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Republicans attack minority voter registration drive.

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:20:57 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: Part of the success of ongoing ceaseless Republican lies, distortions and corruption of American values is that this news story was reported by most media as: Democrats guilty of Voter Fraud.

The clip here, though, explains yesterday's raid by Navada officials on the offices of a poor and minority activist group.

Republicans paint this group as a collection of malcontent radical communist. This is another success of their malicious assaults.

This group actually lobbies for higher minimum wage, fair housing laws and landlord's living up to requires standards for plumbing, etc.

ACORN also registers voters -- which is a very good thing to do -- showing that they want change through democracy.

At most, the charges point to ONE worker being lazy and faking registrations to meet quotas.

At most, the accusation indicates 300 false registrations out of 80,000 -- that's less than .004%

And some of these are "duplicates," which: #1 > Could never work and #2 happens all the t

Clip Source: washingtonindependent.com

ACORN Raid Reflects GOP Anger at Voter Registration Drive

Yesterday’s raid on Nevada offices of ACORN reflects the increasingly aggressive Republican attempts to derail voter registration efforts among poor and minority voters.

ACORN, had planned a potluck dinner at its Las Vegas office Tuesday night to celebrate the 80,000 newly registered voters its staff had signed up in Clark County.

Before that dinner could start, however, Nevada officials raided the ACORN office, removing 20 boxes of documents and eight computer hard drives. The state officials claimed that workers for the community-organizing group, who are paid by the hour, had submitted almost 300 voter registration cards that included names and addresses that don’t exist in Nevada, or are duplicates of previous registrations.

A former ACORN employee said she started making up names to fill out the registration forms to avoid having to work in the heat outside

The Truth about Wal-Mart, continued

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:25:03 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Since that long thread of differing opinions about the 'Merikan Dream and Wally world where I was attacked as being a non-productive, lazy Hippie (untrue--I was a semi-productive, Happy Hippie), I found this interesting, informative Anti-Wally site....see if you can defend these charges about Wally's relationship with Communist/monopoly Capitalist China and the US consumer rip=off, Willie, Esundby, and the rest of you bozos who think I was some non-productive lazy Hippie all my life.

Clip Source: www.wakeupwalmart.com

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Wesley Clark on Face the Nation: CNN accuses Clark of “Swiftboating”

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:13:29 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: So how does CNN characterize this tête-à-tête? That Wesley Clark was SWIFTBOATING John McCain!

Rick Sanchez’s lead-in to his next segment just now on CNN:

“Wesley Clark tried to Swiftboat John McCain today.”

I’m liveblogging. He goes on to say:

“It will reverberate for weeks. Wes Clark tried to diss McCain’s military record, that his service doesn’t qualify him to be president.”

Rick Sanchez is mad.

No, not mad…just a huge partisan hack. Now that “swift-boating” has entered the vernacular, let us remember that the original SwiftBoat Veterans for “Truth” were for the most part neither in their hope to take down Kerry’s candidacy. Has Wesley Clark in some way made any untrue allegations in saying that being a POW and a non-combat era fighter pilot does not necessarily qualify you for the highest elected office in the land?

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

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Unbelievable. Wesley Clark just destroys the media narrative that being a prisoner of war is somehow the “experience” necessary to be Commander in Chief, much to the dumbfounding of host Bob Schieffer. It’s a fantastic appearance–much like this earlier one that Jesse at GroupNews recounts:

The media simply couldn’t argue the POINT, which Clark made clear without saying word one directly about them to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, that they have been lazy goof offs who are brutally biased for McCain, against Obama, and are not doing their damn jobs. Or they would already have reported this obviously well-grounded assessment/interpretation about McCain’s national security ability — “Largely Untested and Untried” — over which Clark was taking them to school. They couldn’t argue the actual point. It was that clear, that obvious, that elegant a takedown. In effect, Clark’s hit on McCain took out two targets with one shot.

