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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Week of August 30 - September 5, 2010

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Kat Von D Declares Jesse James Her Man

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for the Weekend September 4-5, 2010

Governor Haley Barbour (R-MS)tries to write Southern racism out of modern history

Jerry Lewis: I'd smack Lindsay Lohan in the mouth

Was Nebraska Couple's Murder Revenge or Random? Two Sets of Suspects Confess to Grisly Double Murder; CSI Investigator Accused of Planting Evidence


Why God Did Not Create the Universe: There is a sound scientific explanation for the making of our world—no gods required



California wildfire sparked by errant golfer's swing

(AP Photo/Rob Carr)

Hurricane Earl forces evacuation of Ocracoke Island, NC

One of Obama's Social Security Slasher Wannabes Threatens Small Town with Nuclear Annihilation






Sunday, August 22, 2010

Week of August 23 - 29, 2010

WSJ: Photos for the Day - August 27, 2010

Watchworld: Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for the Weekend of August 28-29, 2010

US Birth Rate Lowest Sets A Record With Its Lowest Level In 100 Years

Video of the Trapped Chilean Miners Stirs a Country’s Emotions

Man Released From Mass. Prison After Serving Time for Beating Death of Fellow Hockey Dad

Why I Smashed An iPad With A Sledgehammer

The Big Picture Blog: Russia In Color, A Century Ago

Tiger Plays Year's Best Round, Day After Elin Speaks Out

Report: 90,000 Inmates Sexually Victimized In US Prisons

What's Popular Around the World?

Japanese Atomic-Bomb Survivors May Offer Clues on Cancer Treatment Risks

Building a Nation of Know-Nothings

Rare "Fire Tornado" filmed in Brazil (video)

Watchworld Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for August 26, 2010

NFL Moving Forward With 18 Game Season

Cabbie: ‘Are You Muslim?’ Leads To Night Of Horror

On Doomed Rig's Last Day, a Divisive Change of Plan

Why Is The Us Government Protecting BP?


2 days of food stretched more than 2 weeks in mine; 33 trapped Chilean miners might not be freed until Christmas, rescuers say

Somali Militants Storm Hotel, 31 Dead Includes MPs

Mosquito traps are tempting, but are they worth it?

Newly discovered microbe chowing down on spilled oil in the Gulf

Hands on: TSA tests 'enhanced patdowns'

Meek (D), Rubio (R) win primaries; face Crist (I) in hot Florida Senate race

Primaries 2010: Senator John McCain (R-AZ) Crushes Conservative Challenger


Hurricane Danielle strengthens in Atlantic

LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation

Philadelphia requiring bloggers to pay $300 for a business license

Philippines police: Authorities botched hostage rescue

Thousands of dead fish surface at mouth of Mississippi River


Miss Mexico crowned Miss Universe 2010


32 years later, woman to try Cuba-Keys swim again


No arrests yet in theft of gold bar from Key West museum

Did the CIA dose an entire French town with LSD 60 years ago?

Last week it was eggs . . . this week contaminated deli meat which can cause death is recalled


Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?


Watchworld Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Creatine a Culprit in Oregon High School Football Team's Compartment Syndrome Cases?


Health: Drinking water right before meals helps lose weight


Highway jam enters its 9th day, spans 100km

Blogger beware: Postings can lead to lawsuits

Gulf of Mexico's Fish Beachings May Be Increasing Because of BP Oil Spill

Watchworld's Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for August 23, 2010

Men Wear Bras So Women Can Go Topless

Social Security Turns 75: Democrats Celebrate While Tea Party Republicans Grab the Ax
WSJ Photo Journal : Photos for the Day - August 20, 2010

Muzique Says "No Fat Girls": Does Club Have Right to Discriminate?

