Canada Day 2010 - Queen's Park (12) (Photo credit: katerkate)- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 minutes ago
*Was Glenn Gould a tad, er, eccentric? To put it mildly. Was he also a bloody genius? Just listen.* *by Ken* Our magic number this week is 32 -- the number of piano sonatas Beethoven wrote, ranging in dat... - posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 18 minutes ago
I found this funny story today. All the cartoons I got from the web. http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/05/18/greece-no-longer-a-nation-announces-plan-to-become-social-network/ Greece No Longer a Nation; A... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 minutes agoMax Keiser said a while back that if you want to take down JP Morgan, buy silver and demand physical delivery of the metal. Let them eat their naked short positions!
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 46 minutes agoRemember this? Midge Marsden, Murray Grindley from the Underdogs (and countless TV jingles) with the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan roped in to set the song afire. Not bad for a TV ad! Another one-NZ-m...
- posted by Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 1 hour agoAndrew Potter waxes nostalgic about his fairly horrid job as a fish monger. Here's Andrew's wrap-up at the end: "It was the worst job I ever had. But in a way, it was also the best job I ever had. I did...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoI have been watching all the economic troubles all over the world with great interest. It does bug me intensely that people everywhere cannot see the true criminals responsible for the economic crisis tha...
- Toronto News: DiManno: Why won’t Chief Bill Blair say sorry for police actions during G20? - thestar.com: 'via Blog this' Simple, Rosie: Because he doesn't have the balls. Julian Fantino. Mark Fenton. T...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 hours agoOne of the classics in the history of American education is Raymond Callahan's 1962 EDUCATION AND THE CULT OF EFFICIENCY. In the free Chapter 5 available here, you can read about the various strategies an...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
* Flags fly in Chicago for this weekend's NATO summit. * *”Since Occupy Wall Street began last September, more than 75 journalists have been arrested. My colleague Josh Stearns has chronicled these arrests... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"A mere 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy really is just next door as large galaxies go. So close, and spanning some 260,000 light-years, it took 11 different image fields from the Galaxy...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"In The Beginning"* by Chet Raymo "A creation myth from Egypt of the third millennium B.C. has God bring the world into being with a sneeze. It's not a bad image for the Creation as currently descri...
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------------------------------ *The Case of the Missing Terrorists* ------------------------------ May 14, 2012 | Original here If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jos... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"The Boat"* "Maybe the eyes of a dragon or goddess glare from its prow. More likely it leaks, loses an oar, and reeks of rainbows awash on a sheen of gutted salmon and gasoline. If it’s a liner, we la...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Subconscious War”* by Tuffie “We are a culture dependent on media for gratification, creating the illusion of experience on our psyche. Real knowledge is gained through experience. A film like this c...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ''What's it for?''” - Robert Fulghum
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoSt. Simons Island, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a pr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"House OK’s student loan bill amid veto threat" April 28, 2012|By Ed O’Keefe WASHINGTON - The disagreement has sparked an* election-year fight* about an *otherwise uncontroversial issue* as lawmakers leave...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoWrzesnewskyj v. Opitz , 2012 ONSC 2873 was release today - see below for decision. The case was careful not to attach blame on the candidates but rather to focus on errors at polling stations leading to...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoRon E. asks: If the Supreme Court strikes down the ACA by a 5-4 partisan majority based on weak arguments about inactivity or the slippery slope to forced broccoli-eating, does that indicate there are fun...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*How ironic that the newspapers are raising prices.* "Harvard panel pushes benefits of free journals; Costly publications targeted" by Carolyn Y. Johnson Globe Staff / April 28, 2012 Harvard may be the wo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Principals’ efforts found key to fixing ailing schools" April 30, 2012|By James Vaznis A *motivated principal able to galvanize teachers and foster a respectful school climate* is a *major factor* in hel...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agolongwalkdownlyndale asks: You have a really negative opinion of Carter as a president and have expressed it before. I know the standard argument against Carter, a bunch of bad stuff happened (stagflation,...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoA commenter asks: The GOP War budgeting: when did start, and which pols got the ball rolling? Another good question. To link back to some earlier stuff...I suppose it goes back to Ronald Reagan and Newt ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Now you know why those tuition rates are going through the ceiling*: "A tiny tax-exempt school gives president a lavish life" April 26, 2012|Brian Jordan, Kristina Finn and Walter V. Robinson, Globe Corre...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Special education policies in Mass. reviewed" April 23, 2012|By James Vaznis Low-income school districts are most likely to place students in special education programs for mild and sometimes questionabl...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agojcbhan asks: Voter suppression efforts by new GOP governors in key swing states are well-known. How much of an impact will they have in the Presidential election? Does Obama start a couple points in the w...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"In one ear and in the other: Firms debate headphone use" May 07, 2012|Katie Johnston, Globe Staff For some people, wearing headphones in the office is a way to block out chatter and get work done. For ot...