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Death at Disney

Brittany @ July 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Thinking about making a trip to the most magical place on earth, AKA Walt Disney World this summer? Well, you may want to think again. According to Yahoo News, two monorail trains crashed yesterday morning, killing one train’s operator.

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Fireworks on the Fourth not all Fun

Brittany @ July 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Five deaths and 25 people injured came with all the fireworks fun of the Fourth of July holiday this past weekend in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Four of the five were killed by explosions when a truck carrying fireworks exploded on Saturday, with two workers immediately killed, and two others who died in a hospital […]

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Income-based repayment recent graduate’s best friend

Rob @ June 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Going through school these days requires either a trust fund set up by dead relatives or doing exceptionally well in high school and securing some scholarships to aid in offsetting the costs of higher education.  In most cases, however, scholarships and grants don’t cover the entire cost of education for an undergraduate, and with the […]

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Talk about a gangster’s paradise

andrea @ June 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet

It feels to good to be a gangster, especially when no one suspects you are. Just ask Alex Sanchez. Sanchez is the executive director of the anti-gang group Homies Unidos, in Los Angeles. Homies Unidos’s general objective is “to support the prevention of social violence, rehabilitation and construction of a culture of peace among the […]

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Formula One becoming Formula none?

Rob @ June 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Formula One is regarded as the premier series in world racing.  Unlike NASCAR, in which most races are simply about how well a car can turn left, Formula One embraces several road courses, using Indy-style cars that can run laps around America’s racing series.  But that may be coming to an end. A few months […]

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Cricket war

Rob @ June 18, 2009 # One Comment

One may read this headline and chuckle a bit if you have ever read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  In the saga, the “Krikkit War” pertains to giant robots wielding cricket mallets and slapping super nuclear cricket balls into planets and suns to destroy the rest of the galaxy. Things happen a little different […]

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Communist hypocrisy

Rob @ June 18, 2009 # One Comment

When people think about communism, they think of the Chinese and the Great Wall and their red flag.  Or they think of the old Soviet Union and the iron-fist of Stalin.  Some will even remember where communism came from and think of Marx and Lenin.  But no one thinks religion. Welcome to the American version […]

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Gays to get more rights, at least the federal ones

Brittany @ June 17, 2009 # One Comment

And gay will enter the headlines, the newsrooms and the White House, yet again, today when President Obama signs a presidential memorandum that granting benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. Expect to see crowds of gays lining up for government jobs after this. (What about all the rest not employed by federal means?)

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Christianity gets kicked out in Oklahoma

Rob @ June 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Tulsa, Okla. made the decision that evangelical groups can no longer make use of housing projects to preach Christianity and convert underprivileged children to their faith. The group in question is the Child-Evangelism Fellowship, which, for several decades has worked with underprivileged children, gone in to speak with prison-inmate’s offspring and worked to teach moral […]

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Pizza deliveryman turns hero

Rob @ June 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet

According to an article reported by AOL News, Chris Turner pulled up to a log cabin, pizza in tow, expecting a routine delivery. When he arrived, payment went by as usual with the customer signing the credit slip and the pie changing hands, except, unlike every other delivery, a woman on the couch in the […]

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