Mostly Harmless

Mental health care accounted for 40% of all days spent in hospitals by service members last year. Four mental health issues — depression, substance abuse, anxiety and adjustment problems such as PTSD — cost the Pentagon 488 years of lost manpower hours in 2009. Another article from Reuters points out a “striking” difference in...
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Out of the mouths of Senators … Talking snakes and your government IQ.
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NPR has learned that at least ten times the original official estimate of oil is currently gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. That’s the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez tanker full every four days. It as already far exceeded the spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska in 1989. People look at...
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Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal now owns a 7 percent stake in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, making him the company’s largest shareholder outside of Murdoch’s own family. Alwaleed is the same Saudi prince who regularly makes donations to the families of terrorist suicide bombers… and made headlines right...
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A bill banning ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer. The move comes less than 20 days after Brewer signed a controversial immigration bill that has caused widespread protests against the state. School districts that don’t comply with the new law could have as much as 10%...
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This politician must have wrecking balls in place of an ego. And his common sense.
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“I had surgery. I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” Yet to arrive at the site, Rekers must have accepted the terms of use. He then would have been transported to a page covered with images of naked men sodomizing each other. He obviously had NO clue what he was 'renting'.
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GM received $50 billion in TARP funds. About $7 billion of that came in the form of a low-interest loan. And about $13 billion came in the form of an escrow account. So how has GM, which lost $38 billion in 2007 even as it sold 9.4 million cars, paid back its debt? It...
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They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a native American, that number is more like 300 million. - David Letterman
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The more I stay on top of world issues... the more I am certain that whoever decided to classify the current revision of human beings as 'civilized'... was a blathering idiot.
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