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Raids target EBT card scams; Chinatown, Quincy sweeps target use of cards to get cash, not food" by Maria Cramer | Globe Staff, April 19, 2012 Police raided businesses in Boston’s Chinatown and in Quinc...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 5 hours ago*Ooops! * *OTTAWA - The Harper government has funded research that argues Canada's economy suffers from so-called Dutch Disease, an economic theory the prime minister and other senior officials ridiculed ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Blue Cross plan targets abuse of painkillers" May 07, 2012|By Kay Lazar Amid a *rising sea of addictions* to *prescription painkillers*, Massachusetts’ largest health insurer is launching a policy to curb...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 6 hours agoI want to stress right off the hop here that I am not, in any way, in support of a law that would prohibit the morning-after pill in Honduras. But if almost 700,000 people around the world are ready to he...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours agoMay 18, 2012 p. B1 Majia's summary: This proposed cut would constitute about 8% of their total workforce. The article is interesting because it lists other big cuts that have occurred over the last few ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago* * *"Greece No Longer a Nation; Announces Plan to Become Social Network"* IPO Imminent for "FetaBook" by Andy Borowitz ATHENS (The Borowitz Report) – "After struggling for months with an intractable fi...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 6 hours agoSome of the very first photos I took in Fort McMurray were of the forks down at MacDonald Island where the Clearwater feeds into the Athabasca. Since I had some time today and now that flood risks have pas...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: A river in northern Thailand recedes under the 2012 drought. After recovering from last year's record flooding in Central Thailand, the North is facing a new natural disaster. The northern provin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoI only ever had one conversation with Steny Hoyer. The Democrats had just won back the House and Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi was about to ascend to the Speakership. She didn't want a slimy corporatist w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"ICSI Netalyzr"* by UC Berkeley "Netalyzr is a free tool that analyzes your network for possible problems—large and small—helping you determine your overall network health. As soon as you start t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoROME—A project to drill deep into the heart of a “supervolcano” in southern Italy has finally received the green light, despite claims that the drilling would put the population of Naples at risk of small...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoSubmitted to Florida Today, May 18, 2012 US Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged Florida to adopt new textbooks, because “content is changing not annually but weekly if not daily.” (“Florida's education...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoColby also asks: Do you still think Boehner is doing a good job managing his caucus? Yes, I pretty much do. I continue to think that he has a very difficult job to do, given the median preference in the G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFacebook has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over privacy, just hours before the social network is due to make its $104bn Wall Street debut. The company is being sued for $15bn - almost as much as the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - A Greek-German row broke out on Friday after Greece's government spokesman said Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the idea of Athens holding a referendum about its euro zone membership next month...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago*Source: Time*. Saul "(circa 1079 BC – 1007 BC) was the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel," *(Wikipedia)*. Senior Pastor Rich Reinhart - David Part 3: The Mad King Saul *YouTube Video Descr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMay 18 - Several gay activists are injured as anti-gay protesters attack them after a gay rights demonstration in Russia's second city, St Petersburg. Sunita Rappai reports.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"The Pacific Ocean Is Dying: A Special Report On the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe"* by cosmicconvergence2012 "Just prior to the Supermoon of March 18th, 2011, the world witnessed a natural and manmad...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Go down to the Justice Center and that's what you see, just us..." - Richard Pryor
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRating agency Fitch has downgraded five Greek banks, as the FTSE 100 takes a hit over expanding eurozone uncertainty. The banks, including the National Bank of Greece, have been dropped from 'B-' to 'CC...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours ago*Morin c. The Gananoque Inn*, 2012 ONCA 331 is a useful source for the, perhaps trite, law that a jury verdict will not be lightly set aside: [3] L’appelante prétend également que le juge de première insta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA former Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a boy at gunpoint and then hiring a hitman to kill him has been given life imprisonment. John Fiala met with the alleged hit man in November ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFlying over the skies of Chengdu in southwest China, the Chinese's latest stealth plane - the J-20 Might Dragon - is a testament to China's growing prowess in military technology. The debut flight of the...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours agoActivist/journalist Chris Hedges speaks at Occupy Washington, DC, Freedom Plaza, Jan. 9, 2011. Photo by Scott Galindez / Occupy Washington, DC.'Colonized by Corporations': A Response to Chris Hedges Hedge...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoRecently at DAMMIT JANET! we've been receiving *anonymous* comments from people who choose not to create an account in their real or internet identity. This means we can't contact you via email if we have...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago*"Say "what" again. Say "what" again. I dare you. I double-dare you, motherfucker. Say "what" one more goddamn time."* Source: We Are Change.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago“The crucified planet Earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony, might now well say of our abuse of it, "Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do." The irony would be that we know...
