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C&L’s Top 50 Videos of 2011: #46 Oregon Tea Party Breaks Up MoveOn Picnic
Click here to view this media For all the talk of how “peaceful” the tea party protests were in contrast to the Occupy Wall Street, videos like this one by Dave Neiwert really highlight what a big lie that is. Tea party thugs decided to bust up a MoveOn picnic in Roseburg, Oregon, and then [...]
Continue reading...Peace over Earth
25 December 2011 – 12:12 am PST
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“This is a view of Earth on Christmas morning, blending archival imagery of Earth’s surface from the MODIS instruments on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites with hot-off-the-spacecraft weather data from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite. You can see clouds streaming over the southeastern U.S. That’s the storm front that brought a white Christmas to the Southwest; now [...]
Continue reading...Hanukkah Candles on Christmas Eve
25 December 2011 – 12:12 am PST
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And the Light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it. for Justine Throughout the night, the cold drew close, And wrapped our home in shrouds of frost. Within, four candles lent us light, Returning to us what was lost. Around us, all our village slept. Our children safe, their breathing slow. Four [...]
Continue reading...Global Warming Delayed Again as a Dusting of Snow Atop Mauna Kea Brings White Christmas to Hawaii
25 December 2011 – 12:12 am PST
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A monkey pod tree in Hilo, Hawaii, frames a snow capped Mauna Kea mountain, like a Christmas wreath on Saturday Dec. 24, 2011, bringing a white Christmas to the Big Island. Snow covers the top of Mauna Kea Mountain on Saturday. Visible atop the peak are telescopes of the Keck Observatory. Via PhotoBlog
Continue reading...Trump Dumps the GOP
25 December 2011 – 12:11 am PST
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He’s not really going to run is he? After years as a registered Republican, the outspoken real estate mogul has filed paperwork to become an unaffiliated voter in his home state of New York. Trump made the change official Thursday, a move prompted by his stated interest in mounting a third-party presidential run in 2012. [...]
Continue reading...Video: Newt, Perry Fail to Make VA Ballot
25 December 2011 – 12:11 am PST
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Continue reading...Massive Anti-Putin Protest in Russia
25 December 2011 – 12:11 am PST
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Click here to view the embedded video. The Guardian says claims about the numbers are all over the map: Security sources said 80,000 people turned out for the four hour protest on Moscow’s Sakharov Prospect, despite a freezing temperature of -5C. Police put the number at 29,000 while protest organisers said up to 120,000 had [...]
Continue reading...The Dark Knight Rises Trailer, Sweded
25 December 2011 – 12:11 am PST
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They did a pretty good job of this. Click here to view the embedded video.
Continue reading...New Hobbit Production Video
25 December 2011 – 12:11 am PST
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Gabriel Malor posted this yesterday. It really makes me eager to see this: Click here to view the embedded video.
Continue reading..."Full Faith and Credit" of General Obligation Bonds Comes to Critical Test in Alabama Bankruptcy
25 December 2011 – 12:10 am PST
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General obligation bonds are thought to be perfectly safe because they are backed by the ability to tax, no matter what it takes to pay off the obligation. I have been waiting for a test of this theory and that time is at hand. Jefferson County Alabama filed the biggest bankruptcy in the history of [...]
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25 December 2011 – 12:12 am PST
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