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    This time...a Republican

    Lawmaker’s Nude Photos on Gay Site: I’m Documenting My Weight Loss Ok chum, gotta take arse picks to show weight loss. Sure, sure. LOL Here we go again — another lawmaker has been caught up in a naked photo scandal. This time it’s Puerto Rican Sen. Roberto Arango, whose alleged nude...
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    ESPN spanks golf analyst for tweet about Obama

    UPDATE: ESPN is coming down on Paul Azinger for mocking President Barack Obama on Twitter. The golf analyst tweeted Friday that the Commander-in-chief plays more golf than he does -- and that Azinger has created more jobs this month than Obama has. ESPN has 'reminded" Azinger his venture...
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    Scientists: Oil fouling Gulf matches Deepwater Horizon well

    MOBILE, Alabama -- Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer. The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about...
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    Gibson Guitar factory raid by Feds for using import restricted Ebony Wood

    Hasn't the government got better things to do? I wonder. Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday...
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    How should Layton be memorialized?

    Or should he at all. And where? Why Toronto? Why not? If you care enough, tell the Star. I say enough with the thing already but for those that are suffering and require a cathartic civic release, do a park, library or a food bank. Naming streets after dead yahoos or celebrity schmucks...
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    Facts run contrary to claims of salmon virus

    Re: 'Virus could be "smoking gun": Researcher' (Daily News, Aug. 26) The headline "Virus could be 'smoking gun': Researcher" is highly misleading. Those who lead the campaign against netpen salmon farming consistently disregard new facts and misrepresent science to further their...
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    The origin of music categories

    Music comes from everywhere, and so do the names we call it by. There's a longstanding cliche that only the music business needs genre names – everyone else either likes it or they don't. That is, of course, bunk, as anyone who's heard enough people trot out lines such as "I like all music...
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    Austrian father 'locked daughters in room for 41 years'

    Austrian police are investigating claims that a man locked up his two mentally ill daughters in a small room in their home and sexually abused them for 41 years. Officers said the 80-year-old repeatedly raped the women between 1970 and May 2011 in St Peter am Hart, near the Bavarian border...
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    Pentagon to Marines: Stop farting

    Marine Corps Times is a family newspaper and we only rarely have offensive language in our stories. But this week the word “fart” appears in a story I wrote about the importance of trust between Marines and the Afghan national army soldiers they work with. I didn’t want to write this...
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    Warren Buffett makes $280m profit on Bank of America stake in just 24 hours

    The billionaire investor bought $5bn of preferred stock with 700m warrants that convert into 7pc of the bank's shares, sending them up an initial 25pc to $8.80. They fell back to $7.67 in mid-afternoon trading, up almost 10pc on Wednesday's close. Mr Buffett's move put some market...
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    Biden Pays Tribute to Brevity--In 68-Word Sentence

    So Palin and others can be rambling and dumb...ok, check this numbnut: Biden Pays Tribute to Brevity--In 68-Word Sentence - YouTube http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/terry-jeffrey-bidens-obsequious-bow-beij Almost as good as Al 'resist we much' Sharpton: Al Sharpton's...
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    National Anthem lyrics too violent...play something else

    Indiana college will play 'America the Beautiful' instead of national anthem - chicagotribune.com
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    Indiana Republican NOT gay

    Ok then, maybe you're bi-curious; who cares...you're still a creepy lying Fail Poster Boy. State Rep. Phil Hinkle admitted Tuesday that he paid a young man $80 to have a good time. But Hinkle insisted he isn't gay and doesn't know why he did it. He said that he understood why he's being...
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    Gaddafi's Neverland Tour, rebel style

    It was the day when the ordinary people finally got to peer beyond the fortified concrete walls. For the first time, Tripoli’s citizens discovered how Colonel Gaddafi had lived a life of opulence and surreal fantasy while they cowered under his bloodthirsty rule. After the rebel fighters...
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    Steve Jobs resigns

    SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage. The 55-year-old Apple co-founder and pancreatic cancer...
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    Martin Luther King memorial made in China

    Ooops...now 'critics' are cranky. It is perhaps a fitting tribute to racial co-operation. However, the decision to outsource to China the carving of a new national memorial to Martin Luther King has raised eyebrows in the United States. The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the...
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    September 11th Television Archive

    For those interested: September 11 Television Archive : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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    The smoking nanny

    Films with smoking scenes may need adult ratings Movies with smoking scenes should be slapped with adult content ratings, some researchers say. While Canada and the U.K. have ratified the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, they are not yet enforcing it...
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    Student ranks thinning for blogging Pa. teacher

    I prefer the Fark headline: Personally I'd like my kid to be taught by a teacher with the intellectual honesty to call her students "frightfully dim" in her blog DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — More than 200 parents have told a Pennsylvania school district they don't want their children taught by...
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    Giambrone decides to marry his long-time partner

    Giambrone, a former Toronto councillor, TTC chair and mayoral hopeful who quit after a scandal in last year’s municipal election campaign, would only say it’s “not a public event,” but confirmed he’ll be a married man soon. The wedding is scheduled for the last week of November at One King...