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( cyclist who pedalled world killed by hit-and-run driver )
had much fun at Dawn Baby's hair salon last night and put on a decent show with the SOOTHESAYERS and got to watch the amazingly fun LONDON FLUSH, who mostly do covers of THE YARDBIRDS.
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Babies + wigs = never stops being funny.
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| Death Note/Monster Crossover, The Guilty, Ch. 1 |
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Fandom: Death Note/Monster
Title: The Guilty
Rating/Warnings: R, psychopaths, character deaths
Genre: Drama, sequel to "Sons and Lovers"
Characters: L, Light, Watari, Tenma, Nina, Johan, (a few minor characters)
Spoilers: Potentially all of Monster, DN through the Higuchi arc, all of Another Note.
Summary: When Johan wants to obliterate Light's utopia, can the task force play Johan and Light off each other... do they really want to? (Author notes at the end of the saga.)
Disclaimer: None of it's mine.
( Chapter 1: The Counter-Kira )
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| The real scoop On Palin from a neighbor |
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http://sailorjim.net/wordpress/?p=999
 Hereâs a bit of reading for all of you:
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Gov. Sarah Palin since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my childâs favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first-name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99 percent of the residents of the city.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palinâs kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her lifestyle ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.
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This is the real deal ...now that's ALL on Palin for me!
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| Is California on the Brink of Environmental Collapse? |
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California has spared no expense to taxpayers or natural ecosystems to become the most hydrologically altered landmass on the planet.
There is no landmass on Earth quite like California. Here one finds the world's most ancient trees, bristlecone pines, more than 4,700 years old, in the White Mountains; the tallest and largest trees, the coast redwood and giant sequoia, respectively; the highest point in the lower 48 states, Mount Whitney; the lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere, Death Valley; the largest western hemisphere estuary, the Bay Delta; an 800-mile coastline; the most irrigated acres; the most endangered species in the U.S.; the most diverse geology and biodiversity in the U.S.; and the greatest, most ecologically destructive water projects on Earth.
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Water, water, water...when will we learn to respect it?
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| Alaska Chooses Largest Gold Mine Over Clean Water |
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Alaska is one step closer to approving Pebble Mine, which threatens the world's largest salmon fishery and native communities.
The spawning of salmon is something of a primal, epic drama. After spending their life of several years in the sea, the fish make their way up streams to the places where they were born. They don't eat, all their energy focused on their single-minded goal of spawning, after which they will die. Their flesh turns red from the effort, and hormones cause the males to develop a hump and a sinister-looking, toothy hooked beak.
The salmon life cycle is also part of the cycle of life for thousands of Alaska natives and Alaskans in general. Bristol Bay is known as the world's largest wild salmon fishery. With more than 30 million salmon worth hundreds of millions of dollars caught per year, it is a bedrock of commercial fishing and Alaska natives' subsistence fishing as well as a popular sport-fishing destination. |
Suggest you read it all--Sarah Palin supported this minin project--ooops, there go the Salmon in that area...some more info on the "Independent" Alaskan voters:
But on Aug. 26, Alaskans voted down a ballot measure that proponents had cast as crucial to the future survival of Bristol Bay salmon. Ballot measure 4, which survived a challenge that went all the way to the state Supreme Court to remain on the state's primary ballot, would have prohibited large metal mines from contaminating salmon streams and drinking water sources. Though by law the ballot measure couldn't name a specific project, everyone knew it was aimed at the proposed Pebble Mine, which if developed as planned would be North America's largest open pit gold mine, also mining copper and molybdenum (a crucial element in steel).
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| Support the PAW Act - End Alaska's Aerial Hunting Program! |
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U.S. House of Representatives Alaska is truly our nation's last frontier. It is also the last place in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill wolves. They shoot these animals from the air or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank.
As recently as July, state wildlife agency personnel in Alaska staked out a known wolf denning site -- a practice that is illegal under Alaska law -- and, using helicopters, gunned down 14 adult wolves from the air.
When they landed, they found the 14 helpless pups in the nearby dens -- just weeks old -- and methodically shot each one in the head. 28 wolves gunned down in all.
Congress passed a law thirty five years ago to put an end to aerial hunting. But Alaska is exploiting a loophole in federal law to resume the practice, not only for wolves, but bears as well. Hundreds of scientists have condemned what Alaska is doing, even as other states threaten to follow Alaska's lead. |
One of Sarah Palin's lovely programs...cowards hunt wolves from Copturds.....see site for petition, if you care to.
