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Saggy Pants Are Butt-Ugly But Legal: Judge

Dareh Gregorian
The New York Post
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:52 UTC
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© Robert KalfusNew Yorkers like this one can wear their pants on the ground and fear only the fashion police -- not the city police.
You have the right to look ridiculous.

A Bronx judge has thrown out a summons issued against a Bronx man for wearing saggy pants, finding that "the Constitution still leaves some opportunity for people to be foolish if they so desire."

Judge Ruben Franco said that although Julio Martinez may have offended the fashion police with his low-hanging and underwear-exposing pants, his manner of dress didn't deserve a ticket from a cop.

"While most of us may consider it distasteful, and indeed foolish, to wear one's pants so low as to expose the underwear . . . people can dress as they please, wear anything, so long as they do not offend public order and decency," the judge wrote.
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Bad Guys

Colbert: BP Oil Spill Health Risks


The Colbert Nation
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00 UTC
As the shrimp season begins, Michael Blum discusses the human health risks caused by the BP oil spill. (05:11)

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Smiley

Obama Wins No-Balls Prize

Michael K. Smith
Legalienation News
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:37 UTC
Nobel Committee Regrets "Tragic Typo" That Mistakenly Awarded U.S. President 2009 Peace Prize

In a dramatic announcement that drew gasps of pleasure and cries of "it's about time," President Barack Obama today won the "No-Balls" Prize for "spinelessness above and beyond the call of duty," while retroactively losing the 2009 Nobel Peace prize, which the awards Committee confessed had been mistakenly granted due to a "tragic typographical error." The five-member Norwegian delegation explained that it had never intended to award Obama the Nobel prize, ironically named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of gunpowder, but rather, the "No-Balls" prize, named after Nobel's brother-in-law Alfred Noballs, inventor of the white flag.
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Binoculars

Dirty Harry the Crocodile Predicts Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to be Re-Elected


The Associated Press
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:32 UTC
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© Wade Huffman/ReutersDirty Harry, a saltwater crocodile, picks a chicken under a caricature of Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Darwin August 19, 2010.
A crocodile that picked the winner of the soccer World Cup has predicted Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be re-elected.

The saltwater crocodile named Dirty Harry made his choice Thursday in his enclosure in the northern city of Darwin when he snatched a chicken carcass dangling beneath a caricature of Gillard. Opposition leader Tony Abbott's chicken was left hanging.

Analysts say Australia's elections Saturday could be the closest contest since 1961 when a single seat decided who governed.

The crocodile used a similar technique to correctly predict that Spain would defeat the Netherlands in the World Cup last month.
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Smiley

Thieves in Mexico End Up With, Literally, Peanuts


The Associated Press
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:44 UTC
Mexico City - A bold truck-jacking in Mexico has yielded thieves...peanuts.

Federal police say two suspects hijacked a truck containing 17 tons of peanuts at gunpoint on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Police say the truck was listing to one side and they decided to pull it over, only to see a struggle taking place in the truck's cab.

The driver said he was forced at gunpoint to lie on floor of the cab but was able to call for help when police pulled the hijacked truck over on Thursday.
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Smiley

Sheep Take Over The Shire on New Zealand Film Set

Matthew Moore
The Telegraph
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:10 UTC
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© Exclusive PixSheep have moved into the Shire set from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
Bilbo Baggins may have upped sticks long ago, but The Shire's hobbit houses are proving popular with a whole new set of residents.

The New Zealand farmland that was transformed into Middle Earth for the Lord of the Rings film series has been recolonized by sheep, some of whom have set up home in the deserted hobbit holes.

The rolling green pastures that provided the backdrop for director Peter Jackson's trilogy were originally going to be converted into hobbit theme park, to attract tourists to the town of Matamata on the country's North Island.

But the plans were shelved, and the land is now home to 12,000 sheep and 250 cattle.

They are allowed to roam around the 17 hobbit holes left behind after the production team departed.
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Smiley

Mosque-Erade


The Daily Show
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00 UTC
John Oliver says Muslims are allowed to put a mosque near Ground Zero, just like Catholics can build a church next to a playground.

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USA

Satire: Obama Declares Victory, Sort Of, Depending on How You Look At It, in Iraq


The Onion
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:22 UTC
Obama & Troops
© The OnionPresident Obama announces that U.S. forces in Iraq have, for lack of a better word, "won" the war.
Camp Springs, Maryland - Addressing troops at Andrews Air Force Base Tuesday, President Barack Obama claimed victory in Iraq, saying that formal combat operations in the region would end Aug. 31, and that the United States had emerged from the seven-year war triumphant, kind of.

"For nearly a decade, our mission in Iraq has been to root out those who would choose violence over peace, to create a stable Iraqi government, and to transfer power to an incorruptible civilian police force," Obama said. "And, in a manner of speaking, we sort of did some of that, right? More or less?"

"Granted, this is not the definitive, World War II - like victory most of us expected," Obama continued. "But there's a military triumph in there somewhere, I swear. You just have to look at it from the right angles."
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Heart - Black

Colbert: Don't Shoot the Schlessinger over 'N' word


Colbert Report
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00 UTC
The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to say what they want on the air without having their sponsors drop them.

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Smiley

Skateboarding priest becomes YouTube hit

Krisztina Than
Reuters
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:21 UTC

A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest has become a YouTube hit with his distinctive method of spreading the word on wheels.

The Reverend Zoltan Lendvai, 45, who lives and preaches in Redics, a small village on Hungary's border with Slovenia, believes skateboarding can open the way to God for young people.

The video of him in action, Funny Priest Skateboarding, has so far attracted close to 170,000 hits and now also has a music version.

Lendvai says he follows the ways of Saint John Bosco, an Italian priest and educator in the 19th century who dedicated his life to improving the lot of poor youngsters and used games as part of their education.
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