Wednesday, July 28, 2010

BEST OF BALTIMORE — Investigative Voice named best online news source by Baltimore Magazine

Friday, 23 July 2010 01:49

I.V. PACKS ‘A HARD-HITTING WALLOP
IN A TOWN THAT’S GONE SOFTER
ON HARD NEWS,’ MAGAZINE SAYS

Baltimore Magazine, in its Special (August 2010) Issue now on newsstands, has named Investigative Voice the city’s best Online News source. The magazine’s 35th Annual Best of Baltimore edition cites I.V. for “packing a hard-hitting wallop in a town that’s gone softer on hard news in recent years, largely as a result of cuts atThe Sun.” http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5060:best-of-baltimore&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

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Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/ or http://kevindayhoffart.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net Explore Carroll: www.explorecarroll.com The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com

Dave Weigel Has More Work Than Ever Now That He’s Joining Slate by Michael Triplet

Dave Weigel Has More Work Than Ever Now That He’s Joining Slate

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by Michael Triplett | 9:41 pm, July 27th, 2010

Weigel Defying the advice that it’s better to look for a job while employed, David Weigel is adding Slate to his growing list of jobs after resigning from theWashington Post at the beginning of the Journolist scandal.

In addition to his already announced work for MSNBC, Weigel is now under a one-year contact with WaPo’s corporate sibling Slate to be a political reporter and start a new politics blog, The Upshot’s Michael Calderone is reporting and Weigel confirmed in a tweet... http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-is-ready-dave-weigel-has-more-work-than-ever-now-that-hes-joining-slate/

Dave Weigel Has More Work Than Ever Now That He’s Joining Slate by Michael Triplet

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The Tentacle: “It Ain’t Necessarily So” - Daniel Schorr, August 31, 1916-July 23, 2010 by Kevin Dayhoff

July 28, 2010

“It Ain’t Necessarily So”

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Lost in the pseudo-intellectual psychobabble noise that passes as the news these days, journalism lost one of its greats last week – Daniel Schorr, August 31, 1916-July 23, 2010.

Mr. Schorr’s amazing career spanned more than 70 years – from the latter years of the Great Depression, through World War II, the McCarthy era, the Cold War, the rise of cable television and the introduction of the news business to cable television and the technology era... http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3885

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Tentacle - "Two for the Road" by Farrell Keough

"Two for the Road" by Farrell Keough

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3881

Farrell Keough has penned a thoughtful column in The Tentacle worthy of your attention about the upcoming Frederick County elections:

July 27, 2010 "Two for the Road" by Farrell Keough

“This column may come as a shock to some, as it will be about Those People! In fact, it will not only be about Those People, but will actually promote a couple of Those People! I speak, of course, about Democrats.

Like it or not, they exist and live among us. Why they chose that particular ideology is indiscernible, but they have made their choice. And what’s more, they constitute a large portion of our voting public. To that end, there are two running for different offices that have piqued interest – Brad Young running for Frederick County Board of Education and Michael Kurtianyk running for Frederick Board of County Commissioners… More: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3881

20100727 sdosm TT Two for the Road by Farrell Keough

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Staying in bed screaming, Oh God!, does not constitute going to church.

[20100726 Staying in bed screaming]

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The cat and the deer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IBEi2h7YIU

Such wonderful photography.... Watch full screen, if you can.

I received this from Grammy in an e-mail. I did not make the video and I do not know who did – it is owned by someone else. I just know that the ole softy in me wanted to share it…

Oh, I have found that it is apparently from the movie “The Adventures of Milo and Otis.” Watch it and enjoy quickly before the copyright thugs make sure that you are NOT introduced to the great Louis Armstrong or his rendition of “What a Wonderful World” or the movie “The Adventures of Milo and Otis.”

Meanwhile more information about the movie “The Adventures of Milo and Otis” may be found at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Milo-Otis-Masanori-Hata/dp/B00000JL8E.

More information about Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” may be found at http://www.amazon.com/What-Wonderful-World-Louis-Armstrong/dp/B000003N4G/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1280257907&sr=1-1-fkmr1

[20100727 Watch the cat and the deer]

Animals rabbit deer Louis Armstrong

YouTube informs me that this video, "... 20100727 cat_deer.avi, may have content that is owned or licensed by Sony Music Entertainment." If Sony does not pull it - go out and buy the Louis Armstrong CD

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The Guardian: Afghanistan The War Logs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs

The investigation: leak exposes real war

US intelligence records reveal civilian killings, 'friendly fire' deaths and shadowy special forces

The interactive: IED attacks
16,000 improvised explosive devices are recorded in the logs. See where and who they hit over those five years
- Interactive: key war logs reports mapped
The interview: Julian Assange
Watch the founder of Wikileaks explain why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files

Logs reveal grim toll on civilians
Hundreds of innocents die in over 140 incidents
Task Force 373 – hunting Taliban
US-led unit sent to kill top insurgents revealed
Commanders point finger at Pakistan
Sensational claims – but no smoking gun
How coalition is losing IED war
Surge in attacks deadly for troops and civilian

About the war logs

This series of reports on the war in Afghanistan is based on the US military's internal logs of the conflict between January 2004 and December 2009. Read more about the logs and how the Guardian investigated them. Read more …
How to read the logs
Video (2min 41sec), David Leigh explains what is in the logs and how the Guardian is using them

Explore the war logs

The key incidents
More than 300 key reports from the Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers
- War logs glossary – military jargon explained

Editorial

The unvarnished picture
Editorial: Logs reveals a very different landscape from the one with which we have become familiar
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The backstory

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The death toll

Civilians caught in UK firing line
War logs contain accounts of shootings or bombings on at least 21 separate occasions
- Full list of the 21 cases
'Friendly fire' deaths that plagued invasion from the start
British soldiers both perpetrators and victims in cases of deadly confusion among allies
'Green on green' – clashes between Afghan police and troops
Bad blood, corruption and poor discipline have led to the security forces rounding on each other

The region

US condemns Pakistan over Taliban
More than 180 files detail accusations the ISI has supplied, armed and trained insurgents since 2004
Secret war along the Pakistan border
Americans caught in middle of flare-ups over disputed colonial boundary
Iran's covert operations in Afghanistan
Behind-the-scenes help of the Taliban includes training, medical treatment and bribes

The air war

US covered up missile strike on Chinook
Surface-to-air strike over Helmand shows Taliban had strong anti-aircraft capabilities earlier than previously thought
Drones bring remote control death
Unmanned planes that unleash missiles effective but expensive weapon for US forces and RAF
Nato feared Taliban could tap phones
Analysts warned major Afghan network for mobile phones might harbour enemy sympathisers