So Michael Savage thinks Glen Beck is about to crack!?
Isn't that a wee bit like one crackpot saying another crackpot is, well, about to crack?!
Isn't that a wee bit like one crackpot saying another crackpot is, well, about to crack?!
Friday, April 10, 2009
And I Quote
After the recent recount activity in Minnesota -- where Franken increased his lead over Sore Loser Coleman -- the question for many is no longer whether Coleman is going to lose; rather, it’s when he’s going to lose.
From a P.R. standpoint, it wasn’t good news for Coleman that the legal challenge he initiated ended up (so far) handing more votes to Franken.
~ First Read
Read the entire piece here
From a P.R. standpoint, it wasn’t good news for Coleman that the legal challenge he initiated ended up (so far) handing more votes to Franken.
~ First Read
Read the entire piece here
Pentagon preps for economic warfare
" ... They all have hills to fly them on except for little Taigu." Games without frontiers ...
The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.
The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a regular war game. Participants sat along a V-shaped set of desks beneath an enormous wall of video monitors displaying economic data, according to the accounts of three participants.
“It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise said.
But instead of military brass plotting America’s defense, it was hedge-fund managers, professors and executives from at least one investment bank, UBS – all invited by the Pentagon to play out global scenarios that could shift the balance of power between the world’s leading economies.
Their efforts were carefully observed and recorded by uniformed military officers and members of the U.S. intelligence community.
With Advocates’ Help, Squatters Call Foreclosures Home
This is outrageous!
Ms. Omega, 48, is one of the beneficiaries of the foreclosure crisis. Through a small advocacy group of local volunteers called Take Back the Land, she moved from a friend’s couch into a newly empty house that sold just a few years ago for more than $400,000.
Michael Stoops, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, said about a dozen advocacy groups around the country were actively moving homeless people into vacant homes — some working in secret, others, like Take Back the Land, operating openly.
In addition to squatting, some advocacy groups have organized civil disobedience actions in which borrowers or renters refuse to leave homes after foreclosure.
The groups say that they have sometimes received support from neighbors and that beleaguered police departments have not aggressively gone after squatters.
They have no voice
The repugicans have spent the first hundred days of the 111th Congress mostly down and shut out.
While there's no realistic hope that they'll be more involved in some upcoming policy decisions.
They still have a long way to go before the public see them as constructive and cohesive rather than obstructionist and unruly.
Read more here.
What your gold jewelry will sell for now
Many sellers have been pleasantly surprised by what their old accessories are worth.
What will it sell for now
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Cities where rents are dropping
You can spend as little as 12 percent of your income on rent in these metro areas.
Rent droppings ... its better than rat droppings, anyway!
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Wildfires leave path of destruction
Fires in Texas and Oklahoma have destroyed more than 100 homes, half of which have been linked to arson.
Wildfires
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Don't let allergies force you indoors
Just in time for the peak pollen weeks:
In the runny, drippy, sneezy spring allergy season, you may feel like giving up, but experts say there are many treatment options.
Allergies
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Deadly storms wreak havoc in Southeast
A series of storms lifts homes, rips off roofs, and dumps hail in the Southeast.
Storms in the Southeast
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Tennis player attacks man for running lawn mower
This is why I don't like Tennis!
Theys a lunatics a'playn' it
Theys a lunatics a'playn' it
A Croatian man was hospitalized after he was attacked by a tennis player for running a lawn mower near the court during his set.
China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap
China has 32 million more young men than young women - a dangerous (and growing) gender imbalance - because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released this morning says.
Camera catches fish's amazing changes
The "chameleon of the sea" cuttlefish shows off its special trick on tape.
Fish's amazing changes
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It's A Blond thing ...
A brunette goes to the doctor and says, "Everywhere I touch it hurts, what's wrong with me ?"
He asks "What do you mean ?"
So she showed him what she meant
She touched her knee and said, "Ouch!"
Then she touched her chest and said, "Ouch!"
Then her shoulder, "Ouch!"
The doctor looks at her and asks, "You're really blond aren't you?"
She replies, "Yes, as a matter of fact I am, How did you guess?"
"Your finger is broken"
He asks "What do you mean ?"
So she showed him what she meant
She touched her knee and said, "Ouch!"
Then she touched her chest and said, "Ouch!"
