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BurlingtonPol.com: Disclaimer & Other Links

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:57:00 -0500

Read my Disclaimer if you haven't already. And check out some of the weird links along the sidebars I put there for you. Sure a lot of them are dead, and some of the folks to whom the links link are dead, but that's part of the fun.
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Vermont Tiger: The Silence; The Silence

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:27:07 -0500

Number of comments: 0

To: Vermont Tiger readers

From: Geoffrey Norman

re: where the hell you been

This morning's storm took out two very old, very tall pines and they took power, cable, and telephone with them. Will get back to business as soon as all of those are restored.

My apologies for the inconvenience though I [...]

Vermont Daily Briefing: In Which VDB Says Several Nice Things About A Republican Candidate, And Western Civilization Does Not Crumble

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:29:50 -0500

It would be incorrect to say that VDB always promotes candidates and ideas from the Left. Over the years, we’ve corresponded productively with more than a few Republican candidates, and occasionally (okay, very occasionally) we’ve promoted them. For example, when Martha Rainville took off her uniform to run for Congress, [...]

Vermont Commons blogs: WONDERING if they'll insist they're evil...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:13:26 -0500

Vatican, England and France pressure the US for UFO Disclosure.

For full article, click here and scroll down.

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vt.Buzz: Ben & Jerry for Fed chairman?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:06:00 -0500

Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Colbert Report last night: The interview starts with Colbert going to commercial. Sanders says nothing to bemoan the "corporate media."

Colbert asks him to address the "vicious rumors" that he is a Socialist. "I am a Democratic Socialist, that's correct," Sanders responds. Thing is, [...]

Vermont Commons blogs: HOLY COW! Check out the image today on Spaceweather.com

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:04:41 -0500

Is it April Fool's?!!! How bizarre!!!

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Green Mountain Daily: Sioux, give and take

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Yesterday it was announced far and wide that Attorney General Eric Holder settled a 13 year old lawsuit brought by Native Americans against the US that dated back to the 1800’s.The case involved allegations that the Department of the Interior had swindled tribes out of leasing royalties for mining, [...]

Vermont Commons blogs: WONDERING why we're incessantly at war over oil when an Air Force-guy holds a patent on...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:34:18 -0500

"A SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING INCIDENT [ZERO POINT] ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION ENERGY TO ELECTRICAL ENERGY."
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Recently, when I began thinking that some 15-year-old should be able to solve our energy problems, that there's something we've forgotten since all our electronics went digital, old vacuum tube technology (thermionic emission) popped into my' [...]

The Prog Blog: More Women Please

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:26:25 -0500

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My wife is a high school social studies teacher. A few weeks ago she did an exercise with students where the class divided into different groups (aka countries). They were each given secret information and objectives for their turf - the idea was to mirror the events that lead into [...]

Vermont View: Sen. Sanders on the Colbert Report

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:17:09 -0500

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cFed's Dead - Bernie Sanders www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating [...]

Vermont Daily Briefing: Rick Santorum Finds That He’s Only Allowed To Inflate His Own Trial Balloon If He Blows Up Ex-Governor Palin’s Too

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:40:52 -0500

Ah, memories. Back in the day, when Rick Santorum and Katherine Harris had each lost a high-profile election by historic margins, we wrote a post speculating about a joint venture in irrelevancy. The post was slugged “After Twin Losses, Santorum & Harris To Wed and Produce A Clutch of Huge, [...]

Vermont Tiger: Political Emissions;

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:13:49 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Politics by Emerson Lynn

The Environmental Protection Agency Monday said greenhouse gases are a danger to the public’s health, next week more than 100 world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to gather commitments to limit these emissions, and in Vermont all five of the Democrats running for [...]

vt.Buzz: Campbell, Franken and the big boys

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:07:00 -0500

The face of Senate Majority Leader John Campbell, D-Windsor, popped up on Politico in a story about Capitol Hill holiday parties. Odd? Well yes. You can see it here: scroll down to the story titled "Hill parties remain modest."

Though Campbell did take [...]

Rational Resistance: Four years old

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:50:00 -0500

Nothing fancy today. Just writing to note that today is the fourth birthday of Rational Resistance.

Feel free to paw through the archives. I think some of the posts still hold up to repeated viewing. [...]

Seven Days - fair game: Take It Back

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:17:00 -0500

The jaw-dropping $6.8 million retirement package awarded to the outgoing president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont may have been illegal, according to the state’s top insurance regulator.

The finding was issued last month by Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration commissioner Paulette [...]

Green Mountain Daily: Lawsuits and Freedom of Information Requests in the Burlington Telecom Saga

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:29:38 -0500

As the Cold War between the Burlington City Council and the Mayor over financial decision making and transparency has (predictably, but avoidably) turned into a debate over the very viability of Burlington Telecom, the next wave of public pressure and bad press may be approaching.

First comes the news, first [...]

vt.Buzz: Vermont advice to New Jersey

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:35:00 -0500

Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin weighed in on the New Jersey same-sex marriage debate with a letter to lawmakers in which he implored them to just do it. You can check it out here.

Shumlin says that as he campaigns for governor he doesn't hear anybody' [...]

Green Mountain Daily: Activists force DEA to drop lies about marijuana from web page

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:46:15 -0500

Cross posted from Rational Resistance.

Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana.

However, a week after the announcement of this historic reversal, the DEA still hadn’t removed mention of the AMA’s old, [...]

Rational Resistance: Happy birthday, James Thurber

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:35:00 -0500

I just heard that today was James Thurber's birthday from Garrison Keillor this morning. If you're a true fan you don't need the caption. [...]

Rational Resistance: Activists force DEA to remove lies about marijuana from web page

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:22:00 -0500