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    Flying Camera From Animal Rights Group Shot Down at Pigeon Shoot

    :lol: Police are investigating an incident at a Berks County hunting club in which someone on the hunting grounds allegedly targeted a mechanical flying object rather than a living and breathing one. SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) are in the midst of a campaign against the...
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    IMF considering loonie as reserve currency

    The International Monetary Fund said it’s considering classifying the Australian and the Canadian dollars as reserve currencies. The two “are to be considered for inclusion” separately in the IMF’s “Currency Composition of Official Foreign-Exchange Reserves” data, the Washington-based...
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    Your tax dollars at work...

    via Fark Your tax dollars at work: Town of 1,000 has a $77 million airport with no air service; now adds $29 million harbor with no road access A harbor for Akutan, but no road to it | Alaska Newsreader | ADN.com
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    Hunter spots rare white deer in Iowa

    Hunter spots rare white deer in Iowa | Local News - KCCI Home
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    NY Prosecutor Admits He Acted in 1970s Porn Films

    A district attorney in upstate New York has admitted that he acted in pornographic movies in the 1970s then lied when questioned about it during his second campaign...
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    UFC 154 St. Pierre vs Condit

    Here's to an unrusty Georges! P2plive.net - Live Sports & Entertainment AtdheNet.TV - Watch Free Live Sports TV FirstRow Live Boxing UFC and WWE Online | Live Stream of HBO Boxing | Free PPV Streaming of Boxing,UFC and WWE
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    Isn't that cute? Ebola is learning how to fly

    via Fark Ebola may go airborne Infected pigs can transmit virus to primates without contact, study finds The Ebola virus can spread through the air from pigs to macaques, a new study suggests. Transmission of the virus — which causes an often fatal...
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    Scores of school kids killed in bus/train crash

    At least 50 people, mostly children, have been killed in Egypt after a speeding train crashed into a school bus carrying children to their kindergarten. Up to 17 were also wounded in the crash on Saturday as the bus crossed tracks near a village in Manfaloot district in the southern...
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    No tears from Harper for CBC revenue problems

    OTTAWA — The CBC shouldn't come crying to him for more money, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says, even if a continuing NHL lockout reduces ad revenue from Saturday night hockey broadcasts. "CBC has its funding voted annually by Parliament," Harper said Friday from Quebec City. "That is the...
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    Taliban accidentally CCs everybody on its mailing list

    Derp. Living in fear of "replying all" to your company-wide emails? Hey, it could be worse. ABC News reports: In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his...
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    The AP's Jerusalem 'correction'

    What is AP style for the city of Jerusalem? Friday morning, The Associated Press blasted this tweet for a story on Gaza-Israel conflict: “Air raid sirens wail in Jerusalem, signaling a possible rocket attack aimed at Israel's capital: Air raid sirens wail in Jerusalem -KH.” Just over a...
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    US pension insurer runs record $34B deficit

    Can't be good can it? WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency that insures pensions for more than 40 million Americans last year ran the widest deficit in its 38-year history. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. said Friday that its deficit grew to $34 billion for the budget year that ended...
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    Ten Commandments monument at Okla. Capitol misspelled

    Oh c'mon...really? After three years in the making, Ten Commandments monument at Oklahoma state capitol finally unveiled. Unfortunately during that three year period, no one ever thought to run a spell check on it Three years into the making, Oklahoma's Capitol building unveiled a...
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    Montreal elects first Anglo mayor in 100 years – for the interim

    Montreal has a new mayor -- and he's an Anglophone. In a secret ballot with several parties casting free votes, councillors chose the city’s former second-in-command Michael Applebaum as interim mayor on Friday. He is the city’s first Anglophone mayor since 1912. Already mayor of...
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    Honeymoon is over for the NDP as support shifts to Liberals

    That's a shame. OTTAWA — The honeymoon appears to be over for NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, with Canadians shifting some support to the man creating a lot of buzz on Parliament Hill: Justin Trudeau. If a federal election were held now, the federal NDP would garner 30 per cent of the popular...
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    Sure we'll ban fracking...sorry, just kidding...lol

    via Fark Boulder County: "If you don't like fracking then vote to ban it." Citizens: "That sounds reasonable. Ok." Ban passes. Boulder County: "lulz. One does not simply ban fracking" BOULDER -- Boulder County intends to adopt local land-use controls over oil and gas exploration that are...
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    HuffPo Writer Compares Pro-Israel Supporters To People Who Supported The Holocaust…

    Unreal: HuffPo Writer Compares Pro-Israel Supporters To People Who Supported The Holocaust… MJ Rosenberg, whose hatred for Israel is so over the top Soros-funded Media Matters had to force him out, is at it again. He now writes for the Huffington Post. Those who support Israel’s action in...
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    Camera-toting bird spurs fish photo mystery

    It sounds like a fish tale — a Saskatchewan woman comes to the aid of a water bird with a camera hanging around its neck ... only to discover numerous fish photos on the memory card. But it happened to Saskatoon's Karen Gwillim in September, as she was driving through the village of...
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    A few more words from Ron Paul

    Congressman Ron Paul reacted to the secessionist movement sweeping America today by reminding people that the United States seceded from the British empire, while slamming those who suggested their fellow Americans should be deported merely for talking about the idea. In the aftermath of...
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    Oil sands will be Canada’s economic engine for next 25 to 30 years

    Canada’s oil sands are key to the country’s prosperity and for it to grow, the industry needs more pipelines, more collaboration, and dialogue that does not fuel “a climate of antagonism,” said a report by Deloitte Canada.There was dissent back then about spending all that money on the...