New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Were Wiped Out by Two Meteor Strikes, Not One

Since 1980, paleontologists have suggested that a terrible meteorite impact millions of years ago radically altered the Earth’s climate and killed off the dinosaur population. Now a study led by David Jolley of Aberdeen University proposes that there was a second major impact a few thousand years after the first:

In the current study, scientists examined the “pollen and spores” of fossil plants in the layers of mud that infilled the crater. They found that immediately after the impact, ferns quickly colonized the devastated landscape.
Ferns have an amazing ability to bounce back after catastrophe. Layers full of fern spores – dubbed “fern spikes” – are considered to be a good “markers” of past impact events.
However, there was an unexpected discovery in store for the scientists.
They located a second “fern spike” in a layer one meter above the first, suggesting another later impact event.

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Borneo's got talent - copycat octopus impersonates fish
Early humans blamed for cave bears demise

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Cops nab man after finding cocaine in bologna

A Massachusetts man was arrested after a kilogram of cocaine hidden inside a hollowed-out chunk of bologna was delivered to his home.

Police: Neighbor with missing dog demands $150

Flint police said a city resident has taken 'finders, keepers' to a whole new level, by taking in a missing dog that belonged to a neighbor couple and demanding $150 for its return.

Snake in electrical box causes NY hospital outage

A snake slithered into a switch box outside a New York hospital, where it met its maker and caused a 10-hour power outage.

33,000-penny property tax payment refused

A businessman who tried to pay a property tax bill with 33,000 pennies got turned down by a county treasurer in Washington state, who said she didn't have the staff to count them.

Torpedo found at Philadelphia construction site

A police bomb squad had to be called to a Philadelphia construction site after someone found an old, inert torpedo.

Feds fine Oregon company $30K over 3-letter word

A three-letter word may cost one of the nation's oldest air ambulance operators a $30,000 fine.

Meth defendant accused of going to court with meth

A Washington state man who went to court to face a methamphetamine charge is in more trouble after authorities say he showed up with a bag of meth in his pants.

On The Job

On The Job

Employee paid 12 years for no work

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An employee at a Norfolk agency was collecting paychecks and benefits for 12 years without ever showing up for work.

I want their job!

Signs you've made it to the middle class

6 signs you've made it to the middle class

Most people define the middle class as having most, if not all, of these lifestyle benchmarks.  

A vanishing breed 

Also: 

• College savings strategy
• Retirement vs. college
• Easy expenses to cut

Fears of a double-dip recession grow

Fears of a double-dip recession grow

A noted expert on economic bubbles puts the chances of a relapsed recession at more than 50%.

Warning 

Also: 

• Economy's growth slowing
• Are we overreacting?
• Double-dip recession

Non Sequitur

The 'new Dubai'

Booming Libya could become 'new Dubai'

After renouncing terrorism, the former pariah nation is seeing a construction frenzy.  

$500 billion government plans 

Also: 

• Libya's history
• Gaddafi visits Italy
• NYC skyline to change

Capitalist Cuba?

OK, now you're really messing with the wingnuts world view here!

Unexpected burst of capitalism in Cuba

Cuba issues two rare free-market decrees, one of which could lead to a golfing boom. 

Effective immediately 

Also: 

• Search: Golf in Cuba
• Dissident son in U.S.
• American's release sought

Why Kabul is filled with old Corollas

Why Kabul is filled with old Corollas

Ninety percent of cars in Afghanistan's capital are said to be aging Toyotas.  

Taliban's influence

Also:

• Most miles on a car
• Find a used Corolla
• Ultracheap Russian car

American Muslims Have Mainstream Values

Yipes! You mean to say they're almost normal! However will the wingnuts react to this? Oh, wait never mind answering that question - how silly of me to even bring it up.

About 9 in 10 American Muslims support progressive policy positions on health care, school funding, the environment, foreign aid and guns. However, smaller majorities take positions on other issues that are very much in line with those of conservatives and religious people. They favor school vouchers (66%), government funding for religious social service groups (70%), making abortion more difficult to obtain (55%), the death penalty (61%), income tax cuts (65%), forcing U.S. citizens to speak English (52%) and even stronger laws to fight terrorism (69%).
So American Muslims tend to be conservative on social and religious issues and liberal on economic and human rights issues, making their attitudes more similar to those of Catholics than to those of conservative Protestants.

