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Archives: May 15, 2010

...And Toyota announces better fiscal full year 2009 results than 2008.

Krauthammer faults Obama's "allies on the left" for deep water drilling and damage

An elegant defense of Kagan from an unlikely source: Miguel Estrada

An elegant defense of Kagan from an unlikely source: Miguel Estrada

Opinions mixed on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge designation

Unsealed iPhone 4G Affidavit: Phone’s Sellers Allegedly Tried To Hide Evidence

Solar powered trash cans send text messages

Sarah Palin: "I was for the bailouts before I was against them."

So what happens when there are hurricanes in the gulf?

Protesters say NATO attack killed Afghan civilians

The Alaska Court of Appeals upheld 2008 conviction on 21 misdemeanor resident hunting violations

Limbaugh today- "make a profit on the dollar collapsing"

My dear Tacitus,

Ninth Circuit upholds MMS approval of Shell Arctic drilling

Today Limbaugh unwittingly made the argument for nationalization of off-shore drilling.

How Youtube 3d Came To Be

S.C. chief accused of stealing, selling seized guns

MoveOn Endorses Sestak in PA Senate Race

Blankfein buys new digs for 26 mil CASH on duplex.. must have been his Gods will

Environmental group to sue US over oil permits

Ideas for fixing the hole in the gulf floor.

In the midst of ethanol, the oil spill, and global warming an environmentalist image spotted on TV

Jason Linkins, Huff Post on Pat Buchanan's view of Jews on Supreme Court.

BANK BUST FRIDAY !!!!! The Un-Fab Four

Thought: should they be injecting the oil spill with a coagulant rather than a dispersant?

Thought: should they be injecting the oil spill with a coagulant rather than a dispersant?

HHS Announces $1 Billion in Recovery Act to create/sustain research jobs nationwide

A sign showing how bad the economy is (pic)

Just lovely

Is it really too late for the US to switch to the metric system?

S. E. Cupp is really nothing more than an opportunist who took a favorite right-wing position

NBC to air documentary on Toyota recall

Student strike of 1970.

Mandatory Friday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! TGIF!!

AC360 last night reported that leak is actually 70,000 barrels a day not 5,000

White House Allowed BP to Keep Video of Gushing Pipe from Public for Three Weeks

"Just complete the danged fence" - Buzzflash parody of McCain ad..

I just convinced 2 people in Pa. to vote for Joe Sestak on Tues.!

Lewis Black for President!

Business Week - "U.S. Economy: Retail Sales, Output Exceed Forecasts"

Limbaugh today- "make a profit on the dollar collapsing"

Japanese government blocks a ban on child pornography

Japanese government blocks a ban on child pornography

Selma, Lord, Selma

Supposed to take a Memorial Day vacation on an island off of Punta Gorda, FL this year.

Conspiracy Theories--which ones do you believe?

Funny Tweet

Facebook loses friends as privacy campaign grows

In a rational world, everyone on Fox would be screaming on a street corner instead of TV

It's real simple folks: If BP tries to weasel out of making this right they need to be boycotted

Salvadoran diplomat who helped Jews during Holocaust to be named righteous gentile

Met my own "Bernie Madoff"

Which teabagger said this?

Intergalactic imperialism?

Intergalactic imperialism?

BOSTON: Catholic Archdiocese Comes To Defense Of Banned Student

Whoa, Mark LeVine On Hannity...Destroyed Horowitz

Our End

Celebrating Moronitude . . . . it is once again time for a GOP confab.

British neo-Nazi who planned attacks against Jews jailed

Colin Powell for Sec of Ed? He turned it down.

Stanley's making the news again: Abuses at US ‘Black Jail’ in Afghanistan confirmed

PA Tracking Poll: Specter 44 (-1), Sestak 43 (unchanged) - May 15, 2010

PA Tracking Poll: Specter 44 (-1), Sestak 43 (unchanged) - May 15, 2010

10 deaths in April thought to be suicide

DoD OKs cancellation of NLOS-LS

It is the headlines.. controlled by right wing.

Congressmen should not be paid wages but loans.

GIs Invited to Tell Unvarnished Stories

Ahhhnuld Plans to Terminate the Poor

Post your ideas for stopping the Gulf oil leak.

The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter

HotAir.com front page: not a word on the oil spill

A volcano of oil erupting

The Nation: Britain Braces for the Shocks to Come

Navy close to multiyear deal on new fighters

Drones Soon to Help Monitor US Border

Iowa court orders relatives to exhume body of man who wanted his head cryogenically frozen

Leading Evangelicals Want “Remedial English Classes” for Those Who Call Immigration Reform “Amnesty”

Fuck Ya ll!

Someone's tryna tell me the dems voted for this 75 million cap and used this link

Campaign Finance Reform - A Different Solution

Tea Party Movment

The Donald may not have a lot of fans around here, but I think that Ivanka Trump rawks

This was perfect....

This was perfect....

