What does giant ‘coal turtle’ found in Colombia have to do with U.S. politics?

Are you wondering what a giant 'coal turtle' found in a coal mine in Colombia has to do with U.S. politics? Start with the discovery.

Loggerhead Sea Turtles in antiquity were very large. Fossils as large as 1,000 pounds have been excavated, according to a researcher at the University of Florida. (Photo from University of Florida, via NOAA)The science website Discovery announced a giant turtle find:

“Remains of an enormous turtle, which was the size of a Smart Car, have been unearthed in a Colombian coal mine.”

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Breitbart shakes up neo-libs, but most media miss the real point(s)

New media guru Andrew Breitbart once again has given the neo-lib tree a shake. Democrat House delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) who has been in Washington since before President Bill Clinton, is the latest target for Breitbart. Naturally that moves Breitbart into position as the target for what I think I’ll call poli-class media. Norton allegedly made a fundraising call to a lobbyist and the lobbyist didn’t answer—the call went to voicemail.

The voicemail recording apparently was sent to Breitbart. But the recording is a small issue in the scheme of things, in my opinion.

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AP tags Republicans but not powerful Dem in Florida ‘Taj Mahal’ story

And once again new indie Charlie Crist gets amnesia.

There’s a whole lot of amnesia going around these days, and now the Associated Press seems to have caught the condition Democrats and their new buddy Gov. Charlie Crist (IINO*) suffer from.  The wire service did a story on the extravagant $48 million state courthouse popularly called the Taj Mahal. The byline says ‘AP’ so I’m assuming the story is based on various other publications’ reports. I read the story in The Florida Times Union.

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