Said they were taking them to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Is this group part of New Life Church. I'd read (in The Family) that it was expanding. And why take orphans from Haiti to drop off in Dominican Republic?

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President Obama Related to Scott Brown. Let the Howling Begin!

01-30-10 7:26 A GMT-08

Rushbo is gonna freak.

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Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Scott Roeder Killer of Dr. Georce Tiller Convicted

01-29-10 5:58 P GMT-08

Video -- Rachel Maddow: Scott Roeder Who Shot Dr George Tiller Last May Loses Chance for Lesser Charges

01-29-10 6:20 A GMT-08

Life in prison seems to be his future, now. Earlier in his trial the judge said he would consider a lesser charge, causing fear that Roeder would be set free within a few years.

Tags: george tiller scott roeder

Newsday Paywall Fails to Make Money

01-27-10 1:14 A GMT-08

Readership up because online news is free to paper subscribers and cable users, but readership has narrowed become local. Employees not happy. It was supposed to make money, instead has reduced papers influence. Newsday.com only has 35 subscribers. Wake up NYT!

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Get to Know O'Keefe's Accomplices (Via Digg bar)

01-27-10 12:57 A GMT-08

Dig bar offers you a chance to vote on article via Digg. OKeefe's friends are young republican activists with an agenda. Thanks to @thejoshuablog at Twitter.com for link

Tags: james okeefe mary landrieu louisiana watergate

FDL: Gaping hole in the Senate bill would allow insurers to charge thousands more if you’re sick

01-26-10 6:40 P GMT-08

HCR bill likely to deny women the basic right to health care. Srsly Centrists, You Want to Pass This? SRSLY???

01-26-10 6:39 P GMT-08

The bill as it stands makes second class citizens of women solely based on the genetic makeup of their bodies. And yet we are told just to get in line and support it. Right.

Tags: women civil rights health care reform congress conference bill

Chart Distribution of Wealth US 2004

01-26-10 5:47 A GMT-08

Even by that time the inequality in the American economy had expanded, though the Bush administration claimed that everyone would be benefitted by the "Ownership Society" Thanks to @eversollae at Twitter.com who posted his graphic to Yfrog

Tags: inequality income 2004 bush admininstration ownership society

Paliban Daily: Pat Roberston Voodoo Doll on Ebay with Proceeds Going to the Red Cross

01-21-10 2:30 A GMT-08

You might want to stick a few pins in it when you get it too.

Tags: pat robertson voodoo haiti red cross earthquake relief

Buzzflash: Hugh Conrad: Mr. President: "Yes we can -- stay home!"

01-20-10 11:13 P GMT-08

The base was taken for granted. This should not happen again.

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How Current Cold Winter in US & EU Actually Helps Prove Global Warming Theory

01-17-10 8:27 P GMT-08

I know the Christian Jihadists are trying to keep people ignorant so that they can push thieir right wing policies for the big money makers of this world, but their lies could cost lives, including those of loved ones.

Tags: global warming climate change gulf stream man made ice age

NY Time: Slideshow Haiti -- Earthquake Aftermath

01-16-10 8:55 A GMT-08

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The Livesay (Haiti) Weblog

01-13-10 7:22 P GMT-08

Blogger from Haiti

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CNN iReport on Haiti Earthquake

01-13-10 6:52 P GMT-08

Individual reporting and pictures from Haiti. The first source I found and the rawest pictures may be found here.

Tags: haiti earthquake building collapse

Raw Stroy: Teabaggers Threaten American Cartoonist

01-11-10 6:19 P GMT-08

Much like the Muslims have threatened a Danish cartoonist over his depiction of Mohammed, the teabagger movement has recently had members threatening Mark Fiore a brilliant video hurmorist over video about how to speak like a "tea bagger". The cartoon premiered in November, but Bill O'Reilly recently used it to assert that NPR which hosts Fiores video cartoon on their site is too liberal.

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6.5 Earthquake Off Northern CA Hit Sensitive Junction on San Andreas Fault

01-10-10 8:05 A GMT-08

I tweeted earlier a suspicion that Saturday's earthquake off Eureka might be on the San Andreas Fault which goes offshore at San Francisco and runs under the ocean as it goes north past Eureka.

Tags: earthquake mendicino junction eureka

Frank Rich: The Other Plot to Wreck America

01-10-10 7:23 A GMT-08

Another group works to gain advantage over Americans. They have the power to do more damage to our nation than Al Qaeda and other terrorists. And surprise they are not a political party, but they do seem to own them. Frank Rich explains.

