From the desk of Hawk

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P.T. Barnum and Canada Bill Jones were right.

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P.T. Barnum and Canada Bill Jones were right.

Was there ever any doubt? 

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Posted in full For Dok to get maximum lulz.

Glenn Beck

His Restoring Honor celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., tomorrow has managed to draw protest from civil rights supporters, Christians and, of all people, members of the Tea Party. The Fox News host has been planning this event for months, yet Beck says divine intervention led to the booking of the gathering on August 28, the 47th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. That speech also took place in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Civil rights advocates, including a Washington, D.C., City Council member and the Rev. Al Sharpton, are organizing counter-events to "Take the Dream Back," officials said. Meanwhile, a religious concert at the Kennedy Center organized by Beck, which will include former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, has drawn ire from Christian conservatives. Beck is a Mormon, part of a religion not considered by some evangelicals as true Christianity.

Finally, Tea Party advocates think that Beck is knocking the wind out of events they have scheduled for September. "I hope they have a wonderful time, but I just don't get why he's having this and why now," Andrew Ian Dodge, Maine coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, told NPR yesterday. He called the event "Beckapalooza."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/27/fridays-intriguing-people-24/?hpt=T2

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[Don Coyote]

The dude must be trolling.

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Now for the WTF were you thinking story of the day.

If you're black and a student at one public middle school in Mississippi, you can't run for president – only whites need apply.

Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Miss., has segregated its elected class positions by race, according to a memo sent home with children at the school last week

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38880820/ns/us_news-life/

NMS Class Officer Elections
2010-2011
8
President - White
V-President - Black
Sec-Treas - White
Reporter - Black
7
President - White
V-President - White
Sec-Treas - Black
Reporter - White
6
President - White
V-President - White
Sec-Treas - White
Reporter - Black
Criteria:
o This application must include 10 signatures from students of the same grade level.
• The student must have attended Nettleton School District the previous school year for both
semesters.
• The student must have passed all subjects taken the previous school year by the end of last
semester.
• The student must have a "B" average.
o The student must have a good disciplinary status and moral character.
• The student must have a good attendance record.

[President Television]

Ah, the Mississipi education system. Friend to white non-lesbians everywhere.

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Why couldn't the fire tornado land on Glenn Beck?

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Ah, the Mississipi education system. Friend to white non-lesbians everywhere.

And where is the national outcry against this? Oh, wait...

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Pirates are too smart!

A Somali man Friday became the second person convicted in the United States of acts related to high-seas piracy in more than a century, although he wasn't convicted of piracy itself.

Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in Norfolk, Virginia, admitting he had intended to seize a U.S. merchant vessel on April 10 and hold it for ransom.

Ibrahim and five other would-be pirates learned too late that they had instead pulled alongside a U.S. Navy dock landing ship, the USS Ashland, and they were captured.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/27/us.piracy.conviction/index.html?hpt=T2

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Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs'

Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.

Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.

I blame the fucking Mayans.

They claim satellites will be aged by 50 years, rendering GPS even more useless than ever, and the blast will have the equivalent energy of 100 million hydrogen bombs.

"We know it is coming but we don't know how bad it is going to be," Fisher told Reneke.

"Systems will just not work. The flares change the magnetic field on the Earth and it's rapid, just like a lightning bolt. That's the solar effect," he added.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100826/981/tsc-massive-solar-storm-to-hit-earth-in_1.html

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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A volcano that had been inactive for more than 400 years erupted in Indonesia early Sunday, causing thousands of people to flee their homes, officials said.

Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province had been inactive since the 1600s, but spewed volcanic ash nearly a mile into the air Sunday, said Surono, head of the country's volcanology and geology agency.

Gonna be one helluva decade.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/29/indonesia.volcano/index.html

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Now that mush have been one hell of a party!

BERLIN —
Police say a man living in Germany was shot in the back of his head, but that it took him five years to realize it.

Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old man was hit by a .22-caliber bullet in the western town of Herne as he was out in the street partying and drunk on New Year's Eve five years ago.

They say the man recalled receiving a blow to the head, but told them he didn't seek medical assistance at the time.

http://www.latimes.com/features/odd-news/la-odd-bullet,0,930304.story

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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2010/09/01/pn.acid.attack.hln?hpt=T2

Some random person selects another random person and throws acid in her face. No motive, no suspects.

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That's just a bit fucked up.