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Maybe it was late and a rough night for the Democratic Party that caused this strange line of questioning and it was just the best way MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews could deal with it. On MSNBC’s Election Night coverage in the midst of a Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives and with several U.S. Senate races still pending, Matthews deviated from the subject matter

Concerned locals thought tomb raiders had hit a seaside cemetery after graves there were completely excavated. But on closer inspection, they realised the culprits were not ghoulish visitors but a family of badgers who had set up home underneath three 100-year-old graves, unearthing the human remains. Council staff in Sidmouth, Devon, have re-buried the bones in ground directly beneath where they were uncovered.

I didn't want to be the last Freeper to post an article about badgers in Iraq:badgers!!!!

British forces in Basra, blamed for a host of ills from militia turf wars to rising Iranian influence, are being held responsible for the latest danger to strike the city – a plague of giant man-eating badgers. For weeks, the southern Iraqi city has been abuzz with talk of a bear-like monster stalking the suburbs and attacking livestock and humans alike. The appearance of the beasts close to the British military base at the airport has sparked rumours that soldiers released them to terrify the populace. [ snip ] — Prey includes jackals, antelope and foxes, crocodiles and snakes

THE Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a scary rumour – giant badgers are stalking the streets by night, eating humans. The animals were allegedly released into the area by British forces. Local farmers have caught and killed several of the beasts, but this has done nothing to dispel the rumour.

THE Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a scary rumour – giant badgers are stalking the streets by night, eating humans. The animals were allegedly released into the area by British forces. Local farmers have caught and killed several of the beasts, but this has done nothing to dispel the rumour. Iraqi scientists have attempted to calm things down. However, the story has spread like wildfire in the streets of the city and the villages round about. Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, director of Basra's veterinary hospital, has...

Residents banned from evicting sex-mad badgersLast updated at 17:50pm on 18th April 2007They are neighbours from hell whose nocturnal activities leave a trail of destruction in their wake.  With no regard for personal property, they hold wild parties, regularly fight each other and wake local residents with noisy late-night passionate encounters outside.   Numbering at least 40, they have damaged gardens in the suburban neighbourhood where they live...and worst of all they are above the law. For the culprits are not lawless youths but a colony of badgers, whose protected status means little can be done to stop their...

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According to WTMJ, Fox 47 in Madison is under siege, receiving hundreds of angry phone calls over an advertising decision. The station declined to run a Democrat ad that accuses the President of lying in the SOTU speech, because the ad intentionally misquotes him. In the ad, the famous "sixteen words" are edited so that the stuff about the British government is no longer included. Their phones are jammed, but here are the email and fax numbers: comments@fox47.com 608-833-5055 Let's give these folks our support, they are standing up for truth.

In a thrilling victory over the 14th ranked Illini, the #24 Badgers have won their first outright Big Ten title since the 1940's!

The Second Amendment Foundation has hired an airplane to fly a pro-gun banner over the crowd at Saturday's football game between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the West Virginia Mountaineers. "Guns save lives," the banner will read. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) says by hiring an airplane to tow the banner over the crowd in Wisconsin, it is using the First Amendment (free speech) to defend the Second Amendment (gun rights). The SAF is upset about a "public relations blunder" by the University of Wisconsin, which tried to ban the black powder rifle carried by the Mountaineers' "mountain-man" mascot....