[FairfieldLife] Israel is the only apartheid regime in the Western world

2010-01-11 Thread do.rflex
Imposing Middle East Peace Henry Siegman http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/henry_siegman , former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America - - - January 7, 2010 - The Nation [ PETER O. ZIERLEIN ] PETER O. ZIERLEIN

[FairfieldLife] Revelations from '08 Campaign - Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton

2010-01-11 Thread do.rflex
CBS 60 Minutes - Revelations from the 2008 Campaign Anderson Cooper Reports On A New Book -Game Change- by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann That Reveals New Details From The Obama And McCain Campaigns - Cooper also interviews McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt From CBS: (According

[FairfieldLife] LINK CORRECTION Revelations from '08 Campaign - Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton

2010-01-11 Thread do.rflex
You can find the video here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/60minutes/main6067628.shtml --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: CBS 60 Minutes - Revelations from the 2008 Campaign Anderson Cooper Reports On A New Book -Game Change- by Mark

[FairfieldLife] Soul Mates in the News

2010-01-11 Thread do.rflex

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ashes and Snow - Feather to Fire

2010-01-10 Thread do.rflex
, Creator of Ashes and Snow --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Beautiful, haunting, powerful . . . Gregory Colbert has used both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

[FairfieldLife] Re: How much would you pay to hear Sarah Palin?

2010-01-09 Thread do.rflex
@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Is Palin Getting $100,000 to Speak at the Tea Party National Convention? This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin's decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention ... had anything to with money. Conservative blogger Dan Riehl

[FairfieldLife] Re: How much would you pay to hear Sarah Palin?

2010-01-09 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1...@... wrote: Lets not forget, if Palin had been the front runner candidate for president instead of McCain, she would have been president. I really don't think so: CNN Poll: 7 in 10 say Palin not qualified to be president

[FairfieldLife] Teabaggers vs the GOP

2010-01-09 Thread do.rflex
Hee Haw meets 28 Days Later By CHARLES M. BLOW - New York Times - January 8, 2010 The attack on the Republican establishment by the tea party folks grabs the gaze like a really bad horror flick — some version of Hee Haw meets 28 Days Later. It's fascinating. But it also raises a serious

[FairfieldLife] US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel

2010-01-09 Thread do.rflex
Mitchell: Mideast stagnation endangers US aid Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 01.08.10, 19:58 / Israel News http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.html WASHINGTON – On the eve of his visit to the Middle East, US special envoy George Mitchell threatened that his country

[FairfieldLife] Ashes and Snow - Feather to Fire

2010-01-09 Thread do.rflex
Beautiful, haunting, powerful . . . Gregory Colbert has used both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSX444hQ5Vo [follow links to other clips]

[FairfieldLife] Red State takes on Tiger woods, Brit Hume and Prays ( Hilarious! )

2010-01-08 Thread do.rflex
Must see! Jackie and Dunlap at Red State Update talk to Jesus about Buddhists, Tiger Woods and FOX's Christian proselytizer Brit Hume... Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfO_z5JJEjY

[FairfieldLife] How much would you pay to hear Sarah Palin?

2010-01-08 Thread do.rflex
Is Palin Getting $100,000 to Speak at the Tea Party National Convention? This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin's decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention ... had anything to with money. Conservative blogger Dan Riehl is reporting, based on forwarded communications, that

[FairfieldLife] Is Tea Party.org leader an illiterate racist?

