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• Big Kaboom at Venezuela’s Largest Oil Refinery…

  Dozens dead and even more injured.

  Gas prices already on the rise for various reasons, including 8.6% of Gulf oil production being halted in preparation of Isaac. But now the markets will factor this into the mix as well...

  Venezuela's largest oil refinery went up in flames Saturday, leaving 26 [...]

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• Neil Armstrong Slips The Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch The Face of God

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  Most of us leave footprints behind on Earth after we have left. Neil Armstrong was the first of a rare and select few who stepped higher.

  Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

  It was just the 43rd anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic voyage to that wonderous orb that' [...]

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• The Powerful Hive of Political and Cultural Progressive Like Minds on Eighth Avenue

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  BUMP - NY Times dust-up: I am bumping this back up from two days ago here on Babalu Blog because everybody else is finally catching up with us. Bernard Goldberg's thoughts from tonight:

  Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

  After two years as the New York Times Public Editor, Arthur Brisbane' [...]

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• Yoani Sanchez: “There is no way to become a Julian Assange in Cuba and stay alive…”

  Yoani Sanchez on intel hacker Julian Assange and the Cuban government's admiration for him ... via Translating Cuba:

  I’m not going to analyze the ethical and journalistic implications of Julian Assange’s work. I confess that I sympathize in part with his ideology, at least the part that proclaims the need [...]

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• Mr. Jefferson strikes a blow against class warfare, again….

  Obama campaign turned away by the University of Virginia

  The University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, has told the Obama campaign to stay away.  At U.Va. nearly every important decision is often defended by appealing to what its founder might have said.  "Mr. Jefferson would have wanted it this way...." [...]

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• et tu The Weather Channel?

  The Weather Channel is quickly becoming like its mainstream news media brethren. Today at about noon I was treated to some hard-hitting Weather Channel journalism from an all-inclusive resort for non-Cubans in Varadero, Cuba. The footage, that included "Cubano pool boys" bringing in and securing the lounge chairs, was riveting. [...]

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• Stormy Weather and U.S. History

  For my Babalu family in Florida.

  200 years ago today an un-named hurricane gave a major ass-kicking to the British army that had just set all of the nation's capital ablaze during the British invasion of Washington D.C. in 1812...

  More background on this history at the Air Force Weather Observer.

  There [...]

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• Bloomberg’s NYPD needs the same training concealed-carry permit holders get

  What a disaster this is. How can this imbecile keep bringing up gun control when his own NYPD doesn't exhibit even minimum common sense in a deadly force situation like this.

  Empire State Building shooting victim says NYPD fired 'randomly' into street

  Officers injured nine bystanders as they pursued gunman Jeffrey' [...]

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• A glimpse behind the curtain

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  Castroite agent lectures unlucky scholarship students

  Here we have a great example of the way in which Castrolandia conducts its propaganda campaigns throughout the so-called Third World, and how journalists in those countries help the bastards.  Nothing new here.  Just a very revealing glimpse of the machinery.   To some, this [...]

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• I’m ready for you, Isaac!

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  I've got water so I can make cafe and wash my face and hands, and I've got cigarettes. I'm ready for the storm.

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