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Archive for May, 2012
May 6th, 2012 - 5:31 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When Buddha’s Birthday falls on Mother’s Day.
Like Jesus’s birthday Buddha’s birthday, next Tuesday, is a matter of preference. One tradition is that the date is calculated from the lunar calendar. The method starts by finding the the first full moon day of the sixth month. Of course there are multiple lunar calendars to c[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Should a GOP delegate, stay at Hotel Nigger?
SeattleJew will be attending the Republican State Convention Thu, May 31, 12am – Sat, June 2, 12am. I am going as part of the now defunct Santorum delegation. Looking for a hotel, I noted that one of the convention hotels is the Hotel Murano. I wonder if the Republican leaders are aware that[...]
May 5th, 2012 - 8:42 am § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS: “he can be anything to anybody”
Johnathon Cohn, The New Republic Who is the real Mitt Romney? … excerpts Right-wingers protested the hiring of Grenell from the get-go and, instead of backing Grenell publicly, the Romney campaign sidelined him. Last week, according to reporting by Andrew Sullivan, campaign officials specifica[...]
May 5th, 2012 - 3:25 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkeley Blog: How Science Works
Trusting your fellow scientist Anna Goldstein, chemistry grad student | 3/6/12 In my last post, I told you that Berkeley Physics professor Richard Muller is the go-to guy for proof of anthropogenic climate change. Maybe that strikes you as odd. Why would I look to a physicist for information about o[...]
May 5th, 2012 - 12:51 am § in Schools & Colleges
Bribes Needed to Get College Education
Photo: Reuters Students of the University of Ibadan check their graduation gowns at their campus in Ibadan, south west Nigeria (2006 file photo). In Nigeria, about a million students pass the college-entrance qualifying exam every year, but most never attend a college class. Nigerian universities [...]
May 4th, 2012 - 5:54 pm § in Politics
Sarkozy going down for reasons more important than left vs. right.
Former PM confirms Sarkozy took 50M from Gaddafi Another voice, that of former Libyan prime minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi in prison in Tunisia… EXCLUSIVE – Gaddafi to Sarkozy: ‘give us back our money’[...]
May 4th, 2012 - 11:57 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Israel to hold its elections weeks before the American election!
Netanyahu has shocked the nation in the past few days by indicating that he will be calling elections a year ahead of their scheduled date in October 2013, leaving analysts baffled as to his reasoning. Speculation has focused on differences among the various coalition parties over legislation on na[...]
May 4th, 2012 - 10:17 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Another Tea Party Assassination
LUGAR POLLS 10 POINTS BEHIND TEA PARTY CHALLENGER[...]