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I'm rather disappointed with DK4, it seems the fire hose has been turned on with unlimited diaries and everyone is trying to take a sip and it feels like I am not reaching people here anymore.I'll...

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I rescinded my green card last week

Yep, I threw it away.I was born in Scotland and grew up in Canada. I spent 20 years in the US. At first I was a student....F1 visa. After 6 years I had a J1 visa (exchange visitor) I was a scientist on...

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Is the West Coast of North America Next?

Recently, there have been a series of strong earthquakes on the compression side of the pacific plate. We had the 6.3 in Christchurch, New Zealand last month, the huge 9.0 quake off the coast of north...

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Japan, my thoughts about the Nuclear Situation

We do not have a lot of concrete information.We know that radiation levels spiked last night. We know that they reported a hydrogen blast in reactor#2. The outer part of the primary containment...

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I was just phone polled by Harper

As you may or may not know, Canada is about to have an election. Yesterday, the Conservatives (led by Stephen Harper, aka Bush Lite) tabled a proposed budget and the leaders of the other parties all...

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The future of information

I recently watched a TED talk that blew my socks off. It was by an MIT researcher from their famed Media Lab who wired up his house with video camera's and sound recording and then recorded and...

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I am pro-Nuclear

however, we have a hell of a situation on our hands. It seems the design of the plant from the 1960's was not very good.We can do a lot better than this.Every coal power plant or natural gas power...

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Hinterland Who's Who: The Canadian Beaver

Well, today we had some friends visiting from France. So I decided to take them for a drive around the area, and then for a short hike near my house on the Niagara Escarpment to show them what our area...

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I just got my first (and perhaps last) FaceBook Friend tonight

I despise FaceBook! Perhaps out of jealousy. I have avoided it as long as I could.I created a pseudo-anonymous account just so I could spy on a few people.My world changed yesterday.

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Inspiring the Youth Generation

A lot has changed in the world recently and social media and the internet have a lot to do with it. The youth of today have grown up in a facebook and youtube world. Within that, an opportunity to...

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NSFW: Survivor/Witness Guilt of the War Correspondent

I never paid much attention to the activities/life of a war correspondent until a journalist friend of mine was sent to cover events in the middle east a couple of years ago by a major news...

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Netroots Radio: An Interview with Crashing Vor

Broadcasting tonight (Wed) from 9-midnight eastern, we have an interview with Crashing Vor. Justice Putnam and I will discuss a range of topics with Crashing Vor, including:His music, including his new...

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Netroots Radio: An Interview with Crashing Vor

Broadcasting tonight (Wed) from 9-midnight eastern, we have an interview with Crashing Vor. Justice Putnam and I will discuss a range of topics with Crashing Vor, including:His music, including his new...

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Netroots Radio: An Interview with Crashing Vor (the podcast)

Last wed night we broadcast my first radio program for our new fledgling radio network Netroots Radio from our flagship station Blue Skies Radio.We are a new progressive online radio station that has...

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In a World of Austerity, Obama Bucks the Trend

Despite the clear and present danger of the republican position for austerity and deregulation, the debt ceiling crisis and hostage negotiations, Obama is one of very few world leaders demanding a jobs...

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You Are Now Top Front and Center on CNN #occupywallstreet

Here's the link to the CNN story about it.and they are trying to portray you as a group action with no message.You need to organize and get a coherent message.Remember Tahrir Square? They started out...

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Liberals one seat shy of a majority in Ontario, Canada

Ontario voted today, the results are striking in the regional polarizations.vote map click on the ontario map tab on that link.The Liberals are one seat shy of a majority. An outcome that is...

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A symbol to show your solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet

I've been thinking that we need to get a symbol to represent solidarity with #occupywallstreet. This is more for the people who cannot attend an Occcupy Protest themselves (for whatever reason). It's a...

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My first and only Pootie/Woozle diary

this will be short.I am a woozle kinda guy, however this pootie vid featuring one of my favourite bands from my home town area made this vid.I think it needs to go viral!However not FIV viral, you...

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Is it just me, or do we live in 'Bizarro' World.

When I read the news headlines these days I think this world of ours is backwards, upside-down and directionless. I have to check to make sure that I'm not reading The Onion, because even The Onion...

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Mississippi Mayor (R) busted for spending taxpayer funds at gay sex store in...

The more things change the more they stay the same.From Canada's premier national daily newspaper, the Globe and Mail.Greg Davis, the Republican mayor of Southaven, Miss. was caught when state auditors...

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Obama's Marriage Equality Statement & the Dinner Table Discussions

Clearly his statement supporting the rights of anyone to enter into a marriage with anyone else regardless of gender has no immediate impact on the law regarding marriage or civil unions.So what is the...

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Chalk Lecture vs Powerpoint

I am teaching a large class of undergraduates Organic Chemistry.Contrary to how I learned the subject, I have discovered that many profs at many universities today (including mine) are slacking and...

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It's Time to 'Throw them an Anvil'

If you are talking politics with your friends and neighbours or if you are canvassing door to door, it's time to focus on the down ticket races.Please learn all you can about the local policies and...

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Shark Tank, Dragons Den & Bain Capital/Mitt Romney

Today, the Globe and Mail (Canada's National Newspaper) unleashed a story about Kevin O'Leary. He is known in Canada to the general public as a business finance guy who believes that 'greed is good'....

