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• I need to know for sure if Sarah Palin’s father-in-law is truly involved in this…

  
  Steady Burn — Authority: 507
  Interesting read in the Anchorage Daily-News about the new drug testing policies the Iditarod will be instituting in 2010. Read on to hear what three-time champion and medical marijuana user Lance Mackey has to say about the matter ( “I’m going to pee in their little cup, and laugh in their face.” ) In May, ...
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• Dogs Jumping Sharks

  
  Kodiak Konfidential — Authority: 134
  The other day I speculated that the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, by virtue of its instituting drug testing for the humans in the race, is in the process of jumping the shark*.More evidence came this week when it was revealed that the race continues leaking money like sieve.Dont think Im gloating over this. Im a ...
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• Stash for Tue, Dec 8, 2009

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 486
  Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-12-08.mp3) Hemp Headlines Mexican drug gangs recruiting teens along the border Three-time Iditarod sled dog champion used marijuana during the 1,100 mile Alaskan race Don Polson says Marijuana Prohibition ...
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• Iditarod Loses $1M in Funding

  
  The PETA Files — Authority: 652
  kamchatkatracks / CC Heres an upside to the economic downturn: The Iditarod —the famous dogsled race for which dogs are tormented and killed every year—has reported a $1 million loss in funding , which will result in a $100,000 cut in prize money for the 2010 race. Were hoping that the decrease in ...
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• New Drug Testing Rules Could DQ Champion Musher

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 690
  Although the idea of an 1,100-mile race through Alaska whereby packs of dogs pull men on sleds through some of the most freezing cold weather imaginable is retarded in its own right, so are the new drug testing rules that totally screw people like Lancey Mackey. He’s a three-time Iditarod champ, throat cancer ...
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• Three-time Iditarod sled dog champion used marijuana during the 1,100 mile Alaskan race

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 486
  ( Ohmidog ) Three-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey may have to mush without marijuana in next year’s race. Iditarod Trail Committee officials have announced plans to test mushers for drugs and alcohol in March. Officials haven’t decided who will get tested, or when, where and how it will be done. “It might ...
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• Alaska sled dog race canceled because of lack of snow

  
  Outposts — Authority: 576
  The Sheep Mountain 150 sled dog race scheduled to take place Dec. 12-13 has been canceled because of insufficient snow. The race is the first mid-distance contest of the season and is used by many mushers as a warmup for the 1,112-mile Iditarod , scheduled to begin March 6. The Anchorage Daily News reports ...
  2 days ago

• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Iditadrug: Of Mackey, mushing and marijuana

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 541
  Three-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey may have to mush without marijuana in next year’s race. Iditarod Trail Committee officials have announced plans to test mushers for drugs and alcohol in March. Officials haven’t decided who will get tested, or when, where and how it will be done. “It might be random. It ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Dog Sled Mushers To Be Drug Tested

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 444
  Dogsledder Lance Mackey is something of an exceptional participant of his sport.  The veteran musher (the guy who drives the sled) has achieved at the highest levels of his sport, with three straight Iditarod wins and four Yukon Quest win is a well-known figure, which he believes is why the Iditarod has announced ...
  3 days ago

• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Dog Show? More Like The Gun Show [Animals]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 791
  In a first, theyll be testing Iditarod participants (mushers) for drugs and alcohol. This is useless until a dependable test for Purina Beneful is developed. [ Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ]
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• Drug Testing on the Iditarod?

  
  Kodiak Konfidential — Authority: 134
  A story from the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and reprinted in the ADN today says that the Iditarod Trail Committee will soon be testing mushers for drugs and alcohol. Consecutive three-time winner Lance Mackey says its whack:Mackey, a throat cancer survivor who has a medical marijuana card, admits to using marijuana on ...
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• A Post-Iditarod Adventure

  
  Kodiak Konfidential — Authority: 134
  While what little snow weve had so far here in Kodiak (at sea level) has been turned to ice, (and making me consider trading in the KoKonmobile for a Zamboni), heres an adventure almost certain to be conducted in a winter wonderland.The Iditarod is looking for three very curious, adventurous fans who want to ...
  5 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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