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Giant Spider Terrifies Liverpool

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:36:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The spider was sedated and is now down by the River Mersey being examoned by scientists. The worry is that it laid eggs before it was caught.

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Tags: la machine

Top 10 Most Depressing Rock Songs

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:45:04 GMT

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10. New Order Leave Me Alone

9. Suicide Frankie Teardrop

8. Johnny Cash Hurt

7. The Beatles Eleanor Rigby

6. Metallica Fade to Black

5. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

4. Jeff Buckley Hallelujah

3. Elliott Smith King’s Crossing

2. Radiohead How To Disappear Completely

1. The Smiths How Soon is Now?

Tags: rock, songs

Universcale: The Worlds We Measure Using Our Infinite Yardstick

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:56:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pardon if this is posted already but the Flash presentation at the source is just awesome.

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We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.

Today, using the electron microscope and astronomical telescope, we can see the objects which we have not been aware of its existence before. Are you able to fathom, or even roughly grasp, these sizes?

See our Universcale and experience the sizes of various objects.

Tags: universe, flash

From Iraq

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:36:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: photos

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Palin Troof

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:54:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Get your propellers going team!

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Palin faked that she was pregnant with Trig to cover up that her daughter Bristrol was actually pregnant. When the baby was born and they found out he was black, so she bleached his skin to further conceal the truth. When nosy reporters got close to her secret, she killed a hobo, put the corpse in a gorilla suit, and froze it to claim she had bigfoot and cause a big media distraction. The hobo had hobo friends, though, and they started asking questions, so Palin had to murder them too and bury them in the middle of nowhere. But then there was a proposal to build a bridge to nowhere so she had to oppose that to keep people away from her secret. Then she still wasn't able to conceal the truth, so she forced Bristol to get pregnant again and changed the medical records so that it looked like Bristol was pregnant when Trig was born so Trig couldn't be hers. Finally, she joined a radical Alaskan separatist group to prepare to secede Alaska from America

Tags: republicans, palin, truth, democrats, nutroots, netroots

Who Vetted Obama? AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | Sept. 2, 2008

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:43:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We are living witnesses to an incredible media double standard, whereby a Republican vice-presidential candidate’s personal life is being torn apart, while the Democratic presidential candidate continues to get a free ride. Obama has a 30-year history of associating with unsavory characters, beginning with communist Frank Marshall Davis and continuing with Jeremiah Wright and communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, which should disqualify him from getting a security clearance in the government that he wants to run.

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The Washington Post reported that John McCain’s vetting process for picking Governor Sarah Palin included an FBI background check. Other reports dispute this. But when did the FBI investigate Obama? Who vetted him?

But the media would rather talk about Republicans and sex.

Tags: gov. sarah palin, john mccain, vetting process, frank marshall davis, jeremiah wright, bill ayers bernadine dohrn, obama

10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:24:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Assumptions can sure be deceptive!

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10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You

1. "You may think I'm rich, but I don't."

But the club isn't so exclusive anymore. Some 10 million households have a net worth above $1 million

2. "I shop at Wal-Mart..."

They may not buy the 99-cent paper towels, but millionaires know what it is to be frugal.

3. "...but I didn't get rich by skimping on lattes."

the millionaires' club? You could buy stocks or real estate, play the slots in Vegas — or take the most common path: running your own business

4. "I have a concierge for everything."

many top eateries set aside tables for celebrities and A-list clientele

5. "You don't get rich by being nice."

Rockefeller threatened rivals with bankruptcy if they didn't sell out to his company, Standard Oil

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6. "Taxes are for little people."

Most millionaires do pay taxes.

7. "I was a B student."

8. "Like my Ferrari? It's a rental."

9. "Turns out money can buy happiness."

10. "You worry about the Joneses — I worry about keeping up with the Trumps."

Tags: millionaire, spending, rich, fashion, ferrari, bugatti, luxury, villas, caviar

Top 9 comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Olympics

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:00:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Howl-arious!

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1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."

2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."

4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries,and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."

5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."

