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  • H1N1 mutation found in some flu fatalities

    TexasFred's

    Number of comments: 1
    H1N1 mutation found in some flu fatalities OSLO – Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected. “The mutation could be affecting the virus’ ability to go deeper into the [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:16pm EST
    by TexasFred
  • A Modest Proposal : Eat the Rich!

    The Rag Blog

    Photo by chrisjfry / Flickr.Serve the people!Carve up Wall StreetBy Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009See Amy Goodman's interview with Robert Scheer on Wall Street and the economy, from Democracy Now!, Below.Yesterday, Democracy Now! reported that two major records have been broken in 2009 -- Wall [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:05pm EST

  • Closed-Door Health Care

    Whosplayin.com

    As an American citizen, I need to be part of this very important decision on our health care. This is my health care, this is your health care, and this is all of our health care. This is not Congress health care package.

    If we are part of the [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:30pm EST
  • A Modest Poroposal : Eat the Rich!

    The Rag Blog

    Photo by chrisjfry / Flickr.Serve the people!Carve up Wall StreetBy Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009See Amy Goodman's interview with Robert Scheer on Wall Street and the economy, from Democracy Now!, Below.Yesterday, Democracy Now! reported that two major records have been broken in 2009 -- Wall [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  • Bad Football Causes Bad Behavior

    La Sanbe


    LaSanbe ponders some truly slim pickings for college football action this weekend. This weekend would typically involve several drama-filled, captivating games with national championship implications. Instead, we get a simply bad Ohio State-Michigan match-up, a couple of SEC scrimmages and (oh yeah) Texas possibly punching [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  • Texas Execution

    The StandDown Texas Project

    Following Rick Perry's rejection of clemency for Robert Thompson, recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas conducted its 23nd execution of 2009, last night in Huntsville.  It was the 446th Texas execution since 1982.  Texas has far and away the most active death chamber in America, accounting for more than 37% [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:25am EST
    by Steve Hall
  • The inestimably stupid Dick Armey

    McBlogger

    OMG. I wish it was OK to beat stupid people senseless... if it was, I'd LOVE to introduce that fucktard Dick Armey's face to a hardcover copy of the Community Reinvestment Act since he's decided it (and not poor decision making at the banks) was the reason the banking' [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:22am EST
  • Bush vs. Obama.

    RIGHTWINGSPARKLE

    I think we have all become used to hearing Obama blaming Bush for all his economic problems. As we are coming to the end of the full first year of the Obama presidency, I think it's informative to look back at Bush's first year.

    You might remember that Bush [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:16am EST
  • Robert Jensen : How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving

    The Rag Blog

    "The First Thanksgiving," painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930) / Wikimedia Commons.How I stopped hating ThanksgivingAnd learned to be afraidThis is a society in which even progressive people routinely allow national and family traditions to trump fundamental human decency.By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009I [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:07am EST
  • Chupacabra Report

    Zippidy Doo Da


    News that Gets My Goat..

    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee yesterday.

    Rep. Kevin Brady of The Woodlands, ranking Republican on the committee, is a staunch conservative, going so far as to get himself convicted of drunk driving, the [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:57am EST
  • Hutchison on Meet the Press

    TRAIL BLAZERS

    Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has been booked as a guest Sunday on Meet the Press, along with two Democratic senators, Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois and California Sen. Diane Feinstein, and with Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman, who chaired the first open hearing regarding the Fort Hood shootings, on Thursday.

    [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:14am EST
  • Is the McMansion Dead?

    Relaxed Politics

    Number of comments: 4
    That is the question posed by the lead article in the November issue of Builder magazine. As an architect, I am not really supposed to even be reading this magazine. It is too low-brow, too mundane, too quotidian for the likes of us building artistes. We are supposed to take [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:00am EST
    by gnome de plume
  • Bendover. Allstate is raising rates.

    South Texas Chisme

    Home insurance rates will jump an average 9.8 percent next month for thousands of Allstate customers.

    The increase will start Dec. 17 as policies come up for renewal and affect 143,000 customers of Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance. It's the Allstate unit's second increase this year.Greed is revered in [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:30am EST
  • El Paso judges indicted

    South Texas Chisme

    A state grand jury indicted two El Paso judges on Thursday, alleging they violated nepotism laws by hiring each other's relatives.

    Suspended state district court judge Manuel Barraza and District Court Judge Regina Arditti are charged with one count each of "prohibition applicable to trading," or nepotism. Arditti and [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:12am EST
  • Perry's primary is more important than a man's life

    South Texas Chisme

    Seems that way to me."Rick Perry continues to play politics with the death penalty. He should have accepted the recommendation of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute the death sentence of Robert Thompson. It would not surprise me if Rick Perry one day replaces the members of" [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:08am EST
  • BISD athletic director gets pissy with trustee

    South Texas Chisme

    After arguments in the state’s 444th District Court, Judge David Sanchez granted [BISD Athletic Director Joe] Rodriguez’s attorneys authority to take [BISD trustee Catalina] Presas-Garcia’s deposition concerning documents she provided to Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos on Oct. 15. Attorneys scheduled the deposition for Dec. 7.

    "It’s a" [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:56am EST
  • 1 in 4

    konagod

    That's the number of people with mortgages in Florida who are behind on payments.

    That's an economy on the rebound?

    Nationally, it's one in ten who were behind at least one payment in the last quarter.
    The delinquency figure, and a corresponding rise in the number of [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:51am EST
  • Palin phobes

    PrairiePundit

    Jonah Goldberg:

    Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus' Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor's writing chops, excerpting the following sentence from her' [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:37am EST
  • KHOU Poll: Still Searching For City Voters

    musings

    Wheeee! KHOU recently called 500 registered voters who said, "What the heck, yes, I'll vote for mayor. I think I will, anyway. There's an election? Is Obama running against that rogue lady in the shorts?" They were asked who they would vote for in the December 12th mayoral runoff, and [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30am EST
  • Planning for defeat in Afghanistan

    PrairiePundit

    WSJ:

    President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have turned the focus of Afghan war planning toward an exit strategy, publicly declaring that the U.S. and its allies can't send additional troops without a plan for getting them out.

    The shift has unnerved some U.S. and' [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:13am EST

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