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Wow. Crowley has spent the last several months condemning the abuse of Middle Eastern dictators against their citizens. And now, in a room of twenty people, Crowley has condemned the abuse our own country commits.

Part of what membership in FDL is all about holding us accountable, steeling our spines, giving us energy to take on the tough battles.

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A 8.9 earthquake has occurred about 80 miles off of the coast of Japan late last night. There are wide spread reports of damage including damage to a nuclear power station which has had its cooling system damaged.

• Thanks, Scott!
• Will Kadafi actually prevail?
• The end of an era in Tibet.
• An early win for Willard.
• Oops.
• The future of journalism.

Huge earthquake in Japan…and tsunamis.

The Irish Rovers perform a medley of their most requested songs on their 1980′s television series Party With The Rovers.

Mr. Jim has a special present if anyone joins at the Gosprey level tonight. You can get your very own framed and signed copy of the Pouting Baby picture. Just join by 9 am Eastern Friday, March 11 and let Mr. Jim know either in comments or by email to his yahoo account (jimwhitegnv) and he will sign the photo any way you want (if you want) and send it to you as soon as he confirms with Mr. Ryan that you did join at the Gosprey level.

Matthew Desmond at addictinginfo.org offers a pretty good list of what the US House has been doing instead of working on jobs for the un and underemployed but as I noted previously, a lot of their efforts have been primarily directed at destroying jobs related to government service. So what are they going to do?

Is Senator Brown honestly expecting this President to lead us? Not a chance. Only Pod People still think America’s working class has a President on their side.