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Gain detergent decided that it would launch a "Hip/Funky" ad campaign.The first commercial featured a couple where the Pregnant mother was addicted to huffing Gain detergent.It showed a couple coming back from a false alarm at the maternity ward and the husband explaining that ever since his wife was pregnant, she was hooked on smelling detergent.The actress portraying the preggo was huffing Gain detergent like someone inhaling Model Glue. This ad was very sickening, and I've only seen it once, thank God.

August 20, 2007 New Gallup Poll: Romney Posts Modest Gains Majority of Republicans unaware of his Iowa victory, however by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICEPRINCETON, NJ -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has posted modest gains over the last two weeks, both in his favorable rating and in his positioning in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. One presumption is that Romney's gains reflect the visibility that followed his win in the Iowa Republican Party straw poll last weekend, although data in the new Gallup Poll show that only a third of Republicans nationwide are directly aware that...

BAQOUBA — Iraqi and Coalition forces conducted a cordon and knock in Hadid, Iraq, to gather intelligence on terrorist activity April 21. “When we have no intelligence driving an operation, we inform the [Iraqi Army] leaders that this is more of a presence-type mission [where] you knock on the doors, and [find out] what information they can give you,” said U.S. Maj. Dominique Dionne, the Military Transition Team leader. The 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army led the way into Hadid along with U.S. Soldiers from the 3rd “Grey Wolf” Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, which formed the...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 17, 2006 -- Wounded warriors at Brooke Army Medical Center here now have a place to call home during their recovery thanks to a generous influx of money from global war on terrorism funds. Army Sgt. Ernesto Godoy, an amputee adjusting to a prosthesis, lowers a shower seat in a “mobility impaired accessible” room at the barracks near Brooke Army Medical Center. Godoy occupies one of the 24 rooms that have been renovated to accommodate wounded warriors. Photo by Elaine Wilson   '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. With more than $600,000 in hand,...

8/8/2006 - KARADJE, Niger (AFPN) -- Niger villagers were smiling ear-to-ear when 14 Airmen from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, handed out soccer balls and rice in July. The 787th Air Expeditionary Squadron, made up of Airmen from the 24th Intelligence Squadron and 1st Combat Communications Squadron, is deployed to Niger for Eagle Vision. The focus of the deployment is to collect satellite imagery for mapmaking purposes. "Whenever we deploy on Eagle Vision missions, we help out host nations," said Capt. Ben Powell, 787th AES commander. The squadron collected 30 soccer balls donated by people in the Kaiserslautern Military Community. "Usually...

Racial IQ Gap Narrows: Blacks gain 4 to 7 points on whites Eric Jaffe A statistical analysis of four national intelligence tests indicates that the difference in scores between blacks and whites decreased by about a third between 1972 and 2002. The findings challenge a century-old argument that the racial gap in performance on IQ tests is primarily genetic and therefore invulnerable to social change, say the researchers who performed the new study. They examined data that have only recently become available to researchers, says William Dickens of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Using test results from a random...

Brain scans can identify who is more "rational" and who is more "emotional," says a new study in the current issue of the journal Science. Researchers at University College London put subjects into a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and watched their brain activity as they sorted through some artfully structured choices. The researchers posed classic Tversky/Kahneman choices framed as gain and loss scenarios. In this case, the subjects were initially told that they would receive £50, but then were told that they had to choose between a "sure" option and "gamble" option. In so-called Gain frame, the...

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Brett Bartels hands out toys to children in a market in Barwana, in western Iraq, June 15, 2006. Multinational Force-Iraq photo by Sgt. Roe F. Seigle Marines’ Goal: Gain Trust, Improve Community The Marines' "gifts for grades" incentive encourages Iraqi schoolchildren to earn good grades. By U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Roe F. Seigle 1st Marine Division BARWANA, Iraq, June 28, 2006 -- As U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Brett Bartels stood in front of a military vehicle handing out hundreds of stuffed animals and soccer balls on a road in Barwana, his goal was simple -...

Scientists gain insight into invisibility through a complex superlens By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 03/05/2006) The Klingons used it to make their Bird of Prey spacecraft invisible. The Romulans used cloaking too and variants of this stealth technology hid the nasty alien in the Predator films and have been mentioned in Star Wars, Doctor Who and more besides. Scriptwriters will be pleased to discover that this science fiction idea is deemed today to be closer to science fact than we realised, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences....

Taza based Iraqi Police officers hand out flyers while on patrol with U.S. Army soldiers of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Lyn Graves Iraqi Police, Army Gain Trust of Iraqi People Gathering information on possible insurgent activity, and at the same time building relationships with the Iraqi people, works in outlying areas the same as it does in towns. By U.S. Army Capt. Lyn Graves 133rd MPAD KIRKUK, Iraq, April 17, 2006 — When an Iraqi factory worker found a bag containing what he believed...

