People with allergies are legitimately outraged this week by the decision of Northwest Airlines to re-introduce peanuts to its flights despite the large number of kids and adults with severe allergies to the snack.
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Now, when you get really mad as those flight attendants, you might want to watch the video below, which is now a major hit on the Internet. While watching this woman writhing on the ground, keep in mind that she merely missed her flight and caught the next plane a couple hours later.
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Another scientific report has denounced the environmental damage caused by beef consumption in the United States. Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada has released a study showing how cows consume a disproportionate amount of food (more than they produce in meat) and cause 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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After launching a controversial investigation involving dozens of people for marijuana use in the Phelps bong incident, South Carolina’s Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he couldn’t ignore the photo but defended has suddenly announced that he would not charge Phelps, though he did charge others.
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A judge in Muncie, Indiana has accepted a plea of guilty in a bizarre case involving a white supremacist and Satan worshiper who turned a prior hearing into chaos by shouting “Heil Hitler” and “White Power” at the judge before being held in contempt. Dmitriy V. Sklyarov, 20, has now pleaded guilty to biting a 9-year-old child 13 times on the arms and legal in October.
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Muzzammil Hassan, 44, the founder of an Islamic television station in New York, has been charged with beheading of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37. Ironically, Hassan founded the Bridges TV station in Buffalo to dispel stereotypes of Muslims and has now contributed to such stereotypes in his alleged murder of his wife. She was murdered at the Bridges television offices.
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This would be enough to get reach for a stiff drink . . . if it weren’t prohibitively expensive. Oregon legislators are proposing a 1900% tax increase so voters not only have to face the economic crisis but do it without beer.
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There are growing calls for a perjury investigation of Senator Roland W. Burris of Illinois after he acknowledged that the brother of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich sought campaign fund-raising help before his appointment to succeed Barack Obama in the Senate. Burris notably failed to mention the demand in prior sworn statements.
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Now here is a public invitee case worth following. Boston’s Granary Cemetery is dealing with an alarming incicent where a woman strolling on their grounds fell into a burial chamber. The tourist was walking along a fence when she found herself in a hole that proved to be a staircase into a 350 year old vault.
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While Walmart advertises Spend Less, Live Better, the company may want to just reduce it to “Spend Less.” Jay Richitelli, 42, is now the third Floridian to be bitten by a snake at a Walmart garden center in that state alone. The culprit was a pygmy rattler at the Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart.
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There may be on thing that is not quite better at Here Everything’s Better stores in Texas. The chain has recalled meat that it sold due to metal fragments in the meat due to “an equipment malfunction.” The recall was issued appropriately on Friday the 13th.
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Students of Hampshire College are complaining of harassing or intimidating telephone calls. Nothing new there, such calls can be common particularly when the students are leading a political cause. Yet, the alleged caller was Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who they claim was upset over their effort to get the school to divest from Israel. They allege that Dershowitz (who had a child go to Hampshire) has been calling students and threatening to organize a boycott of the school.
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Male students at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada are a bit put out this week after the curious reception given a simple proposal for a Men’s Collective, a group to mirror the Women’s Collective. The proposal by Will Breen was allegedly met with scorn from both students and faculty alike, including such dismissals of any such club as little more than a “pornography and cigar club.”
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) appear to be intent on getting the first XXX rating for political advocacy. Just last month, PETA attempted to air a commercial during the Superbowl in which stripping models had sexual moments with various vegetables. Now in Downtown El Paso, PETA arranged for two half-dressed woman to make love in public on a blow-up mattress.
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Jonathan Lopez has filed a lawsuit against a professor and Los Angeles City College over his treatment after giving a speech on the Christian view of marriage in speech class. Lopez alleges that Professor John Matteson had made it clear that he supported same-sex marriage. He claims that Matteson allegedly attacked him verbally, refused let him complete his speech, effectively called him a “fascist bastard” and refused to give him a grade (telling him to “ask God” for his grade).
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