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Washington DC: Health care reform pros and cons, who voted for health care bill & healthcare bill summary. The healthcare bill could not be killed. People needed it and so despite stiffest opposition from Republicans who were prepared to go to any length to scuttle the bill.
The bill that was passed 219 to 212 will bring a phenomenal change in the lives of ordinary Americans for whom healthcare safety is merely a dream.

Firefox has been the best browser in terms of its functionality & ease of use. Right now it has 47,356 addons & 187,119,653 are in use at the moment of writing this post. All the other stats like number of user reviews & total number of downloads in a graphical way with monthly plotting can be seen in the statistics page here.

Its been more than 5 years I have been using firefox and its been a great journey, although I am a web developer so i have to use every other browser to see whether a website is working well on it or not. Designing for firefox is always easy and it makes my development time very less with all those hefty addons. So presenting here some of the most popular, most usefulfirefox plugins which are make your web surfing experience more enjoyable.

Firefox addons for better browsing experience

• Adblock Plus: Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
• FastestFox: Save time by speeding up repetitive tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, auto-loading of next page, improved searching, and more. FastestFox will dramatically enhance your productivity!
• Xmarks: Keep your bookmarks synchronised with your multiple browsers or different computers anywhere in the world. It takes all your bookmarks on the server of its own and you can import all those favorites anywhere, anytime.
• Alexa: Alexa website information. Ranking of a website & credibility of a news source can easily be tracked and all that free.
• WebMail Notifier: I don’t have to login or check my mail account at any point as this notifier checks & tells me where I have got mail. Be it Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail. Its one of my great time saver.
• Screengrab: How many times you want to save a part of website or a snippet which can give you insights about the topics that are your favorite. In just few clicks you can take a screenshot & save it for future usage.
• ImageZoom: Have you ever had trouble viewing some image that is small and u want a closer look at it. Just Zoom in and image, rotate it in definite order.
• StumbleUpon Toolbar: StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites that match your interests. Simply click the Stumble button and see the best websites. There are over 500 topics to choose from, and, the more you use it, the better your recommendations become!
• Delicious: Another bookmarking service that has been very often used to save your favorite link or website. With the addon you can save your favorite sites in few secs.
• Echofon: Social networking has really began to take its toll on many and twitter is among the top favorite. It notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter.
• Download statusbar: View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
• VideoDownloadHelper: The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
• Nuke Anything Enhanced: Edit your stuff before printing like removing unnecessary objects, images, blocks etc.
• IE-Tab: An enhanced version of IE Tab which enables you to use the embedded IE engine within tabs of Mozilla Firefox. It supports Adblock Plus in IE, and can sync cookies between IE and Firefox. This is the self-hosted version.
• Google Toolbar: Page rank checker and easy updates from news to my favorite bookmark list. All can be found in this addon and its search functionality have many more options. Translator, site search etc.

A bold new television show for the violently inclined.

If you thought 300 was too violent, don’t watch this. If you thought ‘Rome’ was too much, don’t watch this. A new show titled ‘Spartacus: Blood and Sand’ is coming to your home in January 2010 courtesy of cable channel Starz. It is as stated above, a harmoniously filthy coming together of ‘300′, ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Rome’.

Word on the street is rather outrageous but generally positive, I hear that the violence is excruciatingly immense, and the sex pushes the envelope on everything but the stick and hole according to TV.com:

“The sex scenes (complete with nudity) are so explicit everyone short of sex workers will blush. Every detail of the brutal gladiatorial massacres in Roman arenas is included — arching blood squirts, sliced tendons, the works. Seriously, it’s like 300 on steroids.”

LITTLETON, Colo. – The man accused of wounding two middle school students in a community still haunted by the Columbine massacre has become increasingly erratic in recent weeks, shouting at imaginary friends and complaining that eating macaroni and cheese made too much noise, his father said Wednesday.

Researchers are studying the strange behavior of 32-year-old Strong Eagle Eastwood bruco trying to figure out why the unemployed laborer allegedly showed up at his former school and began shooting at students in the parking lot before being felled by a math teacher.

Eastwood’s father describes his son’s odd behavior in a recent interview with The Associated Press at his ranch outside Denver.

The old man said his son used to talk to him much, but in the last month, which had begun to scream. The couple also complained that the fridge was too strong and that certain foods too much noise, his father said.

Others said that Eastwood was presented at a nearby gas station to buy cigarettes, but often 20 or 30 cents short and mumbling to himself while reading the sports section of the newspaper.

“He has problems, but never thought it would go far to hurt somebody,” said his father, War Eagle Eastwood. “You can say you’re sorry, but can not replace the fear and pain that has left innocent people. He’s a hole inside me.”

