harvard princeton yale bullets bombs and broccoli

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love, 99
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i want you to take another look at this

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I am upset that Digital Globe has not published any more recent images than this, but, really, all you need to do is study this image carefully, put it together with what you know about radiation, and what you know about physical reality, and you can tell for sure the crap coming over the news wires is balderdash. This is every bit as egregious as the Gulf Blowout, and more. WHAT is really going on?

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This image is from two days ago. Note that No. 3 looks considerably worse even than the horrifying it was ten days ago.




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As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.

The agency now notorious for its infamous claim that the air was safe to breathe after 9/11 is now seeking to raise the PAGs (Protective Action Guides) to levels vastly higher than those at which they are currently set allowing for more radioactive contamination of the environment and the general public in the event of a radioactive disaster.

PAGs are policies established by the EPA that guide the agency in enforcing the various environmental laws such as the Clean Air and Water Act in the invent of a radioactive emergency such as a nuclear/dirty bomb or factory meltdown like that occurring in Japan.

Hey, it's like the debt ceiling, get it?

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love, 99
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fiddling while hell freezes over

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Jackasses.

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world gone mad

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What you get when you scream "racist" at people and plant fake racists at their rallies to try to smear them for your political gain. Yessir. It's what you get. Martin would be appalled, and not as appalled by Beck's twisted observance as with the low tricks used on our brothers and sisters.

Beck: Help us restore traditional American values
By PHILIP ELLIOTT and NAFEESA SYEED, Associated Press Writers – 27 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking King's legacy held their own rally and march.

While Beck billed his event as nonpolitical, conservative activists from around the nation said their show of strength was a clear sign that they can swing elections across the country and much of the country is angry with what many voters call an out-of-touch Washington.

Palin told the tens of thousands who stretched from the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the grass of the Washington Monument that calls to transform the country weren't enough. "We must restore America and restore her honor," said the former Alaska governor, echoing the name of the rally, "Restoring Honor."

Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008 and a potential White House contender in 2012, and Beck repeatedly cited King and made references to the Founding Fathers. Beck put a heavy religious cast on nearly all his remarks, sounding at times like an evangelical preacher.

"Something beyond imagination is happening," he said. "America today begins to turn back to God."

Beck exhorted the crowd to "recognize your place to the creator. Realize that he is our king. He is the one who guides and directs our life and protects us." He asked his audience to pray more. "I ask, not only if you would pray on your knees, but pray on your knees but with your door open for your children to see," he said.

A group of civil rights activists organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton held a counter rally at a high school, then embarked on a three-mile march to the site of a planned monument honoring King. The site, bordering the Tidal Basin, was not far from the Lincoln Memorial where Beck and the others spoke about two hours earlier.

Sharpton and the several thousand marching with him crossed paths with some of the crowds leaving Beck's rally. People wearing "Restoring Honor" and tea party T-shirts looked on as Sharpton's group chanted "reclaim the dream" and "MLK, MLK." Both sides were generally restrained, although there was some mutual taunting.

One woman from the Beck rally shouted to the Sharpton marchers: "Go to church. Restore America with peace." Some civil rights marchers chanted "don't drink the tea" to people leaving Beck's rally.

Sharpton told his rally it was important to keep King's dream alive and that despite progress more needs to be done. "Don't mistake progress for arrival," he said.

He poked fun at the Beck-organized rally, saying some participants were the same ones who used to call civil rights leaders troublemakers. "The folks who used to criticize us for marching are trying to have a march themselves," he said. He urged his group to be peaceful and not confrontational. "If people start heckling, smile at them," Sharpton said.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress, said she remembers being at King's march on Washington in 1963. "Glenn Beck's march will change nothing. But you can't blame Glenn Beck for his March-on-Washington envy," she said.

Beck has said he did not intend to choose the King anniversary for his rally but had since decided it was "divine providence." He portrayed King as an American hero.

