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<p>DURANT, Okla. (AP) - Police say a beaver that bit a 5-year-old Durant boy when the youngster tried to pet the animal can't be tested for rabies because the child's father damaged the beaver's head too much in beating it to death.</p>

Big snowstorm coming to town today. Many folks interested in snow removal. Rental outfit around the corner has skid-steers to rent. F250 (4.9l, 5speed manual) is ready to go, except one question: It's 2WD, non-limited slip differential. If I put the studded tires on, will it pull the trailer in the snow? I'm not as worried about arterial streets as I am the residential streets I'd be driving into. Risk management...

The city of Baltimore declared today Frank Zappa Day in honor of the iconoclastic rock musician and composer, who was born there 69 years ago on Dec. 21, 1940. Last week the city's public art commission also announced that a bronze statue of Zappa would be erected outside of a public library sometime next year......

"If the van is rocking don't come knocking" took on a new meaning after a British woman was arrested for having loud sex that was described in court as "murder" and "unnatural." In April, Caroline Cartwright, 48, was given an anti-social behavior order banning her from making excessive noise, including loud noises during sex. In court Tuesday she admitted breaking the order, the BBC reported . She will be sentenced on Jan. 18. The Mirror reported that she conceded that she failed to comply with the order days after it was issued. Cartwright said that she cannot help making noise...

Yesterday YouTube opened to the public their newest Beta, the YouTube "Feather" service. Feather is a slightly stripped down version of YouTube for those who have low bandwidth and/ or connection issues. Feather stills gives you the YouTube "experience", that is, you can still watch and listen to all of the same videos. The difference is that HQ/HD won't be available, and comments and other "fluff stuff" are limited or removed. The loading and playing of the videos is faster and smoother, I can attest to that.

NEW YORK (AP) — NBA great Charles Barkley says Tiger Woods changed his cell phone number the day after his car accident and is not talking to some of his famous friends. On a show that airs on Sunday on news network HLN, Barkley and filmmaker Spike Lee worry that Woods isn't taking advantage of the invaluable advice that can only be offered by friends who are used to the spotlight. You should reach out to your celebrity friends when things go bad," Barkley told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Tuesday. "They're the only people who understand...

For a good belly laugh, watch this video! :-) Andrew Sullivan "DEFECT(or)" from the conservative party and Joy Behar--two clowns who deserve each other! Attacking Sarah Palin continuously during this interview--maybe they should face reality and in every sentence they use the word "Palin", substitute it for *O*B*A*M*A! What hypocrites. They can't find solid evidence about the governor, so they start making it up--LOL! And Sullivan still can't believe someone with a pioneering spirit like Sarah wouldn't rush to the hospital, climb into a bed and demand an epidural the very first second she felt a contraction with Trig's labor--bwahahaha....

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What may be the oldest and priciest cheddar in America was released Friday by a world champion Mineral Point cheese maker, just in time for holiday entertaining and gift-giving. It's the single malt scotch of cheddar. Hook's 15-year-old cheddar, which made its debut Friday at Larry's Market in Brown Deer for $50 a pound, will be available in tony Beverly Hills starting next week. Older cheddars may exist, but if they do, they're the stuff of private stashes in cheese maker cellars - not available to the general public, said John Umhoefer, executive director of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association,...

If the EPA is going to crush what is left of our manufacturing and coal powered electrical energy, what good is the congress? If the Health and Human Services can modify and amend the cradle to grave health care plan being foisted upon us, why have them write a bill in the first place? Maybe it is time to ask our representatives this question. Are you irrelevant?Even kookier, if Obama succeeds in his present course of crashing the US economy so that a "crisis doesn't go to waste" and he claims broad executive powers, what will our congress be able...

To say the 36-33 win by the Resurrection High School girls basketball team over Wiggins Friday was close is not to do it justice. Neither side scored well throughout the game, despite many opportunities and tries. Aside from a quick score at the beginning of the first quarter for Resurrection, no one was hitting and it took almost halfway through the period for Wiggins to put the score at 2-2, and it was with 1:30 in the period that the score was tied again at 4-4, but a free throw and a last instant basket made it 7-4 for the...

I have learned that when I carry around a clipboard or even a single sheet of paper, people think I am working. If I carry the clipboard tucked under my elbow and a pen in the other, the phenomenon is increased. I'm working hard Today the Senate is in session. The President is coming to visit them. Collectively, they are carrying around a clipboard

What may be the oldest and priciest cheddar in America was released Friday by a world champion Mineral Point cheese maker, just in time for holiday entertaining and gift-giving. It's the single malt scotch of cheddar.Hook's 15-year-old cheddar, which made its debut Friday at Larry's Market in Brown Deer for $50 a pound, will be available in tony Beverly Hills starting next week. Older cheddars may exist, but if they do, they're the stuff of private stashes in cheese maker cellars - not available to the general public, said John Umhoefer, executive director of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, which...

