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• Schadenfreude: so delicious with a dollop of revenge on top!

  
  DUFF & NONSENSE! — Authority: 427
  You, dear reader, may* have misunderstood me all these years.  From my light-hearted scribblings you might* have taken me for a rather jovial, jolly, old cove full of almost Santa-like kindness and goodwill to my fellow men and women . . . sorry, I didnt quite catch what you said . . . do you need a glass of water ...
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• Widows of 26/11 martyrs meet Sonia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): The wives of 26/11 martyrs, Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar, called on Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday.The meeting came just three days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks during which Karkare and Salaskar died while fighting terrorists near Cama ...
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• 1974: Black Saturday in Ethiopia

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 471
  November 23, 1974 was “Bloody Saturday” in Ethiopia for that day’s* surprise purge of some threescore politicians and soldiers by the ruling Derg. It was barely ten weeks since the Derg — an Amharic word word “committee”, in this case a leftist military junta — had formally overthrown Emperor Haile ...
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• Daybreaker: Should a 15-year-old Port Arthur kid be tried as an adult?

  
  The Bayou — Authority: 139
  Maybe its the holiday season talking; what with all this supposed good cheer going around. Perhaps its because so many recent Southeast Texas kid touchers have received such relatively light sentences, but this one bothers us.Its the recent news that 15-year-old DaQuan ONeal Zeno will be tried as an adult.Zeno was ...
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• Biden Threatens Those Who Voted Against Healthcare Reform

  
  Ft. Hard Knox — Authority: 433
  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden took the stage Saturday night at the annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines and threatened reward and punishment when he said, “every reason to believe that those who voted for reform will be rewarded and those who voted against it will be held accountable.”
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• Who’s Afraid of a Fair Trial?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  Chickenhawk The Washington Post’s Michael Gershon wrote the most cowardly chickenhawk op-ed I have seen in a long time. I know I should not take the bait, but somehow can’t stop myself. He asks: So how did Holder become the most destructive member of Barack Obama’s Cabinet? Apparently Gershon finds ...
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• Experts Say Iran Uses the Death Penalty as a Way to Intimidate Opponents

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A flurry of executions and death sentences has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to quell pockets of unrest around the nation.
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• The skinny on fat

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 431
  It’s one of those great gross-out tales, supposedly only coming from the Heart of Darkness, i.e., Latin America: Reuters (19-November-2009) : LIMA, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to ...
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• Death Penalty in The World; Brief History of Cruelest Method Ever Used

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
                      Decades of fierce debate over the death penalty in modern society has at least led some people to realize that man has shown plenty of imagination in thinking out means of execution, from Persian “boat death” to Turkish impaling. But whether the cruelest executions serve as ...
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• Effective punshment for the adolescent.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  (Punishment, Part three.) When it comes to punishing their adolescent, the number one choice of parents seems to be DEPRIVATION - temporarily removing something of value in the young persons life in consequence of him or her committing some serious misdeed. The "game of take away", as one teenager called it, is ...
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• Dear Mayor Miller...

  
  halls of macadamia — Authority: 487
  ...help me out here... how does taking varmint rifles from my rural farming neighbours ... do absolutely anything to the bodycount in the center of the universe ? -- TORONTO -- A violent morning in the city has left one man dead and five people wounded from gunfire. The bullets started flying around ...
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• Dominic Carter convicted of attempted assault

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 747
  Former NY1 political reporter Dominic Carter was found guilty of third degree attempted assault on Friday in the beating of his wife. Ramapo Justice Arnold Etelson found that Mrs. Carters ...
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• 1895: Florence English and Amanda Cody

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 471
  On this date in 1895, Amanda (Mandy) Cody became the first woman hanged in Georgia’s Warren County when she died with her (male) lover Florence English for murdering Cody’s husband, Cicero and dumping his body in a swamp. According to The Penalty is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women’s Executions ...
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• Politicians Play on Fear

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 138
  Thursday’s editorial points out leaders of an Illinois town that would gladly take prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, unlike S.C. politicians. A tiny town in Illinois seems to have pulled the rug fromunder some S.C. politicians grandstanding to the point of demagoguing on thepossibility of terrorism suspects being ...
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• Christmas Punishment

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 136
  I believe this was actually an ad for a survey – not sure what I exactly think of it at the moment. You be the judge.Posted in Christmas, Fun, Special Days, video
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• A Rumor of War

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 431
  Philip Caputo has been writing about war and the corruption of war since his Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War , first appeared in 1977.  As a Chicago Tribune reporter, that includes the generally bloodless — but highly corrupting — world of Chicago politics. In the December 2009 The Atlantic Caputo turns his ...
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• A Man with a Gun!! In Arizona its all good… we can open carry loaded

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 141
  by Larkin Rose with all credit for an excellent piece of work, originally posted on freedomsphoenix.  Good food for thought on this lovely weekend. A recent story regarding an “open carry” movement in California (of all places) gives a very telling glimpse into the mentality of the general public, and the ...
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• Empty seat struggle on the D train leads to death

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 747
  The daily ballet of personal space issues on public transportation triggered a fatal stabbing on the D train yesterday. ...
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• Heather Ellis Wins Walmart Case

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 501
  Heather Ellis has reached a plea deal with the state of Missouri. As previously reported, Ellis, a young college student was facing up to 15 years in prison after an altercation at a local Walmart that started from cutting the line. After the dust settled, Heather was arrested and charged with trespassing, ...
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• Who’s Who and What’s Up with the Manhattan Declaration

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  photo: bastique via Flickr I’ve been looking at the list of signers on the conservative “Manhattan Declaration” that was released yesterday . One group of signers are the leading culture warriors and theological purists in the Roman Catholic church. Cardinal Rigali of Philadelphia was joined by conservative ...
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