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Just found this through Rosanne Cash on Twitter. It's her daughter Chelsea, sounding good. Check it out.

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Florida Citizens for Science � Blog Archive � Professor says he was dismissed for teaching evolution: "Dr. Coffman recalled a time when the Dean of Academics told all of the pharmacy students during a bible study meeting that it never rained on Earth before Noah’s flood. Instead, water came up out of the ground like sprinklers."

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Ranks of hungry children swell, worrying doctors - The Boston Globe

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George Packer: The Debt-Ceiling Fight Continues : The New Yorker

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Express Scripts to Buy Medco for $29.1 Billion - Bloomberg

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Closed Door GOP Meeting Stresses Economic “Meltdown” Default Would Likely Cause | Rise of the Center: "The warnings appeared to have softened the views of at least some House members who, until now, were inclined to dismiss statements by administration officials, business leaders and outside economists that the economic impact would be dire if the federal government were suddenly unable to pay

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How MBAs Ruined American Business | The Reformed Broker

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Daily Kos: Evil genius or cop out? The McConnell�capitulation: "That Dem source who is quaking at McConnell's 'genius' is part of that insider Beltway crowd that thinks that voters give a rat's ass about the deficit.So Republicans would get three votes to 'disapprove' of Obama's debt-ceiling raising actions. Oh noes! Is that like a sternly worded letter?Look, the Democratic stimulus package of

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Patent Bill Shows Wall Street Has Clout in Washington - NYTimes.com: "Other companies, including high-tech firms like VeriFone and Square, the mobile phone payment start-up, could be affected by the law, putting their patents in jeopardy. Cantor Fitzgerald, known for its computer-based bond brokerage, has a number of valuable patents that could similarly fall under the legislation."

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Gore Vidal � Gore Vidal on Ayn Rand in 1961: ‘She Has a Great Attraction for Simple People’: "The mindset of Rand's followers has channged over the decades. “She has a great attraction for simple people” Vidal said then, “who are puzzled by organized society, who object to paying taxes, who dislike the ‘welfare’ state, who feel guilt at the thought of the suffering of others but who would like to

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DEBT CEILING CAT

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Immovable Type

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1257, Now What? | Joe Fahmy The Next Big Move

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Cell Phone Range Outside Most Brain Tumor Locations

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Blue Mass Group | AP publishes brutal fact-check on Romney’s announcement speech: "FACT CHECK: Romney miscasts economy in GOP debutIn rhetorical excesses marking his entry in the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney said the economy worsened under President Barack Obama, when it actually improved, and criticized the president for issuing apologies to the world that were never made….ROMNEY: “When he

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Sarah Palin Tries on American History for Size: It Doesn’t Fit | JOE McGINNISS: "In Sarah’s version, Revere was“He who warned, uh, the…the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and um by makin’ sure that as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warnin’ shots and bells that uh we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free…and we were

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News Hounds: Glenn Beck, The Holy Land and the Better Business Bureau: "More importantly MMfA discovered: The Better Business Bureau website gives LDS Travel a rating of 'C-' on 'a scale from A to F.' Meridian Trips LLC is also listed on the Better Business Bureau website with the same Draper, Utah address, with 'Brian Mickelsen' listed as the owner. That page lists its rating as 'F' on 'a

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Auction Fees | Consigning Property To Auction Part IV: "Seller’s Commission is NegotiableThe seller’s fee is called a commission, and this can differ seller to seller, anywhere from 0% to 25% of the hammer price of an object. Why such a broad range in fees? Unlike buyers, sellers are not competing against each other, and simply put, great stuff drives the auction business. Bidders want to buy

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Report: Ohio disabled work for under minimum wage - Forbes.com: "Curtis Decker, director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Disability Rights Network, says 'it's immoral.'"

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Death Derivatives Emerge From Pension Risks of Living Too Long - Bloomberg: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), which bundled and sold billions of dollars of mortgage loans, now want to help investors bet on people’s deaths.Pension funds sitting on more than $23 trillion of assets are buying insurance against the risk their members live longer

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Crutcheze: Cool Crutches by Jackie to introduce Crutcheze at 2011 People in Motion Show

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Massachusetts' Towns Are Taking Citizens United Down

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Next Up, a Crackdown on Outside-Expert Firms - NYTimes.com

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Lizzie O'Leary: What I Read - Business - The Atlantic Wire: "The oil spill was actually the first time I came to understand the power of Twitter and started using it personally to get reporting tips. You'd see something pop up about oil coming ashore on Grand Terre or Grand Isle and you could get over there. Otherwise you'd be calling the sheriff's department, who might not have wanted to tell

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Will Stone’s poem in French translation on Belgian radio � blog.saltpublishing.com: "A recording of poet and translator reading the poem was made to be broadcast on the accompanying radio programme. This recording can be accessed at the link below:http://www.demandezleprogramme.be/Ecoutez-Will-Stone-lire-le-poeme?rtr=y"The poem is first read in English.

