On July 24, the rowers were touched by the hand of Gaia and rowed 30 km into a stiff head wind with their GPS off. Had they not made it around the point that day, this is what they would have faced. The clouds have cleared finally.
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Veteran, Tea Party, Ron Paul, Republican, Christian, Constitution, Libertarian, Romney, skeptic, 2nd Amendment.
Be extra careful when transmitting these words electronically!
Temperatures are back up to freezing!
Edward Snowden asylum: US ‘disappointed’ by Russian decision | World news | The Guardian
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Can you figure out what this is? It was my first try.
The planned crossings have not been possible because of the ice coverage and the danger of ending up in a soup of massive icebergs.
Why didn’t anyone tell them this before they started?
03.05.2013
Until recently, it was not possible to row across the Northwest Passage but melting sea ice has changed all of that, so the adventurers will also use their expedition as a platform to highlight the impact of climate change.
There was a reason why the founding fathers forbade unreasonable searches without warrant or probable cause.
A New York woman says her family’s interest in the purchase of pressure cookers and backpacks led to a home visit by six police investigators demanding information about her job, her husband’s ancestry and the preparation of quinoa.
Michele Catalano, who lives in Long Island, New York, said her web searches for pressure cookers, her husband’s hunt for backpacks, and her “news junkie” son’s craving for information on the Boston bombings had combined somewhere in the internet ether to create a “perfect storm of terrorism profiling”.
Members of what she described as a “joint terrorism task force” descended on Catalano’s home on Wednesday. A spokesman for the FBI told to the Guardian on Thursday that its investigators were not involved in the visit, but that “she was visited by Nassau County police department … They were working in conjunction with Suffolk County police department.”
House Republicans Set to Defy Obama Are Mostly White Men – Bloomberg
The majority of people in Congress are white men, just like Bloomberg. Zimmerman could have been his son. Odds are that any group of Congressmen is going to be “mostly white men.”
h/t to John Q. Galt
Every time you see a photograph of a child with similar skin color to your own, do you think “that could be my child?”
