Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Serco - The biggest uk company you have never heard of

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Red Blue Moon

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Clip Source: www.strudel.org.uk
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is almost over. It has been a busy year full of events the world over. If youve not yet taken part in a global event, you still have chance on New Years Eve when the Moon will be full.

The Moon is full every moon-th but this will be the second full Moon of this calendar month. This doesnt happen too often and is commonly named a Blue Moon. "Blue" is just the name for it and the Moon wont actually turn that shade. In fact, if anything, the Moon may actually go slightly red tomorrow night because there will also be a partial eclipse visible from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and bits of Canada. Greatest eclipse will be at 19:22 UT.

Join people around the world taking a Blue Moon Walk, look up, observe the Moon and welcome in 2010.


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Phatic communication - in small talk, the container is more important than the content

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# "Phatic communication refers also to trivial and obvious exchanges about the weather and time, made up of ready-made sentences or foreseeable statements. . . . Therefore this is a type of communication that establishes a contact without transmitting a precise content, where the container is more important then the content."
(F. Casalegno and I.M. McWilliam, "Communication Dynamics in Technological Mediated Learning Environments." International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, Nov. 2004)
Clip Source: grammar.about.com
phatic communication
Definition:

Small talk: the nonreferential use of language to share feelings or establish a mood of sociability rather than to communicate information or ideas; ritualized formulas intended to attract the attention of the listener or prolong communication. See also:

Coined by the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, from the Greek, "spoken"
  • "Speech to promote human warmth: that is as good a definition as any of the phatic aspect of language. For good or ill, we are social creatures and cannot bear to be cut off too long from our fellows, even if we have nothing really to say to them."
    (Anthony Burgess, Language Made Plain, 1975)
  • "Phatic communication, or small talk, is an important social lubricant. In the words of Erving Goffman, The gestures which we sometimes call empty are perhaps in fact the fullest things of all."
    (Diana Boxer, Applying Sociolinguistics, John Benjamins, 2002)
    • Pronunciation: FAT-ik


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    Free TV May Soon Cost Money

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    Clip Source: www.ksat.com
    For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.
    The business model is unraveling at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and the local stations that carry the networks programming. Cable TV and the Web have fractured the audience for free TV and siphoned its ad dollars. The recession has squeezed advertising further, forcing broadcasters to accelerate their push for new revenue to pay for programming.
    That will play out in living rooms across the country. The changes could mean higher cable or satellite TV bills, as the networks and local stations squeeze more fees from pay-TV providers such as Comcast and DirecTV for the right to show broadcast TV channels in their lineups. The networks might even ditch free broadcast signals in the next few years. Instead, they could operate as cable channels -- a move that could spell the end of free TV as Americans have known it since the 1940s.


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    ?Mythbusters? expert dies in freak accident

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    Clip Source: www.pbpulse.com

    erik_gatesErik Gates, the ?rocket expert? for The Discovery Channel show MythBusters, died after an accident in Southern California.

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    Gates, 47, died after falling through a skylight at the headquarters of Xirrus in Newbury Park, Calif. He owned an electrical company and was doing contract work at the building, according to the Ventura County Star (via Zap2It).

    Gates appeared on several episodes of MythBusters showing his knowledge as an amateur rocketeer. He helped the show?s hosts test myths about such questioned events as astronauts in China?s Ming dynasty and a missile fired by Confederates in the Civil War.



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    Anthrax Case Linked to Drumming Circle

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    Clip Source: www.nytimes.com
    A New Hampshire woman who is critically ill with gastrointestinal anthrax most likely swallowed spores while participating in a community drumming circle, state health officials said Tuesday.

    Investigators found traces of anthrax on two African drums and an electrical outlet in the room where the event took place, Dr. Talbot said, and are theorizing that the woman swallowed spores that were aerosolized by the drumming. The state has not identified the woman because of privacy concerns.

    Dr. Talbot said the anthrax detected on the drums was a naturally occurring strain that frequently appears in soil. Animals that ingest contaminated soil can pass the disease to people who handle their hides. Most of the drums at the session were made with animal hides, she said.

    In 2007, two people in Connecticut were treated for cutaneous anthrax traced to animal hides used to make African drums. And in 2006, a drum maker in New York contracted inhalation anthrax. All three survived.



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    Scaring Us Into Stupidity

    clipped by: debbyski
    clippers remarks: "Have we learned anything from the revelations that the Bush administration lied us into the need for a war in Iraq, lied about the need for torture, lied about the reason for spying, loss of constitutional rights, and an overwhelmingly powerful executive branch?

    Have we learned anything from the discovery that unnecessary war, torture and panic over sporadic terrorist attacks create more terrorism and reduce national security?

    Or will our fear of the underwear bomber and other terrorist acts scare us into stupidity again, as it did so many people during the Bush years?"
    Clip Source: www.opednews.com
    Fear makes people stupid.
    War Is Stupid
    Torture Is Stupid
    The Repeal of Constitutional Rights Is Stupid
    Have We Learned Anything?
    Clip Source: www.opednews.com
    No ones arguing we shouldnt be vigilant against terrorism -- and airline security in particular is a farce, a problem that must be solved, and (frustratingly enough) a problem that can be solved.
    But these are law-enforcement problems and intelligence problems. They are not a war.
    The war is in our minds, between being scared of our shadows and keeping the true threat in perspective.
    Fear is a powerful weapon -- and theres no reason the American president should act as a force multiplier for Al Qaeda.
    With publicity, even failed terrorist acts succeed in terrorizing; without publicity, terrorism would fade away


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    Thank You David Bowie

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    Clip Source: www.opednews.com
    I was a teenager during the ?70s. During that time, we saw the rise of the glam rockers, including David Bowie.
    So when I noticed my teenage son was wearing make up, I really didnt think too much about it.
    So what? David Bowie wore make up?
    He was a good student; he didnt do drugs and he didnt get into trouble.
    I did notice, however, that he was buying womens clothing
    I joked around with him about his nice ass and he accused me of sexual harassment. I said, ?Well, if you are going to dress like a woman, get used to it.?
    So on it went.
    I loved my son and would accept him for who he his no matter what that would turn out to be.
    He yelled back, ?I was just trying to freak you out and it didnt work!
    So, thank you David Bowie. You have no idea how you helped me deal with the trials of teenagers.


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    At 31,000 mph, Space Probe Gets Halfway to Pluto in Record Time; ETA: July 2015

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    clippers remarks: Should make for good visuals...

    During that time, the probe will capture 4.5 gigabytes of data, which it will have to keep sending the four-and-a-half hours back home for months.

    With its main mission accomplished, the craft will keep moving away from the sun, following in the extrasolar footsteps of the earlier Pioneer and Voyager missions, drifting ever farther away from us.
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    The fastest man-made object ever built, the Pluto-bound New Horizons probe, is now closer to the former planet than Earth, just a little under four years after its launch.

    It?s currently traveling at about 31,000 miles an hour and is located about 1.527 billion miles from Earth.

    ?Today, 29 Dec 2009, New Horizons crossed a milestone boundary? henceforth we?re now closer to Pluto than to Earth. Go New Horizons!? the mission?s controllers tweeted Tuesday.
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    The spacecraft will be the first to flyby Pluto, the planet or dwarf planet or plutoid, and on to the other objects lurking in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system.

    While the craft is hibernating most of the time while it awaits its July 2015 rendezvous with Pluto, it was roused for a Jupiter flyby that yielded some gorgeously detailed images of that planet and its satellites.

    New Horizons action will come in an action-packed nine day period around July 14, 2015 when the craft approaches and then passe by Pluto.

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    THE CULT SHE SELLS SANCTUARY, LIVE RITZ,

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    clippers remarks: 1985 THE CULT
    Clip Source: www.youtube.com

    The Cult She Sells Sanctuary live The Ritz, 1985

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    One of my favorite bands of all time!!!?
    One of my favorite songs?

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    Strange Japanese Commercial For Dole Bananas

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    clippers remarks: Dont get it, but it has that surreal feel.....
    Clip Source: www.youtube.com

    Japanese commercial, Dole banana: couple in restaurant

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    Forgettable Things of 2009

    clipped by: donjake
    clippers remarks: There are more but these are the best ones. Read the entire article there may be others that you think are the most forgettable things of 2009

    Arianna Huffington

    Posted: December 28, 2009 10:46 AM

    Here then is a list of the things Id like to forget, circa 2009:

    Glenn Becks tears. Glenn Becks whiteboard. Glenn Becks attacks on Van Jones. Glenn Beck calling Obama "a racist." Glenn Beck.

    That Lloyd Blankfein told the Times of London that Goldman Sachs was "doing Gods work."

    The $38 billion tax break the IRS just handed Citibank.

    That the nations four biggest banks, all of which took taxpayer money, cut lending by $100 billion over the last six months.

    That we know as much as we do about David Lettermans sex life.

    That we know as much as we do about Tiger Woods sex life.

    That we know as much as we do about Sen. John Ensigns sex life.

    That we know as much as we do about Gov. Mark Sanfords sex life.

    That we know as much as we do about Nadya Sulemans uterus.

    That Rep. Joe Wilson raised millions for his re-election after yelling "You lie!" at the president.



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    Dry Toilets Provide Ecological Solution

    clipped by: JICWyllie
    clippers remarks: We have what we call a "composting toilet" in the woodland. If human solids and liquids are kept apart, there is no smell at all, and all you have to do add a couple of pinches of sawdust instead of flushing. I wouldnt put the resulting sweet smelling compost on the veg garden because being at the top of the food chain too many heavy meals and chemicals are contained in human waste. It is good for grass and trees though. And no water is used at all. It is much more hygenic than spreading waste around in water, too, since it is all kept in one container until it is "done".
    Clip Source: www.ipsnews.net
    But thanks to an innovative community project, her family now has a shower and what is known as a dry toilet, which operate using alternative, non-polluting ecological systems - a far cry from the buckets that the family used to use, which were simply emptied into a nearby unlined pit.
    The project helps local residents install dry toilets - an ecological sanitation solution that saves water, separates urine from solid waste, and returns nutrients contained in human feces to agriculture, by converting waste into manure after a special treatment process.
    The aim of ecological sanitation is to recover nutrients that would otherwise be discarded.
    "First we carried out a study with people who work in the different institutions. The ecological sanitation approach was introduced, and already functioning systems were visited and studied. Then on that basis, we began to design, with this inter-institutional team, a strategy to get the community involved," he said.


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    What social media means to me...

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    clippers remarks: This is an excerpt from a piece I just wrote (it continues at the source). I was inspired to write it after looking at a series of photos labeled "The Decade in Pictures" that made me feel very sad about this past decade. After looking at them my only thought was that hopefully we are all so fed up with the way things have been that we can rally together to bring about a better decade ahead. The potential impact of social media gives me great hope! Oh, and i didnt realize that written posts didnt make their way into the Amplify Newsfeed of Public Timeline...i ought to rethink that
    The beauty of social media is that we?re now talking and listening to people that we never would have had the opportunity to connect with. We are learning, without even trying or realizing it most of the time, that there are so many shades of gray in the world. That our own ways of seeing and doing things may not be right. That there may not always be a right. That other people?s ways we?ve always judged so harshly may actually be right.

    Social media is not for or about marketers.


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    Free Video from Amazon

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    Get a Free Movie Rental on Us

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    1. If you dont already have an Amazon account, sign up for one here.

    2. Click the button below and enter the code AVODGIFT, or any other code.



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    Tips on stopping smoking

    clipped by: valencia
    clippers remarks: Nothing new here....