After Coming Out as a Lesbian, a Student May Owe $80,000 to Army ROTC

After Coming Out as a Lesbian, a Student May Owe $80,000 to Army ROTC

I want a Goodwin Liu t-shirt.

More War Profiteers: Army recalls 44,000 helmets

SPLC lists F.A.I.R. as a hate group; they get mainstreamed anyway by NPR & CSPAN

AlterNet: Why Caffeine Is the Perfect Addiction for a Worker Bee Society

Kendrick Meek Met With Palm Beach Post Editorial Board Friday

Picture of a post indictment republican from PA. (State Senator Jane Orie).

Republicans search schoolroom, remove pro-labor teaching materials

Schwarzenegger to state workers: Work more for same pay

Emergency E Action: Fire Don Blankenship

Toon:Point/Counterpoint

Better Turkey, Greece ties 'could yield arms reductions'

Now We Know Why Banks Have Taken So Much Interest in Charter Schools

Just Gave a Saturday Morning Donation to DU

How much lint do you have in your pocket? People are still incarcerated..

Great idea for airport security...

Oil Spill: BP Accused Of Using Gulf Of Mexico As "Toxic Testing-Ground" - UK Telegraph

Remember Jackson State

Student’s Arrest Tests Immigration Policy

Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin

TV w/o cable = HD over air = very beautiful picture - will miss

Abundant snowfall a big lift for state's ski resorts The Sierra Nevada snowpack is 143% of normal,

Abundant snowfall a big lift for state's ski resorts The Sierra Nevada snowpack is 143% of normal,

Why The Depression Is Ongoing

Why The Depression Is Ongoing

My prediction: Congress' final report of this so-called Fed "audit" will be 3 sentences long.

Vote to Limit Debit Card Fees Is Surprising Loss for Banks

The Labour Party leadership debate is about to begin

US Church set to ordain lesbian bishop

Set the hook in a Saturday! Reel it in. Come CAPTION this chrome-dome teabagger.

Look at the list of sponsors for the "independent" NewsHour on PBS......

I think a bounty of $10/gal of sludge would greatly increase the cleanup effort.

New technology from our friends at Boeing: Star Wars meets reality? Laser weapons tested

New technology from our friends at Boeing: Star Wars meets reality? Laser weapons tested

10 most profitable college majors and highest paying college degrees

New Poll: Restless Voters Prefer Democrats Again, But Still Hate Incumbents - HuffPo

9 Signs That Prove God Has A Sense Of Humor (Or Doesn't Understand Irony) - HuffPo

How much money would it take to gamble the life of a loved one?

Listen Pat Buchanan you racist jackass

A 'Quantum Leap' in Governance of the Euro Zone Is Needed

Big Macs, Chicken McNuggets and Energy Policy

Central CA need to attend CA Utility Commisons mtg in Fresno against P.G. & E rate hike 5/28

Rising Chorus Demands Independent Investigation into the Spill:

Should We Make Laws to Protect our Traditions?

Should We Make Laws to Protect our Traditions?

Stopping the oil well spill

Publisher Vends Books Via Old Cigarette Machines

Lay's is changing the shape of salt crystals for a better chip

Palin calls upon NRA and its "allies" to stop Obama from doing something he's NOT EVEN FUCKING DOING

J.P. Morgan Chase Anounces Plans to Launder Taxpayer Money to charter schools

J.P. Morgan Chase Anounces Plans to Launder Taxpayer Money to charter schools

Poll for Arizona Immigration law

BP accused of using Gulf of Mexico as "toxic testing-ground"

Revolt in Arne Duncan's hometown: Mass rally May 25, no 25% cuts to public ed

Is Marcy Winograd Being Censored by Fox11 in LA????

Has anyone been following the Grayson Michael Chance

Just a disorganized thought on the oil spill

Deepwater Horizon rig had history of spills, fires before big Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Deepwater Horizon rig had history of spills, fires before big Gulf of Mexico oil spill

1,000,000 Strong to Boycott BP -- new facebook group from Public citizen

MS: $75 GAS cards to celebrate the devestating oil spill.

How about some DU "50 Million Posts" Parties?

What's going on in Bangkok? A political insider's viewpoint:

Report: "Hurt Locker" team about to blast tens of thousands of BitTorrent downloaders with lawsuit

Right-Wingers' Feet of Clay

Crude Catastrophe: BP Oil Spill Disaster Photos

Tell me the truth...how bad is this for Obama?

Facebook being hit by some sort of virus/worm.. don't friend anyone for a while..

Home of Swedish Muhammad cartoonist attacked

Blackwater Shows Up At NRA Convention With Guns Blazing, Sets Up Display Of Assault Rifles

A city School Committee member says she's 'appalled' at how GOP guests treated a classroom.

British MP stabbed

A state of persistent and permanent war? securing the world via neverending conflict

The BP oil leak should illuminate a much deeper problem of this environmental catastrophe...

