Tanner Foust Jumps Hot Wheels Truck 332 Feet, Breaks World Record

Exactly right ! That's what my mind's eye always saw... sailing across the sky; further than anything ever seen, and nailing that landing !!!
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Anthony Weiner Hires Lawyer In Wake Of Twitter Hacking

Absolutely­... and get your enemy on your other enemy's enemy list. Since the anti-porn fundamenta­list lawsuit crowd doesn't like sex cartoons in public, make sure they know about 'Potential Suspect Breitbart' so they can put him on their list - and in headlines stories all over the net.
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Microsoft Still Has A Chance To Get Into The Tablet Game: Citigroup Report

It just sounds so pathetic. It's like their big plan might be "a free mouse with every tablet!" - or they might follow the senior citizens at Blackberry off the cliff to the sound of 1980 Queen tunes.



Microsoft'­s Bomber needs to get his self to an Apple store and look at what a retail renaissanc­e is supposed to look like.
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Blocking Thoughts: Yes, You Can Stop Thinking About It

After observatio­n and a few amateur experiment­s, I came to realize that if I continued to worry over something, nothing about the reality of the situation changed. So there was no benefit to worrying - in fact, it was a total waste of time. So I began using a "no" technique. Whenever unwanted thoughts entered my mind I would quickly and decisively say "no!" - if I was alone I would say it out loud, but either way it would be firm and I would immediatel­y stop the unwanted thinking. It has always worked for me.



Although I rely on my "no" technique, I read about and tried another one specifical­ly for nighttime worrying where you get up, write down each of the things you are worrying about and make a note as to the next time you really need to think about this. Then go back to bed. I've tried this twice and it worked both times.
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In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs For Health Fraud

It should indeed make the industry nervous - and I hope it makes their coin-opera­ted political enablers even more nervous. Pretty soon now, Americans are going to realize that healthcare is the criminal enterprise of our times - billionair­es all over the place; bankrupt families everywhere - and Medicare will only be fixed - and saved - by bringing down costs. The public won't ever accept a lessening of service and benefits, and the wealthy will shoot anyone who raises their taxes, so there's no other choice. Big Pharma and the whole healthcare industry is crawling through the economy like rats scooping up every monetary crumb and leaving nothing but desolation­, depression and the groans of millions of middle-cla­ss Americans.
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Mitt Romney Blasts Obama: 'One Of The Most Ineffective Presidents,' He's 'Failed'

When I hear Romney explain why he once accepted his church's belief that black people had no souls, then I will listen - in fact, I have to listen because until I hear something acceptable­, I don't have any desire or reason to trust him. I will need evidence that his ideas can offer some blessing to society before he's even a blip on my radar.
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Memorial Day 2011: Chicagoan Travels To France To Honor WWII Father And The Man Who Saved His Life

If you like walking into propellers­, you should get top dollar - so why are you wasting your time spraying marginally ridiculous taunts on the HuffPo commenters­, like some feral cat? Hope it isn't 'cause you just like messin' with folks... 'cause that might merit some additional karma.
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Memorial Day 2011: Chicagoan Travels To France To Honor WWII Father And The Man Who Saved His Life

Thoroughly gorgeous view of the bigger life, where we are tethered to so many and so much.
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Germany Nuclear Power Plants To Be Entirely Shut Down By 2022

America is so manipulate­d by greedsters that it will be a long time before common sense is ever allowed in the room to argue for taking us off the nuclear grid. Isn't this totally embarrassi­ng? Isn't it awful to realize that the future will first appear elsewhere?
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Sarah Palin Bus Tour Reportedly Heading To Iowa, New Hampshire

You're describing the voice-over narration of a TV commercial for a cancelled soap opera. As for my country's leadership­, I'm going to vote for the most non-fascis­t thinking thing on the ballot; that won't be Palin.
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Sympathy for the Devil: Why the Major Labels Might Be Right This Time

Ok, I thought about it, and I'm still not going back to buying a CD full of tunes when all I want is one tune.



The record industry is like the Yellow Pages - which should have owned internet search, but gave it up to Yahoo, and then Google, because something stopped them from evolving. The record business should have stood by the new internet doorway and figured out the new rules, but instead they stayed in their darkened warehouses and plotted ways to charge me for everything going in my ears.



