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Subject: Essential Daily Reading
Posted by: Myboyjack
- Leader [108231015] Mon, Apr 21, 2003, 10:36
There are a more than a few news junkies that frequent these boards. I'm curious as to the main sources that you use to get your news and analysis, on-line. JKP long ago started a great thread for useful on-line web-sites. Here, I'm interested in what you use as your daily resources for information. As for myself:
For news:
Reuter's Round-up: (red faced to admit it - but it's essential
New York Times
Washington Post
Seattle Times
The Guardian
Arab News
Islamic Republic (Iran) News
CNN Online
For analysis and fun:
Lileks
The Nation
National Review Online
AndrewSullivan.com
Instapundit
Indymedia for laughs and ammo
scappleface sometimes hifreakin'larious |
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| 39 | Micheal
ID: 5483053
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 05:46
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That's considered a hate site? Why, because they disagree with NSA employees having to sit around and listen to gays talk about how hard they have it in the work place and to celebrate their contributions to the mission? What a joke. A month to celebrate a mans choice to have sex with another man or to dress up in womens clothing? The whole thing is stupid.
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| 40 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 10:45
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Why, because they disagree with NSA employees having to sit around and listen to gays talk about how hard they have it in the work place and to celebrate their contributions to the mission?
No, disagreeing with it is not hate. But having this to say about it:
"Sickening, disgusting, revolting, pathetic, sad, worrisome, bothersome, ridiculous, nonsense" is hate.
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| 41 | Micheal
ID: 216502320
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 11:15
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I thought that I didn't hate gays, but I guess I do. I think it's ridiculous/nonsense/sad for them to have their own month to celebrate their choice to have sex with members of the same sex or to dress like women.
I'm also sickened/revolted/disgusted at the thought of a man having sex with another man. I've known and worked with gays and considered them friends, but I didn't know that if I was sickened or revolted by the act of a man having sex with another man meant I hated the person.
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| 42 | Perm Dude
Leader
ID: 30792616
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 11:20
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They have their own month? Really? Seriously, I didn't know that--who recognizes it? Frankly, it sounds like "National Drink More Milk Month" but I'd like to know more.
I'm sickened by gay sex as well, but it's just me coming to grips with my own sexuality, I suppose. I'm firmly in the hetero camp. But what I find to be interesting is how gays are trying to set up their own group while at the same time saying that being gay is not about gay sex--that being gay is more than that. I think their success in this area is uneven.
pd
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| 43 | Micheal
ID: 40830610
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 11:50
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They think they do. They consider June "National" Gay Pride Month. Who recognizes it? Every gay in the US, I guess. Apparently under Clinton in '98,'99' and '00, the White House recognized June as a Gay Pride Month but the current administration has refused to recognize the month.
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| 44 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 11:56
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I thought that I didn't hate gays, but I guess I do. I think it's ridiculous/nonsense/sad for them to have their own month to celebrate their choice to have sex with members of the same sex or to dress like women.
Well it's really cheap of you to avoid the tougher adjectives in that sentence. Tell me Micheal, why did you leave out sickening, disgusting, revolting, pathetic, worrisome and bothersome? Do all those apply to your feelings as well? The reason I called that excerpt hate wasn't necessarily because of the adjectives that you said agree with.
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| 45 | Baldwin
ID: 111112015
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 11:57
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Frankly, it sounds like "National Drink More Milk Month" - PD
Yes...yes it certainly does in fact.
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| 46 | Micheal
ID: 40830610
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 12:19
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I thought that I did use them when i wrote:
I'm also sickened/revolted/disgusted at the
thought of a man having sex with another man.
That doesn't count? I thought using those words to describe anything gay meant that you hated them. I misunderstood you. Apparently you meant only if you're revolted or sickened by the NSA celebrating Gay Pride Month by giving people the opportunity
"throughout June to meet some of our employees who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (GLBT); to hear about their experiences in the work environment; and to learn of their contributions to our missions' successes."
