MN-Sen: Coleman is toast: only 80 valid registrations found
(From the diaries -- huge news from Minnesota -- kos)A very significant new development in the Coleman election contest, and winerev's daily diary has already slipped into oblivion.Whatever fantasy...
View ArticleGOP hopefuls rush to secure grand-fun babies
In an interview with the Politico's Ben Smith, Arkansas Gov. and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee announced that he was interviewing "rednecks" who might like to "get a shot at" Huckabee's...
View Article4.3 Quake shakes Bay Area
At 1040 AM Pacific a small to moderate earthquake rating 4.3 on the Richter scale shook the San Francisco Bay Area, with the epicenterabout 16 miles ESE of San Jose. This is the largest shaker in many...
View ArticleNIH STILL trying to restrict cell research
The ideologues remain at NIH. In spite of President Obama's March 9 announcement, the NIH, in its new proposed guidelines, is trying to deny the use of federal funds for an important research method,...
View ArticleStanford: protest Condi reception tonight
Condi Rice is having a dinner and reception this evening at Roble Hall, one of the student residences. The Stanford Antiwar group has scheduled a counter-event on the Roble lawn from 5:15 to 6:30. More...
View ArticleNYT stenos Rice's tortured version of torture?UPDATED
In its new "torture" piece, the New York Times again violates its policy on granting anonymity to sources. The reporters Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane cite "over a dozen" anonymous sources from the...
View Article'Anti-tax crusade to storm Capitol'
Moonie rag/Washington Times makes my day with the headline:Anti-tax crusade to storm CapitolTurns out that headline is slightly wrong, or perhaps premature, but what would you expect from the GOP...
View ArticleProp 8 upheld! Existing marriages stay! UPDATED x3
As was widely expected, by a 6-1 vote the California Supreme Court this morning (via KRON in SF) upheld the voters' decision on Proposition 8: Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition [the...
View ArticleLast UK combat forces leave Iraq; will US follow?
(Bloomberg)-- The last of Britain’s combat troops finished military operations in Iraq today, ending a six-year deployment at their base near Basra in the south of the country. troops at their home...
View ArticleLa Raza=KKK, except ....
Some clown died and left Tom Tancredo his clown suit, minature bicycle and little honk-honk horn.La Raza works for health care for its members, the KKK wanted blacks to know "what was good for them."La...
View ArticleKos:OB-Gyn's are doctors, not "abortion providers"
!@#$%^&&&* and that doesn't adequately express my anger.....This diary is directed mainly at the "overlords" who decide where freedom of speech is limited on this site, because that is,...
View ArticleTancredo, Krikorian: Ricardo Montalban killed Chrysler
From his post in a tall guard tower somewhere in southern Arizona, former draft dodger representative Tom Tancredo(Bigot R-CO) has issued a research paper created at Stanford University's phallic...
View ArticleLuke Cole, R.I.P.; environmental lawyer and birder
Luke Cole, co-founder of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment in San Francisco, has died in a vehicular accident in Uganda. Known to many as a birder.Cole graduated from Stanford undergrad...
View ArticleMinnesota says it's time for Coleman to pay Franken
Via TPM: The Minnesota election court has now commanded Norm Coleman to pay Al Franken $94,783.15 in itemized costs from the trial.The Franken legal team had originally asked for $161,000, but the...
View ArticleFBI? Hello? Holocaust museum shooter links UPDATE
Washington police and the FBI said the shooting appeared to have been the work of a single gunman, and there was no prior indication of the attack. linkIf James von Brunn is critically injured, how did...
View Article'Rabbit' Sanford phones in; who's behind GOP trainwrecks?
[cross-posted at Over the Line, Smokey!]Jake Tapper is now tweeting that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has called in after going missing for 4 days. His staff's story about the A. Trail is pretty...
View ArticleGuiness Book denies Sanford new record for break-up sex
[crossposted at Over the Line, Smokey!] Laura: Uh, oh. That couple is breaking up.George: They're breaking up? How do you know? George: I don't understand things were going so great. What happened?...
View ArticleSanford: if King David could stay on, so can I.
Speaking to his cabinet today, Part-time Gov. Mark Sanford of SC said that King David "fell mightily, fell in very, very significant ways, but then picked up the pieces and built from there."linkthe...
View ArticleBP claim: capturing 5,000 bbl per day!!
Hmmm. Let's subtract 5,000 from 5,000 and ....Hey, they got it all, amirite? Associated Press:Mark Proegler, a spokesman for oil giant BP PLC, said a mile-long tube inserted into a leaking pipe over...
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How the top kill would (hopefully) work (with animation)
This is a brief diary which is more of a pictorial explanation than anything else.To me, not an engineer but with a science background, the top kill idea didn't make any sense, with that riser kinked...
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