– Remember how the press trumpeted the “we don’t need embryos for stem cells” story as some sort of vindication of the Bush anti-stem-cells stance? What they’re not trumpeting (but at best only whispering in comparison) is that the lead scientist for this particular stem-cell research study has been urging people to hold their horses with regard to such assumptions.
– In news that surprises absolutely no one, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal’s “editorial independence committee” has been revealed to be a joke (h/t Poynter):
“People think it’s a joke,” said one reporter. “The only people who don’t think it’s a joke are the people who invented it.”
– Still groggy from all that turkey? Howie Klein over at Down With Tyranny! has a Thanksgiving post about Rahm Emanuel that’s definitely worth the read.
– Here’s an interesting graph that compares the cost of invading and occupying Iraq with what is being spent on researching alternatives to oil. (And for those who continue to say that “it wasn’t about the oil!”, that’s not what Alan Greenspan said. And Henry Kissinger isn’t even bothering to pretend that oil isn’t the main reason for the neocons’ hard-on for attacking Iran.)
So how’s your T-Day weekend been so far?
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me me me me !!!
Hiya PW!
zing!
Hey PW!
PW!
oh phoo. at least i tied yer 2nd post Cassie.
you’re too speedy.
(hey congrats on your wonderful post) ;->
hi Adie!
My Thanksgiving weekend has been great so far! Got to see old friends from middle school and eat tons of food and completely postpone my homework until tomorrow. And I wrote two blog posts and the only thing that would make it better is when it stops raining.
Great weekend so far, until I read Digby’s take on our stupid Democratic candidates who’ve defined the Presidential race on very comfortable turf…. for the GOPs.
snip
Thanks Adie
Hiya Teddy SF!
My T-weekend:
Eating great quail. Drinking red wine with friends and relatives. Watching DVDs. No sports…
Heh, not only did Howard lose 24 seats in the Aussie Parliament, he even lost his own seat… Bwhahaha…
Hey Lea!
Hope you guys had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Your pix you sent longtimeago took me back to when our little guys were that size. Did they get to help make pie?
PW!
In regards to the Wall Street Journal and the “editorial independence board,” it was never a question of the independence of their editorials as most thinking folks have long realized that the editorial voice of the WSJ was so far right as to be around the bend. The problem is what happens to the independent news voice of the WSJ.
CTuttle @ 13
Yep. My friends down under utterly despise him and have put up with him for 11 years! We’ve known for a while that this would happen.
Adie @ 14
The big one learned how to sort and cook cranberries, but I made gooey pumpkin butter cake instead of pie. It was yummy!
Biodun @ 12
So were you invited to Rover’s or Darth’s for the quail?
Re: Iraq/Iran oil — Layers of Lies…
Not only did they lie us into war by telling us that there were WMD’s, they lied us into war by telling us it was was because there were WMD’s.
Greenspan: “I thought the issue of weapons of mass destruction as the excuse was utterly beside the point,”
The brave soldiers are dying and fighting for oil. When the population really “gets that”, things will change.
Impeach for treason.
Afternoon PW.
Double EPU, was taking some pics as you were asking for the beauty in our lives. Click on my FB. Fresh snow on the ground, Lac des Deux-Montagnes is freezing slowly. Early winter is set in Oka, QC.
CTuttle @ 13
One of my old friends in Sydney was in utter glee at that double humiliation of Howard. *grins* She then proceeded to get smashed in a Concession/Victory speech drinking game. I have to say that was a fun bit of bloggery from her to watch before i crashed into bed myself. XD
SnarKassandra deftly got the zed but I got the zedigg!
Biodun @ 16
It is such good news. They were losing their rights just like us. As Australia went, so shall the USA. The neocons are so…toast.
LS @ 23
Yep!!!!!
zedigg: the new zed
twolf1 @ 25
I like the old zed!
twolf1 @ 25
Zed enhanced.
Another Shrub lap dog down, and, the Coalition of the willing shrinks to one… Us! Out of Iraq, Now!
SnarKassandra @ 26
So do I but Digging a post gives us slow-pokes a second chance Zed. Now if ya wanna be real greedy you can go for both.
Here’s an interesting article about some huge business deal Australia might possibly be entering into:
http://www.news.com.au/heralds…..64,00.html
Wow PW, that interesting graph you link to is, well, eye opening.
Elliott @ 31
No kidding!! Yikes. I wonder… if you divided the total Iraq cost by how many lives have been lost…would it put a value on each life…
SnarKassandra @ 1
You you you you!
Phoenix Woman @ 33
I I I I
Tucker’s days are numbered…
http://www.observer.com/2007/m…..ons-future
LS @ 32
Well, since we’re spending about 1.2 trillion dollars, and around 1.2 million Iraqis and coalition troops are dead as a direct result of the invasion, I’d say that it’s run to about $1 million per dead body.
CTuttle @ 35
I heard that he is going to host a Dance with the Stars type of program or something. Good riddance..
Phoenix Woman @ 36
It’s actually sickening, sickening, sickening.
Phoenix Woman @ 36
Yup…but the Iraqis killed by Blackwater Christian Soldiers got, were valued at what,…$5 grand or something like that…
got“So how’s your T-Day weekend been so far?”
