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The folks at Dammit Janet, the Dawgmeister and Dave over at TGB have already pointed it out, so I'm not going to go through it again. (You can stop the applause, smart-asses.) I am not going to "debate... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 minutes agoPeter Kent once considered himself a journalist. Now, as Harper's EnviroShill, Kent dismissed criticism from scientists and science writers that the government is muzzling federal climate scientists. Ke...
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You could say some* feathers got ruffled *over two members at Progressive Bloggers and their position on *this*. You could say that, but you'd be wrong. The moderators at Progressive Bloggers weren't ru... - posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 33 minutes agoThe Treachery of Sean Pamphilon ~Jason Galbos
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Günter Grass, a world renowned German poet, wrote a poem about Israel's nuclear threat to Iran and world peace called, "What has to be said." Below are two different English translations of the poem fro... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 48 minutes agoGrants Pass, Oregon, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 50 minutes ago*"Fluent"* "I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding." ~ John O'Donohue
- Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain seek to extinguish Navajo and Hopi water rights in Senate Bill 2109posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 56 minutes ago[image: Ed Becenti, Navajo, has lived on the Navajo Reservation his entire life. He grew up on tradition and culture taught by his elders in the Navajo language. Mr. Becenti serves as a spokesperson Nava...
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It will be ironic if his Mormonism beats Willard instead of his mammonism! Now that he's officially started ignoring Santorum and has, in effect, won the Republican nomination, the old question comes up ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The McDonald’s worker who claims she scooped last week’s world record lottery prize is now saying she has lost the winning ticket. Her co-workers at the fast food restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, fear ... - posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoOccupy the Department of Education, sponsored by United Opt Out, took place in DC March 30 - April 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. The quantitative numbers were somewhat low for an Occupy protest but from a qua...
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*Related: **Occupation Iraq: Divide and Conquer* *"Al-CIA-Duh" right on schedule*: "Blasts rip Iraq, leaving at least 63 people dead" December 23, 2011|By Jack Healy BAGHDAD - A *series of explosions* ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“The "Us-Them" Quiz:* *The Same Thing that Makes Us Love Makes Us Hate”* Quiz yourself on your acceptance of other points of view. by Stanton Peele "A TV program staged a scene where a woman in Middle Eas...
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Tanimbar Region, Indonesia at a depth of 66.2 km (41.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:49:37 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 173 km (107 miles) ... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours ago
Anna Friel from the days of Brookside has been a pin-up star. So here's some pictures and videos from her past and up to the present day making of the film Mr Soho. First as Beth Jordache in Brookside Th... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoPaul Krugman is as usual excellent on Paul Ryan, but I'm going to disagree with him in part anyway. I'm going to make the case for 3.75%. Krugman makes the case that two numbers are all you need to know ab...
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A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles Poorly constrained), the quake hit at 19:24:11 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 209 ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On The Horizon"* by Michael Snyder "Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way. Most of them just assume that everything will eve...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago"I feel like I'm watching someone play Grand Theft Auto," said one person in the comment section of the video below.
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours ago*Q.* What do the names Ken Boessenkool and Nigel Wright have in common? *A.* Stephen Harper. They were once or are part of Harper's inner circle in the PMO. They both come from corporate entities with lin...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours agoAlterNet/ *By* *Tana Ganeva* Original here * * 10 Unbelievably Sh**ty Things America Does to Homeless People...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 3 hours agoLast month, Raza Studies supporters ran through the desert in search of the best burritos in Arizona. First the Librotraficantes came to town to deliver us banned books. Now, inspired by Comedy Central's ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoTo Conor Friedersdorf, who notes that both Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh predicted that liberals and the news media would ignore some fool thing that Marion Barry said... Take that, lamestream media. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Most Sunni rulers shun Iraq summit on Syria; Action underlines sectarian split in Mideast politics" by Hamza Hendawi and Lara Jakes | Associated Press, March 30, 2012 BAGHDAD - Sunni Muslim rulers larg...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Tai Shan was born at 3:41 a.m. on 9 July 2005, weighing only a few ounces at birth. The first cub for mother Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) and father Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN), he was conceived through...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*They seem rather sane to me.* "Due process in Iraq questioned; Critics say police frequently flout international law" by Jack Healy | New York Times, January 08, 2012 BAGHDAD - The cameras were rolling...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoA while ago I reported on the differences in tone between the two BBC pieces about comparing life in Israel and life in Gaza; the headline for the two articles being 'Gaza-Israel clashes: The view from eac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:46:08 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (66.9 miles) East of Kashi, Xinji...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoTORONTO— Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on Passover: "Today we mark the beginning of one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar. Friends and family in our Jewi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 22.7 km (14.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:11:29 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) WSW of Concepcion, B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA British grandmother on Death Row has called on the British Government to save her in a final emotional plea for clemency. Linda Carty, 53, who has spent 11 years on Death Row in the United States, is d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFrance's interior minister has warned the country to be "vigilant" for Islamist extremists who may be seeking revenge for the death of Toulouse serial killer Mohamed Merah. Claude Gueant said authorities...