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* Joey Dee of Young Talent Time. * Our post entitled "*TONY CURTIS, DAVID CASSIDY, TED HAGGARD...*", which has recently had 27,273 pageviews, mentioned a lot of Americans. So here is something for Australi... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 22 minutes agoI heard the rumour from three different people over the weekend, and it has exploded today thanks to a Hill Times story - there's a possibility we could be into an election campaign by week's end. The cau...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 29 minutes ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 52 minutes ago
Yesterday George Will admitted that even the rubes who actually favor handing the Republicans back the keys to the car are "detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the par... - posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 hour ago
Cocaine should be legal, says top doctor Professor Sir Ian Gilmore said making drugs such as heroin and cocaine legal would “drastically” cut crime and addicts’ health problems. State-regulated use of dru... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour agoI just discovered the YouTube channel of ICTP, i.e. Abdus Salam's International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. During the last month or so, they have posted a number of recent lectures...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoA surprising mechanism may have thrust the famous mountain range skywards.
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoControversy about safety during scans, at least, might be abated.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 hour ago
Just another manic Monday on the BBC. Please detail the bias that is spews forth.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post. - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoONLY on the BBC would we catch a discussion on whether Labour was "too tough" on crime (!!!) yet THAT is* exactly* what was foisted upon us earlier today. In order to provide that balance for which the BBC...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoInteresting to read that the BBC's new face of religion believes that God has a wife. I suppose this is of no real significance for non-Christians but for those who do have faith it is really annoying to s...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 hour ago
The BBC really are first class propagandists for AGW. Did you know that BOTH Poles are melting fast? Yes, it must be true because the BBC says it is truehere I am advised by one of our readers that this ... - posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 hours ago*If you have a simple, inconspicuous digital camera* you can do miracles with it. Just use *Gigapan* and produce breathtaking panoramas and other very sophisticated pictures. It is impressive what can be a...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours agoA question from Nigel Seel at Physics Stack Exchange comes in four parts. 1. What are the main problems which supersymmetry purports to solve? 2. What would constitute lack of evidence for SUSY at th...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 2 hours ago
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoPlants in Florida have fewer stomata now than they did a century ago - reducing the amount of moisture they release into the air.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe eruption of Mount Vesuvius broke apart a tomb inscription for a husband and wife. Now the names have been joined again.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago*ANISHINABE WOMEN CALL ON BRUCE POWER TO HALT SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR WASTE THROUGH GREAT LAKES *Press statement CHRISTIAN ISLAND, ONTARIO – Anishinabe Kweag, the group of women who successfully protested Site...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 4 hours ago
Enforcing a No-Fly Zone Could Stop Gadhafi's Ability to Launch Air Attacks As forces loyal to *Moammar Gadhafi* battle the resistance for control of key cities, the *Obama* administration is under increa... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoPetition calling for resignation of Jason Kenney. Sign and share! #KenneyResignNow
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*Casablanca* Ever since first falling in love with the country in the summer of 1969, I've been returning to Morocco every few years. My most recent trip was this past December, chronicled at my travel bl...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoI don't know if you've all been following updates on accused WikiLeaks / Collateral Murder hero Bradley Manning. Things have gotten much worse. On Wednesday, March 2, the US Army hit Manning with 22 additi...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 5 hours ago“An imam has retracted statements about evolution and the right of Muslim women not to cover their hair after death threats were made against him”, says the BBC. Compare the BBC's treatment of the story ab...
