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Politics seems to trump all, even in a newly formed “democratic” government: In an illustration of its growing muscle in Iraq as U.S. influence wanes, anti-American cleric Muqtada Sadr‘s movement has won pardons for at least 50 prisoners jailed for crimes including murder, kidnapping and attacks on U.S. troops. The amnesties come at a time when […]
July 26, 2011
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They must have some great health care in Libya given this man was only supposed to have three months to live when he was released from a Scottish prison: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the ailing Lockerbie bomber freed by Scotland nearly two years ago, showed up on Libyan TV Tuesday at a pro-government rally in Tripoli.[...] The British […]
July 23, 2011
It’s sad to say, but it seems that politics just isn’t politics without some sex scandal in the mix. Just recently we’ve had Rep. Anthony Weiner make a spectacle of himself (in more ways than one if you count his twitter photos) and former California Gov. Schwarzenegger fess up to an extramarital affair which resulted […]
July 22, 2011
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The American taxpayer finally made it out of Chrysler’s business today after the U.S. government sold its final holdings in the company to Fiat to the tune of $560 million. This final sell-off brings Chrysler’s reimbursement to the U.S. taxpayer to a grand total of $11.2 billion. That’s a whopping $1.3 billion short of the company’s total […]
July 8, 2011
It seems the global warming crowd in Australia has been screaming its message so loud it’s ended up traumatizing the poor kids : On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.… [Read more…] Australian National University’s […]
July 8, 2011
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A little humor… First, they learn how to walk through automatic doors. Then, the next thing you know is they’ll be asking their bigger, badder relatives to lock us up in cages. If you’re ever in New Delhi and have to go to the hospital, you might want to check under your doctor’s mask to make sure he’s human: Doctors at […]
July 8, 2011
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What happens when a beta type male gets caught in the process of burglarizing a home? He sits and waits while the owner calls police: CENTER HARBOR, N.H. – A New Hampshire woman was so angry when she came home and found a burglar in her house that she grabbed the thief half her age […]
July 27, 2011
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