2010-01-08 Thread do.rflex
'N-Word' Sign Dogs Would-Be Tea Party Leader Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo — taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston http://houstontps.org/ — in which he holds a sign reading

[FairfieldLife] A Teabagger Stimulus

2010-01-07 Thread do.rflex
A Teabagger Stimulus by Gen. JC Christian, patriot It's no secret Teabagger-Americans like myself are very angry about the stimulus spending. Why shouldn't we be pissed off? We're not stupid. We look around and see all this money being spent on socialist work programs like roads, water

[FairfieldLife] Ann Coulter fears anus, foreskin bombings

2010-01-07 Thread do.rflex
Ann Coulter says she's afraid of anal, foreskin bombings By David Edwards and John Byrne http://rawstory.com/2009/author/raw120/ [Ann Coulter photo] If you didn't lose your lunch over comments http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnyquotes/a/anncoulter.htm conservative doyenne Ann

[FairfieldLife] 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire

2010-01-05 Thread do.rflex
'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire Conservatives are blind to the 3-D blockbuster's charms By Patrick Goldstein [avatar_movie_promo_screenshot] It's no secret that Avatar has been stunningly successful on nearly every front. The James Cameron-directed sci-fi epic is already the

[FairfieldLife] Buddhists to Brit Hume: We forgive you

2010-01-05 Thread do.rflex
Buddhists to Brit Hume: We forgive you [This particular peaceful Buddha statue is part of the decor at Buddakan, a restaurant in Philadelphia. ] http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/faith-and-reason/2010/01\ /04/buddhax-large.jpg This particular peaceful Buddha statue is part of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Feral Cats in FF

2010-01-05 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: Janet Teeple [mailto:ja...@...] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:53 AM To: 'Bill Teeple' We trap and spay/neuter cats that we feed. And have almost cleaned up the areas we feed and hope to stop soon. CCNAP (469-2015)

[FairfieldLife] Underpants of mass destruction

2010-01-05 Thread do.rflex
The long, strange war on terror grows ever more surreal By Tom Tomorrow http://www.salon.com/author/tom_tomorrow/index.html [This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow] http://www.salon.com/author/tom_tomorrow/index.html http://www.salon.com/author/tom_tomorrow/index.html

[FairfieldLife] Embarrassing possibilities of TSA's full body security scans

2010-01-05 Thread do.rflex

[FairfieldLife] Climate change far worse than thought before

2010-01-03 Thread do.rflex
Climate change far worse than thought before NEW DELHI: Global alarm over climate change and its effects has risen manifold after the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, many of the 2,500-odd IPCC scientists have found climate change is

[FairfieldLife] U.S. Jobless Claims Drop to Lowest Level Since 2008

2010-01-01 Thread do.rflex
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Fewer Americans than anticipated filed claims for unemployment benefits last week, pointing to an improvement in the labor market that will help sustain economic growth next year. Initial jobless claims fell by 22,000 to 432,000 in the week ended Dec. 26, the lowest

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Choose Love

2010-01-01 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_z...@... wrote: it is said that there is nothing but God and that God is Love and that LOVE is what we really are LOVE is our true nature if this is not our experience, at least some glimpses here and there, there must be

[FairfieldLife] Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade

2009-12-30 Thread do.rflex
Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New OligarchsInformed Comment - December 22 ,2009 - Juan Cole By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the

[FairfieldLife] Headline of the Year

2009-12-30 Thread do.rflex
[Ballz[1]] http://www.newshoggers.com/.a/6a00d8345f80b469e20120a78a0079970b-pi Great balls of fire. That's the classic New York Post headline under the mug shot of Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab, who was detained by authorities after trying to detonate a package in his underwear on a flight bound

[FairfieldLife] Re: Headline of the Year

2009-12-30 Thread do.rflex
variations on the spelling of Qaddafi that I don't feed in the right spelling. But in my search I did come across this rather amusing item: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-09-25-Bob_DylanGaddafi.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [Ballz[1

[FairfieldLife] Poll: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton America's Most Admired

2009-12-30 Thread do.rflex
A USA Today/Gallup poll http://www.gallup.com/poll/124895/Clinton-Edges-Palin-Admired-Woman.asp\ x finds that President Barack Obama is the country's most admired man, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman. Among Republicans, Obama came in second to George W. Bush,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

2009-12-30 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: What does the Sanskrit phrase Alaya Vigyan mean? Apparently Osho used it to refer to the subconscious, but I'm looking for a more literal