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 5 hours ago*A must read by Johnny Ball. Read Johnny here:*
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 5 hours ago
- posted by ☠ at Diary about peace and freedom - 7 hours agoThe winds of change blowing through the Middle East are bringing enormous hopes for change. In Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak helped to maintain the siege on Gaza, there is now a big public campaign to open ...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 8 hours ago
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Chinese President Hu Jintao; King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz.* The USA has asked Saudi Arabia to supply the anti-Gaddafi rebels with anti-tank rockets and mortars. (America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebel...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoJust what are we playing at? His recent, endless rants leave no doubt but that he's batshit crazy (my guess is paresis). He appears intent on subjecting his people to what most closely resembles the fuhr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoIs FOX News ready to ditch Glenn Beck? *New York Times* media columnist, David Carr, claims that FOX execs have about had it with this lunatic: *He still has numbers that just about any cable news host wo...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 11 hours ago
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 12 hours agoWith a *giant* tip of the chapeau to KenInNY at DownWithTyranny. The "Soave sia il vento" from Mozart's *Cosi fan tutte*, three different ways. There are more. Pick one. Or pick them all. And then ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*"Ross was never conscious of his dramatic gestures, or of his natural gift of theatrical speech. At times he seemed to be on stage, and you half expected the curtain to fall on such an agonized tagline a...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 13 hours agoAllan Gregg interviews Patricia Pearson, author of the book "A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine." It is a fascinating interview.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago*RED ALERT - EMERGENCY - POLICE THREATEN TO ARREST STRONG HEART AND ELDERS!* Photo: President Steele speaking to occupation (Sunday, March 6, 2011, 8 pm) This is an EMERGENCY BULLETIN for action requested ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoConsidering a black hole in the fifth dimension, can it eventually become a "naked singularity"? Welcome to the bizarre world of shrinking strings.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoIf there was a "fun size" nuclear war, how would the climate react?
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*The trailer for John Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971)* *by Ken* I tried to figure out how to work in a reference to *Sunday, Bloody Sunday*in writing earlier today about Mozart's *Così*, but c...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoIf they're right, the world as you've known it will never be the same again. "They" are the seers who, in growing numbers, are predicting widespread upheaval, revolution if you like, during the 21st centu...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 18 hours ago. AANGIRFAN: KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR OWN NAMES; 8 MILLION DEATHS Just don't fight the wars. Innocent people get oppressed and killed, our troops get killed and maimed, and then their names end up on a ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 19 hours agoSupporters of President Barack Obama often say that he is a "deep" thinker, but, how deep a thinker is he when he has failed to look into the crimes and human rights violations that occurred under the Bush...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoEven a casual reader of this blog should know that one of our favorite books of the last several years has been Nixonland by progressive historian Rick Perlstein. The Blue Dog caucus was formed until two ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 19 hours ago. " The second day of “National Rage” in Iraq produced again big demonstrations in all major cities in Iraq. The relevance of these protest movements cannot be underestimated. These protest are nationwide,...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 20 hours ago"On this week's show Keelan talks with Axis4Peace about the opposite view of the Venus Project, it's ties to the United Nations and Peter Joseph's intellectual double-think in dismissing the New World Orde...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 21 hours ago...we could send them to special Ztgst summer camp... Just Creepy.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 22 hours agoLOL, could you possibly be more offensive to Americans than standing in front of George Washington's statue and, in the finest English voice, saying 'nice one George, what were you thinking'. We know what ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 22 hours agoGod bless ATF agent John Dodson for going public. CBS News - Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico ATF agent says "Fast and Furious" program let guns "walk" into hands of Mexican drug cartels ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*** Ellyn Carlson is on the Longest Walk 3, northern route* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Ellyn speaks to Nez Perce students in Lapwai, Idaho/Photo Long Walk northern route *Ellyn t...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 23 hours ago*“The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*Is this the most beautiful music ever written?* *MOZART: Così fan tutte: Act I, No. 10, Trio, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, and Don Alfonso, "Soave sia il vento"* Gentle be the breeze, Calm be the waves, And ev...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe Cleggeron transport minister Phillip Hammond has caused hoots of derision with his ludicrous claims - made on the BBC Daily Politics Show last Wednesday - that wind turbines do not attract subsidy. The...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAutonomous Mind waspishly but brilliantly explains here why David Cameron's claims today that he will get rid of bureaucracy and stimulate enterprise are a load of hot air. The BBC, of course, uses the spe...