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– Carl Sandburg
– Carl Sandburg
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Might be Meredith Vieira from the View: NYT
Is this a case of bad to worse for the Today show?
In men and children: AP/Yahoo
And how many of these people are in the early stages of diabetes as a result? This is bad news.
It was filed Monday.
U.S. kids getting too bulky for car seats
I did see that. How does a toddler get too fat for a car seat? Mine were always growing and moving too fast for something like that to happen.
But it’s not a good sign for future health/proper diet and weight management. But you’re right, my little nephew never sat still for a moment unless he was sleeping. It was exhausting keeping up w/ him. 🙂
Someone explain to me why this is being reported as news in April of 2006, when it was obvious years ago: NYT
Oh right, it’s the NYT of Judith Miller and WMD fame reporting this…silly me!
It took Judy Miller this long to figure it out.
Today’s Undercovered News from storiesinamerica.
Got a meeting at 9 AM lasting most of the day, so I’m here early today (I have my priorities right, LOL):
New computer simulations of Mercury’s formation show some of the resulting ejected material ended up on Earth and Venus. The simulations, which track the material’s path over several million years, also shed light on why Mercury is denser than expected, as the lighter material was dispersed after the collision. Earth could contain as much as 16 quadrillion tons of proto-Mercury material.
Britain’s contingency plans for an avian-influenza pandemic include the possible use of mass graves. A Home Office report entitled “Managing Excess Deaths in an Influenza Pandemic” predicts that as many as 320,000 people could die in a short period of time, overwhelming the country’s morgues and burial facilities.
Forecasters warned Tuesday that the upcoming Atlantic cyclonic season would again be highly active, with a total of 17 tropical storms, including nine hurricanes, likely to form. Of those hurricanes, five should be intense, meaning they will reach or exceed Category 3 on the five-level Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale, said leading experts William Gray and Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University.
Astronomers have found the first direct evidence that galaxies are tightly aligned along a pattern dictated by the large-scale structure of the invisible dark matter that surrounds them.
Japan is developing the world’s first train to be powered by environmentally friendly fuel-cell batteries, a press report said Tuesday. East Japan Railway Co., the world’s largest passenger railway company, will shortly complete a prototype fuel-cell train for test runs, the Jiji Press news agency said.
The NASA projectile that slammed into Comet Tempel 1 last year kicked up 250,000 metric tons of water, new data show.
Methane releases from thawing of permafrost in the Arctic has been found to be very dependant on the moisture level of the area: In a dry year, there was a 75% drop in methane releases compared to a wet year in one study. Computer models of future climate change will need to take such differences into account.
After 20 years of listening for signs of life elsewhere in the universe, The Planetary Society is now ready to watch the skies. On April 11, 2006 the Society will dedicate a brand new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, designed solely to search for light signals from alien civilizations.
Not to alarm you, but today’s NY Times reports that arsenic (a carcinogen) is deliberately being added to chicken in this country, with many scientists saying it is unnecessary. Adding it to chicken feed kills parasites and promotes growth. Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest chicken producer, has stopped using arsenic in its chicken feed. In addition, Bell & Evans and Eberly chickens are arsenic-free. There is a growing market in organic chicken and birds labeled “antibiotic-free”: neither contains arsenic.
The California legislature is now considering a bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, oil refineries and other industrial sources. The Governator has not said whether he will support the bill; business groups are wary of the proposal.
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What happened to the latests two diaries written by Soj?
Do We Have Rights or Just Privileges?
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
You might need to blame me for that. My colleague The Blogging Curmudgeon and I pointed out some rather glaring errors on those diaries. Soj got really testy about it. I guess he deleted them.
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Some 3.6 million US households, or about three percent of the total in the United States, fell victim to identity theft during a six-month period in 2004, a Justice Department report showed. A study released Sunday by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics was based on interviews conducted from July through December 2004 for the a crime victimization survey.
Households headed by young people (18-24 years old), those in urban or suburban areas, and those with annual incomes of 75,000 dollars or more were the most likely to experience identity theft. Victimization did not differ by race or ethnicity, according to the Justice Department.
