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| FWIW: My Thoughts on Choice and Women's Rights I ran across a FaceBook post by one of my acquaintances earlier today in which he laid out a strong pro-life position. If there’s anything guaranteed to stoke the cultures wars and add to division, that’s one of the topics right there. While I knew... |
xaxnar | 01/22/2017 | 3 |
| Rex Tugwell of FDR's Brain Trust: The New Deal in Retrospect Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891-1979) was an economist and one of the most important and innovative members of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Brain-Trust. Tugwell studied economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania under Simon... |
NBBooks | 01/22/2017 | 2 |
| Albany, NY: Scenes from the Resistance Yesterday I went to the Women’s March in Albany, NY. 10,000 marchers showed up at 4:00 on a Saturday to make their voices heard. It wasn’t just women. It was people of all ages, genders, colors, and causes, all in solidarity. The march began at the... |
xaxnar | 01/22/2017 | 3 |
| Ancient Europe: The Etruscans The Etruscans occupied an area north of Rome: their homelands lay in central Italy, between the Arno and the Tiber Rivers. This homeland is known as Etruria and it roughly corresponds to the present-... |
Ojibwa | 01/22/2017 | 27 |
| The Inoculation Project 1/22/2017: Hands-On Science! Welcome to The Inoculation Project! This week, we're helping a Pittburgh fifth grade continue their hands-on STEAM Fridays!
As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, an organization founded in 2000 and highly rated by both Charity Navigator and... |
belinda ridgewood | 01/22/2017 | 12 |
| NWS Warns Major Tornado & Severe Storm Outbreak Likely Today in SE US A major outbreak of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms is predicted today for the southeastern U.S. by the NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. North Florida and south Georgia have a high probability of deadly tornadoes, including dangerous fast moving long... |
FishOutofWater | 01/22/2017 | 14 |
| Sunday Train: An Ohio Universities Rail System, Part 1 (Southern & Central Ohio) Well, the 2016 High Speed Rail unlock has been postponed to 2018 or 2020.
When transportation policy at the Federal level is grabbed with both hands by the Oil and Gas death lobby, we have to turn to the state level. Now, in Ohio, it might not look... |
BruceMcF | 01/22/2017 | 15 |
| Dawn Chorus: Open Thread Hi Dawn Chorusers — Just an open thread this week (and a reminder that if anyone wants to do a Dawn Chorus they are more than welcome — just post here or send a message to me or Kestrel).
The ... |
matching mole | 01/22/2017 | 28 |
| This Week in the War on Women: Women's March Open Thread When this diary goes live, I’ll be one of many marching in solidarity from coast to coast for all our rights. Please post your march comments and pictures!
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Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 01/21/2017 | 39 |
| Origins of English: Oligarchy, Tyranny, Despotism As the government of the United States moves into a new era, it might be a good time to review the etymologies of the words which are being used to describe the new government and its economic views. |
Ojibwa | 01/21/2017 | 10 |
| This Week in the War on Women: Women's March open thread This was inadvertently posted early, and I was going to delete, but there’s some helpful information in comments about the NYC march, which will only be useful before our regular posting time tomorrow. So, I’ll leave it up and a new one will go up... |
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 01/20/2017 | 17 |
| One of Trump's First Moves--The End Of "An Open Internet" Say goodbye to an “Open Internet.” Say hello to “slow and fast lanes” where the quality and responsiveness of websites you click on will be subject to the whims of your warm-hearted Internet Service provider. And if they don’t agree that the sites you... |
Dartagnan | 01/20/2017 | 22 |
| Street Prophets Friday: Turpentine and Linseed Oil Greetings and welcome to another Friday Open Thread with Marko. This week I’ve decided to go against tradition and write a few hours in advance of posting time. Knowing that I’ll be heading out ... |
Marko the Werelynx | 01/20/2017 | 24 |
