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Try this out. I am talking about nothing else but using Perplexity as an internet search engine. I have used Bing for searches for five years. Due to google being politically biased to the left and too PC for me https://www.perplexity.ai/ Perplexity pus the other AI searches to shame. Plus it is very well formatted to ask follow up questions. If you sign up for a free account, it will keep an archive of your Perplexity queries searches

This chart tracks Gold vs Bitcoin performance from a $1 investment on 6 Oct 2009 when Bitcoin first had a market price.I humbly dedicate this chart to @PeterSchiff in honour of his tireless promotion of Bitcoin to his audience of gold bugs, we are forever grateful. In it for less than 14.1 Years? Here ya go... BTC PriceGold PriceTodays value from $1 investedBuy 1 yr ago$20930$1674Bitcoin: $1.67 | Gold: $1.19Buy 2 yrs ago$61490$1802Bitcoin: $0.57 | Gold: $1.10Buy 3 yrs ago$15550$1941Bitcoin: $2.25 | Gold: $1.02Buy 4 yrs ago$9357$1486Bitcoin: $3.74 | Gold: $1.34Buy 5 yrs ago$6455$1232Bitcoin: $5.43 | Gold: $1.61Buy 6 yrs...

It has long been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Much has been written and broadcast in the past 48 hours about the need to see a certain picture. A picture that some believe could provide comfort, closure, or confirmation of a death; a killing. This is a picture of death. It is bloody and gruesome, yet so many want to see it. Another picture caught my eye today. This was a picture of despair. It was a picture of hope. At its core it is a picture of the greatest hope the world knows. This was...

This is the Senate Republicans’ one-page joint resolution to keep the government funded through February 2011 (via GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell):

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WASHINGTON - The saga of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s spying scandal — which has toppled the company's chairwoman, two other directors and at least two high-ranking executives — deepened in intrigue Thursday as lawmakers exploring the imbroglio summoned comparisons to Watergate and Enron. Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded to know how investigators for the respected Silicon Valley anchor could use tawdry tactics such as "pretexting," or impersonating HP directors, employees and journalists to obtain their phone records. In one key document cited by the panel, an HP investigator had warned higher-ups, including the company's now-fired chief ethics officer,...

GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices. All web sites are operated by GasBuddy. GasBuddy has the most comprehensive listings of gas prices anywhere by far.Each of GasBuddy Organization's web sites provides a live forum for consumers to post local recent low and high gasoline prices.Since gasoline prices change frequently and may vary by as much as 20 percent within only a few blocks it is important to be able locate the service station with the lowest priced fuel....

Is the Bush administration using a double standard by aggressively reacting to Iraq but seeming to downplay the North Korean threat? The Left criticizes Bush, claiming that his concentration on Saddam Hussein is causing him to ignore the real threat, Kim Jong-il, who is rumored to already have missiles with the capability of striking the United States. Unfortunately, many on the Left are using the debate as just another strawman argument to criticize Bush's performance, as well as using North Korea as a sideshow to achieve their pacifist ideological goal of preventing military intervention in Iraq. Whom do you believe?...

<p>Ninety-nine years ago this past Tuesday, Dec. 17, amid some windblown sand dunes on the shores of North Carolina, the first powered, controlled heavier-than-air flight occurred.</p> <p>It was accomplished, as the popular myth has it, by two "bicycle mechanics" from Dayton, Ohio. The reality, of course, was that they almost single-handedly invented modern aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering, and they did it on their own, with their own resources.</p>