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Many people remember a few years back, where in a major interview with several news medias, the Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, said clearly that it was his hope to have regime change happen in Israel. H... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Provided by the Globe*: "Details emerge on Ohio shooting suspect" Associated Press / March 1, 2012 CHARDON, Ohio - The teenager accused in an Ohio school shooting struggled with a broken family and did p...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Think of it as an education as to the way the world works, kids. * "Lynn officials add lesson to 29 teens’ suspensions" February 28, 2012|By Akilah Johnson LYNN - A *videotaped afterschool brawl in which...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Hazing issue ensnares Dartmouth president; Student’s account shakes campus" by Mary Carmichael | Globe Staff, March 02, 2012 HANOVER, N.H. - When Jim Kim became president of *Dartmouth College* in 2009...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Casino talk hits a chord in Taunton" March 01, 2012|Brian MacQuarrie and Martine Powers, Globe Staff TAUNTON - Mayor Tom Hoye called a casino resort a one-time chance for this struggling city. Mashpee Wa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*If no one wants the job.... * "Deadline near, state gaming panel seats unfilled; Pay level may be narrowing candidate field" by Mark Arsenault | Globe Staff, February 27, 2012 A number of potential ca...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*I'm trying to get to the antique show.... * "For casinos, road to approval starts with traffic relief" February 22, 2012 |Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff As it prepares its bid for a casino resort in Brimfiel...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoMeditative landscape shots & Enya's beautiful song "Boadicea" from the album "The Celts". - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKQwgpaLR6o&feature=related
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour ago
I thought I would post a few aerial shots I've found of the city to give you an idea of the lay of the land here so to speak. Downtown Fort McMurray looking southwest with the Athabasca and Thickwood Heig... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“On the right, surrounded by blue spiral arms, is spiral galaxy M81. On the left, marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. This stunning vista shows these two mammoth galaxies locked in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in y...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHR-Gx7fS0&feature=channel_video_title
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f the guns have fallen silent in Homs, they have done so only in the sense described by the Roman historian Tacitus: “They created a wasteland and called it peace.” After a savage bombardment lasting more ... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) There are many things about the ambulatory Big Top of the latter day Republican Party that make people who don't think NASCAR a legitimate sport no... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Mariano Rajoy, prime minister of Spain, said the budget deficit would be 5.8pc of GDP in 2012 - more than 30pc higher than the 4.4pc target agreed by Brussels. In a move that was heralded in Spain as defi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA powerful severe storm system moved across the United States on Friday, spawning a slew of tornadoes from Alabama to Indiana that contributed to at least eight fatalities and threatened even more death ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA day after Syrian forces overran the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr, opposition groups said Friday that government forces had executed 14 civilians there and the Red Cross said an aid convoy seeking to d...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Let's just nuke up some popcorn, sit back and relax, and enjoy the thugs and loons duking it out.* *"[Charles] Koch's actions in Kansas court yesterday represent an effort by him to transform Cato from a... - posted by Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 3 hours agoDid you know that Shaw has proxy servers that it makes available to its customers to use? That surprised me. I refuse to use proxy servers. For one, they break the Internet. To use a proxy server, you confi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Four Fiscal Phonies”* by Paul Krugman “Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that’s what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama’s deficits are leading us toward a “Gr...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoI might start looking closely at all three HarperCon won elections and combing through the complaint files. Harper has had one immediate goal for his party since taking the helm: Majority. He failed to ac...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoNuclear power is probably mankind's only real hope of weaning our civilization off fossil fuels in time to avert runaway global warming. By nuclear power I don't mean the first or second-generation reactor...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 4 hours agoAt the heart of this generation's retread argument for post-partisanship in all things political, there is another, though more dangerous, version of rule by the experts lurking there. Society engineered ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours ago*Lawsuits aside*, I do think it is a lovely and truthful thing indeed to read that a business that did business with Conservatives is publicly declaring themselves to be *"shunned, avoided, and exposed to ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoWaves of tornadoes at this time of year? The U.S. doesn't get tornadoes until much later in the year or at least that used to be the case. But that was then, this is now. It can't be climate change, tha...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Updated all evening* The Stratfor e-mails,published by Wikileaks, reveal a State Department source telling Stratfor thatmore than one per...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoHumanity is struggling to survive Its forces of altruism and foresightedness struggleagainst the forces of greed and corruption. Unfortunately, time is running out for survival. Listen, you who run org...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoCorps of Engineers is liable for Katrina flooding damages!~A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled the federal government isn't entitled to immunity from lawsuits bla...
