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Friday, August 1
Favre could get paid to stay OFF the field
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Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 10:42 PM EDT
Brett Favre’s reinstatement to the NFL was held up again Friday as the three-time MVP mulled getting paid not to play through a marketing deal with the Green Bay Packers that could resolve the standoff over his retirement. The potential agreement, worth a reported $20 million over 10 years, might end Favre’s bid to return just months after retiring. It also would likely keep him from reporting to Packers training camp and a team that is not planning to start him at quarterback for the first time since 1992.
Top 10 Strangest Hotels in the World
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 08:50 PM EDT
Think Bill Gates during caveman times and you get Beckham Creek Cave Haven. This ultimately “luxurious cave” features jacauzzi bathtubs and large windows for lighting. More>>>
The Pranksters in the McCain Camp just churned out another one... this just keeps getting better.
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 05:01 PM EDT
Twins fans so unruly that Sox flee the field
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 02:10 PM EDT
As Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire stormed off the field following his latest ejection, he punted his cap high over his head and back onto the turf. The emotional exit fired up his Twins and sparked them to a four-run inning. But it also ignited the Metrodome crowd to nasty results. More>>>
Gallup Daily Tracking Poll: TIED!
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Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:29 PM EDT
According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from July 29-31, John McCain and Barack Obama are now tied at 44% in the preferences of national registered voters. More>>>
"What about the black community Obama?"
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:26 PM EDT
African American protestors holding a banner reading "What about the black community Obama?" heckled Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Florida on Friday. Three men stood up as Obama was talking about the economy during a townhall meeting in St Petersburg in Florida, a key battleground state in Obama's duel with Republican John McCain in November's election. More>>>
Apparent suicide in anthrax case
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:10 PM EDT
One of the nation's top biodefense researchers has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001 that killed five, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the past 18 years worked at the government's elite biodefense research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of the impending prosecution... More>>>
Wife Sues Philandering iBanker Husband For Giving Her Genital Warts
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Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 12:47 PM EDT
File this in the more-than-we-needed-to-know department: The wife of an investment banker (soon to be ex-husband; they're in the midst of a divorce, thankfully) alleges that he spent his downtime on business trips engaging in unprotected sex with hookers--and that the present he brought back for her was HPV. More>>>
Lawsuit goes after Tom Cruise, Church of Scientology
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 12:45 PM EDT
Tom Cruise is named in a $250 million federal lawsuit that is using the RICO statute against the Church of Scientology. Ex-Scientologist Peter Letterese, a longtime critic of the church, filed suit in Southern District Court in Florida on July 15 alleging, among other things, that members of the church harassed him after he left. More>>>
More proof that many environmentalists are brain-dead: Wind farms are bad for the environment because they suck up all the wind and Prairie Chickens.
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 12:13 PM EDT
Windmills have dotted the Kansas countryside for well over a century. But now a bigger, more powerful breed is sprouting up. Steve Trent is concerned. "There's going to be people who make a lot of money off this and the rest of us are going to suffer," Trent says. More>>>
NYT: The Trolls Among Us
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Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 11:25 AM EDT
The Trolls Among Us: Weev (not, of course, his real name) is part of a growing Internet subculture with a fluid morality and a disdain for pretty much everyone else online. The New York Times takes on 4Chan.org: "Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand." More>>>
Senator 'Pander Bear' is out trying to buy votes
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 11:12 AM EDT
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.” The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall. (Thanks to our man Tim!) More>>>
Since the government is swimming in cash, Bush signs bill to triple AIDS funding
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 11:09 AM EDT
President Bush signed legislation Wednesday that triples U.S. funding to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world. The five-year, $48 billion plan renews a program credited with saving millions of lives in Africa alone and is widely seen as one of the major achievements of the Bush presidency. More>>>
'Fitness pill' being developed
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 11:04 AM EDT
Scientists are moving closer to developing a pill which could deliver some of the benefits of exercise - even for those who do not move a muscle. The journal Cell reports US researchers now have two possible pills which appear able to build muscle, increase stamina and even burn fat. More>>>
More Fallout following Obama's Dirty Dealing of the Race Card
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:56 AM EDT
Senator John McCain's campaign accused Senator Barack Obama on Thursday of playing "the race card," citing his remarks that Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." The exchange injected racial politics front and center into the general election campaign for the first time, after it became a subtext in the primary between Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, charged in a statement with which McCain later said he agreed. "It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong." More>>>
WSJ: Wal-Mart Warns of Democrat Win
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:52 AM EDT
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.
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Danny Way Big Air Contest Crash X Games 14 2008
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:43 AM EDT
Ouch...
Shorts Crack the Code
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:00 AM EDT
FTA "Then the bare ankle migrated from country-club Saturdays to meeting-room Mondays and suddenly men, whether shod in wingtips or loafers, were widely seen without socks. Now it appears that, after some stops and starts in recent seasons, the men of the white collar work force are marching into the office in shorts." Shorts? Why not. With coats and ties? Hmmm... I think that sort of fashion is worn by a d-o-r-k. -Riley More>>>
Top 13 Fictional Locations We Wish Really Existed...Or Not.
by
Riley Jones
on Fri 01 Aug 2008 12:00 AM EDT
Ever since Dorothy Gale’s house got caught in the mother of all updrafts, Oz has been the gold standard for imaginary realms. It’s more fanciful than Narnia and has cooler footwear than Middle Earth. The verdant beauty of the Emerald City is something to behold, as is the light-hearted, if vaguely creepy, singing of the Munchkins. More>>> |
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