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Friday, July 03, 2009 :::

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 :::

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Monday, June 22, 2009 :::

::: Project Trico HD - PlayStation LifeStyle posted by kiyote23
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Saturday, June 20, 2009 :::

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A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library - NYTimes.com: "Fiscal threats to libraries deeply unnerve Mr. Bradbury, who spends as much time as he can talking to children in libraries and encouraging them to read.

The Internet? Don’t get him started. “The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is jammed with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVDs, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table.

“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’

“It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

A Yahoo spokeswoman said it was impossible to verify Mr. Bradbury’s account without more details."

::: A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library - NYTimes.com posted by kiyote23
::: at 6/20/2009 03:41:00 PM | (0) comments

Iowa Theatre: Not a review of Little Dog Laughed: "Matthew James is in it - he's done a lot lately in Cedar Rapids and around here. I remember him from Frozen. Incredible performance. And then there's Rachel Howell. Totally takes over the role of the Hollywood agent. She's scarily good in the part. Loren Ditzler is great too - did you see that bunch of original plays City Circle did a while ago? She was in that and really stood out. I mean some of the shows weren't all that great as you'd expect with original stuff, but I remember Loren really stood out. And then Bryant something or other... Duffy, that's it. He's the character who really changes the most in the show and he's just spot on. I'd never seen him onstage before but hopefully, he'll do more stuff. Great, great actor."

::: Iowa Theatre: Not a review of Little Dog Laughed posted by kiyote23
::: at 6/20/2009 09:34:00 AM | (0) comments
Thursday, June 18, 2009 :::

Radio Iowa: Report says immigration raids included "systematic abuse of worker rights":"Mary Bauer of the Southern Poverty Law Center was on the commission and spoke on a conference call about the report.

Bauer says the report does an amazing job of laying out the costs of the raids, particularly the human costs. "The destruction of families, devastated communities, terrorized children, including it must be noted, many U.S. citizens," Bauer says. Bauer says the report details how the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) used strong-arm tactics to abuse the workers at the plants.

Bauer says it shows a law enforcement agency with "really the most profound disrespect for the law and our nation's constitution." She says reading the report she was particularly struck by "how profoundly unconstitutional most of these raids were in the way that they were carried out and practiced." Bauer says the tactics were used throughout the Bush administration, but some of them still continue under the Obama administration.

Bauer says the answer to the situation is change with "fair and comprehensive immigration reform." She says the report lays out some very specific suggestions for reform. The president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Joseph Hansen, chaired the commission that wrote the report, and the commission also included U.S. Ag Secretary and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack.

Waterloo resident Michael Graves commuted to work at the Marshalltown plant and was working on the day of the raid there. Graves was on the conference call about the report and talked about how an ICE agent stopped him and two other men at the plant. The agent took them to the lockerroom to get their identification.

Graves says the agent searched his pants pockets and got out his I.D. and asked him about where he was from. Graves says the agent asked where his parents were from and he told them Mississippi, and then the agent asked him if he knew the way to Mississippi. Graves says he told the agent he knew how to get to Mississippi because they went there to visit, and the agent laughed at him.

Graves says the agent refused to let him go to the bathroom even after finding out he was a legal worker, and then held him for several hours. He says they were not fed anything until it was all over and that took about eight hours."

::: Radio Iowa: Report says immigration raids included "systematic abuse of worker rights" posted by kiyote23
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 :::

hotdogsladies (hotdogsladies) on Twitter: "If I dated a sexy but deadly lady robot, and 'Poker Face' were 'our song,' I probably wouldn't get the irony until it was way too late."

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::: at 6/17/2009 11:35:00 AM | (0) comments
Monday, June 15, 2009 :::

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Your kid really wants a Wii for Christmas, but you can't find one anywhere? No worries, here's Klik, the candy dispenser that's shaped like a Wiimote.

Sorry for the fuzzy pic, I snapped it from the candy catalog this morning. It really looks like a Wiimote, down to the "Wii" logo. The "Wii" logo appears on the packaging as well.

If you're curious, I passed on bringing these into the store.

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::: at 6/15/2009 07:33:00 AM | (0) comments