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Tom Hayden: I support the November ballot initiative because our country's long drug war is a disaster and there is an alternative that is better for our health, safety and democratic process. ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
Georgianne Nienaber: There is no doubt that BP lied about the amount of oil being spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from Day One, no doubt that the EPA has obfuscated issues surrounding the use of the... ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
John Peeler: Obama appears determined that the wars not overwhelm his domestic agenda, even as, pragmatically, he cannot walk away from either without exposing himself to withering political attacks.... ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
om Degan: When there are no issues to distract the people from what really matters, just conjure up a boogie man that the half-witted masses can rally against. Seventy-five years ago the German... ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
Anthony Samad: Both Beck and Palin only became dissident voices in the last election cycle, so they wouldn’t have been factors in any Republican “rally” cry. The Republican party really has no “front... ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
Joseph Palermo: Saddam’s human rights record was not an adequate justification to go to war and the Bush Administration did not seriously try to make it one, until long after the war began and all... ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
By Lillian Taiz California Faculty Association Just under two weeks ago our CFA staff, while searching for financial information on the CSU Chancellor's website, stumbled across minutes of meetings involving the top financial leaders of the California State University. We were shocked to find that these minutes record comments by top executives of the CSU saying that auditors have found i...
California Progress Report - 8:30 a.m.
By James Clark ACLU of Southern California Declaring that “justice has been delayed too long,” California state and county officials this week rushed into court to request execution dates for the first time in almost five years. To some, it might sound like the government is finally doing what it needs to do to get executions moving forward. But in reality, they are ignoring the law, setti...
California Progress Report - 8:30 a.m.
By Maya Rupert National Center for Lesbian Rights If the goal of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, held in the same place and on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, was irony, Beck should be proud. While the rally was billed as nonpolitical, it was clearly the rhetoric of the Tea Party that was being espoused by Beck, Sarah Palin, and King’s niec...
California Progress Report - 8:30 a.m.
Over two years ago Marco Topete allegedly shot and killed Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Diaz. The evidence that this is occurred is quite strong and compelling. And yet from day one, this case has frankly been fumbled all over the field. On June 18, 2008, Mr. Topete was supposed to be arraigned in court on charges that included the first degree murder of a Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy....
The People's Vanguard of Davis - 8:29 a.m.
Despite never having heard his name before a year ago, British science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds has turned into one of my favorite authors. In the space of about 8 months (December 2009 through July 2010), I have read five of his novels, all of which are set in his Revelation Space universe. Those books are (in the order I read them) Revelation Space , Redemption Ark , Cha...
The Mad Professah Lectures - 8:29 a.m.
As a social scientist, you are always trained to view the world of data analysis through a set of skeptical and critical eyes. In the real world setting it makes you very skeptical of conclusions based on limited studies that do not introduce competing hypotheses and alternative conclusions. It is with those eyes I read Rich Rifkin's column in the Davis Enterprise. Without a lot of the work o...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - 5:01 a.m.
We present good brotha Elon James White BREAKING IT DOWN: Racism is over. Just in case you weren’t aware of it, host Elon James White in the 9th installment of This Week in Blackness’s season 3 breaks it down. Hopefully after this Blacks will finally get over it. We love Elon! For the WHOLE catalogue [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - 3:48 a.m. - 2 clicks 
Watch these two meat heads Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese and Log Cabin Republican executive director R. Clarke Cooper chitty chat on gay marriage with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball. And no, they didn’t trade recipes. It was a cute conversation, actually. Matthews is always entertaining when it comes to the subject of gayness. [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - 2:05 a.m.
Republicans in the state Assembly have penned a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal the recent ruling overturning California’s ban on gay marriage, says the Sacramento Bee newspaper. The 27 Republican legislators who signed a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger argued that by staying out of the case, Schwarzenegger and Brown will set a precedent that officials “may [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - 1:46 a.m. - 2 clicks
by Molly MacGuire The peace movement of this past decade was George Bush's tea parties. Amidst the gnashing of teeth and stomping of feet by peace movement types - people like me - expressing our frustrations, distrust and exasperation over this whole change in Iraq, there is something that has to be brought up. Whether it's just the appearance of the end of US combat after the 7 year war, or the...
OB Rag - 1:22 a.m. - 4 clicks
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF. If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in th...
Seeing the Forest - Wed 11:45 p.m.
Psst! Hey Ocean Beach. Quick - check this out! I just found Frank Gormlie's papers that he tried to burn recently, and they're entitled: "Secret Plans To Take Over the OB Town Council." It looks like he tried to burn them in the fireplace. But I rescued enough of the documents to put together where it was all headed. And it's not pretty. My name is George, and I'm Frank's brother, but we're est...
OB Rag - Wed 10:04 p.m. - 2 clicks
From The Atlantic Suddenly, it’s becoming less of a stigma for bigwigs to associate with gays in the Republican Party. Not only has former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman’s 9/22 fundraiser for gay marriage rights attracted numerous high-octane Republican donors and activists, but Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Rep. [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Wed 6:24 p.m.
