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For god's sake, why they can't find something for U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, to do here in the states so she can care for her 11 month old son? They put the baby in foster care and her in jail for not arriving on time to deploy to Afghanistan. I mean, really, come on.... The US Army is just being mean. Yes, I know there are all sorts of arguments on both sides...

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This is all you need to read today..... Shoot the fat guys, hang the smokersDear Joe,I smoke cigarettes. This is my 49th or 50th year -- don't know which.When this war on smokers really heated up, in the late 90's, I wrote to a friend in San Francisco, and asked her what was going on. "Is this some kind of grassroots movement?," I asked, in caps. She said she didn't know what it was, exactly, but

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I reserved the couch yesterday, and took the day off. I had to slow down. This frantic pace has really gotten to be too much -- and I don't even work (for money that is) -- I don't know how these working moms do it. I don't think you could pay me enough to do it. I sat down just in time to catch this movie. It's on one of the starz or encore channels this month. If you don't have cable, or

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Afghan women, in order to escape a life of domestic torture and abuse are burning themselves. Can you imagine being so distraught that you literally set yourself on fire? Some women were forced to get married as early as 7 years old. Domestic violence is still prevalent in Afghanistan despite the Taliban supposedly being overthrown. Women have no rights and it's very hard to get a divorce.

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I've been sick since last Thursday night. Today is Tuesday. And I have a good idea what my source of infection was. (Hint: stay away from tour groups with sneezing kids in them).I don't know if it is THE flu, you know, the CAFO Special, or if it is just some run-of-the-mill seasonal riff-raff influenza. Kaiser won't let me come in to find out what it is. 'Ma'am, I would strongly advise you

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Have you seen the band Sonos? Check out this video, I Want You Back (Jackson Five) with a completely new take.

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St. Francis Hospital In Hartford Is On Probation For One YearHARTFORD — - The surgery was supposed to repair the patient's heart, but more than five hours into the procedure, something went wrong — a "catastrophic" failure of the pump meant to keep blood and oxygen flowing through the patient's body. The patient sustained a brain injury and died a month later.But that wasn't the only thing that

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Liz Cheney suggests Cheney/Palin ticket in 2012Teh stupid hurts.Fallujah’s infants suffer from sharp rise in birth defectsBoy, we showed them! God (if there is one) help us.During House Health Care Debate, Statements By More Than A Dozen Lawmakers 'Were Ghostwritten, In Whole Or In Part, By Washington Lobbyists'Duh.Palin Calls Decision To Try 9/11 Defendants In Federal Court ‘Atrocious,’ Wants To

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Dandelion Salad -- a terrific site to add to your favorites.Here's a sampling of their posts --Exclusive: The Souls of Wealthy Men by Gary Sudborough (EXCELLENT READ!)Morality vs Material Interests - Myths of Our Time by Paul Craig-Roberts:For whatever the reason, morality has shown itself to be an impotent force in 21st century America. Americans show no remorse at over one million dead Iraqis

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The Missing Link From Killeen to KabulBy FRANK RICHPublished: November 14, 2009THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right.Their verdict was unambiguous: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born psychiatrist of Palestinian parentage who sent e-mail to a radical imam, was a

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"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war.... you can take that to the bank."

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From our "Some People Have Interesting Problems" department:British couple forbidden to have sex.

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from huffpo:Have you ever seen 300,000 birds move at once? Buzzfeed posted this video of a massive flock of starlings swarming together over an unspecified area in Denmark, forming a dark, shape-shifting cloud. For all the Harry Potter fans out there, it bears a frightening resemblance to a Dementor.WATCH:(A little birdie told me they emigrated from the US. Smart birds!)

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Did you know that we're paying the insurgents who shooting at us in Afghanistan? According to a recent investigative article in The Nation, the process goes like this: we, the US taxpayers, give money to the Department of Defense. The DOD gives money to the private contractors who ship supplies to our troops all over Afghanistan. The contractors in turn give money to "private security firms"

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Ever had to put up with a snotty brat of a child?You tell the child that you're going to do something that the child doesn't want or like, and in retaliation the child says, "I'll stop loving you," or words to that effect.Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Petulant Child, 2009.The District of Columbia (our nation's capital) is getting ready to pass a law that allows same-sex marriage, but contains a

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WSJ: AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Ready To Quit Over Pay ConstraintsAfter just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post as he struggles to deal with heavy government oversight and restrictions on what the bailed-out company wants to pay employees, according to a published report.Back in August (while at his luxurious

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A Marine Corps reservist in the Tampa area was picking up his dry cleaning when he was accosted by a bearded man who didn't speak English.So what did he do?He belabored the bearded man with a tire iron, chased him, then called the cops and claimed that the man was a terrorist and had been speaking Arabic at him.So now our staunch heroic Marine Corps reservist is in jail - for beating up a Greek

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From Think ProgressHEALTH CAREStomping On Women's RightsOn Saturday, one Republican joined 219 Democrats in the House of Representatives to pass sweeping health care reform legislation, a $1 trillion bill that the Congressional Budget Office says would not add to the budget deficit and would expand health insurance to 36 million Americans. However, the bill's passage has come with considerable

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Last night though I was talking to someone who lives in the town just south of me and he told me they were fighting to keep black people from the next town over out of their village. He said it was sickening. Oh for god's sake, I thought that we were beyond that crap by now. But noooooooThen I read this story this morning and it just blew my mind.After immigrant killed in NY, others tell of

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From Saturday Night Massacre at A World of Progress by News Writer:Health care — all of it, including abortion, shouldn’t be a political issue, any more than the civil rights of any of the population. For all the right’s fearmongering that a Democratic health care bill would do things like create death panels and rationing of care, that’s exactly what we have now, and what the right wants to

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The final vote on HR 3962, the Health Care Reform Bill, in the US House of Reprehensibles was:220-215 (218 needed for passage)All but one Republican voted against it, which is no great surprise (the surprise was that one - Joseph Cao of Louisiana - voted for it), but 39 Democrats apparently felt that they don't want their jobs anymore so they voted against it.Also in the bill is the Stupid - er,

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Allow me to introduce Samantha (Sam) Vreeland and her husband Max. She's a badger, standing about five feet nine; he's an Island fox, the smallest of the North American vulpine species (and is very happy with that).Both of them are dressed in the duty uniform of the Rain Island Naval Syndicate, an anarcho-syndicalist military force found in the Spontoon Island universe. She's a captain, he's a

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A bit of setup, first:Last night on MSNBC's The Ed Show, former Congresscritter and right-wing boob Tom Tancredo was holding forth against government-run health care. His target du jour was the Veteran's Administration, which he stated was despised by veterans.Unfortunately for "No Habla Espanol" Tancredo, he was debating Markos Moulitsas, blogger, veteran and not one to be trifled with. Let's

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It warms the cockles of my heart to see Palin's candidate go down in flames. She lost the seat which would have gone Republican anyway. And what the hell was she doing sleazing around in NY State anyway? Get over yourself, Sarah. You suck. The country is not conservative.From A World of Progress:Sarah Palin and Dick Armey combined Tuesday to do what no one has done in 138 years. Their little

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