Conservative friends rise in support of Kagan

Need vs. Want

Pa. swim club accused of race bias sold at auction

The Full Extent of Nixon's Crimes

"Sarah Palin look alike strip show" benefits the Tea Party Movement

Interesting article about budget deficits

Pawlenty Hypocritically Supports Chamber Using Taxpayer Bailout Funds To Lobby Against Wall St

Who else feels like they're watching Junkyard Wars reruns?

What can we do about the oil spill?

Can someone tell me why they can't use dynamite or some kind of bomb to stop the oil spill?

Can someone tell me why they can't use dynamite or some kind of bomb to stop the oil spill?

Can someone tell me why they can't use dynamite or some kind of bomb to stop the oil spill?

Can someone tell me why they can't use dynamite or some kind of bomb to stop the oil spill?

Can someone tell me why they can't use dynamite or some kind of bomb to stop the oil spill?

Voices From The Frontlines Of The BP Oil Spill - HuffPo

This Is Several Years Old, But... The United States and The War on Trade Unions in Colombia

This Is Several Years Old, But... The United States and The War on Trade Unions in Colombia

This Is Several Years Old, But... The United States and The War on Trade Unions in Colombia

Homeless people save a life after former Food Network chef asks them to murder someone, they refuse

SeizeBP.org dedicated to seizing BP assets, has petition, other organizing tools

Fleas, Rodents, Mold All Call Health Department Home

Santa Barbara Oil Spill Video: Did America Forget So Soon?

Thank you my hero! Someone

Demonstration held outside of a building that is being constructed by BP on UC Berkeley campus -pics

Democrats Retake Lead in Congressional Ballot

Posted by request: Toyota: Another Circuit City? (by James Parks, Apr 16, 2007)

Posted by request: Toyota: Another Circuit City? (by James Parks, Apr 16, 2007)

Greek economic crisis accelerates clashes between immigrants and locals.

Small business lobby to go to court on health law

delete

VA assigns ratings to surgical facilities

Newer Senators Fed Up With Old Rules That Block Progress - LATimes

NRA members disagree with Republicans in Congress...

NRA members disagree with Republicans in Congress...

U.S. Army to turn gulf oil slick into asphalt

Better learn to live in a vault with layers of security....

Probe of Police Abuse Widens in Seattle Stomping Case

I wonder if simple labeling wouldn't solve all of our election issues

Dilution is the solution to pollution?

Dilution is the solution to pollution?

I had to smack down a Tea Partier...well, rhetorically...

Federal prosecutors conducting criminal investigation of Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine

SHOCK: Naked Boy, 9, Stuffed In Oven As Punishment (and hands burned on stove)

Then Comes the Marriage Question

Study: Wine in plastic loses flavor

State senator seeks amendment to ban same sex marriages (NC)

Tell me the truth...how bad is this for Obama?

Pope laments bad reputation had by "the church"

Pope laments bad reputation had by "the church"

I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that quite a few people who claim to believe in god really don't.

Approximately how many posts per day are made on DU?

Socialism and communism is about big government?

Which organization is a greater threat to mankind's survival?

I hate to do this, but you need to watch this: Glenn Beck commencement address, Liberty University

Repairing The Job Machine-More jobs might be created this year than during Bush's presidency.

Missouri lawmakers crack down on porn industry

Yes or no

White House Pressured BP To Release Video

For those who feel the grass is always greener...

Oil Spill Could Go On For Years, Experts Say - RawStory

Growing Diversity on the Supreme Court.... (TOON)

Making a mortgage holder accountable

Dilution is the solution to pollution?

Screamin' MEME-y: Palin's latest fatwa introduces annoying new catch phrase about "Mama Grizzlies©"

Tennessee proposes banning felons from owning "vicious" dogs for 10 years

Barack Obama has finally seen the light but is it too late?

Our dog had a grooming today - Hair donated to the gulf

Arizona's Next Target: 'Student' Amnesty'

Defiant Fresno pot-shop (medical-marijuana clinic) owner out of jail

Preakness horse "First Dude"

Homeless Man Living Off Frequent Flier Points Gets Job

Is it ever okay to refer to a woman as the C-word?

Sarah's fans are reloading. For real.

Rendell aims to be skunk at tea party

Dems make Ellsworth official pick to face Coats

Even a giant industrial grade douche bag can't plug that leak.

This is the ABSOLUTELY best line with the best delivery of damned near any president.

Do the math for the gusher.

Crazy social conservatives at it in Missouri

White House: Speed up release of Kagan papers

When you hear a Pro- NRA gun nut accuse Obama or Dems of taking their guns ..

Sarah is mad. Mexican jockey beats up on "First Dude"

NRA AND PALIN: LET THOSE ON NO-FLY LIST BUY GUNS

Kagan on CSpan NOW.

CIA drone kills TIMES SQUARE BOMBER'S teachers

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon: J.D. Hayworth Is ‘Full Of Racism’

NOAA to release storm season outlook

FOUND: What goes on in a Glenn Beck viewer's head

lonestarnot lost her star.

