Give me back my mouse

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"Hey, give me back my mouse."

According to McCullin, a postcard of this photograph sold 'like hotcakes' in Australia. McCullin found Snowy, the man in the portrait, standing by the side of the road with an ice-cream barrow in Cambridge, in the early 1970s. He pulled the mouse out of his pocket and put it into his mouth as McCullin took pictures

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Britain facing coldest night of winter

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Parts of the country plunged to temperatures of a domestic freezer today as the death toll continued to rise on another day of disruption.

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Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards

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To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated Internet-connected computers: the front seat.

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"This is the life. I can be driving down the interstate at 75 miles per hour, talking on my cell phone and watching 'Family Guy' on Hulu on my dashboard Internet. I'm going to install a video cam too. Hey, where's my remote control? Gotta do this safely, now."

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KFC accused of racism over Australian advertisement

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KFC advert showing Australian cricket fan placating West Indies supporters with chicken has caused anger in America

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Jon Stewart Plays "Sad Libs" To Educate Us On Yemen (VIDEO)

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With all the attention Yemen is receiving after the Christmas day bomber, Jon Stewart felt it was necessary to educate us about the nation.

As he acknowledged, "getting attacked is the only way Americans learn about world geography."

What's the best way to help us learn about a potential new threat?

A variation of Mad Libs, appropriately titled "Sad Libs: A Tragic Game For Ages 9--99."

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'Frozen Gore' returns to Fairbanks, Alaska bigger than ever

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The 2009 Frozen Gore statue even drew the attention of then-
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin along with her husband Todd and
daughter Piper. (FrozenGore.com)

He weighs two tons, is six feet tall and spews smoke from his mouth. No, not former vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore but rather a huge likeness of him carved out of ice. The infamous ‘Frozen Gore’ ice sculpture has returned to Fairbanks, Alaska and it is better than ever.

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So cold in Miami, iguanas fall from trees

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Watch out for falling iguanas!

It does happen here in South Florida almost on an annual basis. Iguanas do fall from the trees.

When the temperatures dip into the 40s, an iguanas system shuts down, and any of them holding up in the trees may fall.

Many of them will be revived as the temperatures rise during the day and they bask in the sunshine, but some could perish as the extended hours of cold we are experiencing may be a little longer than the shut down can handle.

Iguanas are not native species to South Florida but rather began to inhabit our landscape like so many other creatures as released pets. The temperatures do get colder here then they are normally used to in their native lands and their bodies react with this screen-saver feature.

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"How cold is it? It's so cold, it starts raining iguanas."

See, up north, I hear, it rains cats and dogs, some times.

Here, in the Winter, it rains Iguanas and tarantulas and snakes and...

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Top US intelligence officer calls US intelligence ‘hazy’ and ‘ignorant’

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A top military intelligence chief is calling for revamped US intelligence efforts in Afghanistan in a scathing report that says the current focus on insurgent networks is "only marginally relevant."

"Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, the US intelligence community is only marginally relevant to the overall strategy," Flynn and his colleagues wrote.

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"But our CIA does a fantastic job of moving illegal drugs from Afghanistan into the US. They've only been caught twice."

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300 to 500 American Kids Will Die Per Month To Defend Afghan Oil Pipelines And Poppy Fields

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Afghanistan Oil/Gas pipelines

Surge in casualties predicted in Afghanistan


“What I want to do is signal that this thing is going to be $5 billion to $10 billion a month and 300 to 500 killed and wounded a month by next summer. That’s what we probably should expect. And that’s light casualties,” said McCaffrey, who is also president of his own consulting firm in Arlington, Va., and has conducted numerous trips to the war zones to assess the political and military challenges at hand.

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Lawyers Will Be Imbedded With Israeli Soldiers When They Go Palestinian Hunting

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"David, ask our lawyer if it's ok if I snap this Paletinian's neck. I caught him littering."

Israel army 'to get legal advice during operations'


Israel's top general has ordered the military to seek legal advice while in the heat of battle and not just during the planning stages, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Military Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi issued the order despite opposition from several commanders, the paper said.

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"Those Jewish lawyers are tough cookies. Just ask Archie Bunker*. They won't let us do anything!" - Comments from Israeli Soldier Souse

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*Bunker specifically sought a Jewish lawyer from the Jewish firm Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz after suffering a minor car accident and, in a different episode, explains why a Jew would best to sue an Arab dry cleaner.

Archie: I'm gonna go into town and get me a good Jew lawyer.

Mike Stivic: Do you always have to label people? Why can't you just get a lawyer. Why does it have to be a Jewish lawyer?

Archie: Because if I'm going to sue an "A-rab," I want a guy that's full o' hate!

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US Intelligence Tells Obama, "We'll do something next time"

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Bomber's underwear. Notice he wiped himself well. No brown stains.

Obama rebuke over bomb plot prompts intelligence pledge


A top US intelligence official has promised action after sharp criticism from President Barack Obama over a failed airliner bomb plot.

