Sarah Palin fever boosts wig sales as women go for her ‘look’

Sarah Palin fever has prompted a surge in sales of the shoes, spectacles and even wigs needed for her ‘look’.

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World’s largest study of near-death experiences

The University of Southampton, U.K. announced it is launching this week the worlds largest-ever study on whether people have thoughts for a time while they are clinically dead.

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Is Marijuana the Better Antibiotic?

Scientists Say Substances Derived From Cannabis Could Outdo Conventional Antibiotics In Killing Some Bacteria.

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Mom Allegedly Uses Daughter’s ID to be Cheerleader

A 33-year-old woman stole her daughter’s identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad, according to a criminal complaint filed against the woman.

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‘Marijuana Church’ Founders Facing 20 Years In Prison

The founders of an Arizona church that deifies marijuana have pleaded guilty to two criminal charges. Dan and Mary Quaintance are each facing up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing in federal court is set to take place within the next 75 days, but the Quaintances are confident an appeal will keep them out of prison.

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Sept 11, 2001: The Search for the Falling Man [PIC]

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.

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MillionDoorsForPeace.org

On Saturday, Sept. 20, 25,000 volunteers from all 50 states will contact one million people and ask them to sign a petition urging the next Congress to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq within one year.

Million Doors for Peace will be the year’s largest anti-war mobilization. It is different from previous anti-war mobilizations because volunteers will be talking to people where they live instead of gathering in one place – such as the National Mall in Washington, D.C. – for a traditional protest.

Most Americans oppose the war in Iraq, but have never been directly invited to participate in an anti-war action. By engaging people where they live, neighbor-on-neighbor, Million Doors for Peace will elevate the debate over the war and its costs.

Million Doors for Peace will depend on a unique combination of grassroots organizing and netroots activism. Neither can succeed without the other.

Groups participating in Million Doors for Peace include Catholics United, Cities for Peace, CodePink, Democracy for America, MoveOn.org, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Progressive Accountability, Progressive Democrats of America, Organic Consumers Association, United for Peace & Justice, USAction Education Fund & TrueMajority.org, Voters for Peace, Win Without War. Combined, the coalition boasts a membership in the millions and hundreds of state and local affiliates.

Volunteers will visit a web site – www.MillionDoorsforPeace.org – and will download contact information. They may then walk neighborhood precincts and canvass people by themselves or in groups, or they may call individual households. Between calls and direct door-knocking, at least one million people will be contacted and asked to sign the petition. These names will be used to expand the existing database of war opponents.

Million Doors for Peace is entirely volunteer-initiated and will not rely upon professional canvassers. Volunteers will be able to receive canvass training materials from the web site.

MillionDoorsForPeace.org

No Need For LSD… It’s Built-In…

Your WTF video for the weekendwtfomglolmaoamistillaliveorjustfuckedup……….

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A Father Son Survival Story: AKA There is Hope for Humanity

All I ever read lately is news about how Sarah Palin eats babies or Barack Obama is the AntiChrist. I’m sick of it and I found this refreshing and touching.

Walter Marino shouted to his 12-year-old son, Christopher, as he drifted farther away in the Atlantic Ocean….

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Is Beef Safe? Study Shows Mad Cow Disease Can be Genetic

Previously believed to be a food-borne disease, researchers have discovered that some cows are genetically predisposed to contract bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The report shows that up to 48,000 cattle in the United States *alone* could carry the gene.

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A Day in the Life of a Flight Attendant

Is there a less-enviable, more-stressful occupation these days than that of a flight attendant? Just the look on their faces as they walk down the aisle — telling passengers that no matter how many times they try to squeeze them in, their suitcases are not going to fit into the overhead bin, tells you all you need to know of their misery.

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Would you have sex with someone for a million dollars?

The real question is would you have sex for money. The dollar amount is not what is important, that just determines your price. Before you get offended think about it, everyone has a price. If your child was sick, or dieing what wouldn’t you do to help them? If the only way to get the medication or pay the doctor bills was to sleep with some…

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