Man accused of spray-painting 3 goats
Tue Nov 28, 10:26 PM ET
MAHOPAC, N.Y. - A man broke into a barn on Thanksgiving morn…
A cell at the state prison in Warren, Maine
7M in U.S. jails, on probation or parole
By KASIE HUNT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A record 7
million people - or on…
Want one? Go to www.geocities.com/testiflash
"I'm not sleeping with Rush Limbaugh!"
Chloe of '24': I'm Not Sleeping with Rush Limbaugh
By Cyndi James
Nov 26, 2006
The actress t…
Ex-principal accused of kissing feet
Wed Nov 29, 6:05 PM ET
LORAIN, Ohio - Robert Holloway, the former principal at St…
From abstract_philosophy
Stevie Long, 4, in his Power Ranger outfit
His sister in danger, 4-year-old plays hero
Matt Dees, Staff Writer
DURHAM - The robber was holding a gun to 5-year-old Mary Long's head
when a…
Pigs eat boy alive
From correspondents in New Delhi
November 29, 2006 07:15pm
A THREE-year-old boy was eaten alive by a herd of pigs in a
village on the outskirts of…
HAPPY HUMP DAY!
Woman received dad's body in post
A Romanian woman was sent the body of her dead father in the post after a cemetery was sold to developers.
Aurelia Cenusa, from…
Wars wearing down military gear at cost of about $2
billion a month
Updated 11/29/2006 1:24 AM
ET
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — About $2 bill…
142 YEARS AGO TODAY
Nov 29 1864
At dawn on November 29, 1864, approximately 700 U.S. volunteer
soldiers commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a village of
about 500 Southern Che…
China Arnold, 26, has been
charged in the death of her one-month-old daughter last year.
Authorities suspect a microwave was used to kill the girl who had a
high body temperature. (AP Photo/Al Behr…
Chess players to face anti-doping measures
Tue Nov 28, 12:19 PM ET
DOHA (Reuters) - Chess's world governing body will
…
From soybeansam
Man seeks record for arm hair length
Mon Nov 27, 4:38 PM ET
JACKSON, Wis. - Jon Sanford takes good care of his hair, w…
Gingrich raises alarm
By RILEY YATES Union Leader Staff
15 hours, 53 minutes ago
MANCHESTER – Former Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to
reexam…
'Pregnant' man in trouble
A South African man is in trouble after he faked a sick note which said he needed time off work because he was pregnant.
Magistrates in …
Quebec students suspended for posting teacher's outburst online
Dave Rogers, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, November 25, 2006
OTTAWA -- Queb…
64 YEARS AGO TODAY
Nov 28 1942
A fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Boston, kills 491 people.
The dead were crushed, burnt, and asphyxiated, all within minutes.
The Cocoanut Grove was one of…
From QuidProQuo
Students expelled over movie in which teddy bears attack teacher
KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. (AP) — Two students are suing to return to school
after they were expelled for making a mov…
Advocates Demand LAPD Investigation
By Alethea Yip
A few days after Christmas, 81-year-old Tong Sik Chong got lost during his daily walk around his
Koreatown neighborhood. He was taken into po…
Peace on earth? Not in our subdivision!
POSTED: 2:02 p.m. EST, November 27, 2006
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A homeowners' association in
southwestern Colorado has threatene…
Snowball
= 4)
document.write('');
// -->
I made myself a snowball
As perfect as could be.
I thought I'd keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some paja…
Malachi Ritscher holds up a sign during an antiwar protest in Chicago in this photo from April 2003.
Protester immolation virtually unnoticed
…
So what's with all the dinosaurs?
The
world's first Creationist museum - dedicated to the idea that the
creation of the world, as told in Genesis, is factually corr…
QUOTATIONS FROM PRESIDENT BUSH
From mezamashii
Federally Funded Abstinence Programs Under Fire
November 17, 2006 2:08 PM
Maddy Sauer Reports:
The informational materials distributed by government-fund…
Songs of joy & praise (for L. Ron Hubbard)
'Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant' sets the story of church's founder to music
Playwright Kyle Jarrow (center) with the young cast at …
Now 85, tiny, feeble, nearly deaf, his right hand losing control
because of tremors, Mikhail Kalashnikov is often haunted by the killing machine
he has bestowed upon the world. "I wish I had invente…
Phillip Dale Williams
Bigamist 'butt' busted
Wed Nov 22, 5:40 PM ET
LYNCHBURG, Va. - A man who dresses up as a giant cigarette and uses
hip-hop music to encourage children in Lynch…
Richards May Pay For Racial Rant
Two men who were
insulted by Michael Richards’ racist burst last week have
reportedly asked for money as a compensation for the offenses he
brought them, accordin…
Big bum contest banned
A court in Sao Paul declared the Biggest Ass in School competition, promoted by Mix Radio in schools across the city, illegal.
