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Articles from The Portland Upside: Bringing music to the community

Nice article about Crystal Meneses, my daughter's voice teacher and choir director at Ethos Music Center. My daughter has really blossomed as a singer over the past few years, and Crystal is a big reason why :)

Articles from The Portland Upside: Bringing music to the community

Aldis Hodge and some guy

Aldis Hodge and some guy
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Hardison and Chaos from Leverage

Zero Hedge: Goldman Sachs: "Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression"

Zero Hedge: Goldman Sachs: "Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression"

Music, the universal language?

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

My daughter singing "Stay" by Lisa Loeb

Sarah Palin's Twitter feed, as performed by Shatner | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Sarah Palin's Twitter feed, as performed by Shatner | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Aargh, or This Is Why We Don't Live On The East Coast - OregonLive.com

Aargh, or This Is Why We Don't Live On The East Coast - OregonLive.com

Seriously? You really think Obama was born in Kenya?

Seriously? You really think Obama was born in Kenya?

Op-Ed Columnist - Pharisees on the Potomac - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Pharisees on the Potomac - NYTimes.com

Sun Shareholders Say Aye to Oracle Merger - ReadWriteEnterprise

Sun Shareholders Say Aye to Oracle Merger - ReadWriteEnterprise

YouTube - Jermaine Jackson - Smile (Live Performance) @ Michael Jackson's Memorial Service

YouTube - Jermaine Jackson - Smile (Live Performance) @ Michael Jackson's Memorial Service

The Paper PC: CompuServe Classic: So Long, Old Friend

The Paper PC: CompuServe Classic: So Long, Old Friend

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Why Cardiac Arrest is Deadlier Than Heart Attack

Why Cardiac Arrest is Deadlier Than Heart Attack

The Glass Half Full Perspective on Lakers Win | Bleacher Report

The Glass Half Full Perspective on Lakers Win | Bleacher Report

But Can Kobe Win Without Derek Fisher?

But Can Kobe Win Without Derek Fisher? (lol)

Jimmy Eat World Music

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NBC renews 'Chuck'!

In the battle of Chuck vs. the Network Suits, the Buy More geek has prevailed. NBC has decided to give Josh Schwartz's well-liked action-comedy another shot next fall.

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Twitter Robot from 1935 (PIC)

Aug. 1935—Known as the "notificator," the new machine is installed in streets, stores railroad stations or other public place where individuals may leave messages for friends. The machine is similar in appearance to a candy-vending device.

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Fox News Boycott » Janeane Garafalo Handles Fox News Ambush

Coming out of Starbucks, minding her own business, Janeane Garafalo was ambushed with with questions about her comments regarding the Tea Party protesters being “racist rednecks.” She handled herself well and turned the table by pointing out some of the offensive signs and asking, several times, “Why were they not protesting for the last 8 yrs?"

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Fmr. Powell deputy unloads on Cheney: “go home and shut up”

Former Colin Powell aide Lawrence Wilkerson, a Republican, unloaded on Dick Cheney on tonight's Rachel Maddow Show, for his weekend attack on Powell, calling out Cheney’s five deferments to avoid serving in the Vietnam war.

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What the rest of the world sees when we kill civilians

The Afghan president is in Washington DC for high level talks, but back in Afghanistan a deadly airstrike has once again killed scores of civilians. The local governor of a small community in Wes...

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Infiltration

Infiltration
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Poll: Bush Getting Even More Unpopular Out Of Office

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that former President Bush's popularity has dropped since he left office.

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FBI Arrests Oklahoma Teabagger For Twitter Threats

An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal charge of making interstate threats last week, in what appears to be first criminal prosecution to stem from posts on the microblogging site.

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On Earth Day 2009, a Bird's-Eye View : Slide Show

Thanks to the watchful eyes of Earth-observing satellites, scientists today have an ever-changing window to the planet's mountains, forests, deserts, seas, and atmosphere. This Earth Day we offer a peek at some of Earth's storytelling vistas, as seen from space.

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kink.fm - Les Sarnoff

kink.fm - Les Sarnoff

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1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump

A Tax Day dumping of tea in Lafayette Park is bagged. A tea party at Lafayette Park can't include the dumping of 1 million tea bags. Somebody got the wrong permit. Sometimes you gotta wish you had a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER on hand so things like this wouldn't happen...

