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A Dog's Winter Wonderland

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:16:00 +0000

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Children's Medicines Coated With Brain-Damaging Aluminum

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:39:00 +0000

(NaturalNews Article Excerpt) Aluminum is one of those metals that infects healthy brains and drives people to total insanity. Aluminum causes dementia and Alzheimer's, and in children it has been linked to learning disabilities and behavioral disorders.

So why does Big Pharma coat children's medicines with both aluminum and toxic coloring chemicals that damage brains?

Aluminum Lake food coloring, used to heavily coat liquid medicines for children, contains dangerous amounts of aluminum and harmful synthetic petrochemicals. These "petrochemicals" are carcinogens containing petroleum, antifreeze and ammonia, which cause a long list of adverse reactions. Aluminum poisoning can lead to short and long term central nervous system (CNS) damage, such as memory impairments, autism, epilepsy, mental retardation, and dementia.

Research shows that just 4ppm of aluminum can cause the blood to coagulate. This is what causes Alzheimer's Disease and has been documented to inhibit learning. Aluminum consumption can also be associated with the development of bone disorders, including stress fractures.

Also known as tartrazine, FD&C Yellow Aluminum Lake is a chemical concoction derived from coal tar. It is known to be a reproductive toxin. All artificial colors contain Aluminum Lake, so when your child gets to pick between red, blue or green medicine, they're really choosing which poison they get to consume. Several chemically enhanced food colorings contain ammonia and therefore produce compounds proven to cause various cancers in animal studies, according to CSPI, the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Full Article by S. D. Wells at Natural News

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This Day In History - January 29

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:33:00 +0000

LEAD STORY - U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame Elects First Members, 1936

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(Article Excerpt) On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

The Hall of Fame actually had its beginnings in 1935, when plans were made to build a museum devoted to baseball and its 100-year history. A private organization based in Cooperstown called the Clark Foundation thought that establishing the Baseball Hall of Fame in their city would help to reinvigorate the area's Depression-ravaged economy by attracting tourists. To help sell the idea, the foundation advanced the idea that U.S. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown. The story proved to be phony, but baseball officials, eager to capitalize on the marketing and publicity potential of a museum to honor the game's greats, gave their support to the project anyway.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Americans retreat from Fort Independence, 1777

AUTOMOTIVE

William McKinley, first U.S. president to ride in a car, is born, 1843

CIVIL WAR

Kansas enters the Union as a free state, 1861

COLD WAR

Dr. Strangelove premieres, 1964

CRIME

School shooting in San Diego, 1979

DISASTER

Theater collapses in Washington, D.C., 1922

GENERAL INTEREST

King George III dies, 1820
Divided Kansas enters the Union, 1861
Liliuokalani proclaimed queen of Hawaii, 1891
Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign accords, 1979

HOLLYWOOD

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward marry, 1958

LITERARY

"The Raven" is published, 1845

MUSIC

Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract, 1962

OLD WEST

Edward Abbey is born, 1927

PRESIDENTIAL

Jackson sends troops to put down labor riot, 1834
William McKinley is born, 1843
George W. Bush makes "Axis of Evil" speech, 2002

SPORTS

Baseball Hall of Fame inducts first members, 1936

VIETNAM WAR

President Johnson requests additional funds, 1968
Fighting continues in South Vietnam, 1974

WORLD WAR I

German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads daring mission in France, 1915

WORLD WAR II

Iran signs Treaty of Alliance with Great Britain and USSR, 1942

January 29

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Iranian Bloggers To Be Executed For 'Spreading Corruption'

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:35:00 +0000

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(Article Excerpt) Two Iranian bloggers are to be executed for 'spreading corruption' - as Tehran cracks down on freedom of expression in the run up to its parliamentary elections in March.

Four journalists have also been arrested, prompting the U.S. State Department to urge Iranian officials to 'protect the rights of all its citizens and uphold the rule of law'.

It comes as Israel said the world must act quickly to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and the UN urged the West to resume talks with the pariah state.

Full Article at Mail Online

Top Ten Signs Your Amish Teenager Is In Trouble

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:55:00 +0000

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10. Sometimes stays in bed until after 5 a.m.

9. In his sock drawer, you find pictures of women without bonnets.

8. Shows up at barn raisings in full "KISS" makeup.

7. When you criticize him, he yells, "Thou sucketh."

6. His name is Jebediah, but he goes by "Jeb Daddy."

5. Defiantly says, "If I had a radio, I'd listen to rap."

4. You come upon his secret stash of colored socks.

3. Uses slang expression, "Talk to the hand, 'cause the beard ain't listening."

2. Was recently pulled over for driving under the influence of cottage cheese.

And the number one sign your Amish teenager is in trouble...

1. He's wearing his big black hat backwards.

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Barney Miller

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:06:00 +0000

The Courtesans

Season 1, Episode 5

Wojehowicz goes to Barney for advice when he becomes attracted to one of the girls he arrested at Rose's "Village-A-Go-Go."