Glenn Beck To Liberty University Graduates: Shoot To Kill

Michael Jackson doctor helps passenger in distress

Analysis: Americans should examine the Liberal Democrats

I bought an ergonomic bed.

We Must Demand That Dick Cheney Testify About His Anti-Reglatory Reign & The BP Ecological Disaster

Conservatism is a social pathology

How much oil? (intereractive flash slide shown on msnbc.com)

Catholic school rejects child of lesbians, Progressive catholic groups fight back

First Attempt To Stop Oil Spill With Insertion Tube Has Failed, According To Ken Salazar - NOLA.com

Bangkok Unraveling

Let's thank the Right for recklessly using and wasting the "Socialist" moniker

Still feeling terrorized by big oil. And you?

Woman's hospital memories contradict "birthers"

Good thing our troops' lives were not wasted bringing democracy to Iraq

Good thing our troops' lives were not wasted bringing democracy to Iraq

NYT: On Speech, Kagan Leaned Toward Conservatives

CODE PINK end the needless death

Rare sea turtle washes up dead on NC beach

Awesome Daily Kos Diary: "I helped bring mfg jobs back from china "

Chris Matthews Wants Dick Cheney “Under The Lights And Under Oath” Over Oil Spill

Jail More Likely Than Treatment For Americans With Psychiatric Disorders

Do you agree with the Democratic Parties' stance on reproductive choice

Jury Reaches Decision in Brain-Scan Test Case

Where would we be today?

Paris, je t'aime......

Introduction to a book I'm working on

Our youngest daughter just became a statistic of the times

What I Learned in Afghanistan .....About the United States By Dana Visalli

JFK battled Wall Street and Big Business

Wealthy Progressive Donors On Strike To Push For Campaign Finance Reform

A post in GD got me thinking about a research website some DUer's may not be familiar with

Has the oil spill made the Cheneys disappear?

Flowchart to Determine if Obama is a US Citizen

Boeing source: We may not bid for KC-X

In a serious nuclear incident/accident I expect the government to be all over it in a nano second.

Undocumented student's arrest called part of 'civil rights disaster'

Caption Chuck Norris

White House Refuses To Include DADT Repeal Language in Defense Transmittals

BPs latest oil fix fails

Gulf Oil Leaks Could Gush for Years: National Geographic Article

Time for Florida to talk about marijuana laws (Sat nooze dump)

Time for Florida to talk about marijuana laws (Sat nooze dump)

Time for Florida to talk about marijuana laws (Sat nooze dump)

Bad News For Republicans Expecting To Retake Congress

Your recommendations for organizations supporting Gulf fishermen, wetlands?

Wow. Google's "Wonder Wheel." Anyone played with this yet?

Who is the most worthless bag of fuck at this point in time?

Juicy Profits Not Enough, Snapple Puts the Squeeze on Union Workers

Nun automatically excommunicated for participating in decision allowing abortion that saved mother

Does greed-based, trickle-down/supply-side economics sound like a policy of..

This post is primarily directed toward the individuals not yet directly impacted by the oil gusher.

Saturday spit the hook. Crap! Come CAPTION Teabagger Boy, The Swell with a Fellow!

"Heckuva job, Kennie"

"Heckuva job, Kennie"

A Plea to All DUers...

McChrystal: Beheadings of Our Allies Simply to Be Expected

BP response plan: "fraud, fantasy, or forgery." US government deserves hefty share of the blame.

Is the entire market capitalization of BP sufficient to remedy the damage? What then?

Obama plan would delay probable cause hearings to allow uninterrupted interrogations

Gulf Disaster: Things are getting so bad, the "angry Obama" has to make an appearance.

Mick Jagger talks downloading and piracy (I knew he was pretty cool)

Who cuuld possibly mount a potentially successful liberal primary challenge to Obama?

I'm descended from illegal immigrants

Congress: Cap ATM fees at 50 cents

Congress: Cap ATM fees at 50 cents

Obama, Congress and Bernanke did not save the world from a Great Depression

In City of Homes That Sit Empty, more homes are being built

hahaha.

Brockton (MA) school district, a "beacon of urban hope", lays off 430 teachers

Brockton (MA) school district, a "beacon of urban hope", lays off 430 teachers

HANESBRANDS INC. DONATES 50,000 PAIRS OF PANTYHOSE TO GROUPS MAKING OIL-ABSORBING BOOMS TO FIGHT GUL

DU Contest: Can you guess when we'll reach 50 million posts?

Salazar: Latest effort to stop oil leak hits snag

Tiniest Victims Of The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill May Turn Out To Be Most Important - NOLA.com

The Net Neutrality fight has returned.

What happens when an undocumented person is picked up?

The hummer chicks are almost a week old.

The hummer chicks are almost a week old.

ChickMagic's obituary in the DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Blind woman abandoned on airplane

Why do lawmakers always head for the poor and ..

8 arrested at protest over Obama cutting funding for HIV/AIDS programs

8 arrested at protest over Obama cutting funding for HIV/AIDS programs

Has anybody else seen the movie Boogie Man about Lee Atwater?

Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder ~ My Sweet Memory

Our Rapidly Changing Planet

Why do married people pay substantially less taxes than Single people or unmarried couples ?

Does anyone ever consider that things may not be what they appear to be?

I saw Mr. President admonishing the 3 fingerpointing assholes for not

Specter: 'Victory is in the air' in Pa. primary

Modern day Republicans learnt one thing from the NaZis. Tactics.

Mr. Obama

Which ReTHUG owns ArmorSource -Army recalls 44,000 combat helmets

The personality traits of school reformers...from a NYC parents' blog.

Should drilling be prohibited at certain depths?

I am sympathetic to faith in God

Latest Arizona Law

An honest question. Who does Obama think will vote for him in 2012?

Mormon Beck - Liberty University: Not a happy match

Race to the top begins to get criticism...just as NY teachers get sold out by union.

In some states marriage between different races was illegal , so "illegal" does not equal "immoral"

When did Apple become uncool?

How Bad Could the BP Spill Get? - Mother Jones

Sarah Palin is a dangerous, dim-witted, ditzy dumb-ass.

Andrew Young's "The Politician" paints Edwards as even worse than I had expected.

Seneca to Obama: ‘You betrayed our trust’

You know what's funny? If I poured used oil in my yard I could be arrested! But BP goes free!

Do anti-illegals want the police and military to drag families out of their homes to deport?

Obama ignores me.

As a society, we need to have a dialogue about profit and make some decisions

I am a Tree Hugger

Mother and daughter holding matching pink handguns at NRA meeting - pic

After crying at the drop of a hat over the Gulf disaster...Maher and his new rules had a few smiles

After crying at the drop of a hat over the Gulf disaster...Maher and his new rules had a few smiles

Remember when everyone said that the Stupak compromise didn't change anything?

Remember when everyone said that the Stupak compromise didn't change anything?

Listen up. Everybody here needs to READ THIS. Then be nice to your introvert.

I ran across this tonite...

Great Tune!

I'm watching Friday Night Lights for the first time - what an awful pisspoor show.

A thought about Mel Gibson movies.

is it wrong to want to see Jeff Bridges and Colin Ferrell make a country album together?

My strategy was flawed. I will not be repeating this course of action. I misjudged the situation.

So. it seems that this fly was in the barn and found himself landed

I am happy, nay... PROUD to share this POS with you.

What was that thing that Tom Snyder used to say... something about

I am pretty Blotto. You know. That guy related to

One hit

Rinôçérôse - Time Machine

Last week, I shit canned myself.

A Great Big Bunch of Fuckit

ZEN

Time lapse video of Eyjafjallajökull volcano

Fiction Factory - Feels like Heaven

I got popped and pooped today..

Screw this. I've found a cooler site.

Unkle-Eye 4 an Eye

Let's see...

Anyone else have hail tonight?

I hate the Boston Red Sox

A Long Walk

I love Italian Food...but my god do they Ruin a Cheesecake

My shit is fucked

Skinner just wrote me.

Happy 62nd Birthday Brian Eno!

The last Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl died this week

This Is Not Good.

You say you want to hear Tool's lead singer tackle "21st Century Schizoid Man? YOU GOT IT!

When You Are Old

The Cab Ride

Some blues - Albert Cummings....

I got a gift certificate to a book store for my birthday. Can you suggest any current

OMFG! Rollerskating Babies!

Stella was a diver and she was always down

You can all kiss my ass!!! We're only #2 - WOOHOO!!!

What's your best hard drug and music combo?

One hit (or two)wonders of the 90's

Hey Stella!

A star is born

What this place needs is a new Lucy pic. So be it.

You say you want a bluegrass version of Sabbath's "Iron Man?" YOU GOT IT!

Pay ATTENTION, people!

Wow. Good work Flyers. Way to beat the odds.

50's mental hygiene movies

You say you want to hear Whitesnake totally fuck up "Day Tripper?" YOU GOT IT!

KEEF in the new issue of Rolling Stone: "If I had my way, he'd (Mick Taylor) still be in the band."

You say you want a barbershop quartet version of The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl?" YOU GOT IT.

When you get old do you just not care?

Breaking the law!

ohhhhhhhhhh POWER TOOLS

Tomorrow is my Birthday , I turn 32

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WAVY GRAVY! (The bestest person ever!)

Whack-a-Kitty (Home version -- and not the one you think)

Testing

Has Anyone Else Seen the Offensive "Cartoons"

Yes, I respect George Lucas

KICK ASS

To the three dumbf_ck drivers I've encountered today (rant)

Flowchart to Determine if Barack Obama is a US Citizen

Yes or no

Hi. This is a song I wrote. Last one on my record

My show starts now! Check it out

Buddy Guy & BB King, "I Can't Quit You Baby"...FUCK Jimmy the Junkie and Robert the Precious Diva.

Preakness starting in a few minutes

Yes or no?

So I got a call today from an old friend. Hadn't heard from him in several months.