6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew."

8. Soccer commentator: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

Tags: nbc, commentators, humor, olympics, sports, comedy

Laters . . .

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:19:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fellow clippers Debby hasn't been on a plane since she was 12 years old. My Mom won a contract for a modeling agency for our family for Cold Power Detergent. Our family were flown to NYC and featured in major magazine ads & articles so long ago. . . we were local celebrities . . . Wish me luck babies, I luv you all at CM . . .

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From Homeless to Hero: US Olympian Lolo Jones

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:37:56 GMT

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Hurdler Lolo Jones clears obstacles on and off the track

BEIJING -- The coach knew there was something wrong. He could tell sometimes by the way Lori "Lolo" Jones dressed. Or by how she no longer had the bike she rode to practice. Or by how she didn't want to be dropped off right in front of her house when he gave her a ride home.

In a sense, Jones was homeless the first 18 years of her life in Des Moines, bouncing from apartment to apartment, school to school, because her single mother had five kids and no money for the rent. They lived a while in the basement of a church, an arrangement Jones made an effort to hide.

Her family moved so often, Jones said, that she went to a different school every year until she reached high school. Her father was in and out of jail. Her sister moved to live with a grandmother in Texas.

"I wanted to get out of poverty," she said.

At 26, Lolo Jones has done that and so much more.

Tags: olympics, poverty, homelessness, sports

Funny photos (will cheer u up)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:40:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: aww ain't that cute

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The Brilliance of Thomas Jefferson

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:53:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He'd tear King George The Deciderer a new one, just as he did 200+ years ago.

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"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty
or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...
[we will] have no time to think,
no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]...
till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

Source:

Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

Tags: damn, straight!

5 Diseases that are Thriving Thanks to Global Warming

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:41:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: God bless us all...

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5 Diseases that are Thriving Thanks to Global Warming

Do you think tropical diseases only occur in developing countries? Think again.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says diseases are spreading to temperate regions thanks to global warming.

Malaria

spread by the Anopheles mosquito infected with the Plasmodium parasite

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that warmer temperatures will put 65% of the world’s population at risk of infection—an increase of 20%.

Dengue Fever

spread by the Aedes mosquito infected with the Flavivirus virus

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture predict dengue’s encroachment upon temperate regions due to small increases in temperature.

Encephalitis

arthropod-borne disease present in many forms,

Bubonic Plague

spread by rodents and their fleas infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis

reports a 60% rise in plague

Cholera

Cholera is a waterborne disease present in drinking water and food

What you can do

Tags: tropical diseases, global warming, who, malaria, dengue fever, encephalitis, plague, cholera, epa, us

Raft Made Of Junk Crosses Pacific

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:51:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The tiny plastic particles were even in the stomachs of the fish they caught.

"The solution, we think, is to end the age of disposable plastic like plastic bags, water bottles. ... Single-use plastics have no use in modern society," Eriksen said.

The two JUNK sailors said they hope their voyage will inspire everyone to consider that when we throw plastic away, it most likely ends up in the ocean.

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Video: Junk Raft Sails From Calif. To Hawaii

After three months at sea, what has been dubbed the JUNK raft made it to Hawaii, KITV in Honolulu reported.

The JUNK raft is made from 15,000 plastic bottles and the fuselage of an old Cessna 310. The two eco-mariners wanted to call attention to the environmental problem that plastic poses

As they sailed, they found tiny plastic debris across the ocean.

"So, there's a small particulate of plastic. Little, small, pea-sized fragments was in every sample. So, we have in 50 years turned our ocean into a plastic soup," Eriksen said.

Natural Fashion

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:56:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The art of the people of the Omo Valley

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"This unique art (shot by Hans Silvester) of the African Surma and Mursi tribes of the Omo Valley. These nomadic people have no architecture or crafts with which to express their innate artistic sense. Instead, they use their bodies as canvases and adorning themselves with materials obtained from their surroundings such as flowers, leaves, grasses, berries and branches which seems endlessly inventive, and above all, fun"

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