Posted on April 30, 2009 by yojoe
Carbon offsets will not help with global warming.
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by yojoe
David Simon, creator of the HBO show The Wire, is filming a new show Treme, based in New Orleans.
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by yojoe
Marine Corps looks to reinstate criminal charges against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani for his role in the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
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Posted on April 16, 2009 by yojoe
Somali pirates want revenge not money after the captain of USS BAINBRIDGE was rescued.
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by yojoe
From Eastbound & Down
Kenny Powers,
“A lot of people say Kenny Powers is a woman hater. That’s not true. I love women, every f***ing one of them, even the ugly-as-sh** ones. But don’t ask me to trust them, not even nuns. Because every pair of ti** comes with a gaping hole of need that even Kenny [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by yojoe
Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich’s lawsuit against Congressman John Murtha, regarding statements the congressman made about the deaths of civilians in Haditha, Iraq, has been dismissed.
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Posted on April 8, 2009 by yojoe
Apparently global warming does not pay,
Spring has sprung, and everything is going green. Everything, that is, except Vanity Fair, which has decided to ditch its annual “green issue”. For the past three years, the monthly glossy has made much of dedicating its May issue to the environment: from Leonardo DiCaprio posing on an iceberg to [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2009 by yojoe
Why We Used Waterboarding: Former CIA Director General Michael Hayden
In a recently-released memo it was revealed that the United States used waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah 83 times and Kahalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times. Now former CIA Director General Michael Hayden, USAF, explains why,
Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say, “‘I don’t want my nation doing this, which [...]
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