West Virginia
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9:28 p.m.
Elly and I volunteered to turn out the houselights and do the head count at Shepherdstown Film Society tonight at 7:00 (Reynolds Hall at Shepherd U. – FREE). The film is Atlantic City with Burt Lancaster,,,one I haven’t seen in a couple of decades. That means we can’t go to the opening of Sweeney Todd, [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - 1:30 p.m.
Reblogged from : Original Post On Overseas Civilian Contractors. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Secretly monitored the private emails of staff scientists and doctors who complained to Congress that the agency was approving dangerous medical devices for public use, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the staff members. Infosecurity January 31, 2012 The [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Thu 4:09 p.m.
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” - Mark Twain One of the options you have when you’re retired like me is to spend time watching the members of Congress debate on C-Span. Indeed, watching them deal with legislation on Budget, Education, Health and other [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Thu 10:21 a.m.
Punxatawney Phil is predicting 6 more weeks of winter… however, if it is six weeks of a winter like we’ve been having, then Phil is living in a dream world. It’s supposed to be colder today, but yesterday, on the first day of February (called February Fools day for those following Mitt Romney‘s gaffes about [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Thu 5:50 a.m.
Thanks to MSNBC: Treating scrap meat with ammonium hydroxide creates a pink goo that is used to extend meat products like chicken and beef and to kill bacteria. By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com McDonald’s confirmed that it has eliminated the use of ammonium hydroxide — an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Wed 10:43 a.m.
I assume this was said in error… but there are many who say that such accidents let out the true beliefs of torchbearers. “By the way, I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor…” -Mitt Romney, February 1st, 2012, while talking on the air to Soledad O’Brien [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Wed 10:22 a.m.
Reblogged from Millard Fillmore's Bathtub: Suzanne Bonamici won the Congressional seat for Oregon’s North Coast in a special election Tuesday, Oregon Congressional District 1. She had 54% of the vote, in an area that often votes Democrat and supported Barack Obama in 2008. She will replace Rep. David Wu, a Democrat who resigned after he [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Wed 5:49 a.m.
From United Steelworkers president Leo W. Gerard (also covered by Ed Schultz's show today): On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century Aluminum smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va. In tents and under tarps, a small group stays overnight, despite hypertension, arthritis and other old age ailments....
West Virginia Blue - Tue 5:46 p.m. - 14 clicks 
Reblogged from Tribune of the People: The pace of US economic growth increased in the final three months of 2011, according to official figures.The economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.8%, the Commerce Department said.This was up from the 1.8% annual rate recorded in the previous quarter, although it was slightly lower than the [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Tue 5:01 p.m.
Did you hear some of the people who are going to run as Republicans in WV this cycle? One of my particular favorites is Delegate Brian Savilla (R-Putnam). He really thinks he can beat Secretary of State Natalie Tennant. So, let's do a brief analysis of Savilla's work in the WV House of Delegates, shall we? Perhaps the most amusing is this one from last session: HB 3081 --- "Permitting the use ...
West Virginia Blue - Tue 10:03 a.m.
Chesapeake Energy gives money to community groups until the community groups turn against fracking. Check out the story just published in Corporate Crime Reporter. ...
West Virginia Blue - Tue 10:03 a.m.
Unbelievable that not only is he co-sponsoring the bill to authorize the Keystone Pipeline, he was the ONLY Democrat to do so. I am officially ashamed of him. I am reminded of the Democratic Convention in '08, when he spoke and oh so carefully avoided any mention of then candidate Obama, he was so wary of aligning himself with him. I was shamed into voting for him by my fellow Democrats, but you k...
West Virginia Blue - Tue 10:03 a.m. - 12 clicks
“The Truth is the New Lie.” - a line from the Canadian TV Series Slings & Arrows. What is Truth? What is a Lie? We have been listening to Mitt and Newt go after each other, accusing each other of lying with statements that are obviously true. The assumption is that the voters will believe [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Tue 8:49 a.m.
