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	<title>Retard News &#187; International Retards</title>
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		<title>Casino steals from jackpot customer</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/12/14/casino-steals-from-jackpot-customer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are in Vegas, Atlantic City, or Macau, when the lights and noises start erupting on a slot machine it&#8217;s obvious that money is won. When the lawyers get involved and the court system needs to intervene, it&#8217;s not slot machine winning but casino mind-changing that is occurring. What would you do if a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you are in Vegas, Atlantic City, or Macau, when the lights and noises start erupting on a slot machine it&#8217;s obvious that money is won. When the lawyers get involved and the court system needs to intervene, it&#8217;s not slot machine winning but casino mind-changing that is occurring. What would you do if a casino tried trading your $57,000,000 winning slot pull into $100.00 and a cheap dinner?<span id="more-1167"></span></p>
<p>If you were Behar Merlaku and a 26-year-old slot machine winner, you would find a way to get the extra $56,999,900 and would employ lawyers to help you.</p>
<p>Casinos Austria AG, the company that runs the casino in Bregenz, Austria along with other casinos in other places, is claiming that a software glitch caused the win. Because of the blame of the software glitch, the casino found a way to successfully not have to pay out the win. Will they really get away with it? Maybe&#8230;</p>
<p>Now the disgruntled Behar is to launch a lawsuit in Austria next month to force the casino to follow through with the &#8216;win&#8217;, his lawyers say he is entitled to because of the what machine said. But what if the slot machine instead of saying &#8220;win $57 million&#8221; it said &#8220;slam your face into wall until dead&#8221; would be required to honor the request?</p>
<p>Since the casino will prove that the error occurred and can prove the problem exists, they will get out of having to pay anything and the winner will become a loser with his lost bet and now lawyer costs.</p>
<p>Good luck to the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072802/Man-wins-37m-fruit-machine-jackpot--offered-60-free-meal-instead.html" target="_blank">cheating casino</a>.</p>
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		<title>Aquaman closer to evolution than Superman</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/12/14/aquaman-closer-to-evolution-than-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in (news sounds in the background of busy typewriters or old dot matrix printers)&#8230;. Hopping fish might mean that evolution occurred underwater before it occurred nowhere (and by nowhere it means everywhere that science exists and religion is stupid). After some scientific studying took place a bunch of people with degrees in something [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This just in (news sounds in the background of busy typewriters or old dot matrix printers)&#8230;. Hopping fish might mean that evolution occurred underwater before it occurred nowhere (and by <em>nowhere</em> it means everywhere that science exists and religion is stupid). After some scientific studying took place a bunch of people with degrees in something scientific sounding issued an opinion on air-breathing fish.<span id="more-1166"></span></p>
<p>The conclusion is that evolution of man and mammals and birds and world-of-warcraft all originated from fish.</p>
<p>Scientists found that the African lungfish can lift its body clear off the floor and propel itself forward using limbs instead of fish faces and smelliness.</p>
<p>The lungfish is an ugly looking animal, so instead of telling you all about the specialness of air breathing fish, let us imagine something about super heroes instead.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.livescience.com/17426-bounding-lungfish-origin-walking.html" target="_blank">Aquaman better than Superman</a>.</p>
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		<title>Worst sacrifice note ever found late</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/07/07/worst-sacrifice-note-ever-found-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there are acts of heroism that go noticed, sometimes there are acts of heroism that go unnoticed, and then there are the times that something happens that makes you laugh at the pure sadness of timing. Welcome to the sadness story only made retarded with the help of the parents. In Nadia, India a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes there are acts of heroism that go noticed, sometimes there are acts of heroism that go unnoticed, and then there are the times that something happens that makes you laugh at the pure sadness of timing.  Welcome to the sadness story only made retarded with the help of the parents.<span id="more-1154"></span></p>
<p>In Nadia, India a twelve year old &#8212; not twenty-something year old, but a 12 year old who probably already had enough of a crap life &#8212; decided to help the family.</p>
<p>What sort of sacrifice would Mumpy &#8230; wait, what? Serious? Parents named a child <em>Mumpy</em>? Maybe this story isn&#8217;t about a girl sarcrificing herself for others but of a sacrifice to end an existence without the happiness that <em>Jennifer</em>, <em>Stacy</em>, <em>Paris</em>, <em>Lindsay</em>, and <em>Bertha</em> could experience because their parents were more creative.</p>
