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Good ol' MSM. via sda The lede in a Canadian Press story published today reveals that "dozens of suspects accused of corruption at Quebec's municipal and provincial levels" donated millions of dollars to various federal parties between 1993 and 2011. Now that you've read that, what's the...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A tribe in upstate New York said Thursday it will launch a radio ad campaign pressing for the Washington Redskins to get rid of a nickname that is often criticized as offensive. The Oneida Indian Nation said the first ad will run on radio stations in Washington before the...

Unlikely there brad. Chelsea Manning is formally seeking a presidential pardon for leaking classified documents that her lawyer says should never have been classified in the first place. Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, filed the papers on Tuesday requesting a pardon from President Barack...

Can't understand how he didn't get elected. via zip: Former Dem Mayoral Candidate Arrested, Calls Police “White Devils”… Obama says the police “acted stupidly” in 3… 2… 1. A former Democratic primary candidate for Pittsburgh mayor fought with officers and was arrested Tuesday, according...

That and maybe Stupor Duck.

scary stuff via Fark The UN's IPCC chief, who has apparently never listened to Iron Maiden, says the global warming doomsday clock is at 5 minutes to midnight. EVERYBODY RUN TO THE HILLS U.N researchers: Global warming clock is at ‘five minutes to midnight’ | The Raw Story

via sda: OAKVILLE, Ont. - Canadians are in store for a typical fall with extended stretches of fair weather and bouts of wetness, according to one of the country's leading forecasters. Yahoo! News Canada - Latest News & Headlines ... ... ... Need I ask how is this news? or why we...

Well...:lol: read on, courtesy of Snowden and zip: Snowden Document Shows One In Five Individuals Applying For Jobs In U.S. Intelligence Agencies Had Ties To Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah… You have to imagine at least a few were able to obtain jobs without being detected. WASHINGTON - The...

Morale might be low at PUC, but digs get upgrade With all the complaints about low morale and poor oversight at the California Public Utilities Commission, it's interesting to note that more than 750 staffers at the Golden Gate Avenue headquarters are getting new workstations - at a cost of...

one right after another First 700-plus pounder only on books for hour Rob Trammell, from left, Parker Coleman and Beth Trammell, all of Madison, and Amanda Jackson, Tommy Jackson and Sean King, all of Yazoo City, stand by their 723.5-pound alligator, which set a Mississippi record that...

Charlottesville police say two men picked the wrong students to rob at gunpoint. The robbery suspects are behind bars, badly beaten by their victims. Both suspects have severe injuries to their faces, but the victims - we're told - are doing just fine. The pair who allegedly attempted an...

The Syrians steadfastly refused to accept any liability for the destruction of the aircraft ... "The UN relied heavily on the Canadian investigation’s conclusions but at the request of Canada’s external affairs department, two cause factors in the shoot-down were deleted because they...

Veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost has died from a heart attack at the age of age of 74. He had been giving a speech aboard the cruise ship the Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday night. The BBC reported a statement from his family said: 'His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this...

Seems some folk are getting awfully uppity. Cornel West had some harsh comments for MSNBC's Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson Friday. Early in the radio show "Smiley and West," West said of the previous day's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March...

via Fark On a church billboard NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.--A picture of a sign outside an Anglican church in Niagara Falls that sends a message of inclusivity when it comes to homosexuality has gone viral. The billboard outside St. John’s Anglican Church reads: “Jesus had two dads and he turned...

Pity the staff at the human rights commissions who have to sort out the hierarchy of victimhood. A real doozy has just landed in the laps of the Manitoba commission. The head of a women’s shelter finds comments the deputy premier made in an e-mail offensive, so she’s filed a complaint. It’s...

The Atlantic publishes two articles normalizing pedophilia I, Pedophile - David Goldberg - The Atlantic What Can Be Done About Pedophilia? - Alice Dreger - The Atlantic I have written about this before. In our growing hedonistic culture, pedophilia is in the process of being normalized...

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A southeastern Kentucky man charged Wednesday with killing his wife said he fatally shot her because she asked him to end her suffering from terminal breast cancer. Ernest Chris Chumbley, 48, of London, Ky., told WKYT-TV he fired the shots that killed 44-year-old Virginia...

This summer, the US has experienced the fewest number of 100 degree readings in a century. The five hottest summers (1936, 1934, 1954, 1980 and 1930) all occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. CO2 went over 400 PPM this year, indicating that heatwaves and CO2 have nothing to do with each other...