As the math teacher was hailed as a hero, officials said the rapid response is further evidence that the community learned the lessons of Columbine, in rapid response to the shooting. But there is growing evidence of the school lost a chance to avoid attack.

Investigators said Eastwood entered the gates of the Deer Creek Middle School during the day, he said he was a former student and talked with teachers, apparently without much suspicion.

The authorities know the nature of his conversations with school staff before he went out and opened fire with a bolt action hunting rifle that he stole from his father.

Yesterday, students at the University of Mississippi voted to update their image with a new mascot. The previous mascot Colonel Reb, who resembles a antebellum plantation owner, hasn’t been seen at a game since 2003, due to his Confederate symbolism. Who, or what, will the new mascot be? The athletic teams at Ole Miss are the Rebels, so the logical symbol would be Admiral Ackbar, the highest ranking member of the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars universe. Only time will tell if the students and administration at Ole Miss will embrace the campaign.

Leander ISD weather Classifieds (23 February 2010): Leander ISD is to monitor the weather in this week’s development. At this point, any change in school hours is expected, however, we will continue to monitor the weather and let you know through the familiar “” If you make any changes. Also, please watch Leander ISD website for more information.

Visit leanderisd.org an update on school closures and delays due to weather.

This is a good story. Two thieves stole a vehicle and tried to get on base at Luke Air Force Base. A robber died and the other is not and is in custody. More soon. This happened last night at 2300 hours or less.

Gateway Pundit: on Fox News:

The owner of the 20-deteriorating housing in the city of 3.1% in the Case-Shiller index, which seems to be exactly in line with what analysts expected.

On a sequential basis, house prices fell 0.2%, which Robert Shiller attributes entirely to the seasonal behavior (via CNBC)

Once again, we have evidence that there is no national housing market, as some cities like New York continue to fall sequentially, while Las Vegas is recovering a little.

The other big issue: If you are waiting for the market to come “Back” then you will have to wait for years.

Let’s add the full version and graphics once, but the end result is that this is not a market-moving report. (And in fact been awhile since a Case-Shiller, the report had a major impact). Futures are what they were before the report successfully.

For a little more macro perspective, see here why the numbers are big win for the economy because they are clearly superior to what the Fed had anticipated when stress testing of banks.

Black Pearl Restaurant New York | USsPost.com am starting to really see what Seattle has to offer. When I lived in Federal Way, would have taken 45 minutes to an hour drive to this place when he moved last week this was one of my first stops. Why you ask? Well, there is something called Twitter. You’ve probably heard of him / she does / does not understand the point. I understand, is the easiest way for busy people to communicate without having to go into too much detail. It is a great tool for restaurants as they can be in touch with your customers … .. “We have a new item on our menu,” then people who like to tweet and retweet all tweet peeps some excitement! What?

More and more restaurants in the Seattle area are getting into Twitter and restaurants, even the best known have established a place for them in the Twittersphere. The Herbfarm, Tom Douglas restaurants, ‘(Rover Chef in the Hat!), Black Pearl, El Gaucho, Waterfront Grill, Canlis, and the list continues.

I have this little blog here so that when one of the restaurants just say, “Hey, your food looks great,” so they tend to pay attention to what they’re doing a little more. There is a tendency on this site for restaurants or places to go directly from observations or from people mentioning my site. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. There is no money exchanging hands, but perhaps a bit of advertising if you will. It’s almost like the old business school with a crazy new technology brought to you by the Intertube / interwebs / whatever you want to call it.

Black Pearl is one of those little restaurants to go out and say hello. That’s all you have for me. Mindy and I headed for the Black Pearl and had a seat and ordered some food. The hot pot was large photo above. The sauce was the murderer and I’m a big fan of sauces. When I go to a restaurant for the first time, I always ask the waiter what they usually eat and then go from there. He suggested that the sauce so I went for it.

Mindy and I shared an appetizer BBQ pork loin with hot mustard sauce that wakes up the nose with a touch of horseradish. Good times.

Mindy ordered the Mu Shu (is that a word or two? “I do not know), pig meat and was quite impressive. The hoisin sauce was great (I love sauces).

I’ll come back though is about 20 minutes from the house … .. is less than 45-60 minutes so can not complain and sauces are totally worth the ticket price per hour of driving. I know, there are billions of Chinese restaurants in Seattle, but I think this is great and you have to see the cooks do their magic as the kitchen is open … my favorite part.

Good Luck Chuck | USsPost.com: Good Luck Chuck is a 2007 American film romantic comedy starring Jessica Alba and Dane Cook. Based on real life, womanizing Kollenbroich Benjamin [1], the premise of the film is that women find their “true love” after S3X with Chuck (Cook). Then he meets a girl he thinks is his true love. Shooting began in June 2006 in Vancouver and Edmonton, with some scenes shot in Los Angeles. It opened in September 2007 and was heavily panned by critics.