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Regular bloggers may have met Maithri of The Soaring Impulse. This young Australian physician is one of those amazing people you rarely encounter. Gifted in many ways–perhaps his greatest gift is his compassionate heart. He fell in love with the people of Swaiziland–some of the most forgotten people on [...]
Post Person Centered Plan Meeting Recap…
This past Friday I attended my autistic brother’s Person Centered Plan meeting.
Well, actually this was more of a review of his 2009 goals-based meeting in preparation for his Person Centered Plan meeting. I kind of like this new approach, since it allows for us to give more input prior to completion of the plan. Anyhoo, [...]
No Use In Calling Shots…
…if this cue ain’t straight in line.
Trying to half step the hard issues and boogaloo with the sorting/packing/planning of a big move has given me little time to pay attention to anything this past week. The Daily Show is on break so I was hard pressed to find a worthy newscaster. I did notice that [...]
Katrina-lest we forget..
The fourth anniversary of Katrina making landfall was today. The horror stories are still fresh in my mind, and most likely will visit me during the night when I sleep tonight.
The gulf coast still has not recovered. The people of the gulf coast still have not recovered.
The Big O says he will go to NOLA [...]
My tribute to my Senator, Teddy Kennedy plus Ted Kennedy’s triumphs, trials captured on video
Ted Kennedy’s triumphs, trials captured on video
Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77
Massachusetts son Senator Edward Kennedy 1932-2009! Ted Kennedy friend and mentor on both sides of the aisle was a fierce Partisan, a tough customer and a great man! Being a life long resident of Massachusetts the Kennedy’s have always been a part [...]
Toyota and GM to abandon Fremont CA plant.
See all those happy faces in the photo above? They will all be unemployed sooner than later. From the BBC:
The world’s largest carmaker will stop production at the Fremont, California-based New United Motor Manufacturing plant in March 2010.
GM announced earlier this year that it would withdraw from the venture.
Toyota said: “Over the mid to long-term, [...]
to the manor born
i was mowing my lawn last week and stopped to have a chat with my portly mailman. in the interests of disclosure, i, too, am a wee portly and i was mowing the side lawn that is a bit hilly. he looks at me as he handed me my mail and said, “you [...]
Ted Kennedy’s words on healthcare for all..from 1980
They ring as true today as they did 29 years ago. From MoJo:
We cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. So I will continue to stand for a national health insurance. We must—we must not surrender—we must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone and that [...]
Violence is Easy. Peace is Hard.
“I will offer you a simple litmus test to determine whether a person has healthy or unhealthy religion. What do they do with their pain-even their daily little disappointments? Do they transform their pain or do they transmit it? People who are practiced in transforming actual life pain, like Jesus on the cross, are the [...]
Keeping it real isn’t easy, but keep it real is what a bitch does…
Shall we?
Yesterday my State Senator Jeff Smith resigned from office and pled guilty to two felony counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
I voted for Jeff Smith because he ran as a progressive and my State Senate district is progressive as hell and needs to be represented as such in the Missouri Senate.
I’ve met Smith, but [...]
Carlos Santana and Sarah McLachlan-Angel
This song always gets to me, but after hearing about Ted Kennedy’s passing tonight, I could not get this song out of my friggin’ mind. Perhaps putting it up here will do the trick.
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Guns or Butter
Guns or Butter? – the trade off between government/military spending and government/domestic program spending taught in every Economics 101 class.
Fortunately for most sane people, there isn’t a line item in the home budget for military spending. (Though since the election of Obama, I bet there isn’t a lot of line item vetoing going on in [...]
The Lion of the Senate has died.
He passed on at the age of 77. He was in Hyannis Port with family. After four decades in the Senate, the last of the Kennedy brothers has joined his brothers Joe Jr, John and Robert on the other side.
But Teddy must of known his end was near. Last week he sent a letter to [...]
Recommending Investigative Journalists
It is hard work but somebody’s got to do it – Today’s post is a roundup of some of the best investigative journalists you might want to follow: I include where and what they write, along with a couple of samples of their recent work.
TPMMuckraker is one of the features at Josh Marshall’s Talking Points [...]
The Torture Report is out and we have it!
The wonderful folks over at the Washington Independent have posted the heavily redacted Torture Report we have all been waiting years for. Below is the report itself:
2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture –
And related appendices:
Appendices
The report, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s 2004 report, will be fine reading for me after Weeds and [...]
