Here's a fun dose of schadenfreude.
Sen.-elect Al Franken's (D-MN) long-awaited victory in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race seems to have caused quite a lot of stress in the Murdoch-owned press. Remember, this is the same corporation that sued him for a book back in 2003.
Source:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/murdoch-press-blows-gasket-over-franken-victory.php
This evening, a Yemenia Airbus A310 crashed an hour from its destination into the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros. Nothing is known about the cause of the crash, but the plane was carrying a total of 154 passengers when it went down.
Source:
http://www.gadling.com/2009/06/29/breaking-news-yemenia-airbus-a310-crash-154-passengers-on-bo/
Standing by your man suddenly seems to be going out of fashion for some American women in the public eye. This month, the wives of at least two famous men caught cheating -- sexually and financially --...
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55T0UX20090630?rpc=64
They took my pug and he told me he was taking him to the pound where he would be "put down." I was taken to the J stop headquarters.
I wasn't allowed to call a lawyer and I was put in a cell with handcuffs on with two other women who spit on me and hit me in the head, because they weren't in handcuffs and I was crying so much it bothered them.
Source:
http://gothamist.com/2009/06/30/woman_says_misogynistic_cop_arreste.php
A toddler has been found alive amid the debris of a passenger jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean early Tuesday with 153 people on board, officials said.
Source:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/30/yemen-plane-crash-indian-ocean374.html
Marijuana and cocaine for personal use should be decriminalised because the "war on drugs" has been a disaster, according to some of Latin America's most powerful politicians and writers. The current international policy on drugs encourages corruption and violence that is threatening democracy throughout the continent, according to the former...
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/28/legalise-marijuana-drugs-commission
Numerous debt settlement firms promise to make debts disappear.
But lawmakers have classified it a "rouge industry," arguing that debt settlement companies, which say they can negotiate reduced credit card and other debts, are "offering consumers false hope, charging tremendous fees and leaving them in a worse financial situation."
Source:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/08/business/fi-debt-relief8