The…
Canadian man on trial for putting baby in freezer
Fri Nov 24, 4:35 PM ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man who could not…
First Daughter Barbara Robbed in Argentina
November 21, 2006 3:14 PM
First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she
had dinner in a restaurant i…
Lubyanka KGB headquarters
15 years after Soviet collapse, gulags gone, almost forgotten
dpa German Press Agency
Published:
…
Jean Phillips, realtor and member of the Church of God in Christ,
stands in front of a home donated to a New Orleans family
2 unrepentant about sale of Katrina home
By WOODY BAIRD, Asso…
Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general
Reuters Saturday, November 25, 2006; 11:45 AM
MADRID (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detaine…
Chilean boy born with fetus in his stomach
Nov 24, 2006
SANTIAGO, Chile - A boy has been born in Chile
with a fetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare case of
"fetus in fetu" in which…
Saddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death
As you’d expect in an industry devoted to bringing crucial information to as wide an audience as possible, out of the thou…
Old Man Caught Urinating on Woman's Grave - "He Was Really Pissed!"
Itomor
Khaimov was walking his dog in a Brooklyn cemetery near his home w…
Recycling chickens
By TOBIAS YOUNG THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
When Jim Stauffer of Petaluma saw a chicken crawling out of a mound of
compost like the living dead, he knew someth…
Fatma Omar An-Najar is seen holding a
rifle. Photograph: AP
Woman, 64, blows herself up in attack on Israeli troops
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem Friday November 24, 2006 The Guardian
…
23 YEARS AGO TODAY
Carol Doda
Nov 24 1983
James (Jimmy the Beard) Ferrozzo's fully-clothed body
was found on top of Teresa Hill, 23, a dancer at the Condor Club where
Ferrozzo …
NOVEMBER 24 IS BUY NOTHING DAY - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
(November 25 outside of North America)
THE ULTIMATE REFUND: On November 24th and 25th –
the busiest days in the American retai…
Courtney Love Was Rejected as MouseketeerLast Update: 10/30/2006 1:30:26 PM
United Press International
Rock musician Courtney Love was rejected as a Mouseketeer by television's
Mickey M…
Great American Toy Test 'Fab 14'
UPDATED: 12:15 pm PST November 21,
2006
From the toy
testers at our bureau on the North Pole -- has come the Great American
Toy Test's 'Fab 14' for this yea…
Mandatory viewing:
Burroughs Gives Thanks
From HomerTheBrave
The living wage is a more appropriate base earnings rate than the minimum wage.
In
the 1960s and '70s, the federal minimum wage gave Americans an income
slightly above the poverty line. If th…
Is this the luckiest man in Britain?
20th November 2006
Bare-chested and fuelled by drunken bravado, he dangles from a 25,000 volt power cable.
Fortunately for him, Shane White had unwittingly…
Penile Plot Prompts Prison Punishment
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22, 2006
(AP) A
man who mailed a bomb to a doctor because he was angry about how his
penis enlargement surgery turned out was sentence…
Kathryn Johnston
Questions surround fatal shooting of woman, 92
By JEFFRY SCOTT, S.A. REID The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/21/06
Three narcotics investigators were …
Pentagon program costing taxpayers millions in inflated prices By LAUREN MARKOE and SETH BORENSTEIN Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The
Pentagon paid $20 apiece for plastic ice cube trays tha…
Hungarians seize fake washing powder
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Customs agents in Hungary on
Monday said they had confiscated over 25 tons of fake…
Vladimir Luxuria
Parliament fights over transgender MP toilet
ROME - "You can't use this lavatory. This is the women's
bathroom," Vladim…
Winner Pat Bertoletti of Chicago chews on a piece of turkey as he
competes in the Thanksgiving Invitational Turkey-Eating Championship in
New York. Bertoletti, a 21-year-old student of culinary arts…
From JoCatAquarius
Committee chairs often have 'horrific' records on science, matters they oversee
Kate Raiford Published: Thursday November 2, 2006
Senator
James Inhofe, R-OK, calls climate change a hoax, voted against stem
ce…
Iraq Says It Needs $100 Billion in Aid
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 31, 2006
KUWAIT CITY
(AP) -- War-ravaged Iraq needs around $100 billion in t…
SPECT scans were taken of subjects while worshiping versus
speaking in tongues. The speaking in tongue images primarily show a
decrease of brain activity in the frontal lobes, which is what normally
mak…
HAPPY HUMP DAY!
Erotic furniture on show
A Dutch carpenters' erotic furniture is to be exhibited at a top German art gallery.
