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* Nairobi Airport is a major transportation hub for East Africa, serving 49 destinations in 23 countries and five continents, with modern, recently upgraded facilities. As a result, it's a big fucking deal that it just burned down. Travelers are stranded, obviously, but it's seriously messing up air traffic and transport across the region. It sounds like they've resumed Domestic service as of last night, but the International service was still out as of this writing. The footage was horrifying what with the multiple explosions, and it taking a couple of hours for emergency vehicles to arrive to fight the blaze. It sounds like the evacuation itself was fast, for which I am grateful.
* Epidemic Watch: There seems to be an outbreak of a strain of bird flu capable of passing person to person in China. 43 are dead so far. It's too early to panic, but this one bears watching.
* The President has cancelled his one on one with Putin.
* As is generally the case in summer, the Red Cross is running low on blood just generally, and if you can legally donate, now would be a really good time regardless of which country you reside in. http://www.redcrossblood.org/make-donation
* New York is not Detroit:
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Short form: Detroit is what happens if you do extreme austerity like the Republicans want. New York didn't do the austerity and is in way better condition, and imposing Detroit style austerity will be terrible for it. On the macro-level, if we dismantle the county's financial system as Republicans are saying we should do, New York will become Detroit what with the financial industry collapsing.
* "Did Mussolini use castor oil as an instrument of torture?:" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/965/did-mussolini-use-castor-oil-as-an-instrument-of-torture
* "Cece McDonald Talks About Trayvon And The Justice System:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/08/cece-mcdonald-talks-about-trayvon-and.html
* "San Antonio City Council Considering Adding Gender Identity To Non-Discrimination Ordinance:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/08/san-antonio-city-council-considering.html
* O.o. Lake Bell's been getting a lot of misogynistic questions from reporters on her film junket. John Oliver, to his credit, asked her about the experience of getting misogynistic questions on her press junket instead of asking her one.
* Rich White Guys Agreeing with Each Other Alert - Neil Cavuto:
The Colbert Report
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* I would have gotten more sleep if it weren't for telemarketers, but I got reasonable sleep anyway and got to take the getting my shit together phase at a leisurely speed. I feel much better. I did go out to get my meds, but it was on my terms.
* "If You Have Coulrophobia Go Ahead And Skip This One:" http://www.epbot.com/2012/05/if-you-have-coulrophobia-go-ahead-and.html
* Nothing to Prove - Geek Girls & The Doubleclicks:
* Dragon Cave:
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* Epidemic Watch: There seems to be an outbreak of a strain of bird flu capable of passing person to person in China. 43 are dead so far. It's too early to panic, but this one bears watching.
* The President has cancelled his one on one with Putin.
* As is generally the case in summer, the Red Cross is running low on blood just generally, and if you can legally donate, now would be a really good time regardless of which country you reside in. http://www.redcrossblood.org/make-donation
* New York is not Detroit:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Short form: Detroit is what happens if you do extreme austerity like the Republicans want. New York didn't do the austerity and is in way better condition, and imposing Detroit style austerity will be terrible for it. On the macro-level, if we dismantle the county's financial system as Republicans are saying we should do, New York will become Detroit what with the financial industry collapsing.
* "Did Mussolini use castor oil as an instrument of torture?:" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/965/did-mussolini-use-castor-oil-as-an-instrument-of-torture
* "Cece McDonald Talks About Trayvon And The Justice System:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/08/cece-mcdonald-talks-about-trayvon-and.html
* "San Antonio City Council Considering Adding Gender Identity To Non-Discrimination Ordinance:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/08/san-antonio-city-council-considering.html
* O.o. Lake Bell's been getting a lot of misogynistic questions from reporters on her film junket. John Oliver, to his credit, asked her about the experience of getting misogynistic questions on her press junket instead of asking her one.
* Rich White Guys Agreeing with Each Other Alert - Neil Cavuto:
The Colbert Report
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive
* I would have gotten more sleep if it weren't for telemarketers, but I got reasonable sleep anyway and got to take the getting my shit together phase at a leisurely speed. I feel much better. I did go out to get my meds, but it was on my terms.
* "If You Have Coulrophobia Go Ahead And Skip This One:" http://www.epbot.com/2012/05/if-you-have-coulrophobia-go-ahead-and.html
* Nothing to Prove - Geek Girls & The Doubleclicks:
Click to view* Dragon Cave:
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