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Today is National Prayer Day
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The first Thursday of May was proclaimed "National Prayer Day" back in 1952 -- the decade that saw "E Pluribus Unum" replaced with "In God We Trust" on American money, and "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance; largely, one presumes, to distanc...
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The rising star of the GOP?
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"Joe the Plumber calls gays 'queer' NEW YORK (AP) Samuel Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man hailed as "Joe the Plumber" by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign last year, said he believes gays are "queer" and said he won't allow them near his children. Nevertheless...
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"Not My Priority"
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QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. In a couple of weeks, you're going to be giving the commencement at Notre Dame. And, as you know, this has caused a lot of controversy among Catholics who are opposed to your position on abortion. As a candidate, you vowed that one of the very things you wanted to do wa...
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im shocked i tell ya shocked....lol
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Pink Gets Girly By CAITLIN MILLAT Updated 1:02 PM EDT, Sun, May 3, 2009 Getty Images Pink revealed this week that even though she's back with ex-husband Carey Hart, she's still got a thing for the ladies. Pink is coming out of the closet. Tickled Pink: Singer Reveals She Is Bisexual The pop diva said i...
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and now the bad news
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another young woman gunned down by a man. the details arent in yet but a young student working in the wesleyan bookstore was shot today by someone who apparently had no ties to the campus or to the victim. what will it take for women to be safe in america? Student Shot to Death at Wesleyan Bookstore By AND...
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of no particular importance
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just stopping in to gripe .... that after nine (9) ... yep, nine days of rain .. I can say with some degree of certainty that I am a solar powered creature. to top it off .. the weather forecast indicates one day in the next five that holds the possibility of sun ::::searching for th...
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and more breaking news. its a twofer day!
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Maine House Votes To Pass Gay Marriage Bill AUGUSTA, METhe Maine State House of Representatives voted today on a bill that would allow the state to create legal same-sex marriages. The bill, LD 1020 was passed by the House 89 votes to 58. The bill will next be returned to the Senate for final approval. R...
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cwap
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There goes my one male republican pro-choice senator I liked to bring up in conversations where the assertion is that democrats are the only pro-choice men. Sure, I know there are others, but he was a GOOD one, dangit! LOL. Arlen Specter Statement on Switching PartiesPosted:04/28/09Filed Under:T...
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RIP Unaplogetic, Strong, American Female Icon
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And American artist, performer and entertainer. 4/25/09 Bea Arthur. An unlikely icon of an all out no-balls to the walls trailblazing. An assimilation of womens issues, human rights issues, equality matters into the televisions and water cooler discussions of the 70's. And if her passing is reme...
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Be Kind To Animals Week
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This is be kind to animals week. Speak out against Factory Farms and, long distance hauling in cramped environments of Livestock. Demand that the link between cruelty and, what we sow.........Poultry(Avian Flu), Pig (Swine Flu) and Bovine diseases be broken. Eating Veal in the US means that you su...
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fired over myspace
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a cautionary tale in todays news. seems like more and more employers are keeping tabs on their employees after work activities by looking them up on social websites. im of the opinion that what people do after hours is their own business but there have been many instances where pix of questionable act...
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The "hate crimes" legislation
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So I've been sort of following the discussion in the US legislature to include sexual preference and identity in the hate crimes bill. Here's the kind of argument, awareness, and well, just "mentality" we're up against. (Hint: shades of the assault on the remembrance of holocaust) [vi...
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Supreme Court
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Just heard David Souter has announced he's retiring at the end of this term in June. Okay, Obama ... do the right thing the first time out of the shoot, and set the correct precedent for yourself.
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speaking of new appointments ...
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In Torture Memo Furor, Rizzo's Name Is At The Topby Mary Louise Kelly April 29, 2009 · The recent release of four Justice Department memos on torture has put a spotlight at the receiving end of those documents: They all went to John A. Rizzo, the CIA's top lawyer. In 2002, the CIA turned to Justice Depar...
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free speech in the cyber age
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Does the "campaign" ever end or have we entered into a time when these things all run together. how difficult to govern with these kinds of distractions under the best of circumstances but when there are so many problems i cant help but want people to just stfu realize that they have lost, d...
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manners and entitlement
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this is hell week for me at work. lots of stuff to finish up before the summer break and this year theres a bit of a twist. the summer program isnt going to happen because of deficits so most of this week ive been fielding calls from the parents of adult people wondering what they might do this summer as an al...
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Gods and Demons of Medicine
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extracted from an AP article today 2/27/09: President (anyone) wants to roll back a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right to refuse to take part in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened jo...
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foodie questions
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some questions from the serious eats website .. esp interesting b/c of regional differences. Its kinda fun to read what everyone else likes, grew up with, finds disgusting or can't live without .. or maybe I'm easily entertained. Either way ... I thought it might make for entertaining discussi...
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Current Pictures of No Significance
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It was a nice long weekend.
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INTERESTING ADS
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This one one Craigslist gave me a little pause ... 2 Dressers free- not haunted (64th street and Greenway)Reply to: sale-d2sqk-1069117460@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Date: 2009-03-10, 1:32PM MST To Dressers free one tall and one long. needs a little tlc. They are older and are n...
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Those Pranksters at the DOD and Their Shenanigans
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An airliner and supersonic fighter jet zoomed past the lower Manhattan skyline in a flash just as the work day was beginning Monday. Within minutes, startled financial workers streamed out of their offices, fearing a nightmarish replay of Sept. 11. For a half-hour, the Boeing 747 and F-16 jet circl...
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Like the Worst Audition Ever, But worse Cuz She's Beyonce-Live
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Don't usually putter around in hip-hop vids, but I was youtubing for Bea and came across this version (2nd attchmnt) and the blnder of the first attachment. Thought I'd share. http://j-m-williams.com/2009/04/22/beyonces-unedited-vocals/ Take a sec, when you can, to read the blurb about the pr...
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Mother Earth.......................Day
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Superfund Sites in the United States
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a good week for learning new things.
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tho some of the learning is a bit too late. first for anyone who is contemplating leaving an old job or taking on a new job in the coming year this advice. when they are explaining your benefits and throwing papers down in front of you to sign, dont. take them home and research them first. I had a meeting to...
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The Polarization of America
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I've been thinking about how much more polarized our nation seems to becoming, and it's an issue of concern for me. I'm not sure if it's economics, or the rise in bigotry (racism, homophobia)as manipulated through funding by a select few, but it does seem people are less willing to search for and f...
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the crooked tiara
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seems like miss cali stepped in it big time. with her answer to perez hilton. im of two minds on this. on the one hand it is her opinion and shes entitled to it no matter how vile it is but on the other hand if her opinion was that it was ok to bake kittens in her oven and she lost on account of that opinion would w...
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I*O*W*A
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgYaXE76P0 THE VIDEO^^^^^^^^^ The Lyrics: Iowa I've never had a way with women, but the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could, And Ive never found a way to say I love you, but if the chance came by, oh I, I would, But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother, W...
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That tears it ...
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I'm now, this April 21st, officially p*ssed. Today 101°F/67°F Mostly Sunny ---------------------- MOSTLY sunny??? Heads up -- brace yourselves for Nightowl's cranky season...
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Jasmine
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A real moving story, and something many humans should emulate. Jasmine In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused. In an act of kindnes...
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Happy Birthday!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgYaXE76P0 April 19 1967.
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