What's More Important - Bunches Of Birdies Or Frogs And Snakes?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 03:09:10 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's almost a given that whenever there's human activity the environment will take a hit. You might think the placid setting of a golf course might be one place where man and nature can coexist without controversy, especially if the golf course has been in operation for close to 80 years. You would think wrong as evidenced by the case of a golf course in San Francisco which is threatened with being sued for killing off frogs and snakes.
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They tryin' to make me go to rehab because I moaned "Ohhh... ohhh... ohhh" too much
pO157.
Posted to Media on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:35:35 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Going where many of his celebrity peers have gone before, David Duchovny entered rehab last August. It wasn't for the usual suspects of drugs or alcohol, though, but rather a reported addiction to sex.
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Lost & Found: The Death Of A True Maverick
1fastdog.
Posted to Etcetera on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 10:22:50 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The plane wreckage of adventurer extraordinaire, Steve Fossett was found last week in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, a little over a year after the aviator went missing.
Fossett, 63, went missing last year during a solo pleasure flight from Nevada; he and his plane were never found -- until this week when hiker Preston Morrow stumbled on the documents hidden under a blanket of pine needles.
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The Juice is Loose Juiced
delete me.
Posted to Legal on Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 10:59:03 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Thirteen years later, Orenthal James Simpson has been found guilty of a major crime. In 1995, Simpson was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her boyfriend Ron Goldman, and was found liable for damages in a 1997 civil court case. Found guilty on charges of kidnapping and armed robbery, Mr. Simpson's prosecution had a few bumps what with trouble seating jurors and the victims either contradicting themselves or turning against the prosecution.
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An Offensive Sight.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 03:34:39 AM EST (promoted by wetkarma). RSS.
A little over two decades ago Rose Harn's normal life ended. That's when a drunken teenager plowed into her car causing debilitating and irreversible injury to the 58-year-old mother of three from Nampa, Idaho. Since that time, her husband Michael has transported his bed-bound wife to events where Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) set up booths. Their trips came to a halt in August when the pair was asked to leave the fair they had appeared as volunteers at the MADD booth.
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Debate #2: The Undercards
DEMachina.
Posted to Politics on Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 06:53:17 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
DEMachina writes: So, I'm basing my impression of the debate on the 5-10 minute segment I heard on NPR on the drive home from my girlfriend's.
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Musical Chain Game!
pO157.
Posted to Music on Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 08:32:28 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Here's how this works. Look at the YouTube music video link, and you find another song with at least a tangential connection. You post a link to that music video. The next person posts a link to one in reply to yours. And around and around we go in the music video circle of trust.
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Blood Money
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 01:05:51 PM EST (promoted by DEMachina). RSS.
The death penalty is frequently criticized because only the poorest among us really risk dates with the executioner. It would stand to reason that the poorest can't afford to put on a first class defense. One state, following a painful experience with reversals of wrongful convictions, decided to make sure money wouldn't deter a vigorous defense when one's life is on the line. That state, Illinois, set up a pot of money those accused of capital crimes could tap to pay for their defense. Now it seems that this noble experiment in leveling the playing fields is tarnished as it was revealed that those who were supposed to be vigorously defending their clients were just as vigorously looting the taxpayer-provided defense fund.
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Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home And Hope They're Not In The 94% That Suck
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 12:24:37 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
More than 1.5 million Americans live in nursing homes. Because the Baby Boom generation is barreling into its senior years, more of us will begin looking at these facilities as homes for ourselves or our parents. As a result the number of these facilities can be expected to increase from today's 15,000 over the next couple of years. Concerns over quality of life standards for residents tend to move people towards what is perceived as higher quality privately-run facilities and away from perceived lower quality public nursing homes.
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Atheist In A Foxhole Says "Deliver Me From Religion"
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 03:45:15 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Specialist Dustin Chalker has served his country faithfully. The decorated US Army combat medic just wants his country to lighten up and allow him to not have any particular faith. Chalker is an atheist. Yet he says his superiors keep forcing him to attend activities and training organized by fundamentalist Christians. Because he's had his full of listening to Christian propaganda, filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to make it stop.
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In Praise Of Those Books You Dare Not Read.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 07:31:14 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
For 26 years, the American Library Association (ALA), the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores band together on the last week in September to lead a celebration of the freedom to read. Calling itself "Banned Books Week" (BBW) it celebrates those books which are favorite boogeymen of the banned book crowd by disclosing the ten most complained about tomes.
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REPRESENTATIVES DERAIL EXPECTED FREE MARKET INTERFERENCE! BAILOUT ACTION CANCELED! [BREAKING]
pO157.
Posted to Business on Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 03:03:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A bloodbath on Wall Street is taking shape as the Dow dropped 700 points upon news that the $700B bailout package was stalled in the House amid massive opposition. The markets soon took a recovery bounce, but remain down about 5% at midday after news that the House of Representatives killed the bill by a 228 to 205 vote (view the roll call here).
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