Friday - December 5, 2008

Rhode Island kicks around the idea of taxing drivers on the amount of mileage they drive.

National Geo: Humans 80,000 years older than previously thought?

Stem cell "tourists" go abroad for unproven treatments

Craigslist baby-sitter uses 2 year old in his care for a porn shoot

Woman, whose ass was stuck in a commode after a toilet seat broke, sues the Sports Bar where the episode took place

One in ten Americans are at least one month behind on their mortgage payments

US sees 533,000 jobs cut in November. Worst month in 34 years (since 1974).

World oil consumption estimates slashed

12 dead, 20 injured in Somalian attack

Three million Muslims make pilgrimage to Mecca this week

Suspected US missle strike kills 3 in Pakistani militant stronghold area near the Afghan border

Danish Navy blows up dead in the water pirate ship after rescuing its crew

Germany's richest female billionaire blackmailed by Swiss gigolo

General spells out to US Troops new changes coming to Iraq: Want to bust into a house for a search party? You need a warrant.

Bachelor watches in horror as the woman he was just about to propse to at Oregon's "Proposal Rock" is swept out to sea by smashing wave

So much for the Cakewalk: Bush finally admits Iraq war longer, more costly than expected

British teen Lotto winner arrested in dramtic cocaine bust

8 die in notoriously overcrowded Afghan prison during riot

Chilean Navy rescues passengers from leaking Antarctic cruise ship

Leader of Russian Orthodox Church dies

Newest tally from the French heist: $102 hundred-million worth of jewels stolen

Car bomb with 20-25kg of explosives kills 20, injures 70, in north-western city of Peshawar, Pakistan

China the Powder Keg

The thin ice finally breaks for skater O. J. Simpson: 15 years in jail

States with lax gun laws had higher rates of handgun killings, fatal shootings of police officers, and sales of weapons that were used in crimes in other states, according to a study underwritten by a group of more than 300 U.S. mayors.

As NRBQ once sang, "It was a accident". Florida state agency puts 250,000 job seekers' social security numbers online 19 days for the world to see

Robert Nardelli, sociopathic CEO of Chrysler (learn his history at Home Depot where he treated shareholders like dog poo he scraped off his wing tips), wants you to bail out his ailing car company

High inventory is crushing homebuilders, and yet the hogs who overbuilt America are wanting a handout too?

Layoffs: Avis cuts 2200 jobs

Armed robbers burst into a famed Paris jewellery store and snatched valuables, including diamonds, worth $64-million, a source close to the enquiry said on Friday

Blackwater Guards no longer above the long reach of the law . . . some are looking at 30 years in the Big House

Obama upsets the Appletons by using a Zune for music listening. I don't blame him. Anyone who buys a 160 kbps song form the iTunes store is not hearing music the way it was recorded

Well we know where Milli Vanilli and Britney will not be resurrecting their careers: China tells singers on biggest televised music festival on Earth, "No more lip synching".

Nations with poor fixed line communications are important drivers of wireless technology

"Damn, Comrades, that last blunt made me forget what I was saying"

Fidel wants to talk to Obama? I hope President-elect Obama is rested as Fidel could talk a leg off a piano with his b.s.

This week's "Middle Finger Salute" goes out to the Castro Brothers, just 90 miles South of freethinking Key West, for cracking down on bloggers who dare speak their minds. 4-Q bearded ones!

Multi Level Marketing Scam to the Max: Columbians taken in by a financial dream weaver are learning what a hydra headed "Ponzi Scheme" means

Iraqi prisons controlled by Americans will be "flung open" next year

China to USA: Get your financial house in order

Three Americans die in Ciudad, Mexico yesterday where the death toll for the year has reached 1,400

From the "Is it the beer, bacon or jello makes 'em tough?" Department: Canadian hockey fan trips over purse while holding two beers, falls over railing, falls 25 feet on top of 3 fans below, and everybody lives

EU rules against Great Britain maintaining a DNA database of all suspects of criminality

Three adult abusers used bat, knife and belt on shackled teen who escaped to a fitness center in just his boxer shorts

The least competent pirates of the week: The Seven Somali - 7 idiots caught aboard powerless boat with rocket launchers and AK-47s

Sri Lankan Army breaks on through to the other side: enters the Tamil Tigers homebase town

Comrades throw fast hardball questions to Putin about the Economy