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Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy
Growing up with Mormon narratives—a two-part memoir and reflection on the good, the very bad, and a dreamed-for future
By Mary Barker, Professor, Syracuse University, Religion
9.21.2012
GOP middle-aged white men - and alienating just about everyone else SeattlePost
middle-aged white men - and alienating just about everyone else
VP candidate Ryan heckled, booed at retiree event Reuters
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By
Andy Sullivan (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Paul
Ryan received a chilly reception from a seniors' group on Friday as he
argued that popular health and pension programs for US retirees need to
be overhauled to ensure their ...
nd GWDF2 D15H11 'None alive stand where I stand. Universally Rejected, I admit. But I stand where Jesus, King, Gandhi, Corrie, Alice Paul, Diane Nash stand. Hmmm.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D15H11 'None alive stand where I stand. Universally Rejected, I admit. But I stand where Jesus, King, Gandhi, Corrie, Alice Paul, Diane Nash stand. Hmmm.' Loving
Four transport authority workers start hunger strike Egypt Independent
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Four protesting workers at Cairo Governorate's Public Transport Authority started an open-ended hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with other colleagues who have been striking for more than a week.
Global hunger strike for Syria NOW LEBANON
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Through this global hunger strike day “Syrian women for Syria” aim to express their solidarity with another group of women activists who have been on hunger strike since September 4th in Egypt's capital. The Cairo women activists have staged a sit-in ...
nd 'Every God, Religion except Loving, is Death, Suffering, Evil. Clinically. Sociologically. By whatever name.' Loving
nd 'Every God, Religion except Loving, is Death, Suffering, Evil. Clinically. Sociologically. By whatever name.' Loving
GWDF2 D15H11 Extensive Pain, and Dr. Brown Convolutions Slow Down
GWDF2 D15H11 Extensive Pain, Elections, and Dr. Brown Convolutions Slow Down
The 9 day escape from hours per day of abdominal pain has ended. Thank goodness for the new meds, but their effect was temporary. Evaluation for tests is October 11 at which point they become scheduled.
The pain for hours per day makes work difficult, and at times, dozing is all I can manage.
Also, Dr. Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 is to locked in, what, infotainment? Self-aggrandizement? Puffery? Unraveling it for the Actionable Essentials is insanely slow, and maybe impossible.
I may be forced to jump over #4 to #5 - Dr. Joe Romm, Actionable Essentials, and that may provide enough of a framework to come back to #4.
The 9 day escape from hours per day of abdominal pain has ended. Thank goodness for the new meds, but their effect was temporary. Evaluation for tests is October 11 at which point they become scheduled.
The pain for hours per day makes work difficult, and at times, dozing is all I can manage.
Also, Dr. Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 is to locked in, what, infotainment? Self-aggrandizement? Puffery? Unraveling it for the Actionable Essentials is insanely slow, and maybe impossible.
I may be forced to jump over #4 to #5 - Dr. Joe Romm, Actionable Essentials, and that may provide enough of a framework to come back to #4.
9.20.2012
Pr. Obama summarizes American History: "you can't change Washington from the inside."
Pr. Obama summarizes American History of change: "you can't change Washington from the inside."
President Obama appeared on Univision today. More:
""That’s how I got elected, and that’s how the big accomplishments like health care got done, was because we mobilized the American people to speak out. That’s how we were able to cut taxes for middle class families. So something that I’d really like to concentrate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so that they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward." This isn't at odds with the 2008 message; it's the whole point behind "yes we can.""
From maddowblog:
President Obama appeared on Univision today. More:
""That’s how I got elected, and that’s how the big accomplishments like health care got done, was because we mobilized the American people to speak out. That’s how we were able to cut taxes for middle class families. So something that I’d really like to concentrate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so that they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward." This isn't at odds with the 2008 message; it's the whole point behind "yes we can.""
From maddowblog:
Obama talks about how Washington changes
Mitt Romney ad spot leaves coal workers fuming Politico
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The footage of Romney, flanked by coal miners, was taken at a Beallsville, Ohio, rally in August, where about a dozen employees have told WWVA-AM they were pulled out of the mine to join the Republican candidate.
