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    The News Thread

    I feel like there ought to be a separate thread for news and news-related topics apart from the random thoughts thread. I don't know if anyone else feels the same as me. If you don't like it, of course, you can let it die, and I'm okay with that.

    Anyway, here's some news.

    Chavez: Plan may have been too ambitious

    I am very glad that Venezuelans rejected Chavez's proposed constitutional reforms, but it's also nice to see him being gracious in defeat (apparently).

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    Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.

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    Something I've never understood about this issue: Why can't Iran, a sovereign nation led by adults, have whatever damn weapons it wants to have? Why do we treat it like a child that isn't allowed to have certain things (which we have in abundance).

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    Quote Quoting Antoine (view post)
    Something I've never understood about this issue: Why can't Iran, a sovereign nation led by adults, have whatever damn weapons it wants to have? Why do we treat it like a child that isn't allowed to have certain things (which we have in abundance).
    I suspect that the theocratic government has alot to do with that. I mean, look at Pakistan: Musharraf is rather secular, a military rather than religious man, and we haven't invaded them for nukes. And of course they're on "our" side.
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    Non-proliferation is a good idea. De-proliferation even better. Especially when it comes to nutjob regimes like Iran's.

    Still, America needs to stop being such an ass about this whole thing. We're being completely unreasonable. And our administration's awful rhetoric is helping no one.

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    "Dinosaur Mummy" Found; Has Intact Skin, Tissue

    A newly found "dino mummy" has exquisitely preserved bones, skin, and possibly muscle and internal organs, scientists have announced.

    The duck-billed dinosaur, named Dakota, is already changing theories of how the extinct creatures looked and moved—and may contain preserved ancient proteins that could better reveal the dino family tree.


    I love discoveries like this.

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    Quote Quoting Antoine (view post)
    I feel like there ought to be a separate thread for news and news-related topics apart from the random thoughts thread. I don't know if anyone else feels the same as me. If you don't like it, of course, you can let it die, and I'm okay with that.
    I approve of this. After all, we can't get our news from CNN or MSNBC, as they tell of the sensationalist crap and the recent goings-on with celebrities like its the fucking E! Entertainment network.

    And that is not sarcasm.
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    Quote Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
    I approve of this. After all, we can't get our news from CNN or MSNBC, as they tell of the sensationalist crap and the recent goings-on with celebrities like its the fucking E! Entertainment network.

    And that is not sarcasm.
    Today's media is despicable.

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    MnDOT emergency manager wants her job back

    http://www.startribune.com/local/12149046.html

    Bwahahahahahaha!

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    Jennifer Hudson's Mother, Brother Found Shot to Death

    Just heard that another relative was possibly kidnapped too.

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    Jennifer Hudson's Mother, Brother Found Shot to Death

    Just heard that another relative was possibly kidnapped too.
    Her 7-year old nephew is still missing. Very sad.

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    Creepy. As dreamdead and I were driving to Chicago this weekend the tollway boards were on child abduction alert giving car info--apparently it was in connection with this.



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    The Hudson stuff is heinous. I'd be debilitated for months. I'd crawl into a hole.
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    Quote Quoting Arthur Seaton (view post)
    Her 7-year old nephew is still missing. Very sad.
    I just read that the police found the body of a 7 year old boy in a SUV. It's not yet confirmed if it's the nephew.

    http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/27/body-found/

    This is really depressing...

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    It has been confirmed now that the body is her nephew's.

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    Its not only sad and depressing, but also extremely tragic and horrible.
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    Not sure if here or the FDT is a better location for this.

    Jafar Panahi arrested in Iran.

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    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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    Quote Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
    Not sure if here or the FDT is a better location for this.

    Jafar Panahi arrested in Iran.
    Shite.
    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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    I read that as trying to touch the nurse's rack at first, and questioned the legitimacy of the article. :lol:
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    AMAZING dinosaur news has been pouring in this month.

    First off, paleontologists got their first look at the actual colors of dinosaur feathers. Their find was a sinosauropteryx (a small chicken-like dinosaur) with pigment information intact. Red feathers!

    Second-off, paleontologists learned that dinosaurs have probably been around ten million years more than expected. See, they knew that archosaurs eventually evolved into the earliest dinosaurs, but they didn't know that dinosaurs "branched off" ten million years sooner than anticipated.

    Thirdly, an announcement was made today that global paleontologists are in agreement that the cause of the massive dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period could only have been the asteroid that impacted the Yucatan.

    This shit is so cool - the eight-year-old in me is overjoyed.

    Dinosaurs!


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    I will never stop loving dinosaurs. Very cool stuff, sir.

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