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Posted 1/5/09 by geoblaze
As we all know, Bush will soon be out of the White House. To honor this, the Associated Press has collected a large list of "Bushisms" to say goodbye.
President George W. Bush will leave behind a legacy of Bushisms, the label stamped on the commander in chief's original speaking style. Some of the president's more notable malaprops and mangled statements:
_ "I know the human being and . . .
Posted 1/3/09 by InsayneJayne
NEW ORLEANS — A man who initially told police gunmen kidnapped his 2 1/2-year-old son was arrested Saturday, accused of committing an "extremely hideous" murder because he was ordered to pay child support, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said.
Danny Platt confessed, told police where to find the child's body and will be booked on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Ja' Shawn Po. . .
Posted 1/3/09 by InsayneJayne
HOUSTON -- An investigation is under way to determine why a mental health patient was traveling alone on a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Omaha, Neb.
Passengers said the man left the plane's bathroom covered in his own waste on the Dec. 26 flight, reported KPRC-TV in Houston.
The commuter jet had one flight attendant, who moved passengers forward to empty seats and kept the un. . .
Posted 1/1/09 by InsayneJayne
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. — State troopers and road crews had to scramble when a tractor-trailer crashed and spilled its load of eggs on a Detroit-area freeway. Trooper Jim Smiley says eastbound Interstate 94 in Washtenaw County's Ypsilanti Township reopened about 1 a.m. Thursday after being shut down for six hours.
Smiley says the driver fell asleep and his rig hit a guardrail and a bridge s. . .
Posted 1/1/09 by InsayneJayne
Rap music originated in the medieval taverns of Scotland rather than the mean streets of the Bronx and Brooklyn, an American academic has claimed.
Professor Ferenc Szasz argued that so-called rap battles, where two or more performers trade elaborate insults, derive from the ancient Caledonian art of "flyting".
According to the theory, Scottish slave owners took the tradition with them to t. . .
Posted 12/30/08 by InsayneJayne
Article Submitted by gremwood.
A Christian lawmaker has provoked an angry response after he proposed legislation that would ban women from sunbathing topless on Sydney's beaches.
Bare breasts have been a common sight on the city's beaches for decades.
Critics were quick to condemn the measure - first reported Tuesday on the front page of the city's The Daily Telegraph newspaper - as u. . .
Posted 12/30/08 by InsayneJayne
Article Submitted by master911.
A BRITISH schoolteacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class, Britain's main teaching union said today.
Ian Jennison, a representative for the National Union of Teachers, said the suspension could have a negative impact on how teachers dealt with their students in the future.
"It's political c. . .
Posted 12/30/08 by InsayneJayne
A design consultant has constructed an environmentally friendly paper shredder powered by a hamster running on its wheel.
The hamster has to run flat out for 45 minutes to shred one sheet of A4 paper.
The paper then falls on to the base of the hamster cage, providing fresh bedding for the furry pet.
Tom Ballhatchet, 29, developed the product using a friend's hamster for his masters deg. . .