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My heart isn't in blogging tonight.

Regular Pink Flamingo readers may be familiar with the exploits of my 9 year old "niece" Sydney. Her mother, my other "sister" has lupus. Alicia has been under a tremendous amount of stress lately. When she went for her regular check-up and blood-tests, she discovered that her blood platelets are very very low, which is not good. Before where the disease was attacking her limbs the way arthritis would, it is now attacking her internal organs.

Like so many other diseases, Lupus research suffers from a terrible want in funding. No ... more »

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Dinosaurs, Ur, Abraham, Oh My!

by SJ Reidhead on November 15, 2008 07:00AM (MST)

WEEKEND SCIENCE LINKS

The birthplace of civilization may have been discovered, right near where Abraham was born!
Oswald Done It.
The egg that became the chicken came from a dinosaur!
Border Patrol agents report underground bases?
How to save a prehistoric fish?
They say if you are younger than 40 you can expect to live to be 1000. What about those of us over 40? I want to live long enough to see Star Trek realized.
Is there a widdle baby Ogopogo?
Is it bigfoot or a poltergeist?
Monsters near a lighthouse?
A ... more »

Keywords: Abraham, PrehistoricFish, Ur, ChickenOrTheEgg, Ogopogo, tequila, Bigfoot, StarTrek

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The Republican Cult of Stupid

by SJ Reidhead on November 15, 2008 12:00AM (MST)

HOW DUMB CAN YOU BE?

(Let me count the ways)

The Democrats excel at corruption. They are so good at it, so excellent they have turned it into an art form. They can almost literally “get away with murder” they are “so good”.

The GOP just can’t seem to get it’s act together when it comes to being morally corrupt. They get caught every time. Unlike their Democratic counterparts, when Republicans get caught, instead of closing ranks around the “accused’ they act like a deer in the headlights of a big-rig, unable to move. Sometimes, they are a little too ... more »

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