tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38107322011-04-21T14:23:27.334-07:00horses and saddles sold cheap and other metaphorsWinslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529546390836481114noreply@blogger.comBlogger4261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810732.post-1142727791991011202006-03-18T16:23:00.000-08:002006-03-18T16:25:17.523-08:00

Some blogs that are worth checking out a few times a week.ACS BLog American Constitution Society for Law and PolicyThe Reality-Based CommunityEzra KleinBTC NewsDemocratic VeteranUnclaimed TerritoryNitpickerBody and SoulAngry BearThe HeretikpandagonHullabaloo aka digbyDaily KosTalking Points MemoDonkey RisingThe King of ZemblafiredoglakeLiberal OasisLeft in the WestIntel-DumpLiberalism without

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from Kos, Republicans Rally Around Their KingThe spineless, submissive Republicans are set to make their Master happy: After weeks of negotiations and closed door meetings, Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said he would soon introduce the Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 with three other moderates who have helped shaped the debate on intelligence issues: Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Olympia Snowe

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Budgets Imperil Environmental Satellite * NASA’s Earth Observing System was conceived in the 1980s as a 15-year program that would collect comprehensive data about the planet’s oceans, atmosphere and land surface. It was originally intended to send three generations of spacecraft into orbit at five-year intervals, but budget shortfalls limited the project to only one round of launches. *

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I've been trying out wordpress the last few days and while its not perfect, I am impressed enough to move over there. I may cross post some things here once in a while because of the whole linking business. If there's a story that you think deserves attention, the more people that link to it the more buzz it creates. This blog might also be a way to increase the link score of other blogs where I

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Pesticides In The Nation's Streams And Ground WaterThe U.S. Geological Survey has released a report describing the occurrence of pesticides in streams and ground water during 1992-2001. The report concludes that pesticides are typically present throughout the year in most streams in urban and agricultural areas of the Nation, but are less common in ground water. The report also concludes that

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The sell-off of America continues Even as fury over the sale of U.S. seaport management to the Dubai government still blazes in Congress, the Bush administration reveals that another Dubai company and an Israeli firm want to buy U.S. companies that produce military products for the Defense Department.As the sell-off and outsourcing of corporate America accelerates, President Bush isn't far behind

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Evergreen Foundation , sounds pretty environmental doesn't it. How about Evergreen Magazine? If you were a moderate conservative from Main St. America or a conservative Democrat, but thinks America as a matter of policy should protect our environment and our natural heritage they sound like organizations that would appeal to those folks. Only that they're run by James Peterson and Evergreen

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a too high gas tax is more then this old beater can takeWHEREIN I MAKE ENVIRONMENTALISTS STOP LIKING MEI really hate to see the gas tax swaggering back into the debate among progressives. If there's any instance where the liberal urges towards environmentalism and populism collide, it's here. Since I'm supposed to be writing an article right now, I'll make this quick, but assuming a serious gas

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I glad that most Americans are at least questioning Bush's UAE port deal, even if a percentage of it is because of some distrust of Arab countries that has arisen over the last few years. Though that is not the right reason to oppose it. The ones that oppose it for the wrong reasons on the conservative side are doing so because its an extention of their political brainwashing, brainwashing which

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via From the Desert to the Sea, Get ‘em While They’re Young or Why Mommy is a DemocratAs a political scientist, Zilber is surely aware of the cliche that the Democrats are the “mommy party,” while Republicans are the “daddy party.” In troubled times like now, these identities don’t do the Democrats much good. But I give Zilber a lot of credit for being unafraid to steer right into that reputation

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I can understand a war on poverty, but I never could understand a war on the poor. I think for some people seeing the poor is like going to a funeral where you're reminded of your own mortality; the poor remind the well off that the world is a tough place, that maybe poverty could happen to them too. Kind of a reminder not of their mortality, but their vulnerability to hard luck. I don't know

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Safety of Post-Hurricane Sludge Is Disputed"State and some federal officials have been consistently denying there are any significant risks from the toxic mud that has spread across the city," said Erik Olson, a senior NRDC lawyer. "The data they themselves have collected show that, to the contrary, there are significant risks from arsenic and toxic chemicals that have blanketed much of New

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The Long View from AntarcticaAntarctica will do that to you. It will make you wonder about beginnings and endings: gases coagulating, continents shifting, oceans churning, suns exploding. Perhaps because it is the most extreme, contrary place on this planet, and has never nurtured or sustained any human civilization. Perhaps because it is free of such markers as towers of iron, pyramids, trees;