Equality California has sponsored several bills which have made it through both houses of the California legislature this year and will be on Governor Schwarzenegger's desk, which he has to sign or veto by September 30th. They are: The Mental Health Services for At-Risk Youth bill (Leno) will increase LGBT youths’ access to counseling. The Repeal of Discrimina...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Wed 6:24 p.m. - 4 clicks
Top Democrats, including those within the Obama administration, are celebrating the first round of applicants accepted into the new Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, created as part of the landmark healthcare reform law enacted earlier this year. The program is designed to help make health coverage affordable for Americans aged 55 years and older but not [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Wed 4:46 p.m. - 2 clicks
Today Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is debating against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina . Boxer's campaign has also decided to do a netroots money bomb today , an attempt to get 10,000 individual donations. Boxer is an unabashed progressive, supports marriage equality and is a staunch environmentalist. Fiorina is a failed CEO who got 26 million dollars in a golden para...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Wed 4:46 p.m. - 5 clicks
NEW RELEASE 1 September 2010 By: Patrick Porgans Further Info: Contact Planetary Solutionaries at pp [at] planetarysolutionaries.org, 415-306-3317 Government Data Raises 'More Doubts About the Drought' California Agriculture Cashing In at Record Breaking Highs The Golden State’s agricultural earnings have reached historic highs during the so-called three-year drought. According to U...
Sacramento For Democracy - Wed 2:27 p.m. - 5 clicks
I hope this is the only time I'll ever say this: Carly Fiorina wins! The people have spoken, and our favorite failed CEO/Republican Senate candidate has received the equivalent of a Razzie award. That's right, she's been added as the People's Choice for Dirty Dozen member of the year. And rightfully so. I think of it like that episode of Friends where Monica has to be the best at everything and en...
California League of Conservation Voters - Wed 2:06 p.m. - 4 clicks
As President of the local chapter of Veterans For Peace, I submitted this response to Obama's speech as a letter-to-the-editor to the Sacramento Bee. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The President announced the end of "combat" operations in Iraq, but there really haven’t been many real combat operations for U. S. Soldiers this whole year - and we still lost more than 40 soldiers in 2010. The remaining 49,700 tr...
Sacramento For Democracy - Wed 12:09 p.m. - 6 clicks
Candidate Barack Obama pledged to end the war in Iraq. More than any other Presidential candidate during that long, long campaign - Obama was the most poised to declare himself as the anti-war candidate. And he did. And the peace movement and the left in general ate it up - for good reason. The peace movement had been in the streets protesting the Iraq invasion, war and occupation by Bush for 6 ...
OB Rag - Wed 12:09 p.m. - 5 clicks
Yesterday, the Governor's May Revision proposal to cut billions more from California's public schools was overwhelmingly rejected by the California State Legislature, falling 29 votes short of what was needed for passage. With $17 billion in cuts already made to public schools over the past two years, nearly 30,000 educators in California's public schools have been laid off - driving up...
California Majority Report - Wed 12:09 p.m. - 6 clicks
By Dan Aiello California Progress Report Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, expressed disappointment today in the Senate’s rejection of her bill to ban single-use carryout bags in California supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores. AB 1998 failed passage on a 14-21 vote. The Sacramento Bee's Susan Ferris reported last minute campaign contributions ahead of ...
California Progress Report - Wed 10:42 a.m. - 5 clicks
Editor: The local San Diego government watch-dog web site, the Voice of San Diego, has caught TV station KUSI working the spin machine in favor of opponents of Prop D, the sales tax increase. How Political Spin Became Fact on KUSI by Keegan Kyle/Voice of San Diego/ August 31, 2010 Here's a lesson from the budding campaign over Proposition D that shows how quickly political spin can become accept...
OB Rag - Wed 10:41 a.m. - 6 clicks
About the Downtown San Diego Registry Week The Downtown Partnership’s Board of Directors and its Social Issues Committee have teamed up with the nationally renowned organization Common Ground and its 100,000 Homes Campaign to administer a survey and create a by-name registry of everyone experiencing homelessness on the streets downtown. Local partners in this effort include the United Way, the Sa...
