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16 Aug 2009 20:20

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U.S.: Snort, snort: Most of the country’s money is all coked up

  • 90% of dollars randomly tested had traces of cocaine on them source
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16 Aug 2009 12:02

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Politics: Jon Stewart nails Glenn Beck on his health care hypocrisy

  • Beyond apparently being racist and losing advertisers, Glenn Beck seems to have flip-flopped entirely on his opinion of health care in the process of switching networks, as Jon Stewart casually notices in this Daily Show segment. Examiner blogger Ryan Witt does Beck a favor and shows he’s slightly more consistent than Stewart claims. However, it’s still a flip. (Unrelated side note: Comedy Central needs to fix their embed codes. They use tables and are necessarily messy.) source
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16 Aug 2009 11:43

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Culture: Kenneth Copeland: Good God, what a greedy bastard

  • God knows where the money is, and he knows how to get the money to you.
  • Gloria Copeland • Whose husband, Kenneth, and a bunch of his cronies preach a type of religion known as “prosperity gospel.” In other words, live your life in Jesus’ image (and tithe heavily), get rich. We much prefer 50 Cent’s method: “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.” Considering all the money that Vitamin Water investment made him, it seems like it worked pretty well for him. He should consider becoming a preacher so that he can get these crass, cruel false prophets off the air. • source
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16 Aug 2009 11:33

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Biz, Tech: Internet gambling operation BetOnSports didn’t bet on this plea

  • $41.7 million for running an illegal wire gambling operation source
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16 Aug 2009 11:27

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World: John Yettaw’s free! Here’s the inevitable getting-off-plane pic

Yettaw (center), looks like he’s having a hard enough time walking right now, let alone swimming across a freaking moat. source
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16 Aug 2009 11:16

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U.S., World: Activists: Will Jim Webb’s visit to Myanmar actually bear fruit?

  • It’s too premature to say this is very positive. … It could break the ice.
  • Nyo Ohn Myint • A former aide of Aung San Suu Kyi, on whether Sen. Jim Webb’s meeting with the human rights activist will be of any use to Myanmar’s political climate, as well as personal tensions between Suu Kyi and Senior General Than Shwe. Webb, who supports easing sanctions on the country (also known as Burma), was the first major U.S. politician to meet Than Shwe. Activists say this could be a face-saving situation where the country doesn’t actually give anything up. Either way, at least he got John Yettaw home. • source
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16 Aug 2009 09:57

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Sports: PGA Championship: Tiger Woods has statistics in his favor

  • 14 final-round major leads; he’s never lost when he’s winning that far in source
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16 Aug 2009 09:50

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U.S., World: NASA: We need more money to visit the moon and Mars

  • $18 billion amount the space program gets in its budget each year; its 10-year budget plan was cut significantly – by $30 billion – recently
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    billion     the extra amount NASA says it needs to be able to get to the moon (and later, Mars) by 2020, as is their intended goal source
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16 Aug 2009 09:42

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U.S.: Obama: “Pulling the plug on grandma” = below the belt

  • I know what it’s like to watch somebody you love, who is aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that. We’ve got enough stuff to deal with without having these kinds of arguments.
  • President Barack Obama • Discussing the health care plan in Colorado, specifically in regards to some of the attacks he’s seen regarding the elderly and so-called “death panels.” With these words Obama reminded those at yesterday’s town hall that his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died just last year on the eve of the election. Obama’s tried over the last few days to change the tone of the debate. We’ll see if it works. • source
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16 Aug 2009 09:33

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U.S.: If you’ve felt contact buzz in SoCal lately, blame the wildfires

  • The root of the fires? A marijuana camp. Investigators say that a cooking fire at at Mexican drug trafficking compound is to blame for the La Brea fire, which has already charred more than 84,000 acres. So, both their supply and their hideout just went up in smoke. source
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