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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

tuesday night music club

if joe biden was your waiter

melting arctic snow may be prolonging north american drought

some people choose to not have kids

but if your sweetie is far away, try the long distance smartphone-enabled pleasuring devices
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Monday, October 01, 2012

monday rain

why ceo's are not presidential material

there's nothing sexier than librarian tattoos

where crazy conservative memes are invented

the fantasy world of the persecuted rich
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

on almost any sunday morning

consumer financial protection bureau gets refunds from discover card for services fraudulently sold to customers

obama's lead among women is immense

jimmy carter had an 8 point lead over reagan before the debates? maybe not...

psycopaths have a poor sense of smell
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

happy blogiversary

to the rude pundit
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no soup jobs for you

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campbell's soup to close plants, lay off 700+:

campbell soup co. has been trying hard this year to turn itself around, with new soup flavors, higher prices, health-conscious acquisitions and more.

but now the camden, n.j. company, stuck with sliding profits and sinking interest in soup, is taking a more difficult route: shutting down two factories due to "excess capacity."

the sacramento plant, which makes soups, sauces and beverages, will close in phases before shuttering for good in july, the company said. as campbell’s oldest american facility -- it was built in 1947 -- the factory has the highest production costs in the company’s network.

about 700 full-time employees will lose their jobs, according to campbell. production will be redistributed to plants in maxton, n.c.; napoleon, ohio; and paris, texas.

campbell is also closing the doors at its south plainfield, n.j., spice plant. the factory will go dark by march, and 27 employees will be affected. spice work will be consolidated at a larger facility in milwaukee.
mmm, mmm, good, mmm, mmm, good, campbells soup is mmm, mmm, unemmmployed.

posted by skippy at 3:46 PM | 1 comments

saturday love

things that right wingers (inexplicably) hate

chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxvi

b of a to lay off 16,000 workers. wanna bet no e of them are the execs who made bad mortgages?

is there a backlash against comedienne mindy kaling?
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Friday, September 28, 2012

a few minutes on friday

ted koppel on why fox news is bad for america

why sneering at public servants comes so easily to many of america's richest citizens

cute alert! san diego zoo newborn elephant gets a name

and rest in peace, inspector clouseau's boss, brilliant character actor herbert lom
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we like what you've done with the place

we don't know where we've been lately, but the moderate voice has a great, sophisticated new look. good going, joe!
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

like a summer thursday

bank of america steals from child actors

mitt romney's "them" problem

musician releases album that changes every time you listen to it

10 key charts about inequality

why misinformation sticks - and how to fix it

and rest in peace andy williams
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

gangnam agnes de mille style



aka rodeo
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long wednesday

are libertarians stupid, or just really stupid?

the 14 most pornographic astronomical terms

group files suit against murray energy for making them attend romney rally

7 famous people who missed the titanic
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

say hello

to herlander walking
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tuesday night fever

is a ph.d. worth it?

german prosecutors name hewlett-packard in bibery case

wall st journal fails to disclose 9 writers are romney advisors

just what the world needs - colored pigeons! (see for yourself!)
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Monday, September 24, 2012

willard wonders about windows

and why they won't open. airplane windows, mind you.
...“when you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. i don’t know why they don’t do that. it’s a real problem." - the political carnival

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posted by Cookie Jill at 11:03 PM | 2 comments

health insurance = emergency rooms

according to willard mittens romney.
“well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance,” romney told interviewer scott pelley. “if someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and — and die. we pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital..." - mittens 2012
but, he was against high cost emergency rooms as healthcare before he was for them.
“it doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility,” - mittens 2012

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posted by Cookie Jill at 10:36 AM | 0 comments

What The Retired Guy Said...

Saw this over at Alternate Brain:





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austerity

it doesn't work, especially if the wrong people are being forced to abide by it.

it's not the average working person that is the problem....it's the banksters, the 1%, goldman sachs. where is their austerity?
recession-hit spaniards will this week be told to swallow yet more austerity as the government prepares a fresh round of reforms and another budget filled with spending cuts and tax increases that will allow it to seek a bailout from eurozone partners. - the guardian

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posted by Cookie Jill at 8:03 AM | 0 comments

monday night

mitt romney, class warrior

what's the fracking problem with natural gas?

mormon church wants to ex-communicate blogger critical of romney

germany celebrates 200 years of fairy tales with a 600 m brothers grimm forest walk
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

environmental news stories sunday

a sneak peek at those stories you probably haven't heard about on the talking head shows.

criminal investigation at chevron refinery. - federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of chevron after discovering that the company detoured pollutants around monitoring equipment at its richmond refinery for four years and burned them off into the atmosphere, in possible violation of a federal court order - sfgate

senate votes to shield u.s. airlines from eu's carbon emissions plan. - the senate unanimously passed a bill on saturday that would shield u.s. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on european flights, pressuring the european union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers - reuters

arsenic in rice: pediatricians offer advice for parents. - new reports that rice products may contain "worrisome levels" of carcinogenic arsenic — especially from rice grown in certain states — have american pediatricians offering new advice for parents feeding children - chicago tribune

cleaning up oil spills with peanut butter, chocolate and whipped cream. the chemicals we pumped into the gulf to clean up the deepwater spill were almost as bad as the oil itself. after the next oil spill, we might be able to clean up with dessert - fast company

the dilbit disaster: inside the biggest oil spill you've never heard of, part 1. the july 2010 spill happened in marshall, a community of 7,400 in southwestern michigan. at least 1 million gallons of diluted bitumen - dilbit - blackened more than two miles of talmadge creek and almost 36 miles of the kalamazoo river, and oil is still showing up 23 months later - inside climate news

fire retardants in food. fire retardant chemicals are commonly found in household items like furniture and electronics. but a new study found them in a place you probably wouldn’t expect: food - living on earth

flame retardant chemical found in food. - a common flame retardant showed up in a variety of store-bought foods including meat, peanut butter and fish, researchers report today in the journal environmental health perspectives. the discovery of the chemical hbcd adds to growing evidence that our food supply is full of unwanted chemicals, including flame retardants. - discovery channel

how the world's oceans could be running out of fish. - global fish stocks are exploited or depleted to such an extent that without urgent measures we may be the last generation to catch food from the oceans - bbc

finding a remedy for burger smog. - sandwiched between paved-road dust and diesel truck emissions is the second-biggest producer of particle pollution in southern california: the char-broiled burger - riverside press enterprise

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posted by Cookie Jill at 11:42 PM | 0 comments

on a sunday

the tea party is less popular than atheists and muslims

pity the plutocrat's poor wife

life imitates breaking bad: chemistry teacher arrested for selling meth at school

and, speaking of breaking bad, scientists uncertain about heisenberg's incertainty principle
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willard mitt romney

flat wrong...and not sorry at all.

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