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added 2007 Thu Jun 14 8:55:08 by ind06
THE ONION RADIO NEWS: With Doyle Redland reporting - Pentagon officials today confirmed that a bunch of nerds have effectively seized control of Andrews Air Force Base using only laptops and some crap software they got off the internet.
added 2007 Thu Jun 7 17:58:40 by luvmyprez
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton was released from jail early Thursday due to an unspecified medical condition after serving only three days of her sentence. She was sent home with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and must remain there for 40 days, according to sheriffs spokesman Steve Whitmore.
added 2007 Thu May 10 10:21:06 by gatitabonitasen
Now that a decade has passed since the extraordinary events of the summer of 2007, it's possible to look back on that great national crisis with the benefit of some historical perspective. Everyone is familiar with the broad outlines of the crisis, which began when President Bush ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to launch military operations ag
added 2007 Mon May 7 7:59:42 by STONERS
The students from Paul Smith's College were among six thrown into Lower St. Regis Lake just off shore from campus late Friday after two canoes and a power boat capsized.
added 2007 Wed May 2 11:26:24 by gatitabonitasen
All over Washington, you can hear the giant scraping sound of officials and legislators frantically back-tracking. After years of obfuscation, denial, and lies about climate change, all but the most hardened recidivists are rebranding themselves as friends of the earth. In February, two senior White House officials published an open letter seeki
added 2007 Mon Apr 30 20:35:08 by catstevens
RAMADI, Iraq - Anbar Province, long the lawless heartland of the tenacious Sunni Arab resistance, is undergoing a surprising transformation. Violence is ebbing in many areas, shops and schools are reopening, police forces are growing and the insurgency appears to be in retreat.
added 2007 Mon Apr 30 8:01:03 by STONERS
Miles Hilton-Barber braved snowstorms, freezing temperatures and torrential downpours during his 59-day journey under the supervision of sighted co-pilot Richard Meredith-Hardy.
added 2007 Sun Apr 29 8:58:39 by TechnologyExpert
Maher may not be a doctor, but his diagnosis of Pres. Bush is pretty damn accurate. "Only a delusional person could watch Alberto Gonzales before Congress last week do everything but say 'no hablo ingles' and rip up a picture of the Pope and conclude that it increased his confidence in the man. That's called disassociation from reality."
added 2007 Fri Apr 27 9:44:13 by gatitabonitasen
Typically, Bush encourages the belief that he alone speaks with God. Meanwhile, there is evidence that like all cults, the GOP, communicates to its base in code words designed to assuage the base and dupe the rest of us. The attack on Social Security was of this form. So, too, the war of aggression in IraqThere is only one reason a political pa

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added 2007 Thu Apr 26 10:31:56 by gatitabonitasen
What happens when six Iranian young women disguise themselves as men so they can watch a World Cup qualifying match in Tehran? This is the situation in which director Jafar Panahi places his talented actors (all nonprofessionals) who play their fictional roles in the very real setting of a soccer stadium in Iran, where the national team faces Bahra
added 2007 Fri Apr 20 20:14:51 by chkngrrl
Irish soul singer Laura Izibor has been making waves in the green isle music scene. The songstress has drawn ecstatic comparisons from Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin and Alicia Keys to Sade.
added 2007 Fri Apr 20 10:44:41 by Varadinum
United Future leader Peter Dunne will complain to the Human Rights Commission over a ban on communion wine in prisons. Wine, which is classed as a banned drug under the 2004 Corrections Act, is not allowed in prisons -- outraging Catholics who say it is a denial of religious freedom.
