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Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food Posted: 1 day ago by jLoSsDh
People who have been ripped off by bailed-out banks' schemes to trick late fees out of their customers will recognize what Utilities Inc. did to the people of Middlesboro and Clinton. In the summer of 2008, as AIG was teetering and desperate for funds, it "upgraded" its billing system, and suddenly a slew of late fee charges hit the struggling locals.
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
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Couple crashes state dinner at White House; posts photos to Facebook Posted: 2 days ago by cecilberman
The Secret Service learned about the security breach Wednesday after a media inquiry prompted by the Salahis' online boasts about having attended the private event.
One of the many photos from the dinner posted on Michaele Salahi's Facebook page shows the couple with a smiling Biden. In other photos, they appear alone or together with Emanuel, Fenty, Couric, Rep. Ed Royce, and three Marines in their dress blues.
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Can you be blamed for sleepwalking crimes? Posted: 2 days ago by Bornbad
Scientific update to Tigers story.
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WikiLeaks Discloses 9/11 Pager Intercepts Posted: 2 days ago by jhordie
WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts that were captured during a 24-hour period of the 9/11 attacks.
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Doctor in trouble for being "Blunt" Posted: 2 days ago by hoosker
He told his patient she was irresponsible for being unemployed, on Medicaid, and relying on taxpayers to cover another pregnancy after giving birth less than a year earlier.
But what really made her mad, was when he poked her thigh and told her she was fat.
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Parents negotiate no-homework contract Posted: 2 days ago by suckersklub
Oh, come on.
Spoiled brats.
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34,000 more to Afghanistan Posted: 3 days ago by Qpon
White House finally makes decision.
"Obama is expected to announce his Afghanistan strategy "early next week,""
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Police: Census worker staged death to conceal suicide Posted: 3 days ago by hoosker
Authorities are saying a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest committed suicide and staged his death to look like a homicide.
Update to this
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No "Full-Frontal Hugging" until AFTER marriage! Posted: 3 days ago by icepigs
If we have a full-frontal hug, it could lead us into temptation. So, please just give me the Christian "Side-Hug" until we are married.
<---not going to hell
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Purdue Student Accused of Terrorism Posted: 4 days ago by cb__
..following attempt to pay parking ticket by box.
Comments: 12 Score: [-] 180 [+].
Noah Biorkman, 5-year old with cancer passed away Posted: 4 days ago by 2manyusernames
Monday, Noah lost his battle with cancer. Noah is the kid whose parents asked people to send him cards as he was dying.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 461 [+].
Koreans make plastics without fossil fuel chemicals Posted: 4 days ago by Jerry520
A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 539 [+].
Man trapped in a 23-year coma was conscious all along Posted: 4 days ago by tigertony
Paralyzed after a car crash, he was unable to tell doctors he was conscious - or was he really?
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Student Expelled For Having Gun OFF Campus Posted: 5 days ago by 2manyusernames
Gary Tudesko was expelled from school for having a legally obtained, legally owned, legally transported unloaded hunting shotgun in his vehicle, parked OFF campus. The school had dogs out searching for such people and after widening their net they found Gary's guns.
Comments: 18 Score: [-] 461 [+].
Spit in My Face - I Will PAY You! Posted: 5 days ago by suebe
A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face. And...offering money for additional "bodily fluids".
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 290 [+].
Options To Replace ObamaCare Posted: 1 week ago by 2manyusernames
Tyler Coven lists some of his ideas to help reform medical insurance and care in the US. Some interesting ideas, some less so. Some really should be part of the government's plan.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 167 [+].
Linus Torvalds for Peace Prize? Posted: 1 week ago by 2manyusernames
Sometimes the Nobel Peace Prize is given to those who create international efforts to change the world for the better. Linus Tovalds, named for the 1962 Peace Prize winner, Linus Pauling, fits that definition. His Linux is changing the world and giving computer access and knowledge to the world.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 179 [+].
“Hit The Bitch,” The Danish Domestic Volence Awareness Campaign Posted: 1 week ago by Bornbad
From the annals of good ideas gone horribly, horribly, wrong, comes this seriously misguided attempt at a domestic violence awareness campaign.
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 458 [+].
China's Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm to Beijing Posted: 1 week ago by Bornbad
China has long tinkered with Mother Nature's waterworks, even establishing a state organ -- the Beijing Weather Modification Office. Residents are growing weary of their leadership's control-freak tendencies.
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 288 [+].
Happy 24th Birthday! Posted: 1 week ago by 2manyusernames
Windows 1.0 was released on November 20th 1985. Windows 1.0 was superseded in November 1987, with the release of Windows 2.0. Windows 1.0 was supported by Microsoft for sixteen years, until 31 December 2001. Windows 1.0 was one of the longest supported operating systems of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 329 [+].
Turn ons- "Loves Wrestling Videos" Posted: 1 week ago by hoosker
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
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Narrow track vehicles - the convergence of the car and the motorcycle Posted: 1 week ago by Jerry520
This article begins with Nissan’s tandem two-seat, half width tilting car, the Landglider, and examines all the other work being done around the world as narrow track vehicles seriously begin to make their case.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 198 [+].