From the suppliers of Wal-Mart’s Sams Club soda, comes the first bottled water specifically for dogs. Cott Corp. has introduced FortiFido, which comes in four different flavors–peanut butter, parsley, spearmint, and lemongrass. One and two liter bottles go for $1.39 and $2.29.
Cott Corp. must be really hurting after Wal-Mart cut back on its purchases. Their stock is at a nine-year low., but this new product wont help. Dog water is really a specialized product with a narrow market. And it’s stupid. (more…)
Hillary Clinton attacked Barack Obama for borrowing from Deval Patrick’s speeches. She said, “If you look at the youtube of these videos, it does raise questions.” Oh, those definitive articles. How they make old people sound silly.
And now Obama’s even backtracking on his “I’ll meet with any world leader without preconditions” position, which was supposed to be one of the main differences between him and Clinton. Now it’s “I’ll meet with any world leader but first…”
Now he and Clinton have the same position. He’s compromised too many key issues in order to seem moderate: healthcare, palestine, and now diplomacy. But he still has the best position on immigration, even though he wont pull the majority of Latin@ voters.
The IDF injured more than 20 people and shot a person from the US in the head. From 1000-2500 people attended the protest marking the third year of resistance to the apartheid wall in Bil’in, Palestine.
The police officer–Wiley Willis– brutally beat her after she asked to make a phone call, assuming it her legal right:
“You’re not going to let me call anybody? I have a right to call somebody right now and I know that. Is this on the record?”
Officer Willis handcuffed her and then turned off the camera while he beat her. When it was turned back on, she was lying in a pool of her own blood.
A ship leased by a Dutch Company, Trafigura, dumped 500 tons of toxic waste at municipal waste sites in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire–leading to the deaths of 15 people and illnesses in over 100,000. Trafigura was also named in the food for oil scandal.
Another multinational shits its neocolonial waste; and the human impact is great.
“Tanzanian women wear outfits bearing the image of U.S. President George W. Bush during his arrival ceremony at the State House in Dar es Salaam February 17, 2008.”
The only way Hillary Clinton could get ahead in politics was to join the boys’ club, or the boys’ club isn’t really a club for just boys.
Clinton earned this rap during one of her many congressional trips with McCain. While the two were on a trip to Estonia in August 2004, Clinton proposed an after dinner drinking game. McCain, the delegation leader, readily agreed according to NYT.
During their 2005 trip to Iraq, they both said the other would be a good president. “Meet the Press” asked if McCain thought Clinton would make a good president, and Mccain responded, “I happen to be a Republican and would support, obviously, a Republican nominee, but I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good president.” When asked the same question about McCain, Clinton immediately responded, “Absolutely.”
Are you comfortable with that mutual support?
And is Clinton’s tolerance of alcohol what makes her one of the guys? Or her tolerance of sexism? (more…)
A pattern with Obama. He consistently compromises human health for corporate interests. He originally called for universal single payer health care but has dramatically changed his position to a voluntary corporate insurance plan in response to health industry lobbyists.
This story from MSNBC highlights how he compromised his position on requiring nuclear power plants to report the release of human health hazards. He went from “nuclear plants shall immediately notify” the public to “the nuclear regulatory commission shall consider requiring plants to provide timely notice” of the release of radioactive substances. He responded to the demands of Exelon corporation, one of his top campaign donors.
Hillary Clinton launched an all out negative ad in Wisconsin against Obama–a declaration of war to take back the lead (she only plays nice when she’s winning):
Obama responded, “I understand Senator Clinton periodically [pauses] when she is feeling down [pauses] launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal. But I think this kind of gamesmanship is not what the American people are looking for.”
Did Obama really just go there? Is Obama claiming that Clinton is PMSing? Oh no, he didn’t. Strategic word play, and Obama is an amazing orator. I have no doubt that it is intentional.
Yesterday Palestinian farmers burned flowers in protest of the Israeli blockade on Gaza. The blockade has severely limited the flow of goods to and from the Strip, and it has prevented the farmers from exporting their product to Europe for Valentines Day. Since they couldn’t sell them, the growers dumped two truckloads of flowers at a border crossing; they fed some of the flowers to sheep and the rest they burned in protest of Israel’s oppressive restrictions.
“It is a black Valentine’s Day,” said farmer Majed Hadayed, estimating his seasonal losses at $2.5 million.
Jane Fonda’s use of the word cunt on NBC’s “Today Show” prompted an immediate apology by the network. And now it’s getting lots of attention in the news–the most viewed article on Reuters.
But what’s so news worthy about it? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Fonda was talking about the vagina monologues:
I was asked to do a monologue called ‘Cunt,’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so. I’ve got enough problems.’ Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life.
