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kinda cool

Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo?

“Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940. 1941 (?)”

It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to the middle), among other items of the online exhibit. Did you notice anything out of place? Or perhaps, out of time?

The man with what appears to be very modern sunglasses seems to be wearing a stamped T-shirt with a nice sweater, all the while holding a portable compact camera!..............

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wow. hero of the week

COURAGE!

Wajeha Al Huwaider, a woman, driving in Saudi Arabia

Lisa Katayama

This incredible video from 2008 shows Saudi activist Wajeha Al Huwaider driving a car in Saudi Arabia on International Women's Day. Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive; by shooting footage of herself driving and then posting it on YouTube, she was able to send a message out to the world while also protecting herself from punishment through international exposure...........

i think i'll have to try some of this tea

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thief!

Octopus Steals Camera, Swims Away, Directs First Film

c'mon larisa

when THEY do it (you know, lie, commit treason, commit a felony, spit on the constitution, go against everything that IS america, and on and on and on), it's NOT a sin. it's just fine because they 1) are conservative and/or 2) have god on their side.

c'mon larisa, wise up. oliver north is a SAINT

To Oliver North, I have three words for you: Iran Contra Affair

Posted by Larisa Alexandrovna

So right after Sean Hannity was yanked from the Cincinnati tea-bagger rally by angry Fox News executives, he hosted a show on which guest Oliver North had this to say about the POTUS:

In discussing the current tension between the Obama administration and the Israeli government (of which Hannity does not approve), Hannity pitched Lt. Col. North a standard, almost rhetorical question on his program: “Is President Obama emboldening America’s enemies?” North responded with a scathing critique of President Obama’s foreign policy:

“This president is willing to be obsequious to our adversaries, to denigrate our allies, and essentially to walk away from the only real democracy in that part of the world. And no one can say he’s big on oil, because he’s not in the oil business, so what is it? It is his core philosophy of being anti-American.”

Okay, let me see if I understand this. North committed treason by selling weapons to Iran, our then (and now) designated enemy. Oh, and Israel shares that enemy in common with us by the way. North used the profits from these illegal arms sales to fund terrorism in Central America. This money funded a rag-tag collection of terrorists known as the Contras, who in turn used the money to wage an illegal proxy war against the democratically elected government of Nicaragua. .........

this is one of THE most disturbing images

i have seen - in relation to the teabagging numbskulls that is. rape is NEVER to be taken lightly. racism is NEVER funny. really, i don't care if you disagree with the administration. i do on MANY MANY MANY things. i want to know where y'all were when king george was ruling the roost. so, where were you? he (and his) certainly spit on the constitution far more than mr obama and his. he certainly lied way more. he certainly got us into wars we had NO bid-nez getting into. SO, WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU ALL? really. WHERE?


Right-Wing March Organizer Doesn’t Repudiate Racist Cartoon

Posted by Adele Stan

At yesterday’s rally by sponsored by the Virginia chapter of the Constitutional Sovereignty Alliance on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, I asked organizer David A. Turner, Jr., about a disturbing cartoon I found on the Web site of one of the three links to the sites of “Partners & Friends” listed on the “links” page of the CSA site. Turner was fresh from a meeting with House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, to whom Turner delivered the “Virginia Sovereignty Letter” signed by members of the commonwealth’s state legislature.

As I reported yesterday, on the site of Freedom for US Now — one of CSA’s three “Partners & Friends” — trumpeted as “New!” on the front page was a post called “The Raping of America” that features a bare-chested Barack Obama donning his shirt, leaving behind in a disheveled bed a naked and distraught Statue of Liberty.............

is anyone keeping track of all the excuses?

here's YET ANOTHER

(wonder how many other people and excuses they can blame this on)

Mexico bishop says porn, tv to blame for priest abuse

Reuters) - A prominent Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico blamed eroticism on television and Internet pornography for child abuse by priests, in the latest incendiary comments on sex scandals in the church.

"With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it's not easy to stay celibate or to respect children," Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near Mexico City on Thursday.

"If on television and on the Internet and in so many media outlets there is pornography, it is very difficult to stay pure and chaste," said Arizmendi, an influential bishop from the colonial town of San Cristobal de las Casas in southern Mexico.

"Obviously when there is...................

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hell, i'll admit i'm not the most articulate babe in the bunch. then again, i'm NOT a senator. nor did wall street and big bid-nez give me over $200,000

Wall Street-backed senator can’t explain why he opposes financial reform, asks reporter what’s wrong with it
By John Byrne

Ted Kennedy's replacement in the Senate doesn't appear to be quite as articulate as his predecessor.

Newly minted Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), elected to the late Kennedy's seat in a special election, stumbled after reporters asked him why he opposed financial reform. The new legislation will take a financial toll on the nation's largest banking institutions in an effort to forestall future financial meltdowns.

Asked by the Boston Globe how he'd like to see the bill improved, Brown fumbled -- appearing not even to know what it was he wanted changed in order to garner his support.

Brown left open the possibility that he could support a compromise.

"I want to see when it's going to come up, how it's going to come up,'' he said. "I'm always open to trying to work something through so it is truly bipartisan.''..............

