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29 Aug 2010 11:58

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U.S.: Protip to Fred Phelps anti-protesters: Two wrongs don’t make right

  • bad A bunch of Westboro Baptist Church protesters were at a marine’s funeral in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday.
  • worse The protesters were reportedly pepper-sprayed by some dude in a Ford F-150. That dude got arrested. source
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28 Aug 2010 11:48

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U.S.: “Ground Zero Mosque”: Park51 developers could get public financing

  • If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we’d certainly consider it.
  • Scott Sieber, a spokesperson for NYC city comptroller John Liu • On the possibility that the Park51 site will receive tax-free financing. Backing from Liu, a Democrat who supports the “Ground Zero Mosque” project, could be just what the project needs. The developers are trying to raise $70 million in tax-exempt debt for the project, which has mostly been troubled with overwraught drama thus far. source
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27 Aug 2010 18:12

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U.S.: Want to block the government from tracking your car? Use this

  • Why you need this You’re a mad hax0r and you think some government duders are trying to track you because they put a GPS on your rig. Which now they can legally do thanks to a decision by the 9th District Appeals Court.

    What this thang doesIt’s a signal jammer. It jams your GPS signal so said mad government jerks cannot attack you or your privacy. Or you’re a conspiracy theorist who thinks he’s being trailed by the government. Or you’re the Unabomber’s son. source

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27 Aug 2010 12:50

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U.S.: Can police put a GPS unit on your car without a warrant?

  • YES that’s what a federal appeals court ruled source
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27 Aug 2010 12:21

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U.S., World: From Danielle to Fiona, the hurricane season starts to pick up

  • danielle The storm just turned into a category 4 today and is headed for Bermuda. It’ll cause high waves on the mainland.
  • earl Tropical Storm Earl is right behind and should be a hurricane by Saturday. It could hit the East Coast.
  • fionaThere’s a little baby storm right behind Earl that hasn’t been named yet. Could that be Fiona? Maybe. source
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26 Aug 2010 10:52

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U.S.: Now cab drivers in NYC are getting stabbed ‘cuz they’re Muslim

  • crazy A New York cabbie was allegedly attacked by some film student the other night. He had been stabbed multiple times.
  • crazier Said student was a volunteer for a pro-unity group who had been to Afghanistan before. Which is screwed up. source
  • » Hey, over-the-top Mosque haters, read this. The cabbie, Ahmed Sharif, had this to say about the whole “Ground Zero Mosque” thing, which has been blown out of proportion at this point: “I feel very sad. I have been here more than 25 years. I have been driving a taxi more than 15 years. All my four kids were born here. I never [felt] this hopeless and insecure before.” He plans to also hold a news conference today and talk with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Can we just emphasize how insane it is that a cabbie reportedly got attacked for his religion?
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26 Aug 2010 10:35

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U.S.: Egg recall expands again: You jerks buying cage-free organic yet?

  • 2 new store brands have been added to the recall list source
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25 Aug 2010 10:17

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U.S.: Alaska Senate race: Sarah Palin’s candidate could beat incumbent

  • 1,960 Joe Miller’s current lead over Lisa Murkowski source
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24 Aug 2010 21:30

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U.S.: Why did the U.S. decide not to vaccinate hens from salmonella?

  • The U.S. chose not to force hens to get vaccinated for Salmonella. They claimed there wasn’t enough evidence that it did anything. (And it wouldn’t raise costs much; it’d cost less than a penny per dozen eggs.) With the very large egg-tainting problem in the U.S., it’s probably good to look at what happened after Britain mandated hen vaccinations:
  • 14,771the number of cases in England and Wales caused by the most common strain of salmonella in 1997, the year a new hen vaccine was tested by the country’s farmers
  • 581the number of cases in England and Wales last year, a decrease of 96 percent; the hen vaccine, which has been in use since 1998, has helped lead to yearly declines source
  • » So why didn’t they? Well, the FDA, while it claims that it looked at the vaccine seriously, said that there were significant differences between the U.S. version of the vaccine and the British one. The vaccine-maker, however, says that the differences were minor and the drugs were equally effective. Meanwhile, the current recall is at around 550 million eggs.
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23 Aug 2010 20:58

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U.S.: Sea World gets fined for letting killer whale do what it does best

  • $75,000 fine for safety violations source
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