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Archive for September, 2007

Brain Eating Amoeba???? EWWWWWW!!!!

Saturday, September 29th, 2007 by Chad

PHOENIX (AP) – It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.
Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it’s killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases [...]

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Fixing Global Warming on the Cheap

Friday, September 28th, 2007 by Chad

h/t Ace of Spades
David Schnare, an environmental scientist and attorney associated with the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, told the U.S. Senate today that a solution to global warming is simple, cheap — and no more than a few years away.
With geo-engineering, the doctor says, scientists are learning how to replicate natural phenomenon, like [...]

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Review – The Bionic Woman

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 by Chad

Short Version –
It Sucks
Longer Version – If I sue NBC can I have my will to live back?
Back in Jr. High I was a fan of both the $6,000,000 Man and the Bionic Woman so I was semi-excited when I heard that NBC was going to make new version. I knew it [...]

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It’s official: Africa is doomed

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 by Insider

Bishop says comdoms from Europe came with AIDS to finish off the black man
Here is one one for Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. The same way that good kids in Jena are being jailed and the CIA brought crack into the streets of LA, the Europeans have been doing their own dirty work aimed at [...]

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Who didn’t see this coming? Zimbabwe price cuts backfire

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 by Chad

Over the past couple months we have pointed out how the social and economic policies of Robert Mugabe were leading to the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy. (here, here, here, here, and here) The latest in a long line of foolish decisions was the implementation of price controls which led [...]

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George Bush engaged in massive coverup of dangerous alien life forms

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 by Chad

Last week I let you know about the X-files like meteor strike in Peru which was causing hundreds of people to become sick. Well George Bush’s evil alien overlords must have put the word out through the Trilateral commission because now people are backing of the claim that it was an alien bacteria that [...]

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Want to be happier in your life? We’ve got three ways

Monday, September 24th, 2007 by Insider

#1 way to become happier:
I received a nice email inviting me to become happier. How could I say no? The short version of the story is that it is a good site and worth going to if you want to improve your level of happiness. (And who doesn’t want to do that?).
One of the questions [...]

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Winners and Losers Celebrate and Bemoan Dan Rather Lawsuit Respectfully

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by Insider

The Winners
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Rathergate.com: For a website with the URL Rathergate.com, this is like winning the Powerball lottery.

Mark Cuban: His hiring of Rather for his fledging HD network has been a high-definition bust. Cuban hoped that Rather would have PR value, something that has not been the case at least until now.

Conservative bloggers: Even though [...]

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Spooky – Meteor Hits In Peru Hundreds Reported Sick. Spookier – President Bush Not Responsible

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by Chad

It’s like something from an H.P. Lovecraft story or the X-Files.
On Saturday a meteor hit in Peru creating a 60 foot crater and a tremendous stink, soon thereafter people became dizzy and started vomiting. Shades of the Andromeda strain right? (Actually it sounds like a typical Saturday night on Aurora Ave. here in Seattle [...]

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The Black Knight Strikes Back

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 by Chad

A Georgia man was beaten to death earlier today by a man with no arms, bringing the Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail into a whole new focus.

Humor, Monty Python

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Are juries made up of dumb people or do otherwise smart people just become dumb when on juries?

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 by Insider

Spector jury says it’s at an impasse.

Just because the accused has a nasty habit of sticking guns in the mouths of women and threatening to pull the trigger…
Just because a woman dies this exact way in his house with his gun…
Just because the accused runs out and essentially admits killing someone to a limo [...]

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NYT calls TimesSelect a “Success” and then drops it

Monday, September 17th, 2007 by Insider

While lies such as “leaving for personal reasons” or “creative differences” are commonplace in the corporate world, somehow one would think that the NYT’s would hold itself to a higher standard. In truth, if something is a success it isn’t canceled. If you love someone you don’t divorce or kill them. If a CEO is [...]

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Are Jack Black and Paul Revere related?

Monday, September 17th, 2007 by Insider

Jack Black and Paul Revere
The folks at HelloRocky think it’s a reach anytime you go back more than even a few years but who appointed them czar of Celebrity Calls anyway?
Paul Revere jack black

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Tip: If you complain about the poor portrayal of students by the media…

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 by Insider

…then don’t get arrested for drunk driving shortly after your letter to the editor is published. Bloomsburg University’s student government president,Christopher Bevan, was charged with drunken driving just weeks after saying the media has unfairly portrayed students as irresponsible. After being pulled over for doing 50 in a 15 mph zone he was found to [...]

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And the newsroom goes silent

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 by Insider

From a viral email…

h/t: Dr. Hoist

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