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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Astronomy Overnight Thread- Cloudy Night of the Northern Lights
Image Credit & Copyright: Fredrick Broms (Northern Lights Photography)
Explanation: On September 26, a large solar coronal mass ejection smacked into planet Earth’s magnetosphere producing a severe geomagnetic storm and wide spread auroras. Captured here near local midnight from Kvaløya island outside Tromsø in northern Norway, the intense auroral glow was framed by parting rain clouds. Tinted orange, the clouds are also in silhouette as the tops of the colorful shimmering curtains of northern lights extend well over 100 kilometers above the ground. Though the auroral rays are parallel, perspective makes them appear to radiate from a vanishing point at the zenith. Near the bottom of the scene, an even more distant Pleiades star cluster and bright planet Jupiter shine on this cloudy northern night.
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Huge Crowd Of 5,000 Now At Occupy Wall Street Protests As First Wave Of Union Support Arrives
Via Ilene Kent aka @runforfun54 with permission
You’ll have to go here for the photos: Huge Crowd Of 5,000 Now At Occupy Wall Street Protests As First Wave Of Union Support Arrives (h/t: Leftpalm)
Now, NYPD police scanners are estimating a crowd up to 5,000 are occupying liberty square in a scene that is now starting to look more like Egypt’s Tahrir square.
In fact the protests have become so large that Fox News has set up a live stream covering the protests.
My post about union support here.
Meantime, I’m currently accepting videos, UNDER 30 seconds, for my next Blunt webisode. Just talk into a cell cam or a video cam, telling me what Occupy Wall Street means to you and/or the country.
If you’re not familiar with my Blunt videos, go here.
I’ve heard from some of my contacts who are at the protest in NYC, and they’ll be contributing to this one. I’m giving anyone who wants one an outlet to speak about this movement.
Feel free to send your SHORT video file to BLUNT at ThePoliticalCarnival dot NET.
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VIDEO- Sen. Lautenberg: Chris Christie is “a persistent liar… abusive to women.. a bully…”
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I saw this live and applauded Sen. Frank Lautenberg repeatedly as he called out Chris Christie like nobody else I’ve heard:
“…He’s a persistent liar… His bullying temperament, he calls people names freely, he’s abusive to women. He called one a jerk, another one a liar, another needed a baseball bat brought to her?… He’s strictly a divider… They don’t know what kind of a bully he is, he’s thrown people out of meetings, he’s used all kinds of insults, he’s not a peacemaker nor is he a mover on a bipartisan basis.”
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VIDEO: Want to cry happy tears? Deaf woman hears herself for first time.
Thank you @42bkdodgr, for sending this our way. Talk about a feel-good video! Via HuffPo:
I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time
Edit: For those of you who have asked the implant I received was Esteem offered by Envoy Medical.
Bonus tears:
Back in June, another touching video captured baby Jonathan who, after receiving a similar hearing implant, was able hear his mother’s voice for the first time.:
Happy Friday.
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“Charles and David Koch try to discredit a forthcoming story” about alleged “fraud and/or bad behavior”
Go read this Salon piece if you’re in the mood for some alleged schadenfreude:
Here’s a rule of thumb about public relations: When P.R. pros begin furiously spinning a story before it has even come out, there’s a pretty good chance the story is going to be damaging to the reputation of said P.R. pros’ bosses.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing right now, as an anonymous person or persons in the orbit of the billionaire conservative donors Charles and David Koch try to discredit a forthcoming story in Bloomberg Markets magazine.
Based on the prebuttal items appearing this week in the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, and U.S. News and World Report, the Bloomberg story focuses on alleged malfeasance and/or fraud and/or bad behavior by the conglomerate Koch Industries.
Just wanted to make your alleged day.
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Quickie- Newt Gingrich: Marriage equality is a “temporary aberration”
Today’s Quickie:
Taegan has this lovely little quote from Newt Gingrich, the guy whose marriages– and I use the term loosely– were all aberrations:
“I believe that marriage is between a man and woman. It has been for all of recorded history and I think this is a temporary aberration that will dissipate.”
– Newt Gingrich, quoted by the Des Moines Register, on gay marriage.
Yeah, Newtered, marriage equality will “dissipate,” gay people will stop loving each other, and you’ll become a thin, credible, upstanding, compassionate, honest politician.
That was today’s Quickie. Was it good for you?
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You think Chris Christie & Sarah Palin are teases? Add Mike Huckabee to the list.
There’s a whole lot of teasing going on in GOP land. Chris Chistie and Former Half-Gov Temptrina McWon’tRun are in eternal Will They Or Won’t They Mode, and it’s getting older than a Marcus Bachmann corn dog joke:
NBC New York has confirmed that the Republican [Chris Christie] in his first term is now considering a run for president, after months of adamantly denying he would get into the 2012 race.
Sources tell NBC New York he’s reconsidering his past denials due to what he felt was a strong outpouring of support during appearances throughout the country this week, especially during his stop at the Reagan Presidential Library in California on Wednesday.
But it’s about to get worse. Hold on to your fat jokes, here comes HuckaFlip, who sworetogod he wouldn’t run, because the god he sworetogod to, and his own heart, told him not to:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mike Huckabee has been approached by Republican and conservative activists unhappy with the current crop of presidential hopefuls and he is considering entering the fray, two sources who have spoken with Huckabee told Reuters.
I guess his original decision is no longer “clear and firm”:
“All the factors say go, but my heart says no. My answer is clear and firm. I will not seek the Republican nomination for president this year. I’m going to gladly continue doing what I do.”
If and when he stops doing what he does and leaves ClusterFox behind, we’ll have our answer.
It really boils down to this: The GOP is dying for a new flavor, one that won’t make them nauseous after a few tantalizing licks.
UPDATE via Taegan:
Update: A source close to Huckabee tells CBS News that “there are certainly people that have asked him to reconsider his decision, even more so lately, but at this point that is not something he is doing.”
H/t: @LUCKYMW
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