The place where the world comes together in honesty and mirth. Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.
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My dog Sam eats purple flowers We ain't got much but what we got's ours We dig snow and rain and bright sunshine Draggin' the line (draggin' the line) Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
I feel fine I'm talkin' bout peace of mind I'm gonna take my time I'm gettin' the good sign Draggin' the line (draggin' the line) Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Loving the free and feelin' spirit Of huggin' a tree when you get near it Diggin' the snow and the rain and bright sunshine Draggin' the line (draggin' the line) Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
I feel fine I'm talkin' bout peace of mind I'm gonna take my time I'm gettin' the good sign Draggin' the line (draggin' the line) Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
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A high school student party in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez was broken up by drug bandits on the weekend, when two adults and 11 teenagers died in gunfire.
Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information.
Singer and guitarist Willie Nelson canceled a North Carolina concert because of a bum hand about an hour after several band and crew members were busted for possessing moonshine and pot.
As a man in the Wuxi province of China learned, if you're going to hang an IV bag from your rear view mirror, it might be a good idea to disguise it as an air freshener.
Egypt has arrested 26 suspects who the prosecutor said belonged to a cell of militant group Islamic Jihad and were plotting "terrorist acts" against tourists and state installations, the official news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
Obviously, Allred opposes the ads personally for anti-choice reasons, but she has an even more pressing concern, “will CBS still insist on running this anti-choice commercial that is outright misleading advertising”?
You see, the ad’s story features the mother of the relig-o-facist football player Tim Tebow, who claims she went against her doctor’s advisement during a difficult pregnancy in the Phillipines to carry her pregnancy to term. she birthed Tim, and now we are all able to witness the glory of Tim running around on a turf with his football, which is very lovely. I believe the message is that you shouldn’t abort your fetus because what if he turns out to be a football player.
Attorney Gloria Allred has questioned the veracity of Mrs. Tebow’s claim that doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy, since abortion in the philippines has been illegal since 1930 and is punishable by a six-year prison term for both the doctor and the mother.
Yean, I know. Crazy! That a wingnut relig-o-facist group would twist a story to promote their own agenda! It’s almost too wild to be true!
Gloria, Allred goes on to urge Les Moonves to think carefully on this matter, stating, “this is not just another ad. Women’s lives are at stake. No woman should have to live in a country where abortion is illegal as it once was in the U.S. and was and is in the Philippines.”
Allred states definitively that, “no sugar coated religiously inspired ad which fails to give all of the relevant facts should be permitted to air on cbs or anywhere else.”
“CBS’s decision to run a focus on the family ad during this year’s super bowl can’t and shouldn’t be considered in a vacuum. CBS spent years denying a platform to an LGBT-inclusive church that wanted to share a message of inclusion with a national audience. Now, when it happens to be financially inconvenient for CBS to hold to the standard it had previously imposed, the network’s expediency benefits a virulently anti-gay organization whose advocacy on these issues is the antithesis of that of the united church of christ.”
The always classy Westboro Baptist Church (the assholes behind the “God Hates Fags” campaign) recently launched their latest abomination ... ahem ...creation – a music video parody of Lady Gaga’s hit single “Poker Face.” Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up, people. Take a look…
Tobacco plants could help wean the world from fossil fuels, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.
In a paper in the journal ACS Nano Letters, Matt Francis and his colleagues used genetically engineered bacteria to produce the building blocks for artificial photovoltaic and photochemical cells. The technique could be more environmentally friendly than traditional methods of making solar cells and could lead to cheap, temporary and biodegradable solar cells.
“Over billions of years, evolution has established exactly the right distances between chromophore to allow them to collect and use light from the sun with unparalleled efficiency,” said Francis. “We are trying to mimic these finely tuned systems using the tobacco mosaic virus.”
I have no idea why Jabba the Ailes decided to appear on “This Week” — but after this beatdown by Krugman, I doubt he’ll be back.
Notice Jabba doesn’t refute Krugman’s charge. He just ignores it, belches up a total non sequitur, then starts spewing repugican talking points. The result? The master propagandist was made to look like an ass on live teevee.
A tractor-trailer skidded on an icy patch on Interstate 77 at Lake Norman on Saturday afternoon, and the truck slid within a few feet of the water.
The wreck has closed the southbound lanes of I-77 at the lake.
The N.C. Department of Transportation says it could be after dark before the lanes can be reopened.
The wreck happened during a collision or near-collision with another truck, according to reports from the scene. No serious injuries were reported.
Crews were working late Saturday afternoon to pull the tractor-trailer from the water. After that, according to the DOT, repairs will have to be made to the guardrail along the side of the road.
