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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Man pulled over for driving too slow

And it's about damned time, too!
Too many wrecks are caused by slow drivers!

Man pulled over for driving too slow

Erik Bonstrom gets fined for going 58 mph in a 65 mph zone.

Man pulled over for driving too slow

Great Smoky Mountain Campgrounds Will Not Get Showers Installed Any Time Soon

The National Park Service says there isn't enough water or drainage to add showers to campgrounds in the Smokies.

Great Smoky Mountain Campgrounds

Constipation Relief Via Hammers

Not Such a Good Idea

Viorel Firoiu of Romania decided tools would be more useful to cure his constipation than something like Metamucil.

Granted, he was drunk at the time, but ...

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Sage Wisdom

The secret to success is to start out from scratch and keep on scratching.

Brick admits to being a criminal

Did Brick just admit to being a criminal!?

Obama isn't rushing public option healthcare

It's been an ongoing discussion since, Roosevelt ... Teddy.

He was the first U.S. President to call for universal health care and national health insurance

But, I figure 100 years is rushing it for the inside the beltway crowd, don't you?!

A Funny One

What did the lawyer name his daughter?

Sue.

Mexican cartels target polygamist Mormon sect

Mormon pioneer Alma Dayer LeBaron had a vision when he moved his breakaway sect of polygamists to this valley 60 years ago: His many children would live in peace and prosperity among the pretty pecan orchards they would plant in the desert.

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Jon Stewart Most Trusted Newsman In America

The late Walter Cronkite was once dubbed the "Most Trusted Man in America," in his role as anchor for CBS News throughout much his career that spanned decades.

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Did You Know ...

Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, was addicted to chocolate.
He drank 50 servings a day.
It was dyed a red color and favored with chili peppers.

Earthquake brings New Zealand and Australia closer together

Scientists say a massive earthquake has brought New Zealand a foot closer to Australia.

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Give Me One Reason

Tracy Chapman

Fate of marijuana mine in limbo

An abandoned mine in northern Canada may lose its role as the country's only government-sanctioned marijuana farm.

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Naked girls plow fields to bring rain

In a 'time "honored" tradition' - that you will not see in Nebraska anytime soon.

Farmers in eastern India are having their unmarried daughters plow parched fields naked to embarrass the monsoon gods into sending rain for their crops.

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Obama 'way off base' with comment

From the "I acted stupidly and don't like the fact I was called on it" Department:
Mass. cop: Obama 'way off base' with comment

A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's disappointed in the president's rebuke.

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Osama bin Laden's son likely killed in Pakistan

Osama bin Laden's son likely killed — report

The Taliban leader's son reportedly died after a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year.

One of Osama bin Laden's sons may have been killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year, National Public Radio reported.

Saad bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader's third-oldest son, is "believed" to have been killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a US Predator drone "sometime this year," the US broadcaster said on its website, AFP reported.

US spy agencies are "80 to 85 percent" sure that Saad bin Laden is dead, a senior counter-terrorism official told NPR, while acknowledging that it was difficult to be completely sure without a body on which DNA tests could be conducted.