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Huge Weapons Cache Found West Of Baghdad

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:53:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The pic looks like a bunch of .50 barrels. BFD…

comment by thebronze

“The cache included 269 122 mm rocket rounds and 200,000 heavy machine-gun rounds.”

“The cache included 269 122 mm rocket rounds.”

Those rockets would be great IEDs. Or if they have a launcher they could use them against other areas.

I take heavy machine gun rounds to mean at least .50.

It is something of a big deal.

comment by Hard Right

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American soldiers operating west of Baghdad have uncovered a large weapons cache that could be tied to a recent rise in the number of booby-trapped houses in the area, officials said Thursday.

The troops, from Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, seized the weapons near Thamir Village, near Abu Ghraib, on Thursday. The cache included 269 122 mm rocket rounds and 200,000 heavy machine-gun rounds.

Officials with the unit said the rockets have a longer range than most rockets used by insurgents and could also be part of a “rising” threat of booby-trapped houses.

“Because of the size and condition of this cache, this will significantly degrade the enemy’s ability to conduct attacks against the Iraqi Security Forces, the local populace and Coalition Forces,” Lt. Col. Glen Blumhardt, executive officer of the 25th Infantry Division’s 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, said in a news release.

Tags: fanatical islam, middle east, military, post-invastion, the iraqi war, true heroes, war on terror

The world's happiest man

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:23:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: very nice site, this!

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We're not just claiming that title based on the fact that Ricard is never seen without a smile, or that monks are generally a pretty beatific bunch – he's got science on his side, too. In 2004, researchers at University of Wisconsin conducted a study on the brain patterns of hundreds of volunteers from different walks of life. The bell curve of the MRI measurements fell between +0.3 (a Sylvia Plath acolyte, no doubt) to -0.3 (Richard Simmons, perhaps?). But Ricard alone achieved an astonishing score of -0.45 – a level of joy so far above the others that his score was nearly off the chart.

"The mind is malleable," Ricard told The Independent. "Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time."

In his new book, Happiness, Ricard serves as your own personal cross-trainer in the art of happiness, with advice on meditative exercises

Flexibility - design in a fast-changing society

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:19:08 GMT

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“Flexibility - design in a fast-changing society” poses questions about bonds between flexibility and design, where flexibility is intended as the ease with which a system or components of it can be modified and adapted for use in different applications or settings to the ones for which they were originally designed.

an attitude that allows individuals to react to a context that changes at ever-increasing speed and produces unexpected results, sometimes with an explosive impact.

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Brizio’s dress combines the fun of art class with something more adult, and squares our need for aesthetic refreshment with the ethics of recycling and reuse.

There’s something appealingly transgressive in the way the pristine dress gets pierced and stained by the leaky felt pens — and something redemptive about the way you can just wash the white garment clean and start all over again

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the gladiator diet

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:25:01 GMT

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The Gladiator Diet

How to eat, exercise, and die a violent death

Immune System

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:44:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Shows the skeleton & components of the immune system

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Tags: anatomy, immune system

A Tribute

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:54:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 5:23

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The Obama File

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:40:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A wealth of information, much of it contradicting things the Obama campaign would have you believe.

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Religion

Politics

Islam

Lies

Race

The Wife

Barack Hussein Obama

A privileged African-American, who has not shared the black American experience
By birth, blood and training, a Muslim, who has been a member of a Black-African church for 20 years
A socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose tactics were conceived by Alinsky
A master at shaping his own mythology and completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief

Tags: politics, obama, lies, election

13 inch Waist

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:38:25 GMT

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Is there any end to what women will do to try to enhance their (perceived) beauty?

Toast of Kent

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:56:06 GMT

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It’s on of the most iconic symbols of Kent - a traditional oast house.

But you won’t have seen one quite like this before.

A food artist has recreated some of Britain’s best loved landmarks - on pieces of toast.

Dermot Flynn’s collection of bread sculptures marks the launch of a new advertising campaign by Warburtons.

The gallery of toasted landscapes includes the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Blackpool Tower, the Eden Project in Cornwall, the Angel of the North, the London Eye, and the Humber Bridge.

The oast house, representing Kent’s countryside - has been created with a slice of bread and chocolate spread.

A Warburtons spokesperson added: “We were spoilt for choice when it came to choosing the best landmarks as the UK is awash with stunning architecture and iconic landscapes.”

The Warburtons’ advert starring the t-oast house will air tonight on ITV.

The gallery of British landmarks recreated on toast

The Kentish t-oast house

Tags: art, bread, toast, landmarks, advert, food artist

Feds to look into Lee County Sheriff Scott's 'Hussein' Obama comment at Palin rally

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:06:54 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: For the record, it's John Sidney McCain III and Sarah Louise Heath Palin.

