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    Comment ça va Bob?

    Price is Right spays or neuters Bob Barker's invitation to the show's 40th anniversary episode Why Wasn't Bob Barker Invited to The Price is Right's 40th Birthday Bash? Nobody asked him to "Come on down!" CBS' The Price is Right celebrates its 40th anniversary on Tuesday's episode with...
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    Canada’s spanking law must go

    an ‘excuse for poor parenting’, doctors say. OTTAWA — The Canadian Medical Association Journal says it’s time to do away with the Criminal Code’s so-called spanking law. A strongly worded editorial in the journal Tuesday calls for the repeal of Section 43 of the Criminal Code, which gives...
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    Hackers embarrass Apple with data leak

    Apple faced a major embarrassment on the eve of the launch of its new iPhone when hackers published a trove of sensitive information about 1m Apple devices online. The hacker group AntiSec, an offshoot of the Anonymous and Lulzsec collectives which last year targeted Sony, News International...
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    In July, Spaniards withdrew a record 75 billion euros

    , or $94 billion, from their banks — an amount equal to 7 percent of the country’s overall economic output ... small dead animals: It's Probably Nothing Fears Rising, Spaniards Pull Out Their Cash and Get Out of Spain - Business News - CNBC
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    Police hunt suspect after stabbing at Brampton high school

    A student at Cardinal Leger Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario has been stabbed by a fellow student on the same day that classes were set to resume. At 11:04 Tuesday morning, Peel Regional Police Constable Fiona Thivierge says that a student was attacked with a knife. A 911 call was...
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    Man handed life sentence in Toronto crossbow killing of abusive father

    A man who murdered his tyrannical father in a Toronto public library two years ago by shooting him in the back with a crossbow and smashing his skull with a hammer was sentenced to life imprisonment Tuesday, the closing chapter in a searing tale of family abuse. Zhou (Peter) Fang, looking...
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    Anonymous Claims FBI Tracking iPhone Users

    A hacking group related to Anonymous claims to have stolen a file from an FBI laptop which contained over 12 million unique Apple device indentity numbers. A post on Pastebin claims that during the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro laptop used by FBI Supervisor Special Agent...
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    RIP: Donald Pepin. A man who witnessed the first U.S. shots of WWII

    via Fark Donald Pepin was poised at the tip of the arrow of America's thrust into World War II. From his U.S. Navy ship, he witnessed the first evidence that Japan was bearing down with malice on Pearl Harbor...
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    Householder arrested after suspected burglars shot

    via sda Tony Blair's Britain Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and self-defense is no excuse for self-defense. A householder and his wife have been arrested in Leicestershire after two suspected burglars were hit with shotgun pellets...
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    The era of cheap food may be over

    via Fark The era of cheap food is over. Maybe biofuels weren't such a great idea after all The last decade saw the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy after the second world war. This summer's increase in maize, wheat and soya bean prices – the third...
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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...