The Joy of Cooking - Irma Rombauer (1931) ... Meet the middle-aged, middle-class woman who traps, butchers and eats squirrels in her Seattle backyard -- Her reason: Squirrel is the ultimate local meat (27th January 2012) ... (Photo credit: marsmet491)
Nearsoft girls (Photo credit: Nearsoft)
An advertisement for Fairfax County which ran in The Wall Street Journal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 minutes ago...of The Broken Branch, that is: so the House Republicans are bringing a bill to the floor this week to repeal the medical devices tax, which is evil because (1) it's a tax and (2) it's part of the ACA. W...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 7 minutes ago
The cartoon lady in the top picture is black, unfairly paid.... and grinning her face off anyway. The cartoon lady on the bottom is white, unfairly paid.... and royally pissed. From obviously the same ... - posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 minutes ago
Michael channeled by Ron Head June 4, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages by Oracles and Healers We will begin this morning by pointing out a change which has occurred in all the reliable channelings a... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 28 minutes agohttp://cifwatch.com/2012/06/03/palestine-it-will-cost-you/
- June 4, 2012 Wall Street Journal print edition page A12. by Brian Spegele "China's latest step toward relaunching its nuclear-power ambitions could play into efforts to stimulate the country's economy, ac...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 46 minutes ago@notasheepagoat 1948. Israel was wronged. Arabs were aggressors. Nakbah is a myth. Palestinians are invented people. -- Natasha Suleman (@natashasuleman) Finally Natasha Suleman understands the truth!
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 46 minutes agoCharles and David Koch. THE KOCH CRITTERS are going to make this Fall's American election something really special. According to Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson, who has a report on Reader Supported News, "T...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 50 minutes ago@natashasuleman population of Israel is approx 17% Muslim, there are Muslim MKs, judges etc. How many Jews in Syrian, Egyptian parliaments? -- NotaSheep MaybeaGoat (@notasheepagoat)
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 56 minutes ago
*For those of us in Wisconsin, California, Montana and New Mexico, let's keep these words by Elizabeth Warren in our minds when we vote* Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 5, could be an historic day. First and forem... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The U.S Air Force’s highly secret unmanned space plane will land in June - ending a year-long mission in orbit. The experimental Boeing X37-B has been circling Earth at 17,000 miles per hour and was due ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
It is a mystery which is truly beyond even Sherlockian scale - a cosmic explosion which left no trace behind except deep within the bark of two cedar trees. Fusa Miyake, of the Nagoya University in Japan... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoJune 4 Wall Street Journal print edition page A5. "Women who were exposed to chest radiation to treat cancer during childhood have a risk of developing breast cancer as adults that is comparable to that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
After seven weeks in court, the murder trial of Anders Breivik must be getting a little tedious for the five judges whose job it is to decide the Norwegian mass killer's fate. One of the men presiding ov... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
China's censors blocked access to the term "Shanghai stock market" on popular microblogs on Monday after the index fell a bizarre 64.89 points on the anniversary of the bloody June 4, 1989, crackdown on p... - posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 hour ago
Political Correctness was created in the wake of the Talmudic takeover of Russia, as an export ideology to destabilise Germany and spread Communism westwards. When the Germans rejected the liberal menace... - posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 hour ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/02/un-investigation-shock-treatments-autism - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoBillionaire investor and activist George Soros has some interesting viewson why the sort of economics that brought us where we are today no longer serves mankind.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
(Reuters) - Kurdish militants have released a British tourist snatched from a passenger bus in south-eastern Turkey over the weekend, and the man was in good health, Turkish security officials and the Brit... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoCAIRO — Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi is to head to New York later this week for talks on Syria with UN chief Ban Ki-moon, a League official said on Monday. "Arabi's four-day visit, starting on Thursd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBoth engines on the Nigerian Dana Air flight that crashed into a building on final approach to Lagos airport failed moments before touchdown, officials said yesterday. Harold Demuren, the head of the Nige...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 1 hour agoGardeners: move hay or straw with care. I'm 63, and a ninety pound (40+ kilo) bale is too much for me to throw around any more -- so I use a combination of judo and a hay hook to wrestle them onto and off...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 hour agoI just finished reading Richard Dawkins' *The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution*. I thought it was pretty good but I'm not a sciency guy. I'm going to have to re-read the parts on embryolo...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSouth Korea’s Ministry of Unification has heavily criticized a statement released today via Chosun Central News Agency and on the front page of Rodong Shinmun by the General Staff Department of the Chosun...