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(Click to Enlarge) But, seriously. What kind of self-respecting despot barely customizes the template used by all imperiled leaders who need help moving their funds out of country? He could have at least... - posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 hour ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*And a bunch of other states the AmeriKan media has been keeping quiet about. * *The fact that they are now paying attention after having basically ignored him for months means the mouthpiece media and th...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoYesterday it was announced in an article (behind a pay-wall) that the Aemrican Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has hired a firm to whitewash their image. *Under-fire advocacy group ALEC works with Ede...
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A bomb disposal team has performed a controlled explosion at a garage block in Cheltenham after two men were arrested on terror charges. Residents of more than 100 homes remain evacuated after police set ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
(Reuters) - A little-known militant group claimed responsibility in a video posted online on Saturday for the twin bombing in Syria's capital that killed at least 55 people earlier in the week. The video... - The leader of the Canadian global warming movement has studied fruit flies (much like Alexander Ač whose PhD thesis is about the carbon-enhanced copulation of fruit flies on blue-flowered meadows). But ...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 2 hours agoYale economist John Geanakoplos discusses his view of the financial crisis. It takes about an hour.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoThis morning on the #Alec tweet there was this question: Oh, ALEC. Why do AG’s scare you so much? The story behind this is from a report yesterday by NPR that noted - don't skim this snip, please read i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours agoOn Thursday fern hill, and also JJ, reported on the annual March of the Feti and its habitual stoopidity with regard to its so-called MASSIVE turn-out. Yesterday fern hill, and again JJ, brought sanity a...
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Democratic voters eliminated most of the Blue Dogs over the course of the last election cycle and a half. Most of them were defeated at the polls or were forced by the threat of defeat into retiring. This... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*I'm speaking now.... * "Just how much of an issue gay marriage will be was not clear." *It is for this voter: none at all* "President Obama’s decision to publicly support same-sex marriage comes amid a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoGreece is facing another round of elections on June 17 after the country's main parties repeatedly failed to form a coalition government, Sky sources have said. The president will hold last-ditch talks ...
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*They joined in after the Washington Post kicked him around a bit.** * *“I think at some point in this campaign we’ll talk about things like the economy and energy, labor policy, Syria, Iran. I am hoping a... - posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
We're again dealing with the problem of Peter Mackay's math. Yesterday, the Department of National Defence revealed that the "instrumental costs" of the mission to Libya were $106 million. Postmedia r... - posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours ago
Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism. *by Tony Cartalucci * *Editor's Note: For more information, please read "Farmers group wants Ireland to follow Iceland and burn the bondholders.” * *... - posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours agoIn defiance of the core principles of the NEA's Code of Ethics and basic common sense, last year the non-leadership of NEA arm-twisted the member reps into supporting the latest weapon in the corporate ed ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours agoElizabeth May, House of Commons, May 11, 2012: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-38. I am very sad, because this bill is the worst of all bills of this House, for two reasons. First, because th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Mitt Romney’s plan may undercut Mass. law; Would trim Medicaid funds state relies on; Threatens to undermine his key achievement" by Tracy Jan | Globe Staff, May 04, 2012 WASHINGTON - A proposal by Mit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:30:25 UTC Saturday 12th May 2012 The epicenter was 639 km (397 ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoUS "officials" admit Al Qaeda running loose in Syria, fail to mention 2007 US plan to put them there. *by Tony Cartalucci* * * *Editor's Note: The term "Sunni extremist" refers specifically to terrorists ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*Vesta is the only remaining instance of the unique substance that came together to shape the stony planets, like Earth and Mars, some 4.6 billion years ago. According to Carol Raymond, Dawn's deputy pri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA ‘sadistic’ father has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering his ex-partner and their two-year-old daughter in a jealous rage. David Oakes, 50, stormed Christine Chambers’ h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTerrorist widow Samantha Lewthwaite has been charged with plotting to kill hundreds of British tourists. The Muslim convert – who was married to 7/7 Tube bomber Jermaine Lindsay – is on the run in East A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe violent manner of young mum Claire Martin’s tragic death couldn’t be more at odds with the picturesque, tranquil setting where it took place. There is little crime in the rural villages of the Campani...