DN Speak: 8/18/13

Saturday, August 24, 2013

This exactly what I want to do to every driver on a cellphone

This exactly what I want to do to every driver on a cellphone
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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Obama Was Wrong: NSA Employees Have Deliberately "Abused" Their Power

Obama Was Wrong: NSA Employees Have Deliberately "Abused" Their Power
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 24, 2013
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As a college professor, this is my best advice for incoming freshmen. I have yet to have a student disprove the sentiment. Keep it to the weekends, if at all.

As a college professor, this is my best advice for incoming freshmen. I have yet to have a student disprove the sentiment. Keep it to the weekends, if at all.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 24, 2013
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Humor failure in Russia: Crackdown on 'Pastafarians' shows Kremlin-church ties

Humor failure in Russia: Crackdown on 'Pastafarians' shows Kremlin-church ties
FEEDS/TOPSTORIES | AUGUST 24, 2013
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MOSCOW, Russia -- The march of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster had all signs of being a satirical stunt – some of its 100 participants were... Read more

13 quotes from Fahrenheit 451 that will make you think differently

13 quotes from Fahrenheit 451 that will make you think differently
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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"It appears that the UK government is...intentionally leaking harmful information to The Independent and attributing it to others"

"It appears that the UK government is...intentionally leaking harmful information to The Independent and attributing it to others"
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom. Well water in Pennsylvania homes within a mile of fracking sites is found to be high in methane

Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom. Well water in Pennsylvania homes within a mile of fracking sites is found to be high in methane
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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OOPS: Obamacare Opponent Is Very Impressed With The Law He Hates So Much

OOPS: Obamacare Opponent Is Very Impressed With The Law He Hates So Much
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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Americans opposed to the GOP's specter of a "government takeover of health care" are already enthusiastic about new benefits ... Read more

Defense Department Likely To Fire Thousands If Sequestration Continues In 2014

Defense Department Likely To Fire Thousands If Sequestration Continues In 2014
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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Sequestration may push the DoD to fire workers instead of just furloughing them.The post Defense Department Likely To Fire ... Read more

Congressman Lies About Rwandan Genocide To Argue Against Gun Safety Measures In America

Congressman Lies About Rwandan Genocide To Argue Against Gun Safety Measures In America
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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"They don't have guns in Rwanda."The post Congressman Lies About Rwandan Genocide To Argue Against Gun Safety Measures In ... Read more

The Latest Clean Energy Cocktail: Bacteria And Fungus

The Latest Clean Energy Cocktail: Bacteria And Fungus
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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Isobutanol delivers almost the same energy as gasoline, and researchers are producing it from plant parts we're already growing ... Read more

Obama Slams Dirty Energy Money In Congress: ‘Fossil Fuel Industries Tend To Be Very… Influential’

Obama Slams Dirty Energy Money In Congress: 'Fossil Fuel Industries Tend To Be Very… Influential'
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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The "fossil fuel industries tend to be very... influential, let's put it that way," Obama said. The post Obama Slams Dirty ... Read more

Thanks To Budget Cuts, The Forest Service Is Out Of Money To Fight Wildfires

Thanks To Budget Cuts, The Forest Service Is Out Of Money To Fight Wildfires
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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The agency has spent $967 million this year so far fighting wildfires, marking the second year in a row it has had to divert ... Read more

Colleges Gone Wild

Colleges Gone Wild
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 23, 2013
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The president has been on a two-day bus tour focusing on his new plan to make college more affordable in order to help grow the ... Read more

Coburn raises possibility of impeachment at town hall

Coburn raises possibility of impeachment at town hall
FEEDS/TOPSTORIES | AUGUST 23, 2013
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A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday appeared to suggest that President Barack Obama is "getting perilously close" to meeting the criteria for impeachme... Read more

Friday, August 23, 2013

Orders To Destroy Guardian Hard Drives Came Directly From PM David Cameron

Orders To Destroy Guardian Hard Drives Came Directly From PM David Cameron
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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Congressional Hopeful Proposes Anti-LGBT Pledge And Religious Test For Candidates

Congressional Hopeful Proposes Anti-LGBT Pledge And Religious Test For Candidates
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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Dean Young, one of nine Republicans running in a special election to replace long-time Rep. Jo Bonner (R) in Alabama's first ... Read more

Lawsuit: ALEC-Tied Legislators Stripped Important Passages From Renewable Energy Bill

Lawsuit: ALEC-Tied Legislators Stripped Important Passages From Renewable Energy Bill
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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A new lawsuit is calling out Missouri legislators out for their ties to ALEC, and trying to put a stop to the energy ... Read more

Justice Department Sues Texas Over Voter ID, Citing The Remainder Of The Voting Rights Act

Justice Department Sues Texas Over Voter ID, Citing The Remainder Of The Voting Rights Act
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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The lawsuit charges that Texas' voter ID law targets minority voting power.The post Justice Department Sues Texas Over Voter ... Read more

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Washington State Works To Prevent Hospitals From Denying Women Access To Abortion Care

