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You all are wrong about Obama. He is wonderful and Terrific and Perfect and Smart, and Compassionate and a wonderfully perfect leader....Follow Him where he leads
Post Date: 2009-09-02 07:29:32 by A K A Stone
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Obesity linked to swine flu deaths
Post Date: 2009-08-29 23:53:50 by TwentyTwelve
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Obesity linked to swine flu deaths Study of pandemic reveals that weight problems and pregnancy are significant factors in fatal cases * Jamie Doward, Home Affairs Editor * The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009 Obesity has emerged as a possible contributing factor in fatal swine flu cases, according to ground-breaking research looking at deaths caused by the pandemic in countries around the world. The claim is made by a team from the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, which has studied the characteristics of 574 deaths associated with the pandemic H1N1 influenza up until the middle of July. According to the team's findings, published in medical journal Eurosurveillance, ...
The new Dallas Cowboys stadium will offer $90 pizzas.
Post Date: 2009-08-05 13:55:50 by X-15
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The colossal new Dallas Cowboys Stadium is living proof that everything is bigger in Texas. The menu in the luxury suites proves that things there are more expensive too. Those enjoying a Cowboys game from a luxury suite at the new stadium will have to shell out $90 for pizza and $66 for a 12-pack of domestic beer, reports Steven Sipple of the Lincoln Journal World. Ninety bucks for pizza? That's almost as much of a rip-off as Roy Williams. It costs $800,000 per year to lease one of those luxury suites, a hefty sum that doesn't include game tickets. On the bright side, the stadium's official Web site says that "having your company's name on a suite makes an important ...
Woods needs to clean up his act
Post Date: 2009-07-28 11:20:47 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Woods needs to clean up his act By Rick Reilly ESPN The Magazine Tiger Woods has outgrown those Urkel glasses he had as a kid. Outgrown the crazy hair. Outgrown a body that was mostly neck. When will he outgrow his temper? The man is 33 years old, married, the father of two. He is paid nearly $100 million a year to be the representative for some monstrously huge companies, from Nike to Accenture. He is the world's most famous and beloved athlete. And yet he spent most of his two days at Turnberry last week doing the Turn and Bury. He'd hit a bad shot, turn and bury his club into the ground in a fit. It was two days of Tiger Tantrums -- slamming his club, throwing his club and ...
Pitcher Throws First Perfect Game in Five Years, His Second No Hitter
Post Date: 2009-07-23 22:14:36 by Original_Intent
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Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle took the mound today for an afternoon start against the Tampa Bay Rays and walked off hours later as just the 18th pitcher in Major League Baseball to throw a perfect game, the first in five years. The 5-0 win was the 30-year-old's second career no hitter, making him just the sixth in MLB history to throw both a perfect game and a no-hitter. His first no hitter was hurled in a 6-0 win over the Texas Rangers April 18, 2007. Buehrle's 27-up, 27-down victory over the Rays was also the first perfect game to be pitched for the White Sox since 1922. The highlight of the six-strikeout shutout against last year's American League champions was ...
Roethlisberger accused of rape in Nevada
Post Date: 2009-07-23 00:29:08 by christine
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RENO, Nev. — A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her last summer in his penthouse room at a casino in Lake Tahoe during a celebrity golf tournament. Roethlisberger’s lawyer adamantly denied the allegations Tuesday. The claim seeks at least $390,000 in damages from the quarterback, who has won two Super Bowls and is one of the biggest names in sports. The lawsuit also alleges hotel officials for Harrah’s Lake Tahoe went to great lengths to cover up the incident. Teresa Duffy, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office in Douglas County, which includes part of Lake Tahoe, said no complaints were filed about such ...
ESPN's Erin Andrews Peeping Tom -- Inside Job?
Post Date: 2009-07-23 00:06:56 by christine
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TMZ has reviewed six videos shot by the Peeping Tom who secretly videotaped Erin Andrews in her hotel room as the ESPN reporter walked around naked, not having a clue she was being watched ... and there are signs the person who taped it may be connected with the coverage of athletic events. Four of the clips were shot in the same hotel. The remaining two were shot in a different hotel. In the first hotel, the peephole is round. In the second hotel, the peephole is jagged. The furniture in the two hotel rooms is completely different. In the first set of videos, Erin is naked, curling her hair while looking into a mirror. It appears all four clips are from the same video. In the second set ...
Steve McNair, a Super Bowl Quarterback, Is Shot to Death
Post Date: 2009-07-05 01:48:19 by christine
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Steve McNair, the former N.F.L. quarterback who shared the league’s Most Valuable Player award in 2003, was found shot to death Saturday, the Nashville police said. McNair, 36, and Sahel Kazemi, a 20-year-old friend, were found dead with gunshot wounds Saturday afternoon in a condominium in downtown Nashville, the police said. McNair had multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head, and Kazemi was found with a single gunshot wound to the head, the police said. Don Aaron, a police spokesman, said that the deaths had not been classified as a double homicide or a murder-suicide. Both bodies were found in the living room of the condominium, Aaron said, with McNair on a sofa and ...
