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Super Tuesday ends with an amusing victory by McCain. Why amusing? Listening to Cspan, the amount of McCain hate from some callers was notable. Those that say they wont’ vote rather than vote for McCain and the like. One wonders how many republicans feel that way about the man, considering his rather strong standing. With the vocal majority working against him, things aren’t quite settled yet.

A look at the US military budget. $515 billion would be enough, but the real size of this behemoth is actually. $713 billion. Amazing, isn’t it?

CIA head Michael Hayden says that waterboarding was used on three terror suspects, though not in the past five years.

The continuing Britney Spears drama for those that love watching train wrecks in motion.

Explainer looks at US voter turnout for the primaries.

Middle East

Russia is concerned about a recent Iranian missile test. Interesting that this would be the thing that concern’s Russia. Long ranged missiles might be part of the development of nuclear missiles, but a nuclear payload isn’t the limit of what can be put onto a long range missile.

A new flag flies over government buildings in Baghdad, with the writing changed and the three stars gone. I notice it isn’t the frilly blue flag that was supposedly supposed to be Iraq’s new flag. Did that one go down the tubes? Personally, I think the old flag is fine, sans Saddam references.

With all the trouble in the Middle East, it’s little surprise that education is falling behind in the region.

That Hamas itself was behind the recent suicide bombing in Israel is saddening. Looks like the window for a change has passed.

Asia/Pacific

The US pops sanctions onto the relations of the military junta in Burma. Not a bad idea to cause some pain without touching the people.

Europe

Jerome Kerviel, at the center of the recent trouble with Societe Generale, says he’ll accept his responsibility, but won’t be made a scapegoat for the bank.

Little surprise, the number of Catholic nuns and monks have declined worldwide. In a world growing increasingly modern, fewer people care to live by those archaic ways.

General

Weight lifting can be as effective as endurance training, like running when it comes to health.

Nokia tries to break into mobile gaming again with a fresh release of the N-Gage.

Super Bowl Ads graded.

I have a new favorite past time. Watching reactions videos of people watching the 2 Girls, 1 Cup video. Now, I’ve never seen it before. I’ve seen links to it, but I’ve decided to spare myself for the time being. But I’ve heard enough about it to get the gist of the contents. Been a lot of Youtube videos of people watching it and some of them have been rather amusing. The fourth of the vides in the slide show is an interesting case. The guy in it who dry heaves as he’s watching and leaves before its done actually had another video of him watching it a second time. He had a rough time of it, but he managed to watch the whole thing, mostly. An odd sort of triumph, but you have to give him points for it.

Note: I have enough respect for my readers and this site that I won’t ever place something of that nature on the site. Also, I’m quite sure something of that nature is against terms of use(though I must admit I haven’t browed OD beyond)

The Blogs are all about Super Teusday. Did you expect any less?

Today’s Papers has bad financial news, the Senate committee hearing that focused on national security threats, ass loads on Super Teusday and a bit more in the one page news.

Amusements

Wind farms a “threat to national security.” Your local power company stops counting money, points, laughs, resumes counting

Brazen bank robber boldly does whatever teller tells him to do, such as “Sir, please remove your hood.” With instruction-following bank robber surveillance pic goodness

Boobies for haircuts: Going to a topless bar or paying for a personal escort service could help nursing-home residents afford haircuts or movie tickets

“In Florida, election officials across the state fielded hundreds of phone calls from confused voters asking where they could vote Tuesday, apparently unaware that Florida’s presidential primary was last week”

Just because your girlfriend crashed your car doesn’t mean you can comandeer the bus as it passes by the accident and then crash it into a muddy hillside

Not News: Republican Family Values Candidate Running for Committeeman. Fark: Candidate is a ‘Deadbeat Dad’ Who Owes $82,000 in Unpaid Child Support

Man calls sheriff’s department when stripper steals his sex money

Drunk student ate his room key so he could keep on partying and so his friends couldn’t take him home and put him to bed. With x-ray pic

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop this fearsome flora

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop these bells

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop this little buckaroo