Saudi Arabia Convicts 15 Men, Women For Mingling At Party
ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI | 06/22/10 12:31 PM | AP
RIYADH — Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.
The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three […]
In this courtroom sketch, a U.S. Marshall removes Faisal Shahzad’s handcuffs in the courtroom Monday, June 21, 2010, in New York. Shahzad pleaded guilty to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just days after a federal grand jury indicted him on 10 terrorism and weapons counts, some […]
My pal, Patapsco Jack, added: “Senor Wences, call your office.”
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The Associated Press
Friday, June 18, 2010; 9:07 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials say a Southwest Airlines worker stumbled across a few boxes of human heads at the Little Rock, Ark., airport.
It turns out the heads found June 9 were bound for a medical laboratory in Fort […]
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Image: (Model Railroader) via drunkenfist.com; (photo of tunnel) (AP photo by Mary Altaffer / via Chicago Tribune;
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(AP photo by Susan Walsh) via Chicago Tribune
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Images: (Jake) via thinkpropgress.com: (Scorsese’s Gangs of New York) via collider.com
Think Progress…June 13, 2010
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‘The United States “has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,” according to senior U.S. officials. An internal Pentagon memo dubs Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”’
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How about these […]
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Images: (basic billboard pix) via treehugger.com; (oiled Pelican) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (clean Pelican) via kookaburra.typepad.com
Someone or something has stolen their drums before every parade since 1964, but this is the first year that the theft prevented the Tumblers from marching or…
the marchers from Tumbling.
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Images: (Schiavone) Michael Spingler/Associated Press; (Rafael Nadal) Clive Brunskill/ Getty Images; both via nytimes.com; (Village of the Damned–1995–John Carpenter) via witneyman.files.wordpress.com
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In an interview for Royal Hot Shot Airways in-flight magazine–
THIN AIR CONSUMPTION–Mr. Greene found it ironic that his early
hopes were to be a concert pianist. He was quite an accomplished soloist, but felt that his name would prevent his being taken seriously by music producers and critics.
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Images: (Moe smiling) Godfather 4.bp.blogspot.com via battleroyalewithcheese.com; […]
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WASHINGTON — In what could be one of the hardest blows to the al-Qaida crime family since they muscled their way to the top of the gaming industry, the group’s No. 3, Moe “Mustafa Abu al-Yazid” Greene, is believed to be dead, killed by a rival Las Vegas faction, an attorney with the U.S, Anti-Crime […]