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    Drunken DNC Delegate Tells Cops He’s A Congressman

    Another Sent To Hospital With Alcohol Poisoning… Ted Kennedy would be so proud. source/video: Drunken DNC Delegate Tells Cops He’s A Congressman, Another Sent To Hospital With Alcohol Poisoning… | Weasel Zippers
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    Voters still like Clint Eastwood

    Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, punk. Clint Eastwood's bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention last week didn't go over so well with voters in Florida and North Carolina, but it didn't hurt his overall image, a pair of new polls show. According to a survey conducted by...
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    Putting the fun back in politics

    From sda Hitting back, twice as hard.* Putting the fun back in politics.The Republican Party has never done anything like this before, and is showing an ability to adapt both to the new media era and to the Alinskyite “community organizing” tactics of Obama himself. Amidst...
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    Elections Canada’s extreme makeover

    Thirty new seats will likely help Tories, bring more diversity to Parliament Canada’s electoral map is slated for a makeover so dramatic that when the new boundaries are confirmed, it is likely that nearly every district in the country will be affected — redrawn in small ways or big, or...
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    Actor Crowe gets lift after getting lost kayaking

    NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe lost his way kayaking in the waters off New York's Long Island and was picked up by a U.S. Coast Guard boat and ferried to a harbor, officials said Sunday. The 48-year-old actor was kayaking with a friend and launched from Cold Spring Harbor...
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    Divorcing like a boss/evil genius

    via Fark Problem: You win $100k on a gameshow before your divorce is finalised. Solution: Blow the lot before the show airs and she finds out Husband spent £50,000 gameshow winnings in just four months so he wouldn't have to share it with his estranged wife After Scott Brown held his...
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    NYC subway honchos hatch a genius plan

    via Fark Having never visited New York City, MTA officials decide to banish garbage cans from subway stations to help keep them cleaner The evidence has piled beside turnstiles and beneath benches, along subway platforms where riders found nowhere else to place their coffee cups or apple...
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    Man busted with giant weapons arsenal

    via Fark Cops recovered two handguns, 26 magazines, 10,537 rounds of ammunition, 32 machetes, 60 knives, 16 air pistols, an air rifle, seven tasers, eight brass knuckles, nine batons and 10 handcuffs, upon executing a search warrant An eccentric Queens man was busted Friday for having an...
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    Sgt hazed, hit by mallet, has seizure

    Father Furious After Army Son Hit in the Chest With a Mallet, Suffers Seizure During Hazing Disturbing video of a solider being struck in the chest with a wooden mallet at Fort Bragg, N.C. and then collapsing on the ground has his father furious and demanding punishment for those involved...
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    Sun Myung Moon...yep, he dead

    GAPYEONG, SOUTH KOREA—Officials say the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire has died in South Korea at age 92. Church officials said Monday that the Rev. Sun...
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    Archivist discovers several unpublished photos of Al Capone in Chicago Tribune vault

    http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-120702-capone-glass-pictures/
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    A Tale of Two Black Women

    Quite a good post by Kate at sda: The 2012 electoral cycle in America is going to be memorable for several reasons. One of them will be the divergent views of Black Americans. Let's contrast two of them: Mia Love - Former councilwoman and mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah - Republican...
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    Paul Ryan...super maranthoner

    Is it just human dig bick nature to always pad our accomplishments or even simple participation? Does it impress the girls still? The boys? Who knows. Does Misstated Marathon Claim Prove Paul Ryan Is Dishonest? Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan now says he didn’t run a marathon in...
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    Yosemite rangers in triage mode after hantavirus outbreak

    The park has received thousands of calls since six cases of the rodent-borne disease were traced to Yosemite. Officials are answering questions and sending letters to those who may have been infected. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — The phones in the administrative building here are constantly...
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    South Africa to drop mine worker murder charges

    South African prosecutors have provisionally dropped murder charges against 270 miners whose colleagues were shot dead by police. The charges cannot be dismissed formally until the end of the inquiry, but prosecutors said all detained miners would be freed. Local...
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    "Verbally servicing an interlocutor...

    for the purpose of sexual excitement does not constitute a sexual service, if it does not involve the bodily erogenous zones of the person who is getting paid for such a service," the criminal court ruled. No hands, no foul in Italy phone-sex case - UPI.com You read it here first. Phone-sex...
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    Feds quietly drop all charges against sheriff joe...

    The federal government has closed a criminal probe of alleged financial misconduct by Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's toughest sheriff," and no charges will be filed, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Friday. A separate federal investigation relating to...
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    Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C.

    The humanity. Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C. - Washington Times
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    Health Warning for Hipsters

    via Fark Hey hipsters-- that hookah you puff away on is way worse for you than normal cigarettes Shisha smoking as bad as cigarettes for lungs A waterpipe smoker may inhale as much during a 20- to 80-minute session as a cigarette smoker...
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    Below-decks tour of USS Intrepid

    Here Are Parts Of The Aircraft Carrier USS Intrepid They Don't Show To The Public* The sections of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Intrepid open to the public are painstakingly restored and lovingly maintained. But restoration is expensive, and vast portions of the ship remain...