Brilliant plan . . .

So good it has to be fattening!

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The Food Safety Summit held in Baltimore in April has seen at least 100 of its 1,300 attendees sickened with the symptoms of food poisoning.
http://cir.ca/s/Sb3

Sums it up for me!

HS Gary Larson - not real!

And on pandora:
"It's the first of the month . . . . So cash your checks and come on . . . ."

¡No es real!

Es absolutamente cierto

One fifth . . .

And counting!

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One fifth of China soil contaminated

Almost a fifth of China's soil is contaminated, an official study released by the government has shown.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27076645

How little would it take . . .

To convince you to leave your job?

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Amazon has moved to hire thousands of additional workers at its warehouses across the U.S.

http://cir.ca/s/BFc

12 monkeys time!

Scientists Publish Recipe For Making Bird Flu More Contagious
by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NPR - April 10, 2014

Researchers ignited a debate three years ago when they changed a deadly flu virus so that it could spread between people. Only five mutations are needed to turn the virus into a pandemic threat.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/10/301432633/scientists-publish-recipe-for-making-bird-flu-more-contagious?sc=ipad&f=1001

Gives a new meaning to "cutting class"

High school is so much cooler these days:

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Mass stabbing at US high school

A teenager armed with two knives goes on a rampage at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania, stabbing 21 students and a security guard.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26959628

Role models?

Remember that football parody 'The Replacements' with Keanu Reeves, where the cheerleading squad is replaced by strippers? Looks like he joke has now become the reality. Since the Redskins franchise has no problem with derogatory names, think we can come up with a more appropriate title for these 'First Ladies' of football... And for anyone offended by this post, I can only quote Dave Chapelle who aptly stated, 'You may not be a whore, but you sure are wearing a whore's uniform".

Plan B?

You know your it's over when your best plan is to suck CO2 out of the air and pump it into buried rocks.

I have a more efficient way to cut carbon emissions: Global thermonuclear war!

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World 'needs Plan B' on climate - UN

The world needs a Plan B on climate change because politicians are failing to reduce carbon emissions, according to a UN report.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26922661

Good thing I brought headphones

Jay-Z, Anberlin, and Tom morello make this infinitely more entetainting than it would be otherwise.

Wow - yet completely expected

Why not just replace the CIA with a dartboard in a local pub?

"Usually, I just do a google search."

To quote Lewis Black:

"If that's the case, make me head of the CIA.  Because I can watch TV and guess with the best of them."

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So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent
by Alix Spiegel

NPR - April 2, 2014

The morning I met Elaine Rich, she was sitting at the kitchen table of her small town home in suburban Maryland trying to estimate refugee flows in Syria....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-you-think-youre-smarter-than-a-cia-agent?sc=17&f=1001

Soylent time!

I have to get some of this stuff for when I travel. Or for backpacking?

https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

Most of me would laugh . . .

If Sarah Palin woke up Russian tomorrow!

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Not An April Fools' Joke: Russians Petition To Get Alaska Back
by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

NPR - April 1, 2014

After Crimea, is Alaska next? A petition on the White House website calling for just that has more than 37,000 signatures.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/01/297835873/not-an-april-fools-joke-russians-petition-to-get-alaska-back?sc=ipad&f=1001