OB Rag - Wed 10:41 a.m. - 3 clicks
A Yale-sponsored conference about anti-Semitism hosted many blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. It is unconscionable for a center meant to study one form of racism to indulge speakers who practice another. Source: www.yaledailynews.com...
yaman's amateur ramblings - Wed 9:07 a.m. - 3 clicks
From Gaelick.com The only thing holding the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back, right now, is Museveni, who is afraid of losing support from Western donors. If there was a vote on it tomorrow, it would pass almost unanimously. To vote against it would be political suicide in Uganda. ~NPR A year ago, three American Evangelicals traveled to [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Wed 8:45 a.m. - 6 clicks
22-year old Army Intelligence Officer Private Brad Manning who is still being held in solitary confinement at a Quantico, Virginia, detention facility, has so far only been charged with leaking an airstrike video that the whistleblower website WikiLeaks published in April. According to CNN, his attorney says he doesn’t have any information indicating that Manning [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Wed 8:45 a.m. - 4 clicks
We noticed that all of the numerous LGBT news related outlets and blogs who’ve covered the petitioning by the Pacific Justice Institute on behalf of Pastor Joshua Beckley of San Bernardino’s Ecclesia Christian Fellowship—-to force the state’s Governor and the AG to defend Prop 8— none of them mention the ethnicity of Pastor Joshua Beckley. [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Wed 7:41 a.m. - 3 clicks
On January 20, we launched the Yolo Judicial Watch project as a focused effort to monitor and track cases that go through the Yolo County Judicial system. The idea was to report to the public on what happens in an area of our government that they often have limited access to. We do not have TV in our local courtrooms. We do not have regular news coverage either. Often all the public has t...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Wed 7:41 a.m. - 4 clicks
Steven Hill: So when the authorities say “a recovery is under way” or “stimulus rather than deficit reduction” or “deficit reduction instead of stimulus,” remember: These are the same experts who are... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m.
"These Senators visiting Fresno today don't seem to care that Carly Fiorina laid off 33,000 Hewlett-Packard employees and now she is offering pink slips to more than 2,700 educators in the Central... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 5 clicks
Gary Corseri: My house is foreclosed on, my job is outsourced, and my wife runs away with a banker. So…,I figure there’s nothing left to do but pack up the old mini-van, head on down to New Orleans... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m.
David Love: Burning the Holy Qur’an, bombing and burning mosques, banning houses of worship on private property, widespread denial of the president’s citizenship, efforts to nullify the Fourteenth... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 8 clicks
Tina Dupuy: While the debate about books by those who read had been centered on the iPad versus the Kindle – Dove World’s debate is the bible versus the kindling. Which makes bloodletting suddenly... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 2 clicks
Charles Hayes: Today I feel very differently about the Vietnam War than I did in my youth, but my own feelings of guilt during that time give me a unique kind of insight into the psychology of... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
Part 2 of Gabriel Buelna's interview with Father Boyle, founder and director of the largest gang intervention program in the country, Homeboy Industries. Fr. Boyle discusses ways the organization has... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
Georgianne Nienaber: Given the huge remaining humanitarian and economic crisis facing Haiti, it is puzzling that mainstream media in the United States short-changed coverage of former President Bill... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 4 clicks
By Anthony Wright Health Access The California Legislature completes the final two days of the 2009-10 session, major patient protection measures that implement and improve health reform have been passed, but several other key bills are still pending for final floor votes. Bills must be passed and sent to the Governor’s desk by the end of Tuesday, August 31st, 2010, or otherwise they die f...
California Progress Report - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 5 clicks
By Rebecca Greenberg California Labor Federation Much like her CEO pal Meg “Wall Street” Whitman, GOP Senate candidate “Corporate” Carly Fiorina has been pretending to be a friend to Latinos as of late, in a cynical ploy to garner votes. But the more Latinos learn about the real Carly , the less they like. The fact is, Fiorina’s positions on the issues that Latinos care most about, like i...
California Progress Report - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California The June defeat of Propositions 16 and 17 was welcomed news for Californians fed up with the use of the initiative process to advance narrow corporate interests. The lavish spending by PG&E ($46 million on Prop 16) and Mercury Insurance ($17 million on Prop 17) to increase their bottom lines at the public's expense only confirmed voters’...
California Progress Report - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
The City Council of Davis met behind closed doors on Tuesday night but made no decision to be reported. The meeting was posted as "public employee appointment," "interim city manager/ city manager." The council seems to feels no rush to make the appointment. The city manager last week made a surprise announcement that he was taking a job with Solano County. His final day working for the c...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Wed 5:50 a.m. - 7 clicks
My friend Batocchio of Vagabond Scholar is celebrating his 5-year blogiversary, and in stopping by to add my congrats, I read one of his fine posts, "We Cheat the Other Guy and Pass the Savings To You" . In it, he links to one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard, one that breaks my heart every time I hear or read it. It is by the President who got us out of the Great Depression, and gave...
Last Left Before Hooterville - Wed 2:27 a.m. - 4 clicks
Word comes today that heterosexual supremacist losers in the Perry v Schwarzenegger lawsuit are seriously worried about not having standing to appeal the federal lawsuit, so they have sued the state defendants Attorney General Jerry Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in state court in an attempt to force them to defend Proposition 8 . Brown has said both in legal filings and ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Tue 11:48 p.m. - 9 clicks
Yes I used the 'N' word, as a brown bitch I feel I can do that and fuck anyone that says different...and Obama used a lot of words that were bullshit in a bucket tonight during his prime time speechifying on the...cough..War in Iraq. From Obama and his minions I get this horseshit tonight: As Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, our commitment to a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq continues. Un...
