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Is getting hit by a snowball really cause for a police officer to draw his gun?  Really?  This is just one more example of police over-reaction.  A fun, innocent event turned into a police confrontation.

Photo Source Washington City Paper Blogs City Desk
During Washington’s record-breaking snowstorm on Saturday, a massive snowball fight was taking place at [...]

This made me laugh.  I love Al Franken.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Al Franken has taken the unusual step of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, currently is the target of liberal wrath over his opposition to a government-run insurance plan in the health care bill.
Franken was presiding over [...]

Wow…this is very cool.

An octopus and its coconut-carrying antics have surprised scientists.
Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters.
Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team says it is the first example of tool use in octopuses.
One of the [...]

Is it true? We don’t know for sure, but regardless it’s a cute photo.

A fawn followed this beagle home — right through the doggie door — In the Bittinger, MD area. The owner came home to find the visitor had made himself right at home. This hit the 6 o’clock news big time. Sure [...]

Thanks to 2fewfactsaround for the link.
“It’s crazy, life has just turned upside down. We’re absolutely over the moon. I never really expected it,” she said when interviewed by CNN. “Since then we’ve been recognized everywhere. I was in the doctor’s and people were coming up to me, and at the supermarket and even when I [...]

Wow, just wow.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA – It’s a sight that had drivers pulling off the road and bystanders gawking at the skies in awe in eastern Sacramento County Friday evening — a massive bird swarm, an estimated 500,000 strong, swirling and fluttering in effortlessly shifting formation in front of stunned spectators.
The amazing flock of European [...]

Rachel Maddow has an interesting discussion with Richard Cohen, the author of Coming Out Straight : Understanding and Healing Homosexuality. Rachel discusses in the first video those who are being used by the Ugandan government to justify it’s anti-homosexual bill. Here is the background on the bill:
Background
* The existing law, Section 140 of [...]

Limbaugh compares health care to housing.  If you have money, you get health care, if you don’t, oh well.  People with money get a house on the beach and the rest are shit out of luck.  How dare those who aren’t wealthy expect to be able to get health care.
Shatner: If you have money, you’re [...]

Officials from the State of Hawaii have confirmed Barack Obama’s birth certificate as being on file in Hawaii and that he is a U.S. citizen, so just what part of the “birther” discussion is fair game, Sarah?  Her nuttiness just keeps spilling out.
Just FYI, Article II, Section I of the Constitution says:
No person except a [...]

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Eisenhower Hall Theatre, United States Military Academy at West Point, West Point, New York
8:01 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to [...]

As many of you know, I was an Adam Lambert fan, but I can’t say I’m a fan of his performance tonight on the AMA awards.
Adam sang “For Your Entertainment.” and the sound was terrible….but it was terrible for everyone. The performance was frenetic and vulgar. I was afraid this was the direction [...]

I’ve read estimates of anywhere from 100 – 300 people were left behind with unsigned books. They had stood out in the rain and cold and Palin left before finishing the book signings. Imagine that….Palin quitting something before it was done.

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Despite the fact Jon Stewart is a comedian, this is an extremely intelligent and enlightening conversation between Stewart and Dobbs. Dobbs discusses why he left CNN and his view of the country and what is happening. Stewart, as always, brings a bit different point of view.

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2008 campaign file footage is being used to claim Palin is drawing huge crowds for her book tour. “These are some of the pictures just coming in to us.” Unbelievable.

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WARNING: While adult language is bleeped out, it is still pretty obvious.

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