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    Japanese minister quits after 'town of death' gaffe

    Foot in mouth disease. The new minister in charge of handling Japan's nuclear crisis has stepped down just eight days into the job after upsetting locals with a string of gaffes. Yoshio Hachiro, the industry minister, resigned after describing the nuclear no-go area surrounding the...
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    Cargill recalls another 92 tons of ground meat

    This time turkey. Somebody needs to sort out this giant soylent corp sooner than later. Cargill Meat Solutions is recalling about 185,000 pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Heidelberg. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and...
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    24 men free after 'slavery' raid

    If you don't know who the 'travellers' are, there are many web sources and vids out there for you to research. Five arrests in 'slavery' raid at Greenacre travellers' site Twenty-four men suspected of being held against their will have been found during a raid at a travellers' site...
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    Tea Party Republican Debate

    There are some very smart folk in this debate. Refreshing to watch. Old Wolf is doing a good moderator job too. CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News Live blog of CNN’s first-ever Tea Party Republican Debate – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
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    Uncomfortable booths violate the civil rights of fat people.

    That's right. That's what they tell us. Their rights. Oversize Man Sues White Castle Over Seats NANUET, N.Y. - A 290-pound New York man is steaming mad at the White Castle fast-food chain, which he claims repeatedly broke promises to make the booths in his local eatery bigger. Martin...
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    PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe

    And no media caught this? Well, other than PBS but they made it go away quietly. And where is his speech writer/fact checker? Maybe Obama wrote it himself. Media goes too easy on the left plain and simple. Barack Obama has gone to Congress asking for more money to spend. The President...
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    Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011

    Some dandy ones especially if you need a new wallpaper or three. This selection of winners or browse their entire collection: 2011 winners : Astronomy Photographer of the Year : Exhibitions : Visit : NMM Sample:
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    Lacoste: Stop Anders Breivik wearing our clothes

    Lacoste, the French fashion label known by its green crocodile logo, is reported to have asked the authorities in Norway to prevent Anders Behring Breivik from wearing the brand. The rightwing extremist, who has admitted killing 77 people during bomb and gun attacks in July, has been pictured...
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    New evidence links Saudi Arabia to 9/11 hijackers

    Hmmm. SARASOTA — Weeks after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, FBI agents swarmed into a Sarasota gated community to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy young Saudi couple who apparently had ties to some of the hijackers. The couple and their two children...
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    White House spams reporters' inboxes

    Malia, Sasha and Live Jasmine even support the jobs bill. The White House really wants you to know that the $447 billion jobs plan that President Obama outlined in a speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday night has support--that is, from unions, liberal groups and other Democrats...
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    'Controlled' nuclear fusion

    Britain has joined forces with America to investigate a hi-tech new way of producing 'clean energy' - not from wind or waves, but from firing huge arrays of high-powered lasers at pellets of hydrogen. The process causes the hydrogen atoms to fuse together into helium - the same reaction...
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    Just like the WWE

    Heels and Babyfaces. Just coworkers at a very elite job. Keeping up appearances and such. It's what Palin was talking about (and the NYT picked-up) the other day. What are Boehner & Biden talking about? Not jobs... - YouTube
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    Scarlett Johansson sings

    Hi Mark. ;) From the Perez side of the web but still: Scarlett Johansson Channels Brigitte Bardot To Cover Bonnie & Clyde | PerezHilton.com
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    The NYT likes Sarah Palin

    Not as a candidate (yet) to be sure but it's one of the seventh signs when the Gray Lady takes note and agrees with Ms. Palin's ideas. Behold: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Let us begin by confessing that, if Sarah Palin surfaced to say something intelligent and wise and fresh about the...
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    Millionaire's 25-year-old son wins $107 million lottery

    Gimme a break. Marriott hotel president's 25-year-old son wins $107m lottery jackpot Read more: Millionaire Marriott hotel president's 25-year-old son wins $107m lottery jackpot | Mail Online
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    Obama's jobs plan paid for? Seems not

    From MSNBC of all outlets. Sure it's an AP piece but still, refreshing: Fact-checking claims made during president's speech to joint session of Congress President Barack Obama's promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions...
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    ‘Captain Jihad’

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (The Blaze/AP) — These days it seems everyone’s being written into the comics. Recently, Captain Israel, Foreskin Man and Methadone Man arrived on the scene and there’s surely more to come. The list of characters keeps on growing. But standing out from the pack is a new...
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    David Cameron: parents of truants face benefit cuts

    Parents of children who regularly truant face having their benefits cut, David Cameron has warned, as he opened the first wave of the Government’s free schools. In a keynote speech on Friday, the Prime Minister said the government's social policy review, set up in the wake of the...
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    Obama’s uncle quietly released from jail

    Officials released President Obama’s uncle from Plymouth County jail yesterday after holding him for more than two weeks on an immigration detainer for violating an order to return to his native Kenya in 1992. US officials refused to disclose any other information about Onyango Obama, who...
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    Moon to have no-fly zones by month end

    No-fly zones will come into effect on the moon for the very first time by the end of this month! Why, even buffer zones that spacecraft may have to avoid will come into existence. The reason: avoiding any spraying of rocket exhaust or dust onto certain historical sites and artefacts on the...