Illinois Governor Wanders Into the Crosshairs

I remember back when I was learning attack planning and tactics during Navy flight school.  One of the key concepts was “time on target.” That is, when there were going to be a whole lot of airplanes coming in to deliver payload, you had to get the timing down just right [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 17:32:41

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The Best and Worst of 2008 (Well, The First Half Anyway)

Best and Worst of 2008 So Far Poll: Pick Another Del Toro Sequel Our Favorite Summertime Movies Great Movies for Smart Girls When rap stars become movie stars Next About That 'Friends' Movie ... by Erik Davis Jul 7th 2008 // 2:02PM Filed under: Comedy, RumorMonger, FandomWell, you can now put this in your pipe and smoke it: According [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 16:10:34

هنا غزة ... أرض العزة

صور من وكالاتAn explosion is seen as missiles fired from an Israeli aircraft fall towards a target in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Gil Nechushtan) 2The moon is seen as an Israeli military attack helicopter flies over the northern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:04:00

Urban Survival

How to Survive and Thrive in the CityNo mater how much I bitch and moan, some of you just don’t listen, letting my advice go in one ear out the other. I tell you to get out of the major population areas, but you refuse, thinking you will pack up and head for the hills moments before the first flames light the night and the mushroom cloud hovers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:36:00

DrumBeat: September 4, 2008

Gulf Coast Faces Sea Level-Sinkage Double Whammy Hurricane Gustav has been a harsh reminder that it's only the whim of a hurricane track, a few miles this way or that, which can make the difference between a close call and another Katrina-like catastrophe for New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 13:35:06

Julie Gerberding Has Resigned

CNN is reporting that the current head of the CDC has resigned effective January 20th. Mike Leavitt, current head of HHS asked for her resignation along with several other senior officials at CDC. Gerberding will be replaced by William H. Gimson, COO, will take over as interim director until a new director is appointed by the Obama administration [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 21:30:23

30+ Stunning Facts About Natural Phenomena

30+ Stunning Facts about the Natural Phenomena Nature and the history of mankind are not always related. Instead, there are a lot of unbelievable things occurred elsewhere and at any time frames within the similar space where humans dwelt. Some occurred events might not be appeared true to believe, but in reality they are true facts to be beheld [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 19:27:32

Saimin Survival Kit

December 31, 2008 in Mixed Plate A digitally-altered mock-up of what the product label would look like“Saimin Survival Kit” could just as well be a catchy name for a new instant noodle product line designed with the local college dormitory student or Hawaii resident on a budget in mind [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 05:41:10

Where’s Your Data? Contaminated Dorms in New Paltz

Editor’s Note: Carol van Strum, Eric and I are continuing to research the PCB and dioxin scandal in Ireland: pork and beef products have been found to have elevated levels of PCBs; all Irish pork has recalled, but beef has not.The levels of contamination we have found (not in the mainstream press, but in an obscure German science journal) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 18:00:05

And finally...

And finally, the end of the neverending saga...As we last left off, H and I were on the road to Houston. We arrived at my (now former) BF's house at around 3. Here is where the description will have to cease being a true narrative and instead become an event list, because I just can't bear to hash, bit by bit, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:02:00

Cyber-Smoke: The Emergence of the E-Cigarette as an Alternative

This week's cover story addresses the skyrocketing price of cigarettes in New York and some of the ways people are coping ... products and share tips on cleaning, tricks and troubleshooting. E-cigs take the form of a metallic ... . The nicotine gives the smoker the same high as a regular cigarette without the damage from tar [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 05:33:22

“Air Stagnation Advisory”; Burn Ban In Effect

Late Sunday afternoon, the National Weather Service issued an “Air Stagnation Advisory, ... control agency. In the Seattle area you can contact the Puget Sound clean air agency or visit ... and the ban is cancelled.; Natural gas, propane and pellet stoves or inserts ARE allowed. No visible smoke [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 02:57:28

