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Science Saturday
Author: Will in Chicago    Date: 2014-07-19 11:53:49

While the news on Easth, from Israel and Gaza to the Ukraine and beyond is often depressing, there is indeed more to existence than our world.  Today, as a change from our look at the problems of our world, I thought that we would look at some science news.

The search for planets beyound our own solar system is heating up.  I wonder how soon we will find evidence for life beyond our own world?

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Fluffy Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 07/18/2014 13:02:26

Lot of work things I have to juggle today, but in general the world has seen a lot of crap in the last 24 hours, at the very least. We need something beautiful.

Van Gogh's Starry Night - I know its cliche but it my favorite painting and reminds me of the beauty that is always around.

http://johnbriner.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/starry-night.jpg


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Tar Holes
Author: clintster    Date: 07/17/2014 12:27:26

Over the past few years much has been made of the North Carolina state government and its efforts to turn a once-proud state into West Somalia. Granted, there have been no end of crazy laws and bans going on across the nation (witness the Virginia lege banning flags on sticks in the capitol building), but when it comes to pure, unadulterated legislative ridiculousness, the Old North State has them all beat, hands down
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Cop Killers
Author: BobR    Date: 2014-07-16 10:45:00

I got my black shirt on
I got my black gloves on
I got my ski mask on
This shits been too long

I got my twelve gauge sawed off
I got my headlights turned off
I'm 'bout to bust some shots off
I'm 'bout to dust some cops off

I'm a cop killer
(from "Cop Killer" by Body Count)


It's been 23 years since Rodney King brought to light the problem of Driving While Black in Los Angeles. The video of the police brutality, followed by the subsequent acquittal of the cops who unleashed their frustration on that poor man unleashed a torrent of anger and frustration by a black community that had been dealing with institutionalized bigotry for decades.

The song "Cop Killer" came out the following year. In the 2 decades since of discussion and innumerable cellphone videos that show police still have a problem with maintaining an appropriate level of response, we've gotten to a point that seems a little scary. What was once considered marginal, criminal and somewhat theoretical (and 1st Amendment protest) seems to have become a political movement. I am referring, of course, to the Three Percenters.
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Ask A Vet
Author: Will in Chicago    Date: 2014-07-15 10:35:08

Good morning.

Today is our 4, 664th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2333
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1124

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through $1, 549,399, 605, 723.

In new from the war in Afghanistan, the only prisoner of war from the conflict is now back on active duty. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is back to work on an army post, although he may still face an investigation over his disappearance
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In Praise of weekends.
Author: Raine    Date: 07/14/2014 13:04:45

So much praise that I am still trying to squeeze mine into Monday.
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Game of Moans.
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 07/13/2014 14:37:42

Seems there's this teevee show called Game of Thrones that everyone but Velveeta is watching. There is a book as well. While yours-truly did attempt to watch and read, if for no other reason than to join in the many conversations, I can report to you that the only thing she gained from watching and reading was a long and very deep sleep.

It's something about kings and queens (but not of the Gay/drag variety; though that would spice it up) and squires and bastards and so on and so forth. They all seem to live in places that sound like gated communities in Florida: Kings Landing, Storms End, Castlery Rock. According to Wikipedia it's all about things that start with the letter 'W' like Winter, Walls, Wolves, Wars, Whores, Weddings, which, by the way you shouldn't plan in the summer because "Winter is coming". At least that's the line of dialogue I kept hearing every time I'd wake up long enough to wipe away the drool and find the remote to switch the TV off.
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Moo!
Author: TriSec    Date: 07/12/2014 12:27:40

Good Morning.

TriSec is shaking his head today over an item I ran across in a Harriet Carter catalog. Oh, we all get them - it comes every few weeks and is full of all sorts of weird and wonderful products that "everybody wants because everybody needs".

But buried deep inside the most recent one, I found something that made me do a double-take.
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Fluffy Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 07/11/2014 13:16:32

In today's edition I'd like to highlight some of the #HobbyLobbyLove

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Look over here, no… Wait! look over there!
Author: Raine    Date: 07/10/2014 14:15:59

On June 30th of this year, immigration reform was essentially dead in the water.
President Barack Obama will not wait any longer for House Republicans to pass an immigration bill, after Speaker John A. Boehner told him he will not allow a vote this year, the president said Monday.

“Last week he informed me that Republicans will continue to block immigration reform at least for the remainder of this year,” Obama said Monday in a Rose Garden statement where he announced he would go it alone on immigration, “without Congress,” as far as he can.

Obama said he believes Boehner when he says he wants to pass an immigration bill, but he hasn’t been able to pass anything despite a year and a half of trying.
As the child immigrant crisis goes from very bad to terribly worse, the President asked for $3.7 Billion in emergency funding to increase border security and to speed up the processing to return these children home. In other words: more judges to enforce the law - which I mentioned on Monday - more detention facilities, and a way to make sure these minors (CHILDREN) are treated humanely. John Boenher responded to the President's request with a possible solution: a study.
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