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Weird News, Adventure ... {and a touch of S.P.A.M. -- Freep-notes}

Posted on 10/17/2010 2:34:53 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March

Here we go ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: weird
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To: Impy

Thank you, FRiend. =]


21 posted on 10/21/2010 6:08:27 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

The Bum Rap on Biofuels [Am-Thinker]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2015711/posts
“... fifty-one-cent-per-gallon subsidy for ethanol ... More Corn Than Ever ... 182 million tons available for consumption [in 1995] ... whopping 308 million tons available for consumption and export [in 2007] ...”

Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2017389/posts

‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ Candidate Doesn’t Pay Rent...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Rent-Is-Too-Damn-High-Candidate-Doesnt-Pay-Rent-105346278.html

[Female] College student named police chief in Mexico; no one else applied
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611224/posts

‘Stink bugs’ hit New York [BO’s plane land there lately?]
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Smelly-Bugs-Could-Be-Coming-To-A-Home-Near-You-105387238.html?dr

Pilot Refuses Full-Body Scan, Says TSA Doesn’t Make Travel Safer...
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/20/pilot-refuses-full-body-scan-says-tsa-doesnt-make-travel-safer/

[Pilot also] Objected to ‘grabbing and groping and prodding’...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/20/pilot.refuses.body.scan/index.html?iref=allsearch

Boondoggle in the Motor City: Detroit’s Train to Nowhere ( Choo-choo! )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2609124/posts

Parents Television Council calls ‘GLEE’ photo shoot pedophilia...
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/racy-glee-gq-shoot-creates-controversy/

Connecticut law firm opens drive-thru window...
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/A-New-Spin-On-Legal-Service-105381588.html?dr

White Liberals Heckle Obama....Again (Could there be some RACISM?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611667/posts

Obama may avoid Sikh temple on Asia visit
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=217753
Fears requirement for all worshipers to wear headscarf could brand him a Muslim

Analyst Places $2.7 Billion Value on Michelle Obama’s Public Wardrobe Choices
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611152/posts

South Korea’s kimchi crisis deepens [cabbage thieves?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2608959/posts

Court in UAE says beating wife, child OK if no marks are left
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2610598/posts

300-pound chimpanzee captured in Kansas City after breaking out window of police patrol car [link in post 19 — thanks Impy.]
.......

S.P.A.M. [Spreading Patriotism And Muckraking] coming up ...


22 posted on 10/21/2010 7:12:17 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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To: LucyT; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; Quix; blackie; MaggieCarta; Dominic01

Update in post 22.


23 posted on 10/21/2010 7:12:58 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Post 1186 in Monster Ping clearly shows that that rat problems keep mounting [along with their meltdown.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2496737/posts?page=1186#1186


24 posted on 10/21/2010 7:15:25 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Thanks, AW!M. Have a great day!


25 posted on 10/21/2010 7:49:38 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

” 300-pound chimpanzee captured in Kansas City after breaking out window of police patrol car [link in post 19 — thanks Impy.] “

Reminds me of an old Huckleberry Hound episode ;-)

eep eep!


26 posted on 10/21/2010 11:44:11 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

” Just a trial run. If anyone wants on the Weird News ping, please let me know. Seems to be more popular than serious news ...] “

If it weren’t for humor, I would be weaving baskets by now ;-)


27 posted on 10/21/2010 11:50:49 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Some Weird News Oldies ...

Man accused of trying to swap baby for beers...
http://wbztv.com/local/baby.for.beer.2.1700066.html
[Al Bundy?]

Condo complex to test dog poop for DNA, charge offending owners $500...
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Doggie-Doo-Whodunit-93939284.html
[I love it!]

TSA Agent Accused of Stealing Cash from Wheelchair-Bound Woman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2516521/posts?page=1

Woman Hides Inside Coffin To Avoid Being Arrested...
http://cbs3.com/local/Coffin.Funeral.Home.2.1701504.html

Trained Chimp ‘Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA’...
http://www.nationalcenter.org/HurricaneForecast.html

Toilet brush ‘blunder’ death...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2978052/Toilet-brush-blunder-death.html
[Ban toilet brushes? I don’t ‘stink’ so.]

Teacher uses ‘assassination’ of Obama to demonstrate geometry problem...
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/05/jefferson_county_geometry_teac.html
[Leftists taught me not to be outraged with their reaction to similar Bush ‘jokes’.]

