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Not only is Social Security on the chopping block in order to respond to Republican extortion. So is Medicare.
But Medicare isn’t the nation’s budgetary problems. It’s the solution. The real problem is the soaring costs of health care that lie beneath Medicare. They’re costs all of us are bearing…
Asians & Pacific Islanders have been excluded from San Francisco’s HIV Prevention Plan.
SFDPH TURNS ITS BACK ON HIV PREVENTION FOR ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center Raises Alarm in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA – San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is awarding $6.6 million in funding for HIV prevention services, but efforts…
(Source: apiwellness.org, via funkingjohnny)
Everybody get funky. HARD FRENCH DJs Brown Amy and Carnita have been throwing thee best Saturday afternoon party in San Francisco. Soul jams, BBQ, lines around the block, and babes all around. They just went on a short tour to show the country how they cruise — SF style. Thank you Carnita for sharing this mix. Get a taste of HARD FRENCH at El Rio on April 2nd. $7, 2pm-8pm (free BBQ), 3pm-4pm $1 Beers. WHOA.
“Hot hot live soul mix from Brown Amy & I now on our blog, The Real Nitty Gritty Download, stick in yr ipod, smoke it” – Carnita (from The Real Nitty Gritty)
Lyn Collins – Rock Me Again And Again
Norma & The Heartaches = Hot Pants
The Vibrations = Love In Them There Hills
Martha & The Vandellas = End Of Our Road
The Ikettes = Don’t Feel Sorry For Me
Inez & Charlie Foxx = Hi Diddle Diddle
Tony Clarke = Landslide
Chris Clarke = Loves Gone Bad
The Supremes = Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
Honey Cone = Want Ads
The Temptations = Can’t Get Next To You
The Mirettes = In The Midnight Hour
Little Eva Harris = Get Ready/Uptight
Ollie & The Nightingales = Girl You Have My Heart Singing
Mitch Ryder = Sock It To Me
Dee Dee Sharp = Rock Me In The Cradle
Shirley Ellis = The Clapping Song
The Shangri-Las = Bulldog
The Soul Sisters = Think About The Good Times
Jackie Wilson = Higher And Higher
The Olympics = Baby Do The Philly Dog
Gloria Jones = Tainted Love
The Isley Brothers = Nobody But Me
The Shells = Whiplash-Pedro
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I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor Department’s 15,600 employees to go home and not return the next day. I also had to tell them I didn’t know when they’d next get a paycheck.
There were two shutdowns, actually, rolling…
That Paul Ryan. Tsk-tsk.
As the Fukushima nuclear reactors continue to send low-doses of radiation outward and calls intensify to review the American nuclear plant fleet, a key research program that studies the health impacts of small amounts of radiation exposure could face elimination.
The Low Dose Radiation Research Program faces major budget cuts as part of cuts to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science’s Radiobiology budget [pdf].
Columbia biologist David J. Brenner, who studies radiation but is not funded by the DOE program, told The Atlantic that losing the low-dose radiation program “would really hurt our capabilities, moving forward, either to figure out how to respond sensibly to a large scale radiological event in this country or to figure out the best way forward in terms of the future of nuclear power.”Read more at The Atlantic
Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?
The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO’s Fukushima…
