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Jason Clarke who played Red, Billy Crudup who played J. Edgar Hoover, and Stephen Lang who played Agent Winstead, were the only standout parts of this slow, dull, poorly written, lazily acted movie.

Giovanni Ribisi was good too, but he was only on screen for three minutes total and he's a scientologist.

Check this shit cracka-ass.

"A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer. The group was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 (pictured) in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals' ability to remember objects they had seen."

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what do michael jackson and the terrorist organization known as the taliban have in common?

all too much.
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Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

A real news story about real news called U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp at Reuters and other providers of real news.

It all started with the 4th of July...
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My dog Lily(the brindle pit) and Chris(the brown suited pit) were playing together two days ago and this picture was a result. It is too bad Lily is fixed, because the pups would look beautiful. Lily is about 25 pounds and around 6.5 months old. Chris is 1.5 years old and around 80 pounds... SOLID muscle.

Lily loves to bite and hang on his lips while he drags her around.

This is a wine cover at a friend's house. I thought it was really neat, and there is a bearing on the end the bottle insert into. This bearing allows the head to swivel, so for me this opened up an opportunity for ridiculous jokes.

It's beautiful, fruitful, and delicious.
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A picture of my love and I rockin' the drinks.

I don't know if you keep up with Latin and Central American politics, but I do because I am dumb. Recently a good dude was ousted from his position as president of Honduras in what the government there is calling "totally not a coup bro."

But it totally is a coup, and a shitty one. Here is the latest from the BBC

So half a tall cup of rum in, I read Jacob's post about heroin. I image searched "heroine" and this is the first hit i got:



if this didn't make you laugh as hard as it made me laugh, then you're an asshole. yes. i know i googled the wrong word. i'm drunk.

Authorities announced Saturday a massive heroin bust in the Bronx, where dealers were moving millions of dollars in dope inside Build-A-Bear dolls.

The drugs were packaged in tiny glassine bags branded with names like Barack Obama, Swine Flu and Crime 360, a nod to a detective series on A&E.

Heroin is often branded before it arrives in the US. It's broken down and stamped and the user believes it's not all the same product from the same source.

An article that's really hard to read because the formatting is messed up from the Daily News.

It rained today so we made smores inside.

This is the best fried chicken I've made. Except for the first batch, it all came out light and juicy and it had the japanese tempura taste to it that I've been going for.

Have you noticed under where it says Got Tips? to the lower left hand side there is a link that says "Shoot it off."

Just sayin' is all.

It's been raining softly all night and morning. The windows are open and it's cool and quiet.

This isn't a real picture of Palin, but it turns out she can't handle things anymore:

Proof Here

In a startling move, Alaskan Governor "Sarah Palin" absconds her position months before her term was due to end.

Chairman of the Alaskan Republican Party and close friend to Palin, Randy Ruedrich, had this to say:

"I have the dumbest name ever"

Someone else, who's name is less dumb said this:

"Either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today."

Read more about it on CNN

Certainly you have heard these new trendy pretentious fucks talking about needing a glass of "agua".

FUCK! Someone is going to get punched, you aren't Spanish and neither am I. And certainly we aren't talking about amphibians... so shut the fuck up.

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Aperitif
Dessert
Sparkling
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Today's report from the Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows 30.2 percent of Tennessee adults and 36.5 percent of youths are obese.

We didn't get less fat, apparently just not as more fat as another state.

The obesity rate did not decrease at all, in any state, from 2008 to 2009. Meanwhile, people still want free public healthcare.

The only interesting article at the Daily News Journal, a paper which will be shut down if they don't write enough articles about Swine Flu and Michael Jackson.

"I have to do something to express my anger," Baltazar said. "I'm not voting, because none of you convince me, you bunch of corrupt politicians."
Top electoral judge Maria Alanis said she fears abstention could reach 70 percent.
Activists hope the protest movement will force politicians to change the system

Without explanation, the article ties current narcotics violence to the only administration to actually fight drug trafficking and corruption. President Calderon still has three years, but could be facing a congress controlled by people that don't like him. Apparently it's not just the president in Mexico that can only serve one term.
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At the center of the dispute is a question over how deeply the state should cut spending on health care for poor children, welfare payments to single mothers and in-home services for the elderly and the disabled.

Every angle of this is terrible. Plus, the new fiscal year started July 1, and "The state is on pace to run out of cash by July 28." So that's equal to cashing your paycheck Friday at noon and spending all of it by ten pm.

Meanwhile, Larry's friend wasn't alone:

Chiang's office printed 28,742 IOUs worth $53.3 million on Thursday, which were sent to taxpayers awaiting tax refunds. The controller will send a total of nearly $5 billion in IOUs in July and August

A depressing account of what's going on at the San Francisco Chronicle.