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Charlie the Unicorn 3 ...shun the non-believers!

Charlie and his friends are on a mission to save the world!CHARLIE STORE:http://www.cafepress.com/filmcow/1457783DOWNLOAD THE SONG as well as watch a high-quality version on FilmCow:http://www.filmcow.com/

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Purple for Maddie and Love for Thalon

Purple for Maddie and Love for Thalon: the Blogging Community Comes Togetherby lauriewrites"So shines a good deed in a weary world," Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice. Gene Wilder repeated it in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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Twitter Vulnerability: Mutating Fast and More on the Way

Just hours after Twitter began removing the first cross-site scripting vulnerability that hit its site this weekend, a new modified strain has been found, and according to F-Secure, it's not the last one we're likely to see over the next few days.

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Some Of Our Favorite Easter Eggs

Just as children love hunting for Easter eggs, we love finding virtual Easter eggs in software and Web apps—those intentional hidden messages, features or jokes built into the software that users in the know may stumble upon at some point during their experience with the application.

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Tea Parties Forever

Everything that critics mock about the recent antitaxation demonstrations has long been standard practice within the Republican Party.

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Beck Tea Bagging Parties Bring out the Best Wackos

To recap, Obama was elected because of a communist conspiracy that began in the 50s, the television digital transition is a ploy to install "brainwashing machines" in every home, don't let your kids to go to college because they're being brainwashed and, while we're at it, burn the books!

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How to kill e-mail (before it kills you)

Every communications medium has its own costs and benefits. But with e-mail, the costs grow over time as the benefits shrink. It's now just an easy way for everyone and anyone to waste your time and steal your attention. Here's how to stop using e-mail, and replace it with newer, better forms of communication.

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FriendFeed BETA = Real Time Web, news, chat, conversations!

Monday 4/6 - http://Beta.FriendFeed.com was released - see the web in REAL TIME - news AS it happens... amazing!See http://beta.friendfeed.com/about/betafaq for more info.

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Demi Moore Uses Twitter to Help Save Suicidal Woman

Suicidal woman posts a message on Demi Moore's Twitter page saying she's going to kill herself. Moore and her followers contacted the San Jose Police Department and the woman was found unharmed.

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Earth Hour in 2009 [PICS]

Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 29th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change

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Earth Hour 2009

Official Earth Hour 2009 video. Earth Hour is on March 28th, 2009 at 8:30pm. More at http://www.earthhour.orgSupport Earth Hour by making your own video and adding it to our Earth Hour Global group here:http://www.youtube.com/group/earthhourglobalEarth Hour images can be downloaded and shared from our flickr photostream, including Shep...

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Education reform: Let's start by burning all the textbooks

Paper textbooks are problematic in two ways: First, they're paper. Second, they're textbooks. Paper textbooks are bland, lifeless, designed-by-committee, politically correct intellectual junk food that cost five times what they should. It's time to go electronic with course materials, and let instructors (and students) choose *real* books online.

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Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus We Need

We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal? Because as history shows, industrial Hemp was the REAL target when Cannabis was made illegal, but a racist reefer madness fear campaign would not have worked against it as well as it did 'marihuana'.

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Hawaii Rockstar

Unofficial Hawaii version of the music video for the song Rockstar. We produced this piece as a means to boost spirits in the State of Hawaii during tough economic times. Big mahalo to everyone that supported us with this project.

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Conservatives Against Marijuana Prohibition

Why Conservatives should insist on overturning cannabis prohibition in New York: cut wasteful spending, restore respect for law enforcement, grow a sustainable economy without large government stimulus

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Obama fires back at Cheney on 60 Minutes

Dick Cheney and the anti-terror policies of the Bush years have not "made us safer," according to President Barack Obama. -=W/ VIDEO=-

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Charting a new path for charter schools

Charter schools are the answer. Or hadn't you heard?Our president says so. Droves of students and parents say so with great enthusiasm. I hear from lots of them.

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Charting a new path for charter schools

Charter schools are the answer. Or hadn't you heard?Our president says so. Droves of students and parents say so with great enthusiasm. I hear from lots of them.

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Old age begins at 27 - scientists claim after new research

New research shows that many well-known effects of ageing may start in our late 20s, decades before our twilight years According to scientists, our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.

