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Posted Jun 9, 2010 by Ballynac
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10273995.stm
A 20-year-old Romanian man had a lucky escape after stowing away on a plane flying from Vienna to London.
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 9, 2010 by anhaga
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The Catholic Church is sending special investigators to Ireland to sort out the problems in the Irish Church.
No, they're not being sent to clean out pedophile priests . . .
they're being sent 'to clamp down on liberal secular opinion in an intensive drive to re-impose traditional respect for clergy'
http://www.independent.ie/national-...own-on-liberal-opinion-2210401.html
I always was led to believe that respect was something to be earned, not forced.
(thanks to Jesus and Mo for this story: http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/06/08/ )
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 9, 2010 by toybox
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Philippe Geluck [Belgian humorist mostly known for his newspaper strip Le Chat] enters the Larousse dictionary 
http://www.lesoir.be/culture/livres...-entre-au-petit-larousse-774995.php [fr]
 Yay! 
And, presumably, the list of famous Belgians?
RF
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 10, 2010 by nortirascal
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Vive la France 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2.../jun/09/autism-study-genetic-causes
more genes linked to autism discovered, and potential for more discoveries to come.
Also shows that the number of genes involved is quite large which fits with the individual characteristic of the diagnosis.
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 10, 2010 by swl
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Unfunny nobody disses Jean Luc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10272333.stm
Thing is, Sir Patrick is a Knight. Why didn't he pull out his sword and cut the fat  s head off?
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/displa....php?wfo=sgf&storyid=53390&source=0
"...Interesting Clouds During the Morning of June 7th...
Morning Storm System Produces Interesting Clouds."
OK, I haven't gone potty, but that is their headline!
New form of cloud called Undulatus asperatus, very rare, only identified in 2009, spotted.
I must say that are some pretty apocalyptic looking clouds, very . And it is kinda cool that even clouds can still introduce us to something new about our world.  (</hippy>)
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 10, 2010 by anhaga
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I seem to remember seeing clouds like that before, most notably in late July of 1987: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_Tornado
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 12, 2010 by anhaga
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'Taleban hang 7-year-old boy to punish family. . .
A seven-year-old boy was murdered by the Taleban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for US and Nato forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan. '
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...orld/afghanistan/article7147378.ece
I find it rather sick (nothing to compare with the sickness of what the Taliban did, of course) that the U.S., Murdoch-owned Faux News chose to use as the headline on their front page: 'Taliban Hang 7-Year-Old 'Spy' in Afghanistan'
This wording so completely shifts the emphasis of the story away from what's really happening.
http://www.foxnews.com/
Of course, our side would never hang a seven-year-old -- we just ship fifteen-year-olds off to Gitmo and throw away the key.
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 12, 2010 by taliesin
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Noticed this yesteday, and it angered, sickened and depressed me so I didn't feel like posting about it.
Sometimes I really hate the monsters who look human
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 12, 2010 by toybox
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...cle/2010/06/11/AR2010061105724.html
Mandela's great-granddaughter dies in a car accident
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Posted Jun 12, 2010 by swl
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Lots of jumping up and down about the evils of drugs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/10299146.stm
Hysterical nonsense from the BBC that manages to print then ignore the salient facts.
Berlusconi founds a university called Free Thought , which will have "outstanding" professors as Bush, Blair and Aznar.
http://www.elplural.com/politica/detail.php?id=47577
As Mark Twain said: " Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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Posted Jun 14, 2010 by nortirascal
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| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 14, 2010 by anhaga
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The U.S. Taliban itching to set off a few car bombs:
'A 30-second television commercial that ran in the United States during the England-USA soccer match on Saturday has Catholic bloggers charging that the advertisement is blasphemous and mocks the core teachings of the church.'
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/...-push-hyundai-to-cancel-commercial/
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 15, 2010 by swl
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And my response would be "So? Get your sky fairy to strike them down with a moonbeam or something"
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Posted Jun 16, 2010 by taliesin
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Sky fairy zaps Big Butter Jesus
http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/152266.html
| | Subject: What news story has caught your attention today
Posted Jun 16, 2010 by anhaga
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Man on dialysis flies to Pakistan to kill bin Laden . . .
'"He's as normal as you and I," Scott Faulkner said. "He's just very passionate, and, as a Christian, he felt . . .'
Right.
Normal.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100616..._re_as/as_pakistan_bin_laden_hunter
Poor sod.
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