Food Safety Bill Passes with Amendment for Smaller Farmers

Thanks to leesah_1.

Excerpt: "Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is a farmer, added an amendment approved by the Senate that would exempt small farmers and those who sell directly to consumers at markets and farm stands."

. . . Read the FULL ARTICLE

BBC - Doctors 'deny elderly treatments

"Researchers writing in the Quality and Safety in Health Care journal said it demonstrated doctors in the NHS were guilty of ageism", according to a BBC report . . .

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Child Abuse Cases Rise in Australia

"An Aboriginal child was 7½ times as likely to be abused than a non-indigenous child and more than nine times as likely to be placed in care . . ."

Read FULL ARTICLE from WAToday.com

The Population of Palestine Prior to 1948

http://www.mideastweb.org/palpop.htm

Quantitative Easing Explained

Thanks to MosesKnows for bringing this video to the attention of the room:

Interview: Tidal Pool Knighted

WHEN
US EST: 9 pm, Dec 2
GMT: 1 am, Dec 3
SYDNEY: 2 pm, Dec 3

TOPIC
In October 2010, TidalPool, a regular chatter in 2 Way Street, traveled to Europe to be knighted. Tidal pool will talk about his experiences.

INTERVIEWER
MopNGlow

INTERVIEWEE
TidalPool

DETAIL

Tidal's family motto is "helfen, wehren, heisen", meaning "help, defend, heal". He is now a member of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of St marys in Jerusalem, founded in the 1000's and early 1100's. His family has been part of it since the 1300's.

Materials
tbd

Links
tbd

Audio
http://www.archive.org/details/MopnglowShow12-02-2010

The rainbase / toechopper interview

Many thanks to Lazerlupine for recording the following:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheOutOfTheRainShow.SpecialGuest.Toechopper11222010

Echoes Of 1930s In Health Care Debate

Thanks to bellarosa_2 for bringing this article to our attention:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112345150

Dancing With the Stars

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Capitalism

MosesKnows took this picture at the 912 Freedom Rally. Thanks Moses:

My Name is Lazer L.

Thanks to Lazerlupine for the following:

Am I addicted to PalTalk? OMG A question surely pondered by we international cyber travelers who find ourselves in these rooms. It appears whenever I have spare time, I find myself here, tuned into my friends and acquaintances from all corners of the globe discussing the important issues of our day, and the not so important issues that add an extra measure of fun to my existence. Sometimes, I really feel like I have a monkey on my keyboard.

For those few eyes that may find these words in a Paltalk blog, and don’t know of what I speak, Paltalk is an international voice and text chat program located on the web at www.Paltalk.com. My best analogy for Paltalk is 21^st century HAM radio where you have the opportunity to get to know a very diverse group of people from every background imaginable. From dead wood to doctors, educated to obtuse and friendly to cruel, Paltalk is your anonymous avenue to a perpetual parade of anagrams analysis and assholiness (or is it assholier than thou?). We have shitheads, show offs, shut-ins and saints, we have Paltalk prophets, Paltalk millionaires, and Paltalk professors. You can be anything you like in chat.

I assume, like most compulsive behaviors, paltalk can be an escape from ordinary daily life. Being a “people watcher” I often find myself jonzin’ for my regular fix of these friends and foes I have grown to know and appreciate. At any moment of my choice, I can be whisked away to this perpetual pit of opinion, insight and outsight (so I am told). Transported to a land where I find Birthers, Truthers, Marxists, Fascists and Fart blossoms all defending their points of view. Where room wars, admin wars, and personal vendettas lure me into the underlying drama that keeps me chasing the dragon. God help me, I love it so.

I guess I’ll need to seek professional help to break this spell. A nice 12 step program where I might be able to de-program from this program would be in order, me thinks. I have taken the first step by admitting I have a problem, and like most addicts, I think that is enough for today. LOL I’ll work on it tomorrow. Meanwhile.. Wonder what’s going on in chat.

Well this is my sad story of descent into the subculture of the Paltalk text-tard and if you think I have divulged something in me that isn’t in most of us, you are an idiot and on permanent ignore for Gross Retardation.

A Kentuckian who Voted for Rand Paul

walkingwithbagonhead is a regular in 2Way Street Politics who had the privilege of voting for the Aqua Buddha candidate in Kentucky last Tuesday.

Here's the proof:

Detrik Wins Factoid of the Day Award 1/11/2010

Good one detrik:

detrik: speaking of Gordon Lightfoot, the WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD happened on this day..

From Wikipedia:

SS Edmund Fitzgerald (nicknamed "Mighty Fitz," "The Fitz," or "The Big Fitz") was an American Great Lakes freighter launched on June 8, 1958. At the time of its launching, it was one of the first boats to be at or near maximum "St Lawrence Seaway Size" which was 730 feet (220 m) long and 75 feet (23 m) wide. From its launching in 1958 until 1971 the Fitzgerald continued to be one of the largest boats on the Great Lakes.

See Wikipedia Article

You're Making My Leg Tingle

Thanks SLINK:

Right to Choose

Dear Pragmatist,

The problem with talking about a woman's right to "choose" is that accepting the language in your questions about it gives credence to the false premises buried in your deceptive and presumptive choice of terminology.

In any case, constitutional conservatives believe the issue of abortion should be handled by the several states and not by the federal government.

This has been carefully explained to you before; but if you ever forget again, you can just ask for a link to this blog post.

Warmest regards,

-MOP-

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Midterms 2010

Thanks to Lazerlupine for the following:

It is the midterms, the halftime of the Obama Presidency. It is the time when coaches take their teams to the locker room and make adjustments to their strategies. It is the time for the politicians to assess whether their ideas and beliefs are working in the real world, or if they need a little pragmatic adjustment. In my estimation, the crowd is stomping their feet and demanding some major adjustments.

The Left feels they have been sold a bill of goods because many of their positions on worker’s rights and social justice haven’t been addressed. The Right feels that the controlling party is over regulating the economy, growing the public sector and is obsessed on taxing the rich. And both sides seem to want to saddle the other with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess what? You’re all right. Unfortunately being right and getting everything you want are worlds apart.

The 111th Congress started out as a supermajority with basically unlimited control over the agenda and a President of the same party spurring them on to pass his plan. We have seen how the animosity and stubborn environment of contention has resulted in Legislation that most of the nation rejects. I suggest that a super majority feels empowered to roll over their counterparts because they can, whether it is wise or not. In my opinion, supermajorities are to be avoided because they try to violently upset the balance of systems that have evolved over time.

I believe the Founding Fathers in their zeal to create a form of Government that would withstand the test of time took examples from social and physical laws, as they understood them at the time, and tried to structure the government with these laws in mind. Create a system to encourage majority rule and minority rights, compromise over gridlock, and balance and stability in all facets of our Government. There are times that social issues and other external forces offset our balance and threaten our stability. When this happens, it is up to us to regain equilibrium in a way we design. Otherwise balance will find it’s own equilibrium (Usually with unintended consequences)

My sincere hope is that the midterms will result in a change in House leadership, a rearrangement of the Senate leadership, and a very loud, vocal public, demanding an atmosphere of working together to achieve, not everything you want, but everything you need for a reasonable amount of taxes. Division is a radical mismatch of our expectations and is a danger to our overall stability. There is too much we agree on. It is time for some team players to get us on the winning path again.