Why I Hate Cops

"I don't hate cops. I've had friends who were cops in every town where I've ever lived. One pal o' mine--Cuddles to his friends--drove the meat wagon (picking up corpses) for the Chicago police department. Another was Ziggy, a ex-junkie who submitted an application to the...

Missing cat's strange trip

""PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Some kitty math: How many lives did little tabby Gracie Mae use up when she crawled into her owner's suitcase, went through an airport X-ray machine, got loaded onto a plane, thrown onto a baggage belt and mistakenly picked up by a stranger far...

Canada's Notorious Serial Killer a Momma's Boy

This story by Stevie Cameron certainly explains a lot of the mindset of Willie Pickton Canada's most Notorious Serial Killer of Women, some say the count is 48 women killed and climbing dating back possibly to the...

Space Hotel Set For 2012 Opening

    I have been telling people since I was a kid that before I die I would be able to go into outer space for a weekend getaway. Of course I was met with the usual blank stare that a backwoods, east...

Dem. Leadership; "Mistake Was Made" House Forms Panel

In an extraordinary move Dems close vote as Latino Congressmen try to change vote."The House last night unanimously agreed to create a special select committee, with subpoena powers, to investigate Republican...

Firefighters Crawl Through City Hall

" June 2, 2007 Illinois - The biggest danger for a firefighter working in a burning building is getting caught in the debris. So this week, Collinsville's City Hall basement has been transformed into a disaster area, and the city's firefighters have been crawling through it...

Podzinger Uses Defense Technology--but who paid for the technology?

Here is an exclusive from AlwaysOn by Andy Plesser. I am very unclear why  a defense contractor that got paid out of our tax money to develop a "national security technology application, developed to fight terrorism" gets to now use this technology to catalog all the...

Ian Barker's debrief on Vinson rescue: Three very long days in Antarctica

"JG Ian Barker's debrief on Vinson rescue: Three very long days in Antarctica 11:46 am EST Feb 15, 2007 (ThePoles.com) "We are under the tent, we have no stove, we have some with frostbite. Our situation is desperate, please, please come and get us. I can't move them by...

When Cells Stop Working

"Children keep dying from mysterious illnesses that have been traced to tiny structures called mitochondria. Nothing worries parents more than a sick infant--especially when nobody can figure out what's wrong. For Asher Gould's parents, the uncertainty lasted for the first...

How to really watch Election '06

"In an ideal world, we would be blessed with the "Old-Fashioned Election Night Channel," which would merely show raw-vote totals from key races around the country. The only on-air commentary would come from...

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