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    GOP to Boost Economy by Axing Office of Congressional Ethics

    The ethics of House members are frequently used as a punchline. Or a headline. This week, it was Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, on trial. In coming weeks, it will be Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Their alleged wrongdoings were among many investigated and uncovered by the Office of Congressional...
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    Prostitution laws in Ontario could be lifted Saturday

    Lawyers for the federal government said that Canada is on the brink of launching an "unprecedented" social experiment if three key prostitution laws are lifted this Saturday. The government is appearing in the Ontario Court of Justice on Monday to seek a delay in the end of those laws. If...
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    Skatch criticizing objectivity in science and then using anecdotal evidence and isolated events to plead his case, lol
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    Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee

    Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if...
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    We're already done with the Illuminati theory, Skatch. Unless you have some sort of scientific foundation of an agenda, we usually try to keep the conspiracy rhetoric out of the discussion. It's good to question authority on principle, but banging the empty drum doesn't really help. Also, no...
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    Interesting. So contrail forcing is now somewhere between 8–20 mW/m2 , while anthropogenic forcing is still somewhere around 1,500 mW/m2. Everybody get down!
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    German ‘Fleshmob’ Protests Airport Scanners

    YouTube - German 'Fleshmob' strips off to protest airport body scans German ‘Fleshmob’ Protests Airport Scanners The underwear bomber’s Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports that would strip-search...
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    GOP Congressman Seriously Confused About His Stance On Obamacare

    Freshman GOPer: Hey, Where's My Health Care? Maryland physician Andy Harris (R) just soundly defeated Frank Kratovil, one of the most endangered Democrats on Capitol Hill going into the November election. And he did it in large part by railing against 'Obamacare' and pledging to repeal Health...
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    Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

    As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has...
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    Google Gives ALL Staff A 10% Raise

    Moving to plug the defection of staff to competitors, Google Inc. is giving a 10% raise to all of its 23,000 employees, according to people familiar with the matter. The raise, which will be given to executives and staff across the globe, is effective in January. Mr. Schmidt wrote that...
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    Nearly 59 million lack health insurance: CDC

    (Reuters) - Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday. They said 4 million more Americans went without insurance in the first part of...
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    God will save us from climate change: U.S. Representative

    U.S. Representative John Shimkus, possible future chairman of the Congressional committee that deals with energy and its attendant environmental concerns, believes that climate change should not concern us since God has already promised not to destroy the Earth...
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    U.S. Distribution of Wealth Now Worse Than Banana Republics

    You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home — and in the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, it may get worse. The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost...
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    NEXT Big Lie—biodiversity

    Sounds like global domination to me.
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    A warning for the people of Earth

    Normally I would fetch a link, but because you usually pull the douche card out for that sort of thing - I'll let you look it up.
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    A warning for the people of Earth

    Someone get petros in here, I smell chemtrails.
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    A warning for the people of Earth

    YJ is a joke poster. Don't fall for his fake trolls.
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    NEXT Big Lie—biodiversity

    I'm voting damngrumpy in 2012.