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Saturday, January 28, 2012

a roller skating jam named 'saturdays'

corporate rule is not inevitable

what's wrong with politifact?

are you better off than you were 30 years ago?

a majority of americans would vote out every single member of congress

what's your star wars name?
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Friday, January 27, 2012

4 am friday

top firefighter union execs predict backlash against anti-union governors

romeny tax returns highlight tax breaks for the rich

two house republicans got discounted mortgages from countrywide

iran bans barbie
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

another late thursday

the wrong foreclosure settlement

google-bomb transforms the word "romney" as a verb

plus: his kids pay an even lower tax rate than romney

who wants to play? the alien v. predator chess set

and rip merlin, sherlock holmes and hamlet, aka nicol williamson
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

a wednesday in your garden

the man who predicted the recession says rhe same economic risks remain

michigan sees lowest unemployment rate since 2008

the state of the republican race

which might last until june

and congrats to out buddy steve benen, who has always been a friend of this blog, for joining rachel maddow both as a producer and a blogger
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

skippy's tuesday night music club

after the sotu speech...i'm feelin' americano..and so is someone else.

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google goes all creepy

like an internet stalker.
google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the web.
the web giant announced tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including youtube, gmail and its leading search engine.

google has already been collecting some of this information. but for the first time, it is combining data across its web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users. consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect march 1. - wapo

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posted by Cookie Jill at 9:37 PM | 1 comments

cold shower tuesdays

is alec behind the new voter restrictions?

16 ships make as much pollution as all the cars in the world

a visual guide of income inequality

the poses that fictional women strike on fantasy book covers hurt
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Monday, January 23, 2012

blogrolling in our time

mad props to our good friends up north, the galloping beaver
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skippy's monday night music club

50 years ago today....anthony benedetto recorded this timeless song for a timeless city.

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child's cat murdered..."liberal" written on side

this is where the vile hateful gop rhetoric goes.
the campaign manager of arkansas democratic congressional candidate ken aden arrived home last night to find his child’s pet cat murdered on the front porch with the word “liberal” scrawled across its lifeless body. - think progress and blue arkansas
“to kill a child’s pet is just unconscionable,” aden said monday morning. “as a former combat soldier, i’ve seen the best of humanity and the worst of humanity. whoever did this is definitely part of the worst of humanity,” he said.

“it is one thing to engage in civil political discourse, and for republicans and democrats to disagree with each other, which is an expected part of the political process. taking it to this level is beyond unacceptable,” aden said.- campaign website of ken aden

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new moon on monday

is the gop presidential field a tea party failure?

even if it is, don't worry, because chuck norris supports newt

dallas cowboys fan gear made in sweatshops

cosplay fail

and the solar storms create beautiful aurora borealis
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gung hay fat choy

Chinese Dragon by L2F1
Chinese Dragon, a photo by L2F1 on Flickr.
Happy New Year of the Dragon

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

skippy's sunday night music club

farewell, etta.

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environmental news stories sunday

for those pesky little stories that somehow don't make it into debate questions....

surge in cancer cases in italy linked to illegal dumping of toxic waste. - across italy, on average, 14 males in every 100,000 die of liver cancer; in the 'triangle of death,' it was 35.9. the incidence of bladder cancer was nearly twice as high, of leukaemia 30 per cent higher. the cause? some point to the massive illegal dumping of waste by the naples mafia. - london independent

documentary reveals how contaminated water at the nation's largest marine base damaged lives. mike partain didn’t believe the rumors about a place called baby heaven until he visited a jacksonville, n.c., graveyard. surrounded by hundreds of tiny marble headstones, he started to cry. - washington post

beekeepers abuzz over threats to hives. - unlike those of most u.s. commercial beekeepers, clint walker's hives are staying home this winter. for the second straight year, he won't be shipping bees to california for the annual almond crop pollination. instead, he is keeping his bees out of agricultural fields to prevent their exposure to chemicals - fort worth star telegram

dueling solyndra ads foreshadow energy-centric campaign. - the battle of the ads began on monday, when americans for prosperity, a conservative group, launched a $6 million campaign to run one-minute spots on t.v. and social media sites attacking obama for backing solyndra - inside climate news