...............ThinkProgress, the blog of the progressive thinktank Center for American Progress, noted that their analysis found that Brown received $200,000 in campaign donations from Wall Street and business executives. $106,000 came from Wall Street executives alone.................

i don't think they know the meaning of the word 'thanks'

not quite sure why that prince of a man

eric prince isn't include in the indictment (well i can guess why of course). and as i'm fond of saying, an blackwater by any other name, STILL SMELLS LIKE SHITE

U.S. Indicts 5 Blackwater Ex-Officials

By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors charged the former president of Blackwater Worldwide and four other former senior company officials on Friday with weapons violations and making false statements in the first criminal inquiry to reach into the top management ranks of the private security company.

The executives were some of the closest advisers to Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, and helped him steer the company during its swift rise to become the leading contractor providing security for American diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan, working for the State Department, the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.

They were also the senior executives in charge during the company’s most turbulent period, after its security guards were involved in a series of shootings, including one in Baghdad in 2007 that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.

Mr. Prince, who was not charged, remains at the helm of the company, now known as Xe Services, while many other executives have left as the company has sought to reshape its public image in the face of mounting legal and political scrutiny.........

thanks

lemmy!!!

it IS all me

i love me some third graders!

HATE MAIL FROM THIRD GRADERS
"It's not easy being a public enemy," writes Neil deGrasse Tyson in his book The Pluto Files. When Neil's museum grouped Pluto not among the planets but rather with icy comets in an obscure region called the Kuiper Belt, he heard from thousands of outraged Pluto defenders. It's tough being called a heartless Pluto-hater, particularly by a dismayed eight-year-old. Below, peruse a few of the letters elementary schoolkids sent Neil, and see how their tone shifted over the years, as the public slowly came to accept Pluto's fall from planethood.—Susan K. Lewis

Madeline's protest
September 19, 2006
The debate over Pluto's status continued to percolate, but in August 2006 the International Astronomical Union took a key vote that officially knocked Pluto out of the pantheon of planets. Young Madeline Trost of Plantation, Florida disagreed.

Siddiq's wisdom
March 26, 2008
Perhaps Siddiq Canty, a second grader at the Roland Lewis Elementary School in Tampa, Florida, summed up the brouhaha over Pluto best: "thats [sic] Science."


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Copying is not theft: now with studio-recorded audio!

Rob Beschizza

and please DO check out creative commons

my photos on flickr and my blogs are all under a creative commons license. i support sharing

wow!!!

swimming with sperm whales



check them ALL out. amazing. amazing. amazing.

Dr Allinson, 61, said: "When they interact with us they approach us very closely, rolling over again and again, trying to get us to rub their abdomens and bodies. When you start getting close to them you feel nervous, intimidated and then as they interact with you intense pleasure. You realise they are intelligent"

Picture: DR PETER G ALLINSON / NATIONAL PICTURES

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jon, i love you

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but on the OTHER hand

one cannot print things based on RUMOR. especially if one is an established NEWS SOURCE

i don't know if ms kagan is gay, straight, trans, bi or none of the above. i don't care either. i CARE if she's a good person. i care if she's intelligent and i care about how well she practices/understands the law.

i'm not one for 'outing' anyone. even if the source IS gay themselves

White House complains about CBS News blog post saying that possible Supreme Court nominee is gay

The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made assertions about the sexual orientation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.

Ben Domenech, a former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer, wrote that President Obama would "please" much of his base by picking the "first openly gay justice." An administration official, who asked not to be identified discussing personal matters, said Kagan is not a lesbian........

this does my heart good

the comments on the wapo article are ugly. i don't understand people's fears (for what else can it stem from? it MUST be fear)

Obama extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners of gays

By Michael D. Shear

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 16, 2010

President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients' choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.

The president directed the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation in a memo that was e-mailed to reporters Thursday night while he was at a fundraiser in Miami.

Administration officials and gay activists, who have been quietly working together on the issue, said the new rule will affect any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding, a move that covers the vast majority of the nation's health-care institutions. Obama's order will start a rule-making process at HHS that could take several months, officials said.........

Obama Orders Hospital Visitation Rights

By Advocate.com Editors

President Barack Obama signed a memorandum Thursday requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have nonfamily visitors and allowing their partners medical power of attorney.

The memorandum orders the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo was posted on the White House website Thursday afternoon..............

i shouldn't feel GOOD about this

but i DO

i don't have to ask anybody anything

he's NOT a socialist
he's NOT a communist
he's NOT a liberal
he's NOT a nazi
he's NOT a muslim
he's NOT a foreigner
he's NOT a trampler of the constitution (well not as bad as king george was)


what he IS, is a black man. that's it in a nutshell.

Ask the card-carrying socialists: Is Obama one of them?
By John Blake, CNN

Billy Wharton should be happy.

"Socialized health care" is on its way. The "socialist agenda" is taking over America. And best of all, Barack Obama, a "committed socialist ideologue," is in the Oval Office.

But Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA, sees no reason to celebrate. He's seen people with bumper stickers and placards that call Obama a socialist, and he has a message for them: Obama isn't a socialist. He's not even a liberal.

"We didn't see a great victory with the election of Barack Obama," Wharton says, " and we certainly didn't see our agenda move from the streets to the White House.".......