    ?U.S.? are two letters that Zeno Cosini wrote constantly ? the main character of ?La coscienza di Zeno?, an Italian novel by the Italian writer Svevo. What does U.S. mean exactly? Translated from Italian, ?Último Cigarrillo? or the last cigarette, Zeno Cosini lied to himself with the belief that the cigarette he was about to smoke would really be the last one. Do you want to be like Zeno or do you definitely want to stop this habit?

    stop-smoking

    Today, the pharmaceutical science can help us to give up smoking. Obviously it depends on how much you used to smoke. If you smoke more than a pack per day it will be a little more difficult. And if you have smokers around you it will also be more complicated. But maybe you can convince your partner or one of your friends to give up smoking together because you can derive more strength in numbers.



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    Worlds Fastest and Slowest land animals

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    Incredible slimming-down pics (27)

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    clippers remarks: Is it the same guy? Im gobsmacked!
    Clip Source: izismile.com
    A guy weighed 630 lbs and that?s what he has become. He lost a whopping 29 stone and had more than 30lbs of excess skin removed. To do it he had to do a lot of exercises. For this you should have a strong will.
    His fitness instructor Chris Powell says ?At the start of the training program, David was so fat that he had to be weighed at a local garage on scales normally used for cars and trucks.?
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    Germany taking fewer sick days

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    clippers remarks: Whats the secret?
    Clip Source: www.dw-world.de

    Workers in Germany taking fewer sick days than ever

    The German health ministry has found that workers are calling in sick to work as rarely as in any year since records began. Analysts reckon they?re afraid of losing their jobs.

    German workers in 2009 missed work just 3.3 percent of the time, or 7.3 work days, new data from the federal health ministry found.

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    Move your money!

    clipped by: blackroseheart
    clippers remarks: I already have mine in a small community bank. I dont trust big banks ... never have, never will. This video should be passed around until the big banks topple!
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    The newest entrant on the cooking-show circuit is Coolio. Shaka-Zulu!

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    Clip Source: www.boston.com

    You know him as Coolio, the artist behind such mid-90s hits as "Fantastic Voyage" and "Gangstas Paradise." But recently hes reinvented himself as the Ghetto Gourmet, with an online cooking show and now a new cookbook, "Cookin With Coolio," full of recipes with names such as Chicken Lettuce Blunts and Cold Shrimpin. We spoke with him about romance in the kitchen, cooking on a budget, and why he is like Emeril Lagasse. The conversation has been edited for a family newspaper.

    I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
    I do fusion. Ghetto fusion. I dont use the proper names for things when I talk about cooking. Its not that I cant speak properly, its because I want to do that.
    Instead of saying African-American and Asian, I say Blasian. Instead of saying urban and Italian, I say Ghettalian.
    I want people to know that just because you?re poor, you don?t have to eat fast food every day.


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    Name That Party - New Years Edition

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    Clip Source: newsbusters.org

    Numerous police visits to his home, reported gunshots and screaming, attempted burglaries, loud arguments, reported assaults, whispers about having sex with young men.  North Carolina state senator R.C. Soles certainly leads an interesting life.  Soles is the Democratic caucus chairman in the Senate, but you wouldnt know that by reading todays dispatch from the Associated Press. 

    North Carolinas longest-serving state senator wont seek re-election next year as he faces possible criminal charges over a shooting at his home in August.

    Sen. R.C. Soles said in a statement Wednesday he wont seek a 22nd consecutive term. He was first elected to the General Assembly in 1968, more than four decades ago.

    The article makes no mention that Soles is a Democrat.  The News & Observer did, however, in a story earlier this month that also noted:

    Records show police were called to Soles house and law office at least 40 times in the past four years.


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    We Still Have To Be Afraid, Heck of A Job, Barry

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    clippers remarks: Even before a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet headed to Detroit, travelers could see we had made no progress toward a technologically wondrous Philip K. Dick universe.

    We seemed to still be behind the curve and reactive, patting down grannies and 5-year-olds, confiscating snow globes and lip glosses.

    Instead of modernity, we have airports where security is so retro that taking away pillows and blankies and bathroom breaks counts as a great leap forward.

    If we can?t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn?t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
    Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

    By MAUREEN DOWD
    Published: December 29, 2009
    I hope the terrorists don?t think this is a good time to attack,? I said, looking protectively at the White House

    I thought our guard might be down because of the holiday; now I realize our guard is down every day.

    Were we clever and inventive enough to protect ourselves from the new breed of Flintstones-hardy yet Facebook-savvy terrorists?

    President Obama?s favorite word is ?unprecedented,? as Carol Lee of Politico pointed out. Yet he often seems mired in the past as well, letting his hallmark legislation get loaded up with old-school bribes and pork; surrounding himself with Clintonites; continuing the Bushies? penchant for secrecy and expansive executive privilege; doubling down in Afghanistan while acting as though he?s getting out; and failing to capitalize on snazzy new technology while agencies thumb through printouts and continue their old turf battles.



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    Mailman in Charge of Dispensing ?Medical Countermeasures? to Biological Weapons; 0bama Executive Ord

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    clippers remarks: The spores killed five people: Two Washington, D.C., postal workers, a New York City hospital worker, a Florida photo editor and a 94-year-old Connecticut woman who had no known contact with any of the poisoned letters. Seventeen other people were sickened.

    Obama says his decision to give the Postal Service a role in responding to a widespread biological attack wont supersede the authorities of other agencies.

    Barrys Executive Order: http://bit.ly/7coeox
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    Dec . 30, 2009

    WASHINGTON - If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive.

    In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing "medical countermeasures" to biological weapons because of its "capacity for rapid residential delivery."

    Under the new order, federal agencies must develop a response plan that includes possible law enforcement escorts for Postal Service workers and gives anthrax "primary threat consideration."

    Anthrax made headlines in the weeks following the 2001 terrorist attacks when letters containing the substance were sent to lawmakers and news organizations.



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    The Challenge of Freedom Part II

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    clippers remarks: a murderous totalitarian thug. He visited Copenhagen to receive polite applause from people that gave socialist dictator Hugo Chavez a thunderous ovation for his anti-capitalist ravings. Could anyone in this Administration deliver a heartfelt endorsement of capitalism to the hungry ears of the Iranian protesters? Would any of them even be willing to try?

    President Obama?s belief that America?s standing in the world would improve with his election, because he?s a ?good listener,? is the exact opposite of the truth. Wise people, and nations, are always listening carefully? but the world improves when America speaks with confidence. Obama?s cherished Indonesian childhood, and the travels through the Muslim world he boasts of, have proven to mean nothing to the forces of Islamic fascism. He should have spent more time learning what his American heritage means to the people dying on the streets of Tehran, and those like them around the world.

    Doctor Zero Blog http://bit.ly/8lUxeb
    Clip Source: www.doczero.org

    Our current government does not provide a rousing defense of liberty to those battling oppression in Iran, and elsewhere. What do those people think, when they see an exhausted West that wallows in self-loathing? What conclusions do they draw, when they hear the grandchildren of the Greatest Generation meekly concede that freedom is a burden, and life depends on the subsidies and control of the State? What encouragement can they find in the example of a nation that racks up debt as if it doesn?t expect to survive long enough for the bills to come due? Should the Iranian resistance be eager to fight and die, to replace mullahs with swindlers who steal trillions with midnight votes?

    Capitalism is the practical expression of freedom. The two concepts are inseparable. Freedom of speech without property produces nothing but serfs with active social lives. Our current President was pleased to accept a politically-motivated Nobel Prize from a committee that honored Yasser Arafat,


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    The Challenge of Freedom

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    clippers remarks: a desperate struggle, conducted in the defiance of inevitable defeat. As a religious and spiritual people, we have a tendency to regard the triumph of the righteous as assured, and see victory as the destiny of virtue. The evidence of history says otherwise. No one would have given the American patriots winning odds at the outset of the Revolutionary War, fought against the most disciplined and well-equipped military force of the era, by men who marched through the snow in the tatters of disintegrating boots.

    Even patriotic Americans of today don?t always appreciate how special our achievement is? not just in its success, but its endurance. Most victorious ?revolutions? end with a new class of slaves cleaning up the victory celebrations, beneath the whips of a new set of tyrants. As Binyon points out in his Times Online article, grisly regimes like North Korea remain in power, despite decades of poverty and manifest failure. The image of a lone, unarmed man standing against
    Clip Source: www.doczero.org

    Writing in the U.K. Times Online, Michael Binyon asks if Iran is approaching the tipping point of revolution. It?s a revolution observers in the West have anticipated for a long time. Ever since the massive protests against the stolen elections of early 2009, when a murderer?s bullet slammed into Neda Soltan?s chest, we?ve wondered if the Iranian people would stand up and overthrow their sinister regime. Neda?s name became a prayer in the West, and many of us thought it would soon become a battle cry ringing through the stale air of Tehran.

    New demonstrations are under way, and there have been fresh atrocities, but the regime remains in power. Charles Krauthammer has encouraged the Obama Administration to declare the regime illegitimate? but by the time that happens, the lumberjacks of liberty will already be shouting ?Timber!? as the dead regime comes tumbling down.

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    ATS News 08- israeli body snatchers-organ harvesting conspiracy confirmed

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    clippers remarks: clipped something about this a while back- not good......nope-nope-nope

    ATS News 08 - Israeli Body Snatchers - Organ Harvesting Conspiracy Confirmed



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    Fluidity of focus is the way to enjoy a creative life

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    Clip Source: www.facebook.com

    Heal Your Life "Fluidity of focus is the way to enjoy a creative life as an active participant in the life-dream, while also bathing in the bliss of deeper being. It is the secret of enlivenment." - Tim Freke



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    You Dont Bring a Gun To a Snowball Fight!

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    clippers remarks: Off-duty cop pulls his gun on young people for throwing snowballs at his car. Oh my!
    Clip Source: www.alternet.org

    Cop Pulls Gun During Snowball Fight ... Could it Have Been Roid Rage?

    OK, heres an item. Theres a snowball fight. Broad daylight. Young people. One of them chucks a snowball at a Hummer, which happened to be driven by an off-duty cop. The cop gets out, and decides that pulling his gun is an appropriate response. To a snowball.

    The DC police department denied the allegation at first, until Reason put up footage of the incident on Youtube (video to your right).

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    At one point on the video - shown on YouTube - the man identifies himself as a "detective", but refuses to give his full name.

    Then he proceeds to admit to pulling his gun.

    "Yes I did because I got hit by snowballs," he tells angry residents who demand to know his badge number.

    He challenges them to "throw another snowball".

    The footage showed an angry crowd gathering, chanting: "You dont bring a gun to a snowball fight".

    Ms Lanier said the officer had been placed on desk duty.



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    .We live in an extraordinary age

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    Clip Source: www.resurgence.org

    Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity

    We live in an extraordinary age ? an age of both mortal danger and unprecedented opportunity.
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    Spiritual movie - uplifting

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    Living On Light-Nourishment From Source

    We are all nourished directly from Source,once we are conscious of it our entire being comes alive pulsating with energy and we begin merging with the incoming 5th dimension and beyond.-emanuehl Fo...  


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    The Apocryphal Gospels

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    clippers remarks: WTH

    The apocryphal gospels are gospels written in the early centuries of Christianity (including canonical, but these were not subsequently accepted by The  Catholic Orthodox Church). St. Irenaeus of Lyons proposed it in the late Second century and they have remained like that since then. The Catholic Church recognizes only the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

    the-apocryphal-gospels

    The content, so much of the apocryphal gospels, as that of the canonical ones, is based on what the apostles heard, saw and said while they were walking with Jesus preaching their doctrines and then in the resurrection of the Son of God.

