Silenced Majority Portal

Is Michael Reagan Gay? Are There More Like Him?

Michael Reagan: 

“It’s interesting that people say the right has taken over the Republican Party — but no one can say what we’ve done. We’ve been closeted for the last eight years; it’s time for the right to come out of the closet.” 

Sarah Palin on Twitter, but Many Quitters

Twitter Quitter article 

According to Nielsen, "Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month's users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 percent. For most of the past 12 months, pre-Oprah, Twitter has languished below 30 percent retention."

 I signed up a year ago, forgot about it, retried it recently. Signed up to track/stalk some celebrities - had people wanting to "follow" me who I had never heard of. Tried "tweeting" a couple of times, got bored with it. 

Slugbug  (I wrote about it below)

Is Social Networking Becoming Increasingly Narcissistic (Or It Is My Age Catching Up With Me?) Feb. 28, 2008 - Democracy Cell Project

US Outsources 22,000 Green Jobs to India

ExpressBuzz story

From Bangalore: 22,000 GREEN TECHNOLOGY JOBS shipped out - 

Doug Brown, co-author of the influential 2009 Green Outsourcing Report:

“We see the (green job offshoring) trend increasing as the US and the UK outsourcing buyers are seeking lower cost in labour and energy consumption. There are few suppliers who match credentials and outcomes of Indian firms.”

4000 global firms were surveyed - Xerox, Accenture, IBM, Oracle and others see green stimulus in the US as creating installation and construction jobs, but they can use cheaper Indian "sustainability" engineers and designers to come up with the plans, as well as marketing and business development executives. Indian firms that are involved have also invested in becoming appropriately "green," contrasting with Chinese and East European countries. They offer virtualization, carbon management, paperless offices. 

Understandable but ironic.

The "Green India" shoe:

Balkan Beat Box

Swine Flu Masks in Fashion, Following in the Footsteps of SARS Fashion Masks

FOX News has the story because it's sensationalistic & now we do too.

People seem to think masks can protect them - what they really do is help an infected person from spreading the virus.

It's not the first time .. here are some fashion SARS masks.

This type of gas mask may actually afford some protection.

Margaret Cho Interviewed in a Bathtub

Keep watching because she talks about how "Hee Haw" is a pretty great expose about white people, kind of like "Animal Kingdom" or something.

Specter of the Shrinking Party

After 9/11 - US was 53% Republican

 Favorite activities: flag waving at freeway overpasses , making lists of traitors

Now - 26%

Favorite activity: tea bagging

 Specter of Fallout - Norm Coleman's Legal Brief is Due Today

      Republican Norm Coleman said Wednesday that Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to become a Democrat wouldn't mean big changes in his fight for Minnesota's vacant Senate seat — except in his quest for cash.  "It probably makes fundraising a little bit easier," Coleman told the Pioneer Press.

    Democrat Al Franken spokesman Andy Barr released the following in response to Senator Arlen Specter's switch: 
   Sen.-elect Franken looks forward to working with Senators of both parties to make progress on President Obama's agenda and move our country forward.

DailyKos - MN: Coleman's Brief Due

Obama on FOX & Tea Bags

Best Bachmann Quote

"And Eisenhower was President in 1956 when there was an outbreak in the Plains of children getting hit hard by the stupid stick.  Wouldn't you know it, Bachmann was born in Iowa in 1956."   (anonymous on Facebook)

Thousand Hand Guan Yin

(from Rick Peck in Florida)