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Meijer voluntarily recalls crackers, ice cream
STLtoday.com (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
ASSOCIATED PRESS01/19/2009GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Meijer Inc. is recalling two types of crackers and two varieties of ice cream sold in Illinois and four other states due to possible salmonella contamination.Meijer brand Cheese and Peanut Butter and Toasty Peanut Butter sandwich crackers and Peanut Butter and Jelly and Peanut Butter Cup ice cream are being recalled.The Grand Rapids-based grocer... -
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Michigan Orders Dad to Get Married or Pay Up
Patterico's Pontifications (subscribe) | 40 minutes ago | US
[Guest post by DRJ] Michigan has a law that requires a birth father to reimburse the state for his child’s state-paid birthing costs, but reimbursement is waived if the father is married to the mother. Gary Johnson, an unwed father, isn’t married to the birth mother, Rebecca Witt, so Michigan billed Johnson $3,800 for their [...] -
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Brazilian Church Collapses Between Services, Killing 9
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | World
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Authorities picked through a latticework of bent steel Monday after the roof at one of Brazil's largest evangelical churches collapsed between services, killing nine people. At least 106 people were injured, but the toll could have been much worse because the roof caved in less than an hour after a Sunday service at the Reborn in Christ church attracted thousands of young worshippers... -
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Flashback: Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
Download | Play Download | Play CNN ran Martin Luther King's immortal 1963 speech on the Washington Mall -- known as the "I Have a Dream" speech -- in its entirety today, and it really is something to see again. Meanwhile, a CNN poll finds that more than two-thirds of black Americans consider King's vision now fulfilled with Barack Obama's election. No doubt, every white Republican on the planet (see... -
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Steve Earle & Antibalas playing Tibet House Benefit, the Dalai Lama will be at the Beacon
Brooklyn Vegan (subscribe) | 41 minutes ago | World
Steve Earle @ City Winery (more by Fresh Bread) Tibet's Communist Party-controlled legislature has voted to create a holiday to mark China's defeat of a pro-independence uprising 50 years ago in the Himalayan region, calling it a day of liberation... -
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Biden's wife lets slip he had pick of vice president or secretary of state
Political Intelligence (subscribe) | 45 minutes ago | Entertainment
Oops. Jill Biden, the soon-to-be second lady, slipped up and told Oprah Winfrey today that her husband Joe Biden was given his pick of vice president or secretary of state. Biden took VP, and President-elect Barack Obama later selected another...
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Pelosi: Now Is Not the Time to Talk About Tax Hikes
Truth Out (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that any efforts to raise taxes on the richest Americans will only be considered after an economic stimulus is passed. Pelosi has indicated that she wants to repeal the tax cuts for the top earners that were put into place under President Bush instead of simply letting them expire. However, when pressed on the issue on "Fox News Sunday," the Speaker... -
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Zimbabwe's first lady accused of hitting photographer
On Deadline (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | World
The police in Hong Kong are investigating allegations that Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, attacked a newspaper photographer last week outside a luxury hotel, according to reports. Richard Jones of the Sinopix photo agency tells Reuters that Mugabe was "completely deranged, absolutely raging with anger" when she went after him while he was working on an assignment for the Sunday Times of London.... -
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Oil falls below $35 ahead of busy earnings week
Signs of the Times (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Technology
Oil prices fell to below $35 a barrel today as investors eyed a slew of U.S. corporate earnings this week for signs of weakening consumer demand amid the worst recession in decades. Light, sweet crude for February delivery was down $1.88 to $34.63 a barrel by mid-afternoon in Europe in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract, which expires on Tuesday, rose $1.11 on Friday... -
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Kevin James Beats Clint Eastwood at Box Office
Usmagazine (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Entertainment
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Bush Pardons Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean
NixGuy.com (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Politics
Filed under: Bush Administration , Immigration AP News In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday commuted the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration. Bush's decision to commute the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who tried to cover up the shooting,... - see all breaking news
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Incoming
A Spork in the Drawer (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
The New York Time Magazine today presents a gallery of incoming members of the Obama administration and prominent Congressional Democrats. photographed by Nadav Kander. Included in the Flash presentation audio of Kander and the Magazines director of photography, Kathy Ryan... -
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Google Preferred Sites
Google Operating System (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Preferred Sites is a new experimental feature for Google Search that lets you personalize the results by adding a list of sites you want to appear more often when you search. Based on your search history, Google suggests some frequently-visited sites, but you can add any other site. The help page explains more: "The preferred sites feature lets you set your Google Web Search preferences so that your... -
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YouTube trying out video downloads?
