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What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin |
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McDonald's Blasted for Advertising on Report Cards |
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Topic: Business |
11:03 am EST, Dec 7, 2007 |
“She came home bubbly and happy about her report card,” said Pagan. “On the cover was a McDonald’s ad. I was blown away.”
HahAHAhahA! Its ashame they werent employment ads. McDonald's Blasted for Advertising on Report Cards |
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Couple sentenced for far-fetched fraud |
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Topic: Business |
11:00 am EST, Dec 7, 2007 |
The couple that preyed together won't stay together. They are going to separate federal prisons. Brent Eric Finley -- who along with his wife scammed family, friends and neighbors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with a far-fetched scheme of using the CIA and some of its technology to head off serious medical problems -- has been sentenced in federal court to four years and three months in prison. Finley, 38, of Rayville must report to prison by Feb. 4. ... Over a period of six years, the Finleys persuaded 22 people to pay them a total of $989,898, prosecutors said. Many of the victims, who ranged in age from young adults to the elderly, depleted savings, insurance policies, and pension funds. Stacey Finley, 34, persuaded her targets -- described by federal prosecutors as "solid, middle-class, educated citizens" -- that she was a CIA agent and could use her agency contacts to have medical scans conducted by satellite. Finley said the scans would reveal hidden medical problems, prosecutors said, and that CIA agents would then enter their homes and administer secret medications while they slept.
This is the best fraud ever! Couple sentenced for far-fetched fraud |
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Japan Today - News - Yokohama school to cancel lunch for 2 days due to oil price hike |
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Topic: Health and Wellness |
5:15 pm EST, Dec 6, 2007 |
YOKOHAMA — An elementary school run by the city of Yokohama has decided not to serve lunch for two days in January due to the hike in food costs stemming from the recent upsurge in crude oil prices, the city education board said Wednesday. It is the only known case of one of its schools curtailing lunch services because of soaring oil prices, according to the board. An official of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry also called the decision "unusual nationwide." Ekoda Elementary School decided to cancel lunches on Jan 8-9 as higher food prices led meal costs up to October to surpass initial estimates by nearly 10%. In Yokohama, all 347 city-run elementary schools prepare their lunches on their own and collect 3,700 yen per month, or about 220 yen per day, from pupils. Additional charges are not allowed.
Yum... Petroleum. Japan Today - News - Yokohama school to cancel lunch for 2 days due to oil price hike |
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North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey! |
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Topic: Health and Wellness |
3:16 pm EST, Dec 6, 2007 |
RINGWOOD -- Notice to those hunting near Ford's toxic dump site: This year, squirrels are safe to eat, but don't add lead-laced wild carrots to the recipe. That's the latest advice from federal and state agencies investigating potential health threats from toxic waste buried in Upper Ringwood near a residential neighborhood and in a corner of Ringwood State Park. After startling local hunters with an official report last winter that elevated levels of lead were found in a squirrel at Ford Motor Co.'s former landfill area, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that those test results were actually caused by a lab problem. The EPA issued a press release stating that the problem was caused by a defective blender. But adding to confusion on the wildlife tests, the federal agency also posted on its Web site a detailed April report from its lab consultants describing how they found the same defect in three blenders, which led to discarding five of 73 wildlife samples. ... "Are we safe with eating squirrels?" asked Roger DeGroat, who lives across Peters Mine Road from the area where the wildlife was tested. "I'd like to have a definitive answer."
If you need squirrel meat that badly to risk consuming toxic waste, you must really like to eat squirrel. North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey! |
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Newbies Build Killer Robot; Fortune Fawns | Danger Room from Wired.com |
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Topic: Society |
2:14 pm EST, Dec 6, 2007 |
The 'bot -- the Robotex AH, it's called -- went "from idea to product" in six months. It costs a little more than a Prius. "It's two feet tall, travels ten miles an hour, and... it'll blow a ten-inch hole through a steel door with deadly accuracy from 400 meters."
Someday, when the people who freak out and kill people decide to go for the grand finale, they will use something like this and a web interface. Newbies Build Killer Robot; Fortune Fawns | Danger Room from Wired.com |
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Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings | the Daily Mail |
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Topic: Arts |
2:10 pm EST, Dec 5, 2007 |
To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are. But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them. The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings. Freddie's efforts, which include works using tomato ketchup composed while sitting on his high chair, were posted by his mother Estelle Lovatt on collector Charles Saatchi's online gallery.
People are idiots. Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings | the Daily Mail |
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Topic: Health and Wellness |
11:03 am EST, Dec 5, 2007 |
THE THOUGHT SCREEN HELMET STOPS ALIENS FROM ABDUCTING HUMANS. IT'S A TESTED DEVICE THAT WORKS. THIS WEBSITE TELLS YOU HOW TO MAKE A THOUGHT SCREEN HELMET, THE MATERIALS AND TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE ONE, AND WHERE YOU CAN OBTAIN THE MATERIALS HERE is proof that the helmet receives MICROWAVE signals WHICH MAY BE from aliens. Photograph copyright by Michael Menkin, 2007. A Fluke Multimeter shows a voltage which proves that the thought screen helmet intercepts a microwave signal although the source of the signal cannot be determined. It also demonstrates that aliens are neither paranormal nor supernatural. Test made by a man with two helmets who was being abducted. See the development section for more information on this historic discovery.
Stop Alien Abductions |
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