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It Will Not Prevent The Children From Getting Burnrned

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:02:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More Sickness Perpetuated By An Irresponsible Industry

Fire Retardant Chemical Found In Children

WASHINGTON - A fire retardant chemical used in electronics, toys and furniture has been detected in children's blood at triple the levels found in their mothers, the Environmental Working Group reported on Thursday.

Boys cool down in a public fountain in a file photo. A fire retardant chemical used in electronics, toys and furniture has been detected in children's blood at triple the levels found in their mothers, the Environmental Working Group reported on Thursday. (REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann)

In a small pilot study of 20 families, the non-profit environmental group tested blood samples from mothers and their young children -- ages 18 months to four years -- for the presence of PBDEs, a hormone-disrupting chemical.

In 19 of the 20 families, concentrations of PBDEs were typically three times as high in children as in their mothers, said Sonya Lunder, the study's author. One child had six times the level of the chemical that was detected in her mother.

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:50:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ohhh, did I need that laugh!

Clip Source: jalopnik.com

10.) Circle!

9.) You Should Probably Just Turn Off The Car And Walk

8.) Yield To Bikes

Unofficial Meaning of Sign to Us: Yield to people doing wheelies, backwards, into traffic.

7.) Stop Don't Stop

6.) Define "Very Light"

5.) The Michigan Left

4.) Take A Right At Montreal

3.) So That's How You Merge

2.) All Other Times

Where it's Located: Washington, D.C.

1.) Driving A Truck With Higher Than A 10,000 lb. GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating) Is Not Fun

Earmark-loving Sarah Palin is not a reformer

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:27:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: BTW, how can you say your the party of change when you are the party in POWER? Just wondering what is it you are going to change, exactly.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

One of Sarah Palin’s major selling points is her supposed reputation as an anti-wasteful-spending reformer who will clean up Washington. Well, the only problem with that is her records from back when she was mayor have surfaced, and in those records she boasts about getting, you guessed it, federal money for pork barrel projects.

And the most ironic part of it all? I’ll let The Washington Independent sum it up:

As Laura pointed out earlier, John McCain didn’t think so. Indeed, The LA Times reported that McCain was criticizing Palin’s earmarks at the time that his now-running mate was securing them. It’s revelations like these that can quickly erode candidates’ maverick reputations.

When will the media start scrutinizing Palin’s real record? The McCain campaign is going to attack them as being unfair/sexist/liberal/etc. no matter what they do. Might as well report the real story.

Tags: palin, gop, corruption, earmarks, power, change, not

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:32:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Have a wonderful drive...other people crazy..

Clip Source: jalopnik.com

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

10.) Circle!

Official Meaning

traffic circle up ahead.

Unofficial Meaning

OMG, circles are awesome

Let's do a circle right now

Located: Allaire Circle on Route 34, New Jersey

9.) You Should Probably Just Turn Off The Car And Walk

Official Meaning

Drivers in the left lane can only make a sharp left

Unofficial Meaning

Just follow along with the general pattern of traffic and hope you don't die.

Located: San Francisco, California

8.) Yield To Bikes

Official Meaning of Sign:

Yield to bikes when approaching the new lane

Unofficial Meaning

Yield to people doing wheelies, backwards, into traffic.

Located: Seattle, Washington

7.) Stop Don't Stop

6.) Define "Very Light"

5.) The Michigan Left

4.) Take A Right At Montreal

3.) So That's How You Merge

2.) All Other Times

1.) Driving A Truck With Higher Than A 10,000 lb. GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating) Is Not Fun

Tags: traffic signs, humor, us, intersections, crossing

Palin was on McCain's Earmark Hit List

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:36:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now this is embarrassing. As mayor and governor, Palin requested and supported congressional earmarks that McCain called excessive. How, then is she like him? Opportunistic comes to mind.

LOL!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He's even gone so far as to publish "pork lists" detailing these financial favors.

Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin.

records show that Palin

was far from shy about pursuing tens of millions in earmarks for her town, her region and her state.

The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.

McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure

USA minus Alaska

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:03:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If all you look at is Fox Noise or read is The Washington Times then you may have missed this tidbit. It stands as yet another example in a growing list of examples of poor choices that McCain has recently made.

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Recapping Palin's Secession Scandal

If you spent yesterday at a Labor Day picnic rather than at the computer, you missed the story that broke here regarding Sarah Palin's 1990s membership in the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP).

Note I said Independence not Independent. It's not just an "independent" party--it is a party whose explicit goal is to have a vote on Alaskan independence.

As user Liz Arnett first informed us yesterday morning, the AIP is a political party in Alaska whose motto is "Alaska First." It's goal is to have a vote on Alaska's state status so that Alaskans may decide whether the state should secede, become a territory, become a commonwealth, or remain a state.

Yesterday night, it was is confirmed that Sarah Palin and her husband were members of the AIP at least in 1994. Indeed, Palin reportedly attended the AIP convention.

Tags: politics, mccain, alaska, palin

THE WHITER SIDE OF THE COIN !

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:12:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dear S.Cramer: the only problem he can't remember where he put it Mr.Jason Rodriguez: I can't agree with you more but haven't we f**ked up the homeland enough,A. Economos &Philp Leiter that party can't be revived until it changes it cold war thinking and in order for that to happen you have to except the light ,G.Nolan while Mr Whitey times change get over it ,same to bible toter & A.Deleforte wait until you get disable & you need that money you paid out & when you paid it out it was worth $1.00 and your getting it back at .35 E.Lamasney :so why be stupid now ?♠♠

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

US voters' views 2008: Republicans

S Cramer
Manassas, Virginia

"McCain is strong and his intentions honest"

Jason Rodriguez
Dallas, Texas

"We should move away from foreign oil"

A Economos
New York

"The convention is key to reviving the party"

Philip Leiter
Minnesota

"This is a chance for the party to get its message out"

Geoffrey Nolan
Miami, Florida

"McCain is the least worst option this year"

Jill Putnam
Cleveland, Georgia

"My belief in the Bible informs my politics"

A Delaforte
Troy, Michigan

"The party should work for smaller government"

E Lamasney
Renton, Washington

"I have never voted Republican before"

In the run-up to the most hotly contested US presidential election in years we are asking panels of BBC News website readers to share their opinions and views.

Tale of the Tape: Palin vs. Obama

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:56:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Energy:
Palin-
Believes energy independence is a matter of national security;

For drilling in ANWR, which is in her state

Obama-
Says Americans should "get tune-ups" and "check tire pressure";

Says "we can't expect the world to be okay with" our use of heating and air conditioning

Theme:
Palin-
Change and Clean Government
Obama-
Hope and Change; "Bringing Change from Outside Washington"

What they've done to live that theme:
Palin-
Replaced entire Board of Agriculture and Conservation because of conflict of interest;

Resigned from position of Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in order to expose corruption among members of own party

Obama-
Selected 36-year incumbent Senator as running mate

Family Affairs:
Palin-
May have removed State Public Safety Commissioner as part of effort to protect sister in messy divorce and child custody battle

Obama-
Often says, "I am my brother's keeper";

Brother lives in a hut in

Clip Source: www.redstate.com

Sarah Palin

Barack Obama

Executive Experience

Governor for 2 years;

Mayor for 10 years

None

Previous Public Jobs

Mayor of Wasilla, AK (1996-2002); President of Alaska Conference of Mayors;

City Council member (1992-1996)

State Senator (1997-2004);

Community Organizer

Reaction to spouse's political success

Quit 17-year BP oil job when BP became involved in natural gas pipeline negotiations with wife's administration

Promoted and given 160% pay raise by UofC hospitals within months of husband's election to U.S. Senate;

Employer received $1,000,000.00 federal earmark, requested by husband, after her promotion

Legislative Record

Passed a landmark ethics reform bill;

Used veto to cut budgetary spending;

Prevented "bridge to nowhere" that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.

