Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, blog, climate change, computer, energy policy, engineering, green, John McCain, science, space
They're all lefty blogs, natch, but still, it's a nice tool. Thanks to Pam for the tool, which is being freely distributed. I'll update the right side of the blog with this...but for now:
Labels: blog, Pams House Blend, tools
Friday Quick Hits
trying to get SOMETHING done today, but had to post these things:
* There's been a lot of talk amongst the talking class about why the polling on the dem side in NH was pretty much so wrong to say that Obama had a massive upswing to jet WAY past Hillary. Actually, he may have had a big swing up, but it only got him to within 3%...Anyways, two articles on this subject - a
C&L vlog post about Chris Matthews shooting his mouth off and Tom Brokaw having to give him a little what-for; and
this editorial from the T&G.
* The Big Picture turns me onto another blog that was just waiting for me to find...
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/ just amusing from the title; I'll have to look at this in more detail later...
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, blog, crooksandliars.com, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, The Big Picture
Wifey alerted me to this...Apparently there's evidence showing that former NH Dem primary candidate Gary Dodds
faked his 24-hr disappearance after a car accident...as our intrepid readers may recall, his car was found cracked up on a NH highway and he went missing for about a day. I've not followed the NH-01 district much since then so I know nothing of any information that came out in the past two years...I was too focused on our Mass elections and keeping Healey out of office. But how can you fake a bump on the head and hypothermia???
Labels: 2006 Elections, blog, Democrats, Deval Patrick, NH-01
This guy is just scarry scarry scarry...even conservative republicans in the justice department thought he went way too far...wifey and I watched this for about 20 minutes of this at the point of the infamous visit to Ashcroft's hospital bed...we just had to turn it off since it's just too scarry to watch what actually happened in this country...
Labels: blog, Cheney, crime, crooksandliars.com, dubya, Frontline, media, PBS, press, RNC, Spending, USA
I was listenening to our new
XM radio in the car on the way home last night, and they have a great new channel on
XM130 - POTUS08.
Everything about the presidential election, which is cool in general.
They had a segment that segued with a discussion of Hillary talking about some sort of relief for college students since the rate of college tuition hikes was 2-3x that of inflation over the past...some time, I missed the interval. ANYWAY, they had two people on to discuss the rediculous college price hikes...the first guy was Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University and fronting for some group called
The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (they
blog here) He stated that the relief should go directly to students...in the manner of slashing subsidies to post-secondary schools, giving it all to the students and then have the colleges compete to pick up these students...it sounded a little fishy but I did give it enough thought to write down his name while in the restaraunt parking lot picking up chinese food for dinner...then the second guest was Pedro de la Torr, who identifed himself as being with a group called
CampusProgress, affiliated with the
Center for American Progress. CfAP is a well-known pregressive group, but they indentified it so I sort of knew what was coming. But I googled Vedder's name just now,
and this is what I found. He belongs to well-known right-wing thinktanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the National Taxpayers Union. And, he supports pro-tobacco propaganda. Interesting. But, the whole point is the website that had it:
sourcewatch.org.
Labels: 2008 Elections, blog, colleges, Democrats, education, macroeconomics, media, RNC, sourcewatch.org
They are completely delusional. Completely. Interesting to see just how rediculous the sub-prime lending truly was. Of course, there were some people that
were worried about this macro- issue over the past few years that
saw this whole ball of wax coming down the pipe...
Labels: 2008 Elections, blog, Boston, dailykos.com, economy, macroeconomics, Masachusetts, poverty, RBE, real estate, The Big Picture, wages
Could not resist...
Labels: blog, effluvia, free stuff
The Big Picture, by an anonymous high-level exec somewhere in NYC, looks like a great read - lots of actual facts about the macro-economic landscape, analyzed by someone that does this all the time, with lots of detail and data to review...just look at the reviews on the 2007 Q1 revised GDP growth post (we flatlined with only a 0.1% growth) and the stuff on the front page regarding the housing market (we're still finding bottom, and the data shows that we're on a strong downhill slump)...and, lest you think this guy is a mega-lib, please look through some more and see that Kudrow is all over the blog - not a guy that is know to be a lib :)
Labels: blog, economy, macroeconomics
Mass Rep Jim McGovern did this, as well as
Reps Tim Ryan and Jan Schakowsky did it it too
and all blogged about it...a fascinating read, and one that should illuminate the basic food demands on a budget of $21 per week. No wonder people
gravitate to fast food...it's cheap with a little protein and a lot of fat. Bottom line, best I can see it, is that you cannot eat healthy on this little...with food stamps stagnant, minimum wages stagnant and fuel prices soaring, it's all a big circular reference, spiraling downward toward
obesity, diabetes and other social ills...
Labels: blog, economy, food stamps, poverty, wages
Tech Note: Some tweaks, And Hello Johnny K-Street
As it turns out, bunchball.com eliminated their flash-based webgames, so no more asteroids! Sorry...Also welcome
Johnny K-Street to the author roll (pic is of the ORIGINAL johnny k-street, from the
now-defunct radio program
Morning Sedition)- he's already added some posts here. Just like me and the others, Johnny will be providing commentary as he sees fit, and will provide a different insight that the other three of us! Thanks Johnny!
Labels: blog, RBE
