Laugh for the day

That is if you can stop groaning......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKflKzmfRCw&feature

Sense the gravitas! The depth and basic nobility of character! The range and sweep of understanding and intellect...... ah, what an opportunity we missed.

Sarah Palin for president!!!

PS - notice how her supporters tried to block out the video......

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Don't Blame Obama

After all, what is a New Democrat to do?



Shush! Senator Palpatine is speaking...

Let's try and see if we can overhear what he is saying to his young Padawan.






"But...but what of the grassroots movement, what of the deep vein in the contemporary American psyche that the Obama campaign had tapped into?" you ask.

"What happened to all that?"

Good question.

I reckon you must be referring to the f&*king r%!ards.

The same thing that happened to Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, I suppose.

I suspect foul play.



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Focus on the journey, not the destination

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Ah! Easy for you to say.

On a day like this...



...I find myself wishing...




But I get the gist. I do.

Life is just too short to fly coach.



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Believe!

Barack: Wait a minute. You just flash that thing, it erases their memory, and you just make up a new one?



Rahm: A standard issue neuralyzer.

Barack: And that weak-ass story's the best you can come up with?

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Oh no, there's been some terrible mistake!

I'm programmed for Etiquette, not Medicine!



Oh my, oh my, what do we have here? Accessing data. This doesn't look good. Flat readings are indicative of brain death except in cases of profound hypothermia and central nervous system depression.
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Suits my mood

SOURCE


André Franquin passed away on January 5, 1997, so he didn't get to see the beginning of the third millennium.



I wonder what he would have made of our times?


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I agree with pretty much all of this...

...column about why Rachel Maddow is somebody, and becoming even moreso.

Perhaps the main thing I'd add to the writers' theories about why this is so, is that I think she's cute as a button. This is hardly very relevant, but it is true nevertheless.
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A New Bot For The Wulfshead

New Robot Surgeons Can Operate Without Human Assistance
BY Austin Carr
Wed Jul 21, 2010

Paging Dr. 3PO. One day soon robots could performing routine procedures in the OR.

Bioengineers at Duke University announced yesterday that they've created a robot that can "locate a man-made, or phantom, lesion in simulated human organs, guide a device to the lesion and take multiple samples during a single session," all without a doctor's supervision. Researchers hope these developments could one day lead to robots working autonomously on basic surgical operations.

Nicknamed the Biopsy Bot, the robot relies on 3-D and ultrasound technology for its movement. The ultrasound scans serve as the robot's "eyes," enabling the doc bot to locate its target. With advanced artificial technology, the robot processes the 3-D data and sends out specific commands to its mechanical "arm" and "hand," devices that examine lesions and are able to take samples.

So far, the next-gen surgical robot has been 93% effective in its most recent tests, and researchers at Duke are confident about the robot's viability.

“One of the beauties of this system is that all of the hardware components are already on the market,” said the team's leader, professor Stephen Smith. “We believe that this is the first step in showing that with some modifications, systems like this can be built without having to develop a new technology from scratch.”

Check out the video at the link to see the robot in action. Doesn't it remind you of the bot from Star Wars that fixed Luke Skywalker's hand?

http://www.fastcompany.com/1672937/new-robot-surgeons-can-operate-without-human-assistance
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