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2008-02-24 07:00:00 Joe Louis Movie Premieres as Sister Freezes to Death As <i>HBO</i> television premieres the documentary “Joe Louis: America’s Hero…Betrayed” tonight as part of Black History Month, the legendary heavyweight boxing champion’s only surviving sibling, Vunies High, 92, was buried t More About: Links , 2008
Joe Louis Movie Premieres as Sister Freezes to Death
2008-02-23 22:43:00 As HBO television premieres the documentary Joe Louis : America’s Hero…Betrayed tonight as part of Black History Month, the legendary heavyweight boxing champion’s only surviving sibling, Vunies High, 92, was buried today after freezing to death this week on the lawn of a Southfield, Michigan retirement home. Ms. High, who had Alzheimer’s disease, was found in the snow at the Heatherwood retirement home on Civic Center Drive in Southfield at about 10:30 a.m. on Monday, wearing only pajamas and one slipper. She had been missing since about 8:00 p.m. the night before; her body was found about 100 feet from one of Heatherwood’s exits. It’s believed she may have been out all night without a coat, as subzero temperatures dropped to -12 degrees with an additional -5 wind chill factor. The 162-bed nursing home refused to answer media questions as to why it took 14-1/2 hours to find one patient who was 100 feet from an exit door. High, the first person... More About: Movie , Death , Sister , Premieres
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2008-02-23 07:00:00 A Sad Story of Stolen Postcards We were asked this week to appraise an interesting lot of old postcards. They had been stolen from an insurance company’s client, and then discarded by the thief along a busy road in rainy conditions. While many of the antique postcards were unremarkab More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-22 07:00:00 Total Lunar Eclipse and Belgrade, Serbia Riots Did you see the total lunar eclipse last night? Here in Tiny Town, we had clear skies and were able to watch the whole display. Native Americans call this the Snow Moon, as the heaviest snowfalls usually occur in February. Instead of snow, we’re having Bill Clinton Guilts Texas Voters Speaking from the back of a pickup truck in Victoria, TX while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Bill Clinton guilted a crowd of about 6,000 people this evening, saying: “Texas and Ohio will determine what happens in the More About: Links , 2008
Bill Clinton Guilts Texas Voters
2008-02-22 03:14:00 Speaking from the back of a pickup truck in Victoria, TX while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton , former President Bill Clinton guilted a crowd of about 6,000 people this evening, saying: “Texas and Ohio will determine what happens in the Democratic presidential contest…If you vote for Hillary, she will win here, she will win in Ohio, she will win in Pennsylvania and she will be the nominee for the Democratic Party. It all depends on what you do.” He said much the same earlier in the day in Beaumont, TX, injecting a strange note of desperation into Billary’s campaign. Indeed, her campaign sent out fundraising e’mails saying that “Everything is on the line” with the Texas primary on March 4. Hillary Clinton has lost 10 primaries in a row and Texas is now a make-or-break situation. Nothing seems to be working for her: Despite her pro-labor rhetoric in the Rust Belt of Ohio, the International Brotherhood of Teamster... More About: Voters
Total Lunar Eclipse and Belgrade, Serbia Riots
2008-02-21 20:50:00 Did you see the total lunar eclipse last night? Here in Tiny Town, we had clear skies and were able to watch the whole display. Native Americans call this the Snow Moon, as the heaviest snowfalls usually occur in February. Instead of snow, we’re having an ice storm today. Pajamadeen, being a practical sort, secretly lusts after a generator. That way, she could skip the Waltonesque “back to the basics” phase which is likely to ensue — sitting on the sofa by candlelight, with no heat, devoid of her Internet lifeline and unable to watch DVDs. Poor, pitiful Pajamadeen — Don’t you feel sorry for her? Here’s what the lunar eclipse looked like in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Meanwhile, at least 200,000 protestors gathered in Belgrade , Serbia today to protest U.S. support of Kosovo’s newly-declared independence. Kosovo is considered by most Serbs to be their cultural and religious heartland. They’ve torched the U.S. embassy, which ... More About: Total , Eclipse , Lunar
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2008-02-21 07:00:00 Tall Tale or Exaggeration Postcards Tall tale, or exaggeration, postcards were popular in the early 1900s. Their fanciful subject matter was limited only by the imagination of the photographer, and often included an element of local pride/bragging regarding the size of crops grown. This sel More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-20 07:00:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter is Officially Forgiven Duane ?The Dog? Chapman has performed enough penance by working with black leaders and civil rights groups such as CORE to promote racial equality, and all is forgiven at the A&E network, which is setting up shop in Hawaii to make a killing (resume fi More About: Links , 2008
Dog the Bounty Hunter is Officially Forgiven
2008-02-20 05:48:00 Duane “The Dog” Chapman has performed enough penance by working with black leaders and civil rights groups such as CORE to promote racial equality, and all is forgiven at the A&E network, which is setting up shop in Hawaii to resume filming of the popular television show, “Dog the Bounty Hunter .” More About: Celebrities , The Bounty , Dog the Bounty Hunter , Duane Chapman
