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Al Gore blames Obama debate disaster on the altitude!

Michael Krieger
LibertyBlitzkrieg
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:31 UTC
Need a laugh? Al Gore went on television and blamed Obama's horrific performance during the debate last night on the altitude! This is epic. So according to Al Gore we should be very concerned should Obama negotiate any deals with any leaders in the capital cities of La Paz, Bolivia (11,942 ft); Quito, Ecuador (9,350 ft); Bogota, Colombia (8,612 ft); Mexico City, Mexico (7,350 ft) and Nairobi, Kenya (5,889 ft). For comparison Denver is 5,280 ft above sea level. For a full list of capital cities Obama should avoid if he gets a second term go here.

I have also figured out why our policy in Afghanistan is such a disaster. Kabul is higher than Denver at 5,873 ft.

Who let Al Gore out of his cage yesterday? Watch the video below and have a laugh!

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Mind-controlled tail wags based on your mood

Michelle
RocketNews24
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:56 UTC
Tail
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Do friends never know how you're feeling based on facial cues?

Ever find yourself enviously eyeing your dog and its expressive posterior appendage?

Oh tailless one, you are in luck! From the makers of Necomimi mind-controlled cat ears comes Shippo, a mind-controlled tail that wags based on your mood.

Once attached to your backside, the mechanical moving tail is connected wirelessly to a brainwave sensor headset via bluetooth. When switched on, Shippo "waves with your 'mood'," letting the whole world know just how you feel regardless of your facial expression.

According to Neurowear, the Japan-based makers of this furry appendage, Shippo is designed to move vigorously when it senses deep concentration and slowly when brainwaves are perceived to be in a relaxed state. Your mood is even read and logged using Shippo's accompanied app which also tracks the user's location and shares that information via Facebook or Twitter. Although Necomimi cat ears are available for purchase, unfortunately, Shippo is still in the prototype stage and Neurowear hasn't announce a release date yet.
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Washington attorney: 'I have physically traveled in time'


KATU.com
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:10 UTC

Vancouver, Wash. - The new Bruce Willis movie Looper opens this weekend, in which Willis' character is sent back in time to kill himself.

And while most scientists say time travel isn't possible, a Washington attorney claims he's done it dozens of times as part of a secret Cold War project.

"I have physically traveled in time," says Andrew Basiago, an attorney in Vancouver, Wash. "We have - we did over 40 years ago."

Now Basiago is on a mission - to reveal what he calls a 40-year government cover-up - of Project Pegasus - where he says he was teleported back and sideways in time, dozens of times.

"I have the whole story, I have hundreds of facts," he says. "I can tell you what personnel were at what locations where and which travel device was being used."

And his time travel wasn't recent - it's when he was a kid.

"I entered the program officially in the fall of 1969 as a third grader, age 7," says Basiago.

He says he was one of 140 kids, 60 adults - chrononauts, including his dad, who he says joined him on his first jump.

"My dad held my hand, we jumped through the field of energy, and we seem to be moving very rapidly but there was also a paradox and we seemed to be going no where at all," he says.

The TV show Fringe aired a similar scene two years ago. A coincidence?
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Onion article cited as fact by Iran news agency

Jason Keyser
Associated Press
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:42 UTC
Fake Article
© The Onion.comThis fake article appeared on TheOnion.com on Sept. 24.
Chicago - A joke by the satirical website The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation.

An Iranian news agency picked up - as fact - a story from the paper about a supposed Gallup survey showing an overwhelming majority of rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. But it was made up, like everything in the just-for-laughs newspaper, which is headquartered in Chicago.

The English-language service of Iran's semi-official Fars news agency republished the story Friday, several days after it appeared in The Onion.

The Iranian version copied the original word-for-word, even including a made-up quote from a fictional West Virginia resident who says he'd rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defense seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does."

Homosexual acts are punishable by death in Iran, and Ahmadinejad famously said during a 2007 appearance at Columbia University that "in Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country."
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Robbin in da Hood! Bank robbers toss cash during high speed chase

Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur
The Young Turks
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:58 UTC
"Hundreds of bystanders swarmed the scene of a high-speed pursuit in South Los Angeles Wednesday as police tried to apprehend alleged robbers who were tossing money out of their getaway vehicle. "This isn't something we see every day," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Capt. Mike Parker said. "This definitely had some unique aspects to it." More than a dozen times during the pursuit, handfuls of cash were thrown out of the backseat window of a black Volvo SUV that authorities had pursued from the scene of an alleged armed bank robbery in the Canyon Country area....".

Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks.

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Walter the crow becomes part of Ottawa family


CBC News
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:36 UTC
Walter the Crow
© CBCWalter the crow is free to come and go, but he likes to hang out in the trees near the Renaud home and around the neighbourhood school.
This past spring, an Ottawa family discovered an injured baby bird in the grass near a bike path and took it home to nurse it back to health.

Now, Walter the crow is able to fly, but that's about all that's ordinary about him.

"He's certainly my best friend in the animal kingdom. He's my best animal friend," said 11-year-old Livia Renaud.

"He's like another child in our family," said Livia's little brother, Zachary.