Gee..."Heath"...does that mean she's a heathen?

And Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

The investigation, though, is not for what Sheriff Scott said, but that he was speaking ex cathedra as a law enforcement official, by virtue of the fact that he was in uniform and on duty at the time he spoke. Had he been in civvies and on his own time, it wouldn't be an issue.

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One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local ACLU and NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott’s action was racist.

On Monday, Scott appeared in his uniform in front of more than 9,000 people at a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and used Obama’s middle name, Hussein.

Scott did not refer to Palin or Republican presidential candidate John McCain by their full names at the event at Germain Arena in Estero.

A complaint sent to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel alleges that Scott violated the Hatch Act because his agency receives federal dollars, and Scott was engaging in political activity while on duty and in uniform. Erica S. Hamrick, senior attorney for the agency, said in an e-mail Tuesday that an investigation was being opened.

Tags: politics, election, mccain, palin, biden, obama

For All the Cookies

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:54:32 GMT

clipped by: vandamonium
clipper's remarks: This one makes you think... It did me.

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The Cookies

Tags: cookies, moral, story, airport, man, woman

Autumn Leaves

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:13:50 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: A mixed bag.

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus

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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. (William Blake)

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Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes"

The film Autumn Leaves (1956) starring Joan Crawford featured the song, which was sung by Nat King Cole

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The Birch Wood, 1903 by Gustav Klimt

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Autumn Leaves by Georgia O'Keeffe

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Eliot)

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. (Edwin Teale)

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AP: Palin attack "exaggerated" or "outright false"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:01:44 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: No evidence shows Ayers and Obama were "pals" or even close when they worked on community boards years ago

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In her character attack, Palin questions Obama's association with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground. Her reference was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were "pals" or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.

Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers' radical views and actions.

"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain's ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

Obama isn't above attacking McCain's character with loaded words

but not on the level of suggesting that a fellow senator is un-American and even a friend of terrorists.

Tags: palin, lies

New "currency" big in US prisons

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:12:27 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Mackerel is hot in prisons in the U.S., but not so much anywhere else, says Mark Muntz, president of Global Source, which imports fillets of the oily, dark-fleshed fish from Asian canneries. Mr. Muntz says he's tried marketing mackerel to discount retailers. "We've even tried 99-cent stores," he says. "It never has done very well at all, regardless of the retailer, but it's very popular in the prisons."
Mr. Muntz says he sold more than $1 million of mackerel for federal prison commissaries last year. It accounted for about half his commissary sales, he says, outstripping the canned tuna, crab, chicken and oysters he offers.

Unlike those more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein -- want to eat it.

So inmates stash macks in lockers provided by the prison and use them to buy goods, including illicit ones such as stolen food and home-br

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When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, "I had a stack of macks."

Mr. Levine and his client were prisoners in California's Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel -- the "mack" in prison lingo -- was the standard currency.

"It's the coin of the realm," says Mark Bailey, who paid Mr. Levine in fish. Mr. Bailey was serving a two-year tax-fraud sentence in connection with a chain of strip clubs he owned. Mr. Levine was serving a nine-year term for drug dealing. Mr. Levine says he used his macks to get his beard trimmed, his clothes pressed and his shoes shined by other prisoners. "A haircut is two macks,"

There's been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004

That's when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default, the cigarette pack, which was the earlier gold standard.

Tags: mackerel, fish, mack, prison currency, odd

Fettuccine Hungry Girlfredo (80 calories!)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:00:12 GMT

clipped by: joflo723
clipper's remarks: 1 point yummy alfredo...can't beat that!

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1 Point Alfredo?!

Fettuccine Hungry Girlfredo!

(80 Calories, 3g Fat, 242mg Sodium, 9g Carbs, 4g Fiber, <1g Sugars, 4g Protein = 1 Point!!!)

This recipe will rock your world. Share it with everyone you know...ASAP!

Ingredients:

1 Package Tofu Shirataki Fettuccine Shaped Tofu Noodles
1/2 Wedge The Laughing Cow Light Cheese
1 teaspoon Fat Free Sour Cream
2 teaspoons Kraft Reduced Fat Parmesan Cheese
Salt & Pepper (if desired)

Rinse fettuccine noodles VERY well. Microwave them for one minute, then drain them and pat dry. Add cheeses and sour cream. Mix thoroughly. Microwave to help melt cheese further, and mix some more. Add salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy. Serves 1.

This Fettucine Hungry Girlfredo has just 80 calories per serving, and is only 1 point on Weight Watchers (if you're counting). This is the guilt-free recipe of the century! After you try it, send us an email to let us know how you liked it.