Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006 by Insider
Okay, this is from the Weekly World News (cached here), but that doesn’t stop it from being funny.
AN OHIO teen was severely traumatized after discovering the stars of a downloaded porno flick were none other than his own parents.
Timmy Shannon, 17, recalls the moment that scarred him for life. “I was like five minutes into [...]
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006 by Insider
Palm Beach Post:
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd admits that he placed a “secret hold” on legislation that would make uncovering the Byzantine world of federal contracting as easy as typing a Google search.
Tom Gavin, spokesperson for Byrd, confirmed to Cox Newspapers that the senator placed the hold on legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Coburn, [...]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 by Chad
OK, I admit I thought that the IDF had a lock on hottest military women.
That however was before I discovered the Emperor’s elite Femtroopers.
If these women were guarding Princess Leia I don’t think Han and Luke would have been so anxious to escape. I know I wouldn’t be, even if they [...]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 by Insider
Defense attorneys almost always advise their clients to remain silent. Why can’t they follow this advice themselves?
Karr’s Colorado public defender, Seth Temin commenting on the news that his client Mark Karr would not be charged in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey:
“We’re deeply distressed by the fact they took this man, dragged him back here from [...]
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 by Insider
“Go Dog Go”
Yes, this story is true:
A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.
The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her [...]
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 by Insider
Your Tax Dollars Indeed!
Is there a “Bridge to Nowhere” Connection?
From TMP Muckracker:
Who’s trying to stop the government from telling its citizens where their tax dollars are being spent? Help find out.
Just before the August recess, the Senate was set to vote on a bill introduced by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) [...]
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Monday, August 28th, 2006 by Insider
What in the world went wrong at the criminal trial? Why did the civil case go the other way? These and many, many other questions are answered in detail at Patterico’s blog in a 6-part series starting here.
My favorite is part six which includes plaintiff attorney Daniel Petrocelli’s final argument to the jury. A [...]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006 by Chad
It isn’t just because the Iranian President is a complete whack job who denies the Holocaust, and thinks that Israel needs to be eliminated as a country. It’s not just the Iranian revolutionary guards serving with Hezbollah and firing rockets into Israel. It isn’t even their pursuit of a nuclear bomb. It’s [...]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006 by Insider
*67% chance to be exact. But don’t worry, you’re hardly alone; in fact, you’re in the majority.
The above map is for obesity, click here for a table of overweight. (Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30.0 or over, overweight as a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9.)
According to the single-year 2005 survey figures, Mississippi [...]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006 by Chad
I haven’t updated about Deb Frisch for awhile, but it appears things haven’t been going well for her. This week it was reported she has been charged with Telephonic Harrasement and Stalking in Oregon. The speculation is that this is unrelated to her run in with Jeff Golstein.
I also think she [...]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006 by Insider
Despite the incredible time demands of starving millions of his own people as well as being a charter member of the Axis of Evil, crazed dictator Kim Jong-il finds the time to produce a self-described hit film
Dear Leader Kim Jong-il’s “Diary of a Student Girl” public response was described by the North’s KCNA news agency [...]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006 by Insider
In an excerpt from her autobiography published in the September, 2006, issues of Harper’s, Kola Boof, a Sudanese poet and member of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, claims she was kept as a sex slave by Osama bin Laden in Morocco in 1998. Kola tells us that Osama describes bin Laden as:
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 by Chad
The Seattle Times: Local News: Circumcision foes doubt practice can halt AIDS spread
A recent study has shown a correlation between male circumcision and a decrease in the incedence of HIV infection in men.
Naturally it is a cheap, easy and apparently effective preventitive so someone has to protest:
Just when the genital-integrity advocates thought they [...]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 by Chad
Why? Because in addition to the everyday low low prices everybody loves, Wal-Mart is making a positive difference in the world community.
Article 25-1 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, [...]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 by Chad
Mimi Miyagi has lost her bid for Nevada Governor and both she and Mary Carey have ignored my offer to run a stealth write in campaign for Washington Senator, replacing Maria Cantwell. Therefore I am shifting my sites to the 2008 Presidential race and suggesting Pandora Peaks for President.
Pandora Peaks has [...]
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