Motorists headed toward Charlotte from the north faced detours or lengthy delays well into the evening.
The most heated controversy over the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down parts of the nation's campaign-funding laws has focused on whether the decision frees foreign corporations to pour money into American elections.
In a new research, scientists have analyzed the strange icy spokes in Saturn's ring to understand how they form and evolve. In Saturn's largest ring, the B ring, radial spokes sometimes form across the ring.
From the "They don't call it DOPE for nothing you know" Department:
This photo provided by the Pubelo County Detention Center shows Phil Martinez, who Pueblo County authorities say tried to get narcotics into jail for his girlfriend.
A local school system is out thousands of dollars in electronics after a weekend break-in. Someone broke into a mobile classroom at Forest Heights Elementary between late Friday afternoon and Saturday.
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Hey, all you wingnuts/teabaggers/birthers/neo-cons/repugicans/relig-o-facists and whatever other appellation we place upon you take heed of President Jefferson's words. We will not allow your type to flourish in other parts of the world, so what makes you think we'll do so here.
Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.
State police say the 78 year old Salisbury resident was arrested Friday night after police found him inside the Litchfield Bancorp with a loaded revolver.
The "Men in Black" actor has been taken into custody and booked on charges including burglary and possession of firearm without a permit. He is being held on $100,000 bond and is scheduled for a Monday appearance in Bantam Superior Court.
Last year, Torn was given probation in a Connecticut drunken driving case and granted permission to enter an alcohol education program. He also has two previous drunken driving arrests in New York.
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Someone whom you haven't seen in a long time -- possibly someone who may actually have moved or been away -- seems to be making trouble for you from behind the scenes. You may be right -- but then, you may be wrong. Better be sure before you say or do anything that will put you in an irreparably bad position with them. Check your sources before you make that long-distance call.
The food selections at the old theaters in London were pretty high end compared to what we often see today at many theaters, cinemas or stadiums.
The preferred snacks for Tudor theater-goers appear to have been oysters, crabs, cockles, mussels, periwinkles and whelks, as well as walnuts, hazelnuts, raisins, plums, cherries, dried figs and peaches.
Some clues even suggest that 16th-century fans of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe also plowed through vast quantities of elderberry and blackberry pie – and some may even have snacked on sturgeon steaks.
The evidence has emerged from the most detailed study ever carried out on a Tudor or early Stuart playhouse. Archaeologists have been analyzing the thousands of seeds, pips, stones, nutshell fragments, shellfish remains and fish and animal bones found on the site of the Rose Playhouse on London's South Bank.
Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities said on Saturday.
Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements ...
Defying pleas to wait for Haiti's reconstruction, families lugged heavy bundles of wood and tin up steep hillsides Friday to do the unthinkable: build new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake.
China suspended military exchange visits with the United States on Saturday in protest over $6.4 billion in planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and warned the U.S. ambassador that the sales would harm already strained ties.
With kids in school, at daycare or with the nanny ... and with mom at the office while dad is on the road, how can today's family incorporate more family time into their day and spend more quality time with the family?
Michelle LaRowe , the author of A Mom's Ultimate Book of Lists, Working Mom's 411 and Nanny to the Rescue, offers some tips.
I was surprised to read in Business Week, via Bloomberg, that "the U.S. cattle herd may have shrunk to the smallest size since 1958,..." Farmers are culling herds because demand for red meat is down in this Great Recession (thanks Wall Street), while corn prices are way up (thanks Congress for the luxuriant corn-based ethanol incentives).
From the farmer's viewpoint: "Corn, the main ingredient in livestock feed, jumped to a record $7.9925 a bushel in 2008 on the Chicago Board of Trade, and prices averaged about $3.79 last year, the third-highest annual average since at least 1959." With the cited level of herd reduction, corn prices will fall eventually, helping ranchers - unless Congress goes for another round of ethanol incentives first! (Makings of a classic challenge and response scenario that will play out for years more.)
Would solar panels mar Istanbul's historic skyline? Photo by Jennifer Hattam.
Can you imagine the Eiffel Tower with wind turbines? The Taj Mahal with rooftop solar panels? No matter how much you support renewable energy, it's jarring to think about retrofitting such famous and historic structures, but one Turkish architect suggests it can -- and should -- be done.
Remarks of President Barack Obama As Prepared for Delivery Weekly Address January 30, 2010
At this time last year, amidst headlines about banks on the verge of collapse and job losses of 700,000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy. Our economy was shrinking at an alarming rate – the largest six-month decline in 50 years. Our factories and farms were producing less; our businesses were selling less; and more job losses were on the horizon.
