If Labor Day isn’t a fitting holiday to post this video, I’m not sure what would be: I captured this video on August 26, 2010. I apologize for the raw quality, but I haven’t had the time to edit it. Happy Labor Day.
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Richard Trumka At The Anchorage Sheraton
The Islands of Four Mountains
(Click image to biggify) The picturesque, but snow-capped volcanoes, composing the Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain look suspiciously like an alien world in this August 2010 image from the ASTER camera aboard NASA’s orbiting Terra satellite. The islands contain restless Mt. Cleveland, an active volcano currently being watched to...
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I Have A Dream
47 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Monument. This was a part of the The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom political rally.
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The Burning of Washington
196 years ago today, the British Army took up occupation of Washington D.C. and began a conflagration campaign on a number of public buildings, including The White House and the U.S. Capitol. White House copy of the watercolor Notes by Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation’s Pride. Washington, D.C.:...
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An Interesting Campaign Ad
We’ll tune back in, in November, and see how it worked out.
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I Like McNuggets Too… But
Damn! Associated Press: TOLEDO, Ohio — A security video from a McDonald’s in Ohio shows a woman punching two restaurant employees and smashing a drive-thru window because she couldn’t get Chicken McNuggets. The tantrum caught on tape in Toledo earlier this year shows the customer reaching through the drive-thru window, slugging one worker and...
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Lamplight On History: Soapy Smith
Soapy Smith was born Jefferson Randolph Smith II 1860. He was known as the “king of the frontier confidence men”, due to his reputation as a con man and gambler. He was considered a gangster and the most famous ““slang used by confidence men; a gamble that cannot be lost. “It is...
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Ten Russian Agents Plead Guilty and Are to Be Removed from the United States
Ten individuals pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to serve as unlawful agents of the Russian Federation within the United States and will be immediately expelled from the United States, the Justice Department announced today. The United States has agreed to transfer these individuals to the custody of the Russian Federation....
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Top Recipients Of BP Contributions
In addition to Alaska’s two US Senators, we only have one member of the US House. While as much can be expected out of Rep. Young and Sen. Murkowski, the information listed below explains a lot about Sen. Begich’s recent statements. Here’s a look at the Friends of Earth tally of opensecrets.org data, showing...
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If Only…
When I see this widget posted around the internet, I can’t stop myself from wishing someone could just program the slider could go to the left and adjustable to zero… or better yet, -340,459,297 gallons. (I also keep feeling like be able to adjust the rate is a bad idea… I worry about evil...
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