Mushroom Clouds A-Popping

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:07:12 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Is the Republican romance with fear ending? It's served them well for seven years now. Could we be seeing a turn to a more rational and sane policy? They're going to attempt to use it during the coming election. Are we going to sit by and let them?

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Oops Nation
A Superpower of Lazy Slobs

For seven years, the Bush Administration, the Democratic Congress and its media allies have denied “unlawful enemy combatants” (or, as Dick Cheney called them, “the worst of the worst” terrorists) the right to habeas corpus, the centuries-old right of persons arrested by the police to face their accusers and the evidence against them in a court of law.

Thanks to a 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court, America’s latest flirtation with fascism is coming to an end. Parts of the infamous Military Commissions Act of 2006 that eliminated habeas corpus have been declared unconstitutional. Prisoners at Guantánamo and possibly other American gulags, will now be allowed to demand their day in court. Since the government doesn’t have evidence against them, legal experts say, most if not all of “the worst of the worst” will ultimately walk free. “Liberty and security can be reconciled,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.

Tags: politics, fear, republicans, democrats

Lazy People In Bad Moods Get The Most Creative Spark From Video Games

Sun, 25 May 2008 10:07:40 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.scientificblogging.com

Video games that energize players and induce a positive mood could also enhance creativity, according to media researchers. However, the study also finds that players who were not highly energized and had a negative mood, registered the highest creativity.

"You need defocused attention for being creative," said S. Shyam Sundar, professor of film, video and media studies at Penn State. "When you have low arousal and are negative, you tend to focus on detail and become more analytical."

"Video games are not just for entertainment alone," says Sundar. "We are trying to figure out how they can aid in education as well."

"We looked at two emotional variables: arousal and valence," said Hutton. "Arousal is the degree of physical excitation -- as measured through skin conductance -- and valence, which is the range of positive or negative feeling."

the study appears to indicate that after playing the game, happy or sad people are most creative, while angry or relaxed people are not.

Tags: creativity, video games, emotions

Mahathir the blogger?

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:49:03 GMT

clipped by: Unspun
clipper's remarks: Unspun is still unsure o whether the news that Mahathir now has a blog is the truth or a hoax.

Assuming that he has actually opened a blog with th stated intention below then he needs to be told a truth or two.

If all he wants to do is publish his " writings as and when I am able to pen my thoughts and opinion," and have the Press, academics and others too lazy to do their own research to quote him, then he should have opened a just a website instead.

A website is part of the one-way communications that traditionalists, authoritarians, Umno politicians past and present and other who do not get IT about the new media and conversations start and maintain.

A weblog or blog is about conversations. Someone who starts a blog does so because they want to engage others with teir point of view. They are aware that others may hold different views but they nonetheless want to communicate them and have discussions with them, in the underlying belief that no one is all wise and that we

Clip Source: www.chedet.com

Tags: mahathir, blogging, malaysia

The Cavalry Isn’t Coming

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:10:03 GMT

clipped by: papananook

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

There is no short-term fix. In the long term, we must put more money into more people’s pockets. That means higher wages and lower taxes for the poor and middle class. Some of what is needed is easy to see: a more progressive tax code, repealing laws that allow employers to harass and fire those who try to organize unions, nationalizing industries run by vampire capitalists

Banks encourage predatory lending while stifling saving. They ought to be re-regulated. What madness permits them to charge 30 percent on credit cards while paying one percent on passbook savings accounts?

More — much more — is necessary to prevent the wholesale collapse of the U.S. economic system. A maximum wage should be imposed — the highest paid American should earn no more than ten times the lowest paid. I know, I know — none of this will happen. There will be nothing but Band-Aids and lazy rhetoric as we plummet into the abyss.

the media is corporatized, and we the people are dull and apathetic.

31 Tips to being a better blogger

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:17:09 GMT

clipped by: SEMCourses
clipper's remarks: Great source of articles from Problogger on how to build a better blog.

