May 02

PARTY-BACKED REPUBLICANS DEFEAT TEA PARTY….

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Romney Secures GOP Nod in Primary

Party-backed Republicans easily defeat Tea Party candidates to be delegates to their national convention.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took a big step in his quest to secure the GOP nomination with a five-state sweep on Tuesday, including a landslide victory in the Pennsylvania primary.
Romney easily outdistanced his opponents among Pennsylvania Republicans with 58 percent of the vote. Among Bucks County voters, the former Massachusetts governor also won big, securing 27,532 votes for 66.6 percent.
As of midnight, 9,165 out of 9,260 districts (98.97%) were reporting statewide while in Bucks County, 302 of the 304 districts have been counted.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum‘s (R-Pa.) decision to drop out of the race a few weeks ago handed Romney an expected victory in the primary. Despite dropping out of the race on April 10, Santorum was running second statewide with 18.4 percent of the vote. In Bucks County, Ron Paul finished second with 13.4 percent of the vote and Santorum was third at 11.6 percent.
May 01

10 TOP TWEETS FOR YOU…

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10,000 – 25,000+ #MayDay Protesters in NYC w/ Tons of Cops…. but #OWS is Dead. How’s the Teaparty Doing? #M1NYC#M1GS#OWS#p2

New At C&L: Mitt Romney, Then and Now: Osama Bin Laden Edition http://gocl.me/IwNAtH

Obama hails the future of a ‘new kind of relationship with Afghanistan http://on.msnbc.com/Ktna7m
Crowd estimates place size the #NYC march between 10,000 to 25,000. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?
Retweeted by TheNewDeal
SHOCKER: The Media is Downplaying #MayDay Protests. If it’s Not a Big Deal… Tell That to the Scores of Cops in NYC. #M1NYC#M1GS#OWS#p2
Employers could save billions by dropping workers from health plans, report shows http://fxn.ws/IExOMI#obamacare
Obama sees ‘clear path’ to end Afghan mission http://aje.me/Ktoffr
U.S. Marines accused of injuring Brazilian stripper http://thebea.st/JQFz29
Why Greece, Spain, and Portugal need to quit the Euro to save their economies: http://slate.me/IlcQPd
Apr 30

HOT TWEETS TO TWITT TO FRIENDS?

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WTC 1 officially becomes the tallest building in New York http://pic.twitter.com/bv4vO6hI

Obama, Japan PM speak with reporters http://usat.ly/IoqNQR
Barney Frank blasts Obama administration’s medical marijuana raids http://huff.to/JX6Xtx
The week’s biggest Apple rumors http://huff.to/JX7FXN
Getting richer and getting out of a recession are not the same thing: http://slate.me/Iim5zD #economics
Joe the Plumber snags endorsement from @AllenWest (by @josh_lederman) http://j.mp/JJiBWW #GOP
A new drug to manage resistant chronic pain http://bit.ly/Kv9wFb (ScienceDaily)
Top 5 Al Qaeda most wanted (PHOTOS) http://huff.to/J5knld
‘Khloe & Lamar‘ ending? Couple reportedly pull plug on own show http://huff.to/JwxVbY
New At C&L: Deifying Representative Ryan, Stage One http://gocl.me/JMXCX4
Proud to be working with Presidents Bush & Clinton to raise funds for the Flight 93 Memorial http://goo.gl/qv1Ii #neverforget
Looking back on the LA riots, 20 years later: http://ow.ly/aBQgo
After years in solitary, a mentally ill prisoner finally gets his day in court: http://mojo.ly/JW063I
John Bresnahan reports — Aaron Schock hit with FEC complaint: http://politi.co/IPtn0p
Can an ad encourage you to have “the talk” with your kids? (Oh, we mean the financial talk) | http://ti.me/ICpZVT (via @TIMEMoneyland)
Apr 30

ULTIMATE CAUSE REVEALS SCIENCE………..

