July 2012
Chivalry on Sinking Ships Only a Myth, Researchers... →
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The unknown war in Washington State between...
On June 15, 1846, the British and U.S. governments signed The Oregon Treaty, establishing the border between Oregon Country and the Columbia District in Canada. The border would reside from the 49th parallel, down through the middle of the channel that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland, and then out to the Pacific Ocean. The only maps available at the time were a little fuzzy on...
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NSA headquarters may be the biggest invisible city...
It’s hard to overstate just how massive the agency actually is. As James Bamford notes in The Shadow Factory, if NSA headquarters at Ft. Meade, Maryland, were incorporated, it would be one of the largest municipalities in the state. The agency employs 30,000 people who work in 7,000,000 square feet of office space. The site has 37,000 registered cars that drive on 32 miles of road and spend their...
Republicans aren't just occasionally taking Obama... →
wilwheaton:
As we discussed last week, at this point in the race, Republicans aren’t just occasionally taking Obama quotes out of context; they’re actually building their entire 2012 campaign strategy around sentiments the president didn’t actually say. I’ve honestly never seen anything like it.
Let’s start a running count:
1. The Romney campaign took Obama out of context in its very first...
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“Bankers! Ugg. Never trust anything that rhymes with ‘wankers’!”
– Jon Stewart
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thefabulousaj asked: Your rant on Chik Fil A and stance on what the mayors of Boston and Chicago are doing makes a valid point. However the people who have been dealing with Chik Fil A for years know their practices and know that them declaring they are against gay marriage is them saying something else entirely overall. The reason why they don't discriminate against gays is because it's illegal to refuse...
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This whole Chick-fil-A thing makes me sick. It’s not a pro-gay or anti-gay issue. It’s a government intrusion issue. When the government starts deciding which businesses are allowed and which are not allowed based on the BELIEFS and political DONATIONS of its owners, we are all in serious trouble.
To be clear, this controversy is NOT about Chick-fil-A discriminating against gay...
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Woman dies after drinking 9 quarts of Coke a day... →
For eight years the 30-year-old New Zealander had been addicted to the fizzy beverage, the inquest heard, keeping it by her bedside, and drinking it when she woke up in the morning and last thing before she went to sleep.
Hodgkinson said she would get mood swings if she didn’t have coke, but he “never considered” it could be the drink causing the problems, believing it to be the...
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WatchThis is great! Man’s 11 yr old Jack Russell Terrier is snatched by a coyote, and he chases the coyote and grabs the dog from its mouth! Awesome!!! Dog is injured, but recovering.
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