29,000 children under 5 have died

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Thursday August 04, 2011 · 3:56 PM PDT

2011/08/04 · 15:56

It is estimated that 29,000 children under 5 have died in southern Somalia alone.

Just three weeks ago, Mohamed was the mother of five young children. But the famine that has rocked Somalia has claimed the lives of four of them. Only a daughter remains. The others starved to death before Mohamed's eyes as she and her husband trekked to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in search of aid.
Thousands of parents are grieving in Somalia and in refugee camps in neighboring countries amid Somalia's worst drought in 60 years.

The drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise.

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 5:05 PM PDT

2011/08/01 · 17:05

Our Galtian overlords scored a huge victory. This appeared in the Associated Press

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 7:55 AM PDT

2011/08/01 · 07:55

I know that's not a good visual for Monday morning but after seeing him trying to explain away the massive caves of the administration this morning - that is really and truly how I feel.

You remember David....the guy who said the American People wouldn't care about the unemployment numbers when it came to elections.

This morning's comments are not really any better:

He conceded that the process had "been messy," and said he believes the American people "obviously would like a little bit more compromise and a little less shouting."

No David, the American people would like a president who would at least pretend to be negotiating on their behalf and not cave at the first sign of push back from the lunatics.

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Saturday July 30, 2011 · 4:58 PM PDT

2011/07/30 · 16:58

I kid you not.....

There is, it appears, an emerging sense of panic developing on the cable news circuit over the state of a deal on the nation's debt ceiling. On Fox News Saturday afternoon, Patricia Powell, founder and CEO of Powell Financial Group, advised viewers that they would be wise to have $1,000 in cash on hand if Congress were unable to come to a deal.
"Everybody needs a cash reserve and I'm talking … seriously about cash, cash dollars in your wallet -- not just maybe money in the bank, but you also want money in the bank and not just in the money market fund," said Powell. "None of us know, if they … choose to default, whether there is going to be a credit crunch, whether you might have some trouble accessing some of your credit, and you might even have some trouble with your money market funds. So none of us know. Make sure you have cash."

"How much are you talking about?" asked the Fox host.

"For most of us, if we had $1000 in bills, in our drawer, we would be fine," said Powell. "I don't expect that you're going to need them, but you know what? If you need them, it would be nice to have."

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Wednesday July 27, 2011 · 10:08 AM PDT

2011/07/27 · 10:08

Ezra Klein touched on this the other night in a Tweet:

Eventually a president is going to show a graph in a speech and then they all will. someone just needs to go first.

He tweeted this right after the president's speech and I couldn't agree with him more. The old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" should be adapted as part of every speech given by a politician.

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Friday July 15, 2011 · 8:33 PM PDT

2011/07/15 · 20:33

Nicki Haley will personally drive you to the SC DMV to get your ID to vote:

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley(R) has a unique solution to the problem she created by signing a law in May that will require voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls — she will personally drive you to the DMV. As with any voter ID requirement, Haley’s law could have the effect of suppressing the vote of thousands of people who don’t currently have South Carolina IDs, especially minorities, college students, rural voters, and the elderly. For these people, it is often difficult or impossible to travel to the DMV to obtain a license, so many wind up not being able to cast a ballot come Election Day.

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Monday July 11, 2011 · 7:00 AM PDT

2011/07/11 · 07:00

I actually have never heard of Rep. Peter DeFazio, but evidently he managed to add an "audit the pentagon" amendment in a committee which would suspend the DOD's exemption from Federal Audits.

Defazio:

In 1990, Congress passed a law that required that all — all — federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, must have auditable financial statements every year. Since that time, the Department of Defense has spent $10 trillion ... [a]nd yet, no audit has been conducted. ... In 2005 Congress passed a ban on completing an audit ... Yet we don't know where ... $2.3 trillion dollars went.

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Thursday July 07, 2011 · 1:32 PM PDT

2011/07/07 · 13:32

Ron Paul's plan. I know.....I could hardly believe my eyes and I thought maybe it was some kind of snark piece....but upon further reading, it actually sounds pretty good.

From the New Republic:

Representative Ron Paul has hit upon a remarkably creative way to deal with the impasse over the debt ceiling: have the Federal Reserve Board destroy the $1.6 trillion in government bonds it now holds. While at first blush this idea may seem crazy, on more careful thought it is actually a very reasonable way to deal with the crisis. Furthermore, it provides a way to have lasting savings to the budget.

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Wednesday December 01, 2010 · 6:05 PM PST

2010/12/01 · 18:05

From Mother Jones:

In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. An April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.

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Wednesday September 08, 2010 · 9:10 PM PDT

2010/09/08 · 21:10

This is really sickening:

US soldiers killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies

Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

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Wednesday September 08, 2010 · 11:17 AM PDT

2010/09/08 · 11:17

We really should have primaried this guy...oh wait.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) broke with President Obama on Wednesday, saying he would not support any additional stimulus spending.
Bennet, who was endorsed by the president in Colorado but is facing a tough reelection fight, rejected the $50 billion public works program proposed by Obama earlier this week.

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Tuesday September 07, 2010 · 6:47 PM PDT

2010/09/07 · 18:47

Call me surprised....but if this is really true - I'm deeply grateful the President kept his word on this

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday will rule out any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist to an election-season economic package that is otherwise designed to entice support from big businesses and their Republican allies.

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