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Penn Jilette Says: Legalize Marijuana

As the one guy who's never smoked dope, Penn Says, STOP the war on drugs now! When Penn Jillette has an opinion, it's a safe bet he won't hold back.

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Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health

Cases of MRSA, a type of staph infection that is resistant to antibiotics, have raised concerns that agricultural practices in hog farms could be fueling a public health threat.

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Jim Cramer Gets PWND By Jon Stewart On The Daily Show VIDEO

Having been slammed repeatedly by host Jon Stewart over the past few days for one-sided journalism, Cramer fled any real direct confrontation in his lengthy interview and instead went contrite — absurdly contrite. His voice went high and cracked, his thoughts fragmented as they left his mouth.

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Bristol Palin & Fiancé Split

Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and her fiancé Levi Johnston have broken up. So much for a shotgun wedding.

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Thousands attend Irish murder protests

Thousands of people have attended a series of rallies across NI to show their anger at the murders of two soldiers and a policeman.

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Religion: Accident, Adaptation or Both?

Whether or not God exists, thinking about Him doesn't require divinely dedicated neurological wiring. Instead, religious thoughts run on brain systems used to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling.

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My Beef With Ann Coulter by Meghan McCain

I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time. Does she really believe all Jewish people should be “perfected” and become Christians? If figureheads like Ann Coulter are turning me off, then they are definitely turning off other members of my generation as well.

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McCain's Daughter: Ann Coulter Is a Trainwreck

Meghan McCain ripped Coulter for being "a train wreck" and called her the "biggest culprit" when it comes to perpetuating the negative stereotype of Republicans in her most recent blog post for the Daily Beast.

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Sarah Palin Takes Center Stage: Tax Issue

Gov. Sarah Palin's agreement to reimburse the state for trips her children took at government expense does not address potential tax problems she might face for charging Alaska thousands of dollars for their travel

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Iraq Withdrawal Plan Gains G.O.P. Support

President Obama is to announce that he would pull combat forces out by August 2010 while leaving behind a residual force of 35,000 to 50,000 troops.

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The Teenager Audio Test - Can You Hear This Sound?

This sound can generally only heard by people under the age of 25. It has been used as a deterrent device to keep teenagers from loitering in malls and shops, and sounds similar to a buzzing mosquito. Typically the longer you listen to it, the more annoying it gets.

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Why the Twitter Haters Are Wrong

If you choose to seek out and follow narcissistic, insecure, shallow, self-indulgent people who insist on sharing every mundane detail of their pointless lives, there’s something wrong with you, not the Twitter service. To focus on shallow users is to pretend that you didn’t choose to follow them.

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Safari 4 Beta Still Slower than Google Chrome

But bling, eye candy, and nice helper features make Safari a good choice. And the performance difference, it should be said, is too small to be noticeable in everyday browsing.

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Brazilian "Land of Twins" May Be Caused By Nazi Eugenics

Geneticists have no solid explanation for the 38 pairs of twins among about 80 German families living in a one-and-a-half-square-mile area in Brazil. Some researchers have suggested the darker possibility that Josef Mengele, the Nazi physician known as the Angel of Death, was involved.

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When Consumers Cut Back: A Lesson From Japan

Japan offers a peek at how thrift can take lasting hold of a consumer society, to disastrous effect.

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Amid the grieving, a rare act of sportsmanship

There is a lot to learn from these kids. It is not just about winning a game, but about playing it in the best of the spirits...

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New Zealand Internet blackout protest

New laws that arrive in New Zealand on 28th February mean anyone *ACCUSED* three times of copyright infringement gets their internet connection disconnected. No court+jury required.In protest of this insane and draconian law, New Zealanders are doing a blackout protest - changing avatars to black, and websites to black.Join us

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Facebook Thinks You're Stupid

The Facebook fiasco -- the stealth editing of their terms of service, the revocation and the CEO's explanation — demonstrates that Facebook thinks users are too stupid to care about or understand the reasons behind its TOS. But Facebook isn't alone in this assessment. Microsoft and others are similarly condescending toward users.

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Twitters Suspended - The Full Story

The full story about the events that played out today. 4 innocent Twitters (@minervity, @cameronolivier, @imjustcreative and @cristianvasile) got cought up in the #hashtagmafia's attemp to get people banned from Twitter. Thrilling news article!

