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Archives: February 22, 2015

KyleBusch hospitalized after wreck

What Things Really Exist?

The Onion Reviews 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'

How long until the Hillary haters on DU start talking about "Benghazi!!!!"

Great Dane puppy at 3:30am Talking

Why Does Barack Obama Love America?

Top 10 Bogus ISIS Stories

Bush Spouse Backs Jeb, but Is Wary of Family Business.

Was Brian Williams was taken down to delay or distract coverage of Bill O's "combat" lies?

seriously, you can get a bachelor's degree for $4000 total even if you live miles from anywhere

Poor O'REILLY, even his flame-out doesn't reach the standard of a quality career or network.

Thirty Eight (38) Conservation Groups Object to GreenHunter Fracking Barge Activities

Michael Moore: Please, Fox News, don't reprimand O'Reilly. To do so would imply Fox cares about fact

The right-wingers who claim Iran is STILL trying to get the bomb...what's their evidence?

Does all media have to include a meaningful female perspective?

Telegraph owners' £250m HSBC loan raises fresh questions over coverage

Spolier!

The 10 healthiest ethnic cuisines

The Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge

Toon- The Incomplete Guide to American Extremists

935 Lies. Two Wars. A Million Deaths. One Trillion Dollars. ISIS. Brian Williams?

#ObamaLovesAmerica

Latest from Public Citizen’s blogs: #ows, ACA BC, pollution...

At New York Private Schools, Challenging White Privilege From the Inside.

Upper Michigan has a new official song

Giuliani: I'm getting death threats

Do you have a favorite surf song?

"First you make a stone of your heart..."

Rudy Giuliani: America's Moron

50 Years Since the Death of Malcolm X

Since Roe v Wade is just a court ruling, to keep it from being tossed by the Supremes;

I'll be back here after the primary.

Is it possible for us to walk away from Empire?

Behind the Coup Attempt in Venezuela

Front page Huff Post: pic of Walker--> 'I DON'T REALLY KNOW' IF OBAMA LOVES AMERICA

Theneeds - History Repeats Itself: Ancient Cities Grew Much Like Modern Ones

A Fight to the Death for Mosul, Iraq

Bernie Buzz: Of the Billionaires, By the Billionaires, For the Billionaires

Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry

Catholic priest, Northern Ireland: yoga leads to Satanism

As many as 2,800 inmates to be moved from Texas prison

Freighter stuck in Lake Erie ice

10 Brilliant Black Mathematicians Who Never Received the Praise They Deserved

First Ukraine war prisoner exchange completed

Massachusetts Cop Finds Rare Pearl in Seafood Stew - Yahoo

CIA’s Nuclear-Bomb Sting Said to Spur Review in Iran Arms Case

Yes, Obama is different

With deal, West Coast seaports tackle huge cargo backlog

Please Help.

At the End of the Day ...

Homeland Security Warns Right Wing Extremists Are An Equal Or Greater Threat Than ISIS

Why don't Beltway Dems defend the idea that higher education is a social good in and of itself?

The Landlord's Game - A Lesson in Economic Populism

Please Help.

Ku Klux Klan's 1925 attack on Malcolm X's family home in Omaha heralded the fight to come

Please Help.

If Republicans are so big on "voluntarism", why do they make it so hard to volunteer?

President Obama Shreds Mitch McConnell For Trying To Take Credit For The Economy

First flight of the final year: Smokejumpers' last DC-3 gets ready to work

Maryland cops reveal new leads in 1975 cold case of missing sisters Sheila and Katherine Lyon

DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!

Republicans Use Deficit Lie To Try To Cut Health Care While Increasing Military Spending

Is the 40+ years of the Right Wing Revolution simply payback for the 60's?

'Grey's Anatomy' mirrors Omaha couple's story of losing a newborn

Climate change denier took $1.25 million from Koch brothers, energy companies: Greenpeace

Bill O'Reilly's Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along

Dems: This is why we lost in 2014

Keith Olbermann on Bill O'Reilly's Multiple "Sports Hero" Lies @3:00 - World's Worst Sports Liars

Black and Latina women scientists sometimes mistaken for janitors

Countrywide Savings whistleblower "fighting for his life"

Those without health insurance get a second chance

Why Do Americans Feel Entitled to Tell Poor People What to Eat?

Big pharma playing both sides

The Fault in Our Stars

A Spur-of-the-Moment Risotto

5 ways the GOP is valiantly trying to make Americans as dumb as possible

John Fugelsang:Going after Medicare cuts to fix the economy...

Pentagon and others manipulate social media to shape opinion on Security State.

Northward KXL?

