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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.

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In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

8am

This song makes me smile.

Plain White T’s - 1234

8pm

streeter:

I think this Amex ad is really clever.

Via Streeter Seidell

12pm

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD???

abnerlp2:

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• Plato: For the greater good.

• Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side.

• Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

• Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road,but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken’s dominion maintained.

• Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I’ll find out.

• Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

• Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

• Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

• Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

• Jack Nicholson: ‘Cause it fucking wanted to. That’s the fucking reason.

• Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

• Johnny Cochran: The chicken didn’t cross the road. Some chicken-hating, genocidal, lying public official moved the road right  under the chicken’s feet while he was practicing his golf swing and thinking about his family.

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Via No surprises

11am

dihard:

This video makes me pause. And not a lot does. (best viewed in full screen)

Via What I Learned Today

1pm

Ark. player ends game with noble gesture

He had been avoiding, dodging or just simply running through tacklers on the way. Football always had come easily for Morgan. This game was no different. By the time he hit midfield, only open space was ahead of him. The two-time Arkansas all-state selection was headed for a touchdown.

40 … 30 … 20

He glanced at the clock and saw the final seconds ticking away. He realized his team, Cave City, was on the way to a victory over Yellville-Summit, comfortably ahead, 34-16. He also realized two other things: This wasn’t an ordinary game. And he wasn’t the same Thamail Morgan.

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