Very, very fine. Great football games so far, and, of course:
HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, the news from Down Under is very satisfying. A real slap in the face to the neo-con crowd.
And, perhaps this has been mentioned, but General (Ret.) Sanchez gave this weekend’s DEMOCRATIC radio message. He urged withdrawal from Iraq. Very, very good.
Back to the leftovers….GOOD meat. We don’t do veg-head crap here at Ghostly Manor.
All-in-all, a good Thanksgiving.
Ghostman
CTuttle @ 13
… sounds like he got his ass handed to him … *g*
… waving to CT …
Petrocelli @ 42
Aloha, Mi Amigo! Any snow on the ground?
Hi Mr Petro!
CTuttle @ 43
We got about an inch of ice and snow mix, which caused tons of fenders benders on Thursday and Friday …
it’s scary how quickly people forget how to drive in this weather …
SnarKassandra @ 44
Hiya Cas .. how did your Thanksgiving go ?
Petrocelli @ 46
good!
did you have one?
SnarKassandra @ 47
Last month, Missie!
SnarKassandra @ 47
Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October … exactly one month before our Christmas …
You have christmas in November??? Why?
Today is the 148th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
SnarKassandra @ 50
Sorry Cas, that’s a joke we Canucks tell all the Murkans … *g* … I think Martin Short started it !
they put Kasparov away yesterday for having an “unlicensed” protest in Russia. Looks like Bush is running a perfect record for “supporting democracy” both here and abroad.
bleh.
Steve-AR @ 51
We read pieces of that in bio class last year.
Cassie are you taking any language courses at your school?
Steve-AR @ 51
Pffft … that theory is not going to withstand the test of time … /s
newspaperbrat @ 55
((((( NPB )))))
newspaperbrat @ 55
Yes, Spanish. But I am only in Spanish 1 since I didn’t have room for a language last year.
Blender @ 53
I’m sure they are sharing notes…
http://ap.google.com/article/A…..gD8T48E3G0
Blender @ 53
Kasparov is too smart … he probably planned this so when Putin tosses him in jail, it will ignite countrywide protests …
Steve-AR @ 51
This is a day to celebrate!
Petrocelli @ 60
you think chess players think that far in advance? *s
Putin’s Plan:
“In other words, the Russian Constitution doesn’t allow Putin to take a third consecutive term as president, but it doesn’t stop him from resigning, even one day before the next presidential election, and then running against his hand-picked “successor” (the non-entity Viktor Zubkov who Putin recently named Prime Minister) who would, by taking the oath of office and governing even for one minute, have sufficiently interrupted Putin’s rule to allow its continuation.”
http://publiuspundit.com/2007/11/putins_plan.php
Petrocelli @ 56
Yeah, Intelligent Design is the ticket… :P
SnarKassandra @ 62
You are a snark champ !!!
LS @ 63
can american presidents do that? is that the same kind of thing the pakistani guy is doing too? will the australian guy really leave?
CTuttle @ 64
Facts only serve to complicate a perfectly happy life … /s
SnarKassandra @ 66
Howard didn’t resign, as far as I know, he just simply lost the election. Musharraf is pulling some kind of wacky stuff though – coached by W, I’m sure.
SnarKassandra @ 66
IIRC, the 22 Amendment places a max of 10 years (VP succeeding to office with 2 years remaining on a term and two elections).
This is a good article on stem cells and how the fundies goal of creating a third ratetheocracy is working…
link
It’s going to take more work on embryonic stem cells to figure out how to take any cell from your body, and cleanly and elegantly switch it to a stem cell state that can be molded into any organ you need. What this work says is that yes, we’ll be able to do that, it isn’t going to be that difficult, and that we ought to be supporting more stem cell research right now so we can work out the details.
Or we can just sit back and let the Japanese and Europeans and Koreans do it for us, which is OK, I suppose. Just keep in mind that ceding the research to others means giving them a head start on the development of all the subsequent breakthroughs, too, and that what we’re doing is willingly consigning US research in one of the most promising biomedical research fields ever to an also-ran, secondary status.
I got another zed, but the digg is still there!
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ne-pelosi/
LS @ 68
Yep … except the Pakistanis will protest more loudly and for very long … and Musharraf will be forced out …
I whispered a forbidden fantasy
for a perversion called democracy,
where the powerful do come and go
where the people tell them.
It’s perverse I know.
I searched for dangerous pornography
for pictures of democracy,
where the public gets to have its say
before the rich can have their way.
It’s a kink I will tell you such,
to think the rich do have too much.
I read a book that has been banned,
about a troubled time in a troubled land,
when all they had to fear was fear itself,
and all the old ways went to a shelf.
Then with spade and pick in hand,
the built a shining nation from the sands.
My mind it whirls now like a dervish,
around the subject of this peculiar fetish.
It’s strange to be so aroused you see,
by this lust for a democracy.
War with Iran Watch update:
We have always been at war with the Shiites….
-GSD
GSD @ 74
Yupper. Pay no attention to the fact that most attacks on Coalition troops have been led by Sunnis.