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The higher we climb the better the view. The world becomes a broad, simple expanse when we lose sight of inconvenient details. Watch as we leave everything behind, exhilarated, shouting just because with voices lost to the wind.
For as long as I can remember, people have dreamt of flying. We've given the notion airs of romance and have forgetten the simple pleasure of an even, steady gait.
You can eat up the miles in a matter of minutes. I'll walk them in a span of days and enjoy them all the more. Learn to walk before you fly. The world may pass you by, but I promise it will leave its treasures behind.
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| How PBS and Chevron got together to kill the alternative fuel movement |
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When it really matters,
information in the US is censored
Hopefully, you've seen all the videos in this series.
If not, I recommend you do that now to appreciate the enormity of what's been done to us by the oil industry and its henchmen.
And those henchmen most definitely include PBS, the so-called Public Broadcasting Service, perhaps better called the Petroleum Broadcasting Service.
For a few million dollars a year, the oil industry has completely censored any reporting on the REALITY that the US does not have to - and never had to - be dependent on gasoline for transport.
* The original scheme during the early days of the automobile to kill alcohol as fuel:
* How the oil industry continues to censor the science of alcohol as fuel:
If you've already seen these clips, here's where you can get the book:
Alcohol can be a gas
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We wuz robbed....
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| late night musings on asteroid mining |
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I remember an aol chat room session with an entrepeneur who wanted to mine asteroids. I remember asking him how they planned on establishing an attachment to the asteroid and remaining attached to the asteroid during the mining process. I remember him either totally blowing me off, saying "we're working on that one", or frankly admitting to not having that figured out, basically somehow indicating I'd asked about one of the missing links in the ol' chain there.
Well, like 8 years later, while brushing my teeth it sort of randomly occured to me that it stands to reason a sort of net could be used to mine asteroids. Wonder if anyone's thought of that yet.
It's theoretically possible.
Maybe with locked origin and closing point, with longitudinal lines that can be transversed, with the switchoff point being the origin and closing points, perhaps even some kind of electromagnetic markers throughout each particular line to differentiate, and maybe it's capable of gradually contracting? I don't know. SORT of like a cephalopod using tentacles to grab it's prey, except if it had super long tentacles, with some perpendicular to others, and it's head moved up and down them to eat.
Surely someone must have thought of using a net?... it might work. I think I later read something about that dude, saying they never really figured out a viable way for things to work.
If any of you are interested in mining asteroids, you don't have to credit me with this idea, if it's true that no one ever thought of it... I mean, wow there'd be a lot of technical details to work out though, like how to target asteroids, for one, and tons of other crap.
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| (Mortgage) Armageddon at Hand |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06fannie.html
By next week the federal government will be moving somewhere in the neighborhood of five trillion dollars in potentially toxic mortgages onto its balance sheet. Yikes! This has been coming for a long time now; there was no avoiding it. The de facto nationalization of the mortgage industry is now more or less complete. While the worth of these mortgages is certainly greater than zero, it is also certainly less than face value. Good thing I'm not one of those saps who pays taxes and will be stuck with paying for this one way or another. Oh, wait.
With news of this sort and bank failures every week I sort of wonder when we'll start seeing more hand wringing over deflation. Somebody should ask John McCain about that, but I'm sure he would just get confused and say that at his age you don't get too worried about it anymore.
But what's REALLY important is mooseburgers!
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Late night thoughts... Hm. So, I'm realizing more and more that I LOVED being in school. I didn't know it at the time, but I didn't have to find hobbies or things to do... and playing was always extra fun, because it was a break from this giant thing I was doing. Although I'm extremely excited to start subbing, I feel weird about it. It's a real job in the sense that it pays well enough, and It'll pay the bills (my loan bills, specifically) but I don't like not knowing when I'm working, and being afraid every morning that I didn't hear the call because I was in extreme sleep mode or something.
I'm dragging stan into taking a class with me at LCC this fall because I'm going nuts without having a thing that I go to once a week to deal with (besides church obv). I don't know.
I think I have a school addiction. I think it will go away once I have a real job that I can count on every day. I'll be busy enough but I won't have "homework"
I wish I had gotten that job at Creslane! Grrr. :/ Oh well. I'll be all the more qualified next year. :D
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OKAY. This video made it better. And all of the videos by this group.
Thank you. Video. And group that made said video.
Well. I shouldn't say better. But I laughed. I'm not crying, so there's improvement.
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