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While you are worried about the $700 billion price tag for bailing out our economy, Congress just easily passed $612 billion to be sent to cover defense spending for the FAILED Iraq war (I don’t care that the surged worked, we have still failed the original mission), and the FAILED Afghanistan War (failed because our focus is continually diverted to the Iraq war). So, in reality, we have two bailouts. Our government has to bailout Bush, and his Bushites with their Iraq War débâcle, and our economy because of … um, could it be? Bush, and his Bushites? Ding, ding, ding! Tell them what they have one Johnny. Yes, it is Bush’s fault, maybe not entirely, but he has had a major hand in his deregulation of big business initiative since he took office.

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God damn it Bill and Hillary. I mean really. This isn’t the high school prom, and Hillary wasn’t supposed to be Prom Queen. She lost. Get over it! Let’s move on. Yet, I don’t think they will, and I too believe there is a slight motivation to see McCain win, so that Hillary can have a chance in 2012 (the end of the world! According to some.) Am I the only one that notices how Hillary is still campaigning, and Bill can’t say Obama’s name to save his life?

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The FACTS about the infamous POW era of John McCain told by one of the 600 fellow POW’s.

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Here is a bit of background about the author of this incredible story:

Doctor Phillip Butler is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner of war. He is a highly decorated combat veteran who was awarded two Silver Stars, two Legion of Merits, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Heart medals.

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Way to go America! Just in case you can’t read such large numbers, the title says 11 billion dollars in one quarter, that’s just 3 months! And don’t forget, that is NET profit, not gross. Net is after you subtract ALL expenses, and that is what you actually put in your pocket. From all of you continuing to purchase Exxon-Mobile gas, you just made them the largest net profit EVER from operating as a US based corporation. While many of my classmates can’t go to class because they can’t afford the gas, you keep rewarding Exxon for their unethical treatment of the American public.

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Yea, I’d say something got stimulated, just not in the way Bush wanted. I don’t think anyone is really surprised about this. I sure as hell am not. I predicted, like many others, that it would go to bills, credit card debt or some kind of debauchery. Who in the hell is going to think to themselves, “Hey, I got $300 or $600; I am just going to blow it on some stupid, materialist trinket or dohicky when gas prices are going sky high, and I am living off of credit card loans. That’s a great idea!”

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Now this is pretty darn cool. I never really knew there was anything special about how sand moved about in a desert. The below article describes how sand is not only moved around by wind, but by electrical static as well. It is said that as the sand moves about the Earth because of wind, it strikes the surface of the Earth and picks up electrons, and along with it, a negative charge. The sand on the ground is then left with a positive charged.

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Here is something that I find very interesting. The very same thing that locked away all the carbon from our atmosphere millions of years ago is now being researched to lock it away again. Certain types of grasses (wheat and sorghum) have been found to store away extra minerals and scrape plant materials in little balls called phytoliths, also known as ‘plantstones’. These stones have been found to contain extra carbon that the plant did not use during its photosynthesis.

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Snipped from PhysOrg.com.

Short answer: maybe. It seems that physicians are not taking placebos as lightly as we once thought. The placebo effect, “a therapeutical effect based solely on the power of suggestion” that has showed up in all clinical trials and is commonly used scientifically in pharmaceutical research, is said to be used by 45% of Chicago internists when prescribing to patients.

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As if we didn’t have enough reasons to fight against the use of coal power plants, we have, yet, another one that may be just as bad as the others! The stereotype of coal power plants being safer than nuclear power plants, at least when it comes to radiation, has been drastically broken. It seems that coal ash, also known as fly ash, “contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste.” It has to do with the uranium and thorium levels in natural coal. Unburned, the levels of these dangerous compounds are somewhat benign, but when burned, they are concentrated up to ten times their natural levels.

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Now, I thought this was pretty clever. Not exactly the best analogy, but pretty comical nonetheless. Here is a common father using the same abstinence only ideology that has been such a success thus far with our nation’s children for gun safety.

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