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The uh... Latest Alteration to the U.S. Climate Record...LOL

Let's pretend you're a screenwriter assigned to develop a character to run for Congress in California in 2014. You need a compelling story, so you make him an orphan at 13 – wait, even better his dad leaves the family two weeks before his mother died – and then social services splits up his...

Jim Prentice is taking his national profile and ties to both red Tories and fiscal hawks back to Alberta and will enter the province’s Progressive Conservative leadership race, setting the stage for a fierce 2016 provincial election campaign with the right-of-centre Wildrose party. A...

REVOLVER SPEED RELOAD RECORD! 16 rounds in 4 seconds on slow mo! S&W 929 Jerry Miculek - YouTube

The first speech I gave outside Newfoundland was about Joey Smallwood. I gave it 50 years ago, and my reward was a broadcast address by Smallwood to all of Newfoundland telling me not to come home. Since then, I’ve given a lot of talks — perhaps more than a thousand. Since my teens, I have...

Inside the US Nuclear Silos Where Floppy Disk Are Still High-Tech It's not very often you get to see inside a US Air Force nuclear silo—but CBS recently got to take a peek for us. In this video, Lesley Stahl finds that they're not quite as high-tech as you might like to think. This segment...

Michael Coren ‏@michaelcoren Well done! All of us - gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, atheist, etc - should follow suit. Barbarism unacceptable...

Tanker Safety by the Numbers Infographic - Transport Canada

"Spare us the bottled piety." by Victor Davis Hanson Cliven Bundy spouted off racist generalizations the other day as reported by a New York Times journalist, stereotyping blacks in negative fashion, with unhinged referencing to slavery — and after that in an ad hoc talk generalizing about...

There has been no global warming for 50.4% of the satellite temperature record Milestone Reached : No Global Warming For More Than Half Of The Satellite Record | Real Science

More and more people are being put on the pills but some experts are now warning they do more harm than good Twenty years ago, Henry was living a fulfilled life. A happily married father from the Home Counties, his sales career was going well, he had a wide social circle and played football...

Daily Beast; If there's no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming "an apartheid state," Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday. But wait! There's more! Jen Psaki...

California’s inhospitable tax policies may have struck again, this time costing Los Angeles one of its largest employers. According to multiple sources close to the situation, Toyota will be relocating its US headquarters from the LA suburb of Torrance to Plano, Texas. The company has yet to...

to become ‘college and career ready.’ Really. via Fark: School writes letter to upset parents explaining their students' Kindergarten play was cancelled so they can prepare students for college. Letter shows the administrators should consider retaking English 101

Watts Up With That ‏@wattsupwiththat A Geological Perspective on Lovejoy’s 99% Solution http://wp.me/p7y4l-s9V A Geological Perspective on Lovejoy’s 99% Solution | Watts Up With That?

While DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Force Reporter James Risen Into Jail The US State Department announced the launch of its third annual "Free the Press" campaign today, which will purportedly highlight "journalists or media outlets that are censored, attacked, threatened, or otherwise...

just kidding...it's just an article from a mad prog at salon and how the aussies are like Stephen Harper and other smart men and women and just ruining everything. Everything! :lol: 11 ways Tony Abbott is ruining Australia and threatening the whole world Tony...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Visitors to the National Mall this week might have noticed an unusual addition to the monuments and Smithsonian museums: a collection of tipis. They were brought there by groups of Native Americans and Canadian First Nations, from as far away as British Columbia, and set...

fewer fedoras, less pipe-smoking and a lot more drugs I think. As we approach the 60th anniversary of the four-minute mile, Mary Beard reflects on what has changed in the sport of running. In a few days' time it will be the 60th anniversary of the first four-minute mile. On 6 May...