OK, not quite, but, according to the [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120666813235770629.html Wall Street Journal] (sub req'd):
The company known for its cleaning products has put out its first album. "The Blue Sky Project: A Clorox Charity Collection" has seven songs, five of which were created for the company's TV advertising campaign. ...
Clorox started airing the TV spots as part of a new campaign in 2005, in an effort to position itself as a health and wellness brand. With little mention of the name of the company, the ads featured images like a young girl pretending to be a mermaid or a young boy imagining himself as a pirate. Both of the kids are standing in pristine bathrooms that were apparently cleaned with Clorox products. ...
Tarang Amin, Clorox's vice president of global franchise, said the campaign, including the music, has helped sales of Clorox brand products triple since the campaign started in 2005.
Well, maybe I don't have health insurance because as college adjunct, my employer does not provide it. Not that I owe YOU any explanations, but do you have any idea what health insurance costs bud??? My computer is over 8 years old and I bought it because I needed it for my job. My DIAL UP, which I also need to stay employed costs about $10 a month! You find me a health insurance plan for 10 bucks a month! And I am not EVEN going to go in to how unfairly discriminated against I am simply because I am over some arbitrary weight standard set by Pharma to sell more pills. If you don't get why some people don't have health insurance, that would really shatter the paradigms you are stuck in. As would the fact that medically induced disease is real 3rd largest killer in the U.S.
p.s. Acupuncture only costs $20 bucks a session and I only needed two sessions for pain reduction. Both she and her husband have advanced degrees in health related Western science as well. It is used to facilitate healing in all sorts of conditions including fractures. And I felt an immediate mood improvement too. A clinic would have cost me several hundred if not thousands, and I would have had to worry that if my BP was too high from the fear of being financially wiped out, that would go on record and be used against me if I ever could afford health insurance. What planet do you live on????
p.p.s My mother has medicare, broke her wrist, got medical treatment immediately, and is deformed anyway! I am slowly healing. She is getting worse! Modern medicine is a crap shoot!!!! You may find it comforting to think otherwise, but you are in denial!
You put up with a broken wrist and you're happy to be deformed? You can presumably pay for a computer and an ISP unless you're posting from an internet cafe or a library, so why don't you have health insurance? You went to an acupuncturist for treatment for a fracture?
A reasonable person might conclude that your ideology might be getting in the way of your wellness.
Living abroad it is perhaps logical for me to have a different perception of what is considered "conservative", "progressive" and "centrist". FAIR's analysis, however, seems a little too ethnocentric.
In fact it takes some acrobatics in logic to understand Brookings as "centrist" - it is as "centrist" as the DLC/PPI, which is to say not centrist at all. Sourcewatch itself notes collaboration with AEI and funding by the likes of Olin.
Perhaps what is lacking in FAIR's assessment is an adequate definition of what is "progressive" and "conservative", one not relying on the rather shallow two-dimensional spectrum. Perhaps something on the line of the "political compass'" spectrum, showing both social and economic axis could be useful.
FWIW, I classify any org that propounds neoliberal economics as "conservative" economically, one that supports any of the -Keynesian ideals as being "progressive". Orgs that support increased defense spending, hawkish policies, Federalist Society jurisprudence and the like, I classify as "conservative" politically/socially. Orgs supporting decreased defense spending, internationalism, etc--- you get the picture.
Of course, from a European POV virtually the entire list of thinktanks provided by FAIR would start at "center-right" and move to the right from there. Then again the "framing" of the almost nonexistent and overlapping "ideological divide" in the US probably contributes to this in no small way.
OK, not quite, but, according to the [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120666813235770629.html Wall Street Journal] (sub req'd):
Well, maybe I don't have health insurance because as college adjunct, my employer does not provide it. Not that I owe YOU any explanations, but do you have any idea what health insurance costs bud??? My computer is over 8 years old and I bought it because I needed it for my job. My DIAL UP, which I also need to stay employed costs about $10 a month! You find me a health insurance plan for 10 bucks a month! And I am not EVEN going to go in to how unfairly discriminated against I am simply because I am over some arbitrary weight standard set by Pharma to sell more pills. If you don't get why some people don't have health insurance, that would really shatter the paradigms you are stuck in. As would the fact that medically induced disease is real 3rd largest killer in the U.S.
p.s. Acupuncture only costs $20 bucks a session and I only needed two sessions for pain reduction. Both she and her husband have advanced degrees in health related Western science as well. It is used to facilitate healing in all sorts of conditions including fractures. And I felt an immediate mood improvement too. A clinic would have cost me several hundred if not thousands, and I would have had to worry that if my BP was too high from the fear of being financially wiped out, that would go on record and be used against me if I ever could afford health insurance. What planet do you live on????
p.p.s My mother has medicare, broke her wrist, got medical treatment immediately, and is deformed anyway! I am slowly healing. She is getting worse! Modern medicine is a crap shoot!!!! You may find it comforting to think otherwise, but you are in denial!
You put up with a broken wrist and you're happy to be deformed? You can presumably pay for a computer and an ISP unless you're posting from an internet cafe or a library, so why don't you have health insurance? You went to an acupuncturist for treatment for a fracture?
A reasonable person might conclude that your ideology might be getting in the way of your wellness.
Can I have an AMEN, Brothers & Sisters?
Living abroad it is perhaps logical for me to have a different perception of what is considered "conservative", "progressive" and "centrist". FAIR's analysis, however, seems a little too ethnocentric.
In fact it takes some acrobatics in logic to understand Brookings as "centrist" - it is as "centrist" as the DLC/PPI, which is to say not centrist at all. Sourcewatch itself notes collaboration with AEI and funding by the likes of Olin.
Perhaps what is lacking in FAIR's assessment is an adequate definition of what is "progressive" and "conservative", one not relying on the rather shallow two-dimensional spectrum. Perhaps something on the line of the "political compass'" spectrum, showing both social and economic axis could be useful.
FWIW, I classify any org that propounds neoliberal economics as "conservative" economically, one that supports any of the -Keynesian ideals as being "progressive". Orgs that support increased defense spending, hawkish policies, Federalist Society jurisprudence and the like, I classify as "conservative" politically/socially. Orgs supporting decreased defense spending, internationalism, etc--- you get the picture.
Of course, from a European POV virtually the entire list of thinktanks provided by FAIR would start at "center-right" and move to the right from there. Then again the "framing" of the almost nonexistent and overlapping "ideological divide" in the US probably contributes to this in no small way.
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