    A very important aspect of the Apocryphal Gospels is the Gnostic Gospels. These gospels caused major problems for the Catholic religion, since they say we should find God within us.


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    Some Female Penguins Engage in Prostitution

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    Clip Source: scienceray.com
    Dr. Fiona Hunter, a zoologist stated: ??It tends to be females targeting single males, otherwise the partner female would beat the intruder up.?Funny isn?t it? Believe it or not, as they were saying, female penguins even when committed in a relationship will do sexual favors with complete strangers for the sake of pebbles needed for home building. They chose singles to play it safe but undergoes another elaborate courtship process for those pebbles and when they?ve got it, they run off.,



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    American Indian artifacts unearthed on coke plant site

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    American Indian artifacts unearthed on coke plant site

    Fragments found likely will be curated at Cincinnati Museum Center.

    MIDDLETOWN ? American Indian artifacts, some of which could date back thousands of years, were found on land designated for a $340 million coke oven facility.

    SunCoke Energy Inc., which plans to build the coke plant to supply steelmaking raw materials and electricity to AK Steel?s Middletown Works, uncovered some artifacts while doing preliminary site work, said Mark Holbrook, spokesman for the Ohio Historical Society, which was notified of the finds in October.



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    A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy

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    No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue.

    (sobering write up, read in full @ source)
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    the truth of the Obama presidency is laid bare: retrenchment abroad, and redistribution and the intrusive regulatory state at home. This is the genuine calling of Barack Obama, and of the "progressives" holding him to account. The false dichotomy has taken hold?either we care for our own, or we go abroad in search of monsters to destroy or of broken nations to build. The decision to withdraw missile defense for Poland and the Czech Republic was of a piece with that retreat in American power.

    In the absence of an overriding commitment to the defense of American primacy in the world, the Obama administration "cheats." It will not quit the war in Afghanistan but doesnt fully embrace it as its cause. It prosecutes the war but with Republican support?the diehards in liberal ranks and the isolationists are in no mood for bonding with Afghans. (Harry Reids last major foreign policy pronouncement was his assertion, three years ago, that the war in Iraq was lost.)

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    An In-The-Red New Year.

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    Does Death Exist? New Theory Says No

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    clippers remarks: This was clear with the death of my sister Christine. After viewing her body at the hospital, I went out to speak with family members. Christines husband - Ed - started to sob uncontrollably. For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the provincialism of time. I thought about the 20-watts of energy, and about experiments that show a single particle can pass through two holes at the same time. I could not dismiss the conclusion: Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time.
    One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
    Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling - the Who am I?- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesnt go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?

    Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, "Now Besso" (an old friend) "has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Immortality doesnt mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.



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    new video reveals secrets of webb telescopes MIRI

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    New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescopes MIRI

    ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) ? Its going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and thats what the James Webb Space Telescopes MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors will do. Now theres a new short movie that shows what the MIRI detectors are all about and what they can do.

    A new video about the MIRI detectors is part of an on-going series called "Behind the Webb" about the James Webb Space Telescope. It was produced and created by the Space Science Telescope Institute (STScI) of Baltimore, Md. and is available at www.webbtelescope.org. Part of the video was shot at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. in January 2009. "It is a broadcast quality video in high definition and will be available in almost a dozen varieties of file formats from Quicktime, to WMV to Flash, to M4V, and all in different sizes," said Mary Estacion, News Video Producer at STScI.


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    WHERE in the Constitution does it say:

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    clippers remarks: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said there is ?no place in the Constitution? that grants Congress the authority to require that Americans purchase health insurance, as both the Senate and House health care bills do. She added that the health care bill recently passed by the Senate is a ?trampling of individual rights.?
    Senator Hutchinson said: ?There is no place in the Constitution that allows this trampling of individual rights, and I am going to make a point of order that it tramples on the 10th Amendment as well, the rights of states to regulate insurance. And, in my state, we have a self-insurance plan for state employees and teachers, and the federal government now has the right to intrude on that ? and it?s not in the Constitution either.?
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    Sen. Hatch: Authority for Congress to Mandate Health Insurance ?Isn?t There? in the Constitution
    Washington (CNSNews.com) ? Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that gives Congress the power to compel individuals to buy health insurance.
    ?It isn?t there. It isn?t there,? Hatch said last week at the U.S. Capitol, when CNSNews.com asked where in the Constitution Congress finds authority to create an individual mandate to purchase health insurance.

    CNSNews.com talked to Hatch, a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, while he was on his way to take part in a series of procedural votes on the Senate?s health-care reform bill last Wednesday that  paved the way for its eventual passage. The votes included a constitutional ?point of order? that Republicans raised, challenging the constitutionality of an individual mandate.


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    The bizarre wildlife stories of 2009 (8 pictures)

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    The bizarre wildlife stories of 2009 (8 pictures)

    Week in Wildlife: new chameleon species called Kinyongia magomberae

    This little fellow is a new chameleon species called Kinyongia magomberae. It was discovered this year in Tanzania, East Africa, when a startled snake coughed it up live

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    Animal magic: the wildlife discoveries of 2009

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    Animal magic: the wildlife discoveries of 2009
    By Matt Walker
    Editor, Earth News
    Advertisement

    Giant rat found in lost volcano

    From a new species of giant rat to ants that took over the world, 2009 was a good year for new animal discoveries.

    It was a year for all creatures great, with the mating ritual of the humpback whale filmed for the first time and the unearthing of a colossal sea monster.

    And for the small, with one of the worlds tiniest parrots caught on camera, as was a polar bear cub hitching a ride on its mothers back.



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    Many happy returns Eric Goldstein

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    clippers remarks: ... and founder of Clipmarks, second best social media site.
    Clip Source: twitter.com
  • Open Intelligence OPEN_INTEL Happy birthday to Eric Goldstein, founder of http://www.amplify.com, perhaps the best social media site in the world. Beats Twitter hands. less than 5 seconds ago from web


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    Gravity Mysteries: What is Gravity?

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    clippers remarks: There are still two problems with this, though. First, we have yet to find any proof of the existence of these hypothetical particles, which have been dubbed "gravitons". Secondly, when quantum field theory is applied to gravity, it is prone to give nonsensical answers to straightforward questions. "These are fundamental obstructions that need to be overcome,"

    Seven things that dont make sense about gravity
    We tend to think of gravity as a force that affects objects, but Einstein showed it was something else entirely (Image: Alex Telfer Photography Limited / Getty)
    You jump up, and gravity brings you back down

    That, at least, was how it seemed until Einstein came along. His general theory of relativity tells us that gravity is not quite that simple.

    General relativity describes gravity as geometry. The fabric of the universe - the four dimensions of space and time
    created by the presence of mass and energy.
    gravity is not what one body does directly to another, but what a bodys mass does to the surrounding universe.
    Nevertheless, treating gravity as if it were a straightforward force, as Newton did, has served us well.
    Einsteins description has stood up equally well
    Yet useful as they are, neither the Newtonian model nor relativity is a fundamental explanation for gravity. We still dont know how the fundamental, quantum properties of mass, energy and space-time combine to create the phenomenon.
    We do have an idea, though.
    This picture is known as quantum field theory.
    there ought to be particles that deliver the gravitational force.


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    Making "Islam" synonymous with "terrorism"

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    clippers remarks: "Olympic bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph -- wanted in attacks that killed two people and injured more than 100 in the Southeast -- was arrested early Saturday in western North Carolina and faces a Monday morning court date. Rudolph has been charged in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia; 1997 bombings at a gay nightclub and a clinic that performed abortions in the Atlanta area; and a bombing at a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998" -- CNN, May 31, 2003.

    "Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally Saturday night in Tel Avivs Kings Square, a top aide confirmed. He was reportedly shot in the arm and back by a Jewish man in his mid-20s who is allegedly affiliated with right-wing extremist groups. . . . Amir confessed to the assassination and reportedly told investigators, I acted alone on Gods orders and I have no regrets." -- CNN, November 4, 1995.
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    From Jeffrey Weiss, Politics Daily, today: "And were still left with a terrible problem for a free and multicultural society: Even though 99.999 percent of Muslims abhor attacks on innocent civilians on moral and theological grounds, 100 percent of attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S. (and, with the exception of the Basques in Spain, terrorists attacks on all Western nations) since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing have been committed by people claiming to act in the name of Islam."

    Compare that claim to reality:

    "1998: Dozens die in Omagh bombing:  At least 27 people are feared dead in the worst paramilitary bombing since the start of the Northern Ireland conflict three decades ago  The blast in the market town of Omagh, County Tyrone, at around 1500 BST on Saturday, left more than 100 people injured or maimed" -- BBC.

    "September 21, 2000:  A rocket attack on MI6 headquarters in London is believed to be the work of dissident Irish republicans" -- BBC.



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    Russia plans to save Earth from collision with asteroid

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    Russias Armageddon plan to save Earth from collision with asteroid

    Asteroid strike
    The Northern Echo

    Scientists call for help to divert global killer

    Could this happen in 2036?
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    BBC

    Russia plans to stop asteroid

    Anatoly Perminov (AP)

    The head of Russias federal space agency has said it will work to divert an asteroid which will make several passes near the Earth from 2029.

    Anatoly Perminov told the Voice of Russia radio service that the agencys science council would hold a closed meeting to discuss the issue.

    Any eventual plan is likely to be an international collaboration, he said.

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    Apophis

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    Asteroid Impact (HD)

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    Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency
    Anatoly N. Perminov

    Collisions with Near Earth Objects
    The asteroid Ida and its satellite Dactyl
    The asteroid Ida and its satellite Dactyl
    Approximate frequency of impacts with different sizes of objects
    Approximate frequency of impacts with different sizes of objects
    Close approach of 99942 Apophis predicted in 2029
    Close approach of 99942 Apophis predicted in 2029
    A representation of the Torino Impact Hazard Scale based on probability and energy of impact
    A representation of the Torino Impact Hazard Scale based on probability and energy of impact


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    The impudent tyranny of Harry Reid

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    clippers remarks: Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Independent Advisory Board to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending." That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.

    The impudent tyranny of Harry Reid


    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light.

    Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reids anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation.

    Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: "... it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."


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    Will GOP Call to Repeal Health Care Bill?

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    clippers remarks: Repealing the health care bill, however, would take more than winning back a few congressional seats. Just as the Republican minority in the Senate has stalled the current health care debate, a Democratic minority could do the same to any repeal measure unless Republicans were able to pull together at least a 60-vote majority. The GOP would also have to overcome the strong majority Democrats now have in the House. Even if they were to win both chambers back, President Obama could veto any repeal measure at least through 2012. "Anyone who thinks theyll be able to repeal ObamaCare is kidding themselves," Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told the Washington Independent. "If they want to stop it, they need to stop it now."
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    Prominent conservatives are calling for congressional Republicans to campaign in 2010 on a pledge to repeal the Democrats sprawling health care legislation, but political and logistical realities could make repealing the bill a promise that is hard to keep.
    "I suspect every Republican running in 10 and again in 12 will run on an absolute pledge to repeal this bill," former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday on NBCs "Meet the Press." "The bill ?- most of the bill does not go into effect until 13 or 14, except on the tax increase side; and therefore, I think there wont be any great constituency for it. And I think itll be a major campaign theme."

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    Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged?