| Border Journey: Confronting Racism and Lies What follows is a letter I received from Scott Nicholson, a community organizer who has been working on the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora. It is posted here in full with his permission. |
Ojibwa | 01/20/2017 | 5 |
| Petitioning @WhiteHouse website for #Trump Administration #Climate Action Within seconds of the hand hitting the Bible, "climate" disappeared from the White House website as @TeamTrump seized control from the Obama Administration. In its place, a truthiness-laden paean to fossil fuels that simply ignores the accelerating... |
A Siegel | 01/20/2017 | 22 |
| Jason R. Craddock - lawyer to conservative christians, disbarred It seems fitting that the day before Gropingfueher Trumplethinskin is sworn into office, in front of hundreds of “Official Bible Believers,” a bunch of B List stale, unpopular musical groups, conservative christian coalition members from red states,... |
agnostic | 01/20/2017 | 5 |
| Museums 101: The BMW Automobile (Photo Diary)
The LeMay—America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, Washington, recently had a special display ... |
Ojibwa | 01/20/2017 | 12 |
| Don't Accept Trump as President? You're just like John Wilkes Booth with Lincoln... Mike Rowe is an entertainer who puts out podcasts and has a Youtube video of one with a message for an America divided by the recent Presidential election. Mr. Rowe tells a short story titled ~Oh brother which has gotten a lot of buzz. Odds are you may... |
xaxnar | 01/19/2017 | 28 |
| Ready, Fire, Aim! Climate change "progress" in an uncoordinated regulatory environment One of the areas in which we have made substantial progress with respect to quick wins on GHG emissions over the past 20 years is landfill emissions. During the Clinton administration significant strides were made to drive the collection and flaring... |
benamery21 | 01/19/2017 | 6 |
| Vaccine skeptics – no they aren't, please stop saying it I get so tired of this, the press describing vaccine deniers as “vaccine skeptics.” I wish the press would stop doing this, but no matter how much we say it, we continue to see it. I took the cantankerous Orac’s suggestion to Google “vaccine skeptic”... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/19/2017 | 25 |
| @RepDonBeyer: Why not attending #Trump inauguration + #climate, #energy: exclusive interview Yesterday, Virginia political blogger/activist bluevirginia.us/... (Blue Virginia) and I had the opportunity to chat with Representative Don Beyer (D-VA08) about energy and environmental issues, as well as about the impending inauguration of Donald... |
A Siegel | 01/19/2017 | 13 |
| Indians 101: Pueblo Pottery (Photo Diary) The Pueblos are the village agriculturists of New Mexico and Northern Arizona. While the Pueblos are usually lumped together in both the anthropological and historical writings as though they are a ... |
Ojibwa | 01/19/2017 | 13 |
| Chicago-Guns-Another Loss in Federal Court Chicago, a place famous for it’s deplorable rate of firearm homicides is also famous for losing in court.
Chicago while attempting to keep gun ranges out of the city and keep minors from shooting in them lost out on both counts. Call me simple but... |
ban nock | 01/19/2017 | 14 |
| Worker Safety And Health In The Obama Years: An Exemplary Record By: Deborah Berkowitz
Senior Fellow with the National Employment Law Project and formerly a senior official with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
As the Senate gets ready to consider the nomination of Andrew Puzder for U.S.... |
rontelbatie | 01/19/2017 | 2 |
| Bomb threat calls: expert tech advice. If your organization has received, or is at risk of receiving, bomb threats or other threatening phone calls, this information can help you record & preserve the calls as evidence for law enforcement (LE) and your attorneys. Jewish Community... |
G2geek | 01/18/2017 | 30 |
| Breaking: NASA Discovers Global COOLING Has Begun Nevermind the MSM stories that 2016 was the warmest year on record (since 1880). Ignore the proxy data that show it hasn’t been this warm for 115,000 years when much of south Florida was under ... |
FishOutofWater | 01/18/2017 | 173 |
| PBS Frontline TONIGHT: Part 2 of the Obama Presidency in Retrospect-The Republican Obstructionists Tonight at 9 p.m. eastern time, PBS will broadcast Part 2 of Frontline's “Divided States of America,” an examination of the rise and fall of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. Part 1 was broadcast last night.