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Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressiveby Bill LofyYet Lofy's book is more than just the chronicle of Wellstone's life and political career; it's also an indispensable guide to what ails political life today. Readers politically inclined or not will find in its pages a handbook to the uncertain and often treacherous business of politics and a stirring example for living a courageous

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White House 'Discovers' 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday. The emails are said to be

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via Middle-Earth Journal, Bad day for Bush at the National ReviewOne can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. The same edition of the paper quotes a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Reuel Marc Gerecht backed the American intervention. He now speaks of the bombing of the especially sacred Shiite mosque in Samara and what that has precipitated in the way of

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Jurassic beaver swims into view and hereAs a Jurassic predator, it was hardly in the big league. But compared with the shrew-like stature of the earliest mammals, it was a fearsome giant.Meet the Jurassic ‘beaver’ from China. Living 164 million years ago, it’s the oldest known furry member of the mammal family, and the first known to master swimming.

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Companies Given Free Ride on Pollution Violations with Voluntary EPA ProgramAn Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that is supposed to give recognition and flexibility to companies that are good environmental citizens may in fact be giving a free pass to some firms that are heavy polluters and even lawbreakers, according to a coalition of environmentalists. ....Eric Schaeffer, former

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CPI reveals that except for everything going up in price, there is no inflation "In January, energy prices rose 5%, after falling 2.1% in December. The advance was led by a 5.5% surge in electricity costs, the largest increase on record for that component. Gasoline prices last month rose by 6.4% and natural-gas prices increased 1.7%. Year over year, all energy prices advanced 24.8%. Food

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Ports of Politics Some of us are scratching our heads all right, but we're wondering why Mr. Graham and others believe Dubai Ports World has been insufficiently vetted for the task at hand. So far, none of the critics have provided any evidence that the Administration hasn't done its due diligence. The deal has been blessed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a

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Got this quote from Josh Marshall by Bush on the UAE company deal, "They ought to listen to what I have to say about this. They ought to look at the facts and understand the consequences of what they're going to do. But if they pass a law, I'll deal with it, with a veto ... they need to know that our government has looked at this issue and looked at it carefully. Again, I repeat, if there was any

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It sounds like a headline from a tabloid, but apparently this is true, Mysterious Bird of Paradise: Lost and FoundThe month-long expedition began 25 years ago in the imagination of Conservation International (CI) scientist and vice president Bruce Beehler. At least a dozen others had tried unsuccessfully to reach the virtually untouched and unexplored Foja Mountains of western New Guinea. Beehler

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Dubai company set to run U.S. ports has ties to administrationWASHINGTON - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose department heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of

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Pilfered Penguin's Parents Have ChickThe penguins who had their 3-month-old chick stolen just before Christmas have hatched another egg at a zoo in southern England.Penguins Kyala and Oscar had looked up and down for their missing chick named Toga when he disappeared from the Amazon World Zoo on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast and rewards were posted for his safe return..................

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Baghdad Embassy BonanzaAmerican contractors witnessing the plight of some of these migrants at military camps around Iraq have openly complained that the Asians endure abysmal working conditions, live in cramped housing, eat poor food, and lack satisfactory medical care and safety gear.Typically, these migrants work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, and earn just dollars a day performing

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U.S. urges wary Arabs to threaten to isolate Iran"I would hope that those states that are worried about this ... are prepared to really say to the Iranians: 'You are going to be isolated from us too if you continue down this road,'" Rice said in an interview with Arab-based media about her planned talks on the trip.Rice is a step behind Al Gore, who said four days ago,On Iran, Gore complained of

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A thief uses sympathy as emotional blackmail, camera unlost, but not quite found.I hadn't posted here in a while, because just after the last post, I got a call from an excited park ranger in Hawaii that "a nice Canadian couple reported that they found your camera!" She gave me their name and number, and I eagerly called to reclaim my camera."Hello," I said, when I reached the woman who had

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from the Anonymous Liberal, George Will to the RescueI disagree with George Will about a great many things, but he can generally be counted on to rise above reflexive partisanship when the situation truly demands it, and for that reason, I respect him. Now, at time when the NSA scandal is at an important crossroads, Will has finally broken his silence, and the Bush administration is not going to

