If you work for the Florida Museum of Natural History, someone doesn't like you. For years, someone has been vandalizing the vehicles of workers at the museum.
It started small. Darwin Fish emblems would be ripped off cars a few times a year. Undeterred, the victims would simply replace them. Then bumper stickers were scraped off. Then notes containing prayers were left on cars. And now the vandal has apparently taken the next step: driving nails into tires. One researcher said she discovered a long nail had been deliberately forced into the side rim of her new tire, destroying it. Another researcher had both front tires ruined by long nails. These incidents all happened in a parking lot behind Bartram-Carr Hall.
Why hasn't the local law enforcement installed a security camera or two to catch this cowardly miscreant in the act? This would be big news and the subject of public outrage if it happened, for instance, in a church parking lot.
Liberals think you can believe whatever idiocy pops into your empty braincase, but you can't impose that idiocy on anyone else. And criminals are criminals. Period.
People are supposed to die from the unusually oppressive heat!" /Chuck Todd
There was little hope that Saturday would bring much relief until the evening, with the National Weather Service warning of excessive heat in several states, including parts of Oklahoma, Indiana, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. It predicted "oppressive heat" with temperatures at least in the 90s.
It emerged that an 18-year-old landscaper who died Thursday night, had a temperature of 110, according to a coroner said, and there were claims he was not given medical treatment when he was first taken to a care center.
Too bad that poor kid had to work outside, and couldn't luxuriate in the cool confines of Chuck Todd's cocktail weeniefest.
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It's the Empathy Crisis, Stupid
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Marriages have begun to take place across the five boroughs, with hundreds of happy couples facing down the withering heat as they wait their turns to be called. Check out the slideshow being updated from the scene by Freedom To Marry's Michael Crawford.
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With the magnificent Niagara Falls as a backdrop, early this morning two lesbian activists became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in New York.
Against a cascade of rainbow-colored falls, and with cicadas humming in the background, Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd married at the first possible moment in Niagara Falls. After a bell tolled 12 times to ring in the new day, Ms. Lambert, 54, and Ms. Rudd, 53, held hands and kissed in front of more than 100 friends and family members.
And good for them.
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World Net Daily Poll Of The Day
World Net Daily, the most lie-filled Christian website in the history of the internet, is telling its readers that the attack on Norway was "Islamic terrorism." Hey, Republicans - Isn't private business suppose to be more efficient than government?
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As of September 20, Don't Ask Don't Tell will be a thing of the past. President Obama certified the repeal of the law yesterday in the Oval Office.
"In 60 days, as prescribed in the law passed by Congress and signed by the President last December, repeal will be final." The law will be off the books on September 20, 2011.
This is an historic moment in American history and the ceaseless efforts of the gay community and activists everywhere made it happen. And, naturally, it didn't hurt that we elected a president who has been the best president in history for LGBT civil rights.
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The House Republicons are all about jobs, jobs, jobs
The House Republican leadership [Friday] will shut down major parts of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at midnight to appease Tea Party extremists, a risky bet that will jeopardize $2.5 billion in construction projects, 87,000 American construction jobs, furlough 3,600 FAA aviation engineers, safety analysts, and other career professionals in 35 states, and cost $200 million per week in lost revenue.
"By senselessly shutting down the FAA tonight at midnight, the House Republican leadership is willing to lay off tens of thousands of middle class American construction workers and jeopardize billions of dollars in airport construction simply to score a few political points for Tea Party extremists," said U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Oh but these aren't real jobs. They're government and government-related jobs. And as we all know, government jobs are occupied by robotic symbionts without mortgages, families or credit scores. Good riddance, robot workers!
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The gang of six budget plan cuts medicare by $298 billion.
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