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    Masked Israeli Commandos to seize humanitarian floating peace mission

    By letthesunshinein on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 9:03pm |
    I am making this a blog entry in its own right because I do not want this event to be buried as some side note.AP is reporting Israel's response to this humanitarian floating peace mission will be military.'Israeli commandos to...

    Update: Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza sets sail. Follow the flotilla http://witnessgaza.com/

    By letthesunshinein on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 7:30pm |
    For those interested in where the ships forming the "Freedom Flotilla"are coming from, cargo loaded, and human right activists and supporters onboard, the following link offers some insight. http://www.freegaza.org/At http://witnessgaza.com there in an interactive map which shows the location of...
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    IF I DID IT, by Dick Cheney

    By Richard Day on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 12:26am |
                                            ONE OF THE GUYS WHO DID ITI came across a manuscript of incredible importance. At last we might know the truth. Curiously, there was some legal document enclosed in the manuscript.                                                AFFIDAVIT   STATE OF CONFUSION)                                          ...

    Houston, we have a solution: Gulf disaster demands NASA know-how

    By Ripper on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 11:06pm |
    With the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washing up on the White House lawn and no reason to believe BP's latest scheme to plug the leak with mud will alleviate the mounting economic and environmental toll, it's past time...
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    Anchor Babies

    By Richard Day on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:36am |
                     You know, I have discovered that there are not that many people alive who have taken the time to see West Side Story.  I really am old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2kThis Vaughn Ward proves as much and reminds me of an old...

    Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza sets sail. Follow the flotilla http://witnessgaza.com/

    By letthesunshinein on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 7:26pm |
    Gaza aid flotilla to set sail for confrontation with Israel.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/25/gaza-flotilla-aid-attempt A floating humanitarian aid mission has commenced. Carrying construction materials, medical equipment, water purification equipment, school supplies etc., 4 cargo ships and  4 passenger ships have set sail from Ireland,...
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    Our Choice: Kill The Future Of The World Or Preserve It

    By oleeb on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 5:11pm |
      Climate change threatens the very existence of the human civilization it has taken 5,000 years for us and our ancestors to build.  We have already gone beyond the point where any "easy" fixes are out of the question. ...
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    Dear Diary........May 30, 2032

    By we are stardust on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 5:46pm |
    Dear Diary,   This will be my last entry, and I don't know if anyone will ever read it; but I feel the need to chronicle what passes for life these days.  My last entry was over three years ago, I...
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    Dumb and Dumber

    By Barth on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 5:49pm |
    More important than Rachel's illustration of just exactly the "libertarian" or anti-government meme goes was her explanation the next night of how this nonsense has been used to defeat progressive initiatives since well before most of us were around. She...
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    Alan Grayson's 'The War is Making You Poor Act' or: How great is this?

    By we are stardust on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 7:52am |
       Grayson is giving us a chance to have a little fun while we oppose funding of the wars In Iraq and Afghanistan; this was a real shot in the arm for me this morning.  Another war-funding bill will...
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    I YAM WHAT I AM AND THAT'S ALL THAT I AM!!!

    By Richard Day on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 5:29pm |
                             SATAN   I yam what I yam                            God (Genesis)   I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.                          Popeye (Cartoon Network)   We are all just poor players who strut and...
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    The Battle for Public Schools - Kids? What kids?

    By Ramona on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 8:58pm |
    These days we're looking, talking and acting more and more like some comic's version of a third world country, but so far we've kept the mercenaries at bay when it comes to our most sacrosanct obligation--basic education for all. The Right Wing in our country have been beating their gums for eons now about the need to turn public schools over to private interests, but so far we've been able to brush them off like the nasty little gnats they are.
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    These aren't MY Democrats!

    By SleepinJeezus on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 8:12pm |
    "This bill is short of what Congress should do, but it moves in the right direction, although it moves less aggressively than I would like to see it move." Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), after caving to pressure from Wall Street...
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    Beating the TPM System

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 4:50pm |
    Bwak and Lis were having a conversation a few days ago about the screwed up dashboards and commenting, and at that time mine was functioning just fine. (she thought smugly.)Today, I finally got the disease (or whatever it is.)My dashboard...
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    Mental Health Break......a bird slideshow

    By we are stardust on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 12:56pm |
    I just put up two bird slideshows at my Posterous site for y'all; Flickr won't let me download them to Movable Type lately, so I can't blog them here. If the photos don't boot, just click on the first or...
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    More Blackwater/Xe Darkness ...including a secret recording of EriK* Prince

    By we are stardust on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 10:48am |
    There's been so much happening lately that it's been hard to know where to focus, and I missed all this; maybe you did too.  Pardon the cut and paste; I'm not feeling well, probably from reading all that's discussed in...
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    Face-Book: I Respectfully Request an Opt-Out

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 7:58pm |
    I do not like or appreciate being asked every time I make a comment if I want it posted on my Face-book page.  A little history:   After much aggravation, and a few major arguments and many insults; plus having...

    In related breaking news, Chicken Little denied entry into Israel due to subversive comment '...the sky is falling...'

    By letthesunshinein on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 7:57pm |
    Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel.http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/noam-chomsky-denied-entry-into-isra... Schedule to speak at Bir Zeit University, Chomsky was detained for three hours before having his passport stamped 'DENIED.'  He was given no reason and was told an explanation would be sent to the American...
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    Being Fifteen Only Lasts a Year

    By we are stardust on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 5:57pm |
      I hated being fifteen; it was when I discovered that there wasn't a single 'grown-up' (what a stupid term) in the world who wasn't a damned hypocrite, and I hated every adult I could think of...what liars they all were. ...
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    Why Can't the English

    By Barth on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 2:52pm |
    It's funny how things stick to you. A ten year old boy goes to see "My Fair Lady" and the little joke in lyrics about "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?" or the even more obviousOh,...
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    It's Official - Goldman Sachs harbors and nurtures Creeps and Crooks. But we love the rich, so lay off.

    By Ramona on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 9:02pm |
    The financial crisis has unveiled a new set of public villains--corrupt corporate capitalists who leveraged their connections in government for their own personal profit. During the Clinton and Bush administrations, many of these schemers were worshiped as geniuses, heroes or...
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    Just in Case...

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 6:03pm |
    Just in case y'all are running out of things to blame Obama for, I've come up with some additional ideas for you:Jupiter is missing one of its stripes. I'm pretty sure he took it.Sonny and Carly had sex. I had...
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    Sy Hersh Tells Audience in Geneva That US Soldiers Are Engaged in Battlefield Executions in Afghanistan

    By we are stardust on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 11:45am |
    Veteran Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who broke the initial story of the My Lai massacre and the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, spoke to an audience at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva the week of April 22,...
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    UN Fears "Irreversible" Damage To Natural Environment

    By oleeb on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 12:04pm |
      The greatest possible sin, IMHO, would be to allow the destruction of our environment to reach the point where humanity will have killed itself off by destroying this magnificent and bountiful planet that is mother to us all.  If...
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    LUST & DOUBT

    By Richard Day on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 5:04pm |
                                        A demon satiating his lust in a 13th century manuscript. Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its...

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