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THE ALMIGHTY REVEALS SCIENCE TO THOSE WHO SEARCH -mackie
“Before I get to that point, I’ll say a few words by way of background about typical sex differences, because that’s the cradle out of which this new research comes. Many of you know that the topic of sex differences in psychology is fraught with controversy. It’s an area where people, for many decades, didn’t really want to enter because of the risks of political incorrectness, and of being misunderstood.
Perhaps of all of the areas in psychology where people do research, the field of sex differences was kind of off limits. It was taboo, and that was partly because people believed that anyone who tried to do research into whether boys and girls, on average, differ, must have some sexist agenda. And so for that reason a lot of scientists just wouldn’t even touch it. 
By 2003, I was beginning to sense that that political climate was changing, that it was a time when people could ask the question — do boys and girls differ? Do men and women differ? — without fear of being accused of some kind of sexist agenda, but in a more open-minded way.
First of all, I started off looking at neuroanatomy, to look at what the neuroscience is telling us about the male and female brain. If you just take groups of girls and groups of boys and, for example, put them into MRI scanners to look at the brain, you do see differences on average. Take the idea that the sexes are identical from the neck upwards, even if they are very clearly different from the neck downwards: the neuroscience is telling us that that is just a myth, that there are differences, even in terms of brain volume and the number of connections between nerve cells in the brain at the structure of the brain, on average, between males and females.
I say this carefully because it’s still a field which is prone to misunderstanding and misinterpretation, but just giving you some of the examples of findings that have come out of the neuroscience of sex differences, you find that the male brain, on average, is about eight percent larger than the female brain. We’re talking about a volumetric difference. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but that’s just a finding that’s consistently found. You find that difference from the earliest point you can put babies into the scanner, so some of the studies are at two weeks old in terms of infants.
You also find that if you look at postmortem tissue, looking at the human brain in terms of postmortem tissue, that the male brain has more connections, more synapses between nerve cells. It’s about a 30 percent difference on average between males and females. These differences are…  
By 2003, I was beginning to sense that that political climate was changing, that it was a time when people could ask the question — do boys and girls differ? Do men and women differ? — without fear of being accused of some kind of sexist agenda, but in a more open-minded way.”
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Apr 29

WHEN IN DOUBT CHECK IT OUT?

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BEWARE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. ~mackie
By now, little of what Allen West says ever surprises. He has called President Obama “a low level socialist agitator,” said anyone with an Obama bumper sticker on their car is “a threat to the gene pool” and told liberals like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Apparently, he gets his talking points from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or the discredited right wing rocker Ted Nugent.
But this time, we shook our heads in disbelief: “78 to 81 Democrats… members of the Communist Party?” That’s the moment the memory hole opened up and a ghost slithered into the room. The specter stood there, watching the screen, a snickering smile on its stubbled face. Sure enough, it was the ghost of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin farm boy who grew up to become one of the most contemptible thugs in American politics.
Back in the early 1950’s, the Cold War had begun and Americans were troubled by the Soviet Union’s rise as an atomic superpower.  Looking for a campaign issue, McCarthy seized on fear and ignorance to announce his discovery of a conspiracy within: Communist subversives who had infiltrated the government.
In speech after speech, McCarthy would hold up a list of names of members of the Communist Party he said had burrowed their way into government agencies and colleges and universities. The number he claimed would vary from day to day and when pressed to make his list public, McCarthy would stall or claim he accidentally had thrown it away.
Apr 28

ARE YOU USING ACLU?

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Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell phone location tracking. And now, after an unprecedented records request by ACLU affiliates around the country, we know that this method is widespread and often used without adequate regard for constitutional protections, judicial oversight, or accountability.

All cell phones register their location with cell phone networks several times a minute, and this function cannot be turned off while the phone is getting a wireless signal. The threat to personal privacy presented by this technology is breathtaking.

To know a person‘s location over time is to know a great deal about who a person is and what he or she values. As the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. explained:

TAKE ACTION Tell Congress: Support the GPS Act! »MAP: Is Your Local Law Enforcement Tracking Your Cell Phone’s Location?MORE What our Public Records Act Requests Sought »

“A person who knows all of another’s travels can deduce whether he is a weekly church goer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups — and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts.”

For much more click on: https://www.aclu.org/about-aclu-0

Apr 26

ROVE BULLISH ON OBAMA………….