"It's a racket."

can someone please do me a favor and

Guest Lineups For The Sunday News Shows

Telegram MLK sent Malcolm X's wife after her husband's assassination

Guess Who Has Been Secretly Funding a Famous Climate-Change Denying Scientist?

The bizarre war against AP U.S. history courses

Crazy question. If I put yogurt into the freezer does it become frozen yogurt?

Why California’s Head Start Kids Are Better Protected From Measles

Never in my life (and I'm a white woman)

Explosions, booze, cockfighting among odd TN bills

A.P. History is Just Liberalsplainin' Of Why America's Not The Greatest Country in History

Anti-abortion advocate Dr. John Willke dies at 89 in Ohio

Upcoming WV meetings on interstate pipelines

Enemy Image (US information war Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq war 2003-2005)

People are complaining=we haven't even had the primaries yet!

Retired White Plains Officer Kills 2 Kids, Then Himself

My day today

Anyone thinking about electing a Bush or allowing one to win should see this

Olbermann has been following BillO's Fakeland Islands adventures

Can somebody explain the movie "Enemy" to me >>>Replies probably will have a spoiler<<<

"Danger 5" is now on Netfix!!!!

Cable Channels Speed Up TV Shows To Cram In More Ads – Consumerist

Thousands Of Texas Prisoners Stage “Uprising,” Take Over Prison

Lenovo Laptops Come Pre-Installed With Giant Security Hole – Consumerist

Two 'mercenaries' jailed in Bolivia over Morales plot

I remember how sick and hurt, bitter and ashamed I felt in 2003 watching the invasion gather

Laptop performance issues

March 3-6th 2015, Shut down Creech Air Force Base, NV No Killer Drones

How Britain's treatment of 'The Hooded Men' during the Troubles became the benchmark for US 'torture

English French Spanish 70 Prominent British Figures Oppose Coup Plots in Venezuela

Beware the Beagle!!!

Poll: What is cuter? Human or animal babies?

Keith Olbermann on Citizen's United 1-21-2010

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

UH OH...Benjamin Netanyahu Hires Top Defense Attorney For Possible Corruption Case

O'Reilly Can Dish It But He Can't Take It When He Takes A Hit. What A Wuss, Coward etc. .

Shep Smith's Brilliant Interview Destroys Conservative Complaints On ISIS Strategy

Fanfiction - I love it

For The Number Crunchers

Lean Forward, Going Left for MSNBC/Comcast Will Switch to Lean Back, Drive Right - The Daily Beast

Malcolm X: Letter From Prison in 1950

my daughter told me about a rumor on the internet:

Kevin Spacey, Star of ‘House of Cards’ and a Bromance With Bill Clinton

That big sucking noise you hear... Let me be the first to tell you it's not a Dyson.

Turkey enters Syria to evacuate Suleyman Shah tomb

Hillary Shows Elizabeth Warren New Campaign Motto

It's not patriotic to criticize the president when we have troops in the field

Daily Holidays - February 22

Caracas Mayor Part of US Coup Plot

Superfish vulnerability traced to other apps, too...

Eating Scorpions in China

Harold Giuliani, mob enforcer, source of son Rudy's family values?

Venezuela Mayor Is Accused of U.S.-Backed Coup Plot

UK nuclear sites warned over drone terror attack

Fresh nuclear leak detected at Japan's Fukushima plant

Pussy Riot Releases 'I Can't Breathe,' Inspired by Eric Garner

5 Insane Right-Wing Moments this Week: Giuliani Comes Totally Unhinged

Really..Who would have ever thunk?

Living on Borrowed Time: 6 Young Trans Women of Color Have Been Murdered in America This Year

Dear Mariella I am 66 and live a comfortable life: I just want a woman who is honest and clean

Fran Lebowitz: When Giuliani was mayor an unarmed black man was killed every 5 minutes

The Stealth Trade Agreement That Could Super-Size Industrial Agriculture

Finals!***February Photography Contest...

Finals!***February Photography Contest...

Your Sunday LOLcats (dial-up warning) Snow Pants Edition

Classic George Carlin album - Toledo Window Box

Bizarre Foods - Philippines (Full Documentary)

It's COLD out there! -39 wind chill

Ukraine crisis: Both sides agree to start heavy weapons withdrawal

What's So Wrong With Being Absolutely Right by Judy J. Johnson

Glen Campbell's Oscar nod for original song caps his career

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern ASIA!

Chef Art Smith hosts mass gay wedding on Miami Beach

The march to equality for LGBT continues in LBN!

