Month: January 2010
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Liberty, Safety and Privacy
From Glenn Greenwald: The Constitution is grounded in the premise that there are other values and priorities more important than mere Safety. Even though they knew that doing so would help murderers and other dangerous and vile criminals evade capture, the Framers banned the Government from searching homes without probable cause, prohibited compelled self-incrimination, double […]
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Hume calls on Tiger Woods to be "a great example to the world" by converting to Christianity | Media
Brit Hume says that Tiger Woods- a Buddhist- can't receive full forgiveness and redemption until he becomes a Christian. Hume calls on Tiger Woods to be "a great example to the world" by converting to Christianity | Media From the January 3 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday…
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The Top 10 Conservative Movies of the Last Decade – Telegraph Blogs
Lord of the Rings- 300- The Hurt Locker- Gladiator- Black Hawk Down- Master and Commander- Hotel Rwanda- Dark Knight- Lives of Others- Pursuit of Happiness. The Top 10 Conservative Movies of the Last Decade – Telegraph Blogs This is a list of the ten best films of the last decade that have advanced a conservative […]
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How to Marry a Millionaire – Wikipedia- the free encyclopedia
Started watching Grable- Bacall and Monroe in 'How to Marry a Millionaire.' Pretty darned funny. Seems to adhere to the Charlie's Angels taxonomy of the smart one- the funny one and then there's the ho. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Marry_a_Millionaire How to Marry a Millionaire – Wikipedia- the free encyclopedia How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 romantic […]
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Movie Reviews of Norbit and Soul Plane
From a commenter on Metafilter talking about Norbit: Oh god, that thing. I was tricked into watching part of it by my old roommate, and it was like a paralytic neurotoxin destroyed my ability to move for the first half, until a temporary interruption allowed me to flee the room screaming. If he ever tried […]
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Teen Meeting 42-year-old WoW 'Soulmate'
From Reddit: 16-year-old Andrew nonchalantly asked his mother and father if they would drive him from their Barrie, Ont., home to a hotel in nearby Midland, where he planned to meet a 42-year-old woman with whom he had been having a secret relationship over the Internet. The Grade 11 student was found Thursday afternoon, after […]
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'Titanic' Going 3D- 'Lord of the Rings' 3D on Hold
'Titanic' Going 3D- 'Lord of the Rings' 3D on Hold During the visionaries panel at Comic Con- Peter Jackson and James Cameron spoke about converting some of their older films to 3D — specifically how Titanic is already going through the process- and how it's going to take about a year to fourteen months before […]
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Sea Urchin Body Acts as a Giant Eye
From Treehugger: Sea urchins don’t have eyes as we think of them: a pair of orbital organs attached to a brain. In fact, as far as researchers can tell, sea urchins don’t have brains at all. Instead, they use a distributed nervous system in which each part responds to local stimulus. Still, scientists have long […]