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• Insomnia downloads of the day

  
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  from Librivox: Flying saucers are real. Yeah. When I worked at Mescalero, they usually ignored such things, figuring they were experimental aircraft from nearby White Sands. But the reason I started to question the "abduction" type stories is because in the early UFO books, people reported being put under a ...
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• The irrelevance of opposing a commencement speaker

  
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  You know what would be funny? If a group of people aligned with corporation-funded military interventionists got upset about a speech made by someone aligned with a different group of corporation-funded military interventionists! Pretty funny, if you think about. You know, if you actually stopped to think about it. ...
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• Kid Attacks Teacher’s Teaching with Well-reasoned Rant

  
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  The young man in the video is one Jeff Bliss of Duncanville High School, Texas. Not exactly weird news – but it is on YouTube, it is presently viral and I am a teacher… so there is a tacit connection and besides, it caught my interest. The camera work sucks, but it shows a displeased Bliss putting together a ...
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• NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Says ‘We Are In The Midst Of A Once-In-A-Generation Fight’

  
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  During the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual celebration of gun violence (and rights), otherwise known as their national convention, executive vice president Wayne LaPierre made it clear that he believes the NRA and gun owners are in a war . “We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation fight for ...
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• Why equal pay is a bad thing

  
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  A financial expert explains it to me: what do you think? AN ECONOMIST FRIEND was tearing his hair out. He was trying to analyze a trend started by someone he scornfully described as “a billionaire who thinks we all live on one planet”. I broke the news to him gently. “We DO all live on one ...
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• A Message To Moms From Kid President

  
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  This kid nails it every time. I adore everything about him. I can’t help but smile each time I watch this ‘Message to Moms.’ Note to self: Need to dance more in the grocery store and sing in the middle of the driveway.
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• MTA IG report highlights deferred maintenance, inspection issues

  
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  The abandoned 9th Ave. platform, seen here 2002, poses a variety of structural concerns, according to a recent Inspector General report. Photo via NYC Subway . Over the years, we’ve heard a lot about the two intertwined MTA issues: deferred maintenance and sloppy inspection efforts. The city’s subway network ...
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• Churches fall from skies

  
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  Manna from heaven? MIND YOUR HEAD. Churches are falling out of the sky. They’re being built in factories in Russia, and then dismantled so they can be packed flat, IKEA-style, the UK Guardian reported. The boxes are then thrown out of aircraft in rural areas. Leaping out of the planes after the ...
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• South Carolina Democratic Chairman’s Insulting Comment About Governor Nikki Haley

  
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  This one is for those who might think I overlook insensitive or insulting remarks made by Democrats. Potentially racist comments are rare on the left, but to be sure, I don’t care what party you belong to. If you’re asshole, I’ll call it out. During a party event, South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman ...
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• Man Looses Life Savings At Carnival Game Trying To Win XBox Kinetic

  
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  Think gambling addiction happens only at the casino? Think again. A New Hampshire man has lost his life savings trying to win an XBox Kinetic playing Tubs of Fun at a local fair. “You’re expecting the kids to win a few things, let the kids have a good time,” Gribbohm told media. “It just didn’t turn out ...
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• God of Wealth joins protest

  
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    Everyone’s complaining about the economy ON THE DAY of writing this, I saw a picture on the news of someone dressed as the Chinese God of Wealth (far right in the picture above) protesting in the South China city of Guangzhou over unpaid wages. That’s silly. No one expects to PAY the God of ...
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• American Paranoia: ‘Shock And Awe’ Style ‘Active Shooter’ School Drills

  
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  Well at least they don’t involve the students. “View from HW 86 on the way to Halfway Oregon.” – photo by Paul Nelson Take a score range from which means that cash Why Are There Two Bath Tubs In The Cialis Commercial Why Are There Two Bath Tubs In The Cialis Commercial is an address you to ...
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• Paging Dr. Godhead

  
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  “…whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.” –Bertrand Russell “The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction … Continue reading →
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• Carrying luggage in your tum

  
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    With some items, you have no choice A WOMAN CARRYING a bag of durians was stopped at the boarding gate to an aircraft last week. Staff explained that the famously stinky fruit was strictly banned from planes. The pleading woman argued that she’d spent a fortune and the fruit was not available where ...
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• Why media fixate on the West

  
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    Three dead in Boston equals hundreds dead elsewhere MANY PEOPLE noticed that the international media was shockingly selective in its news coverage this month. This columnist knows the mindset of foreign correspondents intimately, so here’s an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW on the subject that just took place in a ...
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• Live hobbits found

  
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  Bizarre tiny people spotted in Indonesia LIVE HOBBITS HAVE BEEN spotted by jungle rangers in Indonesia. No, it’s not actor Danny Devito on holiday, I checked. The tiny people have been identified as living examples of homo floresiensis , a primitive human dubbed “the hobbit” by scientists. Rangers ...
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• NASA’s Rover Curiosity “accidentally” draws a giant penis on Mars

  
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  NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity “accidentally” drew a giant penis on the red planet’s surface earlier this month, and NASA’s technicians, probably bored with having to wait a whopping 20 minutes for any command to apply, took a picture of it before making it public. The image was immediately rendered viral ...
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• Snyde Park doesn’t like Packer’s decorative lions

  
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  A posh British millionaire, Edward Packer has been told to pack up his newly built entrance pillars to the castle he owns, and remove them by Bristol City officials with the following reason: “They are out of keeping” with the local area. Packer of course, being a millionaire and having dropped a probably pretty ...
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• Condom Snorting Trend Now A YouTube Video Trend

  
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  I remember when I was a teen. Back in the good ol’ days when we didn’t have the internet or YouTube and we tried a few silly things like snorting a piece of string to see if we could pull it out our mouth. It was a one shot deal, one bored afternoon in my friend Stacey’s bedroom. One girl did it, we giggled, it ...
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• Dubai Police Get Lambourghinis For Patrol Cars, More For Tourism Than Safety

  
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  Looks like pimpin’ a killer ride isn’t just for the homies anymore. Police in Dubai are driving around in $400,000 Lambourgini patrol cars which can reach 100kmh in under six seconds. This gives them excellent odds of catching their man every time a chase ensues, but according to the Major General of the fleet ...
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