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"We promise that next time we will stop terrorist attacks on the US. We were just testing you Obama. We wanted to see if you were paying attention. However, we did get a letter of congratulations on our work, signed by Bush and Cheney." - Official US In-Security Souse

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Britain braced for heaviest snowfall in 50 years

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Fears of food shortages due to panic buying!

The heaviest snowfall in almost 50 years is hitting parts of Britain as Arctic weather brought nationwide chaos.

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"Al Gore, save the British. Bring your Global Warming over there!"


O-ver there, o-ver there, send the heat, send the heat, o-ver there,
That the Heat is com-ing, the Heat is com-ing,
The coal drums rum-tum-ming ev'-ry where
So pre-pare, burn a bear, send the word, send the word to be-ware
We'll be o-ver, we're com-ing o-ver,
And we won't come back 'til it's Hotter O-ver There!

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Obama And Airport Security

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Saudi Arabians attack the US, so the US attacks Afghanistan and Iraq. Makes sense to me.

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By Chimp

Of the alleged 19 hijackers during 9/11, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon. Osama bin Laden, the supposed mastermind, was also from Saudi Arabia.

So, naturally, the United States attacked Afghanistan and Iraq.

We couldn’t attack Saudi Arabia as they were one of the closest Arab allies of the United States and their royalty were close friends and business partners of the Bush family.

The Saudi royalty had such power that when all US flights were grounded, right after 9/11, all Saudi royalty in the US were flown out of the country without a second thought.

Now, we have a youngster who supposedly tried to bomb a plane arriving in Detroit at Christmas time.

He had a bomb sewn into the crotch of his underwear. The bomb went off and did some damage to the wall of the plane near the bomber. The bomb did not blow off the bombers balls or even hurt him. It just damaged some of the airplane.

This all makes sense to me too. Why not? Bomb goes off in your pants and all is ok.

Now, the important thing. This failed kid bomber was from Yemen.

So the necessary US retaliation is simple.

ATTACK IRAN!!!

It all makes sense to me.

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CIA reportedly ordered Blackwater to murder 9/11 suspect in Germany

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In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month.

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Israeli Officers Cancel Great Britain Trip Under Threat of War Crimes Charges

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A group of Israeli military officers were forced to call off a trip to Great Britain for fear of being arrested and charged with war crimes in a British court. The threat stems from Great Britain's legal concept of universal jurisdiction for certain crimes.

The idea of universal jurisdiction allows a British judge to order the arrest and prosecution of a foreign national who happens to be within Great Britain if that person is accused of war crimes.

Palestinian activists claim that Israel committed numerous war crimes during the recent war.

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Who's Getting Rich From the Naked-Scanner Boom?

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The Airport Scanner Scam


Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among politicians at all levels in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet.

Within days or even hours of the bombing attempt, everyone was talking about so-called whole-body imaging as the magic bullet that could stop this type of attack.

Beyond privacy issues, however, are questions about whether these machines really work—and about who stands to benefit most from their use.

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Tiger, Can you beat this: Warren Beatty slept with 12,775 women, claims biographer

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Hollywood star's sexual conquests said to have included Isabelle Adjani, Diane Keaton and Madonna

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GOOGLE'S GOT A PHONE

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It's official: Google Inc. will sell its own mobile phone in an effort to protect its online advertising empire as people increasingly surf the Web on handsets instead of personal computers.

The phone announced Tuesday had been widely anticipated since Google handed out the device, called the Nexus One, to its own employees three weeks ago.

Consumers will be able to buy the Nexus One for $179 if they commit to a two-year service contract with T-Mobile USA. The phone is going on sale Tuesday online.

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National Guard ad revives Nazi oath to Hitler: "Always place mission first," not US Constitution

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AMERICAN PATRIOTS:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident...In 2003, the US Army adapted the “Soldier’s Creed” to program soldiers to shift their Oath of Enlistment from “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” to the heel-clicking, non-thinking, dictator-obeying, “I will always place the mission first.”

This directly states that the FIRST duty of an American soldier is to achieve the mission dictated by military leadership, NOT the defense of the US Constitution.

Brain-washing soldiers to place the mission first, that is, “just follow orders” given by der Fuehrer (“the leader” in German) rather than being responsible for obeying the Constitution and laws of war dramatizes the US shift into fascism.

This fascist propaganda is highlighted in the National Guard’s new 2-minute ad playing in movie theaters, shown below.

I am an American Soldier.
I am a Warrior and a member of a team.
I serve the people of the United States, and live the Army Values.
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills.
I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.
I am an expert and I am a professional.
I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy, the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.
I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
I am an American Soldier.

(Also note that this is the National Guard. Not the Army. Not the Marines. These are your protectors in the event of a natural disaster. Kill, kill, kill...)

