Politics Blog Posts
Pine Ridge: Scarier Than Taliban Ambush
Madville Times | October 20th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Dr. Newquist is right: Aaron Huey's interview and photos of the Pine Ridge Reservation in the New York Times should be required reading for all South Dakotans. A large portion of our state is the Third World. Guns, gangs... and three-year-old girls d read more
Eric Wohlschlegel Bust Fake Chamber Press Conference
Emptysuit | October 20th 2009
Eric Wohlschlegel, who actually works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had to break up a fake chamber press conference today, organized by a group that was not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. There was another hoax last week Child Floats Away In Homem read more
Remember Tony Dean: Act on Climate Change
Madville Times | October 20th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Badlands Blue provides an appropriate reminder that Tony Dean, South Dakota's sportsman sans pareil, believed climate change was no myth:Here’s a quote in the book from Tony about how global warming has been affecting waterfowl: “I’ve been hunt read more
ABC-WP Poll Shows Health Coverage Reform Still Winning Public Sup…
Madville Times | October 20th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
...or, a lesson for Dan in how to write accurate headlines.Dan Richardt at Aberdeen's Red Purple and Blue offers a study in deceptive blogging. In typical distortion mode to protect his crumbling worldview, Richardt writes "Polls show that Congress read more
Watertown Recruits Madison's City Engineer
Madville Times | October 20th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Madison's out a city engineer: Chad Comes is moving up the road to Watertown. Their mayor, Gary Williams, characterizes the move as a homecoming for Comes, who is a native of nearby Waverly. Watertown seems particularly pleased with Comes's experienc read more
Will The Real Useful Idiots Please Stand Up
Residual Forces | October 20th 2009 by Andy Aplikowski
As if we needed the proof that Obama played the media like a well tuned Stradivarius. The Obama campaign’s press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on e read more
Boris Johnson paddles away from island airport
Tory Troll | October 20th 2009
Boris Johnson today dramatically distanced himself from plans to construct an airport in the Thames Estuary.Asked by Val Shawcross AM why the airport is not in his Transport Strategy he replied that while it was an interesting idea:"I do not have an read more
Climate change pact ‘remains in the balance’, says Ed Miliban…
A Great President | October 20th 2009 by Russ H
A global treaty to fight climate change is hanging “in the balance”, Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary, said last night, although there were signs that developed countries were preparing to roll back on their demand tha read more
A Politics of the Personal
Noynoy Aquino for President | October 20th 2009
Let me share with you a nice article on Noynoy Aquino by Dr. Melba Maggay, President of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture, a 31-year old research and training organization engaged in development, missiology and cross-cultural stud read more
Afghanistan Video War Report
BlackPerspective.net | October 20th 2009 by Yobachi
This is an approximately hour long video report from PBS Frontline from this time last year (October 2008) Very informative, and instructive for compariasence of what’s happened in the last year. Also, the things be discussed about Afghanis read more
Enda Kenny on abolishing the Seanad (Senate)
Gombeen Nation | October 20th 2009 by Gombeen Man
Kenny wants to Enda Senate shockEnda Kenny may well have the personality and charisma of a newt, but he deserves credit for his proposal to abolish the inherently undemocratic body that is the Senate (or Seanad).Kenny has shown an ability to surprise read more
delicious links for 2009-10-20
Smite Me! [.net] | October 20th 2009 by Kelly G.
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Vansinnigt agerande av oppositionens partiledare
Svensson | October 20th 2009 by Anders Svensson
Att öppna upp för blocköverskridande samarbete för att stoppa Sverigedemokraterna är precis det agerande som slutligen kan göra att Sverigedemokraterna hamnar i riksdagen. Det medför att de kan odla sitt utanförskap och sitt politikerförakt read more
Sverigedemokraternas bruna tryne sticker fram
Svensson | October 20th 2009 by Anders Svensson
I SVD tar Lena Posner Körösi, ordförande för judiska församlingen i Stockholm på ett bra sätt avstånd från det som Jimmie Åkesson, partiordförande i Sverigedemokraterna, skrev i Aftonbladet: - Jag kan utan att darra på manschetten säga a read more
tweets for 2009-10-20
Smite Me! [.net] | October 20th 2009 by Kelly G.