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 hour ago"How to be perfect" by Ron Padgett get some sleep eat an orange every morning be friendly it will help make you happy hope for everything...expect nothing take care of things close to home first str...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoThe West has undergone a powerful rightward shift over the past two decades. Leftist parties have turned centrist. Centrist parties have become conservative. Conservative parties have left the tradit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:19:53 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) North of Pastida,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 7.6 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:53 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles) South of Sigave, Ile Futuna, W...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA German newspaper is reporting a 29-year-old Canadian porn actor accused of videotaping a gruesome murder before posting it on the internet has been arrested in Berlin. Bild newspaper reported police so...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours agoThis year I have been really into wreaths. There is just something about having a cute wreath on your door that makes a holiday seem more festive. When I first saw this wreath from Capital B, I knew I ha...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoWe are daily inundated with the Jewish controlled media screaming that Iran must be destroyed before it is even able to attempt building any nuclear weapons. It seems that the world's attention must stay ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 2 hours agoWriting in the Boston Globe, two scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have expressed concern that they have been required by a court to release email correspondence related to studies of...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012* *Bill Clinton’s remarkable text:* In Paul Krugman’s new column, he notes how weak the reporting has been about our economic mess. Beyond that, he says that “Obama’s political team”...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours agoOpposition propagandist in England apartment is, and has been, the sole source cited by the Western press. *by Tony Cartalucci * *June 4, 2012* - The "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" has been cited ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"How to Spot Psychopaths:* * Speech Patterns Give Them Away"* by Wynne Parry "Psychopaths are known to be wily and manipulative, but even so, they unconsciously betray themselves, according to scient...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoLuka Rocco Magnotta porn actor (29) in Canada is said to have dismembered in front of cameras a student to send the body parts to politicians and put the video on the Internet. For days, the police searc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Is The Morning Relief ‘Good’"?* by Karl Denninger “No, even though the little bounce we got overnight appears to all be coming off as I write this, and the markets are going (once again) negative. W...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012* *Gail Collins’ readers fight back:* Incomparably, your Daily Howler just keeps getting results! We refer to the way Gail Collins’ readers have (finally) begun to fight back. They b...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours ago*Guest post by Katherine Boom, University of Massachusetts-Amherst* * * As Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on civilian protesters unfolds, the international community agonizes over how to pu...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoA Gallup poll has found that 46% of Americans believe that the world was created by their god less than 10,000 years ago. That's 1 point above the statistical average for the past thirty years. Factor ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoA photo montage of 60 events across Canada and beyond / Un montage photo de 60 casseroles partout au Canada (draft / brouillon) Version finale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl4f1QTa42k
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoTuesday: Stop Spectra, Resist Fracking In NYC *What:* Corporate terrorists are threatening to blow up a huge chunk of Manhattan, poison New Yorkers with radioactive gas, pollute our drinking water, and c...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012* *Part 1—How does Mitt Romney eat chicken:* We Americans like to say that we care about our White House campaigns. We like to say we care about who *wins* these elections. On the ot...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Asia coal imports, 1980-2009. EIA via Western Organization of Resource Councils] Today, close to 99% of the coal mined in the Powder River Basin is consumed in domestic U.S. coal markets. Howev...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: A Turkish Cypriot man works in his wheat field with his sickle under the Mediterranean sun in 2005. Global warming in Europe this century will mostly affect Scandinavia and the Mediterranean basi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: The sun shines through power lines leading towards the EnBW nuclear power plant in Philippsburg, southwest Germany, 5 July 2011. Kai Pfaffenbach / REUTERS] By David Fogarty; Editing by Ed Davies...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Part of the Pastoruri snowcapped mountain in the central Peruvian Andes, 450 km east of Lima. Peru needs a permanent monitoring system to gauge Andean mountain glacier shrinkage caused by global ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 4 hours agoA former NJ DOE employee continues to send us news of from his/her former workplace, where incompetent and corrupt corporate toadies now pretend to do the work once done by educators and administrators con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS LIBYAN ARMED MILITIA HAS SURROUNDED CAPITAL TRIPOLI'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FLIGHTS CANCELLED More to Follow..............