She just let it slip and now kids everywhere (on the eastern coast where it aired live) are damaged for life, irreparably. Oh the pain, that is cunt.
The popularity of the below youtube video resulted in the suspension of a Baltimore cop yesterday (Monday). The video shows Salvatore Rivieri, a officer with 17 years at the Baltimore Police Department, busting up a 14 year old kid (Eric Bush) for riding a skate board in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor (a massive mall for tourists that sucks money away from the city’s social services).
In case you missed it, this video was posted on Saturday Feb 9 2008, but it records events that transpired last summer. A Baltimore Sun reporter brought the video to the attention of the Baltimore Police on Sunday when the reporter called to asked for the department’s comments.
We all know the power of video to show police brutality–who can forget Rodney King?
But why do folks need to record violent police actions? (more…)
Hillary Clinton supporters have highlighted Clinton’s missing youth vote in this video endorsing her candidacy:
CubbyChaser on the Indecision 2008 blog points out the video’s key advantage over Obama’s popular “Yes, We Can” video: it “illuminat[es] what would happen if the Jackson 5 and a late-stage Alzheimer’s patient collaborated on a campaign song for your candidate.”
They hope to develop a shirt that can harness the energy of the wearer’s movement and convert it to electricity to power small electronic devices. When your body’s movement applies mechanical stress to these new shirts, their Kevlar fibers that are surrounded zinc oxide nano-wires produce electricity.
One square meter of fabric can theoretically generate as much as 80 milliwatts of power, according to the researchers. That’s actually not very much. In contrast, an average iPod, mp3 player, or cell phone uses at least few hundred milliwatts. But it could power pedometers and other such devices. (more…)
I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on CNN Health (currently, the most viewed on CNN) notes that 40 million people in the US have a sexless marriage, meaning they have sex fewer than 10 times a year. And yep, it’s women’s faults. Women feel so entitled to work that they think they no longer need to sexually please their husbands for some measure of financial stability.
Gad dawn second wave feminism
The article takes its cue from Anita H. Clayton, M.D., who must really hate herself (though not as much as Coulter), and her article “Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy.”She assumes that women are the ones who don’t want to have sex and that they are the ones that need to change. This is misogynist bullshit.
According to Louanne Cole Weston, M.D. of WebMD, “When people wrote in about the discrepancy of frequency and desire, about 40 percent of the time it was men wanting less.”
This is what her article says causes sexless marriages: (more…)
While the US and Israel burn as effigies, CS Monitor interviews Iranians attending the anniversary rally and notes the strong sentiment of unfulfilled purpose, despite the crowd’s ardor. Some Iranians are feeling disappointed; the change that they had hope for has not been fully realized.
Obama is “protective imitation” of Clinton’s “corporate democrat”
He did used to be for a single payer, universal health care plan, but he has since back away to a more conservative (in the international sense of the word) health care plan in response to health industry lobbyists.
Mike: “Nader looks like that character on sesame street who lives in the trashcan.” oscar:
Question: Which issue is most important to you? (n=991 from 4th-5th February, 2008)
Issues (in order of responses, most to least): the economy, the war in iraq, immigration, health care, terrorism, social security, the environment and global warming, education, and gay rights.
There were some interesting age differences in the importance of issues.
Four most important issues to voters by age group.
Hillary Clinton made a trip to visit John Edwards over the weekend, and today (Monday) Barack Obama intends to stop by North Carolina after rallies in Maryland. Obama and Clinton seek his endorsement.
Clinton said, “There is a lot that John and I have in common… And I intend to ask John Edwards to be part of anything I do.. when I’m in the White House.” (more…)
McCain wants the US to stay in Iraq for 100 years. We all know the price of this war is driving down social services for everyone, but the US citizens who pay the biggest price are the soldiers and their families.
Already the US has 25 million veterans. Of just the Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, there will be an estimated 300,000 thousands cases of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The cost of treatment could be as much as $600 billion, and law makers are excited about new research that shows great potential in treating PTSD: ecstasy (MDMA).
From the suppliers of Wal-Mart’s Sams Club soda, comes the first bottled water specifically for dogs. Cott Corp. has introduced FortiFido, which comes in four different flavors–peanut butter, parsley, spearmint, and lemongrass. One and two liter bottles go for $1.39 and $2.29.
In case you missed it, this video was posted on Saturday Feb 9 2008, but it records events that 
I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on 
McCain wants the US to stay in Iraq for 100 years. We all know the price of this war is driving down social services for everyone, but the US citizens who pay the biggest price are the soldiers and their families.
