A Christian High-School Basketball Team blows out Rivals 100 – 0, but feels remorse, saying it is un-christian-like. They now seek a forfeit to the team and a national apology. Good Grief. Continue Here
Archive for January, 2009
Girls Basketball Team Wins 100-0, Feels Bad and Seeks Forfeit
Posted: 23rd January 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, SportsTags: basketball, girls, high-school, win
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Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes Al Qaeda Chief
Posted: 23rd January 2009 by Sus Scrofa in PoliticsTags: al-Qaeda, cheif, Guantanamo, terrorit, U.S.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. Continue Here
Britain officially slips into recession
Posted: 23rd January 2009 by The Dude in Economy | Finance, LifestyleTags: Britain, Recession
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain went into recession at the end of last year for the first time since 1991, official data showed on Friday, with the economy shrinking at its fastest pace since 1980, official data showed on Friday. The Office for National Statistics said the economy shrank by 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter [...]
New staff finds White House tech. in Dark Ages
Posted: 23rd January 2009 by The Dude in Science | TechnologyTags: Obama, Science | Technology
‘It’s kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,’ an Obama aide says Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail [...]
Obama wants to know: Why open source?
Posted: 23rd January 2009 by The Dude in Science | TechnologyTags: Obama, open source
President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from [...]
What Racquet is He Using? Does Anyone Know?
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Entertainment, SportsTags: Austrailian Open, djokovic, HEAD, racket, screech, tennis
Novak Djokovic advances to third round of the 2009 Austrailian with a new weapon of destruction…an unknown HEAD Racket. No one, not even the announcers seem to know exactly what racket it is…. Do you know? Does anyone know? Not even HEAD will speak on the matter.
Medical Marijuana Capital of the USA
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Lifestyle, Mother NatureTags: California, emerald, green, grow, illegal, legalize, marijuana, medical, Mendocino
“This is ground zero for marijuana. Nobody produces any better marijuana than we do in the States” MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. – Two hours from San Francisco, Northern California’s Mendocino County is a world away from the urban bustle. At first glance, it’s a picture postcard of the far West. But beneath its beauty lies a [...]
What Would You Like With Your Frog Today?
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Mother NatureTags: amphibian, consumption, endanger, frog, harvest, hunt, specie, UN
Up to one billion frogs are taken from the wild for human consumption each year according to a new study. Researchers arrived at this conclusion by analysing UN trade data, although they acknowledge there is a lot of uncertainty in the figure. France and the US are the two biggest importers, with significant consumption in [...]
Massive Layoffs at Microsoft
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Economy | FinanceTags: Bill Gates, computer, crisis, financial, job, layoff, market, Microsoft, problem
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp stunned Wall Street with disappointing results that included plans to slash up to 5,000 jobs and a warning that profit and revenue will almost certainly drop over the next two quarters. The news from the world’s largest software maker, which had not been expected to report results until after [...]
Quantum Watch Defies Laws of Physics, Logic and Gravity
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Science | TechnologyTags: gravity, logic, physics, quantum, watch
To be honest, I’m not sure what I’m looking at here. But, the manufacturer assures us that it is a watch – a watch that can defy “all laws, including that of logic and most of all, of gravity.” Continue Here
You can’t take Rappers anywhere!
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Jay Sleeps in EntertainmentTags: Bill O'rielly, Black President, Bush, Dennis Miller, inauguration, Jay-z, young jeezy
Bill O’ Reilly discusses some comments made on stage during a performance. The Performance was Young Jeezy and Jay-Z during an Inauguration Concert. People in other Countries get murdered for talking about a leader like that. Thank America for Freedom of Speech. Does Young Jeezy take it too far? Or can you even expect Young [...]