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A Few Quotes for This Morning
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn
To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl's faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends. ~Edwin Lillie Miller, 1938, Explorations in Literature, about Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Sam)
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ~F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ~John Tudor
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735
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News
You'd think that the thousands of people in Times Square would've been a bigger priority for the police, but no....
68 Occupy protesters arrested in NYC on New Year's
NEW YORK (AP) – Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on New Year's Eve as they tore down barricades surrounding New York City's Zuccotti Park, the former home of their encampment that was dismantled several weeks ago.
About 500 protesters gathered in the park Saturday evening, where they rang in the new year with songs and their now-familiar chant of "We are the 99 percent."
About 11 p.m., after a relatively quiet evening, some protesters began to tear down the barricades that have surrounded the park since New York police officers evicted Occupy Wall Street members on Nov. 15, protesters said Sunday. Police then moved in.
Occupy gets that the problem is the system. And check out what the Iowa Dem Exec Director called it...
Occupy Des Moines is the Democrats’ problem
DES MOINES–”They’re closing, so if you want to get arrested, come now!”
An older woman made the announcement as she breezed into and Occupy Iowa Caucus’ headquarters early Thursday afternoon: word had gotten out about the group’s latest demonstration. They’d already hit local offices for Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and the Wells Fargo branch irresistibly close to Romney’s campaign headquarters, and now their next target apparently knew they were coming.
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“You are preventing them [Democratic volunteers] from entering or leaving,” a frustrated Iowa Democratic Executive Director Norm Sterzenbach told the occupiers, who later dubbed him Scrooge McDemocrat. “I see that as a violent action.”
(emphasis mine)
Finally, some temporary sanity with regard to fracking...
Official: 4 Ohio fluid-injection wells cannot open in wake of quake
(CNN) -- State leaders have ordered that four fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio will be "indefinitely" prohibited from opening in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area, an official said.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer had announced on Friday that one such well -- which injects "fluid deep underground into porous rock formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explains -- was closed after a series of small earthquakes in and around Youngstown.
Then on Saturday, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck that released at least 40 times more energy than any of the previous 10 or more tremors that had rattled the region in 2011.
Putting a little (false) hope even further out of reach...
Pricey picks: Powerball tickets doubling to $2
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Get ready to pay more for Powerball: Ticket prices are going up to $2.
Lottery organizers hope the price change will entice more people to play because jackpots are getting bigger and the odds of winning are improving.
For those who missed it, Samoa did actually skip an entire day last year...
New Year's Day to come early as Samoa leaps ahead
CANBERRA (Reuters) - If you are reading this on Friday you cannot be in Samoa.
Friday, December 30, has been cut this year for the tiny South Pacific island nation as it ditched a time-zone alliance with the United States and moved its time zone 24 hours ahead to catch up with Asia, New Zealand and Australia.
On New Year's Eve, Samoa will have jumped to the west of the international dateline, which runs zig-zags through the Pacific Ocean and broadly follows the 180 degree line of longitude, in a move Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said would make it easier for Samoa to trade with key partners.
Banana Sam is returned to zoo! :D
Stolen monkey returned to San Francisco Zoo
(Reuters) - A monkey stolen from the San Francisco Zoo has been returned in good health after a man found it in a nearby park and coaxed it into a backpack, police said.
The primate named Banana Sam was found on Saturday at Stern Grove park, which is about a mile from the zoo, said San Francisco police Officer Carlos Manfredi, a department spokesman.
The man said he saw the animal peeking out of some bushes and managed to capture it with his backpack, according to police.
This is just awesome! Click on the article to see the picture!
Elusive snow leopards caught on camera
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A remote camera in the mountains of Afghanistan has captured a rare photograph of a snow leopard mother and her cub, a U.S. wildlife conservation group says.
Photographs of the elusive animals are hard to come by, the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York said, so a picture of both a mother and her cub is all the more special.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/...