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For Sale: The Desperate States Of America

Chicago drivers will pay Morgan Stanley at least $11.6 billion to park at city meters over the next 75 years, 10 times what the system was sold for.
The Mayor used millions from the deal to help balance the budget, but since then, Morgan Stanley has raised parking fees 42%.

Gulf oil spill documentary 'The Big Fix' screens in Cannes

The film disputes industry claims that the millions gallons of oil spilled after the April 22, 2010, explosion on the BP PLC-owned Deepwater Horizon rig have largely been cleaned up or dispersed.

Seafood fraud

While 84 percent of the seafood eaten in the United States is imported, only two percent is currently inspected

TomDispatch Audio - Back-Asswards

Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses president Obama's recent ultimatum that Israel return to its pre-1967 borders.

Released American Hiker Sarah Shourd Jumps Bail,Won't Return To Iran For Spy Trial With Friends

When asked if she was still engaged, she replies she lost the ring.he he.

The comments give more insight to this case.
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Ahmadinejad Stresses Women's Key Role in Iran's Progress

Monday, May 23, 2011

Mandatory Car Black Boxes Are Coming. Here's How It Affects You

They will install this in your car and record every your every move and infraction. Then when you reapply for license plates they can fine you for your offenses.

Delta Rhythm Boys "Take The A Train" 1942

Coon Sander's Nighthawks - Kansas City Kitty (1929)

Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra was the first Kansas City jazz band to achieve national recognition, which it acquired through national radio
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Kitty from Kansas City - Rudy Vallee - 1931

Newport Beach Lifeguards Rake in ... $200K a Year

Only about half of that paycheck is salary, the rest is in the perks; after adding in overtime, special compensation, pension—Newport Beach's lifeguards can retire at 50 with 90% of their salary—medical benefits, and life insurance, even the lowest-paid officer made more than $98,000.

Bruce Haack - Electric to Me Turn

Electric Lucifer
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AHEM-- Robert Tim Scully is best known in the psychedelic underground for his work in the production of LSD from 1966 to 1969, His best known product, dubbed Orange Sunshine, was considered the standard for quality LSD in 1969.

LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and Scully wanted to set up a new lab in Denver, Colorado.

Scully set up the new lab in the basement of a house across the street from the Denver zoo in early 1967. Owsley and Scully made the LSD in the Denver lab.
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Dragnet Blue Boy LSD scene

Implant helps paralyzed man stand, take steps

When I was in jail, back in 2002, I met a guy in a wheelchair(there for sale of marijuana)and I promised him that, even though it sounded like a long time, he would be walking again in fifteen years due to Moore's law
Looks like I am right on schedule, though I wonder what ever happened to him.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

The guy who started the May 21 rapture/doomsday insanity lives in Boulder, Colorado.

He originally predicted the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994. When he was wrong, he said it was a "mathematical error."


Zaba search has deleted his address from their files
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Harold Camping was born in Boulder ninety years ago

What Google and Facebook Are Hiding

Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don’t even know it.

Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator

What Snopes has to say

BTW,the Salvation Army, as a religious organization, doesn't report its expenses to the IRS, the only available figures for executive salaries are estimates, which vary greatly from source to source.

The Skeleton Closet - All the Dirt on All the 2012 Presidential Candidates

The Skeleton Closet - All the Dirt on All the 2012 Presidential Candidates

There are plans to increase the federal government’s powers by giving them the right to strip national security whistleblowers of their pensions.

The Boiling Frogs Podcast Show #43 presents Stephen Kohn to discuss his book The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing what’s Right and Protecting Yourself.

Russian tax law is so complex that Novikov Restaurant Group employs five accountants at each restaurant

I guess you can't read the article without registering, so you just have to read the comments on the gateway blog

National Level Exercise 2011 is scheduled for May 16

The year 2011 is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named.

Eye for an Eye - A man will be punished by dripping acid into his eyes in Tehran on Saturday May 14

Considering the damage done to the girl he is getting off easy

Update: Punishment has been delayed

Famed marijuana activist dies of lung cancer at age 56

In August 1976, Ben Masel of Madison, Wis, led a group of marchers to the Crown Hotel in Kansas City to seek water and use of toilets.
They were refused permission to enter the hotel, where President Ford stayed during the 1976 Republican Convention, and remained outside chanting slogans.

Media Monarchy episode 217 (May 6, 2011)

The first guest,Richard A. Grove who worked at World Trade Center 1, and survived the 9/11 attacks explains the Global Network that put GW Bush in to power

Obama administration floats a plan to tax cars by the mile

The plan is a part of the administration's Transportation Opportunities Act

Osama Bad,Obama Good(rinse,repeat)

Up Against the War Machine in Kansas City

,,,,,were kept in handcuffs for 5 hours and jailed for up to 20, then released pending trial. In Kansas City’s 80-year-old city holding tanks

KC jail is a bad place to be

Japanese Senior Nuclear Adviser Prof. Toshiso Kosako Calls Radiation Exposure Limit 20 Times Too High, Quits

Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, was only recently named an aide to Kan on March 16, five days after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan

The USS Macomb was one of the first to enter Tokyo Bay for the Japanese Surrender

The Minesweeper my Father was on ie,,Special Thanks to James Rocky Tankersley, EM2/c from 9/42-9/45

Here is a story from his time on the ship

,,,,"There he introduced me to Bogart and asked if I could put together a make shift PA system for Bogart who wanted to put on an impromptu show for the crew. I got together with one of the ship's electrician's mates (Rocky Tankersley) and together we jury rigged the ships movie projector sound system to serve as a PA.
Bogart and his group put on a show for the crew on the focastle."