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Ron Paul: Lawyers Confirm All Delegates Are Unbound!

Lawyers Confirm All Delegates Are Unbound! http://youtu.be/SkNO90HPaw0

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In A Relationship: Farting Rules

Remember the etiquette of farting when in a relationship.

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Who Are These People?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRXwdatwhUM Current TV Programmer Contest: Who Are... more

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News Corp Scandal: Trustable does not Mean Trustworthy

Let’s’ face it; we are addicted to scandalizing news while constantly... more

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10 Weiner rules for the Congressman that the rest of us learned in kindergarten (explicit)

The top 10 Weiner rules that the rest of us learned in kindergarten Rule #1) (We... more

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10 Netiquette Rules Every Job Seeker Should Know

With online classes, online job profiles, and online dating, the way we conduct... more

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Chaos Theory, Rank & File Wisconsin Public Employees & True Grassroots TEA Party

The following is an except from an article I wrote on Examiner.com: "From now... more

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Wisconsin capitol bans recording, flags, reading, balloons, chairs, bags, backpacks, photography, etc etc etc

The free-wheeling days inside the Capitol appear to be over. Following weeks of... more

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Georgia On My Mind ?????????????? This Is So Funny Unless You’re From Georgia!

falling of one raindrop causes all drivers to immediately forget all traffic rules. If... more

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Why are Republicans so afraid of Ron Paul that they keep changing primary rules?

The Republicans are changing the rules daily to stop the people from exploiting the... more

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The FCC's weak new "open Internet" rules

The neutering of the Internet is now the unofficial policy of the Federal... more

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Bank orders female staff to wear loose skirts and flesh-coloured underwear

A bank which is trying to improve its image after being bailed out has set out a... more

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The Weekly Pulse: Michael Pollan’s Rules for Thanksgiving, Plus Whole Foods’ Healthcare Lies

Editor’s Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren’t stopping The Audit, The Pulse, The Diaspora, or The Mulch, but we are taking a bit of a break. Expect shorter blog posts, and The Diaspora and The Mulch will be posted on Wednesday afternoon, instead of their usual Thursday and Friday postings. We’ll return to our normal schedule next week.

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Wednesday is the heaviest travel day of the year in the United States, as millions of Americans head home to celebrate Thanksgiving. Some of you are probably reading this dispatch on PDAs as you wait in an interminable line at airport security. Here’s some food for thought.

At Grist, food writer Michael Pollan officially declares himself a Rules Guy. Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean he won’t accept a Friday dinner invitation offered after noon on Wednesday. Pollan thinks that our healthy eating skills are passed down to us as part of food culture. In this era of drive-through windows and meal replacement bars, a lot of the old wisdom is falling by the wayside and Americans are finding themselves adrift in a sea of calories. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Pollan provides some helpful guidelines for avoiding the food coma:

[M]any ethnic traditions have their own memorable expressions for what amounts to the same recommendation. Many cultures, for examples, have grappled with the problem of food abundance and come up with different ways of proposing we stop eating before we’re completely full: the Japanese say “hara hachi bu” (“Eat until you are 4/5 full”); Germans advise eaters to “tie off the sack before it’s full.” And the prophet Mohammed recommended that a full belly should contain one-third food, one-third drink, and one-third air. My own Russian-Jewish grandfather used to say at the end of every meal, “I always like to leave the table a little bit hungry.”

But wait, there’s more!

* Unions representing airline pilots and flight attendants are advising their members to avoid the the TSA’s new backscatter x-ray scans because of concerns about the long-term health effects of x-ray radiation. Crew members who refused scans have been subjected to new “enhanced” pat-down searches. This week, the TSA granted an exception to pilots, but not to flight attendants. As I reported for Working In These Times, all crew members go through the same FBI background check and fingerprinting process. “Don’t touch my junk!” has become a rallying cry for passengers, particularly white men, who are not accustomed to being asked to give up any part of their body’s autonomy for the greater good. Is it a coincidence that 95% of pilots are men and three-quarters of flight attendants are women? [Update: The TSA has relented. The agency announced Tuesday that flight attendants will now get the same exemption as pilots.]