Someone has already tried to make the legal argument that singing a song in an elevator is illegal distributi­on of a copyrighte­d work to non-paying listeners.



I say start singing...
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Mitch McConnell: Paul Ryan Medicare Plan 'On The Table' In Debt Ceiling Discussions

You are absolutely right. In fact, this is all about young people - far more than it's about seniors and current retirees. The conservati­ves' voucher scheme is a big foot in the door for their plan to take America out of the business of helping its citizens maintain a safety net for themselves and their families.



This is about you, but it's also about your kids and your grandkids - and they're all watching to see what you do; to see if you'll fight for them.
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Bigfoot VIDEO: Legendary Creature On Camera In Spokane, Washington? (POLL)

Oh drat... are you saying that Kaiser is really just a giant alien class project - and that we've been tweaked by Klingon teenagers - for years! How depressing is that? ..and how quickly does this become a movie? With Arnold...?
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Bigfoot VIDEO: Legendary Creature On Camera In Spokane, Washington? (POLL)

Of course that's Bigfoot! What else could it be?



All weird stuff is true. It's a fact that the UFOs are still landing and the aliens are still probing us - they just say they're from Kaiser and they're doing a colonoscop­y. But check it out yourself - Kaiser doesn't even do colonoscop­ies ! ...so we've been probed by aliens for years !
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Condoms In Porn: California Officials Consider New Rules

We just need to see the list of politicans voting for this.
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Brandon Ross Charged With Murder After Police Fatally Shoot 15-Year-Old Companion

It's the law on its head. In my mind, murder is when you actually - in physical space - kill someone. Others can be accomplice­s - and charged as severely as the one who kills - but don't try to tell me that the meaning of the word has changed. It hasn't, except in the butchered vocabulary of those who also believe that a 10 year-old can be charged as an adult. Unfortunat­ely some of those people are in positions of power and capable of great nuisance. Stop 'em when we can...
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'Wellywood' Sign Has Hollywood Seeing Double

Okay, but here's another "Hollywood type" that knows what you can't know - I grew up in Hollywood, bicycled through those hills, explored the studio backlots, graduated from Hollywood High, began a career and... and all along, that sign was there, as big as all outdoors and something eternal for those of us who lived beneath it. It's not our art, it's our place, and we defend it.



I don't really care about Wellywood and their sign - I care about clichés posing as truth and getting in my way.
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'Wellywood' Sign Has Hollywood Seeing Double

Are you kidding? The Hollywood sign is one of the most recognizab­le objects in the world; not unlike the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. Humans are the animals who can recognize art, so I never forget that people who criticize the idea of art are among the enemy to be feared - always.
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'Wellywood' Sign Has Hollywood Seeing Double

Love the snarky crack about Hollywood having "attitudes that few New Zealanders would want to mimic." I happen to be from Hollywood and trust me - nobody there is even remotely interested in emulating judgmental know-nothi­ng New Zealanders pretending to make acceptable wine.



But "Wellywood­" ?? We'd heard that nobody ever gets wood of any sort down there - especially the right-wing skinheads in Auckland, so why draw attention to it?
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Obama Dates Westminster Abbey Guestbook Entry '24 May 2008' (PHOTO)

Well, first off you got me on the syllables thing, so I'm down a few pawns, but I'm claiming that I won the "most you could argue" part of the test based on confusion as to what you mean by "Weird Form of Alliterati­on". So I declare this a Justifiabl­e Neurosis that you should not be ashamed of.
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Sarah Palin Bus Tour Launching This Weekend On East Coast

At 1am her magnet's still got pull !

Wait 'til 2 am...
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Donald Trump Says Obama Birth Certificate Fake: Report

Trump is out there on the limb of a tree that was cut down months ago, and by sheer will-power he is still up in the air - hovering like an ex-wife's lawyer, or a prosecutor that won't go away.



Trump gives good nuts, and his bat-crazy bizarre ain't bad either - 10 bucks says this musical hits Broadway within a year.
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Wisconsin Voter ID Law Signed By Scott Walker

The undeniable point of this legislatio­n is to reduce voting by those less likely to have photo ID. What does Wisconsin stand for when honor is thrown out the window?
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Jose Guerena Killed: Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid

...if we would fall for such cheap malarkey, we'd like your thinking, but we wouldn't, so we don't.
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Jose Guerena Killed: Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid

This story just screams at me. The ugliness of the Arizona police is crowding out their decency, leaving only liars and abusers for the public to see and hear. There's a madness out there and somebody's gonna have to find it and eradicate it - this can not stand.
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Rob Woodall Won't Give Up Government Health Care 'Because It's Free' (VIDEO)

"...the Donkees that's under the plan" huh?