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoH*atred of the big banks* that control so much of the U.S. economy is like an opioid in this country — sickening and addictive, but deeply pleasurable. Americans seemed to take a long, deep draught of it ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoH*atred of the big banks* that control so much of the U.S. economy is like an opioid in this country — sickening and addictive, but deeply pleasurable. Americans seemed to take a long, deep draught of it ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago*STOLEN FROM DAILY KOS in it’s entirety * *Cause it is just so good**.* *WI-Gov, WI-LG, WI-StSen: Information for recall voters* *by Glenn Magus Harvey. * Are you a Wisconsin voter? REMEMBER TO VOTE ON J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWoe, again, is Lebanon. Pity the tiny nation that seems condemned to be dragged into virtually every one of the region's conflagrations. Such is the fate of a perennially divided country. Right from the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoShin Dong-hyuk escaped to China in 2005 Perhaps no story captures the cruelty of the North Korean regime better than that of Shin Dong-hyuk. Born in one of the country’s harshest political prison camps, h...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to James Callis, 41. I'm not a huge fan of Baltar as a character, and I wouldn't put Callis on my list of top performances on BSG...but then again that's an awful high bar. We just finished ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn late April, media around the world, including CBC News and The Globe and Mail, picked up on a story that a vengeful dentist in Poland had extracted all the teeth of an ex-boyfriend. According to Polish...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoI woke up this morning and I was just sick to my stomach - The tension of what is happening in WI and how it will affect the entire US is almost unbearable. I wish the people in Wisconsin a glorious day to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNorth Korea has publicly executed at least three people in recent years after they were found guilty of cannibalism, according to a think tank in Seoul. Some of the 230 defectors interviewed by the Korea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe White House and the congressional leaders of both parties in Congress have begun maneuvering this week over the issue of the federal debt and what to do when the government hits the latest statutory l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWASHINGTON — China is pressing a long-range modernization of its military, part of a strategy aimed at maximizing its leverage over Taiwan, extending its influence farther abroad, but avoiding conflict ar...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours agoCould it be that the New York Times and Reuters and other news organizations are finally starting to heed some of the much-deserved criticism of their own uncritical coverage of the Obama drone attacks? Fo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago*Vilma's lawyer challenges ledger* ~jus'sayin... *Billboard Project Ticket Winners Announced! ~The Angry Whodat* ~Editilla Crowtellas~This is how we roll in The Whodat Nation. We pay it forward with Our ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Internet is littered with stories of “chemtrails” and geoengineering to combat “global warming” and until recently I took these stories with a grain of salt. One of the main reasons for my skepticis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHave you ever heard about the bias of the mainstream news media? Just about everybody has, which explains why journalism was recently ranked as one of America's least trusted professions. I'd like to let y...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 4 hours ago*Refreshing Iced Green Tea And Apple Drink!* * * I love my green tea, but in the summer it can get a bit hot and I find myself longing for some iced tea. When I was in Sweden I came across a very special g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSupervisor who ordered crowd to be boxed in acted unlawfully, report says Misconduct charges are expected against 45 Toronto police officers involved in the G20 summit two years ago, including five senior ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoIn the late 1780's, when the French aristocracy had gotten too big for its britches, the French people, inspired by how the American colonists had thrown off the yoke of the English predators, rolled out ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTo those unfamiliar with the economic concept, all the recent talk among Canada's political class about "Dutch disease" may have left you wondering what nasty ailment had befallen the poor people of the N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThis summer, the largest international naval exercise in the world will see Canada's navy take on the second-largest role and Canadian officers share key commands — a remarkable prominence that Ottawa see...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoWhen reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way — they don't. The open mining most people think of when they picture the o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIt is the only economy in Western Europe still in recession: property prices are crashing, unemployment has risen to more than 4 million, and some are already muttering that it could end up with a financi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoWhen it comes to contingency planning for a eurozone break-up, it is typically a German company that has been ahead of the game. Industrial conglomerate Siemens acquired a banking licence in December 201...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago@w_nicht Why are people fleeing Sudan and Eritrea, crossing Islamic Egypt to reach 'racist' Israel? What do they know that you don't? -- NotaSheep MaybeaGoat (@notasheepagoat)
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoJPMorgan Chase losing $2 billion on a risky trade has many pundits calling for more regulation. But they're still missing so much of the story. Reading over the coverage of JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion fi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoRemains of an enormous turtle, which was the size of a Smart Car, have been unearthed in a Colombian coal mine. The shell alone of the 60-million-year-old turtle, Carbonemys cofrinii, aka "coal turtle," ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAlmost ignored by some media outlets, a major strategic theater cooperation exercise including 19 countries and more than 12,000 participants is currently taking place in Jordan. U.S. Central Command (CEN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLA PAZ, Bolivia – Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years. But some officers are upset by President Evo Morales' choice. The head of Bolivia's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAHUAS, Honduras – A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and det...