Colorful characters and intelligent humor perfectly set the tone of the rotting Big Apple of the 1970’s.

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National Puzzle Day

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:55:00 +0000

January 29

John Spilsbury, a London engraver and mapmaker, produced the first jigsaw puzzle around 1760 by mounting one of his maps on a sheet of hardwood and cutting around the borders of the countries to create interlocking pieces. Since then, puzzles have become an educational tool, a family pastime, and an ideal secret Santa gift if you don't really know the person you're supposed to buy for.

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Let Sleeping Kitties Lie

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Perhaps In The Not So Distant Future

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +0000

...they WILL take our Internet!

Think not? Read this.

Dog...

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:51:00 +0000

The only creature on earth that loves you more than himself.

Ass-Duff-Moo-Vee-Too

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Random was SO last decade! (but i couldn't care less)

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Brain Study

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:44:00 +0000

Message is revealed in the "Comments"

ACTA is Worse Than SOPA

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:19:00 +0000

...Here's What You Need To Know

(NaturalNews Article Excerpt) Even though SOPA has been temporarily shelved, a far worse freedom-crushing law now threatens the internet: ACTA.

It's just the latest attempt by corrupt governments to sell out our freedom to the entertainment industry's profits. Read why ACTA may be even more dangerous than SOPA or PIPA:

As a warrior for Internet freedom, you helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA by supporting Web black outs by sites like Wikipedia and by contacting your lawmaker to voice your displeasure. So loud was your voice that even the president of the United States sided with you in opposing it.

But don't take a deep sigh of relief because, after all, we're talking about a merger of Washington, D.C., and Hollywood here, as well as global interests. After the motion picture industry, its subsidiaries and all "interested parties" have spent nearly $150 million lobbying for some sort of Internet-centric "anti-piracy" bill, you should have known the powers that be would return.

And they have, only this time they are pushing something far more onerous: ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

Full Article by J. D. Heyes at Natural News

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This Day In History - January 28

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:19:00 +0000

LEAD STORY - Challenger Explodes, 1986

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(Article Excerpt) At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger's launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.

Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa's family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

British plan to isolate New England, 1777

AUTOMOTIVE

"Shuttin' Detroit Down" debuts, 2009

CIVIL WAR

Confederate General Thomas Hindman is born, 1828

COLD WAR

Soviets shoot down U.S. jet, 1964

CRIME

Killer couple strikes the heartland, 1958

DISASTER

Challenger explodes after liftoff, 1986

GENERAL INTEREST

U.S. ends search for Pancho Villa, 1917
Afrikaner police admit to killing Stephen Biko, 1997

HOLLYWOOD

Clint Eastwood honored by Directors Guild of America, 2006

LITERARY

Colette is born, 1873

MUSIC

American recording artists gather to record "We Are the World", 1985

OLD WEST

First train crosses the Panamanian isthmus, 1855

PRESIDENTIAL

Wilson nominates Brandeis to the Supreme Court, 1916

SPORTS

Vince Lombardi hired as Packers coach, 1959

VIETNAM WAR

Cease-fire goes into effect, 1973
Ford asks for additional aid, 1975

WORLD WAR I

Germans sink American merchant ship, 1915

WORLD WAR II

Burma Road is reopened, 1945

January 28

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Twilight

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:56:00 +0000

Linkster Diversions Jigsaw Puzzle

Suddenly (1954)

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:40:00 +0000

Linkster Fliqz

Runtime: 75 minutes - Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Synopsis
In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.

Cast
[Frank Sinatra as John Baron
Sterling Hayden as Sheriff Tod Shaw
James Gleason as Pop Benson
Nancy Gates as Ellen Benson
Willis Bouchey as Dan Carney
Paul Frees as Benny Conklin
Christopher Dark as Bart Wheeler
James O'Hara as Jud Hobson
Kem Dibbs as Wilson
Linkster as Webmaster

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Wiz 3

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:30:00 +0000

You are a Wizard in control of your own destiny and will take all of your skills to be a master.

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Barney Miller

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:54:00 +0000

Graft

Season 1, Episode 4

Barney's men are accused of being on the take after a former detective from his squad becomes a member of Internal Affairs, the department's self-policing unit.

Colorful characters and intelligent humor perfectly set the tone of the rotting Big Apple of the 1970’s.

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National Kazoo Day

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:47:00 +0000

January 28

No one loves a kazoo more than a parent who's just picked his or her kid up from a birthday party. Oh wow, they gave you a kazoo? And you want to play it the whole drive home? And all night while I make dinner? Let's just hope that kazoo doesn't accidentally get thrown out the window! Alabama Vest (a man, not a clothing outfitter) first invented this delightful-sounding, easy to play instrument in Macon, Georgia in the 1840's.

