Month: September 2009
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Enjoying Mark Joyner's 'The Irrestible Offer' as I wait for the caffeine to kick in. Hadn't reviewed it in a while. It's a free download today for Simpleology members. http://www.simpleology.com/ simple
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Christiane Amanpour | 9/15/2009 | ColbertNation.com
Christiane Amanpour is beautiful and classy and charming – like a younger Lauren Bacall. So awesome to see her laugh and smile – she's usually stuck in some hellhole. Her new show starts on CNN on Sundays (Bullshit part: the show is will be *DAILY* on CNN Int'l – can't they just give her Nancy […]
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Ebola 2.0
A PREVIOUSLY unknown virus that killed four of the five people it struck in an outbreak in South Africa last year has been identified as part of a family of viruses humans can catch from rats. The virus, named Lujo, is an arenavirus that over nine days caused rash, fever, muscle pain, diarrhoea, severe bleeding, […]
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Elephants Communicate Through the Ground
Several elephants would freeze simultaneously, sometimes in mid-stride, and would press their front feet into the ground. They might also roll a foot forward so that only their toes touched the ground. At other times, they would lift a front leg. … For example, they responded appropriately to an alarm call from another elephant by […]
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Kudzu of the Sea Hits Minnesota
A local resident found a zebra mussel attached to a native mussel in Pelican Lake north of Pelican Rapids in Otter Tail County this week. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists searched the lake and found both adult and young zebra mussels, suggesting that they have been in the lake for more than a […]
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Mormon Group Urges Families to Welcome Their Gay Children
Executive Director David Melson acknowledged this has created areas in which his group “disagrees” with the LDS Church, but said both can agree on the importance of families. “I believe strongly that families can be together forever,” said Melson, an active member of the faith. “We want to find areas we can work on together.” […]
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Robert Byrd Said Gays in the Military Would Lead to Sex Slaves
From Ted Kennedy’s new memoirs: The last senator to speak was Robert Byrd, and he came up with a new one on all of us… He informed us, with many ornate flourishes, that there had been a terrible problem in ancient Rome with young military boys turned into sex slaves. I don’t remember the exact […]
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Time Profile of Beck Doesn't Mention Flee Advertisers
Time magazine’s cover story on Glenn Beck by David Von Drehle is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts. Nowhere in this piece does Mr. Drehle mention the fact that 62 of Beck’s sponsors have yanked their ad buys to distance […]
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Report: Growing Ranks Of Nouveau Poor Facing Discrimination From Old Poor | The Onion – America's Fi
Report: Growing Ranks Of Nouveau Poor Facing Discrimination From Old Poor | The Onion – America's Fi As Americans rush to join the Nouveau Poor- panelists debate whether the newly poor are capable of integrating with long established poor families from old poverty roots.