Bag of Randomness

  • Warren Buffet says he’ll match dollar for dollar any of their voluntary debt-reduction contributions to the IRS by Republicans, and he’ll triple the amount Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell makes.  Time
  • Another kind of 1% – Just 1% of Americans accounted for 22% of health care costs in 2009 [Source]
  • It’s not like terrorists have enough propaganda material on their hands, but there’s a new YouTube video of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.  It’s amazing what people are willing to record on video.
  • Speaking of urinating, here’s a urinal that will analyze a person’s urine and give a health rating.  I think this would be a good product to have in a restaurant or bar and charge a dollar for its use, of course there should be plenty of free urinals to use as well.
  • Mitt Romney is on his way to in the Republican nomination, but on Friday about 150 evangelical leaders will gather at a Texas ranch to try to stop that from happening.
  • I learned two interesting things about the funeral of RFK.  His funeral is the only one to ever take place at night at Arlington National Cemetery (his brother Ted’s started in the day and ended at night) and at the end of the grave side service, the folded American flag was presented to Ethel on behalf of the United States by John Glenn [Source] of all people.
  • In case you were wondering, Glenn is 90-years-old.
  • This is a really cool machine used to move a tree from one location to another.
  • I’d bet the farm that Kate Upton will appear on the cover of next month’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
  • On Twitter I noticed that @SecretService isn’t following anyone.  I guess they don’t trail people like the FBI and CIA.
  • DirecTV changed their channel guide yesterday, and I shall say they did it for the better.
  • I caught that new Howie Mandell flash mob show yesterday.  I think it’s going to be one of those shows that worth recording but not worth watching live because it’s one of those that they really like to surprise you with a commercial on a cliff hanger.  I like that it doesn’t always have to deal with a wedding proposal, and the editing is a bit overdone at parts, but it’s a real feel good show.
  • From the commercials of The Iron Lady, I’m convinced that all Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture should just go to Meryl Streep.
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But they didn’t get the hair right

Rick Perry is tanking as a presidential campaign figure. He’ll probably also hit the skids as a political action-figure doll.

But that didn’t stop HeroBuilders.com, a Connecticut-based maker of custom action and political figures, from creating a Rick Perry doll that goes on sale this week on the company’s site.

“I don’t think it will do very well at all,” company president Emil Vicale said of the Perry doll, which is available in a “talking” version that includes audio of Perry’s infamous debate flub from November.

“This is what my experience has taught me: In the past, when there’s a figurine like this, his supporters will most likely not buy it because there’s a flub. And the detractors will buy it for the flub and give it to those who wouldn’t buy it.”

The new Perry doll is available in four options: dressed in jeans and T-shirt (in both nontalking, $39.95, and talking, $59.95, models) and “executive” dressed in a black suit (in both nontalking, $59.95, and talking, $69.95).

blog.chron.com

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30-Story Hotel Built In 15 Days In China

Constructing a skyscraper once took months if not years to build. But not anymore, and certainly not in China.

In this recently released time-lapse video, a 30-story hotel is built in just 15 days, or 360 hours.

Constructed in Dongting Lake in Hunan province, the hotel is 170,000 square feet and can withstand a 9.0 earthquake reports Treehugger.

According to the International Business Times, the prefabricated modules were put together in a factory and then placed on steel structures at the construction site.

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Awaiting comment about unions and regulations in three . . . two . . . one . . .

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Parents Petition for ‘Sesame Street’ To Feature Breastfeeding

There are some that believe Sesame Street has been neglecting a particular topic in terms of their educational programming: breastfeeding.

As of Jan. 10, nearly 3,000 people had signed an online petition titled “Bring breastfeeding back to Sesame Street.”

The group, which says it is sponsored by “breastfeeding mothers and their supporters everywhere,” aims to get 5,000 signatures. 

“Back in the 70’s and 80’s nursing was tastefully shown on the show but now they have replaced their nursing videos with bottles,” says the site.

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Here’s an old Sesame Street clip from 1977 about breast feeding.

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