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe British double agent who foiled the ‘underwear bomb plot’ could receive millions of dollars for carrying out his daring mission, a former top CIA official said last night. The man is likely to receiv...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoI Heard This Day The Sound of Angels *I heard this day the sound of angels.* *They spoke to me and said.* *Now is the time of a great awakening for Mankind.* *Now is a time of dreams fulfilled.* *No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoMore staff in Britain are being forced to work part-time than in almost any other European country, figures show. There are 1.77million Britons classed as ‘underemployed’, which means they want to work l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA former altar boy has been convicted of bludgeoning to death his gay lover who he suspected to be a paedophile as part of a campaign to rid the world of sex offenders. Christopher Hunnisett, 28, beat Pe...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Enjoy the BG show*: "Ex-aide recalls John Edwards’s wife confronting him over affair; Daughter leaves during testimony about late mother" by Michael Biesecker | Associated Press, May 03, 2012 GREENSB...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*Face book has started testing a scheme that lets users pay to emphasize or support posts. The representative supposed a number of of the methods it was trying out would acquire an indict but others would ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 6 hours agohttp://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/big_bang/that image, there, it's from some 'learned paper' on Expansionist Universe, you know, Big Bang. It is used to illustrate how light from an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFacebook is testing a ‘pay to be popular’ option to make help users get noticed by their friends. The social networking giant has begun offering some users a $2 feature called ‘Highlight’ to ensure their...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"With less than a month before the June 5 recall election, it will take all the political muscle Tom Barrett can muster to knock off Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who has become a national hero to conse...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago*Long Island Sky Watch Update* By Cindy Pikoulas Long Island Skywatch, May 11, 2012 I want to thank everyone who attended the Environmental Committee Meeting on Monday. Your attendance and support cont...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago*Where In The World Are They NOT Spraying? Part 1/3* *Where In The World Are They NOT Spraying? Part 2/3* *Where In The World Are They Not Spraying? Part 3/3* You might wish to visit this websi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoUnder fire at home in Germany, and facing new trouble over the euro austerity pact from France and Greece, the Chancellor's Iron Lady credentials face their toughest test. Once it was the French President...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:45:19 UTC Saturday 12th May 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) North of Luklukan, Luzon, ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Constance Kent.* Middle-class Samuel Kent was married to Mary, his second wife and former mistress, and they had a child called Francis. At the same time, Samuel was having a relationship with Francis's...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 7 hours agoNewspaper readers like these guys just don't exist any more. Below: Globe and Mail Publisher Phillip Crawley, a typical Globe reader, who may not be exactly as illustrated. According to the publisher of ...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours agoThe UK is ruled by the most despicable people on the planet. In 2001 the Establishment were chief amongst the organisers of the World Trade Centre Massacre. In 2005 they organised the London Transport M...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoThis does not sound like a creature at all, but more like an aircraft of some sort and we may even have an optical illusion at work here. Yet one observer thinks he saw a human like body but that...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoSuicide is getting a little press these days as a couple of damaged sportsmen find that escape from the mental pain of their chronic injuries. Lon here takes it on and addresses the lesser kno...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoDale Drinnon has put together this report on giant lineages out of Europe. It is instructive and quite suggestive. What it does confirm is that features associated with the neanderthals appear ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoThis is what happens when one tries to manage social choices with money alone. It promotes fraud. The problem is that the solution needs to be integrated into the social fabric and made seamless...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago*Smart tax move for Eduardo Saverin* By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Business, 11th May 2012 21:56 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/11/eduardo_saverin_facebook_tax/ *Eduardo Save...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin supplements and prison clinics in an escalation of their mass protest against detention condit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe United States will resume some arms sales to Bahrain after suspending them amid the country's crackdown on protesters, the State Department announced Friday. The administration informed Congress that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 194.6 km (120.