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Segway creator unveils his next actSan Francisco (Business 2.0) - Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new equation these days. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water, and an estimated 1.6 billion don't have electricity. Those figures add up to a big problem for the world—and an equally big opportunity for

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The NSA Scandal and public opinion myths…I plead with the American public to tune-in to what is happening in this country. Please forget the political party with which you may usually be associated, and, instead, think about the right of due process, the presumption of innocence, and the right to a private life. Forget the now tired political spin that, if one does not support warrant-less

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A Trust, By Any Other NameIt is not as if we need to search long for evidence of the problems traditionally associated with monopoly. Capture of political power? Consider Boeing’s hold over the Bush administration. Extreme pricing distortions? We see them throughout Wal-Mart’s supply system. Artificial control over what technologies are brought to market and when? One blatant example is the power

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First, as far as Mr Whittington is concerned, being shot and having a heart attack is not the least bit funny and my sympathies to him and his family. Then there's Dick. Top Ten Ways Iraq is like Harry Whittington1. Cheney attacked secular Iraq, mistaking it for an ally of Usamah Bin Laden. Cheney attacked Harry Whittington, mistaking him for a small bird.2. Iraq has been peppered with Cheney's

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Lake Clark National ParkLet's say I'm a Congressman. I load up the family in the RV for a 5,000 mile trip that lats ten days and claim that it was all official business because I meet with park officials on congressional business. The trip costs $6436.38 of taxpayer money. At least some of the people I supposedly meet with say they don't remember ever meeting with me. How much credibility do I

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Paul Hackett, who I think would be great in politics has dropped out of the race for Senate in Ohio. Kos has some of the behind the scene details. I think is was a regrettable situation, Hackett is a real asset to the Democratic Party, but Sherrod Brown has the experience and the record to run a very strong race. I hope that Paul realizes that hard choices have to be made and will reconsider

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AARP Report on the Federal Budget: Opinions on the Federal Budget Among U.S. AdultsThe majority of respondents (71%) said they are either very or somewhat concerned with the current budget deficit. When asked about eight possible methods for reducing the budget deficit, most favored keeping the estate tax on assets over $2 million (69%) and raising income taxes for households earning over

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Absurd Junction A final absurd junction of dysfunction was reached on Wednesday, when Republican Party leaders awarded Tom DeLay with a seat on the Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, which is investigating Jack Abramoff, including his connections to Tom DeLay. Perfect. - Maureen Dowdshame: a. A painful emotion caused by a strong sense of guilt, embarrassment,

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Cross CountryIce may not be all that habitable to humans, but for certain other species, the frozen Arctic sea spells Home Sweet Home. So it's worrisome when that home starts melting away. Citing concerns over climate change, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week began reviewing whether polar bears should be declared a threatened species. If they are, federal regulators would be required

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Kids Planet part of the Defenders of Widlife site for kids. The picture of penquins is one of several that can be printed out and colored.

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The Eastern Shore story was a kind of slight of hand it turns out, in typical conservative fashion they throw the people some crumbs with one hand and take a loaf of bread with the other, Parcels of national forests may be sold ofThe Bush administration today is unveiling plans to sell tens of thousands of acres of national forest land in California as part of a new and controversial bid to fund

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Wal-Mart, another name for China Inc. U.S. Annual Trade Gap With China Swells to Record $201.6 Bln Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. trade deficit with China ballooned to $201.6 billion last year, setting a single-country record for a third consecutive year as Americans' appetite for cheap imported clothing and electronics grew.The gap jumped 25 percent from last year's $161.9 billion, the Commerce

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Eastern ShoreThe Nature Conservancy Applauds President’s Budget Request for Wildlife Refuge on Eastern Shore of Virginia“This funding would help ensure that Virginia’s critical wildlife habitat and water quality on the Eastern Shore will continue to be protected,” said Michael Lipford, Virginia executive director of The Nature Conservancy. “The more we save these habitats, the better our chances

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Nothing pisses off a right-wing zealot worse then a man with genuine integrity, AP left out key facts in report linking Reid, AbramoffIn a February 9 article by staff writers John Solomon and Sharon Theimer, the Associated Press left out important details of two incidents that purportedly link Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The AP noted that Reid

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the "crowned dragon of the five-colored rocks" has been found....Petite, Crested Dinosaur Was Early Ancestor of T. RexPaleontologists working in western China have unearthed the remains of a new species of dinosaur that is an early member of the family of dinosaurs that culminated in Tyrannosaurus rex. They have dubbed the three-meter-long predator, which sports an elaborate crest along its

