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What do you get when you cross an impoverished Carribean country with a 7.0 earthquake? Rubble! Someone musta shaken a monstrous big Voodoo doll. Here's to hoping it doesn't get too bad, but it sounds like the place is hammered anyway.
Taken away in handcuffs for writing some girly nonsense in erasable marker. A spokesman for the City Education Department, and the police spokesman have said the arrest was a mistake. But how on earth could it have happened in the first place?
This is in reference to today's news that Elizabeth Edwards is separating from that scoundrel husband of hers, John. I feel terribly sorry for what Elizabeth Edwards has been through over the last few years. It's none of my business what she...
After the fun and games of United Airlines and United Breaks Guitars, it seems that SouthWest Airlines decided that the fat guy in the seat should be ejected from the plane on the grounds he was a safety hazard. Now Kevin Smith may be slightly on...
This is what happens when you drink alcohol and purchase "scratch cards". Angry Ryanair passenger eats his winning scratchcard
You know, it's amazing what you can find in those sleepy little English villages. There were a lot of strange noises coming from a detached house in a sleepy village in Devon and so the police paid them a visit. When they investigated, they found...
This feels like a pretty big deal. Anyone else feel like this? I don't mean the reform itself, but the process, the incredible politicing, and the boost Obama (or the right, who knows?) may get from this. The media coverage has been insane. ...
Basically, for reasons of my own health, and sanity, I'm looking to stop reading Jim Romensko's Obscure Store & Reading Room. But I don't want to give up my daily dose of WTF news stories. Does anyone have such a site that focuses only on the...
How not to do Public Relations 101.A bill in Connecticut's legislature that would remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases has sparked a fervent response from the state's Roman Catholic bishops, who released a letter to...
Bishop Blames Jews for Child Molestation Scandal. As soon as I saw the headline, I knew I was going to compose a Dome thread for the topic. As I continued to read, I realized that I was struck dumb by what I saw and so must rely on smilies. ...
Pagans within the police force in the UK will now have the right to take their festivals as official holidays. Each of the 8 days will be given the same respect as Christmas, Ramadan or Passover depending on your religion. These festivals will...
Monday the story broke that the front running Democratic Party candidate for retiring Senator Chris Dodd (D) from Connecticutt, Dick Blumenthal has been claiming to be a Vietnam veteran, when his service record shows that he never left the US during...
In the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado one of the characters is Pooh-Bah. I shall allow Pooh-Bah to introduce himself: POOH-BAH I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent....
That is the situation implied by the website http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ , which automatically transposes constantly updated NOAA spill data to the location of your home or office. At some point in the past, without you quite realizing how, BP...
Yup, they have genetically engineered a malaria proof mosquito. It's incapable of transmitting the disease to people and if they manage to get it interbreeding with the existing mosquito population could have a dramatic effect. Genetic mucking...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/01/hollyoaks-transgender-teenagers This article was in the Guardian today. I thought some or other of you might be interested in reading it. There's a soap opera for teens in the UK called Hollyoaks...
Someone has obviously slowed the Sun down or is playing silly buggers with the Mayan Calendar. It looks as though the sun is coming out of a quiet phase in 2013 and is due for massive solar flares that will knock out electrical grids and...
Just how stupid do you have to be to pull up and take photographs of two teen girls flashing their tits to cars, when there's s sheriff's car already there? I'm voting for very, very stupid, but that's just what this yahoo did. I don't...
And thank God. My loved ones were dropping like flies. And my personal congratulations to the folks at the Institute for Casual Use of Scary Words (ICUSW). Pandemic was second last year only to Radical among overused fear-striking words. ...
A kid bragged about speeding on an internet forum (100kph over on a residential street) directly leading to an investigation and conviction. Sweet! :D Bragging: http://forums.5series.net/topic/95495-going-140-kmh-on-a-40-zone Pretending he...
Female infants in China who have been fed formula have been growing breasts. The story. According to the official Chinese Daily newspaper, medical tests performed on the babies found levels of estrogens circulating in their bloodstreams that...
Since last year our foreign minister has been Guido Westerwelle, chairman of the libertarian-ish FDP. He is also gay. So far his partner has accompanied him on his official trips. Now has decided that he doesn't really want to be so in-your-face...
Or at least that's what one blogger who was quoted in this article had to say. :roll: Obama throws support behind controversial Islamic center Washington (CNN) -- President Obama threw his support behind a controversial proposal to build an...
Apparently there is new evidence that our ancestors started using tools earlier than previously thought. Starting millions of years ago, the evolutionary ancestors of humans figured out how to use primitive stone tools in a systematic way. ...