Earlier it was a perennial GOP candidate who lives in Florida and has to fly in to Maryland to make his campaign announcement, and now the Republicans give us an attorney general candidate who wasn't even licensed to practice law in the state until last week . The Republican running to be the state's chief lawyer was not licensed to practice law in West Virginia until last week, according to re...
West Virginia Blue - Tue 8:49 a.m. - 16 clicks
From Yahoo News: Several weeks ago, Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center told Fox Business host Eric Bolling that “The Muppets,” the new movie starring Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, had a liberal agenda. “It’s amazing how far the left will go … to manipulate your kids to … give them the [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Tue 7:41 a.m.
“If his predecessor cursed Obama by handing him a depression and two wars, the Good Lord has blessed him with the weakest field of opponents in memory. I stand by my early assessment: when I look at the economy, I think Obama can’t win, but when I look at the Republicans, I think he can’t [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Mon 5:29 a.m.
Signe Wilkinson in The Courier-Journal: One of these days, Newt, POW…. - and - Chan Lowe in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Are his hopes up in the air? - and - David Horsey in the L. A. Times: He’ll treat us like family… - and - Lee Judge in the Kansas City Star: But he’s [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Sun 7:00 a.m.
On nights when nothing I am interested in is on television, I have been going on line and revisiting favorite BBC channel series from the previous decade. I’m halfway through the three year series (six episodes each year) of the great Canadian series Slings & Arrows, the story of a Shakespearian theatre festival in Ontario, [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Sat 5:28 p.m.
I’m in the outer studio at WSHC FM getting my playlist ready for the 11 AM show (we’re up until 1:00 PM.) The station is 89.7 for those of you within 50 miles or so from Shepherd University (our owner) and on the internet at http://www.897wshc.org. Feel free to tune in… or call in at [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Sat 7:46 a.m.
In the National polls concerning Latinos, it doesn’t look good for Mitt or Newt or the rest: Washington Post national poll, December 28, 2011: Obama 68 Romney 23 ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions, 9/30-10/9: Obama 61 Generic Republican 17 PPP, 9/30: Obama 67 Romney 29 Latinos are, in general, disappointed in the lack of progress on immigration reform. [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Sat 6:21 a.m.
… but I knew two of them were clearly going to end up on the list when I saw them. Unfortunately they are competing against each other. I enjoyed them both with equal enthusiasm. Hugo was a salute to the early film industry in France (the fantastic films of Georges Melies) with chase and mystery [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 27
While he makes the budget balanced as President, Newt Gingrich has now promised to put a US base on the moon… by the end of his second term! The two problems with this are 1.) the cost would blow us even deeper into debt, and 2.) we have to elect Newt for Two Terms! Now [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 27
He was once heralded as the greatest British actor of his generation. Nicol Williamson was known for stormy onstage behavior- including calling off a 1969 performance of “Hamlet” mid-speech because he was too tired to go on. “I’ll pay for the seats, but I won’t shortchange you by not giving my best.” said Williamson. And [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 26
Akismet, the spam removal software that’s put up by WordPress for bloggers using their program, is very efficient in removing comments that are meaningless, or advertising, or just inappropriate. However, I check all spam comments to make sure no legitimate comments have been accidentally taken out ( less than 1% of them… pretty good record). [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 26
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Under The LobsterScope - Jan 25
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Under The LobsterScope - Jan 25
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Under The LobsterScope - Jan 25
The United Mine Workers of America marks the 122nd anniversary of its creation and continues to stand strong for coal miners and working people across the state and nation. ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 25
From Think Progress: Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants To Outlaw Use Of Human Fetuses In Production Of Food By Adam Peck on Jan 24, 2012 at 7:40 pm Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey (R) Oklahoma GOP State Senator Ralph Shortey is on a mission to finally put an end to his state’s allegedly rampant cannibalism problem. Alarmed after [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 25
Just once, after a State of the Union message, I’d like to get the sense that the member of the opposing party making the comments on the President’s speech had listened to it. Gov. Mitch Daniels (R – Indiana) was the opposition leader commenting last night, and he was content to give a list of [...] ...
