Mar
30
DAILY PROGRESS REPORT
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Mar
30
Joemention
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[From The Blogging of the President]
by Stirling Newberry
“Lieberman: This is one of the big lies that the people against me are spreading and I’m not going to let them get away with it.”
Crooks and Liars has the audio.
It is a lie that Joe is Republican Lite – he’s the real thing – a budget busting [...]
Mar
29
Just Keep Planting
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by Adam Khan
Author of: Self-Help Stuff That Works
When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near an old copper smelter, and the sulfur dioxide that poured out of the refinery had made a desolate wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest.
When a young visitor one day [...]
Mar
28
[From kuro5hin]
By joelado
Several years ago I wrote a research paper on alternative fueled vehicles for my master`s degree in business administration. It was titled. “The Future Automobile: A Research Survey of Technology in Zero and Low Emissions Transportation, Its History, Its Recent Technological Origins, the Current State of Technology and Its Feasible Future.” In the [...]
Mar
27
Is America facing yet another dust bowl?
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[From Morris Daily Herals]
Conditions similar to those that led to 1930s drought
STATE COLLEGE, PA — Accu-Weather.com meteorologists have warned oceanic conditions similar to those that triggered the ruinous “Dust Bowl” drought again appear to be in place.
The exceptionally warm Atlantic waters that played a major role in the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, coupled with cooler-than-normal [...]
Mar
25
[From How to Save the World ]
Fig. 1: Projected global production of petroleum and natural gas.
Fig. 2: Theoretical projected US petroleum use if Amory Lovins’ Rocky Mountain Institute proposals were fully implemented. Global use is about 4-5x these amounts. Projected global use in 2020 is hence about 120 Mbbl/d or 44 Gbbl/a; compare that [...]
Mar
24
[From The Specious Report]
Bush Approval Rating plunges to record low of 34; advisors reassure President that is 274 Kelvin.
Western Union exits telegram business to focus exclusively on money transfers to former Nigerian royalty.
Ford, GM and Chrysler boost sales by selling Toyotas, Hondas and Nissans.
UPN and The WB Merge to form giant superstation no one will [...]
Mar
23
Taliban-Lite Democracy
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[From American Progress Action Fund]
In a case that “highlights the limits on the freedom the U.S. has brought to Afghanistan,” an Afghan named Abdul Rahman “faces a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago.” The Afghan government is under “mounting international pressure” to respect the basic human right of religious [...]
Mar
22
It’s Hard in Here for a Pimp
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[From American Progress Action Fund]





