LOLcats, fight for your right to NOM NOM NOM! Also, teabagging FAIL! @nomtweets can suck it #savenom My mom-in-law and sister will be wondering what this is about if she happens to read this post. Where to start? It’s just this Internets thing, you know? Maybe I’d better put the rest of this behind a “MORE” link. See you after the jump, as the cool kids say…
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F-16s following stolen plane — chicagotribune.com It was unknown how much fuel was in the plane or how much training the student pilot has acquired, Kucharek said. The Web site cessna.com indicated the Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seater with a range of about 790 miles and top speed of 141 mph. They evacuated the Capitol building in Madison, WI when the guy went over about an hour and a half ago, and he’s headed our way or beyond us by now. But what the heck? What’s his story? Obviously, he doesn’t have the radio on, he ignored “non-verbal” signals…
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An item about a French pole vaulter running naked with his equipment past Parisian tourist spots got plenty of media interest, but Yahoo Odd News ran it with the headlineDon’t go there, it’s too obvious!
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Zion senior prank pokes fun at school — chicagotribune.com “Stick a fork in it, we’re done” and the school lawn got aerated, too. This is yet another test, but this bookmarklet invoked an older plugin, WPhone, that formats the blog for mobile phones. And has a clunky interface with no visual/HTML buttons. Sigh.
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Husband: Was wife’s airport death avoidable? – Chicago Breaking News On the worst day of his life, Bob Small discovered his wife of 44 years slumped over and unconscious in her chair at the San Juan airport. Barb Small had suffered a heart attack while her spouse had stepped away to the restroom. When Small suffered a heart attack March 7 at Luis Muñoz MarÃn International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, no emergency medical personnel rushed to help her, no airport workers could administer CPR, and no one could immediately find a defibrillator, Bob Small said this afternoon. Twenty…
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UPDATE: Just want to make it clear, the show will go on. Mr Cahill continues to update his blog with new developments, like the offer of a set of costumes from a community college in Utah that staged the play. He recently appeared on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud, which covered it as part of a longer broadcast to do with censorship in Oregon schools. The pastor of the local Nazarene church, Tim Gerdes, also appeared to discuss the issues with Mr Cahill, and there was a long recorded segment with the parent who originally brought her objections to…
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Daily Kos: State of the Nation diarist Hunter spent the day posting updates about yesterday’s wingnut festivities. [Throughout the day we have been bringing you breaking coverage of today’s ‘We Surround Them’ event, newsperson Glenn Beck’s effort to demonstrate the power of the ultraconservative movement via… um… well, we’re not quite sure. It seems to be based on surrounding the rest of us by meeting at Chili’s?] CRITICAL EMERGENCY UPDATE — DAILY KOS EXCLUSIVE: Home again now. Home not surrounded. Neighbors seem placid, no surrounding seems imminent. Possible conservative flanking maneuver on 2nd street turned out to be loose dog.…
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Jon Stewart puts spotlight on CNBC and meltdown :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Television NEW YORK — The feud between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer has been good for laughs — and ratings — but has also raised the serious question of whether the experts at TV’s No. 1 financial news network should have seen the meltdown coming and warned the public.
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Why in the world did the Trib (and also the Sun-Times) bury the lede on the story about the Chinese naval and merchant vessels harassing a US Navy ship? U.S. ship sprays Chinese with fire hose :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World The USNS Impeccable sprayed one ship with water from fire hoses to force it away. Despite the force of the water, Chinese crew members stripped to their underwear and continued closing within 25 feet, the Defense Department said. A somewhat Pythonesque scenario suggested itself to me.
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The Utah Legislature, after Viagrousvigorous debate, passed a bill enabling naturopaths to prescribe testosterone. Not only is Utah #1 in the nation for paying for porn that Internets-savvy libruls get for free, they’s gonna be naturally manly, tremendously organic men. Must report this to the General… Male-hormone bill clears Senate – Salt Lake Tribune A bill allowing naturopathic physicians to prescribe testosterone to their male patients cleared its last legislative hurdle Thursday. After a vigorous debate, HB108 — sponsored by Rep. Douglas Aagard, R-Kaysville, and Sen. Dennis Stowell, R-Parowan — passed the Senate 19-6. Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, led the…