Snipped from ScientificBlogging.com.

Have you ever dreamed of being a superhero? Want to shed your mere mortal traits and take on some superhuman ones like flying, super-strength, invisibility or cling to vertical surfaces like a spider? Well, science may have gotten you much closer to your childhood dreams. Especially for the Spiderman fans among us. It all boils down to the reproduction of a quantum physics attribute called the van der Waals force.

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Snipped from FollowTheMoneyProject.org.

As an American taxpayer, I am disgusted with the nonchalant attitude of George W. in his never ending request for more money for the Iraq War. Not too long ago Bush got $147 Billion with his “supplemental” money that the Democrats rolled over on. And, every time Bush asks for money, he plays the “support the troops” card and makes it sound like if he doesn’t get the money, the troops will suffer. How many times is he going to use this tactic? I guess as many times as the Democrats fall for it. But the truth is that the additional $50 Billion he is asking for will not help the troops. What has been proven is that it goes elsewhere. You will be surprised at where all the money goes.

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Here we go again. Another hideous legacy from another catastrophic war which never should have happened. I don’t know if you guys remember the devastating effects of agent orange on returning Vietnam vets’ health that the government denied for a couple of decades. Well, it was real after all, and even became known as the Gulf War Syndrome. Now we have an even more serious and deadly attack on our U.S. soldiers and it’s not from IEDs or bullets. It’s called “depleted uranium” and it comes from exploded tanks and armored vehicles. This is the stuff that the U.S. military is most proud of because it is very effective at penetrating armored vehicles. It accomplishes its task by using radioactive chemicals which are known as depleted uranium. What happens is as these munitions explode they diffuse a substance that hits the air as fine dust which is easily inhaled. Of course, again, the Pentagon is denying that any ill health has resulted from depleted uranium. So, what is going on with our returning soldiers that is causing them to die from extremely aggressive cancers?

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