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Trayvon Martin Case and Zimmerman Police Station Surveillance Video
by OldenGoldenDecoy 3/29/2012 - 3:20 am
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Quack! Quack!
Howdy all ... Hope all's well 'round the Dag compound.
(Edit 4:15 AM Add: Related to Doctor Cleveland's post over at Dags's "IN THE NEWS")
I just paddled in to leave this latest information and video related to the Trayvon Martin death for posterity, in addition to seeing what any of you folks 'round here have to say about what, or what is not visible in the video.
Did Breibart Die of Too Much Vile Bile?
by OldenGoldenDecoy 3/2/2012 - 6:13 am
Howdy all . . .
I've always promised myself to never speak ill of the dead.
And so far I've bitten my lower lip so hard that it's bleeding.
I'm sure Breitbart's family will miss him dearly.
Oh ... And the whack jobs in Congress ... (video)
Tsk Tsk Tsk...
~OGD~
Health Care ... Pain in the Backside?
by OldenGoldenDecoy 2/10/2012 - 2:03 pm
Howdy Doody Dag friends . . .
I came across a very fine comment by Artappraiser in Flavius's post "We Were Wrong About Obamacare" related to the problems associated with the present day medical care system that is at the heart of health costs in our present system. [Read more]
Romney's Bailout at Bain?
by OldenGoldenDecoy 1/16/2012 - 5:55 pm
The Magic Underwear Man . . .
From Kennedy's Unaired Romney Attack Ad of 1994
~OGD~
Nader... Obama... and the Primaries...
by OldenGoldenDecoy 10/28/2011 - 7:39 pm
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Howdy Wall Mart Shoppers...
Or ... maybe I should say Wall Street Shoppers.
How's your investment portfolios, or Trustifarians Funds, or 401Ks doing?
No need to answer that. This post is simply an update about the brouhaha that I started at Ralph ... Where art thou? and It's NOT about Nader ... It's about energizing the Progressive base... back in September over Ralph Nader's plan to primary President Obama...
And Yes ... We all know how Ralph likes to keep his face in the news and what his actions in 2000 did or did not do and what he once was and what he no longer is..
I know it's no fun, but spare us all the opinions and vitriol... Please!
With that said ... Read on for the latest according to Weigel...
It's NOT about Nader ... It's about energizing the Progressive base...
by OldenGoldenDecoy 9/24/2011 - 6:26 am
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Now that Ralph is out of the way...
As some here already know, yesterday I posted Ralph ... Where art thou?
It appears to have gotten folks' attention. It was received with over 500+ reads and commenting that was somewhat spirited (to put it mildly)
And, what Genghis posted really hit the mark about the Nader debate:
I desperately wish that Nader would disappear into a black hole--if only so that I wouldn't have to read any more angry debates about whether or not he's a narcissistic jerk who made Gore lose. On the other hand, his disappearance would probably just provoke a fresh round of eulogies and denunciations, and it would be worse than ever.
So maybe it would be better if all the people who believe that Nader's character is an important topic to rehash yet again for the sake of posterity and/or the google wayback machine would suddenly disappear into a black hole where they could flame each other to their heart's content--or as much as is possible within the bowels of a singularity. I'd be cool with that.
Thank you Genghis. Because, the actual crux of the message I posted was totally overlooked, just by the presence of the announcement of Nader jumping into the spotlight.
The real message is about: Should progressives challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries?
[Read more]
Ralph ... Where art thou?
by OldenGoldenDecoy 9/23/2011 - 4:31 am
It wouldn't be the same without Ralph
Where's the five-time candidate for President of the United States?
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10 month Update: California and Federal Health Care Reform: The National Leader in Implementation
by OldenGoldenDecoy 9/13/2011 - 5:32 pm
Howdy all...
It's been 10 months since my last post here at Dag...
Here is the latest in California with the state's ongoing implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act.
It would also be interesting to hear what's going on in other states' local legislative processes and implementation of the Act.