- Thai police arrest man with suitcase full of gold plated babies set to be used in black magic ritual
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA British man was arrested today with a suitcase full of dead babies thought to have been used in a black magic rituals in Thailand. Chow Hok Kuen, 28, a British citizen born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese pa... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago* * *"Forty Million Japanese In 'Extreme Danger' Of Life-Threatening* * Radiation Poisoning, Mass Evacuations Likely"* by Naturalnews.com "Japanese officials are currently engaging in talks with Russia...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 5.18.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big news is what is coming up over the next four days. There are two sets of meetings: one in Camp David with the G8 and one in Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada four years ago won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he has been kept, a criminal review board r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 67.6 km (42 miles), the quake hit at 17:38:23 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 273 km (170 miles) ENE from DIL...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Man held in theft of $80,000 bulldozer" April 20, 2012|By Colin A. Young A Swansea man is facing a felony larceny charge in the *theft of a bulldozer * that disappeared from a Rehoboth construction site Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBankers at bailed-out Lloyds relaxed from the strains of Britain's worst economic downturn for a century by escaping to a luxury spa. A dozen senior executives were sent on breaks at Champneys to show the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTwo British citizens have been killed in the uprising in Syria, according to Syria's UN envoy. As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said he thought al Qaeda was behind two deadly suicide car bombs which k...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSchoolgirl Isabel Taylor, 16, turned to Buddhism after becoming fed up with the 'complications and injustice' of the modern world. But while searching for answers she began researching doomsday scenarios ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoVia email, Dan Rice asks: From your writing and that of other political scientists I've absorbed two main messages about presidential elections. 1) There are few true independents; most people have a cle...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago"Kickstarter lets public fund ideas" April 30, 2012|By Jenna Wortham NEW YORK - When Eric Migicovsky wanted to develop wristwatches that could communicate with the iPhone, he went the *traditional route of...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 9 hours agothis utterly rubbish jittering mess is being touted as MIT Media Lab's newest shiniest 'interface' - whatever that means. Hey, it uses CHROME BALLS... *The future of user interfaces seems to be gesture-b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Celebes Sea at a depth of 539.1 km (335 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:05 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 289 km (179 miles) Northwest from Manado, Sula...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA career criminal with more than 100 offences has again walked free from court, despite getting a 'last chance' from the same judge two years ago. Judge Carol Hagen decided it was ‘not in the interests of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA woman was killed by her home-made fish pie when she contracted a lethal and 'undetectable' bout of food poisoning - which her husband survived. Both Alwyn and Frank Kelly were left with upset stomachs a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA member of the public raised the alarm on Friday afternoon and police are currently evacuating residents from the Low Shore area of Banff. A spokesman for Grampian Police said: “Grampian Police can confi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGerman leader Angela Merkel has suggested that Greece could hold a referendum on continued use of the euro when it votes in national elections next month, Greek officials say. A Greek government spokesma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Friday it believes China spent up to $180 billion on its military buildup last year, a far higher figure than acknowledged by Beijing, and it accused "Chinese actors" of b...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agohttp://www.nuclearreader.info/introduction.html Lots of information here and sources...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours agoDespite all the close votes over the years, this is a first: *Election result in Toronto riding thrown out by judge* Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beij...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - White House efforts to soft-pedal the danger from a new "underwear bomb" plot emanating from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the news they needed most to contain. At about 5:45 p.m. EDT o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The European Commission and the European Central Bank are working on scenarios in case Greece has to leave the euro zone, EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has said. Speculation about such...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*German boy brings in the new World order? Denver International Airport Mural* No country is safe? On 18 May 2012, the CIA's Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are making headway towards a framework deal on how to tackle concerns about its atomic activity, diplomats say, a potential bargaining chip for Tehran in nex...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoTORONTO LIFE reports a Stevie nude. Really. To see it in all its splendor, click on the link. Have bag close at hand. You have been told.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- The suspect in the shooting deaths of two motorists in Mississippi will be charged with capital murder Friday, a police spokesman said. Police arrested James D. Willie, 28, of Sardis, Mississipp...
- good news all around: etobicoke centre results thrown out, montreal students and unions stand unitedposted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoThe 2011 federal election results for Etobicoke Centre have been thrown out. Yes! We're still waiting to hear the details. and Unions and students are standing united against Charest's attempts to punis...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoCBC. Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre has been declared null and void in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Opitz won the May 2011 ele...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours agoOMG!!! http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/18/pol-court-throws-out-etobicoke-centre-election-wrzesnewskyj.html Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 federal election win last year in Etobico...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agoI am going to post some thoughts and conversations about what is going on at Fukushima. This conversation occurred at Enenews. I've edited it a bit to allow it to stand on its own intelligibly. http://ene...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoThere's an interesting discussion taking place here , which harebell takes to task over the apparent support of violence and intimidation by some groups of the protesting students. But as many people have...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 10 hours agoComments posted on my recent piece at The Answer Sheet, "What teachers don’t need (but are getting anyway)," include a typical refrain best confronted by this posting from jdman2: "Doesn't it seem strange...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoNoam Chomsky chronicles the ascent of America's Plutonomy, the ultra rich and the economic and political power they have sucked out of the American state, and their dependence on a rapidly growing American...