<p>Well, <em>Mumpy</em>, figured that she could help her father save his eye sight, save her brother&#8217;s life with a kidney transplant, and keep from being placed into a<strike> slave </strike> arranged marriage where a possible dowry could cost the family money.</p>
<p>Mumpy ended her own life, committing suicide, leaving a note explaining her feelings and wishes that the family continue on with her memory but mostly for her family to keep living healthy and functional lives.</p>
<p>The note was found one day <strong>after</strong> Mumpy was cremated.</p>
<p><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-04/india/29735331_1_kidney-transplant-eye-surgery-girl-ends-life">Suicide failure</a></p>
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		<title>Police miss largest safety belt violation ever</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/05/17/police-miss-largest-safety-belt-violation-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 22:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in Chiapas, Mexico stopped two trucks heading toward the United States. The trucks are described as being trailer and though there are no reports so far, this could be a huge fine for the drivers as the penaly for being a coyote is bad but having up to pay for the seatbelt violation in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Police in Chiapas, Mexico stopped two trucks heading toward the United States. The trucks are described as being <em>trailer</em> and though there are no reports so far, this could be a huge fine for the drivers as the penaly for being a coyote is bad but having up to pay for the seatbelt violation in the smaller truck would be over $19,200!<span id="more-1138"></span></p>
<p>The two trucks, filled with 240 and 273 <strike>animals</strike> people were pulled over after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint. Of course the drivers weren&#8217;t thinking too clearly when they started stacking people 4 or 6 high on top of each other in order to fit them all in the trailer.</p>
<p>Though this is an outstanding quantity of people for such a respectively little quantity of vehicles being used during the seemingly innocent transportation, it is not even the largest stopping and finding of Mexicans attempting to cross the border illegally. There are other coyotes that claim those titles.</p>
<p>Maybe the United States wanted to have the potential of collecting $42,800 in seatbelt violation fines.</p>
<p>What else could you do with two trucks and 513 people?</p>
<ul>
<li>create 73 soccer teams (w/two substitute players)</li>
<li>find more Obama supporters</li>
<li>organize largest salsa dance group for Guiness Book</li>
<li>celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style</li>
<li>double the occupancy of a regular Mexican household</li>
<li>have 9 consecutive timed games of 52 pickup</li>
<li>lower 24 hoopties in 24 hours</li>
<li>hunt down the chupacabra</li>
</ul>
<p>Until you find something better to do with millions of illegal and Mexican speaking <strike>cattle</strike> people, maybe you can find something to do with the 513 that are going to finding more ways to save $7,000 per person.</p>
<p><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/05/17/mexico.migrants/" target="_blank">Read more Mexican insanity</a></p>
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		<title>The British don&#8217;t believe in heaven</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/05/16/the-british-dont-believe-in-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 20:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being British isn&#8217;t the problem, though that&#8217;s not a benefit unless you are paid to speak unintelligibly or be royalty; the problem is that Stephen Hawking isn&#8217;t afraid of the dark and now he&#8217;s trying to scare the world&#8217;s population of nyctophobia-ists. That&#8217;s right, RetardNews is breaking the news now about the dark! It&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being British isn&#8217;t the problem, though that&#8217;s not a benefit unless you are paid to speak unintelligibly or be royalty; the problem is that Stephen Hawking isn&#8217;t afraid of the dark and now he&#8217;s trying to scare the world&#8217;s population of nyctophobia-ists.  That&#8217;s right, RetardNews is breaking the news now about the dark!<span id="more-1132"></span></p>
<p>It&#8217;s been questioned if heaven is real or imaginary. Hawking is convinced that heaven is non-existing, which is a very difficult statement to back up as a scientist, as Hawking is unable to prove the existence of heaven, hell, or even the feeling of winning a running race.</p>
<p><em>Hawking, I&#8217;m proposing to you that not only is there a heaven, but that people have been actively communicating with heaven&#8217;s residents!</em></p>
<p>Could you prove that heaven exists?  Of course not.  If it were able to be proven, it wouldn&#8217;t be up for a discussion in any way (you don&#8217;t often hear philosophical discussions about the possible existence of <em></em> or <em></em>).  Hawking, I challenge you to <strike>a challenge</strike> <strike>challenging the unchallengeable</strike> <strike>singing competition</strike> <strike>foot race</strike> <strike>finding Osama bin Laden death photos</strike> <strong>disprove heaven&#8217;s existence</strong>.  Because it&#8217;s a challenge, there must be a competitor.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not in the position to challenge Stevie Hawking, he&#8217;s the smartest wheel-chair-bound scientist I have never met. He&#8217;s really not in a position to challenge the retarded though, as technically that would be like a wheelchair bound handicapped man being a bully&#8230; ha ha ha!</p>