TechDigest (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
If you've ever enjoyed a YouTube video and then thought "I want to take this with me wherever I go", then prepare to be mildly pleased. YouTube appears to be experimenting with offering downloads of videos. The first to gain this feature have been the videos on Obama's ChangeDotGov YouTube channel . The videos come in a decent format - MPEG4, using the H.264 codec. That's the same as the same videos... -
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Taken Out of Context -- my PhD dissertation
apophenia (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Without further ado... my PhD dissertation: Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics Abstract: As social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday... -
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"To trash Bush was to belong"
sisu (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
"And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." (Leviticus 16:22) Above image found in google image search unattributed. "To trash Bush was to... -
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Sony goes Cloud-hopping with Final Fantasy VII edition PS3
Engadget (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Video Games
Like some greedy vampire that just won't rest, Final Fantasy VII keeps coming back again and again to suck the contents out of your wallets. Its latest incarnation is a re-release of Advent Children , and Sony's getting in on the game with yet another special edition console to celebrate it. The upgraded movie is said to boast 30 more minutes of gratuitous high-res animation action while the new PS3...
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Belkin’s President Responds to The Daily Background Report About Faked Product Reviews
The Daily Background (subscribe) | 16 hours ago | Technology
Belkin’s president Mark Reynoso just released this statement to The Daily Background, in response to my previous report about their Amazon sales rep paying people to write fake positive reviews online for their products: Belkin has always held itself to the highest standards of corporate ethics and its employees to the highest standards of personal integrity. [...] -
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THE WORK OF DECADES, FULFILLED: “More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin...
Instapundit.com (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Politics
THE WORK OF DECADES, FULFILLED: “More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found — a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.” Weirdly, white people are less positive — but, then, feeling guilty about race is Stuff White [...] -
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CNN's Soledad O'Brien Suggests Obama's a Hero Like the Hudson River Pilot
NewsBusters (subscribe) | yesterday | Election 2008
CNN’s Saturday filled with following Barack Obama’s train trip to the Inauguration was also filled with Obama praise. At one juncture, CNN couldn’t help but metaphorically merge Barack Obama with the exhilarating news of the US Airways pilot who landed his plane in the Hudson River without losing a single passenger. A few minutes after 2 pm Eastern time, anchorman Wolf Blitzer recalled "Soledad [O’Brien]... -
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Bob May Dies
Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (subscribe) | yesterday | Celebrity
Bob May — who played The Robot in “Lost in Space” — died early this morning at the Lancaster Community Hospital in California. A rep for Bob said he was taken to the hospital on Friday, and died at around 3 AM this morning of congestive heart failure. Rest In Peace, Bob. Copyright © 2009 Slobokan's Site O' [...] -
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iControlPad iPhone gaming controller gets video demo
SlashGear (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Technology
The iControlPad project first showed off their joypad accessory intentions back in August , promising a combination case and gaming controller for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. Now developer ZodTTD is back with a video of the joypad in action (playing quake4iphone, no less), together with an update on how exactly the project is progressing. Find both after the cut. The independently-powered controller... -
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Why Nationalization is the Best Alternative
Market Movers (subscribe) | 15 hours ago | Other
Kevin Drum is a bit like Joe Nocera : he's reluctant to nationalize, but he doesn't really say why . It's wise to be wary of nationalization. It should be a last resort, and I've gotten a sense recently that a lot of people are talking about it awfully casually. Still, it's true that there are some benefits to nationalization, and one of them is that it allows us to avoid the problem of valuing and... - see all discussions
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