- posted by Phila at Bouphonia - 5 hours agoA Daily Caller columnist recently argued that the government should force food stamp recipients to buy low-grade food in drab packaging, in order to teach these soi-disant "poor people" a tough lesson abo...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 5 hours ago*FBI (more) on Body* *Email-ID 1666377* *Date 2011-05-02 15:11:03* *From burton@stratfor.com* *To secure@stratfor.com* Down & dirty done, He already sleeps with the fish.... ** Fred's Note: Although I don'...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 6 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *This is your New York Times:* Good grief. Andrew Rosenthal is the editorial page editor of the New York Times. This is his attempt to analyze “Santorum’s Woman Problem:” ROSENTH...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoCommerce City, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“The Big Kill”* by Chet Raymo “Here's an interesting graph from the May 11, 2006, issue of “Nature,” from a paper by R. Dale Guthrie titled "New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*The Conservative War Against Women* For organizations which argue that if we just had more gays... or women... or African-Americans (you pick the group) everything would be so much better (at least for t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“Evidence”* “Where do I live? If I had no address, as many people do not, I could nevertheless say that I lived in the same town as the lilies of the field, and the still waters. Spring, and all through...
- *Since numerous Linux KDE updates still rain in* and having my Pension Fund to send a letter that they probably only can pay less in the near future, I'll give that issue the upper-hand and wait to descri...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoSorry for the relatively slow posting this week; for some reason every time I turned around something was keeping me away from writing. Should be back to a normal pace next week. Can't wait to be working w...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoWhat's most infuriating about the fierce debate over global warming is everything that's left out. The denialists act as though the fact and severity of warming is the issue instead of the larger issue o...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours ago*Guest post by Vedran Vuk of **Casey Research** * Recently, my parents were considering purchasing some real estate. As the financial professional in the family, they asked me, "What do you think? Will ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours agoProfessor Lawrence Ball, Johns Hopkins University, NBER, and IMF (if you can believe he's complaining!) argues that the need to please your immediate community (social psychology) explains quite a bit abou...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*I took it hook, line, and sinker. * "In experiment, US offers up to $500 for fishermen not to fish; Approach leaves Mass. saltwater devotees uneasy" by Jenn Abelson | Globe Staff, March 02, 2012 Pat J...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoIn effect, that's what it is. It is an election campaign action squad of the Conservative Party of Canada. Their job? Concentrate efforts to win swing ridings for the Conservatives. From the *Hill Times...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 8 hours ago*FiveThirtyEight*: Nasty Nate Silver looks at the Democrats chances of picking up Olympia Snowe's seat. Short version--it's probably a Dem pick-up. *BradBlog*: Brad Friedman on the possibility of a brokere...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Smells like bulls*** to me*: "Snowe shocks GOP with decision not to run again" February 29, 2012|By Tracy Jan and Bryan Bender WASHINGTON - Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator from Maine known ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*It's just up the road, folks.* "Christian owner sought for school; Falwell’s university is at top of list for 217-acre campus in Northfield" by G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Globe Correspondent, February 28,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago*Anonymous* dropped its Vic Toews bombshell today. It's a very serious allegation of abuse of power which, if it stands, goes to the heart of the Harper government. I did a post on it this morning but, b...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoCochabamba conference by Michelle Cook, Navajo*RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH: RESTORINGINDIGENOUS LIFE WAYS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT* *International IndigenousConference APRIL 4 - 6, 2012 * *at Haskell India...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMore tests are to be carried out at the Norfolk and Norwich University hospital following the discovery of a bacteria blamed for 3 babies' deaths in Belfast. Higher than normal levels of Pseudomonas have...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*President Barack Obama is a mass killer of innocent civilians. This demonic madman is anti-American and anti-human scum.* *The Atlantic*: Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoA Jewish man was riding on the subway reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same subway car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached the newspaper ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Facebook: World’s Most Appalling Spying Machine"* by Madison Ruppert “A report published by the London Sunday Times has revealed that Facebook has been accessing and reading the personal text messages ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWASHINGTON — High levels of pollution may be turning the planet's oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, with unknown consequences for future sea life, researchers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunfights, military airstrikes and a large suicide bombing on Friday killed as many as 70 people in the tribal agencies bordering Peshawar, the provincial capital of northwestern Pak...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*I really should start looking before I leap.* "Birthdays well worth the wait; Feb. 29 celebrants say joys outweigh complications" February 29, 2012|By Billy Baker, Globe Staff For leapers, those born on ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoSteve Harper used the Chretien-era "sponsorship scandal" as a springboard to power. Even though Paul Martin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Gomery Commission, Harper didn't hesitate to smear Martin ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA gruesome ‘Alien-like’ parasite which eats the tongues of bream and then 'replaces' them in its victims mouths is spreading in the Mediterranean. Almost half the fish in some areas are infected with the ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*Life is a movie. History is a crime drama. The world is a theatre. *