Welcome to an Unemployed World Up To Eight Years - 239 Million Unemployed Worldwide By End Of 2009
Post Date: 2009-06-17 11:17:59 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Welcome to an Unemployed World http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20090615_welcome_to_an_unemployed_world/ Posted on Jun 15, 2009 The International Labor Organization opened a summit in Geneva on Monday on the worsening global unemployment crisis. World leaders, including France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Brazil’s Lula da Silva, will meet to discuss what they believe will be some 239 million unemployed worldwide by the end of this year. BBC News: A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion.
US Open 2009: A win for Tiger Woods would be bad for golf
Post Date: 2009-06-16 16:05:57 by Prefrontal Vortex
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US Open 2009: A win for Tiger Woods would be bad for golf Pure golf fans will hope that Tiger Woods is not back to his annihilating best at the US Open. By Mark Reason Published: 7:30AM BST 16 Jun 2009 Last year was one of the best for golf since Seve Ballesteros was in his pomp and the reason was an injured Woods. Sport thrives on competition. If you want a procession, go to the Lord Mayor's Show. With Tiger playing on a broken leg last year's US Open became a compelling duel between the world's greatest player and Joe the Plumber. With Tiger not playing, the Open and the PGA became genuine contests with unknown outcomes. Hot dog, these must be exciting times, living in ...
SCGOP Activist: Escaped Gorilla an "Ancestor" to First Lady
Post Date: 2009-06-14 12:06:20 by wbales
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Columbia (WLTX) -- A state activist for the Republican party32; made a comment on Facebook Friday that has landed him in some hot water. According to FITSNews, former State Senate candidate Rusty DePass made a comment on Friday on the Internet site, Facebook, describing the escaped gorilla at Riverbanks Zoo as an "ancestor" to First Lady Michelle Obama. The comment was made after Trey Walker, an advisor to SC Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted a Facebook update about the escaped animal at the zoo. DePass posted a comment stating, "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless." FITSNews captured an ...
Sensationalst Radio Talk Show Host ManCow gets waterboarded
Post Date: 2009-05-22 18:22:27 by Itistoolate
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Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture Chicago radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided he'd get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn't torture. It didn't turn out that way. "Mancow," in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds before crying foul. Apparently, the experience went pretty badly -- "Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop," according to NBC Chicago. "The average person can take this for 14 seconds," Marine Sergeant Clay South told his ...
Getting Off the Grid
Post Date: 2009-05-22 06:32:09 by Ada
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Hundreds of thousands of people in this country live "off the grid." If the power fails, food runs short or drought hits, their families won't be hurt. Their houses have solar panels and electric generators; their shelves are stocked with canned food and seeds. They have wells in their back yard so they'll never go thirsty. Some are retreating into farms. Others are bringing the countryside into their homes. You'll see vegetable gardens growing where once there were pools and barbecues. Bahia grass, golden rod, and azaleas have fallen to tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, onions, squash, and carrots. If they don't have yards, people are growing vegetables indoors in a ...
Flaming Dumpsters and your Dying Breath [Nutty America in a Nushell]
Post Date: 2009-05-21 04:42:06 by SCPO Blackshoe Retired
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Choice Excerpts: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Flaming Dumpsters and your Dying Breath. I’m definitely on the wrong planet. Or it could be as Michael Rivero says, “I flat out do not believe those numbers.” I think that means what it would mean to me if I had said it and that is that it’s either a manufactured lie or the questions were worded in such a way that there was no alternative answers outside of a narrow spectrum… but you know how these people work. What I want to talk about is the mentality exhibited in the comments that follows the article. The denial and stupidity leaves me breathless. I stand in awe of the understanding that these people can actually feed ...
Marvelous Marv, Lovable Mets and Embracing Inner Ineptitude
Post Date: 2009-05-20 14:21:48 by MUDDOG
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All spring, Mets fans have been whining that their glorious Metsian tradition is not being sufficiently honored at the new ballpark in Flushing. Tradition? You want tradition? The Mets’ long lineage of bumbling seems to be having a major renaissance out in California in recent days. On successive days, the Mets lost games, first because a pitcher, Mike Pelfrey, committed three balks in San Francisco, then when a runner, Ryan Church, forgot to touch third base while scoring the apparent go-ahead run in Los Angeles. It didn’t stop there — Daniel Murphy was picked off in the first inning Tuesday night and then made an error in left field in the bottom of the inning. No less ...
Housing construction plunges to record low in April
Post Date: 2009-05-19 18:52:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON -- Housing construction plunged to a record low in April as a steep drop in apartment building offset a rebound in single-family construction. Permits for new projects also hit a new low. The Commerce Department said today that construction of new homes and apartments fell 12.8% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 458,000 units, the lowest pace on records going back a half-century. In a disappointing sign for the future, applications for new building permits dropped 3.3 percent to a new record low annual rate of 494,000. Economists had expected home construction and building permits to post modest increases in April as signs that the worst collapse in ...
