The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
Every day offers a bounty of new experiences, but you don't usually have the time or energy to explore them all.
Luckily you'll have both now!
Pick a new adventure to go on, and go at it with everything you can.
Do whatever fits your mood -- if you're feeling mellow, start an ambitious book that's been on your list way too long.
If you're feeling active, take a jog through a park you don't visit often enough.
Act on whatever's been in the back of your mind for a long while.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Edithvale, Victoria, Australia

Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

London, England, United Kingdom

Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Annecy, Rhone-Alpes, France

Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

as well as Italy, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Slovenia and in cities across the United States such as Bolingbrook, Laconia, Peabody, Sunol and more.

Today is:

Today is Wednesday, November 10, the 314th day of 2010.

There are 51 days left in the year.

Today's unusual holidays or celebrations are:

There are none.

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It's our birthday!

Today is the Marine Corps 235th birthday.

Free As A Bird

The Beatles

Lyrics:

Free as a bird
It's the next best thing to be
Free as a bird

Home, home and dry
Like a homing bird I'll fly
As a bird on wings

Whatever happened to
The life that we once knew?
Can we really live without each other?

Where did we lose the touch
That seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so...

Free as a bird
Like the next best thing to be
Free as a bird

Home, home and dry
Like a homing bird I'll fly
As a bird on wings

Whatever happened to
The life that we once knew?
Always made me feel so free

Ah...
Ah...
Ah...

Free as a bird
It's the next best thing to be
Free as a bird
Free as a bird
Free as a bird

Ziggy

Everything old is new again

Old-school look for new 'Winnie the Pooh'

The beloved bear's next adventure won't be computer-generated or shown in 3D.

First feature film in more than 30 years 

Also: 

• More on Winnie the Pooh
• Bears really love honey?
• Big bucks for 'Megamind'

Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench

General Motors cuts loose Mr. Goodwrench

The friendly face has symbolized service at the company's auto dealerships for decades. 

Why GM made the change 

Also: 

• Who's Mr. Goodwrench?
• When to replace your oil
• Best states for drivers

The truth be told

Odds and Sods

Statistically, proven voter fraud happens about as often as death by lightning strike: Details

Welcome to the plutocracy! The average American earned $303 more in 2008 than 1980

Federal judge blocks Oklahoma's ban on sharia law

Coral reefs are under siege from acidic oceans

Dad arrested 2 years after biting child

A New York father may have thought he was teaching his daughter a lesson. But police are calling it assault.

Pink diamond sale should set new record

Sotheby's says it expects a rare pink diamond to set a new world record price next week for a jewel sold at auction.

Scammers raid Holocaust funds

Scam raids $42 mil from Holocaust funds

An elaborate 10-year scheme by corrupt insiders targeted unsuspecting Jewish families, FBI says.  

'Grievous betrayal' 

Also: 

• Musician fleeced for $6 mil
• A first since World War II
• Scams aimed at elderly

'Brockovich' town's worry

'Erin Brockovich' town's woes continue

The toxic groundwater issue made famous by the movie may not be over for residents.  

Two-mile plume 

Also: 

• Michigan cleanup finished
• Possible new dioxin rules
• More on Erin Brockovich

And I Quote

What's the repucigan plan for the 59 million Americans who didn't have health insurance?

Or is it unfair to ask for details since their only goal is to destroy?

Somehow repugicans view people in need as a cost or a problem as opposed to Americans.
There is a complete lack of compassion in repugicans, not to mention spirit of community, but that's what the public voted for and will receive.

For now, at least.

Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday.

They said 4 million more Americans went without insurance in the first part of 2010 than during the same time in 2008.

"Both adults and kids lost private coverage over the past decade," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news briefing.

Commence Tea Party Head Explosions

In a Wall Street Journal profile this weekend, Paul signaled an about-face on his earmark position, committing to “fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork.”

 Full Story

They're getting what they 'voted' for, but they are too stupid and lazy to care.

Wizard of Id

Mobility scooter towed away by parking wardens

A mobility scooter is towed away by parking wardens after outstaying its welcome in a bay. Officials scooped up the four-wheeled ride - top speed just 8mph - when it exceeded the one-hour time limit in Thorpe Bay, Essex.

Bank worker Adam Vanderveken, 25, who took the photo, said: "I looked out the window and saw them taking it away. It just shows nobody gets away with parking too long here."

Left on 'Smuggle Island'

Abandoned on 'Smuggle Island'

Traffickers are dumping migrants on a deserted island near San Diego, a news station reports.  

No food or water 

Also: 

• New drug war feared
• Wanted posters in Arizona
• Major Colorado drug bust

Bad Cops

Utah cop charged with aggravated assault and obstruction of justice

West Virginia deputy pleads not guilty to sex charges

New Mexico cop is arrested for domestic assault with car door

Oklahoma police officer arrested for assault and battery

Curiously un-named Louisiana police officer resigns amidst allegations of malfeasance

Ohio police dep't pays $100K to settle lawsuit over civil rights violations

Colorado cop is accused of sex assault

New Torture Methods In Gitmo

British say the shrub's 'torture saved lives in UK' is nonsense

Much like other ridiculous claims that the shrub has made, this one also appears to be fiction. Add it to WMD and 9/11 was linked to Saddam stories that were garbage. The shrub and his crowd are serial liars, but we knew that already.

British officials said today there was no evidence to support claims by the shrub, that information extracted by "waterboarding" saved British lives by foiling attacks on Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf. In his memoirs, the shrub said the practice – condemned by Downing Street as torture – was used in CIA interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US.

He said Mohammed, below, was one of three al-Qaida suspects subjected to waterboarding. "Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport, and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States," he wrote.

It is not the first time information extracted from Mohammed has been claimed as helping to prevent al-Qaida attacks on British targets. Mohammed cited attacks on Heathrow, Big Ben and Canary Wharf in a list of 31 plots he described at Guantánamo Bay after he was subjected to waterboarding 183 times following his capture in Pakistan in March 2003. The Heathrow alert in fact happened a month before his arrest, with army tanks parked around the airport, in what was widely regarded as an overreaction.

Non Sequitur