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Right-wingers think this guy walking on crosses is classey.I don't know why they even invited conservatives to Paul Wellstone's funeral much less Coretta Scott King's, Stop Making Sense I personally find it absolutely outrageous, OUTRAGEOUS! that Republicans are attacking Coretta Scott King and her family this way. Why, she is an American icon! How dare they! Do they really think that African

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Reuters reports:WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency's 2007 budget would decrease by 4 percent to $7.3 billion, the fourth cut in a row for the agency's yearly budget, the Bush administration said on Monday.and Lowering funding for clean water programs by 13 percent to $2.7 billion.Cutting clean air and global climate change research by $10.8 million to $118.7

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Credit CrunchFor those who have been using credit cards to pay for day-to-day living expenses--I racked up an $11,000 debt during a time when I had temporarily lost my income--this increase in the minimum payment is a mixed bag at best. The OCC's policy forces the one out of seven customers who routinely make minimum-only payments to actively reduce their debt and actually pay less over the life

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Energy policy begins with us, we can do something. Heck if we wait for politicians to get off their duffs the Arctic will be warmer then Savannah in May...Save Fuel Now1. Be kind to your car ....keep your tires properly inflated, and change the oil as directed. These simple, relatively inexpensive steps can increase your car's fuel efficiency by as much as 10 percent.2. Buy fuel-efficient

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Some US troops question Woodruff coverage Here is an incomplete list of American service members who were killed by hostile fire in Iraq that same week that Woodruff and Vogt were hit. The Pentagon does not release the names of the injured.Spc. Brian J. Schoff, 22, of Manchester, Tenn., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 28, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.Sgt. David L.

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Why Bush needs a new lawyerThe courts have traditionally been reluctant to intervene when the president's constitutional powers and Congress directly collide. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous opinion in the Steel Seizure case remains the governing framework. In that case, in reasoning that President Truman exceeded his powers by seizing steel mills as part of his Korean War effort

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Not related to the post, just thought it was funny.The modular housing industry can play a role in rebuilding our cities, while New Orleans and the cronyism involved in rewarding some of the contracts doesn't provide the best example. It does show how quickly that can have an impact on notching up the quality of life for low and middle income residents. new Orleans is particular because it was a

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Poor land Use or Population Growth: Which is Worse for SprawlA major controversy in the efforts to halt the rural land loss is whether land-use and consumption decisions are the primary engines of urban sprawl, or whether it is the nation's continuing population boom providing most of the power driving the expansion. A careful analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that the two sprawl factors

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This is pretty fancy for a modular home, the Side Breeze, 3 bedroom and 3 baths mad expecially for narrow lots according to the on-line description. To me it looks like a little bit of modern mountain chateau, if there is such a thing. Looks like it would give everyone plenty of personal space.Conviction PoliticsThe chattering classes are all very sure that the Democrats have made a grave mistake

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I have been meaning to do a post on modular housing/minimalists housing. The suburban sprwal issue aside for the moment, people need a space to live in. Many folks are opting to have fewer children then past generations or no children. Given the decrease in family size, the need for both affordibility and the desire among a growing segment of the population for simplicity, functionality, and ease

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Bird Flu Genes Decoded; New Clue to How It KillsA bird-flu pandemic is unlikely until the virus becomes able to be passed from human to human, rather than from animal to human. To decipher how that might happen, and why the influenza is so deadly in the first place, scientists have to understand how the virus is built. For this, they need lots of genetic data on the virus—and they just got a lot

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Bill O'Reilly, the Faux king of political slime takes, what else, but a cheap shot at Daivd Corn. I think the O'Liar knows he's a button pushing moron and is one of those forces that wants political debate to take place in a sewer tube repleat with echo. He stays wealthy by not doing any actual work, not really standing for anything noble or honorable, but by creating divisions instaed of bridges

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How to you get to a Memphis barbeque recipe? First you go to Democratic Veteran's post called....Why am I not surprised?Could it have been that the invasion of Iraq was nothing but a combination of a way for The Deserting Fratboy Coward and his Bedwetting Chickenhawk allies to get wood and get elected/reelected? Gee, the 1600 Crew would never play politics with something as serious as WAR would

