Monday, August 23
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This is a peek at what happened this weekend at the First Gnomedex Tinkerstorm.
Monday, August 230
This is a peek at what happened this weekend at the First Gnomedex Tinkerstorm.
Tea Party Nation released a statement Monday declaring, “The Tea Party Movement is not racist.”
Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, said his group had to respond because “this is becoming an issue for the whole movement.”
“We are having to react to this quickly because this is the line that the other side wants to hit us with — that we are all racists. If they can make that story stick, it will destroy the effectiveness of the movement,” Phillips said.
The most comprehensive list I’ve found so far on Twitter accounts for our Federal Level government officials…from the President down to each member of the House of Representatives. Here are a few examples…
National Science Foundation: NSF
Environmental Protection Agency: EPA
Department of State: America.gov
Department of Health & Human Services: Food & Drug Administration: FDA Recalls
Department of Agriculture: Food Safety Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey: Earthquake & Tsunami Warning
For the whole list, visit: http://twitter.pbworks.com/USGovernment
In Web ads and at campaign appearances, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul sometimes has called on the music of the band Rush to give his message a little pop.
It turns out the campaign wasn’t using the music with the band’s permission, according to Rush’s attorney, Robert Farmer.
Farmer, general counsel for the Anthem Entertainment Group Inc. in Toronto, which is Rush’s record label, has sent a letter to Paul campaign officials informing them that they have violated copyright laws — and urging them to stop.”This is not a political issue — this is a copyright issue,” Farmer said in an interview. “We would do this no matter who it is.”
Besides, all three members of Rush — Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart — are Canadians, not Americans, he pointed out.
Rock band Rush says Rand Paul’s campaign can’t use its songs | The Political Carnival.
“We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country’s key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis.
“They were totally opposed to it,” Born says. “That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?”
Now, with many of the same men who shut down Born in key positions in the Obama administration, The Warning reveals the complicated politics that led to this crisis and what it may say about current attempts to prevent the next one.
FRONTLINE: the warning: watch the full program online | PBS.
Now we’ll just have to drive to the beach to fill up our SUV’s. Hey Sarah, how’s that “Drilly Spilly” thing workin out for ya?
Eric Boehlert at Media Matters reported yesterday Glenn Beck’s Fox show just posted another ratings low for this year. The new mark was set last Thursday when the show attracted 1.82 million viewers.
In late January and into February, the program was averaging 3 million viewers each week. Today, the viewership is trending around 2 million — which means that in a span of just three months, Glenn Beck has lost nearly one-third of its television audience.
How soft are Beck’s current ratings? He’s now posting the type of numbers that his show used to get when he was on vacation and somebody less famous stood in for him, like when he took a few days off in late March and his show averaged 1.9 million viewers.
Beck’s been back from his March vacation for weeks now, but his ratings are roughly the same as when he wasn’t even there.
Glenn Beck has lost 1/3 of its TV audience since January | Media Matters for America.
A lot of debate is raging across the country on Health Care Reform. But for me, the true litmus test for whether or not the current proposed legislation is a win for the Insurance companies is to watch their stocks.
In the past month the stock prices of the top 4 health insurers (WellPoint, Aetna, UnitedHealth and CIGNA) rose an average of 2.8%.
This could mean two things: 1) The current proposed legislation is a win for the Insurance companies, or 2) Investors don’t think the legislation will pass.
With most odds makers betting on legislation passing, it just looks like this is a win for the Insurers.
The level of anger and hatred displayed by the Tea Party protesters in this video is appalling. Simply appalling. I can not believe actual human beings would act this way towards another person.
One white dude in a tie, khaki pants and donning shades and a cell phone strapped to his belt can be seen literally THROWING DOLLARS at another man who sits silently on the ground with a sign that reads “Got Parkinson’s? I do and you might. Thanks for helping.”
These Tea Party protesters have fallen into the trap of becoming so entrenched in their principles that they’ve forgotten how to be a human being….how to be an American.
True Americans care. True patriots don’t scream or throw angry dollars at others who have debilitating diseases (remember when Rush Limbaugh mocked Michael J. Fox, saying he was faking his shakes?). This kind of behavior is similar to what we were seeing last summer during the “Town Hall Meetings”. I dubbed it Angryface syndrome.
It’s also why I’ve lost total respect for anyone who chooses to associate themselves with the Tea Party. The Tea Party is filled to the brim with closet racists, religious fanatics and some of the most hateful and narrow-minded people in the country. They’re not patriots, they’re self-entitled scumbags who don’t deserve any compassion.
They certainly display no capacity for compassion in this video. Don’t take my word for it…watch the pleated pants dickwad for yourself:
YouTube – Tea Partiers Mock And Scorn Apparent Parkinson’s Victim.