This day in History December 5,1974 Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC

It supposed to be funny! Laugh! http://www.slowpokecomics.com/strips/terminatrix.html

Breaking news thru the local sports grapevine: Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops announced plans today to visit Notre Dame.

A Swedish man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife has been cleared, after police decided she was probably killed by an elk. Ingemar Westlund, aged 68, found the dead body of his wife Agneta, 63, by a lake close to the village of Loftahammer in September 2008. He was immediately arrested and held in police custody for 10 days. Now the case has been dropped after forensic analysis found elk hair and saliva on his wife's clothes. Mr Westlund told Expressen newspaper: "My family and I have been dragged through a nightmare." His wife had last been...

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A 79-year-old motorcyclist is dead after he hit a moose near Gibbons on Sunday night. Morinville RCMP were called to the collision on Highway 28A south of Gibbons around 7:30 p.m. along with paramedics and firefighters. By the time police arrived, EMS were already attempting to resuscitate the unresponsive man. Police say the victim, from Fort Saskatchewan, was driving his Honda Gold Wing motorcycle when he hit a moose, fell off the bike and onto the road. A car that had been driving behind the man also hit the moose, then the motorcycle. The victim was pronounced dead at the...

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On Saturday, visitors to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg were treated to a re-enactment of some of the weapons, tactics and strategies used to win War World II. “Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war.” General George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)

FORT WALTON BEACH – A 59-year-old Fort Walton Beach man was arrested for indecent exposure after a neighbor saw him Tuesday wearing only a G-string. A woman reported seeing her Tanager Road neighbor sunbathing, wearing only a pink G-string. She told deputies the man stood up two times and she clearly saw his exposed buttocks, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s report. The man’s yard also is not enclosed by any fence and is visible from the road, to neighbors and a school bus stop, the report said. The deputy pulled up to the man’s house. When the man saw...

2010 Florida District 24 Congressional Race. Welcome Larry Sinclair 4 Congress is under construction. Please be patient as we get our campaign site up.

Your U.S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises for 2009. 1. They voted to not give you a S.S. cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011. 2. Your Medicaid premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years and you will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr. Your total 2-yr loss and cost is -$1,600 or -$3,200 for husband and wife. 3. Over 2-yrs they ea. get $10,000. 4. Do you feel SCREWED? 5. Will they have your cost of drugs - doctor fees - local taxes - food, etc., increase. NO WAY. They have a...

Help! I'm using frames and trying to get a website up asap. Please don't suggest css/dreamweaver etc. Thanks. Problem: Within a frame I just want (ideally) a FORMS button to reload the whole frames site - eg load index.html - starting at home page in the same window/tab. The first example works as a "Back button" - the second almost works as a home button but it loads the homepage in the current frame. Note: A "leading" space is used to allow the html to display ... The following works: ---------------------- Forms & Java - "Back Button" -------- Successfully loads...

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Penobscot, ME) -- There is one ticked off moose in Hancock County, Maine who wasn't about to share the road with a car. Sheriff's deputies say a car driven by a woman was traveling on Western County Road just after dark last week. According to deputies, the moose was standing in the road, so the woman stopped and waited for it to finish crossing. Apparently it was having a bad day because just as it passed the car it kicked the headlight hard with a hoof and destroyed it. The moose also did some damage to the front fender and...

Ok this was just funny enough to pass along. The Source of STFU. Southern Tenant Farmers Union. No seriously! In 1934 the biracial organization started up in response to the New Deal and the farm subsidies that had the effect of encouraging medium and large land owners to take a good bit of their land out of farming to get the subsidy. That had the effect of throwing about 200,000 black families off the land who were tenants and sharecroppers. It forced thousands of Black share Croppers and white small holders to drift to the cities. The STFU, was not...

Girl, 12, is youngest Minnesotan to kill moose October 23, 2009 Nicollet, Minn (AP) — A Minnesota wildlife official confirms that a 12-year-old girl is the youngest Minnesotan to kill a moose in the modern era. Department of Natural Resources spokesman Lou Cornicelli says Kelly Holmin of Nicollet achieved the distinction earlier this month. The bull moose had a 58-inch antler spread. Kelly bagged it Oct. 13 on the Gunflint Trail. She and her father endured a cold week of wind and snow before they saw the 1,100-pound moose about 75 yards away. Kelly dropped it with a single shot.