FL Jewish poll: Obama 69%-Romney 25%; Ryan unpopular VP pick compared ... Tampabay.com
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September
20, 2012 -- New York -- More than two-thirds -- 69 percent -- of Jewish
voters in Florida say they will choose President Obama over Governor Romney, who will win 25 percent of the state's Jewish vote, according to a new American Jewish ...
In rest of '98 clip, Obama speaks of 'competition' and 'the marketplace' NBCNews.com
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President Obama
is seen speaking at a conference held at Loyola University in October
1998 about city government and public policy, in which then-Illinois
state senator talked about making government more efficient.
9.19.2012
GWDF2 D15H8 Internal Bleeding Tests Sched 10/11
Given that I can, to my horror, see no signs of viable human Life (NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE) ( http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2012/09/nd-life-that-which-joyfully-totally.html ) I'm holding at day 15 of the Death Fast for 8 days now, and expect to continue this indefinitely, month, longer. This morning on the scale at the Unity Health Care Center I verified that I'm maintaining the 15 day, .5lb per day weight loss of the 15 days of the Death Fast I endured.
I understand from beloved doc Cardile this morning that a colonscopy, and the one thru the throat, could point to some inexpensive therapy - targeted anti-biotic, for example. Even tho my fellow citizens would cover it, I'm forever unwilling for expensive care, when 4 billion of my sisters and brothers exist on $4 per day or less? Been there. Done that. Never again.
Oct 11 is a consultation, tests to be scheduled then.
Gandhi: "The golden rule is to steadfastly refuse what millions cannot have." Yes. True. Solidarity is, IS, Loving. Nothing else is.
I understand from beloved doc Cardile this morning that a colonscopy, and the one thru the throat, could point to some inexpensive therapy - targeted anti-biotic, for example. Even tho my fellow citizens would cover it, I'm forever unwilling for expensive care, when 4 billion of my sisters and brothers exist on $4 per day or less? Been there. Done that. Never again.
Oct 11 is a consultation, tests to be scheduled then.
Gandhi: "The golden rule is to steadfastly refuse what millions cannot have." Yes. True. Solidarity is, IS, Loving. Nothing else is.
nd 'Life: that which JOYFULLY, TOTALLY risks all against existential threats to it's children; like my father's generation did against the Nazi threat; True for every still-viable species, which we humans have ceased being.' Loving
'Life: that which JOYFULLY, TOTALLY risks all against existential threats
to it's children; like my father's generation did against the Nazi
threat; True for every still-viable species, which we humans have ceased
being.' Loving
GWDF2 D15H8 Road-trip War Chest - Accepting Pledges
GWDF2 D15H8 Road-trip War Chest - Accepting Pledges
[Johnny Appleseed; Paul Revere...; may point the way for me, at this time.]
[Note, share this with friends. SHARE THIS WITH FRIENDS. Yes, it is time for folks to find new guts, boldness, venturing outside our comfort zones.... WAYYYYYYY past time.] [Oh, uh, share this with friends.] [Yes, even NOW would be a good time. We are as much as 15-20 years too late on getting started here.]
Accepting pledges, not funds, but pledges, so I know what support could be there if I need it. Giving me some idea of your thoughts of your aggressive support / solidarity (zero 'charity' accepted), if you have them, would be very useful to my planning.
For many years, 9 or so, the vision of walking the country has been in and out of my mind. With my within the last 2 weeks Vision, Revelation that like with Wall-e, there are no signs of Life on earth (Life: that which JOYFULLY, TOTALLY risks all against existential threats to it's children; like my father's generation did against the Nazi threat; True for every still-viable species, which we humans have ceased being, NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE), the idea of traveling the country, by bike, pulling a cart with "Save our Kids, Kill GHG" sign; stopping in town squares to 'soap box...,' is raging back into my mind. Why?
#1. To search for the 1 in a million insanely humane (INSHE), and help them understand the existential threat of free dumping of GHG;
#2. Raising general awareness of the GHG Existential Threat - Ecocide; Envirogeddon.
