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This could be recreation day at the insane asylum for all I know. Anyway, let's point and laugh. Sure this wasn't a Facebook meetup somewhere?This could be recreation day at the insane asylum for all I know. Anyway, let's... more
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A Romanian teenager was electrocuted in her bathtub last week after she dropped her laptop into the water as she Twittered.
Maria Barbu, 17, was found dead in the bathroom of her Brasov home in central Romania by her parents, Croatian Times reports. Her laptop was lying next to her.
Police believe the girl died during a long session on the social networking site Twitter as she soaked in the tub. Apparently, the battery died on her laptop and Barbu tried to plug it in with wet hands.
Twitter safe, Twitter dirty.
Arcticspirit...
Yeah just don't twitter in the shower, bathtub, pool or anywhere there is water please!A Romanian teenager was electrocuted in her bathtub last week after she dropped her... more
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - On a recent Saturday afternoon, hate was on the march in St. Louis. About 85 members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group, gathered in the shadow of the famed Gateway Arch for a march and rally celebrating its 35th anniversary.
Clad in all black, with their pants tucked into tightly laced combat boots, the group carried swastika flags and signs urging immigrants to leave the country. They chanted “Sieg Heil,” a popular rallying cry in World War II Germany, accompanied by a Nazi salute: one arm outstretched, fingers tightly joined, palms facing down.
Their critics say that groups like NSM are the faces of homegrown hate, something the NSM denies. They instead call themselves a “white civil rights organization.” Its ultimate goal is to whitewash America. If they had their way, U.S. citizenship would be limited to “those of pure white blood”; minorities would live in the country as guests. All Jewish people and gays would be forced to leave and immigration would be prohibited.
As shocking as those views are, groups like this are more popular than ever.
“Right across the board, extremist groups are thriving right now,” says Mark Potok, Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.
The SPLC has been tracking hate groups for almost 30 years. In its spring 2009 Intelligence Report, they found that 926 hate groups are currently operating in the U.S., an all-time high. These groups include the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, racist skinheads and Black separatists.
Potok attributes this rise in hate groups to the recession, the election of the nation’s first black president, and the immigration debate.
“We’re looking at a kind of perfect storm of factors that really favor the continued growth of these groups,” he says.
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Source: MSNBC
How should these homegrown hate groups be dealt with?ST. LOUIS, Mo. - On a recent Saturday afternoon, hate was on the march in St. Louis.... more
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British police were searching for a shark stolen from an aquatics shop over the weekend in southern England.
The female Australian marbled cat shark was one of a breeding pair kept in a converted garage in the back of a store owned by Peter Newman in Farnborough, about 20 miles west of London's Heathrow Airport, police said Tuesday.
The shark, two feet long and mottled brown, is rare in Britain, police said.
Newman, 68, said he realized the shark was missing Saturday morning when he found the door to the converted garage ajar and the lights on inside.
"I'm just very angry really," he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "Whoever came in there clearly knew what they were after. They probably would have taken the pair, but the male's a bit harder to catch really."
The two sharks have produced seven pups, which are kept in an adjacent tank, Newman said. None of them were taken in the theft.
His wife, June Newman, said the pair might together be worth as much as $20,000 because of their rarity. She said her husband might have left a door unlocked.
She also said she was puzzled by the theft, explaining that it would have been difficult to snatch the shark because the top of the tank was around five feet off the ground.
"It's mind-boggling to me as to how this shark has been taken," she said.
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A woman who has a bizarre fetish for inanimate objects has married the Eiffel Tower....and changes her name to Erika La Tour Eiffel.A woman who has a bizarre fetish for inanimate objects has married the Eiffel... more
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A Texas state court of appeals ruled Thursday afternoon that the state of Texas had no right to seize more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch in Eldorado, in the western part of the state.
The ruling asserted that the state’s child protection agency not only acted hastily in removing the children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in April but also failed to show that they were in immediate danger. According to the court, the state did not establish proper grounds to remove the children from their families, who belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or F.L.D.S. The F.L.D.S. broke off from the mainstream Mormon church after it had disavowed polygamy in 1890.
A Texas state court of appeals ruled Thursday afternoon that the state of Texas had no... more
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Marilyn Manson has formed a close friendship with his 19-year-old girlfriend?s dad because they both have a penchant for vampires and all things gothic.
The 38-year-old shock-rocker formed the unlikely bond with Evan Rachel Wood?s father after Manson discovered he used to play Dracula onstage.
Asked by Wonderland Magazine whether her parents get on with Manson, Wood said: ?My mom dated rock stars and my dad has played Dracula onstage so they get it.
?My dad and Manson were getting on really well and talking about vampires when my mom leans over and says ?I?m sorry are we all on acid???Marilyn Manson has formed a close friendship with his 19-year-old girlfriend?s dad... more
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