Barnett Offers a Gold Mine of Grand Strategy Nuggets

I am proud to claim that I have been an unabashed supporter of Thomas Barnett and his vision of a grand strategy to achieve a better future for our children. This past week a press release announced the publication of Barnett's third and most important book to date. I have posted the entire release with emphasis on some key points [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 06:22:00

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Tennessee coal ash slide, Day 3

UPDATE: Greenpeace sent a photographer to the area, and while the photographer was prevented from getting close, he got some good shots here ... the southeast’s worst environmental disaster by some environmentalists and journalists. It appears that some of the national media outlets are finally picking up the story, although this disaster remains [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 17:56:00

"I am always struck by how few students challenge the underlying ethics of the idea that we ought to save the lives of strangers when we can do so at relatively little cost to ourselves".

For most of last year, I participated in an amazing training program that focused on an method of treating others known as Radical Loving Care.Groups of us met w the trainers to fully comprehend and integrate this training into our professional and personal lives.The training was skillfully done, powerfully moving and, for me, very motivational [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:08:00

book: When Duct Tape Just Isn’t Enough

Popular Mechanics When Duct Tape Just Isn’t Enough: Quick Fixes for Everyday Disasters by C. J. Petersen, published by Hearst (November 1, 2007) ... a good couple of hundred of them. This book covers minor fixes in the areas of tools, cleaning, structural, electrical, plumbing, appliances, furniture and garden. One feature that I really [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:33:42

Easy Upholstery Cleaning Tips To Live By

by Chris Channing The upholstery one owns usually isn’t the target of a cleaning regimen- but sometimes even furniture gets dirty enough that a real ... . This is what usually leads to a mistake in cleaning the upholstery, since there are specific things an owner ... a note of the damage and research the best way to circumvent it. If necessary, an [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:23:06

Easy Upholstery Cleaning Tips To Live By

by Chris Channing Without the proper care, one’s upholstery can easily become tainted to the point in which serious cleaning operations need to be ... does is usually worry or fret. This is what usually leads to a mistake in cleaning the upholstery ... to circumvent it. If necessary, an upholstery cleaning business may also be called. The most common [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:02:30

How To Clean Upholstery Without Causing Damage

by Chris Channing The upholstery one owns usually isn’t the target of a cleaning regimen- but sometimes even furniture gets dirty enough that a real solution must be found to clean it. From your average dust to annoying stains or spills ... should and shouldn’t do in trying to clean upholstery. The first thing to do is calm down, and make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:23:41

Tokyo Sonata Q&A: Screenwriter Max Mannix

Shortly after I posted my review of Tokyo Sonata, I was contacted by screenwriter Max Mannix out of the blue. While Mannix was putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming film adaptation of Barry Eisler’s Rain Fall (which he also directed), he graciously agreed to take some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions via email [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 13:59:10

How To Clean Upholstery Without Causing Damage

by Chris Channing Without the proper care, one’s upholstery can easily become tainted to the point in which serious cleaning operations need to be ... does is usually worry or fret. This is what usually leads to a mistake in cleaning the upholstery ... to circumvent it. If necessary, an upholstery cleaning business may also be called. While a little [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 05:18:40

The 20 Worst Fictional Doctors of All-Time

President-elect Barack Obama has been toiling away at filling his Cabinet positions and this week comes word that CNN’s and CBS’ resident white-coat ... of malpractice… Dr. Tim Whatley (Seinfeld) Prescription for Disaster: Making brief appearances ... Yankem DDS (WWE) Prescription for Disaster: Here’s a health policy: Your dentist traps [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:26:40

Weekly Challenge #143 - Tidal Wave

Welcome to the Weekly Challenge Number One Hundred And Forty-Three where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based ... . Edgar figured a Neutrino event horizon would do the trick. He reverse engineered the dry cleaning tank process by setting up tiny collectors in every dry cleaning business on the planet. After 15 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:46:57

Why is "Nationalization" A Dirty Word in America?

