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OM3: Gossip Girl Threesome Scene = Parental Outcry

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a threesome going down on Gossip Girl next week. Well, at least there will be if the episode ends up making it to air

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OM3: Gossip Girl Threesome Scene = Parental Outcry

Justice who refused to wed interracial couple resigns

A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday. Keith Bardwell, who is white, quit the post with a one-sentence statement to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne and no explanation of his decision: “I do hereby resign the office of Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, effective November 3, 2009.” Bardwell refused to perform the ceremony for Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay because they are of different races.

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San Francisco votes to ban cat declawing

http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/03/san-francisco-votes-to-ban-cat-declawing/ By a 9-2 vote, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a measure Tuesday making it a crime for pet owners to declaw their cats. Violators face a potential jail sentence of six months and fine of up to $1,000. The Los Angeles City Council plans to vote on a similar resolution Friday

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Gawker Endorsement: Don’t Vote for Bloomberg

Tomorrow is Election Day! You will probably not vote, because there are no contested races for anything important in 90% of the nation. But if you are a New Yorker, we have one message: don’t vote for Michael Bloomberg

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Greenspan: ‘If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big’

U.S. regulators should consider breaking up large financial institutions considered “too big to fail,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said

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US scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel

WASHINGTON — The US authorities arrested Monday a leading American scientist who had worked for the Pentagon and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel. Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

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Skulls found on Mafia ship laden with toxic waste

Cameras sent down to investigate vessel appear to show human remains By Michael Day in Milan Pressure is growing on the Italian government to act over revelations that 30 or more ships with radioactive cargoes, deliberately sunk by the Mafia, may be polluting the Mediterranean. The Calabrian region in the south of the country last night threatened to bypass Rome and petition the European Commission directly for help in dealing with the potential environmental disaster, while in another development investigators said that human remains may have been found on one ship – raising the possibility of a murder inquiry. Silvestro Greco, head of the region's environment agency, lambasted the response by ministers to the apparent discovery of one of the missing toxic waste vessels, the Cunsky, 18 miles off the Calabrian coast.

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Disclosure of secret nuclear plant further divides Iran’s hard-liners, opposition

Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, member of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, said his country would not abandon its endeavors, no matter what the consequences.

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Disclosure of secret nuclear plant further divides Iran’s hard-liners, opposition

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Win Parenting Award

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, creators of 18 kids and stars of 18 Kids and Counting on TLC, i.e.

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The Resignation Of Van Jones: An Obama Political Achilles Heel, Exposed

Apparently, all that needs to happen to provoke a White House Administration official’s resignation is: a bunch of blowhards and crazies find something someone once said that was once extreme.

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The Resignation Of Van Jones: An Obama Political Achilles Heel, Exposed