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    Some old Utah Saloon photographs

    A Wild Bunch of drinkers: Century-old photos of Utah bars include rare shot of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with their gang A Wild Bunch of drinkers: Century-old photos of Utah bars include rare shot of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with their gang | Mail Online sample pics:
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    Former Champ Ken Norton Suffers Stroke

    Former heavyweight champion of the world, Ken Norton, is in a stable condition after suffering a stroke. The former marine, who broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in a 1973 non-title fight, is unable to speak and is being fed through tubes in hospital. Norton, perhaps best known for his trilogy of...
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    Way to go Britain

    BIG (er, I mean ), British government encourages local officials to reduce speed limit to 20 mph. Deaths and injuries in 20 mph zones rise 24% from Fark of course... Road casualties in 20mph zones increased by almost a uarter in 2011, according to official figures. The number of people...
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    Former city youth pastor charged with Internet luring

    Here's our HIV child perv A youth pastor with HIV who recently worked in Saskatoon has been charged in Ontario with luring a child via a computer and attempted aggravated sexual assault. Kris Allan Gowdy, 42, was arrested Thursday after allegedly making arrangements on social media to...
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    Wind power not coming through for California

    via sda “Well as you know, wind has to blow for wind power to be effective.“ Because... http://flexalert.org/downloads/ISO_NewsRelease_Flex_Alert_August-10-12.pdf I called the media support line for this press release issues today, to ask a couple of questions, here are the answers: 1...
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    So-called “Fuehrerwein” is still making folks cranky

    Well, some folks anyway. The 'historical' wines line has been around since 1995 and complained about here and there before. HITLER WINE | Weekly World News Now it's an American attorney that has picked up the ball: Italian supermarket attacked for ‘selling offensive wine bottles with...
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    Canada’s unemployment rate rises in disappointing July

    After several months of modest job gains, Canada lost a surprising 30,000 jobs in July, raising concerns about a stalling recovery. “It’s definitely a disappointment,” said Douglas Porter, BMO’s deputy chief economist, of the...
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    It's time to ban axes

    Once and for all. Axe attack in Toronto prompts attempted murder charge A Toronto man is charged with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked another man with an axe Friday morning. The...
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    Evidence Further Suggests Extra-Terrestrial Origin of Quasicrystals

    ScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2012) — Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals have provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space. Writing in IOP Publishing's journal Reports on Progress in...
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    Holder Calls Sikh Temple Shooting “An Act Of Terrorism”

    Via Weasel Zippers Continues To Label Ft. Hood Massacre As “Workplace Violence”… Of course it has nothing to do with the fact that Nidal Hasan is Muslim and the Skikh temple gunman is white. U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, speaking at the Sikh Temple shooting memorial service in Oak Creek...
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    PM complicit in climate, shootings

    Had to post this just for the lulz man. :lol: Via sda: So the Toronto Star doesn't screen out letters from the clinically insane.... Many opinions have been expressed about the shooting of 24 people in a Toronto community housing project, and the...
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    Toronto councillors to get 3% pay raise

    Well it's about goddamn time eh. The poor kids. Sheesh. After freezing their pay last year, Toronto city councillors are getting a 3 per cent cost-of-living increase retroactive to Jan. 1...
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    Firm hired by Tories to call voters denies allegations it misled some

    he company hired by the federal Conservatives to reach out to voters before the last election says allegations it misled opposition party supporters are “categorically false.”Andrew Langhorne, Responsive Marketing Group’s chief operating officer, filed an affidavit in federal court this week...
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    Thousands gather in Wisconsin to honour Sikh shooting victims

    Thousands of mourners are expected to pay their final respects Friday to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the U.S. almost a week ago for reasons that still aren’t clear. A day after members were allowed back into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin for the...
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    B.C. man found guilty of pimping stepdaughter

    A B.C. judge has found a Penticton man guilty of sexually abusing and prostituting his teenage stepdaughter. The man, who can't be named in order to protect the identity of the girl, was found guilty on 10 charges, including sexual assault and living off the avails of prostitution. Judge...
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    Three children and adult killed, two others injured, in collision with train

    A horrific collision between a Canadian Pacific train and a camper van has left three children and an 18-year-old woman dead and two others injured. RCMP Cpl. Rob King said the collision took place Thursday evening about 7 p.m. at an uncontrolled crossing near Broadview, Sask. The children...
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    Zimmerman Prosecutors In Huge Screw-Up

    Photo of dead Trayvon Martin, college docs mistakenly released Bravo all, bravo. AUGUST 9--In an embarrassing screw-up, Florida prosecutors today accidentally distributed a post-mortem photo of Trayvon Martin as well as copies of George Zimmerman’s college records, material that Florida...
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    Bus driver vs Meter Maid

    via Fark T bus driver charged for striking meter maid after $75 ticket flap MBTA driver Lataria Milton glares from the front of a bus after an accident in Kenmore Square this morning. Transit Police have arrested the bus driver involved in this morning’s ticket-rage smashup in Kenmore...
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    U.S. freezes permits for new nuke plants and license extensions

    So there. The U.S. government said it will stop issuing permits for new nuclear power plants and license extensions for existing facilities until it resolves issues around storing radioactive waste.The government's main watchdog, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, believes that current...
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    BC: Pacific Carbon Trust Costs Add Up

    To better understand the magnitude of the Pacific Carbon Trust’s drain on taxpayers, classrooms and operating rooms, I’ve done some number crunching. Universities and colleges in B.C. spent $4,457,796 ($3,980,175 plus HST) on carbon credits in 2011. Here’s what the Health Authorities spent on...