For those who haven't heard about this yet: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20013842-504083.html?tag=latest CARTERVILLE, Ill. (CBS) It seems Tila Tequila wasn't the only performer targeted by fans at an Insane Clown Posse music festival...
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110348/the-popularity-issue Never posted a news article before, but this one caught my fancy.
Roman buildings, unknown to historians, detected by Cardiff University students learning to use mapping equipment As someone on another message board said, "Archaeology continues to FUCK SHIT UP WITH AWESOMENESS." Archaeology students...
An infant girl in Clayton County was attacked by a full grown Pit Bull of her great uncle and was in extreme critical condition Friday afternoon. Officials say the attack happened while she was visiting relatives. According to police the dog bit...
Whern making rude gestures to your co-presenters who are on-screen, make sure you get your timing right. Otherwise everyone is going to see you making rude gestures when they cut to you. I'm not sure what's more amusing, the fact he made the...
Y'all remember this one, right? A black lady called Dr. Laura, upset by what she took as a racist undertone to comments made by her white husband's white friends. We may never know if the men were being racist or just ignorant of the lady's...
Following her last statement about women no longer requiring men, you would think she would be be slightly more careful about what she was going to say live on TV. Nope, she decides to offend people by calling herself a retard. Although it seems...
The study of online dating, by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), found men and women are still rather traditional when it comes to searching for their ideal partner. Women generally seek an older and, therefore hopefully,...
"Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that's required to see them as they were thousands of years ago. Although it seems...
From the Seattle Times: Pieper said Kohnert didn't offer much of an explanation for the yellow banana costume. "All we know is he was drinking earlier in the day, but he didn't really have a reason for the costume," Pieper told the Daily News.
Those wacky folks at 4chan have been at it again, uploading porn disguised as children's favourites to Youtube, and perverting the minds of the unwary. Story here. The thread title was allegedly the response of one disturbed Youtube viewer after...
Obviously, for this woman, the situation was very serious, frightening and tense. It seems to me she responded about as well as she could, once her calls for assistance left her with the impression that she'd have to deal with the rattler on her...
The buzz is that Bret is about 50/50 on whether or not to become engaged to his long-time girlfriend. They've been together on and off for 16 years, and have two kids together. Forgive me, but I kinda laughed. After 16 years, and two kids,...
An interesting way of interpreting the statistics about single parent households and how they influence children. Apparently, by allowing gays to marry we are encouraging poor black women to be single parents and this is leading directly to young...
This is sparked by the recent news of the McMinnville High School Football team's experience with rhabdomyolysis in the wake of an intense pre-season workout/training camp. In short, 24 members of the team had to seek emergency medical attention...
In these difficult economic times, we're all looking to get a little extra money coming in. Those of us who are lucky enough to have a job still want to be making the most of it. We want to be sure our bosses know that we are good, valuable...
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.html Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers are less likely...
Salt of the Earth, people. Salt of the Earth. That's what people in Orleans County, NY generally are. Friendly and caring among their own. Relatively poor, compared to many other areas. (Monroe County especially.) Mostly agrarian, with the...
On Monday afternoon, this video was posted to a thread on /b/ with the words, "Find this dumb little bitch and throw her into a river." This is a much worse situation than the lady tossing the cat in the garbage can for a couple of reasons. The...
Does your man only feign interest in his spiritual life? Does he go out of his way to keep company with young men? Is he just too clean? Don't deny you haven't suspected, ladies. Well, live in secret shame no more because help is on its way! ...
Despite being the government department for setting and collecting tax from normal people, it seems that they couldn't get it right. It seems that over 5.7 million people have been paying the wrong amount of tax either. 4.3 million are due a...
Except for, you know, cheerleader's skirts on game days. There's really not much more to say about this. Either your male students are so testosterone poisoned that they can't think or learn when there are short skirts around. Or they can...
Arrested isn't perhaps the right word , but the 350-tonne 50 foot high blowout preventer has been raised and siezed by the US authorities in the ongoing search to apportion blame for the oil disaster. Given that it is the key component in...
After a 50+ years period of mostly Mayor Daleys Chicago's mayor announced he will step down shortly after breaking his father's record for longest serving Mayor of Chicago. I don't even remember the period between the two Daleys. I suspect it might...
In today's news, someone decides to inflame religious tensions. An athiest lawyer in Australia decided to make two roll ups made from the pages of a Bible and a Koran. The video, of course, was uploaded to Youtube and has since been deleted. ...
Operation Dark Heart is the expose of how the USA could have won the war aganist the Taliban and didn't due to interference from the top brass in the military. It has already been passed by the DoD and was due to be printed. However, once the...
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