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 21.7 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:46:37 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8 miles) ESE of Zaqatala (Zakataly), Azerbai...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoColby asks: I saw you say on Twitter once that you thought...and I'm doing this from memory...that LBJ, Nixon, and Reagan were the most interesting post-war Presidents. What's your criteria for "interesti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA major search operation is continuing for three missing fishermen, as attempts to identify an object seen on the sea bed get underway. Rescue agencies are involved in the hunt for the missing vessel an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA New Zealand woman who went on the run after a bank mistakenly deposited millions of dollars into her partner's account has been convicted of theft, dishonesty and money laundering. "Runaway millionaire...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours agoThe omnibus federal budget bill contains a provision abolishing the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act which requires federal contractors to pay workers the prevailing wage in the region. So... that with t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBritain's most senior Muslim politician has claimed white women are sexual abuse targets for "a small minority" of Pakistani men. Cabinet minister Baroness Warsi's comments come after nine Muslim men in ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoGermany achieved its war goals on May 7, 1945 when it signed the instruments of surrender at Reims, France. Germany's goal at that point was to end the war it had sparked six years earlier with the invas...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI was doing some late night tweeting a couple nights ago when a report came over the transom about far right sociopath Mike Coffman going off the deep end at a campaign fundraiser. Since Blue America is ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoACCORDING TO GLENN GREENWALD, at SALON, in an article, "Federal court enjoins NDAA", Judge Katherine Forrest struck a blow for American civil rights. This is a strong first step to fight the legal weasels th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoIt finally happened. For the first time, of all the babies born in America, *white babies were a minority*. For the year ending July, 2011, white babies tallied just 49.6% with the remaining 50.4% being ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012* *The undisguised soul of class preference:* This morning’s column by David Brooks is truly one for the ages. Looking down from the heights of Olympus, Brooks starts by explaining ho...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoWilliam Burns asks: First serious presidential candidate with a chance at election who is openly gay--what year, if ever? That's a tough one. Let's do some perspective. As far as I can remember, Tammy Ba...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours ago[BREAKING NEWS: Facebook IPO Crashes Nearly 10% After $42.05 Opening Price] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Know what "they" don't want to talk about seriously now (after the Occupy strategy has proved effective) in their ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 12 hours ago* * *Michael channeled by Ron Head* *May 18, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages* *by Oracles and Healers* Our topic today will be your true selves. You have allowed yourselves to forget who you truly ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNote: Not 2 years ago Nigel Farage was shouted down, now he is being Applauded and his views are exactly the same as they were two years ago. Why is he Not Prime Minister?
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012* *Thanks to MSNBC, everyone knows except us: *This morning, for the second straight day, the New York Times reports on the legal case involving the killing of Trayvon Martin. Yester...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Annual global average surface temperatures from the NASA GISS record, 1880-1981. Hansen, 1981] By Tamino 16 May 2012 Over thirty years ago, James Hansen was lead author of a scientific papertitl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe business part is selling bitumen sludge to China, as much and as fast as possible. The pleasure part is playing Commander-in-Chief and sending Canadian forces to distant corners of the world for a bi...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago<p>Rsdfasdf</p> *Reasons why this is most likely a hoax:* -- Software/edited, vs actual human/camera pans -- Drones don't make jet engine sounds -- Very short clip for something so important --...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoLet's get it rolling. Matt D. asks: I know you talk about how dysfunctional the GOP caucus is, but what do you think is causing it, and what can be done about it? Why do you think polarization has been so ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago*R. v. Maybin*, 2012 SCC 24, just released, is an important decision dealing with causation in manslaughter and when an intervening act may be seen to absolve liability. Courts have used a number ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoSending foreign affairs minister John Baird as Canada's frontman to the Rio+20 Earth Summit next month sends the world a pretty clear message - "forget it." It proclaims that, to the Harper regime, even ...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 13 hours agoThere are bloggers who have converted their blogspot blog to custom domain, but then changed their minds and want to switch back to blogspot. Previously, this was very easy done. One just need to go to Set...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Billboard intended to highlight Pfizer’s and other corporations’ funding of the Heartland Institute and would have been installed in the same location where Heartland put up an ad featuring the U...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours agoWHY THE ELDERS TALK By Thomas O. Mills You have to ask yourself why any Native American Elder would want to talk to us. What good have we ever done for him? What is this deep seeded understanding ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - European officials are working on contingency plans in case Greece bombs out of the euro zone, the EU's trade commissioner said on Friday, while Berlin said it was prepared for all eventualiti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA British citizen has been arrested in Thailand after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used in a black magic ritual were found in luggage in a Bangkok hotel room. Chow Hok Kuen, who was born...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 131.7 km (81.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:29:57 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) West of San Antonio de los ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:12:12 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16.2 miles) Southwest of Aflu, Nigeria No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:45:53 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) East of KABU...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 14 hours agoNot only is Maurice Vellacott -- like all fetus fetishists -- an opportunistic creep, he is also a lying liar. From his press release: Scientific research is revealing an ever-younger age at which childr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Younger generations lack confidence in reaching key financial goals, a key result from the Money Across Generations® study by Ameriprise Financial. This graph compares 2007 poll results with 2012...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012* *Part 4—As the liberal world slept:* According to Jason Horowitz’s reporting, some of which is thoroughly documented, Mitt Romney behaved quite badly at several times during his hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 82.3 km (51.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:46:26 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) South of Severo-Kuril'sk, K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47.1 km (29.