Clip Source: www.problogger.net

Archive for 31 Days to Building a Better Blog

98 Blog Tips for a Lazy Sunday

The 31 Days to Building a Better Blog is over and it’s time to post the final reader tips. In today’s batch there are 98 tips in total which means that I’ve now posted links to 626 reader blog tips on the central 31 Day Project Page. Please note - submissions are now closed.

Run a SWOT Analysis on Your Blog

Today is the last day in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and as a result I want to make your last task a little reflective and forward looking.

Your task today is to run a SWOT Analysis on your blog.
A SWOT analysis is a strategic tool that has been used for many […]

Explore a Social Media Site

Today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project (this is the 2nd last day) is to explore a social media site (whether it be a networking site or a bookmarking one) that you might not have seen or explored previously. I’m not going to tell you which one to choose to […]

Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, problogger, darren rowse

Sioux secede from US? Says who?

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:38:40 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Here is the kind of story that really proves how little the MSM bothers to research things, how they often simply print glorified press releases without doing any real "journalism," and how the defective end product gets picked up and regurgitated like it is suddenly a "fact."

Take this report from USA Today: Lakota withdraw from treaties, declare independence from U.S

Wow, it sounds momentous, alright. But, who says that "the Lakota Sioux Indians" have abandoned their treaties?

said Russell Means, a longtime Indian rights activist

And who is the Russell Means? He is a long time Indian activist who does not officially represent any tribe, that's who.

He does not represent American Indians except as a tangential, activist.

So, since this story wasn't reported correctly, foreigners are imagining that all American Indians are trying to leave the USA and become a new nation. The truth is less shocking, that Russell Means does not represent "the Lakota Sioux Indians" at all.

Tags: sioux, treaty, usa, msm, media, bias, lazy, reporting

Contrary to the Bushie Propaganda

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:46:16 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Not surprisingly the truth about Iran's nuclear programs is distorted and lied about...read further to get the real deal

Clip Source: uk.reuters.com

There's some seriously dishonest and/or lazy reporting going on in the Western media about Iran's nuclear program and the IAEA report yesterday.

Iran has expanded its capacity to enrich uranium and now has 3,000 centrifuges operating — enough potentially to produce an atom bomb within a year — the United Nations nuclear watchdog reported yesterday.

Every single one gives the implicit impression that it is the IAEA itself which has warned Iran could suddenly produce a nuke in a years time.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

What the report does say is that all of the enriched uranium produced to date "remains under Agency containment and surveillance" and that the centrifuge cascades themselves are subjected to an annual audit by the IAEA and surpise inspections - seven have been carried out since March.

That means - it is impossible for Iran to use these 3,000 centrifuges and their product to secretly make a nuclear weapon.

You'd think honest reporters might actually mention that.

Tags: iran, nuclear weapons, dishonest reporting

Muslims don't hate the USA

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:25:23 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: More worried that Americans hate them

Clip Source: www.eatbees.com

The Muslims I know are more resigned than angry. Many are convinced that the West is making war on Islam, but after decades of American support for dictators in their part of the world, and centuries of having their religion misunderstood, they don’t expect much.

Far from hating America, my friends are more likely to worry that Americans hate them. They see how Muslims are portrayed in our media. We see angry men burning flags, raising rifles in the air, throwing rocks and blowing things up. In Morocco they refute this with warmth and candor, and exaggerated shows of hospitality.

Yet they worry about us. Is America really a democracy? Are we morally lazy? How we can accept what has been done in our name? They wonder how could we have invaded a nation that was no threat to us. Why haven’t we challenged our leaders? Are we really that spoiled? Are we so concerned with our own comfort, that we tune out what is happening just because it is far away?

