Democrats needed 60 votes to bring the bill to a vote. They mustered 56, none from Republicans. The DADT repeal was attached to a military defense spending bill that also included provisions for granting immigrants citizenship after serving two years in the armed forces. The loss comes after a GOP filibuster to block the bill on the Senate floor, about which Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said, “The fact that our colleagues would be having on the Senate floor this debate about to vote to proceed to take up the National Defense Authorization Act, to me, is unbelievable.” Well, y’know, that whole “All men are created equal” thing is easy to forget sometimes.
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In efforts to get people to the polls, Illinois has finagled a new early voting law allowing people to vote by mail—with or without pants.
The “Vote Naked Illinois” campaign encourages voters to take advantage of the state’s new absentee ballot policies and take the easy, at-home route toward making a difference in their government. The commercials feature several nice-looking, civic-minded people in the buff, getting all excited about the issues they “get naked” for. Still, it would be cooler if voters got to show up at the polling booth not wearing clothing, but so far, that’s still illegal.
Illinois: Get Naked, and Vote!
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The Tweetbird experienced some hot “mouseover” action this week, as a flaw in the real-time communication site directed many users to Japanese porn sites and dumped piles of naughty pictures onto their hard drives.
The security flaw was said to have been first discovered, then exploited, by an Australian teenager curious “to see if it could be done,” resulting in thousands of Twitter users being redirected after just hovering their cursors in the wrong place. So far, Twitter has fixed the security flaw and has said they won’t suspend the savvy young hacker’s account.
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Semen has such a wide range of practical uses—moisturizer, hair gel, lubricant—but now, new access to top British Intelligence archives shows that everybody’s favorite happy-juice was useful as invisible ink.
The revelation is brought about thanks to the book MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Professor Keith Jeffery, but there’s no word yet on whether the next James Bond flick will feature 007 writing secret messages with his … well, you know.
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In efforts to get people to the polls, Illinois has finagled a new early voting law allowing people to vote by mail—with or without pants.
The “Vote Naked Illinois” campaign encourages voters to take advantage of the state’s new absentee ballot policies and take the easy, at-home route toward making a difference in their government. The commercials feature several nice-looking, civic-minded people in the buff, getting all excited about the issues they “get naked” for. Still, it would be cooler if voters got to show up at the polling booth not wearing clothing, but so far, that’s still illegal.
Illinois: Get Naked, and Vote!
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The Tweetbird experienced some hot “mouseover” action this week, as a flaw in the real-time communication site directed many users to Japanese porn sites and dumped piles of naughty pictures onto their hard drives.
The security flaw was said to have been first discovered, then exploited, by an Australian teenager curious “to see if it could be done,” resulting in thousands of Twitter users being redirected after just hovering their cursors in the wrong place. So far, Twitter has fixed the security flaw and has said they won’t suspend the savvy young hacker’s account.
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Semen has such a wide range of practical uses—moisturizer, hair gel, lubricant—but now, new access to top British Intelligence archives shows that everybody’s favorite happy-juice was useful as invisible ink.
The revelation is brought about thanks to the book MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Professor Keith Jeffery, but there’s no word yet on whether the next James Bond flick will feature 007 writing secret messages with his … well, you know.
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