Friday, January 4, 2013

Opinion: Merry atheist Christmas! | Redux

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Opinion: Merry atheist Christmas!

Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas by GlasgowAmateur
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(CNN) -- I wrote a book called "Every Day is an Atheist Holiday." Recently I got up at the non-Vegas magical hour of 6 a.m. to do radio interviews all over the country to let people know about it. I did some interviews with atheist and skeptic podcasts, but the 6 a.m. talks were usually morning radio. And morning radio has a lot of theists. My book had just come out that day so even jocks who wanted to read it hadn't had the time to do more than skim. Many of the DJs saw the words "holiday" and "atheist" and asked me how I felt about "The War on Christmas." Fox News is usually credited with spreading the panic about this war on Christmas. Bill O'Reilly talks about atheists and left-wing loons ruining Christmas for children. Fox's Bill O'Reilly warns of a war on Christmas.

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Video: Hillary Clinton has blood clot in her head | Reduction

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Video: Hillary Clinton has blood clot in her head

U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama With World Leaders at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama With World Leaders at the Metropolitan Museum in New York by U.S. Department of State
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will stay in New York hospital after being diagnosed with a blood clot between her skull and her brain. Margaret Brennan has the latest on her diagnosis.

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Video: Gabby Douglas on the moment she almost quit gymnastics | Redux

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Video: Gabby Douglas on the moment she almost quit gymnastics

1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Gold Medal, Betsy Beard Stallings, Rowing
1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Gold Medal, Betsy Beard Stallings, Rowing by cliff1066™
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Gabby Douglas and her mom, Natalie, talk to "Person to Person" about how the gold medalist almost quit the sport -- just nine months before the 2012 Olympics.

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Gabby Douglas

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Video: Highway of Tears | Essentials

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Video: Highway of Tears

Simpsons 500th Episode Marathon - the Simpsons, Al Jean, Nancy Cartwright, and Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
Simpsons 500th Episode Marathon - the Simpsons, Al Jean, Nancy Cartwright, and Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson) by Pop Culture Geek
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Big changes for the 2012-2013 season! Watch the current week's episode for FREE up to a week after it airs or subscribe for access to all shows, classic episodes and more!

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Conn. bell manufacturer looks to ring in better times | Reduction

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Conn. bell manufacturer looks to ring in better times

Samuel Huntington, First President of the United States
Samuel Huntington, First President of the United States by Tony Fischer Photography
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(CBS News) EAST HAMPTON, Conn. -- We are approaching the season of bells-- sleigh bells and bells at the doors and the shopping malls. But there was a time when those bells were made in America. Eventually there was just one factory left producing the sound of Christmas and now it's gone. However, the owner declines to give in to a silent night. Underneath the dissolved metal and burned bricks, 45-year-old Matt Bevin searches for a familiar sound. For 180 years, this was the site of his family business, Bevin Brothers. But in May, lightning destroyed his family 's history. "To know that my ancestors for six generations have stood on this exact spot and made bells in Bell Town USA, it means a lot to me," said Bevin. East Hampton, Connecticut is called Bell Town USA because there were again than 30 bell makers here.

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0"To know that my ancestors for six generations have stood on this exact spot and made bells in Bell Town USA, it means a lot to me," said Bevin.
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-0.0142089"When you think about a bell, it's just two pieces of metal banging together," said Bevin. "But they symbolize something much greater. They symbolize dreams they symbolize joy, they symbolize memories, they symbolize hope for people."
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Man Arrested for Pulling Gun in Gas Line | Reduction

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Man Arrested for Pulling Gun in Gas Line

Penn. RR Station from Gimbel's N.Y. (LOC)
Penn. RR Station from Gimbel's N.Y. (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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New York City authorities say a motorist was arrested after he tried to cut in line at a gas station in Queens early Thursday and pointed a pistol at another motorist who complained. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 35-year-old Sean Bailey, of Queens, was arrested on charges of menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. It wasn't clear whether he had a lawyer. Damage from the storm has forced many gas stations to close and has disrupted fuel deliveries, causing long lines at the gas stations that remained open. If convicted, Baily could face up to 15 years in prison.

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Baily

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Watch: NY Firefighters Shot: 2 Dead at House-Fire Scene | Synopsis

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Watch: NY Firefighters Shot: 2 Dead at House-Fire Scene

2012 Maryland State Firemen's Convention
2012 Maryland State Firemen's Convention by Lee Cannon
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This morning at 5:35 AM -- structure fire department. -- -- -- -- reported. Car and house fire at 191 lake road in Webster. Responding firefighters. When they pulled up on the scene -- certain...

Watch: NY Firefighters Shot: 2 Dead at House-Fire Scene

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NJ Man Swept Away by Sandy Left Note | Reduction

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NJ Man Swept Away by Sandy Left Note

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Nearly naked and soaking wet, a New Jersey man who took refuge in a stranger's house after he was swept away by Superstorm Sandy left behind a note to his father in case he didn't survive. The man, identified only as Mike, swam for his life as waves and currents gripped him in Barnegat Bay after he walked outside when the storm destroyed part of his home in the Green Island section of Toms River. "I was in the middle of nowhere and there were no lights and the first house I went into was flooded and I just really needed, really needed a break because the waves were going over my head," he told radio station WOBM in Toms River. He eventually ended up at a stranger's home, tired, thirsty and suffering from hypothermia.

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Video: NYC subway push death a hate crime | Reduction

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Video: NYC subway push death a hate crime

New-York has a picturesque Venice all her own and within the city limits, at Jamaica Bay (LOC)
New-York has a picturesque Venice all her own and within the city limits, at Jamaica Bay (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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The police have actually arrested a 31-year-old woman and charged her with murder as a hate crime in connection with death of a man pushed onto NYC subway tracks. Rebecca Jarvis reports.

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Mall gunman: Personal setbacks, friends' disbelief | Reduction

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Mall gunman: Personal setbacks, friends' disbelief

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Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Adam Phillips answers questions at a press conference regarding the 22-year-old gunman who opened fire at an Oregon mall, killing two people before killing himself. The man who shot two people to death and wounded another at an Oregon shopping mall had suffered a series of setbacks in the past year, according to a profile in The Oregonian newspaper. Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, had lost his driver's license after a couple of speeding tickets, broken up with his girlfriend, been evicted from his apartment, then quit his job and told friends he was going to Hawaii -- only to apparently miss his flight last weekend, the Oregonian said. Roberts was identified Wednesday as the man who opened fire in the food court of the crowded Clackamas Town Center southeast of Portland.

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