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA plume of thick black smoke rises from the crash site in Virginia Beach. (Photo courtesy ABC 13) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A Navy jet with two aviators aboard crashed Friday into an apartment building ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours agoThose who are pushing the F-35 down Canada's throat will take any chance to extol its unproven, awesome technical advantages, particularly its stealth technology. The idea is the enemy cannot hit what it...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoEven though Congress has worked damn hard to earn its historic 9% approval rating, you would be hard-pressed to find a single worse legislator than Iowa fringe lunatic Steve King. Since first being electe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFive people have been charged with intentional injury in China after a teenager sold a kidney so he could buy an iPhone and iPad. The government-run Xinhua news agency said the 17-year-old boy's kidney wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:20:28 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) South from Luther, Oklahoma No Report...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours agoDecontamination work reduces radiation by over 60 percent in nuclear plant townhttp://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120327p2a00m0na008000c.html (Mainichi) March 27, 2012 [excerpted] "The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 85.4 km (53.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:15:55 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) E...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 5 hours agoFrom that fantastic site of inside information, Dealbreaker! Banks May Have Trouble Taking Full Advantage Of JOBS Act’s New Opportunities For Deceiving Clients Matt Levine My time in the financial indu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDarjeeling experienced unseasonal snowfall and a hailstorm today as heavy rains lashed the metropolis and adjoining districts leaving one person dead and disrupting early morning train services. Darjeeli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTrivandrum: Death of a five year old child from the coastal area of Poonthura has triggered panic over the possibility of scrub typhus. Health officials however declined to confirm saying that it was diff...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEDMONTON, Alberta, April 5 (UPI) -- High winds and as much as 5 inches of heavy, wet snow hit Edmonton, Alberta, Thursday in a spring storm that also caused power outages, officials said. Environment Can...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLAKE CITY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Several streets in Lake City have flooded as storms rolled through East Tennessee early Thursday afternoon. Authorities said homes along 3rd, 4th, and Railroad Streets were affe...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoNot Again!! ...INCREASED FIRE THREAT THIS AFTERNOON FOR NEW JERSEY...EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND FAR NORTHERN DELAWARE... DESPITE THE SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS OF EARLY THIS MORNING...ITS GOING TO BE VERY DRY ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours agoTEPCO workers quitting due to threats, sense of despair http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepco-workers-quitting-due-to-threats-sense-of-despair [excerpted] "Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago"The number of parents deciding to abort fetuses because of prenatal tests indicating congenital defects is rising rapidly in Japan" http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201204050243.html Majia here: Unfortuna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:38:50 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) West of Tapachula, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIt was six against one. Six juveniles -- the youngest 11, and the oldest 17 -- nearly boxed in Dallas Watts, a 78-year-old man from East Toledo. Mr. Watts was on his way home from the nearby Gas Express M...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours ago*JIM MARSHALL*, *LEO FENDER* and *LES PAUL*: the Holy Trinity of modern music and the builders of the most powerful weapons ever built to fight orthodoxy. *RIP, Jim: put that Marshall "crunch" in the H...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: U.S. population growth slows, especially in far suburbs. Five years ago, millions of Americans were streaming to new homes on the fringes of metropolitan areas. Then housing prices collapsed and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - A 30-year-old Chinese woman was sentenced to death by a court in Wenzhou for "cheating" investors of 100.11 million yuan ($16 million) losing 94 million yuan in futures and gold trading, the o...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoSome of the skills we have worked heavily on during our school time are counting, sorting and matching. We live in a small space and so I like using objects that are compact and don't take up a lot of ro...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Prof Jim Hansen: 'We’re handing future generations a climate system which is potentially out of their control'. Melanie Patterson / AP] By Severin Carrell, www.guardian.co.uk 6 April 2012 Aver...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: After a tornado moved through in Lancaster, Texas, on 3 April 2012. Larry W. Smith / EPA / Lanov] By Andrew Frye 5 April 2012 Severe weather in the U.S., led by tornadoes in the Midwest and Te...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoThe path from democracy to oligarchy is a process of undermining universal suffrage - of denying or obstructing the right of some people to vote, to be heard. It's the sort of thing that's rarely done op...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours agoJust a quick post- One news story only! This is from Haaretz- It is titled "Syrian Disinformation about Christian Persecution" I am intentionally NOT using this headline. Why? For the simple reason I hold...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - The Obama administration's man in charge of squeezing Tehran over its nuclear program is unapologetic for the difficulties faced by banks in their dealings with Iran since the U.S. tightened s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA British man has described his "frightening" ordeal after the Ryanair plane he was on plummeted mid-air when the cabin lost pressure. Melvin Frater and his wife Jacqueline, from Nottingham, were flying b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPolice in France are investigating whether another serial killer is on the loose, after four people were killed in similar circumstances south of Paris. The latest victim was a 48-year-old mother, named ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012* *Can David Brooks possibly think this:* We have only scratched the surface of Lawrence O’Donnell’s dissembling last night. But then, this morning, there’s David Brooks. Can David B...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoCORRUPTION IS ETERNAL — and it comes in many different guises. According to Fred Reed's article, *"The Receding Tide: Becoming Uzbekistan"*, Several things characterize countries of the Third Word, whate...