Australia 2009 (Photo credit: stoofstraat)- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 minutes agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ...that was perhaps ever perpetrated on the American public was when Sen. James Inhofe, a reliable Republican troll who looks as ...
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- posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 33 minutes agoYesterday, long-time Duck of Minerva contributor Bill Petti taped an on-field segment for "Clubhouse Confidential" on the MLB Network! For the non-baseball nerds, MLB = major league baseball. Your browser...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 34 minutes ago[image: Young sunflower sprout in a field. The use of fertilisers in agriculture is expected to increase as demand for both rises. DZM / iStockphoto] By Darren Osborne, ABC 16 March 2012 The increasing...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 50 minutes ago"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock." - James A. Baldwin
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 55 minutes ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012* *Part 5—Has Gail Collins been dishonest:* Does Seamus’ ride on the roof of the car give us a look into Mitt Romney’s character? Stating our question a different way: Is Seamus’ st...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 56 minutes ago[image: Changes in average temperature for Australia for each year (orange line) and each decade (grey boxes), and 11-year average (black line – an 11-year period is the standard used by the Intergovernm...
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What image would you expect to have returned to you by Google if you search for 'catherine zeta jones the return of the native +lingerie'? Any guesses? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 hour ago
*California Sheriffs’ Posse Call And Fundraiser* County Sheriffs and Peace Officers are uniting to free America from State and Federal tyranny. The Constitutional Sheriffs And Peace Officers Associatio... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 hour agoSeems that a VP at Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, has committed the ultimate sin there. No, it wasn't defrauding his customers. Or lying to Congressional investigators. Or sleeping with the boss' honey. It was...
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A short summary (with links). Where are we? Well,* right across the country*. Only now, instead of just watching the TV news and wondering about the veracity of the reports, you can go look for yourself ... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoHappy Birthday to Flavor Flav, 53. And on to the good stuff: 1. Matt Glassman presents a primer on Congressional staff pay. Well, really mainly House Member staff, not committee staff and not the Senate....
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoPlease tell the DNC to Destroy ALEC. Democratic leaders have sat on their butts for thirty years and DONE NOTHING, while the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Koch brothers have taken o...
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A former Marine charged with the gory stabbing deaths of six people in California told investigators he targeted homeless people in part because they were vulnerable, and that he believes he has a 'killer... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*Outside The Village, a "moderate Republican" would be a right-wing sociopath* The DCCC is doing what it likes best-- recruiting a rich Republican to run as a Democrat. This time, though, we're not talkin... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Weeks after her family made her disappearance public, a troubled aspiring actress has been found alive. Los Angeles police announced on Thursday Satara Stratton had been located in 'good condition' at an... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Police investigating an alleged plot to blow up an Italian synagogue say the plans had taken shape in "super secret" Facebook groups. A 40-year-old woman, believed to be Yemeni, was arrested in a pre-dawn... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A spring break party which was meant to emulate the hit movie 'Project X' turned deadly after several revellers fired guns as police shut it down. A teenage boy, who has not been identified, died from mul... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A former Google executive has lambasted his ex-employer in a Goldman Sachs-style rant this week - claiming that the search company has been turned into an 'ad company' obsessed with harvesting people's pr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
After Paul the Octopus, Knut the polar bear and Heidi the cross-eyed Opossum, the world has been waiting for a new animal celebrity. Step forward Til, the earless rabbit - who appeared destined for super... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFive dogs from the same street have been killed by a mystery poisoner who left meat laced with pesticide in their owners’ gardens. One mother described how she came home to find two of her dogs dead on th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThere will be cause for more celebration than ever on St Patrick’s Day this weekend after a major oil find off the coast of Ireland. It is the first time that a commercially viable offshore source of oil ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoCallous poachers coaxed a swan to shore with breadcrumbs before clubbing it to death with nail-embedded sticks and taking it away 'to eat', it emerged today. The gang of five was spotted throwing morsels...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoIn 1692, mass hysteria swept through Salem, Massachusetts. Superstitious townspeople, fearful of the devil, began accusing men and women of witchcraft and hounded scores of 'witches' to put on trial. They...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoGoldman Sachs was hit by a £1.3billion backlash following a devastating attack on it as ‘morally bankrupt’ by one of its senior executives. The global investment bank’s share price fell after Greg Smith s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Pacific Antarctic Ridge at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:40 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 1787 km (1110 miles) West of Swa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoDr Fawaz Akhras, the father of President Assad’s wife, Asma, has astonishingly compared the Syrian uprising to the London riots. He claimed the use of armed force against the people of Homs was justified ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 hours agoHealed by a UFO: The Flores Family's Odyssey By Ramon Nava Osorio and Raul Nunez An experience such as this is uncanny, and certainly more than one reader will question its authenticity. They are...