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*Blogger's Note:* I am led to believe that virtually all state governments have investment funds caching surplus income accumulated over the years. For example, New Jersey's Cash Management Fund currently ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*Yeah like this isn't the oldest trick in the book...see **here** or **here* * or the wonderful double standard being applied **here**.* " Libya: SAS soldiers 'held by Libyan rebels' Up to eight soldiers w...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoMichael Moore gives the progressive troops in Wisconsin a great boost. "America is not broke, and neither is Wisconsin. . . . America is awash with wealth, it's just not in your hands." Don't miss this, i...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA coral reef display at the Smithsonian relies on crocheters for contributions.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago*[See below for link to petition.]* Just as the federal court unmasked the Conservative party's entrenched corruption, now the full measure of their arrogance - and their essential anti-democratic nature ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDrunk on power, ignorance and blind ambition, the crazed Republican House majority-- as well as majorities in state houses around the country-- is trampling basic American values in their rush to enact a ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new map points out populations facing the greatest climate trouble.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoNaomi Wolf in Al Jazeera English: Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled, and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabita...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoTwo founders of the Breakthrough Institute, a fearmongering lobby group, namely Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are giving lectures about the long death of environmentalism. *I don't know which o...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Gaddafi bodyguards.* When the CIA puts a new government into power, they often give the new government a list of people who are to be got rid of. Mubarak was toppled by the CIA on 11 February 2011. On ...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 1 day ago*This was such an important post from Pounce on the Open Thread that it deserved a main post all of its own*. *Thank you Pounce*. Questions are currently being asked about why a British designer is anti-S...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*At this concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, as an encore -- announced by conductor Kurt Herbert Adler (1905-1988, the San Francisco Opera's general director for nearly 30 years up to his retirem...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFossilized alien microbes have been discovered in a sample extracted from a meteorite, according to research carried out by a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center astrobiologist.
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*HUMOUR:* *THE MODERN WAY OF LIFE:* Yet another item from the pen of Stephanie McMillan.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The first of four of his own cartoons that The New Yorker's Bob Mankoff has personally charliesheenified* *by Ken* Okay, it may be going too far to declare Charlie Sheen talentless.* Perhaps it would be...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoFox News host Bill O’Reilly mentioned Alex Jones's appearance on the View the other day, calling him "some guy on the radio, we really don’t know who he is." But as Kurt Nimmo points out, O'Reilly is not t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThere's a hot race for City Council in my part of L.A.-- first time I can remember something like this. Soon after I moved to the area, the City Councilman who had held the job since 1966, John Ferraro, d...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*They're really forcing the issue here. Can't believe more people can't see through this, just an old school imperial coup. **Reminds me of this.** Not saying Gaddafi is at all good, but chances are whoeve...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoWell, while I've been running on at the mouth about labels and meaning and context, CK's been setting things on fire over at Sister Sage. I'm even going to pass up a chance to slag Julian for this. Seems t...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*Not a Talmudist. Although you may be forgiven for making that mistake. * 1877: Cecil Rhodes, "Confession of Faith" " It often strikes a man to inquire what is the chief good in life; to one the thought c...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoThis Here Openly Totalitarian Project " The European Union is moving rapidly towards becoming a totalitarian empire. It is becoming a place where dissidents are to keep their mouths shut, unless they want...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoThis week, a fellow blogger asked me for my impressions of our rapid spiral towards destruction...which led to a thought-provoking exercise. It surprised me that even he was surprised by the breadth of my a...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoBlogger's Note: The first video below pertains to my first post of the day, i.e., the media (and Gov Walker) lying about the alleged higher pay and better perks of public workers. The second video is an ab...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoForget Gaddafi. Blair's NEW best friend is a despot guilty of even bloodier slaughter ... But could Kagame prove to be even more of an ill-advised friend? Damning evidence is beginning to emerge that he o...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoA few months ago, many of us got excited by claims about the arsenic-based life which began to look much less likely moments later. But that doesn't mean that we should become completely deaf towards sim...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago-by Doug Kahn Here’s how it goes down in Sheriff Joe’s gulag, as written in the *Arizona Republic* last November: Inmate William Hughes, 24, was shown in a jail surveillance video being led by three es...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*Unbelieveable...the psychopath speaks.* Bernie Madoff says hiding his scam was a 'nightmare,' calls victims 'greedy': 'I am a good person' Bernie Madoff, the reviled Ponzi schemer who ruined so many peop...
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