There's no helping you. This site is now just a diversion -- like a train wreck. This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs, and Jim's site policies -- which amount to excluding reality and actual dialogue in favor of political/militaristic pornography -- is conducive to cognitive dissonance, which at the times your worldview is threatened leads you into psychotic breaks (on the political cognitive plane, that is, and just maybe in other realms too). Not to mention that your baseline politics is based in mythology about American demographics, science, economics, ethics etc. You spoonfeed each other in the...

Paris-Area Riots Gain Dangerous Momentum Friday November 4, 2005 3:46 AM By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press Writer AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state. Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants. Unrest flared for an eighth straight night Thursday, though...

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<p>Except for the presidential election, the most important election this year will take place on April 27 in Pennsylvania. No, it's not the "American Idol" finals. It's even more important than that. That's the day of the Republican primary pitting a great Republican, Pat Toomey, against the 74-year-old, Ira Einhorn-defending alleged "Republican," Arlen Specter.</p>

Jim DeMint is going to bring home another seat for us in South Carolina. He is picking up a percentage point about every 25 minutes at the moment over Inez Tenenbaum. Local stations have 30% precincts reporting right now with DeMint up by almost ten points. Fox is currently calling it like this:

Last January, on a warm afternoon in Tampa, 72,000 people walked into Raymond James Stadium and joined one of the largest, most high-tech police lineups ever.As they passed through turnstiles leading into the stadium, closed-circuit cameras linked to computers scanned their features using face recognition software. In a fraction of a second, the software looked for matches in a database of thousands of criminals' faces.Few people knew they were taking part in the police check. Most probably wouldn't have cared, since they were probably too preoccupied with taking their seats as lucky ticket holders attending Super Bowl XXXV.In all, 19...

GOP hope is six-seat gain in Nov. By Jonathan E. Kaplan Senior House Republicans believe the GOP will gain about six seats in the Nov. 2 election, increasing the party’s majority in the chamber to 35, although they say it is too early to start making hard-and-fast predictions. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a former two-term chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), told The Hill: “It’s too early for that. We could do a half a dozen if it were today. But there’s a long way to go. I always waited until the first or second week in October;...

He's doing it again...John Kerry exploited America's Vietnam veterans and troops in 1971 for his own political gain.Now it's 2004... he's doing it again. 

CLOQUET, Minn. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) on Friday talked up his economic and energy policies as he sought to chip away at President Bush (news - web sites)'s support among rural voters. With just over three weeks before he accepts his party's nomination, Kerry embarked on a three-day bus tour through small Midwestern towns while his campaign bought $14 million of airtime for television ads in 18 battleground states and cable television. Kerry told several hundred supporters at an outdoor rally outside of Duluth that small towns such as Cloquet — population 11,200 —...

Farming origins gain 10,000 years Wild types of emmer wheat like those found at Ohalo were forerunners of today's varieties Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say. These grasses included wild emmer wheat and barley, which were forerunners of the varieties grown today. A US-Israeli team report their findings in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The evidence comes from a collection of 90,000 prehistoric plant remains dug...

NEWS May 19 - 25, 2004 www.bigbrother.govThe feds want to know who?s been visiting the Web site of voting watchdog Bev Harris, and they?re likely to get what they want.by George Howland Jr. Bev Harris of Renton runs a Web site that is a clearinghouse in the fight against electronic voting.(Rick Dahms) RELATED ARTICLE Black Box Backlash    In the past 20 months, Harris has become America?s leading critic of electronic voting (see ?Black Box Backlash,� March 10). Her reporting on the problems with new computer voting machines has been a key component in a national, grassroots movement to...

With U.S. marines already pouring into Iraq, all signs are that the war will proceed quickly. Indeed, Saddam Hussein's regime may well fall before the end of March. When the resulting scenes of Iraqi jubilation are broadcast around the world, the French-led anti-war camp at the United Nations will be discredited. Billions of people sitting in front of their televisions will be asking themselves: Jacques Chirac wanted to veto ... this? Speaking Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared that the U.S. invasion marked "a sad day for the United Nations." But the damage to the world body may be far...

<p>California's mess is a capital political crime that more than just tarnishes the Golden State.</p> <p>The Sacramento gang has created a fiscal mess more than 20 times worse than anything Congress could manufacture.</p> <p>California's budget deficit works out to more than $1,000 per resident and makes New York City look fiscally responsible.</p> <p>California's deficit is 20 percent of state spending and a third of its operating budget. If every state worker were fired, California would still be at least $10 billion in the red.</p>

<p>Former U.S. Interior Secretary and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt was reported missing Friday when he failed to return from a hike in the Hell's Canyon Wilderness. He was found 40 minutes later.</p> <p>Babbitt was reported missing around 5:20 p.m. after walking ahead of a hiking party in Hell's Canyon, north of Lake Pleasant.</p>