I'm one of the few (fewer than 2?) that understands this issue at an authoritative level in my Head (there are thousands who also do) and in my Heart (the other being, uh, who, based on their behavior, who? MK Golden. Who else?????) My understanding is growing by 9-12 hours per day of deep study of the best, most authoritative information; 7 days per week, every, EVERY waking second. Maybe approaching the Masters or PhD level already, within several months there may be none that have my Heart AND Head grasp. The DC, national, and international 'clubs' on this issue, scientific, 'activist' have world-class defenses against me and anyone not in the 'club (placing the club members, their status quo, comfort, above humanity)' but some folks in towns around the country, don't have those defenses against a guy 60 year old guy in questionable health, with facial tattoos, adoring Jesus, adoring every species, every human, risking all, giving away totally, 100% for free, multi-degree PhD level skills and expertise that industry paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for, in my earlier life (SL , TPB . Somewhere along a 24 / 7 / 365 multi-year nationwide bike trip there could be some insanely humane, of Creator knows what background creed age socioeconomics... that could come to realize that a planet without life support can't deal with the issues they've otherwise been fighting for; and that they need to focus on GHG so they have time for the issues they already were on.
What funding would I need? Not sure yet. Maybe none. Maybe some hundreds of dollars.
Two insane angels in my life have already proveded funds that might be enough, safely hoarded in a bank. Due to them I have laptop, wifi, basic solar power, and basic solar power storage. But I see additdional needs:
* Bike
* Bike cart; and maybe just the cart - walking may be the best way for me to go.
* Signage suitable for an arduous trip
* Light-weight sleeping bag - all season
* Additional solar panel
* Enhaced communication vs what I have now - I'd need the biggest (rural, nation-wide) wifi network / communication and that could involve a 2 year contract with Verizon, and maybe a smart-phone. I'm envisioning doing this in a way that enabled me to remain hugely productive in study and publishing on the internet as I bike, or possibly, so I can work on computer, act as a mule to the cart of stuff I'd drag.
Anyway, this is what is raging in my mind.
Timeframe? The (Actionable Essentials (Drs Hansen, Romm, Brown, Stern, IEA, EIA...) books I'm working on for you, are also for me - establishing a world-class, authoritative scaffolding for me of the basic information that John Q's need to advocate for the next 200 billion kids. These will keep me pinned down here another few months. But then I'd be free to head south in the winter months, on the journey.
Oh, uh, ps:
[Note, share this with friends. SHARE THIS WITH FRIENDS. Yes, it is time for folks to find new guts, boldness, venturing outside our comfort zones.... WAYYYYYYY past time.] [Oh, uh, share this with friends.] [Yes, even NOW would be a good time. We are as much as 15-20 years too late on getting started here.]
Accepting pledges, not funds, but pledges, so I know what support could be there if I need it. Giving me some idea of your thoughts of your aggressive support / solidarity (zero 'charity' accepted), if you have them, would be very useful to my planning.
Loving 200 Billion Kids Bangladeshis....
[Johnny Appleseed; Paul Revere...; may point the way for me, at this time.]
[Note, share this with friends. SHARE THIS WITH FRIENDS. Yes, it is time for folks to find new guts, boldness, venturing outside our comfort zones.... WAYYYYYYY past time.] [Oh, uh, share this with friends.] [Yes, even NOW would be a good time. We are as much as 15-20 years too late on getting started here.]
Accepting pledges, not funds, but pledges, so I know what support could be there if I need it. Giving me some idea of your thoughts of your aggressive support / solidarity (zero 'charity' accepted), if you have them, would be very useful to my planning.
For many years, 9 or so, the vision of walking the country has been in and out of my mind. With my within the last 2 weeks Vision, Revelation that like with Wall-e, there are no signs of Life on earth (Life: that which JOYFULLY, TOTALLY risks all against existential threats to it's children; like my father's generation did against the Nazi threat; True for every still-viable species, which we humans have ceased being, NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE), the idea of traveling the country, by bike, pulling a cart with "Save our Kids, Kill GHG" sign; stopping in town squares to 'soap box...,' is raging back into my mind. Why?
#1. To search for the 1 in a million insanely humane (INSHE), and help them understand the existential threat of free dumping of GHG;
#2. Raising general awareness of the GHG Existential Threat - Ecocide; Envirogeddon.