Washington State Works To Prevent Hospitals From Denying Women Access To Abortion Care
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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As states across the country work to limit women's abortion access, officials in Washington are taking the opposite ... Read more

More Medical Students Are Choosing To Become Family Doctors — And That’s Good News For Obamacare

More Medical Students Are Choosing To Become Family Doctors — And That's Good News For Obamacare
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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The number of medical students choosing to go into family medicine and primary care has been on the rise. That bodes well for ... Read more

Consumer Watchdog Finds Rampant Abuse In The Mortgage Industry

Consumer Watchdog Finds Rampant Abuse In The Mortgage Industry
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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A new report shows widespread failures in fundamental functions of home loan market.The post Consumer Watchdog Finds Rampant ... Read more

Federal Judges: Drug Sentences Are Not Just Long, They’re Also Way Too Inconsistent

Federal Judges: Drug Sentences Are Not Just Long, They're Also Way Too Inconsistent
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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In two forceful judicial opinions this week, federal courts expand on the message of U.S. Attorney General Holder that drug ... Read more

Colorado Legislator: Poverty Higher Among ‘Black Race’ Because They Eat Too Much Chicken

Colorado Legislator: Poverty Higher Among 'Black Race' Because They Eat Too Much Chicken
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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In a meeting of the state's Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force Wednsday, Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble (R) ... Read more

Germany Breaks Its Own Record For Solar Power Generation

Germany Breaks Its Own Record For Solar Power Generation
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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Grey skies aren't stopping Germany from continuing to smash solar power records.The post Germany Breaks Its Own Record For ... Read more

Why is Manning in jail why Bush and Cheney go free?

The Obama Coalition’s Radical Implications

The Obama Coalition's Radical Implications
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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Single payer and a guaranteed income for all Americans might be closer than you think.The post The Obama Coalition's ... Read more

Former McDonald’s CEO Claims Raising The Minimum Wage Would Kill Jobs

Former McDonald's CEO Claims Raising The Minimum Wage Would Kill Jobs
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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Evidence shows raising the wage doesn't kill jobs and could even help businesses.The post Former McDonald's CEO Claims ... Read more

Obama To Blame For Hurricane Katrina Response?!

Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room

Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 22, 2013
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The think tank that invented the centerpiece of Obamacare is now sending the uninsured to the emergency room.The post ... Read more

David Miranda Like A 'Drug Mule', Says CNN Legal Analyst

Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare

Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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In less than 6 weeks, millions of Americans will have the chance to sign up for quality, affordable health coverage for the ... Read more

Here’s who’s really living with Mom and Dad

Here's who's really living with Mom and Dad
FEEDS/TOPSTORIES | AUGUST 22, 2013
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Here's the stereotype: Across the country, basements are full of 20- and 30-somethings who graduated from college and now live with mom and dad becaus... Read more

Why China's Farms Are Failing

Why China's Farms Are Failing
THE ATLANTIC | AUGUST 21, 2013
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A farmer walks through a field near a replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. (Aly Song/Reuters) E... Read more

Proof That Obamacare Is Not Creating a Permanent Part-Time America

Proof That Obamacare Is Not Creating a Permanent Part-Time America
THE ATLANTIC | AUGUST 21, 2013
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There is so much we don't know about Obamacare. We don't know what it will do to premiums in the next decade. We don't know if the exchanges will fail... Read more

Republicans Move to the Center? Nope, They’re Crazier Than Ever - The Daily Beast

Republicans Move to the Center? Nope, They're Crazier Than Ever - The Daily Beast
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IRS Sued Over Rule That Lets Dark Money Flood Elections

IRS Sued Over Rule That Lets Dark Money Flood Elections
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced on Wednesday a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service's ... Read more

How Texas GOP Is Preparing America For The Apocalypse

How Texas GOP Is Preparing America For The Apocalypse
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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When the Federal government offered Texas billions to insure 1.5 million impoverished Texans, Republicans did the only ... Read more

Conservatives Pound 'Chicken' McConnell Over Obamacare

Conservatives Pound 'Chicken' McConnell Over Obamacare
TPMDC | AUGUST 20, 2013
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As he battles a conservative primary challenger for his 2014 re-election bid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has ... Read more

The birth of a star, captured in stunning detail [photos]

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Close Cameron aides asked paper to destroy Snowden data

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-usa-security-snowden-britain-idUSBRE97K0G920130821

Friend loses phone, kids who found it leave this video on his Instagram account

Friend loses phone, kids who found it leave this video on his Instagram account
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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Here is the video they left:
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Get Ready For Food Prices To Go Way Up, Thanks To Climate Change

Get Ready For Food Prices To Go Way Up, Thanks To Climate Change
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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New research projects climate change will alter rainfall, agriculture, and trade, raising food prices 20-40 percent by 2050.The ... Read more

Al Jazeera Provides Best-In-Class TV Coverage Of IPCC Climate Report

Al Jazeera Provides Best-In-Class TV Coverage Of IPCC Climate Report
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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While TV media have generally done a good job covering the leaked climate report, Al Jazeera America devoted a full half hour ... Read more

What is it really like to live in a country with universal healthcare?

