The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
You're extra grounded, which is a good place to come from if you have to tell some difficult truths.
Do a little bit more research to make sure you've got all the facts, then position yourself to say it like it is.
Your scrupulous attention to the details of the situation will put you in good stead, and it's likely that your audience will be far more receptive to all this than you'd ever think possible.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Segovia, Castilla y Leon, Spain

Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland

Edithvale, Victoria, Australia

Boulogne-Billancourt, Ile-De-France, France

Koelin, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

as well as Serbia, Malaysia, Greece, Scotland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden, New Zealand, Croatia, Pakistan, Romania, Korea, Netherlands,  Brazil, Vietnam, Egypt, Russia, Indonesia, Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Ireland, India and in cities across the United States such as Atascadero, Jamaica, Wasilla, Barstow and more.

Today is:

Today is Monday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2010.

There are 32 days left in the year.

Today In History November 29

Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:

There isn't one.

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Stormy and possibly icy weather is heading to the area

Trouble late Tuesday ... and beyond

Another round of stormy weather is headed for the Carolinas later Tuesday, and the computers hint at more trouble -- possibly of the frozen variety -- late next week and about two weeks from now.

Some rapid and major changes in our weather will take place over the next 24 hours.

A flash flood watch already is in effect for Tuesday and Tuesday night for Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Rutherford, Watauga and Wilkes counties in the Charlotte region. Additional watches and warnings are likely Tuesday.

Today, we're locked in a chilly pattern, governed by high pressure off the East Coast. But the seeds of change are visible. The cloud cover that thickened overnight is a telltale sign of the moisture surging into the Carolinas from the Gulf of Mexico.

By later today, low pressure will move eastward from the Arkansas-Texas area. Rain gradually will spread into the Carolinas, falling mostly in the mountains initially but reaching the foothills and Piedmont by later this afternoon.

It will be a chilly rain at first, with temperatures staying in the 40s today and dewpoint readings also in the 40s.

But a warm front on the east side of the low pressure system will move northward Tuesday, crossing the Charlotte area sometime in the morning. That will push our temperatures into the 60s, and the dewpoint temperatures will follow suit.

The Carolinas will be in the warm, unstable southeast side of the low pressure system by Tuesday afternoon and night, and that's where severe weather takes place.

Chris Horne, of the National Weather Service's office in Greer, S.C., says strong thunderstorms and heavy rain are forecast across the Carolinas, with the most likely area for severe weather being in the Piedmont.

"Some degree of thunderstorm wind damage threat -- perhaps even a tornado -- should exist into the night," Horne said.

These likely will be those sneaky severe storms -- the kind we experience in the Southeast during the winter. They move extremely fast, sometimes at 50 mph, and often have little or no lightning to herald their arrival.

Let the truth be known

WikiLeaks reveals more sensitive U.S. data

WikiLeaks reveals more sensitive U.S. data

A quarter million diplomatic cables give a candid look at America's backroom bargaining. 

Details

Also: 

• White House responds
• New security changes
• Under cyberattack?

U.S. tries to contain fallout

U.S. in damage control after leaked cables

The Obama administration scrambles to contain fallout after WikiLeaks releases classified data.  

Unflattering details 

Also: 

• U.K. newspaper's role
• Iran condemns leaks
• Prince Andrew's remarks

Guess what leaked out today ...

Many Middle Eastern nations are far more concerned about Iran's nuclear program than they've publicly admitted.

Saudi Arabia is lobbying us to attack Iran.

According to one cable, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly asked the U.S. to "cut off the head of the snake" -- meaning, it appears, to bomb Iran's nuclear program.

Leaders of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and other Middle Eastern nations expressed similar views.

Israel is ready to go it alone in such an attack, too, presumably with tacit support from some Arab states.

CIA missed al-Qaida figure

CIA narrowly missed key al-Qaida figure

The U.S. has come closer to capturing Osama bin Laden's top deputy than previously known.  

Tragic outcome 

Also: 

• Ayman al-Zawahiri
• Al-Qaida claims attack  
• Drone victim seeks funds

The truth be told

And you have the repugicans to thank for it, too.

The death of American dream

A must read post over at the "Great Orange Satan." it will simultaneously break your heart and get you angry.

Well today for a span of at least this one Daily Kos diary, you will get to see what the American plutocrat owned media never wants you to see, and that is how Europe in particular and the world in general has come to see America as a country in decline, whose people are so badly misinformed by the media, they actually don't realize that America is the only major industrialized nation in the world that by right of law does not offer universal medical access, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave and paid annual leave. It just seems almost impossible to get that word out to the American people. Even diaries on that subject at the Kos top out at just over 2,000 views. Let's please remember the purpose of the plutocrat owned commercial media isn't so much to inform us but rather to sell commercial advertising space.

Therefore this diary today will try to do something different. It will show you what the European media is saying about the American dream and you will be shocked! - Democrats Ramshield's diary at Daily Kos

Shoe

And I Quote

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”

­~ Plato

Thus explaining the repugicans

The repugican propaganda channel ...

