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So, there are seven days left until the first caucus in Iowa state and all of the Candidates are there trying to drum up support. It is the first stop on the long road to win the nomination for the Republican candidate to take on the Democrats...
A key chairman in the Trump probe. As if this sitch wasn't crazy enough!
The world just lost one of its finest. :( Long may the discworld live in the dreams of its readers.
The Largest offshore windfarm has just opened off the coast of Kent. It's still being built, but the 100 turbines there will start generating electricity, with the expectation that there will be 341 turbines in total.Apparently, the 100 turbines...
No updates unfortunately, but if I get any I will post them here. Welcome to any refugees from the Dope in the meantime.
This is the dude's last hurrah. He's 68 next month, which would make him a nearly 70-year-old first term president. So this is the guy's last shot. But, does he have a shot? I think he's a selfish prick for running, frankly. He can't...
They seem to be the most likely nominee. So which one would do more harm down ticket?
Did some Googling, Puerto Rico would get 5 House seats, therefore 7 EV What about Guam and USVI?
Simple just got simpler. I do hope this isn't a hoax but this is a great idea, a carton that perfectly boils an egg for you without water in a cardboard sleeve. If this ever came to market, I would probably go for it. I love boiled eggs,...
(Hello again) It seems to me we have a choice to make we can have: 1) crippling sanctions on Iran that will cause them to drive forward with their bomb -or- 2) a deal that lift the sanctions but precludes an Iranian bomb. Iran is a nasty...
For anyone looking outside their window tonight, there is an extra special lunar event going on. A supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse which hasn't occurred for 30 years and won't occur for several more. With any luck, as in we actually have...
I've been sat here watching the news reports coming in all day and wondering what is going to happen next? It's a very sad day and my thoughts go out to those affected. I guess I thought it just needed saying.
Hospitals Weigh Bans on Videos of Birth Short version: some hospitals have been moving to ban video and pictures during childbirth, largely out of concern that the images will be used in lawsuits but also because of privacy concerns. On the...
Trump fired Comey! This is getting nuts!!
I mean seriously, it was apparently 4 miles of course, and it looks like it's no farther than an easy swim from shore. WTF happened? I hate to speculate unfairly, but I wonder if whoever was in charge of navigating last night was drunk or...
I've been reading all kinds of outrage on the internet over this story. A brief summation: Guy lives in a county where they have no fire service. A nearby municipality offers fire protection to individuals who live outside of their jurisdiction,...
SC Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead today.
So it's Romney/Ryan v. Obama/Biden. My money's on the latter, but it'll definitely be closer than four years ago.
For those who missed it, up to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings fell from the sky just before midnight on New Year's Eve in a one-mile area over Beebe, Arkansas. Arkansas game officials probe mystery of falling birds Unfortunately, it...
Muhammed Ali gone at 74.
Chicago's bracing for what is may be the 2nd worst storm ever to hit the Great Lakes, due to come around rush hour tomorrow morning. Yikes.
This reptile thought it had got lucky when a baby elephant wandered down to the watering hole for a drink and it got the drop on the young calf. Fortunately, the rest of the group heard it's cries for help and came thundering down. It's not...
At a dig in the grounds of a Leicester car park, it is likely they have found the remains of Richard III, once King of England. A set of bones have been discovered in the remains of a church and sent away for further DNA testing. His resting...
In these difficult economic times, we're all looking to get a little extra money coming in. Those of us who are lucky enough to have a job still want to be making the most of it. We want to be sure our bosses know that we are good, valuable...
Well, its come time again that after 5 years we have to go and vote in the next parliament and decide which direction we would like the country to go in. What makes this election interesting is just how close the polls have it. It doesn't look...
A clever team from Britain has come up with a novel way of preventing Global Warming by mimicing volcanoes. The idea is to launch a giant balloon in to the upper atmosphere that can release millions of tiny chemical particles which can then float...
This is silly. Real non-primary votes will not be cast for 15 months. How can anyone elect someone who is wiling to spend two years running for office? All the being said, what do you think at this point? ------GOP---- I can't vote for Bush....
Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today, comparing the negative image Wal-Mart has (as an employer) to the positive image Target has, despite the fact that Wal-Mart has BETTER employee policies than Target. The article cites the fact...
They're heading into quarantine. As if this year can get ANY weirder!
Too many women are coming forward at this point, Bill Cosby is very likely a dirty rapist. God damn that's disheartening.
Gordie Howe gone at 88. Since they come in 3s, who's next?
Why is 'food security' sparking unrest? "The most urgent issue confronting humanity in the next 50 years is not climate change or the financial crisis, it is whether we can achieve and sustain such a harvest," said Julian Cribb, scientist and...
Oh, Gawker. Up to your usual standards of journalistic integrity, I see. We drew up the census in such a way that "Hispanic" people were almost forced to join the dark side—or should I say The White Side? High five, white devils! All of your...
I'm sure the advertising agency caught on the meme and though it would be great idea for an ad campaign: "So good you would wet yourself with excitement" and so it came to pass. I'm not rich enough to buy clothes from there, but somehow I...
The Olympics 2012 logo has been described as many things, but now there is a new interpretation. Iran has declared that the logo can be used to spell out the word "Zion" and so is part of a Pro-Israeli western conspiracy. If the logo is not...
Marriage, vows, royalty, yadda yadda yadda... WTF IS UP WITH THESE HATS And what is wrong with everyone not gouging out their eyes over that?
A story from Britain's most reputable news journal: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354515/Teacher-sacked-posting-picture-holding-glass-wine-mug-beer-Facebook.html Obviously nothing on the internet is ever private and one should exercise...
Gone at 92, thus proving only the good die young.Chick Publications, publisher of the infamous Chick Tracts, announced that the man who gave them their name, died on Sunday evening, aged 92.In celebration of his passing, I present a parody comic...
This has happened just down the road from my usual office. I'm not there today, but if I had been I would probably have been getting in at the same time as the crash occurred. It's a really built up area, so for only two people confirmed dead is...
This SCOTUS term showed that he is already looking at his legacy. To me, he wants to be Warren, not Taney.
and it's a scandal for quite a few reasons. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the head of the IMF and has spent the last few years running around the globe trying to prevent the banking structure from imploding. He was also due to run for the French...
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/china-soften-one-child-policy-slogans-not-law-200726036.html Please make special note of the "slogans" that are now being replaced with softer language. Charming.
Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization California's Prop. 19 would decriminalize small amounts of pot for personal use, but Mexico's President Felipe Calderon claims that this would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels....
Nice job America!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022205740.html This is how we know the "mainstream media" isn't really all that left. How? Because the media is (can't use are here, sorry) covering this at all. ...
Well, the time is finally here, tomorrow Scotland gets to choose its future. Does it stay with the Union, as it has been for the last 300 years or so and head towards something akin to Home Rule or does it take the step of independence splitting the...
Has anyone seen polling with Webb or Chaffee? Just for the sake of completeness?
Today the Yiddish papers are abuzz that the Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard will be released in November. He will be required to stay in the US for five years, after that everyone presumes he will "return" to Israel. I have long been opposed to...
This is everywhere at the moment, but there aren't any particularly good articles on it yet (little surprise) so I'll just toss this CNN link here for now. From what I understand they verified it was Bin Laden via DNA from his sister who died in the...
I'm happy to see this is being addressed in a New York Times editorial, as this is a wall I've beaten my head into many times. Frankly, no, junk food is not cheaper. The alternative to soda is water, and the alternative to junk food is not...
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