Blue Herald

By Peter Smith

MINNEAPOLIS — The thing about Minnesota is it was built by people who did the job right. Serious people. People who knew they did not want to be screwing around outside repairing things when it was a true 40 below, not just a 40 below wind chill. Wind chill factors are for [...]

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Israel KamakawiwoÊ»ole - “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World”
For a shorter version featuring the late “Braddah IZ” click here.

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From the Washington Post:

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Washington, DC - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released the most comprehensive matrix available to date detailing all offers of assistance from around the world in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
CREW’s matrix is based on 25,000 Department of State (DOS) documents it received as a result of a lawsuit [...]

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Gee, wonder if our current administration and congress has anything to do with this. I’d go, but it’s too damn cold. I’m looking for an island!
It may seem like a quiet country where not much happens besides ice hockey, curling and beer drinking. But our neighbor to the north is proving to [...]

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By SHARON COHEN and BRIAN BAKST

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that plummeted into the Mississippi River was “structurally deficient,” yet they relied on a strategy of patchwork fixes and stepped-up inspections.
“We thought we had done all we could,” state bridge engineer Dan Dorgan told reporters [...]

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from United Press International
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 2 (UPI) — A Texas A&M University study, in honor of August being National Sandwich Month, revealed Americans eat more than 45 million sandwiches annually.
The study said that the average U.S. citizen eats about 200 sandwiches a year, and the average child will eat around 1,500 peanut [...]

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from United Press International
CALTAGIRONE, Italy, Aug. 2 (UPI) — A 61-year-old man from Caltagirone, Italy, turned up at the local police station with his 81-year-old mother after she cut off his weekly allowance.
The man’s mother also took his house keys away after he did not come home when he was supposed to and did [...]

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by NEDRA PICKLER
cross posted at The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON - John Edwards criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp. officials, arguing that the company’s Fox News Channel has a right-wing bias and Democrats should avoid the company.
Edwards led the Democratic candidates’ boycott of Fox’s plans [...]

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By Dan Froomkin

The presidential aide who acts with such impunity now has the ultimate protection: absolute immunity from congressional oversight, at least in the judgment of White House Counsel Fred Fielding.
White House political mastermind Karl Rove had been subpoenaed to testify this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of the investigation into last [...]

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