I have to admit, I am a huge fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC. Why? Well, I have a long background in martial arts and fighting. Yeah, not very intellectual huh? To redeem myself, I will say that I love it for alternative reasons other than just liking the violence similar to the majority of watchers. What sparked me to write this is Chuck Liddell, the infamous title holder that is viewed as immortal, finally lost! Yes my friend, the long standing champion, that in my opinion was overrated, lost to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (summary of fight below).


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We all have heard about the corporate abuses and scandals that have been occurring under our wonderful pro-business Republican leadership. They are enough to make a sane person nauseous, and an American taxpayer downright sick. As outlined by alternet.org, Filmmaker Robert Greenwald, director of Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers, recently testified before Congress about corporate conduct in Iraq. What he detailed in excruciating detail included “price-gouging, out-and-out ripoffs, incomplete projects, giving dirty drinking water to U.S. troops in the field, charging the government for gas shipments that were never made, putting troops’ lives at risk guarding empty trucks on dangerous convoys in order to make a buck and a dozen other egregious offenses on the backs of U.S. taxpayers”. You are not going to believe what a prominent Republican Representative said in response to Greenwald’s presentation…

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After these last couple of days, I am so fu*king mad, so livid, so frustrated that I want to turn in my good citizenship card and go postal on America! What in the hell is wrong with us? You have the Republicans who have no morals, no logic, no ethics and a psychopathic imagination of doing “God’s” work all while the elitists, the loyal Bushies and Bushy lobbyists reap the greenest of all benefits. They are like parasites living off of their host, the innocent citizens of any country with natural resources to pillage for their selfish benefit. Oh, and then you have the Democrats. Where do I even start with them. They are about as aggressive, as powerful, as strong as a moderately dehydrated earth worm. Spineless, castrated and about as effective as a water gun during a massive air strike. Watching these gutless wonders go against Bush is like watching a marathon runner in a sumo wrestling contest.

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Do you remember stepping outside your door and being hit with a sound that produces a din that can overpower ringing telephones, lawn mowers and power tools? This distinctive noise is the mating call of the cicada or commonly known as “locust”. A single male’s shrill courtship call can reach 90 decibels which is equivalent to a blender. You may recognize them as the common red-eyed, shrimp-sized insects that don’t bite or sting but make a helluva lot of noise. The annual or dog-day cicadas that appear every summer are common around the world. However, there is a special kind of periodical cicadas which are only found in the eastern half of North America and are considered among the longest-lived insects in the world. Well, anyone living in parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana better be prepared for a massive re-emergence of billions of the Brood XIII. It sounds kind of like a horror flick, doesn’t it. But it’s not.

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It’s funny how isolated we are from the horrors of war. American citizens have never really had to get their hands dirty, especially in more recent wars where sacrifice and the raw horrors of war hasn’t touched us, but there are those who have soldiers coming home for which those horrors are coming home with them. What’s different now is the soldiers are not only coming home with mental scars permanently etched into their psyches, but oftentimes they come home with photos and videos that can be played right in the living room. If you are easily upset, you may no want to continue reading this because included in this article are graphic details of the ugly side of war that no one wants to talk about.

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Have you ever wondered about those people who get transplanted organs from other people and whether or not they feel any different with someone else’s organs? Well, researchers are finding out that there may be something with having another’s organ within you. There have been startling reports of how people have taken on personality quirks, mannerisms and desires from people from whom they received their hearts. Some of these reports are truly remarkable and will really make you think. I have read in a couple of sources that the mind is not in the brain. Scientists have studied, sliced, magnified and electrified the brain to exhastion, and in the end, there is still no central source or processing unit. Meaning, no one is behind the wheel, so to speak. So if it is not in the brain, where does it exist and what makes us… well, us? Is it in every organ, tissue, cell? Is our mind encoded in our DNA?

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With a “Simpsons” movie premiering this summer, its 400th episode airing this week, and more episodes scheduled for another season, Homer Simpson has truly become a celebrity. He is uniquely one of those bumbling idiots who has endeared us with his endless antics. He has deceived his friends, blown up his hometown, divided his neighborhood, and driven his wife, kids, pets, pastor, bar buddies, co-workers, and his bosses to distraction. Homer is the kind of person who seems to get into and out of everything. Matter of fact, his philosophy is…”Weaseling out of things is important to learn…it’s what separates us from the animals, except the weasal.”

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