Posted in Astonishing, Bad Business, Bad Celebrities, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Celebrities, Entertainment, In Their Own Words, Marriage & Divorce, Media Bias, Morons, Political, Relationships, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 29 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
CHICAGO - With less than a week until Iowa’s first vote is cast in the 2008 presidential election, the politicians aren’t the only ones feeling the heat: Celebrities, who have become important players in the political fundraising process, are under increasing pressure to campaign for their favorite candidates in the early caucus and primary states.
But [...]
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A college student withdrew from school after winning the 5 million yuan ($683,000) jackpot in a lottery in China’ eastern city of Nanjing, local media reported on Thursday.
The second-year student at the Jiangsu Maritime Institute, identified by the nickname Yong to protect his identity, was the sole first-prize winner in the “Double [...]
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Posted in Awards, Breaking News, Business, Caught, Celebrities, Children, Decision, Family, Funny, Legal, Lost & Found, Money, Oddly, Wealth, Wow on Thursday, 27 December, 2007 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion (1.16 billion pounds) fortune to charity.
That wealth includes $1.2 billion Barron Hilton stands to earn from both the recent sale of Hilton Hotels Corp. — [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Government, Horrific, Investigation, Islam, Life & Death, Political, Shocking, Terrible, Terrorism, Trajedy, Wow on Thursday, 27 December, 2007 | No Comments »
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber on Thursday, plunging the nuclear-armed country into one of the worst crises in its 60-year history.
Her killing after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi triggered a wave of violence, especially in her native Sindh province, and could lead [...]
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Posted in Animals & Wildlife, Astonishing, Caught, Emergency, Horrific, Investigation, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Nature, Shocking, Terrible, Trajedy on Wednesday, 26 December, 2007 | 1 Comment »
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A tiger that mauled a zookeeper last year escaped from its pen at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two others before police shot it dead, authorities said.
The three men were in their 20s; they were together and were not zoo employees, San Francisco Police spokesman [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Politicians, Business, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Funny, In Their Own Words, Morons, Oddly, Political, Shocking, Terrible, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Tuesday, 25 December, 2007 | No Comments »
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton may have shot herself in the foot trying to get Iowa voters to pledge support to her — she is encouraging them to go caucus on January 14, 11 days too late.
At a rally featuring her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Saturday, campaign workers [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Caught, Celebrities, Communication, Computers & Technology, Decision, Entertainment, Europe, Government, History, Impressive, In Their Own Words, Recordings, To Ponder, Video, WWW, Wow on Tuesday, 25 December, 2007 | No Comments »
LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth is joining the YouTube generation. Buckingham Palace on Sunday said the 81-year-old monarch will post her traditional Christmas Day message — normally broadcast on television — on the video-sharing Web site as well this year.
At the same time, a new Royal Channel has [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Decision, Family, Flip-Flop, Funny, Government, Illegal Immigration, Law Enforcement, Oddly, Shocking, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 24 December, 2007 | No Comments »
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Mexican illegal immigrant Lindi sat down with her husband Marco Antonio in the weeks before Christmas to decide when to go back to Mexico.
She has spent three years working as a hairdresser in and around Phoenix, but now she figures it is time to go back to her hometown of Aguascalientes in [...]
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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - If you’re ticketed by Green Bay police, you’ll get more than a fine. You’ll get fingerprinted, too. It’s a new way police are cracking down on crime.
If you’re caught speeding or playing your music too loud, or other crimes for which you might receive a citation, Green Bay police officers will [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Astonishing, Bad Politicians, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Funny, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Liberalism, Morons, Oil & Gas, Political, Ranting, Shocking, You've GOT to be Kidding on Sunday, 23 December, 2007 | No Comments »
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Hillary Clinton predicted Saturday that just electing her President will cut the price of oil.
When the world hears her commitment at her inauguration about ending American dependence on foreign fuel, Clinton says, oil-pumping countries will lower prices to stifle America’s incentive to develop alternative energy.
“I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will [...]
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TOLEDO, Ohio - J. Russell Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. The retired teacher, one of only three U.S. veterans from the “war to end all wars,” was 109.
Coffey died Thursday at the Briar Hill Health Campus in North Baltimore, where he had lived for the past four [...]
