'Young Gun' whips dad to take cherry pit-spitting title

"EAU CLAIRE, Michigan (AP) -- Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. ...

Weekly Live Call-in Radio Program

Loud and Clear® is a live call-in radio program heard on GAP West Broadcasting (News Radio AM 1450 KMMS) every Saturday between the hours of 6-8pm (Mountain Time). It is considered the far right of the right wing...

GM Selling North America's Birthright to Mexico

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOutsourcing North America's Manufacturing Birthright, has taken another turn for the worse, 2,600 General Motors jobs (not 1,000 as previously reported) are heading...

Oakland police conduct sex sting

"OAKLAND — Working with the national organization Perverted Justice, police on Friday night arrested a Swanville man in a sex sting.Scott H. Ely, 37, of Swanville was arrested on a charge of attempted sexual abuse of a minor.Arresting officer Rick Stubbert said Saturday...

CDN Forces Struggling For Talent

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA sad state of affairs when "Serving ones Country" is eclipsed by the "Almighty Buck".The unemployed and especially those unemployed with a skill or trade who say they...

Cairo Honeymoon: A Tale of Two Nightmares

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe last desperate words Newlywed Jennifer on her Cairo Honeymoon would ever envision to hear from her husband Richard would be "Jump, I promise to catch you", You have...

Big Brown wins Kentucky Derby

" LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AFP) — Big Brown defied history to win the 134th Kentucky Derby on Saturday, but the race finished under a pall as runner-up Eight Belles was euthanized.Big Brown, trained by Rick Dutrow...

Man jumps to death from Disneyland hotel

A man just commited suicide by jumping from the 14th floor of his Disneyland hotel room."A man apparently jumped to his death on Friday from the 14th floor of the Disneyland Hotel at the world-famous amusement...

GM CEO's 2007 Compensation Worth $15.7 million

As consumers pinch pennies and begin bracing themselves for a much-feared economic downturn in the United States, a select few fat cats are still livin' very large. Mind the gap."DETROIT — General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner received compensation valued at...

YouTube RickRolls Users

This is pretty amazing. It seems YouTube is never gonna give up Rickrolling...especially on April Fools' Day."If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something,...

'Rickrolling': Rick Astley 2.0

Leave it to the campy irreverance of web nerds to not only revive Rick Astley's classic 80s pop smash "Never Gonna Give You Up" more than twenty years later, but also to evolve it into the bona fide internet...

Stanley Cup arrives in Kandahar

Whether you support the war in Afghanistan or not, this is a meaningful tribute and support of the men and women who have been ordered into action. "Canada's top soldier, musicians and former NHL players took the...

Behind the Scenes at Clinton's 'SNL' Debut

"ABC News' Eloise Harper and Rick Klein report:  It was one of Hillary Clinton’s most secretive missions of the campaign. Suddenly, just days before perhaps the most anticipated round of voting, she...

Life after Yahoo

For the first time, massive layoffs in the tech sector are being reported in realtime by those in the firing line.  Here is the twittering of former Yahoo employee who has turned his pink slip into a calling card.  " Article in tomorrow morning's LA Times about...

The Taser and Mp3 Player, Together at Last!

I understand the rationale of including an mp3 player with your taser. You need something to drown out the sounds of the person screaming while you tase them. "A handy new holster from Taser International...

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