New nonprofit restaurant opens: ‘Pay what you want’...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37213165/ns/business-consumer_news

COPS: Women tried to zap WENDY’S worker with stun gun; Botched drive-thru order...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0517102wendys1.html
[One fry short of a happy meal. Islam take note — we’re crazy too.]

Actor Danny Glover heckled for not putting hand over heart at flag ceremony; Boos at commencement...
http://www.sltrib.com/D=g/ci_15046518

Police Taser fan who heckled ... [ ... Tiger Woods I assume — tyranny?]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1275641/Police-Taser-drunk-fan-heckled-Tiger-Woods-golf-tournament.html

Billionaire to open ‘save the planet’ restaurant...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/indian-billionaire-to-open-save-the-planet-restaurant-in-uk_100360979.html
[Bloomberg Syndrome strikes another billionaire.]

STUDY: Babies know difference between good and evil — at six months...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html

Questions surround Kagan’s handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2512138/posts
“ ... a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground ...”


28 posted on 10/23/2010 8:27:41 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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[Republican] Congressional Candidate Rescues Baby in Rollover Crash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612048/posts

UK teacher banned for life ‘for being useless’...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322989/The-teacher-banned-life-useless.html

Crocodile Blamed for Congo Air Crash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612237/posts

Woman Drove Around With Corpse For Nearly a Year COSTA MESA,CALIFORNIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612798/posts

US presidential nuclear codes ‘lost for months’ [During Clinton administration]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612706/posts

Pranknet-Style Hoax Fools ESPN Reporter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612803/posts

Did Steny Hoyer punch his Republican opponent? (Yes, twice)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611986/posts
[Hoyer said to Lollar, “I’m coming after you.”]

GOP congressional candidate Stephen Broden says he would not rule out violent overthrow of govt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612262/posts
“We have a constitutional remedy,” Broden said then. “And the framers say if that don’t work, revolution.” [Here we are on the verge of victory, and this guy has to give the rats ammo.]

Hezbollah Finances Campaign Against Sharron Angle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611951/posts

Dog Has His Day, In Paladino Memo To Media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611970/posts
[Media investigates licence of Paladino’s dog, but not BO’s long form birth certificate. — Cicero]

Cindy Sheehan Goes Republican [War protestor Sheehan?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611546/posts

Psychiatric Manual DSM-IV-TR Labels free Thinkers, non conformers as Mentally Ill or ODD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611730/posts
It is now confirmed by USWGO News that the DSM-IV-TR Manuallabels free thinkers, non conformers, civil disobedient advocates, those that question authority, and people considered hostile toward the government (aka Oath keepers and local militias) as mentally ill with the illness titled “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. [snip]

Postcard delivered after 64 years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2611788/posts

Court takes children away from woman who taunted dying girl...
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/2-of-jennifer-petkov-kids-to-live-with-father-20101020-wpms

Meth Lab Found At Georgetown University...
http://wusa9.com/news/breaking/story.aspx?storyid=116843&catid=158

REPORT: First lady ‘likely’ to meet ‘commercial sex workers’ in India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Barack-and-Michelles-Mumbai-darshan-plans/articleshow/6797379.cms

AUDIO: Upset with dinner, boy, 10, dials 911...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/illinois/911-call

Russia’s top drug official says CA legalizing pot would be ‘catastrophic’...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/22/interview_viktor_ivanov

Union Stagehand Fired for Wearing Bush Hat and Shirt (Wore USS Bush attire at Obama set-up)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612685/posts

Dem promises move to trailer if elected Texas gov.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612077/posts

Rent Is Too Damn High Candidate Doesn’t Pay Rent
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611295/posts

Is Obama Submissive to Islam?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612648/posts

CA boarder killed by shark; ‘The waves turned red’ [photo at Drudge]
http://www.keyt.com/news/local/Deadly-Shark-Attack-105537773.html

HORROR: Headless animals dumped on Miami street...
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Neighbors-Wake-to-Headless-Animals-in-the-Street-105460693.html?dr

EU to Italy: Clean up Naples trash or face fines...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101022/tts-uk-italy-rubbish-ca02f96.html

[Naples] Residents complain of stench...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101022/tts-uk-italy-rubbish-ca02f96.html

FACEBOOK ‘accidentally outing gay users’...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322916/Facebook-accidentally-outing-gay-users-advertisers.html#ixzz13B6XwRtM
[Oh boy will the fur fly!]

