BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New 'super-Earth' found in space The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone" where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist. Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life. "It's 20 light-years away and so we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the…
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TomPaine.com – GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad Exposed Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on election night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election? The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004 , Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website—which gave the world the presidential election results—was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts…
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Here are a few simple rules on how to succeed as an arsonist: Use a slow accelerant so you can make your getaway and establish an alibi. Work clean, work careful. Don't spill, don't use smelly stuff, trim excessive hair. Don't blow up your own house; you'll be first on the suspect list if you screw up. Under no circumstances should you ever run out of your own house with burning hair and beard, smelling of gasoline, just before it blows itself to smithereens. Salt Lake Tribune – Explosion disintegrates Sugar House home, sparks fires in neighboring houses About 10 p.m. Monday,…
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NPR : Ohio Vote Audit Turns Up Duplicates, Deletions All Things Considered, April 22, 2007 · One person, one vote. That's how the democratic process should work. But a recent audit of the 2006 general election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, found that some votes were counted twice, and others were deleted. Candice Hoke, who oversaw the independent audit, explains some of its findings. Okay, but DON'T DO THAT AGAIN, OHIO. We're watching you this time around.
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The Blog | Laurie David and Sheryl Crow: Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus | The Huffington Post We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country. We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in (www.IPCC.ch). Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom. Like…
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Homeland audit says Katrina contracts were mismanaged – The Boston Globe WASHINGTON — FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste, and possibly violated federal law, by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork, investigators say. Great. Just great. We know this went on, of course, but farther down in the article, FEMA admits it has no action plan for the coming hurricane season. So if there's another big hit, it will be more screwed-up contracting on an unprecedented scale. [tags]Katrina, Fema[/tags]
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The Progressive Gap Senator Bernie Sanders is frustrated. He believes there is a gap between the American people who are increasingly embracing progressive values and what's going on in Congress. "The American people are way, way ahead on matters of the economy, war, global warming," he says, over coffee with a small group of reporters. Well, the polls quoted are interesting, but one of them boasts only a 2% majority for progressives on an issue. If only this were true, that people in this country are much more progressive than our current elected leaders. There would be hope for the…
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Rove, celebs have heated debate | Chicago Tribune Here's this week's hot topic on the liberal/conservative punditblogs: Sheryl Crow picks a fight with Karl Rove. She tells him "You work for me." He tells her "No, I work for the American people." Um, dude, you told her to her face that you don't think she's an American. This is the root problem that the neoconservatives have foisted on the rest of our country – they think they're more American than the rest of us.
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Police: Gunman in JSC shooting feared losing his job | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle At the time, it looked like the "man with a gun at NASA" story would end peacefully, so I made a bad joke and turned to other stories in the news. It didn't. It's not so funny now, I readily admit. I'm don't know if the NASA gunman snapped because of all the news this week about the shootings at Virginia Tech, but if he was that close to the edge, the incessant coverage couldn't have helped his mental state. Yes, there've been a lot of…
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NASA evacuates Houston building – Space News – MSNBC.com A building at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston was evacuated Friday amid reports that an armed person was barricaded there, the space agency said. Other employees at the center were told to remain in lockdown as authorities surrounded the scene. Does somebody need some Huggies?