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    clippers remarks: Research Explores Moral Hypocrisy in Powerful People....and theres been plenty of that this year.
    Clip Source: www.prnewswire.com
    researchers sought to determine whether power inspires hypocrisy, the tendency to hold high standards for others while performing morally suspect behaviors oneself. The research finds that power makes people stricter in moral judgment of others - while being less strict of their own behavior.
    "This research is especially relevant to the biggest scandals of 2009, as we look back on how private behavior often contradicted the public stance of particular individuals in power,"
    "For instance, we saw some politicians use public funds for private benefits while calling for smaller government, or have extramarital affairs while advocating family values. Similarly, we witnessed CEOs of major financial institutions accepting executive bonuses while simultaneously asking for government bailout money on behalf of their companies."
    "According to our research, power and influence can cause a severe disconnect between public judgment and private behavior,


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    What Would Israel Do?

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    clippers remarks: " Still, the advice is sound, no matter that Obama will never even consider consulting the most successful air counterterrorism that the West has managed to produce. The difference between Israel and the dilettantes of the West is that the Israelis are determined to survive. Or at least they are determined that their demise will not be due to the actions of a bunch of homicidal maniacs dressed up in doctrinal disguise. The West, meanwhile, lives to avoid offending people: a sure recipe for cultural suicide."
    A former El Al Security head talks about their procedures:
    [Video]
    Joshua Pundit posted a Tweet from Bill Maher:
    ?Guys, I can tell u what to do about this security thing: just ask ?what wld Israel do?? and do that.?
    To which J.P. responded:
    Unfortunately Bill, your friend Barack Obama would never do that in a million years. He?d rather you keep risking your life than take a chance of offending Muslim sensibilities.
    As I?ve mentioned before, the very idea of kufar breathing in and out ?offends Muslim sensibilities? which are paper thin, spread everywhere, and as easily messed up as anything made in China. In fact, you have as much chance of avoiding their offended responses as you do finding something not made in China.
    I wish we had just a few of the Israeli techniques for ferreting out the dangerous and deluded.


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    French Carbon Tax ruled Unconstitutional

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    FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy?s dreams of putting France on the frontline of the fight against global warming were in disarray yesterday, after his flagship carbon tax was ruled unconstitutional two days before it was due to come into effect.

    In an unexpected and embarrassing blow, the court responsible for ensuring the validity of French legislation rejected the reform as ineffective and unfair.

    It ruled that, rather than being the revolutionary measure Mr Sarkozy promised, the tax would have let off the hook many industrial polluters, while placing a disproportionately heavy burden on ordinary households.

    ?The large number of exemptions from the carbon tax runs counter to the goal of fighting climate change and violates the equality enjoyed by all in terms of public charges,? said the constitutional council in its 11th-hour ruling last night.

    Ministers promised a revised text within weeks. But there was little the government could do to distract from the humiliation


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    Obama Takes Break From Vacation To Let Us Know He Wont Rest!

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    clippers remarks: in the bathroom of a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Sunday. Several police vehicles and a police command unit have surrounded a plane at Detroit?s Metro Airport, after the pilot of a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight requested emergency help. Two sources tell Fox News that the suspect boarded a plan in Lagos with no baggage, and said the FBI has already sent an email alert to other federal agencies notifying them of the incident. The source said the man taken into custody at the Detroit airport was a Nigerian man in his 30s. Federal officials know who the suspect is, but won?t provide any more details. He allegedly barricaded himself in the plane?s bathroom for an hour. There are some reports suggesting that the Nigerian man may have just been a sick passenger. Why the hell would anyone travel international so light? No luggage should have been the first red flag. http://deadenders.wordpress.com/
    December 28, 2009 by deadenders

    For the first time in days Obama took some time off the golf course. Three days seems to have been enough for barry to collect his thoughts and figure out a way to address the Tidy Whitie Bomber situation without bringing up Islam.  He told us point blank (more like with a blank stare) that he would not rest until all those responsible were brought to justice.  He then pulled the umbrella out of his pina colada and headed back to the course to get in another 18 holes of tireless service to our country before dark.

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    DHS Concoct Cover Story For Second Failed Terrorist Attack

    December 27, 2009

    DHS isn?t about to let a second attempted terrorist act on their watch hit the news.  The ?he was just ill? story is being spread far and wide by the powers that be.  They?ll just need to pull the ?tidy whitie? bomb out of the blue gel since he chickened out and flushed them.

    Police have arrested a Nigerian man who reportedly became verbally disruptive and barricaded himself


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    Frontpages Man of the Year: GLENN BECK

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    clippers remarks: " Whether you love him or hate him, or consider him to be a must-see TV or DVR necessity, radio and TV talker Beck is a bright new star in the conservative firmament. You might get fired up by his calls to action or wince at his emotional outbursts ? you even might tune in today only to see if this is when his head finally explodes?but you have to admit, this was the Year of the Beck."
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    The year of Obamarific ?change? quickly became the year of dissent as Americans grew disillusioned with the ?trillion here and a trillion there? spending of President Barack Obama even as unemployment rose. The so-called ?Stimulus Package,? which promised to cap unemployment at 8%, did nothing to generate private sector jobs. The only area that seemed to be stimulated was joblessness, which soared above 10%.

    Suddenly, the loudmouths of the Left and the poobahs of the Lame-Stream Media ? who had deemed dissent to be ?the highest form of patriotism? when George W. Bush occupied the White House ? whistled another tune. They began savaging of opponents of the Obama regime as Nazis, racists and ignorant rubes. Their targets weren?t just public figures who stood in the way of their agenda; rather, they viciously attacked ordinary Americans, the tea partiers, to whom they gave a sobriquet (tea-baggers) that no network censors would have allowed just a few years ago.



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    MOVE YOUR MONEY, A New Yearss Resolution:

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    clippers remarks: Transfer Your Money From Big Banks to Community Banks
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    Huffington Posts main article on Dec. 30 2009: " Move Your Money, A New Yearss Resolution: Transfer Your Money From Big Banks to Community Banks"

    This suggests that the people of this country move their money from the dishonest Federal Reserve bailout banks to little, local honest banks. And they give a link where one can find out which financially sound local banks serve your
    the Big Four banks -- JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo -- all of which took billions in taxpayer money
    have had a record year, making record profits while returning to the highly leveraged activities that brought our economy to the brink of disaster
    Its time for Americans to move their money out of these reckless behemoths. And you dont have to worry, there is zero risk: deposit insurance is just as good at small banks
    We simply cant count on Congress to fix things


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    Russia plans to stop asteroid

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    Russia plans to stop asteroid

    The head of Russias federal space agency has said it will work to divert an asteroid which will make several passes near the Earth from 2029.

    Any eventual plan is likely to be an international collaboration, he said.

    The US space agency said in October that there is a one-in-250,000 chance of Apophis hitting Earth in 2036.

    the solution would not entail the use of nuclear weapons.

    Other schemes that have been put forth in the past for diverting asteroids from collision courses include spacecraft that nudge the space rocks out of their trajectory through force, or diverting them with "solar sails" that use the wind of particles ejected from the Sun.

    "Peoples lives are at stake," Mr Perminov reportedly told the radio service Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia).

    "We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people."



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    Happy New Year

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    clippers remarks: New Years eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
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    Rumors abound that new Leonardo da Vinci painting has been found in Boston

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    clippers remarks: "-- We put a call in to Frederick Ilchman, the Boston museums Renaissance curator. Does he have such a painting? "Cant tell you anything about it, sorry," he says, before hanging up. (Do we detect a yes in that click?) "

    Is the world about to gain another Leonardo da Vinci painting?

    The multitasking Renaissance genius who produced the most famous portrait in the world -- Mona somebody -- left us only 10 to 20 other paintings. Yet if current whispers bear out about a picture in Boston, that number may increase by one more. Art experts say its the equivalent of stumbling upon a surprise Shakespeare play or a lost Homeric epic.

    Mystery man: Da Vinci still has allure, above in undated drawing.

    At this point, we have only a tantalizing mystery -- perhaps the unspooling of a new Da Vinci code -- dangling on the slender thread of secrets and a handful of clues that emerged this week:

    -- The Washington Post receives a tip from a source who wishes to remain anonymous that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has in its possession a painting believed to be by the Italian master, and is in the process of authenticating it. Were it deemed a true Leonardo, such a painting would be only the second one in all the Americas. (The first hangs here, in the National Gallery of Art.)


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    Reuters: Best Photos of the Decade

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    clippers remarks: see them all here: http://www.zopag.com/PhotoGallery/best-photos-of-decade/1-1046-1/slow/2.html
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    • Italian PM Berlusconi speaks with Frances President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel at Elysee Palace

    Italian PM Berlusconi speaks with Frances President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel at Elysee Palace
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    • World Press Photo of the Year 2005 taken by Reuters photographer Finbarr OReilly.

    World Press Photo of the Year 2005 taken by Reuters photographer Finbarr OReilly.
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    • Convicted Bali bomber Imam Samudera alias Abdul Aziz talks to his daughter during his last family visit in Batu prison, Nusa Kambangan Island. Reuters

    Convicted Bali bomber Imam Samudera alias Abdul Aziz talks to his daughter during his last family visit in Batu prison, Nusa Kambangan Island. Reuters
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    • Saddam Hussein is filmed after his capture. Reuters

    Saddam Hussein is filmed after his capture. Reuters
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    • Wounded Israeli civilians get first aid, following a suicide attack at Tel Avivs old central bus station. Reuters

    Wounded Israeli civilians get first aid, following a suicide attack at Tel Avivs old central bus station. Reuters
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    • Benazir Bhutto prays as she arrives in Karachi. Reuters

    Benazir Bhutto prays as she arrives in Karachi. Reuters
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    • Italys Marco Materazzi falls on the pitch after being head-butted by Frances Zinedine Zidane (R) during their World Cup 2006 final soccer match in Berlin. Reuters

    Italys Marco Materazzi falls on the pitch after being head-butted by Frances Zinedine Zidane (R) during their World Cup 2006 final soccer match in Berlin. Reuters
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    • Rescuers carry a wounded man from the rubble of a Baghdad building demolished by a bomb. Reuters

    Rescuers carry a wounded man from the rubble of a Baghdad building demolished by a bomb. Reuters
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    • A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area. Reuters

    A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area. Reuters
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    A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Nigerias commercial capital Lagos. Reuters
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    Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar hang from cable of crane in Tehran. Reuters
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    Indian woman mourns death of her relative killed in tsunami in Cuddalore. Reuters
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    Two Bosnian Muslim women cry over a coffin with remains of their relative in a factory hall in Potocari where 610 victims of Srebrenica massacre wait for the funeral. Reuters
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    The new elected Pope greets pilgrims from the balcony of St. Peters Basilica at the Vatican. Reuters
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    Bolivian President-elect Morales receives a replica of Simon Bolivars sword in Caracas. Reuters
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    An ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester tries to push a bulldozer at a demonstration at Israeli Kibbutz. Reuters
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    An Iraqi man suspected of carrying explosives in his car is held near a polling station near Baquba. Reuters
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    A would-be immigrant crawls on a beach after his arrival in Fuerteventura, Spain. Reuters
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    US hotels heiress Paris Hilton poses at photocall on the Carlton Hotel pier during 58th Cannes Film Festival. Reuters
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    Man uncovers body of a dead man outside New Orleans Convention Center.Reuters
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    Cardinals cassocks are blown by a gust of wind as they arrive for the funeral mass of the Pope John Paul II at St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican.Reuters
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    Girl walks with bags of drinking water in Monrovia. Reuters
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    Opponents of Israels disengagement plan from Gaza, scream as they speak with a policeman in Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom. Reuters
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    Heavy fog rolls by early in the morning near the Dubai Marina. Reuters
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    British soldier jumps from burning tank in southern Iraq city of Basra. Reuters
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    An angry Jewish settler boy looks out from inside a synagogue in Gush Katif. Reuters
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    A Lebanese man shouts for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion in Beirut. Reuters
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    Alicia Casilio, dressed as an Iraqi civilian, stands silently at an anti-Iraq war protest in Boston. Reuters
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    Flames come out of the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport. Reuters
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    Zimbabwean commercial famer Tommy Bayley rides an old bicycle ahead of war veterans and villagers who invaded his farm Danbury Park 30 kms northwest of Harare to an abandoned house to use as temporary shelter. Reuters
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    An Israeli Border Policeman and a Palestinian scream at each other face to face in the Old City of Jerusalem. Reuters
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    Palestinians run to escape, while one crawls, as Israeli soldiers fire teargas during Palestinian-Israeli clashes in the south Gaza Strip town of Khan Yones. Reuters
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    9th U.S. District Court Sets Limits On TASER Use

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    clippers remarks: And not a moment too soon!
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    Ninth Circuit Court Delivers Landmark Taser Ruling

    The 9th Circuit issued what may be a landmark ruling on tasers, and not a moment too soon:

    In a case out of San Diego County, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals criticized an officer who, without warning, shot an emotionally troubled man with a Taser when he was unarmed, yards away, and neither fleeing nor advancing on the officer. 

