“Not a bad page at all — I enclose another article, mainly for the headline.
I have never heard the words ’strip club’ and ‘magnate’ used in the same context. ‘Socialite’ yes, maybe ‘czar,’ ‘local boss’ of course; but ‘magnate,’ never.”–Vincenzo Kolchak
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Image: (Edward Arnold) via nndb.com
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 […]
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.
How Large Is It?
…It’s Visible From Earth–Huffington Post headline, 5/1/2010
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The story is here.
Images: (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) via blogs.theage.(Snow-Boston) via estatevaults.com.au:(weather woman) 1bp.blogspot.com via 14musicvideo09.com; (Alien head) via mwctoys.com; (Saturn) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com
NCAA Bans Eye Black With Messages
Eye Black Bible
University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow wearing eye black with a bible verse.
(RNS) The National Collegiate Athletic Association has banned the use of eye black with messages–a practice prominently used by former University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebow to display Bible verses.
The NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel […]
By using Kolchak’s Abbott & Costello observation…
Then who is he?
No, Hu is in charge of China?
But he’s not ill?
Who knows?
I would imagine he does.
Nabatiye Journal
Hezbollah Shrine to Terrorist Suspect Enthralls Lebanese Children
Bryan Denton for The New York Times is the photographer of the real pictures.
New York Times
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: September 2, 2008
NABATIYE, Lebanon — The children crowd forward around the glass case, eager for a glimpse of the martyr’s bloodstained clothes. His belt is here, and the […]
Bush Seeks to Limit Species Law
Plan to Help Speed
Some Development
Draws Activists’ Ire
By STEPHEN POWER
WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 12, 2008; Page A3
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is proposing to reduce the environmental reviews federal agencies must undertake as part of the Endangered Species Act.
The proposal could speed up commercial development, but environmentalists said the changes could threaten […]
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US Court of Appeals or Star Chamber
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By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: July 22, 2008
In a decision that clears CBS of any wrongdoing for airing the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that featured Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction,” a federal appeals court overturned the $550,000 fine that the Federal Communications Commission levied against the station, calling the fine […]
June 27, 2008
When was that…April, May? In human years it ’s almost 16 months ago.