21Mar2010
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Queens
Randy Haddock
I live in Brooklyn.
This is my personal page.
Have a pretty day.
20Mar2010
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Firedoglake whip count: 217 against ObamaCare (including those who are leaning against it) and 204 for it.
If they do pass this thing, they’re gonna do so by a razor-thin margin. You don’t pass a bill as massive as ObamaCare with that kind of margin.
19Mar2010
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And so it ends, with a health-care vote expected this weekend. I wonder at what point the administration will realize it wasn’t worth it—worth the discord, worth the diminution in popularity and prestige, worth the deepening of the great divide. What has been lost is so vivid, what has been gained so amorphous, blurry and likely illusory. Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to Demon Pass.
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Peggy Noonan: Now for the Slaughter
When will they realize it wasn’t worth it? Moe Lane has an answer: Election Night, 2012.
17Mar2010
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Obama and Dems are ready to disregard Constitution with Slaughter Rule; Mark Levin is ready as well… with a lawsuit
It’s come to this: ObamaCare, an unpopular and partisan bill, needs unconstitutional gimmicks such as the Slaughter Rule in order to pass, and citizens are ready to defend the Constitution against the former constitutional professor who was elected and sworn to uphold that pesky and inconvenient document.
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez and Erick Erickson:
Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.
“Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”
Not only is it unconstitutional, the Slaughter Rule is politically disastrous and will be used dearly against congressional Democrats in the midterm elections. And when Obama’s #1 cheerleader, Chris Matthews, agrees on that point, you know it’s time to step back.
17Mar2010
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Video: An infuriated drunk maniac smashes her family cars up with a golf-club as neighbors gaze on in horror.
Some people shouldn’t drink…ever.
12Mar2010
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“A little bit louder now!” (via Talez)
I’m seriously obsessed with “Modern Family.” It’s the funniest and sweetest show I’ve ever seen. I’m in love with every single character. Some shows make you laugh here and there, but with “Modern Family” you laugh throughout the entire thing until it hurts. This scene right here is comedy GOLD.
The full episode is here. I HIGHLY recommend you watch the whole thing.
The return of the sitcom is here!
11Mar2010
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Brain scan can read people's thoughts
In the study, Maguire and her colleagues Martin Chadwick, Demis Hassabis, and Nikolaus Weiskopf showed 10 people each three very short films before brain scanning. Each movie featured a different actress and a fairly similar everyday scenario.
The researchers scanned the participants’ brains while the participants were asked to recall each of the films. The researchers then ran the imaging data through a computer algorithm designed to identify patterns in the brain activity associated with memories for each of the films.
Finally, they showed that those patterns could be identified to accurately predict which film a given person was thinking about when he or she was scanned.
The results imply that the traces of episodic memories are found in the brain, and are identifiable, even over many re-activations, the researchers said.
The results reinforce the findings of a 2008 US study that showed similar scans can determine what images people are seeing based on brain activity.