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Anatomy Of A Smear: Keith Olbermann Debunks Stimulus Attacks

...McCaughey claimed that the plan contained health technology language that let the federal government could "monitor" patient care in order to "guide your doctor's decisions." In short, a top-down bureaucracy that would enforce its own set of medical treatment protocols. Naturally, that would be bad, and naturally, not a word of it was true.

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Sam Stein: Dems Fed Up With McCain:

Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with the brash political attacks Sen. John McCain has launched against Barack Obama in the weeks since the new president took office. No one expected the Arizona Republican to be a legislative ally for this administration. But it was widely assumed that Obama's overtures to McCain in the weeks...

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Presidential Historians: Bush One of Worst Presidents Ever

Sixty-five presidential historians and experts surveyed by C-SPAN rank George W. Bush 36th overall out of the 42 men who have served as President of the US. While even Hoover fares higher, Bush's "legacy" bests only those of Fillmore, Harding, Harrison, Pierce, Johnson and Buchanan. Meanwhile--Clinton, Kennedy and Reagan remain in the top 20.

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Hawaii's Cartoonist, and my friend, Corky Trinidad, Has Died

I was so sorry to learn that Corky Trinidad died this morning. Corky was a local treasure for Hawaii. He was every cartoonist’s friend and a mentor to Hawaii’s young cartoonists. Corky was also incredibly prolific, drawing a mind blowing two cartoons a day, with a color cartoon on the front page of the paper and a second cartoon on the edit...

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Google Chrome for Mac

First Screenshots and some info.

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Democrat? Republican? Who Keeps F'ing Us Over?

Who argued for taking this cap on executive pay out of the stimulus bill? Do we have a free and strong press in this country? Or are they in on it, too? If not, then find out who did this to us.

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Letter to Obama About the Republicans, From An Ex-Republican

"You need to forget a bipartisan approach. You will never be able to work with the Republicans because they hate you. Limbaugh and Coulter are the norm not the exception. Dobson and the rest are praying you fail. The neoconservatives are gnashing their teeth and waiting for you to "show weakness" so they can declare you a traitor."

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The GOP Has Declared War On Obama - The Daily Dish | By Andr

This much is now clear. Their clear and open intent is to do all they can, however they can, to sabotage the new administration (and the economy to boot). They want failure. Even now. Even after the last eight years. Even in a recession as steeply dangerous as this one.

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The new D.C.: Same as it ever was - Charles Mahtesian and Pa

So much for post-partisanship.

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Samsung unveils solar-powered cell phone

Samsung Electronics today rolled out a solar-powered cell phone called the "Blue Earth." The phone will be a touch-screen phone without physical buttons, like the iPhone. The solar panel is on the back of the handset. The Blue Earth phone will be made from the plastic of recycled water bottles.

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Phelps Bong Owner Charged After Trying To Sell Piece On Ebay

The owner of the bong used by Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps tried to sell the marijuana water pipe on eBay -- getting himself charged with the party attendees in the process. "Sources say the owner of the bong was trying to sell it on eBay for as much as $100,000," the paper reports. The bong has been located and confiscated by police.

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Marijuana Appears to Slow Cancer Growth - FOX NEWS

A fair and balanced story on how Marijuana cures cancer - in laboratory tests, cannabinoids, the active components in marijuana, were found to slow the spread of lung and cervical cancer tumors, according to researchers Robert Ramer and Burkhard Hinz of the University of Rostock in Germany.

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Congressman Twitters secret trip to Iraq

For security reasons, the congressional delegation led by House Minority Leader John Boehner to Iraq today was supposed to be secret. Everything had been going fine in that regard. Even media outlets which knew of the trip, like the Congressional Quarterly, kept a lid on the news......

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Whiff of change in US medical marijuana policy

The White House won't say it explicitly. Neither will the Drug Enforcement Administration. Yet there is a whiff in the air that U.S. policy is about to change when it comes to medical marijuana.

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Obama Slams GOP In Stimulus Speech

He finally said what needed to be said.

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Bush's chief of staff is full of crap

One day after President Bush's former Chief of Staff Andrew Card blasted President Obama for breaking the Bush dress code, which reportedly required that a jacket be worn by anyone entering the Oval Office, we've unearthed a photo of, well, a jacketless President Bush in the Oval Office.

