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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston's name was complete, as was her Seattle address. Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998. A group called the Voter Participation...

SHAH WALI KOT, AFGHANISTAN—Heavy snow falling high in the Hindu Kush lifts the spirits of farmers far to the south as they scrape out a living in the Taliban’s desert heartland. The harder winter pounds the distant peaks, the happier they are. Their fate rides on the rivers of meltwater...

Via Fark: If your star witness got his information from Wikipedia, you may want to rethink your legal strategy. THIS INCLUDES YOU, U.S. Department of Justice feds could not produce a single person, or provide the name of a single person, who...

A Russian site but the images are cool all the same: lots more here: marinni:

Seriously. :lol: During a hearing on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) loan guarantee program for “green” energy projects on Thursday, DOE Loan Program Office Acting Executive Director David Frantz had some surprising news: contrary to report, after report, after report, the...

Strange religious bedfellows unite for letter against hotel porn – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs

What a joke. This is from the TDSB's Africentric Approach To Teaching Mathematics Science & Technology Curriculum. I don't even want to show you the rest. But I do find this next slide disturbing. Why is the TDSB pitting Black Children against "Whites". Is it just me or does this approach...

Via sda: Well, now, tough on crime and sentencing do matter. Who would have thought.... This is what happens when you have a math person running numbers instead of sociologists. Study (pdf, 13pp) Longer prison terms really do cut crime, study shows...

'Everyone Wins' The federal government has been making the case that, with food stamps, "everyone wins," according to literature meant to promote the federal social welfare program. The argument is that accepting food stamp benefits helps to promote economic growth for the communities...

Bravo. Team USA To Be Decked Out in Uniforms Made in China They are the pride of America — Team U.S.A. — and for the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in London, they’ll be proudly wearing red, white and blue, from beret to blazer. The classic American style — shown in an...

The social media giant is quietly supporting new services for banks that want to engage socially with their customers: The decidedly unsocial business of online banking. FORTUNE -- Someday soon, Facebook users may pay their utility bills, balance their checkbooks, and transfer money at the...

Yes...and because maybe only our very own Blackleaf knows what it means, I present this story about it: Britain's Cameron furious after biggest party revolt more cocks, snooks and the article should you really want to read it: Britain's Cameron furious after biggest party revolt | Reuters

Councillors set to tussle over TTC chair Karen Stintz’s transit plan Some Toronto councillors say TTC chair Karen Stintz’s plan is so diluted, her OneCity proposal is now meaningless. Whether the OneCity transit plan is in its death throes or is simply percolating through the city’s...

The Scariest Chart in Europe Just Got Even Scarier In March this year, for the first time on record, more than half of the young people in Spain and Greece were counted as unemployed by the OECD, which provided the chart above. Three months later, the situation is still getting worse...

From Fark: Greenbelt, MD set to become the first town to ban smoking, even in your own home, if 4 out of 5 of your neighbors agree Greenbelt Homes Inc., a cooperative that owns about 1,600 row houses in historic Greenbelt, is considering a rule that would allow...

In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their unemployment rates since January of 2011. Since January of 2011, here is how much the...

ROME — The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he was distracted by a phone conversation shortly before the cruise liner crashed into a reef off an Italian island and capsized, killing 32 people. Francesco Schettino described the collision...

Via Fark: Hi, I'm Hyon Song-wol, Kim Jong-un's mystery woman. You might remember me from such songs as 'Excellent Horse-like Lady' 'I Love Pyongyang' 'Footsteps of Soldiers' and 'We are Troops of the Party' :lol: The mystery woman pictured accompanying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un...

An online magazine has offered translations to Arabic news sources that purportedly indicate that Egypt's Salafi party has come forth with plans to demolish Egypt's Great Pyramids in an effort to bring down what it calls "symbols of paganism." Bahrain's "Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs" and...

This is too good not to watch if you prefer reality over the pablum that is spoon-fed to most viewers (starers) by the MSM. The video is on the linked page. Romney Surrogate Laughs At Andrea Mitchell As She Attempts To Defend Obama Administration Surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential...