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March 14th, 2007

04:33 pm: Dying Woman Loses Marijuana Appeal
This is just sick and wrong.

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March 6th, 2007

04:04 pm: EXCLUSIVE - Waffle House grill cook cheat sheet
So this is how they remember all the orders.


December 23rd, 2006

11:53 am: Screencast: How to use OpenID
Video showing how to create a new OpenID and use it to log in to different sites without needing to create a new username and password for each one.

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December 18th, 2006

08:46 pm: Cartoon creator Joe Barbera dies
Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died Monday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95.

Barbera died of natural causes at his home with his wife Sheila at his side, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said.

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December 14th, 2006

08:48 am: The ten most dangerous toys of all time
To keep things interesting, we excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm. Below, our toy box from hell.

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December 12th, 2006

08:48 am: America's Injustice System Is Criminal: It Destroys Lives of the Innocent
The US has the largest percentage of its citizens imprisoned of all countries in the world, including China. 1 of every 32 US adults is behind bars, on probation or on parole. In the US the wrongful conviction rate is extremely high. One reason is that hardly any of the convicted have had a jury trial. No peers have heard the evidence against them.

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November 16th, 2006

11:47 am: Student tasered at UCLA library for not having his ID 11-14-06 11:30pm
Don't you hate it when you forget to bring your ID to Library... and the CSO or UCPD end up zapping you like five times with a stun gun? what is happening in todays universities now a days?
UCLA library is a 24/7 library only for UCLA students...

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November 12th, 2006

12:49 am: Bush's Chernobyl Economy; hard times are on the way
In the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar.

This is not speculation; it will happen and there is nothing that the Bush administration can do to stop it.

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November 9th, 2006

11:16 am: How To Annoy People
You would think that this list would be unneeded. We all know how to annoy people right? Well, I'll bet there are a few here you've never thought of.

Absolutely hilarious.

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07:31 am: S. Dakota Rejects Abortion Ban, Missouri Backs Stem Cells
Contentious initiatives on abortion and embryonic stem-cell research brought out voters in South Dakota and Missouri. In conservative South Dakota, voters struck down a proposal that would ban virtually all abortions in the state. In Missouri, a new constitutional amendment enshrines the right to conduct embryonic stem-cell research.

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07:29 am: 'Intelligent Design' Suffers Further Setback in Midterms
Intelligent Design received a drubbing yesterday, with pro-evolution candidates taking control of the Kansas State Board of Education and strengthening their representation on the Ohio State Board of Education. Many scientists also cheered the defeat of Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), one of the most politically influential supporters of the movement.

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August 22nd, 2006

03:39 pm: Chavez offers China: Cheap Oil
Chavez's six-day tour of the world's fourth-largest economy and second biggest energy consumer comes at a crucial time for his country as it seeks to dramatically increase oil production.

This could be really important folks!

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August 15th, 2006

06:53 am: Why give up our liberties to reduce the minuscule risks of terrorism?
From Ron Bailey, science correspondent at reason.com: "your risk of dying in a plausible terrorist attack is much lower than your risk of dying in a car accident, by walking across the street, by drowning, in a fire, by falling, or by being murdered."

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August 12th, 2006

03:22 am: Fight Spam!
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August 2nd, 2006

08:43 am: Kansas moderates recapture school board majority
Moderates have recaptured the majority on the Kansas Board of Education. Science Wins!

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July 31st, 2006

06:52 pm: O'Reilly gets pwned by Olberman as BOR gets caught twice in the same lie.
I am surprised a bit that BOR has made the same mistake (or lied) twice on the same fact; (that Americans had commit ed specific atrocities in WWII when it was the Nazis against the Amerasians). But I am more disappointed that FOX chose to change the transcripts to match what BOER wished he had said and not what the video actually shows.

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July 13th, 2006

08:42 pm: RIAA loses in file sharing case
The RIAA suffered a legal setback today, as a file-sharing case was dismissed and the defendant awarded attorneys fees.

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June 27th, 2006

03:08 pm: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, And Why
A rather interesting article that discusses why our education system is not just broken but deliberately so.
A fascinating read.

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June 23rd, 2006

10:50 am: Charles Darwin's tortoise dies
THE world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176.
Giant Galapagos tortoise Harriet has died of a suspected heart attack.

She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features in the Guinness Book of Records for her longevity.

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June 20th, 2006

11:42 pm: Abe Vigoda Status
Ya need to check on how ole Abe is doing from time to time.

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