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Temperatures are back up to freezing!

Edward Snowden asylum: US ‘disappointed’ by Russian decision | World news | The Guardian

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Iraq suffers its deadliest month in five years | World news | The Guardian

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.

A Lesson In Patience For Denis

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.

Rowers’ attempt through Arctic’s Northwest Passage to highlight climate change – Clean Tech – Clean Tech | siliconrepublic.com – Ireland’s Technology News Service

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.”

New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online | World news | theguardian.com

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?”

Twitter / juliafar: @SteveSGoddard yes because …

One of Obama’s New York sons has been busy.

Police in New York City are trying to find a black man wearing a hoodie who is responsible for a horrific attack on a teenage white girl who was stabbed 11 times just steps from her front door.

The knife-wielding maniac ambushed Natasha Martinez, 17, as she returned home from working her shift at a local McDonald’s restaurant.

Black man in hoodie stabs white girl 11 times

Obama explained last week that the high incidence of black crime is due to the fact that the police are racists.