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Why is Mitts' Flip-Flopping Not THE Headline

Some Fictional Headlines:"In Debates, Romney has no firm policy on anything, he is a human windsock" CNN"Romney appears to be suffering from flip-flop-itis" Washington Post"National Polls a virtual...

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Netroots Radio Podcasts are now on Stitcher

Yep, we have made the leap... jumped out of the frying pan... dove off the cliff....Netroots Radio Podcast shows can now be found on Stitcher. We have had our live stream available for a month or so,...

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Say "I Voted!" on Facebook and other Social Media

If you state "I voted" on Facebook, your circle of friends (which is likely to include some people who are not likely to vote) will see that you voted and depending on what they actually think of you...

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I was unable to visit DKos today because I was recording System Audio

For me, there is nothing more frustrating than a webpage that auto-plays audio. It means I cannot surf while I work. Today, I was recording some audio for use in an upcoming Netroots Radio program and...

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Netroots Radio "SciTech with Yuri and Rick" 6pm EST

Our new show about Science and Technology will be going live on Netroots Radio at 3pm pacific/6pm eastern today. Your hosts Yuri (thats me) and Rick (Hatamoto here on DKos) will be doing this as a...

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Understanding the Chemistry of the Mars Missions

We have started a brand new Show on Netroots Radio called "SciTech with Yuri and Rick". Both Rick and I are Science oriented Canadians who also care about US Politics. In our first show we introduce...

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SciTech with Yuri and Rick: EP 2 Mars and Fukushima

We discuss the newest chemistry results from the SAM instrument (Sample Analysis at Mars) of the NASA Curiosity Rover in the introductory segment. Short answer: organics detected, not certain of...

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SciTech with Yuri & Rick 6pm EDT on Netroots Radio: Fukushima part 2

Our second show on Fukushima will be airing today (Dec 17, 2012) at 6pm EDT, 3pm Pacific on Netroots Radio. The website for the SciTech with Yuri and Rick show can be found at http://scitechradio.com...

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Why the Beatles are still relevant today

Here's a very simple song written back in 67 by Paul McCartney in the heat of the moment in the studio in response to others in that studio, the song is titled "Hello, Goodbye". It was released in the...

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Carnival Cruise Lines 'Tough Baby' metes vengeance upon humanity

Warning, plot spoiler below for "The Shipping News", by E. Annie Proulx.E. Annie Proulx, one of the great Canadian writers, wrote a book called "The Shipping News" which was about the culture and...

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A dogs life in The Wild North

This is video from an aboriginal Canadian who lives near Hay River in Canada's North West Territories. As part of his living, he's a trapper, so he may say things that offend animal lovers, However, he...

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An Important Scientific Breakthrough: Super Capacitor Batteries

Graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. A two dimensional lattice of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms with an extended Pi network that allows for the free flow of electricity within the plane of the layer of...

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Meet the next Prime Minister of Canada: Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau grew up on 24 Sussex Drive Ottawa (our White House). His Father was Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada from 1968-1979. Like his father, Justin is running under the Liberal...

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The New Media esp. Video Shorts

As we move toward shorter communications (Twitter) both online and off (can I call you later?). Two short films have randomly gathered my attention. The first movie is about college life as a student...

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God Save the Queen with Common Decency

Brian May, the famous guitarist from the rock band Queen has started to engage the public in the UK with a new campaign centred around common decency.As far as I can tell, it's a quest for democracy in...

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A Texan is Saving Greece

Irony? ........Untill recently he was an obscure academic in Texas writing books about macroeconomics.....now he makes Angela Merkle's knees quiver. He is the 'Sexiest Man in Europe' Follow below the...

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Jeff Flake could save the Republican Party tomorrow morning

Jeff Flake attended a bi-partisan meeting of the gang of 4 after the hearing. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Joe Manchin & Jeff flake, all potential swing votes on this nomination’s success or...

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It's the Economy! STUPID

This simple refrain was composed by the lizard king James Carville and it strikes me today as arrogant, condescending and just plain wrong. Sure, that is what most people are concerned about with...

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A Requiem for the Demise of Cursive

I started a daily journal by taking notes for every Phone call and Zoom meeting back in March. First I did it for the new business I had just launched. Being the ever-frugal Scotsman (by birth) I went...

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Grifter in Chief

Even the most innocent photo reveals the man beneath….…She…. looking apprehensively at her Husband who can barely walk on his own……..Disdain and Pity on the faces of those around them…A failed...

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A Wednesday Evening Reflection on Life and Death

xxYouTube VideoI am writing my will……. it’s a crazy thing to think about…. my death.I made some very personal phone calls…. “Will you please collect and organize my life for sale or transfer to my wife...

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COVID-19 Morning Meditations

xxYouTube VideoI have finally achieved meditation! After n-months of grief I decided to let my house cat into the wild! She was born in a barn with 3 siblings… the others were already adopted. My cat...

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The Advertising I get on Daily Kos

I’m not sure what these ads say about me, or what the advertisers know about me but I hate them none the less… lets take a look at each ad.1. Cashflow ad…. yes I am interested in businesses and how to...

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The best political speech ever: Mouseland by Tommy Douglas

Tommy Douglas was voted to be the Greatest Canadian ever a couple of years ago. Tommy Douglas was the man who brought single payer health care to Canada along with a lot of other great...

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State of the Housing Market according to the 'Father of Securitization'

In his first ever television interview, Lew Ranieri, 'the Father of Securitization', told the folks at CNBC his view of the truth about the housing market. It's notable that they cutoff the video while...

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