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:21:34 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 57.4 km (35.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:17:51 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Sou...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoGotta ask – just in case Did you see Koch’s lawyer on Bashir yesterday? The reason I ask is that people assume everyone has cable. People assume that all we do all day is watch MSNBC. People don’t realize ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoOn Saturday, May 26, Brigette DePape, the former parliamentary page who disrupted the 2011 Throne Speech, will speak on a panel discussing how we can make her two-word protest a reality. The panel also i...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoImage from Chicago Now. The school 'reform' movement: Squeezing 'value' out of students By Patrick Youngblood / The Rag Blog / May 18, 2012 As a public high school teacher and a parent I think often abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Azerbaijanat a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 10:04:09 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (54 miles) Southeast of Zaqatala (Zakataly), Azer...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago*HoZone Highlights....with limited commentary ~American Zombie* *Storming the Castle re: LA SB 573: HoZone Game-changing amendments added! ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes* *Saints linebacker Vilma's suit against Go...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours agoR. v. Pelech, 2012 ABCA 134: "[2] At about 2:00 a.m. on December 6, 2009, an Edmonton police officer noticed a Jeep leaving the parking lot of a drinking establishment with its lights out. ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoI found it interesting that the right is falling all over themselves the past few days to report anywhere and everywhere they can that Progressives had a meeting on 5/11 to coordinate their work against AL...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*North Carolina closet case Patrick McHenry helped lead the charge against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act* If the House Republicans weren't so deranged, the renewal of the Violence Against W...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours agoI love that moment when your child has no idea that something super cool is about to happen, but you do and you stand back waiting for the reaction. After seeing several YouTube videos featuring this exp...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoFound an interesting item on my daily search for all things related to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - a search - which in this instance - took too much time to try and follow the sour...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 15 hours agoPoor Maurice was blindsided by a MASSIVE fundamentalist christian furor against the SEX exhibit that exploded in dozens of phone and email messages (templates provided by churches, the Institut...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoIt's Question Day! Haven't done this for a while now, so it's about time. You ask, I'll answer. You can use comments below, email, or twitter, so ask away, and I'll get to as many of them as I can. Senate ...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoThe National Labor Relations Board says almost all private employers must put up a poster informing you of your workplace rights under the National Labor Relations Act as of April 30, 2012. It’s free. Empl...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoAvaaz has a new petition out, which they're calling "a new plan to save the planet". I'm more than a tad skeptical about Avaaz petitions, but it only takes a click, it can't hurt, and it's worthwhile if on...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours agoHappy Birthday to Dwayne Hickman, 78. Hey, I didn't know he was in the "Clueless" TV series. Guess that's another reason to watch it some day. I just saw something with him, Frankie Avalon, and Vincent Pri...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoJeffrey Simpson writes that the Harper government should rename the Correctional Service of Canada. He suggests that it now be called Punishment Canada: Just when you think this government’s criminal j...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours ago*The Metropolitan Police has found a method to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. According to Stephen Kavanagh Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, service mob...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*Japan has fulfilled its initial successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite. On Friday, the H-2A rocket blasted off from the space centre on Tanegashima Island at 1:39 am.* Officials opinion...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours agoI have discussed \({\mathcal F}-SU(5)\) superstringy models previously. They're based on local F-theory models, flipped \(SU(5)\) grand unification, and no-scale supergravity; each of the concepts brings...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoAs Christopher Hitchens wrote about the mega-mosque at Ground Zero: '"Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 17 hours ago*Black Bean Soup and Spanish Tortilla! Oooh Yes!* I have been meaning to make this dish for ages, but I think in some weird way it has been a bit daunting. I was a bit afraid that my Tortilla (a Spanish p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters in Chicago to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked legislation for new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector on Thursday saying they needed more time to study the bill, a surprise move that drew anger from Democrat...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agohttp://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/time-and-punishment-now-canadas-way/article2436127/?service=mobile You don't have to be a bleeding-heart liberal, or as the Conservatives like to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related deals between Pyongyang and Syria and Myanmar, the panel sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Lai Changxing, a tycoon who spent more than a decade as a fugitive in Canada, to life in prison for smuggling and bribery, the state-run news agency Xinhua rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up. "Why don't you rise up, for you are the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBaghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said. The bombings took p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*(CNN)* -- Syrian forces opened fire Friday on anti-government demonstrators in Aleppo, the opposition claimed, a day after thousands purportedly took to the streets calling for an end to the regime in a ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 18 hours ago"Al Qaeda wasn't called Al Qaeda until 9/11 in the FBI. Through 1996 to 2001 ... they were called *Our Allies Mujahedin*," that's the most amazing early quote from State-whsitleblower Sibel Edmonds intervi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPrime Minister Julia Gillard has talked up Australia's strong economic fundamentals after concerns over Europe caused a rout in global sharemarkets and sent the Australian dollar to a six-month low. Some...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 18 hours agolast night, lovely amazing powerful horrific soul-enriching dream where I'm 'taking it all in my stride' and jogging upstream, into the source of a burgeoning river. My feet, then my shins, then my thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo boys who admitted sexually assaulting women in Perth's southern suburbs last year have avoided detention. The boys, who cannot be named, were aged 11 and 13 years when they and two others attacked six...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Australian share market has hit a six-month low, wiping $32 billion off the All Ordinaries Index, as investors headed for the exits amid fears about the ongoing instability in the eurozone. Investors...