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Thursday, June 12
ABC: McCain 'fans' blue-balled by the Democrats
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 11:16 PM EDT
A stunning 20-something woman hooks up with a seemingly innocent guy at a rowdy singles bar. Hot foreplay starts on the cab ride home and progresses into the bedroom. That is until, while searching for a condom in the bedside table, she sees a photo signed "Thanks for your support!" from Republican candidate John McCain. Horrified, she bolts, dropping her bag and spilling a campaign button on the sidewalk: "I only sleep with Democrats." More>>>
Crackdown urged on speculation in commodities markets
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 10:44 PM EDT
This escalating rhetoric against speculators is starting to worry people with years of knowledge about how commodity markets work. Because without speculators, they note, these markets simply do not work at all. Speculators, people willing to risk their capital in search of high profits, are so central to healthy commodity markets, they say, that the broad-brush restrictions now being considered could inadvertently damage a market that is already under pressure from rising global demand for food and fuel. More>>>
Things Change: Advice for McCain
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 09:50 PM EDT
It's going to be difficult, if not impossible, for Republicans to get traction on the energy issue without help at the top of the ticket. Here, the problem is that John McCain long ago signed on to the anthropogenic global warming fallacy. As a result, his energy policies can scarcely be distinguished from those of the Democrats. This was in evidence this morning, when McCain appeared on NBC's Today Show. McCain did fine as long as the topic was foreign policy, but when the conversation turned to the economy, he was pathetic... More>>>
Forbes: The most Powerful Celebrities
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 07:04 PM EDT
Here it is… the 2008 world’s most powerful celebrities list put together by none other than Forbes‘. This impressive list ... more »
25 Worst Movie Remakes of All Time
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 06:47 PM EDT
Are you skeptical when hearing about Hollywood's newest remake of a classic movie? You have good reason. Sure, sometimes it works (see 'The Italian Job'), but too often movie remakes can spell disaster (ahem, 'Poseidon'). We count down the 25 worst offenders of all time. More>>>
BUSH'S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 05:24 PM EDT
In a conversation recently, I mentioned as an aside what a great president George Bush has been and my friend was surprised. I was surprised that he was surprised. I generally don't write columns about the manifestly obvious, but, yes, the man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. Produce one person who believed, on Sept. 12, 2001, that there would not be another attack for seven years, and I'll consider downgrading Bush from "Great" to "Really Good." More>>>
"I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port..." (Rough Language)
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 04:16 PM EDT
More Democrats are now shying away from Obama (not a repeat)
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:13 PM EDT
Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., works in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Vietnam veteran Marshall said he admires both contenders in the 2008 presidential contest, Barack Obama and John McCain, but feels no obligation to state a preference. More>>>
Three Cool clips of the F-22 Raptor
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:24 PM EDT
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin recently showed off America's latest fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. In this video, ... more »
Retuning Bacteria: Gene-silencing techniques for bacteria could mean more-efficient biofuel production
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:05 PM EDT
Researchers at Duke University are hoping to develop methods to reversibly turn off harmful or unwanted genes in bacteria. If they succeed, gene silencing could be used to treat persistent infections by turning off antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria and in environmental and industrial applications, including water filtration. The technique could also make it possible to engineer bacteria to more efficiently make biofuels and other industrial products. More>>>
Clinton Supporters to Obama: We Democrats Are Not Coming Home
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 11:40 AM EDT
Democratic Latinos, White Working Class voters, and women, will not come home in NOvember. Women will NOt vote for race-baiting, gay-bashing, women-hating Barack Obama in NOvember: Barack Obama at last has won the endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman who came closer to the Democratic presidential nomination than any other. Now he has to win over her millions of female supporters. Women have been sent to “the back of the bus” again, says Mary Jane Coughlin, 46, a Long Island copywriter who says she will write in Clinton’s name in November rather than vote for Obama. “We work twice as hard to get half as far.” Four years ago, women made up more than half the electorate. Democrat John Kerry edged out President Bush among women, 51%-48%, according to surveys of voters as they left polling places. Looks like Barry isn't going to have a unified Democratic Party this summer. More>>>
Liv Tyler- She likes Bruises and Ripped Clothing
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 11:30 AM EDT
"Her pants were very thin, but I love to put my actors in the real action, the real deal," Leterrier explained. "She [Liv] was getting torn; she was bruised from day one to the end. She liked it; she was like 'bring on the bruising.'" More>>>
The End of Oil?
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 11:22 AM EDT
Where mainstream forecasts showed output rising steadily each year in a great upward curve that kept up with global demand, Husseini's calculations showed output leveling off, starting as early as 2004. Just as alarming, this production plateau would last 15 years at best, after which the output of conventional oil would begin "a gradual but irreversible decline." More>>>
Child-abuse claims vs. parents' rights
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Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 11:15 AM EDT
The US Supreme Court is being asked to determine whether procedures used in Illinois to investigate allegations of child abuse or neglect violate the fundamental rights of parents. The case arises at a legal crossroads between the government's interest in moving quickly to safeguard children from abuse or neglect and the right of parents to raise and maintain a family without undue government interference. More>>>
What's in your spouse's wallet?
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 09:31 AM EDT
If Silda Spitzer had only made it her business to look at her husband's bank statements, the story might have ended so differently. Maybe seeing the mysterious multi-thousand-dollar wire transfers would have tipped her off that something was awry, and she could have dealt with the situation privately. Then, perhaps, her husband Eliot might still be governor of New York. More>>>
Your Studio and You, Part One and Two (some rough language)
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 09:21 AM EDT
"The short film Trey Parker and Matt Stone made for Universal Studio's takeover of Seagrams (wine coolers). Has many guest appearances, like Demi Moore, Sylvester Stallone, and Stephen Spielberg. This is a hard-to-find video. Even Trey says he doesn't have it!"
Countering Democrats on Drilling
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:55 AM EDT
The Democrats have a standardized talking point against any domestic drilling (in ANWR, the Midwest oil shales and off-shore), settling on the comeback: ''It won't help us today.'' Energy-savvy Republicans too often respond ''If Clinton hadn't vetoed ANWR, that oil field would have been producing three years ago.''....If the voters see environmentalists, tree-huggers, and their Democratic political minions as causing $4 or $5 dollar a gallon gasoline, along with the rise in consumer prices across the board because of the increase of the cost of oil used as an ingredient in many products, they will blame the Democrats. More>>>
Texas judge under guard after polygamist ruling
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:43 AM EDT
Texas police have been standing guard outside the home of the Texas judge who ordered the removal of all the FLDS children from the YFZ Ranch. The heightened security was ordered after authorities from Utah and Arizona warned them to be on the lookout for FLDS "enforcers," the Deseret News has learned. More>>>
Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S.
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:35 AM EDT
Steyn, the author of the Maclean's article, said the court proceeding illustrated some important distinctions. "The problem with so-called hate speech laws is that they're not about facts," he said in a telephone interview. "They're about feelings." "What we're learning here is really the bedrock difference between the United States and the countries that are in a broad sense its legal cousins," Steyn added. "Western governments are becoming increasingly comfortable with the regulation of opinion. The First Amendment really does distinguish the U.S., not just from Canada but from the rest of the Western world." More>>> |
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