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2008-02-19 07:00:00 Let's Swap American Bitch for Saudi Arabia Witch Pajamadeen, not always quite the circumspect diplomat, has come up with a prisoner exchange plan based on current events. You no doubt recall no-nonsense Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, videotaped dumping quadriplegic Brian Sterner onto the floor from hi More About: Links , 2008
Let?s Swap American Bitch for Saudi Arabia Witch
2008-02-18 17:58:00 Saudi Arabia plans to behead a “witch.” The unfortunate Saudi Arabian woman, Fawza Falih of Quraiyat, was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s “religious police,” the Muttawa. After being detained, beaten and interrogated for 35 days at the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Falih admitted to being a witch and signed a confession. Witchcraft is considered to be an offense against Islam. More About: American , Saudi , Saudi Arabia , Bitch
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2008-02-16 07:00:00 Videos Poke Fun at FISA Domestic Spying, John McCain Mark Fiore has another of his classic, barbed videos up, this one poking fun at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which basically authorizes spying upon Americans and offers telephone companies immunity from prosecution for ratting out the More About: Links , 2008
Videos Poke Fun at FISA Domestic Spying, John McCain
2008-02-15 20:15:00 Mark Fiore has another of his classic, barbed videos up, this one poking fun at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which basically authorizes spying upon Americans and offers telephone companies immunity from prosecution for ratting out their customers. George Bush has been having temper tantrums over the failure of Congress to extend the bill, today repeating his mantra that terrorists are this very minute plotting to do us all in. Watch The Spys Who Love You! here; Snuggly the Bear will explain everything in a jiffy. More About: Videos , Iraq , Iraq War , John
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2008-02-15 07:00:00 Happy Valentine’s Day: A Raphael Tuck Holiday Postcard Happy Valentine?s Day! We hope Cupid has been helpful, and that you?re with your heart?s desire. Here?s a charming c. 1907 Valentine?s Day postcard. FEMA's Valentine Message: Oops, We've Been Poisoning You Happy Valentine?s Day from the good folks at FEMA. Remember the trailers they provided to about 144,000 Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita victims? (No, not the acres of FEMA trailers that sat empty and unused in Arkansas fields, while FEMA paid hundr More About: Links , 2008
FEMA?s Valentine Message: Oops, We?ve Been Poisoning You
2008-02-14 21:14:00 Happy Valentine ’s Day from the good folks at FEMA. Remember the trailers they provided to about 144,000 Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita victims? (No, not the acres of FEMA trailers that sat empty and unused in Arkansas fields, while FEMA paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in storage fees; that’s a different story.) Surprise! The trailers FEMA did supply to hurricane victims are toxic. They give the term “trailer trash” new meaning. The trailers contain high levels of formaldehyde ? a known carcinogen ? and are poisoning people, especially the elderly and the very young. About 40,000 people still live in FEMA hovels. More About: Health , Homeland Security , Message
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2008-02-14 07:00:00 A Winning Beagle at Westminster, and Some Loser Humans Uno, a boisterous beagle, was Numero Uno at the Westminster Kennel Club?s penultimate dog show at Madison Square Garden in New York City last night, becoming the first of his breed ever to win best in show. The 15-inch tall beagle, who is almost three, More About: Links , 2008
A Winning Beagle at Westminster, and Some Loser Humans
2008-02-13 16:10:00 Loser of the day was Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, the Hillsborough County (Tampa, Florida) Sheriff’s Office deputy who unceremoniously dumped quadriplegic Brian Sterner, 32, from his wheelchair onto the floor while booking him into the Orient Road jail for a traffic offense. After Marshall-Jones, a 22-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, finished frisking the more-or-less motionless Sterner, three other deputies assisted her in putting Sterner back in his wheelchair. One of the officers was seen smiling while, for other deputies in the area, it was business as usual. More About: Crime , Hillary Clinton , Animals , Loser
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2008-02-13 07:00:00 Four New Breeds Introduced at Westminster Dog Show Four new dog breeds were introduced at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year in New York City. Making their debut at Madison Square Garden were the Beauceron, the Plott hound, the Swedish Vallhund and the Tibetan Mastiff, all officially rec French Pug Dog Postcard In honor of the 132nd Westminster Dog Show, which winds up tonight at Madison Square Gardens in New York City, here?s a vintage postcard of a French pug. He looks a little worried, for some reason. The antique postcard was artist signed by Kenyon in 190 More About: Links , 2008
Four New Breeds Introduced at Westminster Dog Show
2008-02-12 07:34:00 Four new dog breeds were introduced at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year in New York City. Making their debut at Madison Square Garden were the Beauceron, the Plott hound, the Swedish Vallhund and the Tibetan Mastiff, all officially recognized recently by the American Kennel Club (AKC). The Westminster Show is the second oldest sporting event in the United States. You can watch three hours of the dog show and its grand finale on the USA Network tonight from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. EST. More About: Animals , Breeds