Voted "present" over 100 times as IL state senator

Earmarks

Said Alaska should avoid relying on federal money for projects;

Secured federal earmarks for wife's employer and for campaign bundlers

Tags: obama, jackass

Pre-RNC raids: so who hates freedom now?

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:50:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Doesn't look like any evidence has been uncovered thus far of intent to commit anything beyond non-violent protests. Kind of an unnerving story if you ask me, but, hey, it's a post-9/11 world, and the cops are just trying to keep us all safe, right? (It's funny, when I was a kid growing up in the eighties, there used to be after-school specials about how this kind of thing happened in apartheid South Africa.)

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention

ST. PAUL, Minn. — On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town.

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Robert Stolarik for The New York Times

Police released one person at a time from a protest-planning headquarters where people were detained in St. Paul on Friday night.

On Friday night the Ramsey County sheriff's department, accompanied by the St. Paul police, detained people inside a building here that was being used as a headquarters to plan protests.

“They handcuffed all of us,” said Sonia Silbert, 28, from Washington. “They searched everyone.”

People who had been inside said teach-ins and legal training had been conducted there, and that the space was also a repository for such items as computers and bicycles.

Tags: news, politics, presidential_campaign_2008, police, crime, civil_rights, law

McCain - A Joke too bad to print

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:10:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.salon.com

The fact that McCain had made the tasteless joke was reported in major newspapers, as was the vain attempt by his press secretary to initially deny what McCain had done. But in several major newspapers, the joke itself was kept a secret. When McCain subsequently apologized to President Clinton, the Washington Post, in its personality section, noted the apology but said the joke "was too vicious to print."

The joke did appear in McCain's hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, and the Associated Press did report the joke in full, so everyone in the press had access to McCain's words. But by censoring themselves, the Post, the Times and others helped McCain deflect flak and preserved his status as a Republican presidential contender.

Salon feels its readers deserve the unadulterated truth. Though no tape of McCain's quip has yet emerged, this is what he reportedly said:

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

Tags: mccain, clinton, reno

US HIV undercounting

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:31:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.upi.com

CDC: New U.S. HIV cases undercounted

Published: Aug. 2, 2008 at 4:58 PM

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A study released Saturday suggests estimates of the number of new U.S. cases of human immunodeficiency virus every year have been low for at least a decade.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said there were 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006, The New York Times reported. The agency's previous estimate was about 40,000 new cases annually.

Tags: health

The Value of Money

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:21:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: George Washington was paid a salary of $25,000 a year from 1789 to 1797 as the first president of the United States. The current salary of the president has recently been doubled to $400,000, to go with a $50,000 expense account, a generous pension and several other benefits. Has the remuneration improved?
Making a comparison using the CPI for 1790 shows that $25,000 corresponds to over $585,000 today, so the recent raise means current presidents have an equal command over consumer goods as the Father of the Country. When comparing Washington's salary to an unskilled worker, or the measure of average income, GDP per capita, then the comparable numbers are $11 and $24 million. Granted that would not put him in the ranks of the top 25 executives today that make over $200 million. It would, however, be many times more than any elected official in this country is paid today.

Clip Source: www.measuringworth.com

Determining the relative value of an amount of money in one year compared to another is more complicated than it seems at first. There is no single "correct" measure, and economic historians use one or more different indicators depending on the context of the question

Most indices are measured as the price of a "bundle" of goods and services that a representative group buys or earns

Presented here are six indicators for making such comparisons in US dollars between any two years from 1774 to 2007. They are the CPI, the GDP Deflator, the consumer bundle, the unskilled wage rate, the GDP per capita, and the GDP

		using: CPI GDP Deflator Consumer Bundle Unskilled Wage GDP Per Capita (relative share of) GDP
Initial Year *:
Initial Amount:
Desired Year *:


* Select initial and desired from 1774 to present. Enter data as a number without a $ sign or commas.
Why Not 2008?