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Al Gore and Global Warming “Church” Trashed To Hell By Mother Nature

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By Chimp

First, through hacked e-mails, we learned that GlobalWarmers fudged with the science to make global warming a fact while the earth was really cooling.

Now, the earth gets hit with the coldest winter on record, by Mother Nature, reinforcing the fact that we are moving towards a mini ice age rather than “20 feet” under water, due to meting ice, like Al Gore preached.

Snow and cold have hit records throughout the US and Europe. You lie about Mnother Nature, she gets even.

Al, please give back your Nobel Peace Prize and your Academy Awards for your Global Warming Hoax film.

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'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire

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Big Hollywood's John Nolte, one of my favorite outspoken right-wing film essayists, blasted the film, calling it "a sanctimonious thud of a movie so infested with one-dimensional characters and PC cliches that not a single plot turn, large or small, surprises. . . . Think of 'Avatar' as 'Death Wish' for leftists, a simplistic, revisionist revenge fantasy where if you . . . hate the bad guys (America) you're able to forgive the by-the-numbers predictability of it all."

Ross Douthat, writing in the New York Times, took Cameron to task on another favorite conservative front, as yet another Hollywood filmmaker who refuses to acknowledge the power of religion.

Douthat calls "Avatar" the "Gospel according to James. But not the Christian Gospel. Instead, 'Avatar' is Cameron's long apologia for pantheism -- a faith that equates God with Nature.

There are tons of other grumpy conservative broadsides against the film, but I'll spare you the details, except to say that Cameron's grand cinematic fantasy, with its mixture of social comment, mysticism and transcendent, fanboy-style video game animation, seems to have hit a very raw nerve with political conservatives, who view everything -- foreign affairs, global warming, the White House Christmas tree -- through the prism of partisan sloganeering.

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Did You Know That “Peace Is Not In The Best Interest Of A Stable Society”?

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There was a report written for the US government by anonymous “Professor John Doe” that concluded that peace was not in the interest of a stable society.

This probably explains why the US is planning on everlasting wars. By the time the people tire of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, we will be deep in Pakistan Yemen and Somalia.

It also explains why Dick Cheney invests in his company Halliburton and why the Bush family has its money in the Carlyle Group which invests heavily in the military industrial complex.

The report continues, that even if lasting peace "could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it."

War was a part of the economy. Therefore, it was necessary to conceive a state of war for a stable economy.

The government, the group theorized, would not exist without war, and nation states existed in order to wage war. War also served a vital function of diverting collective aggression.

They recommended that bodies be created to emulate the economic functions of war. They also recommended "blood games" and that the government create alternative foes (see Fake A-Qaeda) that would scare the people with reports of alien life-forms and out of control pollution. Another proposal was the reinstitution of slavery.

U.S. News and World Report claimed in its November 20, 1967 issue to have confirmation of the reality of the report from an unnamed government official, who added that when President Johnson read the report, he 'hit the roof' and ordered it to be suppressed for all time.

Additionally, sources were said to have revealed that orders were sent to U.S. embassies, instructing them to emphasize that the book had no relation to U.S. Government policy.

Project Blue Beam is also a common conspiracy theory that alleges that a faked alien landing would be used as a means of scaring the public into whatever global system is suggested.

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MUST SEE: CHILLING NATIONAL GUARD VIDEO (LYRICS INCLUDED)

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PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS. Left me with all my hair standing on end, cold, thinking:

Note that this is the National Guard. These are soldiers to help Americans in times of natural disasters like floods and earthquakes. These are not Marines sent out to KILL an enemy.

At the end of the video, the message I hear is "Kill! Kill! Kill! not Help, help help.

Are these going to be our new jailers to keep Americans in line?

Lyrics:

Warrior the Ethos
Code of the Bellator (Warrior)
A hero will rise

Mos bellatoris (Code of the Warrior)
Ego primus omnium munus (I will always place the mission first)
Ego numquam cladem accipiam (I will never accept defeat)
I will live by this credo
I will protect the U.S. and I will fight to liberate all!

Numquam Deseram (Never quit)
Numquam commilitionem collapsum relinquam
(Never leave a fallen comrade)
I will never leave him!

I will live by this credo
I will protect the U.S. and I will fight to liberate
I will fight wherever called!

I will always place the mission first
I will never ever accept defeat
I will never quit, I never will
I will never leave a fallen comrade

Fiducia Officium (Loyalty, Duty)
Virtus Honor Veneratio (Personal Courage, Honor, Respect)
I am an American Soldier
Stipendium ante ingenium (Service before Self)
I fight for one and all!

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Americans want to be Slaves

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Are Americans willing to trade their freedoms for a false sense of security?

This is the crucial question that must be answered before a successful struggle for liberty can be fought and won. If it is shown that the majority of Americans will readily trade their freedoms for a fake carnal security then the cause has already been lost.

Let us just examine a few of the events of the last two months to see where America sits on the major issues of our day.

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