My Right to be Left - Tue 8:28 p.m. - 8 clicks
The last of the combat troops pulled out of Iraq a couple of weeks or so ago. This evening, in an address to the nation, President Obama said “…tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Tue 7:04 p.m. - 3 clicks
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson 622 pages. Random House. $30. In a book that, quite amazingly, is her first, Ms. Wilkerson (a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times who is now professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Tue 6:01 p.m. - 3 clicks
Democrats will begin running a television ad on Tuesday in the no-holds-barred race to hold onto the seat of retiring Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.). The ad, paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), calls out GOP candidate Sean Duffy for his support for a leading Republican’s economic proposals, particularly Social Security privatization. Democratic [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Tue 3:45 p.m. - 4 clicks
One of them is, no doubt about it. My money is on the fuckwit Governor. You remember the recent story of the state of NJ losing out on a shitload of Federal education money because the assholes can't fill out their paperwork correctly. Well, the newly elected Rethug Chris Christie has tried to blame everyone, including the Obama administration , for their own fuckup. From TPM : Former Ne...
My Right to be Left - Tue 2:46 p.m.
by Dan Bacher The recently formed Ocean Access Protection Fund (OAPF) announced on August 31 the launch of its online contribution program through www.OceanAccessProtectionFund.org, allowing this division of United Anglers of Southern California (UASC) to collect online contributions for legal challenges against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative as we...
Sacramento For Democracy - Tue 2:04 p.m. - 4 clicks
Day 1 of the 2010 US Open is over with basically no upsets. Andy Roddick won on his 28th birthday. Also winning easily were Venus Williams and Roger Federer. Robin Soderling was up two sets and had match points against his 214-th ranked opponent when suddenly the kid refused to miss and Soderling ended up winning in a tough 5-setter. Day 2 of the US Open has begun...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Tue 1:27 p.m. - 4 clicks
If you’ve spent any length of time in an urban community in the U.S., I’m sure you’ve seen the ads on public transportation or heard the television commercials from schools where you can train to be a medical assistant or a computer technician. But before you or someone you know signs up for a “promising career” at one of those for-profit colleges, take heed! For-profit colleges have been around ...
OB Rag - Tue 11:47 a.m. - 2 clicks
By Ray McGovern President Barack Obama’s aides say his speech this evening marking the end of “combat operations” in Iraq will avoid the vainglorious aspects of President George W. Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003. We’ll see. On the chance Obama might be open to pivoting away from the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq and addressing honestly the worsening quagmire in Afghani...
OB Rag - Tue 11:20 a.m. - 2 clicks
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture . I am a Fellow with CAF. The President has a commission looking at ways to reduce the budget deficits which were caused by tax cuts for the rich and military spending increases. Social Security – which has no legal authority to borrow money, so it can't contribute to deficits – is on the ...
Seeing the Forest - Tue 10:07 a.m.
Bamboo Lounge - 1475 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92103 Don't miss the first and ONLY televised debate between Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger and former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina. ...
San Diego Politico - Tue 10:07 a.m. - 7 clicks
Covert Operations The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. by Jane Mayer On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he h...
Sacramento For Democracy - Tue 10:07 a.m. - 4 clicks
Come meet the OB Town Council of yesteryear ... of 1972. OB community activists were engaged in a stand-off with the then president Bob Miller. Here is a portion of the front page of the original OB Rag in March 1972. ...
OB Rag - Tue 8:09 a.m. - 2 clicks
Berry Craig: This lifelong Mayfield resident hopes the Somalis submit another petition and get a mosque. There are two shopping centers in town with several empty store buildings. ...
LA Progressive - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 2 clicks
Randy Shaw: Here’s a thought. What if the progressive media stopped reporting on every silly idea promoted by Sarah Palin and used that time to report on positive actions by the federal government to... ...
