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Blago: It Just Keeps Getting Stranger By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly Have you noticed that Blagojevich appears to be stark raving mad? Read more »   We Can't Afford to Sink Deeper into the Afghan Quagmire By ZP Heller, Brave New Films Seeking alternatives to escalation in the Afghanistan war. Read more »   Obama: 'If Paul Krugman Has a Good Idea … Then We're Going to Do It' By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been a frequent critic of President-elect Obama. Read more »   Why Are the Media More Interested in Blago Than in Unraveling the Bailout Mystery? By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post Have you heard what's going on with the government's almost trillion-dollar bailout and how your money is being spent? Read more »   Kucinich Speaks Out Against Congress' Blind Support of Israel By Staff, Rep. Dennis Kucinich "We must take a new direction in the Middle East. Read more »   TVA Responsible for Yet Another Toxic Coal-Related Spill By Tara Lohan, AlterNet So, now is it time for clean energy? Read more »   Barbie's Sordid Sexual History By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet Orgies, prostitutes and Zsa Zsa Gabor? Read more »   Obama Rolls Out Blair, Panetta; Vows 'No Exceptions' to US Values By Spencer Ackerman, Firedoglake "We must adhere to our values diligently and with no exceptions." --Barack Obama Read more »   Illinois House votes 114-1 to Impeach Blagojevich By Ali Frick, Think Progress The impeachment trial will be held by the state Senate. Read more »   On Proportionality, Civilian Casualties, and Why Israel Has Already Lost By DJK, Brave New Films The repercussions of killing Palestinian civilians. Read more »   Jon Stewart Takes on Israel's Attack on Gaza By Holly, Feministe He's braver than me, that's for sure. Read more »   Report: Obama Prepared to Talk to Hamas By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress Barack Obama is reportedly planning to ditch President Bush's strategy of isolating Hamas, and will instead move to open contacts with the group. Read more »

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			COLUMBIA â€" Gov. Mark Sanford released a 300-page prescription Friday for spending $5.8 billion on government in the next fiscal year, a plan he said would put South Carolina back on track after months of dramatically falling tax collections have shrunken South Carolina's state budget to $6.1 billion from more than $7 billion approved last year.
Enjoy a every Sunday Only In The Post & Courier find locations		Family hopes violence ends Another young man is shot to death, but his family is hoping some good might come of the slaying. Parris M. Green, 17, was killed Thursday evening while walking near his house in North Charleston. A witness said a man shot Green to death about 6:30 p.m. near Mary Ford Elementary School, after chasing him down Accabee Road. School sells McLeod In a bid to shore up its finances, the American College of the Building Arts has sold McLeod Plantation back to the Historic Charleston Foundation and scrapped controversial plans to use the property for a college campus. "The college has nothing more to do with McLeod Plantation," said college President Colby M. Broadwater. Jury convicts charity founder North Charleston charity founder Albert Salmon Jr. was convicted of four state tax evasion charges Friday after a prosecutor described him as a slum lord who hid his fraud behind an adopted title of reverend. If he didn't call himself a man of the cloth, the case might be an open and shut prosecution of a businessman hiding assets, Assistant Attorney General Tom McDermott said. Resident's surprise leads to shooting arrest GOOSE CREEK â€" A Rutt Lane resident didn't have to look far for a man suspected of firing a gun across from Goose Creek High School on Thursday afternoon. He found him in his bed. After shots were fired about 2 p.m. at Prestige Car Wash on Red Bank Road, Berkeley County deputies spotted a suspect vehicle, a white Ford F-150 pickup truck, unoccupied near the Rutt Lane resident's home.
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Obama Can Pump Trillions in the Economy, But No One Knows If It Will Work By Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation The nation's hopes -- even the world's -- are riding on it, but Barack Obama's stimulus plan is no sure shot. Read more »   The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Here's what the 50 million workers who saw their retirement plans drop by as much as 30 percent last year should know. Read more »   'We Are Very Violent': Israeli War Crimes Mount By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet And so does international criticism of Israel's utter disregard for civilian lives. Read more »   AlterNet Commenters Share Their Anger at the Killing and Atrocities in Gaza AlterNet The anger and frustration at U.S. politicians, the corporate media and the slaughter of hundreds of innocent civilians is palpable. Read more »   Gawker Shocker: How the Web's Hottest Gossip Empire Lost Its Mojo By Tim Walker, Alexis Ashman, Independent UK Nick Denton built a multi-million-dollar gossip blog empire. But as he sells off his prime assets, can the Gawker kingpin survive? Read more »   Barbie's Sordid Sexual History By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet Orgies, prostitutes and Zsa Zsa Gabor? Read more »   Campaign For Special Torture Prosecutor Takes Change.gov Site By Storm By Ari Melber, TheNation.com The votes are in, and the top-ranked question -- out of 70,000 submitted to Obama's site -- asks for an investigation of torture and spying. Read more »   Illinois May Pose the Greatest Opposition to Obama's Plans on Global Warming By Peter Downs, FOCUS/Midwest Illinois is one of the top greenhouse gas engines thanks to its dependence on two of the dirtiest sources of fossil fuel energy: coal and tar sands. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Obama: 'If Paul Krugman Has a Good Idea … Then We're Going to Do It' By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been a frequent critic of President-elect Obama. Read more »   We Can't Afford to Sink Deeper into the Afghan Quagmire By ZP Heller, Brave New Films Seeking alternatives to escalation in the Afghanistan war. Read more »   Illinois House votes 114-1 to Impeach Blagojevich By Ali Frick, Think Progress The impeachment trial will be held by the state Senate. Read more »

