Perhaps the single biggest part of “President Elect” Obama’s entire campaign has been his platform of change. Apparently that change is already in action before he even takes office. The first thing to change has the recently established presidential transition website at change.gov
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If you’ve ever had any doubts that some people are not only without brains, but they’re also without any sense (you’ll note I didn’t say common sense, there ain’t no such thing anymore. sense isn’t common at all.) or compassion. The story of a woman facing federal charges over a soda that she refused to pay for and then dumped on the counter will convince you.
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I can’t help but wonder just exactly what some of these parents were thinking when they decided to saddle a kid with a name like “Number 16 Bus Shelter”.
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I know it sounds ridiculous but apparently they actually did it. The “High Heel-a-thon” was held last Wednesday, July 9th. The way Kelly Ripa was talking about it on GMA, it apparently was supposed to be some kind of an answer to the traditional marathon. No, I am not a hamster, I [...]
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Japan is working on deploying visual “age verification” cameras on cigarette vending machines. The idea is to make sure that the person using the machine is actually an adult. Unfortunately, there’s a couple of little flies in that particular ointment.
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At the very least, you can tell that the inmate who escaped from a Van Buren, Arkansas jail felt bad about escaping.
At least, that’s the reason he gave for leaving behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper. Police found this out when they recaptured him the next day. I am not a [...]
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I was kinda blurry this morning when GMA was on and I honestly only remember just this one bit from it. I heard either Robin Roberts Or Diane Sawyer say “Arms are the new legs.”
I have no idea what they were talking about because in my blurry state, I wasn’t actually paying attention. [...]
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I was cruising snopes.com because frankly, you can find some really odd, even funny stuff on there. What’s even better is that some of it is actually true. Such is the case of one Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Baur isn’t exactly very widely known but one part of his [...]
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There’s a guy in Denver that wants the city to be prepared for the arrival of space aliens. He’s so serious about it that he’s proposing an 18 member commission to deal with that eventuality.
Now I am not a hamster but I think it’s pretty safe to say that if space aliens do come [...]
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I have to say that when I saw this on Yahoo’s Odd News I’m glad I wasn’t drinking at the time. I hate having to clean the monitor and keyboard after spraying coffee all over everything.
Florida Sen. Carey Baker has introduced a bill that would ban Metal replicas of bull testicles as bumper ornaments. [...]
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