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:39:08 UTC Saturday 12th May 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) Northwest from Nelson La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- Warm waters off Peru are to blame in the deaths of more than 5,000 marine birds on the coast, government authorities say. The Peruvian National Center for the Study of El Nino reported earlier th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCOLOGNE, Germany — Social Democrats here in Germany’s most populous state are drawing inspiration from François Hollande’s defeat of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in France and hoping that a victory...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA red-faced Pentagon has conceded that an instructor at its Joint Forces College in Virginia for military officers was until recently teaching a course advocating “total war” with Islam that could require...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMANILA — With the 1970s pop song “Kung Fu Fighting” playing in the background, several hundred people gathered in front of a Chinese consular office on Friday afternoon to protest an escalating territoria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA device that can be used as a sonic weapon will be deployed in London for the Olympics. The American-built long range acoustic device (LRAD) can be used both as a high-powered loud speaker and to emit a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGreece's president will make a last-ditch bid to form an emergency government today after the main parties failed in a third attempt to form a working coalition. The country needs to act fast to form a g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoActress Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law has been convicted of murdering three members of her family. William Balfour was found guilty of shooting dead Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson, 57, her b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice have charged a mother with the murder of her baby son and toddler at their home in Wandsworth, southwest London. The 10-week-old boy and his 14-month-old sister Lily Sky were found unconscious at ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Circles of Our Lives"* "Within the circles of our lives we dance the circles of the years, the circles of the seasons within the circles of the years, the cycles of the moon within the circles of the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoStatistics showing the resource rich state of Queensland has the biggest rise in business failures has brought into focus Australia's multi-speed economy. The Australian Securities and Investments Commis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 13.9 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:34:44 UTC Saturday 12th May 2012 The epicenter was 336 km (208 miles) East of Qiemo, Xi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:58:05 UTC Saturday 12th May 2012 The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) West of Po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:08:02 UTC Saturday 12th May 2012 The epicenter was 414 km (257 miles) SSW ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 59.7 km (37.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:37:02 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) SSE from Suchiate, Chiapas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Flores Region, Indonesia at a depth of 123 km (76.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:41 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) Southeast of Bim...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoThe Washington Post has a long investigation into Mitt Romney's past, including some 'troubling incidents'. Perhaps you could point me at any similar article from 2008 examining the seriously troubling inc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:07:35 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 32.3 km (20.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:08:21 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) So...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoAlison Redford would like to create a National Energy Strategy™. Of course, to a huge bunch of people stumbling out of Ceili's on 8th Ave in Calgary that sounds awfully like National Energy Program. That cau...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 10 hours agoApparently I have developed a local fan base as I received a message from a reader (who reads my blog on her phone on the bus ride to work) reminding me to post soon since I've been a little tardy as of la...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoJosh Hamilton is the 16th player to have a four home run game. Philip Humber had the 21st official perfect game. And there have been 15 unassisted triple plays, the most recent one by Eric Bruntlett in 20...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*by Ken* Tonight we have two orchestral excerpts. The first, about four minutes, is clearly an introduction to something. (In the click-through we're going to hear it again and take it just a bit further...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Sun vs. Super Moon: The Super Moon wins, by just a little, when its apparent size is compared to the Sun in this ingenious composite picture. To make it, the Full Moon on May 6 was photographed with the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoOcala, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday. The US Court of Appeals in Wash...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLuis de Guindos had one last clandestine mission before unveiling his plan to the public and jittery financial markets. The Spanish finance minister had just won a furious backroom battle to oust Rodrigo ...
