Glider sailplane story. Shows gliders being taken out of the hanger, an aerotow using 4 prop pawnee crop duster towing the glider into the air. Then shows aerial flight gliding shots, and finally the glider descending and landing. Music: Long Road Ahead – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

***Satellite images and recordings captured by Google Earth Pro license*** Stage 10 of the 2012 Tour De France is both the halfway point of the sport’s most prestigious event, but also the first of the High Mountain stages in this year’s course. Cyclists will race from Macon for a lengthy …

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Christian conservative radio host Janet Mefferd compared CNN host Anderson Cooper (who came out to say he was gay) to former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky (convicted for molesting underage boys). Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and Brian Unger discuss on The Young Turks. Read more here from David …

“Louisiana Republicans supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s overhaul of the state’s education system, which includes a voucher program that allows state funds to be used to send students to religiously-affiliated schools — until they began to realize that Islamic schools could also be among the institutions supported by taxpayer funds. Rep. …

“A three-day whites-only religious conference — which will conclude with a flaming cross — in Lamar County, Alabama, has some residents upset at the racist implications while the minister complains that his freedom of speech is being violated. “Yes, we believe that the Europeans and their descendants are the chosen …

“While actor Brad Pitt had donated $100,000 to fight California’s contentious Proposition 8 (and starred in a play about efforts to overturn the proposition), his mother, Jane Pitt, penned a letter to Missouri’s News-Leader expressing her opposition to “Barack Hussein Obama” over his support for same-sex marriage. Mrs. Pitt was …

“Judge Richard Posner was appointed to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan, and has earned a sparkling reputation as a conservative jurist. But Posner, a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, says the current incarnation of the Republican Party has driven him away from …

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