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The All-White Elephant in the Room

Politics – Bored by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for "John Hagee Roman Church Hitler," and be recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive.

View Story Discuss (40) (nytimes.com) 62 days ago by Beau7890

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:42pm

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Cheney: History will show Bush created a 'more hopeful world'

Politics – "When the history is written, it will be said this is a safer country and more hopeful world because George Bush was president," Cheney said, according to Oklahoma's Tulsa World.

View Story Discuss (12) (rawstory.com) 62 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:42pm

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1 U.S. Soldier Dead In Baghdad Bomb Attack

News – U.S. soldiers killed 14 suspected Shiite militants and an American soldier died in a roadside bomb attack in the latest clashes in Baghdad, the military said Saturday.

View Story Discuss (0) (cbsnews.com) 62 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:42pm

Unprecedented collapse of salmon population hits West Coast
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Unprecedented collapse of salmon population hits West Coast

Food – "The unprecedented collapse of the salmon population will hit fishermen, their families, and fishing communities hard, and that is why we have moved quickly to declare a fishery disaster."

View Story Discuss (14) (sciencedaily.com) 62 days ago by DiffeeOnline

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:42pm

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Bush seeks $200m in funding for PA

Politics – As international donors met in London to provide aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, US President George W. Bush included $200 million in funding for the PA as part of a supplemental budget request sent to Congress Friday.

View Story Discuss (3) (jpost.com) 62 days ago by tehranchik

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:42pm

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On Japan's secretive death row, inmate becomes cause celebre

News – Iwao Hakamada, Japan's longest serving death row inmate, has insisted for 40 years that he is innocent of the four murders he was convicted of. The evidence was suspect, he says, and his confession was coerced. Now the judge who wrote the ex-boxer's death sentence agrees.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 62 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

Spiders found to court females with ultraviolet rays
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Spiders found to court females with ultraviolet rays

Science – Ultraviolet rays have been found to be essential for a spider courting females, a published report said Friday.

View Story Discuss (1) (monstersandcritics.com) 62 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

The Bloody Beet
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The Bloody Beet

Health & Fitness – Beetroot contains the bioactive agent betaine, which supports healthy liver function.

View Story Discuss (2) (elements4health.com) 61 days ago by SenorCoconut

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

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China orders heightened efforts to stop deadly virus

Health & Fitness – China's Health Ministry ordered heightened efforts to stem the spread of infectious diseases Saturday following an outbreak of a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and is spreading.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 62 days ago by Shannonyork

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Major damage after cyclone hammers Myanmar
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Major damage after cyclone hammers Myanmar

News – A large tropical cyclone has killed at least four people and toppled buildings and trees in Yangon, military-ruled Myanmar's main city, state media reported Sunday.

View Story Discuss (0) (msnbc.msn.com) 62 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

Giant catfish caught in Russian river (pics)
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Giant catfish caught in Russian river (pics)

Pets – The photos made in Saratov region prove that Russian rivers are still rich with fish. This giant catfish caught at the end of April is good evidence.

View Story Discuss (19) (madrussia.com) 61 days ago by alllo

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

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Johnson wins London mayoral race [Londoners go conservative]

Politics – Boris Johnson has won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall. The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%.

View Story Discuss (7) (news.bbc.co.uk) 62 days ago by libsRfunny

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

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Study: Black children 3 times more likely to drown

Health & Fitness – Nearly 60% of African-American children can't swim, almost twice the figure for white children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey which USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more blacks into the sport.

View Story Discuss (0) (usatoday.com) 62 days ago by Shannonyork

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

SpamTurns 30! Pfizer Applauds.
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SpamTurns 30! Pfizer Applauds.

Gadgets & Tech – Thirty years ago on May 3rd, 1978, the first unsolicited commercial email advertising a product that people really didn't want went out over the precursor to the Internet, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency network, or Arpanet.

View Story Discuss (0) (technologyexpert.blogspot.com) 62 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 38 votes / 1 sink

An Afternoon with L-3 Communications/Titan

Politics – A funny thing happened on the way to exercising my presumed right, as a shareholder, to attend yesterday's annual shareholder meeting of private military contractor L-3 Communications, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan's financial district.

View Story Discuss (0) (corpwatch.org) 62 days ago by tehranchik

Voted for on May 04, 2008 02:41pm