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe grandfather of the ten-week-old boy who was beaten to death allegedly by his father last week wants to know why previous abuse was not flagged up by Child Protection Services. Gordon Collins-Faunce, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGoogle is set to track the world's warships and make the data available to billions of internet users, raising concerns over the security of the American naval fleet. The search engine plans to offer th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 54.7 km (34 miles), the quake hit at 08:18:59 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) South of Utsunomiya, Hons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe wife of a U.S. Army captain who was killed while deployed in Iraq is stunned that the person named responsible for his death will be freed. Charlotte Freeman of Temecula, California expressed her dism...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups planned to attack a Mexican consulate believing it would stir debate on immigration amnesty issues ahead of the 2012 presidential election, authoritie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 12-year-old boy was handcuffed and locked in a jail in rural Indiana after sheriff's deputies somehow confused him with his 17-year-old brother. Jacob Magruder says he was sitting in the lobby of the Ja...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAnd the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S., causing more wildfires than usual in the West. The forecast for June through August calls for wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe inhabitants of Killeen, Texas, should be relieved that the U.S. army doesn't routinely fly with loaded missiles. The six-foot-long, 100 pound ammunition accidentally fell out of an Apache AH-64 helic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA newlywed accused of stabbing his pregnant wife to escape their marriage pleaded not guilty to two counts of capital murder Thursday after the woman and baby died in western Arkansas. A judge explained ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 57.3 km (35.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:27:47 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) ENE from D...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours agoMy father Axel Andersson, was forced, after only 18 days' stay at theForellen Nursing Home in Partille to amputate his left leg, about 10 cm above the knee, a so called femoral amputation. Forellen off...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe neighbours of the Florida woman who fatally shot her four children and herself, refused to open the doors to three of the frantic children who had fled to their house. During a recording of a 911 cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice investigating the disappearance of a young girl from her family's southern Arizona home said that child welfare workers went to the household in December, but authorities declined to provide additi...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours ago*Reposted from: http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/* * * *Kauilapele has a pretty good sense about him, so I am re-posting this on American Kabuki. We shall see how good Tolec's information really is. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:56:09 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) Southwest of Santiago, Panama No Tsunam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSix people from London have been charged following an investigation into the alleged human trafficking of a woman from India. The suspects face a number of counts including sexual assault and making threa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWorld stock markets are suffering further steep falls as a result of the eurozone debt crisis after downgrades in the credit ratings of Greece and 16 Spanish banks. After closing at its lowest level sinc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt was the gossip of the shipping world yesterday, when news started spreading that the Baltic Container Terminal in Gdynia, Poland, was earmarked for a £30million modernisation plan. A mere 24 hours lat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe local share market is on track for its lowest close since November, as worries about the stability of Greece and Spain spark a sell off. The Australian dollar, meanwhile, has also touched a five-month ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA killer described by police as a 'violent coward' was today jailed for life for knifing his partner to death at a house where eight children were playing. It took a jury just an hour to convict Jordan Q...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago*Introduction to all conceptual mistakes that people do when they think about science and Nature* When you look at the whole set of scientific misconceptions that I have been trying to correct and clarify...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAny developer with plans to build a multi-million-pound scheme in a housing area can expect to encounter the occasional gripe from a concerned local resident. But few could have predicted the lengths tha...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Nica Rothschild.* There is a new book on the Rothschilds. *"The Baroness: The Search For Nica, The Rebellious Rothschild"* has been written by Hannah Rothschild, brother of Nat. Nica Rothschild was the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBreeders told China Central Television the female is carrying 1.2million eggs, which will be collected and artificially inseminated before the fry are released back into the river. The species is listed...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 20 hours agoI recently wrote an article explaining why the trial of Ratko Mladić was an act of despotism, and how the Srebrenica Massacre did not really happen. In response, I received the following comment from an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo Australian cattle exporters will have to ensure an animal welfare officer is present when their livestock are slaughtered overseas, after breaches of Australian humane standards were discovered. Austr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe chief executive of Greggs has slammed the 'absurd' Pasty Tax after a 13 per cent drop in the firm's share price since the Budget wiped £70million off its market value. The bakery chain's market value...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 20 hours agoGuest blogging is a frequent occurrenceon the Internet. In fact, in the blogosphere guest blogging is as common as TV personalities appearing on each other's shows or news reporters gracing the studios of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe simmering political row over President Obama’s heritage was dramatically reignited today as a 1991 booklet boldly announced that the Democrat was ‘born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.’ I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe asteroids would cause catastrophic damage, on a city-sized scale or larger. Research from the University of Southhampton has identified the countries most likely to be worst hit. They have identified...