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2013-05-20 09:14:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Civility alert: David Shuster calls blogger Jennifer Rubin ‘psychotic’

Isn't it inspiring to see how progressives behave when someone dares disagree with them?

2013-05-20 09:14:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

REPORT: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APOLOGIZES FOR ANOTHER NATIONAL SECURITY LEAK

Strange how this never happened before Obama became president. Isn't it?

Now, the Obama administration has reportedly apologized to Israel for another leak of classified information to the media, one that occurred earlier this month and which Israeli officials are concerned could place Israeli lives at risk.

2013-05-20 09:14:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Bitches Don't Know Economics is About Human Action"

From the Instagram account of Tom Walls, resolute libertarian, friend of Reason, snapper of Ludwig von Mises selfies, and so much more.

2013-05-20 09:14:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Jeff Gundlach: "We Are Drowning In Central Banking"

Ain't that the truth.

 _Last week, Bill Gross did not mince his words when he said that he now "sees bubbles everywhere" and that "when that stops there will be repercussions" but for now Benny and the Inkjets, not to mention his band of merry statist men, who take from the poor and give to the wealthy, are playing the music on Max, and so one must dance and dance and dance. And after one legacy bond king, it was the turn of that other, ascendant one - Jeff Gundlach - to share his perspectives Bernanke's amazing bubble machine. His response, to nobody's surprise: "there is a bubble in central banking. We are drowning in central banking and quantitative easing.... And it's not ending until there are some negative consequences."_

2013-05-20 09:14:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Obama Admits He’s A Socialist

Obama himself, the Times explained, has been “longingly” telling his inner circle that what he’d really like to do is what Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty in his 1998 movie “Bulworth,” did: to go public as an unabashed, angry and admitted socialist.

It’s as if Ronald Reagan had been caught saying he wanted to “Go Strangelove.”

2013-05-20 09:14:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nick Gillespie and Rep. Justin Amash Talk Libertarian Foreign Policy, Abortion, and More

In March, Reason.com Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie interviewed Amash in his office, where the walls are adorned with likenesses of Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Carl Menger, Murray Rothbard, and Ayn Rand, and the conversation ranged across topics including economics, foreign policy, and abortion.

It's well worth your time.

2013-05-20 09:14:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

RAND PAUL: CLINTON SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED OVER BENGHAZI

Watch the video over at Breitbart.com.

2013-05-20 09:14:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Michel Daw's first stoic infographic

2013-05-19 20:59:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

WOODWARD: WHITE HOUSE LIED

"You look at the whole Benghazi thing. You look at those talking points and the initial draft by the CIA very explicitly said we know that activists who have ties to Al-Qaeda were involved in the attack. Then you see what comes out a couple of days later and there is no reference to this. This is a business where you have to tell the truth and that did not happen here."

2013-05-19 20:45:29 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-19 20:00:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Reddit’s Secret Plan For World Domination

Marketing and Reddit. A match made in heaven?



 As the grumpy cat says, Reddit is not the Holy Grail for marketers. But it’s a great place where a conversation can be started, with the right tone of voice and in well chosen space. Also, it’s not for every brand, I highly recommend to have a look at the sentiment and discussions before campaigning on Reddit. And what will you get? Here’s the awesome deck, featuring unicorn, cats, and a great numbers about this platform.

2013-05-19 19:31:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Some food for thought for christians... and members of other faiths, separated by different creeds, sects, etc. 

#religion  

2013-05-19 19:15:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

RYAN: IRS TARGETING 'BIG GOVERNMENT CRONYISM'

Watch the video at Breitbart.com

2013-05-19 18:58:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This is how the 'new Egyptian government,' supported by the US and Europe, is behaving nowadays:
_ Two Egyptian journalists at a newspaper critical of President Mohamed Mursi were ordered on Sunday to face an expedited criminal trial for defamation._

#egypt   #muslimbrotherhood  

2013-05-19 17:38:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Please Don't 'Like' This Post (And I Really Mean It This Time)

If you haven't been following along, in April I decided to commit myself to a simple behavioral experiment. I pledged to not "like" anything on or off of Facebook for a month, no matter how tempted I was (and believe me, I was tempted often).

