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William Rivers Pitt | The Unacceptables
http://www.truth-out.org/unacceptables/1313703982
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures lined up to scrap and scrape for the Republican presidential nomination. They seem to get worse every year, but this time around, there are definitely a lot more bananas in the bunch."
Syria Said to Fire on Protests in Defiance of Global Rebuke
http://www.truth-out.org/syria-said-fire-protests-defiance-global-rebuke/1313773339
Nada Bakri, The New York Times News Service: "Thousands of Syrians took to the streets across the country on Friday calling for the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad, keeping up the pressure on him in the five-month-old uprising one day after an alliance of nations led by the United States publicly called on him for the first time to step down and toughened the sanctions against his government. At least 16 people were reported killed, including some soldiers who disobeyed orders to shoot at protesters."
The Super Committee's Super-Close Ties to Banking and Finance
http://www.truth-out.org/getting-what-you-pay-super-committees-super-close-ties-banking-finance/1313761155
Lynn Parramore, New Deal 2.0: "The folks at Maplight have released some disturbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, fondly known as the 'Super Committee.' Maplight reports that the 10 biggest organization contributors (this includes PACs and Employees) to Super Committee Members are: Club for Growth, $990,066; Microsoft Corp., $810,100; University of California, $629,495; Goldman Sachs, $592,684; EMILY's List, $586,835; Citigroup Inc., $561,081; JPMorgan Chase & Co., $494,316; Bank of America, $349,566; Skadden, Arps, et al., $347,356; General Electric, $340,935 ... Guess how these folks feel about paying their fair share in taxes?"
Eugene Robinson | Where's the Syria Plan?
http://www.truth-out.org/wheres-syria-plan/1313702146
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: "It's hard to argue with President Obama's call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it's also hard to discern any logic or consistency in the administration's handling of the ongoing tumult in the Arab world."
Verizon Workers' Strike "Most Important Labor Battle Going on Today" (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/verizon-workers%E2%80%99-strike-most-important-labor-battle-going-today/1313765351
Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: "As Verizon's profits soar, the company is demanding unprecedented givebacks from workers, including pension freezes, health insurance premium increases, and an end to some paid holidays, including Martin Luther King Day and Veteran's Day. Workers are vowing to keep up their strike as long as possible in 'the Wisconsin of the private sector unions.'"
Richard D. Wolff | Deficits, Debts and Deepening Crisis
http://www.truth-out.org/deficits-debts-and-deepening-crisis/1313700343
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "Standard & Poor's downgrades US debt, stock markets gyrate around the world, Sarkozy and Merkel perform yet another empty summit, the Chinese and Japanese economies look worrisome. Serious commentators worry about global recession, another global banking collapse, eurozone dissolution and austerity programs that only make matters worse. Nouriel Roubini, famed professor at NYU's Stern School of Business asks this month, 'Is Capitalism Doomed?' His answer: maybe."
Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina
http://www.truth-out.org/president-perry/1313771216
Tolu Olorunda, CounterPunch: "When Perry speaks, a notion is nudged - that a joke far too turbulent is traveling within him, and only the truly perverted hold antennas strong enough to detect the signals. He smiles using up as little fraction of chin space possible, speaking of his Horatio Alger parents, sinking his right and left pupil deep down, casting a gaze far off beyond the camera's lenses. And those bullet eyes seem to hold his darkest secrets, flashing every now and then, as the cadences pick up and arms rise and drop like hammers, rhythmically knocking every word into place: the governor has just resurrected Reagan and Lincoln to remind supporters what presidents once used to be: White."
Israel Launches Airstrikes on Gaza
http://www.truth-out.org/israelis-hit-gaza-and-militants-fire-rockets-after-deadly-attacks/1313776478
David D. Kirkpatrick and Isabel Kershner, The New York Times News Service: "Egypt has registered a formal complaint with Israel over the killings of three Egyptian officers at the Sinai border and demanded an immediate investigation, state television reported Friday, as tensions threatened the once stable alliance a day after armed attackers carried out deadly strikes near the Red Sea resort of Eilat in Israel."