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They're not called Propaganda Ministers any more, they're called Political Strategist"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Goebbels"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is

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Its looks like the head scroundrel of the attack on America's natural heritage, our man Richard Pombo has a challenger in the next election........Former Congressman To Challenge Richard Pombo“Winning isn’t the issue. The issue is forcing a debate on which way the Republican Party goes,” McCloskey said. “This guy Pombo, he wants to privatize the remaining public lands in California and he has

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Right Whale Found Dead Off Jacksonville CoastNOAA Fisheries says most of these whales are killed by humans and most of their deaths could be avoided. NOAA is trying to have federal rules passed, speed restrictions and safety zones out in the water that boaters will have to abide by. They say it's the only way to help protect these whalesDelicate Dance for Bush in Depicting Spy Program as Asset

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Credit where due Is Elusive, Taped Bin Laden Manipulating U.S. Domestic Politics?In other words, in this view, bin Laden wants the right to start pointing fingers at the left...which will infuriate the left...which will cause another reaction from the right. And no one benefits from bitter polarization, even though it might be beneficial in a given election.After I heard that a new Bin Laden tape

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This is a commercial site, NatureMill...How it works - sealed inner chambers No more emptying the compost crock, or mixing the compost bin. Just add food and paper items at any time, on any day. For best results, cut items into small pieces, and add a tablespoon of baking soda to balance acidity. Waste is automatically transfered to the sealed inner reactor, where the computer controls mixing,

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Is Bush giving Democracy a bad nameThe King has put his lies in black print on white paper, now if everyone would bow.....via Tapped and NYT, BUT TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK.Now they just suggest their critics are traitors helping the other side, respond to allegations of domestic spying by saying, essentially, "damn right we're spying on you," open McCarthyesque investigations into whoever

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Are Conservative Republicans Now America's Permanent Ruling Class?The political pundits are wrong, but your high-school civics teacher was right: Thanks to federalism, separated powers, checks and balances, staggered elections, and myriad other constitutional contrivances, the party in power has to govern by the ABC's — forging interparty alliances, striking bargains with officials in other

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There Is No Reason to DespairThe most recent modeling suggests the carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere needs to peak at around 450 parts per million if we are to avoid the worst consequences of rapid climate change. It is still possible to avoid breaching this threshold, if the range of technologies and policies that are already available are deployed urgently. If

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Via Daily Kos, it looks like Hillary Clinton is not the only one to make political analogies involving "plantations". I especially liked this one from Robert Dinosaur NovakWhere would the Democrats be if they're not picking up around 90 percent of the black vote? What if black voters started moving off the Democratic plantation?:This is idicative of the almost unconscsious racism of some

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America the Beautiful or subdivsions from sea to shining seaI was reading this roundup of the major players in the Republican/Abramoff corruption scandal at WaPo.....Unraveling Abramoff, which is essential is you're trying to get a handle on the major players. In the past I have naively mentioned the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy as an example of moderate Republicans that

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If you eat bananas you probably eat The Cavendish......Can This Fruit Be Saved?That sameness is the banana’s paradox. After 15,000 years of human cultivation, the banana is too perfect, lacking the genetic diversity that is key to species health. What can ail one banana can ail all. A fungus or bacterial disease that infects one plantation could march around the globe and destroy millions of

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The Enemy Among Us Citizen militias are still locked and loaded in rural AmericaThe central threat these miniature armies pose is their likelihood of spinning off rogue members. Militias, which Mark Pitcavage of the extremist-tracking Anti-Defamation League described to Gagnon as "finishing schools for people of a certain ideology," can give members not only the technical capability to murder

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I know that many have wondered how to teach an ant to run. Its a little like training for Olympic track events, the coach runs with you and helps you with your technique.......First Demonstration Of 'Teaching' In Non-human Animals: Ants Teach By Running In TandemCertain species of ant use a technique known as 'tandem running' to lead another ant from the nest to a food source. Signals between the

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Whatever faults that Democrats may have the last few years have certainly pulled back the curtain on the Conservatives real view of big government, they're all for it. Whenever Bush has made a move to grab power and centralize it in Washington and the executive branch he has done so without legal presedent and a conservative legislature has been very accommodating. One-Man Rule... presidential

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The Rapid Disappearance of America's Middle ClassThe danger, Warren finds, comes from both ends of the financial spectrum: a decline in real wages for full-time workers and huge increases in basic family expenses. As a result, families are staying afloat only because both partners work.Male full-time workers in 2003 earned $800 less than their counterparts in 1970, after adjustment for inflation.