Forbes: American Muslims Have Mainstream Values

It's ugly in wingnut Alaska

The aftermath of the still unresolved repugican Senate primary in Alaska has gotten really ugly.

Sarah Palin's candidate, Joe Miller, compared incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski to a prostitute.

James L. at Swing State Project caught this tweet from Miller:

What's the difference between selling out your party's values and the oldest profession? http://bit.ly/93kXBr #teaparty #tcot #alaska #ak

And, the Murkowski campaign responded:

"He just basically called Senator Murkowski a prostitute."

Yes sir, he surely did. But then again it is a case of the Pot calling the Kettle black, anyway.
You just got to love it when the deluded morons fight each other.

The Long, Unglamorous History of the Toilet

The toilet is one of those things we take for granted, until it breaks down or we go somewhere without them. How did our modern comfort system come about? Toilet plumbing is older than you think!

Ancient cultures were surprisingly adept at moving water around in a way that kept people from having to walk through pools of their own feces. (That was really more of a Medieval European thing.) Cultures as far back as 3000 BC were flushing away their problems—so who you callin’ primitive? Members of the Harrappa civilization in what is now India had toilets in their homes that drained into subterranean clay chambers. The residents of Skara Brae, a 31st century BC settlement in what’s now Scotland, were even clever enough to use a draining system that exploited a nearby river to automatically sweep out their dirty business.

None of these systems were anything like the flush toilet -that came later. Read all about it here.

"I...have a meme"

Skippy over at Skippy the Bush Kangaroo had this to say today:

"i...have a meme"

Today in Washington, DC, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin held literally millions half a million hundreds of thousands tens of thousands of several dozen people enthralled as they took back their rightful mantle of victimhood.

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Claiming the legacy of the nation's founding fathers and repeatedly evoking civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., Beck, Sarah Palin and other speakers at the "restoring honor" rally exhorted a sprawling and overwhelmingly white crowd to concentrate not on the history that has scarred the nation but instead on what makes it "good."

"For too long, this country has wandered in darkness, and we have wandered in darkness in periods from the beginning," Beck said, at times pacing at the memorial. "We have had moments of brilliance and moments of darkness. but this country has spent far too long worried about scars and thinking about the scars and concentrating on the scars.

"Today," he continued, "we are going to concentrate on the good things in America, the things that we have accomplished - and the things that we can do tomorrow. the story of America is the story of humankind."

But Beck's attempt to appropriate the legacy of King, who delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech from the same marbled steps 47 years ago to the day, drew a counter protest from the rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders. they rallied outside Dunbar high school in northwest Washington and planned to march to the mall, to the site where a memorial to King is being built.

"The 'march on Washington' changed America," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said at the Sharpton rally, referencing King's 1963 speech. "Our country reached to overcome the low points of our racial history. Glenn Beck's march will change nothing. but you can't blame Glenn Beck for his 'March on Washington' envy. Too bad he doesn't have a message worthy of the place."

Avis Jones DeWeaver, executive director of the national council of negro women also spoke to the crowd at Dunbar high school: "Don't let anyone tell you that they have the right to take their country back. It's our country, too. We will reclaim the dream. It was ours from the beginning."

Beck's rally has been billed as a peaceful and non-political "re-dedication" of the traditional honor and values of the nation. Beck, a Fox News host, has developed a national following by assailing President Obama and Democrats, and he warned Saturday that "our children could be slaves to debt." But he insisted that the rally "has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with god, turning our faith back to the values and principles that made us great."

not our joke: "It'll be a million Klan march"

Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe

Otherwise known as the Seditionists

When dealing with wingnuts ... Remember the rule: 

If they accuse someone of something, then they're already guilty of it.

Need we say more?

Photo

Just a random photo of a farmhouse.

Australian Catholic school sorry over Hitler costume win

An Australian primary school has apologized after a student was awarded first prize at a costume party for dressing as Adolf Hitler.

The school sent a letter of apology yesterday to parents after several complained about the child's Nazi-inspired getup, which included a swastika emblem.

The school's principal denied allegations that classmates had roared approval with chants of "Hitler, Hitler" explaining that youngsters had simply been calling out the name of the character they thought should win.

