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21 Excuses for not Having Sex

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:20 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: — You can’t stop thinking about all the stuff you have to do tomorrow, and what you really want to do is find a pencil and a piece of paper.
— You have your teeth-whitening equipment in.
— You are bloody tired.
— You have hiccups.
— He hasn’t shaved.
— You think the heating might still be on. It is unbelievably hot.
— It is too cold to risk the duvet moving at all.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Clip Source: women.timesonline.co.uk

— You were in the mood an hour ago, then he insisted on watching more TV, and now all you can think about is Heather Mills and gifted children.

— He has been remiss. You can’t remember exactly how, but it was earlier, and you are still angry.

— You have drunk the perfect amount and now feel peculiar – any movement could provoke nausea.

— He doesn’t seem to be as keen as he should be, and if he is waiting for you to demonstrate keenness, which he may be, then you thought of it first.

— You are worrying about early-onset Alzheimer’s, particularly on account of the keys-left-in-the-front-door incident.

— You have noticed a large crack in the bedroom ceiling. This has led you into a spiral of self-loathing because of the decorating that still needs to be done

— You accidentally watched a documentary on Five called How to be Averagely Good in Bed by 21st-Century Standards, and it has taken the wind out of your sails.

— The dog is looking.

— You think you have a heart murmur.

Tags: sex, health, humour, humor

Hillary quits

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:18:42 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: www.scrappleface.com

(2008-05-07) — Sen. Hillary Clinton aborted her White House bid today blaming what she called a “vast mathematical conspiracy” that secretly works to keep women out of positions of power.

The former First Lady said she would return to the U.S. Senate and introduce legislation to help female presidential candidates “breakthrough the math ceiling.”

Party insiders pressured her to pull out after Tuesday’s crushing defeat in the North Carolina primary and her surprisingly thin victory in Indiana.

“It’s beyond coincidence that Barack Obama has more votes, more delegates and more money than I do,” said a tearful Sen. Clinton at a news conference announcing her withdrawal from the race. “It would take a willing suspension of disbelief to think that I was forced out of this race because a majority of Democrats don’t want me to be president.”

“I’ve always heard that figures don’t lie,” she said, “but apparently they’ll do whatever it takes to crush the hopes and dreams of American women.”

Tags: clinton, politics, humor, satire

How Government Regulation effects oil prices at the pump

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:33:20 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: As is usually the case with government intervention into private enterprise the unexpected results are usually far worse than the original problem congress set out to solve. Doesn't anybody study history anymore? It was not that long ago that the same ideas were floating around congress during the Carter years. Anyone remember the odd even gas days and the long lines at the pumps because of the government forced oil shortages of the 70's

Among other mistakes from that period, the government increased the taxes levied on domestic oil producers, as if that would somehow help.

The result was “reduced domestic oil production from between 3 and 6 percent, and increased oil imports from between 8 and 16 percent.”

The government also instituted price controls, which only served to create the notorious gas shortages of that era. Yes, price controls meant consumers could get cheaper gas — but only after waiting in long gas lines and only if stations didn’t run out first.

Clip Source: www.heritage.org

When it comes to soaring gasoline prices, we need a federal government that does less.

We need fewer restrictions on domestic oil drilling.

The only reason not to drill is the environmental concerns.

We also need less regulatory red tape affecting refineries and gasoline supplies.

It would be worthwhile to streamline the regulations that make it all but impossible to build a new refinery and more difficult and time-consuming to expand an existing one.

Simplifying or eliminating the federal requirements that dictate the recipe (actually a dozen different recipes) for fuel also would help.

Worst of all the federal requirements is the one requiring that corn-based ethanol be mixed into the gasoline supply. Not only does ethanol use raise the cost of driving, but diverting corn from food to fuel has raised food prices, as well.

Congress needs to start undoing the damage it has done. If it enacts more of the same instead, get ready for $4 or even $5 gas.

Tags: gas, fuel, energy, governement, price, control

Clinton loaned herself 6.4 million last month

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:52:39 GMT

clipped by: ericskiff
clipper's remarks: When I first read the headline that Clinton had loaned herself 6.4 million, I thought it was today after last night's primary. This isn't quite as unsettling.

Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

(CNN) — Hillary Clinton loaned her campaign $6.4 million over the last month and is open to loaning herself more money in the upcoming weeks, her campaign said Wednesday.

The campaign says Clinton loaned herself $5 million on April 11, $1 million on May 1, and $425,000 since then.

Tags: politics, clinton, primary, campaign

Drudge: THE NOMINEE

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:07:51 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Headline of Drudge Report says it all; Hillary loses NC by 14 points

Clip Source: www.drudgereport.com

THE NOMINEE

Tags: obama, elections, drudge, clinton

Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:09:55 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: From the page: "As obvious as the rational explanations for all these phenomena are, I'm a bit sad. I'd enjoy living in a world filled with normally invisible creatures that only show their true, blurry forms on discount audiovisual equipment. Kind of like YouTube, only with more flying and fewer anime clips."

