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    Climate Change Takes a Hit

    This article is a really good illuminator about what all Climate Change and Global Warning is all about. It's not about Climate Change or Global Warming, that's for certain. The article below is presented in it's entirety, with bold sections indicating what this is really all about, and has been...
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    Nevermind Texting While Driving...

    At first glance you might think this is an expediter, or a cop car. But it's just a guy to can't get away from the office. (AP) — Forget texting while driving. German police say they nabbed a driver who had wired his Ford station wagon with an entire mobile office...
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    Ft. Hood: Workplace Violence or Terrorist Attack?

    What do you think? When Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire at Ft. Hood, killing 13 people and wounding 29 others, was it the desperate act of workplace violence of a man freaking out over being deployed to Afghanistan, or was it a full-blown terrorist attack? The Army clearly knew...
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    Obama's Clean Green Energy

    "This is what's possible in a clean-energy economy -- these folks right here, doing extraordinary work," President Barack Obama said at the White House Rose Garden after meeting A123 Systems employees on April 30, 2010. "This is what happens when we place our bets on American workers and...
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    No Soup (or Sandwich) for YOU!

    Snacking tourists fined after Rome declares 'War on the Sandwich' - World News By Claudio Lavanga, NBC News ROME -- It’s one of the highlights of any trip to Rome: Sitting on the Spanish Steps eating a real Italian gelato. But on Oct. 1, it became a potentially costly vacation memory. The...
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    Onion Article Picked Up as Fact

    This is what happens when you believe even half the crap you read on the Internet. If it fits with your agenda, you believe it without checking it out, and then usually post the same crap somewhere else on the Internet, thereby perpetuating the crap. And when you do that, you look just as...
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    UK soldier unexpectedly gives birth in Afghanistan

    UK soldier unexpectedly gives birth in Afghanistan By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child ever born to a...
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    A-maze-ing

    Bill Irons of Irons Fruit Farm in Lebanon, Ohio has, quite literally, created a field of dreams. Irons, 44, has carved a Reds-centric design into his 12-acre cornfield. The field features a bat-wielding Mr. Redlegs smack-dab in the center. The current Reds logo is cut into the upper left...
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    UK Firemen Rescue Cow Stuck in Tree

    Heat seeking helicopters, and tranquilizer toting bovine experts were at the ready. Just in case.
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    Interesting Anagrams

    An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once. The letters in "anagram" can be rearranged to be "nag a ram", for example. The best ones are anagrams that in some way...
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    Reds Streak Numbers 10, Marty's Hair's Days are Numbered

    Following through on a promise made earlier in the season, with the Reds' 10 game winning streak Marty Brennaman will shave his head completely bald. Mr. Poofy Hair Fancy Boy, as Joe Nuxhall often called him, will lose his hair in the clubhouse this Friday. Homer Bailey has volunteered to do the...
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    It's Wierd

    Look at this picture the right way, or long enough, and the face will turn from face-on to profile. It's weird. focus on that little wisp of hair hanging down the forehead and you can see the profile.
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    The Earth as you've never seen it before

    I've seen a lot of awesome photos, videos, and time-lapse videos from the Space Station. But none of them come close to this video, a time-lapse video composed of still images from the ISS. All of the images are from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. It's...
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    Birthday! Happy Birthday Wombat!

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    And the Panterization Begins....

    Just got a fleet message that has Panther written all over it, especially the last line (well, that last line is probably more of an a blairy than Panther <snort>). Easily the most badly worded fleet message I've seen yet at Load 1. Reads like I'm being talked to by my mommie, or by a second...
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    April Banter and Location

    Happy April Fool's Day everyone. I hope life isn't one big joke, because I don't get it. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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    Another Susan Boyle-esque Surprise on Britain's Got Talent

    It's a singing duo. When 17-year-old Jonathan Antoine and 16-year-old Charlotte Jaconelli took the stage, Simon Cowell leaned over to judge Carmen Electra and audibly mutters, "Just when you think things couldn't get any worse." And then the two teenagers start singing. And jaws drop...
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    Sherrif Joe and Steven Seagal

    That last line just cracks me up. "A tank, a bomb robot and 40 deputies." Sounds like a madcap comedy from the 60s.
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    Technical tips and pics....

    Hopefully these'll help. Taken inside The Shop at The Yard, west side, bay door 5. Note where the passenger seat used to be there is the desk, on top of which is the TA Uber Mug, to the left of that is a 2-drawer junk drawer with the QC mounted on top, and the back rectangle behind that is...
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    Iran Sends Drone to Obama

    http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/01/29/iran-sends-toy-drone-to-obama?videoId=229298368&videoChannel=2602 Those wild an wacky Iranians. At least they have a sense of humor. Remember that captured (or crashed, depending on who you want to believe) drone? Well, Iran is sending back, sort of. :D
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