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skippy the bush kangaroo



Saturday, January 19, 2013

skippy's saturday night music club

yep. i'm in "baghdad by the bay"

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saturday night on saturn

if you aren't alarmed about the climate, you aren't paying attention

man upset about his kid's school pledge of allegience, threatens "i have spilled bloood before"

the hoax about 'entitlement reform'

and why not go to a national park on martin luther king day? it's free!
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Friday, January 18, 2013

skippy's friday night music club

i am up in san francisco this weekend attending the fancy food trade show....and sitting by the dock of the bay.


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friday let me down



anti-gay activist lawyer convicted of child pornography

american express to cut 5,400 jobs

artist takes every drug known to man, draws self-portrait while on each one

and rest in peace, 'whacgu talkin' 'bout, willis?' dad conrad bain, and pauline phillips, dear abby
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

skippy's thursday night music club

i am heading up to the city this weekend for the fancy food trade show. better open up those golden gates...

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since lance armstrong is coming clean

about his being "not clean"....who will pay for taking the u.s. postal service to the cleaners?
from 1996 to 2004, the u.s. postal service paid out $40 million in federal funds to sponsor the team. team management, which hired and paid the riders, promised in its contracts not to tolerate doping. the major fraud investigations division of the postal service’s office of inspector general is trying to determine if armstrong and others defrauded the government by violating that no-doping clause, a federal prosecutor wrote in a filing last year. - business week

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posted by Cookie Jill at 6:00 PM | 3 comments

thursday nite goddess

joe biden has become the most influnetial vice president in history

obama creates a new national park

conspiracy theorists who believe that the sandy hook victims were actors hired by the government

notre dame linebacker manti te'o does not have a dead girlfriend
posted by skippy at 9:28 AM | 1 comments

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

wednesday mayday

christian fundamentalistsfreak out over yoga in the military

minnesota union leader says tax the rich and raise welfare grants

the nra had a less-than-1% rate of return for investors in the last election

we all know that comment trolls suck, but now there's scientific proof!
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

don't stiff the staff

the right wing whackadoodles like michele bachmann just don't seem to get that.
"...the staffers are owed a mere $5,000, and that bachmann has more than $2 million in her campaign account, but has refused to pay unless the staffers sign the (nondisclosure) agreement." - daily kos
but, perhaps, one of the staff was....well, you know...
"brett held her captive day after day, speech after speech, etc. in the back of the bus during the 99-county tour. by the end, she was broken emotionally, mentally, and slept in her private cabin in the back of the bus. i do not know if she has ever recovered," waldron said - buzzfeed

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posted by Cookie Jill at 11:55 PM | 2 comments

skippy's tuesday night music club

it's been really cold in southern california. we've been getting three dog night temperatures.

 

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posted by Cookie Jill at 11:16 PM | 1 comments

say hello

to the jeff fecke daily
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it's a waste

no, really....
a new report released by a british engineering society reveals that worldwide, billions of tons of food are squandered each year because of poor agriculture practices, which include inefficient harvesting and inadequate infrastructure and storage—and it's depleting earth's water supply - mother jones

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bobby jindal selling out the poor

gov. "i took a spell outta you" jindal doesn't want to ask the wealthy to pay a little bit more....he wants to sock it to the poor of louisiana.
louisiana governor bobby jindal (r) recently rolled out a plan to replace his state’s personal income and corporate taxes with an increased sales tax. such a move would shift taxes from the rich to the poor, who are disproportionately hit by the sales tax.

according to an analysis by the institute on taxation and economic policy, jindal’s plan will raise taxes on the bottom 80 percent of louisianians, while cutting them for the richest 1 percent: - think progress

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posted by Cookie Jill at 8:29 PM | 1 comments

church on tuesday

the case against billionaires

how the clinton surplus became a $6 trillion deficit

science is partisan

when do low-income americans get their white house meeting?
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Monday, January 14, 2013

skippy's monday night music club

the santa barbarian "dude" abides....and sings.

 

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blast from the past

cheney authorized the shooting down of flight 93.

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when temperatures drop

get ready for food prices to rise.


according to the national weather service, many san fernando and san gabriel valley areas recorded temperatures in the low 30s -- and some in the high 20s -- overnight. lancaster and palmdale recorded 16-degree lows. even coastal areas such as long beach had lows in the 30s.