Parents at the Catholic school also objected to several more "nasty" costumes, including a vampire outfit and a student dressed as the Grim Reaper, the newspaper said. The school, in Perth, Western Australia, has not been identified.

Years of saved pocket change buys van in China

A man has paid for a van in China with 100,000 yuan ($14,700; £9,500) in pocket change he gathered over years, state television reports. Mr Zhao, a businessman, dropped bundles of notes, none worth more than one yuan - about $0.15 - at the dealership in Jining, in northern Shandong province.

Extra staff had to be brought in to work shifts to count it all, a clerk at the dealership said. Mr Zhao received the notes from customers at his printing business. Finding a dealership to accept the notes, many of them stained and torn, was not easy, he said.

"I held onto the money waiting to see if they would accept it so that I could buy the car. The manager of this dealership decided to accept my cash, so that was really helpful to me," he said. After hours of counting, the staff at the dealership confirmed he had provided exact change.

"Our finance department originally had three or four people counting the money, but that was certainly not enough," said Chen Ying, a cashier with the dealership. "So we added some colleagues from the sales department, they came in the morning and worked all day, and then we added another shift. We finally finished counting all of the money."

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Police clerk shoots self after dropping envelope containing bullets

A Sacramento Police Department property clerk was injured on Thursday morning when she dropped an envelope containing ammunition and one of the rounds went off.

The clerk, whose name was not released, was struck in the upper right leg by the fragmented shell casing, according the police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong. The wound did not appear serious as the clerk was wheeled out of the building to a waiting ambulance. She was treated briefly at a hospital and released.

The accident happened at about 9:30 a.m. at the property management warehouse at 555 Sequoia Pacific Blvd.

Leong said the envelope was holding evidence for a criminal case and the round that exploded was a .40 caliber centerfire cartridge. He said he had never heard of such an incident before, describing it as a "one-in-a-million" occurrence.

Man held captive as cleaning slave in Australia for six months

A couple has been arrested after allegedly kidnapping a man that moved into their home, keeping him captive and forcing him to clean for six months. In February this year, the 26-year-old man moved into a house with in Gormans Hill as a lodger. Police say the man was starved, repeatedly attacked and had his mobile phone stolen so he could not make contact with the outside world.

He was forced to do all the cleaning in the house. It will also be alleged on Monday 9 August the man was again assaulted by the man and woman where he was hit several times with a baseball bat. The man was then allegedly locked inside a children’s cubby house in the lounge room and denied any medical treatment before being taken to Bathurst Police Station the next day.

Police confirmed when the man was found, he was extremely dehydrated and in an emaciated state suffering black eyes, a split lip and severe bruising. He was rushed to Bathurst Base Hospital and later transferred to Westmead Hospital where it was discovered he was suffering significant injuries. Police have been told the 26-year-old had sustained old and new rib and spinal fractures as well as a fractured jaw and a punctured lung and weighed 40kg. His normal body weight is 70kg.

As a result of investigations by Chifley Local Area Command Detectives attached to Strike Force Bukari, police arrested a 41-year-old man and a 46-year-old woman and took them to Bathurst Police Station. They have been charged with a total of 27 offenses between them. Both were refused police bail and appeared at Bathurst Local Court this, where they were both remanded into custody to re-appear on Monday 11 October 2010.

Siberia’s dead are on the move

The dead may not be walking the earth yet, but beneath the surface they have been traveling up to 10 meters from their final resting place. However, those fearing it's another apocalyptic sign in a summer of fire and drought should rest assured – there’s nothing unnatural, far less supernatural about these roaming bones.

Instead it’s simply a case of loose soil and water causing turbulence beneath the surface. That’s little comfort to many whose loved ones are buried in cemeteries in the Siberian capital Novosibirsk, however. Recently the city has seen a surge of requests for exhumations, with locals wanting to cremate corpses following the opening of the city’s first crematorium.

But once the digging started, workmen regularly found that the graves on the ground did not match the people buried below. “During the exhumation, relatives identify the body only from the clothes or personal items,” undertaker Rodion Yakushin told the city’s funeral museum. “When it is impossible to identify the body ... the relatives receive the remains found directly under the grave, but some of them may belong to another person.”

Typically Russians have buried their dead, and the Orthodox church has frowned upon cremation as a means of disposing of corpses. But as the population grows there is an increasing need to free up space in overflowing cemeteries, meaning city’s like Novosibirsk (population 1.5 million) have started opening crematoriums.

