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Whatever" deemed most annoying word: poll
Post Date: 2011-12-18 00:33:08 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do you want to kill a conversation? Try saying "whatever." Words like "you know" and "like" might be irritating to hear, but for the third year in a row, it's "whatever" that holds the most power to annoy, according to an annual survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. Nearly four in ten adults named "whatever" as the most annoying verbal filler in casual conversation, while one in five adults had similar disdain for "like" and 'you know." "Just sayin'" and "seriously" were more forgiving to the ears, though still quite irritating, Marist found. The ...
Survivor describes horror of highway shootings
Post Date: 2011-12-17 07:00:32 by Tatarewicz
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LETHBRIDGE — The gunman said nothing when he shot Shayna Conway. The force of the bullet sent her crumpling to the road. He fired two more rounds, striking the 21-year-old woman, then began shooting her three friends. Lying wounded on the highway, Conway looked up and watched as the killer turned the gun on himself. She crawled to a cellphone, called 911 and waited. “She can just remember screaming and yelling for help, and calling for Tanner,” said Conway’s sister, Courtney Crosby. “She knew that he was dead because he couldn’t come and help her.” Conway, 21, was the sole survivor of a horrific murder-suicide on a southern Alberta highway in the ...
Do the Barcodes on Products Reveal the Country of Origin?
Post Date: 2011-12-16 07:09:43 by Tatarewicz
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There's an e-mail alert circulating on the Internet that claims you can tell a food product's country of origin by looking at the first three numbers of the bar code. For example, the alert says that all barcodes ranging from 690 to 695 indicate products made in China and that barcodes beginning with 471 indicate products made in Taiwan. Given the concern over food made in China these days, this e-mail is quickly making its rounds on the Internet, so I decided to check it out. Unfortunately, it turns out that finding out a food product's country of origin is not as simple as the e-mail alert claims. According to Snopes, the first three digits of the barcode merely indicate in ...
"Wetten Dass?" must be "WTF?" in German
Post Date: 2011-12-14 08:49:53 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Fabricating that tower cost a few Euros. Hell, there was probably 200 man-hours in prepping & painting it, alone. Oh well, it's work, I guess. In my neighborhood, they're using the excavators to tear down foreclosed houses. 1 man + 1 excavator + 1 hour = 1 house down --- 8:00AM residence, 5:00PM vacant lot
How useful is a captured drone?
Post Date: 2011-12-14 07:06:30 by Tatarewicz
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An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it. But how much valuable information are they likely to glean? Pictures broadcast by Iranian television of the stealth RQ-170 Sentinel will have made grim viewing in Washington. Iran has rejected US calls for its return, and state television says military experts were in the final stages of recovering data. So how easy is it to extract information from a drone? It all depends what state the aircraft was in when they recovered it, says Nick Brown, editor-in-chief of Jane's International Defence Review. "It could have crashed and come apart. The version seen on the video ...
Lovely Cup
Post Date: 2011-12-11 15:16:42 by abraxas
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Time for some Grouplove...... What do you think of Ab's favorite song for a day?
Chihuahua Plays with English Mastiff
Post Date: 2011-12-11 11:42:29 by angK
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Poster Comment:Not for the squeamish! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
French lawmakers move to outlaw prostitution
Post Date: 2011-12-10 07:53:30 by Tatarewicz
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French lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of outlawing prostitution in the country, setting the stage for the introduction of a bill that would impose fines and jail time for paying for sex. The move comes despite France's long history of liberal attitudes toward sex and with the country gripped by coverage of a prostitution scandal involving former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been linked with a pimping ring operating out of luxury hotels in the northern city of Lille. The non-binding resolution on the "abolition of prostitution", drafted by a cross-party commission, was approved in a show of hands vote in the lower house National Assembly. Lawmakers from ...
