The $1275 Bang & Olufsen Cell Phone

The phone is called Serene. It’s a radical departure from any cellphone you’ve ever used before, mostly in a good way. One of the bad ways, alas, is the price. Promise you won’t stop reading when you find out? It’s $1,275.....

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy, will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables".

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Olbermann Takes Down Limbaugh's Attack on Michael J. Fox

By now everyone has heard Limbaugh's little commentary about Michael J. Fox's appearance in the ad for Claire McCaskill. Well tonight Keith Olbermann supplied us with the visual to accompany Rush's latest show of idiocy.

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Video: FOX's John Gibson warns if Dems win, insurgents win

The increase in violence in Iraq is an effort by insurgents to defeat Republicans and put Democrats in control of Congress, warns John Gibson of FOX News. Gibson says, "If Democrats who hate Bush and who hate the war in Iraq win, the insurgents win. I'm sorry but it's true. America will set a date to get out and Jihad will have carried the day."

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YouTube - Stay the Course?

YouTube - Stay the Course?: "The Democratic National Committee's web ad shows that two weeks before Election Day, the Bush Administration and Republicans in Congress have attempted to change their tune on their failed 'Stay the Course' strategy"

Washington Post: Rush Limbaugh accuses Michael J. Fox of faking Parkinson's

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today attacked actor Michael J. Fox for faking Parkinson's Disease in an attempt to garner support for stem cell research. "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners today. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act."

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The Strategy in Iraq Has Never Been "Stay the Course"... Right?

On Sunday President Bush told George Stephanopoulos that the strategy in Iraq has "never been "stay the course."" Well, I guess he was just joking the past few years..

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No-Fly lists even dumber than suspected

This excellent investigative piece from CBS News will blow your mind. The TSA's lists contain people who are dead. They contain incredibly common names like "Robert Johnson." Even worse, because the gargantuan lists have to be widely circulated, the CIA won't allow the names of ACTUAL terrorist suspects to be added to them.

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Olbermann: The Beginning of the End of America

Video of Olbermann's special comment on the "Military Commissions Act" and the end of Habeas Corpus. Aired Wednesday, October 18. "And if you think this, hyperbole or hysteria, ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was President, or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was President, or the Japanese when Franklin Roosevelt was President."



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Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Rep. Peter King (R-NY) Says That Being In Baghdad Is ‘Like Being In Manhattan’

Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Rep. Peter King (R-NY) Says That Being In Baghdad Is ‘Like Being In Manhattan’:
"On Feb. 9, 2006, House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) spoke at the Merrick Jewish Center in Merrick, NY. King told his constituents that “the situation [in Iraq] is more stable than you think.” He cited “bumper to bumper traffic,” shopping centers, restaurants, video stores, vendors, and hotels to conclude that being in Baghdad is “like being in Manhattan.” ThinkProgress has obtained exclusive video from a person who was at the event.

Interesting facts

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A roach will live nine days without its head before it starves to
death.
(Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond? )

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm.......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

The Internet In 1993 - BREAK.com

The Internet In 1993 - BREAK.com: "The Internet In 1993

10/14/2006 - Here is a classic news story from 1993 about the Internet. Pretty cool to see what people were using the net for back in the early days. I thought it was just for ordering pizza from the couch while you hacked into police headquarters to make all the traffic lights green in order to stop the da vinci virus. Hack the planet!"

You Haven't Seen Magic Done Like ThisBlog: You Haven't Seen Magic Done Like This

You Haven't Seen Magic Done Like ThisBlog: You Haven't Seen Magic Done Like This

You Haven't Seen Magic Done Like This

This is a video of some guys including Mikey Day (from Wild N Out on MTV) acting like David Blaine. Trust me Hilarious.

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Censored Stories: The 10 stories the nation's mainstream news media ignored

The juiciest one of all: Halliburton sold key nuclear-reactor components to an Iranian company as late as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Funny, I don't remember seeing this on Fox News...

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YouTube - F**k rupert murdoch!!! K.O.'d

YouTube - F**k rupert murdoch!!! K.O.'d: "Keith lays down the law on rupert murdoch and the ny post, which may have impeded on an fbi investigation. Does rupert murdoch, who owns over a hundred media outlets, influence the lies, I mean the news those outlets put forth?"

Olbermann: "Why does habeas corpus hate America"

Crooks and Liars: Keith did a great report tonight on what the recently passed Military Commissions Act of 2006 means to America and our Constitution.

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Top 10: Life's Greatest Inventions

Multicellularity, sex, photosynthesis. Here are life's 10 greatest inventions.

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Condoms get high-tech: make love to the sound of cellphone music

A Ukrainian scientist has invented a condom that plays music during sex. A miniature loudspeaker and motion sensor implanted in the condom's upper cuff provides a range of musical tones during sex. Music volume depends on intensity of love-making and tone varies based on the sexual position.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Handsets get taken to the grave

BBC NEWS | Technology | Handsets get taken to the grave: "Handsets get taken to the grave
Mobile phone
'Hello? Could someone let me out?'
More people than ever are asking to be buried or cremated with their mobile phones when they die, say researchers."

Gasoline Price Manipulation Before the Elections by Peter Stojan

Gasoline Price Manipulation Before the Elections by Peter Stojan: "Is Goldman Sachs manipulating the gasoline futures market to push prices down before the November elections?
It sure looks that way.
An article appeared this Saturday in the New York Times pointing to some unusual trading by Goldman Sachs in the gasoline futures market. As Raymond Keller, who spotted the article, points out, 'They always hide the good stuff in the low circulation Saturday edition.'"

