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Sounds about right. Sneed has learned U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who handily won re-election Tuesday despite a lengthy stay at Mayo Clinic for depression and bipolar disorder, is in the midst of plea discussions with the feds probing his alleged misuse of campaign funds. “No one has...

Or so these wankers want you to know: What You Missed While You Were Refreshing Drudge and FiveThirtyEight - By Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy

Iranian Fighter Jets Attempt To Shoot Down U.S. Drone In International Airspace . . . On November 1st… We’re just learning about this now? Via CNN:Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf last week, CNN has learned. The incident...

Here we go again... Sometimes a picture speaks louder than words If anyone thought the victory speech of Barack Obama last night was seen as a move toward uniting a divided country, you only have to look at the home of John C Morris at 1116 Southwinds Dr. in Port Orange, FL to see not...

Tattoo Shop Owner Tiles Floor With 250,000 Pennies Tattoo Shop Owner Tiles Floor With 250,000 Pennies - ABC News

Well somebody hasta pay and it ain't gonna be the politicians. :lol: SAN FRANCISCO—In approving a ballot measure sought by Gov. Jerry Brown to raise taxes for several years, Californians took a step toward improving the state's fiscal situation and avoiding education cuts. According...

Via Fark: You're a disbarred attorney who's just been evicted from his office. Do you a) take a sledge hammer to the walls? b) Draw p e n i s e s all over the place? c) Smear poop on the floor? d) All of the above? Judge throws Dallas attorney Tom Corea back in jail after his Design...

What ho? :lol: Mayor Rob Ford has a better council attendance record than former mayor David Miller and 21 current councillors. Ford, who drew widespread criticism for skipping more than two hours of last week’s three-day meeting to coach high school football, has missed 494 of the 3,334...

A German historian has published a collection of unusually candid interviews with members of the Red Army that provides the first precise account of the battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of ordinary soldiers. They show that this chapter in history deserves a reappraisal. At dawn on...

In an astonishing display of media malpractice, CBS News quietly released proof--two days before the election, far too late to reach the media and the public--that President Barack Obama lied to the public about the Benghazi attack, as well as about his later claim to have called the attack...

Man gets six month prison term for insulting the fat, goat loving pedophile King of Bahrain MANAMA, Bahrain — A civil court has sentenced an online activist to six months in prison on charges of insulting the Gulf nation’s king in Twitter posts, the official news agency said Thursday...

UK man charged after children given trick-or-treat cocaine bags London (CNN) -- Police in northern England were called to investigate this week after children who were out trick-or-treating for Halloween were given small snap-top bags of what turned out to be cocaine. The bags, containing...

via sda: Y2Kyoto: Who needs to sleep? Apparently sleep researchers haven't been getting enough of that cool green Gov't money. They came out against human habitation near windmill farms. I'm sure we'll quickly be brought up to speed though on why this study is flawed...

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Wtf man. No spare buses? Why a request at all? TTC head Andy Byford says he is “not happy” after learning fare-paying riders were taken off two buses so they could be dispatched to pick up high school football players coached by Mayor Rob Ford. In an email to transit commissioners...

Abysmal. The “abysmal” state of free speech at Canadian public universities is stifling students’ right to speak their minds, according to a new report card that gives mostly failing grades to universities and their student unions. Stifling AND abysmal h/t sda

Fun guy on mushrooms shows off his little mushroom to neighbours A 38-YEAR-OLD man will face court after he allegedly committed an indecent act in full view of the public in Margaret River and was later found in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The man...

via Fark NYC Marathon organizers asking local hotels to displace hurricane evacuees for out of town runners. Hotel owner in story is hero; asinine tag for hotels that are actually doing this, and for Bloomberg allowing a marathon right now SI Hotel Owner Refuses To Evict Evacuees To Honor...

via sda: "Unprecedented" They keep saying that word... related reading: Hurricane Sandy’s ‘Unprecedented’ Storm Surge | Watts Up With That?

The creepy pro-Obama ad featuring the child singers chastising adults has suddenly been removed by its creators from both YouTube and Vimeo. Even the host website - www.futurechildrenproject.com - has disappeared. But the Internet never forgets, and the video can still be found, even though...