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By far my new favorite appeals court judges in effect apply a kind of reductio ad absurdum to cause the over-zealous prosecuting Attorney General to get hoisted by his own petard. http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/COL04/701150333 In a ruling sure to make philandering...

The title of this topic is the title of a Reuters article published today. Some relevant parts. Hopefully, some of you will laugh as you read the exerpts because you know exactly where I am going to go with this. ;) Smiling yet? I know somebody who called a spade a spade 174 years ago...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_copperfield Two things about this interest me: 1. David Copperfield is a professional and world famous magician, so it seems that he'd be less likely to be hoaxed, and 2. He's bringing in actual scientists to check his claims, instead of...

Story Good work, detective. :rolleyes:

A survey of 27749 children in Quebec. Autism increased even after thiomersal had been removed from vaccines. Autism increased even when MMR uptake rates decreased. Abstract Yet, I think a negative perception will still persist? How many more studies will it take to convince the public? Why...

Browsing Google video recently, I found some interesting videos! Searching for "Carl Sagan" returns the full first five "Cosmos" episodes - as well as an interesting discussion on extra-terrestrial life, featuring a young Carl. Searching for "Penn Teller" gives full episodes of their...

Edgar Cayce on Atlantis- Article on it http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i021017/i021017.html more recent update http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374107/posts http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1097554324900B252 and most recent-...

....instead of trembling legs. According to this article the US Air Force ruled that US Servicemembers can now go into London, rescinding a rule that banned them from going to London. This did not set well with some British folks and papers: Actually, despite poking some fun at the USAF, I...

I did a small excursion to a couple of old books stores on Saturday. One of the books that I grabbed was Iivar Kemppinen's []Haudantakainen elämä[/i], ("Life Beyond Grave"), a scientific study on religious beliefs on death of old pagan Karelians. It was in a bargain bin and cost 10 euros. and...

Kerry gave a big speech last week about how his faith is so "important" to him. In this attempt to convince the American people that we should consider him for president, he announced that his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3. Of course (we all HOPE) the speech writer meant John 3:16...

Let's say someone kills another person in deliberation. Or more than one person, even. And then that murderer is caught, tried, and put to death. Before he/she is put to death, he/she finds God and goes to heaven. All is forgiven because he/she repents of their sins genuinely. (Or not even...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3193902.stm [/B] They discuss how this contradicts the earlier study mentioned often here, and examined in skeptical enquirer which was most likely flawed and actually demonstrated "retro-active" prayer benefit.

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