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Month: January, 2008

Oh fuck

28 January, 2008 (20:33) | Humor, Miscellaneous | 1 comment

via Deep Sea News

[tags]fuck, fuck fuck fuck[/tags]
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Governor Dean to expats

28 January, 2008 (20:20) | Political | No comments

[tag]Howard Dean[/tag] reaches out to [tag]American’s overseas[/tag] to ask them to [tag]vote[/tag] in [tag]2008[/tag]

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Synchronicity

28 January, 2008 (16:43) | Political, Sociology, War | No comments

In my news reader from today link to an article at IHT
BERLIN: Most countries celebrate the best in their past. Germany unrelentingly promotes its worst.
The enormous Holocaust memorial that dominates a chunk of central Berlin was completed only after years of debate. But the building of monuments to the Nazi disgrace continues unabated. On Monday, [...]

We got boxes and we got wires

28 January, 2008 (16:34) | Sociology | No comments

This pretty much says it all

[tags]humour, comedy, relationships, funny, humor, boxes vs. wires, men and women[/tags]
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Obama is on a roll

27 January, 2008 (16:23) | Political | No comments

WASHINGTON — Senator Edward M. Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow, breaking his year-long neutrality to send a powerful signal of where the legendary Massachusetts Democrat sees the party going — and who he thinks is best to lead it.
Kennedy confidantes told the Globe today that the Bay State’s senior senator will appear [...]

Fun with Fundies

26 January, 2008 (18:42) | Religion, Science | No comments

Watch the fundies get their knickers in knots over this
A team of 17 researchers at the (JCVI) has created the largest man-made DNA structure by synthesizing and assembling the 582,970 base pair genome of a bacterium, . This work, published online today in the journal Science by Dan Gibson, Ph.D., et al, is the [...]

Anti-abortion ad pulled from buses in St. John’s (Nfld)

26 January, 2008 (18:26) | Sociology | No comments

Whoa what’s this, a ?
has pulled an from its buses and shelters in after complaints from the public.
The ad, funded by the as part of a national campaign, appeared on at least two buses in the N.L. capital that were used as traveling billboards before it was withdrawn.
Critics said the ad gave the [...]

A Significant Advantage

26 January, 2008 (18:04) | Political | 1 comment

Sen. Kerry announced, on January 10, that he is supporting Obama’s campaign. What the MSM has not focussed on is what that really meant. As David Meerman Scott over at Web Inc. Now points out in 2003 pioneered the use of the Internet in political campaigning. Howard raised a lot of money and more [...]

Scientists lament closing of key advisory office

25 January, 2008 (18:48) | Political, Science | No comments

From the CBC
Members of Canada’s scientific community praised the contributions of the and expressed regret over the government’s decision to phase out the position at the end of March.
On Wednesday, confirmed that national science adviser Arthur Carty would be retiring on March 31, and that the position and office would be phased out.
John Smol, [...]

The Bush Legacy

25 January, 2008 (16:59) | Economics, Political | No comments

Got friends who still think Bush and his GOP cabal are still the cat’s meow? Send them this.

THE LEGACY OF GEORGE W. BUSH’S PRESIDENCY
The Country He Inherited, The Country He Leaves Behind

United States & The World
January 20, 2001
Today Under Bush

Real GDP Growth1
4.09% Over Prior 8 Years
2.65% Over Prior 7 Years

National Debt2
$5.7 Trillion
$9.2 Trillion

Budget Deficit/Surplus3
$431 Billion [...]

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