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* Karl Rove is out with his first analysis of the 2012 electoral map. He’s pretty optimistic about President Obama’s chances, giving the incumbent a solid lead in 18 states and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney a solid lead in only 15. Interestingly, he has South Carolina, a state Obama lost by nine points in 2008, listed as a “toss-up.” Lest you think he’s just revving up Republicans, Rove was pretty accurate in 2008. But he’s also going to update his map as we get closer to the actual election.

* House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) responded to Catholic critics today at Georgetown University. Dozens of Catholic faculty members sent Ryan a letter chiding him for defending a budget plan that gives tax breaks to the rich while cutting programs for the poor. Ryan hit back at  “Catholics who for a long time have thought they had a monopoly of sorts, not exactly on heaven, but on the social teaching of our Church.”

* Vice President Joe Biden vigorously defended Obama’s record in a speech at New York University Law School today, telling students, “If you’re looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it’s pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” Biden attacked Romney as a flip-flopper stuck in a Cold War mentality.

* A former member of the National Labor Relations Board stopped advising Romney late last year, the candidate’s campaign said. Peter Schaumber is accused of getting confidential information from Terence Flynn, a current Republican NLRB member. He was advising Romney on labor issues.

Click on source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/karl-rove-map-good-for-obama/2012/04/26/gIQA8DQojT_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

Apr 26

NON WHITES FEAR VOTE NOT COUNTING…

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Brentin Mock on April 26, 2012 – 10:21 AM ET

It’s becoming more difficult for people to see how their vote is going to matter in the 2012 election. When states are increasingly passing voter ID laws that mandate voters prove they are citizens or that they are legitimate voters at the polls, while Super PACs are able to field millions of dollars, often from unidentified people, to influence elections, then democracy becomes less of a real thing to many people. A new survey from the Brennan Center for Justice shows majorities of Americans seeing Super PACs as corrupting forces on elections. There’s enough Super PAC distrust in the survey that many said they likely won’t vote. Evidently Bonnie Raitt isn’t the only person who feels, as she said in Rolling Stone, that “we have an auction instead of an election.”Voters of color certainly feel that way. In the Brennan survey, African-Americans and Latino Americans were more likely than whites to say they feel discouraged from voting due to the outsized influence of Super PACs, and who can blame them?  In many states, voters of color will have to go through the often user-unfriendly process of excavating birth and marriage documents, and then hoping there’s a DMV office close by that they can get to between shifts or after work hours, all to get ID cards that they otherwise wouldn’t need. Once done, they better hope their address doesn’t change (hope they’re not evicted, foreclosed upon or otherwise homeless), or that their name doesn’t change (hope they don’t get divorced), or if they are Latino, hope that their name is recorded correctly, or else they may get turned away after a long wait in line because the ID information doesn’t match with the registers.

For more click on:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167579/people-color-less-likely-vote-due-super-pac-influence

Apr 26

DISEASES THAT HAPPEN WITHOUT CONDOMS?

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The chances of getting an STD from unprotected sex that only lasts for one second are really low … but it may be possible. Certain infections are passed by skin-to-skin contact. We always warn people that brief contact is all that’s needed — but one second is really VERY brief! The risk of getting an infection would be higher if ejaculation happened or pre-cum or vaginal secretions were passed between partners during that one second of contact.

If you’re worried you might have an STD, the best thing you can do is get yourself tested. Contact your local Planned Parenthood health center to set up an appointment. When you get tested, you’ll be able to talk to a health care provider about exactly what happened — like, for example, if you had sex without a condom for one second — and they can help figure out what tests are right for you.

For more click on: http://asktheexperts.plannedparenthood.org/?p=4313&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_content=onesecondhbo&utm_campaign=ppfaq

Apr 26

PUTTING OLD FORMS BEHIND TO BECOME AWARE OF THE NOW…..

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UNIVERSE:  YOU WERE FORMED by your parents, sounds, sights, feelings, words, thoughts, peers, etc.,
THEY EVEN GAVE YOU YOUR NAME.  A wise one stated:
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”
Will we continue to live in that old form that labelled us?  Or WILL WE BECOME AWARE OF THE ETERNAL UNIVERSAL SPIRIT and begin to become the unique person we were meant to be?