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Le Funk Boat

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:54:11 -0700

If you are ever stressed, writing a paper, working on a big project, Le Funk Boat radio will make you feel better :)

It always has awesome music!

Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School - Seattle News Story - KIRO Seattle

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:08:36 -0700

Yup arresting a kid with a 3.7 GPA for smoking a joint, what a great use of government resources. *COUGH*

Elite Colleges Are Promoting a Culture of Selfish, Cutthroat Behavior and We Are All Paying the Price | | AlterNet

Sat, 23 May 2009 14:26:48 -0700

Going to a top-ranked elite university, I know all too well and learned first hand how top-ranked colleges and universities are full of selfish kids who will do anything to get ahead and often don't give a crap about anything other than themselves.

Sounds like a harsh assessment because it is. HOWEVER universities can be powerful tools to change this kind of behavior and have long been grounds where resistance takes place. I've met some of the most horrible people in my entire life at college and the other hand spectacular bright kind people who make me think we might be alright.

It just worries me that college has begun to favor the former in admissions in the last few decades compared to the latter.

Death by Media? Flu Panic Can Kill | PEEK | AlterNet

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:52:19 -0700

From the page: "That hasn't prevented media hucksters from dragging everyone into the tent and putting on a massive circus. From CNN to the New York Times, it's wall-to-wall flu-steria! And it's totally overblown -- flu virus doesn't do well in warm temperatures, and with a few dozen non-life threatening cases in this country, coming this close to the end of the season, this outbreak of flu should be a page 15 story (as Cervantes points out).

But here's the thing with what are known in public health circles as -- catastrophic infectious disease outbreaks -- (CIDOs): the disease itself is only a small part of the bigger picture. It's the ancillary effects a CIDO can have on an entire society " but especially the health care delivery system and other vital services -- " which have historically caused as much death and suffering as the underlying infectious disease organism that caused the outbreak."

http://neogaia.stumbleupon.com/review/32176233/

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:23:27 -0700

Hmm I love Stumbleupon and its been wonderful me to over the years but I've realized that I use Facebook a lot now to share links here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/posted.php?id=1064190142

And my twitter too:
http://twitter.com/neogaia

The Food Lobby Goes to School | CommonDreams.orgV

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:04:18 -0800

We should hope that whatever it is that millions of schoolchildren eat is going to be decided by scientific advice and community input rather than pressure from food corporation and lobbies.

Op-Ed Contributor - One Side to Every Story - NYTimes.com

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:51:34 -0800

Why Bipartisanship is a myth and has never existed.

(This is not to say, we can't be friends with people of different views, its just saying that when one sides thinks you should move the boulder in front of the car, and the other thinks that moving the boulder around the back of the car, its not a great idea to compromise and move the boulder over the car.)

t r u t h o u t | Why Republicans Won't Support the Stimulus

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:33:56 -0800

From the page: "Why are Senate Republicans (all, that is, except the lonely moderates Collins, Snowe, and Specter) nixing the stimulus package, as House Republicans did? Not because Obama failed to compromise - he gave them the tax breaks they wanted, included a whopper for business. Not because Senate Democrats failed to bend - they agreed to trim more than $100 billion out of a previous version of the bill. Not because Senate Republicans are doctrinally opposed to deficit spending - many of them happily voted for Bush spending and tax cuts that doubled the federal debt.

The reason has to do with the timing of the economic recovery.

Which brings us to the midterm elections of 2010."

More Bipartisanship, Less Stimulus | CommonDreams.org

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:14:23 -0800

I've generally opposed the direction the bailout is taking. It would be much more efficient if the gov't just gave people who can't pay their mortgages direct aid, and handed out money to the poor to jumpstart the economy then lend banks trillions of dollars that they ARE NOT using to start giving loans again as they're hoarding the money. (And it would be tens or hundreds of billion dollars cheaper) but I do agree with Paul Krugmann and economists that if they insisist on spending trillions of our dollars jumpstarting the economy they better *follow through* or otherwise they're just wasting our money. And its looking like they're starting to chicken out a little bit. This is what happens when you have a party with no backbone in charge. They could have easily demanded MORE than what they wanted, portrayed Republicans as being the ones who refuse to cooperate and put the economy and world at risk, and compromised from there. but instead they are idiots and gave up more than they should have!

From the page: "At a time when smart economists are saying that a bigger, bolder stimulus plan is needed, Senate Democrats and a few moderate Republicans have agreed to a smaller, weaker initiative."

Globalization: Win&Win, Except for Most of Us

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:20:54 -0800

From the page: "Because national income expands due to the benefits of specialization, we know the winnings from globalization accruing to owners of (both physical and human) capital exceed the losses accruing to labor. Integration remains "win-win" at the national level. Within the United States, however, there's nothing win-win about it�"labor loses and capital wins, period. Further, while winnings exceed losses, there's no guarantee that winners outnumber losers, and, for our nation, they almost surely do not. "