Italian 'organic' food fraud hits German market
Post Date: 2011-12-10 05:34:27 by Tatarewicz
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Worried German organic food producers are examining their stocks after it emerged that more than 500 tonnes of cereals sold as organic was part of a multi-million-euro fraud, and the food was not organic. Italian authorities said they had busted a scheme in which more than 700,000 tonnes of non-organic food was sold as organic – and sold at the higher prices commanded by such products, making at least €220 million profit, the Tageszeitung newspaper reported this week. Authorities say at least 543 tonnes of wrongly-labelled grains made it onto the German market – mostly soy beans, which are used to make tofu, as well as being fed to animals. Germany’s biggest organic ...
Heller letter claims Yossarian of ‘Catch-22’ not Jewish
Post Date: 2011-12-10 02:20:52 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Yossarian, the central character in Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” was not Jewish, the author wrote in a 40-year-old letter. In a private letter auctioned off last month in Los Angeles, Heller clarified the point, though in his characteristically ambiguous style. In the postscript to a 1972 letter, addressed to Professor James Nagel at Northwestern University, Heller wrote, “Yossarian isn’t Jewish and was not intended to be. On the other hand, no effort was expended to make him anything else. He is largely an extension of my own sensibility and I am [Jewish].” Heller, like his fictional alter ego in the 1960s novel, was a B-25 ...
Former Gingrich Staffer Alleges Affair Again
Post Date: 2011-12-09 22:15:07 by Jethro Tull
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Former Gingrich Staffer Alleges Affair Again Anne Manning, a former staffer during Newt Gingrich’s first run for office, has come forward to retell the story about her affair with the former Speaker, a story she first unveiled in 1995. From the Daily Caller: Anne Manning says that she had an adulterous relationship with Gingrich 34 years ago. At the time, he was married to his first wife, Jackie Battley, and campaigning for Congress with the slogan “Let Our Family Represent Your Family.” Manning told the National Enquirer that she performed a sexual act on Gingrich in a Washington, D.C. hotel room, but adds that they didn’t have sex so that “he could say he had ...
Change For A Dollar
Post Date: 2011-12-09 20:37:12 by abraxas
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Gingrich and Alvin and Heidi Toffler
Post Date: 2011-12-09 12:28:24 by Jethro Tull
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Jon Stewart Blasts Senate Defense Bill That Would Allow Americans To Be Detained Indefinitely (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2011-12-08 21:44:09 by farmfriend
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Poster Comment:I really had to laugh at his rendition of a Jewish Grandmother. Too funny!
English is easy? Yes, if it is your first, or primary, language
Post Date: 2011-12-08 18:55:47 by James Deffenbach
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I think a retired English teacher was bored. THIS IS GREAT! Read all the way to the end. This took a lot of work to put together! You think English is easy?? 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The ...
Gerald Celente on Rense Tonight
Post Date: 2011-12-08 14:28:10 by Original_Intent
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Gerald Celente is currently scheduled for the first hour on Rense tonight. Link to Live Feed: http://www.renseradio.com/listenlive.htm Poster Comment:Usually one of the most informative hours of the month on the Rense program.
Augason Farms Emergency Food Storage Kit - 1 year - 1 person $898
Post Date: 2011-12-08 09:26:22 by Esso
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Includes shipping. Half the cost of eFoodsDirect Freedom units. Time is getting short. Click for Full Text!
bobsmooth giving out good advice on LP
Post Date: 2011-12-07 23:27:52 by James Deffenbach
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posted to stretchedmind: Why the hell do you live in misery of talking to yukon for? Just bozo that Bastard,,...butt f**ker and Punk...just BOZO the bastard! This person is here to disrupt and absolutely nothing else. Goldi-lox has given him authority over ALL here,you included...totally.He is her MAN!or woman? who knows? Bozo is the best way.....peace of mind. bobsmooth posted on 2011-12-07 21:46:55 ET Reply Trace Poster Comment:Other than holding back and not letting out his real feelings toward yukon I thought he was doing a public service with that post.