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoBen Fulford as Daruma http://goo.gl/uiv1B *Select Postings from Ben Fulford's Free Blog:* May 14, 2012 *From a reader: (translated from Japanese)* In the November 2002 issue "Business Community Outlo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMilitary chiefs were last night investigating a security breach after the personal details of Army snipers were discarded in the boot of a second-hand car. The stunned buyer found a ‘treasure trove’ of s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA tragic woman killed herself after breaking her silence about the rapes she suffered as a child at the hands of her father. Newcastle Crown Court heard it wasn't until 2010, that Claire Warrener felt ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn off-duty scientist thought he'd lend a helping hand when an alligator was spotted along Highway 70 in North Carolina. But Fred Boyce bit off more than he could chew; as he approached the beast, the al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe rescue of Northern Rock could cost the country up to £4billion, a report reveals today. The spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, says the projected loss reflected the fact taxpayers should ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDavid Cameron and George Osborne are piling pressure on Germany to foot the bill for supporting debt-stricken Greece as it emerged the Government is making emergency preparations for a collapse of the eur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo brothers had their childhood ‘stolen’ by their mother and stepfather who kept them locked in a bedroom for up to 23 hours a day, a court was told. The boys were shut away for weeks on end, given litt...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis breakthrough ends any remaining risk that we will ever have a meaningful shortage of heating gas for millennia. Every household on Earth can be securely supplied with our most effective an...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhat should be obvious to the blind, dumb and stupid is that capital is lazy. If you can lend the government’s newly created cash back to the government for a point spread, you take it. Thus...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe obvious preventive measure is to tightly control kiwi traffic itself out of China. In the meantime the pathogen itself should be amenable to established control measures and if we are luck...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoRecall that domestication of our key grains and other foods involved the successful application of polyploidy which entailed simply doubling up the chromosome content of the cell. So though this...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago“you have to go through Heath to get to Thatcher” is apparently a saying in circulation in Westminster, in other words a tinkering Conservative Prime Minister has to have a go, and fail, before the Conserv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo six-week-old puppies have died after being sealed in a garbage bag and dumped in a skip at Bolivar in Adelaide's north. A third puppy that was in the bag was lucky to be alive after being found this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA thief stole the handbag of a hit-and-run victim as her decapitated body lay in the road, a court heard yesterday. Marc Kirvin, 46, picked up the bag, which contained £1,600 in cash, minutes after grand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoParents will receive text message and email advice on how to bring up their children after David Cameron said it was ‘ludicrous’ that people get more training in driving a car. A £3.4million website laun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNew French president Francois Hollande will deliver seven snubs to David Cameron today after the Prime Minister publicly backed his opponent Nicolas Sarkozy. Mr Hollande will open up splits with Britain ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoOn Thursday, May 17, *Breitbart.com published* undeniable evidence that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and as a result is an illegitimate president. The bigger story here is not that Obama w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBeach goers and boaters along the coast of Central California are accustomed to seeing fascinating sea creatures large and small off its shore—but an Arabian horse? Some at first thought the gleaming whit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAustralian shares are right now thumbing new one year lows as investors exit equities in renewed fear over Greece and the great financial face-off. Six weeks ago when the market was riding high people were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPhotos showing injuries to the alleged murderer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin are among a mass of evidence that has been made public for the first time. Nearly 200 documents, photos and audio record...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe original idea of Mother’s Day was to promote peace so mothers would not have to suffer the grief that many American moms faced after the slaughter of the Civil War. But some of today’s most powerful w...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoMay 17, 2012 *EPISODE EIGHT: COLLATERAL DAMAGE* Helen and Sylvia, along with friends Joan and Joy, take part in a demonstration in Bradford to show their opposition to the replacement of Trident. Late...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAmid all the hoopla over the London Whale, the U.S. stock selloff, and the Facebook IPO, you may have missed this: The Germans are talking about “accepting” higher inflation. John Mauldin didn’t miss it,...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours ago*After reading the below in the Swedish media recently, I pondered about this case plus that of Julian Assange. * *I wondered what jail time would be in the States for a similar crime. I thought perhap...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoCharity: Right-wing think tanks and Ducks Unlimited are most certainly not exactly as illustrated. Below: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and National Revenue Minister Gail Shea. Supporters of the Harper G...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoMay 17, 2012 *Posted by Stephen Cook* *The 2012 Scenario Interview: Cobra – Part 1 of 2* While we often know the name, face, gender and other more personal details about many of those we post here a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAs many as 6,200 potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are orbiting close to Earth, a new survey by NASA has revealed. The PHAs are considered robust enough to survive the passage through Earth's atmosph...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe owners of Victorian Retravision stores will meet this morning to discuss cash-flow problems in the Retravision group. It is believed some stores are facing financial difficulties. Employees have been ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLouisville Metro Police are working overtime after six people were shot near Downtown Louisville Thursday. Police first responded to a call for a quadruple shooting in the 1000 block of 32nd Street aroun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAlaska polar bears, protected under the Endangered Species Act, have joined the list of far-north species afflicted with a mystery illness. An iconic animal that has become a symbol for global awareness of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNATO member states want an anti-missile defense system in case of attack from Iran or North Korea - but Russia feels threatened and has warned it will retaliate to protect itself. "The system is not a th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAre you ready for the smart electricity revolution? On July 20, 2006, California's Public Utilities Commission approved a proposal by Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) to begin phasing out conventional electr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe global energy games (or wars to be more exact) have taken an important turn in the favour of Russia. In the near future the gas supplies going through North Stream route from Russia to the European Un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA piece of news released by AP, the most important US news agency, dated today in Monterrey, Mexico, explains it with irrefutable clarity. This is not the first, and certainly it won’t be the last, about a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoUS civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds of those killed were civ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWith audacious hypocrisy, American pro-nuclear pundits have been indulging in the familiar sport of losers – the relentless bashing of the more successful. With nuclear energy rapidly losing favor around ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA man has admitted raping a woman and sexually assaulting another in the space of 15 minutes in a city centre street. Scott Kerr, 22, dragged his first victim, a 20-year-old woman, into a car park in Jame...