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25 Nov 2009 11:20

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Politics: Swag report: This Black Friday, buy G.O.P. crap from the G.O.P.!

The Republican Party just relaunched its store, where you can buy this GOP elephant. It’s only 5″ tall but costs $35. Perfect for your Young Republican! source
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25 Nov 2009 10:14

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Offbeat: An evil human being callously destroys a huge gingerbread house

  • The people who did this must be full of gingerbread dust, They will smell a long way.
  • Inspector Erik Sveaas • Describing the fate of a gingerbread vandal who destroyed a 650-cookie house town by crushing it, then covering it with paint and fire extinguisher foam. Monster! source
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25 Nov 2009 10:07

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U.S.: Wikileaks intercepts a bunch of pager messages from 9/11, posts them

  • 500,000 pager messages are being posted by information transparency site Wikileaks
  • real-time the speed at which the messages are displaying; it’s happening now if you want to check it out source
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25 Nov 2009 09:57

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World: Pakistan throws out charges in last year’s Mumbai attacks

  • 7were charged in the attacks, which killed 160 people source
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25 Nov 2009 09:49

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Tech, U.S.: Free speech trumps hate speech for Google In Michelle Obama case

  • Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it.
  • A message from Google • Describing their decision to keep a now-removed racist image of Michelle Obama on the site. It wasn’t for reasons of racism, but rather the integrity of the results. The image, which grotesquely portrayed Obama as a monkey, has since been removed by its Chinese owner, who apologized for putting it online, as well as the controversy it caused. source
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