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Immigration over the past decade has been “too high” and needs to be better controlled, Conservative leader David Cameron has told the BBCs Newsnight.

Peoples concerns were “not because of different cultures” or the colour of someones skin but pressure on schools, hospitals and housing, he said.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Immigration too high - Cameron

Words fail me. Just watch it.

YouTube - Cheney in 1994 on Iraq

GEOFFREY MILLER is a man with a theory that, if true, will change the way people think about themselves. His idea is that the human brain is the anthropoid equivalent of the peacocks tail. In other words, it is an organ designed to attract the opposite sex.

Evolutionary psychology | Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption | Economist.com

The coloscopy was a “routine” procedure, but as the president was to be sedated during the process, executive power had to be handed over to Cheney. It was at that point that 4 billion people who had been praying for Bush to die suddenly began praying for him to live.

(CBS/AP) Doctors performing a colonoscopy this morning on President Bush at Camp David found and removed five small polyps. Polyps are precancerous growths in the colon.

While the polyps were removed without incident, the doctors were sadly unable to locate the Presidents head.

Under later analysis the polyps turned out not only to not be cancerous, but in fact to simply be the tongues of the editorial team at Fox News.

Polyps Found In Bush Colonoscopy - CBS News

Just in case you were thinking of killing and eating that annoying Republican relative of yours, think again. It might be better to throw them in the woodchipper after all.

Health guru Randall Fitzgerald, is the author of The Hundred-Year Lie (Plume), a book that reveals how to protect yourself from chemicals that could ruin your health, and says the human body is so contaminated with chemicals from modern life that we can’t eat ourselves.

Eating humans is hazardous to your health

College Republicans explain why they’re not enlisting to fight in the war they support… hey, it’s good to know where these folks come from.

YouTube - Generation Chickenhawk: With The College Republicans

So, here’s a bit of commentary on the latest entry on Google’s healthcare advertising blog. How to defuse the anger that people will feel after seeing Sicko. No. I’m not kidding.

The New York Times calls Sicko a “cinematic indictment of the American health care system.” The film is generating significant buzz and is sure to spur a lively conversation about health coverage, care, and quality in America. While legislators, litigators, and patient groups are growing excited, others among us are growing anxious. And why wouldn’t they? Moore attacks health insurers, health providers, and pharmaceutical companies by connecting them to isolated and emotional stories of the system at its worst. Moore’s film portrays the industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare’s interest in patient well-being and care.

I’m sorry? What was that? Healthcare’s interest in what?

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Andrew Ramsay, a Glasgow accountant who was being interviewed by Customs regarding a VAT fraud conspiracy, was kidnapped by armed men posing as plainclothes police 3 months ago, and this week his fleshless skull turned up in a fishing net in the Firth of Clyde.

Det Supt William Prendergast, of Strathclyde Police, told a news conference that there were many questions still to be answered about what happened to Mr Ramsay.

However, he said that police were not treating the case as murder at this stage.

I know you have to be cautious, but the man was kidnapped and found dead at the bottom of the sea!

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Skull of missing accountant found

they hug! they eat invisibel bananas! they do not believes in evolutionz! they iz our prezidential candidates! o crap!

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A 20-year-old student’s car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track

So, err, what part of the satnav’s fault was it that she didn’t notice she was PARKED ON A RAILROAD?

Frightening. Truly frightening.

BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | Sat nav driver’s car hit by train