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A xylophone in a forest - Roger Ebert's JournalThis is amazing, and I never say that, make sure to check it out. 3 minutes long.

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"I Kissed the Spot Where I Saw Them Beat Him": Human Rights Hero Arrested in Bahrain | MyFDL

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Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled | Science and Technology | Learning English

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Apple’s Revenue May Grow 50% Through 2012 on Mobile Boom - Bloomberg

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Brookline resolution calls on politicians to hang up robo-calls - Brookline, Massachusetts - Brookline TABAntipasto di Ricotta

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Rick Scott: Florida's Drug Fraud Enabler? | Mother JonesIn 1997, Rick Scott was implicated in the biggest Medicare fraud case in US history, stepping down as CEO of Columbia/HCA after the hospital giant was fined $1.7 billion and found guilty of swindling the government. As Florida's new governor, Scott is now trying to kill off an anti-fraud database that would track the fraudulent distribution

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The Wisconsin Lie Exposed – Taxpayers Actually Contribute Nothing To Public Employee Pensions - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes

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Dave Duerson's suicide could be a turning point for NFL - Page 2 - Los Angeles Times

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S&P Credit Upgrade for Amazon.com (AMZN) - 24/7 Wall St.

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AuctionZip Auction News: THE ESTATE OF THE LATE FLOSSIE STALLWORTH OF QUITMAN, MISS., WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION ON SATURDAY, MARCH 5, BY STEVENS AUCTION COMPANY: "When Flossie Stallworth was born, William Howard Taft was the President and the average life expectancy of a woman was just over 50 years. Flossie beat that expectation by nearly double. She was a proud and determined woman, widely

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Economic Advisors Shun Chamber Derivatives “Study” and Firm that Did Study | U. S. Chamberwatch: "While we wait for the U.S. Chamber to answer questions regarding its involvement in the Chamber Gate scandal, the Chamber has also been getting disapproval from Nobel-winning economists for a derivatives study it funded with the Business Roundtable and other corporate interest groups."

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South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers | Mother Jones

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Minutemen Founder is Guilty of MurderArizona jury finds Shawna Forde guilty in the murders of a 9 year and her father. #Vigilante

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Conan 2.0 - Fortune Tech

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Egypt's Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review

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Ely News, Local Ely News Stories | Ely Events & Opinion From Ely Cambridgeshire | Fen farm land buy-up to create massive new wetland: "“We are focusing our efforts at two sites, the first near to Coveney and Witcham, the second close to Sutton.“We have been working with local landowners to secure sufficient land for conversion to grassland."

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Grossman moving money - CommonWealth Magazine

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A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt | Sarthanapalos: "“I am so impressed at how articulate Egyptians are.” Does this sound familiar? Imagine saying this about a Latino or African American? You don’t say it. So don’t say it about Egyptians. Gee, thank you oh great person who is of limited experience and human contact for recognizing that out of 80 million people some could be

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Coal Sector Has Much More Than Arch’s Earnings Signal (ACI, BTU, MEE, ICO, PCX, CNX, KOL) - 24/7 Wall St.

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Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries - NYTimes.com: "With its barely functional government and a fierce hostility to foreign armies since the hasty American withdrawal from Mogadishu in the early 1990s, Somalia is a country where Western militaries have long feared to tread. This has created an opportunity for private security companies like Saracen to fill the security vacuum

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Will You Tweet This? - Technology Review

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Authenticating a Frieseke Painting | Painting consignment and research

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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Mike Huckabee's Best Buddy Wants to Kill Gay People in Uganda | Gay Rights | Change.org

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New bidding study: 'Things are not all fine and dandy' - HME News: "As soon as CMS announced the winning bidders Nov. 3, Invacare began analyzing them. While the results are still preliminary, Bachenheimer said she's 'comfortable' saying that 40% of the winners fall into one or more of the following categories: they have credit limits of less than $10,000; they are on credit hold; they have no

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Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks - Science, News - The Independent: "The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the go-ahead for the controversial transplant of embryonic stem cells into the eyes of patients with Stargardt's macular degeneration, where the light-sensitive retina cells at the back of eye are destroyed.The announcement follows the first

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Gravity to Release Personalized Newspaper App Orbit | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsDToday Gravity is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.

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Watch Germany's WW2 expansion at the end of the 5 minute video.

