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Hear Oh Israel has an interesting post up about this site: Arabs for Israel. Check out his post and the site itself. Good stuff.

SFGate.com:
A man spit tobacco juice into the face of actress Jane Fonda after waiting in line to have her sign her new book, police said.
The man ran off but was quickly caught by police Tuesday night and charged with disorderly conduct.
Disgusting behavior and there is no excuse for it. I have criticized those of […]

GayPatriot has some very interesting analysis of Connecticut’s recognition of same-sex civil unions:
But, until yesterday, no elected state legislature, without having been forced by the courts, passed a bill recognizing same-sex civil unions. When the state’s democratically elected Republican governor (albeit elected Lieutenant Governor, but who assumed her current position in accordance with the state […]

I haven’t blogged on this previously, as I have not had time to research the details. I pretty much assumed that they were protesting a cover-up, which is par for the course.
Roger L. Simon has some good comments though:
The level of prevarication surrounding the recent resignation of investigators Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan from […]

I have made the previously announced blogroll changes.
I took off a couple of sites that were seem to have been abandoned. It is a sad day when a blog goes unloved. If I took you off, and you are planning to resume blogging, let me know and I can put you […]

I don’t geek out for gadgets very often, my geekness is pretty much from a Fantasy/Sci-Fi/RPG realm but this is awesome:

(via Smack My Booty)

Fort Worth Star Telegram:
Eva Thibaudeau and her partner, Christina Rodriguez, have been foster parents to nearly 80 children since they were licensed eight years ago. They’ve adopted four of them.
But they would have to stop taking in kids under legislation passed by the House on Wednesday that could make Texas the only state to […]

Belmont Club has an interesting post up about the latest forays of the Pentagon into the world of espionage.
There is lots of interesting stuff, but this bit here is especially interesting:
FALCON, FORUM and SMINDS — which are automatic translation systems enabling people of different languages to speak to each other simultaneously or interpet documents in […]

James Carville and Paul Begala write in USATODAY:
Sure, we’d like it if Democrats were seen as the party of faith, family and the flag. And we’d like it if Democrats would fight corporate interests more and take their special interest money less. But the biggest problem the Democrats face is not that they’re seen as […]

Tsykodul has a good post up On biodiesel. I have been very skeptical of biodiesel as an alternative to oil, but he makes some very good points.
I particular, the concept of using aglae as the base crop, rather than soy is interesting. Soy has not seemed efficient enough, either as an energy collecter […]