You sound like a Panasonic S420 Clock Radio that's on the fritz... get it fixed and never listen to it again. Word - the stuff that comes out of that thing will turn you into a conservati­ve zombie within days. Did I get here in time...?
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Obama Dates Westminster Abbey Guestbook Entry '24 May 2008' (PHOTO)

Yikes, you're right ! Let's see - September and December are "similar words" because they share 1 syllable (ber) ...but wait! - 2008 and 2011 share 2 syllables (two and thousand). Holy cow - you're NOT right after all; in fact you're almost nuts.



You should probably turn your thinking into a musical - theater accepts a lot of embarrassi­ng plots...
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Obama Dates Westminster Abbey Guestbook Entry '24 May 2008' (PHOTO)

My favorite was when Bush the elder announced in a speech that September 7th is Pearl Harbor Day. Geesh, and that was the war he fought - and almost died in... But hey, he was way tired and we all knew it, so he got a break...
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Obama Dates Westminster Abbey Guestbook Entry '24 May 2008' (PHOTO)

huh?...how that slip by you... did you actually mean to be nice, or are my pixels on the fritz...?
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Elizabeth Warren Called Liar At CFPB Hearing By Republicans Who Botched Facts On Agency (VIDEO)

McHenry is scared to death of the truth that Warren's work will bring to the fore. He's a bought and paid-for stooge of business interests whose goal is to control what we know about the products we buy - she's Elizabeth the Pure, with a staff and a budget !
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Rob Woodall On Medicare: 'When Do I Decide I'm Going To Take Care Of Me?'

These people are so delusional that it's frightenin­g. Two plus two equals four everywhere - but not in the mind of a red head tea party wise guy. In that dark place, fear and pain rain down hard on everyone not blessed with economic success. Working Americans are being sold out, and these duped souls are the enablers that will make the death of the middle-cla­ss inevitable - unless the rest of us fight without quarter.
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Judgment Day Predictor Harold Camping Speaks Out (Live Blog)

Harold Camping should read his statements in pig Latin. Sure, they'll sound just as stupid as before, but technicall­y they won't be actual lies - plus, some 10 year-old red-state kids might catch a clue and wander away from charlatans like this hardened old stager.
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'I Played By The Rules' -- 'The Rules Have Changed'

It's gonna take a world-wide workers revolution to fix what's hurting us. Scary as it sounds, the commie thing is only just getting started. After a gigantic fail in its' first incarnatio­n, in the end it will be workers - and only workers - united in a world-wide awareness of inequality­, that will sync our humanity with our conscience­.
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Donald Trump Won't 'Rule Out' Reversing 2012 Presidential Decision

Word on the street is that Trump's crack investigat­ive team is on the case right now trying to determine the actual requiremen­ts for running for President. Trump says he's already found "incredibl­e confusion" about what he's doing, but he's unwavering­ly proud of doing it. "I' am proud-like of everything I'm saying - even this gibberish.­"



I suggest that any thinking person should assume the non-suppor­ting position. Just sayin'...
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'I Played By The Rules' -- 'The Rules Have Changed'

Oh, they're in that closet over there - next to the jobs created by the ORIGINAL BUSH TAX CUTS !!
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The Rules Have Changed - The New Bagaudes

'I Played By The Rules' -- 'The Rules Have Changed': "'On the eve of my 60th birthday and without marketable skills I have no chance of ever finding a job again in the traditional economy,' writes a North Carolinian who's been out of work nearly two years. 'I am determined to survive this horror show. But my survival will not be determined by our broken economy. It’s 'think outside the box' time. Traditional methods obviously won’t work for people like me.'"

Once upon a time; as the end neared in the viscious 5th century, the rules bent beyond where anything about Roman life could help at all. Families were abandoning their meager farms and the confiscatory taxes; men were shutting their urban shops, and increasingly more and more people avoided their place in civic life; eventually abandoning all to hit the road in many forms - as lawless gangs, as scavenging thieves seeking food, as roaming peasants, and as 'Bagaudes' - road warriors with nothing to lose as the greater culture of their Roman world collapsed behind them, and the medieval future formed in the mist up ahead.

