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Midday open thread
by
Scott Wooledge
for
Daily Kos
Community
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012
at
12:00:05pm PST
And what did you do with your holiday time off? @Cmdr_Hadfield
tweets
from space.
And what did you do with your holiday time off? @Cmdr_Hadfield
tweets
from space.
Mission commander, Canadian Chris Hadfield is the
first astronaut to record a song in space.
Mercifully, it wasn't a Celine Dion song.
Democratic state Senator Ruben Diaz, proves New York politicians can keep up with Alabama and Florida in the crazy sweepstakes, by publishing a Top Ten list targeting all his political enemies
on his Senate website.
It's essentially his 2012 New York bipartisan
Mean Girl Burn Book
and no, it's not parody.
Fossil study of dental remains show whatever killed off the saber-tooth tiger in North America,
it wasn't a starvation extinction
, as was previously theorized.
Some like it red: FBI released new files regarding their tracking known subversive and
suspected communist Marilyn Monroe.
Corporate graft, it's not just for private corporations!
New York Daily News
reports the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority paid two "chief operating officers a combined $555,750 -- one of which hasn't worked since May!" Hey, they had to do something with the money the
new big fare hikes
will bring in.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio:
A George Zimmerman at every school--this week! What could go wrong?
President Putin just banned Americans from adopting Russian children.
Fifty-two Russian kids already slated for the USA will now have to make alternative plans, according to children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov.
Rest in peace: beloved, pioneer AIDS activist Spencer Cox
finally lost a lifelong battle with HIV in New York City at 44.
Cox's role in the early days of Act-Up and Treatment Action Group can been seen along with contemporaneous interviews, in the current film
How To Survive A Plague.
Because disease and world hunger are passé, Pope makes marriage equality the focus of his Christmas address;
thousands of Dutch Catholics research "de-baptizing"
themselves from the church in response. Ratzi will always have Uganda.
Newly appointed Senator from Hawaii, Brian Schatz called climate change “the most urgent challenge of our generation.” At 40, he'll be the youngest Senator until 39-year-old Chris Murphy of Connecticut is sworn in.
Washington Post
has more.
New York
Journal News
obtains public records of about 44,000 people in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties who own guns and
publishes their name and addresses.
Texas judge will decide the fate of Planned Parenthood's continued funding in that state by granting a restraining order—or not—on
New Year's Eve day.
Apple iPhone 5 holiday sales are really boffo, and
particularly huge in China
, while Apple Maps sits atop CNN's
Top Ten list of Tech Fails for 2012.
Oops.
An 11th hour,
30-day extension averts a labor strike
that threatened to shut down key east coast shipping ports, talks continue.
We don't have
Newsweek
to kick around anymore.
Genetically modified salmon, which grows twice as fast as the ordinary catch,
will soon hit the stores.