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Romney's Auto Rescue Claims Don't Hold Up | TPM2012

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 11:10 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

With the general election in full swing, Mitt Romney is tacking to the center on the auto rescue with furious speed, with a top spokesman and then Romney himself both claiming he deserves a big “thank-you” for saving Detroit. He doesn’t. “I pushed the id …

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Introverts run the world -- quietly - CNN.com

Seeded on Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:55 PM EDT (CNN)

The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The Cat in the Hat. All were brought to you by introverts. Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements -- from Steve Wozniak's invention of …

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Simplicity in Design

Wed Mar 7, 2012 12:35 PM EST

 These are a couple of examples of simplicity in design.

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Head in the Clouds - a self portrait

Fri Mar 2, 2012 2:21 PM EST

I've been playing with a few different vector art programs to replace my non-functioning ancient Corel Draw.

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Northern lights over northern Michigan | The Detroit News

Seeded on Thu Mar 1, 2012 10:16 AM EST ()

Just some absolutely beautiful pictures of the northern lights from the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.

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Tips'n Trix - Orton Imagery

Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:32 PM EST

  There was an article written a number of years ago by Michael Orton in Popular Photography about a technique he was using to create a soft romantic, ethereal feel to his photographs.

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Photoshop Phun - An Abstraction

Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:49 PM EST

 My attempt at a little abstraction.   I took a picture taken a few years ago that really lacked the clarity or punch of anything special and played with it. After manually setting levels I got it much more clear, then I cropped incomplete fish out.

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Where Are The Women?!?

Seeded on Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:54 PM EST (Common Dreams)

Arghh! What is wrong with this picture? It shows the panel testifying before a House Committee on the new Obama rules on contraception coverage for employees. Women legislators just walked out because committee chairman Rep.

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A Whole Lotta Crazy: Sacred Sperm, Guns at Work, Public Hangings and Other News of the Weird and Awful | Common Dreams

Seeded on Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:14 PM EST (Common Dreams)

We dunno: Is there more crazy out there than ever? Maybe it's just that the latest - a Maine law letting you bring your gun to work and an Iowa bishop calling on believers to "violently oppose" contraception as "the devil" - were the proverbial straws.

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Michigan to Romney: Go away - CNN.com

Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:01 AM EST (CNN)

He was born here, he lived here. But he's not family. Not anymore.  That's why the characterization of Rick Santorum polling well in Romney's backyard is a bit misguided. The truth is, many of us disowned that two-faced liar years ago.

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Prop 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Declared Unconstitutional

Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2012 1:37 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

 A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S.

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A little snow from Michigan

Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:50 PM EST

  We left Thursday afternoon to head north to our cottage. It was raining lightly but steadily and kept raining for the next 100 miles or so. We knew there were predictions of a pretty good snowfall and we were moving quickly to beat it.

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Obamacare & Romneycare Are 'The Same @!$%#ing Bill' Says Former Romney Adviser

Seeded on Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:28 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

He credited Mitt Romney for not totally disavowing the Massachusetts bill during his presidential campaign, but said Romney’s attempt to distinguish between Obama’s bill and his own is disingenuous. “The problem is there is no way to say that,” Gruber sai …

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Herman Cain Warns China Is Seeking Nuclear Capability

Seeded on Wed Nov 2, 2011 1:08 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Herman Cain may have some surprises at his first national security briefings should he win the presidency. In an interview with PBS, Cain appears to suggest that Americans should consider China dangerous in part because they’re pursuing “nuclear capability.” In …

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Image of the Day: Caves of the Moon

Seeded on Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:41 AM EDT ()

In 2009, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) lunar orbiter, Kaguya, spotted a big hole in the moon - sixty five meters across and at least eighty meters deep shown above, and potentially part of a much larger "lava tube."  These hark back to the moon's youth whe …

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GM Crops Promote Superweeds, Food Insecurity and Pesticides, say NGOs | Common Dreams

Seeded on Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:52 PM EDT (Common Dreams)

Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of "superweeds", according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions  …

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MIT: "New Universes are Being Constantly Created" (Today's Most Popular)

Seeded on Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:39 AM EDT (dailygalaxy)

Modern cosmology theory holds that our universe may be just one in a vast collection of universes known as the multiverse.

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'Real Life Superhero' Phoenix Jones Arrested For Allegedly Pepper-Spraying Clubgoers | TPMMuckraker

Seeded on Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:34 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Phoenix Jones, the self-described Guardian of Seattle and "Real Life Superhero," was arrested last weekend for allegedly pepper-spraying four people outside of a nightclub, which he says was an attempt to break up a fight. According to the police report, early Sunday morning Jon …

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Reflections of Indian Summer

Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:09 PM EDT

Living in Michigan, I've come to expect the weather to be different from day to day. Last week, there was ice in the bird bath, this week, it got to 80.

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U.S. Economy Tipping into Recession

Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:41 PM EDT (ECRI)

Early last week, ECRI notified clients that the U.S. economy is indeed tipping into a new recession. And there’s nothing that policy makers can do to head it off.

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'Birther' Orly Taitz Mulling Senate Run Because She Speaks Spanish And Hebrew | TPMMuckraker

Seeded on Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:09 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

So-called "birther queen" Orly Taitz is considering running for Sen.

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'Toddlers and Tiaras' and sexualizing 3-year-olds - CNN.com

Seeded on Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:59 PM EDT (CNN)

TLC's "Toddlers and Tiaras" has been mired in controversy since it debuted in 2009, and much of the distaste for the series stemmed from concerns about whether we were feeding the stage mothers' desire for attention, or about the insensitivity in taping and televising children in …

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Firefighters balk at new digital radios, as failures risk lives | McClatchy

Seeded on Wed Sep 7, 2011 8:19 AM EDT (McClatchy)

Many of the nation's biggest fire departments, spooked by allegations that Motorola's digital radio failures contributed to the deaths of at least five firefighters, the disabling of a sixth and scores of close calls, have limited use of the glitzy gadgets acquired in a post-Sept.

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Woman wants county to cover $1K hospital bill for cavity search - Las Cruces Sun-News

Seeded on Wed Sep 7, 2011 1:07 AM EDT ()

 A Las Cruces woman has been charged $1,122 by a local hospital for a forcible body cavity search ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency that did not turn up any illegal substances. She is now asking the county to pay her hospital bill. The woman, who is not being named becau …

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Leaked Cable: John McCain Pushed to Arm Qadhafi | Common Dreams

Seeded on Fri Aug 26, 2011 12:49 PM EDT (Common Dreams)

A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable shows that Arizona Republican Senator John McCain promised to help Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi obtain U.S. military hardware in 2009. In a meeting, McCain said the U.S.

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