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Afghan Leader Finds Himself Hero No More

Once supported by the U.S., President Hamid Karzai is no longer in favor with the White House or his own people.

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9/11 families applaud Obama at meeting on Guantanamo

After an emotional, private meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama, survivors and victims' relatives of two al Qaida attacks said Friday that the president quelled some of their fears about closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention center, promised them an "open-door" policy and a hand in shaping anti-terror policies, and said...

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Gallup: Obama popular, trustworthy; Stim popular; Rush = Not

Don't let the Republican Spinmeisters, Psych-Ops Warriors, & Whiners make you believe the President is losing support among the American public. According to Gallup, despite his setbacks with his cabinet nominees, the American people trust him even more now than when he got inaugurated. This is what happens when a President is willing to...

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Olbermann: It's time for Cheney to 'leave this country'

"It is time for you to desist or to be made to desist," said Olbermann in Thursday's special comment. "With damnable words you protect no American, you serve no American and you aid and abet those who would destroy this nation from within or without. ... Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" VIDEO included.

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White House panel will guide faith-based programs

The 25-member council of religious and secular advisors will reportedly focus renewed attention on poverty.

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Obama Tops Worlds Most Respected List

President Barack Obama has catapulted past the Dalai Lama as the most respected world leader at 71% approval.

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Japan’s Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson for U.S.

Over two decades, Japan accumulated the largest public debt in the developed world while failing to generate a convincing recovery.

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25 Things I Didn't Want To Know About You

A list of 25 things I wish people hadn't shared with me on Facebook

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How Twitter Was Born

@Jack was still just an engineer, and the service was only a few months old when the group acquired Twitter.com and re-branded. Back then, we had no character limit on our system. Messages longer than 160 characters (the common SMS carrier limit) were split into multiple texts and delivered (somewhat) sequentially.

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Jessica Alba schools Bill O’Reilly in WW II history

Alba and O’Reilly traded punches last week after the presidential inauguration. After Alba told a reporter that O’Reilly was “kind of an a-hole;” he retaliated by calling her a “pinhead” for telling a reporter to “be Sweden about it,” assuming she meant Switzerland. Alba replied publicly by stating that Sweden was, in fact, neutral in WW II.

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Obama’s First 100 Hours: A Clean Break From Bush

Obama has made a clean break from the Bush legacy in his early going, undertaking a number of actions that the former President would never have considered. We've compiled a report documenting Obama’s record so far:

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What A Nigerian Facebook Scam Looks Like

Ever have an old friend start chatting you up on Facebook only to realize the dude clearly is a Nigerian scammer looking for a handout? Well, might as well have some fun, or even make a new friend, right?

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Congolese Rebel Leader Apprehended

Gen. Laurent Nkunda, the fearsome rebel leader whose ambitions and tactics threatened to destabilize eastern Congo, was arrested along the Rwandan border.

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The Ultimate Dad Photo From Today’s Inauguration

by adamkeats | Jan 20, 2009I saw this photo on the Chicago Tribune’s Web site today, taken this morning by AP photographer Susan Walsh and couldn’t help but think that of all the heaps of congratulations our new president will get today, as a father, nothing will probably mean more to him than this.

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CNN: Roberts 'screwed up' oath of office

The oath of office of the President of the United States is perhaps the most hallowed tradition in American politics. It marks the end of an intense election process, the peaceful transition of power, and perhaps even the rise of a new generation. But today, it was a bungle of supreme proportion...

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Barack Obama Officialy Becomes 44th American President

Constitution states he becomes president , term begins at noon even without oath ......... New History Begins !!!!

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Changing the Image of Religion: The New Faith Coalition

by Jim Wallis 01-19-2009 The day after the inauguration, I will be joining with Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Christian leaders at the National Prayer Service for our new president. Each of us will look different, sound different and hold different beliefs, but each of us will humbly offer words of hope and blessing for our country and its leaders.

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Obama steps to door of White House — and history

Washington, Jan 20: Barack Obama stood at the threshold of the White House, summoning fellow Americans to join him in service as tens of thousands flocked to the nation's capital to celebrate his inauguration as the first black President.

