Salt Lake Tribune – Tot from large family left behind in morning rush A 2-year-old girl from a family of about 15 children was misplaced Monday morning before a Salt Lake County deputy found her crying and alone in the family’s backyard. The mother of the little girl had apparently assumed her older children had put the toddler in the family van earlier that morning. The mother then dropped off her other children at her sister’s home on her way to work, Lt. Paul Jaroscak said. About 9 a.m. neighbors in an area near 8500 South and 1500 East heard…
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NYT: Here’s a whole new meaning for the phrase “phony war:” we started under a fake pretext, we celebrated a fake victory, and for quite a while now, we’ve been chasing after a fake insurgent leader. Add this to the litany of failure. BAGHDAD, July 18 — For more than a year, the leader of one the most notorious insurgent groups in Iraq was said to be a mysterious Iraqi called Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. As the titular head of the Islamic State in Iraq, Mr. Baghdadi issued incendiary pronouncements. Despite claims by an Iraqi Interior Ministry official in May that…
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks around here and my blogging has dropped off by quite a bit – not that there’s anyone making note of that or anything, but some spammers may be slightly disappointed. Nyah, etc. I’ve read 3 books in the last week or so, and hope to get around to reviewing them. I’ve been busy being team leader of something called “Inviting Team” at Holy Moly. More on that later. I’ve been keeping an eye on the news, but not blogging about it. There’s a lot going on at worked – swamped, job task list about…
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WGN Weather Center Blog Monday afternoon’s thunderstorms brought an abrupt end to a hot, steamy day here. Outflow from the thunderstorms brought a rush of dense cold air to the surface dropping temperatures nearly 30º in less than an hour’s time. The heat relief is only temporary, however, with heat and humidity expected to return Tuesday, along with more thunderstorms. Here are some of the largest temperature drops as recorded on our WeatherBug network. Hoffman Estates 93º down to 64º a drop of 29º Wilmette 94º down to 66º a drop of 28º Algonquin 92º down to 67º a drop…
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A Hipper Crowd of Shushers – New York Times ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy’s, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes and abundant tattoos, they looked as if they could be filmmakers, Web designers, coffee shop purveyors or artists. My friend Debbie will probably have seen this, but I’ll send her a link anyway – she’s a librarian, and once did a paper on the stereotype of the be-bunned, shushing librarian in…
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Salt Lake Tribune – Rosa Brooks: Did Bush fool us or did we fool ourselves? So why did it take us so long to notice? Someday, historians will ponder our strange collective passivity in the face of Bush-Cheney madness. Why did the editorial boards of our major newspapers either parrot the administration line or raise only muted criticism on so many issues, and for so long? Where were the tough journalistic questions? Why didn’t more members of Congress protest the administration’s blatantly unjustified policies and transparent constitutional outrages? For that matter, when Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft and countless…
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 2005: Bomb attacks on London 2005: Bomb attacks on London A series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead and two died in a blast on a double decker bus. It was two years ago today that London suffered the devastating suicide bomber attacks on the Underground and on a bus. I was horrified, and set up a quick photo of a funny little mug that I bought on a trip to London many…
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Hey! Last night we had a thoroughly compacted, gravel road with a clay base. As of 910am this morning, we suddenly have a strip of asphalt on our side of the street, and the steamroller has been going back and forth smoothing it down. They started around 8am, I think, but it didn’t get noisy enough to bounce pictures off the wall and call our attention to their activities until just now. If you check the webcam you may see some of the equipment going by. That’s the new mailbox we put together, lying on the driveway waiting to be…
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Bush urges resolve on Iraq war – Los Angeles Times West Virginia is a once-reliably Democratic state that for the last two presidential elections has been central to Bush’s victories, and Wednesday marked the fourth Independence Day he has visited the state since taking office. But even here, where he won repeated rounds of applause in a gigantic hangar just completed for a new detachment of C-5 Galaxy cargo planes, there were hundreds of empty seats behind a towering American flag. Offering a history lesson on the 231st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Britain, Bush…
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Progressive Political News and Information: Nevada Thunder Frank Rich of the New York Times (paywall) “When The Vice President Does It, That Means It’s Not Illegal” Even now, few have made the connection between this month’s Cheney flap and the larger scandal. That larger scandal is to be found in what the vice president did legally under the executive order early on rather than in his more recent rejection of its oversight rules. Timing really is everything. By March 2003, this White House knew its hype of Saddam’s nonexistent nuclear arsenal was in grave danger of being exposed. The order…