"The Scott sisters have been attracting important new allies in recent days. NAACP President Ben Jealous calls the legal process surrounding this case a “travesty”. Ken Turner, the man who prosecuted the Scott sisters, isn’t admitting to any missteps, but even he admits the sentences are difficult to justify."
- Dinah
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"Candidates of all political stripes are latching on to the tantalizing reality that a huge — and growing — chunk of voters casts ballots well ahead of Election Day."
- Dinah
from Bookmarklet
"But Obama is not the only one to blame for not taking the path less traveled a year ago. Most well-to-do progressives continue to keep their wallets closed when it comes to building the kind of small-d democratic media-political infrastructure that is needed inside the Washington Beltway."
- Dinah
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Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America | Health and Wellness | AlterNet - http://www.alternet.org/healthw...
"Foreign-born legal residents can enlist in the U.S. military once they have permanent residency. Nationwide, about 69,000 active-duty military personnel were born outside the U.S., about 5% of the total."
- Dinah
from Bookmarklet
"When researchers tracking elephants in remote northern Kenya needed a stable source of electricity for their camp, they turned to Stephen Gold."
- Dinah
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"Produce to the People, which often consists of Lauren and any good-natured tree-climbing friends and volunteers she can scrounge up, travels throughout San Francisco harvesting fruits and vegetables from private gardens and gardeners who simply have more apples, plums and oranges than they know what to do with."
- Dinah
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"But! Now that I’ve seen this cozy, I am seriously considering finding some punk downtown so I can buy a gun from the back of his van."
- Dinah
from Bookmarklet
"Yet some scientists are suggesting that depression — peculiarly prevalent for a mental disorder — is not a malfunction at all, but an evolutionary adaptation, a state of mind which can have debilitating effects, but also promotes highly analytical thinking."
- Dinah
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"The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported that 6.1 million background checks for gun sales were issued from January to May, an increase of 25.6 percent from the same period the year before."
- Dinah
from Bookmarklet
"Fruit grower Ken Morrish was left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle."
- Dinah
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I would use it to make notes on the books I read on kindle. Select a paragraph I find of interest, notes on something I want to research further, reference for tweets, posts I would make on the subject. For instance, currently reading Tear Down This Myth on kindle. Would love to have notes on this I could reference from Evernote.
- Dinah
To the new Kindle DX, I would send (or retrieve) the PDFs now stored in Evernote. If Evernote integration were listed as a feature, I would probably be clicking the final button to buy the KDX.
- Ken Morrill
@Dinah - Is there a way to have the Kindle mail your notes? You could use the email address provided with your Evernote account to slurp them in. I can't remember how the Kindle exports them.
- Lindsay
@bluecockatoo that's a great idea! I work for a church that is trying to find a way to distribute the music we've written in pdf form to the performers.... using evernote to storethem, then emailing them out and accessing it via a Kindle... great now I have to go order one to play with.
- Jim Edwards
Does the Kindle read RSS feeds? Public notebooks generate RSS feeds.
- Peter van Teeseling
"I found out that the Church owns two hunting preserves: Deseret Land and Livestock, and Westlake Hunting Preserve in Utah County."
- Dinah
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Had to insert my middle name to make it effective: "Victor Bernard Kamutzki's anagram name is BUTT RAZOR KIND MAVERICK". Damn. Did I just post that??
- Victor Kamutzki
"We loved these Moroccan spiced lamb meatballs but missed out on the one key Moroccan ingredient: ras el hanout, a mix of about 12 spices like cardamom, clove, cinnamon, paprika, coriander, cumin, mace, nutmeg, peppercorn, and turmeric!"
- Dinah
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"In Utah, it is legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender. Yet it is common for many of the men who live in Utah to take more than one wife and have scores of children. I'm just saying..."
- Dinah
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