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Testing the TSA with Titanium Man
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Simply put: I carry enough titanium in with me to set off most metal detectors, unless their settings are on low. Therein lies the truth that I see every time I fly: The security system in the aviation world was, is, and will always be a sham to a certain extent. There are way too many holes to call it secure.
NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
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NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe
That should give them enough time to fly some of the Greys over from Area 51.
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Cartoons
BP commissions film on BP oil disaster
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It’s not exactly a disaster film on the Michael Bay scale, but BP is in the process of assembling a feature-length chronicle of the environmental catastrophe that will be all but synonymous with the oil giant’s brand for many years to come: the great Gulf oil spill of 2010.
The New York Times’ Brian Stelter reports today that BP will provide funding for the project. However, in Stelter’s words, the oil giant insists that the film "is not intended to scrub its reputation clean."
And in other news, they have a bridge for sale…
WikiLeaks
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In a rare, two-hour interview conducted in London on November 11, Assange said that he’s still sitting on a trove of secret documents, about half of which relate to the private sector. And WikiLeaks’ next target will be a major American bank. “It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume,” he said, adding: “For this, there’s only one similar example. It’s like the Enron emails.”
Wait, what? Some big banks are crooks?
Why didn’t anybody tell me this before?
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Obama proposes freeze in federal worker pay
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President Barack Obama proposed a two-year freeze on Monday on the pay of federal workers and vowed to work with Republicans to cut the ballooning U.S. budget deficit.
The pay freeze is part of an effort by Obama to push back against Republicans, who have labeled the president and his Democrats big spenders while taking aim at his policies such as an $814 billion stimulus package and healthcare reform.
The White House estimates the worker pay freeze would save about $2 billion in the current 2011 fiscal year and $28 billion over five years. It would require congressional approval.
I plan on holding a press conference to announce that I am reducing our household debt by switching my toothpaste from Crest to Ultra-Brite. Future generations will appreciate the sacrifice we’ve made today.
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Deconstructing ‘Gimme Shelter’: Listen to the isolated tracks of the Rolling Stones in the studio
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Holy shit is this revelatory. Wonderfully demonstrates how the Rolling Stones sound is more than just the sum of its parts, with the component tracks of one of their key songs, “Gimme Shelter,” from 1969’s Let it Bleed album.
Have you seen the reviews of the Three Wolf T-Shirt?
http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve-Black/dp/B000NZW3KC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291201310&sr=8-1
Brilliant!