Fake elections in Slovenia confirmed what whole Europe was thinking."The US election may have happened half a world away, but for many Slovenians, Barack Obama’s victory hit close to home. It looked like any other polling place. The walls were adorned with American flags,...
created by Zlender | 51 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago 128 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"There's a Canadian company that wants to see McCain in the White House no matter which of the competing presidential candidates wins in November.A major ad campaign launched this week by the U.S. subsidiary of New Brunswick food titan McCain Foods Ltd. makes the case for...
created by ppeggy | 1 year ago 559 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
" PROUD Lorraine Fleming had more reasons than most mums to shed a tear as she saw her son’s bride approaching in all her wedding finery. For bridegroom Reece was just eight years old — and getting “hitched” to his sweetheart Elleanor Pursglove was his last dying...
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British Columbia's Victoria Harbour was plundered by Tall Ships looking for riches and saucy wenches for their piratey crew. Argh a Good time to be had by All, that to be sure of! What a glorious...
"City folk driving through the countryside in the southern English county of Surrey will now look twice when they see a large pile of hay bales - after all you never know what could be hiding in amongst it!...
created by jdkk | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1346 views | 4 recommendations | 3 comments
Sort of an extention of "scared straight", mock funerals are helping some to take their own lives -- and potential-- more seriously. Corporations are also hiring "well-dying" consultants to transform their workforces. I'm not sure, though: perhaps my own mock funeral would...
"Yesterday, Mark Cuban went off on a rant at his blog (Blog Maverick) about how FOXNews is somehow devoid of principle for taking his company’s advertising dollars because its chief political and...
Girls with guns. How many cities have racist cops working for them? If Hoboken does we have a big problem..."A Fox5 exclusive: investigative team has obtained pictures involving a local police lieutenant who is...
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"Stephen Colbert on Race: "On race: “While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”"" Recently, Stephen Colbert went on a rant about the horrific evil that is the...
created by Thorswitch | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 256 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
In 1942 Canada and US formed a shock troop called the Devil's Brigade who would silently enter Nazi camps and enemy lines knife in hand during the night and silently assassinate Nazi troops with their stealth and...
Being a traditional, ink-and-paper 2-D cartoonist in a 3-D digital world is a tough gig. Those who survive do so because they know how to promote themselves, and use the viral, crowd-motivated nature of the net to...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1027 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
I have reported several times (see the articles here and here) on the burgeoning refugee crisis in Nepal, where more than 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin have been living in squalid refugee camps since the early 1990's. Now, it seems the few ethnic Nepalis still living in...
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"I love this time of year. I really cannot wait to see how this plays out. There has not been so much excitement surrounding the Browns in sometime.""One move that could give the Browns instant excitement hype on offense is to draft WR Calvin Johnson. Pairing Johnson with...
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