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Monday, June 8, 2009

Most dangerous driving mistakes

Most dangerous driving mistakesThis lapse behind the wheel causes 80 percent of crashes.

Most dangerous driving mistakes

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Dimbulb Spews

Dimbulb Spews

Dimbulb says Obama is doing a better job than Al Qaeda of destroying America
We posted an extensive piece on this treason a few days ago but include it here again.

Dimbulb suggests Obama was really calling for "socialism," "fascism"
Nope, but that hasn't shut up the Lush nor has the fact he doesn't have clue as to what socialism and fascism are.

Dimbuld on Obama: "We've got a miniature dictator in waiting here in his own mind"
Projecting again, are we there Lush?

The danger that is the wing nuts

The danger that is the wing nuts:

Threats to judges are another warning sign of rising right-wing extremism
It's time to call'em as they are - terrorists - and treat them accordingly!

Conservative radio host charged with inciting violence
One on many to come!

Obama ramps up stimulus spending

The president promises more than 600,000 jobs with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects and school programs.

Obama ramps up stimulus spending

Sneaky ways that calories add up

Sneaky ways that calories add up

A look at some common meals reveals how easy it is to rack up more than 1,000 calories in one sitting.

Sneaky ways that calories add up

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More bodies, key part found at Air France site

More bodies, key part found at Air France site

Search crews recover eight more bodies and the plane's vertical stabilizer from the Atlantic Ocean.

More bodies, key part found at Air France site

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Will Iran's 'Marriage Crisis' Bring Down Ahmadinejad?

Farhad and Mahnaz are the quintessential Iranian couple. They are both engineers with a shared passion for hiking and movies and have been smitten with each other for six years - but Farhad and Mahnaz can't afford to get married because even a one-bedroom apartment is beyond their reach, despite their both having decent middle-class ...

The Gall continues

AIG wants money from charities to pay executive bonuses.

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Can you believe this shit ...!

Wing Nut Yammering and Flap Doodle

Wing Nuttery

Lamar Smith: 'The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.'
Just can't get it through that granite he uses for gray matter the media is as 'liberal' as their conservative owners - the bias in the media is distinctly not liberal - the truth has a liberal bias, though and that is why it causes acute pain to the troglodytes.

Broun (retard-Georgia) redubs climate bill 'Wacky-Marxist Tax And Cap'
Fantasy Land is missing another of its village idiots I see.

Akin (relapse-Missouri) speaks out on global climate change: "I mean, we just went from winter to spring. In Missouri when we go from winter to spring, that's a good climate change. I don't want to stop that climate change."
Damn, How many village idiots are there in Fantasy Land?

Some read the Constitution

A judge has decided that newspapers remain free to publish pictures of a politician being arrested. Thanks, your honor. Mighty nice of you to read the constitution.

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Liars and Fools

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Simmons sells kidney stone for charity

Kiss star Gene Simmons has raised $15,000 for a good cause by selling his kidney stone in a bizarre online auction.

Simmons sells kidney stone for charity

And don't forget Gene Simmons Family Jewels is back on A&E Sunday nights at 9pm.

Skydive ends badly

Authorities say a skydiver who bungled the landing on a roughly 10,000-foot nighttime jump was flown to a hospital but ended up with little more than a broken nose.

Skydive ends badly

Monk Fish

Known as the 'poor man's lobster' (because it tastes like lobster, Duh) the Monk fish is one ugly mother trucker.

Sit-ups are bad for your back

Want flat abs this summer?
Doctors say crunches aren't the best way to get that washboard stomach.

Sit-ups are bad for your back

Man caught speeding tells police someone stole his pot

From the "Real Swift, there buddy" Department:

A Pennsylvania man arrested in a traffic stop told police he was speeding because he was chasing someone who stole his pot.

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Lion escapes and swims to school

A lion that escaped from its cage in a China zoo went for a swim in a local river.

Full Story

Heinz creates world's smallest microwave

It is the world's smallest, portable microwave and can be powered via a link to the USB port on a laptop computer.

Full Story

U.S. team to aid in Air France black box search

U.S. team to aid in Air France black box search

A Navy team is bringing high-tech underwater listening devices to search the Atlantic, while searchers have recovered more bodies.

U.S. team to aid in search

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North Korea hands harsh sentence to journalists

Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison, intensifying the nation's confrontation with the U.S.

North Korea hands harsh sentence to journalists

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Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space

A giant pneumatic structure could let people climb 20 km without the need for a rocket – and it could be constructed with current technology.

Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space

Botox could stop disease in its tracks

The neurotoxin, commonly used as a wrinkle smoothing treatment, has been modified so that it could potentially be used to treat asthma and possibly cancer.

Was I here Before ...

'Tip-of-the-tongue' moments and déjà vu are phenomena that reveal our brains' occasional slip-ups – now we're a little closer to understanding both experiences.

Sex talk wins 'science idol' competition

A Serbian molecular biologist has beaten off competition from around the world to win International FameLab – a kind of Pop Idol of science.

Science News

From BBC-Science:
Dyke
A new technique has been helping scientists piece together how the Earth's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago.

