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Facebook Staffers Coach Mark Zuckerberg On Humanlike Behavior Ahead Of Congressional Testimony April 9, 2018 MENLO PARK, CA—According to sources from within Facebook headquarters, interns and staffers at the social network were training Mark Zuckerberg on how to act human ahead of his expected congressional testimony this week.

A professor at Wayne State University in Detroit was giving a lecture on Paranormal Studies. To get a feel for his audience, he asks, “How many people here believe in ghosts?” About 90 students raise their hands. “Well, that’s a good start. Out of those who believe in ghosts, do any of you think you have seen a ghost?” About 40 students raise their hands. “That’s really good. I’m really glad you take this seriously. Has anyone here ever talked to a ghost?” About 15 students raise their hand. “Has anyone here ever touched a ghost?” Three students raise their...

Consider the following 20 beliefs from the imaginary world where liberals live.  The “Affordable Care Act” will reduce the cost and increase the quality of health care, because if you want something done efficiently and economically, then you want unionized government bureaucracies to handle it.  We don’t have a spending problem  It is morally acceptable to borrow massive amounts of money from our grandchildren to support our own current consumption.  The 22 trillion dollars spent on the War on Poverty was quite successful in reducing the number of people in poverty.  The Social Security Program...

~~snip~~ “He’s trying to go through an extreme makeover,” Obama said. “After running for a year in which he called himself ‘severely conservative,’ Mitt Romney’s trying to convince you that he was severely kidding.” Obama went on, painting his opponent as a chameleon who began moderating his tone because he was losing the election. “What he was selling was not working. Because people understood his ideas wouldn’t help the middle class. So these days, Mitt Romney is for whatever you’re for. Suddenly he loves the middle class, can’t stop talking enough about it. He loves Medicare. Loves teachers. He even...

On a Myspace page in Loughner's name, he said goodbye to friends just hours before the shooting and said, "Please don't be mad at me... I cannot rest."

The Council of Fashion Designers of America handed the First Lady a special tribute award at a ceremony in New York on Monday night. "Her meteoric rise in the world of fashion has echoed her husband in the world of politics," said Diane von Furstenberg, the CFDA's president. Mrs Obama, famous for patronising high street clothing brands such as J Crew, has "a unique look that balances the duality of her lives" in her roles as a confidante to the US president and a busy mother, she added. But Tracey Ullman, the ceremony's British-born host, couldn't resist a sartorial dig...

Even in the best of times, the three major bond proposals on the November ballot would merit a thumbs down. Propositions 1A, 3, and 10 would put taxpayers another $16 billion in debt to fund some dubious projects. Proposition 1A spends $10 billion as a down payment on a massive bullet train project. Promoters, which includes the company responsible for Boston's infamous "Big Dig" disaster, claim the project can be completed for about $50 billion. However, a just released study by transportations experts, which includes a former president of the High Speed Rail Association and a former member of the...

In the opinion of US Ambassador William Brownfield, Venezuelan Vice-President José Vicente Rangel was kidding when he labeled as "toilet paper" the annual report on human rights issued last week by the US State Department. "I think that my good friend, the Honorable Vice-President was joking a little bit with us when he referred himself to the report as toilet paper, because, as you know, my government is a government of the 21st Century and we do not use paper for our reports. It is an electronic report. Therefore, in no way he was serious," Brownfield said. The diplomatic noted...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 18 (OneWorld) - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government’s failure to submit its own report. The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews nations’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will complete its session on October 24. But for the third time since ratifying the treaty in 1992, the United States has failed to submit its five-year report to...

ABC Bush speech booth audio (wifi hack) ABC Bush speech booth audio (wifi hack)Original video (WMV format, 1.8Meg) What ABC Reporter Reynolds heard in his ear during the broadcast: Reynolds: "I'd like to get the reaction of Connie London who spent several horrible hours at the Superdome. You heard the president say repeatedly that you are not alone, that the country stands beside you. Do you believe him?" Connie London: "Yeah, I believe him, because here in Texas, they have truly been good to us. I mean-" (ABC Booth producer #1) CUT ! (ABC Booth producer #2) CUT ?...

I've got a bunch of Christmas cards ("proudly MADE in the U.S.A.") that will be going with the last Christmas care packages for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with candy canes and other goodies, and I need some fun jokes to go in them! Please both post your joke here and then send a copy to me by FReepmail with your first name, town and State at the bottom. I'll print them up and tuck them in the last 4 or 5 dozen cards going out tomorrow and Tuesday.

My Years Lost In Space were unbearable.. I used to be a vegetarian until I met this weird carrot man, since this I was scared into being a carnivore.

Could a poll be MORE unbalanced? The question: "Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?" Currently it weighs in as follows: Kerry 89.31% Bush 4.22% Nader 6.47% Looks as if it has been posted on DU and perhaps a few other freak squad websites. Freep away. Click here for the poll.

"I won't raise taxes," says Schwarzenegger, "Except for the Indians." NewsHax wire -- Vowing to join a long line of European settlers who have made and broken every treaty signed with America's native inhabitants, Arnold Schwarzenegger is promising to rewrite Proposition 5, a law approved by a majority of voters in 1998 granting Indian casinos the right to conduct limited gaming on their sovereign lands. "We're not surprised at all," says a spokesman for the Pala Indian tribe outside of San Diego, "Every treaty we've ever made with the white man has been broken to our disadvantage. Our only real...