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More than the gloves come off in Washington political yarn (AFP)

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

US Representative Eric Massa, pictured in 2009, resigned suddenly this week facing harassment allegations from a former male staffer. In his most colorful parting shot, on a radio show on Sunday, he accused the White House chief of staff of cornering him at the locker room of the House of Representatives gym and hammering him for failing to back Obama's budget.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP – It’s a terrifying image transfixing Washington: President Barack Obama’s bruising enforcer Rahm Emanuel, naked, in a communal shower, berating a congressman over perceived political cowardice.

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In Focus: Senate Candidate Drops Out Of Race Due To Shyness

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

KNOXVILLE, TN–Donald Miller told his campaign manager to tell the people that Tennessee would be better off with a more confident, outgoing representative.


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Alternate Health Care Bills

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

In response to President Obama’s call for compromise, several lawmakers have concocted their own health care reform bills. Here are some…


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Australia goes from ‘best job’ to ‘best taxi ride’ (AFP)

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

Australian tourism authorities are seeking five foreign couples to take part in what is touted as the world's longest, and most extraordinary, taxi ride. In a nine-week journey over some 11,000 kilometres of road, five couples would travel the state in the back of a taxi.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP – Australian tourism authorities are seeking five foreign couples to take part in what is touted as the world’s longest, and most extraordinary, taxi ride.

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Police: Burglar uses church equipment to view porn (AP)

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AP – Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution’s electronic equipment to watch pornography. Police allege the 55-year-old man broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday. After gathering items from around the building, he is believed to have gone to the basement to spend the night.

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Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town (AP)

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

AP – Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness.

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Police: Calif. robber holds up 11 people, gets $6 (AP)

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

AP – They say crime doesn’t pay. For one robber in California, it did — but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6.

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Japan baby-robot teaches parenting skills (AFP)

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An engineering student soothes Yotaro, a robot which emulates a real baby at Tsukuba University in Japan. Yotaro's face, made of soft translucent silicon with a rosy hue, is backlit by a projector connected to a computer to simulate crying, sneezing, sleeping and smiling, while a speaker can let out bursts of baby giggles.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP – It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby.

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Woman charged in breast milk assault on jailer (AP)

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

AP – A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. But as she was changing into an inmate uniform, she squirted breast milk into the face of a female deputy who was with her.

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[video] Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

Excruciating up-to-the-minute coverage of some irrelevant bullshit story that has no ramifications whatsoever.


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In Focus: National Organization For Women Turns 39 Again

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

WASHINGTON, DC—Though officials are vague about what year NOW was founded, they do say a women’s organization is only as old as it feels.


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‘Old Baldy’ horse head going back up in Philly (AP)

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

FILE- In this file photo from Feb. 28, 2003 the mounted head of Old Baldy, the war horse of Gen. George Meade, is seen with some of Meade's effects at the Civil War Library and Museum in Philadelphia. The warhorse's preserved head was the subject of a battle between two city museums that both claimed ownership. A deal has been reached that allows the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and the Civil War Museum to share Old Baldy. He could arrive at the Grand Army museum this month. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)AP – A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War’s most infamous battles.

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New Zealand woman sells souls to highest bidder (AP)

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

AP – The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren’t aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.

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Japan town baffled by ‘kangaroo’ sightings (AFP)

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Odd News

A kangaroo is seen in an enclosure in the zoo in Dhaka. People in a Japanese mountain region have reported a number of kangaroo sightings, and journalists are now trying to stalk the marsupials.(AFP/File/Munir Uz Zaman)AFP – It may seem odd, but the locals swear it’s true. People in a Japanese mountain region have reported a number of kangaroo sightings, and journalists are now trying to stalk the marsupials.

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