Sunshine gardens
I was happy to see a new article, “Extreme Makeover: White House Edition” in Friday’s Wall Street Journal by former House & Garden magazine editor ... windows with “meat” and “20500″, the White House zip code, you get four pages of listings)** Yes indeedy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 05:00:11
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Answers
Back in August I saw a door knob in Old House Journal that was identical to one I owned. I wrote to the magazine to see if they had any more info. on the hardware. They didn't, but printed my letter in the magazine. Well, I had forgotten all about this when I started to browse thought the February issue. I was reading the Letters section [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:30:00
FOX Business Pundit's Prescription For Housing Ills: Turn Construction Companies Into Destruction Companies
Guest blogged by Dan In the 1930's, in an effort to increase prices, ... , so there is another possibility. Instead of continuing these absurdities, The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins and Forbes Magazine guest columnist Susan Lee, an economist, have both advocated [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 05:22:41
Giving the Roost a Boost
Wall Street Journal Sunday editor David Crook writes: With the housing market meltdown, more and more house-poor home owners who can’t sell and move are likely to look to remodeling ... improvements make good investments. Indeed, Remodeling magazine’s most recent 2008-2009 “Cost vs. Value [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:16:51
Zionist Control of US Policy
Source I was recently asked to answer the following question: In the original post there is mention of Israel controlling US policy. How exactly does that work? The short answer is this: A highly influential and extremely well bankrolled collection of groups directs energy simultaneously in a number of directions: Political, media, academic, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 20:51:14
Will Public Education Be Militarized?
In two days, we enter a new Bush and Cheney-less era, though we’ll be living with their nightmarish legacy forever and a day. In response to change, all of us have to adapt — TomDispatch included. This site certainly won’t lose its focus on the world out there, the ongoing militarization of our country, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 03:34:22
Richard John Neuhaus, RIP (Updated)
Richard John Neuhaus, the Lutheran-turned-Catholic priest who founded the influential journal First Things, died last night after a bout with cancer ... -brow journal he founded in 1990, Neuhaus kept up a steady stream of commentary on matters both ... Newman. Peter Wehner, former deputy assistant President Bush and director of the White House Office [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 15:24:12
Chain Of Fools
The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “Mike Kraft, a Realtor in Loveland, said first-time buyers have an edge in the current marketplace ... George Todd, co-owner of Todd Realty Group, said house hunters need to keep the resale value ... a home you haven’t even bid on, but it’s a reality homebuyers need to face, Todd said. ‘You want a house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:13:27
Experimentation
A day off does not necessarily mean a day off for ME when the kids are off from school, but my husband goes into the office ... entertainment. I picked up the new House Beautiful magazine to read about Lucite coming back ... it. This month's Craft magazine has instructions on how to make a tote and bucket hat using fused [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 01:06:00
Obama’s Wall Street Buddies
There is no way Wall Street was going to let a new President preside over sweeping changes in the financial industry without making its presence ... securities.”) According to The Wall Street Journal Friday, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs Group are among ... site. Who are these masked men and women supporting Obama with Wall Street’s money? Deal Journal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:53:00
A Job for the Parliamentary Budget Officer?
out, given the current shortage of private capital, this requirement constitutes nothing but an artificial delay. If Budget 2009 is serious about getting “shovels in the ground,” it will abandon this requirement if not dismantle PPP Canada altogether. Budget 2007 allocated $25 million over five years to establish and operate PPP Canada [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 21:27:31
Help Wanted Ad: Who Will Be the Next Neel Kashkari?
Who will be America’s next TARP head? With all of this year’s elections, appointments and upheavals, one crucial position hasn’t been filled: ... beyond opening up the U.S. vault. Still, with Kashkari getting ready to step down, Deal Journal ... together the $700 billion bailout bill that was shot down by House Republicans the next day [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 16:48:12
The Top 10 Films of 2008
By Vadim Rizov [Author's Note: Almost a meaningless exercise: the more time I'm lucky enough to spend at film festivals, the further apart the divergence between festival release dates and actual theatrical engagements (no matter how token) and the even longer wait for DVD renders pretty much any kind of unified universal viewing calendar [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 17:37:22
Hindu terrorism-a fascist growth industry
Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻 | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی |’Hindu terrorism’ debate grips India. It is being called the most virulent and dangerous fascist movement in the planet that has already [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 07:41:35
True Beauty or True Beast?