Teenager gets squeaky dog toy lodged in his lung

Paramedics said it was the first time for them after a Sandy teenager got a dog whistle lodged in his lung. The teen's mother said each time 13-year-old William Robertson took a breath, he squeaked. William was supposed to start school on Tuesday but instead was in surgery to get the whistle removed.

"He coughed on the way and it slipped into his lungs," said William's mother, Laurie Robertson. "They had to do surgery then to get the whistle out." Robertson said William was wrestling with his dog over a squeaky toy.

"I squeezed it just as the dog jumped on me and it fell," said William. "Every time I breathed, it would happen to squeak." William's mother said he has a new nickname from the incident but William said he does not find it funny.

"It's kind of irritating," William said. "It's kind of funny but then again, it's scary cause I just don't see how choking is funny." Williams is taking a couple days off to recover from a sore throat.

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U.S. birth rate hits lowest point in a century

U.S. birth rate hits lowest point in a century

The trend spurs new speculation about how the recession affected families last year.  

When turnaround is expected 

Also: 

• Economic growth slows
• State population growth
• World's shrinking societies

America's best and worst airports

America's best and worst airports

Airports with poor food and surly employees got the lowest marks from readers.  

The big city hub that ranks last 

Also: 

• Airlines' seating maps
• Untouched island escapes
• Best U.S. ice-cream shops

Two-moon hoax fools the Web

Two-moon hoax fools the Web

Searches on “huge Mars” soar after a message claims the moon would have company last night.  

The real story 

Also: 

• Small-planet discovery
• Urban legends
• James Cameron's new role

The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
You can set some worries aside when it comes to an important relationship.
There's just no point to worrying, and once you chill out, you can see the situation in a much clearer light -- and, weirdly, it may look much better than you had thought.
If something has been delayed, it might be time to pick up where you left off -- or you could be able to reach a new, stabler understanding.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

London, England, United Kingdom

As, Akershus, Norway

Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark

Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Brno, Jihomoravsky Kraj, Czech Republic

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

as well as Thailand and in cities across the United States such as Chatanooga, Villa Park, Owasso, Tomah and more.

Today is:

Today is Friday, August 27, the 239th day of 2010.

There are 126 days left in the year.

Today In History August 27

Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:

There isn't one.

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The Romans may have pioneered the 'socks with sandals' look

So that's where the tacky 'fashion' comes from!?

Considering how miserable the British weather can be they very well could have.

During this period many of the Romans, who were often from the sunny parts of modern day France and Italy, struggled to cope with the harsh realities of the British climate, especially those billeted in the North.

Letters have been recovered from a garrison at Hadrian's Wall have revealed officers and their men begging family back home to send them extra subuclae (vests) and abollae (heavy cloaks).

Another soldier urged his loved ones to send him "Paria udonum ab Sattua solearum duo et subligariorum duo" which translates as "socks, two pairs of sandals and two pairs of underpants".

The latest evidence corroborates the socks and sandal theory which first emerged when a Roman copper razor handle was recovered from the Tees near Darlington. It was in the shape of a foot adorned with an open-toed sandal and woollen sock.

Scientists Create 'Dry Water'

It may sound like a contradiction in terms, but scientists have created 'dry water.' The substance resembles powdered sugar and could revolutionise the way chemicals are used. Each particle of dry water contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating. In fact, 95 per cent of dry water is 'wet' water.

Scientists from the University of Liverpool, England, believe dry water could be used to combat global warming by soaking up and trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Tests show that dry water is more than three times better at absorbing carbon dioxide than ordinary water.

Awesome Pictures

The courgette that won't stop growing

Novice courgette grower Maria Desimone has made her gardener dad green with envy after cultivating a 5ft 6in whopper at her first attempt. The 43-year-old was shocked to see the massive vegetable growing in her garden – and she hopes it will reach 6ft before she harvests it. She has a second specimen just short of 5ft.

Despite her dad Benito Maio having grown courgettes for several years, his daughter’s efforts at her garden in King’s Hedges, Cambridge, have left his specimens in the shade.

The housewife said: “I have never grown them before, but always wanted to. My dad has always grown them, but never as long and thick as this one. He’s really impressed.