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 hours agoBlog Stats: over 15 million page views // Twitter @AnonOps: +300k Followers *This communication group wants to say THANK YOU for always being there.We are from 7 different countries, and for 2 years we ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHalf a million people on incapacity benefit are fit for work, ministers said yesterday. Medical assessments carried out on 141,000 existing claimants found that an astonishing 37 per cent of people on in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSkydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump. He's aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles. Mr Baumga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHoney bees should have no chance at all against the ferocious Japanese hornet - the predators are an inch long, and watching the two battle is like watching infantry racing hopelessly towards a tank. Bu...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 3 hours ago*The Perfect Pasta! (with mushrooms and bacon)* Last night I came home and discovered that my planned recipe for the night had to be cancelled due to lack of ingredients. Instead I decided to throw togeth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoGoogle is to face new investigations in both America and the EU over using hidden computer code to violate iPhone users' privacy settings. The search giant is alleged to have 'tricked' the web browser in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTwo vicious young yobs who kicked a piglet to death are being hunted by police. The cruel attack on tiny Matilda was carried out by two boys believed to be about 12 years old. A dog walker spotted the pa...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRowan Williams has announced he is stepping down as Archbishop of Canterbury after a turbulent decade in office. The leader of the 77 million-strong Anglican church will stand down at the end of the year... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoOTTAWA — While it has aggressively slammed environmental groups for using foreign dollars to finance a small portion of their budgets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is being tight-lipped abou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Only 13% of U.S. adults have English reading and comprehension* * skills considered to be proficient."* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsQFN5XKec&feature=player_embedded#! • *The other 87%:* • As the gre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSurging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity, carbon stocks, and other ecosystem functions in som...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoShell has been training a dachshund and two border collies to detect oil spills beneath snow and ice. When it comes to drilling for oil in the harsh and unpredictable Arctic, Shell has gone to the dogs, i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWater pollution from agriculture is costing billions of dollars a year in developed countries and is set to rise in China and India as farmers race to increase food production, the Organization for Econom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBacon has been called the gateway meat, luring vegetarians back to meat. And hot dogs are a staple at many a backyard BBQ. But a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that daily ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDULUTH, Minn. — A published report says the amount of ice covering the Great Lakes has declined about 71 percent over the past 40 years, a drop that the lead author partly attributes to climate change. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoGary Stokes has this horrifying video of finding shark fins scattered across a Hong Kong sidewalk which, I have to admit, makes me a bit sick to watch. And I sat through Mariah Carey's Glitter so I have a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNew research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has examined the impact of tar sands mining in Canada on boreal forest and peatlands, finding that contrary to industry claims that such lan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIt's been a challenging winter for Wisconsin ski resorts, to say the least. First, there was no snow, and it wasn't cold enough for ski resorts to make their own. Then potential visitors assumed ski resor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold for melting the ice sheet completely is in the range of 0.8 to 3.2 degrees Cels...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBen Kessler, a student at the University of North Texas and an environmental activist, was more than a little surprised that an FBI agent questioned his philosophy professor and acquaintances about his wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich embraced the public spotlight one last time Wednesday, claiming on the day before he reports to prison that he always believed what he did was legal and expr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe federal government is launching a new anti-tobacco campaign that features personal descriptions and photographs of people who’ve suffered grievous effects from smoking, often before the age of 50. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) on Wednesday stood by its pledge to reward shareholders, as Wall Street sought to understand why the bank failed to win approval from regulators to increase its dividend or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after the slaughter of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, underscoring f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on Wednesday they would have to make English their primary language if they want to pursue U.S. statehood, a statement at odds ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe driver of the coach which crashed into a tunnel wall killing 22 children and six adults was trying to put a DVD film on seconds before impact, it has been claimed. Young survivors of the horrific acci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLINDA (CBS13) – Thieves got away with 12 surveillance cameras from a Yuba County health clinic over the weekend, but in the process they gave investigators a look back in time. The hard drives associate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoKISSIMMEE, Fla. — WFTV has found out about a multimillion dollar foreclosure on the property of a state representative candidate. Matt Falconer has made a name for himself by pitching big cost-cutting for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoINDIALANTIC, Fla. — A Brevard County doctor was arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor in exchange for prescription pain medication, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said on Tuesday. Dr...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 4 hours agoBy Charles Moffat - March 2012. CARS - I witnessed an interesting argument recently on Facebook which saw gasoline cars pitted against electric hybrid cars and hydrogen cars. What was interesting was two ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIt's my job to cover both the good and the bad, but when it comes to some heartbreaking stories, like this one, it remains impossible for me to comprehend the depths of depravity to which certain humans c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of just 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 09:29:03 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) Southwest from Cokedale, Colorado...