Archive | November, 2010
Disgusting: 1 in 3 South African Men Admit to Rape
The numbers actually get worse, if you can believe it. Nearly 7% admit to having engaged in gang rape. And there’s this: More than 51% of the 511 women interviewed said they’d experienced violence from men, and 78% of men said they’d committed violence against women. A quarter of the women interviewed said they’d been [...]
Chevy Volt’s Official Mileage: 37 MPG on Gasoline
26. November 2010
Behold the future! The poster child for the electric car has just received its official EPA sticker, merely days after Nissan’s Leaf received its own. The Volt has been found to have a 93MPG equivalent when running purely on batteries, while one could expect an average of 37MPG when using petrol alone. In fairness, we’re [...]
Shopper Stabs United States Marine at Best Buy
26. November 2010
A United States Marine is in stable condition after being stabbed by a Best Buy shopper who was engaged in a fight with other shoppers at the electronics store. The Marine, one Corporal Duggan, was helping out the Toys for Tots program at the time of the attack. The suspect, 39-year-old Tracy Attaway, was supposedly [...]
Spanish Woman Claims Ownership of the Sun, Demands Payments
26. November 2010
Yeah, we’ll get right on sending those payments. (AFP) – After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain’s soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property. Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El [...]
WaPo: Obama Following Bush’s Strategy on North Korea Response
26. November 2010
An interesting section from the Washington Post‘s write-up on the dispatch of the USS George Washington to South Korea. In sending in the Navy, Obama is taking a page from the playbook of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who sought to persuade China to partner with the United States to address North Korea’s nuclear program, [...]
Report: Sounds of Artillery Heard Near Attacked South Korean Island
26. November 2010
Reuters is reporting that artillery has been heard near the South Korean island that was attacked by the DPRK a few days ago. However, Voice of America reports that the firing appears to be taking place inside of North Korea, about 10km north of the attacked island. Update: A reporter on the island of Yeonpyeong [...]
Aww: Cher Not a Fan of “Teabaggers”
26. November 2010
I question how much attention Cher actually pays to the news, however. Jay Leno had to inform her that Sarah Palin has a reality show on TLC. I’m pretty sure there are long-lost tribes in the Amazon that know about Sarah Palin’s Alaska by now. Unless I’m missing something and she’s being sarcastic, but that’s [...]
British Girl Arrested for Burning Koran
25. November 2010
A 15-year-old British girl has been arrested for burning an English-language version of the Koran, BBC reports. The incident was discovered after she posted video of the burning on Facebook. As offending Muslims in any way is now effectively illegal in Britain, she was arrested and charged. Catherine Heseltine, chief executive officer of the Muslim [...]
TSA Avoids Opt-Outers by Turning Off Body Scan Machines
25. November 2010
The lack of airport delays on Wednesday wasn’t due to a lack of protesters. Apparently TSA, in anticipation of media coverage of any delays caused by angry passengers, turned off many machines in order to defuse the protest. But the machines aren’t staying off for good; just yesterday. Anticipating a nationwide grassroots surge of protests [...]
TSA Agents Now Insulting Parents Who Object to Strip Searches of Children
25. November 2010
Not only that but apparently the TSA web spokesman lied when he said the child in question had set off the metal detector. The interviewed TSA employee refuses to dispute the claim that the seven-year-old autistic boy didn’t set off an alarm. And yet the kid was strip-searched. So not only does the federal government [...]
26. November 2010
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