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23 Sep 2009 11:01

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Offbeat: One drug raid turns into nine hours of “Wii Bowling”

  • We’re imagining the cops involved in the previous story we posted doing this. 1,100 police officers each taking turns playing Wii Bowling after they got done arresting the members of the Avenues gang. Man, wouldn’t that be a massive waste of police resources?
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23 Sep 2009 10:54

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U.S.: Avenues no more? A massive raid could end a notorious gang

  • There are parents today that don’t have to run to the bus stop to make sure that their kids don’t get jumped because they have an iPod or because they are carrying books or because they have lunch money. This is the daily terror that gangs like Avenues impose.
  • Los Angeles-area councilman Ed Reyes • Describing the campaign of terror the notorious Avenues gang brought to his community. Yesterday, the gang got raided like nobody’s business. 1,100 police officers and 300 federal agents descended on the gang, arresting 46 alleged members. Avenues has been operating in northeast Los Angeles since the late ’50s • source
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23 Sep 2009 10:44

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Politics: Republicans > Democrats when it comes to Twitter

  • 101 Republican congressmen have Twitter accounts to pontificate all short-like
  • 57 Democrats do the same; the left just needs more than 140 characters to complain source
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23 Sep 2009 10:40

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Biz: Medical malpractice leads to more wasteful medical spending

  • $60 billion each year spent on wasteful CYA treatment source
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23 Sep 2009 10:32

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Politics: Will ACORN’s dramarama hurt Obama? Probably not.

  • unlikely Some conservatives want the stink of the ACORN scandal to rub off on Obama. The president has long-ago ties to the organization.
  • likely More likely is that, since Obama isn’t actually tied to the scandal, it’ll merely reinforce conservative opinions on Obama. source
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23 Sep 2009 10:22

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Culture: Mackenzie Phillips’ tell-all novel tells way too much, guys

  • Say it ain’t so, Papa John! Mackenzie Phillips grew up as the very kind of child star you read about in the headlines. The daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas, she was known in her own right as star of “One Day at a Time.” But a long history of drug abuse followed, which Phillips recounts in her new book “High on Arrival,” out today. Also today, Phillips will be on Oprah’s couch today talking about that and the revelation that her father had a long-term sexual relationship with her. Gah! source
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23 Sep 2009 09:33

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World: Sydney Dust Storm: So, this is what it’s like to live on Mars

  • This photo comes from Flicker user Shishberg, who’s one of many great photogs to take on what make the the craziest #(^@()! storm to hit a major metropolitan area in years. source
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