Then her shoulder, "Ouch!"
The doctor looks at her and asks, "You're really blond aren't you?"
She replies, "Yes, as a matter of fact I am, How did you guess?"
"Your finger is broken"
$2.7 Million Lawsuit as White Woman's Body Cremated Instead of Black Man's
From the "Oh, no they didn't" Department:
Well, I'll have to admit that it's easy to mix up a white woman's body with a black man's body, isn't it?
Right?!
Dad angry over costly texts smashes cell phone to bits
You ran up a phone bill of HOW MUCH, young lady!?!
A cell phone used by a Wyoming 13-year-old to run up a nearly $5,000 phone bill will text no more thanks to her angry father and his hammer.
Pilgrims tracing the last steps of Jesus have been going the wrong way
From the "Oops!" Department:
For the best part of 2,000 years, pilgrims have flocked to Jerusalem to retrace Jesus's final steps. And going the wrong way!
Early land visitors were borrowers
Some of the earliest creatures to crawl out of the ocean onto land half a billion years ago behaved like hermit crabs, tracks reveal.
Early land visitors borrowed shells for protection
The battle for Turkey's soul
A Turkish science magazine's pulling of a cover story on Darwin could be a taste of struggles to come – but it may also be a good sign.
Turkey's soul
Matters Astronomical
Astronomers toast the cosmos with dazzling images
A round up the best images released in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy.
Also in Matters Astronomical:
Is dark energy getting weaker?
Blasts from the past sketch a picture of a universe whose runaway expansion may finally be slowing
Donald Duck - What's My Line?
Clarence C. Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck, is a guest on What's My Line.
The episode originally aired on December 12, 1954.
The episode originally aired on December 12, 1954.
Signs of earliest Scots unearthed
From BBC-Science:
 The flints were found in a ploughed field near Biggar |
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland.
The flints were unearthed in a ploughed field near Biggar in South Lanarkshire.
They are similar to tools known to have been used in the Netherlands and northern Germany 14,000 years ago, or 12,000 BC.
Read the rest here.
Listen to what the Archaeologists have to say here.
Retreating glaciers foretells global water woes
Although, Bolivia accounts for a only tiny fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions. - it will soon be paying a disproportionately high price as a major consequence of global warming: the rapid loss of glaciers and a subsequent decline in its vital water supplies.
Liars and Fools
Liars and Fools for the day so far ...
Karl Rove calls Vice President Joe Biden a 'blowhard' and 'liar'
Coming from a Blowhard and a Liar ... Don't you just love it when they speak into the mirror.
Karl Rove calls Vice President Joe Biden a 'blowhard' and 'liar'
Coming from a Blowhard and a Liar ... Don't you just love it when they speak into the mirror.
Captain's escape foiled by pirates
Richard Phillips jumped into the water during the night and tried to swim towards the nearby US destroyer.
Daring escape foiled
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Surprising health food imposters
Welcome New Readers
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Yes, it is a real country!
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Apartment Used During Break-In For Sale
Want new digs in the D.C. area? Then we have got a deal for you!
The apartment 310 at Watergate West has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and overlooks Virginia Avenue.
Its real estate value, including an underground parking space, was appraised at $515,000 in April 2006.
It has been refurbished but retains its original, historical condition.
Its real estate value, including an underground parking space, was appraised at $515,000 in April 2006.
It has been refurbished but retains its original, historical condition.
Still evolving
We're not finished yet. Even today, scientists say that human beings are continuing to evolve as our genes respond to rapid changes in the world around us.
In fact, the pressures of modern life may be speeding up the pace of human evolution, some anthropologists think.
Their view contradicts the widespread 20th-century assumption that modern medical practice, antibiotics, better diet and other advances would protect people from the perils and stresses that drive evolutionary change.
Nowadays, the idea that "human evolution is a continuing process is widely accepted among anthropologists,'' said Robert Wald SussmanRead more here.
Of course, some are devolving - they're known as repugicans.
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Tongji, Sichuan, China
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Daily Horoscope
Today's horoscope says:
Your recent bold behavior has gotten you noticed by a couple people, lately -- and they are the people you want to get on your good side. The good news is that they are loving your brashness -- they see it as a breath of fresh air. So keep it up!
You got it.
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