Redditors who live in a country with universal healthcare, what is it really like?
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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More Louisiana Republicans Blame President Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Than Bush

More Louisiana Republicans Blame President Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Than Bush
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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A surprising number of Republicans blame then-Senator Obama for the botched handling of Hurricane Katrina. The post More ... Read more

Despite Claims Of A ‘War On Coal,’ Industry Petition Fails Miserably

Despite Claims Of A 'War On Coal,' Industry Petition Fails Miserably
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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A petition organized by the coal industry demanding President Obama apologize to coal miners failed to reach even 8 percent of ... Read more

Poll Shows Red State Democrat With Commanding Lead After Voting In Favor Of Background Checks

Poll Shows Red State Democrat With Commanding Lead After Voting In Favor Of Background Checks
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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Turns out, supporting expanded background checks is a good way to make voters like you.The post Poll Shows Red State Democrat ... Read more

Rick Perry Quietly Lobbies The White House For $100 Million In Obamacare Funding

Rick Perry Quietly Lobbies The White House For $100 Million In Obamacare Funding
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 21, 2013
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Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) despises all things Obamacare, including its optional Medicaid expansion. But he'll still take $100 ... Read more

UK Government Uses Gestapo Tactics Against Guardian

UK: Journalism Helps Terrorism

The Four GOP States That Have Officially Adopted Obamacare

The Four GOP States That Have Officially Adopted Obamacare
TPMDC | AUGUST 21, 2013
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As states gear up to implement Obamacare, a total of four Republican-governed states have officially enacted legislation ... Read more

In the 21st century surveillance state, we are all terrorists: Intimidating reporters, destroying their computers, detaining them under false pretenses -- it's all in a day's work for today's modern spy agency

In the 21st century surveillance state, we are all terrorists: Intimidating reporters, destroying their computers, detaining them under false pretenses -- it's all in a day's work for today's modern spy agency
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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Cancer patient loses his house when his son allegedly sells $20 of pot from the front porch to a confidential informant. Reporter discovers police are abusing civil forfeiture, an 18th century law designed to fight piracy, nationwide.

Cancer patient loses his house when his son allegedly sells $20 of pot from the front porch to a confidential informant. Reporter discovers police are abusing civil forfeiture, an 18th century law designed to fight piracy, nationwide.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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Cruz to GOP: 'Don't blink' in 'Obamacare' fight

Cruz to GOP: 'Don't blink' in 'Obamacare' fight
FEEDS/TOPSTORIES | AUGUST 20, 2013
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> DALLAS -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's message to Republican lawmakers who won't support defunding "Obamacare" at the risk of shutting down the go... Read more

Even Republican young adults want health insurance, poll finds

Even Republican young adults want health insurance, poll finds
FEEDS/TOPSTORIES | AUGUST 21, 2013
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Obamacare may have become a partisan issue, but more Republicans than Democrats have signed up for one of its most popular provisions, according to a ... Read more

The Pentecostals Who Decline HIV Treatment

From the Religion Can Be Harmful Department...

THE ATLANTIC | AUGUST 20, 2013
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A healing "laying on of hands" ceremony at the Pentecostal Church of God in Kentucky in 1946 (Department of the Interior) Bill came home from the gro... Read more

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

A Universe From Nothing - Lawrence Krauss

A physicist explains the past, present, and future universe. Yes, something can come from "nothing".

Anti-GOP Protests Return To North Carolina

Anti-GOP Protests Return To North Carolina
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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An estimated 2,000 activists gathered at Marshall Park in Charlotte, N.C. on Monday, providing the latest jolt to a coordinated ... Read more

Conservative death panels? The right’s bad healthcare idea - Salon.com

Conservative death panels? The right's bad healthcare idea
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GOP Official Resigns, Says Republicans Are 'Too Conservative'

GOP Official Resigns, Says Republicans Are 'Too Conservative'
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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Chad Brown, co-chairman of the Polk County Republican Party in Iowa, has resigned and switched his political affiliation to ... Read more

IRS 'Scandal' Narrative Complicated By New Documents

IRS 'Scandal' Narrative Complicated By New Documents
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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WASHINGTON -- Officials at the Internal Revenue Service were encouraged to flag groups with the word "emerge" in ... Read more

Chris Christie Endorses Koch Brothers Operative For Senate

Chris Christie Endorses Koch Brothers Operative For Senate
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) endorsed Steve Lonegan, the former New Jersey head for the Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity, ... Read more

Conservative Groups Plan To Rally Against Boehner For Ignoring Benghazi

Conservative Groups Plan To Rally Against Boehner For Ignoring Benghazi
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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Conservative groups amp up pressure on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to create a special committee to investigate Benghazi. ... Read more

Colorado And Montana Announce Affordable Insurance Premiums Under Obamacare

Colorado And Montana Announce Affordable Insurance Premiums Under Obamacare
THINKPROGRESS | AUGUST 20, 2013
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The vast majority of Colorado and Montana residents buying their health coverage through an Obamacare marketplace will have ... Read more

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