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 25
Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate than the average West Virginian and he "earned" $46 million while telling people he's unemployed . He doesn't work for a living because he inherited a lot of money and just owning lots of money helps him make even more ridiculous amounts of money that are taxed at a lower rate than the rest of us who pay our fair share and work for a living . That mo...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
CLICK HERE In the Organic Consumers Association blog, the report concerns Monsanto shareholder (and organic food activist) Adam Eidinger. A clip: Eidinger, who organized last October’s a 100 person, 313 mile “Right2Know March” from New York City to the White House for federally mandated GMO food labeling says: “With the rise or Round-Up resistant ‘superweeds‘ [....
Under The LobsterScope - Jan 24
Paper of Record , and sometimes the truth. In a second development on Friday, the justices blocked a decision of a federal court in West Virginia in another election case while the justices consider an appeal. The West Virginia case concerns whether that state's three House districts must be absolutely equal in population. There was some Texas stuff in there, too, now that Gov. Perry is ba...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 20
While West Virginia coal-fed politicians haven't wanted coal operators held accountable for poisoning West Virginia, the law says otherwise . Ken Ward Jr.: In federal court down in Huntington, attorneys for the Sierra Club and other groups have just filed copies of a major lawsuit settlement that insiders are saying could require Patriot Coal to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to treat ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
West Virginians will rally February 1, 2012 at 7 pm at the Earth Dog Cafe in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. They will rally for the corporate death penalty -- say goodbye to private health insurance corporations. Check out the poster and story here. ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
Remember when people in Charleston made fun of how often Sen. John Unger (D) would bring up Mother Teresa? That's how many of us feel about how often Sen. Joe Manchin whenever he misuses and overuses the words "common sense." ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
China has become more capitalistic and worried about the long-term effects of climate change on its economy than the West Virginia coal apparatchiks who rise and cheer in support of the coal industry despite the massive harm it is doing to the state and the people. Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, s...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
Gazette: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hulett Carlson Smith, West Virginia's governor from 1965 to 1969, whose term was marked by several disasters and the state's first attempt to regulate the strip mining industry, died on Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 93. He had a hand in one of the things we can truly be proud of, when it comes to W.Va. government: He also signed legislation a...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
From the Daily Kos: • WV-Sen: Hahahahahahahahah! Oh, too, too priceless! Uber-rich businessman John Raese received a ton of crap last year (deservedly so) for actually being a resident of Florida while running for Senate in West Virginia. (Here's a sample DSCC ad.) So how did he launch his bid for a rematch against Dem Sen. Joe Manchin, the guy who thoroughly beat him last year? "It just seemed...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
So one redistricting plan introduced by Sen. John Unger would put the two Panhandles together in one Congressional district. This has the advantage of putting the two areas the rest of the state would like to get rid of into one Congressional District and leave the State of Kanawha intact. The disadvantage is it doesn't put Capito up against McKinley, although some say that's a feature and not a b...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 16
The long-time attorney general filed his certificate of announcement with the WV SOS on Monday. His campaign site is here. No word on who the big business/Chamber-backed challenger he typically faces will be, but with Citizens United in effect, you can be sure one is coming. ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 13
Despite being rejected by W.Va. voters in 1984, 1988, 2006 and 2010, Florida Republican and minimum wage opponent John Raese can't take 'no' for an answer, and is ready to waste the millions he inherited on yet another futile effort. State Journal: John Raese, who ran against Joe Manchin to complete Robert C. Byrd's unexpired U.S. Senate term in 2010, has filed to run for the same seat in 201...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 12
Help! This could be the dominant meme between now and November. Can you please take a look and help spread this? I just bought time on Union Leader in NH. ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 11
Glad the state kept working on maps . More at the State Journal : The Jan. 10 order struck the original Jan. 17 deadline given in the memorandum opinion and gave the state the responsibility to come up with new deadlines for the upcoming May 8 election. Attorneys filed the motion for a stay Jan. 6, which would clarify rules the state would work under while waiting for an appeal to the...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 10
