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I am a 56 year old Electrical Engineer. I am a runner who has logged over 30,000 miles in the past 42 years. I play tennis regularly. I enjoy a good argument and like to hear others opinions. I dont engage in name calling and would appreciate the same treatment, although I do enjoy satire and irony. I also love a good pun.
Member Since: March 7, 2007
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 122 votes / 2 sinks
Who Are The Superdelegates?
Politics – Barring a huge late turnaround, the deciding votes for the Democratic nomination will come from the approximately 800 "superdelegates," automatically seated and free to vote as they please. Who are these powerful insiders? Why are they there? The story goes back 40 years, to the bloody debacle of the 1968 convention and subsequent loss to Richard Nixon.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 161 votes / 2 sinks
Rev. Wright's honorary degree canceled by Northwestern
News – Northwestern University withdrew an invitation for the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to receive an honorary degree at this year's commencement.
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(news.yahoo.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 151 votes / 6 sinks
Antioxidants: Nature's Anti-Aging Prescription
Health & Fitness – Antioxidants are believed to be effective in helping to prevent cancer, heart disease, stroke and a variety of other ailments by destroying harmful free radicals inside the body. Antioxidant are also linked to anti-aging both inside and outside (when applied to the skin) the body.
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(carefair.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 108 votes / 22 sinks
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh
Science – Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.
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(theaustralian.news.com.au)
Voted for on April 24, 2008 11:20am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 164 votes / 10 sinks
Clinton Wins In Pennsylvania
News – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has won Pennsylvania's presidential primary, a victory that analysts said she had to have if she were to remain a credible candidate for the Democratic nomination.
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(msnbc.msn.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 179 votes / 17 sinks
SHOCK POLL: Clinton Takes 20-point lead in Pennsylvania
Politics – A new poll released Monday by the American Research Group gives Hillary Clinton a twenty point lead in Pennsylvania - up from a tied race just a week ago.
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(rawstory.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 112 votes / 9 sinks
BBC - Global warming 'dips this year'
Science – Global temperatures will drop this year UN meteorologists have said. This would mean that temperatures have not risen globally since 1998.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
Voted for on April 15, 2008 09:14am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 122 votes / 2 sinks
The Clean Energy Scam
Science – Several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it's dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it.
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(time.com)
Voted for on April 01, 2008 09:15am
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 97 votes / 12 sinks
Gore's Message To Climate Change Skeptics
Science – Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global Warming Is Manmade Is Akin To Believing Earth Is Flat
This story has mostly positive ratings. 95 votes / 2 sinks
Myths and Facts about the Common Cold
Health & Fitness – What is really true and what is just a myth about the common cold, the most widespread disease at present?
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(geniusbeauty.com)
Voted for on March 27, 2008 10:27am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 126 votes / 7 sinks
Obama a Distant Cousin of Bush
Politics – It has emerged that Barack Obama is a tenth cousin, once removed, of the man whose job he wants - George W Bush.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Scientist explains: Global warming stopped a decade ago
Science – actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down.
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(theaustralian.news.com.au)
Voted for on March 24, 2008 02:09pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 99 votes / 12 sinks
Americans Cool to Global Warming Action, New Poll Finds
Science – Nearly Half Wouldn't Be Willing to Pay Even a Penny More for Gasoline; Opposition to Taxes Especially Strong Among Minorities.
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(texasinsider.org)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 109 votes / 11 sinks
Global warming rushes timing of spring
Science – The capital's famous cherry trees are primed to burst out in a perfect pink peak about the end of this month. Thirty years ago, the trees usually waited to bloom till around April 5.
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(news.yahoo.com)
Sunk on March 20, 2008 08:58am
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 180 votes / 37 sinks
A Speech That Fell Short
Politics – Barack Obama has run a campaign based on a simple premise: that words of unity and hope matter to America. Now he has been forced by his charismatic, angry pastor to argue that words of hatred and division don't really matter as much as we thought.
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(washingtonpost.com)
Voted for on March 19, 2008 12:40pm
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