What's with the DU Adbot?

The Sarah Palin Look-Alike Site That Will Get Your Ass Fired If You Look At It At Work

Bruins fans...my hat is off to your team ( posted here because Sports forum is dead )

Someone just told me they were listening to "The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick"

If you do not know the difference between weeds and flowers, please do Not

Yay! Nurses Week is finally over!

Today is Armed Forces Day

what are your nonsense words?

I just watched Roman Holiday again, since so many years have passed.

I am at the hospital with my father and his bloot clot, the hospital has wi fi.

Tonight I watched THE INFORMERS for the third time, and I really believe this is a

Was killed at work today.

Ewoks vs. Munchkins

Oklahoma governor vetoes open carry handgun bill

Anthony Kennedy: Kagan Shouldn't Have to Answer Questions on Legal Opinions

The Bad Place

Jesus. I'm sitting here listening to Coldplay.

Anyone remember the '50s and '60s where lawyers, engineers and bus

Obama Rebukes Companies on ‘Spectacle’ of Spill Blame

I worked with an Idiot today. How does one teach common sense?

Best thing to plant in a window box that gets a lot of sun?

How come aliens don't have hair?

Stevie Wonder vs. Paul McCartney

Regulators shut 4 banks; 72 have failed this year

Security for SC gov rendezvous costs Fla. $1,200

Videotaped a wedding today, and saw one of those unplanned, touching, real life moments

Obama pledges permit review, end to cozy oil links

NBC to air documentary on Toyota recall

Detroit To Destroy 10,000 Abandoned Homes

Kansas Mutual Fund Identified as Trader in Market Plunge

Yet another beautiful weekend

Then Comes the Marriage Question

Google admits wi-fi data collection blunder

Palin says Obama would ban guns if he could

Fighting spreads in Thai capital, 17 dead

70% Of Toyota-Dealership Operators See Need For Restructuring

3.9 Earthquake Greater Los Angeles Area

Gaza man killed by Israeli gunfire: emergency services

I saw the Infamous Stringdusters last night - a bluegrass jam band

HANESBRANDS INC. DONATES 50,000 PAIRS OF PANTYHOSE TO GROUPS MAKING OIL-ABSORBING BOOMS TO FIGHT GUL

GfK Poll flashes mixed signals for parties-Americans want Democrats to control Congress

Nick Clegg: we caused offence by joining Tories, but it's worth it

U.S. Army to turn gulf oil slick into asphalt

NRA Criticizes Kagan on Gun Rights

Feds conducting criminal probe of W.Va. mine blast

Russian Dancer Ordered Freed in Guantanamo Habeas Case (35 Out of 48 Freed Have Won Cases Now)

PSA:. If you watch "The Pacific" on HBO

10 killed in Iraq stadium bombing

BP mum on latest oil containment effort

Latest oil containment effort falters

Jessica Watson, the girl who sailed round the world, comes home to cheers

Ford Exec: Auction Prices On Used Ford Cars, Trucks Up $3,000

Mexican presidential candidate missing

Workers deny Dole defrauding conspiracy

When a post is just a link to youtube like this:

Balochistan schools receive Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's threatening letters

Gulf oil spill: Obama administration warns BP it's on the hook for all damages, not the taxpayers

Fur balls blot tar balls

United States Joins Alliance Of Civilizations

Cubans march against homophobia

US oil spill spreads to new coasts

Retired Millstone worker alleges safety compromises at Millstone, NRC

Oil washes onto Mississippi, Louisiana coastal islands (tarballs & soft patties)

BP oil chief: Don’t ban deep-water drilling

Released FBI Documents Detail Walter Cronkite’s Aid of Vietnam War Protesters

Uncertainty Buffets Japan’s Whaling Fleet

Obama plan would delay probable cause hearings to allow uninterrupted interrogations

President Obama pushes passage of Wall Street reform bill

Bomb Designer, Mars Expert Sent by Obama to Fix Oil Spill

It's wood cuttin' time -new toy :)

Crew argued over drilling plan before rig explosion

BP expects Gulf oil siphon to work after setback

Gulf spill: BP gets go ahead for full-scale underwater use of dispersants

Officials: US missiles kill 5 in NW Pakistan

Guilty verdict for Ohio cop who shot unarmed motorcyclist in back

After 40 years, U.S. drug war failing to meet any of its goals

The best cartoon ever made

Salvadoran diplomat who helped Jews during Holocaust to be named righteous gentile

Australian teen completes round-the-world sail

Episcopal Church ordaining first openly lesbian bishop

Thai violence spirals as both sides seek reinforcements

No return envelope in bills, ARRGGHH!!!

Been awhile since I've been here... who the hell are all you people?

Husband of the year nominee: Call Me Wesley. He just waxed my legs.

Who here believes in ghosts?

Toyota had attack plan against congressional testimony, documents show

Obama’s Campaign Arm Tries to Get Grassroots Democrats to Defeat Fellow Progressive

New "Facebook for political views"?

