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Historically, from John Lindsay to Nelson Rockefeller, New York Republicans have always been more interested in having the guy in office be called a Republican than actually be a Republican. This is what happens when they do that.

Of course, this sort of cunning is how Bloomberg got to be a billionaire in the first place: If he endorses Obama and Obama wins, then he has juice in Washington when he goes there asking for money for NYC. If he endorses Obama and Obama loses, it doesn’t matter, because no nominally Republican President will dare blow off a nominally Republican mayor of a major city when he goes there asking for money.

President John McCain would, of course, had told him to go lick his own testicles. Somehow I can’t see President Romney doing that — or President Bush, for that matter, considering how he supported Arlen Specter against Twomey last time a real Republican and a fake Republican faced off in a national election.

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 Mother and father in Pakistan doused 15-year-old in acid after catching her talking to a man, police say.

What peaceful, friendly people! Wouldn’t you just love to have some for neighbors?
That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.
Of course, as we all know, the real problem is Islamophobia.

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He’s not a Magic Negro. How boring is that?

Photographer Gene Young thinks Romney could force the paparazzi to abandon Washington altogether.

“If he were to win, you might have, say, Kelsey Grammer or Jon Voight, but that’s not money you can make off the photographers,” said Young. “You’re not going to have the Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, the big name A-Listers who come and support Barack Obama. … You’ll have to travel or maybe you’ll have to find something totally different to shoot.”

Photographer and autographer collector Mark Wilkins said a Romney administration would “bring back the same old boring celebrities we saw back when Bush was around.”

“Trace Adkins, all those country stars that no one really cares about,” said Wilkins. “I hope Romney doesn’t get elected because it will slow things down. Right now, there are celebs visiting the White House, four, five times a week that we don’t even know about until after they leave. Romney? Who wants to visit Romney?”

The horror! The horror!

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The so-called TidGen tidal turbine generator unit (TGU) was built by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC). It was installed at Cobscook Bay, part of the larger Bay of Fundy, off the coast of Maine and is accompanied by an on-shore station at Seward Neck. The peak output from TidGen is 180 kilowatts, enough to power about 25 to 30 homes. By comparison, a typical wind turbine produces about six times as much power.

And kills birds and looks ugly. These are better.

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 Archaeologists in Bulgaria believe they have discovered Europe’s oldest prehistoric town, a settlement that was founded nearly 5,000 years before the birth of Christ.

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As soon as the pressure in these Goodyear tires (which don’t have an official retail price yet) gets too low, they know it. An internal pressure regulator opens to allow air to flow into a pumping tube, and as the wheel turns, the flattened part helps squeeze air from the tube through an inlet valve into the tire. Once the air pressure hits an optimal level, the regulator closes—all without the driver’s realizing anything was wrong.

We have the technology.

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Slow news day.

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 Sara Ege used a stick to beat seven-year-old Yaseen “like a dog” if he couldn’t recite passages from the Islamic text.

The beatings were so brutal that the boy died from his injuries, and his mother tried to burn the body to destroy the evidence, Cardiff Crown Court was told.

What peaceful, friendly people! Wouldn’t you just love to have some for neighbors?
That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.
Of course, as we all know, the real problem is Islamophobia.

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Government, doing for law enforcement what they did for education….

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You can find anything on the Internet. Sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes not so much.