QUITO (Reuters) – Unrest erupted in Ecuador on Thursday with troops taking control of the main airport and police protesting in streets as President Rafael Correa accused rivals of seeking a coup and considered dissolving Congress.
In confused and chaotic scenes in Quito, scores of soldiers...
Tea & Crackers: How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904?RS_show_page=0
It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting my Tea Party epiphany exactly where you'd expect: at a Sarah Palin...
Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says
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By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
Story posted 2010.09.27 at 09:07 PM PDT
If you want to know about God, you might want to talk to an...
Getting Made The Scorsese Way
Yes, indeed, The Godfather is masterful. The Sopranos? We never missed an episode. But you want to talk about a movie that leaves a mark? Twenty years after the release of GoodFellas, the good people behind it—Scorsese, Liotta, De Niro!—re-create the making of the...
Haiti's Disaster Capitalists Swoop In
21/09/2010
Author:
Siddhartha Mahanta
Refugee evictions, private land grabs, disaster capitalism—you can't tell the story of Haiti without all this. Eight months after the earthquake, many of the 1.7 million Haitians living under tattered tarps in...
How The Chicago Bears Fumbled Away A Fortune
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0913/nfl-values-10-bears-chicago-football-money-midgets-midway.html
The National Football League's Chicago Bears have one of the most recognizable brands in American sport. They play in the league's second-largest...
How our governments snuffed out a democracy and kidnapped a President: a modern parable
Posted by Johann Hari 5 hours ago
Today, I want to tell you the story of how our governments have been torturing and tormenting a small island in the Caribbean – but it is a much bigger story than that...
A couple years ago, David Pizarro, a young research psychologist at Cornell, brewed up a devious variation on the classic trolley problem. The trolley problem is that staple of moral psychology studies at dinner parties in which you ask someone to decide under what conditions it’s morally...
UFOs - Scripture, The Mother Plane, & Minister Farrakhan's Vision From Tepoztlan, MX
Scripture, The Mother Plane, And Minister Farrakhan's Vision From Tepoztlan, Mexico
The scriptures of both Bible and Holy Qur'an contain several references to entities, in today's lexicon, that could be...
Feel free to prop me for all the work and listening to bitching I've had to do through this whole thing.
Only votes in the poll will count in this round so if you want to vote put it there.
Poll will only be open for 7 days.
And then thought it was funny that I was shocked so she proceeded to use it three more times in the next 20 seconds of conversation. She tried to brush me off by saying white people can be porch monkeys too.
racist story brah :ermm:
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies'
Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-afghan-civilians-fingers
Twelve...
Me? I am going to enjoy the day off and thank my Union Brothers and Sisters for it!
Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (September 6 in 2010).
The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City. It...
16 Year old girl masturbates with a Ken doll, gets its head stuck in her vagina.
http://jezebel.com/5627695/and-now-the-worst-masturbation-story-winner
This is mortifying. I still shiver and block it out when the memory arises: I tended to use whatever was available at the age of 16; in my...
Told my girl - "Give me a Chilean Miner!" She said - "What's that?"
I said - "Go down to the bottom of the shaft and stay there 'til Christmas!"
Hi-yo!