Common Folk Using Common Sense

Via FOX News:

When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids’ food could be so dangerous.
Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric’s mom.
The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. [...]

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From The Politico:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas.
“We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we must look [...]

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Via The Wall Street Journal:

Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
An “endangerment” finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the [...]

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Or so says Reverend Jesse Jackson:

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
The remark stirred a murmur [...]

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Says Alex Renton in Sunday’s UK Guardian:

Fewer British babies would mean a fairer planet.
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It’s not the growing number of people in poverty who are causing climate change, it’s the rich.
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The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children.
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By today’s standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be [...]

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Other awards Obama will probably win this year, especially if he continues doing absolutely nothing.

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Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today for “offering the world hope and striving for nuclear disarmament” in an absolute surprise and shock to the rest of the world.
“The bestowal of one of the world’s top accolades on a president less than nine months in office, who has yet to score a major foreign [...]

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From TribStar.com (Terre Haute, Indiana):

When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs.
Now, Harpold is trying to clear her name of criminal charges, and she is speaking out in hopes that a law will change so others won’t endure [...]

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From the local newspaper:

County residents received some sticker shock after seeing an increase in their property taxes this year when tax bills started hitting their mail boxes this past weekend.
County Tax Commissioner Dan Ray said Tuesday his office received 250 telephone calls on Monday from residents, and almost all of them were asking why their [...]

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Says National Review Online:

In the new GI Joe movie, Hollywood appears to have transformed an American hero into an A-Team for the United Nations. That’s because “GI Joe” is now an acronym for “Globally Integrated Joint Operating Entity” (or something like that). But the film’s marketers aren’t exactly trumpeting this fact, at least not in [...]

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ITEM 1: From CNS News we learn:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday [07/07/09] that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.
“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read [...]

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Over at The Heritage Foundation I learned the following:

Greenhouse gases comprise only 2% of Earth’s atmosphere, or 0.02. Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon make up 99.96% of the atmosphere.
CO2 gases comprise only 3.62% of all greenhouse gases, or 0.0724% of the atmosphere (although Microsoft Encarta and Wikipedia says it’s only 0.03-0.04%).
Humans only create 3.4% of [...]

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Drudge is screaming some headlines this morning. If I am reading these correctly, as reported on Obama’s Recovery.gov website:

The Department of Agriculture paid $2,531,600 to CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC of Los Angeles for “HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB”
The Department of Agriculture paid $1,191,200 to CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC of Los Angeles for “2 POUND [...]

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This is freaking sick:

GARY, Ind. (CBS) – A 26-year-old convenience store clerk was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Ind., and police say witnesses stood by and did nothing. CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports there are critical clues that may help crack the case.
Police say one of the four men caught on [...]

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From the UK Times Online:

The [French] Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy’s law, passed in April, which created the first internet police agency in the democratic world.
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Les sages – the wise men – as the council is known, took [...]

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