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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm

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Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Sizzling Bacon Rap

Filed in National by on February 26, 2010 2 Comments

A Bacon Rap song? Everything else in th world is being made of bacon, but some people have too much time on their hands here:

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Anthony Weiner Explains It All For You

Filed in National by on February 25, 2010 2 Comments

Awesome, really. Would that we had more like him:

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Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform

Filed in National by on February 24, 2010 13 Comments
Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform

If you are part of MoveOn.org, you may already know about this. Today starts a Virtual March to pressure Congress to enact real health care reform. It is a quick and easy process:

1. Go to the MoveOn March Page

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White House’s Health Bill

Filed in National by on February 22, 2010 19 Comments

President Obama announced the White House Plan for HCR this AM and, as promised, it is up on the web.

The Wonk Room is fast out of the gate with a good summary:

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How the Media Gets Suckered by the Media Lobbying Complex

Filed in National by on February 22, 2010 1 Comment

Sebastian Jones writes an excellent piece of investigative journalism — The Media-Lobbying Complex — documenting the various (and many) undisclosed conflicts of interest that seem to power much of the media narrative: President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, […]

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Bipartisanship In Action! — Both Schwarzenegger and Rendell Think the GOP is Playing Politics Over the Stimulus

Filed in National by on February 21, 2010 0 Comments

They were both on ABC This Week this morning and Schwarzenegger was particularly pointed in his criticism. He might as well have been describing specifically the behavior of Mike Castle showing up for every stunt check event from ARRA in Delaware:

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Innovating to Zero

Filed in National by on February 21, 2010 1 Comment

This is a talk by Bill Gates at the TED conference discussing the need and the challenges of getting enough renewable energy to power not only those who are energy rich now, but those who need to be energy rich. He does a nice job here, I think, in contextualizing the problem, then spends a good deal of time talking about Terrapower.

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Bill Maher — Teabaggers are a Cult

Filed in National by on February 20, 2010 26 Comments

Awesome. This is from the New Rules segment this week: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCr6LdGAPl0[/youtube]

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Tips on Handling Climate Change Deniers

Filed in National by on February 20, 2010 15 Comments
Tips on Handling Climate Change Deniers

Speaks for itself, I think. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5nNbPWYHOA[/youtube]

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Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Wishing for a DL Road Trip Edition

Filed in National by on February 19, 2010 4 Comments
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Wishing for a DL Road Trip Edition

There was a great article in the Philly News this week telling the world how the amazing DiBruno Bros is stepping up to add artisan bacon to its truely wondrous food offerings:

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CNN Features Mike Castle as a GOP Stimulus Hypocrite

Filed in National by on February 19, 2010 8 Comments
CNN Features Mike Castle as a GOP Stimulus Hypocrite

This is from Rick Sanchez’s show Wednesday, I think — Mike Castle and the ARRA stunt check is featured early in the segment:

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GOP Recovery Act Hypocrites

Filed in Delaware by on February 18, 2010 8 Comments

You can see Mike Castle with a Special Guest Hypocrite role in his picture accepting a stunt check for an ARRA project in the first few seconds of this video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnO69fgdWZA[/youtube] Want more a more detailed list of the GOP Hypocrisy? See the Hall of Fame.

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Delawareans Hate Their Jobs

Filed in Delaware by on February 18, 2010 1 Comment

That is according to a recently released survey called the State of Well-Being (pdf) that has surveyed Americans and presented state-by-state reports on how people in that state view their lives. This is part of a long-term eefort being produced by Gallup to provide some measure of American’s health and well-being. And according to this study, Delaware ranks dead last among states for Work Environment, going down from last year’s ranking of 38th among the states. Here’s a summary of the data:

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