The following bullet points found at California Progress Organization are taken from a report by Anthony Wright, the Executive Director of Health Access California, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition of over 200 groups. [Read more]
California and Federal Health Care Reform: The State Becomes the National Leader in Implemention
by OldenGoldenDecoy 11/12/2010 - 7:35 pm
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For your general information . . .
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For those of you that reside in other states and don’t know what the new reform could be doing in your states if implemented, the following information is intended to assist you in expanding your understanding of what can be done if the implementation is organized in a reasonably rational manner.
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California High Speed Rail Funding and Jobs
by OldenGoldenDecoy 11/9/2010 - 5:46 pm
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Oh this is just too good to pass up . . .
Many progressives across the US see the following as a big negative. [Read more]
In the News
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Conversations with suicide bombers
By Elizabeth Weingarten, ForeignPolicy.com, May 23, 2012
It was 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Mossarat Qadeem was sitting on the floor of a house with about a dozen young Pakistani men -- some of whom had nearly become suicide bombers. Qadeem's goal: to undo the destructive brainwashing of the al-Qaeda and Taliban teachers who trained them in extremism, in part by asking the students to narrate their life stories.
"We were handling one of the boys, and he just came, put his head here in my lap, and he started crying and weeping," Qadeem recalls. "I was taken aback. It is very unnatural in my country that a man that tall can just sit at your feet and put his head here. [The other men] were all crying with him, and I was looking at him, and thinking, ‘my God.'"
All in a day's work for Qadeem. She's the national coordinator of Aman-o-Nisa, a coalition of Pakistani women that convened in October 2011 to combat violent extremism in Pakistan at the grassroots level. [....]
Read the article at http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/23/conversations_with_suicide_bombers- Add new comment
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For Native American Women, Scourge of Rape, Rare Justice
The issue of sexual assaults on American Indian women has become one of the major sources of discord in the current debate between the White House and the House of Representatives over the latest reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
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“We should never have a woman come into the office saying, ‘I need to learn more about Plan B for when my daughter gets raped,’ ” said Charon Asetoyer, a women’s health advocate on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, referring to the morning-after pill. “That’s what’s so frightening — that it’s more expected than unexpected. It has become a norm for young women.”
The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease testing. There are also too few nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.
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Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Given Jail Term (for...
By Ismail Kahn, New York Times, May 23/24, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency pin down Osama bin Laden's location under cover of a vaccination drive was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a senior official in Pakistan said.
A tribal court here in northwestern Pakistan found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan, the administrator for the Khyber tribal region [....]
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Russia lawmakers advance bill on penalties for protesters
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2012
MOSCOW — Stiff new penalties aimed at opposition protesters were given preliminary approval Tuesday by Russian lawmakers loyal to President Vladimir Putin, the target of mass rallies and demonstrations before his March election victory.
The bill, which opposition parliament members termed draconian and protested by threatening to file out of a legislative session, calls for fines of up to $50,000 and up to 200 hours of community service for organizers of rallies and demonstrations that grow violent or exceed the approved number of participants.
The sanctions were approved on first reading by parliament's lower house, which is controlled by Putin's United Russia party. They mark a return by the Kremlin to a tough stance against critics after concessions during the recent election campaign [...]
Also see:
Russians back Putin, strong leadership
Washington Post, May 22, 2012A Pew survey of 1,000 Russians found that President Vladimir Putin is well-liked by more than 70 percent of citizens, especially older adults.
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In Cuba, Mystery Shrouds the Fate of an Undersea Internet...
Associated Press, May 21, 2012
HAVANA — It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.
More than a year after the February 2011 ceremony on Siboney Beach in eastern Cuba, and 10 months after the system was supposed to have gone online, the government never mentions the cable anymore, and Internet here remains the slowest in the hemisphere. People talk quietly about embezzlement torpedoing the project and the arrest of more than a half-dozen senior telecom officials.
Perhaps most maddening, nobody has explained what happened to the much-ballyhooed $70 million project....
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