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Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You weren’t what I wanted either.jus b glad dat u dint git dis 4 a presint.

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Band from TV - TV DEBUT - on Tonight Show with Jay Leno

720p: Band from TV - TV DEBUT - on Tonight Show with Jay LenoJan 16 2009720p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0q3MWdxa0&fmt=22Hugh Laurie on the show, and then performing on stage live with some of the people below:Greg GrunbergJames DentonBonnie SomervilleBob GuineyTeri HatcherJesse SpencerChris KelleyBarry SarnaB...

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Katie Shearer, 24.... Blazer fan... will you remember her lesson?

A story worth reading. I had malignant melanoma over 14 years ago...I was one of the lucky ones....God bless her family

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How the Susan Crawford interview changes everything we know

Torture? You betcha... now's time to close down Gitmo and start saying our sorries.

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Apple CEO Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence

Chief Executive Steve Jobs, in email to employees, said his health issues are more complex than thought and is taking a medical leave until June.

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End the Genocide in Darfur

Ending the genocide in Darfur must be a "day one" priority for the Obama administration.

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Health insurer accused of overcharging millions

One of the nation's largest health insurers has agreed to pay $50 million in a settlement after being accused of overcharging millions of Americans for health care.

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Grandson of slaves

CNN's Don Lemon discusses an emotional, upcoming story with CNN.com's Wayne Drash about a Mississippi man descended from slaves.

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30 Minutes with Felicia Day

Who wouldn't want to spend 30 minutes with Felicia Day? Simply amazing. All proceeds benefit Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, which is also pretty awesome.

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Invitation to Pre-Inauguration Opening of The George W. Bush

Invitation to Pre-Inauguration Opening of The George W. Bush

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Meet the Whistleblower: Hospital Admin Takes Down Blago

When Pamela Davis agreed to wear an FBI wire in late 2003, she became a key part of the investigation that culminated in the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat.The extent of Davis' role as a whistle-blower and FBI informant exceeded her expectations.

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White House Asked Howard To Stay In Blair House ...

... after Obama had put in a request to stay there. Not only is that incredibly mean spirited and spiteful, given the arrangements Obama needed to make for his girls, it also demonstrates an astonishing waste of government funds. Have you SEEN how many rooms Blair House has?

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House Impeaches Blagojevich 114-1

In a historic vote, the Illinois House has impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich, directing the Senate to put the state's 40th chief executive on trial with the goal of removing him from office.

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Report: Gmail about one-third as expensive as hosted email

A new report by the research company has taken a look under the hood of both in-house and commercial e-mail services, and put some numbers on the per-user costs associated with a variety of options. The surprise result was not so much that Google's corporate services come out ahead, but rather how large a lead it has on every other option.

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Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

A look at who the real pirates are.

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Endless Vote Recounting Tests Minnesota Niceness

Many voters said the sniping over a still-unfilled Senate seat could hurt Norm Coleman, the Republican incumbent, in particular.

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Pink Iguana That Darwin Missed Holds Evolutionary Surprise

For iguanas, it turns out that it's not easy being pink, either.Biologists report that a rare type of pink iguana found on a single volcano in the Galapagos Islands is a genetically-distinct species from its green cousins — and that it's probably critically endangered.

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Minnesota Canvassing Board Certifies Franken Win

The Minnesota State Canvassing Board on Monday certified the results of the recount of Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's fight to retain his seat against Democrat Al Franken. The results showed Franken with a 225-vote lead. Coleman's attorney, Tony Trimble, said shortly after the ruling that the campaign will officially file a lawsuit.

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Joe Moakley’s legacy is global justice

The complaint filed Nov. 13 in the Spanish High Court against the former president of El Salvador and 14 former members of the Salvadoran military charging complicity in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests is a reminder that good deeds by members of Congress may bear fruit even decades after those members are gone.

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Fox News TWITTER account hacked? or Bill O'Reilly is gay?

A few minutes ago the official Fox News Twitter account posted “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay” (referring to the host of the popular Fox show O’Reilly Factor), right after a legitimate message about making turkey lettuce wraps.

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Twitter Hack Trail Leads To 'DigitalGangster'

It all seems to point back to one person that goes by “Gmz” on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz obtained the account credentials and then posted them on DigitalGanster.

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