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Minnie to Raise Money for "Malaria No More" in May's Poverty-Awareness Campaign
Wed May 2, 2012 1:48 AM EDT
Hi, I'm Minnie Apolis, and I will be participating in the five-day campaign to raise awareness for global hunger and poverty. The campaign is called “Live Below the Line” and will take place from May 7 to May 11 (Monday thru Friday). Full details about the cam …
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Another $2 billion of taxpayer money lost on solar companies! Well...not exactly
Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 10:04 AM EDT (Politico)
Monday’s news that yet another solar company that received Energy Department backing is filing for bankruptcy protection at first looked like the Obama administration had funded another expensive loser. But unlike Solyndra’s high-profile and costly flameout, this …
Mitt Romney won. And now he's going to lose - The Week
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 11:09 PM EDT (The Week)
So the hollow man has finally firmed his fragile hold on the GOP nomination, in another of T.S. Eliot's phrases, "not with a bang, but with a whimper." In the Wisconsin primary, the whimper was Mitt Romney's margin — a derisory 4 percent for someone to whom Republicans sh …
Obama Cautions AP Against Drawing False Equivalences On Health Care, AP Ignores | TPMDC
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 7:21 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
One of the key moments of President Obama’s Tuesday speech before an Associated Press luncheon came at the end, when he urged reporters not to cast partisan disagreements about the key issues of the day — health care, the environment, the role of the federal governm …
Leader's Suicide Reveals Frightening, Violent, Organized Misogyny Movement | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
In a lengthy “Last Statement,” which arrived posthumously at the Keene Sentinel, Tom Ball told his story. All he had done, he said, was smack his 4-year-old daughter and bloody her mouth after she licked his hand as he was putting her to bed. Feminist-crafted anti-d …
Obama Will Murder Innocent Bunny Rabbits Like How He's Killing The Economy - YouTube
Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:01 AM EDT (YouTube)
Herman Cain once again enters the video arena; this time he engages in a bit of bunny-skeet shooting. Odder and odder he gets; less and less can I believe that anyone ever took him seriously! If you have trouble viewing this from the link above, you can see it at his Cain Solut …
Even in an age of fact-check journalism, the political whopper lives: Analysis
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:38 PM EDT (Cleve-Blog)
Josh Mandel's already casual relationship with the truth took a turn toward outright estrangement this month. The Republican state treasurer and aspiring U.S. senator blamed incumbent rival Sherrod Brown for Ohio jobs relocating to China, a transparent attempt to turn Brown's …
Fox News, GOP Pretend Ryan Plan Doesn't Add Trillions to the Debt | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:30 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
The new House Republican budget unveiled by Congressman Paul Ryan last week does many things. Ryan’s so-called “Path to Prosperity” would deliver yet another massive tax cut windfall for the wealthy and pay for it by gutting the social safety net he pretends …
Closed NYC Landfill Will Be Home to Solar, Wind Farm
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:03 PM EDT (Sustainable Business)
Since New York City closed the Fresh Kills landfill in 2002 - the largest in the world - the 2200 acres have been turned into a park. Now, the Staten Island mountain that holds 2 billion tons of garbage deposited there over 53 years, could also be home to solar and wind.
Etch a Sketch's maker capitalizes after being drawn into race
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:09 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
The mention during a CNN interview Wednesday — and ensuing storm of rivals’ mockery and social-media reiteration — prompted a flood of attention. In the product’s 52 years, nothing spread the name Etch a Sketch so fast and wide, said Martin Killgallon …
Winners of the Nature's Best Photography competition - The Washington Post
Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:34 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Winners from the Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards will be on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History beginning March 30, 2012.
Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz
Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2012 7:00 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
Test your scientific might!
Sandra Fluke Written Testimony_House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform_2.16.12.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Seeded on Sat Mar 3, 2012 12:56 AM EST (Law Students for Reproductive Justice)
February 16, 2012Members of Congress, good morning, and thank you for allowing me to testify. My name is Sandra Fluke, and I’m a third year student at Georgetown Law, a Jesuit school.