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012* *Part 5—Blow knows broken noses:* If it weren’t for the *bogus*information, would there be any information at all? Last night, that was the question as we watched MSNBC continue to ...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 7 hours agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday Daily (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Here's today's challeng...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: Changed patterns of deep sea circulation resulted in less sea ice around Antarctica at the end of the last ice age, part of a broader process that led to an influx of carbon dioxide in the atmosp...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [As always, apologies for the advertising.] By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com 6 April 2012 Conservationists counted 615 dead dolphins ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoPour a Colt 45: Happy Birthday to Billy Dee Williams, 75. I liked Nighthawks, too. And the good stuff: 1. Josh Putnam is a star! Well-deserved. Profile by Ben Jacobs. 2. The effects of public financing ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: This image of the Larsen Ice Shelf B was taken in 2002 by the satellite Envisat. Earlier levels extents are marked. Since Envisat was launched in 2002, the ice shelf has declined further. ESA] B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA deadly form of malaria has developed a resistance to the most powerful drugs used to treat the disease, putting the lives of millions of people around the world at risk. Experts have warned that the di...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 8 hours agoSee this excellent and thoughtful post by Bruce Baker: Is there really a point to advocating both standardization and choice? Key passages: "Let me be clear that this post isn’t about favoring or slamming...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A fuel tanker ran of the road and burst into flames in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing seven people, according to a local police official. The tanker was heading to a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- China has acknowledged that a number of its websites have fallen victim to attack by hackers following a mass campaign by the Anonymous network. Hackers belonging to the global band of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Araucania, Chile at a depth of 38.2 km (23.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:05 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 208 km (130 miles) WNW fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hiring slowed dramatically in March, clouding optimism about the strength of the recovery. Employers added 120,000 jobs in the month, the Labor Department reported Friday, falling ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMoscow (CNN) -- Russia criticized the United States on Friday for handing down a 25-year sentence to Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, saying the verdict against him was "baseless and biased." Bout, who ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- Police in Hungary say a man killed four people with a sword and injured three others after a family argument, state media reported Friday. Laszlo Garamvolgyi of the Hungarian police told reporters...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- Separatist rebels who recently captured large areas of Mali's vast Sahara region in the north of the country have declared independence for a region they call Azawad. The declaration was made in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCNN (CNN) -- Twenty years ago, April 5, 1992, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were shot and killed in Sarajevo. They were the shots heard around the world and they started the Bosnian War. I covered tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- When Apostolos Polyzonis's bank refused to see him last September, the 55-year-old Greek businessman had just 10 euros ($13) in his pocket. Out of work and bankrupt, he thought all he could do w...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 9 hours agoArguing with some stupid trolls elsewhere. One of their witless defenses of their party (the Conservative Party of Canada)'s election fraud is that most Canadians don't seem to care about the scandal the w...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoJames Hansen will give lectures in Scotland where he is also going to pick the Edinburgh Medal. It doesn't look like an important award but the orientation of the winners in recent years is still very an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGreece's cash-strapped athletics federation SEGAS has suspended its operations in protest at continuous cutbacks in state funding. Following a SEGAS general assembly meeting, the board said it would cease...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHUICHON CITY, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Thursday unveiled one of its biggest construction projects in recent years: a massive hydroelectric power station that is expected to provide the nation wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPARIS (AP) -- Nicolas Sarkozy, fighting for a far-from-assured second term as French president, promised Thursday to slash public spending and increase taxes to set his indebted country on a more balanced...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours agoOld white men-- rich ones or stupid, angry ones-- they're ok with. Everyone else... it's a jihad. But the GOP doing all they can to keep college students from voting is understandable for a GOP strategist...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours agoRaj Sherman delivers perhaps the best line of the campaign so far: 'Alison Redford Invents Triage' Alberta's Tory leader has announced money for faster treatment in emergency rooms, but the Grit leader —...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 9 hours agoStephen Maher and Glen McGregor keep digging. This morning, in the *Ottawa Citizen*, they report that: A training manual used by call-centre workers soliciting donations for the Conservative Party outl...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoWhile the news from yesterday was very encouraging – it is important to remember that there are over 300+ corporations, trade organizations and nonprofits that belong to ALEC. I watched as the news explod...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSEOUL (Kyodo) -- South Korea and the United States held a joint drill last month, aimed at stabilizing North Korea after an internal war occurs due to conflicts among military factions, a local newspaper ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPARIS (Kyodo) -- Water containing radioactive materials has leaked at a nuclear plant in northern France following a fire that broke out Thursday, with the French nuclear safety authority classifying the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War?"* By Ed Kinane "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn "The master class has always declared the wars; ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe unusual combination of 2012 apocalypse fears, popular killer-zombie shows and the potential re-election of President Obama has led to a nationwide spike in gun sales. A similar increase was noted in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoChristians were nailed to crosses in the Philippines today in a grim Good Friday reenactment of Jesus's suffering. Thousands of people watched as 17 devoted Catholics were 'crucified' in the gruesome ann...