Muscular Dystrophy Gene Riddle Cracked, May Lead to Treatments

Bodies of four decapitated men found hanging from bridge in Mexico

The Atlantic Monthly: "The Point Of No Return" - Israel Is Getting Ready To Bomb Iran

More than 80 arrested at Los Angeles rave party

33 Trapped Chilean Miners Alive After 17 Days

Private American Contractors In Afghanistan Accused Of Terrorist, Mafia Like Activity By Afghanistan's President

Working moms make less than single women in the workforce


Fallout of Hate Is Spreading Across America from "Ground Zero"


U.S. Military Intervention in Africa: The New Blueprint for Global Domination

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Week of August 16 - August 22, 2010

Iran unveils long-range drone to counter "aggressors"

At least 4 people injured in suspected Arizona biker shootout

Mystery Illness Strikes 12 High School Football Players

69% of America: Rescind Bush tax cuts on rich

Iran prepares to start up first nuclear reactor

Key West: Gold Bullion Bar Stolen From Mel Fisher Museum Worth $500,000

Meanwhile, one bar in Key West is packed every Wednesday Night while the town is dead (do not open this link at work)

A 'spine-for-a spine': Saudi criminal faces having spinal cord severed after paralysing victim with meat cleaver

Moon is shrinking, say astronomers

WikiLeaks founder accused of rape, molestation in Sweden

Self-Styled 'Bonnie and Clyde' Fugitives John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch Nabbed

15 Things You Shouldn't Be Paying For

Troops say they were punished for skipping Christian concert

Green leafy veg 'may cut diabetes risk'


WSJ Photo Journal - Photos for the Day, Aug. 19, 2010

The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was 'Born a Muslim'

Second egg recall issued to Iowa farm: Salmonella Egg Recall Now Reaches 480 Million Eggs; 2,000 Report Illness

Egg Farm Owner in Recall Known for Violations

Food Safety Modernization Act Controversy For Small Farms

Laser Jet Preps for Saturday Missile Shootdown


Live Below Your Means: 15 Things You Should Not Be Paying For


If you are hyper-tensive, don't do this

The Point of No Return

Florida Sting Nabs 15 Men Looking for Sex With Children

Bed Bug Infestation Is Scaring Millions Of Americans

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Week of August 9 - August 15, 2010

WSJ Photo Journal - Photos for the Day, August 10, 2010

Hillary for Vice President?

Taco Bell Hell: 155 cases of salmonella already reported from vegetables served at Mexican food chain

JetBlue Flight Attendant Who Flipped Is Folk Hero

News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You

Days of Rage -- The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Rabid Fringe

Watchworld: Business/Economic/Housing/Layoffs/Hiring News

Obama Approves Billions for Teachers, Cops in Cash-Strapped States

New 'superbug' found in UK hospitals

China landslide: More than 700 people confirmed dead

But Will It Make You Happy? Getting Off The Mindless Consumption Treadmill

Gulf Coast Fishermen Challenge US Government Over Dispersants

Environmentalists rejoice . . . EPA requires cleanup of mercury from cement plants


Tropical depression in the Gulf may develop into tropical storm as it brings heavy rains in South Florida for past two days

Rand Paul threatens to sue over kidnap/bong story

New test is 100% accurate in who will get Alzheimer's

Former Senator Ted Stevens Is Killed in a Plane Crash

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon: "Reality? Who Needs It?"

Escaped convict and his jail springing fiancee will not "go down lightly"

Angry JetBlue Flight Attendant Flees Plane at JFK Airport via Emergency Slide

Horseplay on pleasure boat results in four drownings



Definition for today - Oligarchy [ol-i-gahr-kee]
–noun, plural -chies.

1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

2. a state or organization so ruled.

3. the persons or class so ruling.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Week of August 2 - August 8, 2010

WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day, August 4, 2010

Carnival cancels ‘shoot a dart at Obama’ game

Dangerous Heat Wave Bakes 18 States From Texas To New York


On Facebook, wife learns of husband's 2nd wedding

Bowls of Human Fingers and Teeth Found in Mayan Tomb

Florida man kills friend, drinks his blood

Body of Arizona Toddler Emmett Trapp Found Mile From Home

Prop 8 judge to religious believers: It's not about you

Is Fox News really "Mendacious News"?