    As lawsuits have proliferated against police and Taser International, which manufactures the weapons, the nations appellate courts have been trying to define what constitutes appropriate Taser use.

    A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit affirmed the trial judges ruling on Monday, concluding that the level of force used by the officer was excessive.

    Some lawyers called it a landmark decision.

    Eugene Iredale, a San Diego lawyer who argued the case, said it was one of the clearest and most complete statements yet from an appellate court about the limits of Taser use.



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    Like Convergence, Aggregation Is Better In Theory

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    clippers remarks: an interesting take, see what Louis Gray says at the end:" I have to believe that aggregation tools are interesting, and useful to a small minority of people. Lifestreaming tools are fun for individuals to highlight their activity. Sites are out there that do a good job, and more are coming, but I am thinking that "aggregation" is the new "convergence". It looks great on paper, and some people will carry a Swiss Army Knife with them everywhere, but most wont.
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    There always seems to be a tug of war in technology between those who want a converged, multi-purpose device that does everything, or those who want a dedicated device that does one thing (or just a few things) extremely well. For every successful hulking converged printer/copier/scanner/fax machine device, there are utilities like toasters or microwaves that just do one specific function. The truth is that when differing technologies converge, it usually leads to a single unsatisfying experience where none of the functions are high quality. More common is the practice of product diversification, where one device turns into a family of devices, with differing features for differing price points.


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    Colour and Psyche

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    clippers remarks: interesting clip about colour psychology

    Colour and Psyche

    You have just moved into a new apartment and your partner offers to paint the room in bright red? Does the idea not convince you? It is well known that this is the colour of strong feeling and life force. It would therefore be ideal as a stimulant for nights of passion, but it is right to rest well, since it has an effect that induce sleep. To achieve this end, it?s better to choose a blue or yellow pastel.

    coloured-lips

    Each colour has certain reactions and emotions?in fact; each of the colours that the human eye can see is electromagnetic radiation emitted by a particular wavelength of light. These are perceived by photoreceptors in the retina and reach the brain as electrochemical impulses. It appears that colours can be perceived even by the blind. The vibrations of the electromagnetic radiation would be well received through the skin.



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    SOME DAYS YOU GET FAST FOOD. SOME DAYS FAST FOOD GETS YOU.

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    AT LAST NEW YEARS PARTY, EVIDENCE IS KEPT AROUND

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    clippers remarks: Careful out there. Have a great New Years Eve fellow clippers!


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    Monopoly Capitalism Is the Root of All of Americas Problems

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    clippers remarks: The indoctrination is that we live in a market economy that determines globalization and everything else. I don?t know why this generation of Americans was more gullible. I can?t understand that. But it?s just a fact and we need to wake up. This systemic risk is a result of monopolists preaching efficiency because they want to take cash out of the system. For example, let?s say they have two machines, and sell one. They get money for the machine they sell, and then the one left over will be more expensive to use so they can charge more for its use. They pocket the money from the machine they sell and get more money off the one machine they have left. The problem, though, is they only have one machine left. If something goes wrong, we can have huge systemic failures. Treasury to dole out USD 3.8 billion more for GMAC
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    Something is rotten in the state of American capitalism, and if you agree with Barry C. Lynn, almost all stinky paths lead to the monopolization of our economy. The rise of behemoths like Wal-Mart and Viacom are not only lowering the quality and safety of the products you use, but also undermining our so-called democracy.
    Q: So what happens if we don?t reverse the monopolization of our economy?
    BL: There?s two main types of problems. One is that antimonopoly law is a political law -- not economic, as you might suspect. You prevent monopolies because you don?t want a concentration of economic power that gives beneficiaries political power. So monopolies are a huge political problem.
    We essentially have a merger of Goldman Sachs and the Treasury Department. So we don?t actually know who?s running the Treasury. We have a political crisis, in which we?ve had a coup by the bankers. And the bankers don?t only control banks but also all the large corporations.
    Look at things now.
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    Force

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    Zoooom

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    The PTSD Nation - America the Traumatized

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    clippers remarks: This breaking of the national psyche was bound to happen; its been decades in the making. American exceptionalism -- the idea that we are somehow better and more blessed than any other people on the face of the earth -- was bound to fail as our nation, like every other before it, found itself caught in the grinding wheels of history. The 2000 election, 9/11, Enron and WorldCom, Afghanistan, Iraq on a lie, Abu Ghraib, the USA Patriot Act, Guantánamo, Katrina and near economic collapse: each of these -- and many, many others -- challenged our sense of national identity, giving the lie to who we thought we were, and compromising a sense of safety, however delusional, that we once enjoyed. No longer were Americans exempt from the perils that face other nations. sneaked up behind us and whacked us in the head.
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    Its been one helluva decade, even though weve reached the end without knowing what to call it. Some have tried "the aughts," others the "double-Os." Im content to simply call it over.
    Yet for describing its character, nothing comes closer than the Decade of Trauma -- American trauma, that is.
    weve endured a decade that shattered nearly every notion of what it meant to be an American, whether you live on the left or the right. And so we shout. Or hide. Or startle too easily.

    In America today, it seems we all have a touch of post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced by our increasingly vitriolic political environment, where reality is denied and histrionics run riot. Anger, were told, is the natural reaction to trauma; in people with PTSD, the anger is out of control. By that measure, the millennial decade has brought us 10 years of PTSD politics -- with no end in sight.

    national politics have moved beyond the bounds of extreme partisanship into the realm of mental illness.


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    Welcome the New Year

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    Hogmanay is the Scots1 word for the celebration to welcome the New Year. Traditionally it runs from noon on 31 December to noon on 1 January, but it is now generally taken to mean the whole new year festive period; the festivities often continue well into the new year and even into 2 January as well. It is a time of hope and looking forward to a better year.

    A clock depicting the second between 2006 and 2007.

    History and Origins

    The celebration of Hogmanay can be traced back to the pagan practices of sun and fire worship in mid-winter. The Roman festival of Saturnalia involved great festivities with lots of wine and food, as well as more lascivious goings-on. The Vikings celebrated Yule, beginning on the shortest day of the year with sacrifices to the Norse gods and continuing for a number of days. The customs of Hogmanay probably combine elements of both of these with elements of druidic winter solstice practices2.

    Auld Lang Syne

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    Look forward,Look within you and Look around you, you are never alone

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    clippers remarks: great advice to start of the new year
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    "Look forward, whats behind you is experience. Look within you, therein lie the true answers. Look around you, you are never alone. HAPPY NEW YEAR my friends!!! Wishing you love and light blessings for 2010." Shama C Noorani


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    Happy New Year!

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    Searching for 2010s patterns...

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    clippers remarks: Happy New Year to one and all !
    May you find happiness in your 2010 patterns.
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    Searching for 2010s patterns...

    Searching for 2010s patterns...

    Happy New Year to one and all !
    May you find happiness in your 2010 patterns.


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    DAY DREAMING OF SUMMER

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    A REALLY HUNGRY SNAKE

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    New Year?s Special: Top 10 Pinup Calendars of 2010

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    #3 Pinups for Pups 2010

    Pinups for Pups- doing what they do best- publish yet another spectacular neo pinup calender. And all earnings go to saving the pups!

















    #2 Thought You Know (TYK)

    The TYK girls are back with the 2010 calender. From the look of the promo shots, it seems the production has improved. With a lot of fun and humor they mannage to have a feminist agenda and a great cause; The Proceeds from the TyK Project go directly to the Chicago Women?s Health Center.



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    Faith in Free-Market Capitalism Is Being Rewarded

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    clippers remarks: The biggest source of economic stimulus is not the $800 billion Barack Obama spending package. Its the $4.6 trillion of capital gains thrown off by the stock market over the past three quarters. This is investment money, and it also enhances consumer spending. As a result, jobs are likely to start rising early in 2010.

    The other source of economic stimulus is the amount of money Michael Moore invests in Dominos Pizza and Krispy Kreme, only later to bemoan those same corporations in which he owns shares.

    Michael Moore-ons movie in which he capitalistically makes money off of gullible liberals? hatred of capitalism? Seriously, not only did that movie bomb, but the hippo-like hypocrite became enchanted by the ideals of socialism when he took an economics class while coked out of his mind.

    Using socialism to help revive a failing economy is like putting angry weasels down your pants because you need some rest.
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    Despite the historic expansion of the federal governments involvement in, intervention in and control of the economy -- including Bailout Nation; takeovers of banks, car companies, insurance firms, Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, Chrysler and GMAC; large-scale tax threats; overregulation; an attempted takeover of the health care sector; ultra-easy money; a declining dollar; and unprecedented spending and debt creation -- despite all the things that would be expected to destroy the economy -- all this socialism lite and the degrading of incentives and rewards for success -- despite all this, the U.S. economy has not been destroyed.

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    In fact, it is coming back. In 2009, the stock market had one of its greatest rebounds in history. And in 2010, were likely to witness a mini boom in economic growth.



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    Malaysia High Court Allows Christian Use of the Word Allah

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    clippers remarks: The word Allah is Arabic for God. He is the same one God worshiped by Jews, Christians and Muslim.
    Justice Datuk Lau Bee Lan, in her oral decision, said that pursuant to Article 11(4) of the Federal Constitution, it was an offence for non-Muslims to use the word "Allah" to Muslims to propagate the religion.

    But it was not an offence for non-Muslims to use the word to the non-Muslims for the purpose of religion, she added.
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    A copy of the Herald newspaper highlighting the impending verdict of the publications religious discrimination lawsuit, in Kuala Lumpur,30 Dec. 2009

    In Malaysia, the High Court has thrown out a government ban on non-Muslims using the word Allah for God. Those favoring the ban argue Christian use of the word could lead to confusion and conversions among Muslims. 
    Malaysias High Court ruled that a Roman Catholic publication can use the word "Allah". The court said the Home Ministry was incorrect when it banned the non-Muslim publication from using the word.
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    KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 (Bernama) -- The Catholic weekly magazine, Herald, can use the word "Allah" in its publications, the High Court here ruled on Thursday.
    Justice Datuk Lau Bee Lan, in her oral decision, held that the Herald had the constitutional right to use the word in the magazine to propagate the Christian religion but not Islam.

