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This would cut us off from the rest of the Delta.
No Delta Gates Main site for opposition
Form to oppose 2gates
The experiment, proposed by (and paid for) by southern California water concerns and land developers, is a part of the California Department of Natural Resources modeling elements for the extremely controversial Peripheral Canal. f the two [...]

Shortly after his coronation, Louis XVI visited Louis-le-Grand school. Maximilien Robespierre, then 17 years old, had been chosen out of five hundred pupils to deliver a speech to welcome the king. On the day of speech, Robespierre and the crowd waited for the king and queen for several hours in the rain. Upon arrival, the [...]

from: www.shorpy.com/node/5600
We got the vote, but somethings never change

from: www.shorpy.com/node/5599

And he can be yours, too, on Flickr.

Election 2008
The United States is a democracy. What does democracy mean?
That it meanes ordinary people deside who ranes the governmet.
Every four years Americans get to choose a president, the country’s single most powerful and important leader. What is different about this election?
That a girl ranning for vicepresident.
What are the many jobs the president [...]

This was fascinating.
Map of a different Color at Science Friday.
Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, has a new spin on an old map. He created a program to make cartograms–maps in which the states are drawn with their size proportional to population, not acreage. His latest cartograms describe voting in the [...]

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It is from Jet.
His story makes me angry and sad.
Today I sketched the preliminary plans for a large country house which will be erected in one of the most beautiful residential districts in the world. . . . Sometimes I have dreamed of living there. I could afford such a home. [...]

Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN)
News articles on the topic.

You were warned!

We have met the enemy, and they are us. I’m so ashamed of the situation in Iraq. I wish there were an answer that we, the USA, could find. I’m afraid there isn’t. I believe that if we just leave, we are abandoning the civilians who just want [...]