* Adam Serwer argues in The American Prospect that it’s easy to demand tough security measures when the presumed targets are faceless Muslims in a distant country. When air travelers are asked to compromise their own privacy in the name of security, the tradeoff suddenly seems very different.

* Employee health insurance deductibles are skyrocketing at Whole Foods and CEO John Mackey is trying to blame the increase on health care reform. “This is very important for everyone to understand: 100% of the increases in deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums in 2011 compared to 2010 are due to new federal mandates and regulations,” Mackey wrote in a corporate memo. In fact, as Josh Harkinson reports in Mother Jones, Mackey’s memo is pure, organic BS. The provisions in the Affordable Care Act that might increase costs won’t go into effect until 2014, so it’s hard to figure out how federal policies could be responsible. Health insurance costs were rising by about 5% per year, year after year, before the Affordable Care Act passed. The truth is that health insurance is getting more expensive because health care is getting more expensive. As Harkinson points out, one of the reasons that health care is getting more expensive is because corporations like Whole Foods are pushing more of their employees into part-time work to avoid covering them. Of course, when those workers get sick, someone has to pick up the cost of their care. So those who have insurance, including some of Whole Foods’ own employees, have to pay more to make up the difference.

This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.Editor’s Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we... more

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Vatican 'speeds up' abuse cases

The Vatican has issued new instructions to speed up the handling of the "most... more

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Run From Popo Rules

These are the rules to the Urban game show/Underground sport in Miami "Run From... more

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Italy, no more small fry

From the 1st of June come into force the Mediterranean Regulation, the document with... more

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Dog Respecting Rules FAIL

Here's what this dog thinks of the rules...... more

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GLEE: MADONNA Rules McKinley High

The wildly anticipated all MADONNA episode of GLEE finally makes it on the air -- and... more

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A sentence against Google from Italy

Internet is not a place where everybody can do everything: this seems to be the... more

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New Guidelines Issued For Drivers With Dementia

Having mild dementia is no longer a reason to take away an elderly person's car keys, according to newly revised guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology.
Citing new evidence that 76 percent of drivers with dementia could still pass on-road skills tests, the AAN changed guidelines that previously discouraged any driving once someone was diagnosed with mild dementia or Alzheimer's. The updated guidelines were unveiled an the AAN's annual meeting in Toronto. "The previous recommendation was that patients with mild dementia should not drive, and that recommendation has been softened," said Dr. Donald Iverson of the Humboldt Neurological Medical Group, Inc., and lead author of the guidelines.

The guidelines cast some light on what is often a contentious issue within families -- when to take away an elderly parent's car keys. It often pits public safety against life fulfillment, as an elderly person's social life has been linked with well being and a longer existence.
The guidelines give more latitude to families and doctors caring for patients with mild dementia or Alzheimer's. But Iverson said further discussion is still needed on what steps to take with elderly drivers as skills worsen with the progression of the disease.

"A demented person behind the wheel of a vehicle can be equivalent to that person having a loaded weapon," said Dr. Sam Gandy, Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. "Many news reports of 'out of control' vehicles driven by elderly drivers and plowing into crowds of bystanders are examples of one of the worst outcomes of failing to recognize this problem."

Red flags include driving fewer miles, collisions, moving violations, avoiding driving at night or in the rain and displays of "aggressive or impulsive personality traits."

The revised guidelines also discuss steps doctors can take in the clinic. Iverson said the guidelines are not a directive but rather a resource for physicians to help them determine how to handle patients and their automobiles.

"One should not make arbitrary decisions about stopping driving based on a somewhat arbitrary label of 'mild' dementia," said Steven Ferris, a professor at New York University's Alzheimer's Disease Center. "Actual driving competence varies considerably in mild dementia and such decisions should be made based on observation of actual driving performance, and in close consultation with an experienced professional who has good knowledge about dementia and the particular patient."Having mild dementia is no longer a reason to take away an elderly person's car... more

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