The place where the world comes together in honesty and mirth. Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.
Oil climbs to near $68, new high for the year Oil prices rose to near $68 a barrel Monday, hitting a new high for the year as world stock markets rallied and investors banked on hopes that the global recession is easing. Stocks open higher on more signs of recovery Stocks are starting June with a gain, as upbeat data on overseas manufacturing and U.S. consumer spending added to hopes for a global economic recovery.General Motors to close or idle 12 more plants General Motors Corp. says it will permanently close nine more plants and idle three others to trim production and labor costs under bankruptcy protection.Assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich., and Wilmington, Del., will close this year, while plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Orion, Mich., will shut down production but remain on standby.Nutritionist Charged in Fraud Case A Silver Spring nutritionist who was convicted of Medicaid fraud last year has now been charged with mortgage fraud.Mom finds abducted son on Facebook A British woman has been reunited with her son, who was abducted by his father 27 years ago, thanks to the social networking Web site Facebook.
Judge OKs Chrysler-Fiat Deal Judge OKs Chrysler-Fiat Deal Chrysler LLC has told a bankruptcy court it plans to eliminate 789 of its dealers - or about 25 percent of them - across the country as part of its restructuring process.
It's a Jurassic curiosity: As far as anyone can tell, the fossilized, three-toed dinosaur tracks in north-central Wyoming and on Scotland's coast are indistinguishable.
Taiwanese authorities say they have confiscated nearly 18,000 cases of Red Bull energy drinks containing slight traces of cocaine and imported from Austria.
Q: How many managers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: We've formed a task force to study the problem of why light bulbs burn out, and figure out what, exactly, we as supervisors can do to make the bulbs work smarter, not harder.
When you type "miserable failure" into a search engine on the internet the first result is the shrub or at least in used to be ... in 2007 Google 'protected' the shrub from showing up as the first result for miserable failure. Bing doesn't.
What is amusing about this is that as of today (right now as a matter of fact) on Google the first result for a search of "miserable failure" is a listing of their 'bomb' removal of the first result being the shrub - so even though they bar the shrub from being the 'first' result for "miserable failure" , he still shows up as the first result.
Underage folks may find the "21 and over" rule to be weird. People wanting to buy beer seven days a week may find the fact that liquor stores are closed on Sundays in many states to be strange.
In keeping with that theme we the staff here at Carolina Naturally (all two of us) will be featuring stories of interest to men - so naked women and beer here we come!
No seriously we will feature 'real' articles of interest other than the stereotypical ...
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It's not usually tough to get along with you. To dear ones, you're almost predictable because you're so grounded, stable and solid. Those traits won't apply to you now, though, especially since once you open your mouth, you'll be anything but predictable. Kind of fun to surprise them every now and then, though, huh?
Here's how our friends down under view this 'incident' (and I dare say so does most of the world - hold the same opinion as well that is).
IN America, they give the idiots - the really dangerous idiots - a gun and a brown shirt. Yeah just like the Nazis.
Oklahoma’s Tulsa World newspaper reports on a fight between a brown-shirted highway patrol officer, who has pulled over an ambulance that was racing a patient to hospital, and the paramedic.
The ambulance did not have a siren on. The copper did.
Having issued a “failure to yield” citation to the ambulance driver, the man in the brown shirt was further upset when he believed one of the paramedics flipped him the finger.
The brown shirt then insists one of the paramedics wait in his car. He then tries to handcuff the paramedic, which results in a fight.
The patient’s husband films it all. And then the man in the brown shirt lets the ambulance go.
And the really amazing thing is - get this - the coppers never shot the man in the face nor tasered him in the neck and heart. How’s that for restraint!
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One thing to point out - there is no legal standing for the police to issue a 'failure to yield' citation to an ambulance driver even if the police have their lights on. There is however a law that makes what the police did criminal because they 'hindered an emergency medical worker in the performance of his duties'.
All vehicles must yeild to emergency vehicles even other emergency vehicles - but there is a hiearchy to the yielding and the police are at the bottom of that hiearchy and therefore must yield to other emergency vehicles - especially ambulances.
This is a concept the repugicans will never know about - it runs contrary to the inner core nature.
It was the power of cookies - or rather the power of kindness behind the cookies that 'broke' torture victim Abu Jandal and yielded actual truthful and useful information about bin Laden.
