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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Judge puts kid's Wii on the line
Judge puts kid's Wii on the line
A Canadian judge accepts a 12-year-old delinquent's Nintendo Wii in lieu of bail.
FAUX News' McCarthyite communist witch hunt against White House continues with union head Andy Stern
Andy Stern once said "workers of the world unite."
That, according to FAUX News' Glenn Beck, makes him a communist and a socialist.
Beck is unbalanced, to be sure, but he's an increasingly powerful voice in the repugican party.
The repugican party is in serious trouble.
They have no real political leaders.
So the void is being filled by half-wit extremists like Beck and Palin and Limbaugh.
That, according to FAUX News' Glenn Beck, makes him a communist and a socialist.
Beck is unbalanced, to be sure, but he's an increasingly powerful voice in the repugican party.
The repugican party is in serious trouble.
They have no real political leaders.
So the void is being filled by half-wit extremists like Beck and Palin and Limbaugh.
As the repugicans Hold Up Unemployment Extension, Nearly 200,000 Lose Their Benefits
Senate repugicans are taking full advantage of that reality, using every parliamentary device at their disposal to slow down an extension of unemployment insurance benefits - even after Democrats added billions for big business to sweeten the pot.
Woman gives birth on ER sidewalk
Woman gives birth on ER sidewalk
Tiffanie Kohls figured she had plenty of time to get to the hospital for her fourth child.
Good news on the horizon for homebuyers
Good news on the horizon for homebuyers
The popular housing tax credit for first-time buyers could be extended and expanded.
'Handerpants' and other odd merchandise
'Handerpants' and other odd merchandise
A hands-free dog carrier and underwear for your hands are among the strangest products.
How to skip the wait at the doctor's office
How to skip the wait at the doctor's office
Get better care and faster service from your doctor by following these tips.
What restaurant staffers should never do
What restaurant staffers should never do
An owner dishes up 50 bad habits that restaurant workers should avoid.
Little-known uses for your microwave
Little-known uses for your microwave
Use it to freshen and disinfect items, or to cook things you never thought possible.
Millions want to switch countries
Millions want to switch countries
Some 700 million people worldwide would prefer to call a different country home, a poll shows.
Following Virginia Foxx's lead, wingnuts equate health care reform to terrorism
On November 2, Virginia Foxx (retard-NC) said on the House floor regarding health care legislation before the House: "I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."
Following Foxx's statement, Faux News' Glenn Beck compared health care reform to 9-11, and talk radio host Neal Boortz and the Faux Nation promoted Foxx's attack.
In Lockstep the NAZI's keep marching on in deluded mediocrity with their fantasy of their own importance (serious lack thereof in truth) ... somethings never change.
How scientists determined how many humans two lions ate in 1898
Tissue from two notorious 19th-century man-eaters shows that one of them took the lion's share of human prey 
How do you gauge the magnitude of a series of lion attacks that occurred over a century ago? In 1898, construction on the Ugandan Railroad in East Africa was halted due to deadly, nightly lion invasions that took the lives of Indian and African laborers who were working on the project. By some estimates, over 100 people had been devoured by these animals, hungry because drought and disease had reduced the number of natural prey. But researchers at UC Santa Cruz published a report this week that gave a more accurate estimate of how many humans the two male lions really ate. They did it by running chemical tests on their carcasses:
Bones and teeth store carbon and nitrogen isotopes over long periods, while the ratios in hair change more rapidly, allowing the scientists to determine the long-term diet and how it changed in the lions' last months.Humans made up at least half of the diet of one of the lions in the last months of his life, consuming at least 24 people, they concluded. The other lion had eaten 11 people, they found.
In other words, even a century later, you are what you eat.
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory
A 110,000-year-old jawbone found in a cave in southern China is stirring the debate over whether humans originated in Africa.Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory
Health News
A virtually unlimited supply of rare cells can now be produced in the lab to fight diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in mice.
And I Quote
It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office.
Bush is now working as a motivational speaker.
And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.
~ Letterman
Bush is now working as a motivational speaker.
And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.
~ Letterman
28 people now sick from E. coli outbreak
Twenty-eight people in 12 states from California to Maine are now infected with matching strains of E. coli after an outbreak in ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
28 people now sick from E. coli outbreak
28 people now sick from E. coli outbreak
US envoys' visit a first step with Brumese junta
An air of sober caution hangs above Washington's highest level mission to the court of Bruma's ruling generals in 14 years.
