Americans want choice to end life: poll Posted: 13 hours ago by jhordie
Most Americans believe the choice to end one's life is a personal decision and that physician-assisted death should be legal, according to a new survey.
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Parton "shocked" at Howard Stern radio segment Posted: 14 hours ago by jhordie
Country music star Dolly Parton has hit back against Howard Stern's satellite radio show, which last week manipulated recordings from one of her audio books into seemingly racist and sexually graphic sound bites.
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Top California court backs gay marriage Posted: 14 hours ago by jhordie
The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the state cannot bar same-sex marriages, marking a major victory for gay rights advocates that may have national implications.
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Forgotten Tot Left Behind At Vancouver Airport Posted: 1 day ago by jhordie
An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.
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Teen Sells 17,328 Boxes Of Girl Scout Cookies Posted: 1 day ago by jhordie
A Girl Scout has financed her trip to Europe with Thin Mints, Samoas and Do-Si-Dos, possibly breaking a national record in the process. Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, sold 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year, which shatters her troop's old record and is believed to be a national record, though Girl Scouts of the USA doesn't track individual sales.
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Polar bears listed as threatened species Posted: 1 day ago by jhordie
Polar bears were listed on Wednesday as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced.
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Craigslist sues eBay, alleges corporate spy plan Posted: 2 days ago by jhordie
Online classifieds leader Craigslist.com filed a countersuit on Tuesday against business rival eBay Inc, alleging eBay used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets.
Let the games begin.
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U.S. drops charges against accused "20th hijacker" Posted: 3 days ago by jhordie
The Pentagon said on Tuesday it dropped charges against a Saudi who U.S. officials say intended to be the "20th hijacker" on September 11 but sent five others to trial for allegedly planning the 2001 attacks.
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Chef wants to outlaw out-of-season vegetables Posted: 3 days ago by jhordie
Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve locally out-of-season fruit and vegetables.
Apparently stardom has seriously gone to this guy's head.
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Sixty pandas safe after China quake Posted: 3 days ago by jhordie
Some 60 giant pandas at a Chengdu research centre near the worst hit part of the massive China earthquake are safe, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
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Elisabeth Fritzl: I never want to see Josef again Posted: 4 days ago by jhordie
Elisabeth Fritzl, the woman held captive by her sadistic father for 24 years has spoken about her ordeal with her reunited family and has vowed she never wants to see her father's face again.
It's good to hear they're doing fairly well.
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Japanese vending machines will count wrinkles Posted: 4 days ago by jhordie
Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
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Man pokes shark in eye during attack Posted: 4 days ago by jhordie
An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking the creature in the eyes as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg.
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Ex-manager says OJ Simpson confessed Posted: 5 days ago by jhordie
A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted.
Not that ANY of these people are credible...
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White and Nerdy Posted: 6 days ago by jhordie
Weird Al does it again.
The guy dancing in the background is Donny Osmond.
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Man gets high school ring back 16 years after losing it in yard Posted: 7 days ago by jhordie
Recently, through a “meant-to-be” series of events, Oakley was able to reunite the discovery with its original owner, 16 years after he lost it.
*Start Twilight Zone theme music now*
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Got a band but can’t afford to shoot a video? Then use public CCTV cameras and then demand the footage! Posted: 7 days ago by jhordie
The Get Out Clause are an upcoming UK band. Unable to pay the price for a professional video, they performed their music in front of 80 of the 13 million CCTV “security” cameras available in England.
They then used Britain’s Data Protection Act to request the footage that was shot of them. via
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4-year-old hits a hole-in-one Posted: 1 week ago by jhordie
4-year-old T.J. McCoy hits a hole-in-one with his "Snoopy" driver.
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Indian Music Video Posted: 1 week ago by jhordie
Well, I can't get this tune out of my head, so I thought I would share the pain.
This is sort of like a train wreck between The Sound of Music, bad disco and the Smurfs on helium. (I was going to say Alvin and the Chipmunks but I figured you young'ns wouldn't know what I was talking about.)
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Rugby strip show caught on video Posted: 1 week ago by jhordie
The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been caught on video and put on the Internet.
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Firm in trouble for slum tour with a twist Posted: 1 week ago by jhordie
A Rio de Janeiro tour company could be in trouble for giving tourists too intimate a view of life in the city's notorious slums, including photo opportunities with drug gang leaders.
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Joy over India tiger cubs births Posted: 1 week ago by jhordie
Fourteen tiger cubs have been spotted in a reserve in north-western India, forestry officials say.
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Peanuts fed to squirrels put allergic daughter at risk Posted: 1 week ago by jhordie
A Calgary mother is begging locals to stop feeding peanuts to squirrels, fearing her highly allergic daughter may come in contact with the discarded shells.
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`Miracle' Marine dies; badly burned in 2005 Iraq blast Posted: 2 weeks ago by jhordie
A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22.
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Dad's video of run-down barracks sparks military response Posted: 2 weeks ago by jhordie
The U.S. military is promising action to address conditions in a barracks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after a soldier's father posted images on YouTube showing a building that he said "should be condemned."
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