Posted in Alert, Celebrities, Crime, History, Impressive, In Their Own Words, International, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Search & Rescue, Time, To Ponder, Wow on Thursday, 17 July, 2008 | No Comments »
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The world’s top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he’s made progress in finding 94-year-old “Doctor Death,” a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Politicians, Capitol Hill, Caught, Communication, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Morons, Ranting, Terrible, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 17 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
WASHINGTON — President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Family, Government, In Their Own Words, Morons, Political, Ranting, Relationships, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 17 July, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON — What gets under Barack Obama’s skin? Criticism of his wife, Michelle Obama.
In an interview with Glamour magazine, Obama said attacks on his wife are “infuriating.” The likely Democratic presidential nominee blamed the conservative press for going after his wife as if she were the candidate.
“If they have a difference with me on policy, [...]
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Posted in Caught, Communication, Decision, Frivolous, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Morons, Oddly, Ranting, Shocking, Signs of the Times, To Ponder, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | No Comments »
ATLANTA - In the battle of the sexes, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.
Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read “Men At Work” or “Men Working Ahead.”
Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.
Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the [...]
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Posted in Business, Capitol Hill, Caught, Communication, Government, In Their Own Words, Oil & Gas, Political, Ranting, Signs of the Times, To Ponder, Wow on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has prodded Congress to allow oil drilling in offshore waters and in the Alaskan wildlife refuge, citing “tough economic times” for the American people.
Bush went to the Energy Department Friday, where he met with his senior economic advisers to discuss soaring prices for gasoline and crude oil. Bush said one [...]
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Posted in Alert, Breaking News, Broadcast, Caught, Communication, Decision, Emergency, Government, In Their Own Words, International, Mother Nature, Natural Disasters, Time, Weather, Wellness on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | No Comments »
MIAMI (AP) — Bermuda has issued a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Bertha approaches.
Forecasters say tropical storm conditions are possible in the area by late Saturday night. Bertha has already been producing large swells and high surf there, and that’s expected to continue over the next few days.
As of about 11 [...]
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NEW YORK (AP) — The online hangout Facebook is getting more serious about grammar. No more should users see jarringly incorrect declarations such as “Debbie changed their profile picture.”
Users who haven’t specified their gender in their Facebook profiles will be asked to do so in the coming weeks. That way, Facebook doesn’t have to default [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Individual Americans have a right to own guns, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday for the first time in history, striking down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.
The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the high court has addressed the Second Amendment of the [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Anti-Americanism, Astonishing, Bad Cops, Business, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Decision, Entertainment, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Political, Ranting, To Ponder, Wow, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
NEW YORK CITY (NY Times) Updated, 2:07 p.m. | This morning, a Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the [...]
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Posted in Bad Clergy, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Decision, Entertainment, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Morons, Political, Ranting, Religious, Wow on Tuesday, 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
CHICAGO (AP) — Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to “reflect on his recent statements” regarding Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her bid for the White House.
Last week, the Rev. Michael Pfleger mocked Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama’s former church, saying the New York senator [...]
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Posted in Communication, History, In Their Own Words, Lost & Found, Morons, Oil & Gas, To Ponder, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
WELLINGTON, Utah (AP) — Along Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world - thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat. But now, a dramatic increase in natural gas drilling is proposed on [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Reporters, Caught, Decision, Entertainment, Flip-Flop, Government, History, In Their Own Words, Media, Money, Morons, Political, Ranting, Relationships, Shocking, Terrible, Wow, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (Politico) - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
Among the most explosive revelations in [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Politicians, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, History, In Their Own Words, Life & Death, Morons, Ranting, Shocking, Terrible, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 24 May, 2008 | No Comments »
EXCUSE FOR NOT QUITTING: “HEY, RFK GOT SHOT IN JUNE!”
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday brought up the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama - drawing a furious reaction from the front-runner’s camp.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Celebrities, Decision, Entertainment, Family, In Their Own Words, Marriage & Divorce, Media, Money, Photography, Ranting, Relationships, Royal Family on Friday, 23 May, 2008 | No Comments »
LONGON - After criticism of a 59-page spread of her grandson’s wedding photos in a glossy magazine, Queen Elizabeth has reportedly banned the selling of press access to future Royal events.