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoUnderground lava flows on Mars have carved out channels beneath the surface - and the long-dead volcanoes have left a network of tunnels in which life could thrive. Distinctive 'pit chains' on the surfac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA teenager has confessed to killing his mother in their apartment and then living with the decomposing body for more than a week with his three-year-old brother. According to Miami-Dade Police, officers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoControversial District of Columbia Councilman Marion Barry has sparked outrage for disparaging remarks about Asian-owned businesses in his poor, majority-black ward. Following his decisive election to Wa...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 9 hours agoMost employers can fire you for any reason or no reason at all. As I say in my upcoming book, that means they can fire you because they didn’t like your shoes that day. Or, as it turns out, the color of yo...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 10 hours agoGardeners feel a certain compulsion wherever they are. I arrived in Florida in the first week of February and the first week of April is almost gone. We have had the Great Heat Wave along with much of ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours agoTerri-Lynne McClintic says shen and not Michael Rafferty, killed Tori Stafford. So why is he on trial for murder? Can Rafferty be guilty of murder if he didn't kill Stafford? Yes, depending on the facts ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"We have a political system that awards office to the most ruthless, cunning, and selfish of mortals, then act surprised when those those willing to do anything to win power are equally willing to do ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 78-year-old white man says he was savagely beaten by a gang of six youths shouting: 'This is for Trayvon. Kill that white.' Six youngsters aged between 11 and 17, both white and black, allegedly launch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA father concealed the remains of his adult daughter for more than three years at his former home, at one point moving the body into a crawl space, authorities said today. The body of Kimberly Adler was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000. Buford, Wyoming, is located between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming. Two unidentified Vietnamese men pl...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours agoNo White Flags: Steve Gleason & Saints Refuse To Go Quietly~Jason Calbos Commentary: New Orleans keeps marking on with Saints~Fred Contrada Likely model for law enforcement in the Hospitality Zone~Library ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA California hate crime murder that sparked an international uproar may have been a killing within the family, as police turn their investigation to her husband and teen daughter. The Iraqi family was tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThis is the grim sight that meets sulphur miners who are forced to scrape a living on the site of a live volcano. And not surprisingly, the horrendous conditions are to blame for them having a life expec...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoThe US Congress and its corporate partners want the right of warrantless spying on every internet user, anywhere in the world. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would give corporati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 406.2 km (252.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:24:49 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 320 km (199 miles) SSW from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWildlife officials in the US are offering prizes for anglers who catch and destroy the so-called "fish from hell", an invasive species that can even "walk" on land. The snakehead does not have many frien...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 10 hours agoThe marriage of Google Books and Indie Bookstores tied the knot between, the bride who brought her wealth of stores and customers and the groom who brought his technology and ebooks. Was it an even relati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a six-year-old girl who had been staying at a campsite in the New Forest. Paramedics were called to the Holmsley campsite in...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours agohttp://www.nationalpost.com/m/news/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/04/05/michael-den-tandt-conservatives-credibility-in-tatters-if-the-auditor-general-is-right-about-f-35s "So that's it then:...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 11 hours agoCarl Milner of Milner's Blog is getting all excited that this image (below) might be an H.R. Giger mural created for the new Ridley Scott film PROMETHEUS. Milner bases his assumption on an early intervi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFormer members of the IRA face revenge attacks if recordings purportedly accusing Gerry Adams of running a secret death squad are handed over to Britain, a U.S. court heard. Lawyers for ex-IRA man Anthon...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 12 hours ago*Spicy Chicken and Black Beans with Plantains!* I love plantains, and a few days ago when DJ Konvex's grandmother gave us some extras she had around the house I went ahead and made a meal that I thought w...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago*(and Passover)* *This TV commercial by Vodafone has been aired since the Christmas, to assure everyone that they're ahead of time. The music is borrowed from Nightwork's famous song called Sweatpants, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago*"America Slides Into Fascism"* by George Washington "The U.S. Supreme Court, based on the urging of the Obama administration,- has ruled that any prisoner - even those arrested for offenses such as dog ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPressure is mounting on Libya to hand over the son of former dictator Colonel Gaddafi after the International Criminal Court issued an official ruling calling for his surrender. Amnesty International has...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.6.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com President Obama attacked the Supreme Court, this week, over his health care bill. The nation’s highest court is deciding if a law, known as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago............ US withheld al-Qaida terrorist plot details from UK intelligence. Former CIA officers have dismissed claims that the U.S. will not share information with British intelligence chiefs without s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:50:57 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) East from NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga No Tsunami W...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 13 hours agoI'm giving a completely new talk next week here at CU that will invoke Dustin Hoffman, Peter Gleick, Hwang Woo-suk, Ward Churchill, Michael Mann and Steve McIntyre, Robert DeNiro, Mike Daisey, Bjorn Lomb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPaint giant Dulux has been forced to pay out thousands of pounds in compensation to disgruntled DIY-ers who claimed its ‘brilliant white’ paint is neither brilliant nor white - because it fades to YELLOW....
