Republican Party Wants To “Reeducate” Specter, Snowe, Collins
Republican Party Wants To “Reeducate” Specter, Snowe, Collins
In a display highlighting new RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s willingness to take a pair of nunchucks to any Republican member of Congress who deviates from the party line, Steele admitted the other day that serious consideration was being given to how so-called renegade Senators Arlen Specter,...
Citibank Taken to the Cleaners By…Nigerians!
Citibank Taken to the Cleaners By…Nigerians!
There’s an interesting story in the New York Times showing that when it comes to bilking people and institutions out of money, Nigerians have cornered the market on creativity and ingenuity. It’s also proven something about one of our largest financial institutions, Citibank. Like maybe...
Don’t Like What a Review Says? Pay to Have it Removed
Don’t Like What a Review Says?  Pay to Have it Removed
I came across a little tidbit in last Wednesday’s East Bay Express, out in the San Francisco area, that shows yet again the ever-increasing power of the Internet. In the article, a disturbing and unethical practice by a locally-based social site, Yelp.com, was exposed. It showed that when it...
Man Gets Twenty Weeks for Whistling
Man Gets Twenty Weeks for Whistling
Leopold Wrobel Get 20 Weeks of Jail Time Normally, I assign these sorts of oddball news stories to categories which carry names like “Another Sign that the Apocalypse is Upon Us,” or “Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me?” but the events and subsequent actions surrounding this particular...
Transgendered Wife Over-Exercises Husband, James Mason, to Death
Transgendered Wife Over-Exercises Husband, James Mason, to Death
Living up to the adage “there’s no fool like an old fool,” a 73 year-old Ohio man who’d died of a heart attack while exercising in a swimming pool with his 41 year-old transgendered wife in June, 2008 was recently proven to have bought it as a result of his man-cum-woman bride’s...
Obama Upholds Bush Religious Discrimination Policy
Obama Upholds Bush Religious Discrimination Policy
Obama upholds Bush's religion policies Proving he’s no amateur when it comes to tacking as far right or left as necessary to capture some vital constituency, President Barack Obama recently upheld a key Bush administration policy allowing groups receiving federal dollars to discriminate in...

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