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• So Many Post-Christmas Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  Sneaking in a quick linkdump between light posting due to Christmas and light posting due to MLA… * The Senate bill has, as you undoubtedly already know, passed. Ezra Klein , Kevin Drum , and even Jonathan Chait have this more or less right: winning ugly is still winning. There’ll be time to get started on ...
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• Crop Circles – Alien Messages Or Human Hoaxes? – NewsBlaze

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  NewsBlazeCrop Circles – Alien Messages Or Human Hoaxes?NewsBlazeCrop circles are patterns created by the flattening of crops (although at least one has been found in Russia using snow and ice); …read the full article
  2 days ago

• Real Business Or Internet Hoax – Learn How To Pick The Difference

  
  ImIdea [is] My Personal View — Authority: 143
  The beauty of the Internet is that it provides numerous opportunities for organizations and individuals to communicate with large audiences without the need for plenty of time, effort and money.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• Say, hows Bernie Madoff doing?

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 454
  The other day, I saw an item about Madoff being transferred to a prison medical center. It turns out he need treatment for "facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung," which makes it sound like he need to be...
  3 days ago

• Archaeologys Hoaxes, Fakes, and Strange Sites

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 769
  Archaeology magazine has eight stories of archaeological hoaxes that made the news throughout history, with bonus links to their earlier articles about hoaxes. The reasons for perpetrating hoaxes and forgeries range as widely as the kinds of fakes. Common motives for making bogus artifacts include publicity and ...
  4 days ago

• Fucking NewAgers (They Got Off Too Easy)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 136
  "I do want to reiterate that Im very, very sorry." -- Richard Heene , the U.F.O. nut, and reality show maven, who thought it would be so grand to have fun at everyone elses expense - pulling off the "Balloon Boy" hoax - before he was sentenced, crying, to 90 days in jail (his wife, Mayumi, got twenty) and a ...
  4 days ago

• The End of the 00s: The Best Hoaxes of the Decade, by Val Temple

  
  The Awl — Authority: 770
  Val Temple , the producer of Cooking the Books , reenacts the most famous hoaxes of the 00s.
  4 days ago

• Balloon Boys parents get jail time, probation for hoax

  
  Crime Time — Authority: 139
  Remember the "Balloon Boy" hoax in October? Well, his parents are probably feeling a little deflated Wednesday after a judge in Colorado sentenced the father, Richard Heene, to 90 days in jail, and the mother, Mayumi, to 20 days in jail. The sentence also invoked a harsh probation, the Associated Press reported. ...
  4 days ago

• Jail for Balloon Boys parents

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 454
  The first 30 will be full-time behind bars, but the last month will be spent on work release. Then Richard Heene will be on probation for four years. Sentence wont start until early January, so his kids can see on...
  4 days ago

• Father in Balloon Hoax Sentenced to 90 Days

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The man who carried out the balloon boy hoax has been sentenced to jail for the stunt.
  4 days ago

• Balloon Boy’s parents Richard & Mayumi Heene sentenced to jail

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Fort Collins, Dec 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Balloon boy’s parents Richard and Mayumi Heene have been sentenced to jail for carrying out the Balloon boy hoax. A prosecutor has urged a judge to give the man who carried out the balloon boy hoax the maximum punishment of 90 days behind bars. His wife Mayumi Heene [...]
  4 days ago

• News

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  The top two horses of this year made the list of top female athletes in this AP year . Of course the horses are Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra. _____ Richard Heene gets 90 days for perpetrating his balloon hoax . _____
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• Balloon Boy Family Charged $42,000

  
  /Gossip - Celebrity News, Rumors and Webcomics — Authority: 496
  The Larimer County D.A.’s office has reportedly sent Richard and Mayumi Heene a $42,000 bill for costs relating to the rescue effort to save their son Falcon who they claimed flew away in a Mylar balloon. The money will reimburse the police, the national guard, and the FAA, who all directed their resources to ...
  5 days ago

• Balloon Boys folks told to pay $42K

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 454
  Theyre going to be sentenced tomorrow, but their lawyer has already said that authorities want the Heenes to pay $42,000 to recoup the expense of searching for Balloon Boy.
  5 days ago

• Check Cashing Fraud Scams and Mystery Shopping Jobs

  
  Identity Theft Blog at Identity Theft Secrets — Authority: 114
  Have you received a letter or email asking you to be a "mystery shopper?" Maybe you are a legitmiate mystery shopper and have received this "assignment." An assignment or job that appears too good to be true and that involves check cashing may just be a scam. Find our more about this particular scam, how to identify ...
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• The taking

  
  The COFFEE SHOP — Authority: 484
  I knew a woman who quit smoking when she realized that she didnt have milk money for her kids, but she had money for her several pack a day cigarette habit. On a much bigger scale - what we are seeing today is a legislature who cries poor all year long, claims not to have money for basic expenditures unless they can ...
  6 days ago

• All Your Tweets Are Belong to Us!

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 111
  The old timers here in Washington, DC tell me that back during the Cold War, the CIA found out that the Soviets had concluded the best time to launch a pre-emptive thermonuclear MIRV ICBM attack on the United States of America was when Washington was paralyzed by a snow storm.  The story goes, after the Russians ...
  6 days ago

• An Inside Look At the Global Warming Conspiracy

  
  MoltenThought II — Authority: 135
  This is how elite media and academia work, people---take notes.
  6 days ago

• Peaches Geldof tweets Miley death hoax

  
  Eleven - The Celebrity Channel — Authority: 558
  Filed under: Most Bizarre Ordinarily when celebrity death hoaxes appear, it is a bored member of the public that begins the unpleasant rumours. On this occasion though, it was a bored celebrity. Having clearly not received the outpouring of horror she required from her recent "epic" Disney car crash, the vacuous ...
  1 week ago

• Micah on “Contactees”

  
  UFOMystic — Authority: 422
  Micah Hanks on those long-haired Space-Brothers from Venus (or, from somewhere, at least...)
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