EXCLUSIVE: Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Barons

Watchworld Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for August 5, 2010

Man killed at anti-violence event


WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day, August 3, 2010

Technologically, gushing gulf oil well has finally been brought to heel

In a Country Where 1 in 4 Beers Sold Is a Bud Light, Microbrews Are Showing Promising Growth

Iran's Ahmadinejad survives blast near motorcade

The death of the phone call

Missouri voters overwhelmingly vote "NO" to Federal healthcare requirement that workers must by healthcare insurance or be penalized

Girlfriend of shooter says he was recipient of racial harrassment
45 Minutes of Terror: Liquor delivery man chases employees throughout warehouse kills 8 and then takes own life

Feds admit to collecting naked body scans from various checkpoints

Charlie Crist (I) still leads in Florida Senate race

Ted Nugent blasted by posters on Motley Fool thread

The Republican Right: From Neo-Cons to Crazy-Cons

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Week of July 26 - August 1, 2010

Calcium supplements linked to heart attacks

Dell Computer rep puts woman's nude pictures up on Internet and demands ransom to take them down


SEC's Wyly brothers charges may depress GOP donations - Agency charges billionaires with fraud; creating $550 mln in illegal stock profits

Teens allegedly beat immigrant to death, recorded it

Teen Huffs AC Refrigerant, Dies

Natural gas causes building to explode in LA, killing one

Petite passenger kicked off flight to make room for obese passenger who needed two seats

Bristol calling off wedding because Levi's ex-girlfriend is pregnant?

3 NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan

Body of second missing sailor found in Afghanistan


The Big Picture Blog looks at "Stormy Skies"

Newly rehired paper plant worker crushed by giant rollers in mill

Democrats tie Republicans to Tea Party agenda

Floods Trap Thousands in Northeast China

Canada locates British ship lost 157 years ago in the Arctic

From the Watchworld: Business/Economic/Housing/Layoffs News for July 29, 2010

87 illegal immigrants nabbed in Va, DC


Justice Department investigating exams which FBI agents took

NASCAR Owner Jack Roush's Airplane Crashes

`Unmistakable' Evidence Shows World Getting Warmer, NOAA Says


How Big Insurance Companies Profit Off Dead Soldiers
Veterans Affairs to Investigate Fallen Soldiers' Death Benefits

Plane Crash Kills 152 In Pakistan

Despite science against jetties, Gov. Bobby Jindal rocks on

It’s No Secret: Afghanistan Is a Quagmire


WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day, July 27, 2010

Congressman Bernie Sanders: "No To Oligarchy"

The New Yorker: "Letting Go - What Should Medicine Do When It Can't Save Your Life

Two-Year-Old Syler Newton Vanishes From Arizona Campground

8 severed heads discovered in Northern Mexico

Sarah Palin's Endorsement Of Kelly Ayotte May Have Hurt Senate Candidate's Campaign (POLL)

The shame of the Fourth Estate

Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey claims Islam may not be a religion (Video)

Helmand residents accuse Nato of deliberate attack on civilians

How the Gulf of Mexico became America's "toilet bowl"

America's laziest states

Oil well just off course of Louisiana hit by barge this morning, 20 foot high oil spew still not capped, booms surrounding spill

Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It’s Like Apple’s Expose Plus Spaces For The Web

Miles of US underground is ablaze with wildfires

US Government steels itself for intense criticism after Afghan war papers releases on Wikileaks

Body of missing American sailor found in eastern Afghanistan

From the Watchworld: Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for July 27, 2010

Translating the Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone
WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day, July 26, 2010

Mexican prisoners "freed" by compliant guards killed 17 people at a party earlier this month

15 of the Best Scientific Hoaxes

EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup

Tea Party candidate calls Tea Party birthers "Dumb Asses"

Neel Kashkari, head of implementing Bush's TARP program for bankers, wants to cut social security and other entitlements to the shrinking Middle Class

Does anyone other than a Yankees' fan truly care about A-Rod's about to enter the 600 Club?

The New Pentagon Papers: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War

Mom faces life sentence for trying to poison her 4 yr. old daughter's catheter with feces

The newest trend in dating is a card, a wink, and a look up of a code on a specific website

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Week of July 19 through July 25, 2010

Ohio town no longer can afford law enforcement; new crime way ensues

Are Americans going to vacation in Havana soon?

Paul Krugman: "Addicted to Bush"


The Big Picture Blog: Oil spill in Dalian, China

Hugo Chavez says Venezuela to sever ties with Colombia


James H. Kunstler: "What If He's Right?"










