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Global warming linked to worse flu seasons
Climate change will add earlier and more severe flu seasons, U.S. researchers say.
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I have an awful head and chest cold, at least I think it is. I hope it is not the flu, again.
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”President Obama delivered his inaugural address, which set a more liberal tone for his second term, especially the part where he showered the crowd with birth control pills.” –Seth Meyers
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The World is a Safer Place Without Saddam
- Israeli warplane ‘struck target on Syria-Lebanon border’ amid weapons fears
- Can Iraq’s geeks save the country?
- One dead after Alabama school bus shooting, child seized
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“I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it’s pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what’s more, you would’ve hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t.” –Bill Maher
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Click here for the help you deserve
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Gabby Giffords Fighting the Fight
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who sustained a gunshot to the head in a January 2011 Tucson town hall shooting, spoke at the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence Wednesday
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If we have Rick Perry and Jan Brewer on an immigration panel, there will be transvaginal probes at border crossings. – Lizz Winstead Tweet
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Republican Shenanigans
- Republican Party fears losing war of words on immigration reform
- Fight Over Hagel Looms With Republican Questions on Iraq
- Mark Levin: Obama Not Destroying GOP, Republican Establishment Is
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Kerry was Not Swiftboated
The Senate on Tuesday easily confirmed one of its own—Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts—to be the next secretary of state, ending a largely noncontroversial process and kicking off what is expected to be a hotly contested special election for the seat Kerry has held since 1985.
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“I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for resurrecting the Obama presidency. I know they’re saying, ‘Why are you thanking me? I was so against it, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging off my Founding Fathers costume, with a gun on my hip and a picture of Obama dressed as Hitler, screaming about his birth certificate.’ And America saw that and said, ‘I think I’ll go with the calm black man.’” –Bill Maher
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Rock the Voter News
- Obama pushes Congress on immigration, split emerges
- Pennsylvania favors background checks for gun purchases: poll
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Dangerous Weather
A wide area of the central and southeast United States faces the unusual threat of tornadoes in January over the next 12 to 18 hours as an approaching cold front clashes with unusually warm air, a meteorologist said on Tuesday.
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Biz/Tech News
- With or without Exxon, Iraq Kurds strive for energy autonomy
- Boeing Profit Beats; Sees No Impact From 787 Grounding
- US economy shrinks a surprise 0.1% in fourth quarter
- Retailers may add surcharge in credit card transactions
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Email: ittamarindo@hotmail.com
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The Sperminator
The New York Post reports that a hedge fund manager “who began buying unclaimed storage lockers as a hobby has uncovered a treasure trove of artifacts from the estate of late Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione… The possessions, still being cataloged, even include a pic of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger engaged in what appears to be a sex act
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The last time Fox News’ ratings were so low — 12 years ago — most of their viewers were only in their 70s. – LOLGOP
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Cheap Christian
A man claiming to be a pastor apparently tried to stiff a waiter on a tip, explaining that his work under God absolved him of having to leave one.
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I am not above begging
Offline donation: Lisa Casey – POBox 88 – Ashford, AL 36312
Email me @ lisa@allhatnocattle.net
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PIN UP CATS
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Odd News
- Garrett McNamara surfs ‘highest ever’ wave off Portugal
- Would-be carjackers foiled by mysteries of the stick shift
- High school offers class on go kart racing
- Nudists lose bid to block San Francisco ban on baring all
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Time to Deflate Photo
Death-defying self-portraits of falling
It’s an understatement to say photographer Kerry Skarbakka puts himself in perilous situations. He leaps from great heights–often a cliff or ledge–and then clicks the shutter. He photographs himself falling in a series titled The Struggle to Right Oneself. Using a clever combination of daredevil imagination, martial arts, and some rigging gear, Skarbakka captures that proverbial ‘point of no return,’ the space in between an action or an event, of scary mid-air suspension. The concept behind the work originated as a way for Skarbakka to deal with the loss of his mother to brain cancer and then to the events of Sept 11. “I was dealing with issues of control and the sense of loss of control…and how I could realize this project through the act of giving up control and falling, flying, dreaming and levitating.”
Skarbakka will be exhibiting his solo work at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles in May 2013.
Peace.
