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Obama : AMA & AARP Endorse House Health Bill

President Obama made a surprise appearance at the daily White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon to announce that the nation’s leading advocacy group for the elderly as well as the largest doctor’s organization have endorsed the current health care plan being considered in Congress. “We are closer to passing this reform than ever before,” Mr.

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7.2 Million people who didn’t vote (NYC 2009)

An estimated 8.3 million people live in New York City.

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Bachmann calls on protestors to use ‘scare’ tactics against Congress

In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) called on protesters to “scare” members of Congress into killing the proposed health care reform bill.

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Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/ The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

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Jamie McCourt’s BF Called ‘Liar’ By Ex

Filed under: Dirty Divorces L.A. Dodgers owner Frank McCourt’s divorce from wife Jamie has a new plot twist — the ex-wife of the ex-Dodgers employee who is now the current boyfriend of Frank’s estranged wife claims Jamie’s new man is a big fat liar. Follow that?Here’s the ..

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Sesame Street mocks Fox News with "Pox News," conservative blogger not amused

It's Sesame Street's 40th anniversary and while Google is celebrating with Big Bird's feet, we are more interested in Oscar the Grouch's latest antics. Yes, it seems the surly, trash-can-living muppet is busting out his reporter chops these days and much to the dismay of his audience he's being all lovey-dovey with his interviewees. At the end of the segment one of his viewers calls to tell him she's changing the channel, “From now on I am watching 'Pox' News

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Gay Marriage Loses In Maine

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gay_marriage_maine I was there in the ballroom with the No On One campaign watching the results come back. I was there with friends of mine who had worked our asses off on this campaign, watching as the northern precincts of the state started coming in, and we started losing our lead. Suddenly “No on One” was only 300 votes ahead.

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Gay Marriage Loses In Maine

Introducing Developing Stories – An experiment in featured content

Over the next few days, you may slowly bump into stories that are featured as “Developing Stories” on Current. We're trying something new out, and would like your help. Read all of the details about this new community challenge over on the Current blog: http://blogs.current.com/currentdotcom/2009/11/04/introducing-developing-stories…

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House Dems set for health care vote: AARP to endorse bill

According to the Associated Press, AARP – the senior citizens' lobby – will endorse the House Democrats' health insurance reform bill. AARP has roughly 40 million members. The endorsement is a big plus for the Obama administration; many seniors had been wary of the bill for it cuts medicare funding that is considered wasteful

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Wild Bear kills Terrorists in cave hideout

A Wild Bear killed 2 Hizbul Mujahideen militants from their cave hideout in South Kashmir. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bear-kills-two-Hizbul-infiltrators-in-c… added by: LowShred 15 comments

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