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What BP doesn't want you to see (worse than you probably even imagined it)
By ablethevoice (May 27, 2010)
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I almost hope that Gulf Coast residents start moving away from LA and AL and FL in protest of this far larger mess than anyone ever suspected. I have a feeling that BP might be facing the largest class action lawsuit in history. I'd like to see some lawyers sue BP into bankruptcy for this and divide the settlement equally amongst every resident who lives within 50 miles of the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Probably won't happen, but I can always hope...
PASS THIS ALONG to everyone you know!
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DAMMIT! NOT AGAIN!
By ablethevoice (September 2, 2010)
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This is incredible. I'm beginning to suspect that what's been going on in the Gulf might not be "accidents" after all...
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Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast
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31 minutes ago
GRAND ISLE, La. – An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast.
Ranel says it hasn't been determined whether the structure is a production platform or a drilling rig or whether workers were aboard. Ranel says smoke was reported but it is unclear whether the rig is still burning.
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Proposed legal pot farm causes uproar
By ablethevoice (August 31, 2010)
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The article is interesting; the comments ON the article are alternately hilarious and enraging. I thought the funniest thing in the news story itself was the resident who was concerned about the "aroma" of the plants... how they don't want their grandkids inhaling it! LOL I can think of a lot worse things than the smell of a pot plant drifting around in the air.
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Flaming California fire
By Yugoloth (July 31, 2010)
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California catches on fire again:
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Originally Said by CBS News
A huge wildfire in the high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles jumped an aqueduct on Friday, rushing toward a subdivision of homes as firefighters also tried to keep flames from damaging power lines that bring electricity to Southern California.
Some 2,000 structures were threatened and 300 homes were evacuated, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said.
Winds apparently carried embers across the wide concrete channel, with flames rapidly spreading to backyard fences at the edge of Palmdale.
CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy, reporting from Palmdale, said firefighters attacked the blaze from the air as 50 foot high walls of flame whipped through the mountain area.
Officials are asking Los Angeles residents to conserve power Friday in case those lines go down, Tracy reports.
Plumes of smoke streamed across the city of 139,000 as a predicted afternoon increase in winds finally arrived.
Helicopters dipped buckets into the aqueduct to make rapid water drops. No homes immediately appeared to have been damaged. Numerous fire engines were in the area. A giant Boeing 747 supertanker arrived over Palmdale to join the battle.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6727653.shtml
Yeah so this is not super awesome news but I got tired of seeing the face transplant guy staring at me out of my Chrome thumbnails.
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Full face transplant patient reveals results
By hai Jay (July 27, 2010)
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This picture was kind of gross.
"During the 24-hour surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto the man. He has been described as a farmer who was unable to breathe or eat on his own after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago."
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How can you accidentally shoot yourself in the face and need that much shit replaced?
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news on poopy!!!!
By poopy (July 14, 2010)
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i thought after a long silence, like a huge zit, i'm back.... Here to ruin your day and make you puke. But first you need to bask in the glory that is me. Go to youtube and search lee's 20x20 to know what it is to be man. I'd link you but i am still figuring out my new phone.
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Suspected Natalee Holloway Killer in Trouble Again
By hai Jay (June 3, 2010)
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Joran Van der Sloot arrested for killing Stephany Flores Ramirez
http://www.merinews.com/article/jora...15820702.shtml
JORAN VANDERSLOOT, 23, has been arrested on Thursday in Chile. He is the main suspect of killing 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru. His news of his arrest shocked many specially Ramirez’s prosecutor.
The girl, Ramirez, was found dead in a Lima hotel room and she was in a bad condition as she was beaten brutally on Wednesday. The room was booked on Vandersloot’s name and both were seen together entering the room as told by the hotel employees.
Stephany Flores Ramirez’s father Ricardo Flores said that they have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man, Joran. Flores is a businessman and a race-car driver. The girl was also captured in a video tape with the killer in a Casino on Sunday. Police found some tablets in Stephany’s car and it is used for raping.
An arrest warrant against Joran was issued on Wednesday before he was found in Africa, near the border of Chile. Right now he is in police custody in Santiago, Chile but he will be sent back to Peru soon for further investigation and punishment.
Joran Vandersloot has already been facing charges in the Holloway case. An American high school student, Natalee Holloway disappeared during a school trip in Aruba five years ago and she is still missing.
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Apple Says: "Thanks for Nothing, AT&T!" June 2, 2010
By hai Jay (June 3, 2010)
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http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...thing-att.aspx
Proving that its spine is as thin as its coverage map, AT&T (NYSE: T) will no longer sell unlimited data plans to new smartphone customers starting next week.
We may have seen this coming, given the carrier's notoriously strained wireless network. However, AT&T has the audacity to try to sugarcoat the bad news as a benefit for consumers.