- posted by Kevin Wood at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours agoDear human race, I am very, very disappointed in you. Sincerely, Rev.Paperboy P.S. Is it something in the water in parts of the country? Does repeated exposure to loud bangs cause some kind of subtle brain...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours agoSeems as Merryl Tisch has come out her coma. From NY1: *Officials with the company responsible for this year's state English and math tests have not commented publicly on recently-discovered errors in the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 14 hours agoIt's good to know stopping abortion is important enough that the Catholic schools of Ontario, subsidized as they are by taxpayer monies, allow boys and girls to mingle while on their mandatory outings to p...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 14 hours agoSarah--Monday morning--May 7, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) On Monday morning of this week I took a deep breath as I walked into malnutrition clinic. I wondered if Sarah had survived the weekend. But lo an...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier as Ruth and Walter Lee Younger in the 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Daniel Petrie* What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 14 hours agoWell, here it is, the front end of two weeks off before summer school starts, and it's *raining*. Yes, Southern Man knows we need the rain but still...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 15 hours agoI have submitted the following comment to Dr. Judith Curry's Climate Etc.blog site, where she has posted on "The Bias of Science": *The issue is competence. With competence, bias can be quickly overcome; wi...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoThis guy really does beat all. Last October, MacKay told CBC Radio's The House the Libyan mission had cost taxpayers less than $50 million. "As of Oct. 13, the figures that I've received have us well below...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*Having seen more than one-too-many rigged elections, I see this contest as already decided. Wall Street likes Brown, doesn't like Warren. Case closed. That's what I will be thinking when I slide my ballot...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago"Women Key To Hold On Democratic Senate" May 07, 2012|Bobby Caina Calvan, Globe Staff WASHINGTON - Democrats, as they aggressively seek to turn women’s concerns into a rallying call of the presidential el...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 17 hours agoClick on the picture, then click on the fly! Make sure your speakers are turned up loud! LOL!!!
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoI wonder -- not guilty of murder but guilty of sexual assault? http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1176836 "The jurors also asked Heeney to clarify a point in his charge whether they could reach ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoChina warned its citizens in the Philippines to "stay indoors" on Thursday as its state media warned of war over a month-long dispute in the South China Sea Territorial rivalry has escalated throughout t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoI've been reading reaction to this provocative Time magazine cover today. It reminds me that I've long thought the root of much of what ails America is sexual repression, or at least discomfort with sexua...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Rain, Cleansing Nature"* by Madisyn Taylor "On the next rainy day, imagine the rain washing away and cleansing your emotional body. There are times when we might feel the need to wash away all of o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoIn the race for Congress in New Mexico’s open blue First CD, only one candidate stands out as a true progressive fighter for the 99%: Eric Griego. That's why he was one of the first candidates anywhere e...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Final Exam: Philosophy 101"* by Chet Raymo “Among the collected aphorisms of the poet Wallace Stevens is this: "The thing seen becomes the thing unseen. The opposite is, or seems to be, impossible."...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 384.1 km (238.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:34:24 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 288 km (179 miles) SSW from H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 543.8 km (337.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:26:30 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 228 km (142 miles) ENE from San Salvador de...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"Police knew suspect was armed before fatal raid in N.H." April 18, 2012|By Sarah Schweitzer PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Police were aware that Cullen Mutrie might be armed and even watching them through surveilla...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoI have a new column up at The New Republic: I argue that we mostly don't really know why Dick Lugar was defeated, but we do know that it will be interpreted as an ideological purge, not as a case of Lugar ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a house fire in Derby which killed five children, according to Sky sources. It follows the arrest of a 28-year-old woman on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 111.4 km (69.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:59:29 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) West of Koriyama, Honsh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago*Obamney: Bad For America, Bad For Humanity, And Bad For The Earth.* On issues of life and death, peace and war, prosperity and poverty, truth and deception, law and criminality, and freedom and slave...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"Children of Hope, to life we fondly cling, Though woe on woe bitter hour may bring; the spirit shrinks, and Nature dreads to brave, The doubt, the gloom, the stillness of the grave. But what is death? –...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoBeen a helluva day. My downstairs neighbor died suddenly last night, so I've been in this PTSD thing, reliving the day my Dad suddenly died. Then I had computer issues that only just resolved. And I have a...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 18 hours ago