Clip Source: www.wired.com

If you haven't seen the story, the upshot is that some reflected light shows up every non-overcast day on someone's house in Calgary, and the resulting image looks something like a cross between Gollum and the Reddit mascot. Thus, aliens.

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Clip Source: www.wired.com

This is nonsense, unfortunately.

And yet, people keep devising theories.

Exhibit One: Rods

Well, one theory is that they are creatures living in the atmosphere, invisible to the naked eye

the fact is that you can capture "rod" video of your own by pointing a camera set to a slow shutter speed at a bunch of insects

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Exhibit Two: Orbs

You take a photo of something with your cheapie digital camera, and the picture has a translucent gray dot on it.

so they must be the spirits of the departed

This one's just sad.

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Exhibit Three: Crowd Demons

On the GhostStudy.com website, you'll find a photo that purportedly shows two demons sitting next to each other at a musical recital.

Yeah, most likely.

I just don't have the patience to play a proper game of Where's Weirdo?

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Tags: loldemon

The Pentagon Vs. The U.S. America at War with Itslef..

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:29 GMT

clipped by: TJColatrella

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military

By Scott Ritter, Truthdig

America is a country at war with itself.

Tags: pentagon, scott ritter, military industrial complex, bush, blackwater, kbr, iraq, nspd-51, patriot act

Russert: We now know who the nominee will be" [1:30 clip]

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:18:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "There's no good answer" to why HRC should stay in the race

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

MSNBC's Russert: 'We Now Know Who the Nominee Will Be'

[Video]

silly oddities

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:29:05 GMT

clipped by: silvanaraihane

Clip Source: oddities.alltop.com

[Interesting] You say tomato, I say tom-ah-to. You say potato, I say symbol of Christ's death and resurrection

[Asinine] 78-year-old magistrate tells woman in courthouse he would need "a gallon of Viagra" to keep up with her, which is probably not a good comment to make when running for re-election

[Asinine] Man who ran over couple's dog now suing the couple -- for damage done to his car

[Obvious] Roman Catholic church opposes festival of nudity, because God created us fully clothed and the naked human form is a tool of the devil himself

Rome Mayoral Candidate Suggests Ankle Bracelets to Fight Rape

Top 10 Cancer Myths

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:33:16 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: There is more than enough to worry a comet without these thrown in.

Clip Source: health.discovery.com

Cancer Myth 10
What someone does as a young adult has little impact on their chances of getting cancer later in life.

Cancer Myth 9
There is currently a cure for cancer, but the medical industry won't tell the public about it because they make too much money treating cancer patients.

Cancer Myth 8
Electronic devices, like cell phones, can cause cancer in the people who use them.

Cancer Myth 7
Some injuries can cause cancer later in life.

Cancer Myth 6
Living in a polluted city is a greater risk for lung cancer than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.

Cancer Myth 5
Treating cancer with surgery causes it to spread throughout the body.

Cancer Myth 4
Household bug spray can cause cancer.

Cancer Myth 3
You can prevent skin cancer by putting on one application of sunscreen at the start of each day.

Cancer Myth 2
Regularly eating meat cooked on a charcoal grill won't increase cancer risk.

Cancer Myth 1
The risk of dying from cancer in the United States is increasing.

Tags: medical

Clinton? Obama? Or drama?

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:43:34 GMT

clipped by: communicatrix
clipper's remarks: Amen. Turn off yer TV...throw away yer papers. (And I'm getting close to "move to the country/buy you a home, etc.)

Clip Source: sethgodin.typepad.com

There isn't media bias in favor of Hillary (my friend Jeff is the first to point that out). Nor is there media bias in favor of floods. There's media bias in favor of drama.

Oxygen-starved ocean 'deserts' emerging

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:06:20 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: suggest youread the whole article at site.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Underwater "deserts" are emerging in tropical oceans as the oxygen vanishes from seawater, warns a new study.

Wetter Arctic may lead to colder winters

Reservoirs keep sea levels down

Global warming impact may be overstated

One of the consequences of a changing climate, the warmer oceans, is causing a decrease in the oxygen concentration and creating oxygen-starved, or "hypoxic" conditions underwater.

The low-oxygen zones at depths of around 500 metres near India and in the equatorial Pacific waters off the Americas have grown thicker during the past 50 years, says a report in the journal Science.

This will likely have far-reaching impacts on ecosystems because key organisms cannot survive in these zones, warn Dr Lothar Stramma of Kiel University in Germany

using historical data combined with recent measurements to find that these oxygen starved zones are expanding significantly, especially in tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Code of Hammurabi

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:06:12 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: Hammurabi (ruled ca. 1796 BC – 1750 BC) believed that he was chosen by the gods to deliver the law to his people.