I used the adjectives that described my feelings toward that event: ridiculous, nonsense, sad. I'll throw in pathetic, stupid and silly. I wasn't sickened or revolted by it, but I think that if you are that doesn't mean you hate gays.
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| 47 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 12:40
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I'm not going to condemn you for whatever personal biases you may have. We all have them. It's when you advocate applying them to policy that you cross a line.
Being sickened/revolted/disgusted at the
thought of a man having sex with another man is your own societally acquired fear to deal with (not that you would ever see any reason to deal with it).
But the NSA is sickened, revolted, disgusted, - and worried - about more than simple thoughts and unwanted fantasies floating around their heads. Their issue is with this particular diversity program of the NSA. It's a program designed to help prevent discrimination in the work place. I wonder what their opinion is of the sexual discrimination seminars the NSA most certyainly also run. I'm sure they take up just as much or more of the employees' time over the year.
If a noted problem has been found to typically exist in workplaces, what is the problem with addressing it to make the workplace a fairer place for everyone.
Very PC of you to oppose such a program just because it might give some people 'the willies' or not jive with their agenda.
:)
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| 48 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 13:03
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But the NSA is sickened, revolted, disgusted, - and worried...
Of course I menat that the linked site is sickened, revolted, etc..
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| 49 | Baldwin
ID: 111112015
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 14:06
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While PD 'comes to grips with his own heterosexuality'...*boggle*...let me play with MITH some more.
is your own societally acquired fear to deal with
Once again what is this looneytune 'fear' of which you speak? This is MITH echoeing that abortion of a word 'homophobia' in true sheeplike fashion.
There hasn't been any disapproval of homosexuality in the zeitgeist or mainstream culture for fifty years. It's been a staple titilation factor in fiction my whole life and I'm fifty. We live in a zeitgeist where gay is chic and disgust of gays unmentionable. So don't give me this idea that disapproval of homosexuality is societal and would otherwise be nonexistant.
When the gays you work with are bragging that they like to play 'guess what I had for dinner', it is disgusting.
I know MITH has trouble with the meaning of the word 'is' but there is no PC psychobabble neccessary to understand that simple truth.
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| 50 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 17:30
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There hasn't been any disapproval of homosexuality in the zeitgeist or mainstream culture for fifty years.
I don't even know how to approach that.
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| 51 | Baldwin
ID: 111112015
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 18:40
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Easy MITH, just show me all the disapproving articles in mainstream publications. Surely they abound in your alternate universe.
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| 52 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 19:23
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Wow.
Baldwin if you're going to defend the statement that way, then I guess that you are claiming that anti-black discrimination in this country must be dead and gone as well, since I'm not likely to find much disapproval of black eqality in the mainstream media.
Do you feign to be so ignorant as to not realize that just because a hate movement or subculture or cultural trait has to exist in the underground does not mean it cannot continue to lock significant sectors of society in it's grip?
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| 53 | Baldwin
ID: 111112015
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 19:33
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I resent your wrapping perversion and the cause MLK fought for in the same wrapper.
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| 54 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 20:12
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Be that as it may, you still (as usual) fail to address my greater point, that discrimination needs no part of the mainstream to be prevelant enough to warrant addressing. You fully know this.
Have we reached the part where you declare that I have replaced Spach as your new whipping boy?
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| 55 | Baldwin
ID: 111112015
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 21:08
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No, we've reached the point where I call you an ankle ferret and we have to port the links in this thread to a new one because you have polluted it.
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| 56 | Mattinglyinthehall
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ID: 217351118
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 21:43
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ankle ferret
I don't know what that means.
we have to port the links in this thread to a new one because you have polluted it.
That will tend to happen when you link hate sites in threads titled 'Essential Daily Reading'.
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| 57 | Baldwin
ID: 111112015
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 21:58
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Yeah that's the clear trend. You can't win any arguments so just call your opponent a hater.
