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• Man Gets “Bionic Bottom”; America Gets the 1st Teddy Bear

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 429
  Did Steve Austin have more than just bionic limbs? Bionic Limb Technology Is Here And Now We Have the "Bionic Bottom" Do you remember Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man ?   He was a test pilot that was maimed in a wreck and the government spent $6 million to give him nuclear powered ...
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• Proof that Obama is no Franklin D. Roosevelt!

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 433
  This excerpt, while taken out of context story-wise, makes it unchallenginly clear that Obama is no FDR (no matter how much he keeps telling everyone he is). Furthermore, the acts of terror being discussed were on our own soil and within our own borders...FDR would not allow a civilian trial under that circumstance ...
  15 hours ago

• Dakota Sunday Jazz Brunch Goes Bottomless at The Roosevelt

  
  e*star LA — Authority: 512
  Photo credit to Classicbeauty92 on Flickr Move over, BoHo. Dakota Chop House at The Roosevelt is stepping up their daytime Sunday Hollywood brunch game starting tomorrow with a new menu and optional bottomless Bloody Mary or bubbly menu. To grease the deal even more, they’re including the following: One ...
  15 hours ago

• In Congress, Ignorance is Strength

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  by Edward Cline, 11/14/09I open this commentary with the introduction to my previous commentary, “The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand.” The disparity in subject is not so irrelevant as one might presume, but I won’t dwell on that matter. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the ...
  23 hours ago

• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 5

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  “I was just the paint for the palettes of Ford and Hawks.” – John Wayne – John Wayne was still young in 1944, only thirty-eight years old. And yet the major elements of his inimitable style were hardening into place. Perhaps no other actor in history has been so cognizant of using his body to express grand ...
  23 hours ago

• NYT Flashback 1994: No, It Wasnt a Bow-Bow (Clinton admonished for bow to Japanese Emperor)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  "IF I see another king, I think I shall bite him," Teddy Roosevelt once growled. Offered that opportunity with the Japanese equivalent last week, Bill Clinton turned out to have had quite something else in mind. It wasnt a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed ...
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• Do you have ‘paraskavedekatriaphobia’ (just like Henry Ford, Napoleon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt)?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 604
  Henry Ford, the father of the modern automobile industry, ‘refused to do business on Friday the 13th.’ Ford shared the same fear and caution with other stalwarts as Napoleon and President Franklin Roosevelt. FDR was such a day 13th phobic that he altered his ‘own travel plans on any day of the week that landed ...
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• THOT 4 2 DAY — 11.14.09

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 136
  “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States Share and Enjoy:
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• 400 Feared Dead in Cherry, Ill., Mine Disaster

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  An explosion and fire trapped 400 men yesterday at a coal mine near Cherry, Ill., about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, and mine officials fear that all may be dead.
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• Viewpoint: Where do you live (in Phoenix)?

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 432
  [Source: Seth Anderson, Downtown Phoenix Partnership blog] – The automobile is so ubiquitous in Phoenix that it has even crept into the way we speak.  With rare exception, we do not talk about where we live in terms of neighborhoods or districts, but in terms of intersections.  You hear, “I live at 7th Ave and ...
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• Whos Afraid of Friday the 13th?

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 785
  If you’re afraid of Friday the 13th (the date, not the movie), you’re in good company. There’s a certain US president who shared your paraskevidekatriaphobia : It’s also the number that prompted FDR to alter his own travel plans on any day of the week that landed on the 13th. "FDR would not depart on a ...
  2 days ago

• Flurry of activity set for Roosevelt Action Association meeting, Nov. 18

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 432
  [Source: Catrina Knoebl, President, Roosevelt Action Association ] — Autumn seems to have officially arrived, and with the new season comes a flurry of neighborhood activity.  Please read on and join us for our monthly Neighborhood meeting next Wednesday, November 18. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TREE ...
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• The Insecure Critic | A Commercial For Anti-Commercialism with a French Press

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 500
  What Would Jesus Buy? Lambasting Walmart is a pastime in which I tend to indulge quite frequently. Given the love that DPJers have for sustainable living, staying local and human rights, I would imagine that most of the people reading this article have probably thrown a barb or two Walmart’s way as well. But, it ...
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• Friday the 13th Superstitions | Triskaidekaphobia

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 598
  Today is Friday the 13th.  Do you have a fear of Friday the 13th? If so, you could be suffering from: Triskaidekaphobia Fear of the number 13 Paraskevidekatriaphobia Fear of Friday the 13th (commonly misspelled as paraskavedekatriaphobia ) Perhaps you could even be suffering from: ...
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• Our Morning Roundup: The “Freedom Is Dead, Friday the 13th” Edition

  
  City Desk — Authority: 697
  Mornin, yall! Welcome to ex-Freedom Friday! As Mike Riggs , your favorite freedom-lover, reported last week , he is no longer doing City Desks Morning Roundup on Fridays. And that means only one thing: Freedom is dead. Actually, it means other things, too: You will not read in todays issue about Chuck Lane , ...
  2 days ago

• Phoenix streets turning green

  
  Rail Life — Authority: 420
  As the very successful Greenbuild International Conference and Expo wraps up at the Phoenix Convention Center , residents are excited to be able to partake in our own Phoenix Green Streets Festival . The Green Streets Festival is a FREE community event happening tonight from 6PM to 10PM celebrating green ...
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• FDR saved us, can Obama?

  
  SMOKINCHOICES (and other musings) — Authority: 122
  (Prelude to the 2nd “BILL OF RIGHTS” ) Letting off a little steam We as a nation are  reeling from busted bubbles,  loss of dreams, loved ones, homes, jobs and yes, hope!  Too many of us have nowhere to turn.  One advertised job brings hundreds if not thousands out to compete for it.   And yet we ...
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• FDR did it, can BHO?

  
  SMOKINCHOICES (and other musings) — Authority: 122
  Letting off a little steam We as a nation are  reeling from busted bubbles,  loss of dreams, loved ones, homes, jobs and yes, hope!  Too many of us have nowhere to turn.  One advertised job brings hundreds if not thousands out to compete for it.   And yet we continue to read of the major injustices in our ...
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• Unemployment, Presidential Approval, And The New Republic

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 466
  Are presidential approval numbers tied inexorably to the state of the economy, as measured by the unemployment rate? That is the question The New Republic tries to answer in a recent article , which comes complete with graphs purporting to provide an unequivocal answer. Unfortunately, while they do present their ...
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• 3 held in shooting that led to cop chase on W. Side

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
    The overturned van after it was pursued by Chicago police. (Photo for the Tribune by Mike Anzaldi) Three people were arrested this afternoon after their van crashed while eluding Chicago police officers, who were pursuing them in connection with a shooting that left a man wounded on the West Side ...
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