Free to come and go, but doesn't go far

The Renauds already had two cats and a couple of fish when they found the baby crow, so at first Livia's mother, Elissa Renaud, was hesitant to take him home. But in the end the family decided to take the plunge.

The plan was to nurse him back to health and let him back into the wild for good. The research the family did said that's what would probably happen.

However, it didn't quite work out that way.

Although Walter - who mainly feeds himself - is free to come and go as he pleases, he doesn't go far.
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British policeman baffled by moon


Agence France-Presse
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:22 UTC
Moon
© News24
London - A British policeman put his colleagues on alert as he investigated a "suspicious bright light" - only to find it was the moon, an in-house magazine for the police reported on Wednesday.

Police magazine reported that the hapless officer only realised his blunder after warning his fellow constables in Worcestershire, central England, that he might require back-up.

The magazine's Dogberry column revealed: "While on night duty in Worcestershire by himself, a PC called up his sergeant to let him know that he was going up into the Clent Hills to investigate a 'suspicious bright light' that he could see shining from the other side of the hills.

"The call was for safety reasons as he might need back-up once he found the source.

"Twenty minutes later the PC called his sergeant back to reassure him that everything was ok and that he had found the source of the light.

"This diligent PC had in fact discovered the moon."

While the gaffe was once known only to the unnamed policeman's colleagues in the Worcestershire force, it has now been revealed to all 132,000 police rank-and-file officers in England and Wales who receive the magazine.
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Chinese Billionaire Sells Canned Fresh Air to Raise Awareness about the Environment

Spooky
Oddity Central
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:10 UTC
It was bound to happen at some point, I guess. Chen Guangbiao, a famous Chinese businessman and philanthropist, has recently launched a line of canned fresh air collected from various parts of China and Taiwan. The product is called "Chen Guangbiao: Nice Guy" and sells for about $0,80.
Can of Fresh Air?
© Oddity Central
It's no secret China has a huge air pollution problem, but while authorities don't seem to be taking any action to resolve it, billionaire Chen Guangbiao, aka "Brother Biao" is trying to raise awareness in a very original way. He has recently started selling canned fresh air collected from "revolutionary" areas of China, including Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi Province and some ethnic minority areas and Taiwan. "One only has to open the can, directly 'drink' it or put the nose close to the can to breath deeply," Chen said.

He also mentioned there is a chip in the can, and during the "packaging process", when the negative oxygen ions reach a certain concentration the lid is triggered by the chip and closed. And since the air is compressed, it stays inside the can even without a lid, the quirky philanthropist claimed. Before the big launch of "Chen Guangbiao: Nice Guy" canned air, Brother Biao said he was confident of its success, because there are lots of people in big cities inhaling air mixed with vehicle exhaust every day who are dying for a breath of fresh air.
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Porsche Worldwide Sales Up 20.8% in August


CarScoop
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:13 UTC
Porsche
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Porsche came out today with its global sales numbers for the month of August and together confirmed the unveiling of a new model at the rapidly approaching 2012 Paris Motor Show.
In August, the German carmaker delivered a total of 10,912 vehicles to customers around the world, up 20.8 percent over the same month of last year, while from the beginning of 2012, Porsche has sold 92,474 vehicles, which translates to an increase of 15.0 compared to the same period in 2011.

Last month, Porsche's U.S. sales reached 3,026 units, an increase of 38.6 percent compared to the same month of last year, while in China, the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer reported an increase of 28.4 percent to 2,882 sales.

Even in Europe, which is in a recession, the automaker was able to sell 2,830 vehicles in August, up 12.8 percent from last year.

In August, the new 911 sold 1,559 examples (+29.5%), the new Boxster roadster 850 units (+32.0%) and the Cayenne, 6,331 vehicles (+36.0%).
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'Star Wars' Theme Song Has Magical Powers for Crying Baby

Katie Kindelan
ABC News
Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:23 UTC
It's an iconic theme song of a grand melodic score meant to bring to musical life the story of farm-boy Luke Skywalker's joining with the rebel forces to save Princess Leia and the entire galaxy from the evil grasps of Darth Vader and Death Star.

But the Star Wars theme song as a lullaby?


For 7-month-old Sebastian Leyack of Santa Rosa, Calif., yes, it is. You could say "the force" is with tiny Sebastian, who appears to only have ears for the internationally known score to the famous movie trilogy, something his parents discovered by accident.

"We were driving down to visit my parents and I wasn't in a place where I could stop safely and he was crying and crying," Sebastian's mom, Amy Leyack, said. "We had just left the house and he was fed, had a clean diaper and a nap so there was nothing wrong but he was upset and I couldn't stop.

"I turned on the radio and that [Star Wars] was the first song and he stopped crying," she said. "I changed it to other music and he started crying, so I went back and he stopped."

Leyack couldn't believe that, first, the music had soothed him so quickly and that, second, it was Star War's music that did it.

"His dad is a big Star Wars fan," she said.

Such a fan that Amy and husband Gaston had watched the movies and listened to the music while Sebastian was in utero, and the Star Wars theme happened to be the only song that Leyack had downloaded on her phone.
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