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

It's Caturday!

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:26:00 +0000

Glenn Beck: Rick Santorum "is the next George Washington"

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Santorum & Romney Discuss Health Care

Top Comment: This segment set Santorum apart from the rest finally. Santorum 2012!

Media To Americans: 'Nothing To See Here'

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Reports ignore first time Obama ineligibility evidence entered into court record

Article Excerpt The mainstream media appears to have been put under a “cone of silence” about the first court proceeding to enter into the record evidence that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president based on the Constitution’s requirement that that office be occupied only by a “natural-born citizen.”

Georgia administrative law judge Michael Malihi on Thursday heard evidence from a variety of witnesses on why the president’s name should not appear on the Georgia state ballot for the 2012 election.

Earlier in the month, the judge had issued a subpoena for the president to appear before his court to answer challenges to his eligibility as a candidate.

Georgia law permits the secretary of state and “any elector who is eligible to vote for a candidate” in the state to challenge the qualifications of any candidate.

Michael Jablonski, attorney for Obama, attempted to have the subpoena quashed, arguing that taking the time to appear would “interrupt [Obama's] duties as president of the United States.”

Full Article at World Net Daily

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28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers And Prison Camps

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Article Excerpt It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being "educated" in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps. Our children desperately need to focus on the basics such as reading, writing and math, but instead a whole host of politicians, "education officials" and teachers are constantly injecting as much propaganda as they possibly can into classroom instruction. Instead of learning how to think, our children are continually being told what to think. Not only that, our children are also being trained how to live as subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state. Today, nearly everything that children do in public schools is watched, monitored, recorded and tracked. Independent thought and free expression are greatly discouraged and are often cracked down upon harshly. If students get "out of line", instead of being sent to see the principal they are often handcuffed, arrested and taken to the police station. In addition, law enforcement authorities are using weapons such as pepper spray and tasers against young students in our public schools more than ever before. Children in U.S. public schools are not learning how to live as strong individuals in the "land of the free and the home of the brave". Rather, they are being trained how to serve a Big Brother police state where control freaks run their entire lives. If we continue to allow all of the liberty and freedom to be systematically drained out of our school children, then there is not going to be much hope for the future of this nation.

The following are 28 signs that U.S public schools are being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps....

All 28 Signs at The American Dream

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This Day In History - January 27

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:12:00 +0000

LEAD STORY - National Geographic Society Founded, 1888

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(Article Excerpt) On January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for "the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge."

The 33 men who originally met and formed the National Geographic Society were a diverse group of geographers, explorers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers. All shared an interest in scientific and geographical knowledge, as well as an opinion that in a time of discovery, invention, change and mass communication, Americans were becoming more curious about the world around them. With this in mind, the men drafted a constitution and elected as the Society's president a lawyer and philanthropist named Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Neither a scientist nor a geographer, Hubbard represented the Society's desire to reach out to the layman.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Georgia incorporates the first state university, 1785

AUTOMOTIVE

Shelby GT 350 debuts, 1965

CIVIL WAR

President Lincoln orders armies to advance, 1862

COLD WAR

U.S. officially ends participation in a Cold War conflict, 1973

CRIME

The so-called Dracula killer, 1978

DISASTER

Explosions trigger deadly panic in Nigeria, 2002

GENERAL INTEREST

Baird demonstrates TV, 1926
Astronauts die in launch pad fire, 1967
Senate investigation of FBI and CIA activities begins, 1975
Somali dictator flees, 1991

HOLLYWOOD

Thirteen-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes nominated for Best Actress Oscar, 2004

LITERARY

Dante is exiled from Florence, 1302
"The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger dies, 2010

MUSIC

John Lennon writes and records "Instant Karma" in a single day, 1970

OLD WEST

First atomic detonation at the Nevada test site, 1951

PRESIDENTIAL

Reagan serves in film unit, 1943

SPORTS

Monica Seles wins first Grand Slam title since being attacked, 1996

VIETNAM WAR

Donald Evans earns Medal of Honor, 1967
Paris Peace Accords signed, 1973

WORLD WAR I

Workers prepare to strike in Germany, 1918

WORLD WAR II

Americans bomb Germans for first time, 1943
Siege of Leningrad is lifted, 1944

January 27

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Do Bears Sh*t In The Woods?

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Not in this one...

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Top Ten Signs You're In California

noreply@blogger.com (Linkster) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:38:00 +0000

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1. The fastest part of your commute is down your driveway.

2. You were born somewhere else.

3. You know how to eat an artichoke.

4. The primary bugs that you worry about are electronic.

5. Your car has bulletproof windows.

6. Left is right and right is wrong.

7. Your monthly house payments exceed your annual income.

8. Your mouse has only one ball.

9. You need a new TV, you can run down to the local riot and pick one up.

And the number one sign you're in California...

10. You dive under a desk whenever a large truck goes by.

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