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From Think Progress:

As the standoff between the Main Street Movement and Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) continues for the twelfth day, much of the media coverage — and anger — from both sides has focused on Walker’s efforts to strip Wisconsin public workers of their right to collective bargaining. But Walker’s assault on public employees is only one part of a larger political program that aims to give corporations free reign in the state while dismantling the healthcare programs, environmental regulations, and good government laws that protect Wisconsin’s middle and working class. These lesser known proposals in the 144-page bill reveal how radical Walker’s plan actually is:

Needs more frosting… and it tastes like cardboard for some reason.

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Her speech was condemning governments who arrest protesters.

From Al Jazeera:

As the messages of condemnation emanate from Washington, DC – directed at various foreign governments – the story of Ray McGovern appears to have gone largely un-noticed.

McGovern is a former CIA analyst and occasional contributor to Al Jazeera English.

His silent protest at press conference for US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and the violent treatment he received as Clinton calmly continued with her speech, is documented by Democracy Now.

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From the YouTube description:

The only bad thing on our trip was TSA was at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area AFTER you got OFF THE TRAIN! This made no sense!!! Poor family in front of us! 9 year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting OFF a plane? Shouldnt they be doing that getting ON??? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.

And from TSA’s own blogger bob:

The screening shown in the video was done in conjunction with a VIPR operation. During VIPR operations, any person entering the impacted area has to be screened. In this case, the Amtrak station was the subject of the VIPR operation so people entering the station were being screened for items on the Amtrak prohibited items list as seen in the video.

It should be noted that disembarking passengers did not need to enter the station to claim luggage or get to their car.

Signs such as the one shown here are posted at the entrance to the impacted area.

However, after looking into it further, we learned that this particular VIPR operation should have ended by the time these folks were coming through the station since no more trains were leaving the station. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused for those passengers.

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Fire! from Zoltan on Vimeo.

Dangerous Minds found the Door’s performance from Ed Sullivan that got them banned from the show when Jim ignored the producers who asked them to change the lyric from Light My Fire from “higher” to “better”.

When the producers told them that they would never do the Ed Sullivan show again, Jim reportedly replied, “Hey man. We just did the Sullivan Show.”