Mitch McConnell Avoids Endorsing Medicare Changes In Paul Ryan's Budget Plan (VIDEO)

Conservati­ves had best look at that crowd forming and growing in front of them - day by day. Any GOP or Tea Party politician conjuring ways to reduce Social Security or rip the Medicare safety net from my sons and daughters, is gonna go down hard. It's total war. Think nothing else...
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Herman Cain For President Campaign Launches (VIDEO)

...problem is that some of my neighbors - and lots of jerks - are listening all the time, so I'd better know what's entering their tiny, brutish minds.



Granted, if life were simpler and your pals weren't such a menace, I'd take your cue and not listen, as you suggest. Umm, that'd be nice...
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May 21 'Judgment Day' Believers React To Being Alive On May 22

I can't condemn a thirsty person for hoping the dry well is an emerging spring, but I can easily war on those who promise truths they can't deliver. Harold Camping is a despicable man and I only wish that he were a younger man so that the many years of his blasphemy could have been avoided.
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'Judgment Day' Believers Face Tough Questions After Unfulfilled Doomsday

I see, so you make make your own roads and have your own army. Oh wait, that can't be... you rely on me paying for part of the taxes that built that highway through your town, and makes payroll for those Jarheads that protect you from Euro- Liberals.



Turns out you're really just a cuddly old nanny boy yourself, aren't you?
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'Miracle May' Survives Fall From Sky After Bird Attack

...egad! So the French must be the chosen people, and instead of wearing crosses we get microchips­. Got it.
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Ferrin Family Finds $45,000 In Attic Of New Home, Returns It To Previous Owners

What a great story, and Mr. Ferrin played his part with real grace - and with such fine wisdom to go along with it. Bravo !



BTW - how could it be the end of the world when people are still hitting home runs like this...?
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Studio City Woman Falls Into Los Angeles River

At some point some people need to remember that they are an animal - and also not qualified to decide what others believe to be worthy. I bet you just forgot... :-)
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Mitch Daniels: Debt Threatens American Dream

Daniels' ideas are a sophomoric mish-mash of pseudo-sci­ence, limited imaginatio­n, and a thorough distrust of human nature. He's part of the take-down crew that the GOP has unleashed on hapless, ill-inform­ed Americans - the only kind left until we wake up and smell the traitors..­. and act accordingl­y to save the middle-cla­ss
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Eating Local: Does It Matter?

Please waste my time with something better than the meandering­s of someone who doesn't know that their world is unique.
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Paul Allen Throws Brazilian-Themed Party On Octopus Yacht

He's living the dream... I can do nothing but look in awe - he's got half a Titanic for a pleasure boat and still he will, as we all do, expire into the mist alike. Viva us, and good for you Paul...!
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Texas Sonogram Abortion Law Signed By Rick Perry

..yes, forcing a woman to do that in America - or anywhere - is barbaric.
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Texas Sonogram Abortion Law Signed By Rick Perry

This is so repulsive I couldn't look a Texan supporter of this outrage in the face. Forcing a woman to listen to a descriptio­n of the sonogram against her will is the action of barbarians­. Texas - again you're losing control of your senses - handing control over your personal choices to government­! Insane - you're too far; it's an embarrassm­ent and it has to stop, or be stopped.
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The Insularity of American Literature: Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize

Excellent article on its topic, but to me far more unsettling in pointing to the undeniable reality of our cultural irrelevanc­e to those for whom we once hoped to be champions. We Americans are strapped to our pleasures and our pains - and don't know what to do except compete against each other for more of it.
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Anis Shivani: The Insularity of American Literature: Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize

Anis Shivani: The Insularity of American Literature: Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize: "It is a case of market monopoly run amok, taking self-publicity for truth."

Miley Cyrus Wows In Vijat Mohindra Pics (PHOTOS)

I wish the waitress would just stop singing and bring me my lunch. I'm in a hurry to go see Beiber get his Cub Scout " Leave No Trace Award".
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Beck On Obama: 'You Are Not Like Him' (VIDEO)

So I guess Beck - and Newt, who shares the same idiocy - would have shot Washington for fighting against the British control of its colonies in America.



Voluntary stupidity is the new evil...
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