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Monthly Archives: September 2005
We Rest Our Case
Brain-Damaged Psychopaths Make Best Financial Traders LONDON (Reuters) – "Wanted: psychopaths to make a killing in the markets." Such an advert will not be appearing in the world’s newspapers any time soon, but it may have a ring of truth … Continue reading
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Comic of the Day: The Pets of New Orleans
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Here Comes Hurricane Zelda
So now it’s Hurricane Rita, bearing down on the Florida Keys and thence on into the super-heated waters of the Gulf of Mexico to test out the dire theory that changing weather patterns and warmer waters have converted the Gulf … Continue reading
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The Guantanamo Diet
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 – A hunger strike at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders there and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military’s effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism suspects, … Continue reading
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And Never the Twain Shall Meet
The Wal-Mart store in uptown New Orleans, built within the last year, survived the storm but was destroyed by looters. If the store had not been looted, it could be open in two weeks, Stonaker said. Now he doubts it … Continue reading
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Aussie Charged With 40,000 Volts
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was … Continue reading
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Korean Bow-Wow’s Bows Wow Buddhists
SEOUL (Reuters) – The newest acolyte at a temple on an outlying South Korea island is a dog who has learned to sit, stay and perform Buddhist prayer rituals alongside the monks. Monks at Buljang Temple on Chindo island off … Continue reading
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Bush’s Bay of Pigs?
Just when we thought he was laying low, Hugo Chavez pops up on Nightline: WASHINGTON Sep 16, 2005 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday night he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country. Chavez, … Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez Announces New World Order
Long a fan of world-class political bloviation, we were hoping to catch some of the most mesmerizing snake-oil salesmen working the curcuit today in New York this week. We were especially excited at the possibility of seeing of the Presidents … Continue reading
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Rabid Romney Rears to the Right
‘The aggressive intelligence-gathering methods that Governor Mitt Romney advocated this week in a speech to Washington conservatives are used by federal investigators, but only if they meet strict legal standards, law enforcement specialists said yesterday. Romney suggested in an address … Continue reading
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Quotes of the Day – Big Brother on Track
”We track library books better than we do sexual predators." Representative Mark Foley, a Florida Republican ”How many individuals are coming to our state and going to those institutions who have come from terrorist-sponsored states?" he said, referring to foreign … Continue reading
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Follow the Money
Where is Ross Perot when we need him? Every time we drive by a gas station lately, we hear this giant sucking sound. Every time we read the Business section or check the price of a barrel of oil, we … Continue reading
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