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FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: General Motors demoted (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:39:27 GMT

More bad news on the auto front.

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Affairs of the Heart: Diana Rigg, Jeremy Brett, Patricia Routledge and More Star on this DVD Release (TVShowsOnDVD.com News)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT

By David Lambert - All the dramas and desires of late Victorian high society are on display in these vintage adaptations of the writings of Henry James. Romantic tales of love and loss unfold from the... (more)

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Vintage Jesse (InterstateQ.com)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:59:57 GMT

A lot of these are vintage… for real… the sound and video quality ain’t all that great, but they’re funny nonetheless. TV Nation fights Helms’ homophobia with love songs… MadTV: Helms on Elizabeth Dole - “A lesbo-feminazi” 1990 NBC report on Helms vs. Gantt Embedding disabled on this video, click here to view. Helms “Racial Quota” ad, 1990 election

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N.O.R.E. – Still On The Run Eating. (Metal Lungies)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:26:34 GMT

Had to post based on the title alone, vintage Nore randomness over The Bridge is Over. Swiped from Pick Ur Style. Download (Mp3): Nore – Still On The Run Eating.

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Quilted inspiration (brainylady)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:07:00 GMT

1. in its new home! , 2. Celebration , 3. Orange and Brown quilt , 4. Doll Quilt Swap I: received , 5. Safety for Birds , 6. Vintage Quilt , 7. Finished Quilt , 8. Paletas Quilt - Finished! , 9. bento box quilt , 10. hourglass quilt , 11. finished quilt , 12. double wedding ring quilt , 13. aqua red babyquilt , 14. Zig-zag quilt. , 15. Numbers quilt , 16. it's done!!! I'm working on my Flock of Triangles...

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Super Vintage Weekend at the Hotel Marqués de Riscal (Luxist)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:38:17 GMT

Filed under: Journeys , Wine , Auctions , Charity The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts group has planned a "Super Vintage" wine auction weekend at the incredible Frank Gehry -designed Hotel Marqués de Riscal in Rioja, Spain in October. To celebrate 150 years of the region's famed wines , the culinary-themed weekend will culminate in a gala dinner and charity auction of local vintages conducted by...

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Mayer Keeps Fans Happy (Try JM)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:08:00 GMT

Thanks so much to Diana from Canada for scanning the following article. It's from the London Free Press in London, Ontario on July 5th, 2008.

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Jesse Helms At An Obama Rally (The Daily Dish)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:32:25 GMT

Rare vintage footage. I'm pretty firm about always respecting the dead. But since he spent his life doing all he could to make my gay brothers and sisters marginalized, hated and dead, it is hard to feel what a Christian...

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Alexis Mackenzie (lost at e minor)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:21:45 GMT

San Fransisco-based artist Alexis MacKenzie must be patient. She has to be in order to create beautiful collages from the vintage books that she collects. There’s an amazing amount of detail in each piece. Elements are painstakingly transplanted from book to paper with scissors and glue. No Photoshop cut n’ pastes here. time savedtime saved

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Ramzy Baroud | Journalistic Imperatives: Saying What Others Mightn't (YubaNet.com)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:55:44 GMT

The world of journalism, like any other profession, can be muddled with a plethora of distractions, self-interests and agendas that certainly do not serve the cause of a free press. Outside as well as inside pressures and interests often compromise the very essence of the journalist's mission.

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20 Not So Penetrating Questions for a Wine Craftsman – Verge Wine Cellars (Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:05:59 GMT

Verge Wine Cellars released their first vintage in March of this year, a ’06 Dry Creek Syrah, and already they are in the top 5% of wine producers in the country, in my opinion. Why am I tossing out the lofty platitudes for an unproven winery with a single varietal of a single wine from a single vintage? A winery that comes out of the gate as fully conceived, full of conviction and put-together as...

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Denver Singer’s Black National Anthem Switcheroo Was a Risky Act for Obama, and Black Americans (BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:58:21 GMT

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Huffington Post - Heaven only knows what black Denver singer Rose Marie was thinking when she stood at the microphone and belted out the lyrics of the black national anthem instead of the agreed on Star Spangled Banner. The event was Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s annual state of the city address and confab. [...]

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Tennessee: Senators' Votes Anger Doctors (Red Orbit )

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:00:23 GMT

By Emily Bregel, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Jul. 5--Tennessee doctors are frustrated with a vote by the state's U.S. senators against taking action on a bill that would have reversed a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians.

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Alyssa Well a Decade After Transplant (Red Orbit )

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:20 GMT

By Dan Linehan, The Free Press, Mankato, Minn. Jul. 5--Alyssa Sandeen believes herself to be a normal 18-year-old, only with a different heart than the one she was born with.

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SHERYL CROW'S NEW CLOTHING LINE ANYBODY? (TINSEL GURUS)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:30:00 GMT

Sheryl Crow plans to launch a clothing line in 2009. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter’s collection will include jeans, vintage tees, and vests made of eco-friendly fabrics. A portion of the proceeds for the sale of the items will go to charity. “She’s incredibly excited,” a pal tells Star. “She’s heading to Australia in October to meet with her partners and start production.” Well at least she...

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Photo gallery: The top NHL free agent signings (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

The Wings nabbed high-scoring forward Marian Hossa shortly into the free agent period this summer. Was that the top free-agent acquisition of the summer so far? Check out the Free Press rankings of the top moves of the summer.

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2008 Packt CMS Awards (Gadgetopia)

editors@gadgetopia.com (Deane Barker) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:50:59 GMT

Open Source CMS Award : Packt is doing their awards again this year, and I’ve been asked to judge in “ Best Open Source PHP CMS .” Go nominate your favorite app. Nominations are open through August 25. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems. The 2008 Award will continue to support...

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*Farting Thatcher in The Green Room. (The Green Room)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:20:00 GMT

This vintage Spitting Image figure has pride of place on our front window. Priced at £12, so I don’t expect that we will have it for too long. It’s next to a Bush Inauguration badge “Hail to the Thief”

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Vintage Photos of the Day: Nazi Occupied Paris (Dr. X's Free Associations)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Left-click photos to enlarge. Thanks to Ben (Taxing Tennessee) for tipping me off to these images. More photos and link below the fold.

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A true-crime tale in "Atlantic Yards"? Not quite (Atlantic Yards Report)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:01:00 GMT

The crime fiction collection Brooklyn Noir was the first in Akashic Books' highly-successful "Noir" series, which now extends to dozens of anthologies. Now Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth has been published, the first true-crime collection in the series. The Table of Contents lists not just the chapters but the neighborhoods they're set in, so I was intrigued to see that the collection

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