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(Bi)Weekly Round-Up 10/16ish (Day Late and a Dollar Short Edition…
I am the Evil Twin | October 19th 2009
With a vacation a couple of weeks ago and a busy weekend, I got behind on my Weekly Round-Up...so here is about two weeks worth of stuff, enjoy. A big example of unintended consequences…John Stossel discusses the minimum wage Here is t read more
Twitter, Google and Other Major Sites Back Net Neutrality
BlackPerspective.net | October 19th 2009 by Yobachi
In simple Net neutrality is being able to go anywhere on the internet you’d like, rather than internet service providers being able to limit where you surf, or charging extra fees base on going to sites outside of the matrix of sites that they read more
Flooded MUNI Station
Chris Barna's Weblog | October 19th 2009
An odd storm made its way through the bay area today. Apparently the MUNI wasn’t equipped to handle it. read more
The Late Great USA…
Gallery View | October 19th 2009 by Russell
Here’s a very interesting and disturbing video of Lord Christopher Monckton from last week, where he describes what the true agenda behind the Environmental and Global Warming movements are all about. According to him, nearly all the nations read more
Sex For Dummies: Improve Your Sex Life In 48 Hours
The Seferm Post | October 19th 2009 by Seferm Post
Talk to your partner about devoting a whole weekend to exploring your sex life. Regardless of whether you plan to stay at home or book into a remote B&B, if you have children, you will need to find babysitters. The focus is on you and your partner read more
TREATMENT: Impotence And Erectile Dysfunction
The Seferm Post | October 19th 2009 by Seferm Post
Erectile dysfunction (ED) or male impotence is defined as the inability of a man to achieve and maintain an erection sufficient for mutually satisfactory intercourse with his partner. read more
Obama’s Political Genius
Chris Barna's Weblog | October 19th 2009
With approval ratings that are still relatively high, it is interesting to me that polls such as the one Fox News released last week are making such a splash on blogs and cable news channels. Never mind, though, approval ratings don’t matter u read more
Talking with Iran
Phronesisaical | October 19th 2009
Um, did I say that there should also be talks behind the scenes? read more
Bipartisan Support Comes In Odd Forms
Chris Barna's Weblog | October 19th 2009
Last night, the Obama administration said it would stop prosecuting medical marijuana users as long as they followed the rules of their state. Liberals have applauded this because of their strong opposition to the decades long War on Drugs. Liberals read more
BNP hit by second leak of 'members database'
Lancaster UAF | October 19th 2009 by Ketlan
The BNP is bracing itself for potentially fresh embarrassment tomorrow when details of the party's UK-wide rank and file membership are expected to be posted on the internet.The list, which purports to be a snapshot of the party's support in April th read more
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn Lauds Her Favorite…
The National Republicrat | October 19th 2009 by National Republicrat
How many millions died at Mao’s hands? Anita Dunn claims Mao is one of her favorite philosophers in this astonishing video. What is even more astonishing is that she is the White House Communications Director for President Obama. read more
Generals join forces to resist 'hijacking' by BNP
Lancaster UAF | October 19th 2009 by Ketlan
The Armed Forces are in danger of being hijacked by far-right extremists “for their own dubious ends”, a group of former generals warn today. The British National Party is tarnishing the Forces’ reputation by associating itself with the sacrifi read more
Post from my son Julien: “I’m sick”
Redwaterlily's Ramblings | October 19th 2009 by Suzanne
yeah, here I give him the once in a lifetime chance to post on my blog and all he says to post is “I’m sick” – if course, we have no idea if he means he himself is sick or if he wants me to post in a way that makes it sounds/l read more
Heavy Hitters for Health Coverage Reform: SDSU Rally Tuesday!
Madville Times | October 19th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
The big health care reform rally at SDSU's Sylvan Green tomorrow afternoon features some impressive speakers:President Miller! Good to see you on the green again, and fighting for health coverage reform done right. And I would love to see the good Dr read more
Breaking News! Madison Highway 34 Gets Fifth Lane!
Madville Times | October 19th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Time for some yellow-stripe journalism....On our way in to El Vaquero last night, my wife asked me, "So when's the city going to restripe the highway?"Your stimulus dollars hard at workAnswer: today!On my way in to class today, I found the road crew read more
