Teen birth rates climb back up

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After decreasing for over a decade, the birth-rate for American teachers jumped back up last year being “a sharp reversal in what has been one of the nation’s most celebrated social and public health successes.”
Between 1991 and 2005, the birth rate for teen girls between the ages of 15 and 19 dropped 32 percent, however [...]

Nintendo Pulls Wii Ads

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Gaming giant Nintendo has pretty much been forced to cut advertising for it’s Wii gaming console due to there already being too high of a demand for Nintendo to handle.
A Nintendo spokesman says: “We have been running the campaign all year round, but we want to take a responsible stance this Christmas and not fuel [...]

CompUSA to Shut Down

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Computer and hardware retailer CompUSA is to completely close down after twenty-three years from falling to competition from Bestbuy and other stores. CompUSA said that Gordon Brothers Group LLC bought the chain for an undisclosed sum and will sell or close its 103 stores after the U.S. holiday season.

Squirrel Armour?

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Yes, apparently so. I got a laugh out of this, a guy designed armour to be worn by a squirrel. Now if he could actually find a way to get a real squirrel to wear this it’d be amazing. (click here)

Rolling on another year

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Today I renewed our hosting plan and domain at GoDaddy.com. The domain and hosting for a year only ran us $56.42… not too bad considering what we’re getting for the price. I’ve also been very satisfied with the performance GoDaddy has shown us, aside from like maybe one or two “iffy” days, the past year [...]

There seems to be a leak…

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Friday a barge carrying a crane slammed into a tanker from Hong-Kong which was anchored off a Daesan port about 70mi southwest of Seoul. (Fail)
The tanker started to leak some 10,500 metric tons of crude oil into the ocean there. The slick was about seven miles long nearly a day after the spill [...]

The Truth

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A flowchart showing how to tell the truth by Sean Bonner.

I want to “ride” my bicycle…

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Robert Stewart, 51, has been sentenced to three years probation after he was found attempting to have sex with his bicycle in his bedroom by cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr (UK). They knocked on the door several times and being there was no reply they used a master key to come in [...]

Top 5 “Top Lists”

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I shall now give you a list of the Top Lists scattered throughout many different blogs of this magical Web 2.0 World.

It’s official. And, the problems of socialized medicine.

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I’ve decided to abandon Liberty Rants, the staggering zombie of a political blog that’s lurched forward for a year on tirades on the stupidity of the politically correct, unions, Al Gore, Michael Moore and Rudy Giuliani by myself and someone who has not posted in months, and post exclusively here. (Although I may consider getting [...]

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