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Got Your Goat: 22 Humorous Hoofed Mammals Posted: 09 Jan 2009 03:00 PM CST Did you know that a ‘Mountain Goat’ isn’t even a true goat? A combination of spreadable hooves, traction-providing pads and dewclaws (vestigial claws up behind their hooves) help them climb surfaces that would seem difficult even to the most sure-footed primate. We are so used to seeing larved, hooved, four-legged mammals walk heavily on the ground that watching one touch the sky is nothing short of awe-inspiring. (Images via eickholt and wildphotons) So why do they climb? Well, in some cases they get off the ground to escape predators. In others, they are simply seeking out a salt or mineral lick which may occupy them for hours once found - even at dizzying heights while a goat is perched in an impossibly precarious position as shown above. Kids (baby mountain goats) climb within hours of birth, though their parents often perch below to catch them just in case. (Images via couse, keenan and pbase) At up to 300 pounds per goat these creatures are all the more uncanny for their ability to carry such great weights up slopes as steep as 60 degrees or steeper. If that does not sound terribly steep, take out a measuring device and try climbing up something that steep yourself! Even at altitude the weather rarely seems to bother mountain goats - they can withstand up to -50 degree temperatures and winds of over 100 miles per hour. Even with their formidable defenseive mechanisms, however, Mountain Goats are not immune to falls - or to predators. The Golden Eagle poses a significant threat to smaller mountain goats in particular. They can be forced off an edge or even carried away in their entirety. This video (from which the above screenshots were captured as stills) shows an amazed goat being quickly overwhelmed by a self-assured aerial predator. Of course the (misnamed) Mountain Goat is not the only fascinating goat in the world. Tree Climbing Goats are likewise uncanny climbers that can scale the slimmest and most elastic of tree branches in search of food. Fainting Goats are a relatively recently discovered breed of goat that faint and fall over at the slightest sound. Finally, let’s not forget the six-horned goat - well, at least according to a chinese newspaper.

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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Residential Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Curry brothers making marks at mid-majors
			"I could shoot myself." That's what Winthrop coach Randy Peele said last week about his failure to seriously recruit Seth Curry out of high school. Peele should put away the rhetorical gun. A lot of sheepish college basketball coaches are feeling the same way about the Curry brothers, Davidson superstar Stephen and Liberty freshman Seth. Despite superior basketball bloodlines from father Dell Curry, a former NBA standout, both brothers were passed over by major programs only to wind up as mid-major stars.
		Smelley leaving Gamecocks COLUMBIA â€" On the same day South Carolina netted a quarterbacks coach, it lost a quarterback. Redshirt sophomore Chris Smelley announced Friday afternoon through the school that he intends to transfer with the intention of playing baseball at another school. "It's been a difficult decision, something I've been thinking and praying about for a while," Smelley said via a release. What kind of show can fans anticipate? COLUMBIA â€" Realistically, how could you know what to expect tonight inside the Colonial Life Arena? No, not the basketball game. Auburn and South Carolina will likely play a tight one, settled in the final minutes, in the teams' SEC openers. But what about the environment? It was a hot-button subject in Dave Odom's time here, and especially as that tenure wound down. Cougars guard against 'letdown' Although it may seem a bit bizarre to talk about a basketball team having a "letdown" after consecutive losses, that may be a concern for College of Charleston coach Bobby Cremins. Charleston enters today's 4 p.m. Southern Conference game against Georgia Southern at Carolina First Arena coming off losses to Davidson and North Carolina, and after getting ramped up to play against two of the nation's elite teams can the Cougars muster the necessary effort to beat the Eagles? Cardinals-Panthers offenses ready to take off CHARLOTTE â€" They take up three of the four receiver spots on the NFC Pro Bowl squad. Another is having a breakout year and a fifth is one of the league's top blockers at the position. Today's NFC Divisional playoff between the Carolina Panthers (12-4) and Arizona Cardinals (10-7) overflows with talent, speed, diversity and strength at receiver.
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