One of the most pervasive findings in social science, although it is seldom codified this way, is how suggestible people are. Numerous studies in behavioral economics have found that the same underlying bet elicits very different take-up rates when framed as a wager versus as insurance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 05:55:15

A tough road ahead

Over the fold is my piece from today’s Australian Financial Review on the task facing Obama. The original version started “Following his convincing election victory, Barack Obama can look forward to taking office under the most challenging conditions facing any incoming president since Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration in 1933,”, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 20:42:00

A Guide to Winterizing Your House

Winter is approaching and in much of the United States, that means very cold temperatures, snow, and ice ... an insulation blanket on your hot water heater (if it needs one). Keep blinds and curtains open ... water bottle before bed each night, then dip the temperature. What else? Here are twelve [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 14:00:40

The Obama Inauguration and What I Think

There’s a lot of excitement around the Obama Inauguration, but I’m finding some quality in a recent CBC documentary called “I.O.U.S.A ... t make the problems go away. When it comes to the financial disaster, even considering the idea of ‘ ... surrounding him who helped create this disaster in the first place IIRC. I think the phrase “lipstick [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:32:53

Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster Dwarfs Exxon Spill

One of the worst environmental disasters in recent memory has unfolded over the last week in Kingston, Tennessee, ... , contained the waste until a wall breached last Monday, sending the sludge downhill to damage 15 ... is still under investigation. TVA has vowed to clean up the mess but says it could take months [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 12:00:33

Cleaning and Stain Removal for Bachelors

This post is a little different. I mean, usually we write about tech stuff, software and online tools ... shirt, mold in the bathroom or wine on the carpet. What would you do? Call Mom? Noooo! You’re mature ... the Natural Disasters section helpful. (2) About.com & How Stuff Works Ok, it’s not that bad [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 17:48:28

Read any good books lately?

  Now that the puppies are getting more interesting, Sugarwings has become totally infatuated with the babies ... . Its a tough job, but some body has to hold the dogs all day!   I'vebeen cleaning my house, uck ... of the house while it was cleaned up, since that rarely happens! I'd show you some of the pictures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:12:12

Senseless

.fullpost{display:inline;}Everyday no one is spared by reports about children killed by preventable diseases, natural calamities, traffic accidents, military and rebel operations and criminal elements who continue to roam the streets even after they were identified by witnesses as the main culprit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:29:00

2012 Teaser Trailer

2012 Teaser Trailer From the dude that brought you such masterpieces as Independence Day, Godzilla, and 10,000 BC, comes a new disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow 2012. I’m not really a fan of Roland Emmerich’s movies, but I’ll admit that they do work well when watched with the volume turned off while cleaning up your apartment. 2012 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 13:32:18

Let Us Now Apologize To Dick Cheney

#fullpost{display:inline;}Pattern from recreation of the Harry Whittington shooting. The discrepancy between the target's wounds and Whittington's still baffle ballistic scientists when they're sober.I HAVE a confession to make, which is another way I'm pretty much the opposite of Dick Cheney: I've never found him the slightest bit interesting, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:01:00

Easy Upholstery Cleaning Tips To Live By

by Chris Channing Upholstery, like your average suit that needs to make a trip to the dry cleaner, ... , since there are specific things an owner should and shouldn’t do in trying to clean upholstery ... damage or mold if it is left too long on upholstery. Be careful not to administer too much cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 06:03:05

More 2009: The Potentially Decent Escapist Entertainment Films of '09

Ok, we're not total snobs (just part snobs) so here's a list of what Could Be Potentially Great Escapist Entertainment/but Could Also Be Terrible. You could even consider some of this Part 2 to our Most Anticipated of 2009 piece, but our positive feelings about all these films are couched and tentative and we reserve the right to disavow any of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:32:00

A year ago on Unclutterer

Don’t let bath toys consume your bathroom With bath toys, just like regular toys, you need to get rid of the old when new ones are acquired ... making, Williams-Sonoma has you covered with the Mini Doughnut Maker. Cleaning and organization quirks Tell us about your quirky organization and cleaning sprees. Organize that messy locker Back [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:00