LA Progressive - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 8 clicks
By Randy Shaw Since President Obama took office, the Republican Party’s agenda has dominated the public debate. FOX News and right-wing talk radio decide what’s news, and the traditional media either echoes the story or is criticized for not doing so, as occurred when the New York Times Public Editor chastised the paper for inadequately covering right-wing falsehoods about ACORN. But progres...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 5 clicks
By David Greenwald The ongoing California budget crisis has put huge strains on large sectors of the economy as businesses and people are in financial trouble. In particular it is putting a huge strain on those entities that rely on state money to provide various services to the populations. The Vanguard has learned that several local Drug Treatment Facilities have stopped receiving...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Sam Gold eMeg has spent almost $91 million dollars of her own money to attempt to buy the governorship of California. After all ANYTHING is for sale on eBay, right? But after reading some recent articles in the SF Bay Guardian , I find myself asking, just precisely how much of that is dirty money, appropriated by unlawful or unethical means? eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, on Meg's watch...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Marc Solomon Equality California Crossposted from The Advocate The last few weeks in the California marriage battles have been at once hopeful and painful. First we rode an ecstatic wave upward: Judge Vaughn Walker issued a powerful opinion striking down Proposition 8, and we celebrated as couples made plans to get married across the state. Then we rode downward when a three-judge p...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Robert Cruickshank Having been born and raised in Orange County, one of my lifetime goals is to see it become a bastion of progressive politics. So I'm glad to see that today the New York Times is finally noticing Orange County is indeed becoming less right-wing and more Democratic: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Orange County has been a national symbol of conservatism for more than 50 years: b...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 8 clicks
Druliner Unloads on Davis Police Detective and Prosecutor in Case - The Vanguard has complained in the past of the sometimes misleading press releases coming out of the Office of the District Attorney, Yolo County. However, Monday's press release on the Michael Artz case really takes the cake. Nowhere does it mention that the jury acquitted Mr. Artz of the main charge, forced oral copul...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Tue 6:25 a.m. - 7 clicks
Steven Hill: Forget Barack Obama. Forget the Hu Jintao/Wen Jiaboa duo, or David Cameron or Vladimir Putin. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is the world’s most important leader. ...
LA Progressive - Tue 6:02 a.m.
Robert Fuller: The ill-effects of rigid work schedules, inequitable pay, and other demeaning practices are now the subject of a growing body of research documenting the damage done not only to... ...
LA Progressive - Tue 6:02 a.m. - 2 clicks
Brent Budowsky: Make no mistake, the party of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy is planning a new era of Nixonian and McCarthyite abuses to repeat the politics of persecution it attempted against the... ...
LA Progressive - Tue 6:02 a.m. - 3 clicks
Tracy Emblem: Implementing clean energy in California now - not twenty years from now - is a not only a public health issue -- it's a matter of economic survival. ...
LA Progressive - Tue 6:02 a.m. - 6 clicks
First 3-D Atomic View of Key Genetic Processes ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2010) — In a landmark study to be published in the journal Nature, scientists have been able to create the first picture of genetic processes that happen inside every cell of our bodies. Using a 3-D visualization method called X-ray crystallography, Song Tan, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biolo...
Sacramento For Democracy - Mon 9:42 p.m. - 2 clicks
Bill Noxid in Enough of the Myth of American Morality -- Awakening the Global Slave : "“They hate our Freedom” was all it took to convince the people of this county that brown people 5,000 miles away in caves with box cutters defeated the NSA, CIA, and United States Military, and ten years of evidence has yet to dissuade them from their delusional belief. The ignorance and hate emanating ...
Sacramento For Democracy - Mon 9:42 p.m. - 2 clicks
Stuff Alan Simpson Says.com Meet Alan Simpson. He wants to gut Social Security. And he's in charge of the future of Social Security. How's that? President Obama appointed him to lead a key Social Security commission. We don't know why either. 'I've made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know 'em too...We've reached a point now wh...
Sacramento For Democracy - Mon 9:42 p.m. - 2 clicks
September 2010 has been designated as “Salmon Month" by the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. To celebrate salmon month, SalmonAid (http://www.salmonaid.org) will be sponsoring a month-long series of exciting events, creating an opportunity to educate the public about what has gone so terribly wrong with California’s once bountiful salmon runs. "Salmon Water Now could not let Salmon Month ...
Sacramento For Democracy - Mon 9:42 p.m. - 12 clicks
We’re beginning to like this Ashburn guy. We like his ballsy-ness. According to On Top Magazine, California Senator Roy Ashburn sent a letter last week to CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to veto the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act bill, a pet project of Senator Mark Leno and EQCA. His reason? Ashburn feels the [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 11 clicks
A post over at BooMan Tribune caught my eye a short time ago, via Memeorandum. BooMan quotes a blurb from Robert Gibbs today on Politico: Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, Gibbs says: “I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. … Nobody had, in January of 2009, a [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 2 clicks
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF. America was formed as a government of, by and for We, the People . It says so right in the first words of our Constitution. To get that Constitution we rebelled against the King and England's aristocracy and their corp...
Seeing the Forest - Mon 5:50 p.m. - 3 clicks
Rep. John Boehner plans to criticize President Obama regarding the war in Iraq on the same day that Obama plans to address the nation about the end of combat operations in that nation. Boehner will deliver his remarks at a meeting of the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans service organization. It is being billed [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Mon 4:29 p.m. - 2 clicks
This is a letter sent to the Ocean Beach Town Council today, August 30th, requesting that they release their Bylaws and election procedures. I'm asking that the Council send a copy to some of the other community organizations, such as the Mainstreet Association, the Planning Board, or the Historical Society. ...
