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The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - “The Irish Rover”
Tommy Makem died on August 1st at the age of 74. I have a longer piece on him with more tunes over at VS. A giant in folk music but especially Irish folk music, he’ll be sorely missed. I thought a [...]

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From their schedule:
Logo and Human Rights Campaign Foundation present this historic and first-ever live televised U.S. Presidential candidate forum on issues of importance to the LGBT community, with the leading 2008 Democratic presidential candidates including Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson.
Airs at 9pm ET. [...]

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Had enough yet?
The U.S. government on Thursday proposed a scaled back plan to upgrade computerized airline passenger screening using personal information, a long delayed centerpiece of aviation security.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said officials believe they have resolved congressional and other concerns about personal privacy and were ready to begin testing with airlines this [...]

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Counter-terrorism experts have drawn up plans to develop an array of advanced technologies capable of spotting would-be terrorists in a crowd before they have time to strike.
Scientists and engineers have been asked to devise ways of analysing people’s behaviour and physiology from afar, in the hope they may reveal clues about their mental state and [...]

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A soft’spoken teacher posted the words “Impeach Bush” in a public garden, and Kent police cast him as an outlaw.
Today Kevin Egler is fighting that in Kent Municipal Court, and the case is emerging as a free’speech issue of interest well beyond the boundaries of placid Portage County.
Police ticketed Egler for unlawfully advertising [...]

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The clouds hanging over the National Hurricane Center may be there for a long time.
The center was hit with bureaucratic thunderstorms in July, when Bill Proenza, the center’s director for only six months, was sent home on leave. He had talked openly about budget priorities and a possible satellite gap in the hurricane-detection system, drawing [...]

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Crossposted from House of the Rising Sons. I love Fade’s writing. A gifted man he is……
Unruly Mob turns a Year old
Liberally Mirth fades out…
Winter Patriot wonders why the blogger meltdown is occurring…
We are disillusioned, those of us who can see how far our country has fallen. We understand that increasingly it appears [...]

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And Bush is due to speak this morning. No doubt, he wants us to go shopping.
Wall Street plunged in early trading Thursday, yanking the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 200 points after a French bank said it was freezing three securities funds that struggled to find liquidity in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.
The announcement [...]

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A senior British commander in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province said he had asked the U.S. military to withdraw its special forces from his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they have caused was making it difficult to win over local people.
A U.S. military spokesman denied the request was ever made, either formally [...]

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My home phone is AT&T. They just took over BellSouth. We’re looking for a way to eliminate them. I hate paying these wiretapping, Bush loving tools. And you know, they cut this portion of the show, and then don’t have the balls to admit that they did it because they love George [...]

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