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoIt's not just that he's a waste of good room air or even that he *continually falls asleep on watch*. It's that he clearly can't stand veterans. When Jim Lowther and David MacLeod, of Veterans Emergency...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours ago*1. Political scandal.* 2. *Ally. * 3. *Shooting war. * It wouldn't be the *first time* for a Conservative PM.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoImagine if this scary customer turned up in your wardrobe. Meet the world's largest moth, known as Attacus or Atlas, as it serenely sits on a road in north-east India. With its astonishing 25cm or one fo...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agoMy student, Eun, brought this new legislation to my attention and provided the links. It has passed the House and is moving to the Senate. Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illeg...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 10 hours agoTenure Perches in the Soul by Douglas Storm I. “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoYou might want to check your complaints registry regarding polling station staff in the 2008 election. It is hearsay on my part, but I trust the source, that conservative operatives were boasting about inf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Residents in northeast Alabama assessed the damage Friday caused by at least two apparent tornadoes in the area, including blows to a high school and a prison. There were no immediate reports o...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoTGB Newswire, 12 July 2012: Concern among Canadians is growing after the entire body of Conservative MPs appears to have vanished. RCMP yesterday finally confirmed rumours that the prime minister and his f...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoThere's a report circulating in Washington from a Democratic think tank, the Center for American Progress, that enumerates the dozen House votes in which Republican Members of Congress most clearly voted ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Western Xizang (Tibet), China at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:33 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (114 miles) NNW of Lumarin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Syrian government has blocked the Red Cross from entering the stricken Homs neighbourhood of Baba Amr amid reports of revenge killings by government forces. A convoy of seven trucks loaded with emer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe bodies of Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and a French photographer have been handed over to the Red Cross by Syrian authorities. Ms Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in the besi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Screenshot of the 2012 Weblog Award winners for ‘Best Science or Technology Weblog’ and 'Best Canadian Weblog'. The winners are notorious deniers of climate science. http://2012.bloggi.es] In a ...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 11 hours agoFoster Freiss thinks that women should forget about birth control pills and “put an aspirin between their knees.” Rush Limbaugh thinks that any woman, who seeks to have her employee insurance pay for her ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoIf they contain anything *like this*, Elections Canada will need respirators to find the guns through the smoke. Astrid Dimond said she had been called six times for Conservative donations during the la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 168.4 km (104.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:48:31 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 195 km (121.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:48:25 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 384 km (238 miles)...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: In this photo released by The Royal Australian Air Force, an Australian Air Force helicopter flies over flooded property during an evacuation of flood victims, 29 miles south of Charleville in Qu...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoNate Silver has an excellent look back at how pre-primary polling is doing this year. The short answer is that polling a week out is way off, and only in the last three days are the polls really accurate. ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoBy Environment News Service 29 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/10219-fifteen-near-misses-at-us-nuclear-plants-in-2011 WASHINGTON, DC, (ENS) - The Union of Concerned Sci...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours agoI had heard from my thesis adviser at Brown University, Philip J. Bray, stories of his thesis adviser at Harvard, Norman Ramsey. Despite the fact that Brown and Harvard were separated by only about 40 mil...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: This graph shows the correlation between rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere at Mauna Loa with rising CO2 levels in the nearby ocean, at Station Aloha. As more CO2 accumulates...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoBonuses Dip on Wall St., but Far Less Than Earnings. New York Times. By Kevin Roose. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/as-bank-profits-plunge-wall-street-bonuses-fall-modestly/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoYears ago, we would discuss a potential collision of the Earth with the 2004 MN 4 asteroid – also known as 99942 Apophis – on Friday, 13th of April, 2029. The estimated diameter of this rock was 270 meters...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoI'm just going to make this short and not-so-sweet: Rush Limbaugh is a human being only in a biological, anthropological sense in which pus runs through his hardened veins and arteries instead of blood. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.2.12”* by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The Middle East is hot and getting hotter. Reports are out that the Pentagon is preparing aerial refueling for Israeli Jets. U.S. militar...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago*“When People Come to Believe that Deficits DO Matter”* By Joel Bowman “Here’s a headline for you, Fellow Reckoner: “Blood and spittle on pub floor, to little avail” That was on the front page of the Sydn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also warned U.S. ally Israel that a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoGreek bond holders are going to be required to take a 70% loss on their holdings. So far, however, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has said that the Greek bailout will NOT trigger cred...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 145.4 km (90.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:28 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) Southeast of...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoIsraeli prime minister Benny Netanyahu is in town and his visit makes plain that he's not interested in friendly countries supporting Israel, it's their obedience he's after. No problem with Steve Harper....
