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The Bush tax cuts lapsed at midnight last night. Every R voting for Senate bill is cutting taxes and keeping his/her pledge.

Yes, I think all the tags I applied to this post are justified.

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Let’s make America for the world what Cape Canaveral was to America: the world’s greatest launching pad. If I had fifteen minutes to pitch my idea to politicians, I’d tell them two things about transportation. First, there’s no way around the issue unless we’re prepared to spend less: and not just spend less, but spend smarter by investing in the kind of green energy that makes countries succeed. That’s going to require some tax cuts as well, but as they say, “them’s the breaks.”

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Get Down On It:
Jean Knight – Mr Big Stuff
Marvin Gaye – Got To Give It Up
The Five Stairsteps – Ooh Child
Al Green – Tired of Being Alone
Shirley Brown – Woman to Woman
Joe Tex – I Gotcha
A Taste of Honey – Sukiyaki
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Firecracker
Five Star- All Fall Down
Eddie Kendricks – Happy
Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
Al Green – Love and Happiness
The Staples Singers Come Go With Me
Sly & the Family Stone – Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

And as no Soul Train post would be complete without a line dance: Temptations – Papa Was A Rolling Stone

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“People are freaking out about the world coming to an end—I totally get that,” said the Google C.E.O. Larry Page in a conference call with reporters. “But at Google we view the Apocalypse as a unique opportunity. This company was founded with the goal to ‘organize the world’s information’ and we see the next three days as our chance to get that done.”As for the marching orders that Page gave to Google’s team of designers: “The world is going to be destroyed and mankind will cease to exist. Make Google the last page they see, and give us one last chance to serve them tracking cookies.”

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When we last checked in on the DIY innovations of Mexican cartel drug smugglers, we found them lobbing four-pound bales of marijuana over the Mexico-Arizona border with a trailer-mounted catapult. But technology never stands still. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents recently found 33 canisters of marijuana in a field on the U.S. side near the point where the Colorado River crosses the U.S.-Mexico border, and they think the pot got there after being launched from a huge pneumatic cannon.

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Anyway, here’s where I diverge from a lot of people.

Fuck Wikipedia.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Wikipedia.

See, the problem is that people think of wikipedia as a SOURCE. It’s NOT a source. It’s REALITY SLASH FICTION.

Awesome rant totally worth reading.

Looks like the South Park animation team pulled an all-nighter to make the acceptance speech scene match the real one as much as possible:

Amazing what two little servers can do with lighttpd as web server software. Pushing out about 100 mbps at times…

The Ig Nobel 2012 literature prize went to the U.S. Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.

Sir Humprey Applebee must be proud…

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Instead, she said she heard the captain say: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve received a call from search and rescue teams in Australia saying that there was a yacht that was sinking off the shore of Sydney. We’re the closest aircraft in the vicinity, and they’ve asked us to identify the location of the boat. It’s going to mean a slight detour.”

Thanks to extra fuel left on their plane and a pair of binoculars from a passenger, the crew of the Air Canada jetliner was credited with assisting in the rescue Monday of an Australian yacht adrift in the South Pacific.

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American newspaper The Onion received a Nobel Prize this week in the category of Overall Excellence. The award, which marks the 12th time The Onion has been honored as a Nobel laureate, was presented in recognition of what the prize committee called “[The Onion’s] massive and enduring contribution to overall excellence in all fields.” The Onion has previously received Nobel Prizes in categories such as economics, literature, and medicine. At press time, Onion publisher T. Herman Zweibel had no comment.

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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has spoken out in favor of a Maryland ballot initiative that would legalize gay marriage. Yahoo has published a letter that Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. wrote last week to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, urging him to “inhibit such expressions from your employee.” This is Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe’s response to Burns.

Warning: strong language inside.

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“When I started to realize that that needed to get done in family planning, I finally said, OK, I’m the person that’s going to do that,”

Carlos Santana con Fher y Alex (Maná) con la participacion Ruben Blades Corazon Espinado Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival 31 Agosto 2012