Serious bicycle skills....
Post Date: 2009-05-14 01:35:23 by X-15
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Intolerance in the Woods
Post Date: 2009-05-13 00:14:47 by X-15
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"Because they're afraid to go into the woods filled with white men carrying guns," the black biologist answered. The statement stunned the small group of wildlife professionals. We were one of several "break-out sessions" at the first Governor's Symposium on North America's Hunting Heritage, held at Bozeman, Montana in July of 1992. The symposium was convened to discuss how to counter the steadily dropping number of hunters in North America. Our group's assignment from the plenary session was to discuss ways to get people, who normally don't hunt, interested in taking it up. In other words, how do we entice people—who are not ageing white ...
Dumb Like a Maliki?
Post Date: 2009-05-05 06:08:23 by Ada
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Remember when we all thought Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was just another Ahmed Pyle fresh off the bus from Palookadad? Now look at him: he’s a Machiavelli-class political operative, the head of a propped-up state who just told his masters to drive it up their exit ramps by demanding that they honor the status of forces agreement whether they like it or not. Keep in mind, though, that in 1980 Saddam Hussein sentenced Maliki to death. Now Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death and executed, and Maliki has his job. How about them apples? Maliki is so powerful today, in fact, that he may be the only political figure who can help Barack Obama – the head of state of the ...
I Want Revenge scratched from Kentucky Derby 2009
Post Date: 2009-05-02 10:56:19 by christine
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The No. 13 post position did prove unlucky after all for likely betting favorite I Want Revenge in today's 135th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Trainer Jeff Mullins scratched the colt this morning, because of a problem in his left front ankle. "The biggest dream is to get here, but the biggest nightmare is to get to race day and have to scratch," Mullins said at a 9 a.m. press conference. X-rays and ultrasound examinations did not show any bony injury to the ankle, but two veterinarians concurred that there was an inflammation in the soft tissue above and below the ankle. Mullins said that when he arrived at his barn to begin preparations for the 6:24 p.m. Derby, he ...
Empty seats make Yankees cut some premium prices
Post Date: 2009-04-29 10:56:05 by christine
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NEW YORK (AP) - Turns out a few more fans might be able to buy those empty front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees slashed prices on more than 40 percent of their front-row seats by up to 50 percent Tuesday and announced many of those who bought tickets closest to the field for $325-$2,500 will be eligible for additional free seats. Those initiatives could help pack previously unfilled areas that were an eye sore on television broadcasts during the opening homestand at the $1.5 billion ballpark. There are a few hundred suite seats in our premium locations that have not been sold on a full season basis," Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said in a ...
The Death Rattle of the Callahan Era
Post Date: 2009-04-27 01:38:55 by Rotara
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The Death Rattle of the Callahan Era Poor draft returns prove former coach's promises were empty by Samuel McKewonApril 26, 2009 Huskers.com Bill Callahan never produced the NFL Draftees his system suggested he would. If you had any doubt – the slightest bit, doubt the size of a single fish egg – about the utter failure of the Bill Callahan era at Nebraska, this weekend should have washed it away like the tide drags abandoned crab shells out to sea. In 2009 NFL Draft, only three members Callahan’s vaunted recruiting classes were selected. Three. San Jose State had that many. New Mexico and Abliene Christian had two. And no Huskers higher than midway through ...
William `Refrigerator’ Perry hospitalized in S. Carolina
Post Date: 2009-04-22 09:50:19 by freepatriot32
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CHICAGO (AP)—Former Chicago Bears defensive lineman William “The Refrigerator” Perry is in serious condition at a South Carolina hospital, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Perry, 46, was hospitalized to deal with complications from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a chronic inflammation disorder of the peripheral nerves, the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune reported. Aiken Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Melissa Summer declined to give additional details Tuesday. Perry’s nephew, Purnell Perry, told the Sun-Times his uncle was admitted more than a week ago but was expected to recover. “They were making sure he was in pretty good health before they started treating ...
Dinosaur herd buried in Noah’s Flood in Inner Mongolia, China [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-04-18 14:52:22 by Old Friend
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An international team of scientists have uncovered graphic evidence of the deadly terror unleashed on a herd of dinosaurs as they were buried under sediment by the rising waters of Noah’s Flood in western Inner Mongolia (figure 1).1 Dinosaur bones were first discovered at the site, located at the base of a small hill in the Gobi Desert, in 1978 by a Chinese geologist. After about 20 years, a team of Chinese and Japanese scientists recovered the first skeletons, which they named Sinornithomimus, meaning “Chinese bird mimic”. A few years later in 2001, the international team excavated the remains of more than 25 dinosaurs, creating a large quarry in the process as they as ...
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