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steve2470's JournalBoehner sticks to his guns as Senate Republican leader McConnell urges swift action
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The message body of this post was accidentally deleted due to an unexpected bug in our new software. The bug has been fixed, and most of the data was recovered. But unfortunately we were unable to recover the full text of this post. An older version of this post may be available in its edit history. Also, the author of the post may edit the post to replace the missing text, if they wish. The DU Administrators apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.Who is your "less obvious" avatar ? I've always wondered, have you ?
Having been on DU for over 7 years now, I've seen many male and female avatars who I cannot identify. Are you the same ?
Anyone willing to play "identify the avatar" game ? I'll go first. Mine is FDR (duh) 
Son Calls Cops on Mom Over World of Warcraft
A 'Cataclysmic' Response
12/18: A 16-year-old male called the police on his mother after she apparently tried to make him stop playing the online role-playing video game World of Warcraft. Police received the call just after 9 p.m. No arrests were made.
http://wilton.patch.com/articles/teen-calls-cops-on-mom-after-she-tries-to-make-him-stop-playing-world-of-warcraft
"Leave me alone Mom, I'm about to level up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 
Enthusiast still cannot access DU3, trying to help here
He PMed me (in response to my PM query) and said this is the message he gets:
"Waiting for (URL)"
I'm assuming the problem is still not fixed. Can anyone aid Enthusiast ?
Moving to a "warm climate" versus staying put in a colder one ?
I've always heard that it's "easier" for an elderly person to live in a warmer climate (Florida, southern Texas, Arizona, etc) than in a colder one. Is that really true or exaggerated ?
Poll: How vile are Ayn Rand's socio-economic ideas ?
The scale is, zero being totally harmless to Nazism being a 100.
Based on my limited knowledge, I'd give them a 90.
FDA Tells Man to Stop Donating Sperm on the Internet
http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/19/fda-tells-man-to-stop-donating-sperm-on-the-internet/A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the last five years through free sperm donations to childless couples he meets on the Internet — and is now in trouble with the federal government.
Trent Arsenault of Fremont says he donates sperm out of a sense of service to help people who want to have children but can’t afford conventional sperm banks. The 36-year-old minister’s son has four more children on the way.
“I always had known through people praying at church that there’s fertility issues,” Arsenault told The Associated Press on Monday. “I thought it would just be a neat way of service to help the community.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent Arsenault a cease-and-desist letter late last year telling him he must stop because he does not follow the agency’s requirements for getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases within seven days before giving sperm. The FDA did not immediately respond to questions about what kind of punishment he faces.
All World of Warcraft’s Customer Service Ever Wanted Was a Unicorn
http://kotaku.com/5869466/all-world-of-warcrafts-customer-service-ever-wanted-was-a-unicorn
After spending hours on end dealing with angry, distraught, frustrated, and downright abusive customers, it's easy to imagine this lovely unicorn drawing was enough to get World of Warcraft customer service representatives to reverse a permanent ban.
While I cannot confirm whether or not this image, currently making the rounds at Reddit, is real or fake, I can confirm that if I worked for Blizzard customer service I would have had the exact same reaction to scoring free unicorn art in one of my tickets, even if it is sadly lacking in the rainbow department.
Just don't try it here. We've got unicorns coming out of our asses.
Wait...
*more at link*
Such an absurdly awesome story !
Putting cardboard in shoes to make them last longer - anyone else ?
My dad, who survived the Great Depression, insisted I do this. Anyone else ?
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