distortions of an opponent’s record — into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia. Senator Barack Obama has taken some cheap shots at Mr. McCain, but there is no comparison.

Tags: new york times, john mccain, lies, politics

Palin faking her accent? You betcha

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:52:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The video shows her various speaking talents in different settings.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

While live-blogging the debate last Thursday night I made an offhand comparison between Sarah Palin and the familiar “you betcha” uttered repeatedly in “Fargo” by Frances McDormand’s character, police chief Marge Gunderson, and others in that great Coen brothers' film.

Well, whaddya know? Julia of Firedoglake has produced a neat little video demonstrating that Palin lives with IGS: Intermittent Gunderson Syndrome. Turns out Palin has an accent except, ya know, when she doesn’t.

It’s just precious. Watch:

[Video]

Tags: showboatiing, palin

McBush

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:06:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A very articulate comparison...

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

Perhaps John McCain is not a perfect replica of George W. Bush, but the parallels go beyond the senator's enthusiastic support for the toxic mix of Bush's imperial foreign policy and his arrogant indifference to the travails of our domestic existence. Neither man seems to have any sense of how we actually live or what we need from government. How else to explain their common antipathy to Social Security and Medicare, which, after public education, represent the nation's most successful programs? Can you imagine the panic today if McCain and Bush had succeeded in tying Social Security to investments in the stock market? They view government as nothing more than a proud sponsor of the military-industrial complex while ignoring the threat to homeland security from corporate pirates.

Tags: bush, mccain

Republican Rallies Now Sound like the KKK

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:20:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The clip from the New York Times reports someone at a Palin rally urging killing Barrack Obama, others calling Obama a 'traitor," -- Palin associating him with domestic terrorist...and an Afro-American TV reporter being hassled by the crowd.

If we let these Republicans win again these are the types of people we'd be continuing to let rule and mislead our country.

I urge their defeat not just in the elections next month, but the elections after that and the election after that until their party is driven into extinction.

This will not only help our country but "send the message," that you shouldn't mislead and lie a nation into war, you can't commit war crimes, you can't shred the Constitution, you can't destroy our economy and give away money to the banks while people life savings are stolen.

KKK America in power again?

Not on my watch. Not while I still have breath.

And I hope, sincerely hope, you feel the same.

Vote Obama. Defeat Republicans.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Politics of Attack

Ms. Palin, in particular, revels in the attack. Her campaign rallies have become spectacles of anger and insult.

Her demagoguery has elicited some frightening, intolerable responses. A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled “kill him!” as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew.

Bush Has Been a Destructive President

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:49:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I honestly believe that, as Biden said, you shouldn't question Bush's motives. The results, however have been destructive. Not only the policies but the attitude of superiority and entitlement that Bush brought has spilled over into so much of our lives that the destruction he has wrought will be felt for a very long time.

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Eight years ago, the United States had a budget surplus, peace and prosperity reigned, and America was universally respected. True, Bill Clinton had besmirched the office of the presidency

But that pales in comparison to what Bush has done to the country.

"I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals," Bush told Bob Woodward back in 2001. But now, in his fourth book on the Bush presidency, "The War Within," Woodward concludes that in the last eight years Bush has "displayed impatience, bravado, and unsettling personal certainty about his decisions. The result has too often been impulsiveness and carelessness, and, perhaps most troubling, a delayed reaction to realities and advice that run counter to his gut. . . . By his own ambitious goals of 2001, Bush has fallen short."

When you think of Bush and his team, it's hard to believe so much harm could be done to so many by so few.

Tags: bush, politics, presidency

Certain, caffeine will keep you up at night, but it doesn’t compare to the stare-at-the-ceiling powe

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:54:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sleep-aid-center.com

The Most Sleep-Deprived City

Certain, caffeine will keep you up at night, but it doesn’t compare to the stare-at-the-ceiling power of stress. In a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers discovered that untamed tension increases the odds of insomnia by 43 percent. Maybe that explains why Fresno, not New York, is the city that never sleeps: It has a 12.7 percent unemployment rate. By comparison, the most-rested address, Honolulu, has a jobless rate of just 5.9 percent.

We know this because we stayed up late sifting through stats. These included Simmons market research on the percentage of people in each city who average 7 or fewer hours of sleep a night, the number who’ve suffered from insomnia, and the percentage who report popping sleeping pills; and, from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the number of sleep-disorders centers per capita. We learned that while not that many people are sleepless in Seattle, an awful lot are tired in Texas.

Tags: sleep, tips

Ayers And Keating

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:25:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: That, too, makes this a legitimate question about a man who would be president.

Mega-dittoes. But I guess by playing the Keating card Obama is showing his followers that he is tough and ready to fight back. One might argue that he is also legitimizing McCain's attacks (and I guess I will.)

Clip Source: justoneminute.typepad.com

Yuval Levin at The Corner explains the non-comparison between Obama's Bill Ayers problem and John McCains's history with the Keating Five:

McCain’s response to that scandal should certainly be compared with Obama’s Ayers explanations. McCain has spoken and written about every detail of the Keating mess, has expressed open contrition for allowing himself to be drawn into it even tangentially, and devoted years of his career to combating corruption as a result. He even badly overreacted and pushed for vastly excessive regulation of campaign financing. He has said (in a book in which he details his and others’ actions in the matter) that merely the appearance of impropriety involved makes his involvement with Keating “the worst mistake of my life.”

Had Obama done and said something similar regarding the sort of radicalism Ayers represents, he would now have an answer to offer. Instead, he has worked with Ayers, supported his causes, and denied any significance to the links between them.

Tags: mccain, keating, ayers, obama

A McCain Flip-Flop on Osama bin Laden?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:23:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

A McCain Flip-Flop on Osama bin Laden?

McCain: You could say, Look, is this guy, Laden, really the bad guy that's depicted? Most of us have never heard of him before. And where there is a parallel with Vietnam is: What's plan B? What do we do next? We sent our troops into Vietnam to protect the bases. Lyndon Johnson said, Only to protect the bases. Next thing you know....Well, we've declared to the terrorists that we're going to strike them wherever they live. That's fine. But what's next? That's where there might be some comparison.

McCain's 1998 remarks to Mother Jones and the absence of public statements from him about bin Laden at the time suggest that McCain had been as much behind the curve on al Qaeda as the people he would decry ten years after the fact. At the time, he did not in public treat al Qaeda as a serious danger or advocate swift and extensive action. A decade later, he had no reason--other than politics--to be pointing fingers.