A favorite quote

I Don't Know If Scott Walker Is A Human

A review of Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris as requested by Enthusiast

Republicans want to make 2016 about Obama, but when called out they are outraged

The Who

AP-GfK Poll: Most back Obama plan to raise investment taxes

Isis has made many enemies, but it may be saved by their inability to unite

Worthy of an Oscar nomination. Glen Campbell's I'm Not Gonna Miss You. Video

Fox News and Bill O'Reilly - Congenital Liar, Congenital Liar Network

Greece: ‘third world’ aid and debt

DNC: "We have suffered devastating losses at all levels" but "know how to win elections." WTF?!?!?

Refinery workers strike spreads to biggest US location

The night is long

Q: If I live in a state with no law protecting aid in dying, should I move to a state that does?

Greece readies reform promises after Eurogroup climbdown

“Be very, very afraid”: Paul Krugman on the GOP’s scary economic “experts”

Norway's Muslims form protective human ring around synagogue

VA offers millions in grants to help homeless veterans

Over 1000 Muslims form ring of peace around Oslo Synagogue

For a President's Defense of Islam

Egypt prosecutor refers 215 to trial for forming armed group

Maldives arrests ex-president for his move to arrest judge

Meanwhile, back in Houston...

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern ASIA!

Your Comcast/Time-Warner Bill as written by Henry Miller:

Rudy Giuliani’s sad self-destuction: How “America’s mayor” became just another GOP sidewalk lunatic

Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko bruised by army retreat

The Walking Dead 5.11 "The Distance" (spoiler warning)

DNC Adopts Resolution Calling for 'Right-to-Vote' Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

If they could only see us now dept: Goldwater, McGovern on divisive politics (1988)

The Fascinating Story of How the Ferguson-Palestine Solidarity Movement Came Together

Dentist charged in death of patient getting 20 teeth pulled

"Everyone BUT FOX is Lying To You"

"Boston Or Bust"

TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 24: 31 Days of Oscar: 1979

Jeb Bush’s Brainless Trust - By Maureen Dowd

House conflict of interest on used car 'as is' bill

TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 25: 31 Days of Oscar: 1980-81

News from Brownbackistan- Don't think, just vote Republican, shut up

Astropix - Moon, Mars, Venus together

Ousted Ukraine Officials Enjoy Life of Luxury in Moscow

Senate Republicans eye new strategy in immigration fight

Several Republican governors back Homeland Security showdown

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

Oscar Winners Thank God A Lot In Acceptance Speeches, But Not As Often As You'd Think

Wisconsin Introduces Word-for-Word ALEC Right to Work Bill

Are American Christians "Persecuted"?

From the other Group: Speaking of twisting statistics!

Covens and ISIS? Here Are This Week’s Stupidest Statements

New District 10 Junior Extremist Senator Konni Burton Closes Her Office to Texas Families, Cities,

Jeb Bush Mistakes Slogans for Reality

Democratic Party is losing voters because it has lost its way: internal report

Gods of Metal: Blessing the Bombs.

Michael Keaton wins at Independent Spirit Awards, will he win the Oscar?

Did anyone else catch Steve Kornacki's interview with the Ithaca Mayor this am?

Obama Unchained: Full 2015 DNC Winter Meeting Speech, with Transcript

'Kirk Cameron', Cameron Diaz take anti-Oscar Razzie awards

The Sequel to Paradise Stolen: The Myth of Efficiency

Women seek greater variety in men and consumer products near ovulation

Even animals compose: What it means to be a musical species

Complete take-down of O'REILLY on "Reliable Sources" --- *RIGHT NOW*!1

South Sudan Wrestles with War and Corruption

me too.

Bobby Jindal Says America Needs Educated Population, Slashes Education Budget

Wisconsin AFL-CIO Plans Rallies Over Right-to-Work Bill (WHY is it...)

Sen. Bernie Sanders on ABC's "This Week"

Indian river, protected by a curse, faces the modern world

Indian river, protected by a curse, faces the modern world

come over for the February Finals (photos)!!

VET: I was an American sniper, and Chris Kyle’s war was not my war

"The framework of fundamentalist propaganda distorts how we view every religion"

IMO, it is getting more likely that Sanders will run as an IND and brace yourself...