Top 10 ways Best Buy/Geek Squad fix computers. Your dog can do better

Every day, people flock to Geek Squad in Best Buy looking for help with their computer problems. Here are the top 10 fixes that they are offered by their under payed, under trained staff.

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JEWISH WEDDING

A modern Orthodox Jewish couple, preparing for a religious wedding
meets with their rabbi for counseling. The rabbi asks if they have
any last questions before they leave.

The man asks, "Rabbi, we realize it's tradition for men to dance
with men, and women to dance with women at the reception. But, we'd
like your permission to dance together, like the rest of the world."

"Absolutely not," says the rabbi. "It's immodest. Men and women
always dance separately."

"So after the ceremony I can't even dance with my own wife?"

"No," answered the rabbi. "It's forbidden."

"Well, okay," says the man, "What about sex? Can we finally have
sex?"

"Of course!," replies the rabbi. "Sex is a mitzvah - a good thing
within marriage, to have children!"

"What about different positions?" asks the man.

"No problem," says the rab bi. "It's a mitzvah!"

"Woman on top?" the man asks.

"Sure," says the rabbi. "Go for it! It's a mitzvah!"

"Doggy style?"

"Sure! Another mitzvah!"

"On the kitchen table?"

"Yes, yes! A mitzvah!"

"Can we do it on rubber sheets with a bottle of hot oil, a couple
of vibrators, a leather harness, a bucket of honey and a porno
video?"

"You may indeed. It's all a mitzvah!"

"Can we do it standing up?"

"No." says the rabbi."

"Why not?" asks the man.

"Could lead to dancing."
Thanks Barry!

Floridian: In-your-face interface

Floridian: In-your-face interface: " Wrap your head around this: As technology gets smaller, faster, more futuristic, imagine yourself connected to a device that doesn't just lamely hang on your ear but invades your skull. Not yet. Soon.

By MICHAEL KRUSE
Published October 5, 2006"

HELPFUL CONVERSION TABLE

1. Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping and hitting the floor= 1 bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = 1 Knotfurlong

7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurts

10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone

14. 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

17. 52 cards = 1 decacards

18. The force of 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

22. 10 rations = 1 decoration

23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration

24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms

26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Cornell University Hospital = 1 IV League

Crooks and Liars » Olbermann’s Special Comment: Are YOURS the actions of a true American?

Crooks and Liars » Olbermann’s Special Comment: Are YOURS the actions of a true American?
"Keith pulled no punches and launched another smack down on Bush and FOX News…"

Ga. mother seeks Harry Potter ban - Yahoo! News

Ga. mother seeks Harry Potter ban - Yahoo! News: "ATLANTA - A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction is now being asked to ban
Harry Potter books from its schools."

Adrians Armed Forces

http://www.firstgiving.com/adrianrivera

Please visit this page.
"Adrian is an active 21 month old boy who enjoys dancing, eating, swimming and playing with all his toys but his greatest joy in life is playing with his five year old brother, Little Dante. Adrian's days are filled with discovery, fun, kisses and love, but he also works very hard everyday. Adrian is learning to speak english, sign language, and a little spanish . He is working on his balance so he can stand and walk on his own .He has begun spoon feeding himself (this is extremly messy). Big Dante and I are very proud. We enjoy watching our son grow and develop. He is a wonderful boy."

New Survey Shows Americans Know Very Little About Science

When the results of its latest survey came back, officials at the American Museum of Natural History were hardly astonished. Fewer than half of those surveyed answered correctly when asked how much of the planet is covered in water (about three-fourths). Hardly anyone knew how much of that water is drinkable (about 1 percent).

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Supreme Court Term Begins Today: Analysts Expect Conservative Reversals

The first Monday in October is the traditional opening day of a new Supreme Court term. The court's upcoming cases touch on the issues of abortion, affirmative action, air pollution, and immigration. Legal analysts expect Samuel Alito and John Roberts will bring about a string of conservative reversals of earlier opinions.

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Keith Olbermann speaks the truth about the Bush Administration

"The Free Pass has been withdrawn, Mr. Bush. You did not act to prevent 9/11, we do not know what you've done to prevent another 9/11, you have failed us and leveraged that failure to justify a purposeless war in Iraq, which will all too soon claim more American lives then did 9/11, you have failed us anew in Afghanistan..."

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"The Constitution is just a piece of paper" - G.W. Bush

The same man who admits he doesn't know what "outrages upon human dignity" actually means. The same man who's war in Iraq, an intelligence estimate found, has made the threat of terrorism worse. Watch this interview with Keith Olbermann.

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Is it unacceptable to think in the United States?

Some have called Keith Olberman the new Edward R. Murrow of our times. Here, Keith asks the pertinent question "Is it EVER unacceptable to think in this country?" And continues on to compare the actions of the Bush presidency to the words of a previous holder of that title: Thomas Jefferson.

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Olberman: Bush and the State of Denial in Iraq

Keith reports on Bob Woodwards new book 'State of Denial: Bush at War Part III.' It sounds like it's going to contain alot of interesting tidbits mostly having to do with Bush administration secrecy and dishonesty when it comes to the Iraq war.

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How to hack a DIEBOLD voting machine

Video of just how simple it is to hack a DIEBOLD voting machine. It could be done in minutes right in the booth.

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Congressman Blocking Crackdown on Predatory Lenders Targeting U.S. Troops

Predatory lenders are seriously harming the U.S. military, and one member of Congress is fighting to keep it that way.

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Al Gore Says He Hasn't Ruled Out 2nd Run For President

Thank GOD!

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