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were i liv, peepol want to elect republikuns into offis to kut tacksis. I dunt no why that is so rong having hi tacksis? tacksis help pay for food stamps and wealthfare for the por. they also pay for goverment and for wars. We are at war so we need high taksis to pay for war and for soljurs to fite. we all so have poor peepol whos jobs were owtsorsed to aja and sowf amerika so they need food stamps and ssi. So do I beecas I flunked skool and I work at Sams Klub as a janetur. I...

2 Million Dead, Millions more injured and displaced government officials believe that the small back pack nuclear weapon which vaporized 25 blocks of downtown Manhattan today was the direct result of a suicide Islamist terrorist attack. Government and Administration officials were quick to point out that we failed to imagine the threat that a terrorist group would really actually use a nuke against us. The President today has declared her intention to begin open negotiations for a peaceful settlement with all Islamic Terror Groups. In the speech before the UN where she agreed to an immediate phased turnover of the...

Don't try this at home--not if you want to have a working computer. Search for "Free Screensavers," we're told, and 64% of the sites you'll find are the kinds that can gum up your machine with spyware or a computer virus. A team of researchers, let by Ben Edelman and Hannah Rosenbaum of a British firm called Site Advisor, tried entering 1,394 popular search terms into the web's most popular search engines--Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and Ask.com. They came up with a chart you may find both amusing and sobering. Even if you search for something as harmless as "I...

The kid at the checkout counter obviously had other career plans. His arms were covered with thick, black Celtic tattoos, designed like the crosses you might see atop ancient gravestones in the British isles. On his index finger, he wore a long, chrome implement of some sort, an articulated armored glove that looked like either a prop from an all-night Dungeons and Dragons tournament or a leftover from Stevie Nicks' fall collection. As he began pulling items on the electronic conveyor belt toward the scanner at his cash register, he absent-mindedly poked me in the wrist with his miniature lance,...

By Gail Mitchell LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Following a suicide attempt, R&B singer Houston has gouged out his eye while on an overseas performance junket.   A brief statement was released Wednesday by his Capitol Records label, saying only, "Our thoughts and prayers are with Houston during this tragic time." According to sources, the singer first attempted to jump out of a London hotel window last Thursday. Prevented from doing so by his security staff, Houston was locked in his room, at which time the injury occurred. No additional details as to his current condition or whereabouts have been disclosed....