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLAKE COUNTY, Fla. — Tempers are flaring over a version of the American flag flying in Lake County. A veterans group says the flag is an outrage. The flag, which features a picture of President Obama, was...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*More than 26,000 people have downloaded an operating system which members of the unidentified hacker group maintain to have created*. Soon after the operating system became available, the AnonOps accoun...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoThis video is from the USA where people need an ID card to prove their age should they want to drink in a bar or have a civil union but not in order to vote, the same is true in the UK, but isn't voting r...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoMarch 15, 2012 All through the primaries Ron Paul has been surrounded by thousands of people at almost every state he has visited. Now one less person will be around Ron Paul. NBC recently withdrew thei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA British boy was among the 22 children and six adults killed in a coach crash in Switzerland as the repatriation of the victims' bodies to Belgium takes place. Sebastian Bowles, 11, died after the vehi...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoThis recent photo, released by Rutgers University on March 13, shows a new species of frog in the jungle -- New York's concrete jungle. The mottled green creature was for years mistaken as belonging to a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPHOENIX - A man described as a President Barack Obama fanatic pleads guilty to threatening to kill Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Adam Eugene Cox appeared in a Tennessee courtroom on Wednesday. He w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The average price of a gallon of gas in Sacramento is up 50 cents from last month to $4.28, according to the latest fuel survey from AAA. The state-wide average for a gallon of regul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLess than a week after a US staff sergeant allegedly massacred 16 civilians in Kandahar, American soldiers were banned from bringing guns into a talk by Mr Panetta at a base in Helmand province. Around 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoJon Henley finds a medical aid organisation trying to plug the gaps as the health service nears breakdown. The savage cuts to Greece's health service budget have led to a sharp rise in HIV/Aids and malar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoInternet search giant Google (GOOG) may seek to ring-up profits by replacing the standard ring tone most callers hear with paid advertisements. While some mobile phone users customize their phones so calle...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*Oral cancer cases are rising, with 6,200 this year, figures from Cancer study UK show, by means of two-thirds of cases in men.* But high-risk strains of HPV are connected to oral cancers, as healthy as ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 5 hours agoAfter I posted IPR and Medicines 22: CL on Anti-Cancer Drug Nexavar on Chito Gascon's wall where the discussion started, another friend or relative of him came in and we extended the exchanges. Here they g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Two members of an anti-Kremlin all-girl punk rock band were ordered detained in prison on Wednesday for mounting a protest 'concert' in Moscow's main cathedral, leaping around in brightly colo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoOutbreaks of illness linked to imported food have risen since the late 1990s, casting a spotlight on federal inspection standards for fish, produce and other foods brought in from abroad. The 39 outbreak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoJordi Munoz had no training. Scant schooling. Little money. He also had a video-game console and nothing else to do. So he built his own drone. A Mexican native, Mr. Munoz married an American citizen and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwitter removed all but one account using Syrian president's name and half of those using first lady's after complaint Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian pres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoBashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader and his wife....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLeadership succession plunged into high drama as favourite to join country's ruling panel is toppled amid defection scandal. The biggest political drama in years has erupted months ahead of China's once-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe viral video campaign may have reached tens of millions of people, but its message is simplistic and misleading. Paris, France - Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord and leader of the Lord's Resistance Arm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHamid Dabashi pays tribute to Simin Daneshvar, the premier Iranian female novelist, who died last Sunday. New York, NY - Much of the world's attention was drawn to the confounding speeches of President B...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*Matilda the Musical leads the contest at this year's Olivier theatre awards with an utmost probable 10 nominations. The nominations were announced in central London by 2011 Olivier Award winners Nancy C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA helicopter has crashed into houses on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, killing 10 people, according to police. Officers said the accident killed eight on board the aircraft, which belonged to a Turk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 44.3 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:58:06 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) NNE of Surigao, Minda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 44.6 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:07:24 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) Southe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 06:26:15 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) ESE of H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 22.6 km (14 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:12 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (48 miles) West of Concepcion, B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 88.3 km (54.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:48:16 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agoSource: A composite photo of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and his mother Christine. (Leon Neal - AFP) WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange ‘is being framed’ says his mother The mother of Julian Assange, the fou...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 hours agoShorter CBC : They call you up and ask what party you support; if not a Con supporter, you get a frowny face entered next to your name on the Cons voter identification system CIMS, and a callback later ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 6 hours agoNo copyright infringement intended.
