posted by AWilkinson on Jul 7
I’m not sure if there’s any real new information here, but I wanted to post the story, for those that are following the case and don’t get our local news. I’ll keep an eye out and see if anything new comes up.
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Documents released in Michael King trial
posted by MatthewSimon on Jul 3
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. – Natural resources officials plan to enforce the state’s invasive species laws in central Minnesota this weekend after zebra mussels were discovered near Alexandria last month.
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DNR to enforce invasive species law in Alexandria
posted by HannekeOosthuizen on Jun 29
Comment RSS Email Print Cameron Diaz People are used to seeing Cameron Diaz playing fun-loving women in comedies or sexy love interests in dramas, so she took a big risk playing a grief-stricken mother of a terminally ill child in the tearjerker “My Sister’s Keeper.” Based on the Jodi Picoult novel of the same name, “My Sister’s Keeper” tells the story of the Fitzgeralds, a family coping with cancer.
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Cameron Diaz talks about family ties and fierce motherly love in ‘My Sister’s Keeper’
posted by ScottMartin on Jun 18
It is often said that to be successful in the Chinese officialdom, you have to acquire a thick face, and a black heart (??, there is an English book if you want to learn more about ??? ) . Nine years ago, the director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Construction, Xu Qiyao (???), was arrested for taking bribes of over 20 million yuan
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Fatherly advice: Eight success principles for being an official
posted by BrandonBrewer on Jun 12
I’ve been playing around with the June kit from Creek Bank Creations and decided to take this paper that I didn’t like and make something pretty with it for someone else, so made my daughter-in-law a card for her birthday yesterday. the inside of the card….. I took a butterfly rubon and rubbed it onto white cardstock and then cut it out. I kept trying to find a spot for him on the front of the card but every place I tried bugged me, so I ended up putting him on the inside.
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Another handmade birthday card
posted by MattCrick on Jun 6
One of my very favorite human beings offers an opinion on Obama’s speech in Cairo. As I would have expected, one of the best analysis I have read so far.
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Ayaan Hirsi Alli weighs in on Obama’s speech.
posted by AndrewBowen on Jun 1
As the gaming media turns all eyes towards L.A.
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The E3 News You Haven’t Heard
posted by SEO-FER on May 26
Legislation would improve protections for both consumers and dealers Rep. Joe Pitts (D) House, District 67 (NASHVILLE) – This week State Representative Joe Pitts (D-Clarksville) and members of the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee pushed important legislation designed to protect consumers and local car dealers from the recent American automobile industry crisis. The bill has broad bipartisan support and is expected to move swiftly through both the House and Senate.
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Working to help Tennesseans caught in wake of recent auto crisis
posted by RakeshGaikwad on May 25
If we had lived a century ago, we would be celebrating Decoration Day today, instead of Memorial Day. While the patriotic sentiment of honoring the fallen remains the same, the holiday, originally celebrated to honor Union troops who perished in the Civil War, has changed in scope; we now honor all war dead on Memorial Day. As seen in this c.
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Decoration Day, or How Memorial Day Began as a Black Holiday
posted by JoelMcDonald on May 5
Go read the whole thing. Chris Hedges: A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used to bolster illusion and give it credibility or are discarded if they interfere with the message
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Brand Obama