Ali Soufan, a former fbi interrogator, says that Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, Abu Jandal, talked about the 9/11 attack only after he was given sugar free cookies. Jandal is diabetic and was unable to eat the regular cookies given to him with his tea. noticing this, Soufan offered the suspect sugar-free cookies at their next meeting. Soufan says it was this act of kindness, not rougher methods, that opened up a dialogue between the two. "we had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him. so he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures," soufan said.
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Today's Bonus Fact: Coca Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filled with filtered tap water.
He achieved the rank of lieutenant commander while serving 5 1/2 years during World War II, chasing German U-boats and protecting troops on D-Day in 1944.
A University of Kentucky scientist is attempting to read a 2,000-year-old scroll without even unrolling the fragile papyrus document found near Italy's Mount Vesuvius.
Blue sno-cones are out at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, KS. Why? A mistake having to do with a cleaning solution that looked just as blue as the blue sno-cone solution, with the result being that several people were sickened (and not just blue in the face).
"A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine."
Remember those old Anita Bryant Florida orange juice commercials? OK, OK, I know, but I do, and perhaps this Oregon McDonald's patron did too, and felt a missing OJ from his order was enough reason to call 911.
Hell, they're nothing more than just an offense against humanity themselves - not to mention pedophiles and otherwise assorted perverts - so who cares what they think, much less find 'offensive'!
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Today's horoscope says:
There are lots of small details to wrangle today, but you will flourish under the pressure and leave people impressed with your abilities! It's an excellent day for planning and finding facts, so you might want to sit yourself in front of the computer for a while. It's exciting knowing that all of the answers you need are right at your fingertips, and your brain is ready to soak them all in. You'll have a blast and time will fly by.
In a case of pure bullshit ... The 48-year-old church volunteer takes second place. If you ever thought these things just might be rigged you can wipe any doubts you may have harbored as to them maybe being legit from your mind - this bullshit (there is no other term to describe it) removes all doubt!
After a factory had found a 40-million-year-old whale fossil in a limestone kitchen counter, researchers investigated the stone's fossil-packed quarry, which could shed light on the origins of African wildlife.
It's no secret that texting has actually become more popular than talking on cell phones, and skews more toward the youthful set. Parents though, might not understand when a teenage child texts them with "TTYL" or "ROFL." LG has unveiled DTXTR (or “de-text-er”), a translation tool for us old fogies.
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.
Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, May 30, 2009 Washington D.C.
This week, I nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals to replace Justice David Souter, who is retiring after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court. After reviewing many terrific candidates, I am certain that she is the right choice. In fact, there has not been a nominee in several generations who has brought the depth of judicial experience to this job that she offers.
Judge Sotomayor’s career began when she served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York, prosecuting violent crimes in America’s largest city. After leaving the DA’s office, she became a litigator, representing clients in complex international legal disputes. She was appointed to the U.S. District Court, serving six years as a trial judge where she presided over hundreds of cases. And most recently, she has spent eleven years on the U.S. Court of Appeals, our nation’s second highest court, grappling with some of the most difficult constitutional and legal issues we face as a nation. She has more experience on the federal bench than any incoming Supreme Court Justice in the past 100 years. Quite simply, Judge Sotomayor has a deep familiarity with our judicial system from almost every angle.
And her achievements are all the more impressive when you consider what she had to overcome in order to achieve them. Judge Sotomayor grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx; her parents came to New York from Puerto Rico during the Second World War. Her father was a factory worker with a third grade education; when she was just nine years old, he passed away. Her mother worked six days a week as a nurse to provide for her and her brother, buying the only set of encyclopedias in the neighborhood and sending her children to Catholic school. That’s what made it possible for Judge Sotomayor to attend two of America’s leading universities, graduating at the top of her class at Princeton University, and studying at Yale Law School where she won a prestigious post as an editor of the school’s Law Journal.
These many years later, it was hard not to be moved by Judge Sotomayor’s mother, sitting in the front row at the White House, her eyes welling with tears, as her daughter – who had come so far, for whom she sacrificed so much – was nominated to the highest court in the land.
And this is what makes Judge Sotomayor so extraordinary. Even as she has reached the heights of her profession, she has never forgotten where she began. She has faced down barriers, overcome difficult odds, and lived the American dream. As a Justice of the Supreme Court, she will bring not only the experience acquired over the course of a brilliant legal career, but the wisdom accumulated over the course of an extraordinary journey – a journey defined by hard work, fierce intelligence, and the enduring faith that, in America, all things are possible.
