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Mr. Potato

William Shatner does Sarah Palin

NBC
Snarkfood
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:00 UTC
Last night on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's farewell speech was the subject of an amusing tribute by none other than the infamous William Shatner.

Whether you're a Sarah Palin fan or not, the William Shatner Sarah Palin farewell video is a golden bit of political satire to love or hate.

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Mr. Potato

Video clip comparing Palin, Santa Cruz woman popular on Huffington Post

J.M. Brown
San Jose Mercury News
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:11 UTC
One of the most popular video clips featured on the Huffington Post this week is a comical comparison between former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and a woman who gave nonsensical testimony in front of the Santa Cruz City Council last year.

As of Tuesday, the Post had registered more than 300 comments about the video montage called Sarah Palin v. That Crazy Santa Cruz Lady. The clips juxtapose various comments Palin made about nature during an event in Alaska, and a string of non sequiturs from an unidentified speaker at a May 13, 2008 Santa Cruz council meeting.

A link to the Post video was also the most-viewed and most-shared item on the Sentinel's Web site Tuesday.
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Cow Skull

Teen escapes jail over bomb hoax


Reuters
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:04 UTC
White House Crime Scene
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A British teen-ager who phoned the White House and claimed as part of a "drunken prank" that there was a bomb in the center of New York, escaped jail on Monday.

Thomas Hutchinson, 19, from Sheffield, northern England, made a "giggling" call to the White House switchboard after drinking with friends at a barbecue last May, and claimed there was a bomb in Madison Square Garden.

The operator pressed a malicious call trace button and it was found to have been made in Britain.
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Pharoah

British 'mayor' seeks fireplace in Chicago


United Press International
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:30 UTC
England's honorary "mayor of Barton" is asking Chicagoans to check if their home fireplaces were ever owned by Queen Elizabeth I.

Martin Kirby, a newspaper columnist from Barton, England, who was awarded the "mayor" title -- an honorific Barton traditionally reserves for "the biggest fool in town" -- said the 500-year-old fireplace was last seen in 1907, when it was purchased for $1,200 by a Chicago collector, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday.
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Laptop

New service lets Jews tweet a prayer to God


The Associated Press
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:21 UTC
Judaism's holiest prayer site has entered the Twitter age.

The Western Wall can now be accessed through the networking service, allowing believers anywhere to have their prayers placed between its 2,000-year-old-stones without leaving home.

The Tweet Your Prayers Web site says supplicants' messages will be printed out and taken to the wall, joining the thousands of handwritten notes placed by visitors who believe their requests will find a shortcut to God.
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Cowboy Hat

Safari park baboons ransack cars after learning to break into luggage


Xinhuanet
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:56 UTC
baboons ransack luggage
© CCTV.comStaff at Knowsley Safari Park demonstrate why visitors should not
enter the baboon enclosure with roof boxes as the cheeky primates
have learned to open them and run away with the goods.
Keepers at Knowsley Safari Park have been forced to issue warnings after the opportunistic primates developed a taste for human possessions.

The cheeky monkeys - who are known for tearing off the odd wiper or wing mirror - have been targeting cars carrying the roof boxes before pouncing on the unsuspecting visitors, who are forced to watch helplessly as their things disappear.

Now bosses at the Merseyside park have slapped the artful animals with what they call 'Anti Social Baboon Orders' and have warned visitors not to travel through the infamous monkey jungle with luggage on their roof.
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House

Go home Sarah, go home

Paul Bedard
Washington Whispers / US News.com
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:14 UTC
The backlash against retiring Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has started. Palin was once the fave of Republicans for the 2012 GOP nomination, but a new Whispers poll finds that a large majority just want her to go home.

In our latest Whispers poll conducted by Synovate eNation after Palin announced her shocking plans to quit her job, 66 percent said that Palin should return home to care for her family when we asked what her next move should be. Just 13 percent said that Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, should run for the presidency in three years. Some 15 percent backed her plans for a national speaking tour, and a tiny 6 percent said that she should start a radio or TV talk show.
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Newspaper

Global "Media Flu" Pandemic Worsens

May Kit-Allup
Check the Evidence
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:52 UTC
Observers are concerned that a rampant virulent infection has taken hold of almost all media outlets all over the world.

Prof Ed Woodburners of the Institute of Propaganda Studies has said "We have been working for years to shape the media to report what needs reporting, but even we have been surprised at how this 'media flu' has taken hold."

Dr Joseph Gerbils of the University of Misrepresentation has challenged what many are stating as fact, "We question whether there is really such a thing as 'media flu' at all - we actually think that what we're seeing is a result of corporate policies being implemented behind everyone's backs - the outcome being something which looks like one illness but is actually another. What is really happening is that powerful corporate groups - such as those controlling the energy, military, pharmaceutical and financial sectors are dictating what news media output should be."
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Footprints

How Angelina, Bono, Gisele and Madonna Are Destroying the Planet


Alternet.org
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:37 UTC
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© UnknownDo as I say, not as I do: Bono & co. preach the message to the useless eaters
What if celebrity news carried its own version of a nutrition label? But instead of calories, or health risks, how about a label that gets at celebrities' impact on the planet?

Imagine if each time a tabloid or movie or TV show fed our celebrity addiction by running the image of Angelina, Bono or Gisele Bundschen, they also were required to put the celeb's eco-footprint in the corner of that image? If the tabs really wanted to knock themselves out, they could also run a kind of eco-ingredient list -- the number of hours the celeb spends in the air, the square feet of housing she owns, number of children he has, and so on.

It's an idea with real timeliness, if I do say so myself. A few weeks ago, uber-feminist Naomi Wolf praised Angelina Jolie's independence, symbolized by her ability to fly her own plane, without even mentioning that if every woman did that, we'd need a million planets worth of resources to support the human population.
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Ladybug

Bees send boaters overboard

Shay Harris
My Fox Orlando
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:29 UTC
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© Lynn Burton
Angela Tate and her son Terry were hanging out with family friend Lynn Burton and her daughter Cassie on their sailboat when they were overcome by bees.

"We were anchored out about a mile south of the 192 causeway," explained Tate. "We were all just hanging out having fun and everything then all of a sudden the three of us were on the boat he was on a kayak on the back of the boat and a swarm of bees started coming at us."

Tate says they bailed jumping into the water.
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