ABC airs a new reality show tonight, calling it the “love child of America’s Next Top Model and Punk’d“ ... cash and a photo feature in People magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” issue. The catch ... contestants and tries to help them clean up. True Beauty hostess Vanessa sends them inside their new house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 04:56:59
Calvin and Stuff and Calvin
Molly Worthen's article has created quite a bit of discussion on the blogosphere, especially regarding new calvinism. Heres some stuff on it. 1 ... very much that I could have droned on at length, with great historical detail and nuance ... Hill and the historical Reformed tradition), but as a magazine journalist one is forced (by word [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:35:16
Face-Lift 590
Guess the PlotThe End of Normal1. It's just another day in Des Moines for Shelly and her family. Snow, people in the skywalk, dogs driving the taxis. ... with her English and Nicole introduces Trisha to pot and drink. When an all-night party at Nicole's house ... was living in her parent's pool house and ordering take-out with her daddy's unlimited Visa [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:56:00
Observations: In line at the Grocery Store
Have you ever really paid attention to the things people buy, and in what combination, when you are at a grocery store? My first realization that this could have any entertainment value was several years ago when I suddenly realized that I was in line with a bag of water balloons, strawberry jello, whip cream and panty hose [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 12:05:54
FICTION - BIONIC BOYFRIEND - AMOR PRIMO
"Last call for flight 714 with non stop service to Las Vegas," the voice of the effeminate flight attendant crackled over the sound system. With a sigh Twenty-one year old Justus Montgomery lifted his satchel and laptop case, swinging them both over his shoulder. "Well," he swallowed hard. "I guess this is it [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 06:48:50
Zionists in America, A to Z
I hope it's okay with Malooga and Bernhard at MofA, but I'm posting this entire piece. It's very, very long, and you'll probably need to spend some hours both reading it and following its links... but this is the essential information we all need to master in confronting the racist and malignant movement known as Zionism [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:16:00
The POEt
He invented the modern short story and the genre of detective fiction tales which led to Sherlock Holmes, he wrote science fiction and works about alchemy and cryptographic systems, he told macabre stories of horror and terror, he is one of the greatest icons in my personal universe and today we have the honour to celebrate his 200th birthday… [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 03:48:00
IN REMEMBRANCE: 1-18-2009
Jump to CommentsANDREW WYETH, PAINTER, REALIST AND LIGHTENING ROD By MICHAEL KIMMELMANPublished: January 16, 2009 Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 04:02:00
Poem day : It was nothing
This is for the ultra, the fabulous, the only, Miss P’s Dazzle Me contest. Miss P, may I just say that the material you chose really made me thirsty for red wine! Here was the challenge:Follow the instructions on the post and then write a poem - of at least four stanzas -20 lines - using words and phrases culled from the passage below [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:36:09
Susan Crawford and the Media: Torture is as Torture Does
Susan Crawford's recent assertions of torture simply do not add up, and your main stream media isn't going to investigate anytime soon. Had Crawford made an assertion that there was unequivocally no torture to speak of at Guantanamo, the media would be sifting meticulously through her statements with a fine-toothed comb, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 07:08:25
Mr. and Mrs. Popularity
In case last week wasn't enough, I now have more people to add to my 'Thinks Astarte Is An A-Hole' list! ... in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, People, Down East magazine and many other publications.All of these reviewers understood the book [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 01:33:00
Spotlight Interview: Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron, 60, is a giant not only among writers but all kinds of artists ... , The Village Voice, New West, New York, American Film Magazine, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Savvy, and Cosmopolitan.In 1975, she married before-he-was-famous director Martin Scorcese [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 06:01:00
Jan 19, 2009: Built on jelly
“Like the poor rooster of the infamous post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, where the sun rises because he crowed, ... The New Yorker cartoonist died of a stroke last Thursday at the age of 88. A WWII veteran, Drucker ... The Direct Market just got scarier for smaller publishers. The new benchmark — up from $1500 — is said [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:17:26
Date: 2009-01-16 03:54:41
Today in History: January 19
via The History Channel1809 : Edgar Allan Poe is bornOn this day in 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, ... , and the couple moved to Philadelphia, where Poe worked as an editor at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and Graham's Magazine. He became known for his direct and incisive criticism, as well as for dark [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:32:00
Mags: Choose your mag (Vogue vs InStyle)
Celebrity-obsessed InStyle versus venerable modeliser Vogue. Who wins in the February glossy style stakes? ... about leisurely home activities: cue the obligatory sofa shot, the disheveled bed shot, the inside-my-messy ... to flow" and "When I get home, I relax. I draw or play the guitar...".Meanwhile, girl's girl Kate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:14:00
Extreme Makeover Home Edition: Grys Family Miracle!
