Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
So, what’s changing in your part of the world today?
Hempheads arise!
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and South Dakota is all knocked up!!!!
So, did we all wake up feisty today or what? 🙂
LOL! Well, I think you summed up the situation perfectly!!!
abstinence/virginity pledge thing working out for teens? News-Medical.net
Not too well, apparently.
Adolescents who end their affiliation with born-again Christianity…
Aye, it be the devil at work, I tell ye, the devil!
Must…end…sex. (Except for that by kinky Republicans in DC, of course.)
is really a Democrat but damn am I making a killing these days. Spankings boys? I had to cut Anne off though……she started running a damn tab and I’m just about to have to send Guido over to take care of it but she would think that was a freebie.
About as well as expected.
Of course, even I didn’t expect a 52% disavowal rate after the first year.
The bucket is sloshing over today:
A new map of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy reveals a night sky criss-crossed with streams of stars, left behind by smaller satellite galaxies and star clusters ripped apart by the parent galaxy’s gravity. The data provided a surprise: “The stream appears forked,” astronomer Vasily Belokurov said. “We are seeing different wraps superimposed on the sky, as the stream goes around the galaxy two or three times.” The discoveries reinforce a concept in which galaxies such as the Milky Way are built up from the merging and accretion of smaller galaxies. The streams also provide new tests of the nature of dark matter itself, said theorist James Bullock of University of California, Irvine. “The fact that we can see a ‘Field of Streams’ like this suggests that dark matter particles are very ‘cold’, or slow moving,” Bullock said. “If the dark matter was made up of ‘warm,’ fast moving particles, we wouldn’t expect these thin streams to hang around long enough for us to find them.”
Volcano daily: A new dome at the peak of Indonesia’s simmering Mount Merapi changed quickly Monday as more ominous lava oozed down its slopes, however residents were not ordered to evacuate, a scientist said… A new fin-shaped rock slab is growing at more than one meter a day on the Mt. St. Helens volcano in Washington state. The rock slab, growing since last November, now extends about 100 meters out from one of the volcano’s craters. A time-lapse movie of it is available at the link. And life is rapidly returning to Mt. Pinatubo in the northern Philippines, 15 years after it blew its top in the 2nd largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century which killed more than 1,500 people and sent a cloud of ash into the atmosphere cooling world temperatures for years.
Concentrations of the natural pigment chlorophyll in coastal waters have been seen by satellite to rise prior to earthquakes. Researchers say that monitoring peaks in chlorophyll could provide early information on an impending earthquake. The chlorophyll is due to algae blooms and is linked to a release of thermal energy prior to an earthquake. This heat causes the sea surface temperature to rise and increases the surface latent heat flux – the amount of energy moving from the surface to the air due to evaporation. This, in turn, enhances upwelling – the process by which cold, nutrient-rich water is transported from the deep sea to the surface, causing the algae bloom.
Dolphins communicate like humans by calling each other by “name”, scientists studying bottlenose dolphins in Florida have found. The mammals are able to recognize themselves and other members of the same species as individuals with separate identities, using whistles.
A new study reports that America may be the world’s superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences – the country’s top scientific body – has announced that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau are vanishing so fast that they will be reduced by 50 per cent every decade. Each year enough water permanently melts from them to fill the entire Yellow River. They added that the vast environmental changes brought about by the process will increase droughts and sandstorms over the rest of the country, and devastate many of the world’s greatest rivers, in what experts warn will be an “ecological catastrophe.”
Sculpture fatwa A religious ruling condemning the display of statues has angered Egyptian liberals and intellectuals who fear it could encourage religious zealots to attack the country’s archaeological heritage.
