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Let's be honest...

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:36:01 GMT

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Let's state outright a few obvious points. Bringing the presidential candidates and their press entourages back to Capitol Hill won't speed or improve the process of coming up with a good bailout deal. It will politicize it. That's so transparently obvious that it barely requires stating. And of course that is the point.

Tags: mccain, crisis, politics

Poll: Obama gains former Clinton supporters

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:28:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pre and post convention numbers are compared [Gallup]

Clip Source: www.gallup.com

Tags: politics, democrats, obama, clinton

Republican's Hookers and Blow Party

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:44:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ABC News highlights parties at the GOP convention despite McCain's request to suspend non-crucial activities while hurricane Gustav ensued.

Clip Source: gawker.com

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Tags: republican, politics, gop, corruption, lobbyists

New track by Nas disses Fox News

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:57:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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RIP George Carlin

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:29:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very sad, he was a true legend of comedy.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.

OBAMA CLINCHES!

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:44:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: According to AP, Obama clinches democratic nomination with a flood of superdelegates today.

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party.

The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.

The 46-year-old first term senator will face Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the fall campaign to become the 44th president.

Tags: obama, politics, finally, relief

Robert DeNiro: "I'm a Good Source of Riboflavin"

Tue, 20 May 2008 05:16:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Elmo and Robert DeNiro on Sesame Street. Yes, the things you learn to appreciate and enjoy as a parent.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: funny, innocent, elmo, deniro, sesame street, cabbage, dog, actor, riboflavin

America's Next Fronteir: The Entrepreneurial Society

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:11:33 GMT

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Clip Source: online.wsj.com

The most compelling statistic of all? Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a full-time job. Today, 80% of the colleges and universities in the U.S. now offer courses on entrepreneurship;

Without noticing it, we have once again discovered, and then raced off to settle, a new frontier. Not land, not innovation, but ourselves and a growing control over our own lives and careers.

The economy will be much more volatile and much more competitive. In the continuous fervor to create new institutions, it will become increasingly difficult to sustain old ones. New political parties, new social groupings, thousands of new manias and movements and millions of new companies will pop up over the next few decades. Large corporations that don't figure out how to combine permanence with perpetual change will be swept away.

Tags: technology, economy, united states

Very First Guest on David Letterman: Bill Murray

Mon, 19 May 2008 03:23:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A pretty awkward interview, but tv history nonetheless. [via gawker]

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: david letterman, bill murray, tv, television, nostalgia

Watch what really made O'Reilly go nuts...

Sat, 17 May 2008 18:52:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: O'Reilly vs. his producer. The latest from BarelyPolitical.com

Clip Source: www.barelypolitical.com

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Tags: bill o'reilly, insanity, humor, comedy

Robo-geek or Super Soldier?

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:10:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is actually for real, the project is currently under contract with the US Army.

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds—that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.

With the outfit's claw-like metal hand extensions, he gripped a weight set's bar at a recent demonstration and knocked off hundreds of repetitions. Once, he did 500

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Tags: the future, robocop, science, military

Biden: Bush's Comments Are Bullsh*t, Ridiculous, Outrageous

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:21:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.politico.com

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Tags: joe biden, bush, israel, politics

Personality Types mapped to U.S. Regions

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:04:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: New Yorkers are the most neurotic. My God, what would Woody Allen think?

Clip Source: gawker.com

Tags: maps, psychology, pop psychology, trivia, new yorkers

Bill O'Reilly Goes Nuts

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:19:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: OId behind the scenes clip from his Inside Edition days

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: anger, angry, tough guy

The iPhone Map of the World

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:21:18 GMT

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Clip Source: gawker.com

Tags: iphone, apple, map, technology