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The sort of headline that as a kid I expected in the 21st century:
“ Europe: Proton beams circulate in Big Bang machine ”
1. We have a “big bang machine”
2. It’s circulating “beams” of stuff.
3. PROTON beams.
4. A big. Bang. Machine.
And yet, ...
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Loving it .
Since some opponents of reform seem too obsessed with the length of the Senate health insurance reform bill to even bother looking at what’s in it for American families, we thought we’d make it a little easier for them to find some key of provisions they’re ...
White House
Health care
Link
Alessandra Mussolini, a former showgirl turned MP, said she immediately informed the police when she found out.
The listing, on auction site Ebay, reportedly showed images of a wooden container and ampoules of blood.
Ebay, which does not allow the sale of human matter on its site, ...
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Charlene S. Lugar, 77, was stopped shortly after 6:30 p.m. by an officer who noticed smoke coming from her car and damage to the front end of the car as she drove on Old Dominion Drive, Officer Bud Walker said. The officer pulled her over near Dominion Reserve Drive, ‘developed ...
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Tea Party Express co-chair Mark Williams, one of the most visible spokespersons for the tea party movement, has repeatedly called his political opponents ‘faggot’ on his blog.
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Jon Huntsman :
‘I attended all those meetings that President Obama had with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao,’ Huntsman said, referring to the Chinese president and premier.
‘I’ve got to say some of the reporting I saw afterward was off the mark. I saw sweeping comments ...
World
China
Hu Jintao
A Senate Democratic Chief of Staff has written to Josh Marshall that progressives will have misplaced anger if the Senate Democrats don’t get all 59+1 in their caucus to line up to have a health care bill to debate. Bull. The entire reason we have that many in the Democratic caucus is to ...
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Health care
So there’s this ludicrous trailer for a ridiculous movie about the Tea Party people that came out today, and when I watched it I noticed that it kept showing the same black guy. Now, I knew the Teabaggers weren’t the most diverse crowd, but it’s kind of hilarious that they ...
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Now being pulled by CafePress , but there was a market for them.
The shirts had Psalm 109:8 which says:
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
The right keeps rooting against America.
And I’m sure this brand of rhetoric has nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
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White House
Barack Obama
At Ole Miss there’s been some controversy about people chanting “the south will rise again” at football games because THIS IS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND IT’S NOT COOL TO CHEER ON SLAVERY, so of course now the KKK is going to protest at Ole Miss.
Can we just give the ...
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TMZ catches Jessica Simpson doing her best to jinx the Cowboys this weekend.
Dallas sucks, even when the Redskins do.
ALSO: Dallas cops are looking for a Tony Romo who knocked over a convenience store. Okay, so it’s not the same guy, but still…
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SPOILERS.
One of the writers for Modern Warfare 2 defends the airport massacre scene in the game . He is wrong. The scene is indefensible.
I really love Modern Warfare 2, it is one of the best games I have played in years, and I highly recommend it. But the scene in which your ...
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CIA
The Brits do this while the religious right smacks lead pipes into our kid’s ankles, intellectually.
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You do not need botox. Botox is a luxury . Botox, and other cosmetic procedures like it that are all about vanity and not about curing diseases or conditions, are the exact sort of thing that we should tax in order to decrease the amount of people without health care in America.
So I got a ...
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Bud Day
Health care
A shot across the bow .
In one of the few announced primary races on the Democratic side, Rep. Allen Boyd, a Florida Blue Dog who voted against the House health care bill, is already trailing state Senate Minority Leader Al Lawson in a two-way race.
Lawson leads Boyd 35-31 in the poll, ...
Congress
Allen Boyd
Health care
Republican National Committee
Rush Limbaugh claimed that Gallup was tweaking the amount of blacks in its polling to give President Obama a bump. They aren’t . Then again, my guess is Rush would prefer that blacks polled would be counted as just 2/3 of a white person.
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Rush Limbaugh
Gallup Poll
Conservatives are just not believable, marching in the streets about their supposed opposition to increase in the national debt.
Is the debt increasing? Sure, but we have to spend to get out of the hole we got into under conservative governing. The teabag crowd didn’t get angry about ...