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Tina Fey's Censored Palin Joke (VIDEO) | Mother Jones:Tina Fey rips Palin to shreds, PBS says the the show was running long. Weak excuse, why didn't they cut the bland stuff? "And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women—except, of course, those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape kit 'n' stuff. But for everybody else,

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Not a Distribution Day Joe Fahmy

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Glenn Beck's Anti-Semitic Attack on George Soros - The Daily Beast

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FTC may allow debt collectors to target deceased's family members | Credit.com: "'The plain language of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act does not allow collectors to contact friends, neighbors or relatives except to obtain contact information for debtors,' NCLC debt collection expert and attorney Robert Hobbs said. 'This proposed rule could open the door for collectors to seek money by

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HAMP Fails: Pushes Consumers Into Foreclosure: "“Many homeowners end up facing foreclosure solely on the basis of the arrears accumulated during a trial modification,” Julia Gordon, senior policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending told Congress, according to Bloomberg. “One incomplete payment or one accounting mistake can land you on an apparently unstoppable conveyor belt to eviction.

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The Rahmfather Makes an Offer Chicagoans Can’t Refuse -- Daily Intel

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Exclusive Look: Where The Workers Who Made Your iPhone Sleep At NightOne commenter said the accomodations reminded him of jail.

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Charles Gasparino: Wall Street Still Doesn't Love the GOP - WSJ.comThe reasons to expect this about-face are partly ideological: People like Larry Fink at BlackRock, Jamie Dimon at J.P. Morgan Chase, Brian Moynihan at Bank of America, and Lloyd Blankfein and Gary Cohn at Goldman Sachs are all social liberals who largely support the president's agenda on health care, taxes and the environment.

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The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #22 - The Daily Dish | By Andrew SullivanRead this for some amazing examples of internet detective work.

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A new book takes down Breast Cancer Awareness Month. - By Katherine Russell Rich - Slate Magazine

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India predicts 40% leap in demand for fossil fuels - Yahoo! News: "The country of more than 1.1 billion people already imports nearly 80 percent of its crude oil to fuel an economy that is expected to grow 8.5 percent this year and at least nine percent next year.Demand for hydrocarbons -- petroleum, coal, natural gas -- 'over the next 10 years will increase by over 40 percent,' Singh told an

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Breitbart’s Participation in ABC News Digital Town Hall Event Draws Fire - ABC News' Press Room: "Mr. Breitbart is not an ABC News analyst.He is not an ABC News consultant.He is not, in any way, affiliated with ABC News.He is not being paid by ABC News.He has not been asked to analyze the results of the election for ABC News."

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PEM | The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

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Angelo Mozilo: The Case In Favor Of Hanging - 24/7 Wall St.: "The Mozilo case probably will be settled. History is the best measure of future events. The SEC decided long ago that settlements are a quick and efficient route to push cases off of its desks. But, in Mozilo’s case, the infractions were so severe that the taxpayers who put money into bank bailouts and Countrywide shareholders and

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The Eleven Reasons People Can’t Sell Their Hom - 24/7 Wall St.: "24/7 Wall St. talked spoke with experts at real estate research firms, Zillow.com and RealtyTrac to find the best way to sell a home. We also interviewed management from the National Association of Realtors, a number of real estate brokers, banks managers and elected officials in affluent communities. What emerged from these

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Mozilo PaysRecord Penalty For Securities Fraud - Forbes.com: "Mozillo, who was charged along with Countrywide's COO and CFO, was also charged with insider trading for selling his Countrywide stock, worth $140 million, based on non-public information. The former CEO settled those charges too, agreeing to $45 million in disgorgement of ill-gotten gains. Mozillo was also permanently barred from

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Watch Out for ATM Skimming - WSJ.com: "The next time you pull up to an ATM, take a closer look at the machine. Does it look a little clunkier than usual?Look too at what's around you: Are there mirrors? Is there a brochure holder over your shoulder? Does it look like there might be a false panel or an extra light bar attached to the machine?"

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UPDATE 1-Kulicke & Soffa sees Q1 rev below Q4, shrs fall | Reuters * Sees Q4 rev at upper end of prior view of $250-$260 mln* Sees Q1 2011 rev "significantly below" Q4* Shrs down 9 pct after market

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Disabled Man to Tea Party: 'Reforming Social Security Would Cut My Lifeline':"'They obviously don't go out and talk to the people who do actually need those programs,' he told HuffPost. 'How could anyone could look a disabled person in the face and say, 'You should be working?' I was born with this disease, I didn't ask for it. I didn't smoke for 30 years. This is a genetic condition. It just

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Grains Over Gold. Yeah, I Said It. The Reformed Broker: "And now we're seeing the agricultural raw cost commodities like wool, hides, rubber, timber and cotton begin to break out to new ten year highs, see the below monthly chart going back to 2000:"

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Volcker Blasts Banksters, Financial System in Impromptu Speech at Chicago Fed | FDL News Desk: "Banking — Investment banks became “trading machines instead of investment banks [leading to] encroachment on the territory of commercial banks, and commercial banks encroached on the territory of others in a way that couldn’t easily be managed by the old supervisory system.”Financial system — “The

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Daily Kos: Ladies And Gentlemen Rand Paul Has left the Building - Video And More! Rand Paul "We've Had Enough"

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Chuck Jones: That's not all, folks! - Roger Ebert's JournalChuck Jones (September 21, 1912 - February 22, 2002) was one of the great figures of Hollywood's Golden Age, creating perfect films, all about six minutes long. They were called Looney Tones, or Merrie Melodies, or cartoons, but when the three on this page were placed in the National Movie Registry, they were also called masterpieces.