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoRather fortuitously, Good Friday and the first night of Pesach (Passover) fall on the same day this year. I say fortuitously because the Last Supper that Jesus and his disciples shared is generally accepte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSky News yesterday admitted hacking into the email account of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin. The news channel said it authorised one of its reporters to intercept messages before Darwin was jai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death outside a pub. The teenager, named locally as Jacob Woudstra, died shortly after the attack at The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHe lived, said neighbours, an ‘everyday’ life. But in death Dimitris Christoulas has become an extraordinary symbol of how Greeks are struggling to cope as their country falls apart under the burden of a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe internet giant Amazon is being investigated amid fears it is not paying its full taxes in Britain. Amazon.co.uk, the British division of the firm, is under scrutiny by UK tax authorities for its affa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDavid Cameron’s promise of a fightback against the assault on Christianity was sabotaged yesterday by his own ministers who declared that Christians have no right to wear a cross at work. The Home Office...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRussian "Merchant of Death" arms smuggler Viktor Bout has been jailed for 25 years by a US judge - a sentence branded "baseless and biased" by Moscow. Bout was accused of selling arms to despots and insu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIndia might have to pay a heavy price politically and economically if New Delhi goes ahead with exploring underwater natural reserves in the South China Sea, a top strategic expert said Wednesday. China ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIt shouldn’t be much of a surprise that U.S. Supreme Court justices voted along party lines when approving, on a 5-4 vote, the expansion of strip-searching guidelines to include anyone who’s been arrested ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US’s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAT a time when Punjab’s cities are witnessing violent demonstrations against power outages, when the Supreme Court has declared all RPP contracts void ab initio and when each fortnight we see a fresh ‘cir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThere is no doubt that globalization "can work" for poor people. Global integration can be a powerful force for reducing poverty and empowering people. The question of whether it "does work" is much less ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) – Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Russian government should begin planning economic sanctions against the United States if Washington does not cancel the Jackson-Vanik amendment, legislators and experts said on Wednesday. The amendmen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe consultations of the United States Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides in Islamabad today will be taking place in a surcharged atmosphere in the relations between the two countries. On the one hand, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDeflation requires a precondition: a major societal buildup in the extension of credit (and its flip side, the assumption of debt). Has the United States met that precondition? Well, consider that total...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Obama administration wants Congress to grant it even broader authority and more funding to send U.S. troops on missions around the world dealing with everything from terror and narcotics to supporting...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoFor every uprising, protest and political action there is an unequal and oppressive reaction. 2011 may have been ‘the year of the protester’, as even mainstream magazines such as Time acknowledged, but it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 06:42:57 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) Northwest from Wroclaw, Poland No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCairo — It has been three months since a fuel shortage hit Egypt, and people's patience is wearing thin amid fears the crisis could disrupt the production of subsidized bread. "I move from one petrol stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEarlier this week, the Governor of Ohio signed into law new legislation that gives businesses accused of cheating customers a new option for resolving lawsuits while taking away rights from consumers who ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe analysis of the world’s current rearmament trends and the changes in the global military spending structure suggests a very general, but in no way erroneous conclusion that the launched upgrade of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Cold War for Arctic resources is not just heating up – it’s leading to a growing militarization in the remote North. That’s the conclusion a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Instit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe interminable extension by the US Federal Reserve on the 0% rate into 2014 represents history in the making. It is the adoption of pure heresy in monetary policy, making it mainstream. Worse, it force...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoExclusive: President George W. Bush not only botched the Afghan and Iraq wars but he bungled his “dead or alive” pursuit of Osama bin Laden, assuring al-Qaeda’s leader nine more years of life and the oppo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSchools in northern Brazil are now embedding their uniforms with locator chips that allow the tracking and monitoring of their students. Advertised as a “way of informing parents in case their children sk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe 6-month anniversary of the Occupy movement in the United States brought much rhetoric along with promises of the blossoming of an American Spring. From elections to high-profile summits, 2012 will be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIf there was any doubt as to Saudi intentions in Syria, that veil was ripped away on Sunday at the Istanbul "Friends of Syria" conference. The Saudis and their Gulf allies spearheaded an effort to create...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIt was deep into the night, somewhere over Siberia, in a Moscow to Beijing flight (BRIC to BRIC?) when the thought, like a lightning bolt, began to take hold. What the hell is wrong with those Arabs? May...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago*Kenny's sideshow: Putin Fails the 9/11 Litmus Test** * In March 2012, it was reported that *Russia is planning to let NATO use one of its airfields as its Afghan hub.* Russia 'has expressed willingness' t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:38 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) WNW of Sibolga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 212.9 km (132.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:03:28 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 290 km (180 miles) WNW of Saumlak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSINGAPORE (Reuters) - A major Chinese ship insurer will halt indemnity cover for tankers carrying Iranian oil from July, dealing a blow that narrows the insurance options for Tehran's main export already ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis is great news and it is fitting that it is happening at theUniversity of Guelph in Ontario. I liveda few miles north and watched the onslaught of the dutch elm Disease at firsthand. That included...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis catches us up on the state of artificial touch protocols that arecertainly desirable but also obviously difficult to attain. This item describes success with aprospective enabling material. It al...