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If you don't mind taking it apart yourself, apparently, the screen can be fixed for $20.00. Damn.

"Pat Robertson, a Christian televangelist, speaking today about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, said Haitians had collectively "sworn a pact to the devil," which brought on the country's extreme poverty and the earthquake." — There's certainly something evil going on here, but it's not in Haiti – it's Pat Robertson channeling Satan.

An article I really need to tear apart and try out in my own stuff.

Well, this is fine and all, but I really haven't finished all last year's books. Sigh.

OFFS.

Cancer-causing chemicals used to coat parking lots are showing up in people's homes, tracked in from outside on their shoes.

Makes sense – big businesses do it all the time. Cut your losses and move on, don't stay in a house that's underwater.

A heartrending plea from a Afghan woman who wants to get her education and get out of an impossible situation.

McDonalds uses this – OMG this is gross. "Evidently, scraps of cow flesh, swept up from slaughterhouse floors and pulverized into a kind of paste, are moving through the tubes, subjected to a lashings of ammonium hydroxide to kill bacteria.The scene ends with those heavily protected workers carefully packing uniform flesh-colored blocks into boxes. “This is our finished product,” the executive declares. He then claims that the product ends up in 70 percent of hamburgers served in the U.S. “In five years we’ll be in 100 percent,” he predicts."

A new year means a chance to leave some of the tired words and phrases of 2009 in the past. At least that's the theory of the wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University, who released their 35th annual (deep breath) List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

In Michigan, the three churches at the center of this storm are Agape Christian Church, Word for Life Church of God, and Centerpoint Church. They were part of a ministry known as Martha's Table, which brought together eight different faith congregations to provide meals and worship space to the homeless. Only for these three churches, the fact that some of the other participating faith bodies take a progressive stand on homosexuality is enough to say to Kalamazoo's homeless, "We don't want you."

Even after meeting with Uganda to discuss the bill, American Evangelicals are claiming they didn't expect the death penalty – liars. They consulted on it.