Cleaning The Air With Air Purifier

by Kent Higgins If you are an allergy sufferer, then you probably know the benefits of using an air purifier to keep your allergies at bay ... out the stale smoke smell from these rooms, and help alleviate cigarette smoke damage in the area ... there are people smoking. Cigarette smoke and perfumes can be cleared from the air quite efficiently [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:15:06

The Benefits Of Having An Air Purifier

by Kent Higgins If you are an allergy sufferer, then you probably know the benefits of using an air purifier to keep your allergies at bay ... out the stale smoke smell from these rooms, and help alleviate cigarette smoke damage in the area ... there are people smoking. Cigarette smoke and perfumes can be cleared from the air quite efficiently [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:12:17

Debunking the detox myth

The silly season has ended for another year and many of us are feeling the effects of overindulgence ... products refer to the large number of toxins - from cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes and pesticides ... potentially harmful toxins from your system” and generally give your body a “spring clean” and “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:37:22

Ten Worst Man-Made Disasters

We’ve had the ten worst climate research papers, the ten worst blog posts, and now Cohenite has decided on ten of the worst man-made disasters ... will lead to “tipping points”, “dangerous heating”, “dangerous climate change” and “irreversible damage ... that man’s progress can cause environmental damage.  But most sceptics recognize there are two [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 21:29:21

Of star, light and houses

Of firesides and cease fires…As the time of light draws nearer; I find myself once more star-gazing in the Christmas cupboard.Being of secular bent, I should, I’m sure, think of it as the solstice store, yule cabinet or midwinter walk-in, but there are two reasons that I do not [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:59:15

Egypt on Fire: The Gloves and The Invisible Hand

On Thursday November 6th when Egyptians were celebrating Obama's Victory, Al Ghad Party went up in flames ... up in smoke and flames. It was a cold-blooded communication strategy which aimed at discrediting ... , the only ‘clean' club in town, at least relatively-speaking, is the NDP.” Wael Nawara cited [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 14:34:38

Of star, light and houses

Of firesides and cease fires… As the time of light draws nearer; I find myself once more star-gazing in the Christmas cupboard. Being of secular bent, I should, I’m sure, think of it as the solstice store, yule cabinet or midwinter walk-in, but there are two reasons that I do not. 1) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:29:39

Just in case you were looking for equal time..

In keeping with my recent obviation from character, here’s some highlights from President Nelson’s latest letter regarding Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and while we’re dealing with a publicized letter and a part of the public knowledge, I’ll give it in full [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 10:26:23

Quit Smoking Jokes

Quit Smoking Jokes Are Not FunnyPeople want to search for quit smoking jokes but we really don't think those are funny ... attack with 18th Yet people still smoke, knowing the risk to the body. For smoking is that their welfare ... of lighting and smoke. If so, perhaps you should consider the draft in order to quit. Quit smoking laser [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:05:00

Efficient Wood Bringing

BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily Newsminer December 25th, 2008, ... all the available fuel. Consequently, the less wood you’ll need to burn. Not as clean as the Yule Log ... correctly and free of creosote build-up will help your fire to burn hot and clean. Use kindling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:52:46

DrumBeat: November 21, 2008

Five-year U.S. crude oil futures at record $30 premium LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures for delivery in January 2014 are trading at a record $30 premium to current contracts, as investors bet that the long-term trend toward higher prices will remain intact despite oil's slump to $50 a barrel. U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 13:37:10

Hank Williams III - Official Bootleg (I-III) (No Country...) (2000)

Size: 188 MBBitrate: 320mp3Found in OuterSpaceArtwork IncludedMoments after exchanging greetings, I innocently ask Hank Williams III how he’s doing, not really expecting much more than an “okay” or some other similarly short response. Responding to my query, Hank 3, as he prefers to be known, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 15:13:00

Burn, Baby, Burn

Burn, Baby, Burn 13January I like my new microwave. It’s shiny and clean and pretty and not on fire. Yes, I said “not on fire ... his breakfast in FLAMES. Real, honest-to-goodness flames. And smoke. Lots and lots of smoke. I could hear ... , asking for a play by play while he could barely catch his breath from all the smoke. Oh [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:43:14

Day 12 of the War, Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Technical issues with blogger and my internet connection are making updates very slow...we apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to have this resolved shortly. Posts going up slowly...Day 12 of the Gaza war, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 -- Daily sticky post, constantly updated.More liveblogging at IsraellyCool and on Twitter at http://twitter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:46:00

Beginners guide to growing marijuana. Indoor marijuana cultivation!