[FairfieldLife] The Odds of Airborne Terror

2009-12-29 Thread do.rflex
The Odds of Airborne Terror ...the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. by Nate Silver Not going to do any editorializing here; just going to do some non-fancy math. James Joyner asks

[FairfieldLife] One Year Later, Palestinians Live in Rubble While Israel Blocks Aid

2009-12-29 Thread do.rflex
One Year Since Israel's Offensive, Gaza Still Suffers by Tim McGirk [http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0912/gaza_incursion_1223.jpg] Thick black smoke rises after an Israeli air-force strike on a building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 28, 2008 - Abed Rahim Khatib / EPA

[FairfieldLife] The Year in Crazy - Parts I and II - by Tom Tomorrow

2009-12-29 Thread do.rflex
What a Crazy Year! Sex scandals, swine flu, tea parties, Michele Bachmann -- and that's just the first half of 2009 [This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow] The Year in Crazy, part the second By Tom Tomorrow http://www.salon.com/author/tom_tomorrow/index.html [This Modern World by Tom

[FairfieldLife] Re: Original Social Security legislation very different from today's

2009-12-28 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] Your views on Social Security as a bad thing are shared primarily by the right wing fringe minority. Oh wait! ...you DO

[FairfieldLife] Why Obama Stays Silent

2009-12-28 Thread do.rflex
So Let Me Get This Straight… We, the greatest nation on earth, are supposed to be Collectively Freaked Out http://www.memeorandum.com/091226/p25#a091226p25 because some sad little geek couldn't make his fucking underpants explode properly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Original Social Security legislation very different from today's

2009-12-28 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex

[FairfieldLife] Be Happy by H.E. Situ Rinpoche

2009-12-28 Thread do.rflex
Very short video [about 30 seconds]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5yPh8trI9k

[FairfieldLife] Dr Steven Greer on the so-called alien abductions

2009-12-27 Thread do.rflex
From the briefing Dr Greer gave President Obama: ...We are also morally obliged to warn you of an existing highly secretive plan to use advanced technologies to hoax an 'alien attack' on Earth. There exists within the direct control of this Majestic group assets capable of launching such a

[FairfieldLife] All Swans Start As Ugly Ducklings: Healthcare Reform In Perspective

2009-12-27 Thread do.rflex
All Swans Start As Ugly Ducklings: Healthcare Reform In Perspectiveby Norbrook http://norbrook.dailykos.com/ - Dec 26, 2009 Thursday, I wrote a diary entitled Damn, that's an ugly baby! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/24/818769/-Damn,-Thats-An-Ugly-Ba\ by%21 As the battle over the

[FairfieldLife] Original Social Security legislation very different from today's

2009-12-27 Thread do.rflex
Having gotten the initial 'foot in the door' by passing the Social Security Act of 1935 against against a similar viscious opposition to that we see to the current Senate Healthcare Reform Bill, Congress has subsequently refined, vastly improved and expanded that original Social Security Act.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Original Social Security legislation very different from today's

2009-12-27 Thread do.rflex
views on Social Security as a bad thing are shared primarily by the right wing fringe minority. Oh wait! ...you DO belong to the right wing fringe minority! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Having gotten the initial 'foot in the door' by passing

[FairfieldLife] Re: All Swans Start As Ugly Ducklings: Healthcare Reform In Perspective

2009-12-27 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: All Swans Start As Ugly Ducklings: Healthcare Reform In Perspectiveby

[FairfieldLife] The Left's Fatal Abstraction

2009-12-26 Thread do.rflex
The Left's Fatal Abstraction Critics Of Health Reform On Obama's Left Have Largely Focused On Symbolic Issuesby Ronald Brownstein National Journal Magazine - Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009 But the idea that Democrats should just press restart after the grueling struggle to reach this point carries an

[FairfieldLife] Hamsher/Norquist - Shaking the Devil

2009-12-26 Thread do.rflex

[FairfieldLife] Hamsher/Norquist - Shaking the Devil's Hand

2009-12-26 Thread do.rflex
Can't Shake the Devil's Hand and Say You're Only Kidding by Jeff Fecke http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/author/jeff-fecke/ | December 23rd, 2009 As all denizens of the internets know, Jumping the Shark is a phrase that has come to represent that moment in which a good something

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Sally Albright Theory Of Politics (was: The Left's Fatal Abstraction)

2009-12-26 Thread do.rflex
://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=31694 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: The Left's Fatal Abstraction Critics Of Health Reform On Obama's Left Have Largely Focused On Symbolic Issuesby Ronald Brownstein National Journal Magazine - Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009

[FairfieldLife] Re: 30th Anniversary Celebrations!