Cabinet maker Mario Philippona designed a range of…
Hunger still a U.S. disgrace
REGISTER EDITORIAL BOARD
November 21, 2006
The U.S. government has eliminated hunger in this country. Each
year, the U.S. Department of…
-New Yorker
Man files complaint in dog feces dispute
Mon Nov 20, 7:26 PM ET
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. - A quadriplegic man has filed a…
Gingerbread Nazi art display is too much
Mon Nov 20, 7:34 PM ET
OBERLIN, Ohio - An artist's creation of gingerbread Naz…
Air Force Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, of the 332nd
Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad, Iraq, cradles a young girl as
they both sleep in the hospital. The girl's entire family was executed
…
26 YEARS AGO TODAY
Nov 21 1980
The
third deadliest hotel fire in history occurs at the MGM Grand Hotel in
Las Vegas, caused by faulty wiring; 84 people dead. Helicopters were
used
to rescue…
"Are there any niggers here tonight? Could you turn on the house lights,
please, and could the waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just
for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what did he…
Photo for the CDT/GianCarlo Pitocco
Greg Gehl, known as "The Chicken Man," drops in on an unsuspecting
class at the Penn State University Park campus with "Henderson," his
Barred Rock hen. …
Selective Service: Ready for a draft
POSTED: 10:04 p.m. EST, November 20, 2006
By Thom Patterson
(CNN) -- The Selective Service System says it's ready to respond quickl…
Gulsum, 16, shows her burnt hands during an interview
with the Associated Press (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghan women commit suicide by fire
…
Constable zaps himself and innocent teen with Taser
S…
An assistant stands in front of shelving with human skulls in the new
workshop of Gunther von Hagens in the eastern German town of Guben,
November 17, 2006. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
Viktor Yushchenko
What the heck?
A former Russian security agent is fighting for his life right now. Alexander Litvinenko was looking into the murder/assassination of Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya, w…
Ana Carolina Reston
Model dies of anorexia complications
November 17, 2006
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Ana Carolina Reston, 21, died Tuesday in a Sao Paulo hospital from a generalized infection cause…
From soybeansam
The Turducken
The ten-bird roast
by SINEAD McINTYRE, Daily Mail
21st December 2005
The ten-bird roast is being championed by celebrity chef Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall, who has deemed it "o…
The Liberal Agenda
Now that the election is behind us, and the Democrats control
both houses of Congress, there's no reason not to admit it: the Right
was right about us all along. Here is …
Nab rev. with 1,300 kid porn pix
BY RICHARD WEIR and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
…
A buyer in Britain won an eBay auction for one of Sony's newly launched
PS3 game consoles with a bid of 15,100 dollars.(AFP/File)
Wal-Mart Gives $60,000 To Homosexual Group To
Support Homosexual Agenda In Workplace
Wal-Mart
has gone on record that they are an advocate for the homosexual agenda. In the
Out & Equal 2…
What could possibly go wrong here?
Thu Nov 16, 9:55 AM ET
VIENNA (Reuters) - It took 25 firefighters, his wife and a
…
Visitors look at toilet bowls displayed at the World Toilet Expo and
Forum 2006 in Bangkok. Cut-price toilet paper,
brushes and detergent are on sale to help promote clean restrooms as
part of Worl…
Senior Democrat renews call for military draft
Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:41pm ET
By Jackie Frank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Rep. Charles
Rangel, the incoming chairman of the House of Representatives'
t…
Many areas in Plain of Jars, Laos are dotted with craters created by
the U.S. carpet bombing during the "Secret War." This particular area
around a Ban Khai village is scarred by old cra…
'Grape guy' catches 116 grapes in mouth
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An American man caught 116 tossed grapes in
his mouth in three minutes in what he hopes will become a new Guinness
World Record.
…
Celeste McMullin was
wounded on both her legs when a sea lion bit her several times on
Monday while swimming in San Francisco Aquatic Park.
Rogue sea lion in S.F. menaces swimmers
…
Stepmom ends her testimony
By MARIANNE KOBAK - Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:44 PM PST
…
Fan Death
Fan death is an urban legend that originated in South Korea, but has since spread to other countries in the Far East. The belief is that an electric fan, if left running ove…
"Bunny boiler"
Meaning
An
obsessive and dangerous female, in pursuit of a lover who has spurned her.
Origin
From
the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, written by James Dearden and Nicholas
Meyer. The …
Currently Watching Guyana Tragedy-Box Set see related
27 YEARS AGO TODAY
Nov 18 1978
Congressman Leo Ryan is slain at the People's Temple compound in
Guyana, after which over 900 …
Did Florida Foul Another Ballot?
By Kim Zetter
02:00 AM Nov, 17, 2006
New, multimillion-dollar touch-screen voting equipment, critics say, may have lost more than 18,000 votes cast
in Sarasota County l…
An actor of the Russian Fire Style theatre performs late in the evening in Moscow. Photo: AFP
'Body Worlds' creator opens corpse factory
BERLIN (AP) - The German creator of the "Body Worlds" shows currently
on tour in Asia, Europe and the United States has opened a new factory
in the Ger…
