John Kass: What Mayor Daley Doesn’t Know Chicago’s mayor (locally known as Da Mare) doesn’t know from all the allegations and resignations and intimations that there’s dirty politics in City Hall hiring. Well. How could he not know? We all know this but Da Mare? Looks like this year’s Chicago Bar Association Christmas extravaganza will again feature the perennial favorite, “Idunno,” set to the tune of “Figaro.” Always gets a laugh.
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Boing Boing: Have a Moon Day party Wed 7/20/05, share snapshots! I was thinking of throwig a last minute Moon Day barbecue and then found that we’ll be celebrating a friend’s birthday instead, so we’ll have 2 reasons to party. But I’ll still upload photos to the Flickr Moon-Day Party pool. 😉 Google‘s got a cute image today, too.
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | ‘25,000 civilians’ killed in Iraq The statistics are sobering. On average, 34 Iraqis die every single day. That’s a little less than 1 London bombing per diem. Makes yer fink, donnit? I can’t wait to see how we’ll justify this one. You can get webcounters for your blog here.
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Niger children starving to death Hey, remember that country where Joseph Wilson didn’t find a plot to sell yellowcake uranium to the Iraqis? Children are still starving there in droves. Drought and a plague of locusts are part of the cause, but one mother says, “As far as I’m concerned, God did not make us all equal – I mean, look at us all here. None of us has enough food.” It seems to me that Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres is one worth charity worth supporting, as they’re running feeding centres.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) What page are you on? David and I have been asking each other this question for a couple of days now. We picked up a copy of “Half Blood Prince” on a trip to Costco the other day, and have trading back and forth reading at leisure since then. Unfortunately, we’ve been losing each others’ places in the book. I was about halfway through it by yesterday, and when TiVo locked up on the latest TAR1 rerun (arrrrgh!) I gave up on televised fantasy and re-entered the familiar world of Hogwarts instead.…
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Pipe Organ Vandalized So yesterday morning I got to church early for choir practice, and we got started late because the organist ran late, and there were only two of us (Scott the Ineffable Bass and myself) so we bagged on performing an unfamiliar “party piece.” Then we noticed something odd about the metal organ pipes visible in the chest to the right of the organ console. Someone had broken off some of the smallest ones in the front rank with a flat stick. Stewart noticed a bit of tissue paper that shouldn’t have been in there, then he said…
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At last. We get to see new Stargate and Atlantis episodes, and my husband David gets to see new Battlestar Galactica episodes. It’s too bad the Shuttle Discovery didn’t launch the other day; according to the behind the scenes show SciFi.com ran the other day, there are a couple of Stargate fans up on the International Space Station. Hope the scrubbed launch doesn’t screw up their plans for throwing a geek party to watch the new eps. Ben Browder and a few other new people sign on tonight, which will make many Farscape fans very, very happy. Hee! David keeps…
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Chicago Tribune: Karl Rove Got It From Novak Okay. He’s technically off the hook, according to the way Floyd Abrams laid it out the other day on Al Franken’s AAR show. . So who gave it to Novak, and did they have security clearance, or was this the biggest open secret in Washington history since JFK snuck wimmin in and out of the White House? And why isn’t Novak in jail, or is the grand jury just trying to confirm his testimony? It’s still highly dubious that Plame’s identity was deliberately used to deflect Wilson’s criticism. By Rove, of course.…
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I was looking for some video to watch yesterday while waiting for incoming calls and checked out the CBS News site, since they’ve been touting an increased “24/7 online news” presence lately. Also, it had to be free newsvid, and I wanted to watch the 2-minutes’ silence observance on a delay, which their site made available in RAW video (not edited, full length). I picked some other videos using their handy “select for playlist” and listened idly. One choice was to watch Ground Force’s Charlie Dimmock explain how to select plants for and design a Mediterranean garden. Now, if you…
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Before Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Taken from a similar POV as Against Racism Against Poverty Against War