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Blagojevich Impeachment Gets Fast-Tracked By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly For reasons that have never been clear to me, state lawmakers in Illinois haven't been in too big a rush to impeach Blago. That's about to change. Read more »   Bush's DOJ Is Now Filene's Basement for Corporate Crooks By bmaz, Firedoglake The Bush Basement Sale is on for another eighteen days, step right up and get yer bargains! Read more »   Killing the Messenger: Journalists Targeted in Gaza By Jennifer Utz, Huffington Post Israeli air strikes have made reporting from Gaza nearly impossible. Read more »   Officials: Caroline Kennedy Will Be Paterson's Choice By Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post "Officials say the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy will be the governor's choice to fill the Senate seat being vacated by Hillary." Read more »   Dynegy Abandons Plans for 5 New Coal Plants By Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club Dynegy is recognizing that new coal plants are an economic mistake and the wrong direction for their shareholders and the country. Read more »   Why Are Senators the Only People in America Who Take Senators Seriously? By Thers, Firedoglake The entire country thinks Senators are a bunch of clowns. The country, of course, thinks this because Senators keep acting like clowns. Read more »   Fox News Allows 'Magic Negro' New Year's Message to Be Broadcast By Ryan Powers, Think Progress Fox News allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to be broadcast on New Year's eve. Read more »   A Different View on Burris: Let Him Into the Senate By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate should go ahead and seat Roland Burris from Illinois. Read more »   Discredited Neocon John Bolton Calls on Obama to Push for 'Regime Change' in Iran By Ben Armbruster, Think Progress Nothing stops the neocons from giving bad advice, not even presidential elections. Read more »   Selling 'Safer Cigarettes'? By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly Something seems wrong with this picture. Read more »

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The Third Rock: Our Blue Planet Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:17 PM CST (source: deestea) Known interchangeably as the third rock from the sun, the world, the living planet, and simply, Earth, our planet is uniquely interesting in many ways that we often take for granted and don’t give a second thought to. Furthermore, while we’ve lived on the planet for over 200,000 years, we still haven’t unlocked all of its mysteries or learned to live in harmoney with all its different elements. Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting facts and mysteries surrounding the Earth. 4.6 Billion Years in the Making (source: nationalgeographic) According to most scientific estimates, our planet was formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago, and while life appeared within a billion years, evidence shows that modern human beings appeared only 200,000 years ago (in what is now known as Africa). While we have found conditions (such as the availability of water) on Mars that make it possibly the next most hospitable planet to host human and other organic life, we’re still decades away from that possibility. So far, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known by humans to exist. A Place to Call Home (source: gmu, wikipedia) Though dominated by human beings (primarily because of our highly developed brains and erect body carriage), the planet is home to millions of species. In fact, life existed for over 3 billion years before the first known signs of modern human beings appeared. A combination of Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, and magnetic field permits the existence of life on the planet. According to scientific estimates, the world is expected to be able to support life for another 1.5 billion years, after which the radiance of the Sun will eliminate the biosphere and all existence with it. The Human Impact on Earth (sources: focusman5, scampychamp) Even as we depict the Earth as the mother-like, life-giving and sustaining deity, human beings are one of the most destructive elements to have ever existed on the planet. Pollution, deforestation, habitat destruction, exhaustion of natural resources, erosion of natural wonders, premature and unnatural extinction of species, and general devastation are all a part of the legacy we will leave behind. The Earth Around the World (source: nationalgeographic) From towering trees to exploding geysers and limestone cliffs to beautiful icebergs, our planet has some of the most beautiful landscapes and seascapes. Unfortunately we spend more time as consumers, actively engaged in the destruction of this beauty than we do actually appreciating it.

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			Mount Pleasant Waterworks has repealed a policy that drew a wave of criticism from apartment managers and shopping center owners. Commissioners have decided to continue allowing renters to open up accounts in their own names, Clay Duffie, the utility's general manager, said Friday.
		Hard Rock Park's owners seek Chapter 7 bankruptcy COLUMBIA â€" After a failed bid to find a buyer for the shuttered Hard Rock Park, the owners of the Myrtle Beach attraction on Friday asked a federal bankruptcy judge for permission to liquidate their assets so creditors can be paid. Attorneys for Hard Rock Myrtle Beach Holdings LLC have asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to allow them to convert the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to Chapter 7, which would allow the company to sell its assets through a trustee and use the funds to repay the park's creditors. Markets open year with flourish NEW YORK â€" Wall Street started 2009 with a big rally Friday as investors, brushing aside a disappointing report on manufacturing, sent the Dow Jones industrials up more than 250 points and to their first close above 9,000 in two months. All the major indexes shot up more than 6 percent for the week. The market lived up to the hopes of many analysts that it would have a fresh start in the new year after a horrific 2008. Battleground Wal-Mart LOCUST GROVE, Va. â€" Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannon shot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a proposal that has preservationists rallying to protect the key Civil War site. A who's-who of historians, including filmmaker Ken Burns and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough, sent a letter last month to H. Lee Scott, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., urging the company to build somewhere farther from the Wilderness Battlefield. Muslims removed from jet WASHINGTON â€" AirTran Airways apologized Friday to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers said the confusion started at Reagan National Airport when he talked about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
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			JACKSONVILLE, Fla. â€" It wasn't the storybook ending that Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney and Tigers fans were hoping for against Nebraska in Thursday's Gator Bowl. Twenty-seven years earlier, the Tigers came to Florida, beat the Cornhuskers, 22-15, in the Orange Bowl and left the state of Florida with their first and only national championship.
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