Tags: islam, muslims, war on terror

The case of the angry (or phony?) colonel

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:47:31 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: From the article:

"During the past couple of days, variations on these questions have rattled through blogs on the left and the right. The buzz began on Sunday, when Glenn Greenwald, a political blogger here at Salon, received a long, invective-fraught e-mail that bore Boylan's return e-mail address, steven.boylan@iraq.centcom.mil. Boylan serves as chief spokesman for Gen. David Petraeus, who heads all coalition forces in Iraq. Among other things, the e-mail labels Greenwald a "propagandist" who's "too lazy to do the research on the topics to gain the facts." Greenwald posted the letter."

Clip Source: salon.com

Oct. 31, 2007 | Is the military's top spokesman in Iraq a loose cannon who routinely fires off angry, impetuous e-mails to bloggers who criticize the war and the spin surrounding it? Or is Col. Steven Boylan, instead, an innocent victim -- an online wallflower whose identity has been hijacked by a pro-war hacker who has managed to break into the most well-fortified space on the planet in order to taunt lefty critics? Neither scenario paints a comforting picture of the situation in Iraq -- and even though the e-mails in question are coming from military servers in Iraq, the military seems strangely uninterested in solving the mystery of who is writing them.

Tags: iraq, media, blog, blogs, blogging, pr. propaganda

Sunlight on Propaganda

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:28:31 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: As I've written before, "balanced" newscasting is not presenting extreme views from both sides and proclaiming the truth to lie somewhere in the middle. That is lazy newscasting. Real newscasting is finding out the facts with evidence to back them up and presenting that as the news.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The 60th anniversary of George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" will be the occasion in a couple of weeks for a daylong conference at the New York Public Library subtitled "Orwell Comes to America," as well as the publication of a book called "What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics." Anyone who hasn't drunk the Murdoch/Cheney Kool-Aid will instantly recognize the legitimacy of the topic: American discourse has been hijacked by right-wing demagogues who win by smear, reign by fear, demonize dissent, treasonize reason, and accuse any public utterance which reveals their lies or intent as "liberal media bias."

Newspapers and networks have been so effectively mau-maued by reactionary talking-heads and politicians that they have largely abandoned the effort to separate true from false, and instead -- waving the cowardly white flag of "balance"

Tags: news, propaganda, rhetoric

Republican authoritarianism

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:27:11 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: Longing for a king...yikes

Clip Source: www.lewrockwell.com

Republican Authoritarianism

by Charles H. Featherstone
by Charles H. Featherstone

First, Thomas Sowell, in one of his lazy columns of disconnected anecdotes, considers the fate of the country:

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

And then swathing the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, Harvard professor of government and political philosophy (and "manliness" advocate) Harvey Mansfield waxed long and lovingly on the need for a strong executive and "one-man rule" to save the Republic:

There is a streak of authoritarianism in Conservatism in the United States, and there always has been. I and others have written at length about it at this web site, and I hope we continue to do so. However, that streak is getting wider, taking over much more of the Conservative Republican soul.

Tags: authoritarianism

Imagine All the People, Loving in 3-D

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:09:34 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.wired.com

How many times have you heard people utter contradictory convictions in the same breath without their noticing they were doing so?

My favorite is the ridiculous, "We have to stop those lazy immigrants from taking our jobs." Another common one is, "Lawyers are slimy, evil bastards. I hope my kid goes to law school (or marries a lawyer)."

We have a lot of funny-but-not-ha-ha-funny oxymora in sex, too, and a recent study by professor Juan Carlos Sierra Friere of the University of Granada has reminded me of one of the most common misconceptions we (still!) cling to about sex and technology.

"An active erotic imagination -- sexual fantasy -- is key to a great sex life," say the sexuality experts.

"People who play out sexual fantasies online are weird, perverted loners who can't maintain healthy sexual relationships (or even get laid) in real life," say the media and the masses.

Curiously, people who have actually involved themselves in some form of sex online rarely subscribe to that belief

Tags: internet, sex, online, contradictory convictions, people