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Facebook just joined a “troubled club,” warns the Economist. Now it’s just another “endangered public company.” Yes, endangered. The number of public companies has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A local pizza chain that made waves in 2007 for accepting Mexican Pesos for payment has come up with a new way to generate some buzz for itself, offering free pizza to anyone who ord...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoOn Friday, May 18, the Québec legislature signed a special “emergency law” to “restore order” in the province following three months of student protests in a strike against the government’s proposed 80% i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTAMPA, Florida — Sure, it took an extra year or so, but Northrop Grumman has finally penciled in the first flight of the giant surveillance airship it’s building for the U.S. Army. The Long Endurance Mult...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDetroit — Even in one of the most violent cities in the United States, the past five days have been abnormally bloody. There have been 8 homicides and 33 nonfatal shootings in Detroit over the past five ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCorrection: I implied in this article that Britannica has had to sack contributors due the end of its print edition – I have now been told that this isn't true. Britannica is apparently thriving as an onl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoDire Straits, "Private Investigations" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxotsli3gX0&feature=fvsr "It's a mystery to me, The game commences, For the usual fee Plus expenses. Confidential information... It'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThirty North Korean officials, once involved in inter-Korean talks, are believed to have been executed either by firing squad or killed in staged traffic accidents, a human rights advocacy group said Thur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAFP - A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities. Mao Sugiyama had hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPresident Obama wanted to showcase his adopted hometown of Chicago to the leaders of 60 NATO members and partnership countries. Instead, with his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel holding the political r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoScale of withdrawals from Greek banks has led to speculation that eurozone-wide guarantee is need to maintain confidence. Police are urging Greeks to keep their money in bank accounts rather than putting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 67.2 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:18:15 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Southwest of Sukabumi, Java,...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 5 hours agoCanadians have long held that Church and State are separate entities. Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney -- both Catholics -- were instrumental in legalizing abortion. Perhaps they felt, like many Cathol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRussian president urges Europe to shed 'stereotypes' at summit but resists western demands to get Assad to abide by ceasefire The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said the European Union must ditch ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoWillie S. has told me about an interesting article (more precisely, a not so interesting article written by an interesting author, more precisely by a highly notorious author) that mentions your humble c...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoTrial and motion courts are very busy. Sometimes Courts are tempted to take a shortcut and go directly to the result without making interim rulings. In civil court judges sometimes rule on, say, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn recent years, diseases have ravaged through bat, honeybee and amphibian populations, and now animal experts suspect that shared factors may link the deaths, which are putting many species at risk for e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA new Swedish study shows that all Swedes who developed narcolepsy from the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix received the vaccine from 12 of the 35 batches, despite the Swedish Medical Products Agency’s (Läkeme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBird flu has been detected in 21 out of 85 big poultry farms in Bangladesh this year and over 46,000 chicks have been culled till May 31, officials said in Dhaka yesterday. In the wake of spread of avia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA two-year-old boy who is seriously ill with bird flu at Princess Margaret Hospital missed out on treatment for the disease for several days after doctors at another hospital failed to diagnose H5N1, it e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCAMBODIA - The Cambodian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza affecting local chicken and ducks. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNear-record water levels are expected along the NSW coast, as damaging winds join with huge tides. South Eastern NSW is expected to be battered by high winds and large waves from tonight, emergency servic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA complex weather system is forecast to cross New Zealand overnight tomorrow, bringing gale-force winds and heavy rain to much of the North Island on Tuesday and snow to low levels in parts of the South Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKUWAIT: Bad weather has disrupted oil exports from Iraq’s southern offshore terminal and forced neighbouring Kuwait to halt all of its oil exports, a shipping source and government official said yesterday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSIMCOE - Outbreak precautions are in effect at The Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home due to a respiratory-like illness. There are currently five residents showing two or more of the following symptoms; headac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA new strain of flu from the northern hemisphere is likely to spread through Australia this winter, NSW health authorities say. Centre for Health Protection director Dr Jeremy McAnulty says the new flu st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A man swimming in the ocean was injured after officials said he was bitten by a shark Saturday evening at Myrtle Beach. WMBF, in South Carolina, reported that the victim was coming out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHeavy rainfall has been sweeping across parts of Northern and Northeast China. The storms caused traffic delays and many flights have been delayed or cancelled. Beijing received a huge sudden downpour at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBillionaire investor George Soros has warned European leaders they have a "three-month window" to save the euro. He said he believed Greece would elect a government willing to abide by loan conditions im...