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Over in a thread under Science and Technology called "Happy Birfday Earf," I posted a link to an extraordinary video and set of photographs provided by a Russian satellite. That post is probably pretty invisible. Besides, there is a better link provided by The Moscow Times. This is not Moscow, Idaho.

Russian Satellite Takes Highest-Ever Resolution Picture of Earth



The video is interactive.

There is also a new NASA video, an update of the old "firefly" map. It does not well show the distribution of the human population of the Earth. It shows urbanization and lack of poverty. Central Africa, for example, has a larger population than shown in this video. The lightning alone is worth the trip. Note that parts of the satellite appear from time to time; they are not distant photos of strange, alien structures on the Earth.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120305.html

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Am I the only one irritated by Chuck Todd? He was great when he was NBC's number cruncher, but I find his political analysis pretty piss poor. That, and he barely seems to be able to hide his contempt for the President.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer robbed again


10:51 a.m. CDT, May 18, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who was robbed in February at his Caribbean vacation home by a man armed with a machete, recently was the victim of a burglary at his residence in Washington, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said no one was home at the time of the burglary, which was discovered May 4 by a housekeeper. The Washington, D.C., police were investigating, she said.

Breyer and his wife, Joanna, have a townhouse in Washington's upscale Georgetown neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Times.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns- ... 6262.story

Also, too, whilst perusing newspapers around the country, I noted that unemployment numbers seem to be dropping (The Orlando Sentinel reports the local unemployment rate down to 8.7 percent, down over a point since April, the Houston Chronicle says Houston unemployment dropped to 6.5 percent, also more than a percentage decline). I guess just the thought of Rmoney in the Oval Office has businesses hiring again! ;)

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NM jobs report...

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New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.2 percent in March 2012, unchanged from February but down from 7.5 percent a year earlier.
The rate of over-the-year job growth, comparing March 2012 with March 2011, was 0.5 percent, representing an increase of 4,000 jobs. The state has now added jobs for eight straight months after posting losses for 32 of the preceding 33 months. The employment survey showed gains in seven industries and losses in five others, with one unchanged from its year-earlier level.


TF is probably correct... all in anticipation of Rmoney being president.

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Austin’s jobless rate drops to 5.5 percent, new data shows

By American-Statesman Staff | Friday, May 18, 2012, 09:56 AM

Led by a rebound in the construction industry, Austin continued its steady job growth in April, helping the metro area’s unemployment rate drop to 5.5 percent, its lowest level in more than three years, according to the Texas Workforce Commission’s monthly report released today.

The Austin area added 6,300 jobs overall in April for a 2.4 percent annual growth rate, according to the Workforce Commission.

The area’s unemployment rate was 5.5 percent, compared with 6 percent in March.The last time the Austin area’s unemployment rate was at 5.5 percent or lower was December 2008, according to Workforce Commission data.

The state’s unemployment rate in April dropped to 6.5 percent, from 7 percent in March. Part of the reason for Austin’s job growth was the construction sector, which added 2,100 jobs in April, a 6.1 percent annual growth rate. That’s a reversal from March, which saw that sector surprisingly lose 2,300 jobs — 5.5 percent decline — from the previous month.


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Am I the only one irritated by Chuck Todd? He was great when he was NBC's number cruncher, but I find his political analysis pretty piss poor. That, and he barely seems to be able to hide his contempt for the President.

Todd has become a self-absorbed fuckwit. Tim Russert's anointment of Todd was one of his biggest mistakes. The guy reeks lightweight with every pronouncement.

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Am I the only one irritated by Chuck Todd? He was great when he was NBC's number cruncher, but I find his political analysis pretty piss poor. That, and he barely seems to be able to hide his contempt for the President.

Todd has become a self-absorbed fuckwit.


After speaking with Todd, Ed Henry and Jessica Yellin two weeks ago, I think he's not the least of the self-absorbed fuckwits covering the White House.
Edit: Condescending jerks, until they missed some things going on around them and wanted someone to splain what had happened. Then they wanted to be our friend.


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After speaking with Todd, Ed Henry and Jessica Yellin two weeks ago, I think he's not the least of the self-absorbed fuckwits covering the White House.


At least Henry left CNN and wound up at Faux, where he belonged in the first place.

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Fuming right now. DH's high school did Hairspray for the musical this year. Some anal fuckwit sent a sternly worded letter to the Board of Education complaining that there were words such as "hell" and "damn" in the lyrics, DH's mentee is now being drawn over the coals. Apparently it would all die down if she would just ignore it and accept the letter of reprimand, apparently they don't know DH's mentee. She is defending her position and telling the fuckwits to piss off. I like her.

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Isn't there also dancing, singing and racial tolerance in Hairspray. Wait till those letters start rolling in.

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Sterngard Friegen wrote:
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Am I the only one irritated by Chuck Todd? He was great when he was NBC's number cruncher, but I find his political analysis pretty piss poor. That, and he barely seems to be able to hide his contempt for the President.

Todd has become a self-absorbed fuckwit. Tim Russert's anointment of Todd was one of his biggest mistakes. The guy reeks lightweight with every pronouncement.

Nope, you're not alone, either of ya. The silly horserace they can't seem to get beyond on top of the political stoopidity is irritating. Russert weren't all that great for goodness sakes, but his successor's are turrible.

