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Senate HCR bill clears last hurdle before passage

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama's call to remake the nation's health care system.

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Don’t eat the red snow: The most disturbing snowmen ever

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If you're building a snowman, you're going to need the essentials: a carrot, a scarf, a bucket of blood. While the last one may seem unusual to most, it's a key component to the sculptors of these disturbing snowmen. Well, that and a twisted mind

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War vets, shelter dogs heal together in program

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

WASHINGTON – Dave Sharpe was troubled by thoughts he could not share after he returned from a tour in Iraq. “I found myself waking up in the middle of the night, punching holes in walls, kicking and beating the refrigerator door,” he said. Then one day, the former Air Force senior airman went with a friend to a local pit bull rescue and took home a puppy, Cheyenne.

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Lithuania fesses up to its black sites

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The likely location of a CIA black site in Lithuania was first the subject of speculation in a piece that ran at this site, “Inside the World of Dusty Foggo.” When ABC News took the story mainstream, Lithuanian officials rushed to offer formal denials. Under pressure from European authorities, however, Lithuania’s parliament opened a probe

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Iranian crowd stops execution and frees convicts

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The crowd overpowered security services and helped two men convicted of robbery to escape hanging in the province of Kerman, the Fars news agency reported. The men were recaptured hours later, and justice department officials say they will be put to death on Wednesday. Iran executes more people than anywhere else in the world except China, human rights groups say

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Ethical eating – plants want to live, too

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“Before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot.

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Gold hits 7-week low as dollar firms

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“Gold hit 7-week lows on Tuesday, hurt by a firmer dollar which analysts see pressuring bullion into the new year. Analysts said gold could test lows in the near term after breaking through $1,100, as investors close positions before the end of the year, but their appetite to buy bullion on dips would support the market.

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Brazil: Boy ordered returned to US dad’s custody

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

… By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer Bradley Brooks, Associated Press Writer – 27 mins ago RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's chief justice on Tuesday ruled in favor of a U.S. man who has pursued a five-year court battle to gain custody of his son. According to the court's Web site, Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes ruled David Goldman's 9-year-old son must be delivered to him by the boy's Brazilian relatives, as a federal court ordered last week.

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BBC News – Big freeze brings misery and death to Europe

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Much of Europe continues to face transport problems because of freezing weather but some services have resumed. More than 90 people have died across the Continent, 10 of them in a single day in Poland, where the winter death toll now stands at 79.

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‘Necessity defense’ in abortion case ruled out

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

WICHITA, Kan. – A judge on Tuesday ruled that a “necessity defense” in the trial of a man accused of killing Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller is “not viable” under state law

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