The ban comes just days after Hello! magazine was granted unprecedented access to the Windsor Chapel during Saturday’s wedding of Peter Phillips and Canadian-born Autumn [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Politicians, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Decision, Flip-Flop, In Their Own Words, Morons, Political, Relationships, Religious, Terrible, To Ponder on Friday, 23 May, 2008 | No Comments »
UNION CITY, Calif. (AP) - Republican John McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of an influential Texas televangelist after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.”
Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Decision, Entertainment, In Their Own Words, Law Enforcement, Morons, Ranting, WWW on Thursday, 22 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Meet Alex Phillips.
The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page.
When contacted by police about the two images, Phillips, 17, balked at removing the pictures of the girl. Warned that he could face jail for publishing images of the minor, Phillips told [...]
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Posted in Anti-Americanism, Bad Soldiers, Caught, Crime, Decision, Government, In Their Own Words, Law Enforcement, Military, Morons, Ranting, Terrible, Terrorism, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 17 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.
“I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,” the now 24-year-old told AFP.
“I was ‘filet mignon’ for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade,” or around 16 years old, he added.
Chiroux joined [...]
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Posted in Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Decision, Frivolous, In Their Own Words, Religious, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics Tuesday for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having “emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant relations with the Jews.”
Hagee’s support for McCain has drawn cries of outrage from some [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Schools, Caught, Children, Decision, Education, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Morons, Oddly, Schools, Shocking, Students, Terrible, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 1 May, 2008 | No Comments »
MEMPHIS - Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union say Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in South Memphis, went way beyond her role as educator.
The ACLU says in September 2007, Beasley asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because [...]
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CHICAGO (AP) — Cher says she dated Tom Cruise when he was just a “shy boy.” The singer-actress discussed the relationship on an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” taped Saturday in Las Vegas before a crowd of 4,000 people, according to Harpo Productions.
The episode, which also features Tina Turner, will air May 8.
Winfrey [...]
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Posted in Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Communication, Flip-Flop, Funny, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Morons, Political, Ranting, Relationships, Shocking, Wow on Tuesday, 29 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Barack Obama angrily denounced his former pastor for “divisive and destructive” remarks on race, seeking to divorce himself from the incendiary speaker and a fury that threatens to engulf his front-running Democratic presidential campaign.
Obama is trying to tamp down the uproar over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at a tough time in his [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Communication, Entertainment, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Marriage & Divorce, Ranting, Relationships, Terrible, To Ponder, WWW, Wellness, Wow, Writings on Sunday, 27 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Are the following eight phrases part of your vocabulary when dealing with the love of your life? Remove these fighting words from your love lingo and you’ll reap the rewards. Don’t, and your relationship just might meet the grim reaper!
“Then I guess we shouldn’t be dating!”
You wouldn’t tell your boss you’re quitting your job unless [...]
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Posted in Alert, Communication, Entertainment, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Psychological, Ranting, Relationships, Terrible, To Ponder, WWW, Wellness, Wow, Writings on Sunday, 27 April, 2008 | No Comments »
In our quest to find, attract, and keep our perfect partner, we often wonder what turns men on. And while it’s important to know how to light a man’s fire, it’s equally important to understand what douses his dating flames. By being clear about what kind of behavior turns men off, we can be better [...]
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Posted in Alert, Beauty & Fashion, Communication, Education, Entertainment, In Their Own Words, Inspiring, Relationships, To Ponder, WWW, Wellness, Wow, Writings on Friday, 25 April, 2008 | No Comments »
at-trac-tive adj. 1. providing pleasure or delight, esp. in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring. 2. arousing interest or engaging one’s thought, consideration 3. having the quality of attracting
Let’s be honest. Everybody wants to be considered attractive - especially when you’re on the market and trying to find that special someone. On some level, [...]
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Posted in Caught, Celebrities, Government, History, Impressive, In Their Own Words, Inspiring, Media, Relationships, Religious, Wow on Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 | No Comments »
WATCH THE POPE’S MESSAGE HERE
WASHINGTON (AP) - An enthralled South Lawn crowd of more than 9,000 sang “Happy Birthday” to Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday—twice—and President Bush said that the first papal White House visit in 29 years was a reminder for Americans to “distinguish between simple right and wrong.”
“We need your message to reject [...]
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