Sharpton and other critics have noted that, while Beck has long sprouted anti-government themes, King's famous march included an appeal to the federal government to do more to protect Americans' civil rights.

The crowd — organizers had a permit for 300,000 — was a sea of people standing shoulder to shoulder across large expanses of the Mall. The National Park Service stopped doing crowd counts in 1997 after the agency was accused of underestimating numbers for the 1995 Million Man March.

It was not clear how many tea party activists were in the crowd, but the sheer size of the turnout helped demonstrate the size and potential national influence of the movement.

Tea party activism and widespread voter discontent with government already have effected primary elections and could be an important factor in November's congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative races.

Lisa Horn, 28, an accountant from Houston, said she identifies with the tea party movement, although she said the rally was not about either the tea party or politics. "I think this says that the people are uniting. We know we are not the only ones," she said. "We feel like we can make a difference."

Ken Ratliff, 55, of Rochester, N.Y., who served as a Marine in the Vietnam War, said he is moving more in the tea party direction. "There's got to be a change, man," he said.

Palin told the crowd she wasn't speaking as a politician. "I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier and I am proud of that distinction. Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet and you can't take that away from me." It was a reference to her son, Track, 20, who served a yearlong deployment in Iraq.

Palin likened the rally participants to the civil rights activists from 1963. She said the same spirit that helped them overcome oppression, discrimination and violence would help this group as well.

"We are worried about what we face. Sometimes, our challenges seem insurmountable," Palin said. "Look around you. You're not alone."

Beck paced on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spoke through a wireless microphone headset. "For too long, this country has wandered in darkness. ... Today we are going to concentrate on the good things in America, the things that we have accomplished — and the things that we can do tomorrow."

In one of his many references to King, Beck noted that he had spent the night before in the same Washington hotel where King had put the finishing touches on his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Clarence B. Jones, who served as King's personal attorney and his speechwriter, said he believes King would not be offended by Beck's rally but "pleased and honored" that a diverse group of people would come together, almost five decades later, to discuss the future of America.

Jones, now a visiting professor at Stanford University, said the Beck rally seemed to be tasteful and did not appear to distort King's message, which included a recommitment to religious values.

Both groups heard from members of the King family.

Alveda King, a niece of the civil rights leader, appealed to Beck rally participants to "focus not on elections or on political causes but on honor, on character ... not the color of our skin."

Martin Luther King III said at the site of the planned memorial that his father in 1967 and 1968 "was focused on economic empowerment. He did not live to see that come to fruition." King added, "We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some."

Beck had appealed to those attending not to bring signs with them. But Mike Cash, a 56-year-old Atlanta businessman, found a way around that. Over his polo shirt, he wore a T-shirt that read "Treat Obama like a used tea bag, toss him out now!"

"I wouldn't have missed it (the rally) for anything," said Cash, who drove up with his family. "We are here kind of protesting about our government, too. I'm a businessman and I'm worried about taxes going up."

Many in the crowd watched the proceedings on large television screens. On the edges of the Mall, vendors sold "Don't Tread on Me" flags, popular with tea party activists. Other activists distributed fliers urging voters "dump Obama." The pamphlet included a picture of the president with a Hitler-style mustache.

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Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Hope Yen and Tom Raum contributed to this report.

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Online:

Beck rally: http://www.glennbeck.com/828/

Sharpton rally: http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/

Martin Luther King memorial: http://www.mlkmemorial.org/

I would give ANYTHING to have Martin back for even a moment.


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someone has put something in your coffee

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really, really good at telling people off

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someone once asked me

...Is my blog relevant? I was kinda stuck for the appropriate answer. There are so many levels relevancy is working on, and so many levels bloggers are blogging on, and was this blogger blogging to what personal scale? And applying such effort to which level of relevancy? And how close to potential? Oh! What a mess.

