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Grease Gun gone wild.

TheRecord.com - News - Tool kit floats away in space mishap

She said her grease gun exploded, getting the dark grey stuff all over a camera and her gloves. While wiping off herself, the backpack-size bag slipped out of her grip, and she lost all her other tools.

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Exclusive: Top 30 Newspaper Sites for October

NYTimes.com — 20,348,000 — 16%
washingtonpost.com — 12,375,000 — 43%
USATODAY.com — 11,381,000 — 20%
LA Times — 9,644,000 — 66%
Wall Street Journal Online — 8,910,000 — 52%

Boston.com — 6,133,000 — 11%
New York Post — 5,000,000 — 32%
Chicago Tribune — 4,955,000 — 36%
Daily News Online Edition — 4,671,000 — 33%
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 4,634,000 — 28%

Politico — 4,565,000 — 178%
Chicago Sun-Times — 3,982,000 — 55%
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News — 3,070,000 — 50%
Newsday — 2,948,000 — 14%
The Houston Chronicle — 2,937,000 — 4%

International Herald Tribune — 2,570,000 — 35%
KansasCity.com — 2,539,000 — 100%
Village Voice Media — 2,526,000 — 6%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 2,654,000 — 2%
Star Tribune — 2,489,000 — 59%

tampabay.com — 2,352,000 — 61%
Azcentral.com — 2,336,000 — 10%
Orlando Sentinel — 2,295,000 — 148%
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 2,222,000 — 5%
MercuryNews.com — 2,167,000 — 19%

NJ.com — 2,100,000 — (-2%)
The Washington Times — 2,041,000 — 40%
Boston Herald — 1,971,000 — 167%
Baltimore Sun — 1,960,000 — 48%
The Seattle Times — 1,833,000 — (-7%)

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Do we have an Olbermann Jr. at NBC Sports?

NFL color guy Chris Collinsworth asks Kobe Bryant how it felt to receive his Team USA basketball uniform.

MsUnderestimated - Blog Archive » NBC’s Collinsworth Questions Kobe’s Patriotism (VIDEO)

Is that a ‘cool’ thing to say, in this day and age? That you love your country, and that you’re fighting for the red, white and blue? It seems sort of like a day gone by.

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Tony Snow has died. Tony Snow was good man with refreshing humility.

FOXNews.com - Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor, Dies at 53

Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a FOX News television and radio host, died after a long bout with cancer. He was 53.

Wiki

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One thing becomes clear in this latest AP piece of garbage complaining about how bad America is, America is now home to some of the biggest cry babies and spoiled sacks of self pity on the planet and the Associated Press could not be happier echoing their pessimistic, gutless complaining.

The Associated Press: Americans mark unhappy birthday: ‘Too much wrong’

Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days.

Eighteen members of the volunteer organization’s Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation’s 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.

They beam through the Pledge of Allegiance, applaud each other’s good news — a house that recently sold despite Arizona’s down market, and one member’s valiant battle with cancer. “I didn’t die,” she says as the others cheer.

But then talk turns to the state of the Union, and the Optimists become decidedly bleak.

The only glimmer of sanity in Pauline Arrillaga’s 2367 word rant of why theres “too much wrong” as we Americans mark this “unhappy birthday” is the following:

In 2008, using history as a yardstick, life actually is better and richer and fuller, with more opportunities than ever before.

“Objectively things are going real well,” says author Gregg Easterbrook, who discusses the disconnect in his book “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse.”

He ticks off supporting statistics: A relatively low unemployment rate, 5.5 percent in June. (Employers did, indeed, cut payrolls last month by 62,000 jobs, but consider the 10.1 rate of June 1983 or the 7.8 rate of June 1992.) Declining rates of violent crimes, property crimes and big-city murders. Declining rates of disease. Higher standards of living for the middle class and the working poor. And incomes that, for many, are rising above the rate of inflation.

It’s no wonder the AP is woried about bloggers clipping their content, putting out trash like this I’d be worried too.

The Optimist International organization seems like a very well intentioned organization aimed at helping kids but one would think with the name “Optimist International” they would go a little lighter on the pessimis, If not, I think I would reconsider the name “Optimists Club”.

Meeting the needs of young people in communities worldwide, Optimist Clubs have been “Bringing Out the Best in Kids” since 1919. Optimist Clubs conduct positive service projects aimed at providing a helping hand to youth. Club Members are best known in their communities for their upbeat attitudes. By believing in young people and empowering them to be the best they can, Optimist volunteers continually make this world a better place to live.

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Tim Russert has died.

A very, very sad day. America has lost a great Man, Journalist and Friend.

NBC’s Tim Russert dead at 58 - U.S. news- msnbc.com

Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

God speed Mr. Russert and Prayers go out to the Russert Family.

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Seems the folks at McClatchy have erased their fictitious story claiming Condi Rice called al-Sadr a “coward”.

Here is the McClatchy story now.

Looking to add some drama to the already traumatized housing market the Associated Press figured it would inject some “fabulistic” journalism.

AP - Some U.S. homes worth less than their copper pipes

In areas hit hardest by foreclosures, such as the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, copper and other metals used in plumbing, heating systems and telephone lines are now more valuable than some homes.

“We’re in an incredibly unfortunate time where the nonferrous metals commodities market for scrap is at an all-time high. Houses are getting stripped pretty quickly once they go through the foreclosure process,” Cleveland city councilor Tony Brancatelli said.

“We’re seeing houses sold for $100 that are distressed houses that should not be recycled,” he said. Some boarded-up homes in his Slavic Village community have “No copper, only PVC” painted on the boards to stop would-be thieves.

But hey look on the bright side, our streets are full of less litter!



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