CAROLINA NATURALLY

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
You're a wise one who doesn't bend to the pressures of others -- keep up this independent philosophy today when some coworkers may try some not-so-subtle tactics, like flattery, to sway your opinion.
Stay true to your original intentions -- you are the one in the driver's seat, and what you say goes.
In the end, it's your reputation that you must protect.
Remember that you hold all the control in other areas of your life too.
Limit your time with people who don't respect that.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
London, England, United Kingdom
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Amsterdamn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Stoke On Trent, England, United Kindom
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sanaa, San Yemen
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Seoul, Kyonggi-Do, Korea
Valencia, Comunidad Valencia, Spain
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina

as well as Slovakia, 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 Eureka Springs, Spring Valley, Hot Springs, Spring Hill and more.

Today is:

Today is Wednesday, February 10, the 41st day of 2011.

There are 324 days left in the year.

Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:

Plimsoll Day.

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We're moving on up!

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We're moving on up!

The Week is quoting us here at Carolina Naturally.

Definition of a Hero

A 4-year-old northwest Iowa girl who climbed her way out of an overturned pickup truck and trudged a quarter-mile across a field covered in a foot of snow said she just "wanted to help" her mother and younger brother.

4-year-old saves family in car crash

Odds and Sods

Musical astronaut Catherine Coleman has plenty of flutes to pick from aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut has 4 flutes in orbit

Awesome Pictures

What goes around ... comes around

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Mubarak to step down (In a pig's eye)

There is hope ...

Mubarak to step down

NBC Reports: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will step down today. This announcement comes on the 17th day of protests calling for Mubarak's resignation.

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If this is true - this would be a great day for Egypt.

Hope still remains ...

Reports: Mubarak may resign soon

Egypt's military declares that the embattled president will meet protesters' demands.

Address to nation

Also:

All hope is gone ...

Well, you can't say we're all that surprised, now are we?!

Egypt's embattled president won't resign

Hosni Mubarak says he will only transfer some powers to his vice president.

Vows to resist 'foreign' pressure

Also:

The truth be told

Lunatic Fringe

Is hate talk radio dying?

One can only hope ...

Definition of a wingnut

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FAUX News Makes Stuff Up?

At Media Matters: FAUX NEWS INSIDER- “Stuff Is Just Made Up”.

A former Faux News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch’s cable channel.

Namely, that Faux News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up repugicans and knock down Democrats, and that staffers at Faux News routinely operate without the slightest regard for fairness or fact checking.

“It is their M.O. to undermine the administration and to undermine Democrats,” says the source. “They’re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news.”

And that’s the word from inside Faux News.

Everyone knows this is true, but interviewing a person who refuses to be identified is not the best way to make a case.

Be afraid ... be very afraid

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Faced with $27 billion budget deficit, Gov. Perry focuses on abortion, anti-immigration and voter ID

He sounds a lot like the House repugican leadership. Ignore the real issues and go for the social issues that are only divisive and have nothing to do with getting people back to work.

Perry is clueless.

The state ranks last in the country in percentage of adults with a high school diploma and first in the share of the population without health insurance.

"Governor Perry has been waking up in a very different reality than most citizens of Texas," State Senator Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, said at a press conference. "Their reality is becoming starker by the day."

The governor also called on state lawmakers to quickly approve a list of "emergency" proposals. These include implementing stricter voter identification requirements, requiring women seeking an abortion to first view a sonogram, targeting cities that provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants, strengthening the rights of property owners in cases of eminent domain and calling for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Repugicans in Ohio are following a similar path with an urgent focus on abortion.

Yes, the employment and economic problems are all solved now that abortion is at the top of the list.