United Nations confidential reports released

Wikileaks | January 14, 2008 Wikileaks has released 70 United Nations investigative reports classified “Strictly Confidential”. The reports expose matters from allegations of hundreds of European peace-keepers abusing refugee girls to generals in Peru using Swiss bank accounts to engage in multi-million dollar frauds against the UN [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:30:52

Biologist E.O. Wilson and Washington DC's Earth Conservation Corps

Dedicating his life to the exploration of life on Earth, E.O. Wilson is one of the world's foremost authorities on biology ... disaster and a home for violence. There in the shadow of the Capitol, the ECC works to reclaim a dying neighborhood by providing leadership tools to disadvantaged youth while cleaning up the environment. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 15:17:05

Get thee gone!

Shall we?A bitch caught Bush’s final press conference yesterday and…well, wow.Umm.Wow.Someone is delusional as a motherfucker, punchy and knavish too! ... conference was a window into the real…a view of the actor off script and, just as we suspected, the man ... of cleaning up all the shit left behind.Mercy. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:45:00

The Driving Analogy

Remember in drivers’ ed classes how they taught you to keep checking? ... and sometimes I get caught fixing a disaster in one area and another area explodes into chaos. Christopher ... to the master bedroom and lock them in with me while I pee to minimize the risk of disaster. It’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 15:51:20

Best Blog Posts of 2008 (Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves)

Last year my compilation of what bloggers chose as their own best posts of the year proved so popular, at least with the participating bloggers' mothers, that I have decided to make it an annual affair. But enjoy it while you can. When the Obama Administration institutes its secret plan to extend the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet, this blog, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:00:00

Malik Rahim profiled in the San Francisco Bay View

Full article here. Additional IPR coverage here. Pat LaMarche, Green Party candidate for vice president in 2004 and for governor of Maine in 2006 and author of “Left Out In America: The State of Homelessness in the United States,” writes in the Bangor News: “I’m staying just a few blocks from Jefferson Davis Parkway [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 15:29:09

A Kitchen Disaster

Perusing this site and looking at their free "Sanity Saver" menu planning guide and kitchen organization tools reminded me of how truly helpless I am in the kitchen. (My hubby can tell you lots of stories--he's the cook in the family) It also reminded me of this piece, which I shared awhile ago and might give you a chuckle: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:47:39

United Nations confidential reports released

Wikileaks Wikileaks has released 70 United Nations investigative reports classified “Strictly Confidential”. The reports expose matters from allegations of hundreds of European peace-keepers abusing refugee girls to generals in Peru using Swiss bank accounts to engage in multi-million dollar frauds against the UN [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:35:01

Federal coverage subsidizes coastal living, makes disasters more costly ... . They want to expand the 40-year-old National Flood Insurance Program (which covers water damage ... . The people of Texas cleaning up from the ravages of Hurricane Ike deserve all the assistance [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 04:30:48

On the Horizon: Movies in 2009

Lots of movies out there on the horizon... When I first started these "On the Horizon" posts last year, they were almost exclusively movies that I had seen at MSPIFF (the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival), months before their actual release (American Teen, Encounters at the End of the World, etc.) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:55:04

Television Of The Weak: You're Goddamn Right We're Doing This

This week: American Idol, 24, Top Chef and The Bad Girls Club. American Idol – Phoenix, ArizonaOne of the best, and most unspoken, innovations of reality TV is its ability to capture those moments of human interaction so weird that, if you were to script it, no one would buy it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:34:27

Fiji Flooding: “The economic costs will be massive”

The sun peeked from behind the mass of clouds in parts of the Fiji island group Thursday morning, ... damage to highways, bridges and businesses. The government estimated the destruction to cost ... separate times in the previous week, told a local radio station economic damage to business and individual [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:12:26

Satyam - Scandal

When terrorists attacked Mumbai last November, the media called it "India's 9/11." That tragedy has been succeeded by another that has been dubbed "India's Enron." In one of the the biggest frauds in India's corporate history, B. Ramalinga Raju, founder and CEO of Satyam Computers, India's fourth-largest IT services firm, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:06:00

A Virtual Housecleaning With Kathy Griffin.

