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The Tebow magic is over

The Tebow magic is over - for this season anyway as Tom Brady (pictured above) picked the Bronco defense apart for 26 of 34 for 363 yards and six touchdowns while leading his team to a 45-10 victory.

The only touchdown the Broncos could muster was after an interception deep in Patriot territory.

Tim Tebow -- waiting for next year

Snow in central Illinois - finally

A crossing guard stops traffic as children walk to school in cold and snowy weather as Springfield, Illinois receives its first significant snowfall in nearly 11 months.

Sumatra tiger temporarily caged

A Sumatran tiger named Bima that was caught by villagers in Oct. last year. Photo shows him growling inside his observation cage in Perawang, Riau province, Indonesia.

Bima will be released back into the wild in April.

Sling baby - funny commercial

Note to Somali Pirates: don't attack an armed warship

Somali pirates have been terrorizing the waters off of East Africa with some success. However, they should pick their targets a little more carefully and avoid European warships.

Somali pirates got a little too greedy and attacked the Spanish warship (pictured) serving as the flagship for the European Union’s fleet of ships carrying out a counter-piracy mission off of Somalia.


Needless to say, it wasn’t a fair fight.

A skiff carrying six pirates sped towards the warship and the pirates began to fire their light-caliber weapons at the ship in an attempt to board it.

The Patino’s crew immediately began to fire back in self-defense and launched the ship’s helicopter.

The pirates realized they were outgunned and broke away from the attack, but eventually surrendered to the helicopter but only after first throwing their weapons, ladder and fuel barrels overboard.

The Somali Pirates mistook the Spanish warship for a freighter.

Who said you had to be smart to be a Somali Pirate?

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Obama approves Republican candidates

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Three Friday the 13ths just 13 weeks apart

If you suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia -- the fear of Friday the 13th -- this could be distressing news.

There are three this year, instead of the usual two.

There was only one in 2011.

For the first time since 1984, those three Friday the 13ths -- today, April 13 and July 13 -- are exactly 13 weeks apart.

Poll: Romney has widest lead to date

If history is any guide, Mitt Romney (pictured) is a sure thing to win his party's nomination for president.

Romney has opened up the widest advantage to date over his Republican rivals in a nationwide Gallup survey, and for the first time has the support of more than a third of GOP voters.

Romney leads Rick Santorum 34-15%, with Newt Gingrich at 14% and Ron Paul at 13% in the survey, conducted from Jan. 7-11 among a nationwide sample of 1,188 Republican registered voters.

Since 1976, the Republican candidate who leads the field nationally after the New Hampshire primary has gone on to win the nomination.

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California puts energy standards on chargers for mobile devices

California's cellphones, tablet computers, power tools and hundreds of other portable electronic devices will be required to have energy-stingy battery chargers beginning next year.

The California Energy Commission, by a 3-0 vote Thursday, approved first-in-the-nation efficiency standards designed to drive stakes through the hearts of about 170 million so-called vampire charging systems that waste as much as 60% of the electricity they suck from outlets.

The regulations, which generated strong opposition from appliance and consumer products makers, are expected to save enough electricity to power 350,000 homes, equivalent to a city the size of Bakersfield.

350,000 homes? Really?

The report says consumers would pay an additional 40 cents for an electric toothbrush with an efficient battery charger, but would save $1.19 in electricity costs over the lifetime of the product.

Just think what you could to that whopping $1.19 savings in electricity over the life of the toothbrush.

You could possibly save a buck or two over the life of your cellphone. Many cellphone users charge their phones with a car charger.

Trade groups for manufacturers of battery-operated consumer products agree with the commission's goal of making electronics that use less power. But they question the commission's cost-savings estimates and challenge the need for stringent state standards. California should wait for the federal government to issue nationwide efficiency rules, they said.

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Obama wants another $1,200,000,000.00

President Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday of his intent to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.

Congress will have had 15 days to say no before the nation’s debt ceiling automatically is raised from $15.2 trillion to $16.4 trillion.

Under an agreement reached in August, Congress and the White House moved to raise the debt limit in three increments while also implementing $2.4 trillion in budget cuts.

The deal, however, also gave Congress the option of voting to block each of the debt-ceiling increases by passing a “resolution of disapproval.”

Even if such a resolution were passed, Obama could veto it, and he could be overridden only by a two-thirds supermajority in each chamber.

In September the Republican-led House passed a disapproval resolution, but the Democrat-controlled Senate blocked it and the debt ceiling was raised.

The same thing will happen this time because the Democrat-controlled Senate will allow the debt ceiling to mushroom again.

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