2009-12-25 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008

[FairfieldLife] Another deep bow

2009-12-25 Thread do.rflex
[600]

[FairfieldLife] Jane Hamsher goes off the deep end

2009-12-25 Thread do.rflex
GOTTA GO I hear tell that there was some sort of vote in Congress this morning, but I gotta scram -- no time for posting, just enough time to drop Firedoglake from the blogroll, for all the good that tiny gesture does (I'm doing it not because Jane H. went on Fox but because her

[FairfieldLife] Senate passes healthcare overhaul 60 to 39

2009-12-24 Thread do.rflex
Democrats win the vote 60 to 39 over Republican objections. It must be reconciled with the House's legislation in the New Year before President Obama can sign off on his top domestic priority. By James Oliphant Senate Democrats this morning passed a sweeping healthcare overhaul bill,

[FairfieldLife] Whaddaya Mean Obama Hasn't Done Anything?

2009-12-24 Thread do.rflex
Whaddaya Mean Obama Hasn't Done Anything?By John H. Richardson - ESQUIRE - November 3, 2009 [preside obama in the oval office with senior advisors]Pete Souza/White House - Obama with his senior staff in early February, when no one

[FairfieldLife] Republican Christmas

2009-12-24 Thread do.rflex

[FairfieldLife] Obama's statement on passage of the Senate Health Care bill

2009-12-24 Thread do.rflex
Watch: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34584862#34584862

[FairfieldLife] Ezra Klein responds to Hamsher's '10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Bill'

2009-12-23 Thread do.rflex
Ezra Klein answers Jane Hamsher's '10 reasons to kill the bill' I've gotten a lot of requests to respond to Jane Hamsher's list http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/top-10-reasons-to-kill-th_b_\ 399245.html of 10 reasons to kill the Senate bill. At this point, I'm not sure there's

[FairfieldLife] Nat'l Assn. of Realtors: Home sales up 44 percent from a year ago

2009-12-23 Thread do.rflex
Federal programs designed to jump start the housing market helped boost sales of previously owned homes to their highest level since February 2007 and whittle down the excess supply of homes on the market in November. The National Association of Realtors reported on Tuesday that sales of

[FairfieldLife] Re: X-Democrat and Doctor blasts health care reform!

2009-12-23 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Isn't that unusual? Switching parties, from majority to minority? Video Is a Terrible Thing to Waste Today the national GOP welcomes Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL) into the party. That is, just moments after scrubbing the

[FairfieldLife] Report Finds Acorn Broke No Laws

2009-12-23 Thread do.rflex
A Congressional Research Service report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee says ACORN hasn't violated any federal regulations the last five years, Politico reports. The report also found that the undercover filmmakers that allegedly caught employees of the organization breaking

[FairfieldLife] Americans Judge The Bush Decade: ‘Awful’ And ‘Not So Good’

2009-12-22 Thread do.rflex
Americans Judge The Bush Decade: `Awful' And `Not So Good' [Mission Accomplished] A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/21/2156876.aspx finds that Americans are entering 2010 with a negative view of the events of the past decade, which was largely

[FairfieldLife] Across the universe performed by Laibach

2009-12-22 Thread do.rflex
This is Slovenian experimental music group, Laibach, performing The Beatles song 'Across the universe' with a very peculiar video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5mlb3Bjzs