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChinese authorities have blocked internet access to search terms related to the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 crackdown against protesters at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Terms such as "six four", "23", "ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it hoped the United States will respect Beijing's regional interests, after the U.S. defense secretary announced plans to shift most of his country's wa...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours agoI was looking for research into DOLPHIN LANGUAGE and didn't really find any. Why? Well, because HUMANS ARE STUPID, and manipulative. Seriously, as you can see from this EXPLORATION FILMS clip below, dolph...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe 35-year-old admits this is woefully inadequate, but with only a modest salary and obligations to both his immediate and extended family, there is barely enough each month to see him through to the nex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - A powerful car bomb exploded outside a Shi'ite Muslim administration office in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 18 people and wounding around 60 more, just days after six coordinate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Trichet called last June for the creation of a European finance ministry with power over national budgets, the idea seemed fanciful, a distant dream that would take years or e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCNN) -- A record wildfire raged on in southwestern New Mexico on Sunday, belching out a wall of smoke as it devoured thousands of acres and advanced across the rugged wilderness. Authorities cautioned ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCairo (CNN) -- Defiant demonstrators took to Cairo's Tahrir Square despite the Egyptian heat on Sunday, decrying a judge's decision to put deposed President Hosni Mubarak behind bars for life but clear a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (Financial Times) -- Asian shares tumbled, as investors dumped risky assets, rattled by growing concerns about the global economic recovery and the eurozone's future. The MSCI Asia Pac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- Police in Paris are searching for a self-proclaimed porn star suspected of killing and cutting up a university student in Canada, authorities in Montreal said Sunday. Police Cmdr. Ian LaFrenier...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- A member of the Japanese doomsday cult responsible for the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway has been arrested after 17 years on the run, Tokyo police say. Naoko Kikuchi, 40, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- The man is strapped onto a gurney and restrained, yet he is singing, making faces and twitching. "You know where you're at?" a paramedic asks him, but Freddy Sharp can't answer. He was, he expl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- "Does this mean I must now carry my passport everyday?" my wife Ana wondered aloud with a mix of bemusement and exasperation. She was reacting to news reports that Beijing had started a 10...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA retired engineer's invention is keeping his community from becoming climate refugees. CNN's Sumnima Udas reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAt least four people have contracted Legionnaires' disease following an outbreak in Edinburgh. NHS Lothian said four men, aged 39, 48, 60 and 63, were being treated in hospital after being confirmed as h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJERUSALEM, June 4 (Reuters) - The United States is conferring with Israel about new sanctions planned against Iran should international negotiations this month fail to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMIRANSHAH, Pakistan — US missiles killed 15 militants in Pakistan's Taliban and Al-Qaeda stronghold of North Waziristan on Monday, the third drone strike in three days and the deadliest this year, officia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Japanese government is set to decide this week to reactive two of the Oi Nuclear Power Plant's reactors in Fukui Prefecture, but 71 percent of respondents to a survey by the Mainichi Shimbun say the g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Florida man and U.S. resident of more than 50 years has been told he is no longer considered a citizen of the country. Robert Emerson’s parents filed a petition for naturalization in the 1950s, which wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAn Arkansas man is accused of using his prosthetic arm and a rock to beat another man to death. Hot Springs police say 52-year-old Ray Allen Brown is charged with second-degree murder in the Tuesday nigh...
- Link: http://youtu.be/gHX5lAslnTc General Peter van Uhm is a highly respected Dutchman, chief of defense in The Netherlands. John
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoImage: The Whitewater-Baldy fire in New Mexico has burned 241,701 acres in the Gila National Forest An air tanker dropping retardant on a remote wildfire along the Utah-Nevada line crashed on Sunday afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA football star was all about doing good at a charity benefit this weekend, but one fan forgot the meaning of the word. A local news video shows how when the Green Bay Packers wide receiver tossed his cle...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours agoPick a direction..... *BLOGS*: - High quality MTB bike, small road bike, for sale - Restored Railway bridge in Yunlin - Flying Fish Season on Orchid Island - Taiwan seeks full $5.2 billion upg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:33:16 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 328 km (203 miles) South of David, Panama No Tsun...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?" - Chuck Palahniuk
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours agoDire Straits, “Private Investigations” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxS-ICzjO6I
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*... and 6,000 kids like Alan Alda ...* I was greatly impressed (scientifically, visually, musically, and otherwise) by this 7.5-minute video by Ben Ames, a 31-year-old Missouri-born grad student in Innsb...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoJune 2, 2012 A News Hope - Julian Assange vs Rupert Murdoch Juice Rap News presents the new bulletin of "news show for the internet nation". Robert Foster talks about rebel journalists who dare to chal...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago* * * * *Market rumor: Pimco and JP Morgan halt vacations to prepare for economic crash* Kenneth Schortgen Jr Finance Examiner On June 1, market rumors were coming out of a hedge fund luncheon statin...