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• Blog Year Retrospective #4

  —Uniquely Normal

  Four years. 1258 posts. Over 280,000 visitors. I can't believe I'm still blogging. Here I am, though, writing my fourth Blog Year Retrospective. Each year I sit down to review the last twelve months and wonder where I'll be in the next twelve months. If someone had told me a' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Jaggy

• Fly your freak flag baby!

  —Burning or building bridges in the community?

  A comment on one of my posts inspired my desire to shout this to the world today. Fly your freak flag baby! How? Well, it’s your lucky day friends! I am going to direct you to a web post that will give you some ideas of how to fly your freak [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:10pm EST
  by bridgeout

• Flu Vaccine Sheep

  —the Crallspace

  Number of comments: 0
  Are you one of the many, many people I saw standing in line for an H1N1 flu shot outside Lincoln school yesterday?
  
  You're gonna let someone shoot a new, untested, potentially unsafe concoction of formaldehyde, MSG, Mercury and other bizarre chemicals into your bloodstream to avoid a few days' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by crallspace

• Fish Grow Larger Too With Each Retelling

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 5
  Owners of Hezbollah-bound arms ship: We didn't know about weapons
  
  "The crew of sailors did not resist the commando and said that they did not know what was in the large container on board. The commando force opened the container and revealed missiles, rockets, shells, grenades, and small'" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:29am EST
  by nolocontendere

• And Now: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  Rare virus poses new threat to troops
  
  "KANDAHAR, Afghanistan U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.
  Dr. Jim" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:09am EST
  by nolocontendere

• FUBAR In Poppystan

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  It's no wonder there's a morale crisis. Imagine soldiers all of a sudden realizing they're the bad guys, their missions are bullshit and then stupid crap like this happens. And being the military I assume it happens all the time.
  
  25 troops injured in search for 2 U.S.' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:42am EST
  by nolocontendere

• WHO Continues To Deceive

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  Assumes That Ukraine Plague Is H1N1 Swine Flu
  
  "The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuing to deceive the world by stating sweeping assumptions about the Ukraine pandemic. Despite huge differences in transmission and deaths rates, the agency stated Tuesday that it was valid to assume that most of" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:15am EST
  by nolocontendere

• Links for 2009-11-06

  —onfocus.com

  Move Your Home Folder Off Your SSD Boot Drive in OS X Ransom Note Typography has instructions for moving your data to another drive. I'm preparing now for a boot SSD drive. ' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:00am EST
  by Paul Bausch

• Lucy and her Kittens

  —Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's Photos

  Number of comments: 1
  I want to come up with better names for Lucy and her kittens. The temporary fosterer gave them the names Lucy, Sunshine, for the gray girl kitten, and Frankie for the black tux boy kitten. I need something much better for Lucy especially. Black cats are terribly hard to find [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:03am EST
  by Strayer

• Catholic Music Selections

  —Uniquely Normal

  I found a playlist of some of the songs I listen to and sing at Mass each week. The website is Spirit and Song, a division of Oregon Catholic Press. To hear the specific songs, go to the Music on Demand section and then under "Quick Links" to the left, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:37pm EST
  by Jaggy

• How Bad Is It?

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  The new faces of day labor - U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots
  
  "It sounds like a George Lopez joke.
  “Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.”
  Except it’s true.
  In the latest sign" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:28pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• Everything About Nidal Malik Hasan Screams “Patsy”

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  The Empire strikes back – right when when public support for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan sinks to all time lows, an anti-war Islamic extremist with links to suicide bombers goes on a shooting rampage at a U.S. army base, reinvigorating support for the war on terror and [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:34pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• 19 Cats Fixed This Week

  —Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's Photos

  Number of comments: 1
  The Flamepoint male, fixed today, from S. Albany.The rural young female, fixed today.Double crypt male, fixed today.The double crypt again.Three of the four kittens, who spent the night in my garage, from same location.The younger black and white male, fixed today.This is the Siamese male fixed today.The Siamese male again.Who [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:30pm EST
  by Strayer

• They Will Never Stop Repeating This Lie

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  Ever wonder why this deliberate mistranslation piece of propaganda always pops up whenever Israel and Iran are juxtaposed, especially when it's been repeatedly shown to be wrong?
  
  Google news
  
  Israeli president to visit Brazil just before Iranian leader
  
  "BRASILIA — Israeli President Shimon Peres is to" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:38pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• Would You Be Able To Live Like This?

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  
  Gaza's Reality
  
  Occupation 101 | MySpace Video [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:57pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• Bird Shit And Meat Taint. Waste Not Want Not

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  What's really in that burger? E.coli and chicken feces both allowed by USDA
  
  "NaturalNews) There are 14 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the United States alone. The people who eat those burgers, though, have little knowledge of what's actually in them. Current USDA regulations, for example," [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:39pm EST
  by nolocontendere