This dream is over: The Associated Press: Home Foreclosures Set Record in First Quarter. More than 1 million homes are now in foreclosure. This, as we watch economic recession claim all equity of responsible mortgage borrowers, while the government attempts to save the irresponsible with a lender rodeo. The association says it expects foreclosures and [...]
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mikull.com message board :: “Artistic” Death of an Innocent Animal :: This one hit me a little hard.
In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and began starving him to death. For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the [...]
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ASPCA: Ways to Go Orange for Animals. mikull.com celebrates the ASPCA’s efforts this April and encourages animal cruelty awareness all year long. Show your support - and post a comment to this entry. We’re giving away 10 ASPCA bracelets randomly to anyone who submits a reply!*
Every year on April 10, the anniversary date of the [...]
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YouTube - Huckabee: Amend Constitution to Reflect God’s Standards. Dude… Do I even need to make a clever remark? I admire conviction, but making this guy president is just completely banana sandwich. Chuck Norris approved or not… vote wisely.
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The ethics of “stealing” a WiFi connection from arstechnica.com: Interesting article about the question of morality when it comes to lifting a little wireless that technically doesn’t belong to you. They lay it out like this:
It’s time to put an end to this silliness. Using an open WiFi network is no more “stealing” than is [...]
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Transformers Movie named the Most Pirated Film of 2007 - TFW2005: In a somewhat dubious honor, the filesharing news blog TorrentFreak has compiled a list of most pirated movies in 2007. According to a representative sample from one torrent site, Transformers topped the movie list for last year.
Ironically, Transformers sold over 190,000 HD DVDs in [...]
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Lenders Agree to Freeze Rates on Loans - New York Times
The government and mortgage industry came to an accord yesterday to freeze loan rates and offer relief for some sub-prime mortgage borrowers. This, like many other things the Bush administration has done, annoys me to no end. Consider this: you get an ARM loan at [...]
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I’m Ready to Bail on Facebook - the New Face of Evil
I’ve been seeing a number of articles on this topic, but I felt this recent one summed it all up rather nicely. Coincidentally, I’ve been seeing more and more of the people I know to use Myspace jump over to Facebook. Social networking revolution [...]
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I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
She’s tough. She’s fearless. She’s driven. She’s a brilliant strategist. She’s perhaps the most famous animal rights activist in the world. Get a glimpse inside the daily life of PETA President Ingrid Newkirk—from the moment she wakes up, well before dawn, until the end of [...]
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Mass Hysteria: 5 Marketing Tricks That Unleash Shopping Frenzies, from Consumerist.com, isn’t all that special of an article. It’s barely related to Black Friday, yet aside from the lovely advice “Don’t give your kid a hunk of plastic -Give him a cup of imagination“, it grabs my opener here because of 2 things: the picture [...]
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