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 9 hours ago12 year old 'financial economist' Victoria Grant has been well schooled by her parents on the fact that BANKS MAKE MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR. Good for her. Russia Today puts this spin on it, then interviews ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCelebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is representing the girlfriend of the Miami face-eating cannibal, it has been revealed. It is unclear why the high-profile attorney is representing the unidentified woman, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA woman soldier died after being stabbed 74 times in her own room at her barracks barracks, it has been revealed. Brandy Fonteneaux, 28, was killed in her room at Fort Carson in Colorado after being stabb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA wealthy Texan socialite who has the car number plate 'My Syn' has been arrested on child pornography charges. Erika Perdue is alleged to have amassed so large a collection of graphic videos and photos ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEven after Facebook was marred with criticism over the overhyping of their public offering, there is a new threat that could cause the market price to plummet more than it already has. Once a mandated wai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPunting through this unusually coloured lake it looks like this worker is wading through water running red with blood. But while they are not taking to the bizarre looking Lake Retba, in Senegal, west Af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn 8-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother while the two were playing with a gun in a wooded area in rural Maryland, police said. Officers responded to a 911 call at around 7a...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoImage: Matthew Cavanah/Tribune Vertical Gardening and Living Art *By Caroline Dohack* Food Freedom News, June 3, 2012 Emma O’Connell talks about Pick-A-Pepper, a website she started that helps connec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA bus driver in China has been hailed as a hero for saving the lives of 24 passengers after being fatally injured by a piece of iron debris that smashed through the windshield. Despite being in obvious ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 'cruel' carer has been jailed for 15 months after stealing £12,000 worth of valuable heirlooms and war memorabilia from her elderly and vulnerable patients. Barbara Garvey systematically targeted three...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA wild leopard was shot dead after injuring 13 people during a day-long rampage in an oil company compound near an Indian village. The fully grown male leopard managed to get inside the Oil India Limited ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHe was named Orville, after world famous aviator Orville Wright, and now he can mimic his namesake in death as he never could in life. Orville the cat's nine lives ran out after being hit by a car last y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAustralia's peak drugs body says it is concerned by reports young Aboriginal people in central Australia are stealing deodorant from supermarkets to get high. An Alice Springs youth organisation says ther...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 45.1 km (28 miles), the quake hit at 06:51:05 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) South of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 98.3 km (61.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:12:02 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) South of Escuintla, Guatem...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis is a little different and I suspect we have a solution in search of a problem. It certainly is a nifty tool. What this is all telling us is that while a visibility cloak operating at our scale...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoKey work is been done here in the relationship of vein density and climate conditions that will assist in also mapping local climate in the fossil record. I suspect that it will become possible to pro...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoWe are into the last echos of the great pine beetle infestation. A couple of cold spells have occurred and much more important all the pine forest that were vulnerable have been destroyed. The only threa...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoFirst off, the likelihood of this been a natural object seems pretty low. The natural explanations are all troublesome. An asteroid creates a mess and we do not have a mess down there. Ancient sink ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago*Nintendo's new Wii U console will embrace social networking, according to a video presentation unrestricted ahead of the E3 video games talks.* The Japanese firm posted its first annual loss in April. T...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 11 hours agoMembers of the Harper Government’s Special Archival Team get ready to head out and deal with important historical documents. Federal officials may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Dr. Daniel Caron, t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoYes, I'm aware it's not exactly Friday. So the Giants won today -- woo! -- and moved to only 3 back of the Dodgers, and one behind the Fish and the Mets for both of the WC spots. Which brings up two thing...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago*I'm sitting at my computer with a stack of research papers at my side.* The first one is Takeo Ohnishi (2012). The Disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant after the March 11, 2011 Earthquake an...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 12 hours ago* * *I don't usually like to summarize articles as I think that tends to ruin the holograhpic nature of written communication, and you can all read in any case, but I'll put out these points he makes:...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours agoWebsite for this image *The Russian journalist Marat Musin *of ANNA newsagency has now published a more detailed interview with witnesses to the events in Houla (Al-Hula). *INTERVIEW with SYRIAN EYEWITN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn evil father who beat his son while he was hanging upside down from a forklift truck, before welding him into a cage has been jailed for 16 years. Gary Clifford, 29, was left with a broken arm, two brok...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoYou too can make your own ALEC ads. Saw this tonight – one of the ads highlighted targets ALEC Member Nathan Fletcher who wants to be San Diego’s mayor. Taking a page from the independent expenditure play...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA video of a prank zombie attack going around the internet is being heavily criticized as both insensitive and dangerous after the recent cannibal attack of a homeless man in Miami. The video shows a you...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA 19-year-old Satan-worshipper from Pacific, Washington, is suspected of murdering his girlfriend's 13-year-old brother. Brandon Suhr, who goes by the name of 'Master Dante 666', was in custody at King C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA daredevil B&B owner survived a 45 minute ordeal after becoming trapped in the tangled wreckage of her microlight - just two years after suffering a near identical accident. Marilyn Nichols, who is in he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSwarms of spiders descending from nowhere and biting those unfortunate enough to stray into their path sounds like the stuff of nightmares. But for people in one Indian town, the scenario is all too real....
