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The luckiest man in the world has no ideaWhat it's like to be in my positionI've had my share of tragic visionsMy share of tragic stories and bad collisionsThis life bears the fury of my decisionsWith the winds blowing through this conjurationCasting shadows in all directionsWhat a cataclysm...What a motherfucking cataclysm!I could hope against hope and try to limitSpilling my blood in

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I was born on the eve of the solstice; that's when the wheels came offI spent the years taking roads less traveled, often blind & lostHearing whispers of devotion from the trees singing psalmsTaking solace in the comfort of the soothsayer's songsNow you inspire me to clamp down and hold on.Rain marked the travails of my thirst, unquenched and relentlessI spent weeks carving out these motives,

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Jayson Werth is a stud, no question, but this is one more reason why Russell Martin gets no respect from me. The guy's stolen three bases off you, and you don't even pay attention to him?Go Giants!Fuck the Dodgers and their serious lack of discipline.

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Props to The Hairdryer Treatment.

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You give me the opportunity to earn $22 million a year by taking steroids, I’ll shoot the pharmacist if I have to. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m not saying I shouldn’t be punished for shooting the pharmacist. I am saying it is self-righteous to pretend that I don’t have the same human failings that these guys do, and further, if you are insisting that you don’t have them, I don’t believe

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Source.:President Obama on Thursday offered a more detailed look at his 2010 budget proposal, which includes recommendations to cut funding for 121 federal programs and save $17 billion in 2010."There is a lot of money being spent inefficiently, ineffectively, and -- in some cases -- in ways that are actually pretty stunning," Obama said.The $17 billion in savings amounts to roughly 0.5% of the

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Source:Secularism is gaining ground in the United States, eating away at the percentage of Americans who identify with the Protestant Christianity of the founding fathers, a poll published Monday showed.The percentage of Americans who adhered to no particular religion jumped from 8.2 percent in 1990 to 15 percent last year, the third American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) conducted over

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Props to the AP photog who shot this.

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From today's Greenwald column:In 2005, the dignified statesman who disdains straw men because they "cheapen" rather than "enrich" the "dialogue of our age" said this:Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.There, Rove was respectfully and substantively critiquing the widespread belief among liberals that

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Source, and quoted in full:Benjamin Netanyahu will apparently be Israel's next prime minister. There is, however, something encouraging about that fact. Netanyahu's election will free Israel from the burden of deception: If he can establish a right-wing government, the veil will be lifted and the nation's true face revealed to its citizens and the rest of the world, including Arab countries.

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Source:Muntadher al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist on trial for throwing his shoes last year at then-President George W. Bush, said the former American leader's "bloodless and soulless smile" and his joking banter provoked him. Al-Zaidi threw both of his shoes at Bush during a December news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad. Neither shoe hit the president, and other

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"To the victor belong the spoils." - Senator William Learned Marcy, b. 1786-1857Source:Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's Kadima Party was forecast to eke out a surprising victory in Israel's election Tuesday, but exit polls showed strong support for hard-line rivals that will make it difficult for her to form a coalition government.The exit polls announced on Israeli TV stations said the centrist

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Saw Slipknot perform for the first time last week, at Madison Square Garden. I was happy to see a band I should have seen a decade ago, and felt that Slipknot gave a good, if imperfect, performance. For all the criticism they take, some of which is deserved, Slipknot certainly make an impression - visually and aurally. Some photos of the show, grabbed from Flickr.com.

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Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof, two of the few remaining mainstream voices who have both credibility and intelligence, write about the current stimulus package. I'd like to note that I am opposed to government-sponsored stimulus spending, in general, but especially when the recipients of our taxpayer dollars are Wall Street investment banks. I have not examined the provisions of this

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We walk miracle miles emphasizing all the while The dalliance of mischief in agonized smiles We break out the charm and put out alarms We'll find another reason to hold off the dawn We take life one chunk at a time, like paragraphs Live one minute at a time and we're moving fast We creep steadily towards a better path Different routes end up working out in different crafts The dark cloaks over

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Source:Despite crippling losses, multibillion-dollar bailouts and the passing of some of the most prominent names in the business, employees at financial companies in New York, the now-diminished world capital of capital, collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year.That was the sixth-largest haul on record, according to a report released Wednesday by the New York State

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