added 2007 Tue Apr 17 10:54:35 by gatitabonitasen
The chairman of the Senate education committee urged the Bush administration yesterday to block student loan companies from accessing a national database that holds confidential information on tens of millions of students. The request by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), came after The Washington Post reported on inappropriate searches of the da
added 2007 Fri Apr 13 11:46:15 by gatitabonitasen
Refugees from Iraq scattered around Damascus describe hellish conditions in the country they managed to leave behind. "I used to work with the Americans near Kut (in the south)," Sa'ad Hussein, a 34-year-old electrical engineer said. "I worked for Kellogg, Brown & Root in construction of an Iraqi base there, until I returned t
added 2007 Tue Apr 10 5:22:42 by STONERS
Former first lady Betty Ford was released from a hospital where she underwent surgery last week, her office said in a statement Monday.
added 2007 Thu Apr 5 6:50:27 by TechnologyExpert
The 15 British military personnel held by Iran will leave Tehran at 0430 GMT on Thursday on a flight to London, airline officials said, ending a standoff that raised international tension and rattled financial markets.
added 2007 Mon Apr 2 13:01:29 by ind06
The craze that overtook the fifth and sixth grade started in the art room, Jeff says.
added 2007 Sun Apr 1 10:17:39 by ind06
You're so quick to judge me. You've tried me and convicted me according to your "laws," which are written, passed, and enforced by white males. While it is a fact that I fired the bullets (and swung the chair) that killed Mr. and Mrs. Patel and their four children, I am only a "murderer" from your limited Western point of view.
added 2007 Fri Mar 30 17:38:35 by STONERS
More than half a century after 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, his family sat down with federal investigators to discuss the final autopsy on the boy's exhumed body and to hear about the investigation.
added 2007 Mon Mar 26 5:53:58 by STONERS
After seeing the cost of gasoline rose 20 cents per gallon in the past two weeks, Gov. Janet Napolitano wants federal energy officials to investigate the sudden spike in energy prices
added 2007 Sun Mar 25 8:50:41 by ind06
The principal obstacle to effective school reform is the students, and the most effective means of achieving meaningful education reform would be to remove them from the system altogether, according to a new study from the Center for Educational Studies.
added 2007 Sun Mar 25 1:43:20 by gatitabonitasen
THORNTON, Colo. - The lights are still on inside Foreclosure No. A200642668 - so while there's time, have a look aroundHere's the living room, still covered in the worn blue shag Angela Sneary always intended to replace with the sheen of hardwood. And downstairs, through a curtain of plastic beads, is the basement where husband Tim was going to kno
added 2007 Fri Mar 23 7:22:33 by STONERS
Five of 17 trained dolphins rescued during Hurricane Katrina and taken to a marine mammal center in the Bahamas are pregnant, officials said Thursday.
added 2007 Sun Mar 18 19:00:18 by STONERS
A potentially lethal mix of mud, acidic water and rocks tore down the slope of New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu on Sunday, emergency officials said, but there was no immediate threat to life.
added 2007 Sat Mar 10 15:53:17 by babylune
Six weeks after you give birth is the right time for an appointment with the gynecologist or mid-wife to make sure you're healing. It's also time to check in with yourself to take stock.
added 2007 Fri Mar 9 18:20:58 by STONERS
President Bush , in a bitter showdown with Congress over Iraq , has crept up a speck from an all-time low in his job approval rating. But his standing is the weakest of any second-term president at this point in 56 years.
added 2007 Thu Mar 8 7:00:09 by STONERS
House Democratic leaders intend to propose legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of 2008, and even earlier if the Iraqi government fails to meet security and other goals, Democratic officials said Wednesday night.
added 2007 Sat Mar 3 21:41:30 by moemebe
WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- Young people can expect to get carded at a Wisconsin hot spot. Not to buy a drink, but to go to the mall. Mayfair Mall southwest of Milwaukee is a popular place with local teens. But if they want to hang out they'll have to show ID.
added 2007 Thu Mar 1 7:33:38 by STONERS
British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week laid out plans to withdraw around 1,600 troops from Iraq over the coming months and to further cut its 7,100-strong contingent by late summer if local forces can secure the southern part of the country.
added 2007 Tue Feb 27 6:13:04 by STONERS
Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.