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Navy missile hits dying spy satellite

Strokes among middle-aged women triple

Teen accused of trying to hire hit on parents: 'Good child' allegedly sought to pay $260 to have adoptive mom, dad killed

Avalanche of water threatens Colorado town: 1 billion gallons of contaminated liquid trapped above historic town

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O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels" (thanks to supergee for the link; heard about this on Countdown last night and was livid)

Alerted by feminist: Refusal to act out Girls Gone Wild results in beating -- Um, guys, she didn't want to go to Des Moines.

picked up from DailyKos

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
-- Thomas Paine

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Whole grains help deflate belly rolls: Study of obese adults also found reduced inflammation in blood vessels

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Okay.

This article about race and politics in the South, while well-meaning, is a bad article. It does not debunk race; in fact, it fortifies some of its hegemony.

I suspect we will see more of this type of thing in the year to come.

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U.K. admits it helped in rendition flights

6.3-magnitude earthquake shakes Nevada

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Satellite is destroyed but questions remain -- "What the successful strike in space conclusively proved was something else [...] The mission was conducted from navy warships. So the United States can move this capability at will over three-quarters of the Earth's surface."

Secret Service ordered Dallas police to stop screening for weapons before Obama rally