In perhaps what will become renowned as proof more money should be spent to cure Alzheimer’s, 93 year-old James Mason and his 85 year-old girlfriend Peggy Clark are set to become Britain’s oldest newly-weds.  How is something like this possible you ask?  Viagra?  Cialis?  Retardation? Continue Reading »

Barry Bonds, baseball’s record home run hitter, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

The indictment charges Barry Bonds with lying when he said he didn’t knowingly take steroids.
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Canada was home to thousands of draft dodgers during the Vietnam war, but it’s Supreme Court ruled against providing refugee status for Americans who have fled to Canada. Unlike the draft dodgers of Vietnam the several dozen AWOL Americans will not be provided refugee status in Canada. The most obvious reason is that the current deserters were not draftees, but signed up to serve in a volunteer military. Continue Reading »

“Google cannot and will not censor the information which appears on its search engines. What is and isn’t proper internet content is for governments and courts to decide, not for us,” said Meir Brand, CEO of Google Israel Monday.
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Santas across Sydney are rebelling against attempts to ban their traditional greeting of “ho, ho, ho” in favour of “ha, ha, ha”.

Recruitment firm Westaff - which supplies hundreds of Santas across the country - has told its trainees that the “ho ho ho” phrase could frighten children and could even be derogatory to women.
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An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.

Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty “roots” began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.
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Tennessee authorities say a father is accused of raping two teenage daughters and forcing them wear electric dog collars.

The father is charged with aggravated child abuse and two counts of rape. And his wife also faces charges. Prosecutors say she knew about the use of dog collars but not the alleged sexual assaults. She faces charges of aggravated child abuse and failure to report child abuse.
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According to CNN’s November 15 “American Morning” Shell president John Hofmeister has gotten hate mail and even a death threat because of the price of gasoline.
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A court in the Islamic based kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sentenced a 19-year-old female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

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A week after lawmakers shamed its executives as moral “pygmies,” Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of two Chinese journalists thrown into jail for dissidence after the company disclosed their identities to local police.

Yahoo promised to pay the families’ legal bills and to create a fund to “provide support to other political dissidents and their families,” but the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company wouldn’t disclose other details of the agreement. Continue Reading »