lack of ice cover might be affecting the ecology of lake champlain. - lake champlain is freezing over less frequently and less extensively than in decades past and the lack of complete ice cover might be starting to affect the ecology of the lake according to experts.   - bulington free press

boulder a hotbed for hybrid vehicles. - if a tree falls in boulder, will it hit a hybrid electric vehicle? it's not that likely, in the big picture of things. but on the other hand, it's about five times more likely in boulder than in your average u.s. town. - boulder daily news

scab check for poultry to be scrapped under food-safety rule. the u.s. would boost monitoring of poultry processors’ sanitary practices and contamination controls instead of eyeballing each bird for scabs and sores under a plan that would save companies $250 million a year - bloomberg

costa concordia sinking: oil leaking into sea from stranded cruise liner. - oil was detected leaking into the sea from the capsized cruise ship costa concordia yesterday amid fears the stricken vessel is starting to break up. - edinburgh scotsman

republicans plot next step on keystone oil pipeline. - republicans in congress are considering using upcoming payroll tax cut or highway construction bills in order to force quick approval of the keystone xl oil pipeline but have not yet settled on a strategy, lawmakers said on friday - reuters

kids' leukemia risk rose near french nuclear plants. - while the u.s. government is investigating whether people who live in san clemente are more prone to cancer – and whether their proximity to san onofre nuclear generating station has anything to do with anything — french scientists have come to their own disturbing conclusions - orange country register

condo residents take neighbors to court over secondhand smoke. - if your home is your castle, you should be able to do anything legal you want in it, including lighting up a cigarette, right? some residents in the washington area are challenging that notion, arguing that secondhand smoke seeps through the walls and affects their health. - wapo

california woman sues pepsico's tropicana alleging deceptive advertising and consumer fraud. - a california mother is taking on orange juice giant tropicana, alleging in a lawsuit that the company's not-from-concentrate pure premium juice is "heavily processed" and not a "natural" product - abc world news tonight

shipwreck threatens europe's biggest marine sanctuary. - the wreck of the costa concordia cruise ship with 2,380 tonnes of fuel on board is threatening the environment of the italian island of giglio in europe's biggest marine sanctuary - afp

green donors want more from obama.  - many green-minded donors who backed the president during his last race in 2008 say they're thrilled with the white house's decision to reject the pipeline. But they remain unconvinced that obama is committed to other key environmental issues like global warming and clean-energy technology - politico

white house throws in the towel on interior nominee. - the white house is ending its battle to win confirmation of rebecca wodder, the nominee for a senior interior department conservation position who previously headed the environmental group american rivers. - the hill

wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles. - a controversial wind farm proposed near red wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades - minneapolis star tribune



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i met him on a sunday

should condom use be mandatory in porn?

even the national review is embarrassed by gov. nikki haley

today is roe day, so here's 10 reasons to support reproductive justice

dr. watson's blog

this is not a joke, at least not intentionally: santorum launches "conservatives united moneybomb"...or "c.u.m."
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

10:15 saturday night

marijuana legalization bill likely to qualify for november ballot in washington

the color of welfare

dispatches from birtherstan

solar flares may drag space junk out of earth orbit
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Friday, January 20, 2012

friday on my mind

former mormons find a godless path

real financial regulators love prosecutions fraudulent bank ceos

millionaire ceo breaks waiter's finger for bad service

ostriches raised by humans fall in love with them
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Can Dish It Out, Cannot Take It...

From Thursday night's talk show mistakenly billed as a Republican debate:

...King asked Gingrich to respond to allegations by his ex-wife that in 1999, Gingrich asked her to have an open marriage with him.

"Would you like to take some time to respond to that?" asked King.

"No, but I will," responded Gingrich, receiving loud, sustained applause from the audience.

"I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that," he said...



It is hard to find decent people to run for office -- thanks in large part to clowns like Newt Gingrich. Somewhere, Bill Clinton is laughing his ass off...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 8:38 PM | 0 comments

thursday's child i want you back

which corporations occupy congress?

that's not inequality, that's math

the greatest myth about the u.s. chamber of commerce is that they have an interest in creating or protecting jobs"

terrible, terrible news: bacon may increase cancer risk by 20%
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