Citizen Science: Great Backyard Bird Count 2013

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Thursday February 14, 2013 · 7:55 AM PST

2013/02/14 · 07:55

Dear Citizens,

Mid-February heralds the arrival of yet another Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). Held each year since 1998 in partnership with Audubon, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada, this event will be held this year on Feb. 15-18, 2013 (this coming weekend starting tomorrow).

Unlike past GBBC's which only included Canada and the United States, this year's event has gone global. Anyone anywhere in the world can participate thanks to eBird.

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Sunday May 21, 2006 · 9:05 AM PDT

2006/05/21 · 09:05

I'm amused by this article I found linked at the Huffington Post from the Washington Post called Bush's Base Betrayal where in direct market mail guru Richard Viguerie complains about corrupt Republicans who aren't real conservatives. There are indeed some complaints that the right has that are the same as ours: incompetent handling of Katrina disaster, the Dubai ports deal, the bowing to corporate masters, the legal and illegal bribery (Bush buying congress's support by never vetoing a spending bill; aka the Bridge to Nowhere) as well as the illegal bribes (Randy "Duke" Cunningham). Read More

Marine squad suffers 100% casualties, platoon 60%

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Thursday May 12, 2005 · 10:26 PM PDT

2005/05/12 · 22:26

Yesterday Kos front paged a piece called Progress in Iraq which included a link to a WaPo article of a horrific battle last Sunday/Monday near the Syrian border between Marines and insurgents:

Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, the foreign fighters battled on, their screaming voices gradually fading to just one. In the end, it took five Marine assaults, grenades, a tank firing bunker-busting artillery rounds, 500-pound bombs unleashed by an F/A-18 attack plane and a point-blank attack by a rocket launcher to quell them.

So I was very sad to see another WaPo article about the same unit called Demise of a Hard-fighting squad. The same squad that suffered dead and wounded in the previous engagement yesterday drove their Amtrac over an IED: Read More