OB Rag - Mon 4:29 p.m. - 3 clicks
Laughing my brown ass off..from a poll paid for by CBS' 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, more folks believe in ghosts and ufo's than Sarah Palin being a good President : Do you think SARAH PALIN would have the ability to be an EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT? ALL REP. DEM. IND. LIB. &nb...
My Right to be Left - Mon 4:29 p.m. - 4 clicks
So, yesterday while I was at the Hollywood Bowl experiencing The Chemical Brothers throwdown, the Emmy Awards were being handed out a few miles away. Earlier in the day I made a bunch of predictions about who would win (mostly in the comedy categories). Here's the official list of winners : Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy -- Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family Ou...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Mon 3:46 p.m. - 11 clicks
From Behind The Mask How activists are using coalitions to promote LGBTI rights in Uganda. The kuchu movement is abuzz in Uganda. Kuchu is a (plural: kuchus) word, apparently of Swahili origin, that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Ugandans have minted to describe their identities. “We do not use the word ‘queer,’” explains [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Mon 11:47 a.m. - 5 clicks
Still buying into the false belief that most public retirees are getting rich by the minute and taking advantage of you with their outrageously enormous pensions? Wake up and face reality! First, most of the money that funds public employee … Continue reading → ...
California Notes - Mon 11:46 a.m. - 2 clicks
Does the White house know that the mid-term elections are just over two months from now? I wonder if someone can wake up the President and ask him to start making a case? So far the Dems are just letting Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh make the case. This is not good for the country. ...
Seeing the Forest - Mon 9:50 a.m. - 4 clicks
ALL DETAILS AND LINKS INSIDE: _______________ OB Restaurants, bars and coffee houses promote themselves in new association _______________ Obecians get new pipes, more torn-up streets, and eventually, a better flow _______________ "Terriers" Spent $20 Million in San Diego - Set to Air Sept 8th _______________ COSTCO-Lowe's also wants Midway Postal Center _______________ Point Loma Planners approve...
OB Rag - Mon 9:50 a.m. - 9 clicks
Joe Biden is celebrating with the so-called government of Iraq today, commemorating the end of our ..cough..military mission there. From the CNN link: Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Monday to participate in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. combat mission there, according to the White House. While in the country, Biden will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki...
My Right to be Left - Mon 9:50 a.m. - 4 clicks
By Traci Sheehan Planning and Conservation League Two long sought after bills are nearing the finish line in the legislature before heading to the Governor's desk. These policies could be huge victories for both public health and the environment, but both face intense lobbying from the American Chemistry Council. Senate Bill 797 (Pavley) bans from children's products the toxic chemical...
California Progress Report - Mon 8:08 a.m. - 2 clicks
What Can Obama Really Do? | Ian Welsh So here's what you do. As the Federal Reserve you sell $100 billion of the toxic waste on the open market. Set an actual price for it. Then you make the banks mark their assets to market value. They go bankrupt. You nationalize them. (Why not? They are actually bankrupt after all, and they haven't increased lending like they were supposed to; in ...
Seeing the Forest - Mon 8:07 a.m. - 2 clicks
Armon Adibi is a natural bodybuilder from Dallas, Texas . I first noticed him at Dark Flex . On his Model Mayhem page, he lists himself at 5'10", 240 pounds and was born November 2, 1983. He is a bit bigger than most of the models we feature here, but he is definitely still Eye Candy. ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Mon 1:23 a.m. - 8 clicks
It's no secret that the nonprofit Small Business Action Committee endorsed Meg Whitman's campaign for governor back in March. But are the television ads that the group is now running, seen all across the state, actually a message to vote … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Mon 12:25 a.m. - 2 clicks
By Dan Aiello California Progress Report In what may turn out to be this year's most memorable legislative fight in Sacramento, Assembly Bill 1998, the single-use plastic bag ban introduced by Democrat Julia Brownley of Santa Monica, is scheduled for a Senate floor vote Monday, just one day before the legislature wraps up. If a legislator managed to miss the television ads placed o...
California Progress Report - Sun 3:23 p.m. - 11 clicks
Obama's opponents say he has "increased spending" and "increased the debt." Can you provide any specifics? WHAT spending has increased? Has Obama increased or decreased borrowing from when Bush was president? Seriously, please answer in the comments. ...
Seeing the Forest - Sun 3:22 p.m. - 5 clicks
The Other Half and I saw Steve Carell 's non-bomb summer film, Despicable Me , last Sunday at a matinee at our usual theater in Alhambra. The film is well-animated and is well-voiced by Steve Carell. The story features three ridiculously adorable girls and a story arc that surprisingly heartwarming for a movie where the main character is named Gru and aspires to be the ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Sun 12:09 p.m. - 12 clicks
The 2010 Prime Time Emmy Awards are tonight. The two biggest awards of the night are the Series awards. Previously I discussed which of the nominees I actually watch . Here are my predictions for the Comedy Series and Drama Series winners. OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES Glee Modern Family Curb Your Enthusiasm Nurse Jackie 30 Rock The Office SHOULD WIN: ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Sun 12:09 p.m. - 5 clicks
I have always said it wasn't Katrina, it was the Army Corp of Engineers that caused the flooding and deaths in New Orleans after Katrina hit the gulf. Lots of scientists and just regular folk agreed with me. What makes this whole thing worse and downright fucking nauseating is that the Army Corp of Engineers rebuilt the levee's as fucked up as the first set. I wrote about that bullshitt...
