Friday, February 18, 2005

Montana to The Beast: “Up Yours!”

February 18, 2005 Gubmint

Lawmakers in the Montana House of Representatives collectively thumbed their noses at the federal government Monday by approving two bills exempting guns from federal regulations and driver’s licenses from national standardization requirements. The bills by Reps. Diane Rice, R-Harrison, and Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman, do different things but are driven by the same concern: the erosion [...]

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Love Hurts

February 18, 2005 Karaoke Lounge

Mary Kay Letourneau plans to marry her former sixth-grade pupil with whom she had two children, months after her release from prison for raping him, according to an online bridal registry. Letourneau, 43, and Vili Fualaau, 22, set a wedding date of April 16, according to their registry at a department store. Letourneau served 7 [...]

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Stranger in the Night

February 18, 2005 Gubmint

“An East Feliciana Parish woman fired a bullet into the chest of a man who had broken into her farmhouse, then fought off his beating until the man died from the gunshot wound. Georgia Belle Sullivan says she was sleeping before dawn yesterday when her dogs’ barking woke her up. She retrieved her gun, then [...]

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The End of the World: 2029

February 18, 2005 Karaoke Lounge

A giant asteroid the size of three football pitches will make the closest flyby of Earth in recorded history for an object of its size, scientists said yesterday. It will pass between the Earth and the Moon and will even come closer than the orbit of many telecommunications satellites, although astronomers insisted that there was [...]

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Iraqi Ecstasy

February 18, 2005 Gubmint

Ok, sign me up… “American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares. The US food and drug administration has given the go-ahead for the soldiers to be included in an experiment to see if MDMA, the active ingredient [...]

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