May 2010
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Cananopie: See these yet? [BP Oil Spill Pictures] steven.cloud: oh, yeah. i wish the plague would just do us in Cananopie: quitter steven.cloud: i’m not suggesting we quit, i’m suggesting the plague is slacking. Cananopie: haha
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US Citizen Detained As Illegal Immigrant
Eduardo Caraballo, a U.S. citizen born in the United States, was detained for over three days on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
Despite presenting identifying documents and even his birth certificate, Caraballo was held by federal immigration authorities over the weekend and threatened with deportation, according to an NBC Chicago report. He was only released when his congressman,...
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect...
– Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)
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Police Reality: Video challenges police account in...
A video account of the police raid that ended in the slaying of a 7-year-old Detroit girl shows that the deadly gunshot was fired while officers were still outside the home, said lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, who represents the girl’s family.
Fieger said the video, the source of which he would not identify, contradicts police accounts of the raid in which the girl was killed by a bullet from an...
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U.S. Drug War: FAIL
MEXICO CITY – After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.
Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn’t worked.
“In the grand scheme, it has not been successful,” Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. “Forty...
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Obama FCC Expected to Abandon Net Neutrality,... →
buchino:
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the Federal Communications Commission is expected to abandon its pledges to protect Net Neutrality and to ensure universal, affordable broadband. The story cites anonymous insiders confirming that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is “leaning toward” siding with the most powerful phone and cable lobbyists on a crucial decision: whether the FCC...
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Is every homophobic person secretly gay or just...
“When George Alan Rekers, a cofounder along with James Dobson of the Family Research Council and a leader in the ex-gay movement, was caught walking off a plane from Europe with a young male prostitute, he first insisted that he didn’t know the young man was an escort until halfway through their 10-day vacation.
“I had surgery,” Rekers told the Miami New Times, which broke...
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A Special Cino De Mayo Message to Arizona
pijohos: how is this even real pijohos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnOczvV5Arc
steven.cloud: i’m going to watch the shit out of that movie pijohos: me? i’m going to watch the chete out of that movie.
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