Serial Liar: Intrepid young reporter named Bill OReilly - 1977 Lies About JFK Assassination

Ray Bradbury home's demise has LA re-examining its history ("Something Wicked This Way Comes")

A Black Mississippi Judge's Breathtaking Speech To 3 White Murderers

Homeland security chief worried about al Shabaab mall threat

National Geographic addresses war on science

Huge plant that waited 80 years to flower has month to live

I Truly Believe That There Are People Who Will Not Vote for Hillary Clinton

WV Gas Industry Forcing Pooling Again

4 bills to increase water & air pollution risk

Nebraska couple's key to 80 years of marriage: respect and give-and-take

Weekend Toon Roundup

Look who else banned teaching evolution in schools:

MSNBC is losing viewers

"Netanyahu is a patriot who fights for his people, unlike our President." – Rudy Giuliani

Almost all of the Sunday shows including on MSNBC were talking war war war

Pataki is Mitt's replacement, don't underestimate this former 12yr NY Gov.

'Citizenfour' Wins Best Documentary at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards

Jim Webb - And Why We Aren't Talking About Him

Bernie Sanders says he has not made a final decision on whether to run as an

An unrepentant whitewash of murder and occupation, American Sniper shouldn’t be up for any Oscars

Jon Stewart leaving/Bill O’Reilly staying

Your Weekly Upchucks: Shocking Religion News by Author @KCBoyd3

Straight Talk for White Men (Nick Kristof, NYT)

The Oscar contenders, according to a pug puppy

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Ideology of America

TOON: Boehner's Monster

Perhaps O'Reilly's biggest lie yet..2/20/15 ,, Just 2 days ago!!!

I understand O'Reilly was interviewed by Kurtz this AM

Chuck Todd went all Jon Stewart on Traditional Mainstream Media & on Rudy Giuliani (VIDEO)

Superbug Outbreak In Los Angeles Linked To Medical Tool Design Issue That FDA Knew About For Years

"all the experiences of grief become part of the narrative of love for the one who died"

Anti-vaccine mothers discuss their thinking amid backlash (moved from LBN)

The Sexist Attacks On Women For Saying The Same Thing As Men

CNN interview with Ex-CBS Reporter Eric Engberg:He's 'Not a Real Reporter' (video)

Man gets bionic eye, sees wife for first time in a decade

Finally got an office with a window view

Darrell Issa: ‘We should thank’ Giuliani for making us safer by saying Obama doesn’t love America

As I lay dying

I am no longer donating to the DNC, DCCC, or any of the other aggregators of $. I only

Crews FREE Humpback Whale tangled in fishing line off Hawaii

Fox News: Obama continues to refuse to declare day after Daytona 500 National Holiday

Strict Father And Nurturant Parenting Styles: Metaphors For Political Ideologies with George Lakoff,

Millions Mourn as Rocker/Activist Ted Nugent, Age 66, Found Alive

Conservatives didn't want to use names in 2009 DHS report callingout RW extremism

Dems seek an alternative to Sestak for next year's Senate race against Toomey

Anyone try any of these meds?

John Perkins, Confessions of An Economic Hitman

Tell Craigslist Pets Aren't Products!

Arrest shows Venezuelan leader panicking: mayor's wife

Reagan’s Ambassador to Moscow Speaks on Ukraine

Ambassador Jack Matlock: The Mistakes We Made with Russia and How to Stop Making Them

Please Don’t Thank Me for My Service

Dumb Criminals: Florida (obviously) Man Tries To Pay Bar Tab With Rock, Then Makes Bogus Bomb Threat

Jeb Bush’s Brainless Trust

The Republicans are the biggest losers because they can't win a fair fight....

"Devistating Dem Losses at All Levels"? HERE's why and how to fix this.

The Honest Republican slogan would be: "To hell with America, as long as we win!"

Ohio art museum to return likely stolen artifact to Germany

Need Apple TV connection help

Noah's Ark park officials plan to sue Kentucky

John McCain speaks about run on shame

This weekend's nugget of joy - involving roller skates and a chainsaw

Northern Ireland: stolen statue of pagan god found

Scott Walker Hardens Tone on Social Issues to Woo Christian Conservatives.

The Soviet Union Dumped Nuclear Submarines, Reactors, and Containers into the ocean.

What Doctors Don't Tell You: Nobody has died from measles, but the MMR has killed a hundred

"Priest who saw God as a woman" story is fake.

Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

The Unsinkable R.B.G.

Incredibly touching: the saluting boy at Omaha Beach

Sons of Bill - Bad Dancer (I'll Stop the world and melt with you)

Cat jumps through a snowbank (with the help of food)

O’reilly is done!! Former Reporter from CBS ...

Had to dig my way to the next cord of wood

Walker feeling the heat

The bottom line reason Warren probably won't run: money.

Did the Democrats who voted for the IWR do so because...