On this week’s episode of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ty Pennington and the design team are heading to Pekin, Illinois, ... Jake before adopting him when he was three years of age. Ty Pennington explains that the house is very dangerous for little Jake Grys. Door Knock Day The Grys family bounds from the house to greet [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 02:18:29
Ypulse Essentials: 'Wimpy Kid' Makes A Splash, Whopper Sacrifice On Facebook, 'Gossip Girl' Raises Race Issues
'Wimpy Kid' makes a strong impression (on the New York Times with an article on the buzz surrounding the series and a profile of the man behind the kid. Also a new teen series from Random House will be promoted in the virtual world ... ) (Word Magazine) - Lose 10 Facebook friends, gain a Whopper (Burger King's new Whopper Sacrifice [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:55:30
The amazing interview with DietGirl - Part Deux
There is a girl who blogged about losing half her weight and wrote a book about it - and she's not me! As far as I know there are only two people on the planet who fit this description, me and Shauna Reid, aka DietGirl (although she's not a diet). I interviewed her last year when her aptly titled book The Amazing Adventures of DietGirl was [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 12:44:59
Trying Deprivation
Each fall, in order to be supportive of my granddaughter and her Girl Scout troop, ... s what it’s named), The Journal of Nascar Racing, or Neocon Projects ... the topic of this magazine I am reading. Another thing about this issue of Mother Jones is that here [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 23:41:00
14 Essential Magazines for Graphic Designers
In spite of the tremendous expansion of the Internet, the power of the printed word remains strong and popular. Print media is where it all began and today we take a close look at some amazing design magazines that can really boost your productivity and expand your design knowledge. In addition [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:39:08
The lie of print advertising (followed by good news)
First, the bad news: Ethan Zuckerman worries that the economics of print advertising in the past are unsustainable. And he’s right. Online has exposed the lie - the fraud, if you like; the fantasy, if you prefer - of print advertising. That myth is essentially that every reader of a publication - not just buyer but alleged reader - is exposed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:37:39
Book Giveaway: Savvy by Ingrid Law
here. Contest Rules: The contest ends on Sunday, February 1, 2009. We will announce the winner the following day. A winner will be chosen using Random.org. The contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only. You must have a valid email to comment and for us to contact you if you win. ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:56:50
Market Leverage Announces GreenLinks
Market Leverage has just announced GreenLinks, the Online Advertising Industry’s first affiliate help videos ... videos here. Videos designed by Market Leverage’s in-house technology and production teams feature ... Leverage has been recognized by INC. Magazine for its growth over the past three years [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 21:57:54
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - December 31, 2008
Articles of interest to Illinois Republicans recently posted by ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, ... Register Star, Bloomington Pantagraph, Peoria Journal Star, Springfield State Journal Register, Belleville ... Blagojevich's appointment of Roland Burris? Supreme Court has said in past that House and [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:39:23
Time’s Nancy Gibbs Cheers Obama for Overcoming ‘Unwise, Unfair, Unholy’ Claims of Religious Right
Time’s Nancy Gibbs Cheers Obama for Overcoming ‘Unwise, Unfair, Unholy’ Claims of Religious Right Posted by Internet Guru at January 20, ... of heaven and laying exclusive claims to God’s designs was unwise, unfair, even unholy." She even ... the prairie and set souls on fire… Obama was busy building a new church, looking for the seekers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:17:18
