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Did You Know Your Genitalia Determines Your Sexual Orientation? This And Other Amazing Revelations From Republican Lawmaker In Tennessee. (187 comments)
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Chinese workers seized in Egypt's Sinai peninsula

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:11 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Bedouin tribesmen have kidnapped 25 Chinese workers in the north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, officials say. The technicians and engineers were on their way to work at a military-owned cement factory in the Lehfen area when gunmen stopped the bus and seized them. They are being …

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Franz Schubert - Born January 31, 1797

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:11 AM EST (notablebiographies.com)

Seeded by J. Lemert Whitmer

“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.” ~ Franz Schubert

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Gregory Scott Hopkins: Republican politician charged with 1979 murder of Catherine Janet Walsh

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:00 AM EST (the Mail online)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

A Republican politician has been charged with the 1979 murder of his 23-year-old lover - who he is accused of choking to death in her bed. Pennsylvania builder Gregory Scott Hopkins, 65, was arrested on Sunday after cold-case investigators linked his DNA to the killing of Cath …

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Blessed are the mean in spirit ... blessed are the pure in ideology.

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:44 AM EST (Daily Kos)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

This seems to be the new GOP mantra.

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About those conspiracy theories... - Judy Mandelbaum - Open Salon

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:12 AM EST (Salon.com)

Seeded by Arnold Clapsaddle

Conspiracies are nothing if not convincing – at least at face value – and we all have our favorites.

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Edward Taylor, 65, kicked out of home by daughter, 25, after making blind lover, 22, pregnant

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:57 AM EST (the Mail online)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

A disabled pensioner has been kicked out of his family home by his 25-year-old daughter after getting his blind lover, 22, pregnant. Retired lorry driver Edward Taylor, 65, was told to leave the bungalow he shared with his daughter, Kelly, after beginning his love affair with …

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Eugene Robinson asks Why does Mitt Romney want to be president?

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:53 AM EST (Daily Kos)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

As soon as I saw that title of this op ed this morning, my mind went back to Roger Mudd asking Ted Kennedy why he wanted to be President, and the late Senator badly fumbling the answer.

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A Conversation w/ My Rich, Republican Father

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:49 AM EST (Daily Kos)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

This is a Diary with a personal story about wealth and taxes. My great-grandfather and grandfather (single male chidlren, like my dad) were very successful men. My great-grandfather built things, like roads and bridges. My grandfather was a rural doctor for 50 years.

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Republican candidates: Newt Gingrich vows to take down Mitt Romney at all costs

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:41 AM EST (the Mail online)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich engaged in a lacerating war of words on the eve of the Florida primary, highlighting a bitter split within the Republican party that threatens to tear it asunder and allow President Barack Obama to be re-elected. With Romney leading by double digi …

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The rules of separation in a relationship

Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:14 AM EST

By Ms CYPRAH

Separation between couples is often a misunderstood area, due to the lack of legal guidelines and the ease with which it can be carried out, especially in the UK.

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