Libyan Rebels Gain Control of Oil Refinery as Qaddafi Forces Flee
http://www.truth-out.org/libyan-rebels-gain-control-oil-refinery-qaddafi-forces-flee/1313760358
Kareem Fahim, The New York Times News Service: "Rebel fighters claimed complete control of a sprawling oil refinery in this coastal town on Thursday, seizing one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's most important assets after just three days of fighting and delivering the latest in a string of small victories that have suddenly put the rebels at Tripoli's door."
Beyond the Attack on Teachers: Unions as Leaders for Better Schools
http://www.truth-out.org/unions-leaders-better-schools-exclusive-interview-randi-weingarten/1313760628
Amy Dean, Truthout: "Parents, teachers and students across the country are busy preparing for the return to school in the fall. For teachers, anticipating the needs their students will have in the new school year goes beyond the text books and the syllabus. They are preparing to meet a new wave of attacks on public education and on themselves personally."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pope Criticizes Market Deregulation, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-pope-criticizes-market-deregulation-and-more/1313772117
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: "In today's On the News segment: Wall Street has plenty of friends on the new Super Congress, unions have won the upper hand against Governor Kasich in Ohio, Elizabeth Warren expected to announce her senate candidacy next month, and more."
The Obama Wars: Why Do We Tear Each Other Apart Over Whether the President Is a Failure or Success?
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-wars-why-do-we-tear-each-other-apart-over-whether-president-failure-or-success/1313677319
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: "What, if anything, is the matter with Obama? This is a question that sharply divides progressives today, the central front on what has become known as the 'Obama Wars.' The Obama Wars can be vicious - they're often reminiscent of the 2008 primary fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In online communities, the conflict pits 'Obamabots,' whose mindless fealty to Our Dear Leader renders them incapable of independent thought, and 'emo-progs,' members of the 'professional left' whose lust for attacking the administration and refusal to give it credit for its accomplishments will only discourage Democratic voters and ultimately usher in a Bachmann presidency and a Supreme Court packed with far-right activist judges."
Violence, Interrupted
http://www.truth-out.org/violence-interrupted/1313762574
Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence: "'The Interrupters,' a new documentary from director Steve James and producer Alex Kotlowitz, vividly dramatizes this gamble in the midst of a culture of extreme youth violence on Chicago's South and West Sides. The film is an up-to-the-minute account of the haunting terror of seemingly inescapable gang conflict that is continually threatening to spin out of control - and that often does. What sets this sobering account apart, however, is that it settles neither for ineffectual hand wringing nor a more traditional criminal justice perspective."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The creationist crowd does have some proof that Darwin wasn't right about every individual in a species. They are living proof: after all, they haven't evolved.
The other day, a very young boy in New Hampshire got the better of Rick Perry with a question about evolution: Perry responded, "That's a theory that is out there - and it's got some gaps in it." (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/08/rick-perry-evolution-presidential-race-/1)
Perry then went on to assert to the boy: "In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution. I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one is right."
Except the US Supreme Court has ruled that it is a violation of the Constitution to teach creationism in schools. (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/18/7410377-fact-check-does-texas-teach-creationism-in-public-schools-is-it-constitutional)
Let's take another example that disproves evolution in the likes of Governor Perry. Texas has the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation. When queried by an interviewer about why the governor supports taxpayer funding of abstinence education in the Lone Star State when it doesn't work, Perry adamantly defended the program. (http://youtu.be/ngiJhmoFKkw) This is not only a Victorian outlook, it contradicts the right-wing notion that every government program should be judged by its effectiveness.
And then there's Michele Bachmann, who just this week stated that Americans are concerned about the "rise of the Soviet Union." (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/18/299057/michele-bachmann-soviet-union-flub/) Maybe she was confused because it is the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall being erected. (http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/The-Wall-That-Couldnt-Stop-History-127741213.html) As with most embodiments of creationism, Bachmann's frame of reference moves backward in time, not forward.
BuzzFlash at Truthout noted earlier this year, "a fundamentalist Christian may feel reassured that - at the Creation Museum in Kentucky - a dinosaur wears a saddle to show that all life began simultaneously with a divine spark." (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12737)
Maybe the Creation Museum should replace the dinosaur with a wax replica of Rick Perry and put a saddle on his back.