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours agoWelcome to Meet & Greet Monday! Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site: Do you have an Eco-friendly blog or site? Do you occasionally write about the environme...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoAbout a million people signed petitions this year demanding Scott Walker be recalled. And Tuesday's the day. It's Walker versus a so-so Democrat, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, an unlikely hero but... all ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago*The Western media lost its head and heart. It is now set apart from the rest of humanity. * The most crucial aspect of the Bilderberg story is the decades-long media blackout. When the story is the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA teenage boy arrested in connection with the suspected drug death of a 15-year-old girl remains in police custody. Rose Farley, from Liverpool, fell ill at a birthday party on Friday evening and died at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA US drone strike in Pakistan has left eight suspected militants dead, according to officials. Pakistani intelligence chiefs say four missiles were fired at a hide-out in a village near the town of Mir A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEU officials are expected to press Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a stronger line on Syria during a summit in St Petersburg. EU nations want Russia to put pressure on its ally to withdraw heavy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoGeorge Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watch volunteer charged with murdering unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, has returned to jail in Florida. A judge on Friday revoked Zimmerman's bail and ordered hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA passenger plane has crashed into buildings in a densly-populated area of Nigeria's largest city, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground. The president, Goodluck Jonathan, has declare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMadrid will this week replace Athens as the focus of European efforts to save the euro after Spain bungled attempts to bail out its fourth-largest bank. Until recently, uncertainty over the Greek electi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPolice in Paris are investigating two reported sightings of a Canadian porn actor wanted in connection with the killing and dismemberment of his lover in Montreal. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is suspected o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:24 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 340 km (211 miles) South of David, Panama Local T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 00:45:15 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 346 km (214 miles) South of David, Panama Local Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 32.4 km (20.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:15:42 UTC Monday 4th June 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) East of Ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Kashmir-Xinjiang border Region at a depth of 65.1 km (40.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:19:19 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (95 miles) SSW of H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 31.2 km (19.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:00:58 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) SSE of B...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoThree Rivers Park District About Three Rivers Park District The mission of Three Rivers Park District is to promote environmental stewardship through recreation and education in a natural resources-based...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:20:43 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (24 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy No Reports o...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 14 hours ago*"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -*H.L. Menc...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 14 hours agoYesterday I arrived home and grabbed a copy of the local newspaper out of my mailbox. Normally, nothing terribly exciting but this time was different as the paper contained a special insert entitled "Voic...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Galaxies NGC 5216 (top) and NGC 5218 really do look like they are connected by a string. Of course, that string is a cosmic trail of gas, dust, and stars about 22,000 light-years long. Also known as Keen...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth reme...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoCamuy, Puerto Rico. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"The Brown Forest" * "I entered the life of the brown forest And the great life of the ancient peaks, the patience of stone, I felt the changes in the veins In the throat of the mountain, a grain in m...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Convergence"* by Chet Raymo "I suggested in a post that the "global internet may be our best hope yet of freeing humankind from the baleful influence of supernaturalist magic of every stripe." Someo...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoSkip to 6:00 mark to hear Jeremy Scahill make important points about Obama's monstrous drone murders. "We have jumped into Minority Report pre-crime territory with these so-called signature strikes." - Je...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours agoTBogg ventures into the trenches in search of answers: Last night I got into another one of my distressingly more frequent commenter flame wars with that Very Special Faction of FDL commenters who are ho...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoWhether it's the demise of the Liberals or inexperience of the NDP, Harper is getting too much of a free ride from the Opposition. Canada is about to wrap up our first failed foreign war. We went to war ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 16 hours ago------------------------------ *Cenk Ugyur & Josh Israel Talk About The Tea Party Bankrolling* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQGGDOdYIU&feature=colike Published on May 22, 2012 by jasondavis13 www...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoA curious analogy to be sure. Here's the only thing that concerns me about the end of Bashar al-Assad's reign -- what follows? The Shah was pretty awful -- but he seems warm and cuddly compared to what ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 16 hours ago** *... tell us everything about yourself - you can trust us; we're the "security" people.* *Contributor: "YYC"* Boy, you know you've made it when an important European security agency sends you emails i...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoReports Gallup Politics: *"Gallup has asked Americans to choose among these three explanations for the origin and development of human beings 11 times since 1982. Although the percentages choosing each vie...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours agoThere was a brief flurry of excitement on the internets this morning when someone posted a story alleging Gov. Walker fathered a child during his college days and walked away from it, refusing to take any ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"The big news is May’s rotten jobs report, which shows a paltry 69,000 new jobs added and an unemployment rate that has inched up to 8.2 percent. Even more scary is corporate America continues to be ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Leap: The Future of Motion Gesture Control”* by Michael A. Robinson "Boy, Microsoft should have paid more attention to all those bright young hackers. A lot more. Back in November 2010 Microsoft Corp. ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 20 hours agoAnother reason to vote for Barrett. He doesn't depend on KOCH Funding From CMD Today Buses paid for by the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP), as part of its "Better Wisconsin" tour, and the Tea P...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 20 hours agoIt has become a matter of conventional wisdom, that is, the idea that "flying saucer" is a misnomer, invented by a newspaper reporter who had been listening to Kenneth Arnold talk of a motion of nine objec...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoWhen it comes to America's looming war in the Pacific, Canada's in. That much became plain with the announcement that Harper DefMin, "Airshow" MacKay, is seeking to establish a Canadian military post in ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: In a warming region of the Arctic, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications. B.C. Forbes] By ANDREW C. REVKIN 3 June 2012 Even as insect infestations and other factors a...