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It’s more and more like living in a Robert Heinlein novel: U.S. Considers Erecting Fences Along Canadian Border
Japan Confronts 29 Million Cubic Meters of Radioactive Soil
29 million (29,000,000) cubic meters = 1,024,125,335 (1.025 billion) cubic feet = 2,400 square kilometers = 930 square miles. Roughly the size of LaPine, as we old timers know it, or the state of Rhode Island.
A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol by attacking the buildings with large, remote-controlled aircraft armed with lethal amounts of explosives.
9/11 was an inside job, and you suckers bought it hook, line and sinker.
As voting officials readied Diebold machines in their precinct, a few machines received a small modification. A $10 part plugged directly into their logic board, tucked inside the machine, and the machine locked up. Everything was done according to routine, down to verifying the locks on the machines were engaged. Only one key was needed to verify, leaving a single official to oversee the final setup.
Election Day dawned, and long lines formed early. After showing the correct identification to enter the voting booth, citizens cast their votes for President, Congress, and assorted local offices.
In the next room, the official overseeing results held a small remote device. Periodically, he pulls out the remote and pushes the right button.
Your grandparents called it “food”. What you eat today, is not.
As many as 14 people have died from contaminated cantaloupes, health officials say, a death toll that would make it the deadliest food outbreak in the country in over a decade. The Centers for Disease Control “said last week that 55 illnesses and eight deaths were linked to the outbreak” and it comes at a time when Republicans want to cut food safety regulations.
Jon Stewart urges Republicans to make up your mind.
“First you guys wanted Bachmann, then Perry, now Christie…. Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe your candidates aren’t the problem — maybe it’s you? You seem hard to please. You’re unrealistic. […]
“It’s like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points. ‘I want someone who is going to cut taxes and balance the budget; someone who’s a skilled orator but doesn’t talk all fancy; a child of poor immigrants who will build a fence to keep them out of this country; someone who’s strong enough for a man but pH balanced for a woman; someone who will roll up their sleeves but not show their arms.’ […]
“It’s like your ideal candidate is a rare super-heavy element that can only exist in a particular particle accelerator and, even then, for only a fraction of a second before you all remembered how much you hate science. You guys need to take a long hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, ‘There’s something wrong with this mirror.’”
You candy-assed trust-funder who’s never done a day’s work in your life, pull your head out of The Bankers’ Ass: Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession…
President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Reactions to your position are less than glowing…
A reduction in government spending, the end of the payroll- tax holiday and an expiration of extended unemployment benefits would cut GDP by 1.7 percent in 2012, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief U.S. economist Michael Feroli in New York.
The 10 most challenged titles of 2010 were:
And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
I just picked this up, for obvious reasons, and will read it tonight.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Read this years ago.
Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
The Hunger Games (series), by Suzanne Collins
Lush, by Natasha Friend
Natasha is a popular blogger.
What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Read this last night, it’s damned good.
Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie
Twilight (series), by Stephenie Meyer
I actually keep this in the romance section of my little book store as I agree it is unsuitable for young adults. It is never-the-less available, six bucks for hardcopy, four for paperback.
Scrotum sucking squaws, Americans don’t like you:
Poll: Tea Party Unfavorability Up 27 Points Since January 2010
The poll shows that only 28 percent of Americans view the Tea Party favorably, versus a full 53 percent who don’t.
Why don’t you crawl back into whatever sewer it is you crawled out of.