My Right to be Left - Sun 10:22 a.m. - 2 clicks
The public concern with risk and dangerousness in the context of release always sparks lively debates, much of which focus on the management and containment of sex offenders. It is therefore curious that two recent new items, relating to release practices, have retained relatively low profiles. The first one is related to psychological evaluation of parolees. Part and parcel of the release of any...
California Correctional Crisis - Sun 8:28 a.m. - 4 clicks
Both the Irish and Middle Eastern conflicts figure prominently in American domestic politics — yet both have played out in very different ways. A must read piece by Ali Abunimah in NYT. Source: www.nytimes.com...
yaman's amateur ramblings - Sat 11:49 p.m. - 5 clicks
Glenn Beck Leads Religious Rally at Lincoln Memorial . Here's the thing. Beck promotes both Christianity and Ayn Rand, but his followers don't know that Rand strongly promoted atheism, teaching things like this : "the concept of God is degrading to men." this : There is a great, basic contradiction in the teachings of Jesus. Jesus was one of the first great teachers to proclaim t...
Seeing the Forest - Sat 5:29 p.m. - 2 clicks
The Chron reports : Prison guards shot into a crowd to stop 200 rioting inmates at California's Folsom State Prison, wounding five, authorities said Saturday. Another two inmates were injured by other prisoners during Friday's riot, which began at about 7 p.m. in the main exercise yard and ended after 30 minutes. Prison spokesman Lt. Anthony Gentile said officers fired after other efforts to br...
California Correctional Crisis - Sat 5:05 p.m. - 12 clicks
Have you heard it on the news About this fascist groove thang Evil men with racist views Spreading all across the land Don't just sit there on your ass Unlock that funky chaindance Brothers, sisters shoot your best We don't need this fascist groove thang Brothers, sisters, we don't need this fascist groove thang History will repeat itself Crisis point we're near the hour...
Seeing the Forest - Sat 4:29 p.m. - 5 clicks
We went into health care reform looking to free ourselves from a predatory industry that was harming us and the country, and get ourselves Medicare-For-All. We came out the other side with all of us ordered to buy health insurance from the predatory health insurers. This has been another chapter in democracy v.s. predatory corporatist plutocracy. ...
Seeing the Forest - Sat 4:29 p.m. - 2 clicks
By Assemblymember Julia Brownley SACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly address, Assemblymember Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Education, reports that California college students are caught between a rock and a hard place; instead voting for a responsible budget, Republican leaders are saying they would rather delay crucial Cal Grants because they want to...
California Progress Report - Sat 10:02 a.m. - 13 clicks
Republicans have spent the last 20 months hammering the American poor and unemployed at nearly every turn. From the economic stimulus, to extension of unemployment benefits, Republicans have tried only to stand in the way of offering any help to those who borne the worst of the Great Recession. They have done so only for [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Sat 10:02 a.m. - 5 clicks
For someone who claims to care about business, it looks like she should find one. From CityBeat : City Council candidate’s small business was dissolved months ago District 6 candidate Lorie Zapf listed only one business interest: “Zapf & Associates, Inc.,” a corporation engaged in “consulting, creative, sales” activities. She listed herself as the president and CEO. CityBeat has learned that...
San Diego Politico - Sat 7:48 a.m. - 5 clicks
Those Seven Dirty Words are back.. from Jurist : The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday appealed [PDF] a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the agency's television indecency rule is unconstitutionally vague in violation of the First Amendment. The July appellate court decision further held that the FCC's rule, which allowed broa...
My Right to be Left - Sat 7:05 a.m. - 4 clicks
From the CDP: SBAC Using Its 501(c)(4) Status to Hide Donors While Engaging in 527 Advocacy Sacramento – The California Democratic Party today announced it will file an official complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against a group supporting Republican Meg Whitman’s run for governor by waging dishonest attack ads against Jerry Brown. The complaint will allege that the “Small Business Acti...
San Diego Politico - Fri 9:25 p.m. - 9 clicks
An alliance of U.S. truck drivers and environmental, labor, community, faith, civil rights and public health groups cheered the news that a federal judge on Thursday lifted an injunction and upheld the Los Angeles Clean Truck Program in its entirety. The coast-to-coast coalition of more than 125 organizations has advocated for L.A.’s award-winning model, and [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Fri 7:07 p.m. - 10 clicks
I was reading the Bee this morning about the GOP Convention in San Diego over the weekend. The lead story was the GOP finally has a leader in Whitman. Even though some of the birthers and tea party, anti- immigration, Prop 8 activists are not happy with Meg, she seems to have unified the GOP party and will campaign as a team. Campaigning as a team will help the down ticket candidates if s...
