It’s time for the latest installment in our continuing series (see here and here) about how undead Dick Cheney blowed up Iraq real good thereby fulfilling a promise made in return for an advance given against services to be rendered and then, damage done and blood money in hand, the Cheney...
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Dick Dynasty III: The Unlikening
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Accused rapist allowed to raise identical twin defense at trial
An Army officer linked by DNA to the sexual assault of several young girls will be allowed to argue that his identical twin brother could have committed the crimes. 1st Lt. Aaron Lucas, a decorated artillery officer, is charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, enticement of a child and indecent...
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Louisiana parish votes to save library fund after commissioner’s rant about ‘teaching Mexicans how to speak English’ there
John Chrastka’s brigade of pissed-off librarians came into the game late in the Louisiana parish ballot referendum defunding libraries for jail money. But the social media blitz appears to have paid dividends, both for library funding in Lafourche parish (Louisiana’s term for a county)...
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German recluse wants to keep Nazi-looted art trove
Berlin — Cornelius Gurlitt, an elderly German recluse who hid hundreds of paintings believed looted by the Nazis in his Munich flat, will not give up the works without a fight, a report said Sunday. Gurlitt, 80, told Der Spiegel news weekly in an interview that his father, a powerful Nazi-era art...
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Alternate ending to ‘Breaking Bad’ leaked online
An alternate ending to be included in the Breaking Bad: The Complete Series box set — which will not be released until November 26 — was leaked online last night. The ending features Bryan Cranston, who played “Walter White” on Breaking Bad, in bed with Jane Kaczmarek, who...
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CNN split-screen segment compares Obama and crack-smoking Toronto mayor
CNN on Saturday filled nearly ten minutes of airtime by discussing how President Barack Obama was like crack-smoking Toronto Rob Ford. “The Most Trusted Name in News” began the segment with a split-screen image of Obama and Ford. The network then likened Obama’s recent admission...
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‘Quite ill’ Nelson Mandela now unable to speak
South Africa’s Nelson Mandela remains “quite ill” and is unable to speak, using facial expressions to communicate as he receives intensive medical care at home, his ex-wife told Sunday media. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said the 95-year-old was not on life support but he was no...
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Liz Cheney shrugs off lesbian sister’s call for marriage rights: ‘We disagree’
Wyoming Republican Senate candidate Liz Cheney on Sunday said that she disagreed with her own lesbian sister’s desire for equal marriage rights. Fox News host Chris Wallace pointed out to Liz Cheney on Sunday that her married sister, Mary, had called her “dead wrong” on the issue...
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Online gambling to be legal in U.S. ‘within 10 years’
Internet gambling is on a roll in the US market after years lurking in the shadows. New Jersey kicks off its online wagering November 26, becoming the most populous state to do so after Nevada and Delaware. Other states have become active since 2011, when the federal government signaled it would...
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Rob Ford to find show where people will believe his ‘outrageous lies’ in SNL cold open
The cold open to Saturday Night Live last night featured repertory player Bobby Moynihan as embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. The skit began as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News Toronto interview with Ford, who repeatedly confessed that he’d “goofed up” during the previous...
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Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing dies
British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, died Sunday at the age of 94, her agent and publisher said. The author’s longtime agent and friend Jonathan Clowes said Lessing had died peacefully at her London home in the...
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George Will: Obama’s insurance ‘fix’ lets next GOP president stop taxing rich without Congress
Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama had caused a “constitutional scandal” by giving states the option of letting insurance companies continue to sell junk insurance plans for one year — and he said that meant a future Republican...
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Forty-four dead in Boeing 737 crash
A Boeing 737 on a domestic flight crashed Sunday while attempting to land at Kazan airport in western Russia, leaving 44 dead, the emergency situations ministry said. The plane, which took off from Moscow, “crashed at Kazan airport at 7:25 pm (1525 GMT),” the ministry’s local...
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Child with dead chicken around his neck found shackled to porch at home of Department of Social Services supervisor
Dorian Lee Harper and his wife, Wanda Sue Larson, were arrested on Friday after deputies found their 11-year-old foster child handcuffed to the porch with a dead chicken hanging from his neck. Police arrived at the home of Harper and Larson, who works for the Department of Social Services —...
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Walker gushes ‘love’ for Paul Ryan: ‘If he had a fan club, I’d be the president’
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) on Sunday said that members of Congress had no business running for president, but also expressed his “love” for former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI). The union-busting Wisconsin governor told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that the 2016...
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Active Antarctic volcanoes may be ‘lubricating’ ice sheets into ocean
Accelerating ice loss from the Antarctic icesheet could be due in part to active volcanoes under the frozen continent’s eastern part, a study said on Sunday. From 2002 to 2011, the average annual rate of Antarctic icesheet loss increased from about 30 billion tonnes to about 147 billion...
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‘Pharmacist’ pope hands out ‘spiritual medicine’
Pope Francis on Sunday advised Catholics to take a special dose of spiritual medicine, offering some 20,000 boxes of “mercy” — containing rosaries — to pilgrims in St Peter’s Square. “I now want to suggest a medicine. ‘What?’ you ask, ‘the pope...
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Dick Dynasty IV: The Awkwarding
Daddy’s Little Deferment went on the teevee tube thing this morning and explained that she thinks that not-opposite marriage should be a states right thing. You know, like slavery was in the good old days: Wyoming Republican Senate candidate Liz Cheney on Sunday said that she disagreed with...
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Fox News marks 50th anniversary of JFK’s death by painting him as ‘quite conservative’
Fox News host Chris Wallace marked the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s murder by first suggesting to members of the Kennedy family that he was “quite conservative” and then by following up with a second segment to drive home the point. “There is a growing...
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Body found of former Texas DA, retired two weeks, shot dead
The body of a recently-retired district attorney from Newton County, Texas, was found Friday evening about 150 miles away near Shreveport, La., dead from a gunshot wound according to a preliminary autopsy report. Police in Caddo Parish have the death of Robert Choate under investigation, but do not...
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