Archive July 2009

Sara Robinson on Thom Hartmann: Health Care in Canada

“A Moral No-Brainer.”Sara was interviewed yesterday by Thom Hartmann on health care in Canada. Wonderful stuff.And at Campaign for America's Future where she's a Fellow, Sara blogs on the same topic with The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard From.Enjoy.

Pathetic Gesture in FDA Legistlation Puts People Last

The House passed a very weak and pathetic food safety bill. It was supposed to help the FDA get some teeth, resources and authority after the beef, spinach, pepper and peanut calamities of the last 2 years. It was supposed to help prevent food borne illness from spreading. Food borne ...

Kayak Video Receives International Attention

Video of extreme kayaker Tyler Bradt making his world record-breaking descent of 186-ft Palouse Falls in Eastern Washington has been featured on television programs across the country as well as overseas. Aurora exclusively represents the video and still images from this remarkable event which has now caught the attention ...

Images of Tyler Bradt in Kayak Session Magazine

Photographers Lane Jacobs and Eric Boomer’s images of Tyler Bradt’s record-breaking run over the 186 ft. Palouse Falls in Washington State are featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Kayak Session Magazine. The issue includes a cover shot of the decent as well as an interview with Bradt and ...

Conversation With a Conservative

We Were Talking About Race, Police, Personal FreedomAnd shit like that. On Friday I'm playing the harp and the pipes at a funeral for a local kid (23) who was gunned down on the border. He was a Border Patrol Officer, and the place he was shot is ...

Holly Wilmeth Image on Book Cover

Aurora photographer Holly Wilmeth’s image of an interpretation of the Mayan Bible (the “Popol Vuh”) showing a young, shirtless man wearing a bird mask will be featured on the cover of Le Passe Devant Soi by author Gilbert Gatore when it is published in October 2009 in France. ...

Harry Reid Says No Heath Care Bill Before Summer Break

In a move that did not surprise me at all, spineless Senate Majority Leader, Hopeless Harry Reid, went on the record that there will be no heath care bill before the August recess. WASHINGTON AP– Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned plans for a vote on health care before Congress' ...

Callie Shell in Paris Match Magazine

Images from President Obama’s first 100 days in office by Aurora photographer Callie Shell were featured in the May 15, 2009 issue of Paris Match Magazine in France. (more…)

Old Friends

Email today from two old friends, first contact since 1979 when I was still an Army medic in the 101st Airborne at Ft. Campbell, Ky. Wow...Last week I was contacted by a woman (then a girl) whom I briefly kissed at a New Year's Eve dance 1976-1977. She's single with ...

Little Men

The Jesus General takes the prize this weekend for this brilliant post today; (prob. not safe for work)Oppressing Patriots And Their Tiny "Little Soldiers"Minutemen Bikini Battalian from JC Christian on Vimeo.What a tough guy. And those swimsuit model shots! Future Pinup of the radical racist right! Yes I think we ...

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