“Even less information than you get from USA Today!”
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“Only 300 priests were actual cases of pedophilia… it is not as widespread as has been believed. ”
Monsignor Charles Scicluna
Only 300? Gee and here we thought there might be a problem… Honey, it’s OK, the boys can going camping with Father Sicola…
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Every year, 48,000 Americans die of infections they caught while in the hospital.
Probably safer to have your next surgery done in the back of one of those vans that brings illegals in from Mexico
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The number of US troops to die in the Afghan war hit 1,000, according to a tally kept by the independent icasualties.org website.
Isn’t it great when our country hits another milestone?
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A report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life notes that 79 percent of Americans believe in miracles.
Pew failed to note that believers expect the other 21% to pay for the miracles.
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The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group.
Hallelujah! I believe in miracles, too!
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Sixty-four per cent of British people think the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, a BBC poll suggests.
Smart lot, those Tommies.
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In a move that could force President Obama to break his vow to get all combat troops out of Iraq by August of this year, his top commander in Iraq recently officially requested keeping a combat brigade in the northern part of the country beyond that deadline.
Wait a minute. You mean there are people who actually took Obama seriously when he said we’d be out by August?
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A vast iceberg that broke off eastern Antarctic earlier this month could disrupt marine life in the region, scientists have warned.
And there’s no evidence it’s our fault, although experts say it may cut the penguin-hunting season short by two months.
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Toyota Motor Corp. said it would extend free alternative transportation to owners nationwide while their recalled vehicles are being repaired.
In other news, Schwinn stock is up 57%.
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During the month of January, Citibank sent over 600,000 mailers to customers with their social security numbers printed on the outside of the envelopes.
Thanks, Citibank. I can never remember that god-damned number.
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Afghanistan has announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks.
Their concern is not video of the Taliban attacking; it’s the video of the Afghan soldiers hastily retreating.
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Federal regulators said Wednesday that they had received 10 reports of Toyota vehicles accelerating unexpectedly after they were repaired at dealerships.
All of them, however, were able to come to a controlled stop in front of an attorney’s office.
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Pursued by a Florida trooper, an 18-year-old motorcyclist was clocked at a stupefying 186 m.p.h.
We need these kids. Do you know how many people are awaiting organ transplants?
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Two women were stopped from boarding a plane at Manchester Airport after refusing to undergo a full body scan. The women forfeited their flight and left the airport.
Now if we could just get fat people and babies to refuse body scans, flying might once again be tolerable.
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The Somali government is preparing a major offensive to take back the capital of Mogadishu block by crumbling block.
Why?
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Since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan drug production has surged in the country, making it the source of 90 percent of the world’s heroin.
It’s part of our stimulus package for faltering economies. Look how well it’s working in Mexico.
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An adviser to Pope Benedict, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has told an Italian newspaper that the Church needs to clean up its act over child abuse, by compensating victims and punishing the perpetrators.
Funeral services for Cardinal Kasper, who died mysteriously just hours after his press conference, are pending.
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Some Scientologists say they have paid as much as $1 million so they can proceed up the “bridge to total freedom.”
Scientologists can build a bridge for a million bucks? That’s a lot less than the DOT is charging.
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The General Assembly Virginia became the first state legislature to approve a measure that bucks any effort by President Obama and Congress to carry out a national health care overhaul in individual states.
Sic semper tyrannis
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The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation’s media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network.
Gosh, we might catch up with the Koreans!
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Evelyn Boyd told her husband, a preacher at a Pentecostal church in the city of Bartow, not to disturb her when she locked herself in a room Feb. 7 to fast and pray with only water to drink. Family members forced open the door March 5 and found her dead.
Apparently caught in a bad marriage, Ms. Boyd did not believe divorce was an option.
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In addition, President Obama would replace the law’s requirement that every American child reach proficiency in reading and math, which administration officials have called utopian, with a new national target that could prove equally elusive: that all students should graduate from high school prepared for college and a career.
Sorry, this one was so stupid, I just had to repeat it.
“A Critical First Step”
March 31, 2010The Today Show
So there you have it: Better than 1000 pages of law that no one really understands; shameful deals made in back rooms (the rooms used to be smoked-filled but, in today’s more health-conscious environment, congressmen just shot up some meth before going to meet with Reid and/or Peolsi); a vast health care bureaucracy of over 100 new agencies, boards, and commissions; 19 new taxes—and Mr. Obama says this is only a “critical first step.”
What’s next, an animal health-care plan, an army of boy guides to help little old ladies across the street, safety seminars on the danger of running with scissors?
USA Today
Two thirds say it costs too much and expands the role of government too much? Where’s the consensus; where is the will of the people?
Surgical team tests to determine how many copies of Obama's thousand-page health care bill can be inserted in patient's rectum before he is tempted to register as a Republican.