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LONDON (Reuters) - Reading in dim light won’t damage your eyes, you don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won’t make the hair grow back faster.
These well-worn theories are among seven “medical myths” exposed in a paper published Friday in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally carries [...]
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New Delhi - India’s eastern state of Orissa has lodged a protest with the US government seeking action against a California-based website for hurting religious sentiments of people by selling undergarments with images of Hindu gods, a newspaper reported Friday.
Hindu priests and religious groups had slammed the website, cafepress.com, for selling undergarments embellished with faces [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Dictators, Horrific, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Psychological, Shocking, Terrible, Terrorism on Friday, 21 December, 2007 | No Comments »
BAGHDAD (AP) — Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor - the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon. Villagers say they knew about the torment but were [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister, who stars as a schoolgirl in Nickelodeon’s popular TV show “Zoey 101,” is pregnant.
The cable channel confirmed a report in the forthcoming edition of celebrity gossip magazine OK! that Jamie Lynn Spears is expecting a child.
“We respect Jamie Lynn’s decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Business, Business, Communication, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Money, Oddly, Shocking, Wealth, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 | No Comments »
BOSTON (Reuters) - With many U.S. chief executives taking home millions of dollars in pay, it is no shock that average workers regards them as overpaid. But that attitude extends to the corner office as well.
Sixty-four percent of top executives view CEO compensation as excessive, according to survey released on Tuesday.
The poll of 1,572 readers [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Business, Caught, Collectibles, Government, History, Impressive, Money, Time, To Ponder, Wow, Writings on Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, among the most important historical documents ever to hit the auction block, sold for $21.3 million on Tuesday at Sotheby’s.
The document was bought by a Washington businessman who said he was determined to see it remain in the United States, where it has [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Baseball, Caught, Celebrities, Communication, Crime, Decision, Drugs & Alcohol, Entertainment, General, Hypocrisy, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Medical, Morons, Terrible on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (AP) ― Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte were named in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on Thursday, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark - if not an asterisk - next to some of [...]
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Posted in Awards, Business, Caught, Decision, Impressive, Investigation, Legal, Life & Death, Medical, Money, Psychological, Wellness on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
BOSTON (AP) - A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages to a woman who received HIV treatments for almost nine years before discovering she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.
In her lawsuit against a doctor who treated her, Audrey Serrano said the powerful combination of drugs she took triggered a string of ailments, [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Crime, Decision, Dictators, Family, Investigation, Islam, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Morons, Oddly, Religious, Shocking, Terrible, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
TORONTO - Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her devout Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for not wearing a hijab. Police said in a statement they received an emergency call at 7:55 am local time Monday from “a man who [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Aviation, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Drugs & Alcohol, Emergency, Funny, Life & Death, Medical, Morons, Oddly, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
BERLIN (AP) - A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday. The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his [...]
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Posted in Bad Politicians, Business, Caught, Celebrities, Crime, Decision, Funny, Government, Impressive, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Legal, Liberalism, Money, Morons, Religious, Scams & Scandals, Wow on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
NEW YORK - Teams of federal agents swooped down on up to 10 close associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday, demanding the flamboyant clergyman’s financial records since 2001.
Sharpton’s former chief of staff said he was roused at his Harlem home about 6:30 a.m. by two FBI agents who handed him a subpoena to bring [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Emergency, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Natural Disasters, Nature, Shocking, Terrible, Weather on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - The death toll from Tropical Storm Olga neared two dozen on Thursday after flash floods killed at least 19 people in the Dominican Republic, where 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes, Dominican officials said.
The rare December tropical storm, which disintegrated into a mass of thunderstorms late on [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Business, Caught, Children, Collectibles, Decision, Entertainment, Europe, Impressive, In Their Own Words, Money, Shocking, Wow, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
LONDON (Reuters) - A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
“The Tales of Beedle the Bard” had been expected to go for up to 50,000 pounds at the Sotheby’s sale.
The buyer [...]
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Posted in Bad Politicians, Capitol Hill, Decision, Frivolous, Government, Hypocrisy, Legal, Liberalism, Morons, Political, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 13 December, 2007 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors.
On a largely party-line vote of 11-7, the Democratic-led panel sent contempt citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten [...]
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