A tornado whirled its way across Cornwall on a day of furious weather in Britain

A TORNADO whirled its way across Cornwall yesterday on a day of wild weather around Britain.

A day of furious weather in Britain

Now, I may be off here, but aren't tornados a wee bit rare in Britain?

Sarah Palin Accused Of Plagiarism

From the "Who gives a flying rat's ass they're only repugicans" Department:

Sarah Palin has been accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech, but her lawyer says proper credit was given to the former House speaker.

And this is news how?
She is dumber than a doorknob in the first place and secondly she is spoon-fed her 'opinions' by her masters just like every other moron, er, excuse me, repugican.

She Talks To Angels

The Black Crows

Efel the hen lays massive 7oz egg?

Efel the hen was left a little shell shocked after laying this monster egg... It took the gingernut ranger 30 minutes to squeeze out the whopper, which at 7oz is three times the size of a normal one.

Khmer babies 'smashed against trees'

The former jail chief of the Khmer Rouge regime has told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes trial that his staff had murdered babies by smashing them against trees at a "killing field".

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Just think these people were/are the same in their 'thought processes' as are the wing-nuts here today. The Khmer were the domestic terrorists of Cambodia and though they call themselves by many names the domestic terrorists in this country are just the same.

Surfer survives jellyfish swarm

A Brit kite-surfer was left fighting for life after he became trapped in a two-mile slick of poisonous jellyfish off the coast of Costa Rica.

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Whinny Service Personnel

This is for all the travelers out there who have to put up with obnoxious service personnel while traveling:

Unexpected moves that could hurt your credit

Unexpected moves that could hurt your credit

Your credit score could take a hit if you do any of these seven actions — some of which may seem harmless.

Moves that could hurt your credit

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National landmarks in danger of disappearing

National landmarks in danger of disappearingThese treasured U.S. vacation spots are threatened in some way by an environmental hazard.

National landmarks in danger of disappearing

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Unusual Holidays and Celebrations

Today happens to be:

Upsy Daisy Day!

The Beatles at Shea Stadium - 1965

The Beatles

China wants PCs to come with anti-porn software

China wants all personal computers sold domestically to come with software that blocks online pornography, one of the developers said Monday, potentially giving the government another avenue to control Internet use.

The software, called "Green Dam-Youth Escort," targets online porn by preventing computers from accessing sites with pornographic pictures or language, Zhang Chenmin, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., said. Jinhui, based in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan in central China, was compiling a database of the blocked sites.

"According to our surveys, many teenage students have become familiar with Internet pornography and they commonly share the addresses of pornographic Web sites with one another," Zhang said.

The software could also be used to block other kinds of Web sites, depending on keywords, Zhang said. The Chinese government routinely blocks political sites, especially ones it considers socially destabilizing such as sites that challenge the ruling Communist Party, promote democratic reform or advocate independence for Tibet.

Parents can develop their own lists of sites to be added to the database of blacklisted sites, Zhang said.

"If a father doesn't want his son to be exposed to content related to basketball or drugs, he can block all Web sites related to those things," Zhang said, adding that conversely, users also could unblock Web sites that appear in the database.

Zhang said his company signed a 21 million yuan ($3 million) contract with the Chinese government last May to develop the software and distribute it to personal computer-makers free of charge within one year, to be included with units meant for domestic sale. The software was jointly developed by Beijing Dazheng Language Technology Co. Ltd., which declined to comment.

Consumers can uninstall the software if they do not want it, Zhang said.

China, which has the world's largest population of Internet users at more than 250 million, this year launched a nationwide crackdown on Internet pornography, which is banned in China. More than 1,900 Web sites have been shut down since the beginning of the campaign and Web sites including Google and Baidu, China's most popular search engine, were criticized for linking to suspect sites.

According to the Wall Street Journal on Monday, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on May 19 to personal computer-makers that PCs to be sold in China as of July 1 must be preloaded with the software.

The program would either be installed on the hard drive or enclosed on a compact disc, the paper reported, adding that PC makers would be required to tell authorities how many PCs they have shipped with the software.

A separate notice on its Web site said all primary and secondary schools were required to install the Green Dam software on every school computer by the end of last month.

Educators "should fully realize the damage that harmful online information does to the physical and mental health of primary and secondary school students," the notice said.

Good careers that have bad reputations

Good careers that have bad reputations

These five professions often get a bad rap, but the fields are expected to grow and practitioners can earn solid wages.

Good careers

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Our Readers

Some of our readers today have been in:

Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
London, England, United Kingdom
Maribor, Brezovia, Slovenia
Panama City, Panama City, Panama
Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Brasilia, Dristrito Federal, Brazil
Reus, Catalonia, Spain
Athens, Attiki, Greece
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

You'll be a veritable fount of willpower now, and only too happy to get everything done that needs doing.
You won't have to tackle it all by yourself, though.
You'll have plenty of help, if you let your loved ones know what's in your mind and in your heart.
You have more than enough enthusiasm to win anyone over to your side -- and a couple of favors to call in, too.

Sounds good to me.