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How to Identify a potential Facebook friend from West Michigan

Status update includes the words “God, family, Dutch, coupon,” or “homosexual”.
Misspelled  interests which include “religioun, privalege” or obscene amounts of exclamation points.
Profile picture is of the newest child, the latest death, church steeple, or deer head.
Education includes a high school with the word “Christan” or county name in title.
Current job contains the words “farm”, “pastor”, [...]

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Kwame made The Daily Show

Yes, this whole situation has become so stupid, it’s fodder for ridicule at a national level.

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Wind power at Chelsea Proving Ground?

The first stage of the project will take place over the next year and a half at Chelsea with the construction of a 264ft tall test tower. … This project will look at the viability of wind power at higher altitudes. If the data proves favorable, Chrysler will consider construction of wind turbines on the [...]

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There’s a Surprise - Granholm calls for seating Democratic delegates

The governors of Michigan and Florida are saying it’s increasingly important that delegates from the two states be seated.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Florida Governor Charlie Crist say it’s “reprehensible” the voices of 5.2 million people who voted in the two primaries would be silenced.
They say it’s “intolerable” that the Democratic National Committee has stripped [...]

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Google Street View for Detroit

Google’s Street View, famous for the tempest in a tea cup of daring to show photos of idiots you could see by driving the street yourself,  has launched for, among others cities, Detroit. And the race is on to find a crime in progress on the streets of Detroit via Google Street View. (Just to [...]

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