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoIsrael is a vampire state. It feeds on American blood and money. Without them, it cannot survive. Pat Buchanan *writes:* "S.R. 380 points directly toward a U.S. war on Iran. Who wants that war? Netanya...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *What the heck has Obama proposed:* Yesterday, the far-reaching Blunt amendment went down to a narrow defeat. It would have let every employer pick and choose what to include in hi...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours agoVia *Kady*. - *Elections Canada has received a high volume of complaints in recent days as a result of MPs and political parties calling on the public to send information to the agency. More th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Icebergs in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon, which is constantly growing as the Vatnajökull glacier – Europe’s largest – melts. Photograph by Olaf Otto Becker from his book, 'Under the Nordic Light:...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Aerial view of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, nearly a year after the meltdowns. Workers begin pouring cement onto the seabed at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on 28 February 2012...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 12 hours agoRight now the Cons are "reviewing tapes of every call made by the Responsive Marketing Group call centre in Thunder Bay in the last election before Elections Canada investigators arrive next week*,*" rep...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 12 hours ago"You can't kill and talk at the same time." - William Luers,former U.S. Ambassador & senior State Dept. official In 2006, after Palestinians democratically elected Hamas to the shock and chagrin of both ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNASA’s inspector general revealed in congressional testimony that a space agency computer was stolen last year with the command codes to control the International Space Station. In a statement given to a ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *Queen of the fragrant begonias:* The sheer stupidity of the upper-end press corps is often a thing to behold. Why are we the people so hopelessly uninformed about major budget to...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoCitizens of Nerd Nation, I invite you to ingest (if you haven't already) this Geek-Hall-of-Fame-Worthy post. Therein, Rod Hilton explains how to properly introduce newcomers to the Star Wars films. Ther...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoI love it when Charlie Pierce gets optimistic. He gives a rave review for President Obama's speech at a community college in New Hampshire yesterday. I especially liked this part: If that is the way Obam...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The KS Endeavor fire at the Funiwa Field in Nigeria, 23 January 2012. Chevron] By Emma Amaize and Sam Oyadongha 2 March 2012 Forty-eight days after the January 16, Chevron Nigeria Limited, rig g...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoDid Vic Toews reward one of his mistresses with an appointment to the Manitoba Court of Queens Bench? That's the allegation and, it's claimed, the reason Harper removed Toews as justice minister to protec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Dravosburg man killed his fellow security guard, stole more than $2 million from their armored vehicle after picking up money at a casino, visited his parents' home, then took off, authorities said on We...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Thunderstorm supercell forming over Lusk, Wyoming. B. Keagen of Casper, Wyoming via winchesterweather.org.uk] By JEREMY PELZER Star-Tribune capital bureau 23 February 2012 CHEYENNE – State Rep....
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *Part 4—King of the potted plants:* In this morning’s New York Times, Floyd Norris devotes his Business Day column to Rick Santorum’s budget proposals. What Norris finds isn’t pre...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Drought risk in 2012 across England and Wales. environment-agency.gov.uk] 24 February 2012 (BBC) – Ongoing dry weather over the spring and summer threatens to place more areas of England in a st...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to the great Laraine Newman, 60. Overshadowed by the multiple comic geniuses around her, but still very funny. And the good stuff: 1. Who are you going to consult to understand what happen...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: ENDANGERED: A sea otter in Monterey Bay, where food supplies are limited. Universal Images Group / Getty Images] By INGFEI CHEN 27 February 2012 MONTEREY, California – On a fog-shrouded morning ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoWhat The Mayan Elders Are Saying About 2012 Carlos Barrios, a Mayan Elder is a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide of the Eagle Clan. What follows are his insights: *“Anthropologists visit the temp...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 14 hours agoIt remains to be seen just how involved the Conservative Party was in Robocon, but it certainly doesn't help that they can't keep their story straight. It was all Michael Sona, it was rogue third parties, ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Flooded industrial park in Thailand, October 2011. Getty] By Patrick Thibodeau, pthibodeau@computerworld.com 1 March 2012 Scientists expect that climate change will increase the frequency and ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago*Owe Aku International Justice Project: Planning and Strategy for World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014* Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas gather in Puno, Peru for the 4th Continental Indig...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoColson Whitehead is now officially one of my Favourite Writers. I last gushed about him here, after reading his excellent novel *Apex Hides the Hurt*. That post also contains links to earlier raves, especi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 14 hours agoThere is seemingly a bottomless well of nonsense on disasters and climate change. I have long ago accepted that such nonsense is, like the presence of arguments rejecting the basic science of climate cha...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoI'll avoid the pitfall of quoting Polonius about brevity (hint: Polonius is a blowhard being satirized by Shakespeare and not passing on pearls of wisdom). So instead, I'll credit Stephen Krashen [1] for h...