August 4th, 2010 // comments (0)
California judge strikes down Prop 8 (PDF)…
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July 19th, 2010 // comments (0)
A fountain of information from the Washington Post… 854,000 with top-secret access.
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July 16th, 2010 // comments (1)
A look at the ins-and-outs of meth…
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July 15th, 2010 // comments (0)
Fantastic animation/report from NPR to cleanse the palate today… It’s about billions of bugs in the sky.
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July 13th, 2010 // comments (1)
Sword gets 30 years for sex with son…
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July 6th, 2010 // comments (0)
The Justice Department has officially filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over still yet to be enacted SB1070. Read the filing here (PDF).
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February 27th, 2009 // comments (0)
An assassination attempt? Or a mentally disturbed ‘fan’ of President Obama?

A man from President Obama’s hometown of Chicago has been arrested for allegedly sending Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood, in the hopes of killing or harming them.
It’s only the second time ever that HIV-infected blood has been sent with malicious intent through the U.S. mail system, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said.
In the weeks leading up to Obama’s
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February 23rd, 2009 // comments (0)

BANGKOK – Thai police were searching Monday for the body and identity of a foreigner whose head was found hanging by a rope off a Bangkok bridge over the weekend.
The severed head of a Western man, aged between 30 and 40, was found Sunday afternoon dangling about five metres below the Rama VIII bridge, which crosses the Chao Phraya River in north-western Bangkok.
“We still don’t know the name of the victim, nor where his body is,” Police
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February 19th, 2009 // comments (1)
Sandra Herold’s relationship with her pet chimp is getting even more bizarre by the minute. She slept, drank wine and cuddled intimately with ‘Travis’ the chimpanzee:
She fed him filet mignon and lobster tails. They shared cozy glasses of wine. They bathed and slept together. He tenderly brushed her hair. She gave him gifts and sweet kisses. He drew her pictures.
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“It’s just weird,” one friend said. “It’s an animal, not a person. What she
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February 19th, 2009 // comments (1)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday as a nearby volunteer told a group of visitors about the church’s suicide-prevention program, police and church officials said.
The man handed a note and his driver’s license to two ushers, walked to the cross and then shot himself in the head as he appeared to be praying, Senior Pastor Juan Carlos Ortiz said.
It…
February 18th, 2009 // comments (4)
You can listen to the shocking audio here…:
STAMFORD, Conn. — The frantic owner of a 200-pound chimpanzee that went berserk in Connecticut pleaded with police over the phone to help her stop the animal from mauling her friend, begging them to “Hurry, please! He ripped her face off.”
Police in Stamford released 911 tapes of Sandra Herold’s desperate call to police Monday as her 15-year-old chimp, Travis, was attacking 55-year-old Charla Nash.
The chimp can be heard grunting
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February 14th, 2009 // comments (0)
CALGARY – Bystanders in downtown Calgary looked on in horror Thursday as a man doused himself with a flammable liquid, then set himself on fire.
An ambulance that was transporting another patient happened to drive by and attendants jumped out with extinguishers and put out the flames.
They called another ambulance to take the man to hospital.
He’s still in serious condition with second-degree burns on over 40% of his body. Apparently, the man was about to be…
January 28th, 2009 // comments (0)
Drudge is running this tidbit… and it could be massive story…:
ABCNEWS: CIA Spy Boss Allegedly Drugged Muslim Women, Made Secret Sex Videos… station chief in Algeria under investigation…
More:
The discovery of more than a dozen videotapes showing the CIA officer engaged in sex acts with other women has led the Justice Department to broaden its investigation to include at least one other Arab country, Egypt, where the CIA officer had been posted earlier in his career, according to
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January 26th, 2009 // comments (0)
More than 1,000 refugees pushed out to sea… several boats may have capsized.

THE first pictures have emerged showing hundreds of refugees who had fled Burma being towed into international waters on the order of the Thai Army and abandoned at sea.
The Herald reported last week that about 1000 refugees had been taken into international waters by Thai Army boats and abandoned with barely a day’s supply of rice and water.
The new photos, supplied to the
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December 16th, 2008 // comments (0)

PHARR — A 9-year-old girl’s letter to Santa Claus asking that a relative stop touching her sister and her has led to the arrest of a 55-year-old Pharr man, authorities reported.
Andres Enrique Cantu, 55, of Pharr, faces a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a young child, The Monitor of McAllen reported.
Cantu remained in the Hidalgo County Jail on Monday night. His bail was set at $100,000.
The charge is a new one, created by the Texas
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December 16th, 2008 // comments (0)
Parents expressed concern Friday after learning a man has been molesting children at a Marin County bookstore.
Folks, we’re dead in the heat of the holiday season right now. Watch this video. Remember it. Remember that sick bastards like this are all over the place and while you’re doing your Christmas shopping you have to watch your kids like a hawk. These people are brazen and warped enough to molest children in the center of a busy store.…
December 8th, 2008 // comments (0)
SAN DIEGO – An F-18 military jet crashed in a San Diego neighborhood on Monday, sparking at least one house fire.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether anyone was injured, said Maurice Luque, a spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Television news footage showed one house and two cars on fire.
The plane crashed shortly before noon Monday as it prepared to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, said Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. The crash
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November 21st, 2008 // comments (1)
Nordin Bin Montong, 32, a Malaysian working as a cleaner at the zoo, leapt into the moat of the white tiger exhibit and was attacked, said Biswajit Guha, assistant director of zoology at the Singap More..ore Zoo in a statement.
The noise from the attack caught the attention of zookeepers nearby and they eventually managed to distract the tigers and rescue Nordin.
“Keepers managed to separate the worker from the tiger. While waiting for the ambulance, our vets attended
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November 20th, 2008 // comments (0)
This happened just minutes ago, during a speech.
As of 10:30PM EST they are still working on him on the stage area.
Update: Just hit the AP wire…
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael Mukasey has collapsed during a speech and is being taken to a hospital.
Associate Attorney General Kevin O’Connor says Mukasey began shaking during a speech to the Federalist Society and collapsed. He did not immediately regain consciousness.
Updates to follow…
It looks like he…
November 14th, 2008 // comments (0)
Nov. 13: A crocodile bites an unsuspecting zebra’s head as it crosses the Mara river in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya.
November 12th, 2008 // comments (0)
Hang Mioku, now 48, had her first plastic surgery procedure when she was 28; hooked from the beginning she moved to Japan where she had further operations – mostly to her face.
Following operation after operation, her face was eventually left enlarged and disfigured, but she would still look at herself in the mirror and think she was beautiful.
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When her supply of silicone ran out Hang resorted to injecting cooking oil into her face.Her
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