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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
Your recent efforts to connect with someone are working, but you should think about turning down the heat a little.
Discard the extra details in your stories, and resist the urge to share too much about yourself.
Right now, this discovery phase should be simple, short and general.
Too many details could confuse or overwhelm, and they may cause some unfortunate misperceptions.
Let the other person ask a few questions -- don't do all the work yourself.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Rijeka, Primosko-Goranska, Croatia
London, England, United Kingdom
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Edinburgh, Scotland. United Kingdom
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lille, Nord-Pas-De- Calais, France
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Bamberg, Bayern, Germany
Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
Prague, Hlavni Mesto Praha, Czech Republic

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 Somersworth, Calabasas, Puyallup, Chattanooga and more.

Today is:

Today is Tuesday, July 26, the 207th day of 2011.

There are 158 days left in the year.

Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:

There isn't one.

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Vocabulary Size

Took one of those 'tests' that are abundant on the net today - this one estimated how many English words I knew.

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:

45,000 words

Not bad considering the average is somewhere between 20K and 35K for a native speaker and around 9K for a non-native speaker.
There are however 300K words in the English language (as published in the OED) so I need to do better.
Now if I can find a similar 'test' for any of the other languages I know, mayhaps I can do as well on them.

Aw, Shit - not another 404 Error again!

INSTALLING COOLER WEATHER.....
███████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 44% DONE.
Install delayed....please wait.
Installation failed. Please try again. 404 error: Cool Weather not found. "Cooler Weather" cannot be located. The weather you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

And I Quote

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

~ Aristotle

Could third party win in 2012?

Could a third party win 2012 election?

Americans are fed up with Republicans and Democrats, so the time appears ripe for another option.

Candidates

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Remember ...

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Repugicans would rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stay on the ground and tell the truth.

Just the facts

8 facts about spending repugicans forgot.

Non Sequitur

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Hero of Norway massacre

Norway tragedy's unlikely hero emerges

Marcel Gleffe sped to the island after hearing gunfire and helped 20 teens escape.

'I just did it on instinct'

Also:

N.R.A. opens branch in Norway

Wingnut PROUD he killed 76 innocent kids

Norway mourned on Sunday 76 people killed in a shooting spree and car bombing by a Norwegian
who saw his attacks as "atrocious, but necessary" to defeat liberal immigration policies and the spread of islam.
Anders Breivik, 32, said he wanted to explain himself at a court hearing on Monday about extending his custody.

"He believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," his lawyer, Geir Lippestad said.

Breivik admitted to Friday's shootings at a Labour party youth camp and the bombing that killed seven people
in Oslo's government district a few hours earlier.

However, "he feels that what he has done does not deserve punishment," Lippestad said.

Perfect - now America is exporting our violent hatred to other countries.

This bloody dittohead hunted down 60 kids at camp and shot them in the head.

Their SWAT team, unused to US-style violence, took 90 minutes to arrive.
Had they shown up in 15 minutes, maybe 40 of those kids would still be alive.

If those kids were fetuses, the repugicans would be outraged.

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Wingnut media: Norway terrorist not Muslim but acts like it

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Yes, the American wingnut loons have their excuses lined up because you know, christians are never terrorists. Forget about what you see in Northern Ireland because that also doesn't count. Timothy McVeigh was a premature Muslim terrorist as well if you buy into their wacko theory. For that matter, ignore the US bombings in the name of the war on terror because sending guided missiles into foreign countries where the people aren't white skinned doesn't count. Killing innocent civilians only counts when it's in the name of islam because christians could never do such a thing despite evidence to the contrary.

More from Media Matters.

Among the conservative to rush to judgment were Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, CNN contributor Erick Erickson, and Andrew Breitbart's BigPeace.com. The Breitbart website surmised that the attacks could have meant that Norway's "big Muslim problem" had "just blown up in its face." Erickson wrote via Twitter: "Terrorist bombing in Oslo. I bet you it was not Lutherans who did it."

Now that they're uninformed and ideologically motivated guesswork has been proven wrong, these same conservatives are adopting the "No True Scotsman" fallacy and claiming that Breivik's abhorrent behavior was not that of a Christian, but more akin to that of a Muslim.

Glen Beck likens dead children to Nazis

What an insane asshole!

The insane wingnut compared those who were massacred on the Norwegian island of Utøya to the Nazi party's youth wing.

"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler youth, or, whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics. Disturbing," said Beck on his syndicated radio show.

Norwegians have hit back at former Faux News presenter and tea party darling Glenn Beck, after he compared the country's shooting victims to the Hitler Youth in a radio show overnight.

The comments were condemned by Torbjørn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister.

The Hitler Youth - Hitler Jugend - was an organization set up by Adolf Hitler in the 1920s to indoctrinate young Germans in Nazi ideology.

So, are the 'summer camps' the teabaggers have set up for the perversion of their kids themselves - a conveniently forgotten fact by the wingnuts ... which is par for the course.

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Wizard of Id

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'I would do it over'

'I would do it over,' Jersey City Killer Tells Judge at Sentencing

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The Jersey City killer who sparked a near-riot last week at a sentencing hearing when he grinned at family members of the victim this morning created another courtroom scene when he said he would kill again if he was free.

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