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Knocking on Heaven's Door

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:43:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Antony covers Dylan

Clip Source: www.npr.org

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'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' — A Surprising Cover

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The Bryant Park Project, December 6, 2007 - Antony and the Johnsons reinvent Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."

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Hussein O Bama's Freudian Slip

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:02:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't care whare anybody says about this. I am convinced this empty suit is a muslim, and is in all likelihood an al Qaeda sleeper cell.

This is most certainly a Freudian slip. It slipped out subconsciously, "My Muslim Faith", which he then corrected.

Has anybody seen an aerial view of his home in New Hyde Park, Chicago? Directly right across the street from a huge mosqe.

Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

"Let's not play games," he said. "What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."

Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted with, "Christian faith."

"My Christian faith," Mr. Obama said quickly. "Well, what I'm saying is that he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim. And I think that his campaign's upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith -- something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time."

Tags: muslim, obama, sleeper cell, foreign agent

Sky Bloom

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:18:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Park Under Construction in Downtown Phoenix

Clip Source: copp.asu.edu

Tax and Spend

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:14:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.laprogressive.com

To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor – especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city’s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer’s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?

For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.

Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.

Innocence project Fla. for uncle buds case

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:22:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.innocenceproject.org

Innocence Project of Florida
1100 E. Park Ave.
Tallahassee, FL 32301

For L.A. man, 93, life is a walk in the park

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:33:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The weight of time has bowed Sol Shankman's spine into the shape of a question mark. After 93 years, he is blind in one eye and nearly blind in the other. His voice, except for brief bursts of animation -- when he's imitating a mud lark, for instance -- sounds like a handful of gravel.

"But the way I see it, you've got two choices," he said the other day. "You can sit at home and weep for yourself. Or you can get out and do the best you can."

And so, every evening, at his home just above Los Feliz Boulevard, Shankman sets his alarm clock for 5 a.m. Every morning, his eyes open five minutes before the alarm, and he sets off into the hills.

He has been walking for more than three decades, pretty much every day -- 42,000 miles, by his reckoning, the vast majority of it in Griffith Park. The circumference of the Earth is roughly 25,000 miles, "so I figure," he said, "that I'm on my second trip around the world, all in Griffith Park."

Iron Dog

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:12:31 GMT

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Clip Source: 2metaldog.livejournal.com

Iron Dog's Off-Leash Lemon Park

Tags: weiss, saiyuki, yaoi, sites

A Unique Bloggers co-operation covering NY Fashion Week

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:51:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 40 Bloggers should give a great coverage

Clip Source: insidethetents.com

InsideTheTents.com was born to provide a fresh look into the very exclusive Bryant Park Tents during Mercedes Benz Fashion week. As more and more independent new media journalists are getting access into behind the scenes of the most fabulous fashion event of the season, they share with the world news and observations usually left to selected group of magazine editors.

This fresh voice is projected into the web using the latest social technologies like Twitter, Flickr, live blogging and video streaming, sometimes getting ahead of the traditional media to bring the latest trends to the fashion aficionados around the web.

InsideTheTents.com aggregates all these various feeds and displays them in a moderated way, providing a collaborative coverage of the much buzzed fashion event, updated live.

Clip Source: insidethetents.com

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A Walk In The Park

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:25:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Those who know him -- who see him every morning -- do not agree."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

"But the way I see it, you've got two choices," he said the other day. "You can sit at home and weep for yourself. Or you can get out and do the best you can."

And so, every evening, at his home just above Los Feliz Boulevard, Shankman sets his alarm clock for 5 a.m. Every morning, his eyes open five minutes before the alarm, and he sets off into the hills.

"I'm like the elevator operator in an old building," he said. "Everybody knows him. Then he retires. Nobody knows the new guy. Then they get rid of the elevator operator altogether. Next thing you know, nobody remembers there was an elevator operator to begin with. I've just been here for so many years. I'm not special."

Russia's Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:52:40 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Vladimir Putin was feted by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.

Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.

Putin thanked Western researchers for being involved in programs to save the Amur tigers.

Sensitive to a growing environmental movement in Russia, Putin as president redrew a planned oil pipeline route to avoid Lake Baikal and scrapped plans for an Olympic village near Sochi that could have damaged local flora and fauna.

Tags: putin, russia, tiger, amur

The Pods Are Multiplying

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:25:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh no! The evil pods from outer space are multiplying!

Clip Source: everyday-adventurer.blogspot.com

The Pods Are Multiplying

Oh no! The evil pods from outer space are multiplying!

Tags: heritage park, humor, nature trails, pictures, plants

Dining at Alpine Lodge

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:55:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A list of great places to dine in Alpine Meadows Lodge.

Clip Source: www.gotahoenorth.com

Alpine Meadows - Dining

Pfeifer House European Dining
Established in 1939 this restaurant is not only one of the finest in Tahoe City but one of the oldest. Along...

River Ranch Lodge Restaurant
The River Ranch is a landmark restaurant and lodge located on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe between Squaw Valley...

Personality Traits

Reading: World Without End by Ken Follett

Eating: Before: Crest Cafe for killer breakfast. After: River Ranch for apres everything

Sponsor: Red Bull

Ride: Bombardier BR Trooper

Animal: Golden Retriever Avalanche Dogs

Soundtrack: Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf

Sport: Skiing / boarding / free-heeling, biking, hiking, beer drinking

Historical Marker: 1888 - Deer Park Springs Hotel built by John P. Scotts; where River Ranch stands today

Must-Do/See: Live music on the Alpine sundeck in Spring, cruisin' the Ice Bar, finding "The Promised Land," SnowFest closing party.

Etc.: Disabled Sports USA FarWest establishes the Tahoe Adaptive Ski School at Alpine Meadows in 1967

Tags: dining, alpine meadows, alpine lodge, ski resort

Big Brother Addiction gone but not forgotten - Methadone success story

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well it is claimed somewhere that an elephant never forgets. This one may have built up a social memory or more likely a very UNsociable one towards a certain group.

A word of warming to any traders that cross his path in the future..

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

A ONCE drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox programme on China's tropical island province of Hainan.

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang", was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.

After police arrested the traders and freed Xiguang a few months later, the elephant was confirmed to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms and sent to a wild animal protection centre in Hainan for rehab.

A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction.

Now clean, Xiguang was expected to arrive on Saturday at a wildlife park in Kunming, capital of the elephant's home province of Yunnan on the mainland.

Xiguang's return would cap a 1500km journey home, and mark another step in the elephant's triumph over addiction.

Tags: elephant, heroin, xiguang, big brother

Park Greer in Virginia

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:17:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Park Greer in Virginia

Clip Source: www.takkle.com

Park Greer

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:15:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Park Greer in 5k race

Clip Source: www.takkle.com

Tags: muscle, running