This is a guide that I pulled off the net that puts everything in plain and simple english, and doesn't go to deep into advanced botony and gardening. I find this one to be the best guide out there. Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Introduction: Growing marijuana indoors is fast becoming an American Pastime. The reasons are varied [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 09:07:09

Pictures from Palestine

Well mostly from Palestine. These are half expected to be disappeared from flickr soon though they have been saved on many hard drive:These pictures are posted to a photo site I'm sure they'll disappear from soon so I'm spreading them around a bit. Don't move on until you've seen some [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 09:31:00

Bill O’Reilly’s “Culture War” – Real Journalism Or Self Titillation?

Bill O’Reilly's obsession about sin and degradation, on the part of the “far left, ... and smoke grass.” (Comment: So we shouldn’t teach our children about safe sex?) She claimed ... and degradation. (Comment: right, Bill, just like the damage that your boycott did to the French economy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 23:51:02

Shop Around and Save on Home Insurance

What do you like the most about your home - the bright, sun-filled kitchen, the shiny wood floors or the comfortable bedrooms? Or is it the fact that your home probably makes up maybe the biggest part - of your total net worth? Either way, you have to protect what you have, using homeowner’s insurance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:36:18

Home Is Where, When You Have To Go There...

(Maggie's mother, older brother, and father, circa 1949, Bowie, Texas bus station) Home Is Where, When You Have To Go There... I've been missing my father, wishing I could talk with him. He's been dead two years, and it's only in the last couple of months that I've begun missing him [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 12:00:07

Comics Column #3—A Question of Accessibility: Studying Pathology and Archaeology (Warren Ellis, Superheroes)

By Michael Peterson "This is what you get when you emotionally invest yourself in a company-owned product that has to keep on coming out regardless of who's writing and drawing it. This is what you get when your lizard compulsion to jerk off over superheroes overrides your forebrain [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 06:00:00

WEsistance Challenge: Operation WE Demand

I declare Operation Rumor Has It a success. Or at least fun ... - DamnCat : Please note the irony of deriding smokestacks that emit no soot as not being "clean ... what WE want. I noticed in the video that there's no clouds of black smoke coming from the smokestacks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 15:50:43

John McCain Has Some Nerve

Sen. John McCain will be appearing tomorrow morning with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at an "environmental roundtable" in Santa Barbara. Yes, that would be the same Santa Barbara where a 1969 ecological disaster shocked the nation, leading to the birth of the environmental movement. That's right. Sen [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 02:44:35

Song lyric inspiration from Jenny Holzer’s Truisms

Jenny Holzer’s “Truisms” - (provocative statements posted in public places) - make great song-lyric inspiration. They’re listed, below: I love how they are designed to get a reaction, whether “that’s so true!” or “that’s so wrong!” Lyric-writing could use more of that [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 17:43:48

Remember Gaza: One of History's Terror Bombing Victims

By STEPHEN LENDMAN(Picture by Ben Heine)History's terror bombings. This article reviews some of the most infamous:-- Guernica - 1937;-- the London Blitz - 1940 - 41;-- Dresden - 1945;-- Tokyo - 1945;-- Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945;-- North Korea - 1950 - 53;-- Southeast Asia - 1964 - 73;-- Iraq - 1991 to the present;-- Serbia/Kosovo - 1999; [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:34:00

A war crime by any other name - Israel’s “shake and bake” attrocities

UNRWA Director John Ging said UNRWA’s headquarters — located in a densely populated neighborhood — was hit repeatedly by shrapnel and artillery, ... neighbourhoods “clean”. It’s also like the use of cluster bombs. The Americans call white phosphorus “shake [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:15:57