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 18 hours agoThis just in: the economy is still grim for "recession-era" graduates. Perhaps this will help:
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Rearranging the New World Order"* by Bill Bonner "The new Japan is China. It’s an export economy with too much capacity…like Japan in ’89. The new Greece is Spain. It’s got mortgage debt up the kazoo...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Panetta meets Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro in Bali in 2011* On 9 may 2012, a Russian *Sukhoi Superjet 100* airliner crashed on Mt. Salak in West Java in Indonesia. *There are many un...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn Thursday, Breitbart's Retracto, the Correction Alpaca asked the Washington Post to correct its anti-Mitt Romney hit piece wherein it included an inaccurate and misleading statement about his past. The ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoYou may choose to experience love and light. Michael channeled by Ron Head May 11, 2012 We will speak today on the subject of negative and positive energy and the effects of your past teachings and be...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"A Fable"* by Bertolt Brecht "A man living alone answers a knock at the door. There stands Tyranny, armed and powerful, who asks, "Will you submit?" The man does not reply. He steps aside. Tyranny...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 19 hours ago------------------------------ (Should you want to subscribe to Sibel's YouTube page, find the real button here.) *Sibel Edmonds: US government needs to keep the fear factor alive* http://youtu.be/sZ4qqe...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe United States is worried that Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima party’s joining a unity government with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could result in an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities at any given m...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours agoTommaso Dorigo has driven me up the wall by a demagogic article about SUSY, MSSM, and cMSSM, and so have his stupid readers. That has occurred despite the fact that he has already written about a hundred o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Honoria"* by Taylor Caldwell “This is a true story about a nation which was once great. At the outset, we will call that nation "Honoria;" but you will readily guess her true name, as the story unfo...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours agoSpot the almost unbelievable use of 'whom' rather than 'who' at 1:00 or am I hearing things? Hollywood scriptwriters not being renowned for their punctilious grammar. I also like at 2:09 the homage to Sig...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Social Security Benefits Could be a Thing of the Past”* by Richard Benson “In my youth, my father worked hard every day and looked forward to receiving his Social Security benefits when his time was ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 5.11.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "If you think gay marriage or Mitt Romney’s alleged forced haircuts when in prep school are the big stories you need to worry about, then ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJapanese researchers on Friday unveiled a population clock that showed the nation's people could theoretically become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates. Academics in the northern cit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Cyprus Region at a depth of 19.8 km (12.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:48:30 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (53.9 miles) Southeast of Perivolia, C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:37:24 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 546 km (338.5 miles) Northeast of Nemuro, Hokk...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agoMajia here: I have been considering taking my family to the southern hemisphere for summer vacation to escape the radiation. However, I realize now that strategy is not going to be effective. Why? As ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSix leaders from South Korea's largest Buddhist order have quit after a video surfaced showing several monks playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking, Reuters reports. "The stakes for 13 hours of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO and the U.S. military apologized Friday to the families and loved ones of Afghans killed in coalition airstrikes this month in two villages. "Unfortunately, the preliminar...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 21 hours agoThe Monkey Cage is engaged in a full-court press in defense of NSF political-science grants. The cause, of course, is Representative Jeff Flake's (successful) amendment to axe funding for political-science...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 21 hours agoThe unofficial transcript and temporary video recordings of April 26-27 on The Conference and Consultation with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, at t...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours ago1067609 Ontario Inc. (Turner's Garage) v. Schell, 2012 ONCA 310 is a useful source for the principle that the setting aside of a noting in default is discretionary: [6] Setting aside is a discre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoChinese police have detained a British man for sexual indecency after an online video that appears to show a woman woman being assaulted prompted widespread outrage. A statement from the Beijing police ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo members of Durham Constabulary staff who held and twisted the arms of a prisoner to make him answer their questions have been fined by magistrates. CCTV footage taken in the custody suite of Peterlee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoGreek politicians have failed in their latest attempt to form a coalition government to deal with the country's economic crisis. Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Greece's anti-bailout Left Coalition (SYRIZA) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAn outbreak of avian flu in Yunlin County has been confirmed as caused by the highly pathological type of H5N2, reports said Friday, with the culling of chickens scheduled to start later in the day. More...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoTo Steve Benen, who points us to a new DOD conclusion that DADT repeal is going, in Secretary Leon Pannetta's words, "very well" -- and reminds us that those who opposed repeal did in fact make a string of...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoThe announcement in it's entirety *It all begins again on May 19th Rebuild the Dream Wisconsin! Washington Park Bandshell 2 - 6 pm*Recall | Refund | RebuildLast year, an uprising in Wisconsin started a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHANOI - The skin disease in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai has left two more dead, said Dang Thi Phuong, director of the affected Ba To district's Healthcare Center on Friday. So far, the disea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*Fifteen cattle were killed and several others injured after colliding with a high-speed train in Oxfordshire. * More than 200 passengers were aboard the Crosscountry Trains service between Bournemouth a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPALM SHORES – State wildlife officials are investigating a spate of sudden brown pelican deaths along the Indian River Lagoon. Four brown pelicans were reported dead on May 3 in a private pond in Rockled...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoo/2012-05/69834012.jpg"> The unsightly pile of dead fish causes a stench, and often forces her to close a portion of the campground. Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTHE appearance of thousands of dead sand eels washed up on beaches across Jersey and Guernsey at the weekend has left experts scratching their heads. The small, translucent fish, which are a favourite foo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoResidents at the south end of Lake Simcoe are holding their noses after thousands of dead fish washed up on the shore near Keswick over the past week. Environment officials are trying to determine what ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 21 hours ago** *... support Palestinian prisoners on strike for 75 days.* *Contributor: "PAJU"* *ON THE 64TH NAKBA COMMEMORATION: Hunger strikers in Montreal support Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 75 days...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoI'm afraid that's just what we did tell the Muslim world with the exposure of a course taught at America's own Joint Forces Staff College that suggested the only way to secure America might require wiping ...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 21 hours agoThx from our friends in Beijing Hi! What a wedding - elaborate and luxurious!in Communista China of share and share alike ??? *A Wedding in ShanXi* *Capitalist side of China* *A Wedding in ShanX...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoEVANSVILLE, Wis. - A Rock County lake is being monitored after several dozen dead fish were discovered along the shoreline. Jim Ark and his high school friend were catching and releasing memories on Thur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThieves stole scientific instruments used to monitor the highly active Nevado del Ruiz volcano in central Colombia, said scientists Wednesday. Seismologic and Volcanic Observation Director Gloria Patricia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMexican authorities have closed the airport serving the country's fourth-largest city after ash from the nearby Popocatepetl volcano fell on runways. A federal airport services spokesman says the interna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 17 people, authorities said. It was the second major flood reported...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAt least 24 people died, while 33 others have been listed as missing as a result of a hailstorm and a landslide in China’s northwestern province of Gansu. Six urban areas are suffering blackouts, and doze...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoEight China Southern Airlines Flight CZ3525 passengers and three crew members suffered fractures and bruises yesterday when their Boeing 777 jet encountered severe turbulence on route from Guangzhou to Sha...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari) Greg the Gut and Eric Bollweevil of Fox "News" (henceforth known as the temporary official propaganda arm of the Kolob star system) hit a new low ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWASHINGTON — Officials say a double-agent who fooled al Qaeda's terror group in Yemen possessed a British passport that was provided by that country's intelligence agency, MI-6, as part of the ruse. The ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoBrian Bilbray has always had the stench of corruption around him-- even back in the days when, as mayor of Imperial Beach, he tried, unsuccessfully (thanks for vigilant environmentalists and surfers), to...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoI think I may have posted this little video before but it is worth a re-post. It's all in your dirty mind!
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 22 hours agoIs Bradley Manning a traitor or hero ? OSLO, Norway -- The Nobel Peace Prize jury has received 231 nominations for this year's award, a spokesman said, with publicly disclosed candidates including a for...
