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26 Nov 2010 20:53

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Music: Sigh: Willie Nelson arrested for plainly obvious reasons

  • To the arresting officers: Have you guys even heard any of Nelson’s music? Nelson is also known for this specific quote: “Marijuana is like sex. If I don’t do it every day, I get a headache.” So of course Willie had six ounces of pot. Let the man smoke it. Free Willie! (Oh wait.) source
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26 Nov 2010 20:28

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U.S.: Did FedEx ever find that radioactive barrel they lost?

  • YES one less thing to be scared #*^@less about source
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26 Nov 2010 20:22

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World: Lost-at-sea New Zealand teenagers were trying to win over a girl

  • cute Three New Zealand teenagers who wanted to woo a girl they saw went on a trip to see her.
  • scary Instead of finding her, they got lost without food, water or any sort of long-term supplies.
  • crazy The teens were rescued 50 days later, which should make that girl not feel guilty at all. source
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26 Nov 2010 16:09

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Tech: The Pirate Bay’s legal troubles – better in some ways, worse in others

  • good Three of the four principals behind Bittorrent site The Pirate Bay got their prison sentences cut to under a year – the fourth was ill and will be sentenced later.
  • bad While their sentences were cut, the monetary damages to be paid to various content providers were raised – from $4.2 million to roughly $6.6 million. source
  • » But really, the thing to take from this is … Despite the legal troubles the Swedish site has faced lately, it’s still up. Can we just offer them a hand for somehow keeping this site up despite all of the trouble they’ve been facing? That’s kind of amazing.
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26 Nov 2010 15:55

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World: Saudi Arabia arrests dozens of suspected terrorists in raid

  • 149 number of people the Saudis arrested on terrorism charges
  • 124 number of Saudi nationals among the 149 people arrested
  • 19 number of al-Qaeda terror cells who had members arrested
  • $600k amount of money Saudi police found among the terror cells source
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26 Nov 2010 15:37

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World: South Korean civilians quickly escape North Korean shelling target

  • I’m very sorry to leave my hometown. Once it was paradise, now it’s hell.
  • South Korean homemaker Choi In-young • On being forced to leave Yeonpyeong Island in the wake of continued threats from North Korea, including the shelling earlier this week which led to the first civilian casualties since the Korean War ended. While Choi’s house survived, others were not so lucky. “All the windows in my home were knocked out,” she says. “My home is still safe, but I saw smoke from houses around me.” Can anyone decipher the collective paranoia North Korea has right now? source
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26 Nov 2010 15:18

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Offbeat: National emergency: Obama busted his lip playing hoops

  • 12 stitches needed; don’t miss this week’s YouTube address source
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26 Nov 2010 15:11

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U.S.: Looks like a job for Radioactive Man: FedEx loses radioactive barrel

  • normalFedEx regularly ships small amounts of radioactive material, within compliance of federal and state regulations. (We’re guessing UPS does the same thing.)
  • abnormal FedEx lost a big barrel of Germanium on one of its routes, causing a mad scramble. If it stays in its lead barrel, we’re safe. If not … hope you don’t find it. source
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26 Nov 2010 11:51

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U.S.: Retired NYC fire marshal: I wanna kill Obama, then myself

  • It had been a good solid fifteen months or so. We were due for another one of these. Seems that Michael Bowden, a 77-year-old retired police officer and fire marshal who worked in NYC, had discussed a plan to kill Obama – and then himself – because he was not doing enough to help out African-Americans. (Bowden is white, by the way.) Police checked his Spartanburg, South Carolina home and found a ton of loaded semiautomatic weapons next to his bed, suggesting that he was well along with his plan. Obama has faced a handful of assassination plots like these, but generally it’s not because Obama is doing too little to help black people. So this is new. source
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26 Nov 2010 10:06

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U.S., World: The U.S. really freaking angry with Wikileaks right now (again)

  • WikiLeaks are an absolutely awful impediment to my business, which is to be able to have discussions in confidence with people. I do not understand the motivation for releasing these documents. They will not help; they will simply hurt our ability to do our work here.
  • U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey • Loudly voicing his frustration with Wikileaks, which plans to release thousands of diplomatic cables in the next few days. Let’s just say that the U.S. is gearing up for the worst-case scenario, which involves them having to explain to its allies why it’s privately talking crap about them and revealing things that were told to them in confidence. source
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