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ralphbon commented on the diary post Watercooler: Getting Ready by Kit OConnell.
Never mind–just saw the report-a-glitch link at right.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Watercooler: Getting Ready by Kit OConnell.
Kit, could you or someone more appropriate check on what happened to my comment #262504 to masoninblue’s post “Why is Travon Martin Dead?” It’s listed in my comment history but never appeared in the thread. Posted it yesterday (Monday, 5/21) morning. Per the website FAQ, I emailed “Bill” about it, but I’m not sure the [...]
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ralphbon commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
“Verbage.”
For decades, clients have said things along the lines of, “You’re the writer — give us some verbage on that.”
On the other hand, it confirms their need of my services.
Also, “paradigm shift” in realms outside of science, especially business and politics. Often overused in science as well. Thomas Kuhn coined this term in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” to refer to truly revolutionary shifts in scientific thinking, along the lines the Copernican revolution, relativity, the germ theory of disease. Ideas that can’t truly take hold until the old fogies die out. Advances in vacuum cleaner technology or investment strategy don’t count.
Finally, one largely confined to medical writing, especially medical lectures: armamentarium. If I had a dime for every time a physician or pharmaceutical executive referred to a new drug or other treatment as a promising, valuable, intriguing, etc., addition to “our armementarium against [insert disease here],” I would have a major shitload of dimes.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Why Is Trayvon Martin Dead? by Masoninblue.
Librax and Temazepan are benzodiazepines that are prescribed to treat seizures and anxiety disorders. Adderall is a mild amphetamine prescribed to treat ADHD. We can safely conclude that Martin was not affected by THC, given the low level amount of THC metabolite in his blood, but we cannot say that about Zimmerman and his prescription medication [...]
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ralphbon commented on the blog post So, Will Schumer Now Propose a 35% Tax on Capital Gains and Other Tax Avoidance Schemes?
Last sentence: you mean distract, not detract.
Regarding the rest, pax Mencken: No one ever went broke underestimating Chuck Schumer’s principles.
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ralphbon commented on the blog post TED Censors Presentation on Inequality and Jobs They Solicited
Amazing quote in this National Journal article from an email sent to Hanauer by TED curator Chris Anderson:
[E]ven if the talk was rated a home run, we couldn’t release it, because it would be unquestionably regarded as out and out political. We’re in the middle of an election year in the US. Your argument comes down firmly on the side of one party.
(Emphasis mine)
I’m confused: What “one party” would that be…the Justice Party or the
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Is Justice Possible? by Robert Meeropol.
Logged on just to recommend. I always feel honored when Robert Meeropol drops by here.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Why the Civil Rights Model Will Not Work for Occupy by UndisciplinedPhD.
Maybe I’m oblivious to the dog whistles Adam and John believe they’re detecting, but I’m not reading anything in this post as advocating violence. I thought the main point was differentiating a movement designed to compel existing institutions to produce justice from movements that walk away from existing institutions that are hopelessly unjust to craft [...]
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Please Light a Candle for the Mother and Five Children Killed ‘by Mistake’ in Helmand Province by wendydavis.
In one of the predictably triumphalist posts at DKos about the reported intelligence success in thwarting an Al Qaeda bomb plot, the diarist wrote, without irony,
Has Obama got a handle on this War on Terror or what?
The answer is, What? Obama will not demonstrate that he has a handle on terrorism (much less “terror”) [...]
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Firedoglake: Why This Blog Post ExSites Me. by demi.
All well, thanks, demi. Still here every day; diaries and comments fewer and farther between, mostly because I try to avoid logging in through work servers.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Firedoglake: Why This Blog Post ExSites Me. by demi.
I’m fully convinced that we have FDL to thank for Joe Lieberman’s departure from the Democratic party. It wasn’t everything, but it sure wasn’t nothing.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post 21 reasons why I will never again vote for Obama by Barefoot Accountant.
Do not conflate “public option” with “single payer.” Not even the drones at HCAN made that claim. I refer you to the extensive writings on this topic by Kip Sullivan and others at PNHP for clarification on this point. Let’s leave it at that; I don’t want to threadjack the comments further on a diary [...]
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ralphbon commented on the diary post 21 reasons why I will never again vote for Obama by Barefoot Accountant.
I’ve featured that video in my old SP diaries; it’s from 2002 or so, before Obama was even a senator. Bill Moyers featured it was well, as an illustration of Obama’s subsequent backtracking on single payer. He never advocated or even mentioned single payer in the 2008 campaign. And once president, he never advocated single [...]
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ralphbon commented on the diary post 21 reasons why I will never again vote for Obama by Barefoot Accountant.
1. He did not even propose the single-payer healthcare system: he had campaigned on that system, promising to propose it
He never campaigned on single payer. He never promised to propose it. Your post doubtless makes umpteen valid points, but it opens with a flat-out falsehood.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Prez-a hall-of-fame failure at using appointment power by Rex.
Feckless Putz — that’s my new band.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Occupy Minnesota- Breaking News by Michael Cavlan RN.
Recc’d to increase visibility for folks for whom this info may prove compelling and actionable.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post This Is A Test by Michael Cavlan RN.
Oh, well, EPU’d as usual. (“Ralphbon-Clique Member Since 5 Minutes Before Larue Got Here”)
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ralphbon commented on the diary post This Is A Test by Michael Cavlan RN.
PS: recc’d. Mazel tov.
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ralphbon commented on the diary post This Is A Test by Michael Cavlan RN.
Michael, two days ago Siun explained to you for the umpteenth time that the rec listing process is completely automated. You said that you respect and trust her. Then, as usual, all we had to do was wait a few hours before you were back obsessing about your suspicions that the rec list is being [...]
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ralphbon commented on the diary post Occupy Minnesota Confront Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak by Michael Cavlan RN.
Recommended, because I liked the chest pain anecdote.
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