- Link: http://youtu.be/BNLfNe12BKE Someday we'll boldly go where only fantasy went before... Enjoy a warm weekend, John
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoRichard Feynman was born on May 11th, 1918. If you have never watched his 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell, you should fix it. Here's the first one (one hour): You may watch all these lectures via Bil...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012* *On MS, a very rare challenge:* Liberal viewers get played for fools all night on The One True Channel. The spinning rarely stops. The discussion can get very dumb. Last night, an ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours ago[BREAKING NEWS: Tens of Thousands of Police March on Central London] Paul Krugman: Austerity Is So Wrong! A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? Austerity Can't Be Just for Regular People Did you really thi...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoMay 10, 2012 p. A3 Excerpt: "A letter sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accused one of the agency's managers of suppressing negative inspection results about a Nebraska nuclear-power plant at the...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoJanus, of Roman mythology, is the source for the first month of the calendar year, January. But Janus is also a two-faced god, thus developing a negative connotation with hypocrisy and deception. In 2012,...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoWe had been assured earlier this week that Richard Mourdock was no Sharron Angle, but guess what? He's apparently for the repeal of the 17th amendment. Or at least he was during the nomination battle. You ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago------------------------------ *Does The West Have A Future?* ------------------------------ May 10, 2012 | Original here Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral cons...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina told its citizens Thursday they were not safe in the Philippines and its state media warned of war, as a month-long row over rival claims in the South China Sea threatened to spill out of control. ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian forces foiled an attempted suicide car bombing in the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, state television said, a day after two bombs in the capital killed at least 55 people. Security forces say ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe Pentagon has *launched an investigation* into why its Joint Forces Staff College has been teaching a course advocating tomorrow's generals prepare to inflict genocide on the Muslim world. Sound bizar...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago[image: dork] This genre is growing on the *Duck*, so here are are a few more thoughts before you take the PhD plunge. Enjoy your last summer to read as you choose, without following a peer reviewer or ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoEver since the initial disaster at Fukushima back on March 11th, 2011, there have been a wide variety of articles that have speculalted as to exactly what the plant was actually for, and WHY there was Uran...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoThis is my column today in TV5's news portal. Only one photo was posted there. Additional photos here taken at the Senate hearing that day, plus charts, are not part of the original article. -------- http...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoMy tiff with Joe Romm and the Center for American Progress this week taught me a few lessons and put a finer points on ones that I have already known: - Political debate is rough business, politics ai...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoWhile taking screenshots for yesterday's blogpost on counting fetus fetishists, obviously I missed one. In the updates I quoted the Ottawa Sun: A much smaller crowd than expected slowed traffic during th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A dying pelican crawled from the surf to die on the beach in Tumbes, Peru, near the border with Ecuador. Hundreds of dolphin and seabirds have been found dead on the beaches of Peru in 2011 and 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said o...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoAuthor and Rag Radio guest Chris Mooney, shown researching the Republican brain. Photo illustration by James Retherford / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio: Chris Mooney dissects the Republican brain By Thorne Webb D...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*Did Obama Really Kill Osama?* ------------------------------ May 10, 2012 | Original here Dear Readers, what do you think? Did Obama really kill Osama? By Ralph Cinque http://www.informationcl...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012* *We were in high school too:* On balance, Kevin Drum says the Washington Post was right to publish its novella-length news report about Mitt Romney’s apparent bad conduct in 1965. (...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Australian National University] By Clarissa Thorpe and Ben Atherton 11 May 2012 The Australian National University has released a series of abusive and threatening emails which were sent to its...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoOn a wall outside of the Intercultural Center auditorium. Make of it what you will.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Key messages from the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) Report Card for May 2012. There are clear changes in the depth and latitudinal distributions, and migration and spawning be...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoUS, Saudi Arabia, and Israel funded and have backed regional army of Sunni terrorists since 2007 specifically to overthrow Syria and Iran. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 11, 2012* - A 2007 New Yorker article w...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012* *Part 4—On that point, the tribes can agree:* At a time of high tribalization, the warring tribes will agree on one point: The problem is caused by the *other* tribe! *Our* tribe is...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Bobby Witt, 48. Closest I've ever come to seeing a live no hitter; also, my oldest daughter's very first baseball game. I almost always keep score when I'm a game, but I couldn't that tim...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoA new twist develops in the Tulfo vs. Santiago/Claudine fight, and that is the family of one of the Cebu Pacific staff in Manila airport is planning to sue Claudine for her motormouth abuse of the staff. T...
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