Evolution, on its path to the future, just passes some people by.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
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The "Big Dog," Bill Clinton, Turns 65 and Declares Himself a Vegan
Read the Article at The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/world/clinton-overhauls-his-diet-20110819-1j2ex.html?from=smh_sb
Texas State Board of Education Declares War on the Declaration of Independence
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12956
Bill McKibben: A Watershed Moment for Obama on Climate Change
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-watershed-moment-for-obama-on-climate-change/2011/08/16/gIQAGX3zJJ_story.html
Murdoch's Lawyers Turn on Him
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/17/murdoch-s-lawyers-turn-on-him-are-burton-copeland-next.html?om_rid=CZthPx&om_mid=_BOTWg8B8cz7zOy
California Unemployment Rises in July to 12 Percent
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-caljobs-july-20110820,0,619654.story
Job Discrimination Hitting Women Hard
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12953
Al Franken: The Corruption of the Credit Rating Agency Industry
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/19/franken.rating.reform/index.html?&hpt=hp_c2
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<p>Friday 19 August 2011</p>
<p><font><strong>William Rivers Pitt | The Unacceptables</strong></font><br=
/>
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "And so begins again the Herculean task of w=
rapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricature=
s lined up to scrap and scrape for the Republican presidential nomination. =
They seem to get worse every year, but this time around, there are definite=
ly a lot more bananas in the bunch." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DdGyfmm=
8d7KKblc9VGO64Gx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Syria Said to Fire on Protests in Defiance of Global Rebuke</=
strong></font><br />
Nada Bakri, The New York Times News Service: "Thousands of Syrians took to =
the streets across the country on Friday calling for the downfall of Presid=
ent Bashar al-Assad, keeping up the pressure on him in the five-month-old u=
prising one day after an alliance of nations led by the United States publi=
cly called on him for the first time to step down and toughened the sanctio=
ns against his government. At least 16 people were reported killed, includi=
ng some soldiers who disobeyed orders to shoot at protesters." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3De9%2B5=
%2Fu0J5lwI7tG9Cg%2BgTx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Super Committee's Super-Close Ties to Banking and Finance=
</strong></font><br />
Lynn Parramore, New Deal 2.0: "The folks at Maplight have released some dis=
turbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the =
newly-formed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, fondly known as t=
he 'Super Committee.' Maplight reports that the 10 biggest organization con=
tributors (this includes PACs and Employees) to Super Committee Members are=
: Club for Growth, $990,066; Microsoft Corp., $810,100; University of Calif=
ornia, $629,495; Goldman Sachs, $592,684; EMILY's List, $586,835; Citigroup=
Inc., $561,081; JPMorgan Chase & Co., $494,316; Bank of America, $349,=
566; Skadden, Arps, et al., $347,356; General Electric, $340,935 ... Guess =
how these folks feel about paying their fair share in taxes?" <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DqKWt1H=
Oxf%2BTndDgXnBBY3x8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Eugene Robinson | Where's the Syria Plan?</strong></font><br =
/>
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: "It's hard to argue wit=
h President Obama's call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dicta=
tor, to step down. But it's also hard to discern any logic or consistency i=
n the administration's handling of the ongoing tumult in the Arab world." <=
br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DtNWziX=
UC001odCqobJM%2BKB8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Verizon Workers' Strike "Most Important Labor Battle Going on=
Today" (Video)</strong></font><br />
Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: "As Verizon's profits soar, the company is d=
emanding unprecedented givebacks from workers, including pension freezes, h=
ealth insurance premium increases, and an end to some paid holidays, includ=
ing Martin Luther King Day and Veteran's Day. Workers are vowing to keep up=
their strike as long as possible in 'the Wisconsin of the private sector u=
nions.'" <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DHut0TD=
p1gVL3hpRLHmNK6R8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Richard D. Wolff | Deficits, Debts and Deepening Crisis</st=
rong></font><br />
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "Standard & Poor's downgrades US debt, stoc=
k markets gyrate around the world, Sarkozy and Merkel perform yet another e=
mpty summit, the Chinese and Japanese economies look worrisome. Serious com=
mentators worry about global recession, another global banking collapse, eu=
