On today’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program, Fundamentalist, Religious Right activist and Colorado State legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt shared his thoughts on a lawsuit filed against a California school district for refusing to inform students about scholarships that were being offered by atheist groups.
Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC & Max Blumenthal, Alternet/The 51 Day War-Ruin and Resistance in Gaza both join Thom. If Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders are concerned that Trump isn’t conservative enough – and Trump’s supporters are upset that the Republican party isn’t changing its platform according to “the will of the people” – what exactly does the Republican Party stand for anymore?
Seersucker’s a weird word.
If you break it down, what are we seeing and why do we want to suck it?
Well, seersucker’s etymology is a little more complex, and since we are officially in the seersucker season (what with the Kentucky Derby, Seersucker Day in D.C., and every hot day thereafter until Labor Day), we think it’s a great time to look at how this now-standard fabric got its strange name.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University did and extensive study looking at the issue of medical errors and the number of lives that are lost in the US every year because of them. Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger), and Kim Horcher (Nerd Alert), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that “medical errors” in hospitals and other health care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.
Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that the category includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another.
“It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care,” Makary said.”
Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss —a compelling drama about the power of all consuming love and the cruelty of betrayal. It is 1895 and Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, is playing in the West End after a triumphant premiere, but already the wheels are in motion, which will lead to his imprisonment, downfall and vilification.
Forced to make a choice between his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and his freedom, the ever romantic Wilde embarks on a course towards self-destruction.
Read: New York Times / “Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is)”
Jaggi Vasudev, commonly known as Sadhguru, is an Indian yogi, mystic, philanthropist, and author. He founded the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organisation which offers yoga programs around the world, including India, United States, Great Britain, Lebanon, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, Uganda, China, Nepal and Australia. The Foundation is also involved in various social and community development activities, which have resulted in the Foundation being granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.
A tow truck driver who supports Donald Trump noticed a ‘Bernie 2016’ sticker on a disabled driver’s bumper and immediately abandoned her, leaving her stranded on the interstate without any help. From his own mouth, he told a TV reporter exactly what his thought process was, including being influenced by ‘The Lord.’
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