About one-third of households that were identity theft victims discovered the loss by noticing missing money or unfamiliar charges on an account, and about a one-quarter were contacted by a credit bureau.
The estimated loss during the six-month period was about 3.2 billion dollars or an average loss of 1,290 dollars.
Holy Cannoli! I love how they always give advice on how to avoid identity theft… as if it has nothing to do with all those breaches of security and all that stolen information we keep hearing about. Blaming the victim has become the American Way.
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The insurance industry must be delighted.
As well as health care providers.
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>Alarm At UK Call On International Law
Opposition politicians and human rights campaigners reacted with dismay Tuesday to British Defense Secretary John Reid’s call for international laws, including the Geneva Conventions, to be redrawn to ensure states could counter global terrorism and undertake military interventions.
The threat of terrorism should not be used as justification for a watering-down of fundamental human rights, Liberal Democrats Shadow Defense Secretary Nick Harvey warned.
Any suggestion that Britain should endorse U.S. policies such as indefinite detention of terror suspects and extraordinary rendition must be “emphatically rejected,” he said.
Reid’s remarks were described as “dismaying” by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, while Conservative parliamentarian Andrew Tyrie said his suggestions “beggared belief.”
So far, doing away with and ignoring laws, international or national, has in the US produced torture, reduced basic human rights, enflamed the entire Middle East and has done more to create terrorists than if Bin Laden were giving away free slow cookers with applications to Al Qaeda. Let’s hope that this incredibly stupid suggestion is shouted down in the UK.
But, the US is spreading democracy, dontcha know? Too bad it’s the indefinite detention and extraordinary rendition that look like they’re catching on in other countries…
So now pedophiles are merely engaging in “online seduction”, as this AP/Yahoo headline about Brian Doyle suggests?
Puh-lease.
AP has jumped the shark. They’ve been caught plagiarizing from Raw. Didn’t they recently fire a prominent journalist from somewhere in New England for printing a story by a Democratic Senator? It wasn’t a story that was flattering to Dear Leader, so they canned the guy who printed it. Sorry, I can’t remember the guy’s name. Point is, the AP is tainted.
I think we should declare today Mainstream “News” Bashing Day in the Bucket….
WooHoo… a theme!
Relatives of slain family members ‘saw this coming’
This is an absolutely tragic story that happened this week in the Ottawa area. Tragic.
Webcam of nesting eagles takes off
Here’s the webcam address: eagle webcam.
Red River flooding likely in Manitoba
Hospital downplays risk from stolen HIV-infected blood
America’s War on the Web
snippets of the story…
IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.
In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned
Thirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America.
Freedom of speech advocates are horrified at this new doctrine, but military planners and members of the intelligence community embrace the idea as a necessary development in modern combat.
I had seen this headline, but hadn’t actually read any articles.
It sure seems as if Bush’s incompetence has creeped like a deadly mold into all corners of the US Government. Just as fast as Bush has been stuffing government management with incompetent cronies, more and more of the real experts have been bailing out. Brain drain has really become an issue. Sometimes I wonder if the government is capable enough to do what they threaten, never mind maintain the programs they have with dwindling expertise. Having said that, this is truely horrific.
Thinkprogress provides us this link to the video Huffpost discovered that was not intended for broadcast.
Appearing on Hardball with Chris Mathews yesterday: Delay on Hillary; “There’s nothing worse than a woman know-it-all.”
Watch the banter between Delay and Chris Matthews.
Yea Chris, I owe you one too.
Aid flows top USD 100 billion in 2005
The main reasons for the increase were:
The objective for developed countries to provide at least 0.7% of GNI as ODA (Official Development Assistance) originated decades ago. The US is in a pathetic second to last place on the OECD-list (Chart1, lower table) at 0.22%, followed by Portugal at 0.21%.
As noted in the quote above, only 5 nations have surpassed the OECD goal, which at 0.7% is not particularly ambitious.
back in the headlines for falsifying her college background