Blo & Go: It's all in the suction

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Monday October 06, 2008 · 8:27 PM PDT

2008/10/06 · 20:27

Maybe this has already been written about on DKos, and it isn't much of a diary, but I just had to share. I think you will be amused.

The Washington Post reports that Laurie Coleman, wife of Republican Senator Norm Coleman, has invented a tool for hands-free hair drying called the "Blo & Go.":

Can you believe that?

Against the backdrop of this kind of marketing savvy, it is hard to believe that the name Blo & Go was not chosen to, at the very least, amuse. This, after all, is a world in which the term "wide stance" churns up easy chuckles.

Coleman’s voice registers shock—and dismay—that anyone would make such a connection. "I didn’t think of that," she says. And then she goes further to point out that the name wasn’t even her idea. It came out of a committee. It was all in the brainstorming, during which "Freedom Styler" was rejected. And so it went: You get your hair blown out. You need a blowout. You get blown . . . out. And then you go. Bingo: "Blo & Go!"

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 5:53 PM PDT

2008/09/09 · 17:53

According to George Lakoff and Chris Shutes at AlterNet, we have One Week Left to Save the Endangered Species Act.

This is important, folks, since this Act is one of the most important tools we have to protect ecosystems and the creatures that live there. So, while the Republicans have thrust into the spotlight someone who wants to pay people for wolf legs, they are quietly dismantling the laws put in place decades ago that would stop such wanton destruction.

This may not be much of a diary (it is late and I'm busy), but I hope the people at DKos will pay attention and raise a hue and cry to stop this. From the AlterNet article:

more below ...

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Saturday May 31, 2008 · 7:45 PM PDT

2008/05/31 · 19:45

I was idly going through the articles on Truthout this evening, and a NYT piece about the cyclone relief efforts in Burma caught my eye. Apparently, it is the monks who have been able to help the most.

Kun Wan, Myanmar - They paddle for hours on the stormy river, or carry their sick parents on their backs through the mud and rain, traveling for miles to reach the one source of help they can rely on: Buddhist monks.

It seems that the international relief workers have encountered many impediments in the efforts to reach those who need the help most, while the monks, who are already there, can do the most if they have supplies and donations. Luckily, Avaaz.org has set up a way to donate directly to the International Burmese Monks Organization.

You can contribute here.

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 6:02 AM PDT

2008/04/30 · 06:02

Senator Obama is a wonderful candidate in many ways, but he is not the messiah many of you seem to think he is. Love is blind, as they say, and my sense is that quite a few Obama supporters are "in love" and thus blind to some of the realities surrounding Obama's candidacy.

Chris Hedges has written an article designed to open people's eyes to the real connections Obama has with Corporate America (the hidden government), connections every bit as compromising as those of the Clintons.

Barack Obama's campaign message, filled with lofty promises of change and hope, is also filled with repeated reassurances to the corporate elite. Pick up a copy of Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope." The subtext is clear. It is a steady reminder to corporate America, a reminder bolstered by Obama's voting record, that corporations would have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency.

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Tuesday May 16, 2006 · 8:41 AM PDT

2006/05/16 · 08:41

Joe Klein's TIME piece, "Easy Targets for Karl Rove" is depressing in a number of ways, but the worst part is that he refers to Congressman Conyers as an "embarrassment" and part of "an ancient band of left-liberals who grew up in the angry hot-house of inner-city, racial-preference politics of the 1960's."

WTF??!! Conyers is a HERO.

Let TIME know how you feel: letters@time.com

My letter is below: Read More

Too Too Funny!!!! Take a break from the horror!

shakti

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Sunday February 12, 2006 · 4:09 PM PST

2006/02/12 · 16:09

Here is a joke from Eric Alterman's column in the Huffington Post. This is really too, too funny ... (below)

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Saturday February 11, 2006 · 3:23 PM PST

2006/02/11 · 15:23

Sibel Edmonds. Remember her? FBI whistleblower who has been fired, gagged, shunted aside.

Well, she is still speaking truth to power.

