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Umm...I would like to meet the person who wrote this research proposal:

The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

The new research found that cells lining mice’s blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents’ blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is “no doubt” produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.

See honey? When I “dutch oven” you, it is healthy. 

Today’s interesting statistic of the day:

Each day from July through September, more than 2,700 Americans lost their homes in foreclosure.

Did you all hear about the story today of the (white) woman who was attacked at by a (black) man at an ATM and that the man further assaulted her because of the McCain-Palin bumper sticker on her car. Oh, and she was a McCain campaign volunteer.

Yeah. She made the whole thing up:

Republican campaign worker who told police she was assaulted by a man angered by a John McCain sticker on her car admitted she made up the report, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, assistant police chief said Friday.

Ashley Todd, 20, of College Park, Texas, will be charged with filing a false police report, a misdemeanor, and may face more charges, said police spokeswoman Diane Richard at a news conference.

Nice, huh?

Wow.

An acclaimed celebrity makeup artist for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin collected more money from John McCain’s campaign than his foreign policy adviser.

Amy Strozzi, who works on the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” and has been Palin’s traveling stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.

I know, this is probably old news to some of you, but this is a US Congresswoman (Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) accusing a presidential candidate and other members of the US Congress of having anti-American views. Nice, huh?

That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.- Governor Palin during an interview in which a third grade student asked “What Does The Vice President Do?"

For the record, Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution states:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

That’s it. This woman holds an elementary school level of knowledge about the office she seeks.

I got this from a friend:

• When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
• Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
• Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
• When it’s in your best interest, practice obedience.
• Let others know when they’ve invaded your territory.
• Take naps.
• Stretch before rising.
• Run, romp, and play daily.
• Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
• Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.
• On warm days, stop to lie on your back in the grass.
• On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree.
• When you’re happy, dance around and wag your entire body.
• No matter how often you’re scolded, don’t buy into the guilt thing and pout ... Run right back and make friends.
• Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
• Eat with gusto and enthusiasm. Stop when you have had enough.
• Be loyal. Never pretend to be something you’re not.
• If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.
• When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.

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I love this site. Very funny graphs.

From The Atlantic Monthly:

The McCain campaign has broken through a heretofore impenetrable barrier in quantum physics, experimentally proving the existence of unseen dimensions and, in the process, setting three of its surrogates on a pathway towards winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in the physical sciences.

Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigning, she said, in “real America,” which apparently includes part of North Carolina, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a media investigation to determine whether Americans are real or not, and today, McCain all-around best surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer (pronounced—Foe-Ten-How-er, like proton power), said that parts of the state of Virginia, heretofore universally assumed to be in America, were not, in fact, in the country.

Ok, you have to be both a political junkie and a science nerd to find that funny. But I did.

Anyone want to take a bet on whether this will happen or not?

When Cass Sunstein, a law professor at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and a legal adviser for Sen. Barack Obama, told a packed crowd at the Netroots convention that the next president should let the Bush administration’s potential war crimes go unpunished, he was met with a chorus of boos and angry rejoinders that the president and his Cabinet cannot remain above the law.

Since then, legal experts have generally agreed that the next administration is unlikely to prosecute Bush administration officials for authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists — no matter how many laws the government officials broke. But that hasn’t placated many others, like George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, or the constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald, who argue that holding policy-makers accountable for their actions is critical to restoring the reputation of the United States — not to mention respect for the rule of law.