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The Future of Terrorism = Anus Explosives

1. Al Qaida Invents the Rectum Bomb - The thing about bombs shoved up a suicide assassin’s rectum, is that they usually get past airport security.  And rectum?  Damn near killed him!  Hey-oooooooooooooooo  (From NPR) 2. The Russian / Georgian conflict: Everybody loses - Both sides claim that the report issued by the European Union backs [...]
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Iran test fires long range missiles

1. Iran does its best North Korea – Missiles launched, muscles flexed, bla bla bla. Well crap.  Now what. (From the Times of London) 2. Roman Polanski Taken into Custody – 32 years ago Roman Polanski fled the U.S. after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13 year old girl.  He had avoided nations [...]
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Obama Healthcare Speech Fact Check

1. Fact Checking last night’s Healthcare Address - More proof that anyone can screw with the numbers to make it look like they want it to look like.  Would his plan jack up the deficit?  Mneh… maybe, depends on how you look at it.  Would preventative care measures really save money?  No, not really. What [...]
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Ted Kennedy has Died

1.  Ted Kennedy.  1932 – 2009 - For all of the work that he did in the Senate, for all of the impact that he had, I’d still really like to know what actually happened, that night on Chappiquidick. (From The Hill, ABC News, and Time Magazine) 2. ACLU gets more CIA documents on CIA interrogation Techniques [...]
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Extreme Identity Theft and 7-11

1. Biggest Identity theft case in U.S. history – 130 Million Credit and Debit Card numbers + 7-11 stores database + a hacker so smart he was working FOR the Secret Service at one point = trouble.  (From the Wall Street Journal) 2. Prevention costs MORE than Treatment? – Here’s the way I look at Prevention [...]
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HEALTH CARE DEBATE TURNS INTO SCREAMING MATCHES

1. COULD WE ALL PLEASE STOP YELLING FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!?!?!?! – Congressional Democratic leadership calls the disruptive anti-health care bill people “un-American” for yelling and stomping their feet at town hall meetings.  I have news for Ms. Pelosi.  That kind of behavior is unfortunately very much American.  (From the LA Times) 2. Hudson River Airspace [...]
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Microsoft and Yahoo join Forces

1. Microsoft and Yahoo partner up to take on Google – Microhoo?  Yasoft? Binghoo?  The big three are now down to the big two when it comes to searching the web.  I really have never had a hard time searching the web, and those bing commercials that claim searching the web is just oh-difficult wreak [...]
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Obama to get tough with Israel

1. Israel MIGHT be pushing it – President Obama starts to lay the groundwork for getting Israel to back off a bit on Netanyahu’s right wing hawkish stance.  VP Biden is the first messenger and tells a powerful pro-Israel lobby group that:   “Israel has to work toward a two-state solution…” and let them all know [...]
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Huckabee… the great “right” hope?

1. Huckabee would be Obama’s “Toughest” opponent in 2012 - Annnnnd Teddy Roosevelt is crying somewhere right now into a dusty bandanna he wore charging up San Juan hill.  If the GOP throws Palin or Huckabee up against the wall in 2012, that could very well be the end of their party.  Anyone who’s not a [...]
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What would happen if Texas left the Union?

1. Texas Gov. Rick Perry Brings up Secession – From y’know… the Union.  Part of me wants to see him, and the State of Texas… try.  But no, it’s not going to happen.  And why?  Well: “It would be the world’s thirteenth largest economy — bigger than South Korea, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia. But its worth [...]
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