<p>Well, read more about the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4f8ccccd2e38de074f4c1305131c47e4.491&#038;show_article=1" target="_blank">anti-nyctophobia Stephen Hawking</a>.</p>
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		<title>Catholicism turns woman into vampire</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/04/04/catholicism-turns-woman-into-vampire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you see the name Maria Jose Cristerna it means nothing to you, what would you care if some woman took on a challenge as great and nearly impossible as Maria &#8220;Vampire Woman&#8221; Cristerna has decided to bite off. It seems that after an incredibly Catholic upbringing the Mexican lawyer decided to ward off Catholics [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you see the name Maria Jose Cristerna it means nothing to you, what would you care if some woman took on a challenge as great and nearly impossible as Maria &#8220;Vampire Woman&#8221; Cristerna has decided to bite off.  It seems that after an incredibly Catholic upbringing the Mexican lawyer decided to ward off Catholics by going extreme.<span id="more-1126"></span></p>
<p>When Maria was brought up in a religious home with teachings and followings to help shape her <strike>cult</strike> <em>Catholic</em> life, little did her parents know that she would eventually tattoo nearly 100% of her body (like other <a href="http://retardzone.com/2007/09/26/thinking-about-getting-a-tattoo/" target="_blank">retarded tattoo</a> seekers). When tattoos weren&#8217;t enough, Maria decided it was time to go all-in.</p>
<p>Maria has also added multiple piercings to her face. Titanium implants. Eye color changing. Dental implants (fangs). And was surgically implanted with the world&#8217;s most extreme ugly stick.</p>
<p>Of course, having this sort of person with little self-control and most definitely no sense of intellect, wouldn&#8217;t be quite right unless they could help plague the rest of society, so Maria keeps her four kids close by so they will be able to grow up in the presence of a side-show-entertainer that has no show.</p>
<p>When Maria gets around to your area of the afterlife you know that you must have been Osama Bin Laden &#038; Hitler&#8217;s love-child.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://retardnews.com/uploads/2011/crazy-freak-2.jpg" /></center></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3508204/Vampire-Woman-bit-back-with-tatts.html" target="_blank">More about Maria the Catholic Vampire</a>.</p>
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		<title>First blog stalker ever jailed</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2011/03/11/first-blog-stalker-ever-jailed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Andreassen is the first blogger to be jailed for stalking by way of a blog. This isn&#8217;t really something impressive, since any moron could do something to get in trouble via written words, but creating over 30 website blogs in order to stalk one person, that&#8217;s something only one person would do and get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stephen Andreassen is the first blogger to be jailed for <em>stalking</em> by way of a blog. This isn&#8217;t really something impressive, since any moron could do something to get in trouble via written words, but creating over 30 website blogs in order to stalk one person, that&#8217;s something only one person would do and get in trouble for doing, and that person is Blog Stalker Stephen.<span id="more-900"></span></p>
<p>The 38-year-old was seeing the object of his <strike>obsession</strike> affection, Miss Rebecca &#8220;I-Hate-Bloggers&#8221; Pattinson, who he had been seeing (in his mind as well as physically) for three years. I think that after three years, if there&#8217;s no stalking than there&#8217;s no love.</p>
<p>When the overly-aggressive Stephen tried to convince Rebecca that they should move into a place together, the mother of two up-and-coming-bloggers refused to co-habitate, ending their relationship.  That&#8217;s when the crazy got crazier&#8230;</p>
<p>Andreassen started calling, emailing, texting, messaging, bought some carrier pigeons (from Mike Tyson) and even started to hire trained monkeys to annoy the crap out of Miss Pattinson in hopes of driving her insane, and hence back into the arms of the freakies.</p>
<p>Like most men that are left holding their own man-meat when their woman leaves, Stephen headed down to crazy town &#8211; occupancy, one.</p>
<p>If you keep reading the article, you&#8217;ll learn about 200 sleeping pills, attempted suicide, some Scotland Yard stuff too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8370949/Spurned-lover-is-first-person-jailed-for-stalking-by-blog.html" target="_blank">Article link for retard stalker</a>.</p>
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		<title>Not the third eye</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2010/11/24/not-the-third-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people think that what is stupid is art and some people think that art imitates life and others think that putting a camera into their head and walking around for a year is a great idea. There are some things that are done for no reason except attention, say hello to Wafaa Bilal. Of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes people think that what is stupid is art and some people think that art imitates life and others think that putting a camera into their head and walking around for a year is a great idea.  There are some things that are done for no reason except attention, say hello to Wafaa Bilal.<span id="more-881"></span></p>
