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Pastor Gets Into Motorcycle Crash - During Service

Religion – A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he's demonstrating the concept of healing.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 10:15pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

Creationists Fail Again: Taken For Granite

Science – Geologists scoping out a glacier in Antarctica found a piece of granite there. This granite's structure matched that of granite found in only one other place: North America. Radioactive dating tests using several methods all match the age of the same granites in North America. So how did that rock get to Antarctica?

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 08:30pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 21 votes / No sinks

Creationist Research: Semi-Technical, Also Worthless

Science – Bless their hearts. The Creationists over at Answers in Genesis are working their perfectly designed fingers to the bone. Blowing the Discovery Institute out of the water by not only publishing a for-realsies science journal (well, at least once), but also performing 'semi-technical' research!

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 10:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Israeli 'Shooting Video' Causes Outrage

News – An Israeli human rights group has just released graphic video footage obtained during clashes between Israeli troops and demonstrators protesting against the separation barrier on the West Bank. The video has sparked outrage, as it shows what appears to be an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian at close range. Al Jazeera's Emma Hayward reports.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 09:29am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Suicide Epidemic Grips Japan

News – A suicide fad is sweeping Japan: Hundreds of Japanese have killed themselves this year by mixing ordinary household chemicals into a lethal cloud of poison gas that often injures others and forces the evacuation of entire apartment blocks.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 09:24am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks

On the Farm, A Back-End Solution to an Energy Crisis

News – In the search for a way to deal with the vast quantity of manure his big herd generates and to do something useful with it, Mr. Stanton, a third-generation dairy farmer, had a quirky idea: why not try to turn the dung into a valuable commodity, like electricity?

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 09:00am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / 1 sink

Richard Dawkins Slaps Creationists into the Primordial Soup

Television – His books sell in their millions, his TV programmes are rapturously received, and he's appeared in Doctor Who. Not bad for a 67-year-old academic. Now Richard Dawkins, scourge of creationists, is championing his Victorian hero.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 05:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 43 votes / 4 sinks

Crying Girl Runs From Bush at White House Tee-Ball Game

Politics – A little girl became so badly frightened while being introduced to President Bush on Wednesday during a White House tee-ball game that she darted away in tears.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 02:49pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 26 votes / 1 sink

Beijing Bars Told to Ban Black People During Olympics

Sports – In a couple of weeks Beijing will turn into a party town and Sanlitun is predicted to be the epicenter of the Olympic night events. The South China Morning Post has however reported that the bar owners in the area were asked to refuse service to black patrons.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 11:36am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 25 votes / 1 sink

Daytona Beach Cop Fired for Demanding Free Starbucks

News – An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:55am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / 1 sink

Science Museum Will Close During GOP Convention

Politics – The Science Museum of Minnesota plans to close to the public during the Republican National Convention next year so it can host convention events.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:49am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / 2 sinks

A Quiet Day for Conservatism

Politics – Grover Norquist and the most powerful conservative institutions met in Washington DC to discuss the state of the movement for lower taxes and less government. Thanks to President Bush, it's not going so well.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 10:08am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 30 votes / 1 sink

World Youth Day Pilgrims Attack Protester

Religion – The woman, Mary Adams, waited hours for the Pontiff to pass, before holding up her handmade sign that said 'Ratzinger condones paedophilia'. Adams was yelled at by a group of pilgrims as soon as she held up the sign, and was forced to flee the area as the group continued to yell while trying to rip the sign out of her hands and shove her.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 09:49am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / 1 sink

Police Spied on Activists In Maryland

News – Undercover Maryland State Police officers conducted surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents, including some in Takoma Park, for more than a year while Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. was governor, documents released yesterday show.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2008 09:18am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / 1 sink

McCain Gets Social Security But Calls System a Disgrace

Politics – Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security "a disgrace," he still cashes his own retirement check every month.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 17, 2008 10:05pm

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