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis item goes on to confirm two phenomena over the past two decades inwhich we have clearly lived through a warmer global regime in the northernhemisphere. The big one is thatcatastrophic energy relea...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoI had thought to never think about the OJ story ever again. During the trial, I studiously avoided themedia coverage, then long afterward, I did read a couple of insightful books bya couple of the bett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAuburn, Alabama – Do we really need an iPad 3 after it seems as if iPad 2 was released only a few months ago? Was it absolutely necessary that Google give us Google+? Do phones really have to be “smart” w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMore than half of adults nationwide — 56 percent — have no budget and one-third don’t pay all of their bills on time, a financial literacy survey shows. The survey, released Tuesday to recognize Financia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLast Monday I was in Paris and was asked to do a spot on CNBC London. I arrived at the studios an hour early due to a misunderstanding of the time zones, so while trying to catch up on the news I listened...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSummary: The Founders hoped that America would be a beacon light of hope and liberty to the people of the world. And so we were for two centuries. But we’ve become an example of another kind, as shown by t...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 15 hours agoThis one keeps getting stuck in my head. Every time I hear that chorus, I think, wow, the scansion of "Gra-ha-ha-ham" is terrible, but damn, that's one hell of a come-on. Plus, the band is two Swedish sist...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago* Got Terror?* The U.S. Department of Human Slavery (DHS) is in the process of turning America into a maximum security prison, as it prepares to wage war against the general population of the United S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWASHINGTON (CBSDC) – A study shows that most Hispanics do not prefer the term “Hispanic” or “Latino” when it comes to describing their identity. According to a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Cente...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Anonymous hacking group claims to have defaced almost 500 websites in China. Targets hit in the mass defacement included government sites, its official agencies, trade groups and many others. A mess...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step clos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRecently, CNN enhanced audio of George Zimmerman — the man who shot Trayvon Martin — to try and determine if he did, in fact, use a racial slur while calling police on the night of the shooting. Back the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoScientists funded by the U.S. Navy have developed a robot “jellyfish” — a foot-long submarine that runs on seawater and could be used on spy missions. Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThere is little to no evidence that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin because Martin was black. But that hasn’t stopped members of the Congressional Black Caucus from sponsoring a resolution linking Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPHOENIX (Reuters) - Recent attacks by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman in France highlight the need for enhanced cooperation between U.S. federal and local police to thwart domestic attacks, Homeland Security ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 16 hours agoWildrose Leader Danielle Smith in Promises, Promises, the Medical Comedy. The trouble is, it’s not funny. Real Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Ms. Smith as she really, really...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Long Island woman accused of feeding M&Ms that contained traces of peanuts to her disabled and allergic 8-year-old pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an upgraded charge of second-degree murder in the child...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMILAN, April 5 (Reuters) - World food prices are likely to rise for a third successive month in March, and could gain further beyond that, with expensive oil and chronically low stocks of some key grains ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSpeaking at ceremony marking 40 years since Sabena hijacking, Netanyahu vows to strike back at those attacking Israel, says Sinai has become a "terror zone"; Egyptian official: No evidence rocket fired fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWHILE many believed it to be an April Fool's Day joke, Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia has been testing mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies. The futuristic we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoVICTORIA (Reuters) - A U.S. drone crash-landed at the Seychelles main airport and careered into the ocean on Wednesday, the second remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper aircraft to crash on the Indian Ocean archip...
- Iran boosts its nuclear program in 2011 adding both nuclear material and facilities, CIA report says
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIran expanded its nuclear program last year with continued uranium enrichment and growing infrastructure development, according to an annual CIA report to Congress. The report on arms proliferation cover... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that fallout from the European debt crisis along with fears of Iran and higher oil prices posed the biggest threats to the U.S....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago'Kilo' Didn't Take Too Kindly To Gunman Pushing Into Staten Island Home NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There’s a dog that took a bullet, possibly saving his owner’s life. And surprisingly, the 12-year-old pit bul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFederal Heads Roll Over $822K Vegas Party Martha Johnson, the administrator of the General Services Administration, has quit over the brouhaha, acknowledging in her resignation letter that "taxpayer dol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Japanese "ghost ship" which was washed out to sea in last year's tsunami disaster has been sunk by the US Coast Guard near Alaska. Machine-gun blasts were unleashed on the unmanned 164ft vessel amid co...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 16 hours agoIf you didn't know, this weekend is the annual Blog Against Theocracy. I'll just go ahead and quote Blue Gal:This is a blogswarm dedicated to the separation of church and state.It is not a blogswarm against...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 301.4 km (187.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:48:07 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) Northeast of Wakkan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 91 km (56.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:29:09 UTC Thursday 5th April 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14.2 miles) Northeast of Llorente, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 3.7 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:16:20 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Northeast of Pinnacles, Cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:31:40 UTC Friday 6th April 2012 The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the New Siberian Islands, Russia at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:42:28 UTC Thursday 5th April 2012 The epicenter was 1289 km (799.1 miles) Northea...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 17 hours agoNew evidence that rising levels of carbon dioxide caused the global warming of 20,000 years ago that ended the last ice age will not change the minds of anyone who is a committed global warming skeptic. ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours agoPatrick Henningsen - *More Furious: U.S. Soldiers Trafficking Arms, Drugs to DEA Agents Posing as Los Zetas*.