Graham Urges GOP To Avert DHS Shutdown: 'We'll Get Blamed'

2015 Kentucky Derby - My Derby Horse

WaPo to giuliani....'whoppers'

A Phylogenetic Tree of Supreme Court Decisions #SCOTUS

Cuba ferry from Florida Keys could become reality

Heads up ... Tonight on 60 Minutes --- Remembering Bob Simon

LGBT Americans are individuals deserving of dignity

'Hired killers gunned down 4 children after being paid Ksh14,000 to assassinate their parents'

Kirk Cameron's "Saving Christmas" Is Officially The Worst Movie Of 2014

When it is stated that no one has been jailed for crimes of Iraq War era -

If you have a PS4, I think Rogue Legacy is free right now.

First they came for the vegetarians...

Tobacco Giants Battle New Ads Painting Them As Liars

It's been 9 years since Justice Clarence Thomas has asked a question

Striking FairPoint workers ratify tentative agreement

I can understand how badly many DUers want Elizabeth to run for the presidency.

OUCH!!! David Corn sends Howard Kurtz A Devasting Note re: His O'Reilly Interview

Progressive Veterans Group (VoteVets) Wants O'Reilly Off The Air

One of best quotes re: religion & hate/terror --

Portland to generate electricity within its own water pipes

What are you reading the week of Sunday, February 22, 2015?

***Friendly Advice From Your Local Atheist Nurse***

Female academics face huge sexist bias

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has No Interest in Retiring

Don't move a mussel - a tiny invader is threatening British water and wildlife

Sam Seder w Paul Mason: Syriza, Varoufakis, Corrupt Elites. What Next?

We must offend religion more: Islam, Christianity and our tolerance for ancient myths, harmful ideas

The eagle has landed, and it's nesting in record numbers

US Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit decided Jewel, et al, vs NSA

Robert Reich said it well in 2001. "We Are All Third Wayers Now" 4 common ideas at the core.

Greece and the Endgame of the Neocolonial Model of Exploitation (February 19, 2015)

BROADCHURCH--5 Enthusiastic Stars!

Prominent Republican to Condemn Georgia’s Discriminatory “Religious Liberty” Bills

Her Mother Died 12 Hours After Being Diagnosed With Cancer

MINNEAPOLIS OFFICER WOUNDED IN APPARENT TARGETED ATTACK

What's for Dinner, Sun., Feb. 22, 2015

Issa: 'We Should Thank' Giuliani For Questioning Obama's Patriotism

'Nance Greggs Fan Club'

The Movie “Videodrome” and The Horror of Mass Media

Snow-Covered Northeastern United States

Orwellian Police Software Scans Social Media & Assigns Citizens a Threat Rating (VIDEO)

New HPV vaccine is effective against 9 strains of the virus

Hillary Clinton Room Post-Getting sick of these Anti-Hillary Sundays here on DU.

Which Corps/Products to Avoid and Which to Support

I frickin hate having to call on DUers & ask if they are 'phobes

Scott Walker’s cowardice should disqualify him

Lovely Read on fierce socialist Ralph Miliband: 'There was music in his delivery'

Media Bias For War

The most beautiful sky scenes you'll see today!

"When we run as Republican-lite we lose"

Ukraine truce rocked by Kharkiv blast

1964-1965 rubella epidemic swept the United States, by the numbers

Girl as young as seven kills herself and five others in Nigeria suicide bombing

South Sudan gunmen kidnap at least 89 boys from village near Malakal

KaBOOM and Bwaaaaaaaaah! Swiss account secret of HSBC chief Stuart Gulliver revealed

One America News Network 911 call

Charles Chaplin - Swing little girl

Why We’re All Becoming Independent Contractors by Robert Reich

Can a Bitcoin-style virtual currency solve the Greek financial crisis?

Bill Kristol claims that ‘Iraq was safe and peaceful’ when Bush left office

Hungarian PM Orban loses two-thirds 'super-majority'

2015 Kentucky Derby Prep - 2015 Southwest Stakes

Former CBS staffer Eric Engberg goes on CNN to rip Bill O'Reilly Falklands claims

Did the Torture Report Give the C.I.A. a Bum Rap? (by David Cole)

Bill O'Reilly in 2008: I had an M16 pointed at my head

Goofy grins

Fact: It has snowed in the north eastern states FOR NEARLY ALL OF JAN AND FEB

Anyone else going to watch the Oscars tonight ?

Yale Study: Canine Minds Far More Complex Than Originally Thought

STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 23 February 2015

Axelrod: 'I don't know why there is confusion' on Obama's beliefs

New water heater rules coming; expect more expensive units, tighter fits

Who will give the racist ReTHUG scumbag - noun, verb 9/11

Dolly Parton would approve of this bus

DEAR SILICON VALLEY: Here's your wake-up call

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