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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

our weekend starts on wednesday

tea party leadership fund exposed as a fraud

alaska woman on anti-obamacare ad is an actress from maryland

nra calling for armed revolution

obamacare will cost billions less than original estimated

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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

skippy's tuesday night music club

more "local boys" gone good...and big.  ventura locals, big bad voodoo daddy. (i used to swing dance to these guys when they first started out and played some local joints)

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tuesday's child

eating with a disabled person does not make you a hero

ties to the military takes a mental toll on teens

female genital mutilation procedures on the rise in scotland

facebook: assassination threats ok, pregnant bellies, not so much
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Monday, December 02, 2013

skippy's monday night music club

hometown santa barbara dudes....dishwalla.

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traffic

is different in yellowstone national park.  (h/t @interior)

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ca assembly gop set up fake healthcare sight

and try to trick their constituents. shouldn't there be a law against this?
california republicans are desperate and shameless. In the past two weeks, gop assembly members have sent mailings out on what appears to be the state's dime to their constituents about health insurance. only, they don't direct those people to coveredca.com to sign up. Instead, they send them to their own astroturf version at the url coveringhealthcareca.com. on their version, there are links to negative articles and twisted messages intended to sour people on signing up for health insurance before they ever land at the official health exchange site. - crooks & liars

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monday, monday

number of young people who move hits a 50 year low

the anti-gay headline of the day

how seniors are getting screwed by social security

more than 600,000 americans are homeless on any given night
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Sunday, December 01, 2013

skippy's sunday night music club

happy birthday maria callas.

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environmental news stories sunday

for those pesky little stories that the talking head shows didn't touch upon.

pesticide ban to protect bees enters into force. as of december 1, farmers in the european union will no longer be able to make large-scale use of pesticides suspected of killing bee populations. but the busy honey-makers remain under threat. deutsche welle

opportunities, risks could grow with proposed hog farm rules. georgia ranks no. 24 with only 200,000 farm-raised hogs. but the state is considering grabbing a bigger piece of the porcine pie by allowing farmers to vastly increase hog production. - ajc

activist/philanthropist jeff skoll to produce film on "merchants of doubt." if you use the internet or watch films, you've encountered jeff skoll in two of his roles. as ebay's first president, he helped transform the auction firm from a small startup into a global commodity. and as founder of film production company participant media, he produces blockbusters that feature political or social messages - the guardian

9/11 asbestos crews share fear of health coverage running out. while ground zero asbestos-removal crews are now at risk of developing mesothelioma and other cancers, there's no guarantee they'll have their future medical bills covered - nynewsday

rain brings plastic pollution to santa monica beach. when overcast skies brought rain to santa monica and southern california nov. 21, benjamin kay took his video camera and documented the single-use plastic pollution emanating from the Pico Kenter Storm Drain and onto santa monica beach - santa monica mirror

this bamboo scooter runs on nothing but air. forget gas, now a scooter exists that is designed to run on nothing but air. Specifically, compressed air, the same stuff that’s used to clean computer keyboards, fill scuba tanks, fire paintball guns, and more recently, to power cars - fast company

residents of a rural northern texas area were awoken early on thanksgiving by not one but two earthquakes. such quakes have become alarmingly normal during the past month, and fracking practices could be to blame. - grist

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sunday drive

recessions linked to cognitive decline in later years

man sues over blog posts about his 'micro-penis'

reports of comet ison's death in the sun may have been greatly exaggerated

here's the troll flow chart
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

saturday night banjo

the environment does not negotiate

"make no mistake, there is a retirement crisis"

how corporate front groups distorts the marketplace of ideas

maryland will return to paper ballots in 2016
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Friday, November 29, 2013

black friday

a wal-mart thanksgiving, by charles dickens

speaking of which, the national wal-mart boycott starts today

and here's why wal-mart's plan to pit workers against consumers is failing

and a former wal-mart executive leads smear campaign against black friday activists

attend a black friday protest near you

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

i've got plenty to be thankful for

the retail industry's war on thanksgiving

and here's a handy guide on how to to handle obamacare debates around the family table today

what some people that time magazine considers famous are rhankful for

ceos against grandmas



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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

long wednesday

pentagon's doctored books conceal epic waste

methodists find pastor guilty of officiating his gay son's wedding

major airports may soon be as congested year-round as they are during thanksgiving

the unhealthiest restaurant dish in america
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

tuesday session

it's time to kill the notion that cutting taxes on the rich geows the economy

is ikea the model for the conservative movement?

almost half of the cia's employees are women

wal-mart asks employees to donate food to needt co-workers
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Monday, November 25, 2013

monday bride

wal-mart sales dip as low-income americans close their wallets

teacher beats up student for making fun of his football team

why the filibuster had to go

k-mart shoppers threaten boycott for early thanksgiving hours

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Sunday, November 24, 2013

sunday drive - early november

the 14 habits of highly miserable people

the great middle class identity crisis

has being a young adult always been a financial nightmare?

scripps-howard news service will go dark after 96 years

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Saturday, November 23, 2013

saturday night at the world

how the recovery isn't a recovery for everyone

microsoft and facebook fund right-wing lobbying firms that pose as think-tanks

there's a whole website dedicated to the many failures of michigan gov. rick snyder

astroturf floats
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Friday, November 22, 2013

History Repeats Itself: A Fifty-Year Timeline

"They Buried Innocence That Year"


And then they pillaged its corpse with Iran-Contra:


And buggered the ravished remains in the name of "War on Terror":


Into each generation, a Slayer is born...

Rquiescat in pace, JFK.




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friday night blues

new mexico cops force medical anal rape on suspects

us airways kicks blind man and his seeing-eye dog off flight

ken starr's plea for a confessed child molester

happy 50th birthday, dr. who!
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

probably on thursday

the world agrees, inequality is a major problem

picket, fight, win

capitalism takes democracy

man calls 911 because neighbors wouldn't drink with him
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

just wednesday

12 ways a slave, a gop production

the whitest jobs in america

rally to overthrow obama draws slightly fewer than the millions expected

youth football enrollment drops 10 percent
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