Wisdom and compassion are one..

Healthcare for Dunces...

Seeded on Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:04 AM EDT (Salon.com)

From the piece: "The unpleasant but clear truth is that our jury-rigged healthcare system, liked by few consumers, still isn't hurting for defenders.

politics, healthcare, single-payer, wahington, public-option

Big Bad Sarah Palin--Champion of Sarah Palin, Defender of Sarah Palin, and Protector of Sarah Palin

Seeded on Fri Jul 3, 2009 3:00 AM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)

Seeded by truthlover (Clipped by lightdriven)

In this Vanity Fair article, the author does an excellent job of tracing Sarah Palin's astronomic rise into Big League Politics... and looks at the tea leaves for the future... Is her ship going out? Or is her ship just coming in?

clinton, politics, mccain, vice-president, domestic-politics, sarah-palin

John Kerry speaks out on Iran

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:42 AM EDT (The New York Times)

..."What comes next in Iran is unclear. What is clear is that the tough talk that Senator McCain advocates got us nowhere for the last eight years. Our saber-rattling only empowered hard-liners and put reformers on the defensive.

politics

Cykle Water...sends a message and hope for a better future-plastic water bottles are contributing to the destruction of our environment.

Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:37 AM EDT

Jordan Steeves is an 18 year old high school senior in Everett, Washington. He has a GREAT idea. He also has a great sense of stewardship...at 18. Please check out the site and pass it on. How can we help this guy realize a dream?

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environment, science, technology-science

Documentary about the 71 day standoff at Wounded Knee

Seeded on Sun May 31, 2009 11:04 AM EDT (PBS)

Seeded by PowerIsKnowledge (Clipped by lightdriven)

The in-depth documentary retraces the history and cause of the siege, including the destruction of Indian Culture and the abuse of peoples that occurred in Indian Boarding Schools.

pbs, education, racism, south-dakota, wounded-knee, tribal-council, indian-culture, american-indian-movement, pine-ridge, dick-wilson

President Obama's Cyber-Czar...it really is a new age

Seeded on Sat May 30, 2009 6:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)

"President Obama declared Friday that the country's disparate efforts to "deter, prevent, detect and defend" against cyberattacks would now be run out of the White House, but he also promised that he would bar the federal government from regular monitoring of "private-sec …

politics, government

The Nuclear North: Questions and Answers About North Korea's Atomic Bomb

Thu May 28, 2009 1:01 PM EDT

By Killfile (Clipped by lightdriven)

Outside of North Korea, no one knows a great deal about the nuclear device the isolated communist state detonated over the Memorial Day weekend. Seismologists have confirmed the yield of the device but beyond that the North has been typically tight-lipped.

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russia, china, asia, usa, korea, politics, war, north-korea, united-states, south-korea

Sotomayor, the decision making process built on lessons learned

Seeded on Thu May 28, 2009 6:09 AM EDT (The New York Times)

From the Article--""There were five things that were on his mind: age, experience, independence, confidence and diversity," Mr. Ogletree recalled.

politics, law

Obama's Preventive Detention Violates Constitution and Extends Bush Policy--Now What

Seeded on Tue May 26, 2009 9:49 AM EDT (Common Dreams)

Seeded by truthlover (Clipped by lightdriven)

Some chief Democrats and Obama supporters are puzzled by Obama's introduction of the unconstitutional notion of prolonged detention and this extension of a Bush tactic.

bush, cheney, constitution, politics, obama, torture, imprisonment, habeas-corpus, preventive-detention, prolonged-detention

Since 2004, every service man and woman killed in Iraq or Afghanistan has been given a CT scan. Here's what has been learned.

