The AP reports today on a rather stunning display of internet idiocy by various DoD entities and military contractors. Posting and leaving sensitive information on unsecured anonymous FTP servers.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans […]

Rare is the mother who will drive her son and his gang of friends to kill another youth but that’s exactly what 30 year old Eva Daley did. She drove the youths to a park where they jumped and then stabbed 13 year-old Jose Cano.
This wasn’t her first experience with bad parenting. Daley would let […]

“Pool reporter” Amy Jacobson
Amy Jacobson is a not bad looking newscaster with Chicago’s WMAQ-Channel 5. However at some point she decided that frolicking with Craig Stebic, who’d she met while covering the mysterious disappearance of his estranged wife, was worth risking her job for. Well at least that is what it looks like in an […]

America’s Most Wanted Tree
This story is just weird. I’m not sure who is less competent, the bank robber who thinks dressing up as a tree is a good disguise or the bank employees who let him get away with it. Either way police in Manchester, New Hampshire are looking for a man who robbed a […]

Reportedly “flushed” with pride in Chongqing, officials in the southwestern Chinese city recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade (pictured above), soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 30,000 square feet.
The four-story public bathroom listed as the world’s largest according to state-run China Central Television who presumably know these things.

“We are […]

Coverage from the left, right and center:
Left: Al Gore III should be feted not arrested
Right: Al Gore III Arrested For Pot, Prescription Drugs After Being Clocked At 100mph
Center: An Inconvenient Toot - Al Gore’s Son Busted for Pot, Speeding in a Prius
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Some say the two go together like chocolate and peanut butter
This will certainly add to the premium people pay to have a golf course view.
Stroudsburg Area Regional Police are investigating complaints of a private golf outing featuring lap dance stations, threesomes and naked women at the Cherry Valley Golf Course on Monday.
This course was in […]

Geek Squad offers a service not on the price list: free backup of your porn to a thumb drive.

One problem — the thumb drive belongs to the Geek Squad ‘agent’ fixing your computer.

The Consumerist rigged screen capture software so that it would make a video of what was going on while their computer was in […]

I guess this explains Ewa Sonnet and Maria Swan. They grow em big over there.
This photo is actually from Zombietimes review of some San Fransisco 4th of July activities. As part of his outing (he he he outing in San Fransisco that’s funny. Anyway…)he visited the Propaganda III art show which was displaying […]

I don’t understand why.
source KOMO TV

Continuing on their quest to wipe out the population of the western world, a Chinese company has been linked to 94 deaths in Panama. The cause? Taking medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol (antifreeze).
PANAMA CITY - A top Panamanian prosecutor said tests show at least 94 people have died from taking medicine […]

On the way to bagging the top Latino Democrats of California, Mirthala Salinas updated her image from a basic ’school teacher’ look to the sutry, sexy, ‘come hither,’ ‘I’ll give you a night you’ll never forget’ look on the left.
Our complete coverage of the Villaraigosa-Salinas affair is here.
UPDATE: Mirthala suspended. Telemundo avoids ‘nuclear option’.
Photo sources […]

Nearly a fifth of goods made and sold in China have been found to be sub-standard, Beijing has revealed.
The worst problems were found in canned fruit, dried fish and fruit drinks, a food inspectors’ report said.
China has pledged to take action to improve its food and drug industry after a series of safety scares aroused […]

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Update: Mirthala’s image makeover moves her from not to hot.
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Mirthala Salinas: “Mayor Tony’s Hot Tamale“
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa confirmed the identity of the woman with whom he’s been cheating on his wife. She’s Mirthala Salinas and she’s not bad looking. Then again so was Villaraigosa’s wife, Corina, pictured below.

Corina Villaraigosa, jilted!
While Mirthala has her […]

Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile
After running the “Y-U-M-M-Y” plates through his computer, an Arizona Highway Patrol officer was surprised to see that the 27-foot-long hot-dog-car was listed as stolen. Two more officers were dispatched to help.
All agreed that it was the biggest weiner they’d ever seen.
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