<p>Of course there is money involved and possible legacies that could last as long as other huge phenoms (red paperclip, blue ferrari, craig&#8217;s list killer).</p>
<p>Why would a non-mentally impaired person do something like this?  You could contact the NYU school of stupidity and ask to speak with Bilal, but I would rather take pictures of him than have to listen to him speak.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am going about my daily life as I did before the procedure.&#8221;</p>
<p>Really now? What was life like when you walked around with a camera lens sticking out of your head before?</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://mathaf.org.qa/" target="_blank">Arab Museum of Modern Art</a></p>
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		<title>Smokers give themselves a headache too</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2009/09/16/smokers-give-themselves-a-headache-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a study from Spain, cigarette smoking can act as a precipitating factor for headaches, specifically migraines. Furthermore, this investigation of 361 medical students at the University of Salamanca found that smokers have more frequent migraine attacks and that smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day can trigger this headache. In the study, 16% [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to a study from Spain, cigarette smoking can act as a precipitating factor for headaches, specifically migraines. Furthermore, this investigation of 361 medical students at the University of Salamanca found that smokers have more frequent migraine attacks and that smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day can trigger this headache.<span id="more-866"></span></p>
<p>In the study, 16% of all students fulfilled migraine criteria and 20% of all students were smokers. However, the percentage of migraineurs who smoked was greater (29%) and migraine frequency in those who were both migraine sufferers and smokers was higher than in those who were nonsmoking migraine sufferers. Therefore smoking clearly seems to be a precipitating factor for this type of headache and there also was a direct relationship between the number of cigarettes consumed and the frequency of migraine attacks, with migraines typically provoked by smoking more than 5 daily cigarettes. Although a greater percentage of students with migraines smoked, they actually smoked less than those who did not suffer migraines; apparently, the migraineurs knew they were more likely to have an attack if they exceeded the 5 cigarette limit, so the prospect of pain was a self-limiting factor.</p>
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		<title>New definition for drunken master</title>
		<link>http://retardnews.com/2009/09/09/new-definition-for-drunken-master/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of those following the Kolkata Open chess competition will inevitably remember Vladislav Tkachiev for the ‘doze-after-overdose’ act. Even otherwise, the Russian settled in France after a stopover in Kazakhstan doesn’t conform to the average Indian’s idea of the staid world of chess. His love for alcohol is as well known as his profound talent, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of those following the Kolkata Open chess competition will inevitably remember Vladislav Tkachiev for the ‘doze-after-overdose’ act.</p>
<p>Even otherwise, the Russian settled in France after a stopover in Kazakhstan doesn’t conform to the average Indian’s idea of the staid world of chess.<span id="more-864"></span></p>
<p>His love for alcohol is as well known as his profound talent, he is hardly seen without a cigarette when he is not playing, his fascination for the blitz form —what T20 is to cricket —once led him to say “blitz changes reality…the light seems brighter and beer tastes sweeter” and he had initiated a ‘chess beauty contest’ with brother Evgeny. Lack of funds shut down the venture within a year after inception, in 2006.</p>
<p>Tkachiev is turning up in dark glasses after the drunken third-round forfeiture on Thursday. As he spoke about the aborted beauty contest, the stubble on his face turned golden in the fading light giving him the look of a true maverick. </p>
<p>“The idea was to show that women who play chess are not just intelligent. They are sexy, beautiful and why not have a contest to find out the best. Another important reason was to make the game popular by bringing it out of its boring confines,” Tkachiev told HT.</p>
<p>According to their plans, women chess players would send ‘offbeat’ photographs of themselves to be posted on the contest’s website. </p>
<p>They received about 400 entries with WGMs Natalija Pogonina, Maria Manakova and Almira Skripchenko amomg them. Tkachiev said there were a few Indians too, but couldn’t recall the names. </p>
<p>“We had planned an awards gala with $10,000 for the winner… There were no sponsors, we couldn’t sustain it.”</p>
<p>The contest drew criticism but WGM Anna Zuzulia, representing Belgium in the Kolkata Open, said she was okay with the idea. </p>
<p>“Most people think women chess players wear glasses and are abnormal. That’s not the case.”</p>
<p>Tkachiev has moved on in life. He seems to know that not everyone appreciates everything he does and accepts it with a witty smile. “What happened that day?” someone asked. “I lost,” came the amused answer after a pause.</p>
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