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2008-02-12 07:00:00 Winter Sports - Antique Ice Skating Postcards This charming unused and undivided-back 1901-1907 postcard shows a boy wrapped up against wintry weather and ready to skate. Artist signed by American postcard artist C. W. Simpson, it?s from his ?American Child Studies.? series. The boy?s red hat More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-09 07:00:00 Pre-Chewed Food Can Transmit HIV to Infants According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of Atlanta, Georgia, mothers and other caregivers infected with the HIV virus who pre-chew (pre-masticate) food for infants can transmit the HIV virus to the children. While the practice is much more comm More About: Links , 2008
Pre-Chewed Food Can Transmit HIV to Infants
2008-02-08 17:31:00 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of Atlanta, Georgia, mothers and other caregivers infected with the HIV virus who pre-chew (pre-masticate) food for infants can transmit the HIV virus to the children. While the practice is much more common in developing countries, especially African locations, the CDC found three cases in the United States: one in Memphis, Tennessee and two in Miami, Florida. More About: Food , Infants
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2008-02-08 07:00:00 The Unknown Hero of Ludwigshafen, Germany Everyone has been spellbound this week by these images of desperation and an ultimate leap of faith required of a Turkish uncle as he tossed his nine-month-old niece, Onur, out of a third-floor window in a burning Ludwigshafen, Germany building and into t More About: Links , 2008
Rats - An Answer to Weight Loss Resolutions
2008-02-08 00:30:00 So…how are your New Year ’s resolutions holding up so far? If one of those resolutions was to lose weight, we have just the thing for you. Watch this video about a Chinese epicurean delight and your appetite will vanish. We promise. More About: Holidays , China , Taiwan , Weight Loss
The Unknown Hero of Ludwigshafen, Germany
2008-02-07 22:51:00 Everyone has been spellbound this week by these images of desperation and an ultimate leap of faith required of a Turkish uncle as he tossed his nine-month-old niece, Onur, out of a third-floor window in a burning Ludwigshafen, Germany building and into the arms of an unknown policeman who miraculously caught the infant. More About: Unknown , Hero
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2008-02-06 07:00:00 U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court | U.S. | Reuters Super Tuesday, The Moment of Truth is Here At last, the big day has arrived: Super Tuesday. Here?s independent artist Sally Anthony?s ?So Long? video. Isn?t it exciting to think that George Bush has less than a year in office left? Anthony?s lyrics say: ?Can I ask you something? Have http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/sto ry/0,22049,23155549-5001021,00.html?from= mostpop On video: Heath Ledger's chilling 'suicide' tribute to tragic singer | the Daily Mail Undercover - Heath Ledger To Be Buried With Grandparents The Associated Press: Baby Thrown From Burning Building, Lives http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/ baby-survives-fourstorey-drop-as-nine-die -in-flat-fire-778079.html Trapped four storeys up by fire, a desperate father flings his baby towards safe hands - Times Online CBC.ca Arts - Beatles guru Maharishi dies at home More About: Links , 2008
Super Tuesday, The Moment of Truth is Here
2008-02-05 18:30:00 At last, the big day has arrived: Super Tuesday. Here?s independent artist Sally Anthony?s ?So Long? video. Isn?t it exciting to think that George Bush has less than a year in office left? Anthony?s lyrics say: ?Can I ask you something? Have you changed or are you the same?? Watching the video reminds us of how much things really have changed in less than eight years ? and definitely not for the better. The excitement about today?s primaries springs from a hope for change. Vote with your feet. Vote with your heart. Do the right thing. More About: Politics , Truth , Music , Moment
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2008-02-05 07:00:00 Bush's Budget Proposal Would Cut Medicare Funding - washingtonpost.com More About: Links , 2008
New York Giants Win Super Bowl, 17-14
2008-02-04 04:06:00 Touchdown! In one of the greatest upsets in football history, the New York Giants trounced this season’s previously undefeated champions, the New England Patriots , at the Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Arizona tonight, 17-14. The key to the underdog win was defense, and constant pressure on Patriot quarterback Tom Brady. The Big Blue Wrecking Crew got a huge boost from David Tyree, a key offensive player in the Giants’ improbable rise to Super Bowl championship this year. Tyree made a spectacular catch of a pass intended for the Patriots. More About: Sports
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More articles from this author:2008-02-03 07:00:00 Faux News Bans Beaver Pervert from Super Bowl Faux News has determined that the beaver ? even in an electronically animated rendition ? is a politically incorrect animal, and banned his use in a GoDaddy commercial which was to air during tomorrow?s Super Bowl XLII football extravaganza in Glend More About: Links , 2008 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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