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 17 hours ago*Cartoon by kind permission of* Graeme MacKay at mackaycartoons.net
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoThe president and his men had reason to be happy: Wisconsin. Not only did George McGovern win, but George Wallace wound up beating Hubert Humphrey for second place -- and Ed Muskie, who after all had won t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoHere in Los Angeles, Walmart is still trying to bust into town. Their latest foray involves taking over a warehouse on the edge of Chinatown. The community is split whether or not they want to commit sui...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoDo not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life: BERTOLT BRECHT Leonard Braithwaite led a most adequate life. He was remarkable man and a well-known practicing lawyer -- he was working pretty we...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 18 hours agoWho knew that each Assembly district in California gets to name its own Woman of the Year? The Dana Point Times is reporting that 73rd District Assemblywoman Diane Harkey has named Terry Rifkin (no know...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Loving Each Other”* by Leo Buscaglia “Emotional detachment, maintaining our distance from others, is being prescribed as a solution for avoiding pain. Neglect and abuse of children and the aged is a gr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"Carl Jung, Modern Media & The Hero With A Thousand Faces" by Sensei "In the long run, the most influential book of the 20th Century may turn out to be Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces." ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"Sweeping from the eastern to western horizon, this 360 degree panorama follows the band of zodiacal light along the solar system's ecliptic plane. “Dust scattering sunlight produces the faint zodiacal glo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“A Message from Space”* “Everything that happens is the message: you read an event and be one and wait, like breasting a wave, all the while knowing by living, though not knowing how to live. Or workers ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago"*I do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors. So help me God.*" Stephen Harper vowed to restore Canad...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 20 hours agoWhen anyone turns on their Jewish controlled media outlets, and listens to today's so called politicians speak, or spew...It seems that we are constantly bombarded with rhetoric that we must "protect Israe...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoIn case you missed it, President Obama gave a barn burner of a speech at the AP luncheon. The media narrative termed it partisan. I'd describe it as realistic. It's long, so here's a part where he call...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 21 hours agoNormally I don't like surprises, especially when I'm just getting in the door after the last day of a shift. In this case, though, I gladly make an exception as I spotted a small group of 8 or 9 Juncos, th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Unadjusted Means of Public Trust in Science by Political Ideology, 1974-2010. Figure shows three-year moving averages for each group, which smooth the patterns overtime. Gauchat, 2012] 1 April 2...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*Rep. Charlie Rangel with then-NYS Assemblyman (now NYS Sen.) Adriano Espaillat, who wants to run for the 13th CD seat* *"Charlie's an incumbent and as a district leader I will not support somebody turning...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours agoHarper and all his cabinet ministers involved in the F-35 deal *are liars*. If Auditor General Michael Ferguson's word is to be believed — and there is no reason to think that it isn't — then the federal ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: 2011-2012 Ratio of U.S. Heat to Cold Records. CapitalClimate] By Steve Scolnik 2 April 2012 U.S. daily record high temperatures continued to surge into the end of March, with new heat records o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoSwansea, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*“Summary”* by Chet Raymo “Back in January, writing about Montaigne, I mentioned a column I wrote for the college newspaper nearly fifty years ago, called "Under a Skeptical Star." I took the title from ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness." - Blaise Pascal
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 22 hours ago[image: Qué bonito cachorro (Mascotas Adorables)]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 22 hours ago[image: Gatito jugando con el fuego (Mascotas Encantadoras)]
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain"* by David DiSalvo "Overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression – all have been linked in recent research to the over-consumption of ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 22 hours ago[image: El privilegio de vivir en el campo (Paisajes Naturales)]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 22 hours ago[image: Coche antiguo para toda la familia (Autos del Ayer)]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 22 hours ago[image: Casitas de los duendes - Leprechauns - Gnomos]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 22 hours ago[image: Asador de carnes en la pared]
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours agoBy now there is really no excuse for any professional involved in climate policy not to understand the implications of the Kaya Identity. The risks of not understanding the Kaya Identity is that one can ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“How Would Humans Respond to First Contact from an Alien World?”* by Nancy Atkinson “According to Star Trek lore, it is only 51 years until Earth's first contact with an alien species. In the movie "Star...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago*Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a mad dreamer. But he's not the only one. He hopes some day you'll join him, and the world will be as dust. * The madness of Israel and America attacking...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 23 hours agoI am on holiday from today, the 6th April, returning on the 16. In my absence I have decided to publish some of my articles from the Expose Zionist Lies site, which I have lined up to auto-publish while ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoSent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*"So that's it then: They knew and they lied. To Parliament. To all of us. If Auditor General Michael Ferguson's word is to be believed — and there is no reason to think that it isn't — then the federal...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoWhat with today sort of being Opening Day and all, I indulged myself over at Post Partisan and wrote about the "Mark Portugal mistake" with regard to Veepstakes. That is, don't overvalue the stuff you've s...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 1 day ago*Update from the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 April 5, 2010 *This April we are commemorating what has now been 40 years in solitary confinement for Albert Woodfox & Herman Wallace. On ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDid you listen to the slick presentation of the Republican electoral campaign after the Romney wins in DC, Maryland and Wisconsin Tuesday night? First Paul Ryan, presumably now the front-runner for the V...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoHere's some off-the-cuff completely armchair thinking in response to a comment by *Edstock* in my last post. Canada, for the first time since the Cold War has a frontier worth serious consideration in ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Tornadoes and climate change, 4 April 2012. Tornado activity in 2012 is far ahead of average, with 401 tornadoes this year already, against the April 4th average of 268. Climate Nexus] In recent...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoTeam Obama has a couple of new internet ads up. Saw the first one yesterday and frankly, I wasn't sure if it was working for me. Then they released this one today. Maybe it's just my mood, but thought t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoSo which was the best "there's something seriously wrong with this party" episode this week? Was it Rick Santorum stating as fact the entirely made up, entirely false, entirely wrong, entirely without even...