[FairfieldLife] Dem Sen Whitehouse: Desperate GOP's 'Day Of Judgment' Is Coming

2009-12-21 Thread do.rflex
Sen. Whitehouse: There Will Be A 'Reckoning' For GOP's 'Desperate, No-Holds-Barred Mission Of Propaganda' On the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) slammed Republicans for their desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, falsehood, obstruction and fear, which he said

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dem Sen Whitehouse: Desperate GOP's 'Day Of Judgment' Is Coming

2009-12-21 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG wg...@... wrote: I doubt it The GOP is already in the toilet, BillyGee Whiz. How do you think they got there? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Sen. Whitehouse: There Will Be A 'Reckoning

[FairfieldLife] Miracle Christmas image appears on toast

2009-12-21 Thread do.rflex
http://www.bartcop.com/xmas-panther-card-09.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance may now be mandatory!

2009-12-20 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Supreme Court? CAn the government *make* you buy anything? Are you required by the government to buy auto insurance Mr Dixon? If so, why do you think that is, eh? From:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health Insurance may now be mandatory!

2009-12-20 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Are you required by the government to buy auto insurance Mr Dixon? If so, why do you think that is, eh? None of us are required

[FairfieldLife] Ted Kennedy's wife Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill

2009-12-19 Thread do.rflex
What Ted Would Say: Victoria Reggie Kennedy Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill [Ted Kennedy] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR20091\ 21803506.html Ted Kennedy by Victoria Reggie Kennedy Sunday, December 20, 2009 My late

[FairfieldLife] Rachel Maddow on the push to Kill the Bill

2009-12-19 Thread do.rflex
Washington Post's Eugene Robinson joins Rachel to explore the reasoning, implications and possibilities around the issue of 'killing' the Senate Health Care Bill Watch: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#34473012 http://snipurl.com/tre1g

[FairfieldLife] Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill

2009-12-19 Thread do.rflex
Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill [468] Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times - A plow cleared snow on Capitol Hill on Saturday. The Senate was in session to vote on a defense bill during a big Washington-area storm. By ROBERT PEAR

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are Hillary Clinton supporters murmuring I told you so?

2009-12-18 Thread do.rflex
Research 2000, Adults MoE 2%, Dec 14, 2009 - Dec 17, 2009 (last week's results in parentheses) Full Crosstabs http://www.dailykos.com/weeklypoll/2009/12/17 FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE DON'T KNOWNET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA54 (53)42 (42)4 (5)1 PELOSI:41 (40)49 (50)10 (10)2

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are Hillary Clinton supporters murmuring I told you so?

2009-12-18 Thread do.rflex
[http://images.politico.com/global/news/091216_chartgraphic2.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Research 2000, Adults MoE 2%, Dec 14, 2009 - Dec 17, 2009 (last week's results in parentheses) Full Crosstabs http://www.dailykos.com

[FairfieldLife] Obama Copenhagen Speech - Climate Change Conference

2009-12-18 Thread do.rflex
Obama Calls For Action, Time For Climate Change Talk Over (full speech)Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdzaAoyNXo

[FairfieldLife] Paul Krugman: Pass the Bill

2009-12-18 Thread do.rflex
Pass the Bill By Paul Krugman http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists\ /paulkrugman/index.html?inline=nyt-per Published: December 17, 2009 A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy. Declare that you're disappointed

[FairfieldLife] Tentative deal reached in Copenhagen on climate change curbs

2009-12-18 Thread do.rflex
Tentative deal reached in Copenhagen on climate change curbs Key international leaders reach a 'meaningful agreement,' The Times is told, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the U.S. and China settle on ways to ensure that nations' pledges are carried out. [Obama in Copenhagen] President

[FairfieldLife] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins negotiations at Copenhagen

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate [U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived at COP15 as time runs out for the climate talks.] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived at COP15 as time runs out for the climate talks. COPENHAGEN — As hopes faded for a

[FairfieldLife] Why Progressives Are Batshit Crazy to Oppose the Senate Bill

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
Why Progressives Are Batshit Crazy to Oppose the Senate Bill by Nate Silver Pick your subheadline: a) It's time to stop being polite and start getting real. b) Here's hoping a picture is worth 1,000 words. [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415363971440574338]

