Archive for May 28th, 2011

Weekend Open Thread

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The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Chris Coons Votes Against the Patriot Act Extension

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Senator Coons asked the Senate to limit the extension of the Patriot Act to one month so that the Senate could seriously review and revise the law to reflect current lessons learned to scale back some of the broad authorities granted to government under the original Patriot Act.

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R. I. P. Gil Scott Heron

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One of our true visionaries. Never was able to successfully defeat his demons, although he tried. And tried and tried. Some samples of his genius: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHOq8i5Pyk[/youtube] ‘Winter In America’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKsTCKYm4E&feature=related[/youtube] ‘The Bottle’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPRwG1_ayk[/youtube] ‘Johannesburg’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_9Ph8KiVM&feature=related[/youtube] ‘Ain’t No Such Thing As A Superman’ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_astp3BjM&feature=relmfu[/youtube] ‘I’m New Here’

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Priorities

Filed in International by on May 28, 2011 6 Comments
Priorities

Sorry I haven’t been around, but priorities people. It looks like you’ve had real fun while I’m on vacation so I doubt you’ve even noticed my absence. Now it’s time to go chillax and enjoy the view.

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