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Mojo Friday - Two Winners In NFTT DK4 Group Challenge - Edition
In the first ever DK4 Group Challenge we have two winners. Readers and Book Lovers won in the category of Most Funds Raised as of 15 May. Overnight News Digest swept in at the end and won in the...
View ArticlePhilips’ Playbook for U.S. Plants: First Acquire, Then Close
The doors were shuttered at the Stonco Lighting factory in Union, N.J., May 6 as the plant’s parent corporation, Netherlands-based Philips Electronics, moved ahead with plans to outsource the work to...
View ArticleStay classy, GOP! High schooler who wants to debate Bachmann getting threats.
Cherry Hill, NJ high schooler Amy Myers is receiving threats of violence (including rape) after her challenge to debate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Batshit) on the U.S. Constitution.Myers and her father,...
View ArticleSports are for Stupid People
Did the outrageous title of this diary prompt you open it? If so, that was what I intended. It’s a shame that we have to go to these lengths to get people’s attention around here.Sorry to deceive you -...
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Frieday Furbutts and Critters
Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We have just moved into an apartment and now have a pootie who is in hiding right now; however I grew up...
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40 Years On....Carole King: Tapestry
Welcome to the Team DFH Freaky Friday Music party. We're mixing it up a bit tonight. One of my favorite music buddies and DFH frandor55 graciously offers this diary for our Friday night slot. The usual...
View ArticleTeaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom
This review was originally published at Education Review (PDF)Ayers, Rick; & Ayers, William (2011). Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom. New York: Teachers College...
View ArticleShowcasing Xoco
Most of my diaries have been about Itzl - and with good reason. He is an awesome service dog, and he spends 98% of his time with me (there are times and places where he can't go), and Xoco is a little...
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What to wear for the Rapture?
Well my lovelys, as you all know, today is the day of Armageddon, the Rapture.“…and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the...
View ArticleTornado Victim's Lost Cat Shows Up During TV Interview
"Now I have everything in the world."http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...I just had to share this...........
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The "Rapture" came, and they took my Charlie - updated
This is so hard to write, as the wound is still so fresh.Charlie died last night. My little buddy. My funny, fuzzy comical, little guy.And oh, good lord, how I'm going to miss him.If you're not a fan...
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Alcoa Corp Urges TN Governor: “Veto Anti-Gay Law HB600!”
Alcoa can't wait... to distance themselves from the part an Alcoa representative on the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce played in helping an awful anti-gay bill pass in that state.In response to...
View ArticleMore On Behind the Scenes Posturing Before Obama-Netanyahu Meeting, and...
After the bluster of yesterday’s dramatic, tension-filled, meeting between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a clearer picture is emerging of the behind the scenes...
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WPPR/Pooties: Basement Cat's End Of The World Tour With Exclusive Interview
We interrupt this regularly scheduled diary to bring you a special report. We will join Edward R. Purrow in Bay City, Michigan.For the last several days there have been reports of Basement Cat...
View ArticleWYFP: Bit of Everything Edition
I got hosed on my taxes this year because of a paperwork error I never caught. I think I paid more in taxes than several corporations.I don’t have my own computer.My ankle and knee are bothering...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? v5.43: Obscure Kitchen Chemistry
Hello, everyone! Tonight we shall look at some of the chemistry that occurs when you cook. Cooking is essentially a chemical process, and the change in chemical properties in the materials changes...
View ArticleBracing For A Massive Asian Carp Invasion
Been a heck of a week. I went "lobbying" for the first time on Wednesday for a Sierra Club Lobbying Day and spoke to four Lansing representatives about energy efficiency legislation and an offshore...
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Yogi Berra, 6pm PDT: "It's Finally Over"
Crossposted at Docudharma and The Stars Hollow GazetteCompetition by Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons, Buy this cartoon
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UPDATEx2-Think grassroots anti-Republicanism is dead in Mich? It's not....
It was a big day in Michigan today. I spent the day at the Michigan Summit, hosted by Progress Michigan. I liveblogged it HERE. I was given the chance to interview SEIU president Mary Kay Henry who...
View ArticleTop Comments 5.21.11: Zombies Edition
Well I see you haven’t been raptured either. Now that we have the planet to ourselves, maybe we won’t have to put up with anymore posturing from politicians pandering to the fundamentalists and...
View ArticleNot By Bread Alone - Well, Okay, Sometimes the Bread Helps
Humans have been relying heavily on cereal grains for roughly 12,000 years now. Cereals form approximately 50% of the worldwide nutritional intake for humans, with maize, rice and wheat as the ruling...
View ArticleThe Download Experiment Results
A week ago, I published an offer here: download the song "The Monster" from DigStation and I would give all the proceeds to four food banks.Here are the results:Eight people downloaded the entire album...
View ArticleUPDATED Ky: Democratic Governor Guts Social Services, Funds Creationist Theme...
I came across this ridiculous report at Alternet and, of course I had to post it.It's one of those things too stupid to really be true, but is and is another reflection and measurement of how far this...
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Mr. Olbermann? Mr. Lieber? Rep. Grijalva? Gov. Dean? It's about Memorial Day....
I'm sorry to bother you, especially on a Sunday. But Daily Kos has been trying to do something wonderful and we're running out of time. You see, our Netroots for the Troops fundraiser ends the day...