“It’s not reached the floor yet, so I think it can grow another foot, so I’m not going to pick it just yet. When it’s grown as big as it can, I will cut it and cook it up. My aunties are wanting to have some of it too.

Cattle enjoy red wine with their dinner

Western Canadian beef producers have found a novel way of putting the "bar" in barbecue.

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Ugly duckling has own bar stool in local pub

This unloved ‘ugly duckling’ who was abandoned by her family has been given a new home at her local pub – and even has her own bar stool.

Crispy the duck was hand-reared by pub landlady Gail Payne, 43, after becoming separated from her brood.

She was released into the wild two years ago but has stunned pub regulars by waddling back into the Black Lion Inn, in St Albans, Herts., while a football match was on the big screen.

The three-year duck has now decided to stay at the pub and even settled into her own bar stool where she anxiously pecks away at any drinker who dares sit on her seat.

Baby tiger found stuffed in bag at Thai airport

Thai veterinarian Phimchanok Srongmongkul holds a baby tiger cub after feeding at the Wildlife Health Unit at the Department of National Parks in Bngkok Thailand.

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Record Year for Sea Turtles Follows Off-Road Vehicle Restrictions

Image credit: Audubon NC

Whether or not BP was burning sea turtles alive, the Gulf oil spill did kill a lot of these endangered creatures. But the news hasn't been quite so grim elsewhere. In fact on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—where there has been an ongoing feud between off-road enthusiasts and conservationists over beach access—it's been a record breaking year for nesting birds and sea turtles. Activists are claiming this is one more sign that the restriction of Off Road Vehicles (ORV) in nesting areas is working. No doubt, some ORV enthusiasts will disagree.

Article continues: Record Year for Sea Turtles Follows Off-Road Vehicle Restrictions

How Dog Breeds Got Their Names

Every dog owner knows why they gave their dog its name, but how well do you know the story behind their breed names? For example, poodle comes from 'pudeln,' a German word that meant 'to splash,' so these brave retrievers were known as pudelhund, or 'water dogs.' The word eventually evolved into the English poodle.

Let's see how a handful of common breeds found their monikers.

Man trying to rescue puppy from abandoned home arrested

An animal rights advocate is under arrest after trying to help a dog locked inside of a foreclosed Los Angeles home. Neighbors say when the owners left the home they took everything but the dogs. Taz was in the garage. A puppy was in the house.

Next door neighbor Elisa Woods says she worried they were getting hungrier. She called for help. L.A. Animal Services came with food and water, but they didn't enter the home.

"Possibility the people could come back and then they could turn this around and sue the city," explained Animal Services Officer Hoang Dinh. The city is required to give a written warning to the owners before entering the home or removing the dogs.

That wasn't good enough for animal rescuer Hans Petersen. He entered the home, then came out with a six-month-old puppy. The LAPD arrived moments later and Hans was arrested for interfering with Animal Services as they conducted their duties. The puppy was taken to to the South LA Animal Shelter, but Taz, the dog in the garage, was left behind.

Woman blames failed urine test on raisins

A Pennsylvania woman who failed a court-ordered urine test said the blame lies with the gin-soaked raisins she uses to treat her arthritis.

Judy Russo, 59, of Forks Township, who pleaded no contest in February to stalking charges for sending threatening messages to her former landlords, failed an April 27 drug and alcohol test mandated by the court as part of her 3-year probation sentence.

Russo was sentenced by Northampton County Judge Leonard Zito to 3 to 23 months in prison for violating the terms of her probation. However, Jason Jenkins, Russo's lawyer, filed court papers on Monday claiming his client has to eat gin-soaked raisins to treat her severe, migrating arthritis. He said the condition is resistant to conventional medication.

"Having spent several days in prison, Ms. Russo has come to appreciate the criminality of the actions, which resulted in this situation," Jenkins wrote. He also wrote Russo has been diagnosed with lung cancer and cannot be properly treated in jail. Jenkins is asking the court to reduce the sentence to more probation.

Saudi couple hammered 24 nails into Sri Lankan maid, say officials

A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead, after she complained of a too heavy workload, officials said yesterday.

Nearly 2 million Sri Lankans sought employment overseas last year and around 1.4 million, mostly maids, were employed in the Middle East. Many have complained of physical abuse or harassment. LT Ariyawathi, a 49-year old mother of three, returned home on Friday after five months in Saudi Arabia.