I sort of answered... with this visual aid. (At right.) But that point was probably lost, such things tending to make people revert to cursing the powers that be. I was pointing to one of the fundamentally relevant issues of human history in case real relevancy was the aspiration behind that question. Bloggers have this free-for-all going, this medium where they can claim to be vital and escape any feeling of responsibility for the way things play out on our pale blue dot. My interest, in case you can't tell from my sidebar, is in truth telling, for the specific purpose of, not to be trite, saving all sentient beings... some silly vow I made. (Don't get me started on the difference between the common conception of vowing as distinct from the real nature of making a vow. Hint: A vow can't be taken.) So I spend varying amounts of energy, depending on the levels of truth telling propensities, on various people. There is a cosmos of approaches to this fundamentally relevant subject, and I go with the ones equipped to make a dent in it if their thrust can be aimed at it.

The fact that I'm female tends to confuse them generally. I'm imparting stuff that usually comes from men. The cognitive dissonance of this coming from one we are conditioned to believe doesn't walk this realm wins every time -- is resolved by rooting through one's store of default assumptions to find the one that best fits the need to resolve the dissonance, not, mind you, having anything to do with the matter at hand. Most usually it has to do with my attention being compared to a crush, or my geographical location tending to lump me in with dingbats, or that I'm a bitter harridan from remaining single and childless, or any variation on those themes. Which all means I must strive to improve my communication. Their chances of catching my wave are narrowed if I don't speak their lingo, so to say. It's more than the words, but lingo is more than words.

Another fundamentally relevant, an even more fundamentally relevant, issue is the looming global catastrophe, but, since it cannot really be addressed while fascists slaughter the helpless stewards of profit-laden resources, the two can't really be separated on our hierarchy of priority. And I'm having to interject now that fascism could be a great tool for solving this problem, if it is solvable at all. If the treasury-looting, vampire capitalist plutocrats want to turn their capital-extracting toils to monopolizing alternative energy and building environmentally friendly infrastructure, does the freedom of the individual matter as much? Violently opposed to oppression as I am, a great many sentient beings might benefit hugely from an appropriately directed fascist approach, and live more comfortably than they do now.

Part of why authoritarian power structures continually emerge, continually rise to taint utopian movements, is because so many humans are either incapable of critical thinking, or so loath to engage in it as to render them incapable. It never doesn't pay to remember this fact. Newt Gingrich never disappoints when you want clarification on this concept.

I don't know if you're wondering why I led with an illustration of synapses, but it was in answer to my friend's question. Is my blog relevant? The short answer is: No. The full answer is: You have the impulse to truth needed to make most of what you say valuable, and if you lose the preoccupation with yourself, your synapses will start growing in new and more productive ways -- your brain will reconfigure itself toward ultimate relevancy.

Too many of us dyed-in-the-wool Americans believe restoring election integrity is THE fundamental issue crucial to everything else, that there is no hope to make a better world while criminals can and do rig our elections with the impunity seen in the last several of them. That assumes we will vote for the people who can and will address the matters of fundamental relevance, who can and will manifest positive intent. We won't, whether or not we are given a chance... at least not in time.

Halting the felons in charge is the most urgent matter of all, because none of the problems of planetary significance can be effectively addressed until that is accomplished. You want to be the useful kind of relevant? Make your thrust about this. Not forgetting that the ability to become felons in charge must also be snatched from anyone else's grasp as well. Finding the right people who will address the fundamentally relevant issues is but a whisker behind in priority for the synaptic growth running of the Relevance Cup, Grade I Stakes Race. I haven't found anyone who is not wasting time we do not have, perfused with excuses not to perform, displaying the full and dizzying array of cop-outs available to all intelligent people, functioning so much like neon-brained thoroughbreds balking, bolting, bucking, rearing, biting, stamping, shying from the starting gate... only even less amenable to the most concerted urging. You're not going to die getting into the gate. You're only going to have a chance to save the world once you're out the other side, truly racing to grow the synapses sufficient to saving the world. How does this compare to the absolutely no chance you have right now?

Pfeh. Who cares if your work will end up sufficient to the task?

It's certainly insufficient if you never embark on it at all, and there is no time for your nonsense.