BP announces ‘top kill’ has failed to stop Gulf oil leak + Mike Papantonio: Centrist Syndrome & Corporate Death Penalty

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1100328 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Erika Bolstad McClatchy Newspapers May 29, 2010 BP has abandoned its most recent “top kill” effort to contain its runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, a company official announced Saturday evening. “After three full days, we have been unable to overcome the flow,” said the company’s chief operating officer, Doug [...]

The GOP’s Rand Paul Problem by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com May 29, 2010 In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited one of the first post-Abolitionism, post Civil War, post-Reconstruction African-Americans, Booker T. Washington, to visit him in the White House. To southern whites this was going too far. One editor wrote: “With our long-matured [...]

Beyond Theism and On with Evolution: Part One by Eileen Fleming

by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 29 May, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Theism: belief in the existence of a god or gods; specifically a belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world. -Merriam Webster [...]

Poland: U.S. Moves First Missiles, Troops Near Russian Border by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism May 29, 2010 On May 26 Polish news media announced that the first American Patriot interceptor missile battery and 100 U.S. troops were officially welcomed by Defense Minister Bogdan Klich, U.S. Ambassador Lee Feinstein and Brigadier General Mark Bellini of U.S. [...]

Convention USA: Confronting Unconstitutional Inaction by Congress by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org May 29, 2010 Wake up patriots.  Voting is not the answer.  Not in our corrupt system.  But there is something else for US citizens.  First they must understand the importance of the provision in Article V of their Constitution for a convention of state delegates that [...]