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Taking the crew to lunch.

Orphaned orangutans saved from extinction in Borneo jungle

At the Nyaru Menteng centre 47 “babysitters” – women recruited from nearby villages in central Borneo - help care for 650 apes as they move through nursery, Forest School One and Forest School Two before hopefully heading out for a new life in the jungle.

The centre was set up 12 years ago by ­Danish conservationist Lone Dröscher-Nielsen who devised the baby-sitter system of giving the traumatised young orphans the ­unconditional love they need to survive.

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It's time to drop Fox.

UPDATE: Glenn Beck's latest conspiracy theory target is a 78-year-old academic who, 45 years ago, published an article with her husband which posited that people overwhelming the welfare rolls could put enough stress on the system that it would force the need for certain reforms to help the poor.

The result? City University of New York professor and longtime advocate for the poor and working class, Frances Fox Piven has been receiving repeated death threats on online message boards and has personally received angry and violent emails.

Beck's characterization of Piven as an "enemy" who wants to "intentionally collapse our economic system" has consequences. In light of Beck's attacks and their consequences, and Fox News' refusal to rein Beck in, it is irresponsible for companies to supportany programming on Fox News with their advertising dollars.

[LINK:  It is time to drop Fox. ]

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Mad Kane's SOTU Rebuttal review

Limerick Ode to Paul Ryan By Madeleine Begun Kane
I hope that few voters are buyin’
The proposals from Congressman Ryan.
They’re extreme to their core:
Screw the middle class, poor,
And the sick and would cause lots of dyin’.

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Whistler Blackcomb XXS

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Front

Lotus fore… (by George Eastman House)

This is Lotus, only circus-trained hippo in the U.S., who waddles around the ring towing a pony cart. For all her grim expression, she is a likable beast, kind and tractable.

She is 25 years old, weighs 4,800 lb. and posed willingly for Photographer Bob Wallace at the winter quarters of the Al G. Barnes Circus in California.

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Back

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If life gives you...

[ LINK ]

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Steampunk Palin

[Review Link:  Comics Alliance  ]

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Would you like a glass of wine?

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Ok, I give up. I am going home and start a really big garden.

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“I don't dance and I don't do magic."

“I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox.”

- Sargent Shriver (1915-2011)

[LINK: 1000 Rules for my unborn son ]

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World According to Americans

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Knock your flippin' socks right off

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Malaria parasite caught on camera invading cell

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Malaria parasite caught on camera invading cell

Researchers in Australia have for the first time captured in moving  pictures the moment when a Plasmodium parasite, responsible for malaria,  invades a human red blood cell. The team from the Walter and Eliza Hall  Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, used transmission  electron microscopy and 3D immuno-fluorescence microscopy to record a  series of still images during the 30-second-long invasion, and combined  them into a movie.

[LINK: New Scientist TV ]

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Feline Wrangler

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Dear Joe, glad to hear that you’re leaving.

Finally, Joementum In the Right Direction

Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has announced that he won’t be running for a 5th term. And that means I won’t have Joe Lieberman tokick around much longer.

That brings me to my latest Joe Lieberman limerick and haiku:

Finally, Joementum In the Right Direction
By Madeleine Begun Kane

Dear Joe, glad to hear that you’re leaving.
This Democrat sure won’t be grieving.
I know you’ve no shame,
So you won’t accept blame
For aiding the right in their thieving.

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Jacobs: Birds Dying Because of DADT Repeal

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Sorry Tea Partiers

Sorry Tea Partiers -- The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs

While tea party regulars are giddy with the thought that their movement took over the U. S. House, they were actually a Trojan horse for powerful corporate interests.

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Early this month, when John Boehner was sworn in as the new speaker of the House of Representatives, he tipped his hat to the teabag activists across the country who had fueled the Republican takeover of the chamber last fall. He almost choked up as he promised to "give the government back to the American people."

Boehner was not choking back tears, however, he literally was choking on the flagrant hypocrisy of his words. You see, the people he's giving the government back to are not tea partiers, but the rapacious corporate lobbyists who ran the Congress during the years when former Majority Leader Tom DeLay ran the show. Apparently, the name "Boehner" is derived from an ancient Teutonic word meaning: business as usual.

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Sorry Tea Partiers

Sorry Tea Partiers -- The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs

While tea party regulars are giddy with the thought that their movement took over the U. S. House, they were actually a Trojan horse for powerful corporate interests.

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Early this month, when John Boehner was sworn in as the new speaker of the House of Representatives, he tipped his hat to the teabag activists across the country who had fueled the Republican takeover of the chamber last fall. He almost choked up as he promised to "give the government back to the American people."

Boehner was not choking back tears, however, he literally was choking on the flagrant hypocrisy of his words. You see, the people he's giving the government back to are not tea partiers, but the rapacious corporate lobbyists who ran the Congress during the years when former Majority Leader Tom DeLay ran the show. Apparently, the name "Boehner" is derived from an ancient Teutonic word meaning: business as usual.

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Where in the world does your economy live?