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoDiscovery News, the Discovery Channel's news website, has an article that begins thus: 'Could Air Pollution Be Making Us Fat? A hypothesis proposes that rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may be cont...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agoMarch 14, 2012 First in the new Google + series of Versus Debates. Source: http://www.yourblackworld.com/2011/06/24/dr-boyce-black-leaders-declare-war-on-the-war-on-drugs-good/
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours agoIn the country's largest state, the handsome young man campaigned full time for his party, with vast sums of money, for over a year. Not Jeb Bush. Not Louis Sarkozy. *Mumbai * *Rahul Gandhi* wanted his ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago*The world's largest squid class has developed enormous eyes to give early warning of approaching sperm whales.* Four years ago in New Zealand, Lead scientist Dan Nilsson from Lund University in Sweden ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoThe OPERA detector originally detected neutrinos that were arriving to the Gran Sasso cavern (or tavern) in central Italy 60±10 nanoseconds too early after their 730-kilometer (2.4 nanoseconds) trip from...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoInasmuch as tweens do know thenegatives around substance abuse that is certainly not the problem. What may be needed is specific coaching atthis age in the practice of logical discourse that allows a ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThe take home is that a steadyintake of red meat and red meat products even more so skews the death rate fromCVD and Cancer by 20% and 10% respectively. On the other hand, intermittentconsumption change...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoIt is marvelous how we arelearning to control crystal formation to our best advantage. This item is a primer on the possibilitiesand here we have a catalytic structure that is effective an order of ma...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoAll of a sudden the rangers havereal teeth in terms of running down poachers. Locating a recent downed elephant can not be difficult since theanimals’ mates will be visibly distressed and any observers ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us on the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so lon...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Automaton Conformity" * by Erich Fromm "In the mechanisms we have been discussing, the individual overcomes the feeling of insignificance in comparison with the overwhelming power of the world outside ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"The Summer Day"* "Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating suga...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur," a Latin phrase, means "The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived." The saying is ascribed to Petronius, a Roman satirist from the first century, CE. "The...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all- young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going it...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoPhoto courtesy: David Berkowitz/CC BY 2.0 For decades, zones designated for wildlife conservation in Southern Africa have played a crucial role in shielding vulnerable species from the threats of poaching...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe B.C. government is floating a proposal to fly people on social assistance north and give them accommodation and training to fill vacant jobs in the booming oil and gas sector. Finance Minister Kevin ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours ago“The unequivocally engaging thing is that some of a oceanic basins might maybe be a small bit younger than we now believe,” Bridges told OurAmazingPlanet. Photo courtesy: ethiosun Several winters ago, a t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWith its own roadways, healing facilities and entertainment district, the Occupy Windsor camp has developed into the city's newest neighbourhood. The CBC's Allison Johnson spent eight hours inside the move...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThree Canadian women filed lawsuits Tuesday alleging "sexual molestation" by U.S. female border guards at the Canada-U.S. border near Windsor, Ont. Two separate lawsuits were filed — one by two women trav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe issue of climate change has inspired many potential solutions, such as driving electric or hybrid cars, recycling, and using power generated by harnessing the sun or wind. But an associate professor ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAmbition can sometimes be measured by the amount of deference paid to the established order, so the recently published book "Genpatsu Kiki to Todai Waho," which irreverently analyzes the "parlance of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFive months after tough new ordinances cracking down on the activities of organized crime syndicates went into effect, it's not yet clear what impact, if any, they've had on gang activities. "We are resi...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 9 hours agoThe Guardian of London is reporting that "a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader (Bashar al-Assad) and his wife" were "intercepted by members of the o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWhen Japanese people are ordering food, how many times do you hear them asking for "oomori" (large size)? It's the equivalent of asking for "supersize" in a U.S. fast-food joint. My guess is that it is o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn terms of soil contamination, the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is only about an eighth as severe as the meltdown at the Chernobyl plant, in what is now Ukraine, in 1986, according t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo-decade study of preparations finds key defensive shortcomings Tokyo's preparedness for dealing with a major earthquake after last year's record temblor in the Tohoku region that left more than 19,000 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- It's late in Iran on a dark night, moonless or with heavy clouds. Suddenly the silence is broken by sonic booms, followed by the sound of jets roaring overhead. Flying in tight formation, Israe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. The lines from Tennyson’s “Morte D’Arthur” seem appropriate to the news ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoGo over to *The Gazetteer *and watch the video of the CBC report. Then go down and read the first comment from the very diligent North Van Grumps. On the video a Lori Bruce is interviewed and stated that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo soldiers have been killed and a third seriously injured by a lone gunman in southwest France, sparking an extensive manhunt. The three uniformed men were apparently withdrawing money from a cashpoint ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn asteroid with the destructive power of an H-bomb will narrowly miss Earth next year, scientists have said. The 164ft-long space rock will whizz past our planet on February 15, 2013, at a distance of j...