[FairfieldLife] Sen. Rockefeller on Howard Dean's Kill the Bill Comments

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
Sen. Rockefeller with Andrea Mitchell on Howard Dean's Comments: 'Nonsense, Irresponsible, Stunning, and He's Wrong' Rockefeller: I'm a grownup, you're a grownup, and we've been around this business a long time and you never get everything you want. You don't sulk about it. You try to keep

[FairfieldLife] CBO Scores Senate Climate Bill - Will Save $21 Billion First 10 Years

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
CBO Scores Senate Climate Bill - Will Save $21 Billion in First 10 Years [Earth Logo] The newest iteration of the climate bill in congress has just been scored by the non partisan congressional budget office and, as with the previous climate bill (Waxman-Markey in the House) the Senate

[FairfieldLife] Fight Health-Care Reform -- And Win A Trip To Hooters!

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Campaign: Fight Health-Care Reform -- And Win A Trip To Hooters! Zachary Roth http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/zachary_roth/2009/12/13-week/\ | December 16, 2009, 8:52AM How'd you like to fight government-run health-care -- and get a free gift card

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBO Scores Senate Climate Bill - Will Save $21 Billion First 10 Years

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Oh, yes! Of COURSE I believe that! A government bill that SAVES money! Fortunately reality doesn't depend on what McChump 'believes.' --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Bill Clinton Weighs In On Health Care - Calls It 'Good Bill'

2009-12-17 Thread do.rflex
Fmr. President Clinton Weighs In On Health Care And Calls It 'Good Bill' Take it from someone who knows: these chances don't come around every day. Allowing this effort to fall short now would be a colossal blunder -- both politically for our party and, far more important, for the physical,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Liberals Should Back the Health Care Bill

2009-12-16 Thread do.rflex
Howard Dean said to kill the Senate bill and Jane Hamsher agreed with him. Must read: http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/15/kill-the-senate-bill/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Ezra Klein http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12

[FairfieldLife] Healthcare's Home Stretch

2009-12-16 Thread do.rflex
Healthcare's Home Stretch — By Kevin Drum http://motherjones.com/authors/kevin-drum [image image-_original] With the public option now out of the healthcare bill, is it still worth passing? Regular readers will be unsurprised that I think the answer is pretty firmly yes—and that liberals who

[FairfieldLife] November housing construction up 8.9 percent

2009-12-16 Thread do.rflex
WASHINGTON – Construction of new homes, helped by better weather, rebounded in November following a setback in the previous month. The gain is a hopeful sign that the housing recovery is continuing, a development viewed as critical to lifting the overall economy out of recession. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!

2009-12-16 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vaj Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:51 PM To:

[FairfieldLife] Deregulation, Disaster and Denial

2009-12-15 Thread do.rflex
Disaster and Denialby Paul Krugman Talk to conservatives about the financial crisis and you enter an alternative, bizarro universe in which government bureaucrats, not greedy bankers, caused the meltdown. It's a universe in which government-sponsored lending agencies triggered the crisis, even

[FairfieldLife] Where does all the money go?

2009-12-15 Thread do.rflex

[FairfieldLife] Palin's own 'Climate-gate'

2009-12-15 Thread do.rflex
Palin's own 'Climate-gate' [Sarah Palin at a book-signing event Thursday in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.] Sarah Palin at a book-signing event Thursday in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (Jerome A. Pollos/associated Press) By Eugene Robinson http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/eugene+robinson/

[FairfieldLife] Adultery: It's okay if you're a Republican

2009-12-15 Thread do.rflex
Public Policy Polling [PPP] polled South Carolina voters and took a closer look at values voters. Guess what? They're hypocrites. Values voters have less of a problem with Mark Sanford than the average South Carolinian. For example: While 45% of all South Carolina voters want Sanford to