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoQueen Sofia of Spain has cancelled a visit to the UK to mark Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee because of disputes over Gibraltar. A Spanish government statement said it was "hardly appropriate" for Queen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed he would like to support Iranian athletes competing in this summer's London 2012 Olympics - but the UK authorities are reluctant to host him. Mr Ahmadinej...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoGreece's credit rating has been downgraded due to the "heightened risk" that the political and economic crisis could drag the country out of the euro. The debt-laden country was cut from a B to a CCC ra...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 22 hours agoOn the road all weekend, probably not back here until Tuesday. Contemplate one of my daughter's artworks instead. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:26:45 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) South of Santiago, Panama No Tsunami Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 61.3 km (38.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:04:52 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) WSW of Rivas, Ni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:41 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 542 km (336 miles) WSW of Castro, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:16:10 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 664 km (412 miles) Southeast of Qalansiyah, S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 32.9 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:01:46 UTC Friday 18th May 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) ENE of Naha, Okinawa, J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 49.4 km (30.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:09 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 159 km (98 miles) NNW of Kendari, Sulawe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:55 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 362 km (224 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:40:41 UTC Thursday 17th May 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) SSW of Lar, Iran No Reports of ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 23 hours ago*"Heritage Minister James Moore said during question period Thursday that he was invited to view the exhibit and expressed his concerns. "I respect the independence of the museum, but they asked me my op...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago“The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoAbstract Though scholars widely claim that they are capable of writing creative titles, there exist some notable skeptics. Resolving this debate requires empirical evidence. However, beyond a few anecdote...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*According to the Congressional Budget Office (if I'm reading this right -- no guarantees!) we could rig up 20 interceptor missiles on the East Coast for a measly $3.6 billion. At that rock-bottom price, n...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoCartoon from Political Resources, Inc. Bought and paid for: The Left and the 2012 presidential election By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / May 17, 2012"[No] serious candidate will rely on the public fu...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 1 day agoA frequent complaint of bloggers/surfers when currently not in their own country is Google automatically resetting their language option and displaying on the browser a language they do not understand and/...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoIsrael has long said that the nation of Iran must be destroyed due to its non-existent nuclear weapons program which has proven again and again to be a fantasy, primarily due to the fact that the Internati...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race." - Ernest L. Woodward • We, ...
- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoThis is me with Rick Allen, the drummer for Def Leppard who lost his arm in the 1980s but retooled his drum kit and life to adjust to his injury. He now runs the Raven Drum Foundation, which focuses on hel...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have long been asked what must be done for us to break the shackles of the criminals who are out for our total enslavement. It is very hard to come up with solutions when most of the people I talk to a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoBakersfield, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Heavens Proclaim”* by Chet Raymo "Four centuries ago, Francis Bacon said that what a person would like to be true, he preferentially believes. Is there a way to truth that escapes the constraint...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoDavid Birtley's to-die-for posts chronicling HBO's deviations from the *Song of Ice and Fire* book series get longer each week over at Wired. Some fans are annoyed at the significant and at times random pl...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoKurdish groups have thus far stayed out of NATO's destabilization of Syria, US threats to arm and unleash Kurdish groups aims at coaxing Turkey to act. *by Tony Cartalucci* * * *May 18, 2012* - The violenc...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago*IS THIS CRAP GOING TO KEEP COMING OUT * *UNTIL IT STARTS GIVING PEOPLE IN EASTERN JAPAN, AND WESTERN CANADA AND THE US * * * *ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME?* I WANT TO KNOW YOU *SOBS* WHO ARE HIDING THE INFO...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Trying to Please Others, Living for Ourselves"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "We may not realize until we are adults that we are living our life to make our parents happy. Most of us come to a po...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoNATO-Backed “Syrian National Council” Breaking Apart After 51% of Syrians Brave Death Squad Snipers to Cast Ballots; US Inciting Kurds to Revolt Against Damascus; Turkey Eyes Article IV; Syrian Govt. Expos...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* A remembrance of Pope John XXIII in Porto Viro, in the Italian province of Rovigo (in the Veneto) * *"Roncalli's selection was a surprise to all, most particularly to Roncalli, who arrived in Rome with a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook’s IPO"* by Andy Borowitz MENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) – "On the eve of Facebook’s IPO, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the following l...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*LEAP/E2020, GEAB 60: "Global Economic Crisis: * *The USA, An Insolvent and Ungovernable Country"* by Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB) *"The future of the USA – 2012-2016:* An insolvent and ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoSUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 INDIAN TERRITORY REVIVALOKLAHOMA STATE CAPITOL - 1 PM TO 6 PM By Society to Preserve Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Treaties SPI...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "The U.S. 'Will Be Simultaneously Insolvent And Ungovernable'"* by Endoftheamerican dream.com “There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but there is something wrong with having blind faith that...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoAll eyes will be on Chicago this weekend, as thousands of protesters from all over North American converge on the the NATO summit. The symbolism could not be more trenchant, as Chicago was the scene of pro...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"California’s Day of Reckoning"* by The Independent "Taking a deep breath, California's most powerful man strode to a lectern and unveiled the fiscal policy that he hopes will keep America's most pop...
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