Nassau Comptroller Maragos To Announce For Senate Next Week »

Griffith goes negative on challenger

Talbot: Mystery $1 million flows into Alabama primary race

Good news: a Kennedy is once again the Most Powerful Man in Washington

Ecosystem in Peril After Gulf Oil Spill

Review of Obama biography "The Bridge"

Tea Party-Backed Repeal Of The 17th Amendment Gets Republicans Into Trouble

Please call your Senators and Congressman to support HR 3149

Why Has The Obama Administration Approved 27 More Offshore Wells

Carly Fiorina injects $1.1 million more into her campaign

Salazar, Napolitano tell BP to pay up

GOP offers new oil liability standard — one year's profit

WP: White House video blog offers an inside view

What Happened to Obama’s Armageddon?

WTF: "BP CEO says Apollo 13 moon mission ‘did not stop the space program’"

WH, Harkin and Miller pushing $23 billion federal aid to prevent teacher layoffs

Todd Palin helps Murkowski foe

Biden: Democratic Party backs Sen. Specter in Pa.

Afghans angry at 'civilian deaths'

Matthew Yglesias: It's Bush's Oil Spill

Obama Plan Would Delay Probable Cause Hearings to Allow Uninterrupted Interrogations

Sarah Palin would ban books if she could...

Lesson From the Gulf: Stop Drilling

"This is the latest installment in the "This Isn't The Bush Administration" chronicles."

POLL: Democrats Retake Lead in Congressional Ballot, 45/40.

Biden hosts recovering son's fundraiser

Until we develop effective alternative energy sources we still have to drill for oil, have coal and

why can Obama express approval of the firing of ALL the teachers at a high school

Well since Sarah Palin knows what Pres. Obama really would do if he could...

Tea Party-Backed Repeal Of The 17th Amendment Gets Republicans Into Trouble

We've worried about Obama's birth certificate and social security number. What's next?

The more I see of Palin.........

Conservatives claim Kagan is an inexperienced, socialist, Marxist...

We need to be thinking about this: What if it's 2012 and we AREN'T out of Iraq?

One of Obama's picks to help solve Gulf spill is a self-declared militant homophobe!

‘Everyone here is ready to vote for Obama, including the Republicans.’ ”

Al Franken HELP Committee Hearing on Nurse Safety

John McCain Ad: Complete the Danged (Death Star) Fence

The Cloud Minders

Robert Greenwald Discusses Afghanistan on The Ed Show - May 14, 2010

Nuke the oil spill: Could nuclear bomb be answer for huge leaks as at US Gulf coast?

Arizona Anti-Immigration Law Backfires

Darth Vader takes on the American Power Act

BP Sure Is Full Of Itself: Ad Touting Their 'Expertise'

Democracy Now! Headlines Friday, May 14, 2010

40 Years Ago: Police Kill Two Students at Jackson State in Mississippi

NRA rank and file don't think people on the terrorist watch list should buy guns.

Kevin Costner Oil Gulf MESS-Clean up Machine

Have You Had Enough Of Harman

Cable News Wonders: If A Judicial Nominee Plays Softball, Does That Make Her Gay?

Arizona Immigration Law-The Majority of Americans Agree with the New Law.

Young Turks: Controversy Over Girls Doing Beyonce Dance (Video)

Real Time with Bill Maher Pts 1-5 & New Rules

Richard Dawkins responds to perceptive Australian questioner

Ford Hemp Car

MMS Corruption, of Biblical Proportions, Leads to NOAA's Ark

Liu Nomination Advances

BOOK REVIEW: The Invention of the Jewish People. By Shlomo Sand (Jim Miles)

What If BP Were A Human Being?

Terminally Dumb People

Ecosystem in Peril After Gulf Oil Spill

Chevron's 'Crude' Attempt to Suppress Free Speech

Arms and the Airport

GOP Game Plan: Turn Elena Kagan Into Godfather's Tom Hagen

Health Insurance Companies Try to Shape Rules

Jeff Sessions’s Constitution

I hope this guy gets in on the oil spill clean up/remediation work. Sec. Chu knows him as does BP -

LAT: Step Up to the Plate--MLB should move all-star game from Arizona

The Dirty Place

Oil spill could go on for years, experts say

Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" Are Devouring the GOP Not Obama

Does the Right to a Lawyer Disappear with Miranda?

Sarah Palin's political bandwagon is wobbling under the weight of contradictions

Why The Way We're Working Isn't Working -- A Survival Manual for the Modern Age

Maine GOP Convention-Goers Vandalize 8th-Grade Classroom

Friday Talking Points (123) -- A Working Senate

Good editorial in AZ's major newspaper calling out all of AZ's

The Nation: What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?

One of Obama's picks to help solve Gulf spill is a self-declared militant homophobe!

