High Impact Diaries: March 31, 2011
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View ArticleMy 3rd (and last!) day of fasting
For the past two days here and here I have been writing about my decision to join former Rep Tony Hall (D. Ohio) of the Alliance to end Hunger; Rev. David Beckmann, the president of Bread for the...
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Snap...216,000 New Jobs; Unemployment Down to 8.8%
Crossposted from The People's View Some good news on the Jobs front. The economy has added 216k jobs in the month of March lowering the unemployment number to 8.8%. It is obvious something is working...
View ArticleDiaper Dave Vitter sells snake oil
We all know Republican Senator David Vitter uses diapers instead of condoms to practice safe sex while being spanked by prostitutes in New Orleans and DC. As long as Vitter continues to "vote" to...
View ArticleGE Logo Now Tops Washington Monument
GE Logo Now Tops Washington Monument Pepsi now eyes Grand Canyon while Verizon claims Niagara Falls APRIL 1, 2011—Despite huge crowds of protesters in the streets and the National Park Service’s...
View ArticleLiving Simply: Friday Open Thread
Welcome to the Friday open thread for the Living Simply group. If you are not familiar with our group, the basic idea, from our profile, is: A group to explore and share sustainable, simple living...
View ArticleGov. Brewer Stakes Reputation on Education. Then Helps Wreck It.
Last week Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R-Unconscious) said she was staking her reputation on education. When she made that absurd comment about headless bodies in the desert last year, officials...
View ArticleWhy the Republicans hate the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve bank has been printing money and using it to buy government insured mortage bonds and treasury bonds. The first result is that the price of treasury bonds is kept high because of...
View ArticleThe Palestinians are Unifying, & Israel Doesn't Approve
This diary has been cross-posted on my blog. Something is happening in the West Bank and Gaza, something that hasn’t happened since 2007 when Hamas, after a 5-day civil war, forcefully kicked the...
View ArticleTo balance the budget, dependent tax breaks should be capped.
I did some of the math on this Rep. Duffy guy in Wisconsin with the six children and the beat up minivan he says he drives. You would be shocked how some people milk the tax code for all they can...
View ArticlePark Avenue: Photo Friday & Open Thread
Welcome to the Park Avenue Photo Friday diary and open thread. Each Friday, people are encouraged to join us in sharing their pictures of the national parks, state parks and other major parks and to...
View ArticleCan you spare 120 seconds of your time? (Action)
Can you spare 120 seconds of your time to support 3 great groups who would like to meet you at Netroots Nation Minnesota? Seriously...120 seconds is all it takes!
View ArticleDear Dames
Listen hon, It's time that we faced facts, it's time for us to part ways. This little experiment giving you rights and treating you like adults simply isn't working for us anymore. Look what you've...
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Photography is Problem Solving
Photographing shadows cast by venetian blinds is one of my many photographic obsessions. For many photographers direct sunlight and the resultant strong shadows are the enemy and are consequently to...
View ArticleThe Wrath of Kan & Tokyo Electric Power's Litany of Lies
(freshrant.com) Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan, is also known by the press as 'Ira-Kan' or 'Fretful-Kan', just two of the nicknames they have used when referring to his well-known short temper....
View ArticleHow Many Should Die To Send Qaddafi to the Hague?
Here is a question I would like pollsters to ask American voters about the Libya War: Is sending Qaddafi to the International Criminal Court a military objective worth having American troops "fight...
View ArticleTime for Humility
For three weeks now, the world has watched as the Japanese people struggled with a nuclear crisis that threatened to prove more catastrophic than the natural disasters that triggered it. Not...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: Obama Lacks Vision on Energy, Stomach to Defend EPA
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger President Obama made an energy speech this week that had little new to offer, while on Capitol Hill, Republicans were pushing to relieve the government of...
View ArticleBarbour won't pardon Scott sisters
Late yesterday, Haley Barbour announced that he wouldn't even consider a pardon for two sisters who, based on nearly all available evidence, were convicted of a 1993 robbery they didn't commit....
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