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| 58 | Micheal
ID: 34540920
Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 22:37
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If you're worried, sickened or revolted by a policy, not by the actual people that this policy was created for, then you're considered a hate site? Everyone who is revolted or bothered by Affirmative Action hates minorities?
Being sickened/revolted/disgusted at the
thought of a man having sex with another man is your own societally acquired fear to deal with (not that you would ever see any reason to deal with it).
What is this socially acquired fear that you're talking about? Homophobia? By definition, I don't consider myself homophobic:
Fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men.
I don't fear them in any aspect of life and I don't have contempt for them either.
Contempt - The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
I don't regard gays as inferior, or worthless. I don't despise or dishonor them.
A person is made up of more than who he/she has sex with. If I made a personal judgement about a person based on just that one aspect of his/her life, then I would agree with you, but I don't. I don't automatically assume that if a person is gay that they have tendencies to molest children or are lazy or stupid or are perverts.
I just think that men having sex with men is not natural and gross.
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| 59 | lovin' it
ID: 147372019
Thu, Sep 11, 2003, 14:31
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www.fark.com
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| 60 | Baldwin
ID: 4095714
Fri, Oct 01, 2004, 07:04
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BUTT
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| 61 | Baldwin
ID: 4095714
Fri, Oct 01, 2004, 07:48
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Grafting a few related threads...
Websites
Metaweb
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| 62 | Baldwin
ID: 309581715
Sun, Oct 17, 2004, 18:04
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This is more about essential monthly reading but I have been reading the column 'The Hard Edge" carried in the Computer Shopper for years. The editors of Computer Shopper have seen the handwritting on the wall and seen visions of their niche evaporating. So cleverly they have dropped 'The Hard Edge' which was often the whole reason I bought their magazine in the first place. *headsmack*
Anyway if you love a great critical review of computer trends and cutting edge products they are now blogging here - Alice and bill .com
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| 63 | Baldwin
ID: 599171716
Sun, Oct 17, 2004, 19:26
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Just noticed this on the Hard Edge discussion regarding phone 'hazzard'....A 750-people study by Sweden's Karolinska Institute found the risk of acoustic neuroma rose by 3.9 times on the side of the head the phone is used."
"Acoustic neuroma is a benign tumour in the auditory nerve, which can cause brain and nerve damage. It affects one in 100,000 people." Some grist for our stat gurus.
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| 64 | Baldwin
ID: 79123010
Sat, Oct 30, 2004, 13:28
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BUTT
If you don't mind I'd like to keep this thread or one like it on the front page to facilitate best daily reading for all.
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| 65 | Baldwin
ID: 79123010
Sat, Oct 30, 2004, 13:36
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A few new additions which may notr be everyone's daily cup of tea but they're good.
The Gadgeteer
Tech Web
kuro5hin.org
Technology Review
Tech Central Station
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| 66 | sarge33rd
ID: 559222519
Sat, Oct 30, 2004, 14:13
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re 62,
Well Baldwin, thats something we have in common. Used to subscribe to Comp SHopper back when I built PC's. Quit doing that but still got the rag just for The Hard Edge. Generally some of the best and most entertainng Tech writing and reviews I'd ever come across.
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| 67 | Baldwin
ID: 01150118
Wed, Dec 01, 2004, 19:57
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Butt
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| 68 | Boldwin
ID: 34119133
Sun, Feb 13, 2005, 21:27
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BUTT
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| 69 | Boldwin
ID: 8347115
Wed, Apr 13, 2005, 18:38
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Butt
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| 70 | Boldwin
ID: 543312819
Sun, Jun 19, 2005, 05:40
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Butt
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| 71 | Boldwin
ID: 46651516
Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 06:36
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Favorite websites for statistics gurus.
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| 72 | Matt S
ID: 33644316
Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 21:25
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If perhaps you wanted a more international flavour that wasn't biased you could try reading the Asia Times Online.
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| 73 | sarge33rd
ID: 2464896
Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 21:30
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link doesnt work Matt.
