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Oil Spill Photo Gallery: Barataria Bay, LA

By Kim Hubbard
05/25/2010

Workers deploy hard boom around an island containing a pelican nesting colony. Many of the pelicans are already oiled, including the one shown on the far right. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine

Gretna, LA
7:14am

This story just keeps getting worse and worse. Yesterday we saw at least 25 oiled Pelicans in the Barataria Bay, along with oiled White Ibises and Laughing Gulls. Hard boom was being deployed, but it seemed too late, and futile.

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Demons! « Evolving Thoughts

Demons!

May 17, 2010 · 15 Comments

Doing the rounds are complaints. All sorts of complaints. Steve Jobs is controlling. Child porn is everywhere and will eat your children. Games on computers are destroying the moral fabric. And now Facebook is a threat to your safety.

Take a deep breath and relax. These demons are not about to unleash hell upon you. And Facebook is a free site that you enter at your own risk.

Look, the internet is nothing at heart more complex than other forms of public communication, like a noticeboard in a hallway. You pin open and private notes to the board, to be read by all and individuals. Sometimes others read what you put on that board who you didn’t intend to, so you take precautions, right? You don’t put private details that you do not want everyone to read on that noticeboard. You use private jargon and terms to communicate to friends – “Meet us at the diner at eight”, not “The three of us girls will be unattended at the diner on the corner of Smith and Wesson that has the dark car park”. That would be stupid. So why do you think that the internet, which everybody knows resides on thousands of computers and uses publicly available transmission technologies, would be more secure than a noticeboard in a dorm?

Rule Number One is: Do not put private information out in public.

Rule Number Two is: Know what is a public forum.

Rule Number Three is never send money to anyone you don’t know, but since you all know me, send me five dollars for this invaluable advice…

And yes, Steve Jobs is controlling. If you don’t like that, use some other hardware and software. If you don’t care, use his. So long as no government or statutory body such as a school insists on handing your information to Jobs or restricts you to his and only his company’s products, who cares?

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And your little dog too

Violence is not free speech

Category: Religion

Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who drew Mohammed as a dog, has been attacked while lecturing on free speech. He was not seriously harmed. There is a video clip showing the attack, the chanting spectators, and the police quelling the mob.

via scienceblogs.com

Islam is simply not compatible with the human race

Gee, whatever happened to 'Drill Baby Drill'? Its proponents are awfully quiet these days

Gee, whatever happened to 'Drill Baby Drill'? Its proponents are awfully quiet these days UPDATED

By David Neiwert Friday Apr 30, 2010 12:00pm

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Remember how the crowds at the 2008 Republican National Convention all chanted "Drill Baby Drill," led by the likes of Michael Steele, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and most of all by Sarah Palin? Here's what Palin said in her debate with Joe Biden:

The chant is "drill, baby, drill." And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into. They know that even in my own energy-producing state we have billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas. And we're building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline which is North America's largest and most you expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy i

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Gee, whatever happened to 'Drill Baby Drill'? Its proponents are awfully quiet these days UPDATED

By David Neiwert Friday Apr 30, 2010 12:00pm

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Remember how the crowds at the 2008 Republican National Convention all chanted "Drill Baby Drill," led by the likes of Michael Steele, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and most of all by Sarah Palin? Here's what Palin said in her debate with Joe Biden:

The chant is "drill, baby, drill." And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into. They know that even in my own energy-producing state we have billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas. And we're building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline which is North America's largest and most you expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy i

via crooksandliars.com

Gee, whatever happened to 'Drill Baby Drill'? Its proponents are awfully quiet these days UPDATED | Crooks and Liars