Yesterday Bossy decided to clean off her desktop, where desktop equals not a desk, or a top — but rather this: ... was, cleaning off her desktop — where cleaning isn’t really cleaning but rather staring for long ... , but Bossy was probably going to WHAT IS UP WITH THIS HAIR? The next hair disaster photo from The [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 15:28:03

Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers

New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: Susann Cokal on The Sky Below by Stacey D'Erasmo: "In moments like these, Gabriel’s voice is irresistible. He’s probably not much of an artist — he certainly meets with no worldly success — but he’s a brilliant narrator [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:15:16

Attacking Clutter & Organization 101

The situation in the craft room is dire. At first glance, this disaster appears to be the result of a tornado, tsunami, hurricane or other ... there. Work in short bursts. Let’s be real, if you spend 8 hours straight cleaning a room like this, you’re [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:24:33

How To Clean Upholstery Without Causing Damage

How To Clean Upholstery Without Causing Damage Posted By Chris Channing on @ 1:31 pm by Chris Channing Upholstery, ... solution to either stain the upholstery further or even cause mold. In most cases, this is best ... have be meticulously replaced in order to get the problem area clean. Some types of stains, such as paint [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:01:14

Ice storm prompts governor to declare emergency; thousands still without power

Ice storm prompts governor to declare emergency; thousands still without power by The Associated Press Saturday December 13, 2008, 5:59 PM ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. David Paterson on Saturday declared a state disaster emergency ... -- spread out through the region cleaning up the mess and getting the power back on, but it remained unclear [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 03:48:52

01/15 TIJUANA DRUG WAR VIOLENCE IS THERE A TRUCE? A MEXICAN GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE? FULL JOE 2008 REPORT AND NO IT DOES NOT SAY THAT AT ALL DUH DUH DUH

A few days back I was wondering out loud if a truce or an accord had been struck by the warring Cartels because it seemed relatively quiet in these ... , and an offensive move from the Cartels into U.S. territory would end up in disaster and diminish their drug profits [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:27:00

DrumBeat: November 9, 2008

Russia producers cut Nov oil exports, cite high duty MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian oil firms are shipping only three quarters of their planned November exports as a government order to cut oil export duties failed to make exports profitable again, Russia's pipeline monopoly said on Sunday [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 13:33:57

What To Do When In Doubt Of Cleaning Upholstery Correctly

What To Do When In Doubt Of Cleaning Upholstery Correctly Posted By Chris Channing on @ 1: ... - but sometimes even furniture gets dirty enough that a real solution must be found to clean ... damage or mold if it is left too long on upholstery. Be careful not to administer too much cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:02:20

A little insane, I know.

Yesterday I cleaned behind our oven. Even writing it I still feel like quite a freak ... . But I could never bring myself to do it without first addressing the disaster behind our oven ... it. I cleaned behind the oven. My husband walked in on the disaster of our kitchen and gave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:37:33

Tracker Offices Burn Down

Tracker is a national vehicle theft recovery and tracking service ... . By 3:30 the entire top floor roof was destroyed, and the fire was still raging. Anton Pietersen took ... sprinklers in the ceiling would not have stopped the roof from burning down. No one has any idea how [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:46:00

****new release list no.202

Ah, what a day it was today! The day after Martin Luther King Day and Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America! I sat with Amy and the kids watching the show this morning, and I realized it was the first inauguration I’ve cared to watch since President Carter’s back in 1977 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:53:00

Organization of A First-Time Mom

It’s 10 below zero here in Columbus, Ohio.  We stayed in for the past two days ... the need for some serious cleaning.  The challenge is for newbie Mom - when?  When do I clean?  It seems I no sooner start a cleaning project and I’m needed somewhere else.  Or, I am lucky [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 07:23:16

Budget Busters: Dry Cleaning

Dry cleaning isn’t really a budget buster - but, like alterations, if you forget to plan for it, it could be. Qualifying for dry cleaning in my wardrobe:  wool coats, suits, trousers, and skirts.  Typically ... trouser suit. My philosophy on dry cleaning: I pay for it from the regular clothing budget Each garment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:37:10

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