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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
The more unusual it is, the more you'll absolutely have to call it your own.
That goes particularly for objects, but also for people who happen to be displaying qualities you're fond of.
Before you get too involved, be sure you're both available.
Kindred spirits are great to have around, but if you're after a long-term relationship, both of you being single sure would be a better way to start.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Stockholm, Stokholms Lan, Sweden
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Halifax, England, United Kingdom
Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Vienna, Wien, Austria
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
London, England, United Kingdom
Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Annecy, Rhone-Alpes, France
Stafford, England, United Kingdom
Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Ahrensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

as well as Malta, Bulgaria, Israel, Finland, Austria, Norway, Georgia, Mexico, Peru, Kuwait, Serbia, Bangladesh, Latvia, Greece, Scotland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Wales, Iran, Singapore, Poland, Taiwan, Sweden, Afghanistan, Belgium, Tibet, Croatia, Pakistan, Romania, Paraguay, Sudan, Vietnam, Argentina, Cambodia, Egypt, France, Estonia, Puerto Rico, Maldives, Qatar, Brazil, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Slovenia, China, Iraq, Ecuador, Nigeria, Colombia, Chile, Honduras, Paupa New Guinea, Moldova, Venezuela, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Norway, Finland and in cities across the United States such as Odessa, Sparta, Canton, Omaha and more.

Today is:

Today is Wednesday, January 19, the 19th day of 2011.

There are 346 days left in the year.

Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:

Tin Can Day.

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Nice and soothing

Upping the cute factor

Whistling Puppy

Cute

Apologies aren’t as good as people imagine they’ll be

We all want an apology when someone does us wrong.
But a new study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people aren’t very good at predicting how much they’ll value an apology.

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Dig It

The Beatles (Full Version)

Red

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Odds and Sods

River Turns Green: Weird Sight

The Sounds of Pulsars

Non Sequitur

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Major 7.2 quake strikes southwestern Pakistan

A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a remote area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing widespread panic, said meteorologists.

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U.S. Sued for $25Million for Killing Mexican Teen at Border

The parents of Mexican teen Sergio Hernandez Guereca are suing the U.S. government for the death of their 15-year-old son at the hands of U.S. Border patrol agents last June.

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Pirate attacks at all-time high

Pirates take record 1,181 hostages in 2010

Attacks increased in violence and occurred over an "unprecedented" range, a report says.

Location of their dens

Also:

New repugican governor starts term with executive order eliminating transparency

If there's one thing the public has been screaming for, it's less transparency.

What progress!

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed an executive order that eliminates a requirement for the governor and top aides to disclose how much they earn.

Under the order signed after Haslam took office on Saturday, the disclosure rules applying to himself and senior administration officials will be the same as those for members of the General Assembly. Those only requires them to list sources of income, but not how much they make.

The move wipes off the books former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen’s first executive order of 2003, which required the top executive branch officials to make annual reports about their total earnings.

Then again, Tennessee is the state where Teabaggers have presented a plan to remove history about the "minority experience" and to exclude "made up criticism" about slavery and native Americans. There's progress for you!

The tea party governor of South Carolina approves massive pay raises for staff

Remember, the tea party and the repugicans are all about being fiscally conservative.
Who hasn't rolled out double digit pay increases during a recession and when your state has a budget deficit?

Haley started things off by giving her new chief of staff, Tim Pearson, a 27.5 percent pay raise. Pearson will make $125,000 a year – or $27,000 more than Scott English made while serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Mark Sanford.

Pearson will also have a full-time assistant who makes $60,000 a year.

Haley’s deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs – Trey Walker – will be paid $122,775 a year. That’s a 42.3 percent increase over the second-highest paid staffer in the Sanford administration.

Haley’s top lawyer, Swati Patel, will be paid $102,000 a year – which is a 36 percent increase over the $75,000 a year that Sanford paid his top lawyer.

But, oh, no there's no wingnut violence

Police disarmed a pipe bomb found at the mlk day parade route in Spokane:

A suspicious backpack left along a Martin Luther King day parade route in Spokane, Washington, held a radio-controlled pipe bomb that could have sprayed shrapnel at marchers in the parade.

Three parade workers spotted a backpack with visible wires on a bench at North Washington Street and West Main Avenue in downtown Spokane about 30 minutes before the parade was scheduled to begin Monday. authorities rerouted the parade while officers from the Spokane Police Department's bomb disposal unit worked on the bomb.

FBI special agent Frank Harrill, the supervisory senior resident agent in Spokane, told ABC news that the backpack was "a viable device."