My hypothesis was that at the end of this 30 day cycle I would be free of likes and that my detox period would be over. That isn't the case. I still actively have to stop myself often from hitting that button, and it troubles me quite a bit. It was so simple and I did it for so long that it has burned into my internet muscle memory far more severely than I had anticipated.

I've learned several things along the way, but when I started this trial I wanted to answer one primary question:

Who exactly is benefitting the mostf... more »

2013-05-19 15:02:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The winning song of yesterday's #eurovision  plagiarized Dutch band K-Otic. See the links below for proof. 

The only thing Emmelie de Forest's producers did was adjusting the tempo and making up different lyrics (accept the teardrop, which they also stole).

Listen to the intro, the flute, and the melody: essentially, they made bass louder and sped up the tempo. That's it.

The original:
K-otic - I Surrender

The rip-off:
Emmelie De Forest - Only Teardrops (Denmark) 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

2013-05-19 13:28:39 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

"How the IRS Scandal Could Backfire" http://feedly.com/k/12EpKD3

2013-05-19 13:25:56 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

"‘The Job Killers’: #LiberalBandNames sparks mockery gold" http://twitchy.com/2013/05/19/the-job-killers-liberalbandnames-sparks-mockery-gold

2013-05-19 10:49:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

#EarthMyMother #ForFriends #photo

2013-05-19 10:40:45 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Learning by analogy

The story of Hansel and Gretel is not actually about Hansel or Gretel.

You are surrounded by examples and lessons and case studies that clearly aren't exactly about your project. There's never been a book written precisely about the situation you are facing right now, either. Perhaps one day they will publish, "Marketing Low-Cost Coaching Services to Small Businesses Specializing in Graphic Design in the Upper Peninsula for Dummies" but don't hold your breath.

Marketing, like all forms of art, requires us to learn to see. To see what's working and to transplant it, change it and amplify it.

2013-05-18 22:05:02 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The Democrat slogan for 2014: 'We're not liars, we're idiots.'

Really, even without Miller as a campaign stage prop, if the Republicans can't run against this unholy nightmare of government corruption and get full control of Congress, they're hopeless.  A halfway decent national Republican campaign should have voters seeing every Democrat candidate as a walking IRS logo wearing a power tie, a belt buckle shaped like Obama's dopey logo, and jackboots.

 The inferiority and inherent corruption of Big Government has never been more clearly demonstrated, complete with the awesomesauce topping of Nancy Pelosi croaking that all these scandals are just Republican efforts to distract from the great Obama job-creation crusade.  The Incompetence Defense has become the Democrat Party mantra - as John Sexton's post about Benghazi put it, "We'renot li... more »

2013-05-18 21:34:57 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Advice from our Mevlana.

2013-05-18 21:34:15 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Some spiritual food for thought:

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

Mevlana (Rumi)

2013-05-18 20:54:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

In rare interview, Bashar al-Assad says he will not step down

The Syrian ruler said in an interview Saturday from his palace in Damascus with the Argentine newspaper Clarin, that he welcomed dialogue. But the continuing lack of unity among the myriad rebel groups meant that the opposition would be unable to implement any ceasefire accords reached at an international conference, such as surrendering arms.

2013-05-18 20:45:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Some advice from the great sufi shayh Mevlana (you may also know him as Rumi).

2013-05-18 20:43:32 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Some advice from the great sufi shayh Mevlana (you may also know him as Rumi).

2013-05-18 20:38:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Some spiritual food for thought:

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

Mevlana (Rumi)

2013-05-18 20:00:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Unexpected Antidote to Procrastination

I love this idea of anti-planning. Note, though, that it does require you to use a journal, to write down what you did.

2013-05-18 19:59:06 (12 comments, 7 reshares, 10 +1s)

The IRS Abuse Scandal Keeps Growing

An audit of the agency’s behavior unearths disturbing new information.

2013-05-18 19:06:59 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

H/t to +Brendan Thesingh who earlier this evening posted the link to the livestream of the Eurovision Song Contest. The Nederlands is represented by Anouk, the well known rock singer, who, tonight, will perform a calm, beautiful song. 

Via +Brendan Thesingh is hier de livestream naar het Eurovisie Songfestival. Veel plezier voor de liefhebbers. Anouk komt als dertiende aan de beurt. Ze heeft volgens +De Telegraaf grote indruk gemaakt op de vakjury met haar generale repetitie, die 'nog beter was' dan haar optreden in de eerste halve finale.

