- Hu Presents Obama with Counterfeit DVD of Toy Story 3 « Borowitz Report
- [Oh, dear. Lots of facepalm in this one. -L]
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- FBI mob bust: FBI announces largest mob bust in its history – latimes.com
- January 20, 2011
In a mob bust described as the largest in FBI history, law enforcement officials Thursday said they had charged 127 members of the nation's leading Mafia groups with crimes such as murder and drug trafficking and had arrested 110 of them in early-morning sweeps in three states and Italy.
Some of the crimes linked to the suspects date back 30 years…
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- Radio host Glenn Beck "thinking about killing Michael Moore" | Media Matters for America
- [Note the date on this -- it's from May 18, 2005]
Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck said he was "thinking about killing [filmmaker] Michael Moore" and pondered whether "I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it," before concluding: "No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong?"
- Could the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision soon be overturned? | Thom Hartmann
- One year after the ruling – could [it] soon be overturned? …In the petition to the DOJ – Common Cause argues that Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia should have recused themselves from the Citizens United case…
The allegation is based on documents obtained by ThinkProgress and the New York Times that suggest the two Justices attended a Palm Springs event hosted by the Koch brothers around the same time the high court was hearing arguments in the case. …Of course this wouldn't be the first time Scalia and Thomas demonstrated a "conflict of interest". [examples redacted]
- Bring on the stupid: promoting health is killing people
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
Eating vegetables and [taking] a walk didn't used to be a political act in this country, but I guess it is now.
- Shackleton’s 100-year-old whiskey unearthed in Anarctica, soon to be drunk
- [io9 - Esther Inglis-Arkell]
Historians brought three bottles of hundred-year-old whiskey back from a cache of supplies left during one of famed explorer Shackleton's expeditions to Antarctica. A whiskey manufacturer vows to open and taste them – for science, of course.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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