[FairfieldLife] Why Liberals Should Back the Health Care Bill

2009-12-15 Thread do.rflex
Ezra Klein http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/is_the_senate_healt\ h-care_refo.html : On its own terms, the bill is the largest social policy achievement since the Great Society. It will save a lot of lives and prevent a lot of suffering. But moving forward, it also makes future

[FairfieldLife] Futures Markets Say Democrats Retain Control in 2010

2009-12-14 Thread do.rflex
With less than a year until the 2010 midterm elections, let's see how traders are betting with their wallets in the political futures markets: Intrade http://www.intrade.com/ and the Iowa Electronic Markets http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/ . The probability -- using last price of Friday's contract

[FairfieldLife] Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'?

2009-12-14 Thread do.rflex
Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'? ByLisa Pease December 14, 2009 If there's one book I wish President Obama would read over the holidays, it is JFK and the Unspeakable. Obama, like President John F. Kennedy, has had his first encounters with the permanent warfare

[FairfieldLife] Re: How much did this romance cost America?

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Not sure if this is the right name for it, but I've always assumed that there is a protocol office at the White House that explains to the president and anyone else to whom it applies what the proper etiquette is for

[FairfieldLife] Bush Sr bows deeply to Hirohito's casket

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
Then came the moment: When Mr. Bush [Sr.] approached the emperor's casket, he bowed deeply. The ongoing cable-and-blog dust-up over whether President Obama somehow dishonored America's image by bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan the other day was reminiscent of another argument over the

[FairfieldLife] Tricky Dick Nixon bows to Mao Tse Tung - Video

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP_oOJiuvW4

[FairfieldLife] Leonard Cohen - The Future

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
From his 1992 album of the same name, The Future An interesting and perhaps accurately prophetic vision of today... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97OxHZzBeQ

[FairfieldLife] Friendship - from the Rig Veda

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
Friendship He who abandons a friend who knows his duty of friendship, has no worth in what he speaks. What he hears is also false and he does not know the path of righteous action. ~ Rig Veda X.71.6

[FairfieldLife] Taibbi vs. Obama — By Kevin Drum

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
Generally speaking, Taibbi gets his facts right and he gets the big picture right: Obama's team is nearly as dedicated to the economic status quo as Republicans are. Ditto for many — though not all — Democrats in Congress. Matt Taibbi's long polemic about Barack Obama's economic team

[FairfieldLife] Buddha boy spoke out against recent animal sacrifice at Gadhi Mai

2009-12-13 Thread do.rflex
Palden Dorje planned to give blessings on 18–23 November 2009 at the site of the Gadhi Mai Mela, a Nepalese religious festival where hundreds of thousands of animals are sacrificed, something he has strongly condemned. However, for security reasons priests were unwilling to alot a space for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama FAIL!

2009-12-12 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: It's quite clear to me by the emotionally charged venom you consistently throw out at Obama and the Obama administration that you're quite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Denier World

2009-12-12 Thread do.rflex
why. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Total horse shit. Chinese pay toxic price for a green world: http://tinyurl.com/yc7ycyw Or: Climate-change reduction measures to be debated at the imminent Copenhagen UN climate conference could cause

[FairfieldLife] Independent probe clears ACORN of illegality

2009-12-12 Thread do.rflex
Independent probe clears ACORN of illegality, but says videos that were taped were heavily edited! ACORN hired a former Attorney General, Scott Harshbarger of Massachusetts, to conduct an independent review of how ACORN operated after those sleazy videos were released by FOX. The resulting

[FairfieldLife] Judge restores ACORN funding

2009-12-12 Thread do.rflex
POLITICO - A judge in New York ordered that ACORN's federal funding be restored, rolling back a slew of Congressional actions that sought to stop taxpayer money from flowing to the community group on the heels of a fall full of embarrassments for it. Nina Gershon, a district judge in New

[FairfieldLife] More extreme emotionally charged venom

2009-12-12 Thread do.rflex
...this time from authors.nag, FFL's self-appointed nightmare mother-in-law, operator of the -Nitpicker Zone- death trap. Message # 236474

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