US envoys' visit a first step with Brumese junta
US envoys' visit a first step with Brumese junta
Seventh-Grader Finds Barack Obama, All Presidents, Save One, Related
Coup plotter Simon Mann pardoned in Equatorial Guinea
British coup-plotter Simon Mann and four South African mercenaries have been pardoned for plotting the overthrow of the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, the country's chief judge said Tuesday.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Obono Olo said Mann and his accomplices would be freed Tuesday morning and flown home.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Obono Olo said Mann and his accomplices would be freed Tuesday morning and flown home.
Man Arrested for Hanging Girlfriend's Kitten
It's a cat after all
A 22-year-old upstate New York man has been accused of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt. Fortunately for prosecutors, he made a videotape of it.
Exercise made really, really easy
Exercise made really, really easy
You can get the results of a full workout without even putting on gym shoes.
Ways to lower your taxes now
10 ways to lower your taxes now
Making these moves can significantly shrink your tax liability for 2009.
Warren Buffett's huge $34 billion bet
Warren Buffett's huge $34 billion bet
The billionaire makes the biggest acquisition in the history of his company.
How quickly juice loses its vitamins
How quickly juice loses its vitamins
Orange juice no longer has antioxidant benefits after the carton has been open for a week.
Ethics probes focus on black lawmakers
Ethics probes focus on black lawmakers
Seven black lawmakers are facing full-scale House ethics probes — but not one white lawmaker is.
High salaries with little schooling
High salaries with little schooling
Find professions that pay well but don't require four years of hitting the books.
Brick's delusional ... again
Brick being delusional as usual
Brick lies claiming "The republic is under siege", and the White House is "full of revolutionaries
Actually, Brick they saved the Republic it was your ilk that had it under siege for eight years ... and lost.
Brick deluded as usual claims the Democratic Party "is for the most part Marxist," while repugicans are "Marxist-lite"
Spoken like the true NAZI you are, eh, Brick.
Brick calls Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Anti-Christ
It takes one to know one as they say.
Faux's Glenn Brick keeps on lying claiming liberals are indoctrinating our children with inhuman values that are OK with letting grandma die at the hands of death panels, or something
Nope, that was the shrub and the cabal who were into 'indoctrination' there Brick ol'boy.
Brick lies claiming "The republic is under siege", and the White House is "full of revolutionaries
Actually, Brick they saved the Republic it was your ilk that had it under siege for eight years ... and lost.
Brick deluded as usual claims the Democratic Party "is for the most part Marxist," while repugicans are "Marxist-lite"
Spoken like the true NAZI you are, eh, Brick.
Brick calls Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Anti-Christ
It takes one to know one as they say.
Faux's Glenn Brick keeps on lying claiming liberals are indoctrinating our children with inhuman values that are OK with letting grandma die at the hands of death panels, or something
Nope, that was the shrub and the cabal who were into 'indoctrination' there Brick ol'boy.
Chick-Fil-A threatens to sue bar
From the "That's just stupid" Department:
It wasn't quite the attention Kris Kwitzky expected to get for a phrase printed on a t-shirt.
Three words, "Eat More Beer," prompted Chick-Fil-A to threaten suit against his bar, according to Kwitzky.
It wasn't quite the attention Kris Kwitzky expected to get for a phrase printed on a t-shirt.
Three words, "Eat More Beer," prompted Chick-Fil-A to threaten suit against his bar, according to Kwitzky.
Sea cucumbers seized at border
Customs officials say they seized 343 pounds of sea cucumbers at a San Diego border crossing as smugglers tried to bring the Asian culinary delicacy into the U.S. from Mexico.
343 pounds of sea cucumbers seized at border
343 pounds of sea cucumbers seized at border
Virginia Foxx is very afraid of health insurance reform, even more than terrorism
Is there a contest among the repugicans to see who is the craziest? (let's hope not ... there are too many candidates for the top spot on the cray scale among the repugicans)
Virginia Foxx (retard-NC), the Congresswoman who slandered Matthew Shepard, thinks health insurance reform is a bigger danger than terrorism -- and we know how much repugicans fear terrorism.
Foxx is Bachmann - just from a little lower on the latitudinal lines on the map. Just as Bat-Shit crazy.
From Faiz Shakir at Think Progress:She is a member of a dying breed of inbred hillbilly from just south of the Virginia state line and, thankfully one of the last remaining ones.
Virginia Foxx (retard-NC), the Congresswoman who slandered Matthew Shepard, thinks health insurance reform is a bigger danger than terrorism -- and we know how much repugicans fear terrorism.