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Well, I've come down with flu like symptoms and it's been 2 days of no fun. My major symptoms are not what I'd call life-threatening, they are what I'd call annoying. I am experiencing: 1) Major back pain and body aches. Don't look at my back, it hurts. Need advil to lie down. 2) Exhaustion. I want to lie down. I don't care if it hurts. My minor symptoms are: 1) Minor, not severe ear pain 2) Minor but gone almost immediately sore throat 3) Initial onset of headache, gone 1st night prior to other symptoms 4) Stomach quesiness but...

see link at scribd.com -- Follow JackRyan THIS Is the document filed in the CA case. Filed on 9/4/09 as appendix 55.2 -------------------------------- -------------------------------- KEYES v OBAMA - 55.2 - Appendix Kenian Hospital Birth Certificate for Barack Obama)

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I reconfigured my settings a while back, and noticed a few days later that the Freeper Poll no longer showed up on the forum page. I went to the settings, moved the "opinion polls" section, and checked again. No polls ever show up. Of course, there is a chance that the "polls" category has nothing to do with the freeper polls, and is actually for posting of online polls. If that is the case, I'm not getting that, either. It's bad enough that I chose to put "GOP" on the end of my freeper name, long before I knew that...

A moose is squirreled away at a Fargo hotel this morning, and authorities are asking the public to stay out of the area. The animal is "contained on the property" of the Mainstay Suites at 1901 44th St. S., according to an e-mail report from Fargo Police Sgt. Jeff Skuza. The moose is showing "no sign of trying to leave as we work to resolve the situation," Skuza added. The sergeant said that the species' "size and temperament make them a significant public safety risk in an urban setting."

A piggy-back race with dwarfs dressed as jockeys has been slammed by critics as offensive and derogatory. Thousands watched the race at a Cranbourne racetrack in Victoria, dubbed the "midgets' cup", as part of Sunday's Cranbourne Cup meeting, Adelaide Now reports. What do you think of the race — was it harmless fun or just plain ridicule? Share your thoughts below. Three men raced down a 50m stretch with a short statured person on each of their backs. The race ended with one "jockey" falling and crashing headfirst into the dirt but he was uninjured. Victorian racing minister Rob Hulls...

There's a new SCOTUS suit you want and need to know about; I'm gonna give you a lot of info in a little space...case 09-6777. I'll win and when I do? YOU CAN SUE SITTING OFFICERS FOR LIABILITY THUS DISSOLVE THEM AS THE US DEFAULTED VIA FAILING TO RESPOND TO A PRIOR SCOTUS SUIT ON 11/05/08, the day after the election, lol. That's not as funny as the Solicitor General waiving every citizen's interest in the Constitution and every citizen's Constitutional rights on April 1st, 2008 when I first filed thus he later could not respond as the only response...

THIS LINK is complete with the article, pictures, and video THIS glowing halo in clouds over Moscow looks like an Independence Day style alien attack. The astonishing ring was spotted over the city and captured on video by stunned locals. It has been described as a "true mystery" by a UFO expert. Scores of supernatural enthusiasts have been gripped by the astonishing footage and speculated it could be an ALIEN MOTHERSHIP. The sighting in the clouds is reminiscent of scenes from the 1996 Hollywood blockbuster Independence Day. Aliens tried destroy the earth massive using circular ships to zap the planet...

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It has just been revealed that Barak Hussein Obama secretly broke the speed of light just twelve days into his presidency.

Today off the coast of Nantucket, Pres. Barack Hussein Obama won the America's Cup Yahct Race. Making his win even more historic were the facts that this is an off year for the Cup race and that Pres. Obama won the race without a yacht. "Seeing Pres. Obama out there just sprinting across the waves is just so inspiring.", said Buffy White, "I just love the fact that this will inspire many black inner city youths." Pres. Obama was unavailable for comment after the race, but White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "Pres Obama is extremely busy now with the...

Obam creates world in 3 days, comlete with memories!

Fonzie: "I admit it. He's five times greater than I ever was! He's the Boss!"

SAN FRANCISCO, Harding Park Golf Course - Players for the US and international teams were shocked today as it was anounced that President Obama has been awarded the Presidents Cup. US captian Fred Couples and International Captian Greg Norman looked stunned as they discussed the announcement as thier players stood around the driving range waiting to find out if they would play thier matches today, or, with the US holding a 3.5 to 2.5 point lead, the tournament would be called. Phil Mickelson shook his head and was at a loss for words when asked about the development, he did...

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Barack Hinsain 0bama, the first ever presidunt whose first and last names are distrusted by my spell checker has won the International Long Legged Mack Daddy Award. Click to see the presentation.

Axelrod blamed others. How about pushing your ego aside and congratulating the winners.