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http://video.pbs.org/program/masterpiece/

Sherlock (3 episodes) expires 2/29/12

Downton (7 episodes) expires 3/7/12

There's a variety of other full-length videos on the PBS site
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Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:27:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
Mary and Matthew Proposal HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jnLaFibtt0…
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:01:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Noble Network of Charter Schools charges students at its 10 high schools $5 for detentions stemming from infractions that include chewing gum and having untied shoelaces. Last school year it collected almost $190,000 in discipline "fees" from detentions and behavior classes."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-573…

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Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:57:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
"No Banker Left Behind"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:35:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Since it's still early in the campaign season, filing just opened, Warwick is doing what many are doing, using social media for messaging..check his Facebook page, even sports of pic of he and Big Dog* together

https://www.facebook.com/wsabinAR

*Big Dog is the politician who lied about a blow job then was impeached over it.
Substance ya know. Hi crimes and misdemeanors.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:21:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
NEWS ALERT: Rick Santorum blasts employers who force employees to wash their hands after using the restroom.
"America is all about liberty,"said a campaign spokesman today. "If people want to wash their hands, fine, but don't penalize them because they don't all fall in line with what scientists tell them about things that may or may not actually exist, like germs."
--rsdrake
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:08:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Pat Downs]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:47:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02…
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:56:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entr…

She already went down the rabbit hole with Bachmann. Or was it through the looking glass. I truly believe it was an honest "misspoke" for her. Santorum yesterday was a perfect example of Carroll's Humpty Dumpty.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - - that's all."
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:49:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle64]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:41:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
Sister, I read your post in last night's thread and was humbled by it. If you were my daughter, you would have a mother who loved you just as you are. You would also have a brother and sister who felt the same---not to mention a sometimes zany, always rambunctious extended family.

I was also somewhat chastened and provoked to thought by some other things you said. On this day when we honor two presidents---one a slave owner and the other, who emancipated the slaves---I need to think some more before I reply to you.

Somewhat related to how I (and the rest of us) struggle with (based on a quest for truth and honesty) or just react to (based on how we've been taught) issues of rights for all, is this thoughtful conversation between two black men. Glen Loury has an openly gay adult son. John McWhorter is married to a white woman.

http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/8993?in=52:…

For anyone on the fence about climate science and where the deniers get their "facts", this article by Chris Mooney is enlightening. Big oil is essentially using the same tactics that the tobacco companies did to deny science.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/19/4…

h/t to TimF who led me to Mooney.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/20/ho…

Gas prices will no doubt be the next republican issue to lie about after they discover they are actually losing ground on women's health issues. Facts are really important here. Here's a link followed by a sample paragraph.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-20/o…

"Hedge funds and other large speculators boosted their net- long position in crude futures to the highest level in nine months, according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Managed-money bets that prices will rise, in futures and options combined, outnumbered short positions by 233,889 contracts in the week ended Feb. 14, the Washington-based regulator said in its report on Feb. 17. Net-long positions rose by 28,180 contracts, or 13.7 percent, from a week earlier."

And another.

http://www.chron.com/business/article/U-S-…

"The United States’ rapidly declining crude oil supply has made a stunning about-face, shredding federal oil projections and putting energy independence in sight of some analyst forecasts.
After declining to levels not seen since the 1940s, U.S. crude production began rising again in 2009. Drilling rigs have rushed into the nation’s oil fields, suggesting a surge in domestic crude is on the horizon.
The number of rigs in U.S. oil fields has more than quad­rupled in the past three years to 1,272, according to the Baker Hughes rig count. Including those in natural gas fields, the United States now has more rigs at work than the entire rest of the world."

Facts have a liberal bias. That is not a canard thrown around by those of us on the left---just a statement of fact. It is important to get this information out there to combat the right wing wurlitzer that is no doubt being cranked up. Calling the right wing noise machine a wurlitzer is giving it too much respect since it shows no fealty to the 27% who believe their lies nor to the country. Their only fealty is to the money class. Let's just call it a hurdy gurdy.



Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:11:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by cecil]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:05:57 -0600 Arkansas Times As Sanford said, you were a true Democrat and a wonderful role model for the rest of us to follow.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:56:02 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Kat Robinson]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:19:41 -0600 Arkansas Times Myra was the most hard working, most fun and most dedicated person you could imagine.
I enoyed working and playing with her. She was the best.
Posted by bobbyt]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:49:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sanford Marker]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:38:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by yapperjohn]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:31:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by denizen]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:16:53 -0600 Arkansas Times

MaxB: Assuming you attended, what's your review of the food at Soup Sunday? I assume you were in the VIP area enjoying treats from Trios and Peter Brave.



Posted by Viper]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:04:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Hackett]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:57:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.gwhatchet.com/2012/02/09/mix-of…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:34:29 -0600 Arkansas Times