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NFL Picks of the Week: Week 15, Cheerleading Sisters

Sports – This week there is not just one, but two cheerleaders of the week. Why? Because Kelley and Katie of the Washington Redskins Cheerleading Squad are sisters and have been on the squad together for the past seven years.

Submitted and Voted for on December 14, 2007 03:56pm

National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute
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National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute

Money – Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day or nearly $1 million a minute. What's that mean to you? It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States.

Voted for on December 03, 2007 02:29pm

Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement
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Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement

Humor – WASHINGTON - "All the feminist movement needed to do was bring on someone who had the balls to do something about this glass ceiling business," said new chief of operations Peter "Buck" McGowan, who quickly closed the 23.5 percent gender wage gap by "making a few calls to the big boys upstairs."

Voted for on December 03, 2007 02:29pm

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Movie Review: The Golden Compass

Movies – I must admit that fantasies like The Golden Compass are right up my alley. I've never been one for tales of knights and dragons, but give me a good magical fantasy, especially British based, and you have me. There's something about hidden worlds of magic that just get me...

Submitted and Voted for on December 03, 2007 12:17pm

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A History of Historic Tea Parties

Politics – This December Sixteenth the The Patriots of the Third Millenium, the Human Movement, and Grandsons and Daughters of Liberty are throwing another bomb at the Capito-Socialist-Statist regime that has gripped the world. On December Sixteenth throw some change to Ron Paul, and get some real issues discussed

Submitted and Voted for on December 03, 2007 12:32am

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Government Spent $1 Billion Against... Sex?

Politics – The government has in total spent over $2 billion on teaching YOU not to have sex, because it is evil or you will get warts. I call . Stop stealing my money and spending it fighting something I happen to enjoy greatly, thanks.

Voted for on November 30, 2007 04:53pm

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Jurassic Park was right about 'raptors'

Science – Jurassic Park had the right ideas about "raptor" dinosaurs ââ;¬" they were big, they were bad, and they roamed in packs ââ;¬" at least when they lived in Shandong Province, China, 120 to 100 million years ago, a fossil trackway shows. It is the first solid evidence of group

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:13pm

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Beyond the Electoral College

Politics – If it is problematic that individual Californians' votes count less in the Senate, in the Electoral College, and in the occasional House of Representatives voting for president than those of Wyoming citizens, the solution is easy to identify: California should be divided into numerous less populous states. If it were, its citizens' and former citiz

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:13pm

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If Gore Were Arrested...

Do No Evil – Fresh from winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change evangelism, Al Gore is apparently considering an invitation from a prominent environmental group to engage in civil disobedience against the construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:12pm

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Clinton, Giuliani Scariest Costume Picks

Politics – Once again, Hillary Rodham Clinton leads in a poll. This time, she's the top choice when people are asked which major 2008 presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume.

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:12pm

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Government by Think Tank

Politics – The welfare-warfare State is evolving into rule by college-trained bureaucrats. The way they see things, we need them to guide us and make decisions for us. We hire them as experts to run our lives for us. They have the credentials and qualifications that we untrained and unwashed do not have. Society has created the government jobs. They fill them

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:12pm

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Myths That Waste Energy In The Kitchen

Food – Superstitions about baking and roasting account for much energy wastage in the modern kitchen. "Preheat your oven" is an old wives tale that, with perhaps a few exceptions, can be ignored in the interest of energy saving.

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:11pm

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Obama would snub VP offer from Hillary if asked

Politics – Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said Monday he wouldn't accept a vice presidential slot should his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, defeat him in securing the Democratic party's nomination for president.

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:11pm

Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
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Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin

Music – As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.

Voted for on October 29, 2007 11:10pm

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10 SciFi Films you Should See (but probably haven't)

Movies – 10 science-fiction films that largely flew under the radar, underrated or unknown gems that make use of the imaginative bombast of sci-fi through big ideas or unlikely images.

Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:20am