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    Limbaugh Hospitalized in Honolulu

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    clippers remarks: Ok...yall can start with the hate-speech. As for me...I hope that he will be ok. He is the spokesman for many a conservatives voice. Hes entertaining, informed, and well connected within the political realm.
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    Sources: Limbaugh Hospitalized In Honolulu

    Rush Limbaugh
    Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains,
    Limbaugh, 58, suffered from chest pains, sources said. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived
    In 2001, Limbaugh received a cochlear implant after he suddenly lost hearing due to autoimmune inner ear disease. Limbaugh underwent treatment in 2003 for an addiction to prescription painkillers, including Lorcet, Norco and hydrocodone.


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    How Likely is Another U.S. Terror Attack? (Updated)

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    clippers remarks: [i]December 28, 2009 " ?A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 79% of U.S. voters now think it is likely there will be another terrorist attack in the United States in the next year.[/i] That?s a 30-point jump from the end of August when just 49% of Americans felt that.

    Go to link to find your state on the map for poll results >>>MicroPoll - Online Polls - http://bit.ly/6FnTKX
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    Time for a poll:

    MicroPoll
    How likely do you think it is that there will be a significant terrorism attack in the United States in the next year?
    Not likely.
     2%2
    Somewhat likely.
     18%24
    Very likely.
     80%105
    Total Votes : 131
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    UPDATE ? Compare our results with these Rasmussen poll results:

    September 1, 2009 ? ?Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans believe it is at least somewhat likely that there will be a significant terrorist attack in the United States in the next year.?

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    Obama signs order: In bioterror attack on nation, Post Office delivers aid

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    clippers remarks: President Obama signs executive order directing U.S. Postal Service to plan for delivering antidotes in event of a bioterror attack.
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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive.

    In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing medical countermeasures to biological weapons because of its capacity for rapid residential delivery.

    While most likely unrelated, the release of the executive order comes less than a week after a man with alleged ties to al-Qaida tried to bring down a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. In recent days, Obama has sought to assure the public that his administration is doing what it can to protect the nation from terrorist attacks.

    Under the new order, federal agencies must develop a response plan that includes possible law enforcement escorts for Postal Service workers and gives anthrax primary threat consideration.



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    9 science stories we loved and hated in 2009

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    Spanking bad for the brain. A study involving hundreds of children ages 2 to 9 showed the more a child was spanked the lower his or her IQ score compared with others their age four years after the initial intelligence test. Since kids were followed over time, researchers could rule out the possibility that those with less brainpower cause more trouble and thus elicit more spanking. The researchers suggest various potential causes of the link, including the idea that spanking is a traumatic experience that can adversely affect the noggin. Another idea: By using hitting rather than words or other means of discipline, parents could be depriving kids of learning opportunities.
    Dinosaurs succumbed to toxic algae.
    Fetuses have memories.
    Happiest states revealed.

    Boys issues are neglected.
    Sounds scare wimps.
    Our ancestor, Ida?
    How the government spends "our money."

    The firestorm of Climategate.


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    Danish Paper - Obama Greater Than Jesus

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    Sharp-eyed Jim Geraghty at NROs Campaign Spot draws a doozy out of the Can They Be Serious? Department. A  Danish newspaper (Politiken) posted an editorial headlined "Obama Greater Than Jesus: The U.S. President -- the practical saviour of our times." It must simply be reproduced to be believed:

    He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions.

    And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated - - but rather the President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama.

    The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama ? which is something that the critics developed themselves ? would be comical, blasphemous, or both.

    If such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to Obama?s advantage.

    On the other hand, we have Jesus? miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few.


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    How to get a grip on your sugar cvravings!

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    Sweet Nothing

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    It?s the holiday season and you?re staring down a plate of truffles, shortbread and tarts. Squirming on your host?s couch, you surrender to your sweet tooth, popping a few treats into your mouth. As the sugar buzz sets in, you feel a little guilty, but should you? After all, is sugar really that bad for you?

    Sugar is a carbohydrate that gives your body, including the brain, an energy boost. (The recommended daily intake for carbs is 130 g for adults.) But overdosing on simple carbs such as sugar can cause a spike and sudden crash in blood sugar.



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    Rasmussen: Opinions on ObamaCare hardening

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    clippers remarks: And the more that *gets out* the more the "hardening" will increase. The bill is insane. FTA: "its provisions are making a difference to some people ? mostly state governors looking at gigantic unfunded mandates via Medicaid. It isn?t red-state governors doing all of the objecting...". "New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson and California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are urging congressional leaders to rework the Medicaid financing in the Senate-passed bill, warning that under that version their states will be crushed by billions in new costs."
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    Rasmussen: Opinions on ObamaCare hardening

    Many have questioned whether those who favor or oppose the health care plan in Congress really know what?s in it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey suggests that they have a decent understanding of the bill and that voter attitudes towards the legislation have hardened.

    While several individual components of the plan are popular, reminding voters of what?s included in the plan has virtually no impact on support for the overall legislation. This suggests that there are not major surprises in the legislation that will cause people to change their opinion of it.

    Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters nationwide support the plan, and 58% are opposed. That?s consistent with our weekly tracking of the issue which has found support between 38% and 41% every week from just before Thanksgiving to the end of 2009.



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    DCCC: Obama more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda than Bush

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    clippers remarks: Does this make anyone else just gag?!! What they call scoring points I call sounding the alarm. And as far as putting "country before political party" concerning national security...thats just an outright lie and to suggest that we need to "learn from this episode" is the height of idiocy. Conservatives have looooong been aware of the ongoing and dangerous advancement of radical Muslim jihadists; we learned it already! How about the DCCC stop with the rhetoric and join the fight.
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    DCCC: Obama more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda than Bush

    (DCCC) stressed it was President George W. Bush, not his successor, who relegated the fight against the terrorist network to the back burner by turning "its focus from al Qaeda to Iraq."
    "It is insulting that The Obama administration would make such a claim, but then again, these are the same weak-kneed liberals who have recently tried to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists right here to Michigan!" Hoekstra wrote
    ?It just goes to show how extreme and out of touch House Republicans have become that their members would try to score political points and even raise money off the terror plot to blow up a plane and kill innocent Americans on Christmas,"
    ?It?s long past time for House Republicans to put country before political party and work with President Obama and Congressional Democrats to learn from this episode


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    Iraq hostages: Peter Moores kidnapping masterminded by Iran

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    Iraq hostages: Peter Moores kidnapping masterminded by Iran

    The kidnapping of Peter Moore and the four other British men was masterminded by Irans Revolutionary Guard, according to reports.

    Peter Moore; Iraq hostages: Peter Moores kidnapping masterminded by Iran
    Peter Moore pictured at the British Embassy in Baghdad after his release

    The five men, who were kidnapped from a government ministry building in Baghdad in 2007, were reportedly taken to Iran just a day after their abduction where they were held by the al-Quds brigade of the Guard.

    An unnamed former Revolutionary Guard told The Guardian: "It was an Iranian kidnap, led by the Revolutionary Guard, carried out by the al-Quds brigade.

    "My contact works for al-Quds. He took part in the planning of the kidnap and he watched the kidnapping as it was taking place. He told me that they spent two days at the Qasser Shiereen camp. They then took them deep inside Iran."



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    Republican Attorneys General in 13 States Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care

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    clippers remarks: The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many days Democrats posted a supermajority needed to advance the legislation. The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. All are Republicans, and McMaster and the attorneys general of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are running for governor in their respective states. Last week, McMaster said he was leading several other attorneys general in an inquiry into the constitutionality of the estimated $100 million deal he has dubbed the "Cornhusker Kickback." Republican U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint of South Carolina raised questions about the legislation, which they said was amended to win Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelsons support. "Because this provision has serious implications for the country and the future of our nations legislative process .....
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    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraskas political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.

    "We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

    "As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision," they wrote.

    In a rare Christmas Eve vote, Senate Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obamas call to remake the nations health care system.


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    How Long?

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    clippers remarks: How long is it going to be before there is a tragedy, because we dont want to offend people, political correctness is going to kill a lot of Americans, I guess the administration is willing to pay that price.....
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    Of course security is soft, how much longer before a plane full of people are murdered because of political correctness, how much longer?



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    Sometime During The Night and Early Morning of Dec 29-30 1916, Grigory Rasputin Is Murdered by Russian Nobles

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    clippers remarks: Fearful of Rasputin?s growing power (among other things, it was believed by some that he was plotting to make a separate peace with the Germans), a group of nobles, led by Prince Felix Youssupov, the husband of the czar?s niece, and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Nicholas?s first cousin, lured Rasputin to Youssupov Palace on the night of December 29, 1916.

    First, Rasputin?s would-be killers gave the monk food and wine laced with cyanide. When he failed to react to the poison, they shot him at close range, leaving him for dead. A short time later, however, Rasputin revived and attempted to escape from the palace grounds, whereupon his assailants shot him again and beat him viciously. Finally, they bound Rasputin, still miraculously alive, and tossed him into a freezing river. His body was discovered several days later and the two main conspirators, Youssupov and Pavlovich were exiled.


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    December 29-30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a self-proclaimed holy man, is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.

    Rasputin, a Siberian-born muzhik, or peasant, who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future, won the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra through his ability to stop the bleeding of their hemophiliac son, Alexei, in 1908. From then on, though he was widely criticized for his lechery and drunkenness, Rasputin exerted a powerful influence on the ruling family of Russia, infuriating nobles, church orthodoxy, and peasants alike. He particularly influenced the czarina, and was rumored to be her lover. When Nicholas departed to lead Russian forces in World War I, Rasputin effectively ruled the country through Alexandra, contributing to the already-existing corruption and disorder of Romanov Russia.

    This Day in History:

    12/30/1922 - USSR established



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    extra symptons to heart attacks

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    clippers remarks: I am clipping this because I just had a heart attack. I thought I hurt my back, it turned out it was a heart attack! I never had any chest pains, just an almighty back pain mand nausia. Please be warned, sometimes you DO NOT get chest pains or tightening of chest in a heart attack. I wish you all well.
    Clip Source: www.phac-aspc.gc.ca

    What are the Symptoms of Heart Attacks in Women?

    Until recently, research on heart attacks focused mainly on men. However, studies now show that some of the symptoms of heart attacks in women are different from those in men.

    Too often, the signs of heart attacks go unnoticed in women (by themselves, their family and their doctor). They may think that other health problems or drug side effects are causing their symptoms or that the symptoms will go away on their own. As a result, women dont always get the health care they need to prevent complications or death from a heart attack.

    Chest pain is the most common symptom in both sexes, but women may also experience these other symptoms:

  • unusual fatigue that gets worse with activity
  • difficulty breathing
  • heartburn that is unrelieved by antacids
  • nausea and/or vomiting that is unrelieved by antacids
  • anxiety
  • tightening and pain in the chest that may extend into the neck, jaws and shoulders
  • general feeling of weakness
  • paleness
  • sweating.


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    Never Again

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    clippers remarks: Tell her, tell her about the army, tell her to be proud of the army. Tell her about the family of dead girls, tell her their names why not, tell her the whole world knows why shouldnt she know? tell her theres dead babies, did she see babies? tell her shes got nothing to be ashamed of. Tell her they did it to themselves. Tell her they want their children killed to make people sorry for them, tell her Im not sorry for them, tell her not to be sorry for them, tell her were the ones to be sorry for, tell her they cant talk suffering to us.
    Many groups are observing the one-year anniversary of the Gaza "Cast Lead" campaign, which is part of the many-year war against Gaza, with no end in sight.

