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October 27, 2012

Have Voting Machines Already Made their Choice for Prez?


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October 17, 2012

I want Candy

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October 15, 2012

Hemingway used to machine gun sharks

to stop them from eating his catch. In 1938 he established a world record by catching seven marlins in one day.












http://inktank.fi/the-5-unusual-habits-of-ernest-hemingway/

October 15, 2012

Pakistan sends girl shot by Taliban to UK for care

Source: Boston Herald

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan airlifted a 14-year-old activist who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban to the United Kingdom for treatment Monday, a move that will give her access to the specialized medical care she needs to recover and also protect her from follow-up attacks threatened by the militants.

The attack on Malala Yousufzai as she was returning home from school in Pakistan’s northwest a week ago has horrified people both across the country and abroad. It has also sparked hope the government would respond by intensifying its fight against the Taliban and their allies.

Over 100 Taliban militants attacked a police station near the main northwest city of Peshawar late Sunday night, sparking a gunbattle that lasted several hours, police said. Six policemen were killed during the clash, including two who were beheaded.

Malala was targeted by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education and criticizing the militant group. Two of Malala’s classmates were also wounded in the attack and are receiving treatment in Pakistan.


Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/asia_pacific/view.bg?articleid=1061167800&srvc=rss



So glad she is safe in the UK now. I hope she recovers and gets to stay and go to school there.
October 11, 2012

Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's Slave States vs. Free States in 2012

A century and a half later, we've come full circle: The red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines.



Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy. As clichéd as the point may be, it remains indispensable to understanding what is happening in American politics today:




Confederate (red) and Union (blue) states


Republican (red) and Democratic (blue) states, 2008 election
http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/how-white-conservative-south-took-over-gop-and-may-take-over-america

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