2013-05-18 19:00:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

5 Writing and Productivity Links You Can Use

This week on The Lede …

How A Copywriter Evaluates A Great WebsiteThe Unexpected Antidote to ProcrastinationThe Daily Rituals of the World’s Most Creative People4 Things That Lead to Success (or Failure) with Email Signup FormsHow to Do More By Planning Less: The Power of the Anti-Plan#copyblogger #productivity

2013-05-18 18:00:04 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Huma’s Moonlighting? No Problem … Just Don’t Mention Her Crescent-lighting

As detailed previsously here at Ordered Liberty, Ms. Abedin began her long professional association with Mrs. Clinton in 1996, as an intern to the first lady in the Clinton White House. In the years that followed, she remained a Clinton staffer from the White House to the Senate, and eventually to the State Department. At the same time, she also served from 1996 through 2008 as assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, a publication founded by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major financier of al Qaeda whose Islamic “charity,” the Rabita Trust, is a designated terrorist organization (on which Naseef colluded with Wael Hamza Jalaidan, an Osama bin Laden intimate who is one of al Qaeda’s founders).

Naseef is a former secretary general of the Muslim World League, which Osama binLaden describe... more »

2013-05-18 17:24:45 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

20 Reasons To Dislike The Democrat Party

1) Ted Kennedy. Barney Frank. Rod Blagojevich. Eric Massa. Marion Barry. Dan Rostenkowski. Eliot Spitzer. John Murtha. Alcee Hastings. Anthony Weiner. James Traficant. Sandy Berger. Gerry Studds. Robert Byrd. Mel Reynolds. James McGreevey. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Robert Torricelli. Gary Condit. Bill Clinton. John Edwards. And those are JUST SOME OF THE ONES that got caught.

2) The estimated number of people killed in the Holocaust? 11 million. The estimated number of people who were killed in WWI? 37 million. The estimated number of babies who have been killed because of the Democrats’ beloved Roe v. Wade? 54 million.

2013-05-18 17:12:35 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Calling All Writers

I have a paying proposition for you. I currently freelance for +aNewDomain.net and we are looking for more writers. We have a very cool contract with Dell to submit content for techpageone but we need some more tech-inspired writers.

Here's who you are:
- a tech junkie / avid user / android lover (no iOS right now) / geek who loves talking about tech
- a great writer who doesn't need a ton of developmental editing - our edit team is top notch but its MUCH easier on everyone if they're just doing the final tweaking / copyediting
- able to come up with lots of tech-focused pitches on a regular basis, and can deliver the content quickly when pitches are approved
- not afraid of the weeks between when pitches are approved (there is down time between flurries of writing activity)
- excited to get your name out there!... more »

2013-05-18 17:00:01 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

How Disney Culture Values Excellence

We live in an era of disposable pop culture. All around us we see vapid reality series, uninspired (and uninspiring) music, movies that are little more than retreads of other bad ideas, and starlets who are famous merely for being famous. Of course, this stuff is not necessarily bad in and of itself – in fact, mindless pop culture can make for some great “guilty pleasure” moments.

The truth is, when any form of entertainment achieves excellence, we notice. Television programs like Mad Men and Friday Night Lights, music by artists such as Mumford & Sons and Zac Brown Band, and films like Lincoln and Les Miserablesattract attention because they raise the bar in their genre.

2013-05-18 16:57:06 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Circling time!

For a while I haven't been very active here. Back again, but I've noticed that some of the folks I've circled aren't very active anymore either. My question to you is: what circles do you recommend (of yourself, or others). And if not circles, than at least individuals? I want to circle / add a significant amount of people so that my stream becomes a bit livelier.

My interests:
1. Social media
2. Politics (conservative / libertarian)
3. Philosophy
4. Mysticism / spirituality
5. Geopolitics
6. Tech
7. The News
6. Photography

2013-05-18 15:02:05 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

The IRS Gave Special Treatment to Obama's Brother While Targeting Tea Party

Ken Boehm, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, joined the program to discuss the ongoing IRS scandal. It turns out the IRS was more-than-friendly with Obama’s half Brother (and his charity) while they were targeting conservative groups for audits.