I believe the first part can be... |
NBBooks | 01/18/2017 | 6 |
| Religion 101: Buddhist Icons (Photo Diary) Buddhism, one of the world’s great religions, originated in northern India about 2,500 years ago. It spread into other parts of Asia, where it changed and adapted to indigenous traditions. In the ... |
Ojibwa | 01/18/2017 | 28 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 1/17/2017: Michelle! Good evening, Kibitzers! As has been noted elsewhere, today is Michelle Obama’s birthday. This woman is so impressive in numerous ways, and so good-hearted, and we will miss her presence in public life so very much in only a couple of days, I just had... |
belinda ridgewood | 01/17/2017 | 73 |
| Ice Cream? (Photos): Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, an open thread conveniently located at the intersection of Religion and Politics. As a child, or as an adult, did you ever buy ice ... |
Ojibwa | 01/17/2017 | 15 |
| Indians 101: Federal Indian Policy in 1817 In 1817, James Monroe became the new President of the United States. In his book The Removal of the Choctaw Indians, Arthur DeRosier writes:
“America embarked upon a period of intense ... |
Ojibwa | 01/17/2017 | 12 |
| Would being a citizen scientist appeal to you? Apply here! I was going through my email last evening and noticed a plea for help that wasn’t in the usual line of asking for funds. Nope. This one was asking for helpers on behalf of scientists and others in all sorts of research projects. They are looking for... |
Gwennedd | 01/17/2017 | 24 |
| Gene Cernan, Apollo Astronaut, Record Holder for Speed, Last Man on the Moon (1934-2017) Only a couple of weeks after the passing of John Glenn, another iconic hero from the glory days of America’s space race, we’ve lost another. NASA reported that Eugene Cernan (CAPT, USN, Ret.), veteran of three space missions passed away today,... |
toddsmitts | 01/16/2017 | 24 |
| Museums 101: A Collection of Service Station Artifacts (Photo Diary) During the eighteenth century, wealthy men who had travelled widely, would place the collection of curios from their travels in a special cabinet which became known as a Cabinet of Curiosities. The ... |
Ojibwa | 01/16/2017 | 10 |
| Hate Politics? Hate politics?
Like it or not, you are part of politics even if you choose not to participate. Too often silence gets counted as assent. Hating politics is like hating air or water - there's no way to live without them and it does no one any good... |
xaxnar | 01/15/2017 | 1 |
| Trump - Putin Summit Happening "Within Weeks" ? - UK Press, Now Denied by 2 Trump Staff The UK’s Sunday Times reports that Donald Trump is planning his first overseas trip, probably in Iceland, within weeks of the inauguration to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin. Ostensibly, the meeting would be to make a deal on nuclear weapons and... |
FishOutofWater | 01/15/2017 | 35 |
| The Inoculation Project 1/15/2017: Animal Habitat Boxes & Microscopes Welcome to The Inoculation Project, a weekly effort to help fund science and math projects in schools categorized as “highest poverty.” This week, we're helping two science classrooms in Mississippi elementary schools.
As always, our conduit... |
nomandates | 01/15/2017 | 7 |
| Obama Administration Finalizes On-Shore Pipeline Safety Rules for U.S. Hazardous Liquid Pipelines Today the Obama Administration in its closing days published final rules to amend and strengthen Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration requirements for ‘on-shore’ hazardous liquid pipelines in the United States.
The red lines in the... |
LakeSuperior | 01/13/2017 | 12 |
| Climate Change Overwhelmingly A Matter Of Public Concern From a recent Quinnipiac University poll:
Almost half of American voters - 45 percent - are "very concerned" about climate change, while 29 percent are "somewhat concerned," with 14 percent "not so concerned" at 13 percent "not concerned at all." ... |
Tamias | 01/13/2017 | 3 |
| Exxon Illegally Funded ALEC Under Tillerson’s Tenure, CMD Tells Committee Written Statement of Lisa Graves on Behalf of the Center for Media and Democracy Submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Hearing on the Nomination of Rex Tillerson to Be U.S. Secretary of State.
January 11, 2017
Dear... |
EXPOSEDbyCMD | 01/11/2017 | 8 |
| Dinosaur Central: Jack Horner and the Museum of the Rockies The Museum of the Rockies, in Bozeman MT, is one of the biggest science museums in the world. Because it is located near some of the most extensive fossil beds in the US, it has a wonderful ... |
Lenny Flank | 01/11/2017 | 20 |
| An Icon of Nature is disappearing, The Bumble Bee is on the Endangered Species list It is hard for me to process this new information. The Bumble Bee is on the Endangered Species list for the first time in North America. I grew up with Bumble Bees everywhere, we used to run from them in fear when I was a kid. Now they should probably... |
lynn47 | 01/10/2017 | 106 |
| Future Cars? Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, an open thread conveniently located at the intersection of Religion and Politics. I thought it might be fun to start off today’s ... |
Ojibwa | 01/10/2017 | 8 |
| Pipeline News & Notes -- DAPL, Enbridge Line 5 and More Pipeline Matters Pipeline Note #1: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Army Corps of Engineers Seek Dismissal of Energy Transfer Partners Litigation on Dakota Access Pipeline
Today, the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Tribe (through their counsel, EarthJustice) and the Army... |
LakeSuperior | 01/09/2017 | 15 |
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