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Nov 19 2008

Wednesday Morning Links

An ultimate frisbee team in Staffordshire, UK is told to change their name, because it might (gasp!) offend someone.
An elderly blind woman faces a lein on her property, for an unpaid utility bill - of one cent. Do you think that someone in the city government might realize that going after their one cent [...]

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Nov 18 2008

Tuesday AM Links & News

Published by Raven under Interesting News Bits

:redstar: Will President Bush pardon the Border Control Agents?
:redstar: Layaway Plans are making a comeback.
:redstar: Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey cautions Obama.
:redstar: Defensive medicine costs MA 1.4 BILLION a yr! And, 1/2 of our primary care doctors want to quit…
:redstar: Interesting.
Friedman, whose most recent book is “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” recalled that Detroit’s plan [...]

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Nov 10 2008

A Few Notes and a Salute

The One talks with the president of Poland, but whether he supports defensive missiles being in Poland is unclear. Coś zgubione w tłumaczeniu, być może? (Something lost in translation, maybe?) If we need to learn some French other than “merci beaucoup”, as Barry has previously suggested, then perhaps we should also learn [...]

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Nov 09 2008

Sunday Midday News and Links

Published by Raven under Interesting News Bits

Now comes teh hard part, Barry:
Obama’s immediate challenge is to not allow himself to be trapped by his victory.

Harnessing the power of Reagan? Read this to refresh yer memory.
Or is it Lincoln and FDR? Barry is what every President was?
Oh fercryingoutloud. A BARRY Holiday? National? I think not.
I don’t know…I always use [...]

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Nov 07 2008

Speechless…

Seriously. I’m going to stop talking…

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Oct 25 2008

The Boob Post, That Never Was

Published by Raven under Humor, Interesting News Bits, Raven

As I published this the other morning, this site went offline (thanks to the SCUMS at Site Ground- more on those asses later!)
Okay this is bullshit. At least I think it is.
LUND, Sweden, Oct. 19 (UPI) – Drinking a lot of coffee reduces the size of many women’s breasts, a Swedish researcher finds.
What is [...]

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Oct 20 2008

Iranians Arrest More Infidels Invading Their Country And Spying

No word on the nationality of the infidel spies, or when they’ll be released…

Artist’s rendering of “Souper Seekrit Infidel Spy Pigeons”

Security forces in Natanz have arrested two suspected “spy pigeons” near Iran’s controversial uranium enrichment facility, the reformist Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Monday.
One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant [...]

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