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoOur days babysitting Afghanistan's unresolved civil war are drawing to a close. The big question is "what next"? What will come of Afghanistan after Western forces leave? According to Gwynne Dyer, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Survey said**....* *That was our number one answer. * "‘Family Feud’ host Richard Dawson dies at 79" Associated Press, June 03, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertain...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoWhen far right extremist Mike Coffman picked up the mantle of racism and bigotry from longtime congressman Tom Tancredo and took over his seat in Congress, the 6th district was pretty rural and filled wi...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 21 hours agoCharles Pierce in Esquire speaks for all intelligent observers. All .00001% of us. As a trial, it has been a profound waste of time and money, the political equivalent of the federal government's endlessly...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Don't Worry About Your Kids' Economic Future,* * Worry about Yours" * By Gary North "I read that Americans who have spoken to poll-takers express the fear that their children will not live as well a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoLast year, Honeywell was identified as one of the biggest recipients of special tax deals from the government. The company actually spends more on lobbying than it pays in corporate taxes. This preferenti...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agoJapan to make more plutonium despite big stockpile. Japan Today. By Eric Talmadge [Except] “Nuclear industry officials say they hope to start producing a half-ton of plutonium within months, in addition ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 48.9 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:11:24 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) SSW of Antofagas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRare journey will help scientists learn more about planets far beyond our solar system. A small black dot will grace the face of the sun as it rises (over Europe) on Wednesday, when Venus makes a rare an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoProtest by campaign group ahead of Queen's Diamond Jubilee river pageant. Anti-monarchy protesters today staged a demonstration on the banks of the Thames ahead of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee river pageant...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoThe article is addressing the question of what constitutes a lethal response in Yemen given escalating drone attacks by the US in that country: *U.S. drone targets in Yemen raise questions. Greg Miller. W...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours agoRobert M. La Follette spent the better part of two decades campaigning to add the recall power to the constitution, and he did so for a reason. “The recall enables the people to dismiss from public servi...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoAnd here's one that I have asked before, but it's been long enough that I'm interested again: After almost four years of Barack Obama...have you changed at all what you think of Bill Clinton's presidency? ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 22 hours agoThere is a section in RA 9502 or the Cheaper Medicines Law (2008) that allows for the creation of the DOH Advisory Council for Price Regulation. I have written about the Council and the discussions there a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoHere's one I've never asked: what do you think of Richard Nixon? As I read it, the party line on Nixon has been all over the place since 1974: sometimes he's an almost pure victim of the liberal establishm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 7.2 km (4.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:31:36 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) North from Morgan Hill, Ca...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Irish sea coast along western Wales: site of an Iron Age fort. C. Michael Hogan via eoearth.org] By Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent 2 June 2012 THE IRISH Sea’s level will rise by almost half...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 1 day agoI’ve been reading about land occupations and protests in the Honduran papers since April 18, when several thousand campesinos and supporters moved onto private lands and claimed them. Like almost everyth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 162.5 km (101 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:05 UTC Sunday 3rd June 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) WNW of Aomori, Honshu,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe porn star suspected of killing and eating parts of a former lover could be a serial killer, police have said. Luka Magnotta, 29, is on the run as has been spotted 'out drinking' in trendy bars and sta...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA plane struck a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, resulting in an unknown number of casualties, officials said. The head of the Civil Aviation Authority told AFP that the p...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Oklahoma consecutive days with high temperatures >= 100F, through 31 July 2011. Mesonet via blogs.agu.org] 1 June 2012, TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) – Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about whic...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoThe failure to provide any description of the shooter is suggestive; either the police are unsure as to who the shooter was or, perhaps, they have an idea but are holding it back for public safety concerns...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: 'It's blue skies, sunny days, Wyangala [Dam] is full and everyone's happy'. Sue and Pat Kennedy are smiling now, but they were facing disaster after eight years of drought in New South Wales, Aus...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoDoucette v. McInnes, 2012 BCCA 235 deals with the issue of substantial success and costs in the Court of Appeal. While arising in British Columbia and so governed by that Province's own rules, the decision...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe parents accused of murdering their six children in a house fire have begged prison bosses to be allowed to attend their funerals. Mick and Mairead Philpott are currently in custody and have put in an ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Eduard Zilberkant:* *The Young Concert Artists' Evenings of Piano Concerti veteran conducted two of the four EPC IV concerts and was the unquestioned star.* *by Ken* We're still talking about New York C...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoBy Hari Sreenivasan 1 June 2012 MARGARET WARNER: Now: Coping With Climate Change. In this edition of our series, Hari Sreenivasan reports from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, where rising seawater is clai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKANO, Nigeria — A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed at least 15 people, including himself, and injured 40, officials said. Spee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Pope Benedict got no rest on Sunday from a leaks scandal when an Italian newspaper published documents showing that his butler was not the only person in possession of confidential corresponde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Trichet called last June for the creation of a European finance ministry with power over national budgets, the idea seemed fanciful, a distant dream that would take years or e...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoFOREIGN POLICY has a fascinating display, worthy of your attention, of just what a raw deal women are given in various parts of the world, in an article by Valerie Hudson, "The Worst Places to Be a Woman: Ma...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoAch, I didn't get around to running this on Friday. I had a new piece out over at Salon as part of the candidate web site series, this one looking at foreign policy -- but it turned out to be about Afghani...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoOK, Let me start by saying that these days I am pretty pissed off by what I see happening around us, and nobody is stepping forward and doing anything to stop the maniacs responsible for creating the mess ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Reclaiming West Virginia's mountains. This was once a useless old mountain, now reclaimed for positive economic impact by coal companies and their friends in the legislature, featuring WAL MART, ...
Related articles
No comments:
Post a Comment