Chapter One - Oct. 4, 1957

“Our landings in the Cherbourg and Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the Air and the Navy, did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:57:00

Recommended Property Inspections

In addition to the routine inspections that our office conducts on a regular basis, ... overhanging trees or shrubs. Smoke Detector Inspection It is ultimately the landlords responsibility to ensure that the smoke detector in the property is working correctly.  An annual inspection, clean [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:16:51

Amazing Images of Forest Fires

Fire!! That four letter word can strike terror in the hearts of many! If you have ever lived through one or near one, the memories of the intense heat, thick smoke and the damage caused by the fire will remain embedded in your brain forever. Forest Fires can also [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 10:38:57

Information About Smoking: A Guide for Teens

Do you smoke? Have you ever stopped to think about how smoking is affecting your body and your life? ... now. If you smoke, you owe it to yourself to find out about the effects of smoking on your life ... : lighter fluid * Hydrogen Cyanide: the poison used in gas chambers Every time you inhale smoke [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:33:00

DrumBeat: July 5, 2008

American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot Over the last 25 years, opportunities to head off the current crisis were ignored, ... of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes [more...]

Date: 2008-07-05 13:04:30

ADVISORY: “Air Stagnation Advisory”; Burn Ban In Effect

Late Sunday afternoon, the National Weather Service issued an “Air Stagnation Advisory, ... and the ban is cancelled.; Natural gas, propane and pellet stoves or inserts ARE allowed. No visible smoke ... . Burning of storm and flood damage debris is also prohibited [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 02:53:12

Clean Energy Saves Americans Money

Efficiency and other clean energy measures are sound investments for the near and long-term ... analysis reinforces that fact that clean energy is a safe bet. Take, for example, insulating the walls ... is just one of many clean energy measures that save money while cutting oil consumption. Other examples [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 01:58:13

Rebecca Novick: Arrested in Tibet: A Young American's Journey of Fear

Wen-Yan King listens to Devendra Banhart, The Temptations and The Beatles. She likes hash browns. She drinks too much coffee. The Lion King is her all time favorite feel-good movie. Her hobby is photography [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 15:50:59

The Year in Medicine, from Time

A Synopsis of The Year in Medicine 2008: From A to ZThe financial world blew itself up, the political world turned upside down, but in 2008 the world of medicine just kept chugging. In good times and bad, science doesn't sleep, and every year brings breakthroughs, setbacks, reasons for worry and reasons for joy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 09:51:00

Update: Beaverton house fire causes explosion

Update: Beaverton house fire causes explosion Posted by John Snell, The Oregonian June 24, 2008 17:16PM Categories: ... extensive smoke damage throughout the home. Investigators determined that the fire was probably ... Jane De Greef, 68, told firefighters that she went outside when she smelled smoke and discovered [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 21:56:30

17th of January 2009 New LPs & 10"s Stock List

This is a list of some of the new LPs & 10"s in the store. This does not include any restocks or new stuff that has come in this week. It also doesnt include 10"s, reggae, hip-hop, electronic or anything else that falls into the cracks and is not in our main shelving. Check out what we got.1 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:11:00

5 Speechwriting Lessons from Obama’s Inaugural Speech

Some will argue that Barack Obama’s Inauguration speech was not his most electric speech, or that it failed to deliver on unreasonably high expectations. Nonetheless, studying the speech provides five key speechwriting lessons that can help us all be better communicators [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:30:04

Remember Gaza: One of History's Terror Bombing Victims

Stephen LendmanHistory's terror bombings. This article reviews some of the most infamous:-- Guernica - 1937;-- the London Blitz - 1940 - 41;-- Dresden - 1945;-- Tokyo - 1945;-- Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945;-- North Korea - 1950 - 53;-- Southeast Asia - 1964 - 73;-- Iraq - 1991 to the present;-- Serbia/Kosovo - 1999; [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:11:00

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