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...given California's state budget woes, one had to wonder whether the power bill was past due), but soon enough the attendees shrugged and continued on with the conference. Having fought to put climate change on the global agenda for years - and now representing perhaps the world's best hope for confronting climate change - a brief blackout wasn't going to stop them...
...Kurt still the football team’s kicker? We sure hope he didn’t quit after only one game...
...Audacity of Hope,” President Obama writes that “…values—the standards and principles that the majority of Americans deem important in their lives, and in the life of the country—should be at the heart of our politics.” Remembering these words, it’s disturbing not only to hear the offhanded response of the DNC spokesperson, but also to read the comments on the Daily Kos advocating a value-free politics and listen to students talk about crazy wingnuts’ morality...
...Obama to bring detainees in for trial or detention after the Administration presents a plan for doing so; House negotiators are finalizing similar language in conferences with the Senate this week on a number of non-Defense Department bills that address the issue. A House source says the current hope is that the same language will prevail in the conference for the Defense Department bill. A Senate appropriations aide is less convinced. The Senate won't even consider lifting the ban until it sees the plan, the Senate aide says...
...hands. Some have blisters and bloodstains on their palms from the rescue effort. Dr. Rahmat Fajar traveled from south Sumatra to administer to trauma victims, but so far no one has been pulled out alive from the landslide area. "We are still digging," he says. "But we have no hope. None at all." Just then, at nearly 9 p.m., a local walks up to the medic team and announces that another body has been found by the riverbank. The survivors in the tents jostle and wonder who will claim this corpse. Tomorrow there will surely be others...