Posts Tagged ‘ Hopeful Ignorance ’

Pakistani flood victims, burning straw and waving sticks, blocked a highway on Monday to demand government help as aid agencies warned relief was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes. Public anger has grown in the two weeks of floods, highlighting potential political troubles for an unpopular government overwhelmed...
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin defended a misspelling on her Twitter account with the argument: “Shakespeare liked to coin new words too.” The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee’s initial tweet Sunday called on peaceful Muslims to “refudiate” plans for a mosque near the World Trade Center site in New York, the Christian Science Monitor...
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Dade City, Florida – Pasco deputies arrested a long-time employee of a travel company who told detectives she “felt like Robin Hood” after an audit revealed she stole more than $250,000. Cynthia Watson, 48, was taken into custody yesterday and charged with grand theft. Watson told sheriff’s detectives that she “felt like Robin Hood”...
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A Romanian model who wants to improve the country’s image has started a new political party for beautiful people. Sanziana Buruiana wants to heavily tax overweight citizens – at a rate of €10 per kilo overweight – and punish anybody making ‘dumb blonde’ jokes. ‘Anyone like that needs to be put in prison,’ said...
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A lengthy legal battle between Kentucky and Ohio over who owns the now infamous Indian Head Rock pulled from the Ohio River in September 2007 has officially come to an end. For generations, Indian Head Rock jutted out of the waters of the Ohio River near Greenup County, Ky. It served as a navigation...
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Chief Eddie Skookum of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation was denied a reduction in bail today after his attorney argued he should be treated with diplomatic immunity. Skookum, 56, was charged with assault and impaired driving in Haines, Alaska last weekend after a 21-year-old woman was assaulted and abandoned, bloody, in the Captain’s Choice...
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The general manager of the Old Country Buffet faces felony theft charges for gambling away nearly $20,000 he stole from the restaurant. His plan: to use it to gamble at Jumer’s Casino in Rock Island, Ill., deposit the restaurant’s money when he was finished and pocket the earnings. The problem: Vernia lost it all,...
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Massive compo claim: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion ($75 trillion) in compensation for six decades of hostility. The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost of the damage done by the US since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is...
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House Democrats are readying an alternative budget measure that would set next year’s spending levels without requiring a vote on deficits House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.) said the alternative would be the “functional equivalent” of a full-fledged budget. But because it won’t be a traditional budget resolution, it will be silent on...
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Anita van der Sloot Speaks For The First Time Since Her Son’s Arrest Joran van der Sloot’s mother still believes her son is innocent, insisting in an email obtained exclusively by ABC News that “he is not a murderer.” Anita van der Sloot hasn’t spoken publicly since her son’s arrest in Peru, until now....
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