Here is her letter to CIA director Porter Goss on his recent NYT piece:

http://www.buzzflash.com/...

Here is a description of why she is important (below): Read More

The Left Hand of God: Spiritual Progressives Unite!

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Friday February 10, 2006 · 6:04 AM PST

2006/02/10 · 06:04

Michael Lerner, a progressive rabbi, has written a book called The Left Hand of God that every person concerned about the sorry state of the Democrats and the left in the U.S. could benefit from reading.

As a deeply spiritual and extremely liberal intellectual, Lerner's words resonate very strongly for me. The Dems need to articulate a progressive spirituality that the average person can relate to. As Lerner reminds us, both Gandhi's and MLK's radical and effective politics were rooted in their spirituality.

"By its tone-deafness to the spiritual suffering of the American people, the Left continues to miss the fundamental crisis that demands a social transformation, and in so missing this reality, it clears the path for reactionary forces to enter the spiritual arena and manipulate that crisis in destructive and potentially fascistic directions."

Read the Alternet interview here: http://www.alternet.org/...

More below: Read More

John Edwards: He Makes Sense to Me! (with poll)

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Friday February 03, 2006 · 6:48 AM PST

2006/02/03 · 06:48

http://www.truthout.org/...

Edwards has this to say on Tom Paine.com (also posted on Truthout.org):

"Above all, we must keep America's promise of opportunity for all. We must build a Working Society - an America where everyone who works hard finally has the rewards to show for it."

More below: Read More

I Heart Noam Chomsky!

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Saturday January 14, 2006 · 6:04 AM PST

2006/01/14 · 06:04

http://www.alternet.org/...

Check out the brilliant Noam Chomsky on Alternet (link above):

On the Democrats:

"George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country. Just about every day, they're shooting themselves in the foot. The striking fact about contemporary American politics is that the Democrats are making almost no gain from this. The only gain that they're getting is that the Republicans are losing support. Now, again, an opposition party would be making hay, but the Democrats are so close in policy to the Republicans that they can't do anything about it."

http://www.alternet.org/...

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Impeach Bush: If Not Now When?

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Friday January 13, 2006 · 6:40 AM PST

2006/01/13 · 06:40

Writes Katrina Vanden Heuvel of The Nation:

"For all Americans who want to preserve and protect our democracy, please read and circulate Elizabeth Holtzman's Nation article.

Use it to spearhead letter-writing campaigns to newspapers, to organize petition drives, and send it to your Representatives demanding that they support hearings and investigations into Presidential deceptions and abuses. And, as we head into this crucial 2006 election year, remember, as Holtzman points out, " If a Republican Congress is unwilling to investigate and take appropriate action against a Republican President, then a Democratic Congress should replace it."

Link and poll below: Read More

Wow! BYU Physicist Publishes Study on Twin Towers Collapse!

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Saturday November 12, 2005 · 3:40 PM PST

2005/11/12 · 15:40

A physicist at Brigham Young University (yes, that bastion of the Church of Latter Day Saints) has written an article to be published in a peer reviewed scientific journal on the collapse of the Twin Towers at the WTC that cast serious doubt on the theory that the towers fell due to the impact from the airplanes.

"The physics of 9/11 -- including how fast and symmetrically one of the World Trade Center buildings fell -- prove that official explanations of the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young University physics professor.

In fact, it's likely that there were "pre-positioned explosives" in all three buildings at ground zero, says Steven E. Jones."

Read the entire article here: http://deseretnews.com/...

or read more excerpts below: Read More

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Blo & Go: It's all in the suction

Endangered Species Act Endangered! We must act now!

The People of Myanmar/Burma Still Need You

Vote with your eyes open

Joe Klein Calls Conyers an "embarrassment"

Too Too Funny!!!! Take a break from the horror!

Remember Sibel Edmonds?

The Left Hand of God: Spiritual Progressives Unite!

John Edwards: He Makes Sense to Me! (with poll)

I Heart Noam Chomsky!

Impeach Bush: If Not Now When?

Wow! BYU Physicist Publishes Study on Twin Towers Collapse!