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9NEWS.com | Colorado’s Online News Leader | Focus on the Family asks people to pray for rain during DNC
COLORADO SPRINGS – A video producer for Focus on the Family is asking people to pray for rain when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) makes his speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Obama is [...]

How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter | LiveScience
Because it burns calories so quickly, aerobic exercise is a threat to the body’s energy reserves. Heeding this danger, the body acts to protect one of its most precious, and energy-demanding, organs: the brain.
Unlike cells in less critical organs, neurons are extremely vulnerable to disruptions in energy [...]

SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot - Boing Boing
Cheye Calvo, mayor of DC suburb Berwyn Heights, was raided by a SWAT team after 30lbs of marijuana was delivered to his home. They broke down his door, shot his two black labradors, and interrogated him and his wife as their [...]

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hess Corporation “Office Manager” And Her Husband Both Gave $28,500 To Elect McCain
As we reported below, ten Hess Corporation executives and Hess family members each gave $28,500 to the RNC’s committee to elect John McCain president, just days after he reversed his previous opposition to offshore drilling.
um, [...]

Wednesday: Fired by MnDOT, now at Homeland Security
Sonia Pitt, the MnDOT emergency response executive fired for taking an unauthorized, state-paid trip to Washington during the Interstate 35W bridge disaster, is now working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Pretty much somes up this disaster of a HR department.

SOS: the signal that has saved thousands turns 100 - Times Online
In the past century, “SOS” has become a firm part of popular culture used in everything from DIY programme titles to Abba hits. But it began life in a far more serious setting after being adopted by the international community on July 1, 1908, [...]

George Carlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On June 22, 2008, Carlin was admitted to St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California complaining of chest pain. He died later that day at 5:55 p.m. PDT of heart failure at the age of 71.
George Carlin was pretty damn funny.
Seven words you can’t say on TV (wow he [...]

5:01 PM - Towleroad, More than gay news for more gay men
At 5:01pm today, history will be made as gay and lesbian couples begin marrying in California, led symbolically by the marriage of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the couple of 50 years who were first married in San Francisco City Hall in 2004
(their 2004 [...]

Fake “Hillbilly” teeth being recalled | WFTS-TV | First in HD
Today the CPSC announced a recall of over 20,000 fake “Hillbilly” teeth.
The teeth were sold nationwide at grocery, drug and convenience stores from march 2005 to March 2008 for 2 dollars.
The CPSC says that the gray surface paint on the teeth contains excessive levels of [...]

Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
CHICAGO—According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.
“The time for change is now,” said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, [...]

This is Why They Wanted Hillary Clinton’s White House Schedule? - Towleroad, More gay news for more gay men
The National Archives released 11,000 pages of scheduling documents covering 2900 days of Hillary Clinton’s time as first lady.
So on the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, ABC News used those documents to post a “stained [...]

Free water ice for the first day of spring - Slashfood
For those of you not in the know … water ice is a half sorbet/half shaved ice concoction that is infused with fruit flavors
Rita’s is giving away free Italian Ice in celebration of the first day of spring.  I haven’t had Rita’s in a while, [...]

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 - New York Times
Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.
See also Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, [...]

Other cities dye-ing to know what turns Chicago river green - Online Exclusives
Dyeing the Chicago River Irish green has been a tradition for more than 40 years and at least 50 cities want to know how Chicago volunteers perform the miraculous transformation every year.
Bill King, the administrator of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day committee, said that [...]

Yesterday was my birthday.
It wasn’t the best birthday I have ever had, but my sister and friends made sure it wasn’t one of the worst.  There were some people at the party that made it a bad party, but they left and I felt so much better.  Its hard having someone that hates you at [...]