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Bloomberg.com: Politics:
Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers (Update3)
By Tony Capaccio

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said.

The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.

The owners of C&D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina — twin sisters — exploit

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Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Airline passenger had monkey under his hat

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Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Airline passenger had monkey under his hat:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 08, 2007

Airline passenger had monkey under his hat
A man was questioned by US border authorities after he smuggled a monkey onto an aeroplane by hiding the animal under his hat.

On a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to New York’s LaGuardia airport, people around the man noticed that a marmoset – a fist-sized animal which normally lives in forest and eats fruit and insects – had emerged from underneath his hat and was perching on her ponytail, according to Alison Russell, a Spirit Airlines spokeswoman.

The man’s journey had begun in Lima, Peru.

“Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him,” Russell said. The monkey spent the remainder of the flight in the man’s seat and behaved well, said Ms Russell.

She did not know how the monkey escaped detection in Lima and during the man’s several-hour layover in Fort Lauderdale.

Port Authority police, said the passenger wa

China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate – Times Online

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China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate – Times Online:
From The Times
August 4, 2007
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Jane Macartney in Beijing
Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people.

“The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid,” according to the order, which comes into effect on September 1.

The 14-part regulation issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs is aimed at limiting the influen

ABC News: Does Stiff Pot Policy Give Meth Free Ride?

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ABC News: Does Stiff Pot Policy Give Meth Free Ride?:
Is the Nation’s Marijuana Policy Misguided?
Critics Contend the Government Is Fighting Pot at the Expense of Battling Meth

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent hands a freshly-pulled marijuana plant off to another law enforcement officer as they work to clear a patch of the weed near Entiant, Wash., Sept. 20, 2005. (Elaine Thompson/ AP Photo )

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Aug. 1, 2007
Since the Marijuana Tax Act — the first anti-marijuana federal law — was signed by President Roosevelt 70 years ago Thursday, the debate over the drug’s effects, dangers and criminalization has raged unabated.

The Bush administration has made marijuana its prime target in the war on drugs, spending billions of dollars on education camp

Soap, Drugs, & Rock and Roll

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This is the incredible true story of the Germ and Soap Company that teamed up to fight drug charges. David Bronner President of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps shows how natural soaps test positive for the date rape drug GHB using police field kits while detergent based fake soaps always test negative. You got to watch it to believe it.
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The freaky origins of Christian rock. – By Erik Davis – Slate Magazine

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The freaky origins of Christian rock. – By Erik Davis – Slate Magazine:
1993, Frisbee died of AIDS, raising issues that most people in the evangelical community would rather ignore. Though the man had sparked two of the most dynamic Protestant revival movements to appear over the last 30 years—Calvary Chapel and later the Vineyard—his catalytic role had largely been swept under the carpet until Di Sabatino made his documentary. In letting Frisbee drift into obscurity, the inheritors and benefactors of his ministry were not just being homophobes. They were also distancing themselves from his whole era of rebel signs and funky wonders—a convulsive period of uncorked spirit whose troubling urgency and sweet idealism is perhaps best accessed today through the curious and sometimes amazing music the Jesus People made.

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Back in the 70’s and early 80’s, Charles Nelson Reilly was a fixture on the talk show circuit. I guess scale made the house
payments. At any rate, I vividly recall him being on Johnny Carson one night with Rob Reiner. Reiner treated him like a dog. That totally spoiled me on Rob Reiner to this day. Not long after, he was on again and this time Bob Hope was on. Hope always came on first and then left….he always said he had something to do when in reality he probably just didn’t want to listen to the drivel. The night in question, his segment was up, Johnny told him goodbye, and started to go to commercial. Hope didn’t leave and Johhny turned to him kind of confused and said, “don’t you have to go”? Hope just replied, “No, I want to say hello to Charles”. They came back from commercial and Charles Nelson Reilly came out. Hope gave him a warm greeting and THEN he left.
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Web site archives the dead of MySpace – Yahoo! News

Web site archives the dead of MySpace – Yahoo! News:

Sun Jul 29, 12:50 PM ET
Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.

Allison Bauer left rainbows: Reds, yellows and blues, festooned across her MySpace profile in a collage of color. Before her corpse was pulled from the depths of an Oregon gorge on May 9, where police say she leapt to her death, she unwittingly wrote her own epitaph.

“I love color, Pure Color in rainbow form, And I love My friends,” the 20-year-old wrote under “Interests” on her profile. “And I love

Weirdomatic – Amazing Pictures

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Weirdomatic – Amazing Pictures:
Weirdomatic – Amazing Pictures

Monday, July 30, 2007
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Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

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Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters:

The “Never Get Busted Again” video is indeed lousy, and gives lots of terrible advice that involves ‘cooperating’ with cops and renouncing your constitutional rights (4th and 5th Amendments, especially). It’s received a bit of angry discussion elsewhere for awhile now.

This video, however, created by the ACLU and Flex Your Rights, (I am not affiliated with either group), does a much better job, and can be seen for free on youtube, unlike the Never Get Busted Again video.

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