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Cover of The Ugly Truth [Blu-ray]- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"Of the powerful arms of destruction that man has been able to invent, the most terrible- and most cowardly- is the word. Fists and firearms at least leave some blood remaining. Bombs destroy houses and s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago*BIZET: Carmen: Entr'acte to Act III* *Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, cond. EMI, recorded Dec. 1964-Jan. 1965*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Convention For Those Wounded In Love”* by Paulo Coelho *“General Provisions:* *A* – Whereas the saying “all is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct; *B* – Whereas for war we have the Geneva Con...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours agoThe emperor’s messenger has no clothes:Belén Fernández dresses down Thomas FriedmanBy Robert Jensen / Truthout / January 28, 2012[The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, by Belén Fernández (Verso, 2...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 10 hours agoI have long been an avid reader of Mark Glenn's excellent work over at his website: "The Ugly Truth" at www.theuglytruth.wordpress.com. Mark has been for a very long time a real truth seeker who has worke...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 10 hours agoI have always been a critic of our so called "history" that is being taught in our failed education system. It is a fact that true history, and especially the real facts about the last century that is som...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours ago"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me." ~Napoleon Bonaparte Close race. It looks like Willard could lose Michigan by a handful of votes. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoOutlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"despotism does not discriminate between east and west." - *Warwick Ball*, "Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West." 2010. East & West Publishing: London. Pg. 23. "...we are here dealing with ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“Why does Comet Garradd have two tails? Visible on the left, Comet Garradd's dust tail is composed of ice and dust bits that trail the comet in its orbit around the Sun. Visible on the right, Comet Garradd...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.” - Oscar Wilde
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*"Poke your eyes, pull your hair, you forgot what clothes to wear."* *Liz gets the situationally mandated eye poke for failing to wear the Leap Day-appropriate yellow-and-blue from -- of all, er, people --...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoClick arrow below to watch video. . Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoI don't have much of a problem with honorary degrees, provided they are conferred on people who have done something in the public good. I do have a problem when they are all too often politicised, given to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours agoCNN’s Kyung Lah travels to the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant nearly a year after the quake. Fukushima's animals abandoned and left to die Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,inf...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*“A Few Words Inspired By The Tomato Plant”* by Chet Raymo "Mostly we think of life in terms of individuals - this person, this tomato plant, this frog, this oak tree, this gnat. And we talk about birth a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Children play in Koluama 2 village, Nigeria, Monday, 27 February 2012. President Goodluck Jonathan visited the community Monday, the nearest settlement to a Chevron Corp. offshore gas rig site th...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*"Mr. Del Mastro stood and begged for everyone’s cognitive dissonance", * *“Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party of Canada does not place intentionally misleading calls to voters. We simply do not.”* *Dean...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago* "Flare, Part 12"* "When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Notice something you have never noticed before, like the tambourine sound of the snow-cricke...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoWhen groups of dolphins meet up in the ocean sea they thoughtfully introduce themselves.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe Tyrannosarus rex packed a powerful bite that no other animal, then or now, can compete with.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*Press release: US issued sealed indictment against Julian Assange* Tuesday 28th February 2012 18:30 GMT http://wikileaks.org/Stratfor-Emails-US-Has-Issued.html Reposted at Censored News Confidential emails...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*President Hugo Chávez Is Recovering Satisfactory* *Office of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela* Censored News As is publicly known, in recent days, during a medical check-up of the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSchool shootings are far more frequent in America than in other countries, although terrible massacres have occurred in Russia, Israel, and several European nations. In the high-crime neighborhoods of in...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 14 hours ago*Unlike the Prime Minister, **Libertarianz** leader Dr Richard McGrath is unsurprised to learn a convicted sex offender has these last few years been alive and well and driving children around in his sch...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoBologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"Chief Seattle's Response"
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more – the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, t...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoAnd Preston Manning, because Latin doesn't seem to be his strong suit, *makes up words to go with his gut-gripping fiction*. We Canadians have many virtues, but we also have our faults. One of the most ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Sharing Grief: Opening to Receive Comfort"* by The DailyOM "Grief is part of the human experience, and sharing our vulnerability helps create truly close bonds. When we experience something that causes ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*Facts Show Israel Killed Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Not Hezbollah.* "On any issue, our hearts and nerves, in what we understand to be the truth, cannot be shaken even if the whole ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoPoll Tax Receipt, January 30, 1908; digital image from the University of North Texas Libraries.The hidden history of TexasPart IX: 1890-1920/3 -- Disenfranchising black voters in TexasBy Bob Feldman / The Ra...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIt may sound paranoid, but the demographic shifts in the United States are such that the GOP-- which has so alienated non-whites and the non-elderly-- is desperate to drastically curtail democracy before ...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoHere's something funny: I've been so mired in studying how international norms emerge for the past few years that I haven't given much thought at the theoretical level to how they fall apart. To be fair, c...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Santorum Proposes Replacing Church, * *State with New Entity Called ‘Sturch’"* *Would Offer Salvation, Motor Vehicle Renewals on Sunday* by Andy Borowitz LANSING (The Borowitz Report) – "Telling a crowd ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoIt seems Steve can blow cold air too. He's quick to talk big about his commitment to the Arctic but talk is cheap, even big talk. It's when it comes to things like climate change and money that Harpo's t...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoWhat made the thousands of dolphins flee en masse?