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State of the Art - Despite Tradeoffs, Apple’s New iPods Beguile Again - NYTimes.com: "The built-in mike and speaker make the Touch a Wi-Fi cellphone. Apps like Skype or Line2 let you make free or cheap phone calls whenever you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot. (The speaker’s on the bottom, so you can’t really hold it to your ear, but the speakerphone or Apple’s $30 earbuds work fine.) And using a free app

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20 rules to live by for cheapskates: "Save money by buying expensive paint. It may sound goofy, but as Tom Kraeutler, WalletPopper and host of the syndicated radio program, The Money Pit Home Improvement Show, insists, 'Always buy good quality paint, even if it costs a little more. Cheap paint doesn't last, and since most of the work is labor, your cost-per-year is a lot less if you buy better

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How to Create Fan-only Facebook Content | Social Media Examiner: "One of the most popular FBML tags is fb:visible-to-connection. A favorite of marketers, this FBML tag allows a Facebook page to show different content to fans and non-fans."

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Daily Kos: The New Republic's Bigot-in-Chief and the First Amendment

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Little Green Footballs - Todd Palin Pals Around with White Supremacist Blogger

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Ethan Russell: MUSIC WORDS AND PICTURES: Shall not Loveliness be loved forever?

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AirTran Fined $500,000 For Lousy Wheelchair Service - The Consumerist

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The Next Big Move with Joe Fahmy (08/29/10) � Live Finance Video Network | StockTwits TV

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Op-Ed Columnist - This Is Not a Recovery - NYTimes.com: "The important question is whether growth is fast enough to bring down sky-high unemployment. We need about 2.5 percent growth just to keep unemployment from rising, and much faster growth to bring it significantly down. Yet growth is currently running somewhere between 1 and 2 percent, with a good chance that it will slow even further in

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Building a Nation of Know-Nothings - NYTimes.com:"Take a look at Tuesday night’s box score in the baseball game between New York and Toronto. The Yankees won, 11-5. Now look at the weather summary, showing a high of 71 for New York. The score and temperature are not subject to debate.Yet a president’s birthday or whether he was even in the White House on the day TARP was passed are apparently

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Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes: "The company’s marketing materials say that its “primary purpose is to image vehicles and their contents,” and that “the system cannot be used to identify an individual, or the race, sex or age of the person.”"Look at the sample image in this article and you can tell right away the driver of the

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Grammy Award Winner Steve Earle Drops Diet Dr Pepper From His Contract Requirements to Support RWDSU Mott's Strikers | Earth Times News

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Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users | Media Maverick - CNET News: "'Flash Cookies' are not affected when users try to remove traditional cookies with their browser's privacy controls.'What's even sneakier,' Wired.com reporter Ryan Singel wrote then, is 'several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called '

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Obama throws support behind controversial Islamic center - CNN.com: "'That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,' Obama said at a White House Iftar dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan."

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Colorado Democrat Bennet escapes anti-incumbent mood | Reuters: "In the Republican race, former prosecutor Buck was endorsed by conservative Tea Party groups and won despite being caught on tape complaining about Tea Party 'dumb-asses' who question whether Obama was born in the United States."

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Pam's House Blend:: Top Ten West Point cadet resigns over DADT - unwilling to 'compromise her Integrity'

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Craig Aaron: Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse

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Racist comix roil Tea Party waters | theCLog

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Wyclef Jean steps toward Haitian presidential race | ReutersSay I remember, when we used to sit, in the government yard at Brooklyn, obobaserving all the....

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Starlite Lounge, Black-Owned Gay Bar In Brooklyn, To CloseKinda like the end of McSorley'sRight Bob?

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VIDEO: Sarah Palin as you’ve never seen her before | The Political Carnival

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Home Buyer Takes Consumerist Hive Mind Advice, Emerges Victorious - The Consumerist: "But lesson learned: when something seems too good to be true, it probably is. My short sale dream turned into an unexpected nightmare because I believed the Realtors when they told me everything was going OK. But they never gave me any proof, and when things fell apart, I wasn't in control and I couldn't get

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If You Build It, Nothing Bad Will Happen - Forbes.comPerhaps "the political class" isn't doing anything to stop the construction of an Islamic community center because the Constitution forbids it. Even worse, the advertisement I've mentioned engages in just the sort of religious bigotry that the First Amendment is meant to guard against.

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