This is the announcement's headline -- and I swear that I'm not making this up:
AT&T Announces New Lower-Priced Wireless Data Plans To Make Mobile Internet More Affordable To More People
Let's assess this from the perspective of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone owners. As of right now, 2G users pay $20 a month to AT&T for unlimited data. Owners of faster 3G and 3GS handsets pay $30 a month for the online usage smorgasbord.
Come June 7 -- the day that most expect will coincide with the debut of Apple's newest iPhone -- the only two plans available will be a $15 DataPlus plan (with a measly 200-megabyte monthly limit) and a $25 DataPro offering (with a better, yet still restrictive, 2-gigabyte cap).
There's a slap for that
AT&T claims that 98% of its smartphone customers go through less than 2 gigs a month on average, but that metric smells fishy to me. It's lumping email-centric Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) devices and cheaper smartphones into the mix. I can guarantee you that more than 2% of AT&T's iPhone users are eating through more than two gigabytes of data month.
AT&T's announcement is also unintentionally funny. "Customers can also use unlimited Wi-Fi at home, in the office or elsewhere if available," it reads at one point. Really, AT&T? You're going to let me use my non-AT&T broadband provider's bandwidth without charging me? That's so sweet -- of me.
It's also introducing tethering -- the ability to use your smartphone as a modem to power connectivity for a secondary computing device -- for an additional $20 a month. Uh, what's the point in paying for tethering on a metered plan? If you're going to cap usage, tethering should be absolutely free. Tethering without an unlimited data plan is like taking a yacht out on a puddle, performing a hair transplant on a cadaver, or taking a Lamborghini on a test drive through a school speed zone.
The news gets worse for iPad owners who forked over an extra $130 for a 3G model. Come next week, the $29.99 unlimited 3G data plan will no longer be sold to new buyers. Those who haven't activated the $29.99 plan before Monday will have to settle for the $25 DataPro plan.
AT&T just sold you out, Apple. The iPad is made for heavy data usage. The two most popular non-Apple downloads at launch were video-streaming apps for Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) and Disney's (NYSE: DIS) ABC. Who will want to pay a premium for the 3G model that comes with a cab meter?
Opportunity knocks
There can't be losers without winners. AT&T's decision to shutter its unlimited buffet will be a dinner bell for other companies.
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and smaller rival carriers? We have conflicting reports on the length of AT&T's iPhone exclusivity, but you just found a way to swipe gobs of AT&T's iPhone base, if you can step in with fair pricing and a handset that is compatible on your network .
Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI)? Go ahead and silence the cynics who feel that Pandora and other web-based radio options will kill satellite radio in cars. Consumers will be less likely to plug their smartphones into their in-dash entertainment systems -- instead of subscribing to Sirius or XM -- if they know that every song or sound bite comes at a price.
In short, AT&T is killing the smartphone revolution before it really had a chance to get started, by tripping up its star player.
If you can hear me out there, Apple: Run!
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Davidson County, TN in state of emergency
By argentmoon (May 2, 2010)
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(CNN) -- Tennessee can expect two to three more inches of rain Sunday, a day after a heavy downpour triggered severe flooding and killed at least five people.
Two people were killed Saturday when their SUV was caught in flood waters in Dover, about 80 miles northwest of Nashville, an emergency management official said.
One more person was reported dead in Davidson County, a spokeswoman for the Nashville mayor's office said.
The other two deaths were in Williamson County and Carroll County, said Jeremy Heidt, spokesman for Tennessee Emergency Management.
"This is one of the most severe rain events Nashville has ever experienced," Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said in a statement.
The rest, here.
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House passes health care bill on 219-212 vote
By Madre (March 21, 2010)
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I'm raising a glass of champagne tonight! Best birthday present ever!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/...ex.html?hpt=T1
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama won a historic victory in the struggle for health care reform Sunday as the House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill overhauling the American medical system.
The bill passed in a 219-212 vote after more than a year of bitter partisan debate. All 178 Republicans opposed it, along with 34 Democrats.
The measure, which cleared the Senate in December, will now go to Obama's desk to be signed into law. It constitutes the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades ago.
A separate compromise package of changes expanding the reach of the measure was passed by the House after its vote on the Senate bill. That reconciliation bill will advance to the Senate.
The overall $940 billion plan is projected to extend insurance coverage to roughly 32 million additional Americans. It represents a significant step towards the goal of universal coverage sought by every Democratic president since Harry Truman.
Most Americans will now be required to have health insurance or pay a fine. Larger employers will be required to provide coverage or risk financial penalties. Total individual out-of-pocket expenses will be capped, and insurers will be barred from denying coverage based on gender or pre-existing conditions.
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:: 94 days of christmas shopping left
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:: why?
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:: i wish u would take a sleeping pill already
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:: hi, me again, been awake for days, doing drugs. i've got problems
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:: them too
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:: i've been awake for days, doing various drugs, now i'm drinking. guess who?
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:: some fat mother fuckers too god damn tub assholes
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:: master & servant become interchangable
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