- *Starting from Kubuntu 4.7.4* I ventured into composing my latest Desktop Environment under Linux. Enough has been written about the Ubuntu 'Unity' experiment and inflexible Gnome 3 (with or without 'shel...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* "Primary battle could cost Rick Santorum the war; Far-right stances fuel primary surge but could alienate independents in fall" by Michael Kranish and Bobby Caina Calvan |...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoAsteroid 2011 AG5 could pose a threat to our planet in 28 years, but we have time to do something about it.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA leading animal welfare group says Australian cattle are still be inappropriately killed in Indonesian abbatoirs. Animals Australia's Lyn White believes the new footage, shot in two separate abattoirs in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWhat is bat influenza (flu)? Bat influenza refers to influenza A viruses found in bats. Bat influenza was first discovered in “little yellow-shouldered bats” in Guatemala during a study conducted in 2009...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours agoRecognizing that there's just not enough hilarity these days: But, don't forget Detroit Republicans for Romney
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago[image: Rick Santorum bows his head during a prayer before addressing the Detroit Economic Club, 16 February 2012. Bill Pugliano / Getty Images]By Larry B. Stammer 27 February 2012 It has long been a m...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoFiber optic technology could bring sun and greenery to a park underneath the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoAn orangutan advocate is donating iPads to zoos to gives apes access to interactive technology.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 17 hours ago------------------------------ *Tomgram: Engelhardt and Turse, The End in Afghanistan? * Posted by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse at 8:21am, February 28, 2012. *Blown Away How the U.S. Fanned the F...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*The order in which I read these front-page articles*: "Third monkey dies at Harvard research center" February 27, 2012|By Carolyn Y. Johnson A dehydrated squirrel monkey *died* at a Harvard Medical Schoo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Shame On The Rich"* by Elizabeth Norton “For fans of the British upstairs-downstairs TV series “Downton Abbey,” skullduggery may seem evenly distributed among the social ranks. But in real life, it's t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours agoNews from the Dept. of Obvious, a new study finds wealthy people, lie, cheat and view greed as a virtue. And not just on big stuff. They'll cheat for $50. They see no problem with lying to advance their go...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*I missed it the last time I did a round-up.* "Threat to New Delhi in major quake is largely ignored; India’s data show 9 in 10 buildings are threatened" by Muneeza Naqvi | Associated Press, January 29,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"The Grand Game of Perception Management"* by Charles Hugh Smith "The economy will expand if you believe it is expanding- because you'll be "animal spirited" into buying a lot of stuff on credit that you...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoControversial research on how to make bird flu more contagious will be published after an initial delay, as the virus continues to take lives in Indonesia, the country worst hit by the disease. The late...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAN ANGLING club has been left devastated after thousands of fish have died at Pennytown Ponds in the space of a week. Palmer Morewood Angling Club owns the fishing rights to the Green Flag-rated nature re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTwo fishermen pulled something unexpected from the Kankakee River in Starke County on Sunday. A dead alligator. Indiana Conservation Officer Keith Wildeman was contacted by Jeff Brewer and his father St...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours agoI guess I should post something about Election Day in Arizona and Michigan. Well, I've posted a couple of things already, so this is my "Elsewhere" post for the day, too. At Plum Line, I argue that there's...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*One hell of a feast, 'eh? * "Warren Buffett upbeat on housing market" by Josh Funk | Associated Press, February 26, 2012 OMAHA - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said yesterday that he was “*dead w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA photo from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the Big Island shows the thermal image of lava flows coming down the Pali through the Royal Gardens subdivision area. Over the weekend, scientists say the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - The Dutch parliament, which has been heavily critical of euro zone bailouts, gave grudging backing to Greece's second rescue package on Tuesday saying it was needed to stabilize the currency b...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoConsider this bill now working its way through the Wyoming legislature. *On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for the total economic and politic...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoThe 5,300-year-old ice mummy from the Alps appears to have had the oldest known case of Lyme disease.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoA new strain of influenza A has been found in fruit bats, indicating for the first time that bats can be carriers of the virus.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoFormer German chancellor Helmut Kohl warns today's crop of European leaders not to forget the lessons of Europe's bloody past. "*The current discussion in Europe and the crisis in Greece mustn't lead us t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA third student has died from his wounds following a shooting in an Ohio school, as the suspected gunman is expected in court. Demetrius Hewlin died at the Cleveland Hospital on Tuesday where another vic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRemains of some victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US were taken to a landfill site, a Pentagon report has found. "Several portions of remains" found at the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Then I guess the scandalous trials and political intrigue was really all just a bunch of BS, huh?