View ArticlePrayer in Public School: Welcome to Bastrop
The Friendly Atheist has a two-part report on the gradation at Bastrop High School in Louisinia. A student atheist, who is braver than most kids his age, sent a letter to the Principal requesting that...
View ArticleWhy aren't progressives as good at politics as conservatives?
The latest round of argument within the progressive coalition over the Obama Administration - touched off by Cornel West's scathing criticism - has generated a lot of heated discussion. Most of it...
View ArticleMay '70: 18. ... And May 21 in the Studio with CSNY
The May 15, 1970 issue of Life magazine, a weekly noted for its photojournalism, shocked millions with its unsparing photographs of students killed and wounded at Kent State on May 4. One particular...
View ArticleLGBT Kos Sunday Afternoon Open Thread
Welcome to the 1st Sunday afternoon open thread, brought to you this week by cooper888.Please note: This is supposed to be a safe space to discuss our issues, so please, keep your piefights where they...
View ArticleBooks for Charity or Scam for Profit?
You’ve probably seen them on a street corner or in a parking lot somewhere. Popping up like big blue mushrooms over the past two years are giant metal bins labelled “Books For Charity.” Unfortunately,...
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#sekritarmy Captain's Log (pooties, woozles, and critters)
/ Start Transcript~ 17:50 hrs, 21 May 2011: LOG--#sekritarmy assessment of pre-rapture atmospheric conditions.Mobilized bunker command and activated sensors. Review of online tracking devices to...
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Tales from the Larder: 2 Traditional Recipes
During my days as a chef/restaurateur in Sydney I tended to look down on some traditional dishes such as Beef Bourguignon, Coq au Vin and names like Tournedos Rossini, Lobster Thermidor and just about...
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Amazing Nature boosts its Ocean Carbon Capture as the Planet warms
How's that saying go ... "You can't stop Mother Nature" ...Well, you can't stop dedicated Scientists, either (assuming they got their funding). Scientists at the South Pole are announcing their recent...
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Creating light against the dark - for the People of Joplin, Mo and North...
The sun is rising, slowly winnowing down the deep blue black of evening to a light gray. It's going to be another rainy day, in a long procession of rainy days. We're all beginning to feel a little...
View ArticleThe Death Of A Pet (Taffy The Cat)
Hello. I'm one of those lurking readers that very rarely post. I recently had a shocking loss of a pet and didn't really know where to go to share my story of Taffy. I felt this would be the best...
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Five Vegetables You’ve Never Heard of That are Helping to End Hunger
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.No single food can put an end to hunger. But worldwide there are many different fruits and vegetables that are helping to improve...
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Mooday Critters & Furbutts
Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We have just moved into an apartment and now have a pootie who is in hiding right now; however I grew up...
View ArticleTN Hate Law: Whirlpool To Talk To Guv!
The bullet is once Garden State Equality, the New Jersey-based, LGBT Advocacy group was alerted to AT&T, KPMG, and Pfizer Corporations' complicity with Christian Right's regressive attempt to roll...
View ArticleMacca's Meatless Monday...Ticket To Rome
In this weekly series we have been discussing the many advantages of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, frugal living, public health, food safety, global food crisis and the...
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Update: Which Companies Screwed Us | TN Hate Law Is Signed.
AmericaBlog is reporting Tennessee bill HB600/SB632, a law that will repeal all non-discrimination ordinances covering LGBTs in Tennessee has been signed by Republican Governor Bill Haslam.The...
View ArticleTop Comments: Homemade brownies! Edition
Welcome to another edition of Top Comments diary sharing! I (asimbagirl) am the author of tonight's diary, and brillig has formatted the comments and mined the site for more submissions. I literally...
View ArticleGood to See: People NOT taking the GOP BS anymore
I think I sense a new trend developing.A trend where somehow, WE -- the sick and fed up people -- are finding the nerve to give the GOP a piece of our minds. Finally.Republican Medicare Proposals...
View ArticleGOP to the Hungry: Let Them Eat Nothing
Hunger and starvation is no excuse to welch sponge off the Federal Government. That's the Republican response, in any event, to how to deal with the budget deficit. While Republicans defend billions...
View ArticleMajor Tornado Outbreak -- Intense Damage w/ Tornadoes On Ground -- Updatedx27
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a rare high risk area across Oklahoma and Kansas for a major tornado outbreak this afternoon. The outbreak is expected to be centered across Oklahoma, extreme...
View ArticleSwinging and Shaking a Broken Hearted "Au revoir" to Dancing with the Stars...
Yes, it's true. I watch Dancing with the Stars. Now before you burst into a horrified "How could you'??!!!!", or throw a copy of Christopher Moore's The Island of the Sequined Love Nun at me, just take...
View Article"Wow!" President Obama Threatens Veto of NDAA (The War Without Limits Bill) -...
The "Wow!" is a quote from the ACLU, which brings the good news that the Obama administration has threatened to veto a very dangerous GOP bill.Wow! Late this afternoon, the Obama White House threatened...
View ArticleSuper Blood Moon Liveblog
This is the 2015 entry in the astronomical events liveblog series. Sorry for having missed 2014.A super blood moon is going on tonight. That is, a total lunar eclipse, where the moon is at its...
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