Obama to Congress: "Eliminate This Oil Industry Giveaway Right Away"
Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2012 5:45 PM EST (TreeHugger)
But the new, improved, and fierier rhetoric comes in response to the most recent spate of oh-so-predictable GOP attacks on his energy policies in the face of rising gas prices.
Iroquois Women to Discuss Contemporary Empowerment of American Indian Women
Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2012 1:15 PM EST ()
The power and wisdom of American Indian women.
Bonus Withdrawal Puts Bankers in Maliase
Seeded on Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:58 PM EST (Yahoo!)
"People who don't have money don't understand the stress," said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy.
"The Hand of Man": Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia's Grief Over Mountaintop Removal: Jeff Biggers:
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:28 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
As millions of pounds of explosives from mountaintop removal strip mining operations continue to devastate historic mountain communities in central Appalachia, a powerful new music video released this week by the beloved American Roots band Magnolia Mountain captures the hau …
Graphene: The perfect water filter
Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 10:31 PM EST (ExtremeTech)
Researchers from the home of graphene, the University of Manchester in England, have discovered — seemingly by chance — one of the most important properties of graphene yet: It’s impermeable to everything but water. It is the perfect water filter.
Native Plant Societies in the US
Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:25 PM EST
For help in identifying and purchasing native wildflowers for your garden, you can contact these wildflower societies of Natural Resource departments for additional help. These societies, as a rule, contain listings of plants native to your state, and can provide listings o …
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Jack is taking a trip
Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:26 PM EST
Today, at 6:15 PM, our beloved Jack is catching the express to Rainbow Bridge. Early this morning he let me know it was time for him to leave. He told me, not in words understood by human ears, but instead in a message written directly on my soul.
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O Christmas Tree: Real or Fake?
Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:43 AM EST
To buy real, or to buy not real? That is the question at this time of year. If you already have a fake tree and you are happy with it, end of story. If you are ready to toss it and go with the natural version, see if you can recycle it instead of just putting it at the curbside.
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How To Raise Your Elected Officials
Wed Nov 9, 2011 10:38 AM EST
Last night's elections gave us reason to hope; we plucked some bad apples out of the barrel, and we rolled back some horrid decisions made by folks who let their positions and sponsorships get to their heads. Great work, but we can't stop now, or we're going to experience a repea …
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Sleeping giants are waking up all over!
Tue Nov 8, 2011 11:05 PM EST
Maine's voters speak out! Paul LePage and his Koch supporters took a hit in Maine tonight.
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Pretty Periwinkle: Say your prayers; the end is nigh
Sat Nov 5, 2011 1:56 AM EDT
Periwinkle. Cute name. Horrible plant. I hate it because it's an invasive nightmare.
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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
Seeded on Thu Nov 3, 2011 7:21 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. It was this cast of characters and the …
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Crow, I made another coffee cake yesterday. My son and I sat around and visited and ate coffee cake. What a treat. Thanks, again.
I thank you for releasing me from the greenhouse. It is kind of you to take your time to go foraging in the weeds for lost newbies. I went to the article you suggested. I just never realized the behind the scene work involved in keeping this garden growing!
hey, i saw that Russell Stover has Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Santas, which isn't a surprise really, but i'd never bothered to check before, so you don't have to wait 'til Easter for the yum! =)~
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The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American ci …
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In his newest video, conservative videographer James O'Keefe claims that during his organization's latest inept voter fraud sting in North Carolina, "we found ballots being offered out in the name of the dead." Unfortunately for O'Keefe, the person whose ballot his operative so …
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Federal spending is lower now than it was when President Obama took office. I’ll pause to let you absorb the news. In January 2009, before President Obama had even taken the oath of office, annual spending was set to total 24.9 percent of gross domestic product. Total spen …
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I've had it up to here with this President Obama... if that is his real name. I just got done watching seven minutes of Fox News, and let me tell you, I learned more than I cared to learn about this Muslim socialist who hates America and wants to poop directly on our childr …
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Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released a new video today supposedly exposing voter fraud in North Carolina by highlighting non-citizens like Zbigniew Gorzkowski who have voted in recent elections.
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