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    Need web volunteer/campaign help.

    Hey everyone: I'm working on the election campaign of a first time candidate (Liberal) in our provincial election and I need, really need, a web/technology volunteer for the campaign office. I'm pushing for short videos on his website and Facebook page (honestly, no Facebook page = major...
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    A Vegetarian Cooking A Turkey

    Hey folks: I'm a veg-head and the only one in my social group, including my girlfriend. I love to cook. I was taking care of a sick friend over Christmas and missed the whole season, and now I want to do a big turkey dinner (I mean BIG - and for at least 12 people). A friend is going to get...
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    Why Women MUST be Beaten - Islam Says So.

    Folks, this one really caught my breath. How does one begin to answer such - well I'm at a loss to even name this insanity. I'm not out to get any particular religion - they all seem a little nutty to me. This, however, is a bit shocking...
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    A Long (but good) Article About Obama's Moment

    From Rolling Stone Magazine Obama's Moment Written off by the experts at the start of the campaign, Barack Obama is now surging in Iowa - proof that some things in politics are still not rigged Matt Taibbi Posted Dec 13, 2007 1:14 PM All love stories are beautiful at the...
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    The first paragraph is awesome!

    Local & State News Originally Posted on 1/2/2008 5:53:14 PM Last Updated on 1/2/2008 6:07:09 PM New details on euthanized sperm whale Fort De Soto Park, Florida -- New information has been released regarding the sperm...
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    Faith-Killing children (Washington Post Column)

    This is from the Washington Post: Abusing Children in the Name of God By Shawn F. Peters A hemophilic boy in Pennsylvania bleeds to death over a period of...
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    Can athiests be parents? - Time Magazine

    Wow. Just wow. Can Atheists Be Parents? Monday, Dec. 07, 1970 John Burke, an atheist, and his wife, a pantheist, had left the line blank. As a result, the bureau denied the Burkes' application. After the couple began court action, however, the bureau...
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    N.Y. Times End of Year Editorial - Bush et. al. Fail.

    If only the Times had maintained its neutrality and independence this editorial might have the effect it ought: Editorial Looking at America Published: December 31, 2007 There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of...
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    Yet another "Meat Is Bad" story.

    This is from the Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. I know, I know - everything out of the U.K. is copyrighted by Blackleaf, but I thought I'd take the chance. Anyway, here's reason number 10,382 to not eat meat: Eating beef ' is less green than driving' Last Updated: 2:59am BST 19/07/2007...
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    Winnie Mandela barred from Canada

    I remember Winnie - kinda like a thug Yoko Ono, spoiling everything she touched - doing the "soccer jump" with her cadre of bodyguards/supporters. Damn right we should keep her out of Canada - she asked for a kidnapping (this is from my memory - admittedly faulty) and it resulted in a death...
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    Bradbury/Farenheit 451 re-interpereted

    Now I'm gonna have to go re-read the darned book! Is it possible for an author to misunderstand their own work? Ray Bradbury, after accepting a Pulitzer Prize, has decided to set the world straight about his most literary work...
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    No Kidding We're All Getting Fat and Sick

    This is sick - no I don't think there ought to be a law - but this is criminal: That morning cereal’s sweeter than you think By JON UNGOED-THOMAS and MOHAMMED KHAN The Sunday Times Food companies have doubled the amount of sugar they add to some of their most popular products...
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    Drug reporting is usually lazy or lying. . .

    press box Stupidest Drug Story of the Week Is Reuters drinking bong water? By Jack Shafer Posted Friday, April 27, 2007, at 6:46 PM ET Why don't the hacks who cover the illicit-drug beat just turn their keyboards over to the drug-abuse industrial complex and let them write the stories? This...
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    As If We Needed More Proof. . .

    That religion spawns intolerance and bigotry, hatred and closed-mindedness: Five lesbian 'wives' flee Sharia A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic...
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    God's Holy Wrath

    Mind you, the church will fight the insurance company when the insurers try to get out of paying, saying it was an "act of god." Lightning Suspected In Church Building Fire 1 hour, 13 minutes ago A lightning strike was...
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    Another Wrongly Convicted Finally Freed

    To everyone that says sex offenders are "somehow different" and are never wrongly convicted - stick this in your pipe. Only the most heartless can read this and not feel a chill about how many more might never be found and released. 200th DNA Exoneration - Man Spends 25 Years Behind Bars...
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    Atheism and the VT Massacre

    I found this on the website DailyKos. I used to be a fan of D'Sousa, but over the years I found his writings more and more hateful and repellent. Here is D'Sousa getting spanked for some very common and hateful ideas about Atheists: Dinesh D'Souza, Atheism, Virginia Tech [Second Update]...