California Majority Report - Fri 3:49 p.m. - 12 clicks
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF. When we pack up a factory here -- and all of its jobs and supply chain and its support/.maintenance structure -- and send it all over there to a country that doesn't have the wage and safety and environmental protecti...
Seeing the Forest - Fri 3:28 p.m. - 4 clicks
The swift and sudden force of the Virginia-based American Chemistry Council's campaign against a bill in the California legislature that would ban single use plastic bans has led the bill's author, environmental champion and Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, to remark "I've never witnessed this kind of opposition to a bill." The deadline for the bill to pass the Senate is Tuesday, which is why the che...
California League of Conservation Voters - Fri 1:25 p.m. - 10 clicks
Anna Paquin , 28, and Stephen Moyer , 40, got married in Malibu, CA Saturday August 21. Paquin, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 in The Piano stars as Sookie Stackhouse in HBO's hit vampire series True Blood (created by Six Feet Under 's Alan Ball). Moyer co-stars in the series as Bill Compton, her vampire love interest. The two have been dating ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Fri 10:06 a.m. - 13 clicks
Actually, my time in Oklahoma wasn't a horror story until I found a tick on my tit. Being a city girl, I freaked the fuck out and ran screaming over to my son's landlord, who lives next door, begging her to get it off of me. She took a pair of tweezers and jerked the little blood sucker off, then told me where they like to 'hide' on the human body, the warmest regions...use your imagination and I ...
My Right to be Left - Fri 10:06 a.m. - 4 clicks
The temperature outside the state Capitol these days is less important than the temperature inside, as the budget and the final push on legislation leave everyone sweating it out. On this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we check in on the … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Fri 10:06 a.m. - 2 clicks
From Jim Abbot at the Gay and Lesbian Times : Like Lucille Ball after any number of harebrained schemes gone awry, The San Diego Association of Realtors (SDAR) “has some ‘splainin’ to do” over its recent endorsement in the Sixth District San Diego City Council race of on-the-record mega-hater Lorie Zapf. As reported by SD Citybeat reporter Justin MacLachlan on March 9, 2010, Republican Zapf’s ...
San Diego Politico - Fri 7:49 a.m. - 8 clicks
As the week comes to a close, two of the state's dominant political stories -- the ongoing budget saga and the race for governor -- both seemed to lurch into a new gear. One low, the other high. One more … Continue reading » ...
Capital Notes - Thu 11:42 p.m. - 6 clicks
The fervent anti-government populism of the so-called tea party movement way well provide Republicans with short-term gains in the 2010 midterm elections, but it isn’t enough to establish the GOP as a majority party in the long run, according to a left-leaning political analyst. Ongoing shifts in demographics, such growth in minority voters, young voters, [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Thu 5:44 p.m. - 7 clicks
The 2010 US Open starts on Monday, so the men's and women's draws have been released. Savannah at Craig Hickman's Tennis Blog posted them and an online discussion is beginning. The Men The top seed is Rafael Nadal , who is trying to complete his career slam after winning Wimbledon and Roland Garros this year. A 14-match Grand Slam winning streak is nothin...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Thu 5:27 p.m. - 4 clicks
Our readers might be interested in the special issue of Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences , devoted to mass incarceration. The coverage is quite extensive and includes pieces by the best known names in the field. This might make an excellent read for people interested in more background on the big picture, comparative trends, seeing the incarceration cris...
California Correctional Crisis - Thu 4:25 p.m. - 2 clicks
Ken Mehlman , 44, a longtime Republican political operative, protege of the truly odious Lee Atwater and former chair of the Republican National Committee, Political Director in the George W. Bush White House and campaign manager of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election effort has finally acknowledged his homosexuality publicly , after being outed by Mike Rogers years ago and in ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Thu 12:24 p.m. - 9 clicks
Trashcan Annie and the WND dipshit, Joey Farah, are fighting it out publicly? Both of these toiletbowl turds are as useful as tits on a bullfrog...so why so much press for them both on the topic of gays and party affiliation? From the TPM link: This story is just begging for some sarcastic 'strange bedfellows' remark. Last week World Net Daily made headlines after it ann...
My Right to be Left - Thu 11:20 a.m. - 2 clicks
A few days ago we reported on Leland Yee's Senate bill aimed at allowing juveniles sentenced to life without parole to ask the court to reconsider their sentences. Yesterday, the bill was rejected by the Assembly. A motion was made by Assemblymember Fuentes to reconsider, so this may resurface again. The rejection is regrettable, given the fact that this would not be a sweeping change and woul...
California Correctional Crisis - Thu 9:03 a.m. - 5 clicks