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 1 day ago*CCNet – 5 April 2012* *The Climate Policy Network* *Healthy Polar Bear Count Confounds Doomsayers* *The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a surve...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*David Headley claimed to work for the CIA; he has admitted to planning the Mumbai attacks of 2008.* *The CIA's Osama bin Laden, who died around 2001, had a key role in the Mumbai attacks of 2008, Abbott...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoNATO Libyan "liberation" unleashes terror "tidal wave" over North Africa. by Tony Cartalucci April 5, 2012 - Western nations, including the United States, England, and France - the neo-imperial trifecta - ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Untold Wealth: Rise of the Super Rich”* by David Faber, CNBC "There are 1,000 U.S. billionaires. Who are they? David Faber has a preview in “Untold Wealth: Rise of the Super Rich” - http://www.cnbc.com/i...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day agoSent to the Seattle Times, April 5, 2012 Nine medical societies have identified a list of tests and procedures that are unnecessary, that cause needless anxiety, and that cost billions that could be spent...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"US to drastically scale back expansive embassy in Iraq" February 08, 2012|By Tim Arango BAGHDAD - Less than two months after US troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"There Is No Shortcut, But All We Have Are Shortcuts"* by Charles Hugh Smith "We all know there is no shortcut to anything worth having-mastery, security, wealth- yet all we have in America is another us...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoWhen I saw Chuck Todd complaining on the twitter yesterday that the final count in the Wisconsin primary was delayed because of late results coming from Waukesha County, I thought it sounded familiar. Mean...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe next generation of European terrorists could emerge from the growing ranks of far-right groups becoming disillusioned with elections, researchers have warned. The English Defence League hosted a rall...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 17-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in the chest near an East Sussex pub. Sussex Police said officers and an ambulance were called to the Shah public house in Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings, at ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I know it's not their fault, but I'm just so sick of worshiping militarism. * "Parade marks Iraq war’s end; Many veterans will march in St. Louis today" by Jim Salter | Associated Press, January 28, 20...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoFrom the frontlines of the water wars: Diné and Hopi water rights at risk, protesters gather on Navajo Nation Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 2:06pm ·** All photos and reporting from the scene are courtesy of Ou...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Iraq war’s end bring new grief to mother who lost son" January 26, 2012|By Brian MacQuarrie WINSLOW, Maine - When the last American troops left Iraq in December, the war began anew for Nancy Chamberlain....
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoSo little time. As promised, Atrios is delivering his wankers of decade series daily. I was rooting for Mickey Kaus for today, but his choices are interesting, and apt, so far. Best part though is he's bro...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*But we hold our mass-murdering war criminals responsible here in AmeriKa!* *"Marine won’t serve jail time" * *Not to minimize the grunts on-the-ground slaughter, but when are Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ri...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Simple Analytics of Soaking the Rich (Wonkish)” * by Paul Krugman “So President Obama is going after the Ryan plan; good. And better yet, he’s taking on the underlying economic premise, which is tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A strong storm in Argentina’s capital has blown down trees and destroyed roofs, killing at least 11 people in the region and leaving more than 20 injured. Authorities say four p...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoFollowing up on Dave's posts about the F-35 and the separation between civilian DND and the uniformed CF about the F-35, I keep finding myself * bothered* by the *same basic question* and several that follo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMuscovites woke up today to a blanket of snow covering the Russian capital after a powerful cyclone brought a winter storm in the middle of spring. "Last night a small but powerful cyclonic whirl hit the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA minor toxic chemical leak from a Danish container ship at Yangshan Deep-water Port has been controlled while no pollution has harmed the waters, following three days of emergency response and cleanup wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo small planes collided midair north of Denver just before noon today, killing at least two people, authorities say. One pilot survived. A witness told Longmont Times-Call that he believes the single-en...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The White House was forced on the defensive on Wednesday as it sought to explain controversial remarks President Barack Obama made earlier in the week about the Supreme Court's review of his s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The warning last month from Representative Peter King, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, was blunt: An investigation by his staff had determined that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout faces the possibility of life in prison at his sentencing in a federal court in New York on Thursday. Last year Bout, who's been dubbed "the merchant of...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHere's why understanding the GOP war on budgeting is necessary if you want to understand what Republicans are saying. At NRO, James Capretta says: [T]he real source of today’s deficits and debt, and the s...
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