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A bit of frivolous lawsuit, and intimidation to boot. From their press release: Chico, California. – The ChicoBag Company, a reusable bag company, has announced it is the sole defendant in a lawsuit filed by Hilex Poly Company, LLC, Superbag Operating, LTD., and Advance...

Has anyone been following this news? HB Gary Federal is a security firm, that has apparently been working with the FBI to uncover the names of Anonymous members, who had been targeting companies who were cutting off access to Wikileaks funding and access. Well, Anonymous scooped them, getting...

Reports are 35 dead, more than 100 injured. A suicide bomb was set off at the arrivals terminal at Domodedovo, Moscow's busiest airport. A terrible waste of life. On the radio on the way home from work today they were linking this to the ongoing insurgency in Southern Russia. President Medvedev...

Nice illustrative use of statistics :D YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

Bill H.R. 67 Don't look now but Congress is poised to pass, with very little media attention, the Screw the 4th Amendment Act, aka another Patriot Act reauthorization. Rep. Mike Rogers has submitted the bill to do so because the last reauthorization expires at the end of February. To show...

For long term investments like my retirement plan, are there certain classes of funds that do better over the long term historically than others? I'm currently invested in an S&P/TSX composite index fund, one bond index fund, and a Fidelity asset allocation fund. I choose these funds because...

YouTube - Goldstream's Green River Any of our BC posters heard of this? It's a suspected prank, as a fountain in Langford became neon green around the same time. Victoria Times Colonist quotes Dan Gilmore, a spokesman for BC Environment Ministry:Fluorescein is a synthetic organic compound...

Apparently the Democrats will have to defend the EPA, the George HW Bush era amended Clean Air Act, and most importantly the health of Americans from polluter friendly House Republicans this session. The GOP is framing it this way: Apparently ignoring that the EPA has historically taken time...

Australia flood: Woman, 41, drowns trying to drive across road | Mail Online Apparently, times are rough for Australian print media too. Must be short-staffed.

Have any of you heard about this? NY City has plans to introduce fees in the face of looming budget cuts: Francis X. Gribbon, the Fire Department’s chief spokesman, said the plan — a draft rule of which was published Thursday in the City Record — would include a range of fees. The highest...

This is a result that caught me by surprise, and no doubt quite a few others. In 2000 and 2001, there were record high returns of pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago. In 2002 and 2003, the returning pinks were only 3 and 12% of the previous runs respectively. In 2001, the juvenile pink...

Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks - Hotline On Call The folks leading the charge against earmarks....kind of like when Bush said Americans are addicted to oil. Didn't mean he was going to take active measures through policies to mitigate the addiction. Well, one wonders if the Tea...

The $100 million that is being spent on tourism grants as part of the stimulus package is significantly more likely to be be approved in a Conservative riding. Grants were awarded in 76% of Conservative ridings that applied for funding, compared to 55% in Liberal ridings. 56% in Bloc ridings...

Rand Paul, an avowed Libertarian, has supporters who think it's acceptable in the heat of the moment to stomp on the head of a un-like minded person, after tackling her to the ground for daring to carry a sign that doesn't support Rand Paul... YouTube - Rand Paul Supporter Steps on Woman's Head...

Hows that for making waves? Keith Martin, a medical doctor by profession, and a BC Liberal is saying that Canadians should have the option to pay for medical services in a system that operates parallel to the public Canada Health Act system. Right on Keith! I agree wholeheartedly. It's a debate...

Apparently the far-right Shiv Sena party in India did not like the poor portrayal of their party in an award winning fictional novel. Their actions have lead to the banning of a book in a university, in the world's largest Democracy. Members of the student wing of the Shiv Sena party burned...

Miller security guards handcuff editor: 2010 Alaska U.S. Senate election | adn.comThe editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an...

The evidence is stacked against the authors. George Mason University is now investigating the allegations of plagiarism. University investigating prominent climate science critic - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com The report which was critical of the work of Mann, Bradley...

This guy really nailed it. It explains the problem precisely with how reporters now create their narratives, and strive for a balance. Except it's not a narrative balanced or tempered with objective truth, but rather the extreme ends of spectrums where the middle road exists only half-way...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/earth/21coral.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss "This year’s extreme heat is putting the world’s coral reefs under such severe stress that scientists fear widespread die-offs, endangering not only the richest ecosystems in the ocean but also fisheries that...