Seeded on Tue May 26, 2009 12:34 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by The Incredulous One (Clipped by lightdriven)

Within an hour after the bodies arrive in their flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base, they go through a process that has never been used on the dead from any other war.

iraq, afghanistan, us-news, autopsies, ct-scan, pathology, virtual-autopsy

Marathon Tech Review

Seeded on Mon May 25, 2009 7:01 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Summer marathon training season is here and along with it fun new gadgets to keep us occupied while running the longer distances necessary . This is an interesting link to a blog in the NYT that will review new gadgets every Friday.

health, running

Obama's Speech at Notre Dame....a Call for Civil Dialogue

Seeded on Mon May 18, 2009 5:59 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Obama's speach at Notre Dame is a call for intelligent civil debate. He's right on the mark...it is about a woman's right to choose...she carries the child.

abortion, politics, civil-rights

Dick Cheney, Patron Saint of Torture-Free

Seeded on Sat May 16, 2009 7:28 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

From the piece: But, even before the invasion, anyone paying attention should have been able to see that the administration's "evidence" had to be tainted the moment Mr. Bush stepped beyond the Geneva Conventions and began "working the dark side."

cheney, politics, justice, government, torture, war-crime

How to Care for Sports-Related Injuries

Seeded on Thu May 14, 2009 8:28 AM EDT (Real Simple)

Seeded by PowerIsKnowledge (Clipped by lightdriven)

Location of Injury: Knee

health, running, swimming, exercise, skiing, biking, knee-injury, leg-muscles, lunges, yoga-poses

Children and their funny little ways of reasoning.....

Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:59 AM EDT

Overheard from the other room this morning...... Older child (who is a teen) says to younger (who is a pre-teen) with regard to something they both want to do while hanging out this weekend:

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home, children, family, parenting

Rihanna and Chris....what are the lessons that we can teach our children?

Seeded on Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:05 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

The article from Alternet details a woman's abusive relationship and the parallels that exist in coming to terms with getting out.

psychology, relationships

Israeli Lobby Kills the Only Hope for Obama to take a more Even-Handed Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:43 AM EDT (JTA: Jewish Life)

Seeded by truthlover (Clipped by lightdriven)

The first criticism came in a blog post by former top AIPAC staffer Steve Rosen, who is under indictment for passing classified information to Israel.

politics, israeli-lobby, palestinian-israeli-conflict, tail-wagging-the-dog, policy-in-middle-east, aipc

How Bush and the Financial Accounting Standards Board let the Financial Meltdown Happen

Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:15 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Seeded by PowerIsKnowledge (Clipped by lightdriven)

Click on Read Article then click on Blame Beyond Washington.

financial, politics, meltdown

Hope for an Even-handed Approach to the Palestinian-Israeli Crisis from within the Obama Administration

Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:06 AM EDT (The Times)

Seeded by truthlover (Clipped by lightdriven)

Obama's new director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, selected a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles Freeman, to be chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

senate, middle-east, terrorism, politics, house, freeman, al-qaeda, american-public, benefit-america

Secret memos provide the blueprint for Bush's police state. Prosecute them all.

Seeded on Thu Mar 5, 2009 6:03 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

The article details the twisted logic of Bush and his admin., Yoo and Bybee: From the article:

bush, washington, world, politics, war, ethics, torture

Question for the Universe: Do we progressives work against ourselves?

Wed Mar 4, 2009 6:32 AM EST

So much discussion these last couple of days has focused on the RNC, Steele, and Limbaugh, (not the least of which was a silly litany of fat jokes on the radio yesterday-I'm not a Limbaugh fan..but come on..must we?) which in light of all the other important issues in the world …

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politics, political-opinion

Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos

Mon Mar 2, 2009 3:26 PM EST

By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer (Clipped by lightdriven)

The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects.

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terror, politics, united-states, justice-department, memos

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Right-Wing Tax And Budget Myths

Seeded on Sun Mar 1, 2009 9:13 AM EST (Think Progress)

Seeded by PowerIsKnowledge (Clipped by lightdriven)

Conservatives are already propagating various myths about the budget; The Progress Report offers these debunks:

taxes, budget, politics, obama, recession, economic-growth

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Canceled Without Pity: The Role of a Lifetime

Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:43 PM EST

By Division by Zero (Clipped by lightdriven)

In this next installment of my occasional series Canceled Without Pity I invite you to explore something a little different. In the past we have talked about tv shows that were canceled or ones that should have been canceled. This time around, we're talking about the …

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Jindal's Katrina Story - Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true

Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:13 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

Seeded by nearing (Clipped by lightdriven)

Looks like the game is up. Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

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