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Calliope Stellula calliopeBRAINS, HEART AND LUNGS: Largest brain, relative to size, of all birds. The brain is 4.2% of total body weight. Hummingbirds have proportionally the largest hearts of any living animal. 1.75% to 2.5% of body weight. Resting heartbeat is 480 beats per minute and can go as high as 1,260 per second when excited. Resting hummingbirds breathe 250 times a minute.Levi Designs

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Researchers: Polar bears ingesting toxinsResearchers say that toxic chemicals from flame retardants are building up in the tissues of polar bears.An international group of wildlife scientists have found that chemicals in the retardants are carried north from the United States by the wind. In the Arctic, they become increasingly concentrated in the fatty tissues of animals as they move up the food

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via TPMCafe, it seems that our man Pombo has got himself caught up in the conservative culture of corruption - A Donor Who Had Big Allies In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used their official positions to try to stop a federal investigation of a wealthy Texas businessman who provided them with political

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You're a one of the good guys/gals, that's why you're concered about the idea of preserving wildlife. maybe you like to fish or hunt. maybe you just like to take your family out to some place where there are trees, birds, streams, whatever. On the other hand, you want to be fair, if someone owns some property, you believe, as most people do, that there are certain rights that come along with that

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38 million Americans live in hunger or are malnurished, one in four of the folks standing in line at a soup kichen are kids. America's Second Harvest, there's a box where you can enter your zip code to find a food bank in your area, if there is one.I'm not sure how well this site will work since there's such a tremendous stigma attached to asking for help, Favorville!, but I like the idea of

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Mine Inspectors Questioned Administration’s Commitment To Mine Safety and here......Miners deserve betterDRIVING SOLO IN A CALIFORNIA carpool lane carries a heftier fine than allowing combustible materials to accumulate in a coal mine.That might help explain why the Sago mine in West Virginia, where an explosion this week killed 12 people, paid just a bit over $24,000 in fines on most of the 208

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A must read, especially if you're short on time and need to knock off a couple issues at once...Domestic Spy Story: Ripples and Rumors...he would volunteer "to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, 'The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state'."snipand

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Too Many Creeps from James WolcottBut my favorite bit was when Matthews blamed "creepy staffers" for undermining their bosses. It seems that these creepy staffers get hired when they're young and impressionable, susceptible to the glossy evil of an Abramoff in his expensive suits, shined shoes, and salon haircut. It isn't the Congresscritters who get corrupted, according to Matthews. It's these "

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In memory of Lewis. African Elephant, Loxodonta africana 12 Found Alive in W.Va. Coal MineThe miners had apparently done what they had been taught to do: barricaded themselves in a pocket with breathable air and awaited rescue.How do ya shout hallelujah over the internet. update: Just reported over CNN there was only one miner reported alive. My deepest sympathies to all the families. and now the

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THE HERETIK REMAINS unimpressed Schumer did not respond more strongly to what Bush has done. And Wallace and others who push security need to be reminded even the President must work within the laws. Not to besmirch our friends to the Great White North, but Bush’s approach to the Constitution in this endless war is similar to the way referees call penalties in the National Hockey League Stanley

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CBPP on the Budget and Tax Cuts from the Angry BearAs the GOP argues that Congress is cutting spending to reduce the deficit, Robert Greenstein, Joel Friedman, and Aviva Aron-Dine present evidence that demonstrate: (1) their actions will actually increase the deficit and (2) their actions are just another example of reverse Robin Hood-ism:I have meet a few conservatives that actually work for a

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Arctic wolf, Canis lupus arctos

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Home inventories increasing. Home sales fall, inventories jump. This could put a hurt'n on people that thought real estate was the fail safe method for investing their money. I don't see lots of people taking a bath as much as that nest egg they envisioned might not be quite what they thought it would be. Also it might be good news for the 28 Americans that still care about suburban sprawl. No

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Men want facts, women seek relations on Web - survey A larger number of men surf the Internet for pleasure, with 70 percent acknowledging they go online to pass time, compared with 63 percent of women. Men are more likely than women to listen to music, view Webcams and pay for digital content.But women are catching up in several areas measured by the survey, and intensive use by younger women