rozone dissolution and austerity programs that only make matters worse. Nou=
riel Roubini, famed professor at NYU's Stern School of Business asks this m=
onth, 'Is Capitalism Doomed?' His answer: maybe." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DLZnV5P=
iDuRmWV5y3VkoGqB8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina</strong></font><br=
/>
Tolu Olorunda, CounterPunch: "When Perry speaks, a notion is nudged - that =
a joke far too turbulent is traveling within him, and only the truly perver=
ted hold antennas strong enough to detect the signals. He smiles using up a=
s little fraction of chin space possible, speaking of his Horatio Alger par=
ents, sinking his right and left pupil deep down, casting a gaze far off be=
yond the camera's lenses. And those bullet eyes seem to hold his darkest se=
crets, flashing every now and then, as the cadences pick up and arms rise a=
nd drop like hammers, rhythmically knocking every word into place: the gove=
rnor has just resurrected Reagan and Lincoln to remind supporters what pres=
idents once used to be: White." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DufSRBv=
o1YwHWUc4JNILxkx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Israel Launches Airstrikes on Gaza</strong></font><br />
David D. Kirkpatrick and Isabel Kershner, The New York Times News Service: =
"Egypt has registered a formal complaint with Israel over the killings of t=
hree Egyptian officers at the Sinai border and demanded an immediate invest=
igation, state television reported Friday, as tensions threatened the once =
stable alliance a day after armed attackers carried out deadly strikes near=
the Red Sea resort of Eilat in Israel." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DEUlLUo=
HbXQ4Tdg8%2FDN3kOB8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Libyan Rebels Gain Control of Oil Refinery as Qaddafi Forces =
Flee</strong></font><br />
Kareem Fahim, The New York Times News Service: "Rebel fighters claimed comp=
lete control of a sprawling oil refinery in this coastal town on Thursday, =
seizing one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's most important assets after just t=
hree days of fighting and delivering the latest in a string of small victor=
ies that have suddenly put the rebels at Tripoli's door." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DM2FUWo=
0PBmDrWp9h1x9jMx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Beyond the Attack on Teachers: Unions as Leaders for Better S=
chools</strong></font><br />
Amy Dean, Truthout: "Parents, teachers and students across the country are =
busy preparing for the return to school in the fall. For teachers, anticipa=
ting the needs their students will have in the new school year goes beyond =
the text books and the syllabus. They are preparing to meet a new wave of a=
ttacks on public education and on themselves personally." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DRJwKN4=
7PsgKRk2JIuCTlUx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pope Criticizes Market Deregu=
lation, and More</strong></font><br />
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: "In today's On the News segment: =
Wall Street has plenty of friends on the new Super Congress, unions have wo=
n the upper hand against Governor Kasich in Ohio, Elizabeth Warren expected=
to announce her senate candidacy next month, and more." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DY9XZs4=
Ub1qP%2FIa0Rs4T2gx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video and R=
ead the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Obama Wars: Why Do We Tear Each Other Apart Over Whether =
the President Is a Failure or Success?</strong></font><br />
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: "What, if anything, is the matter with Obama? Thi=
s is a question that sharply divides progressives today, the central front =
on what has become known as the 'Obama Wars.' The Obama Wars can be vicious=
- they're often reminiscent of the 2008 primary fight between Hillary Clin=
ton and Barack Obama. In online communities, the conflict pits 'Obamabots,'=
whose mindless fealty to Our Dear Leader renders them incapable of indepen=
dent thought, and 'emo-progs,' members of the 'professional left' whose lus=
t for attacking the administration and refusal to give it credit for its ac=
complishments will only discourage Democratic voters and ultimately usher i=
n a Bachmann presidency and a Supreme Court packed with far-right activist =
judges." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DyIUkxW=
r3Muzqus2d4jurzB8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Violence, Interrupted</strong></font><br />
Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence: "'The Interrupters,' a new documentary fro=
m director Steve James and producer Alex Kotlowitz, vividly dramatizes this=
gamble in the midst of a culture of extreme youth violence on Chicago's So=
uth and West Sides. The film is an up-to-the-minute account of the haunting=
terror of seemingly inescapable gang conflict that is continually threaten=
ing to spin out of control - and that often does. What sets this sobering a=