Nurses Union, A Great Example

BP officially ditches "Operation Top Hat" Moves to Insertion Tube to Stop Oil Spill

BP ditches "Operation Top Hat" Moves to Insertion Tube to Stop Oil Spill

The new Gulf War

GE Grabs Gearless Wind Turbines

Oil spill science: Mapping the plume

Mass death at the the base of the Gulf food web

Seneca to Obama: ‘You betrayed our trust’ (xpost)

"The Gulf appears to be bleeding"

Areva To Provide MOX Nuclear Fuel To Recently Completed Japanese Nuclear Reactor.

Vancouver Sun: Caribou threatened by wind farms, expert says.

Life with the Dekalb Turbines.

How much insurance will be adequate to compensate for loss of manatees?

So I am thinking of going solar on our (potential) future house. Does anyone

Has anyone, including the fabulists at BP given out

Source Terms and Distribution of Carcinogenic PAH's in U.S. National Parks.

Wind Turbines Shed Their Gears

BP / Gulf oil spill -- Radar Image, 14 May 2010

"WHAT IF THERE IS NO CLIMATE/ENERGY BILL?" Report outlines path forward...

WTF? Toronto up by a run over the Rangers in the 4th inning. 11-10.

McNabb apologizes for not winning Super Bowl

Gloat-Free Baseball Scores (Friday, May 14)

Did anyone else think Zambrano took his loss Friday just a _leeeetle_ too calmly?

Looking at the names of horses for the Preakness today......

ok, what's the REAL most coveted award in all of sports?

As the Preakness gets ready to roll, a note of respect for Sham and Alydar

Choke.

Alright Philly, you know what to do....

The JR Chess Report (May 14): Winner and still cham-peen, Vishy Anand

Guess why BA couldn't hold strike talks? The union boss was in Cuba hailing the revolution Read m

Portions of Carabobo State, Venezuela, without power

Workers deny Dole defrauding conspiracy

Nicaragua police seizes over one ton of cocaine

Moscoso to lead observation group in Dominican Republic

Colombian coal firms to pay for high contamination

Colombia: paramilitary chief says he supported Uribe's election

Chilean President Pinera sells TV station

Suspected Bolivia Drug Smuggler Shoot - Out Kills 6

Lula says he does not understand the 'basis' for Hillary's skepticism

Pioneering and Persecuted Baltasar Offered Position by the International Criminal Court

Colombia: wave of deadly attacks on education workers

The hostage, the guerrilla and the baby born in the jungle

Photos of current trip to Bolivia by President Fernando Lugo:

China Worker Discussses Venezuela's Chavez

Regional Commission Against Impunity in Central America

Cubans march against homophobia

Chavez orders money changer raids for currency crash

Soldiers in Iraq doing the blah blah blah

Pins in the Goldstone voodoo doll

Boy killed in West Bank - Palestinians blame settlers

AFT president Randi Weingarten speaking at Town Hall Meeting in Kansas City

Nicaraguan workers deny conspiracy against Dole

Double-dip would sideswipe auto industry

Today in Labor History May 15 The first labor bank opens in Washington, D.C., & more

W Post: Union leader Stern leaves with questions over spending

Census Bureau Warns Its Workers Of Violent Incidents

Alleged theft of dues from defunct union under investigation

Is this what peace looks like?

US funds Israel’s 'apartheid' roads plan

Report: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim responsibility for West Bank shooting attack

Gaza man killed by Israeli gunfire: emergency services

Settlers launch interactive Web site

U.S. asks Israel to curb rhetoric, demolitions of Palestinian homes

Palestinians mark Naqba

Palin says Obama would ban guns if he could

Libya Voted to U.N. Human Rights Council

Palin Warns NRA Obama Wants to Ban Guns

More Weld (County) residents are carrying guns (Colorado)

Buying NRA raffle tickets pays off...

Arms and the Airport

Because I can't resist these beautiful horses!!

Say 'yea,' 'nay' or 'but, hey...' to these proposed revisions to contest rules

I'd submit a "Crazy Heart" if I knew which one. Are you willing to tell me which one you like? Poll

Wesley T. Huntress: Author of NASA's New Strategy (IEEE Spectrum interview by Oberg)

reconnecting with my sister

Okay, this is weird

Putting out the garbage!!

Whomever wanted a new radio network; this one looks pretty good:

Spiritual and Holistic Surgery helpers ??

2012 Burning Questions--post 'em here (inspired by SC's ascension thread)

Karen Bishop's last WINGS

End of Karen Bishop's "Wings" posts

what do people here think of all this 2012 talk?

Archdiocese Replaces Convicted Sex Abuser(s) With An Unconvicted Sex Abuser

Atheists Can't Think For Themselves! (Edward Current video 4:33)

What relevance do the gods of theologians and philosophers have?

I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that quite a few people who claim to believe in god really don't.

PCV1, PCV2 DNA detected in RotaTeq

Yearly vaccinations aren’t just for kids any more. ~ Seattle/LocalHealthGuide

$175.99 for an inhaler which will last about 1 month.

John Williams - The man who debunks the government's groovy economic numbers

More than a euro crisis

Why There is Fear and Resentment of the Power of Gold to Discover Value in the Real Economy

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