Via Grist: The controversial Cape Cod wind project has found new allies in a strange place: the Bush administration. Undersecretary of Energy David Garman sent a letter urging Congress to drop a measure that would allow the Massachusetts governor (currently Mitt Romney, a Cape Wind opponent) to block the wind farm. Garman points out that New England is struggling to meet energy demands and says the measure would “inhibit the development of this clean, domestic, renewable energy resource.” A bipartisan group of Congressfolk has also announced that they will try to kill the amendment, attached to a Coast Guard spending bill. “It sets a terrible precedent,” said Senate Energy Committee Chair Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) vowed to continue fighting for the measure, saying that Cape Wind is a sweetheart deal for the developer — and a really bad deal for the view from his family’s estate. …And the same debate is now arising with a wind plant proposed off Galveston.
[I could go into a climate change rant du jour at this point, but if even the Bush Administration Undersecretary of Energy is on board with wind power… (wanders off, shaking head and muttering)]
Also via Grist: Without environmental studies or community consultation, a new landfill has been opened on the eastern edge of New Orleans. The site is less than two miles from a community of more than a thousand Vietnamese-American families and across a canal from the largest urban wildlife refuge in the country. Oh, and the landfill will lack certain safeguards, because the government says Hurricane Katrina-generated trash is cleaner than other garbage — even though the definition of demolition debris was expanded in the wake of the storm to include most house contents, from moldy furniture to electronics to bleach.
That dolphin story is pretty amazing.
Rupert and Hillary are getting friendly now? MSNBC
If she’s the presidential nominee in 2008, I will scream.
desperate Republican trying to do anything to save their unethical asses these days is a desperate Democrat. Democrats have no reason to be desperate unless they have never heard the voice of the people or cared for the people and their only political reality has been the reality of “power” and never understanding that like it or not “power” always inevitably belongs to the people. I can’t fix Hillary though……I can only do everything that I can to protect myself and those I care about from her!
The whole thing reminds me of John McCain kissing Jerry Falwell’s ass. And speaking of that, did you see this?
What are the students and faculty so upset about?
He definitely doesn’t deserve an honorary degree from a school with those values, does he?
laugh about it. I had some respect for McCain too, particularly when he threw a few fits about the Geneva Convention and Torture and Low Troop Levels without Armor. It is all gone now though……what a bunch of whores!
She has blood on her hands.
This has been proceeding apace. I’m not quite sure what the deal is–it reminds me of the cozy relationship between Murdoch and the British poodle, only I’m not quite sure what Hillary has to offer him.
What I DO know is this–folks heard nary a peep about the last hatchet job book on Hillary.
Curious, isn’t it?
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AL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) May 9 — Egyptian police have killed the leader of an Islamist militant group blamed for a spate of attacks in tourist resorts in the Sinai peninsula over the past 18 months, security sources said.
“Nasser Khamis al-Mallahi, the mastermind of the group, was killed this morning in clashes between police and members of the group,” a security official said on condition of anonymity.
“He was responsible for the attacks in Dahab and oversaw the whole operation,” referring to triple suicide bombings that killed 19 people, including foreigners, in a popular Sinai resort on April 24.
The shootout took place in Jabal Arish in North Sinai after police surrounded the area. Mallahi was shot dead and his right-hand man Mohammed Abdallah Elian was arrested, the official said.
Both men, whose names appear on a list of 25 wanted suspects issued by Sinai police, belong to the Tawhid wal Jihad (Unification and Holy War) group said to be responsible for attacks on Sinai’s tourist packed Red Sea coast.
● EGYPT: In wake of Dahab blasts, North Sinai residents fear arrest campaign
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Jared Guinther is a nice young man. He would make a nice neighbor. He is also moderately to severely autistic. This diagnosis should disqualify him from military service. First because it is doubtful he knows the risks he is taking. Secondly, because it is unlikely that he would have the ability to protect his comrades who will come under attack. Lastly, no one should be recruited for a war of aggression that was based on lies and deception.
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It appears Bush and Blair continue together – even in the polls.
Bush 31% Still.too.high
Blair 27% no. recovery in sight
Pressure continues for Blair to step aside.