* "Berlusconi bribery case thrown out over statute of limitations" by Elisabetta Povoledo | New York Tim...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoSomewhere down in the crawlspace is my highschool atlas from the 60's. I have kept it as I have the four or five 'updated' atlases I picked up over the intervening years. It's a lot of fun to go back and...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoVia *BCL*, we learn Prince Rupert has officially given the finger to the China-Conservative Party-Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, formally signally that city's *allegiance to the eco-terrorist revoluti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 46.2 km (28.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:05:21 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) South from ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoOur youth, as the radical right wants them to be
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoRich people are more likely to lie and cheat than ordinary stiffs like you. A study published yesterday in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences *began when a PhD candidate, Paul Piff, wa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: In this 2009 photo, trees infested with the mountain pine beetle die off in large numbers in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, turning into red and gray skeletons. A new book by Reese Halter,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoArchaeologists exploring a 1st century Christian burial chamber have discovered an ancient inscription on a coffin lid which they believe could prove the site is the final resting place of Jesus. Using a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:00:04 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) ESE fr...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe beads can't be recycled by normal plastic recycling plants, but they can be reused.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoInvestigators have found what could be the earliest evidence of a Christian iconography in Jerusalem.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 19 hours agoGraphic from alecwatch.org.The ALEC agenda:How the right-wing moldslegislators to shill for corporationsBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / February 28, 2012"[Any law proposed by businessmen] ought always t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: Dr. Peter Gleick said: 'My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts to attack climate science'. Paul Chinn / The Chronicle]By LESLIE KAUFMAN 23 February 2012 Focus on the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt is 460ft wide and soaring through space - on a possible collision course with Earth. Nasa has identified a new asteroid threat to our planet and calculated that it could potentially impact on February...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoThe dynamics of this duo promise to be earth-shaking. *WikiLeaks* joining forces with *Anonymous*. As Cole Stryker writes over at *Salon.com*, we may be on the brink in a new era of guerrilla transpar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAreas of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham have become 'no-go' areas where the law is losing the battle against drug traffickers and organised crime, according to the United Nations' drugs chief. The ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoAt 11am (PT)-- 1pm in Arkansas-- Blue America will be hosting a live blogging session at Crooks and Liars with Ken Aden, our newest endorsee for Congress. Ken Aden is the only progressive candidate for C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThis was the terrifying moment a brave young mother battled to keep her beloved horse calm as sea water closed in on the animal after he became trapped in mud 'like quicksand'. Exhausted and mud-splatter...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 20 hours agoFollowing up yesterday's post on US gasoline prices, here is a comparison figure for UK petrol spending as a proportion of GDP over the period 1991-2010 (the period for which data is available) with petr...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoMatt Glassman has a really good point that there's a real difference between talking about a "dark horse" candidate and talking about a potential deadlocked convention. He's right: these two things are co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGreece has become the first eurozone country to be officially rated in default after the credit rating agency Standard & Poor downgraded it to a lower level than junk. It said the country is in "selectiv...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoQuite remarkable. BBC Media Action and BBC Arabic have produced two versions of the BBC’s Question Time, called Sa’at Hissab, in partnership with Tunisian television. The audience came to the studio in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPARIS — The Socialist tipped to become France's next leader promised to impose a 75 percent tax bracket on France's top earners in a move denounced Tuesday by President Nicolas Sarkozy as "worrying amateu...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 20 hours ago*Today Wikileaks released Stratfor strategy against Julian Assange* * * *"Move him from country to country to face various charges for thenext 25 years. But, seize everything he and his family own, to in...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA robotic fish can lead others into forming schools, suggesting one reason why fish stay together.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 98.6 km (61.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:30:10 UTC Tuesday 28th February 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) ENE of Kushiro...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoThe Oscars are over. Now we turn our attention to the Republican presidential campaign and possible running mates for the frontrunners. There should be a coffee table book of Republican hopefuls and thei...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar (L) and Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel. * On 18 January 2012, at Mathaba, we read of the *ignominious departure from Mauritania of the...
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