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Doesn't this make you mad? From NRO:

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I took down my earlier post on Elizabeth Warren plagiarizing from the book Getting On the Money Track.  On Amazon.com, the Warren book All Your Worth is listed as having been published January 9, 2006. As it turns out, that is the paperback publication date; the hardback book was published in March 2005. As such, it appears that Getting on the Money Track (published in October 2005) plagiarized from All Your Worth, not the other way around. 

I apologize for the error.


http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/e ... rrens-2006

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Doesn't this make you mad? From NRO:

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I took down my earlier post on Elizabeth Warren plagiarizing from the book Getting On the Money Track.  On Amazon.com, the Warren book All Your Worth is listed as having been published January 9, 2006. As it turns out, that is the paperback publication date; the hardback book was published in March 2005. As such, it appears that Getting on the Money Track (published in October 2005) plagiarized from All Your Worth, not the other way around. 

I apologize for the error.


http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/e ... rrens-2006

Shoot first /research later journalminimum, so par for the course it makes me cry.


I have to give credit for acknowledging and apologizing for an error.

Par for the course for pug "journalists" these days is to refuse even to acknowledge when caught flat-out lying, or at best, take the lie down and pretend never to have said it.

This guy verges on being thrown out of the pug club just for displaying honesty.

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I took down my earlier post on Elizabeth Warren plagiarizing from the book Getting On the Money Track. On Amazon.com, the Warren book All Your Worth is listed as having been published January 9, 2006. As it turns out, that is the paperback publication date; the hardback book was published in March 2005. As such, it appears that Getting on the Money Track (published in October 2005) plagiarized from All Your Worth, not the other way around I'm a fucking idiot.

Journalminimum indeed! Not to AT LEAST check publication dates before levying a charge of plagiarism?

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Now Warren's detractors have moved on to saying she stole recipes that were contributed to her cousin's
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Breitbart News is making a big deal of this as well. Can you really 'steal' a recipe that's been published in a magazine, newspaper or an cookbook older than you are?

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Now Warren's detractors have moved on to saying she stole recipes that were contributed to her cousin's
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Breitbart News is making a big deal of this as well. Can you really 'steal' a recipe that's been published in a magazine, newspaper or an cookbook older than you are?


You can't even copyright a recipe, much less "steal" it. What a bunch of desperate liars. Zombie Breitbart needs to be laid back to rest.

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Now Warren's detractors have moved on to saying she stole recipes that were contributed to her cousin's
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http://howiecarr.us/

Breitbart News is making a big deal of this as well. Can you really 'steal' a recipe that's been published in a magazine, newspaper or an cookbook older than you are?


You can't even copyright a recipe, much less "steal" it. What a bunch of desperate liars. Zombie Breitbart needs to be laid back to rest.

Bretibarts gremlins need to go too.

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Now Warren's detractors have moved on to saying she stole recipes that were contributed to her cousin's
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http://howiecarr.us/

Breitbart News is making a big deal of this as well. Can you really 'steal' a recipe that's been published in a magazine, newspaper or an cookbook older than you are?


You can't even copyright a recipe, much less "steal" it. What a bunch of desperate liars. Zombie Breitbart needs to be laid back to rest.

Surely they were all equally upset when a Food Network cookie recipe as passed off by the McCain campaign in 2008 as Cindy McCain's, word for word, right?

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Wait, Granny finds a good recipe in Better Homes & Gardens in 1959. It becomes a family favorite and gets spread around.

There's something wrong with that? :-?

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Interesting advice from Miss Manners' column today.

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Dear Miss Manners: We have a couple of very vocal families of atheists in our neighborhood. I recognize that their personal beliefs are none of my business, and that freedom of religion means freedom to choose nonbelief as well. I respect their right to refuse donations to charities whose mission they do not support, and so forth. The problem that I do have is in their response to people of faith. In our small city, religious organizations frequently host fundraisers in support of their charitable endeavors. These include dinners, carnivals and so forth, and church members can regularly be found handing out fliers in public areas of the city.
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Not content to say, “No, thank you,” and move on, my well-educated adult neighbors choose to express outrage at being approached and to mock the intelligence and the beliefs of the volunteers.
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Whatever the cause, rudeness puts its advocates in the wrong. It also damages any cause. Miss Manners doubts that your neighbors want to plant the idea that lack of respect for other human beings is a tenet—or an inevitable result—of atheism. But that is what they are doing.

Still, it would be rude of you to chastise them. What you can do in defense of those they embarrass is to say, “I believe that their religion would require them to respect you and allow you to express your beliefs.”


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Had a cool partial Solar eclipse late today. 84% of the Sun blocked by the Moon. I could have driven a couple hours to see the full Annular eclipse...but then, when it was over, I'd a been in Chico. =;

I have a fairly nice telescope with a solar projector, but it's a pain in the butt to set up and tear down, so I went with the simple form of the Camera Obscura. It was awesome. Especially as it did get dim enough that the birdies started to bed down for the evening, then got kinda cranky when it started to get bright again...then the Sun started to set...Un-amused Birds.

I was a bit taken aback, however, by the fact that I (with my Mom and one brother) were the ONLY ones out on our street observing this rare event.

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