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• How to Choose a Cigar?

  
  Ravi's Gadgets — Authority: 120
  For the young Cigar Entrepreneur, choosing the right smoke can be the most difficult of matters. One has to know what one is looking for, as well as looking at. There is such a wide variety of high-profile cigars on the market today, that one just about has to have some instruction prior to that [...]
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• Children in the Hands of an Angry God

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 121
  “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”–Exodus 22:18 (for a long and interesting story about how “witch” here should be “poisoner,” check here ). MSNBC reported in October : EKET, Nigeria – The 9-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. ...
  2 days ago

• 123 Lump Sums Dubious Claims that " Easy as 123 You Get Your Cash TODAY

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 132
  In the opinion of this author, Structured Asset Funding is one of the worst false advertisers of companies that purchase structured settlement payment rights from accident victims.  The company ought to be slammed by the Federal Trade Commission along with other false advertisers in the industry. In the past I have ...
  3 days ago

• Global Warming, Winter Weather Advisory

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 128
  … WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST MONDAY… THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW… WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST MONDAY. SNOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THREE INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED WITH LOCALLY AS MUCH AS 5 INCHES OF SNOW. THE SNOW WILL TAPER ...
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• Begs the Question

  
  A Philosopher's Blog — Authority: 129
  Being a philosophy professor , I find it vaguely annoying when people write or say things like “ Referendum begs the question of our future in EU ” or “Rolex ad on Newsweek site begs the question how big is too big.” When people use “begs the question” in this manner, they actually mean “asks the ...
  5 days ago

• Look! In the Senate! Its...A "Progressive Pony" Fallacy!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 640
  I have a question for you, O Corrente Community. Have you, perchance, received an email like this recently? MadamaB, As you probably know, the White House and Democratic Senate leaders caved to Joe Lieberman and took both the public health insurance option and Medicare expansion out of the health care bill. That ...
  1 week ago

• Answering Paul’s Questions

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 421
  A person named Paul commented on HDC on GMNightmare’s deconversion story and I thought they were interesting questions. Both Johnny and GMNightmare already gave long answers, also worth noting, instead of letting it get lost in comments. And I added my 2 cents on at the bottom. Here is Paul’s comment : ...
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• Cuban Official: Obama Is an Arrogant Liar

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Cubas foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist islands increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government. Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obamas behavior in Copenhagen, ...
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• Top Cuban official says Obama lied in Copenhagen

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  HAVANA – Cubas foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist islands increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government. Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obamas behavior in ...
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• The DH and Broken Windows Fallacy

  
  The Sports Economist — Authority: 472
  F rederic Bastiats broken windows fallacy : if a window maker breaks windows to increase business, he certainly benefits (if he doesnt get busted, of course). But society is made worse off. Resources used to fix broken windows support window repair jobs, but would have been used in alternative ways and would have ...
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• How to Consistently Hit Long Golf Drives

  
  Golf Tips — Authority: 123
  The tee is where each and every golf hole starts. If you’re having trouble driving the ball, then you’re opening every single hole at a disadvantage. You might salvage a bunch of pars with a great chip, but you could well be going for birdies if your drive had been a bit longer. For nearly [...]
  2 weeks ago

• They’re just nihilists

  
  The NonSequitur — Authority: 117
  
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• In “Defense” of Tiger Woods, AND of his critics

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  From an evolutionary perspective, Tigers sexual meanderings are not a sign of pathology. Instead, they are "natural." By saying this, I realize I am in danger of playing into the stereotypes of the P.C. police, who are inclined to strategically misunderstand the naturalistic fallacy, and use it as a weapon against ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heartless 123 Lump Sum Strings Along Homeless NYC Woman

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 132
  I just got off the phone with a woman who turned to us after suffering the indignity of a string of unfulfilled promises and poor communication from Structured Asset Funding, a/k/a 123 Lump Sum. The woman, whose name I know but for now will refer to as "The NYC Woman", is the recipient of structured settlement ...
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• METS BECOME BAY CITY ROLLERS

  
  Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog — Authority: 429
  No one kills Mets management as much as I do, in fact I love calling out the clueless Jeffey Skill Sets and that shyster David Howard, but I’m kind of puzzled with the reaction of some Mets fans to the offers the club has made to Jason Bay and Bengi Molina. Most of the criticism goes [...]
  2 weeks ago

• METS BECOME BAY CITY ROLLERS

  
  Pro Baseball Central | Part of the Sportsday Radio Network — Authority: 129
    No one kills Mets management as much as I do, in fact I love calling out the clueless Jeffey Skill Sets and that shyster David Howard, but I’m kind of puzzled with the reaction of some Mets fans to the offers the club has made to Jason Bay and Bengi Molina.   Most of the criticism goes to the fact the Mets ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA Admits Climate Change on Mars Not Man Made

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 128
  Leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss how much money rich nations can give to poor nations in the name of global warming and climate change.  Most of us didn’t need the hacked emails releasing the fact that the data was faulty to tell us that man doesn’t have much to do with climate change.  “Leaked ...
  3 weeks ago

• President Obama just made the specious claim that "we have made college more affordable"

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 135
  Government subsidies inflate costs, thereby making things less affordable. Think about the things that are subsidized (e.g. healthcare, ethanol) and things that are not. What stuff is more inflationary?
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• Makes no sense, but people think it anyway

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 125
  From the San Jose Mercury News: A Morgan Hill paramedic has been arrested and charged in connection with theft of prescription pain pills from the home of a patient he helped transport to the hospital. Egads! We should ban prescription drugs because some people abuse them! Too bad for the people who genuinely ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Best Television For Your Home Theater System

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 440
  You have an extensive selection of preferences when it comes to opting the best television for your home theater system but the most critical variables are size and picture resolution. It is usual to opt a television 27 inches or larger as the chief position of your system. A usual fallacy is the larger the screen, ...
  3 weeks ago

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