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SI Sends Out Army Of Peter Kings To Cover NFL Training Camp
Aug 6th
Looking to cover every possible angle of NFL training camp, Sports Illustrated has once again unleashed its army of 350,000 Peter King clones on the preseason workout facilities of all 32 NFL teams.
…NEW YORK Looking to cover every possible angle of NFL training camp, Sports Illustrated has once again unleashed its army of 350,000 Peter King clones on the preseason workout facilities of all 32 NFL teams.
Marching in lockstep, dressed in identical turquoise polo shirts and khaki pants while carrying reporter’s notebooks in their left hands, the legion of indistinguishable sports journalists all reportedly maintain the same smile 24 hours a day, blink at the exact same time, and ask football-related questions in unison.
According to Sports Illustrated officials, there are currently 10,000 Peter King clones at each NFL training camp, with the remaining 30,000 assigned to Terrell Owens.
“The King simulacra are a very effective journalism tool,” Sports Illustrated’s assistant managing editor B.J. Schecter told reporters Friday, adding that no single human being could file six extensive training-camp reports in a one-week span. “At any given moment we might receive 84,000 different news items from 20 different…
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Apology after girl’s lemonade stand shut down
Aug 6th
A county official in Oregon has apologized after a 7-year-old’s business venture was soured because health inspectors shut down her lemonade stand.
…PORTLAND, Ore. A county official in Oregon has apologized after a 7-year-old’s business venture was soured because health inspectors shut down her lemonade stand.
Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, the county’s top elected official, said Thursday that running a lemonade stand is a “classic iconic American kid thing to do.”
He says he called Julie Murphy’s mother, Maria Fife, to offer his apology and says she appreciated it.
Fife helped her daughter set up a lemonade stand last week at a local arts fair in northeast Portland. They had to pack up and leave after being approached by two inspectors who said the stand lacked a license.
Cogen says while the inspectors were doing their job, the rules are meant for professional food service operators. He adds he ran lemonade stands as a child….
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Law Bans Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other
Aug 6th
Man, I love the Onion….
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Health Dept. Shuts Down Little Girl’s Lemonade Stand (PIC)
Aug 5th
The 7-year-old got the idea for the stand from her favorite cartoon. She made a list of supplies, drew a colorful poster and sold her first cup minutes after setting up. Everything was going great, until the lady with the clipboard showed up.
…All Julie Murphy wanted to do was sell some lemonade. The 7-year-old had gotten the idea for a stand from Olivia, her favorite cartoon pig.The little girl made a list of supplies, drew a colorful poster with a person saying “Yummy” and, with her mom’s help, finally set up her first stand at a Portland street fair last week. Everything was going great. Until, that is, a “lady with a clipboard” showed up.
That lady, if you hadn’t already figured it out, was from the health department. And she wasn’t coming to buy a cold drink.AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The OregonianJulie Murphy, prior to having her illusions of a fair and just world being shattered. Technically, any lemonade stand in Oregon must be licensed. But inspectors, being mostly reasonable people, generally turn the other cheek when it comes to little kids trying to make a buck. Especially kids like Murphy, who was using hand sanitizer between cups to make sure her product was clean, and who is undeniably adorable. I mean, just look at her!…
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Naomi Campbell Testifies She Received Stones [Video]
Aug 5th
Supermodel Naomi Campbell received what she called “dirty looking stones,” which prosecutors believe were blood diamonds, from two men allegedly working for former Liberian presiden…
…t keep the stones, but gave them to a friend, whom she didn’t immediately name. Campbell says she asked the friend to auction the stones off in a charity to raise funds for impoverished children.
Campbell was given the stones at night following a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela, CNN reports. The supermodel said she was asleep when two men knocked on her door. She opened the door, and they handed her a pouch, saying,…
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367mph bus
Aug 5th
A motoring enthusiast has built a bus capable of hitting more than 350mph.
…Mr Stender’s creation, which he has dubbed ‘The School Time Jet-Powered School
Bus’, also fires out 80 foot flames from the back creating massive clouds of
smoke.Mr Stender, 43, said: “I built the bus for two reasons. The first is to
entertain people because, come on, it’s a jet bus.“The second, is to keep kids off drugs. Jets are hot, drugs are not.
“The entire vehicle was custom built by myself. There’s no way the
original bus could have withstood the speeds that I take it to.“We do a lot of displays at schools and we are trying to show them
there’s more to life than sitting in front of computers.Mr Stender, whose mechanical skills are entirely self taught, said he has a
passion for making things go fast.He said: “I bought it just as an old school bus, but I have to say only
about five percent are original parts.“Actually a lot of it is hand-crafted and the types of metals used would
be more at home on an aircraft.“There’s still some bus left on it, a little bit on…
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Books vs. E-Books (INFOGRAPHIC)
Aug 5th
Does one have to win?
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Fannie and Freddie Help Lawyers Kick Families Out of Homes
Aug 5th
How the federal housing agencies and some of the biggest bailed-out banks are helping shady lawyers make millions by pushing families out of their homes.
…AdvertisementAdvertise on MotherJones.comA Florida notary’s stamp is valid for four years, and its expiration date is visible on the imprint. But here in front of Ice were dozens of assignments notarized with stamps that hadn’t even existed until months in some cases nearly a year after the foreclosures were filed. Which meant Stern’s people were foreclosing first and doing their legal paperwork later. In effect, it also meant they were lying to the court an act that could get a lawyer disbarred or even prosecuted. “There’s no question that it’s pervasive,” says Tom Ice of the backdated documents nearly two dozen of which were verified by Mother Jones. “We’ve found tons of them.”
This all might seem like a legal technicality, but it’s not. The faster a foreclosure moves, the more difficult it is for a homeowner to fight it even if the case was filed in error. In March, upon discovering that Stern’s firm had fudged an assignment of mortgage in another case, a judge in central Florida’s Pasco County dismissed…
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Top 5 American Views on Terrorism
Aug 5th
Almost half of Americans worry that either they or a member of their family will be the victim of a terrorist attack.
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