One or more of the indicators may be most appropriate for you depending on the nature of your query

Tags: money

United cheap ticket fare Ottawa

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:12:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: best times, 10 day

Clip Source: www.cheaptickets.com

Leave

Thu, Sep 18

United Airlines 928

Depart:: 11:14am
Arrive:: 4:59pm

Portland, OR (PDX)
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1 stop in ORD

3hr 45min
| Boeing 757

Change planes. Time between flights: 2hr 0min

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Depart:: 6:59pm
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Chicago, IL (ORD)
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1hr 57min
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Total duration: 7hr 42min

Return

Sat, Sep 27

United Airlines 7697
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1 stop in IAD

1hr 41min
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Change planes. Time between flights: 1hr 33min

United Airlines 251

Depart:: 5:27pm
Arrive:: 8:09pm

Washington, DC (IAD)
Portland, OR (PDX)

5hr 42min
| Airbus A319

Total duration: 8hr 56min

A little Bush?????? Yes.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:55 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalhumor.about.com

Top 10 Dumbest John McCain Quotes

8. "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don't expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need." --New York Times interview, July 13, 2008

7. "I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks." --speaking at the National Small Business Summit, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." --as quoted in the Boston Globe, Dec. 17, 2007

Skunk at the Party Convention

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:31:59 GMT

clipped by: Andrew Gillies
clipper's remarks: Roll Call columnist Stan Collender plays skunk at the garden party by pointing to the immediate governing challenges that President Obama or McCain will face. In essence, with the Bush administration planning to punt on the 2010 budget, the incoming administration faces a scramble to get its budget in by early February 2009. We'd point out that there will be big-ticket bills to attend to as well, such as the highway bill, up for reauthorization in 2009 (for more, click here http://www.forbes.com/beltway/2008/05/21/washington-lobbying-transportation-biz-wash-cz_atg_0521beltway.html)

Clip Source: www.rollcall.com

Celebrate Now Because Tough Budget Times Are Fast Approaching

By Stan Collender
Roll Call Contributing Writer

Nominated candidates and the people who support them absolutely are entitled to celebrate at the convention. But even if they take office at all, it won’t actually be for several months.

And though they would prefer not to, they really need to start to think about governing almost as soon as the convention ends.

This is especially true when it comes to the federal budget. In fact, unless there is a foreign policy problem or natural disaster that requires immediate attention, the federal budget will present the next president with his first big governing challenge. Getting ready to deal with it can’t wait until the nominee actually occupies the White House.

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It Will Not Prevent The Children From Getting Burnrned

Fire Retardant Chemical Found In Children

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

9.) You Should Probably Just Turn Off The Car And Walk

Earmark-loving Sarah Palin is not a reformer

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs

10.) Circle!

9.) You Should Probably Just Turn Off The Car And Walk

8.) Yield To Bikes

7.) Stop Don't Stop

6.) Define "Very Light"

5.) The Michigan Left

4.) Take A Right At Montreal

3.) So That's How You Merge

2.) All Other Times

1.) Driving A Truck With Higher Than A 10,000 lb. GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating) Is Not Fun

Palin was on McCain's Earmark Hit List

USA minus Alaska

THE WHITER SIDE OF THE COIN !

US voters' views 2008: Republicans

Tale of the Tape: Palin vs. Obama

Sarah Palin

Barack Obama

Pre-RNC raids: so who hates freedom now?

McCain - A Joke too bad to print

US HIV undercounting

CDC: New U.S. HIV cases undercounted

The Value of Money

United cheap ticket fare Ottawa

Thu, Sep 18

United Airlines 928

United Airlines 6318 operated by UNITED EXPRESS/SKYWEST AIRLINES

Sat, Sep 27

United Airlines 7697 operated by UNITED EXPRESS/SHUTTLE AMERICA

United Airlines 251

A little Bush?????? Yes.

Top 10 Dumbest John McCain Quotes

Skunk at the Party Convention

Celebrate Now Because Tough Budget Times Are Fast Approaching

United Airlines 6318
operated by UNITED EXPRESS/SKYWEST AIRLINES

United Airlines 7697
operated by UNITED EXPRESS/SHUTTLE AMERICA