I'm one of the few (fewer than 2?) that understands this issue at an authoritative level in my Head (there are thousands who also do) and in my Heart (the other being, uh, who, based on their behavior, who? MK Golden. Who else?????) My understanding is growing by 9-12 hours per day of deep study of the best, most authoritative information; 7 days per week, every, EVERY waking second. Maybe approaching the Masters or PhD level already, within several months there may be none that have my Heart AND Head grasp. The DC, national, and international 'clubs' on this issue, scientific, 'activist' have world-class defenses against me and anyone not in the 'club (placing the club members, their status quo, comfort, above humanity)' but some folks in towns around the country, don't have those defenses against a guy 60 year old guy in questionable health, with facial tattoos, adoring Jesus, adoring every species, every human, risking all, giving away totally, 100% for free, multi-degree PhD level skills and expertise that industry paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for, in my earlier life (SL , TPB . Somewhere along a 24 / 7 / 365 multi-year nationwide bike trip there could be some insanely humane, of Creator knows what background creed age socioeconomics... that could come to realize that a planet without life support can't deal with the issues they've otherwise been fighting for; and that they need to focus on GHG so they have time for the issues they already were on.
What funding would I need? Not sure yet. Maybe none. Maybe some hundreds of dollars.
Two insane angels in my life have already proveded funds that might be enough, safely hoarded in a bank. Due to them I have laptop, wifi, basic solar power, and basic solar power storage. But I see additdional needs:
* Bike
* Bike cart; and maybe just the cart - walking may be the best way for me to go.
* Signage suitable for an arduous trip
* Light-weight sleeping bag - all season
* Additional solar panel
* Enhaced communication vs what I have now - I'd need the biggest (rural, nation-wide) wifi network / communication and that could involve a 2 year contract with Verizon, and maybe a smart-phone. I'm envisioning doing this in a way that enabled me to remain hugely productive in study and publishing on the internet as I bike, or possibly, so I can work on computer, act as a mule to the cart of stuff I'd drag.
Anyway, this is what is raging in my mind.
Timeframe? The (Actionable Essentials (Drs Hansen, Romm, Brown, Stern, IEA, EIA...) books I'm working on for you, are also for me - establishing a world-class, authoritative scaffolding for me of the basic information that John Q's need to advocate for the next 200 billion kids. These will keep me pinned down here another few months. But then I'd be free to head south in the winter months, on the journey.
Oh, uh, ps:
[Note, share this with friends. SHARE THIS WITH FRIENDS. Yes, it is time for folks to find new guts, boldness, venturing outside our comfort zones.... WAYYYYYYY past time.] [Oh, uh, share this with friends.] [Yes, even NOW would be a good time. We are as much as 15-20 years too late on getting started here.]
Accepting pledges, not funds, but pledges, so I know what support could be there if I need it. Giving me some idea of your thoughts of your aggressive support / solidarity (zero 'charity' accepted), if you have them, would be very useful to my planning.
Loving 200 Billion Kids Bangladeshis....
9.18.2012
nd GWDF2 D15H8 Slept all night in rain. Drying in Library today. Drowning again tonight.
GWDF2 D15H8 Slept all night in rain. Drying in Library today. Drowning again tonight.
David Brooks, NYT: Thurston Howell Romney New York Times
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In 1960, government transfers to individuals totaled $24 billion. By 2010, that total was 100 times as large. Even after adjusting for inflation, entitlement transfers to individuals have grown by more than 700 percent over the last 50 years.
Jeff Skoll's Billion-Dollar Plan To Save The World Forbes
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There
are thousands of people in the world like Plotkin and Madrigal,
inspiring social entrepreneurs who dream up innovative solutions to
pressing problems–poor education, lack of health care, deforestation–and then act on them. Jeff Skoll is their ...
Hunger striking Sehto moved to hospital The News International
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ISLAMABAD:
The President of Sindh Haris Committee, Ghulam Rasool Sehto, was
hospitalised here after he fell unconscious during his hunger strike for water for poor farmers and education in Sindh. Sehto, besides his weak appearance, was repeatedly ...