Tags: terrorism financial crisis wall street unpunished phil angelides

Mitt Romney Vote Fraud

01-09-10 6:19 P GMT-08

Mitt Romney voted in recent MA election despite having sold his last home in the state by using his son's address and has sent mai-in ballot for January's special election for senator. I doubt that qualifies as legal in anyway but mainstream news media's eyes. I'm evem betting. That's more voterfraud than ever proven against ACORN or it's associates or employees (which BTW was nil)

Tags: romney 2012 election political vote fraud election fraud registration fraud mainstream news media

Gumby Creator Dies

01-09-10 5:21 P GMT-08

Oh Noes! Does that mean no more new Gumby Cartoons? LOL

Tags: gumbe television cartoons art clokey

The Marriage Revolution Struggle Will Be Televised! Proposition 8 Trial will be shown on YouTube

01-08-10 6:17 P GMT-08

The right screams that their witnesses will be intimidated. People might also see that Ken Starr (Yes, that Ken Starr who often goes by the name Kenneth these days) is one of their main lawyers too. The judge will be able to decide if witness faces and voices should be changed. But what about their names? Ted+Olson (Argued the Bush side in Bush v Gore) is part of the team. Some wonder if the suit is just to nationally outlaw SSM before the coinservatives lose their majority. (The word is that Justice Kennedy is looking towards retirement.) But will the closet cases among conservatives turn the tables?

Tags: proposition us district court same sex marriage ted olson

Juan Cole Offers Reality on The Latest Iran News

01-08-10 10:10 A GMT-08

Another great piece from Cole This one is explaining how we should deal with Iran and why you should believe little of what you read in the papers and nothing from Murdoch's rags. (Actually he passes you on to arms control specialist Gareth Porter for rebuttal to Murdoch's London Times assertions about nuclear trigger plans found in Iran.)

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The Ady Gil Sinks. And the LA Times Tells Us Who the Heck Ady Gil Is

01-08-10 9:22 A GMT-08

I heard the Ady Gil was provided to Sea Shepherd by someone connected to Hollywood, and today's LA Times report on the final sinking of the former "Earthrace" tells us that the benefactor is one Ady Gil. Details at link. I'm sure the Japanese already know this and will try to attack both Ady Gil proper and Bob Barker in the usual personal attack style of right wingers, neocons, and corporatists world wide.

Tags: ady gil sea sepherd japanese whalers antarctica

Juan Cole: The Stupidity of Profiling Nations and What We Should Do (Title paraphrased)

01-08-10 8:39 A GMT-08

We will lose money and power by discriminating against Middle East and African nations and the selection of countries for invasive inspections before travel recall pre Martin Luther King policies is what I read in Mr. Cole's piece. He also thinks that patting everyone down from the watch list countriies wouldn't work and other methods will.

Tags: al qaeda pants bomber yemen

Egyptian Soldier Killed at Gaza Border During Dispute

01-06-10 6:45 P GMT-08

Soldier shot twice in back. Egyptians claim from Palestinian fire. So Egyptian soldiers stand with their back to the fight? oR Are they saying their soldier was running away? It sounds like friendly fire to me.

Tags: gaza eqypt palestine gaza border gaza freedom march

Sea Sheperd's Anti-Whaler superboat, Ady Gill, Heavily Damaged by Japanese Whalers

01-06-10 8:30 A GMT-08

I received a report from SS on my phone, but couldn't open up the original, nor can I find it now. This link goes to the AFP which copies the SS report mostly. Sad news.

Tags: japanese whalers sea sheperd ady gil steve irwin

FDL: Casual Observer: Was Pants Bomber Motivated by Israeli Attack on Gaza Last Year?

01-06-10 5:33 A GMT-08

Abdulmutallab seems more likely to be inspired by attack on Gaza. Tickets were bought before December's attack on Yemen al Qaeda accompliiss compound, AAP claims for that motivation falls flat.

Tags: gaza cast lead israel terrorism

The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.

Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.

Quick News

Canadian Olympic Ski Stadium Seized for Debt

01-20-10 11:53 P GMT-08

Yeah, one of those which was supposed to be hosting next month's event.

See CP report "Intrawest assets seized by lenders, including Olympic ski resort in Whistler"

No truth to the rumor that we went silent for "No Complaints Wednesday"

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Domed Buildings in Kiev

One tower seems slightly tilted

It's hard to remember that there are places in the world with no Thanksgiving.

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As my sister-in-law tweeted very early this morning, it may appear that we were silent Wednesday due to the call from a Democratic Representative for a complaint free day before Thanksgiving, but we were just busy.

To add to our mortification, we remembered the last post was one that actually found some positive news.

We really tried to do the extra work we needed to do to get the extra day off and not disappoint our clients, as well as doing a good cleaning job around the home to make it special for the kids, and still get something posted yesterday, but, as you can see it didn't happen.

When I have some free time I'll finish what I started earlier today.

Thanks for keeping that hope that we will find something depressing to take the edge off this feelgood family holiday.

LOL

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