ccount apart, however, is that it settles neither for ineffectual hand wrin=
ging nor a more traditional criminal justice perspective." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DKI7Ydf=
pQ8yu9tyU7Ub5Lbh8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
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<p>The creationist crowd does have some proof that Darwin wasn't right abou=
t every individual in a species. They are living proof: after all, they hav=
en't evolved.</p>
<p>The other day, a very young boy in New Hampshire got the better of Rick =
Perry with a question about evolution: Perry responded, <a target=3D"_blank=
" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DJanF%2F=
ITkV3MnClRP%2BXm8ah8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">"That's a theory tha=
t is out there - and it's got some gaps in it."</font></a></p>
<p>Perry then went on to assert to the boy: "In Texas, we teach both creati=
onism and evolution. I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one i=
s right."</p>
<p>Except the US Supreme Court has ruled that it is a violation of the Cons=
titution to <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/=
dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D9opjU3m0sLhjaCz6ANGWwB8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#c=
c0000">teach creationism in schools</font></a>.</p>
<p>Let's take another example that disproves evolution in the likes of Gove=
rnor Perry. Texas has the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation. =
When queried by an interviewer about why the governor supports taxpayer fun=
ding of abstinence education in the Lone Star State when it doesn't work, P=
erry <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/tra=
ck.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D48VyAbAmLdXvbqS22OsCwB8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc0000">=
adamantly defended the program</font></a>. This is not only a Victorian out=
look, it contradicts the right-wing notion that every government program sh=
ould be judged by its effectiveness.</p>
<p>And then there's Michele Bachmann, who just this week stated that Americ=
ans are concerned about the <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democr=
acyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dzio2xRgflFNzQ3xPJA%2BZ%2BR8P7faSyUN=
u"><font color=3D"#cc0000">"rise of the Soviet Union."</font></a> Maybe she=
was confused because it is the <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.de=
mocracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DdmFe8KEEV2fpxoFuf9BIER8P7faSyUN=
u"><font color=3D"#cc0000">50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall being erecte=
d</font></a>. As with most embodiments of creationism, Bachmann's frame of =
reference moves backward in time, not forward.</p>
<p>BuzzFlash at Truthout noted earlier this year, "a fundamentalist Christi=
an may feel reassured that - at the Creation Museum in Kentucky - a dinosau=
r wears a saddle to <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinact=
ion.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Ddnqu9g82Cg8f1rJ4x6X%2F6h8P7faSyUNu"><font c=
olor=3D"#cc0000">show that all life began simultaneously with a divine spar=
k.</font></a>"</p>
<p>Maybe the Creation Museum should replace the dinosaur with a wax replica=
of Rick Perry and put a saddle on his back.</p>
<p>Evolution, on its path to the future, just passes some people by.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>The "Big Dog," Bill Clinton, Turns 65 and Declares Himself a Veg=
an<br />
</strong><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia=
/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DfZmUvhfg2UDdsXeP4q7Mrh8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at The Sydney Morning Herald</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Texas State Board of Education Declares War on the Declaration o=
f Independence<br />
</strong><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia=
/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DccynJ6h9JKgkjIw9N5T0Tx8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Bill McKibben: A Watershed Moment for Obama on Climate Change<br=
/>
</strong><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia=
/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DOkGup34sjrNchd4FvI0BNh8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Murdoch's Lawyers Turn on Him<br />
</strong><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia=
/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DNU4abf%2BqLCbQCnkyEiK7jCQ390pH9JQI"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at The Daily Beast</font></a></p>
<p><strong>California Unemployment Rises in July to 12 Percent<br />
</strong><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia=
/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DAj%2F9Cw9iIXrf6CRPq54icR8P7faSyUNu"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Job Discrimination Hitting Women Hard<br />
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00">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Al Franken: The Corruption of the Credit Rating Agency Industry<=
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