9/18 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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"In
the Midwest, coal-fired power plants capable of producing about 12,000
megawatts of power will be replaced in the next few years with gas-fired
turbines, at a cost of $33 billion, according to a study released this spring."
http://www.statejournal.com/story/18363508/coal-to-gas-conversion-not-an-easy-decision-for-midwest-utilities
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:08 AM PDT
New EPA Rules Could Prevent 'Fracking' Backlash - Businessweek
www.businessweek.com/.../new-epa-rules-could-prevent-fracking-ba...
Apr 18, 2012 – ... emissions from natural gas production, a rare set of
regulations that may ... Most of the leakage occurs where it's taken
from the ground, and ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT
Massachusetts on the Verge of Passing Natural Gas Leak Legislation
In the final session of the legislative calendar, natural gas
pipeline safety advocates are looking to the Massachusetts Legislature
to pass a bill today that would require natural gas companies to more
closely monitor and repair the thousands of existing natural gas leaks
across the state and develop a
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:55 AM PDT
Natural Gas and the Invisible Spill: How Much Methane Is Reaching the Atmosphere?
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2111562,00.html#ixzz26kcBXD5z
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:52 AM PDT
Is Shale Natural Gas Worse for the Climate Than Coal?
Read more: http://science.time.com/2011/04/11/frack-is-shale-natural-gas-worse-for-the-climate-than-coal/#ixzz26kbQmrim
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:49 AM PDT
The End of Global Warming: How to Save the Earth in 2 Easy Steps
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-end-of-global-warming-how-to-save-the-earth-in-2-easy-steps/262418/
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:40 AM PDT
Natural Gas Vehicles Ever More Feasible for Fleets
WFPL - Sep 7, 2012
On one side, so large it's hard to miss, is a sign that says “Think
Green, Think Clean”—a reference to the fact that this truck burns
cleaner natural gas. ... And if car companies aren't making vehicles,
there's no incentive to build filling stations ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:38 AM PDT
Government sets strict fuel-economy goal of 54.5 by 2025
USA TODAY - Aug 28, 2012
The vehicles will undergo more urgent evolution of current trends so
that, in a decade or so, the American streetscape could resemble science
fiction, including: •More gas-electric hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:37 AM PDT
Natural gas usage by US trucks to skyrocket - report
Reuters - Sep 4, 2012
Natgas demand in trucks may reach 14 bcfd by 2030. * Cheap natgas could
displace diesel. * Hurdles remain, could reduce demand growth.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Nuclear Power: Is It Time for a Disruptive Technology?
White House Chronicle - 14 hours ago
The company that has revolutionized war in the air with Predator drones
wants to do the same thing for nuclear power. It wants to soar away from
today's reactor designs, rooted in the 1950s and the beliefs of Adm.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:05 AM PDT
World Record Academy
Fastest pace of deforestation in the world: Indonezia
World Record Academy - 2 hours ago
[May 05] JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation
in the world between 2000-2005, with an area of forest equivalent to
300 soccer pitches destroyed every hour, Greenpeace said on Thursday.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Subsea ravine leaks a new headache for carbon capture
Reuters - 1 hour ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Companies looking to store polluting carbon
under the sea will have to pay more for tougher seabed screening, after
geologists discovered a three-kilometre long fracture near Norway's
pioneering subsea carbon storage project in the ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Global warming: Businesses see 'tangible and present risk'
Summit County Citizens Voice - 7 hours ago
According to a survey of 405 of the biggest global companies conducted
by the Carbon Disclosure Project, 37 percent say they are already seeing
the impact of climate change on their business - up from 10 percent in
2010. The Carbon Disclosure Project ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT
Southwest Likely to be Loser Thanks to Climate Change
KNAU Arizona Public Radio - 2 hours ago
Despite this year's abundant monsoon season, researchers say climate
change could be pushing the Southwest into a period of sustained
drought.
7 degrees of desperation: Author to speak in Flagstaff on coping with
climate ...Arizona Daily Sun
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT
Climate change could see a third of Victoria's animal species extinct in
60 years
Herald Sun - 19 minutes ago
VICTORIA could bear the brunt of a climate change front that would see
almost a third of animal species wiped out in less than 60 years.
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