One year later, according to numbers released this past week, this trend has reversed itself. For the past six months, our economy has been growing again. And last quarter, it grew more quickly than at any time in the past six years.
This is a sign of progress. And it’s an affirmation of the difficult decisions we made last year to pull our financial system back from the brink and get our economy moving again.
But when so many people are still struggling – when one in ten Americans still can’t find work, and millions more are working harder and longer for less – our mission isn’t just to grow the economy. It’s to grow jobs for folks who want them, and ensure wages are rising for those who have them. It’s not just about improvements we see in quarterly statistics, but ones people feel in their daily lives – a bigger paycheck; more security; the ability to give your kids a decent shot in life and still have enough to retire one day yourself.
That’s why job creation will be our number one focus in 2010. We’ll put more Americans back to work rebuilding our infrastructure all across the country. And since the true engines of job creation are America’s businesses, I’ve proposed tax credits to help them hire new workers, raise wages, and invest in new plants and equipment. I also want to eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business investment, and help small businesses get the loans they need to open their doors and expand their operations.
But as we work to create jobs, it is critical that we rein in the budget deficits we’ve been accumulating for far too long – deficits that won’t just burden our children and grandchildren, but could damage our markets, drive up our interest rates, and jeopardize our recovery right now.
There are certain core principles our families and businesses follow when they sit down to do their own budgets. They accept that they can’t get everything they want and focus on what they really need. They make tough decisions and sacrifice for their kids. They don’t spend what they don’t have, and they make do with what they’ve got.
It’s time their government did the same. That’s why I’m pleased that the Senate has just restored the pay-as-you-go law that was in place back in the 1990s. It’s no coincidence that we ended that decade with a $236 billion surplus. But then we did away with PAYGO – and we ended the next decade with a $1.3 trillion deficit. Reinstating this law will help get us back on track, ensuring that every time we spend, we find somewhere else to cut.
I’ve also proposed a spending freeze, so that as we increase investments in things we need, like job creation and middle class tax cuts – we cut spending on those we don’t, like tax cuts for oil companies and investment fund managers, and programs that are redundant, obsolete, or simply ineffective. Spending related to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be affected – and neither will national security – but all other discretionary government programs will.
Finally, I’ve called for a bi-partisan Fiscal Commission – a panel of Democrats and Republicans who would sit down and hammer out concrete deficit-reduction proposals by a certain deadline. Because we’ve heard plenty of talk and a lot of yelling on TV about deficits, and it’s now time to come together and make the painful choices we need to eliminate those deficits.
This past week, 53 Democrats and Republicans voted for this commission in the Senate. But it failed when seven Republicans who had co-sponsored this idea in the first place suddenly decided to vote against it.
Now, it’s one thing to have an honest difference of opinion about something. I will always respect those who take a principled stand for what they believe, even if I disagree with them.
But what I won’t accept is changing positions because it’s good politics. What I won’t accept is opposition for opposition’s sake. We cannot have a serious discussion and take meaningful action to create jobs and control our deficits if politicians just do what’s necessary to win the next election instead of what’s best for the next generation.
I’m ready and eager to work with anyone who’s serious about solving the real problems facing our people and our country. I welcome anyone who comes to the table in good faith to help get our economy moving again and fulfill this country’s promise. That’s why we were elected in the first place. That’s what the American people expect and deserve. And that’s what we must deliver.
Calm, cool and calculated may be your normal MO, but they won't quite be the adjectives that are called for today. In fact, you may just go right over the edge when it comes to letting someone know that they've raised your interest. If it's for a good reason, why try to hold back? Let 'em know. If you're a bit angry, however, you might want to call on some of that famous reserve, and temper your rhetoric with a bit of consideration.
These machines--there are now 40 of them spread across 19 U.S. airports--permit officials from the Transportation Security Administration to peer through a passenger's clothing in search of explosives and weapons.
A Continental Airlines jet flying from Newark, N.J., to Bogota was diverted to Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday over concerns a passenger was on the government's watch list of suspected terrorists banned from commercial flights
A North Carolina town's plan to truck in 30 tons of snow for a man-made winter wonderland has been canceled because it looks like Mother Nature will come through with the real stuff.
Singer and guitarist Willie Nelson canceled a North Carolina concert because of a bum hand about an hour after several band and crew members were busted for possessing moonshine and pot.
A carbon-nanotube-based ink makes common fabrics conductive.
A chicken playing chicken?
The dangerous naked machines.
