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Photos of Nuke Transport Trucks Released Posted: 6 months ago by Bornbad
Energy Department Forced to Release Photos of Trucks Used to Transport Nuclear Bombs and Components and Nuclear Weapons Materials
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Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, Caroline's Daughter, Scorns Mourning Masses Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
This video, captured by a Boston Fox 25 news camera, shows a girl who looks suspiciously like Caroline Kennedy's daughter, Rose Schlossberg, giving the mourners a decidedly ungracious middle finger.
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Idaho GOP leaders condemn Rammell as Rammell continues hunt Obama 'joke' Posted: 7 months ago by arsphidius
Top Idaho Republicans all condemned fellow Republican Rex Rammell on Friday after he amplified his “joke” about wanting to buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.
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Republicans Have Offered Three Alternative Health Care Reform Bills Posted: 7 months ago by cb__
The three Republican bills total almost 400 pages and have been on the table since May and June.
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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
The new version of the bill would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat.
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Inhofe slams health reform Posted: 7 months ago by Bingo
At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told Chickasha residents he does not need to read the 1,000 page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it.
"I don't have to read it, or know what's in it. I'm going to oppose it anyways," he said.
**I'm sure he's not the only one
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The Misery Index: A Reality Check Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
In the wake of the panic of 2008, finger pointing has become fashionable. According to some left-wing elements in the chattering classes, the free-market, entrepreneurial capitalist system caused the economic crisis.
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How To Live On $0 A Day: Go From Broke To Spiritually Enlightened In A Few Easy Steps Posted: 7 months ago by DerAlt
Repeat after me: "I'm not living in a tree because I got evicted due to non-payment of rent or my mortgage. I'm living in a tree to make an environmental statement because I'm socially and environmentally aware and I have the balls to DO something about it."
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Five myths about health care around the World Posted: 7 months ago by bcgrote
Excellent WashPo article regarding health care myths.
Seriously, people, change isn't scary, and it won't kill you or cost you "all" of your own money.
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Rush Limbaugh Warns Jay-Z That Obama Is Going After His Penis Posted: 7 months ago by tvirus
Yes, that's a real headline.
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Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production.
*put on tin foil hat before reading*
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10 soldiers died and only 150 Afghans voted Posted: 7 months ago by shuallyo
Ten British soldiers died in Afghanistan for the sake of just 150 votes in the country's election.
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Prisoners Cash In On Economic Stimulus Checks Posted: 7 months ago by suebe
What sounds crazier? That economic stimulus checks were remitted to Massachusetts prisoners, or that the Social Security Administration asked them to return the cash. They're called criminals for a reason.
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Politifact Truth-O-Meter Posted: 7 months ago by shuallyo
Look at what politicians are currently lying about. There's also an Obama Meter and a Flip Meter.
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Rich NYC mayor: Drug CEOs don't make much money Posted: 7 months ago by 2manyusernames
Billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg tried to defend pharmaceutical companies claiming that the companies and their CEOs don't make much money. I guess to a billionaire, $17.3 million salaries such as Merck & Co.'s chief executive, Richard T. Clark qualifies as pocket change.
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Obama Slurs Getting Crazier and Crazier Posted: 7 months ago by 2manyusernames
A post at townhall.com (which has since been removed) posited the idea that Michelle's mother performs Satanic “Afro-Hispanic” witchcraft rituals, in the White House.
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Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds Posted: 7 months ago by cb__
The test subjects on both sides of the political aisle reached totally biased conclusions by ignoring information that could not rationally be discounted.
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Health Care Reform: The Blame Game Edition Posted: 7 months ago by 2manyusernames
When the political winds shift -- when a party is voted out of power or a policy is panned by the public -- Washington turns to its favorite pastime: the blame game.
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Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in. Posted: 7 months ago by Bingo
The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,”
The first draft says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.” [...] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
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Neo-nazi hate blogger paid by FBI to incite Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric.
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Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession Posted: 7 months ago by JoshSF49
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday—a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers.
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Health overhaul factcheck Posted: 7 months ago by lynxears
Don't give in to the crazy theories, people. Know the facts.
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10 Frightening Conspiracy Theories Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
Secret-societies rule the world, Elvis is still alive and working down at the Piggly-Wiggly and giant lizards are in the White House. We certainly love our conspiracy theories and the Internet has become a giant repository of the paranoid, the disturbing and the downright crazy.
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"Death Panels" - A most excellent term. Posted: 7 months ago by suebe
"Death panels" is such an excellent term. You know exactly what it means, and therefore you know you're against them. Debate over. This term more than anything else seems to have unified the opposition to the Obama health care proposals. It fuels the anger that has essentially shut down "town hall" meetings intended for the discussion of the issues. A perspective from Roger Ebert
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The GOP's Misplaced Rage Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
Leading conservative economist Bruce Bartlett writes that the Obama-hating town-hall mobs have it wrong—the person they should be angry with left the White House seven months ago.
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