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| 75 | Perm Dude
ID: 436232312
Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 22:17
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fixed
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| 76 | sarge33rd
ID: 2464896
Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 22:23
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thx PD.
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| 77 | boikin
ID: 400291013
Mon, Jul 24, 2006, 15:59
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nice site bolwin, if any one has the data site equivelent that would be wonderful.
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| 78 | Boldwin
ID: 323592819
Tue, Apr 29, 2008, 02:27
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The secret to my posting success. Well not really but kinda funny.
A feature of what I expect is a screamingly funny Canadian satire magazine [and pay site] that just has to be good because the power elite are constantly trying to shut it down.
I ran into it because a brilliant writer named Jeff Wells [of 'Rigorous Intuition' blog fame] writes for them, I just discovered.
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| 79 | Baldwin
ID: 201045320
Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 16:37
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Essential today anyway...
Azdbacker Scott Martin liveblogging the election.
Essential...FORA.TV and other sites providing real solid educational content.
I've spent a lotta time at FORA.TV.
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| 80 | Tree
ID: 121035316
Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 16:52
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oy. that's essential.
regarding the guy with the nightstick - never mind i didn't hear him say "A Black Man Is Going To Win This Election" is is proclaimed on the linked site - it should be noted that he was asked to leave the polling place, and left without incident...
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| 81 | Baldwin
ID: 201045320
Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 17:05
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That was a cut-n-paste failure. Here is the educational stuff, not that Scott Martin isn't educational. 8]
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| 82 | Razor
ID: 141049220
Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 18:48
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azdbacker, I just read your latest blog post. You sound very bitter and defiant. And accusing Obama supporters of setting fires and overturning police cars to celebrate an Obama victory? I am not even going to touch that.
I think you have a lot to learn about who Obama is, who is supporters are and why they support him. I hope you take it upon yourself to do so eventually.
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| 83 | tree on the treo
ID: 361053417
Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 18:57
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razor...i hope you're right...but, I can't help but feel that a certain segment of the right is lost...
lost to fear...lost to hatred...its something that's been frighteningly too common lately....irrational statements with a racial bias like what azdbacker said in his blog....
its a clear misunderstanding of obama, and the hope he brings to many, many people in this country, and around this world...
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| 84 | Boldwin
ID: 581202816
Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 17:44
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Fun stuff: Wordle creates a word cloud of any text or rss feed.
It's a javascript or I'd put the result up for you.
Try inputting Matthew 24:14 for example.
And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
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| 85 | Boldwin
ID: 535651
Tue, Apr 06, 2010, 20:27
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Latest earthquakes
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| 86 | astade
Sustainer
ID: 214361313
Tue, Apr 06, 2010, 23:54
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Baldwin, thanks for the link. After the earthquake I felt on Sunday, I was able to find that site. Living in SoCal, I guess I better go ahead and bookmark it. Scary the number of aftershocks... goes to show that plate tectonics isn't necessarily a 'one and done'; lots of activity.
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| 87 | PV in SF
ID: 2334178
Wed, Apr 07, 2010, 09:41
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Having spent the past 5 days in the the San Francisco Bay area, news of the earthquakes down south reminds those up here just how tentative the ground beneath their feet is, especially my cousin Gary, who lost a good friend during the 1989 World Series quake.
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| 88 | Boldwin
ID: 291370
Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 13:07
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Some serious competition in Rush's timeslot. www.dennismillerradio.com.
As funny as it gets. 10am-1pm EST.
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| 89 | Boldwin
ID: 49572022
Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 21:10
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azdbacker, I just read your latest blog post. You sound very bitter and defiant. And accusing Obama supporters of setting fires and overturning police cars to celebrate an Obama victory? I am not even going to touch that.
I think you have a lot to learn about who Obama is, who is supporters are and why they support him. I hope you take it upon yourself to do so eventually. - Razor #82
Hilarious...azdbacker couldn't have been more spot on.
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