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Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM
Obama on a Palestinian State: The president unambiguously backed a two-state solution today, saying there should be "two states for two people... The United States is deeply committed to the creation of an independent and sovereign state of Palestine," adding, "Simply, Palestinians deserve a state of their own."
An Animation of the Internet: Gathered illegally?
Shooter on the Loose: SPD says they're looking for a man who shot a man in the face this morning in Pioneer Square.
Michelle Shocked: "I'm very sorry: I don't always express myself as clearly as I should. ... And my statement equating repeal of Prop. 8 with the coming of the End Times was neither literal nor ironic: It was a description of how some folks—not me—feel about gay marriage."
Seattle's Sally Jewell: Senate panel gives her the nod to be Interior secretary.
Health Care: Forty-five million Americans still don't have it.
Seattle's Anti-Gay Catholic Newspaper: Seattle's most out-of-touch bigot, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, had to shut down his bigoted newspaper, The Progress, because parishioners weren't reading it. Subscriptions "have declined steadily over the past four decades: Fewer than 8 percent of registered Catholic households currently receive the newspaper," the paper says. No doubt, Sartain doesn't realize that his bigotry is the problem, that he's the bigot Catholics hate, and that everyone knows he's a bigot.
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Re Sartain's newsletter: The Progress?!? Seriously, for reals, that's what it (was) called?
I guess you can name anything anything, but I'm curious as to what sort of progress they thought they were documenting or celebrating.
I guess you can name anything anything, but I'm curious as to what sort of progress they thought they were documenting or celebrating.
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Re: Shocked, listen the audio posted earlier and decide whether Michelle is "very sorry."
Maybe she can do the soundtrack for the next Left Behind sequel.
Maybe she can do the soundtrack for the next Left Behind sequel.
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Michelle said very explicitly, twice, that the views were hers as well as theirs. Does she think nobody will hear the audio? Anyway, I hope she can use the experience to become a better person, and maybe evangelize less.
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I am an employee of REI who would like to remain anonymous. I was wondering if you are aware of the fact that REI has laid off 250 employees from its corporate office? And the axe is poised to swing again in stores across the country including Seattle's flagship store. The news worthy point here is that REI is getting rid of people on the cusp of retirement (many cases of this, some of them are only months away in 20+ year careers) and they are having a hiring fair in the same week. REI is looking to hire new, cheap labor while slashing the jobs of long-term loyal employees. This is how business operates, but REI brands itself as a friendly, progressive co-op. Additionally, they are "restructuring" store management and have demoted a large amount of Assistant Store Managers in the flagship store alone, which deprives them of their benefit packages. While REI gets a lot of media attention for being a Forbes top employer and for Sally Jewell's secretary of interior nomination, REI is conducting itself in a nefarious manner and betraying it's principles as a progressive employer and as a "cooperative". They also chose not to pay their employees ("owners") their excels this year until REI caved to the pressure of a backlash. This was all happening while Sally was in the news. It looks like REI was trying to keep things quite. I would bet they will not be paying out next year. This is a story which affects our local economy and is being kept very quite by a institution which continues to stray far from its mission statement. I think REI deserves some public scrutiny over their poor conduct and treatment of their employees. It is also interesting that as a co-op, their top execs are making huge salaries. It echoes the current state of affairs in corporate America, disguised as something else.
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The real breaking news:
Amazon and the CIA come together in a contract on cloud computing (see immediately below, please) and a K-12 tracking database from the team of Rupert Murdoch and the Gates Foundation.
Hurrah, hurrah, to the Corporate Fascist State, our masters!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20…
“The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time,” Hunt said. “Since you can’t connect dots you don’t have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.”
Hunt’s comments come two days after Federal Computer Week reported that the CIA has committed to a massive, $600 million, 10-year deal with Amazon for cloud computing services. The agency has not commented on that report, but Hunt’s speech, which included multiple references to cloud computing, indicates that it does indeed have interest in storage and analysis capabilities on a massive scale.
Amazon and the CIA come together in a contract on cloud computing (see immediately below, please) and a K-12 tracking database from the team of Rupert Murdoch and the Gates Foundation.
Hurrah, hurrah, to the Corporate Fascist State, our masters!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20…
“The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time,” Hunt said. “Since you can’t connect dots you don’t have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.”
Hunt’s comments come two days after Federal Computer Week reported that the CIA has committed to a massive, $600 million, 10-year deal with Amazon for cloud computing services. The agency has not commented on that report, but Hunt’s speech, which included multiple references to cloud computing, indicates that it does indeed have interest in storage and analysis capabilities on a massive scale.
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Hmm. Too bad Sartain can't force priests to deny communion to parishioners unless they can prove that they are in good standing; you know ... confessing, doing penance AND subscribing (as the latest requirement).
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And some interesting news:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/03/j…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/03/j…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
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Michelle Shocked at Yoshi's:
She was unambiguously speaking for herself.
Now, she's just lying. Crazy? Or dumbshit? You decide. But the facts are right there in front of us all.
From their vantage point, and I really shouldn't say "their", because it's mine too, we are nearly at the end of time, and from our vantage point, we're gonna be -- I think maybe Chinese water torture is gonna be the means -- and once Prop 8 gets instated, and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, I'm pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.
She was unambiguously speaking for herself.
Now, she's just lying. Crazy? Or dumbshit? You decide. But the facts are right there in front of us all.
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The unspoken message of Obama’s visit [to Israel] is that the Netanyahu government is free to pursue its hardline agenda with little danger of anything more than symbolic protest from Washington.[/quote]
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03…
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Meanwhile the Pope is washing the feet of young criminals in jail while we all say bad things about him.
For Holy Week.
For Holy Week.
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Interesting post @9 about REI. Of course, these are allegations, but if they're true, to me it's a further sign of how corporate America is trying to divest itself of having to pay benefits to its workers. All the more reason Obamacare has to be just the first step in a painful process of (A) decoupling employment and health insurance and (B) bringing down the cost of health care.
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@13,
I'd also like to point how fucking stupid she is when she states that Prop. 8 will be "instated". Um, no, dumbass, Prop. 8 will be *overturned*.
And I vote for crazy. For that reason, and the whole closeted lesbian thing, I kind of felt sorry for her, but her lying liar apology has lost her my sympathy.
I'd also like to point how fucking stupid she is when she states that Prop. 8 will be "instated". Um, no, dumbass, Prop. 8 will be *overturned*.
And I vote for crazy. For that reason, and the whole closeted lesbian thing, I kind of felt sorry for her, but her lying liar apology has lost her my sympathy.
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@9
Glad I decided not to apply for that job which would have suited me there, thanks. Sucks what you guys are going through.
Glad I decided not to apply for that job which would have suited me there, thanks. Sucks what you guys are going through.
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