May 9, 2012
West Virginia voters carried the Anybody but Obama” slogan to a new extreme by voting for Keith Judd, who is born in the USA but currently serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. According to the London Daily Mirror, people knew [...]
Tags: Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution, Keith Judd, Obama in West Virginia, West Virginia primary
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May 3, 2012
Hank Johnson is a Democratic Representative from Georgia. During a recent cross examination in Congress, Johnson spent two minutes cross examining a general about the square mlage and width of Guam, information he could have Googled.Then, to the amazement of all present, Johnson expressed the fear that sending additional troops to Guam would sink the [...]
Tags: Guam, Guam sinking, Hank Johnson, Hank Johnson on Guam
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May 1, 2012
A 27 year old would be carjacker was thwarted by two sisters, ages 93 and 94, who took a swing at him when he waved a knife at them and attempted to steal their car.Police in Hamilton, NJ report that he jumped into their car and hid in the back when the nonagenarian sisters went [...]
Tags: 93 and 94 year olds thwart carjacking, attempted carjacking, carjacking, Hamilton, NJ carjacking
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April 19, 2012
It is well known that there are pyramids in Egypt. Almost as well known are pyramids in Mexico put up by the ancestors of Mexico’s Indians. Less known and shrouded in mystery are pyramids in Bosnia. Who put them up? What sort of civilisation surrounded them? The following video explores the discovery of pyramids in [...]
Tags: Bosnian archaeology, Bosnian pyramid, pyramids
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April 4, 2012
Kilo is a twelve year old pit bull who lives with his owner in the Graniteville section of Staten Island, New York. Despite being a canine senior citizen, that did not stop kilo from rushing to the defense of his owner, Justin Becker. While Becker was fighting off a home invader who had knocked on [...]
Tags: 12 Year old Pit Bull, Hero Pit Bull, Justin Becker, Kilo the pit Bull, Pit Bull survives bullet
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April 4, 2012
An unnamed waitress in Minnesota has found that being a good citizen does not always pay. During her shift at the Fryn’ Pan restaurant in Moorhead Minnesota, an anonymous customer left a takeout box with $12,000.00 in it. When the married mother of five attempted to return the money to the customer, she was [...]
Tags: $12000 tip, Moorhead lawsuit, Moorhead Minnesota, police holding drug money
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March 22, 2012
When they are not busy torturing and killing their opponents, dictators can be a fun buch of guys. Idi Amin of Uganda used to like Tom and Jerry films. Stalin had his own private movie viewing studio in the Kremlin that was as good as anything found in the White House.Although North Koreans are [...]
Tags: dictators and entertainment, Idi Amin, Kim Jong il, Stalin
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March 10, 2012
The cargo cult of Vanuatu is a variation of a cult that formed inthe 1930′s but became widely popular iduring World War Two when Americans were stationed in large numbers in the South Pacific. John Frum is believed to be a mythological version of a paymaster who gave out money to native workers on military [...]
Tags: cargo cults, John Frum, Vanuatu
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February 27, 2012
For tens of millions of people around the world, Jerusalem is the geographical center of their spiritual world. Its role is spelled out very clearly in Jewish law for adherents of the Jewish faith, and for Christians, central stories of their faith are set within its boundaries. For many people, a visit to Jerusalem [...]
Tags: JerualemSyndrome, messianic delusions, Pesach Lichtenberg, religious delusions
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February 24, 2012
President Obama has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there are people who hang onto every word he says. Some of these people even try to pass on the Obama message of hope and change to a new generation. The bad news is that some of these [...]
Tags: Boy beaten for not listening to Obama, Mohamed Shohan, Obama State of the Union, Stamford beating
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