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Saturday November 18, 2006 · 3:47 PM PST

2006/11/18 · 15:47

Mid-flight sexual play lands US couple afoul of anti-terrorism law
Nov 14 6:53 PM US/Eastern
A couple's ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years.
According to their indictment, Carl Persing and Dawn Sewell were allegedly snuggling and kissing inappropriately, "making other passengers uncomfortable," when a flight attendant asked them to stop.
"Persing was observed nuzzling or kissing Sewell on the neck, and ... with his face pressed against Sewell's vaginal area. During these actions, Sewell was observed smiling," reads the indictment filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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DLC: a new kind of "progressivism"

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 4:43 PM PST

2006/11/15 · 16:43

There is a religious movement called Quiverful that literally seeks to turn American women into walking incubators for Jesus in order to provide the Religious Right with cannon fodder.

That isn't unusual. The DLC jumping the shark to join this kind of craziness is.

However, while one Kossack is tired of DLC slurs, the DLC he wants us to ignore have been very busy on our behalf. I think you should know what they've been busy with.

fair usage quotes follow:
(note: an extended explanation of Quiverful is also at the URL, I had to leave it out in order to keep the quote down to reasonable fair usage - go back to page one of the article to read it in full)

the DLC and Quiverful (quoted from: 'Arrows for the War' page 5 - Kathryn Joyce, The Nation)
Meanwhile, Phillip Longman hardly offers a left-wing counterpoint. Instead, he's searching -- at the request of the Democratic Leadership Council, which published his policy proposals in its Blueprint magazine -- for a way to appeal to the same voters Carlson is organizing: a typically "radical middle" quest to figure out how Democrats can make nice with Kansas.

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Saturday September 23, 2006 · 5:24 AM PDT

2006/09/23 · 05:24

The bottom line for us is simple.

China wants to leverage IPv6 (and probably a true broadband infrastructure in progress) into technological dominance over America and everyone else and worldwide control over the Internet.

IPv6 is an advanced Internet addressing plan under which anything anybody might conceivably want to plug into the Internet gets its own individual IP address, making it much simpler for devices to interconnect through the Net. Sound geeky? It is.

Salaries reported up by Dept of Commerce-What's Really Going On?

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Tuesday September 19, 2006 · 3:11 AM PDT

2006/09/19 · 03:11

We can expect Bush to be trumpeting soon how the average American's wages have gone up during his regime despite the fact that few of us have seen this going on with our paychecks. It appears that one set of numbers shows wages as going up because it conflates stock options which don't get awarded to anyone on the low end of the food chain with salary.

The rest of the article is at the URL, this is something WSJ didn't put behind the subscription wall.

http://online.wsj.com/...
THE OUTLOOK
How Stock Options Muddle
The Relationship Among Wages,
Corporate Profits and Inflation
By GREG IP
September 18, 2006; Page A2
Scorekeepers at the Commerce Department last month discovered that
American workers were earning far more than previously estimated -- and
that created an economic puzzle.

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Saturday September 16, 2006 · 3:48 AM PDT

2006/09/16 · 03:48

Would you believe that the only new source of jobs since the Chimp took office has been in health care? The situation is not only worse than we've been told by the Bushmen and MSM, but even worse than I believed.

From Business Week:

What's Really Propping Up The Economy
Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None
a simple fact: Without the health-care industry the nation's labor market would be in a deep coma. Since 2001, 1.7 million new jobs have been added in the health-care sector, which includes related industries such as pharmaceuticals and health insurance. Meanwhile, the number of private-sector jobs outside of health care is no higher than it was five years ago.

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 5:37 AM PDT

2006/08/10 · 05:37

Of course the judge is a Bush appointee. Imagine the doctors and biologists of the future, trained in science by people whose qualifications are that they are "real Christians"

Article excerpted to comply with "fair use".

Christian school's lawsuit against UC system to go to trial

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Fuel cell researchers say forget hydrogen

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Friday July 14, 2006 · 2:13 AM PDT

2006/07/14 · 02:13

I've been saying for a while that anyone who publically takes hydrogen as the "fuel of the future" has publically admitted to cluelessness about alternative energy. It appears I'm not the only one who thinks this.

At last weekend's Lucerne Fuel Cell Conference, which is a highly respected technical conference, Ulf Bossel, the organizer, made a pretty signinficant announcement: the European PEMFC Forum series will not be continued because hydrogen fuel will never contribute to a sustainable world. Instead they will focus on phosphoric acid fuel cells, molten carbonate fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cells which "can meet the challenges of a sustainable future".

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Thursday May 04, 2006 · 2:18 AM PDT

2006/05/04 · 02:18

Study Shows Americans Sicker Than English
http://news.yahoo.com/...
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press Writers
Tue May 2, 10:47 PM ET

CHICAGO - White, middle-aged Americans ? even those who are rich ? are far less healthy than their peers in England, according to stunning new research that erases misconceptions and has experts scratching their heads.

Americans had higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancer ? findings that held true no matter what income or education level.

Those dismal results are despite the fact that U.S. health care spending is double what England spends on each of its citizens. Read More

Lieberman and Hillary want to waste $90M of your dollars

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 7:31 PM PST

2006/03/09 · 19:31

Clinton, Lieberman propose CDC investigate games
Democratic Senators from New York and Connecticut are asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate "impact of electronic media use."
. . .
Democrats Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Hillary Clinton of New York, and Dick Durbin of Illinois persuaded a Senate committee to approve a sweeping study of the "impact of electronic media use" to be organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

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Saturday March 04, 2006 · 12:52 AM PST

2006/03/04 · 00:52

A magic way to make billions
http://www.cnn.com/...
By DONALD L. BARLETT, JAMES B. STEELE
Monday, February 27, 2006; Posted: 12:17 p.m. EST (17:17 GMT)
The wording is so bland and buried so deep within a 324-page budget document that almost no one would notice that a multibillion-dollar scam is going on. Not the members of Congress voting for it and certainly not the taxpayers who will get fleeced by it. And that is exactly the idea.
With Washington reeling from the Abramoff lobbying scandal and Republicans and Democrats alike pledging to crack down on influence peddling, with one lawmaker already gone from Capitol Hill because he traded favors for cash, you're probably guessing this isn't the best time for members of Congress to dispense a fortune in favors to their friends.

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Tuesday February 21, 2006 · 3:08 AM PST

2006/02/21 · 03:08

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

John Vidal, environment editor
Wednesday February 8, 2006
The Guardian
Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world's first practically oil-free economy is being planned by a committee of industrialists, academics, farmers, car makers, civil servants and others, who will report to parliament in several months.
The intention, the Swedish government said yesterday, is to replace all fossil fuels with renewables before climate change destroys economies and growing oil scarcity leads to huge new price rises.

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Tuesday November 29, 2005 · 1:51 PM PST

2005/11/29 · 13:51

http://www.cres-energy.org/...

Congress to Terminate National Bioenergy Center
11/17/2005
Colorado Renewable Energy Society
Congress is getting ready this week to terminate the National
Bioenergy Research Center and gut the Wind Research Program at the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). NREL researchers who are
CRES members sounded the alarm over the weekend after finding out on
Friday that many of them may be out of work next month.

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