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Last login: 5 hours agoSarahlee: sarahlee is a 56 year old single woman from Lakota Territory, South Dakota, USA.; Likes 1,841 pages, 272 videos, 29 photos • 113 fans • Received 22 reviews; Member since May 19, 2005

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Daily Kos: Court Strikes Down Rule Restricting Air Pollution Monitoring: Aug 19, 10:15pm 2 reviews environment, law, epa
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/19/23041/0634/767/570805; From the page: "Today, a major decision was handed down by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The short version is that a EPA (Bush II era) rule which prevents states and localities from requiring air polluters to monitor their emissions was struck down."

YouTube - Five Million: Aug 19, 9:57pm 2 reviews politics, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=51xcbj3cbb; "QUESTION: "Define 'rich.' Give me a number. Give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich?"

Daily Kos: Cone of Blackberries: an aides Transcript: Aug 18, 9:54pm 1 review liberal-politics, humor, internet
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/18/203016/841/467/570064; Pretty hysterical.

Cone of Blackberries: an aide's Transcript

BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain sweats amid water wars: Aug 18, 8:25pm 1 review environment, spain, water
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7569022.stm; From the page: "Spain is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years. Climate experts warn that the country is suffering badly from the impact of climate change and that the Sahara is slowly creeping north - into the Spanish mainland."

YouTube - Barack Thanks the 2 Millionth Donor: Aug 18, 11:09am 1 review liberal-politics, politics, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=53w0irskx3; Very cool. Not just a quickie, thank you and hang up.

From the page: "Barack calls Ed Prouty of New Hampshire to thank him for becoming the 2 millionth donor. "

Daily Kos: Pew Survey: Fans of Colbert and Stewart know real news, too: Aug 18, 10:23am 1 review politics, journalism, news, television, youth
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/18/121324/503/773/569766; Pew Survey: Fans of Colbert and Stewart know 'real' news, too

From the page: "The results of the new Pew Survey on News Consumption (taken every two years and released this afternoon) suggest that viewers of the "fake news" programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more knowledgeable about current events (as judged by three test questions) than watchers of "real" cable news shows hosted by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and Larry King, among others -- as well as average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.

"The national average for answering the three questions was only 18%. But 34% of The Colbert Report fans got them right, with 30% of The Daily Show viewers doing so -- even though the two Comedy Central shows draw younger audiences which generally scored less well on the "test" than older viewers/readers. "

Daily Kos: Cross in the Dirt, a recap of what we know: Aug 17, 8:15pm 1 review liberal-politics, politics, elections
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/17/173543/323/111/569427; Last night during the Saddleback Church Faith forum, John McCain told a story about a prison guard marking a cross in the dirt one Christmas while he was a POW. McCain's story bears a remarkable similarity to a story told in "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which was released in the US in 1973. McCain has previously expressed being a fan of Solzhenitsyn's. A bit of plagiarism?

There has been a lot of discussion across the blogosphere about this today. This diary tries to recap the research in one place without drawing conclusions.

Update: Hats of to the folks at Free Republic, who first noticed this back in 2005:
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538054/posts [freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538054/posts]
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538054/posts [freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538054/posts]

Update 2: Andrew Sullivan is on it:
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-dirt-in-the.html [andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-dirt-in-the.html]
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-dirt-in-t-1.html [andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-dirt-in-t-1.html]
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-cross-in-th.html [andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/the-cross-in-th.html]
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/mccain-salter-a.html [andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/mccain-salter-a.html]

There are ways to get more vacation time: Aug 16, 4:08pm 3 reviews culture, jobs, vacation, employment
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/16/BU8C12C097.DTL&fe...; From the page: ""Medieval Peasants Had More Vacation Than You.""

ColoradoPols.com:: McCain just lost Colorado: Aug 16, 3:58pm 1 review politics, water
http://coloradopols.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=D98A03A4BBD860B061DE01FE78E0B...; From the page: "Water experts of all stripes were left questioning the prudence of Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain after he told a newspaper the critical 1922 water compact between seven Western states should be revisited. "

Doctors: Lawsuits help guarantee drug safety - USATODAY.com: Aug 16, 3:51pm 1 review health, law, medicine
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-08-15-drug-lawsuits_N.htm; Doctors: Lawsuits help guarantee drug safety

From the page: "WASHINGTON (AP) -Top doctors who run one of the most influential U.S. medical journals are giving the U.S. Supreme Court some unsolicited legal advice about a major case.

"Lawsuits can serve as "a vital deterrent" and protect consumers if drug companies do not disclose risks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before it approves medicines for use, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said in a friend-of-the-court brief. The FDA "is in no position" to guarantee drug safety, the brief said."

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