The Code of Hammurabi was one of several sets of laws in the Ancient Near East.[7][8] Most of these codes come from similar cultures and racial groups in a relatively small geographical area, and they have passages which resemble each other. The earlier Code of Ur-Nammu (21st century BC), the Hittite laws (ca. 1300 BC), and Mosaic Law (traditionally ca. 1400 BC under Moses), all contain statutes that bear at least passing resemblance to those in the Code of Hammurabi and other codices from the same geographic area.

The complete text of Hammurabi's Code of Laws. http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm. Quite shocking.

The photographs were taken at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Invictus has a clip on Hammurabi: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/92611450-2366-40A4-8825-C9287250A843/

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Clip Source: eawc.evansville.edu

195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.

282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The Code of Hammurabi (also known as Codex Hammurabi) is one of the earliest and best preserved law codes from ancient Babylon, created ca. 1760 BC (middle chronology). It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi.^[1]

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The code is often pointed to as the first example of the legal concept that some laws are so basic as to be beyond the ability of even a king to change. Hammurabi had the laws inscribed in stone, so they were immutable.

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The laws are numbered from 1 to 282 (numbers 13 and 66-99 are missing) and are inscribed in Old Babylonian cuneiform script on the eight-foot tall stela

It was discovered in December 1901 in Susa, Elam, which is now Khuzestan, Iran, where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte

It is currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Clip Source: viewer.zoho.com

Tags: law, babylonia

Could Jupiter wreck the solar system?

Sun, 04 May 2008 12:13:24 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: "So what's the likelihood Mercury could crash into the Earth? If it did, the asteroid that most likely wiped out the dinosaurs will seem like a drop in the ocean compared with a planet 4880 km in diameter slamming into us. There will be very little left after this wrecking ball impact.

But here's the kicker: There is only a 1% chance that these gravitational instabilities of the inner Solar System are likely to cause any kind of chaos before the Sun turns into a Red Giant and swallows Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars in 7 billion years time. So, no need to look out for death-wish Mercury quite yet… there's a very low chance that any of this will happen. But some good news for Mars; the researchers have also found that if the chaos does ensue, the Red Planet may be flung out of the Solar System, possibly escaping our expanding Sun. So, let's get those Mars colonies started! Well, within the next few billions of years anyhow…"

Good stuff for the next science-fiction movie

Clip Source: www.universetoday.com

Could Jupiter Wreck the Solar System?

Happily orbiting the Sun, the eight planets (plus Pluto and other minor planets) appear to have a high degree of long-term gravitational stability. But Jupiter has a huge gravitational influence over its siblings, especially the smaller planets.

The huge gravitational pull of Jupiter seems to be bullying Mercury into an increasingly eccentric death-orbit, possibly flinging the cosmic lightweight into the path of Venus. To make things worse, there might be dire consequences for Earth…

The researchers

Jacques Laskar

Konstantin Batygin

and Gregory Laughlin

formulate four possible scenarios as to what may happen as Mercury gets disturbed:

Mercury will crash into the Sun
Mercury will be ejected from the solar system altogether
Mercury will crash into Venus
Mercury will crash into Earth

The last option is obviously the worst case scenario for us, but all will be bad news for Mercury, the small planet's fate appears to be sealed.

Tags: science, space, astronomy

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Create TinyUrl's with Firefox Extension

TinyUrl Creator 1.0.4

by Jeremy Gillick

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21 Excuses for not Having Sex

Hillary quits

How Government Regulation effects oil prices at the pump

Clinton loaned herself 6.4 million last month

Drudge: THE NOMINEE

Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena

Exhibit One: Rods

Exhibit Two: Orbs

Exhibit Three: Crowd Demons

The Pentagon Vs. The U.S. America at War with Itslef..

The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military

By Scott Ritter, Truthdig

America is a country at war with itself.

Russert: We now know who the nominee will be" [1:30 clip]

silly oddities

[Interesting] You say tomato, I say tom-ah-to. You say potato, I say symbol of Christ's death and resurrection

[Asinine] 78-year-old magistrate tells woman in courthouse he would need "a gallon of Viagra" to keep up with her, which is probably not a good comment to make when running for re-election

[Asinine] Man who ran over couple's dog now suing the couple -- for damage done to his car

[Obvious] Roman Catholic church opposes festival of nudity, because God created us fully clothed and the naked human form is a tool of the devil himself

Rome Mayoral Candidate Suggests Ankle Bracelets to Fight Rape

Top 10 Cancer Myths

Clinton? Obama? Or drama?

Oxygen-starved ocean 'deserts' emerging

The Code of Hammurabi

Could Jupiter wreck the solar system?

Could Jupiter Wreck the Solar System?