Miami: Jewish Museum's mini-film festival, Jan. 18
Celebrate Florida Jewish History Month with a mini film festival at the Jewish Museum of Florida, beginning at 3pm, Sunday, January 18 ... ), his Rascal House, Abraham’s Bakery and A Slice of Life will be screened.The Rascal House Restaurant ... in Florida, and when we later lived in southern Florida we ate there. There was only one Rascal House [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 11:18:00
Left Anticommunism: the unkindest cut
A CYRANO’S JOURNAL VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY SELECTION Stalin’s idealized portrait, ca. 1937 Introduction to Michael Parenti’s work by Patrice Greanville Stalin—the favorite “bete noire” of anticommunists the world over—provided abundant grist for anti-Soviet propaganda [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:59:03
The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
The Long Tail A public diary on themes around my books ABOUT | RSS FEED rss January 05, 2009 The best selling MP3 album of the year was free image Cool news: The best-selling MP3 album at Amazon in 2008 was Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV, which was released free under a Creative Commons license software [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 10:24:08
No media mudballs this time
No media mudballs this time Share Post Print January 16, 2009 Posted by Paul at 11:52 AM The MSM's blatant pro-liberal, ... are taking over the White House, while coverage of GOP inaugurals has included a fair number of anti ... as National Idol: Can the Honeymoon Last?" Newsweek magazine [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:52:26
New Ebooks Download links
Zigbee Wireless NetworkingExcel 2007 Macros Made EasyOpen Source Approaches in Spatial Data HandlingBuilding a Straw Bale House: ... : Parallel-Sparse Statics an…Design Computing and Cognition ‘08: Proceedings of…The Humane Metropolis ... for Business: Cases and ApplicationsTotal Training Online Adobe CS4 Design WorkflowTV NetworkDsp for Matlab [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 01:55:01
Monday wrap
Andy Stern's SEIU goons harass workers ... Days before national SEIU officials are expected to launch a hostile takeover of United Healthcare Workers ... telephone calls to the newspaper. Three others told the Journal last week they had no real [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 11:30:00
MEMORIES OF INAUGURALS PAST WITH BILL WILSON
BY BILL WILSON Sentinel Photojournalist All Photos by Bill Wilson © 2008 Part One: Nixon and Carter, A study in contrasts As the countdown to Barack Obama’s inauguration begins it induces in me a trip down memory lane. Having lived in Washington DC from 1972 until 1997, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 07:10:49
Susan Crawford and the Media: Torture is as Torture Does
Susan Crawford and the Media: Torture is as Torture Does Posted by Internet Guru at January 16, 2009 Susan Crawford’s recent assertions of torture simply do not add up, and your main stream media isn’t going to investigate anytime soon. Had Crawford made an assertion that there was unequivocally no torture to speak of at Guantanamo, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 07:32:58
Report: Obama to Tap CNN Doc Gupta for Surgeon General
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the post of surgeon general to neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, ... : Besides his CNN gig, Gupta also appears on CBS and writes for Time Magazine. He was a White House ... with Tom Daschle, Obama’s White House health czar and nominee for Health and Human Services secretary [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:51:27
Another $20 Trillion Will Be Wiped Off Global Stock Markets In 2009
It is estimated that over 700 banks (with trillions of dollars in assets) will come crashing to the ground. Hundreds of hedge funds will collapse, along with a number of major private equity firms. Corporate bankruptcies will soar. And another $20 Trillion will be wiped off Global stock markets [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 07:49:00
