Cindy Sheehan’s puppet masters include the Crawford Peace House, a virulently antisemitic group that features a photo on their home page of a map of the mythical country of “Palestine” being replaced by the state of Israel. (Hat tip: Protein Wisdom.)
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The ballot paper for the contest, which was published by parliament, disclosed that Crimean voters will be given two options: either immediate "reunification" with Russia, or adopting the "1992 constitution" -- which gives parliament the power to vote to join Russia. The status quo, whereby Crimea has autonomy within Ukraine, does not appear on the ballot paper. In practise, experts said that this ...
The executive director of the Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers program is facing up to two weeks in jail on a contempt of court charge after he stuffed a piece of paper with an anonymous tip into his mouth instead of turning it over to a judge. NBC6 South Florida reports that Richard Masten was appearing before Judge Victoria Brennan on Friday when the judge ...
The atheist writer S. T. Joshi, 55, born in India, raised in Indiana and now living in Seattle, has written or edited more than 200 books, including a novel of detective fiction, a bibliography of writings about Gore Vidal and numerous works about H. L. Mencken. He edits four periodicals, including Lovecraft Annual, the major review of scholarship about the horror writer H. ...
I've felt for a long time that statistics ought to be taught from the earliest levels of the US educational system. A large part of the way that people get cheated, fail to make good decisions, and get duped by politicians and propagandists is a basic lack of understanding of statistics. To that end, and to help my own education, I've decided to start ...
A proposed South Carolina state budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes nearly $70,000 in funding cuts for two public colleges that assigned books addressing gay and lesbian themes. State Representative Garry Smith (R) originally advocated the measure that would take away $52,000 from the College of Charleston and $17,142 from the University of South Carolina Upstate. The House passed its full $24 ...
It won't be your usual auction, when the military vehicle collection of the late Jacques Littlefield comes up for auction this summer. Littlefield, who died in 2009 at the age of 59, had an assortment of some 200 wheeled and tracked weapons of war at his ranch in Portola Valley, Calif. Among the vehicles are a Russian T-72 tank used by the army ...
Meet Toby Harmon, a onetime drug dealer who found Jesus in jail, and his wife and three homeschooled kids who regularly join him outside Oklahoma abortion clinics in protest. Harmon is the co-founder of Abolish Human Abortion, a new, uncompromising anti-abortion group that is growing in presence around the country. Harmon and his associates call themselves "abolitionists," with all slavery comparisons explicitly intended. ...
Eight companies--including General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, and Gap--did not answer the reporter's repeated emails, phone calls, and social-media queries over the course of several weeks. Nine other companies--including Chrysler, McKinsey & Co., and Citigroup--responded only to say they would not comment. Eleven companies--including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Ford--claimed that they do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, but they don't provide ...
States frantically trying to compensate for the recent cuts in food stamps were accused by Speaker John Boehner Thursday of "gaming the system" by boosting home heating assistance to trigger additional food stamps for residents."It's not a sexy issue--and people don't like to think they live in a country where one in five children go hungry. Those of us who are living fun ...
Authorities in Kyiv have accused Moscow of provoking a deadly gunfight between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian activists in the eastern city of Kharkiv At least two men were killed and five others wounded in the overnight clashes. Rival groups both blamed each other for the violence, with Ukrainian authorities saying they feared Russia might use the trouble as a pretext to invade. Accusing pro-Russian ...
Via YouTuber Fabio Baccaglioni comes a solemn compilation of rocket launch failures, from the early days of space exploration to present. That it's just shy of 32 minutes long is a testament to something that can't be overemphasized: getting to space is hard. It's grueling, it's dangerous, and, as we all know too well, it can be deadly. [Fabio Baccaglioni via Universe Today] ...
Intense opposition from the National Rifle Assn. has all but doomed prospects for President Obama's nominee for surgeon general, officials said Saturday as pro-gun Senate Democrats peeled away from the White House on a volatile issue in an election year. Facing a potential high-profile setback for the president, the White House is not pushing for a vote to confirm Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, ...
The Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List will go after vulnerable Democratic senators in conservative Southern states during this mid-term election season, said the group's president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, at a donors' conference in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, the SBA List--a national nonprofit that tries to influence congressional elections with the stated mission of reducing and ultimately ending legal abortion in the United States--hosted its ...
More: Let's Make Some Noise--It's Purim! Posted by on March 14, 2014 at 10:57 AM EDTTomorrow evening, Jews in America, Israel and around the globe will celebrate Purim, a holiday known for costumes, carnivals and noisemakers. Even rabbis and synagogue presidents dress up for a playful re-telling of the holiday story during Purim spoofs called spiels. With all the fun of the holiday, it's ...
The communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has said. According to satellite and radar evidence, he said, the plane then changed course and could have continued flying for a further seven hours. He said the "movements are consistent with the deliberate action of someone on the plane". The plane disappeared a week ago ...
A Self-Help Group is an informal association of 10 to 20 poor women belonging to the same village and sharing a common socio-economic background. The group enables its members to gain their identity as individuals, while realising - and utilising - the immense power of mutual aid. It provides them with a platform from where they can access banks and public services, and ...
Another Bundling of Holding containing one of my games! And good company I'm in, too! Adventurer! The fellowship of The Undauntables brings us a fine collection of indie tabletop roleplaying games of heroic action in many exotic settings. These DRM-free .PDF rulebooks will take you into savage lands of fact and fantasy, of space and sky, and of primeval myth. For just US$6.95 you ...
"If a plane breaks up at altitude, the parts float down, so you find wings and rudders and horizontal stabilizers falling flat," Marks said. "If there was an explosion, you can find burn damage." A loss of pressurization could put the crew and passenger to sleep, as happened with golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet, which crashed in October 1999 in South Dakota after the ...
For many years the hallmark of a well maintained home was the golf course green trimming of the yard and paved walkways surrounded by meticulously trimmed bushes in geometric patterns. Flowers and plants were selected based on carefully conceived color coordination with garden furniture and it seemed that the goal was to make the lawn look as artificial as possible. This look was ...
he Cana­dian Press is re­port­ing that Olivia Chow re­signed her seat in Par­lia­ment ear­lier to­day and is ex­pected to for­mally launch her bid on Thurs­day to be­come the next mayor of Toronto. More: Russ Campbell's Blog: Chow Declares Her Candidacy; Let the Games Begin
Well Mike, I'm abnormal. -- When FZ appeared on the Mike Douglas show (solo, playing guitar with recorded backup), Mike said "Your latest album is called Zoot Allures. How do you come up with such names for your records?" (or something equally banal!) Frank's succinct reply is printed above.
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