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Move Over
Author: Raine    Date: 03/22/2013 12:44:08

I've got a ton of things to do today so let's make it a light and easy blog this morning. I don't want to end up like this guy:
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20 comments (Latest Comment: 03/23/2013 00:52:02 by TriSec)

Hummm, not Vrooom
Author: BobR    Date: 03/21/2013 12:26:17

 
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ...
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
- Thomas Edison speaking with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone in 1931


It's often forgotten that the first "horseless carriages" weren't gasoline powered. Most early cars were either electric or had steam engines. They were often quite beautiful and luxurious - we saw this one in the DC St. Patrick's Day festival this year:

http://www.fourfreedomsblog.com/uploads/ElectricCar1.JPG


It glided by, quiet as a whisper.
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76 comments (Latest Comment: 03/21/2013 21:24:53 by Mondobubba)

CSI- GOP: Season 10
Author: Raine    Date: 03/20/2013 13:13:37

Ten years ago... Ten years ago...

We found ourselves in the middle of shock and awe. We spoke out, we protested against this invasion of Iraq. We were called unpatriotic; we were called traitors for being outspoken and anti war. 10 years ago... The media was complicit as they simply fed directly to America and the world the lies of the Bush administration. The lies.
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63 comments (Latest Comment: 03/20/2013 22:03:16 by Mondobubba)

Ten Years On.
Author: TriSec    Date: 03/19/2013 10:26:47

Good Morning.

It's been 3,653 days since we invaded Iraq on false pretenses. This morning, it's worth reviewing our losses in blood and treasure. As always, the numbers come to us courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4,488
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4,347
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3,627
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 256
Since Operation New Dawn: 66

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 319
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

We find this morning's cost of war in Iraq passing through:

$ 812, 049, 295, 000 .00


It's worth pondering that this war has taken us longer than the war to secure our own independence....or to defeat fascism....or things like inventing the atomic bomb or putting man on the moon.
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43 comments (Latest Comment: 03/20/2013 02:13:14 by Will in Chicago)

CPUNK
Author: BobR    Date: 03/18/2013 13:02:28

The conservative gathering known as CPAC happened last week. The idea behind it is for conservatives to get together, exchange ideas, and layout a roadmap for the future. It is also a de facto Republican party convention. If they had hoped to gel around some concrete common ideals, it was not apparent there was any success from this outside view. What I see is sniping and litmus tests and general overall nastiness.
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62 comments (Latest Comment: 03/19/2013 01:00:25 by Will in Chicago)

The Blog Where Halle Berry Gets Thrown Under the Bus
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 03/17/2013 14:13:11

Well, we would have had no blog today due to my staying out late last night. But then I went to a late movie. Warning, this blog will ruin the ending of said movie, but it deserves to be ruined.
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10 comments (Latest Comment: 03/18/2013 01:56:12 by livingonli)

When's St. Gonzaga's day?
Author: TriSec    Date: 03/16/2013 12:44:06

Good Morning.

I am rather famously not Irish. I'm probably making a pot of Italian chicken soup and some homemade French bread tomorrow. (But we'll probably be drinking Guiness.)

I had a blog queued up and ready to go until I read this.

I have never been to Boston's St. Patrick's day parade, and it's certain that I never will go now. And let's not be voting for the bigot Lynch now, mmkay?
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 03/17/2013 13:16:13 by velveeta jones)

The view from over there.
Author: Raine    Date: 03/15/2013 15:18:24

There are some days when I am truly baffled by conservative thinking. This being C-PAC week in Washington, my bewilderment is on overload. Today we have this story from HuffPo

Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Paul Begala faced off against conservative media mogul Tucker Carlson for an event at CPAC on Thursday, exchanging jabs on a number of political topics. Given the opportunity, Begala also shot down a conservative audience member who attempted to get in a jab at Hillary Clinton. (snip)

"I hope she does [run] -- I have no idea if she will," Begala continued, going on to list a number of things that he believes Clinton wants to do outside of electoral politics.

"I think she's actually gonna first live a life, write her book, reacquaint herself with the real world..." he started.

"Get a facelift!" someone in the crowd interjected, seemingly channeling a topic of discussion on Fox News last month.

Begala was quick with a comeback.

"No, not get a facelift," Begala said. "She's not a Republican society lady, she's a real woman."

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35 comments (Latest Comment: 03/15/2013 19:35:54 by Mondobubba)

In Support of Social Justice
Author: BobR    Date: 03/14/2013 13:00:40

The biggest story of the day yesterday of course was the selection of a new pope for the Catholic church. Approximately one hour after the white smoke rose from the chimney, Pope Francis I (nee Jorge Mario Bergoglio) appeared before a cheering crowd. It was a bit of a surprise on a couple accounts: He is a Jesuit and he is from South America.
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53 comments (Latest Comment: 03/15/2013 00:55:25 by Will in Chicago)

When there was no choice, can you still choose?
Author: Raine    Date: 03/13/2013 13:59:50

Kathleen Hoy Foley was 16, alone and pregnant from a rape in 1964 when she decided to put the baby up for adoption, intending to forever close that chapter of her life.

“The day I walked out of that hospital, it was the day it ended for me,” Foley, now 65, told the Daily News. “I was emancipated. I truly believed I was free.”

She wasn’t.

More than 30 years later, the child defied the odds and found her, shattering the life Foley had created and forcing her to reveal a dark piece of her past that she had wanted to keep hidden from her grown daughters and husband.

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86 comments (Latest Comment: 03/14/2013 04:20:46 by livingonli)

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