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Wednesday, January 17
As American Idol is all the Rage, here is a look at old favorite, William Hung... The Butcher of the Bang...
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 11:58 PM EST
Airport's message to cabbies: Drive everyone, or drive no one
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 11:57 PM EST
For the airport, it's about customer service. For taxi drivers, it's about freedom of religion. The
What do Ahmadinejad and Chris Dodd have in common?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 07:52 PM EST
We've known for some time that Hugo Chávez is a menace to the economic well-being of his own people. But the question that seems increasingly urgent is whether he's becoming a threat to
Moscow, Beijing eye space weapons
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 07:28 PM EST
China and Russia are developing space weapons and are among several nations working on systems to threaten U.S. satellites with lasers or missiles, says the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. In Senate testimony last week, Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples for the first time raised Pentagon concerns about secret Chinese and Russian space weapons programs.
Terrorist suspect flees police in mosque
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 07:20 PM EST
A British-born terror suspect was on the run last night after breaking his control order and evading police by taking shelter in a mosque. The man, aged 26, is thought to have escaped abroad after claiming that he wanted to undertake terror training in His disappearance is a further embarrassment for John Reid, the Home Secretary, as he is the third terror suspect under a control order to escape in less than six months.
Dwarf planet 'becoming a comet'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 07:08 PM EST
An unusual dwarf planet discovered in the outer Solar System could be en route to becoming the brightest comet ever known. 2003 EL61 is a large, dense, rugby-ball-shaped hunk of rock with a fast rotation rate. Professor Mike Brown has calculated that the object could be due a close encounter with the planet
Jimmy Carter Interceded on Behalf of Nazi SS Guard
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 07:02 PM EST
A former U.S. Justice Department official disclosed to Arutz-7 that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s advocacy extended beyond the Palestinians, when he interceded on behalf of a Nazi SS man. Neil Sher, a veteran of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigation, described a letter he received from Carter in 1987 in an interview with Israel National Radio’s Tovia Singer. The letter, written and signed by Carter, asked that Sher show “special consideration” for a man proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria.
Airline caves, apologizes and reimburses
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 06:45 PM EST
Seeing as Prince will be swishing and screeching at the Superbowl this year, let's look back at 2002 and U2's tribute to the victims of 9/11
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 05:10 PM EST
Royal British Marines launch a daring recovery in Afghanistan
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Hedley Lamarr
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 03:00 PM EST
Four Royal Marines launched a daring and extraordinary mission to rescue the body of a comrade from an enemy stronghold in Afghanistan by strapping themselves to the wings of two Apache helicopter gunships. Coming under heavy Taleban fire, the marines went back to recoverLance Corporal Mathew Ford, who died on Monday as a 200-strong force launched a dawn offensive on the Jugroom Fort on the east bank of the Helmand River in Garmsir district. He later told Sky News that the soldiers had been under fierce fire as they approached the fort, but remained determined nonetheless not to leave the scene without their colleague. "It was just extraordinary," he added.
Trailer #2 of Frank Miller's "300." A spectacularly gorgeous HD trailer
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 02:58 PM EST
The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 02:45 PM EST
Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. I've noticed that no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists, or alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every single time. With that in mind, allow me to present...
Sultry, thy name is Eve (NSFW)
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 01:43 PM EST
Law groups want Pentagon official fired for boycott remark
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Hedley Lamarr
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:41 PM EST
 Stimson predicted that those firms would suffer financially once their involvement in Guantanamo cases was known to their corporate clients. He then listed law firms involved in Guantanamo cases. Stimson's remarks were aimed at "chilling the willingness" of lawyers to represent Guantanamo detainees and were contrary to the "bedrock principles" of the right to counsel and the presumption on innocence, read the letter signed by the American Association of Jurists, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the National Lawyers Guild and the Society of American Law Teachers. Ah, yes. Not free speech, but an attempted "Chilling effect." Great ... Now we're going to have to see a photograph of the law firm partners, naked, with a bunch of slogans written on them, so they can match their attention whoring along with the dixie chicks.
Carter and Clinton unite to fight Baptists’ ‘negative’ image
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 11:58 AM EST
Racial Hate Feeds a Gang War’s Senseless Killing
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 11:24 AM EST
The Latino gang members were looking for a black person, any black person, to shoot, the police said, and they found one. Cheryl Green, perched near her scooter chatting with friends, was shot dead in a spray of bullets that left several other young people injured. She was 14, an eighth grader who loved junk food and watching Court TV with her mother and had recently written a poem beginning: “I am black and beautiful. I wonder how I will be living in the future.”
Science of how to attract women
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:56 AM EST
A man's face becomes more attractive when other women are seen admiring him, according to psychologists at Aberdeen University's Face Research Lab who based their studies in the city.
East Side Art Dealer Sues Homeless Men
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:49 AM EST
A high-end antique dealer on the Upper East Side is suing four unnamed homeless people for $1 million on the grounds that they've driven away customers by loitering on the sidewalk in "old, warn, and unsanitary clothing and cardboard boxes and old blankets which they convert into sleeping accommodations."
Bush to Cave in Further to the Left; This time giving credibility to the junk science of Global Warming
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:40 AM EST
President Bush will outline a policy on global warming next week in his State of the Union speech but has not dropped his opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, the White House said on Tuesday.
Russian Forces on High Terror Alert
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 02:00 AM EST
Russian authorities have ordered security forces on high alert after receiving information from foreign officials pointing to the threat of a terrorist attack on public transportation, officials said Tuesday.
Jay Mohr: "Soap is Magical" (NSFW Language and Damn Funny)
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:41 AM EST
More scrutiny being given to US government's "too cozy" relationship with CAIR
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:38 AM EST
"We wish the federal government was more aggressive at looking into CAIR, or at least stop working with them and providing them a platform," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group in
Stop to take a leak, Lose $1.3 Million. No Problem...
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:35 AM EST
Thieves snatched one million euros ($1.3 million) worth of jewelry from the trunk of a German designer's car when he left it to relieve himself.
Explosions leave dozens dead in Baghdad; Bomb kills four G.I.'s
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:30 AM EST
An explosion outside a
Commentary: How to end terrorism in the West
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:18 AM EST
Unfortunately, many in the GOP and many "movement conservatives" have been neoconned in the area of foreign policy.
Loving Husband or Child Sexual Predator?
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The Bartender
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:11 AM EST
A 22-year-old Sheboygan father facing felony sex assault charges for having sex with his 16-year-old wife when she was 15 will not face prison time and could avoid jail as well under a plea agreement prosecutors plan to offer this week.
Wake up, Europe: Videos of preaching jihad in Britain's mosques
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:01 AM EST
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