'South Park' critic faces unrelated terror charge






BP Races to Stanch Spill as Bad Weather Threatens Gulf

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Week of July 12 - July 18, 2010


WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day, July 17, 2010

Mother of the Week: Killer Japanese mum spun kid in washing machine

Aging gracefully the French way

Philip Morris Benefits From Child Laborers In Its Tobacco Fields?

Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ

Liberty University Dean Demoted After AlterNet Investigation

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva: Why Their Custody Battle Went Nuclear

Apple offers free iPhone 4 cases to fix bad reception issue

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) Again Calls For Reinstatement Of A Military Draft

Porn Actors Accused of Killing Fla. Tattoo Artist


Developing:73,000 Wordpress blogs shut down by U.S. Government

The Big Picture Blog looks at "Poverty Within White South Africa"

Charlie Crist (I-FL) still leads in 3 way race for open Senate seat

Italy's most notorious mafia family busted - 300 arrested

Father of the Week: Middle-school teacher accused of beating 5-year-old son over game of hopscotch

From the Watchworld: Business/Economic/Housing News for July 14, 2010

Extremist Christians Aim to Create Armed Militias Against "Godless" Federal Government

Lost in translation? Acne-picking, Blind Man's Bluff and toilet tumble blamed for deaths in Chinese prisons

Iowa Billboard compares President Obama to Hitler & Stalin

Flashblood! Addicts inject each other's blood to stave off withdrawal and to maintain high


WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day, July 13, 2010

Michael Moore: Why I Had to Hire 9 Bodyguards After Winning an Oscar

French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in public

‘Barefoot Bandit’ Deported to the U.S.

More cops charged in post-Katrina bridge shootings

National league wins first All-Star game since 1996

Most inept criminal of the week drops gun and cellphone into lap of intended 69 year old victim, who then turns gun on robber

BBC: The US must choose to talk or fight the Taliban

Sultan of Swagger: The Late George Steinbrenner

Tar balls from spill are found on second Texas beach

5% of Key West's population (more than 1,000 people) has been infected with Dengue Fever

Florida Atheists Sue Over Prayers at City Meetings

From the Watchworld: Business/Economic/Housing News for July 13, 2010

Mel Gibson admits to beating mother of his child, issues what sounds like death threat on recording: Is his career over?


Navy Weighs Ship's Design, Along With Its Own Future

N.R.A. Looks To Expand Its Agenda

NBA Commissioner Stern says "no collusion" among Miami Heat's "3 Kings" and then fines Cleveland Cavalier's owner $100,000 for his harsh criticism of LeBron James

Cuban ex-intelligence chief recalls JFK assassination

Google's Chrome Shows Off Some Fancy HTML5 Tricks

Take Two: US Issues Revised Offshore Drilling Band

Florida Keys Wake Up Call: Cuba Allows Spanish Company To Drill For Oil In Area Only 60 Miles Off Key West's Doorstep

3 Marines Drowned At Gitmo On July 4th

"Urkel" Arrested For Beating On His Baby Mama


WSJ Photo Journal - Pictures for the Day, July 12, 2010

Ugandan Police Receive Tip, Foil Yet Another Bombing In Kampala

Four dead in workplace murders/suicide in New Mexico

'Psychic octopus' Paul retires triumphant

Australian Mystery: Who killed the tomatoes?

Inmate escapes in trash bin, found dead in landfill

Earth From Space: Greenland Glacier Shrinks Overnight

Total solar eclipse crosses South Pacific


Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun

NM Man Set on Fire After Losing Drinking Bet

Man allegedly throws toddler in front of moving car

The Watchworld's Business/Economic News for July 12, 2010

LeBron James’ “The Decision” draws nearly 10 million viewers

Rosetta spacecraft probes Lutetia asteroid
The Big Picture Blog: "Summer Is Here"

3 Crashes in one day end Lance Armstong's attempt to win the Tour de France again

'Barefoot Bandit' arrested in Bahamas

Spain wins its first World Cup

Uganda Bomb Attacks Kill World Cup Fans, Including Americans: Al Shabab Suspected In Kampala Explosions


Mel Gibson is focus of domestic violence inquiry

Thousands evacuated in China as dam threatens to burst



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