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 14 hours ago*Contributor: "YYC"* To all those who visited today on the strength of my promise to be back in action by Friday, thank you very much. But sorry, I've been having some Bell Canada phone jack probs that hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 50.5 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:13 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) Northeast from Kara...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoProudly, A Putz: From the Last Person Andrew Breitbart Publicly Insulted ~CenLamar Blood drive being held for shot officers; recovery could take quite a while About all this brouhaha surrounding Jerl Kers...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoBBC Radio 4 lunchtime news included a piece about the latest EU summit. I did like the way the reporter referred to the imposition of new governments on Greece & Italy with just the words 'change of govern...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIn 2010-- a year when Republicans surged everywhere-- I think less than 5 Democratic incumbents actually *increased* their support from the voters. One was Chellie Pingree of Maine, who Rachel Maddow int...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 15 hours agoAt Research Fortnight I have a critique up of the UK House of Lords report on departmental chief science advisers. The House of Lords report can be found here in PDF. Here is an excerpt: [M]any of the r...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoThe National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), which is the employee-side lawyers’ organization, just released a study called *Judicial Hostility to Workers’ Rights: The Case for Professional Diversit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPYONGYANG, North Korea — A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoZAMBOANGA CITY -- Ninety-nine people were hospitalized for suffocation, nausea and eye irritation, while thousands of residents were evacuated after a chemical leaked from an ice plant in a west coast vil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 29.8 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:18:38 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) ES...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago*I am so pleased this morning.* My blog was mentioned in an piece of correspondence from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The ALEC assholes are monitoring me. And well they should. And...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoThis petition from Avaaz calls on the RCMP and Elections Canada to expand their investigation beyond the one riding in Guelph, to third parties, including all robocall contracts, and all ridings where misc...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoYou know, I really want to believe this thing will grow uglier and get out of control. Massive, systematic and coordinated misinformation, all with the express purpose of disenfranchising voters? If this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:11:30 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) Southeast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHaaretz's editor-in-chief Aluf Benn says PM's planned trip to Washington will be the most fateful of his political career. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington will be the most...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwo men have been found guilty of stealing from a Malaysian student as they pretended to help him during last summer's riots in London. Ashraf Rossli, 20, had been in the UK for just a month when he was a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Red Cross convoy has arrived in the Syrian city of Homs and is set to deliver supplies to the Baba Amr district after a month-long siege. The Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent have organised the seven-l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIstanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A bomb appearing to target police officers exploded Thursday in an Istanbul neighborhood near the ruling Justice and Development Party headquarters in the city, authorities said....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister for 41 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in the Darfur region. Abdel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- The remains of what was Christchurch Cathedral, whose shattered spire became a symbol of the New Zealand city's quake devastation, is to be dismantled after Anglican church officials said the ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- The opposition accused Syrian forces of executing 10 people Friday in a shattered rebel stronghold in Homs as Britain's leader warned President Bashar al-Assad's regime will face a "day of recko...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- Spanish photographer Javier Espinosa painted a harrowing picture of life inside the shattered center of Syrian resistance in Homs in the days before a full-scale assault by President Bashar al-A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA female northern bald ibis has fled Tokyo's Tama Zoo and remains on the loose, the zoo's operator revealed on March 1. The zoo in the capital's Hino district was alerted to the escape when it received a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHad the March 11 tsunami struck at high tide, it likely would have overcome tidal barriers in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, the Mainichi has learned. The astronomical tide level at high tide in Kisarazu, C...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*All other than two of the EU's 27 leaders have signed a new treaty to enforce budget regulation within the community. Critics argue that the pact is mainly a political gesture aimed at reassuring taxpay...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAs Japan prepares to mark the first anniversary of the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the facility remains plagued with problems despite Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's declaration that t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoEU leaders - except those from the UK and Czech Republic - have signed a new fiscal treaty to enforce tougher economic scrutiny. The Treaty for Stability, Co-ordination and Governance was signed by 25 of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoChilling new details have emerged revealing the shocking scale of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the incredible bravery of the technicians, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to avert a total...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoI get very sick of the way the liberal media laud praise on the United Nations as being some sort of arbiter of right and wrong, some sort of defender of peace and liberty. This United Nations Human Rights...
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