Great from Keith

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Bike Lanes Around the WORLD

Some good, some great, some not so much:  GALLERY HERE

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Moving images from Haiti from Jonathan Auch

Some beautiful, some horrifying -- these are images from photojournalist Jonathan Auch's recent trip to survey and report the damaged lives of the Haitian people.  Link below:

http://www.jonathanauch.com/haiti-earthquake/index.html

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Fundamentalism is alive and well - or - Now who's the Army of One?

Don't Ask Don't Tell is going to be repealed.  The nation's two top defense officials are seeking it's end.  Heroes in our armed forces will no longer have to live lives of secrecy, and another shameful wall will come tumbling down.

“No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens,”

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Amazing video after the leap . . .

Fun with Spending - Obama's 2011 Budget Interactive Chart

Interactive Chart --- >>  HERE   . . . try clicking 2010 budget to watch DEFENSE EXPAND and HEALTH SHRINK!!  Also click full screen so that you can get small enough to see the budget for RENEWABLE ENERGIES.

Cool progress on the LIRR extension to Grand Central

Exercise Win!!! Exercise Win!!!

Escalator FAIL, or Exercise WIN??

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . (video)

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"
--Thomas Jefferson

Congratulations Wingnuts!!! Take out your OWN trash.

I wonder if these THOUSANDS of Christians are praying for trash collection?  I don't think Jesus does that, but Colorado Springs -- home of freakishly popular and dangerous fringe operations like Focus on the Family and the Teabagger Revolution, is beginning to see what it means to have no taxes to bolster public services.  From the Denver Post:

"More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday.

The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

Emergency! - or - I still have no idea what to do with this ominous cord.

We all know what this scary-looking dangly is, but WHEN the heck do you use it?