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AP - A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.

AP - At least two mass graves containing dozens of people killed by the Nazis have been found on property used by the Austrian army, government officials said Friday. An army statement suggested some of the remains may be that of U.S. pilots shot down and imprisoned during World War II.

The Christian Science Monitor - Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said this week he’d go to Costa Rica for medical treatment if Congress passes proposed reforms to the US healthcare system.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that Israel's announcement of new settlement construction in disputed territory in East Jerusalem was "insulting" to the United States.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday after breaking her neck and back in a traffic accident that also injured the senator's daughter, a spokesman said.

President Barack Obama delayed a scheduled Asian trip on Friday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forecast final passage of sweeping health care legislation in days.

The White House spokesman came to his daily on-camera briefing on Friday wearing a red-and-white Canadian hockey jersey ? the result of not one, but two losing bets on the U.S.-Canadian rivalry at the recent Winter Olympics.

Filed under: Mash-Ups, Television, The One

In the purest form of internet fun, Jabba the Hutt gets mashed up with the introduction to television show, Parks and Recreation. Why, you ask?

The reason this exists is because every time we watch Parks and Recreation we sing "Jabba the Hutt" along with the theme. So naturally we had to make this video.

 

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For all the Soccer Moms in the house who like their clever, webby venn diagrams, let me hear you say YEAH!

(Or just leave a comment below.)

• via:// 9GAG

 

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President Barack Obama is postponing his long-scheduled Asian trip for a few days to make a final push for passage of historic legislation reinventing the health care system.

President Barack Obama is postponing his long-scheduled Asian trip for a few days to make a final push for passage of historic legislation reinventing the health care system.

Filed under: Videos, Music, Dancing

It deeply saddens me to know that we no longer live in a world where this kind of thing would air on television. I don't know what it is exactly (or inexactly, or at all) but it is deeply saddening nonetheless. The scene is Italy, 1979. Disco is either thriving or dying depending on who you ask, Star Wars is somehow involved, and Stefania Rotolo is giving it her all.

"I love that enough people got together and decided it was a good idea to make this," said someone who watched this video with me. "It's not like it's just one guy who's doing it, it's three people plus an entire studio."

• via:// Coudal Partners

 

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The House of Representatives voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a federal judge from Louisiana.