French strikes ablaze: Britons warned to stay away as violence spirals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611093/posts

Sarkozy sets the heavy squad on the riots as demonstrations over French pension reforms continue....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612452/posts

Riots Spread From France To U.S. As Strikes Continue (cars set ablaze in Brooklyn?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2612056/posts
[A leftist’s fantasy, for now.]

SunkenCiv’s link list reg. French riots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2612056/posts?page=48#48

“I was anti-gun, until I got stalked - I can’t stand weapons. But after disturbing e-mails and...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612219/posts

Taiwanese bride bemoans lack of men, marries herself...
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/offbeat/102210-taiwanese-bride-marries-herself-ncx
[Soon to have millions of men attempt to contact her?]

DUmmie FUnnies 10-22-10 (Dialoguing for Dollars: Alan Grayson talks to the DUmmies!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2612313/posts

Serious news updates in Monster Ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2496737/posts?page=1193#1193


29 posted on 10/23/2010 10:28:05 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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[Republican] Congressional Candidate Rescues Baby in Rollover Crash

UK teacher banned for life ‘for being useless’...

Woman Drove Around With Corpse For Nearly a Year COSTA MESA,CALIFORNIA

Clinton lost nuclear codes for months.

[These were just a few.]


30 posted on 10/23/2010 10:29:06 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Thanks, AW!M. Your weird links are always fun.


31 posted on 10/23/2010 12:24:58 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Fun reads, thanks.


32 posted on 10/25/2010 12:45:06 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

” Billionaire to open ‘save the planet’ restaurant...

Indian billionaire should have stuck to Tandoori chicken ;-)


33 posted on 10/25/2010 1:19:59 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

” Woman Drove Around With Corpse For Nearly a Year COSTA MESA,CALIFORNIA “

The resale value of her car is zero!


34 posted on 10/25/2010 1:21:12 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/25/florida.hiccup.girl/index.html?iref=NS1

“Hiccup Girl’ charged with murder after allegedly luring man into trap”


35 posted on 10/25/2010 3:37:13 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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RE: UK teacher banned for life ‘for being useless’...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/844932-teacher-banned-for-being-useless

“Teacher Nisar Ahmed has become the first ever to be banned for life from the classroom due to incompetence. “

He oughta have a lot of company.

Another teacher story

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/844693-teacher-too-sexy-for-catholic-school

“One mum said: ‘She is not fit to teach young children. She is too sexy and it is too distracting.’
But the brunette beauty has won the backing of dads at the school who have formed a pressure group to save her from their wives.”


36 posted on 10/25/2010 3:46:03 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/845025-journalist-arrested-for-dressing-up-as-wonder-woman


37 posted on 10/25/2010 3:47:47 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Impy

The Italian chick is HAWT!!!


38 posted on 10/25/2010 3:49:30 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Support and vote for Sean Bielat (MA-4)! MA-4 is Barney Frank's district.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; darkangel82; AuH2ORepublican; randita

RE: “[Republican] Congressional Candidate Rescues Baby in Rollover Crash”

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-10-21/news/sfl-congressional-rescue-harrington-link_1_rollover-congressional-candidate-young-child

Karen Harrington- Florida 20th. Unfortunately she has little chance.


39 posted on 10/25/2010 3:50:53 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Marine_Uncle

[Maybe this will lighten your mood]

Why Sheila Jackson Lee IS Weird News ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Broke Laws at Polling Place, Harassed Poll Watchers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2612603/posts

Sheila Jackson Lee applauds new law reducing crack cocaine penalties
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2563964/posts

SJLee sidesteps accusation that the Tea Party is new KKK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2556701/posts

Obama endorses Sheila Jackson Lee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2460898/posts

Video: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Insists There is Still a South and North Vietnam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2553809/posts

Sheila Jackson Lee Ignores Greta Van Susteren; Says She Does Not Ignore People — Video 8/13/09
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2315715/posts

Greta Talks to Woman Ignored by Cell-Phone Using Sheila Jackson Lee at Town Hall — Video 8/12/09
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2314939/posts

Sheila Jackson Lee Tells CNN that Video of Her Using Cell Phone “May Have Been Doctored” — Video
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2315403/posts

Obama camp plants fake doc, Che fan at Jackson Lee forum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2315022/posts

Roxana Mayer: I’m Not a Doctor But I Play One at Town Hall Meetings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2314753/posts


40 posted on 10/30/2010 9:07:56 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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