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Arizona Senator: I Want To Find Out The Truth About 9/11

In an short interview (see video below), the Republican Senator explained that in the many in the Arizona legislature have privately told her they agree with her position but are too afraid or are unable to start asking the same questions themselves. Johnson echoed her previous statements when she told Capitol reporters “There are many […]

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microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up

A major breakdown in Southern California’s air traffic control system last week was partly due to a “design anomaly” in the way Microsoft Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
i told you to use linux, putzes

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rip Donald P. Christy, Lt. Col, USAF

The little-noted obituary does not reveal how Christy died, or exactly why. But the report comes on the heels of a Veterans Administration coverup of the shockingly high number of suicide attempts by vets (1000 a month) and a Rand Corp. study revealing that 300,000 who served in Iraq or Afghanistan now suffer from various […]

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president stupid on the recession

Bush on the recession: “The average person doesn’t really care what we call it.”
just so long as they pay their tribute to the oil companies.

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at least we’re not in jersey….

New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine said Tuesday he’s open to using a “sin tax” to help provide funding for struggling hospitals.
What a complete bozo. Throw a sin tax on an arbitrary business to fund some other arbitrary business.

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friday at work…..

Phone rings.
Tech answers.
The remote? No. Maybe it needs batteries. What do you mean the laptop?
No, the remote control will not operate the laptop. It will also not turn on the projector. Use the power button for that.
Chorus: who was that?
Tech: the head of training.
Chorus: oh.

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bbc anchor: might be a conspiracy….

BBC Anchor Who Reported on WTC7 Collapse Early Agrees There May Be a ‘Conspiracy’…
and no one thought anything of the BBC announcing the demolition of Building 7 thirty minutes in advance of it falling…

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helpful links (linux + otherwise)

VOLWHEEL - A tray icon to easily change the sound volume with the mouse wheel.
LookTorrent - consolidates torrent search
Ubuntu cheat sheet (.pdf)
Rarcrack opens archives without knowing the password.
Project Gutenberg, the ultimate source of free ebooks

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they must have gotten lost somewhere…?

A federal judge has told the White House to answer “once and for all” whether backup tapes holding e-mail documents sought by a Washington-based watchdog group have been preserved.
read more.

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no more sex as an expense…..

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest, has been hit by the global credit crunch so badly that it has issued a memorandum to senior executives telling them that brothel visits and adult channels in hotel rooms cannot be claimed on expenses.