Her family only realised what had happened to her when she complained of pain and they took her to see the doctor, Foreign Employment Bureau officials said.

"The landlord and the wife of the landlord hammered 24 nails into her when she complained of the heavy workload," Kalyana Priya Ramanayake, media secretary of the Foreign Employment Bureau, said.

Ariyawathi has been taken to hospital for surgery to remove the nails, which according to the maid were hammered in when they were hot.

X-rays showed one-to two-inch nails in her hands and legs, with one over her eyes, officials said. The Foreign Employment Bureau is consulting the attorney-general while the Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry is to take the matter up with the Saudi government, officials said.

Non Sequitur

President Carter secures release of U.S. prisoner

Carter secures release of U.S. prisoner

Former President Jimmy Carter returns from North Korea with a man jailed for illegally entering the country.

Amnesty 

Also: 

• Aijalon Mahli Gomes
• See photos
• China mum on Kim visit

Heat-ray device sparks 'torture' claims

Jail's heat-ray device sparks 'torture' claims

Plans to use a stripped-down version of a military gadget to control L.A. inmates have critics crying foul.

How it works 

Also:

• Device's official name
• 90,000 inmates victimized
• Secretive Tokyo gallows

First glimpse of trapped miners offers clues

First glimpse of trapped miners offers clues

In grainy footage, the 33 men show off their strategies for coping with the underground nightmare.  

State of mind 

Also: 

• See their living space
• Plan to boost men's morale
• Facts about amazing story

Two if by sea ...

Agents struggle to stop illegal sea entries

A 400-square-mile expanse of ocean is the new frontier for immigrants entering the U.S.

'A needle in a haystack' 

Also: 

• Secretive Texas Rangers
• Immigration reform
• 72 massacred in Mexico

Ziggy

Projects that boost a home's value fast

Projects that boost a home's value fast

These eight home improvements won't break the bank, and each can be done in under a day.  

Best kitchen upgrade 

Also: 

• Lower your energy bill
• Amazing glass house
• McMansion fad is fading

How some people make money off the IRS

How some people make money off the IRS

About 10% of Americans receive more cash back from the IRS than they contribute in taxes.

Credits 

Also: 

• End-of-year tax tips
• Sneaky ways to save
• 15 things to get for free

Family Togetherness

Germany considers law banning employers from checking social networking sites

What's posted to Facebook doesn't necessarily stay hidden in Facebook, and thus it's been said that you should watch what you post there.

Full story

On The Job

On The Job

Cities see major shift in job growth

In metro areas, jobs are moving from manufacturing to service industries. 

Careers that pay $90,000 or more 

Also: 

• How to survive job market
• 10 key interview questions
• High-paying green jobs

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The truth be told

The American home is shrinking

The American home is shrinking

After years of getting bigger and bigger, the median new home shrank in 2009. 

Loading up on appliances instead 

Also: 

• Era of McMansions ending
• 1 in 10 risk foreclosure
• Calculate sq. footage

Shoe

Bad Cops

Bad Cops

Oklahoma deputy is charged with sexual assaults of three women

ACLU urges Los Angeles Sheriff's Department not to equip jailers with torture device

Georgia cops are indicted in tazing of autistic teen

New York county pays $25K to settle police brutality claim

Ohio sheriff's deputy faces kidnapping, menacing charges

Wisconsin cop gets prison time for years of sexually abusing girl

Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe

Otherwise known as the Seditionists

When dealing with wingnuts ... Remember the rule: 

If they accuse someone of something, then they're already guilty of it.

Liars and Fools

Senate candidate Sharron Angle (retard-Nevada) says America has "domestic enemies" within Congress.
Yes we do and they are called repugicans just like she is.

John Fleming (reptile-Louisiana) lies: midterm election will be a choice between "Godless society" and "Christian nation".
Wrong it is a choice between what is correct and the insanity of christianity.

Rick Santorum (replusive-Pennsylvania) lies that leader of proposed Manhattan Muslim center is "a Jihadist".
Does he really think we give a damn what a diaper wearing dog loving pervert has to say about anything?

It's Obama's fault that people think he's a Muslim, say the guys who keep telling people that Obama is a Muslim.
Oh, and the fact you keep repeating that lie to those mindless drones who haven't got enough wit to change to channel has nothing to do with it, eh?