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Conspiring Against the VotersPresident Bush has announced four nominees for the Federal Election Commission, choices that would keep the policing of campaign abuses firmly in the hands of party wheel horses. The timing of the announcement - the president waited until the Senate had gone home - is likely to allow the nominees to avoid the full hearing and confirmation process needed to evaluate

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After reading this silliness coming out as a neocon , I first thought it was a parody , but unfortunately it is not. I decided to take her world view out for a test drive. After the tragedy of 9-11 the neo-neocon turned away from liberalism. Seeing as how neocons share some of the responsibility for 9-11...like ignoring memos that say Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US and that Saddam only

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Leap Second Lovers are Traitors Says Bill O’Reilly“Look, look, look, look. A leap second is a denial of everything American, of everything good, of everything moral. They’re saying we need this seconds because the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the earth, well this is the no spin zone. So we don’t need a leap second.If you don't do irony skip this essay from Steve Martin.

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We were tricked, Rasmussen framed that poll. We want our constitutional rights. Mark Kleiman writes on the recent poll and the way it was framed. Again the debate is not about spying on domestic suspects that may or may not be linked to Islamic radicals, the debate is about the president's claim yhat he has some "inherent" right to bypass FISA or any other laws that he feels is inconvient. The

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Being a southerner by birth and nature's serendipity, I guess I should be offended by Shakespeares Sister's Woe is We: More on Education And perhaps more pointedly, anti-intellectualism has become inextricably linked with conservative fundamentalist Christianity. As the slightest bit of knowledge can undermine its teachings, many of it purveyors have realized it’s best to keep the flock ignorant.

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ACS, The American Constitution Society Blog has a post up on Bush's abuse of the rule of law regarding domestic spying that even Power Lies would understand it..... Guest Blogger: Joseph Onek on Domestic SurveillanceFirst, the Department argues that Congress authorized the President’s surveillance program when it passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) shortly after the 9/11

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It is both funny and horrifically sad to read Headhunters , Wolcott gets right to the bare bloody pysche of the freeper/LGF crowd. In the sense of the way they think, their world view, though so far, not their actions, the far far right-wing nuts resemble that that they hate, Islamic-terrorists.Civilized people were appalled, disgusted, and sobered by the vicious execution of Daniel Pearl, and

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Powell the DisappointerContinuing his slide into disgrace and eventual irrelevance by chipping away at his own backbone out both sides of his mouth, Colin Powell has decided to come out as both sort of for and sort of against the administration’s secret spy program.Maybe Hillary Clinton and Colin should hook up and form some kind of mush-mouth party. Though conservatives have mastered the art of

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An overload of cute can't kill ya, but you might get diabetes of the retina........Cute OverloadMerry Holiday from Barron's Unwarranted Executive PowerAS THE YEAR WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE, we picked up our New York Times and learned that the Bush administration has been fighting terrorism by intercepting communications in America without warrants. It was worrisome on its face, but in justifying

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Crooks and Liars has a video up from MSNBC's HARDBALL.....Domestic Spying-Hardball that shows Bush and Cheney and in series of speeches where he assures the audiences that civil liberties will be protected and warrants will be sought through the courts, he evn mention FISA in one speech.Are Muslim Americans the Jews of the perpetual battle against terrorism.....EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Monitoring of

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African lion cub Panthera leo

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How Far Will Bush Supporters Go? “If a theory of limitless Executive power is not what Bush defenders are advocating, then it is incumbent upon them to articulate what limitations they believe exist on Presidential power in times of undeclared war. What is it that courts or Congress can do, if anything, to serve as a check on these powers?”here's a shocker, Bush's own Justice folks don't think

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ANWAR drilling has been stopped for now......Pelosi Salutes Senate Democrats on ANWR Vote; Vows to Force House Budget Vote in Light of Day"I am pleased to see that our Senate colleagues secured a crucial victory and joined the vast majority of House Democrats to vote for preserving our pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a bill that should be about supporting our troops, Republicans

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h.t. ro The Democratic Daily blog At an event aimed at talking up the Patriot Act in April 2004, Bush addressed the question of wiretaps. “Now, by the way,” he said, “any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a

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So the Attorney General, a political appointee, gave Bush the thumbs up to break the law...Gonzales: Congress Gave President The Authority To Spy On Americans ......I think thats called a political circle jerk of the Who's on first varietyHow much authority does this statute confer upon the President to use force in prosecuting the war against terrorism? Note at the outset that the statute

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