Not long ago, Washington state passed a hands-free/no texting cell phone law for drivers. The first week, you saw almost nobody on the phone while driving.
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'Ma, I love you...' 'We're finished!' It's a creepy website that documents the transcripts and allows you to listen to the cockpit voice recordings from plane crashes throughout the decades. Much is sad, the remainder is tragic.
In the dark, smoky rooms behind closed doors on the 13th floor of super-secret complexes you really thought were Dead Letter Mail offices, are the people who create The Conspiracies. They huddle together and forge ingenious plans to fool society and the world at large.
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In the last few years, something strange has happened.
The old merchant ship cruised into the bay, slicing through cold blue water as smooth as glass. Sharp peaks of black stone towered above the harbor like the walls of a prison. Tiny icebergs bobbed up and down, reflecting their rainbow colors in every spectrum.
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Good old Streeter and Amir, both employees of College Humor, have had a War of the Roses going for over a year pulling off hard core pranks on each other.
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Fox News is still on top, but other news shows are finally making gains on them, including Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. Glenn Beck, in particular, has lost ground at Fox.
'The Runaway General' starts out like this: 'Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House...'
Because the nature of the Tea Party movement is fragmented, that is, there are more factions claiming Tea Party affilliation than the number of biker gangs on the West Coast, this writer drew a majority of the Tea Party platform points from their recent Maine 2010 GOP platform.
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Patrick Stewart, former cast member of 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' and star of the Shakespearean stage, was knighted by the Queen in a ceremony earlier this month at Buckingham Palace.
Martinson entered Oregon State University a couple of months before the Stock Market Crash of 1929. He dropped out in 1933 to buy into a grocery store, just a short time before graduation.
LOS ANGELES — A 16-year-old Southern California girl attempting a solo sail around the world was feared in trouble Thursday thousands of miles from land in the frigid, heaving southern Indian Ocean after her emergency beacons on her sailboat 'Wild Eyes' began signaling and sate …
Surveillance cameras from a freeway overpass in Chile show a stray dog being struck by a passing car - and then another dog crossing all the lanes in heavy traffic to drag the injured dog to safety. Amazing video.
*Except for a slight change in the headline, this is an article I originally did two years ago at Newsvine. But since the recent discoveries on Titan pointed out by JoulesBeef, I figured it was worth a second look.*
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Hmm. It's an animation and I'm fairly certain you haven't seen anything like it. Frank Sinatra's head mounted on a squirrel and singing in Cartoonland with a bunch of other weird characters. Strange, funny, and forgetful - all at the same time.
For thirty-one years, Diego and Susy Goldberg have staged the same pose of their family members. This is the result. They made it a public domain image available at Pixdaus.
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News sources report that B.P's 'top kill' plan to seal the oil pouring into the Gulf has failed. This means their process of dumping mud, rubber debris, and whatever else they have lying around was a complete dud. Maybe it's time to NUKE IT!
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Well, I was in the Regular Army back in the Seventies, but I didn't see any action. In fact, I joined up the month after Saigon fell and never got past Missouri. So, my service was pretty minimal.
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Former child star Gary Coleman died this morning. More at the link.
Making a second fundraising appearance for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali) on Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama got heckled by a protester demanding quicker action on Don't Ask Don't Tell. And then he heckled the heckler.
So you're in the market for a new vehicle. Any chance you'd consider one with more than 100 million miles on the odometer, a neat white paint job and a sticker price of $28.8 million? Probably not.
NEW MARKET, AL - Sixteen year old Joel Tinker, a student at Covenant Christian Academy recently returned from the International Science and Engineering Fair held in San Jose, California with an honorable mention award.
Filibusters and games, anything to stop what the President proposes, joining in lockstep with their Republican colleagues, and here we go on the Crazy Train again.
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Forget the hyperventilated furor over the new Arizona immigration law and consider this overlooked fact: The number of illegal immigrants getting into the country has slowed to a relative trickle.
The latest effort to control illegal immigration into the United States is the barrier nearly 2,000 miles long between the U.S. and Mexico. It's very construction (and maintenance) is nothing but an exercise in folly, and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Nice page and some great writing. Good articles. Bravo!
Wait a minute...don't I WRITE this column? I must have gotten lost or something...
I'm a newbie checking out how news vine works and and I found your site.
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You can always count on this writer for the best articles. Thank you for your recent article on the Israel/Palestine history. It is excellent.
— VMS
I am honored to be added to your friend list. Your columns are always so well written and shows your keen Intellect .I must admit I was not the first to write my header it was taken from Robert H. Goddard a US physicist & pioneer rocket engineer .I thought it said very well what I was thinking .I do know good work when I see it :)
Robert,
I wrote an article today, and thanks to your suggestion, I uploaded an image!
Looking forward to any feedback.
Thanks Robert! Never gotten KS before...but I'll take it.
I enjoy reading your posts as well!
Politics, Party, and Nation are but cheap delusions that will eventually fade into nothingness...... free candy, that is forever.
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From NBC's Mark Murray
First Read has confirmed a report by the Hartford Courant that Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D), who is up for re-election next year, has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer.So sorry to here this...my prayers are with him and his family.
Robert your one of those columnist's who make me want to spend time on Newsvine everyday!
No question in my mind that even with the somewhat "different" cartoons that have ended up almost as a trademark feature on the articles, Robert Blevins remains as one of the most knowledgeable and well rounded authors on Newsvine and the additional rather nice feature is he happens to be one heck of a nice guy also. Nice work Robert !
I love reading your column, I always learn something!
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Thank you very much. I enjoy reading your column, and look to your articles for the voice of reason and calmness.
I'd like to say Robert seems a great writer! He's also in nearby Washington, a state away from California here. I voted and commented on a great artile he wrote today and recommend others do likewise!
Excellent work Robert.
Informative and entertaining. What more could anyone ask for?
After only having visited this column for less than 10 minutes, I can tell that Robert Blevins is a knowledgeable and wise author. If I could have my vote for newest author who has received least votes and comments for great articles, it definitely goes to him.
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