It is her experience in life and her achievements in the legal profession that have earned Judge Sotomayor respect across party lines and ideological divides. She was originally named to the U.S. District Court by the first President Bush, a Republican. She was appointed to the federal Court of Appeals by President Clinton, a Democrat. She twice has been overwhelmingly confirmed by the U.S. Senate. And I am gratified by the support for this nomination voiced by members of the legal community who represent views from across the political spectrum.
There are, of course, some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor’s record. But I am confident that these efforts will fail; because Judge Sotomayor’s seventeen-year record on the bench – hundreds of judicial decisions that every American can read for him or herself – speak far louder than any attack; her record makes clear that she is fair, unbiased, and dedicated to the rule of law. As a fellow judge on her court, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said recently, "I don’t think I’d go as far as to classify her in one camp or another. I think she just deserves the classification of outstanding judge."
Congress returns this week and I hope the confirmation process will begin without delay. No nominee should be seated without rigorous evaluation and hearing; I expect nothing less. But what I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past. Judge Sotomayor ought to be on the bench when the Supreme Court decides what cases to hear this year and I’m calling on Democrats and Republicans to be thorough, and timely in dealing with this nomination.
As President, there are few responsibilities more serious or consequential than the naming of a Supreme Court Justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure. They are charged with applying principles put to paper more than two centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time. And the impact of their decisions extends beyond an administration, but for generations to come.
This is a decision that I have not taken lightly and it is one that I am proud to have made. I know that Justice Sotomayor will serve this nation with distinction. And when she ascends those marble steps to assume her seat on the Supreme Court, bringing a lifetime of experience on and off the bench, America will have taken another important step toward realizing the ideal that is chiseled above its entrance: Equal justice under the law.
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Buying things to make yourself feel better might provide temporary fulfillment, but whatever you're trying to distract yourself from isn't going away any time soon! You can't sacrifice your bank account in an attempt to give yourself retail therapy. Instead, focus on being grounded in reality. Face whatever you are trying to avoid. Until you do this, you will never find the peace of mind you deserve. You are not the bad guy here.
Legendary record producer Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life for his second-degree murder conviction for shooting actress Lana Clarkson.
Spector, 69, who worked with The Ronettes, The Beatles, Cher and Ike and Tina Turner, was accused of shooting Clarkson, 40, in the mouth in the foyer of his castle-like home in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra. The Feb. 3, 2003, shooting occurred hours after the two met at the House of Blues nightclub, where Clarkson worked as a hostess.
Spector has denied murdering Clarkson. His attorneys suggested Clarkson committed suicide. But several witnesses testified that Spector for years had bullied and tormented them with guns.
Spector was convicted in April in a retrial after a previous jury deadlocked in 2007.
Before the sentencing, the victim's mother, Donna Clarkson, told the judge she was heartbroken over the death of her daughter. "All our plans together are destroyed. Now I can only visit her in the cemetery," she said.
Clarkson's family has also filed a wrongful death lawsuit, which has not yet gone to trial.
Busting a move in a karaoke club may soon get you busted in Vietnam. Government officials are currently pushing for a ban on dancing in the country's increasingly popular singing establishments.
Kavya Shivashankar from Olathe, Kansas won the 2009 National Spelling Bee in Washington, on May 28, 2009, by correctly spelling the word Laodicean to win.
Spurned by the California supreme court, gay couples wanting to marry appealed to the federal courts Wednesday to strike down proposition 8 as unconstitutional state interference in a citizen's fundamental right to lawful wedlock.
The lawsuit brought by two high-powered lawyers and unlikely allies, former Bush administration solicitor general Theodore Olson and his Bush-vs.-Gore opponent David Boies, was met with skepticism about the conservative Olson's motives for getting involved in a civil-rights battle usually spearheaded by liberals...
Wikipedia has decided enough is enough. After too many self-serving edits by the Church of Scientology, Wikipedia has decided to ban edits from IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
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If you are in the middle of negotiating any business deals right now, it's not going to be an easy day. You'll encounter lots of back and forth and lots of small print. Others may be too demanding in terms of a timeline, so you'll have to push back on deadlines as hard as you can. The best part of your day will be later in the afternoon, when you see a light at the end of the tunnel and can spend some time with a person who always puts a smile on your face.
These places already have solid job markets, but they also have the right elements to create new, well-paying positions in the future.
The automaker's filing is the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history.
As little as three minutes of snoozing can rejuvenate, but a chronic nap craving can signal a bigger sleep problem.
This is a picture of a 220kg giant feral pig shot on a Pilbara cattle station after it was spotted eating a cow.
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The 48-year-old church volunteer takes second place.
A doctor explains how this pesky plant makes us so itchy.