Foxx is Bachmann - just from a little lower on the latitudinal lines on the map. Just as Bat-Shit crazy.
From Faiz Shakir at Think Progress:She is a member of a dying breed of inbred hillbilly from just south of the Virginia state line and, thankfully one of the last remaining ones.
World's fastest man has fastest feline
World's fastest man has fastest feline
Record sprinter Usain Bolt pays to adopt the world's speediest animal.
Protests over famous food's new name
Protests over famous food's new name
Consumers revolt after Kraft renames an iconic food product and changes its ingredients.
20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
A young Iraqi woman died last night in Arizona because her father believed she had become too Westernized. Noor Faleh Almaleki, the 20-year old pictured here, moved to the Phoenix area in the mid-90s with her family. Her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, feared that her American upbringing had led her to abandon traditional Iraqi values. He opposed the way she dressed and the way she resisted his rules. So on October 20th, he ran over her and another woman, Amal Khalaf, in his Jeep Grand Cherokee as they walked across a parking lot. Khalaf — who is the daughter's roommate and the mother of her boyfriend — survived, but the daughter died last night in the hospital. Her father is in police custody now after a failed attempt to escape to the UK via Mexico.
Iraqi woman, 20, dies; police in Arizona say father ran over her
Half of US kids will get food stamps
Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
Repugicans move to delay climate bill progress
All seven repugicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week's work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.
"repugicans will be forced not to show up" at Tuesday's work session, said Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for repugicans on the environment panel.
"repugicans will be forced not to show up" at Tuesday's work session, said Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for repugicans on the environment panel.
Raped Constituent Confronts Vitter Over No Vote on Rape Amendment
Last month, David Vitter was one of 30 repugicans who opposed a congressional measure to prohibit the government from working with contractors who deny victims of rape or assault the right to bring their cases to court.
Dimbulb Spews
Dimbulb in three lies (what else is new?)
Lush Dimbulb lies saying "The threat that people in this country who want to be free face is now within our own borders"
Nope, we are free and those tried to impose their perversions on us, like you Lush, don't like that we threw you off into the gutter where you belong.
Dimbulb continues to lie claiming President Obama is "destroying" the "private sector" and "it may be on purpose"
Nope, that was the shrub and the cabal abetted by idiots like you Lush.
Dimbulb in his syphilitic delusion keeps up with the lying by 'asking' President Obama "What do you not like about this country that makes you want to inflict this kind of damage on it?"
Nope, our president loves the country unlike you and your ilk Lush, who HATE AMERICA and all it stands for. And you don't like the fact we are repairing the damage you did when you all but destroyed this nation.
Lush Dimbulb lies saying "The threat that people in this country who want to be free face is now within our own borders"
Nope, we are free and those tried to impose their perversions on us, like you Lush, don't like that we threw you off into the gutter where you belong.
Dimbulb continues to lie claiming President Obama is "destroying" the "private sector" and "it may be on purpose"
Nope, that was the shrub and the cabal abetted by idiots like you Lush.
Dimbulb in his syphilitic delusion keeps up with the lying by 'asking' President Obama "What do you not like about this country that makes you want to inflict this kind of damage on it?"
Nope, our president loves the country unlike you and your ilk Lush, who HATE AMERICA and all it stands for. And you don't like the fact we are repairing the damage you did when you all but destroyed this nation.
Best Buy Palms Off Used Laptop As New
Glimpse into battle over repugican party's future
Glimpse into battle over repugican party's future
Two governorships hang in the balance today, but an upstate N.Y. House race may have a bigger impact.
Giant crack likely to create new ocean
Giant crack likely to create new ocean
A 35-mile rift in the Ethiopian desert is giving scientists a rare look at an epic process.
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London, England, United Kingdom
Dronten, Flevoland, Netherlands
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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Daily Horoscope
Today's horoscope says:
Most people respond to a tragic situation by looking at the bright side.
You're smart enough to know when it makes more sense to face reality.
Get rid of the things that are muddying the waters and clouding your thoughts -- this might include unsolicited advice, excess chatter or unnecessary information.
Let your mantra be 'Simplify, simplify, simplify,' and watch as clarity follows.
All Hail Simplicity!
Most people respond to a tragic situation by looking at the bright side.
You're smart enough to know when it makes more sense to face reality.
Get rid of the things that are muddying the waters and clouding your thoughts -- this might include unsolicited advice, excess chatter or unnecessary information.
Let your mantra be 'Simplify, simplify, simplify,' and watch as clarity follows.
All Hail Simplicity!