...the cold snap has been a particular concern for citrus farmers across the state, who have been up all night since thursday. there are $1 billion in oranges, lemons, tangerines and grapefruit still on trees in california, the nation's largest producer of fresh citrus. - latte times

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tweet of the day


 chuck hagel has a portugese water dog? he's following in pres. obama's footsteps. so he must hate america too.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 7:31 PM | 0 comments

forget area 51

what is freakin' out the gop is "agenda 21"
right-wing republicans have somehow come to believe that agenda 21 contains a secret, nefarious plot to destroy american life and society as we know it, birthing a cottage industry devoted to spreading misinformation about the un proposal. the most recent evidence of this movement’s reach is a proposal by two indiana lawmakers to ban the implementation of any agenda 21-inspired initiatives in the state. - think progress

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posted by Cookie Jill at 7:08 PM | 0 comments

Bridging a Degree of Separation: The Arts in Life

One of my old college classmates—much more famous for time spent blogging here and here, including "hogging" (may it be resumed over Gary Bettman's dead body)—reviews one of my wife's favorite novels:

So I want to talk for a moment about Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. No, really. It is very strange, but I have been having conversations about A Wrinkle in Time all year long with colleagues and friends. I’ve even gone back and reread the book. I was motivated partly by all the attention it received this year, the fiftieth anniversary of its publication. I learned only in January of this year, reading an item in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, that L’Engle’s heroine, Meg Murry, is something like the patron saint of “bookish girls” everywhere; as Anne Lamott remarked in November of this year, “A Wrinkle in Time saved me because it so captured the grief and sense of isolation I felt as a child.” And I realized that when I read it in 1972, I completely missed how anomalous it was that a speculative sci-fi young-adult novel would have as its protagonist an awkward girl who is such a science geek she can recite a good chunk of the periodic table of the elements by memory. I missed that because I identified with Meg Murry; I didn’t get the memo that boys weren’t supposed to identify with female protagonists, and I shared Meg’s sense of social anxiety and science geekdom and general outsiderness just as, a few years earlier, I had shared in Alice’s sense of bewilderment and wonder and occasional aggravation at the worlds of Wonderland and the Looking-Glass.

Check out the whole thing.
posted by Ken Houghton at 12:32 PM | 1 comments

on a monday

following current tv deal, al gore is now richer than mitt romney

do our brains work better out of doors away from technology?

first antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea detected in north america

christopher tolkein says peter jackson 'eviscerated' his father's work
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

skippy's sunday night music club

a little song touching upon environmental issues....

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sunday afternoons

moderate republican group votes to take the word 'republican' out of its name

australia's extreme heat is the canary in the global warming coal mine

new law forces health insurance companies to use plain language to explain their policies

almost 100 years ago, the infamous armory show in new york opened -- exposing america to the modern art of duchamp and the dadaists
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

according to bernie saunders, 1 in 4 profitable corporations in america pay 0 federal taxes
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saturday night is the loneliest night of the week

more soldiers took their own lives than died in combat during 2012

"i'm not racist, but..." yes, you are

the sharp, sudden decline of america's middle class

it's a giant rubber ducky in sydney harbor!
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Friday, January 11, 2013

skippy's friday night music club

a little mood music to start your weekend off with...


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posted by Cookie Jill at 11:30 PM | 0 comments

mmt

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on the matter of the debt trilemma

tax coupons. that is all. issue notes that will be accepted for taxes, and the government is not borrowing but lending future revenues into circulation.
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friday i'm in love

man arrested in texas for filming cop

arizona's anti-immigration bill is losing the state millions

it pays for states to raise the minimum wage

workers digging subway tunnels have discovered emporer hadrian's poetry and arts amphitheatre under rome

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

skippy's thursday night music club

a little theatrical thursday selection....from one of my favorite democrats, gene kelly, and his on-screen partner, the incomparable judy garland.



kelly was a lifelong supporter of the democratic party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the mccarthy era in the u.s. in 1947, he was part of the cfor the first amendment, the hollywood delegation which flew to washington to protest at the first official hearings by the house committee on un-aactivities. his first wife, betsy blair, was suspected of being a communist sympathizer and when mgm, who had offered blair a part in marty (1955), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the american legion, kelly successfully threatened mgm with a pullout from it's always fair weather unless his wife was restored to the part. - wiki

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posted by Cookie Jill at 11:48 PM | 1 comments

thursday night blues



the republicans are losing the debt ceiling fight

silencing the science on gun safety

number of veterans who die waiting for benefits skyrockets

hooray! it's the manhatten museum of mathematics!
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