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoArgentina's foreign minister Hector Timerman said there would be "administrative, civil and criminal" penalties against the companies involved. He said "the resources of the South Atlantic are the prope...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussell Brand has been arrested in the US after allegedly grabbing a photographer's phone and throwing it through a window. The comedian and actor was taken into custody by New Orleans police last night ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe US soldier accused of shooting dead 16 Afghan civilians (Including 9 Children!!) had been injured twice in Iraq and doubted his physical fitness for duty, his lawyer has said. The unnamed staff serge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:32:11 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu No Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck The Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 28.4 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:38:06 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (97 miles) South from Seve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:44:12 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Rota Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 104.9 km (65.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:37:39 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoI was still a kid when *Creem* sent me to London to go on tour and hang out for a few weeks with The Clash, this new band whose record was deemed by CBS to be too wild and bizarre to release in the U.S. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours agoTraveling Wilburys, "End Of The Line" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmtlqB0x59Y&feature=related
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoWatch very closely. *The AG zeroed in on the F-35 Lightning II project* and draft of the Spring report to Parliament was delivered to departments and ministries. Today, sackcloth and ashes were being iss...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"Most impressive is a text of Plutarch that attempts to describe the presumed process of dying in terms of a mystery initiation. At the moment of death, “the soul suffers an experience similar to those w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council will close their Syrian embassies, the council said Thursday, calling on the international community "to stop what is going on in Syria." The action, th...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoUS State Department-run Amnesty International demands Russia allow US & NATO to commence the ruination and plundering of Syria. by Tony Cartalucci March 16, 2012 - As Libya splinters into infighting facti...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe spans a...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 12 hours agoOkay, Day Zero is pushing it but Southern Man let his evening class out an hour early so it is now officially Spring Break - ten days of not working. Well, actually there will be about a day of work in the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Eutrophication caused by agricultural run off from nitrate fertilizers shows algae blooms in a drainage ditch in Suffolk, England, UK. Ian Murray / Loop Images / Corbis] By Tara Patel 13 March 2...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoImage from Dzinepress.HiatusThe plazas are empty, swept clean of debris,smug analyses already written.Elections are coming, everyone run to see:is it Newton? or El Ron? or Mittens?But out of the glare of the...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoDNAinfo.com caption: "*Residents at 303 E. 83rd St. said the gate went up at least a year ago, locking off a space that once housed a playground.*" *by Ken* I noticed in an *Washington Post* e-promo this ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"It's good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose. So chin up. Put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds: celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: A female grey seal moves over thin ice near the shore in Canso, Nova Scotia. Andrew Vaughan / Canadian Press] 15 March 2012 (CBC News) – An extremely small number of grey seals were killed durin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“Do Unto Others”* by Chet Raymo "If there is not a divinely prescribed code of morality, reinforced by reward or punishment in the afterlife, then why be good? Why not do any damn thing one pleases? We ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours agoJeneda Benally, Dine', outside Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Photo Save the Peaks. **BREAKING NEWS** *Navajo Nation receives the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of RacialDiscrimination’s request to the ...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 15 hours ago*Anyone over the age of 30 should recall phrases including "school choice" were the clarion call of segregationists and southern dixiecrats. [Still is.] — Robert D. Skeels* [image: privatization = segrega...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoThe Chief Electoral Officer has *something to say*, and he'd like to say it to a parliamentary committee. Immediately following the 2011 general election, the Commissioner of Canada Elections deployed res...
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