Category: News
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Back In The Saddle: News Version
Yes, I\’ve been MIA on SP as of late. No good excuses, just sheer laziness and focusing my time on different things. But there\’s nothing like a run through the daily news to get one back untracked… (I did that just to annoy Alex)… But enough rankling of fellow SP-ers, what\’s happenin\’ out there in…
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local man injured, idiot
you know, we really could use an \”austin in the news\” category. get on that, al. it can be a graphic of a can of spam or something. anyway. from the 5/21/08 edition of the austin daily herald:
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four-dollar-a-gallon woes…
Came across this interesting article in the Washington Post recently. I guess I can understand that there needs to be regulation of gas pumps so that there can be no trickeration. . . but it still seems like overkill to crack down on a mom-and-pop gas station in the middle of nowhere. It\’s probably one…
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Co-winky-dink
So, I was reading this the other day: Petraeus picked to lead Central Command, which basically says that the current head of central command, Adm. William Fallon, was resigning due to widespread (but supposedly false) reports that he was at odds with the Bush administration over Iran that had made his job impossible. So this…
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…And Justice For All
If you are a newsie (kind of like a foodie, but with news) like me, you\’ve definitely seen and heard the \”not guilty on all counts\” verdict in the trial of NYPD officers who shot and killed a groom-to-be the day of his wedding. If you aren\’t familiar with the case, it echoes the 1999…
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Like A House Of Cards…
A really good three part series (one, two, and three) in the Strib on the rash of foreclosures have affected Wright County, but it\’s all quite applicable across the state and the country.
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Par for the course
As reported by Glenn Greenwald, and followed up on by Keith Olbermann (video embedded at the end of this post): Either Attorney General Mukasey is lying about 9/11 in order to fear monger (yes, I\’m using that as a verb) up a stronger FISA/Telecom Immunity/Protect America Act. Or the Administration was completely inept in the…
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osama bin doppler
the calendar is telling me that it\’s the first day of spring; even so, the weather terrorists have already predicted 4-6 inches of snow for tonight and tomorrow. and, falling into their trap, i\’m already anxious about it. and i hate that. i\’m not sure if it\’s the same in other areas, but minnesotans are…
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Happy Groundhog\’s Day!
What a glorious day to get up at dawn and investigate the doings of your local rodent population… in this case, the Groundhog! As you probably have read, Punxsutawney Phil saw this shadow this morning giving us six more weeks of winter. However, maybe that\’s just only six more weeks for those in Pennsylvania. Here…
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Darwin\’s Proof
I came across this interesting article today which I think proves that humans decended from monkeys. Instead of grooming, it\’s now dinner and a movie. </rimshot> Thank you thank you… I\’ll be there all zee week.