To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: Billionaires for Bing or Orr

More Miriam Daniell at Fair Use Repository: http://fair-use.org/liberty/1892/10/22/the-bottom-of-the-sea http://margins.fair-use.org/note/Miriam_Daniell

“. . . But one day, I heard that Horikoshi [Jiro] had once murmured, ‘All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.’ And then I knew I’d found my subject. . . .”

Thank you to anyone who helped spread this story. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta had decided to deny Anthony Stokes an opportunity to get a life-saving heart transplant, by political fiat, because of a “history of non-compliance.” Under pressure, the hospital has changed its decision: “UPDATE: The hospital has reversed course and agreed to put Anthony on the transplant list. Hospital officials told the Stokes family that Anthony will be at the top of the list because his condition is so serious. They did not offer a reason for changing their minds about his heart transplant.”

Dear LazyWeb: got a research question for you. Recently in a conversation I was offered the following statistic: “We [* sic] spend $1 trillion a year on means-tested transfers.” This may well be true; and this was cited in such a way that it sounds like there’s a fairly standard policy-world white paper announcing the number, but my [citation needed] request didn’t get an answer. So, anyone know what source is likely being tacitly invoked to come up with this number? [* He meant “they,” i.e., the United States government.]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/175603/nsa-comes-clean The NSA is looking out for you.

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: A New York Times correction 10 years in the making — David Brooks vs. David Brooks on “neoconservatism” and the GOP. http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/08/12/neoconservative-that-is-one/

Hey, remember 10 years ago back when David Brooks wrote a column disavowing “neo-conservative” as a political label, insisting that “In truth, the people labeled neocons . . . travel in widely different circles and don’t actually have much contact with one another,” arguing that “If you ever read a sentence that starts with ‘Neocons believe,’ there is a 99.44 percent chance everything else in that sentence will be untrue,” and directly mocking people writing about “neoconservative” influence on the Bush administration in the most abusive terms possible, as “full-mooner” anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists? Boy howdy, that was a time. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/brooks-the-neocon-revival.html?_r=0 “The conservatism that Kristol was referring to is neoconservatism. Neocons came in for a lot of criticism during the Iraq war, but neoconservatism was primarily a domestic policy movement. Conservatism was at its peak when the neocons were dominant and nearly every problem with the Republican Party today could be cured by a neocon revival. . . .” ~David Brooks (2013)

Hey, remember 10 years ago back when David Brooks wrote a column disavowing “neo-conservative” as a political label, insisting that “In truth, the people labeled neocons . . . travel in widely different circles and don’t actually have much contact with one another,” arguing that “If you ever read a sentence that starts with ‘Neocons believe,’ there is a 99.44 percent chance everything else in that sentence will be untrue,” and directly mocking people writing about “neoconservative” influence on the Bush administration in the most abusive terms possible, as “full-mooner” anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist? Bow howdy, that was a time. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/brooks-the-neocon-revival.html?_r=0 “The conservatism that Kristol was referring to is neoconservatism. Neocons came in for a lot of criticism during the Iraq war, but neoconservatism was primarily a domestic policy movement. Conservatism was at its peak when the neocons were dominant and nearly every problem with the Republican Party today could be cured by a neocon revival. . . .” ~David Brooks (2013)

The nationalized cartel for organ donations and transplants is planning to murder a 15-year-old named Anthony Stokes, for a “history of non-compliance.” ‘Fifteen-year-old Anthony Stokes has less than six months to live unless he receives an emergency heart transplant. But his family has been told that Anthony doesn’t qualify for the transplant list because he has a “history of non-compliance” . . . The doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta weren’t very specific about what exactly contributed to their decision to label Anthony as “non-compliant.” But family friends explained to WSBTV News that they were told it’s partly because of Anthony’s performance in school and run-ins with law enforcement.’