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Feb 25 2010
Afternoon Edition
Afternoon Edition is an Open Thread
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1 Excuses but no Sarkozy apology for Rwanda genocide
by Philippe Alfroy, AFP
1 hr 43 mins ago
| KIGALI (AFP) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledged that France made mistakes during the 1994 genocide, paid homage to the victims but stopped short of apologising during his landmark visit to Kigali Thursday.
“What happened here is unacceptable, but what happened here compels the international community, including France, to reflect on the mistakes that stopped it from preventing and halting this abominable crime,” he said. Marking the first visit to Rwanda by a French president since the 1994 massacres, Sarkozy spoke at a joint press conference with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has repeatedly accused Paris of aiding the genocide. |
Feb 25 2010
Olympic Alternatives X
You thought I was not serious?
I’m dead serious. The only way to effect change is through sacrifice (changing your habits) and protest (telling people what you think, publicly).
Plenty of other stuff out on the Hypnotoad. Just look-
The Hypnotoad.
| "Television is a vast wasteland" |
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Primetime Update.
Late Night Update.
Why are you Update.
Feb 24 2010
Afternoon Edition
Afternoon Edition is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 6 Haitian orphans who had been detained land in US
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press Writers
1 hr 14 mins ago
| MIAMI – Six Haitian orphans arrived in the United States on Wednesday, four days after Haitian police seized them out of fear they were being kidnapped.
The children arrived on a charter flight to Miami International Airport. They will be taken to a shelter and their new parents can take the children home Thursday, according to Jan Bonnema, the Minnesota-based founder of the Children of The Promise orphanage. On Saturday, a group of 20 men blocked four women accompanying the orphans to the airport, shouting: “You can’t take our children!” Police briefly detained the women and the orphans – ages 1-5 – spent three night sleeping on the ground in a tent city. The U.S. Embassy official carrying the documents needed to take them through immigration had been running late. |
Feb 24 2010
Olympic Alternatives IX
You thought I was not serious?
I’m dead serious. The only way to effect change is through sacrifice (changing your habits) and protest (telling people what you think, publicly).
Plenty of other stuff out on the Hypnotoad. Just look-
The Hypnotoad.
| "Television is a vast wasteland" |
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Primetime Update.
Late Night Update.
Why are you Update.
Feb 24 2010
Wednesday Morning Science Supplement
Wednesday Morning Science Supplement is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Science |
1 Kerry insists US to move on climate
by Shaun Tandon, AFP
Tue Feb 23, 9:16 pm ET
| WASHINGTON (AFP) – Senator John Kerry vowed the United States would overcome the odds and approve action on climate change, as the United Nations set talks for April to help break a diplomatic logjam.
Without offering a timetable, Kerry on Tuesday rejected assertions that it had become politically impossible for the Senate to finalize the first US nationwide plan to curb carbon emissions blamed for global warming. “I’m excited. I know that’s completely contrary to any conventional wisdom,” said Kerry, a close ally of President Barack Obama and chief architect of the legislation. |
Feb 23 2010
Afternoon Edition
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Haitian official: orphans given to US Embassy
Associated Press
17 mins ago
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A top Haitian official tells The Associated Press that the U.S. Embassy now has custody of six orphans who were seized by Haitian police as they were about to board a plane for the United States.
Social Welfare agency chief Jeanne Bernard Pierre would not say when her office handed the children over to U.S. officials. The children, ages 1 to 5, were seized by police Saturday from four women who were accompanying them out of Haiti, apparently with the correct legal paperwork. An angry crowd had accused the group of child trafficking. |
Feb 23 2010
Olympic Alternatives VIII
You thought I was not serious?
I’m dead serious. The only way to effect change is through sacrifice (changing your habits) and protest (telling people what you think, publicly).
Plenty of other stuff out on the Hypnotoad. Just look-
The Hypnotoad.
| "Television is a vast wasteland" |
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Early Evening Update.
Late Evening Update.
Late Night Update.
Why are you Update?
Feb 22 2010
No Public Option, No Mandate
As expected Obama has sold us out to the Insurance Companies.
His “New Regulation System” is likely to be ruled out of order by the Senate Parlimentarian and defeated by Republican Filibuster.
There is still an anti-Union excise tax.
There is NO Public Option and therefore NO constraint on Insurance Company behavior.
He has RAISED the penalty on the Individual Mandate.
It’s Official: Obama Is Against The Public Option
By: Jon Walker Monday February 22, 2010 8:45 am
Just to be clear, you can’t “support” something if you make no effort to see that it passes. If you do things that directly harm its chances of becoming law, like not include it in your health care proposal, then you are against it. But don’t worry, even as Obama takes steps to make sure that people don’t have an alternative to the private insurance companies that helped ruin our health care system, he did take steps to make sure you face an even bigger IRS penalty if you refuse to buy the poorly regulated product from the private insurance companies.
This is not Health Care Reform.
It is a bad bill that must be defeated.
Feb 22 2010
Olympic Alternatives VII
You thought I was not serious?
I’m dead serious. The only way to effect change is through sacrifice (changing your habits) and protest (telling people what you think, publicly).
Plenty of other stuff out on the Hypnotoad. Just look-
The Hypnotoad.
| "Television is a vast wasteland" |
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Mid-Afternoon Update.
Prime Time Update.
FINAL Update.
Feb 21 2010
Weekend News Digest
Weekend News Digest is an Open Thread
Now with 30 Top Stories.
(Off to work on my early evening update for Olympic Alternatives VI. I’ll try to get back to this when I have a chance.)
Update Complete. Now on Late Evening Update.
40 Top Story Final.
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 AP finds all Baptist group’s ‘orphans’ had parents
By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writer
Sun Feb 21, 8:24 am ET
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Although a U.S. Baptist group said it was trying to rescue 33 “orphans” by taking them out of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, all the children have close family still alive, The Associated Press has found.
A reporter’s visit Saturday to the rubble-strewn Citron slum, where 13 of the children lived, led to their parents, all of whom said they turned their youngsters over to the missionary group voluntarily in hopes of getting them to safety. Similar explanations were given by parents in the mountain town of Callabas, outside Port-au-Prince, who told the AP on Feb. 3 that desperation and blind faith led them to hand over 20 children to the Baptist group. |
Feb 21 2010
Olympic Alternatives VI
You thought I was not serious?
I’m dead serious. The only way to effect change is through sacrifice (changing your habits) and protest (telling people what you think, publicly).
Plenty of other stuff out on the Hypnotoad. Just look-
The Hypnotoad.
| "Television is a vast wasteland" |
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Mid-Afternoon Update.
Early Evening Update.
Late Evening Update.
Late Night Update.
What are you doing Update.
Feb 20 2010
Weekend News Digest
Weekend News Digest is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Haitians return to find family as commercial flights restart
by M.J. Smith, AFP
Fri Feb 19, 4:00 pm ET
| PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Haitians arrived Friday on the first commercial flight into their country since last month’s earthquake, desperately hoping to find family members alive and their homes still standing.
“I want to see my wife,” said Jean Felix as he waited to board the plane before takeoff in Miami. “She’s living in the street and she’s told me by phone that we lost everything… I’m going there with my heart broken.” |