    Last year, in playwright Caryl Churchills Seven Jewish Children, characters debated what to tell a child who is asking about pictures of dead Gazan babies she sees on the television.

    Churchills play was condemned as anti-Semitic. Frankly, I think it gave the Israelis more credit than they deserved. Because it assumed that children knew about what was transpiring in Gaza
    Well, I was here during the Gaza campaign, and my unprofessional impression is that nobody asked questions, because nobody paid attention, because nobody gave a shit. I mean nobody gave a shit.
    "Cast Lead".
    we liberated ourselves from the ropes of Jewish heritage and morality that have been binding us for years.
    There, in that besieged strip of land, we revealed the crystal-clear truth to ourselves, unadorned and free of shame.
    ? and we are proud of it!

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    Around the World: 27 Fabulous New Year?s Eve Fireworks

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    clippers remarks: My friend Angie from Weburbanist/Webecoist wrote this one. Happy New Year Angel (if youre reading this) and Happy New Year to everyone at Clipmarks!
    Clip Source: webecoist.com

    fireworksmontage

    Auld Lang Syne and good riddance recession of 2009! Making noise and fireworks on New Year?s Eve is believed to have originated in ancient times, when noise and fire were thought to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck. Whether you make a New Year?s resolution or not, be sure to celebrate 2010. Yes, the fireworks can be harmful and dangerous, but they are spectacular without a doubt. In the United States, most of us have seen the ball drop in New York City and have also seen the fireworks, if not in person then on TV. But worldwide, we unite as one to welcome the new year with fireworks, so here are 27 fabulous New Year?s Eve firework celebrations from around the world.

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    Cat Found

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    Clip Source: stopdroplol.com
    - what a dumbass... thats obviously a dog

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    New Years Eve Blue Moon & Partial Lunar Eclipse

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    clippers remarks: What a lovely site on this glorious night
    clipmarkonians gather blue moon very bright
    they fight for their right
    mcafee see the light
    and..the dish ran away with the spoon




    Clip Source: www.astronomy.ie
    Lunar Eclipse on New Years Eve
    On New Years Eve the Earth will cast a shadow deep into space onto the Moon, our nearest neighbour, in a partial lunar eclipse. Incidentally, the Full Moon on New Years Eve will be a Blue Moon - the second Full Moon in the month. 
    This will be the first eclipse of the Moon to be seen on a New Years Eve since 1656, thats 353 years ago. So this is a unique way to ring out 2009 and ring in 2010, the year of our 20th Birthday, so why not start your celebrations with an "Eclipse Party" and tell us how you got on?
    e partial lunar eclipse rings out a very successful United Nations International Year of Astronomy, where over 160 nations came together to celebrate 400 years of astronomy, since Galileo first pointed his telescope at the night sky. 2010 is another year to celebrate, as it is Astronomy Irelands 20th birthday, and will be packed full of events.


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    Detroit bomber: US intelligence insufficiently aggressive in pursing leads

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    Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

    Detroit bomber: US intelligence insufficiently aggressive in pursing leads

    US security agencies were "insufficiently aggressive" in pursuing leads on the Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, President Obama will be told in an official report into the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day.

    Detroit bomber: US intelligence insufficiently aggressive in pursing leads
    The CIA and other agencies failed to chase up leads on the Detroit bomber, a report will say

    Intelligence agencies including the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) also failed to share key information about the would-be suicide bomber which could have prevented him boarding the Northwest Airlines flight carrying a home-made bomb, the report says.

    Mr Obama has furiously denounced the "systemic" failures which allowed Nigerian Abdulmutallab, 23, to slip through the net.

    There are also widespread reports that Mr Obama has ordered generals to draw up a list of targets for retaliatory air strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Yemen, where Abdulmutallab was given explosives training.



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    TigerDirect.com Yr End Refurb Madness!!!

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    Irish (Gaelic expressions)

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    clippers remarks: falbh (leave/go away)
    fiach! (Lo! Behold!)
    fòghnaidh! (That will do!)
    fortan leat! (Good luck!)
    fuirich ort! (Hang on!)
    fuirich ort! (Wait a minute!)
    gabh mo leisguel! (excuse me!)
    tha grain agam air (I hate him/it)
    greas ort! (Hurry up!)
    gu sealladh saelbh oirnn! (Heaven preserve us!)
    gu sealladh orm! (My goodness!)
    is duilich sin! (Thats a shame!)
    ist! (hush)
    is dòcha! (Maybe!)
    is dòcha gun! (Perhaps!)
    is e sin acheist! (Thats the question/point!)
    is e sin achùis! (Thats the point!)
    is e do bheatha! (Youre welcome!)
    is math sin! (Smashing!)
    Pog mo thoin (Pogmahone) =kiss my arse
    Tonlegee=censored!
    Endearments
    a-chaoidh (always, forever)
    àillidh (beautiful)
    bòidhchead (beautiful) {n}
    bòidheach (beautiful, pretty){adj.}
    caomh (dear, beloved) {adj.}
    meudail! (my dear!)
    gaol (love) {m}
    a ghaoil! (darling!/my love!)
    gaolach (beloved) {adj.}
    a ghràidh! (love! dear!)
    a luaidh! (my love! darling!)
    aig Sealbhtha brath! (Heaven knows!)
    air do shocair! (steady on! Go easy!)
    air mo chùram (on my mind. Under my responsibility)
    a shìorraidh! (for Heavens sake!)
    beannachd leibh! (goodbye!)
    a bhidse (sod it!)
    caidil gu math/mhath (sleep well!)
    carson a chiall? (why on earth?)
    ceud mìle fàilte! (One hundred thousand welcomes!)
    ceud taing! (many thanks!)
    chan fhadthuige! (It wont be long!)
    cha ruig thu leas (You dont need to.)
    cobhair orm! (Help! Help me!)
    cùm ris! (keep it up! Stick to it!)
    dad ort! (Nevermind! Dont worry!)
    dè fon ghrèin? (What on earth?)
    dìreach! (quite! Exactly! Just so!)
    tha mi duilich! (Im sorry!)
    eist! (hush! Be quiet!)
    fàilte oirbh! (youre welcome!)
    tha fallas orm (Im sweating)


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    green-card marriage scam

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    clippers remarks: To cover up the scam, some obtained drivers licenses under aliases before marrying. Camarillo and others prepared fake divorce decrees, tax returns, birth certificates and Social Security numbers cards. The documents helped fool immigration officials, who didnt necessarily verify that they were legitimate, Bleil said. The scam began to unravel after an informant told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about Camarillo in July 2004. When Olga Hernandez and her husband went to the Citizenship and Immigration Services office in 2005 for an interview, the couple were placed in separate rooms. Discrepancies surfaced during questioning, and eventually Hernandez broke. She told officers shed just been just trying to help a friend and withdrew the petition for a green card.
    Clip Source: www.chron.com

    Texas grandmother led big green-card marriage scam

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    FORT WORTH ? For more than two decades, Maria Refugia Camarillo played matchmaker for her family members.

    Camarillo, known as Cuca, found spouses for her children, her nieces, a nephew and even her three teenage grandchildren, all of whom lived within two blocks of each other.

    The marriages were not only arranged, they were also lucrative. Since 1980, Camarillo arranged some 170 matches between more than a dozen of her relatives and foreigners willing to pay cash to marry Americans and get green cards. With fees of up to $12,000 per marriage, the scheme garnered more than $1 million, authorities estimate.

    Federal prosecutors describe it as one the largest green-card marriage scams in the country and say it was unique because it was a family enterprise. Authorities say the 72-year-old Camarillo and her family avoided detection through identity theft, document fraud and immigration system savvy.



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    The Celebration Of Ashura

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    Ashura rituals and observances consist primarily of public expressions of mourning and grief by flagellating themselves on the back with chains, beating their head or cutting themselves. This is intended to connect them with Husseins suffering and death as an aid to salvation on the Day of Judgment.


    Its a family holiday, you take a big knife...
    ...and cut your head, then show your neighbors how much you bleed







    Mothers and Children


    As Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said,
    Peace will come to the Middle East when they love their children more than they hate us!



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    JUNK SCIENCE revisited

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    clippers remarks: There are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 degrees Celsius is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.
    Clip Source: dprogram.net
    German Physicists Trash Global Warming ?Theory?
    For any non-scientist interested in the climate debate, there is nothing better than a ready primer to guide you through the complexities of atmospheric physics ? the ?hardest? science of climatology. Here we outline the essential points made by Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, a respected German physicist, that counter the bogus theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).
    Before going further, it?s worth bearing in mind that no climatologist ever completed any university course in climatology?that?s how new this branch of science really is. Like any new science the fall-back position of a cornered AGW proponent is the dreaded ?appeal to authority? where the flustered debater, out of his or her depth, will say, ?Well, professor so-and-so says it?s true ? so it must be true.? Don?t fall for that proxy tree-ring counter?s gambit any longer. Here is the finest shredding of junk science you will ever read.


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    12 Oddest Stories of 2009

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    Clip Source: oddee.com

    12 Oddest Stories of 2009

    6 year-old boy misses bus and takes moms car instead (Jan 2009)


    68-Year-Old aims for drivers license for 772nd time (Feb 2009)


    Woman calls 911 because McDonalds didnt have McNuggets (Mar 2009)


    86-year-old lady catches a burglar with her crutch (Apr 2009)


    Woman bites lovers penis off in car crash (May 2009)


    Teenager gets 56 stars tattooed on her face then lies about it (Jun 2009)


    Drowning diver is saved by a whale (Jul 2009)


    (Female) Motorist gets a lift in Sturgeon Bay (Aug 2009)


    Drunk French teen falls asleep on a railway track, has a train running over him and survives (Sep 2009)


    Donkeys get dye jobs to pose as zebras in a Gaza zoo (Oct 2009)


    Woman gets killed by husbands coffin (Nov 2009)


    Man with the ?Best Job in the World? almost gets killed by a jellyfish (Dec 2009)




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    House Falling Into Sea becomes Art

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    Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

    Artist buys £3,000 home slipping into the sea ... to paint it being washed away

    Scarborough-based artist Kane Cunningham in front of the condemned house

    Mr Cunningham, 48, bought the semi-detached bungalow two weeks ago to film and paint its descent into the sea - the ultimate property crash as he sees it.

    His wife wasnt too happy to discover he had put £3,000 on his credit card just before Christmas, but Mr Cunningham insists paying for the house in this way was symbolic of the economic turmoil of the credit crunch era.

    He said: It represents to me all sorts of ideas to do with the credit crunch and mortgages and the environment.

    Its the perfect site- specific installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sea levels. Its global recession and global warming encapsulated.



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    New Year Heart firework

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    clippers remarks: as i was lucky to capture this at Brighton Beach news years fireworks, show someone that same unexpected love ...happy new year!
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    Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem

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    Clip Source: online.wsj.com

    Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem

    America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.

    steele

    Mr. Obama won the presidency by achieving a symbiotic bond with the American people: He would labor not to show himself, and Americans would labor not to see him. As providence would have it, this was a very effective symbiosis politically. And yet, without self-disclosure on the one hand or cross-examination on the other, Mr. Obama became arguably the least known man ever to step into the American presidency.

    Our new race problem?the sophistication of seeing what isnt there rather than what is?has surprised us with a president who hides his lack of economic understanding behind a drama of scale. Hundreds of billions moving into trillions.


