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Thinking about a tree
Author: TriSec    Date: 11/19/2011 12:37:48

Good Morning!

It's an early Saturday blog, but I'm not off to donate platelets today...(next week, though!). Nay, it's the last pre-peak weekend at the Bean factory, and I've got an opening shift.

I want to talk about Christmas trees today. (waits for shouting to die down.) I know it's a little early, but because of the brief ceremony that happened in my fair city this week, it's on my mind.

Do you put up a tree? Where do you stand on the great live/artificial debate? (and as a sub-debate, if you do put up an artificial one, is it still green, or do you have a different, new-age color?)
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 11/20/2011 02:39:37 by wickedpam)

Friday Science Stack
Author: BobR    Date: 11/18/2011 13:46:13

With all of the news coverage of Occupy Wall St., I am beginning to feel a bit of OWS-overload. Sure, it's a big important movement that may change life as we know it, but there are other things going on in the world (and outside our world) that are interesting, and variety is the spice of life. So - as part of an occasional ongoing series, I present today's Friday Science Stack.

This may seem an odd choice for what is essentially a political blog. Republicans, however, have politicized science. That animosity towards science can be from a religious viewpoint, or an economic one, or a mind/body-control aspect, but they certainly have certain areas of science in their crosshairs.
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63 comments (Latest Comment: 11/18/2011 19:50:03 by TriSec)

You can't break up an idea.
Author: Raine    Date: 11/17/2011 13:47:36

If you have the ability to watch this is the CBS news live stream from a helicopter above Downtown Manhattan.
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68 comments (Latest Comment: 11/17/2011 22:15:27 by livingonli)

Lobbying for the Job
Author: BobR    Date: 11/16/2011 14:04:15

Herman Cain as a presidential candidate is a bit of a puzzle. He seems to be woefully unprepared, belligerent with the press, and uninterested in anything that isn't related to taxes. For someone who used to make a living as a lobbyist, he seems to be lacking in the skills to persuade.
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70 comments (Latest Comment: 11/17/2011 01:46:48 by TriSec)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 11/15/2011 11:16:18

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,163rd day in Iraq, and our 3,691st day in Afghanistan.

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

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4483
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4344
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3624
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 255
Since Operation New Dawn: 55

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,833
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 966
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

1, 278, 117, 675, 000. 00

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105 comments (Latest Comment: 11/16/2011 01:00:18 by TriSec)

Aloha Monday
Author: Raine    Date: 11/14/2011 13:51:31

Monday Morning Smile for you:

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41 comments (Latest Comment: 11/15/2011 02:20:07 by Raine)

Ass Crack
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 11/13/2011 15:36:03

Yet another GOP Presidential debate last night, making this number 18,001³ with several hundred thousand more to go. Highlights of which will be:

The Lifetime/Cracked.com GOP debate
The QVC/People Magazine Debate
The LOGO/Advocate/Martha Stewart Living GOP debate on a Carnival Cruise to South Beach, with Carson Kressley moderating.
The ESPN/Guns and Ammo Republican Debate with Larry the Cable Guy.

As with all the previous debates the clear winner was President Barack Obama.
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 11/14/2011 00:03:19 by livingonli)

Bloggone it!
Author: TriSec    Date: 11/12/2011 13:11:07

Half an hour of effort down the drain this morning. Still having computer problems.

Anyone know anything about rogue security programs? I fear this latest assault may prove mortal, given the ongoing disruption.



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12 comments (Latest Comment: 11/13/2011 03:19:17 by Will in Chicago)

Time to Synchronize, Friends.
Author: Raine    Date: 11/11/2011 18:07:22

First, please listen to this:



I want to impress upon this comment:
“I did ask yesterday, what’s the big deal with the panel here?” Limbaugh said. “Do they want to synchronize their menstrual periods? Why appear together? What, does it give added weight?”


Let me quote Mr. Limbaugh one more time:

Do they want to synchronize their menstrual periods?

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52 comments (Latest Comment: 11/12/2011 03:28:10 by wickedpam)

Pathetic.
Author: Raine    Date: 11/10/2011 13:33:47

Against my better judgement, I actually watched most of that mess of debate last night. I really must say that aside from the terrible gaffe from Rick Perry and the inappropriate comment from Herman Cain about minority leader Pelsoi, the debate was full of absolutely no substance. It was insulting to the American public to be honest with you. I may not agree with the politics of the people on stage last night, but I do have the expectation that they at least know what they are talking about. No substance. It was over an hour of simplistic sound bites and campaign zingers.

Actaully, I take that back -- there was a lot of substance -- it was all crap.
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79 comments (Latest Comment: 11/11/2011 03:59:17 by Raine)

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