June 2009
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“Tea for the Tillerman” by Cat Stevens from the...
May 2009
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Was Bush on a mission from God? →
Stranger still are new accounts emerging from France describing how former president Jacques Chirac was utterly baffled by a 2003 telephone conversation in which Bush reportedly invoked fanatical Old Testament prophecy – including the Earth-ending battle with forces of evil, Gog and Magog – in his arguments to enlist France in the Coalition of the Willing.
“This confrontation is willed by God,...
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“I Think I See the Light” by Cat Stevens from the...
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The zen of "free" as a strategy →
The internet changes the scale of the free sample. If Cory Doctorow or Seth Godin can give away millions of copies of their books, it means their ideas gain currency and some of those millions of readers will be interested enough to pay attention the next time Cory or Seth have something to say. That’s worth a lot. If they hadn’t given away their work, they’d just be a couple...
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“Where Do the Children Play?” by Cat Stevens from...
Why do we have such a big Navy when we hardly ever... →
Currently, the Navy inventory includes some 280 combatant, logistics, and support vessels, plus 3,700 aircraft. But-more important to many-We the People employ 340,000 active-duty Navy personnel and 68,000 reservists plus 175,000 active-duty Marines and 39,600 reservists. This is not to mention185,000 Navy Department civilians. (…)
No naval actions since 1945 have required combat fleets to...
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“Hey Ya!” performed by Obadiah Parker,...
Feral Russian Girl Raised By Cats And Dogs In... →
In a real-life Jungle Book situation, a 5-year-old Russian girl has been rescued from an un-heated Siberian flat, where she has lived her entire life in the company of feral cats and dogs without ever really adopting a vocabulary. According to the Telegraph, the girl lived in the Siberian town of Chita with egregiously neglectful parents and grandparents who essentially raised her as a pet.
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“Which Will” performed by Beck originally by Nick...
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“If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens...
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California's High Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban →
wtf cali?
Is This Your Brain on God? →
More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death...
Conservative talker gets waterboarded trying to... →
“Conservative libertarian” radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller of Chicago’s WLS Radio set out to prove waterboarding isn’t torture by undergoing the “enhanced interrogation” technique himself.
His verdict: “It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke… It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back…It was instantaneous… and I don’t want to say...
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WatchBetween Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. Special Guest Bradley Cooper, who is on the cover of this month’s Details magazine. Details is really good publication if you have run out of cologne.
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WatchNation’s Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: ‘Let’s Move In Together’
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