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    Anonymous Craigslist Letter to Dead Girlfriend -- Kleenex Required

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    clippers remarks: Miranda joined in and then Catherine broke down. It was strange to stand in our bedroom surrounded by three crying girls. I made a joke about them crying for joy at the prospect of some free Manolo Balhniks which they didnt seem to find very funny. A few girls have put the moves on and as you know picking up women is not a forte of mine. It seems the grieving boyfriend seems to be a good angle. Who knew! I went on one date and spent it talking about you, the poor girl. You would have found it quite witty I think. No other dates to report, I am going against your orders to move on for now. I found one of those hair tie things that somehow managed to squeeze into every crevice in the apartment. It was under the bed. I sat on the floor holding it and cried. Until then I had held everything together but it just all came flooding out. Every morning when I wake up I forget for a fraction of a second that you are gone and I reach for you.
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    Anonymous Craigslist Letter to Dead Girlfriend -- Kleenex Required
    It has been a rough year darling. The ethereal power of Craigs List will get this message to you I am sure, like in some sort of cheesy 80s movie.
    Well back to the last year, you of course died at the beginning of it which put things to a sour start. I spent last night with your mum and dad, we went to that Italian place in Wicker Park, who on the surface seem to be coping. I had everyone get together for my 25th which went well, your ladies are on top form and I think some engagements are brewing. Ellen is turning up the heat on Steve who will soon be forced down to one knee as you predicted.
    Last weekend I finally took the step of cleaning out your clothes from the closet, which is very barren now. I invited your friends over to take your what they liked, it was an awkward session.
    I think they took them more as a favor to me than anything else. Liz cried when we pulled out all of your shoes,


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    North Magnetic Pole Moving East?

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    clippers remarks: Everything from the pole NORTH POLE should be SOUTH?

    North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due to Core Flux

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    Nikola Tesla Page

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    clippers remarks: tesla coils and more at source.

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    If one half of conjoined twins murdered a person, would the courts have to punish both of them?

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    clippers remarks: Yes and no, but Im nowhere near high enough to debate this.
    Clip Source: www.copytaste.com
    Clip Source: io9.com
    In a new essay Half Guilty, Nick Kam explores the legal ramifications of a thought experiment: if a conjoined twin commits murder, can the legal system punish them? Could the innocent twin be punished simply for their unusual medical condition?

    Kam, a third-year student at the University of San Francisco School of Law, is currently working on the piece, which he has excerpted on his website. He asks to imagine a scenario where a conjoined twin commits murder and the murderers twin is completely innocent of the crime. This, incidentally, is the plot of the 1951 exploitation film Chained for Life, starring Violet and Daisy Hilton, pictured above, and Kam cites a historical record of such a murder occurring in 17th century Italy. Kam then wonders whether such a conjoined twin could be punished under the American legal system.

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    Half Guilty [Nick Kam]



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    Happy New Year Clippers!

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    WTF Retro Pictures (65 pics)

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    WTF Retro Pictures (65 pics)

    Even back then people liked to do funny and WTF things while taking pictures, it?s almost unbelievable ;)
    If there was the Internet in those days, these pictures would become real hits and would spread throughout the global network in the wink of an eye ))
    Enjoy!
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    John Lennon ~ Stand by me

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    clippers remarks: The best version ever
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    John Lennon ~ Stand by me . ( 1 Luv Productions ) ??

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    Crotchbombers Alarming Last Phone Call

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    clippers remarks: The next day the embassy sent out a thin report to U.S. embassies around the world warning Adbulmutallab may be associating with extremists in Yemen.

    The CIA official compiled two more robust reports following the meeting with the suspects father. One was sent back to CIAs Langley, Va., the other remained in draft form in Nigeria and was not circulated until after the attempted attack on Christmas Day, according to a U.S. official.
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    Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

    The accused "underwear bomber" made a dramatic final call to his father that he found so alarming, the father approached Nigerian officials who took him directly to the CIAs station chief in the Nigerian capital, sources told ABC News.

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    Current and former officials of the Nigerian government, including a source close to the suspects family, say Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, called his father from Yemen with the warning that it would be his last contact.

    ABC News sources said that during Abdulmutallabs final call, he told his father the call would be his last contact with the family. He said that the people he was with in Yemen were about to destroy his SIM card, rendering his phone unusable.

    A senior U.S. official briefed on the matter tells ABC News that the phone call prompted the father to contact Nigerian intelligence, fearing that his son might be planning a suicide mission in Yemen. The Nigerian officials brought Mutallab directly to the CIA station chief in Abuja Nov. 19


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    No rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide in past 160 yrs..new research finds

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    clippers remarks: So...can we get on with more important things? Of course there are changes in climate. I think we learned about that in elementary school.

    Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.

    However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.

    To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.

    In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.



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    China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce

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    clippers remarks: Chinese exploiting the war situation for their own commercial ends.
    Clip Source: www.nytimes.com
    China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce

    A delegation from the state-owned Chinese company, China Metallurgical Group Corporation, visited the site of a copper mine in Aynak, a former al-Qaeda stronghold southeast of Kabul, in 2007.

    KABUL, Afghanistan ? Behind an electrified fence, blast-resistant sandbags and 53 National Police outposts, the Afghan surge is well under way.

    But the foot soldiers in a bowl-shaped valley about 20 miles southeast of Kabul are not fighting the Taliban, or even carrying guns. They are preparing to extract copper from one of the richest untapped deposits on earth. And they are Chinese, undertaking by far the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan.
    Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion ? $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan ? for the rights to mine deposits near the village of Aynak.


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    Poor little duck...look what (nearly) happened!

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    Poor little duck... look what happened!
    Crocodile vs. Duckling (3 pics)
    Crocodile vs. Duckling (3 pics)
    Crocodile vs. Duckling (3 pics)

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    Adorable photos of baby animals

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    Worlds Best Baby Beasts
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    Barack Obama and the Exhausted Presidency

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    clippers remarks: the brains behind the Chicago machine " put these doubts to rest in the op-ed that he published on Christmas Eve in The Washington Post, warning that, if the Democrats did not plot ?a more centrist course,? they would ?risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come.? Barack Obama has thus far led a charmed life " prep school in Hawaii, Occidental College, Columbia University, Harvard Law School, the Illinois State Senate, the U. S. Senate, the Presidency. He did lose a race for a Congressional seat. But, otherwise, to all appearances, he has never even stumbled. Events consistently broke in his favor. He has never really been tested " until now. And, of course, now he finds himself in over his head. American presidents put aside personal pique and pay close attention to protocol. They do not bow to queens, kings, and emperors; they do not warmly embrace dictators and thugs; and they do not direct gratuitous insults at
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    We should perhaps discount what was said in May. For, as I have attempted to document in detail here, here, here, here, here, and here, President Obama is a gentleman, and, as such, he is never unintentionally rude. He is, in fact, a master of the insulting gesture, which he seems to reserve for political opponents, such as Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Sarah Palin, and for political leaders in countries, such as England, France, Germany, Israel, and Poland, which were closely associated with the United States prior to the Age of Obama.

    This time, however, Barack Obama may be genuinely tired, and he may be depressed as well. He certainly has warrant. In public, he may claim that he deserves a B+ for his first year in office, but the polling data suggests that he has earned a failing mark, and he has to know better.

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    Montana Paves Way For Assisted Suicide

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    The Supreme Court in Montana has ruled that nothing in the states law prevents patients from seeking medical assistance to commit suicide.

    The ruling paves the way for Montana to become the third US state alongside Washington and Oregon to allow patients to seek the procedure.

    The decision comes a year after a lower court ruled it constitutional.

    Doctors will now be able to prescribe the necessary drugs to the terminally ill without fear of prosecution.

    The states Supreme Court said there was nothing in its precedent showing that doctor-assisted suicide was against public policy.

    However, it did not go as far the district court, which ruled last year that the right of terminally-ill patients to ask their doctors to help them die was protected by the states constitution.



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    War

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    War is hopeless. We, and others like us, need to educate and feed the world, not bomb it.



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    Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: I was visited by the FBI

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    Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: I was visited by the FBI

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    Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the plane. They say another man tried to help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam.

    "Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain.

    Ever since I got off of Flight 253 I have been repeating what I saw in US Customs. Specifically, 1 hour after we left the plane, bomb sniffing dogs arrived. Up to this point, all of the passengers on Flight 253 stood in a small area in an evacuated luggage claim area of an airport terminal. During this time period, all of the passengers had their carry on bags with them. When the bomb sniffing dogs arrived, 1 dog found something in a carry on bag of a 30 ish Indian man. This is not the so called "Sharp Dressed" man.


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    17 Cars That We Will Never See Again.

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      WE WILL NEVER SEE THESE AGAIN

    Harley Earl and the 1938 Buick. Think about this.
    This picture was taken 70 years ago.

     

     

     

     

    1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt

     





    1951 Buick LeSabre What would you give for this car now?









    1951 Chrysler K310














    1953 Buick Wildcat





    1954 Buick Wildcat II







    1954 Dodge FireArrow









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    1955 Nash Rambler Cross Country Wagon












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    1958 Edsel Convertible

     



     

     

     

    Back in the days when cars had style, and even with so many
    makes and models, all changing every year, they made a profit. 

     

     And, not only that . .
    But one could sit on the porch and name the cars as they drove by . .
    unlike today . . . when they all look the same .


    This was when a car was a car.....


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    Ray Stevens - We The People - RayStevens.com

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    The latest from Ray Stevens, We the People is spreading like fire! Available on iTunes and amazon.com!


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    Its All Obamas Fault! The New Self-Help(?) Game

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    clippers remarks: More examples from article below: "D. (The delivery person brought you the wrong pizza). President Obama is from Chicago, which is famous for its deep-dish pizza. It is President Obamas fault that you got the wrong pizza, since he is destroying the morale of hard working pizza-delivery people. E. (Your girlfriend just dumped you). Before Barack Obama became engaged to Michelle, they were boyfriend and girlfriend. It is President Obamas fault that your girlfriend dumped you because she is looking for someone who is an elitist like he is." And, etc..... By str-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-tching your imagination, this little "blame-game" will work to enable you to place all responsibility for your own life (as well as everyone elses) at Obamas doorstep. Yay!
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    The GOP Self-Help, Blame Obama Game

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    So if the Republicans are doing it, why not make it work for you too?  Lets blame Obama for our own shortcomings just like the Republicans do. It really works!  Here is the formula:

    1) (Name Problem) 2) Make vague connection through association (fake association ok) 3) Blame Obama

    Examples:

    A. (Economic crisis due to neglect by clueless president).  There were Democrats in the House and Senate during the Bush presidency (disregard that they were the minority party). Obama is a Democrat, therefore the economic crisis is Obamas fault.

    B. (Cannot figure out how to house-break the dog). President Obama also owns a dog. It is President Obamas fault that you cant housebreak your dog, because dogs are becoming too dependent on government.

    C. (You dont take home enough money). The President has not raised taxes, but people say that he will. It is Obamas fault you dont take home enough money because someday your taxes could possibly go up.



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    Monopoly Capitalism Is the Root of All of Americas Problems

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    Monopoly capitalism exemplifies everything thats gone wrong with American politics, and we need to do something about it -- soon.


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    CIA suicide bomber was invited on base

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    CIA suicide bomber was invited on base, report claims

    The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote base in south-eastern Afghanistan was being courted as an informant and had been invited onto the base, according to a report.

    The bombing , which came as President Barack Obamas surge is gathering pace, represented the biggest loss of life suffered by the US intelligence agency since an attack in Beirut in 1983. The CIA said on Thursday a further six agents had been injured in the attack.

    On Thursday night it was reported that the bomber had been invited onto the base and had not been searched.

    A former senior intelligence official told the Associated Press that the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp.

    The official said a senior and experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting that the purpose of the session was to gain intelligence.



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