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| Free hit counter fails |
| Monday, December 27, 2010 |
One month ago: 
Today: 
Hey free hit counter, you suck. |
posted by R2K @ Monday, December 27, 2010  |
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| Books for Christmas?!? |
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"Editor's Note: CNN iReport makes no claims as to the location of Santa Claus or the nature of his existence. That's for you to decide in your mind and heart."
CNN and Santa
What exactly is the point of Santa? Why are adults so ashamed to tell their kids who is buying these gifts?
The hard questions that toddlers and grade school children ask are met with lies from parents. The worst, most common lie is "because God says so." Parents are too afraid of telling children that they (the parents) and even that they (the children) will die some day, and will then never meet again. So you invent heaven and things are better for a while, as long as you suspend thinking in your mind, and stick with your heart.
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| posted by R2K @ Saturday, December 25, 2010 |
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| Florida School Board Shooting |
| Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
"If I was killed, I knew where I was going to end up," he said. "But it's a miracle. There's no other excuse for it. God blocked those bullets."
Seriously why are religious nuts always the ones on school boards deciding what children are going to learn? Husfelt survived because the gunman had poor aim, was distraught, and because a guard saved his life and shot the gunman. What a dick move to shift the praise directly to God and away from the people who saved him. Like the football player who thanks Jesus for letting him win. As if Jesus picked his side over the other team and let him (who trained 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, for years) win this game by a few points.
And it could not be a story without that smug (but oh so typical) christian line "I knew where I was going to end up." Husfelt had a pretty scared look on his face once the shooting started. If he is going to eternal paradise in heaven, why beg for your life? The doubt (great film, on a similar topic) eats at the insides of many who claim to be true believers. And it often results in destructive behavior. Remember the dozen or so closet homosexuals who were preachers or conservative politicians but wound up getting caught touching legs in bathroom stalls? Well rest assured that the next dozen are on the way, trying to inject religion into our lives and our schools. That is when they are not doing meth with a gay stripper.
I am glad they are still alive, and that fat gunman got exactly what he had coming to him, but I am left with even more concern about who is running our rural schools. It is no wonder that creationism is slipped in from time to time in the "little brown jug" states like Kansas or Texas.
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| posted by R2K @ Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
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| Who you finna try? |
| Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
What video is she looking at?
What song is he listening to?
Can this song be chopped up or screwed?
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| posted by R2K @ Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
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| Cedrik of the Poo clan |
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Be on the lookout for this guy. Other possible names include Cedric, Cedrick, and the slightly more urban (and urbane) Cedrique. |
| posted by R2K @ Monday, December 13, 2010 |
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| Break The Union ft. B J G G |
| Sunday, December 12, 2010 |
Break The Union ft. B J G G went quintuple platinum in it's first week. |
| posted by R2K @ Sunday, December 12, 2010 |
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| Minneapolis Metrodome Roof Collapse |
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"Fox has just released video of what the collapse of the Metrodome looked like from inside, and it is nothing short of amazing.
It starts with water dripping in, then an ominous sagging, before a hole rips in the skylight and tons of snow dumps onto the immaculately groomed Mall of America field. Then another hole opens and more snow comes pouring in. The roof deflates and the skylights sag." |
| posted by R2K @ Sunday, December 12, 2010 |
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| 360360 |
| Saturday, December 11, 2010 |
Kinda cool looking. Back in the day, I expected to see these counters pass 1,000,000 and keep going. Sadly, things have slowed down quite a bit since then. |
| posted by R2K @ Saturday, December 11, 2010 |
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| The expensive epidemic |
| Tuesday, December 07, 2010 |
"Diabetes patients spend an average of $6,000 annually on costs for treating their disease, according to a recent survey conducted by Consumer Reports Health. That figure includes monitoring supplies, medicines, doctor visits, annual eye exams and other routine costs.
But the total doesn’t include the costs of medical complications that often result from Type 2 diabetes, such as heart disease, strokes, liver and kidney damage, eye damage and a susceptibility to infections and poor healing that can lead to amputations. The C.D.C. estimates that diabetic patients on average pay twice as much as those without the illness for health care." - NY Times |
| posted by R2K @ Tuesday, December 07, 2010 |
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