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[kingyak]

Kidnappers attempt to abduct Saddam Hussein look-alike in order to force him to do porn.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/mohamed-bishr-saddam-look-alike-porn_n_1004877.html

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Kidnappers attempt to abduct Saddam Hussein look-alike in order to force him to do porn.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/mohamed-bishr-saddam-look-alike-porn_n_1004877.html

really, world? 

[Luna]

DON'T Think for Yourself.  Not if you're a member of the GoP!

U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) has been removed from his local Republican committee in Virginia.

So have state officials Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and House Speaker Bill Howell from theirs.

Every Republican who endorsed Del. Bill Janis, the Republican turned independent who is running for the post of commonwealth's attorney in Henrico County next month, is out.

The Republican Party of Virginia's party plan says any Republican who supports a non-Republican in a contested race will be automatically removed from the rolls of his or her local committee, according to the state party's executive director, Dave Rexrode.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/virginias-top-republicans-removed-from-party/2011/10/14/gIQA98WgkL_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

[Luna]

Interesting article on this blog, here:

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-republicans-hope-public-doesnt.html

[Triple Zero]

Interesting article on this blog, here:

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-republicans-hope-public-doesnt.html

Interesting indeed, but at the end he seems to suggest it is wrong to conclude that "they're all crooks".

But I think he's mistaken. Even though possibly the Democrats are "better" than the Reps, they're still not good enough to actually turn America back into a really cool country again.

Partly because the Dems let the Reps block all that shit. And because "low information voters" are their responsibility as well. There's nothing partisan about informing the people who does what. And finally, if they somehow would get their shit done, against all odds, they're still pretty right-wing and 0wned by corporations.

[Salty]

What the fuck?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/20/us/ohio-animals-on-loose/

As of Wednesday afternoon, authorities had killed 49 animals -- 18 tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears, three mountain lions, two wolves and a baboon.

Authorities were waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of his death, but Lutz said Thompson shot himself just after releasing the animals.

[Luna]

What the fuck?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/20/us/ohio-animals-on-loose/

As of Wednesday afternoon, authorities had killed 49 animals -- 18 tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears, three mountain lions, two wolves and a baboon.

Authorities were waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of his death, but Lutz said Thompson shot himself just after releasing the animals.

Wait...  why would he have "pried" the cages open?  The owner would have the cage door keys, wouldn't he?

[Cainad (dec.)]

18 tigers?

That's a lot of goddamn tigers.

[Cain]

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/10/how-the-media-cover-the-ohio-zoo-escape--our-official-prediction

Yesterday the owner of an exotic-animal preserve near Zanesville, Ohio, set dozens of its occupants free before taking his own life. Much of the rogue menagerie, which included lions, tigers, and bears—yeah, yeah, oh my—has been shot and killed by local police. "We could not have animals running loose in this county," a police sheriff said. Information about the escape is still coming in, but it's not too early to guess how the situation will be addressed by the media. VF.com's official predictions:

"Ohio Slaughter a Metaphor ... But for What? Several Possibilities Loom"
By Bill Keller

"CELEBRITIES WITH DEAD ANIMALS IN MOVIES: 10 FUNNIEST AND MOST UPSETTING MOMENTS"
By the Huffington Post

"Terrorist Lion Traced to Obama's Kenyan Village"
By the National Review Online

"Ohio Animals, African Imports, and Globalization"
By Thomas Friedman

"OMFG So Sad!!!!!! R.I.P. Animals!!!
By Perez Hilton

"What the Animals Would Have Looked Like at 50, If They Had Lived and Known Kate Middleton"
By Newsweek

"Were the Animals Looking to Join Occupy Wall Street/Attend the World Series? Kim Kardashian Investigates"
The Daily Beast

"Gender Inequity for Female Animals?"
By Jezebel

"Where's Ohio? Locating Animal Safari Some-Such on a Map"
By The Robb Report

"Israel's Response to the Ohio Zoo Escape"
By The New Republic

"ABC to Have Moment of Silence During Dancing with the Stars for Animal Massacre"
By People

"The Separated Husband as Hunter"
A New York Times Modern Love column

"This Zoo Animal Slaughter, While Tragic, Gets Top Billing from ALL OF YOU, Even Though There's Some VERY Important SHIT Going Down in Other Countries RIGHT NOW. GUYS."
By The Atlantic

"Why Is My Kid Scared of Lions?"
By Slate

"Will Hillary Clinton Replace Joe Biden on the 2012 Ticket? Whispers Begin Anew in Light of Recent Wild-Animal Fracas"
By Politico

"New Animal-Sounds iPhone App Could Have Been Used to Humanely Round Up Ohio Zoo Escapees"
By Gizmodo

"A Rare Miss from Animal Collective"
By Pitchfork

[LMNO]

 

[Triple Zero]

http://www.propublica.org/article/government-could-hide-existence-of-records-under-foia-rule-proposal

[Triple Zero]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111023/00191416469/us-trying-to-force-governments-to-pay-much-higher-prices-needed-drugs-through-secretive-tpp.shtml

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Fuck, my government is evil.

[Telarus]

Fuck, my government is evil.

[kingyak]

In addition to the jerk-off who thinks buying one cup of coffee entitles him to unlimited free office space, Starbucks in NYC have to deal with this guy.