Canadian lawmaker calls for more driver alcohol checkstops but when pulled over refuses breathalyzer test
Post Date: 2011-12-07 03:29:31 by Tatarewicz
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Hours after publicly speaking against tougher drunk-driving (lower blood alcohol) laws, Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring was charged Sunday for refusing to take a breathalyzer test when a police officer pulled him over. Goldring, who didn't appear Monday in the House of Commons, voluntarily withdrew from the federal Conservative caucus. "Our government takes drinking and driving very seriously," said Sara MacIntyre, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's press secretary. She wouldn't comment further while the case is before court, except to say Goldring, 66, has withdrawn from caucus until the charge is resolved. Goldring did not return calls to The Journal to explain what ...
IRS Audit - Norman Goldman Show
Post Date: 2011-12-06 07:25:16 by Tatarewicz
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Lawyer and talk show host is in the process of being audited by the IRS (lawyers'section). Will explain what's involved on KTPK Seattle AM1090 and other network stations at 4:00 PM Pacific Time. Or listen on Internet. Likely to be rebroadcast on weekend.
Chinese province ending bureaucrat sinecures
Post Date: 2011-12-06 05:45:51 by Tatarewicz
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A job as a civil servant in China used to mean a life-long position with an unbreakable "iron rice bowl" from cradle to grave. But staff members working in state administrative organs in Guangdong province will now be issued with a contract of employment instead of a lifetime guarantee, xinhuanet.com reported Tuesday. The new system will break the decades long "iron rice bowl" which used to mean a guaranteed job for life in government, and civil servants in the province will be paid according to their performance. The province has also vowed to recruit officials from the grassroots level. The new employment system will be enacted during the 12th Five- Year Plan (20 ...
Seattle welfare recipient lives in million-dollar home
Post Date: 2011-12-06 04:04:45 by Tatarewicz
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A Seattle woman who is receiving welfare assistance from Washington state also happens to live in a waterfront house on Lake Washington worth more than a million dollars. Federal agents raided the home this weekend but have not released the woman or her husband's name because they have not officially been charged with a crime. However, federal documents obtained by KING 5 News show the couple currently receives more than $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers, plus state and government disability checks and food stamps. They have been receiving the benefits since 2003. The 2,500 square-foot home, which includes gardens and a boat dock, is valued at $1.2 million. And even though ...
Exclusive News Exposed: Aliens Want Our Gold
Post Date: 2011-12-04 07:17:37 by Tatarewicz
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South Africa's first ever UFO Science and Consciousness Conference host, Michael Tellinger, sent chills down the spines of News24's audience when he told them: “There's a battle for Earth by some interesting dark forces." As it turns out, human beings aren't the only gold-thirsty beings in this universe. According to reports from South African journalists, aliens had been sighted on the prowl for the precious yellow metal, here on our home turf. "South Africa has been dubbed as the cradle of humankind and the place where all life form began, thus the reason [South Africa] was selected as the host for the UFO Science and Consciousness Conference," he ...
If Laws Change, 'Penny Hoarders' Could Cash in on Thousands of Dollars
Post Date: 2011-12-04 01:50:58 by Tatarewicz
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Joe Henry is on a first name basis with bank tellers across his hometown of Medford, Ore., scouring 15 banks a week with one thing on his mind: pennies. Henry is often seen toting around bags of pennies, some he buys, others he changes back in for cash, which seems a little strange at first. He's not a collector, he is what's known as a "penny hoarder" and he is not alone. Inside a shed next to his house, Henry has orange tubs filled with 200,000 pennies, and he spends hours sorting through roll after roll of the coins. But it's not just any and all pennies, Henry is only interested in those that are dated from 1982 and earlier because those are the coins made with ...
Germany 'more corrupt than thought'
Post Date: 2011-12-03 04:31:17 by Tatarewicz
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Though a new survey of perceptions of corruption in countries around the world rates Germany rather well – 14th out of 183 countries – anti-graft group Transparency International says country still has much work to do. The annual survey by the Berlin-based non-governmental organization placed Germany above well-developed countries like the United States, Austria and Belgium. But Christian Humborg, the managing director of Transparency’s Germany branch, pointed out that the country’s position hadn’t improved much in recent years. In 2010, Germany was ranked 15th and the year before was ranked 14th in the index. It has consistently ranked in the middle of the pack ...
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