... is lying yet again. this time Faux is pawning off a novel (a work of fiction) as non-fiction.

Faux News is helping a former repugican congressman spread the myth that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

Appearing on Faux News Monday, John Leboutillier explained that his new fictional book uses "real things" like Obama's grandmother once claimed she was present for his Kenyan birth.

..."once again, the book is fiction," Doocy pointed out.
"or is it?" Leboutillier added.
"I think it's both," Kilmeade concluded. -

Full story

Non Sequitur

Support the magnetic ribbon industry ribbon!

Finally, a magnetic ribbon that actually provides material support for the cause it espouses!

I'll see your empty gesture and raise you ...

Bad Cops

California police officer charged with hate crime, battery

Details emerge in Oklahoma cops' Tazering of 86-year-old bedridden granny

Judge rules that fired North Carolina trooper who kicked and hoisted police dog by its neck should be rehired

Ohio sheriff denies cover-up, lying about jail death

Wyoming deputy pleads no contest in bar fight

California deputy arrested on spousal abuse charges

Indiana police officer accused of theft, misconduct

Woman set house on fire after being locked out

A woman has been charged with arson after Pittsburgh police said she set her house on fire after locking herself out.

Investigators said the woman was locked out of the house and couldn't get in, so she intentionally set her rear awning on fire and called 911.

Firefighters arrived at the home in the 5200 block of Holmes Street in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood at about 5 p.m. on Saturday. Police said the woman asked them to let her into her house.

Instead, she was arrested and is charged with arson. 

Without You

WITHOUT YOU / SIN TI / BEZ CIEBIE / FARA TINE / ΧΩΡΙΣ ΕΣΕΝΑ / SENSİZ / SEM VOCÊ / БЕЗ ТЕБЯ / BE TAVĘS / SANS TOI / SENZA DI TE / ANATA NASHINI / あなたなしいに

No matter how you say it this is a great song sung by Harry Nilsson

Where's Molly: heartbreaking reunion with developmentally disabled sister institutionalized 47 years ago

Jeff Daly's sister Molly was sent away when he was six and she was three; all though his childhood, Jeff pestered his parents with the question, "Where's Molly?" He only got non-answers like "She's not here anymore" in response. 47 years later, after his parents' death, he tracked down Molly -- who was developmentally disabled and institutionalized in accordance with the common medical advice of the day -- and discovered his parents' secret heartbreak.

And at first, Molly's father visited often, until Fairview's staff advised him to stop, because Molly would become inconsolable after he left. But Jack Daly found an ingenious way to continue seeing his daughter . . .
"He did go back," said Jeff. "It was only a way that I suppose my dad could have figured out. He went back as a clown."
Jeff's father - an executive at the Bumblbee Seafood Company - founded a troupe called the Astoria Clowns in 1957, the very year Molly was sent away. The troupe traveled around Oregon, marching in parades and entertaining children wherever they went.
And they visited Fairview.
"He was able to have this relationship with Molly in disguise: Painted face, an orange wig, wearing the clown outfit," said Jeff. "But he was able to still get back there and see his daughter."
By profession, Jeff was a freelance cameraman who sometimes worked for CBS News. Now, he's made a film called "Where's Molly" about the search for his sister. He hopes his story encourages others to reunite with siblings lost because of the wisdom of earlier times.

Where's Molly?

The year the 'skimpy' bikini was born

1951 the skimpy bikini is born …

What common sayings do people get wrong?

Reddit asks the question. 

Here are a few answers:

• I heard a girl says “I’m going out on a limp here”.
• My wife once said something about the our cats not being able to pick something up because they lacked disposable thumbs.
• For all intensive purposes
• Be more Pacific.
• I returned a call to a claims adjuster, to receive her voicemail greeting that said she was in the office from 8 AM to 5:00 PM, specific time.
• “I really enjoy your self-defecating humor.”
• It’s a “mute” point vs “moot”. Drives me insane.
• I never knew my dad was saying “up and at ‘em” as opposed to “up and atom”.
• Labtop
• “I did a complete 360 and turned my life around”
• “expecially”. Ugh.
• “ex cetera”
• “Take it for granite.”
• Happy Valentime’s
• irregardless of the facts
• I said “play it by year” for, well, years.
• “Li-berry” instead of “library”
• Fustrated
• “supposably”
• A co-worker told me “I am not very computer sassy”.
• Old timers instead of Alzheimer’s.
• Or All timers.
• People using the phrase “I literally” figuratively. Ex: I literally died laughing
• I had a friend who thought the song was Ducks in the Wind.
• On accident.
• nukular
• I could care less.
• Wheelbarrel. 30 minute argument at work over barrel/barrow. 4 took the side of barrel, 10 on the side of barrow.
• “Each one worse than the next,” as opposed to “Each one worse than the last.”
• Warshington! THERE IS NO ‘R’ IN WASHINGTON!