And, Attorney General Eric Witholder doesn’t seem to know much. . . Ezra Klein might be an idiot, but Eric Holder is (supposedly) clueless. . .

2013-05-18 14:06:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For instance, if the one to the right (top) was longer, it would've automatically been expanded as well. 

2013-05-18 14:05:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I already shared the other screenshot, but here's another one. This one does have read more (the right post), but quite deep into the story. It's, we've figured out, because of the layout. When there's room for it because of a big image below it, it'll expand.

2013-05-18 14:00:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

How Marketing Legend Guy Kawasaki Manages His Social Media Presence

How does Kawasaki manage his social networks? Well, he explains it right here, in this article.

2013-05-18 13:58:16 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Eileen O'Duffy +M Sinclair Stevens See the difference? I'm trying to figure out why this is so, but I can't find a solution. If there was a read more you should see a 'read less'. Again, it's on my 'home / all' page, not opened in any other way by itself.

2013-05-18 13:57:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Eileen O'Duffy +M Sinclair Stevens This is how it looks like on my main / all G+ page with other posts. You see the read more. Now I'll post my view of your post.

2013-05-18 12:55:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

European Union and Switzerland sign Cooperation Agreement in Competition Matters

The European Union and the Swiss Confederation have signed an agreement that will strengthen co-operation between their respective competition authorities, the European Commission and the Swiss Competition Commission. This is the fifth such agreement signed by the EU after agreements concluded with the United States, Canada, Japan and Korea. An innovative feature of the agreement with Switzerland is that it will enable the two competition agencies to exchange information they have obtained in their investigations. The signature took place subject to ratification: the agreement will enter into force once it has been approved by the European Parliament and the Swiss Parliament.

Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of competition policy, said: “Many anticompetitivepr... more »

2013-05-18 12:52:31 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I have decided to un-update Google Talk on my Samsung Galaxy Ace. It's now Talk again instead of Hangouts (well, it still says Hangouts, but the icon is of Talk). Much better this way.

2013-05-18 11:19:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I think I've fixed it. You've got to click on the icon of the person and then manually unselect the people you included in your earlier post.

Google: please fix this. Way too time consuming.

2013-05-18 11:18:16 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How the heck do I get rid of this? I shared something with myself and +James Barraford and suddenly can't share something new, without sharing it to us as well. Anybody knows how to fix this? Tried backspace, doesn't work. Nothing does. I can only click away whichever circle or community I add to it.

2013-05-18 11:03:57 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Long form Plussers have to look at G+ as if it's an online magazine, not a social network

Just now, +James Barraford and I had a, what I believe to be, interesting exchange about G+' new design and the effect it has on so-called long-form plussers. I'd like to quote it here and wonder what you all think about it?

+James Barraford The last UI was the beginning of images over text. We had a lot of discussions on that. This UI completes the image over text as substance.

+Michael van der Galien 
I don't know how others experience it, but I'm noticing that I'm still reading posts with text, lots of them, actually. Interesting. The ones with photos are more clearly visible, but the written ones aren't 'completely lost'.

+James Barraford They aren't lost, but they don't stand out. Some of us have talkedthat we... more »

2013-05-18 10:56:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

David Cameron and co. continue to push conservative grassroots into UKIP's arms. 

#UKIP   #Tories   #Cameron   #EU  

2013-05-18 10:26:40 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google+ has always been a social platform then really emphasised photographs. I think this latest change to it's UI has really gives extra prominence to images, so much so that I am think those people who mainly post text may find their posts swamped by sometimes huge images. I think it is important to have a balance within the UI but at the moment I think it has become to image top heavy.

#googleplus   

2013-05-18 10:18:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Chaos in Turkey as police use tear gas and water cannons to put down rioters protesting over Syria

Turks reject Erdogan's Syria policy. 

The crackdown followed similar scenes in Ankara yesterday, where clashes between students and security forces using cannons and gas saw 30 arrested and two injured.

Crowds in Istanbul and Ankara were protesting against prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's funding and support for the Syrian rebels against President Bashar Assad.

Erdogan is gravely mistaken if he believes he can help these extremists without eventually being targeted by them himself. They want to take over every country where the majority of the population consists out of muslims, Turkey included.

#Turkey   #Syria   #terrorists   #protests   #ankara   #istanbul