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Here's some music from the cradle of civilization - it has the core of all rhythms (according to a few commenters).
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Interesting take from Sabrina Tavernise in the NYT :
The military and intelligence establishment remains unassailable. It is both revered and feared by Pakistanis, who suspect its nationalist fringes of maneuvering behind the scenes, with help from allies in the news media, to keep civilian ...
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THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- As you no doubt know, deterrence is the product of a balance of power -- nuclear arsenals, in other words, that are roughly equal. Constrained by the eye-for-an-eye principle, but to the umpteenth power, states armed with nuclear weapons, such as the United States and the ...
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In charting how far afield (or a'sea) that Somali pirates are venturing into the Indian Ocean, Gadahn at maritime blog Information Dissemination also points out. . .
With Army Generals in Afghanistan now pointing out that Al Qaeda has almost entirely shifted out of Afghanistan to Pakistan and ...
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Flying is the pits, especially in America. It's also getting worse:
A failure early Thursday morning of a system that feeds flight plans to air traffic controllers snarled thousands of flights in the eastern United States. By mid-morning the system was working again, but the backlog caused ...
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And people wonder why I am not a Christian anymore:
Posters to various message boards tell stories of seeing bumper stickers with the message “Pray for Obama – Psalm 109:8” on the highway, only to look up the verse and find, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” …
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Just because I'm on a zombie kick (I watched Zombieland last night, Fun movie):
Never underestimate the zombie
Zombies are not mindless hunters. They are swifter and craftier than one might expect. A lone zombie can burst out of hiding and take a chunk out of you in the blink of an eye.
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I'm a frequent critic of President Obama, but sometimes it's really important to read between the lines. Yesterday the AP posted this story. In it the writer reports that the upcoming 'jobs summit' at the White House isn't about jobs:
President Barack Obama says creating jobs isn't the goal ...
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HHS Task Force Mammogram Recs Slammed
Cancer doc (left) tops bureaucrat (right) on cancer recs ( WUSA ).
HHS Head Sibelius Says, Ignore Panel, Get Checked
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"The (task force) recommends against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years." U.S. ...
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I'm going to say right up front that
I don't come to any conclusions in this post.
I was simply struck the contrasting outcomes in these otherwise very similar stories. First there is the news that the pseudonymous call-girl and author "Belle Du ...
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found this 2 days agofound this
First they organize a tea bagging of a speech by Al Gore, then they vandalize the venue . I wonder if Koch Industries $ paid for the spray paint?
Full Disclosure: While I am not involved with this speech, I do consult for the Alliance for Climate Protection
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The results of this poll are pretty interesting:
Americans don't want to shoulder the cost of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul themselves. They think the rich should pay for it.
I don't think it will happen that way, however. As a matter of fact, I know it won't. At least not ...
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Because I Am Feeling Whimsical: Would You Rather Fight An Army Of:
Zombies Vampires Republicans Other
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President Obama visited the Great Wall of China yesterday. Having seen the Wall in many different places in China, from the Badaling , where Obama visited, to the perilous angles and heights of Simitai and then all the way out in the West at the Jade Gate where the Han and T'ang walls peter ...
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By now most people who follow Goldman Sachs in the news know that it received $13 billion from the Federal Reserve to liquidate its portfolio of derivatives with AIG. Because the Fed was willing to pay Goldman par value on these derivatives, even though the market valued them at about 48 cents ...
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Staff | Bangkok | November 18 Bangkok Post - * Published: 11/18/2009 at 01:03 AM (11/17 01:03 PM EDT)
Foreign investment for US bonds and other long term investments, including from China, rose beyond expectations despite concerns over the weakness of the dollar, official data showed ...
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Consider two turkeys . One is a wild turkey, part of a flock that lives in our pecan bottom along the banks of the Guadalupe River. She finds food, shelter, water, protection from predators and all the other things she needs to survive in her environment.
The second turkey lives across the ...
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What am I missing? I keep seeing this woman's story pop up everywhere, from Daily Kos to the Huffington Post. I mean, who really cares? Why do we expend so much useless energy on stories like this? (And yes, I do recognize the irony of me posting about it.)
On that note: I had dinner with my ...
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98000reasons.org: Quanisha Scott from American Association for Justice on Vimeo .
The entire staff of the Agonist has already come out against the health care bill because it's essentially a giveaway to the big health insurance companies. Well here's one more reason to oppose it.
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