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Yahoo! News - Wis. Wheelchair Pageant Winner Loses Crown APPLETON, Wis. - Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been stripped of her title because pageant officials say she can stand — and point to a newspaper picture as proof. Think I'd qualify for that job?...

Published on March 30 2005

Death Is Charged in Theft From Cemetery NEW YORK - His name is Death and prosecutors say he stole from a cemetery. Donald Death Jr., 60, of Locust Valley was awaiting arraignment Wednesday on charges he stole nearly $300,000 from the Locust Valley Cemetery...

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Rachel always says it best......

Published on March 23 2005

Blue-Eyed Infidel: BATSHIT INSANE Humanity is seriously fucked up. That's all there is to it. Seriously, hopelessly, unforgivably fucked up. People are debating fine points of law about due process and states' rights and blah blah blah, but for the love...

Interesting article in today's Chicago Trib online about an election which is a long, long way off, about the possibility of a Feingold run for office in 2008. In Wisconsin, while John Kerry barely eked out a win in one of the most hotly contested battleground...

Yahoo! News - Bush, Congress Set to Act in Right-To-Die Case WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush cut short a vacation to return to Washington and be ready to sign a bill that may keep a brain-damaged woman alive, in a case pitting Christian conservatives...

Monday Blues With Christmas bills starting to pile up and summer a distant dream, January is not always the happiest time of the year. But it seems the real despair is yet to come. Experts have pinpointed January 24 - next Monday - as the most depressing...

Carson "The day the music died was February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly's plane crashed outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. The day television died was May 22, 1992, when Johnny Carson hustled out of a Burbank studio, leaving tear-soaked cheeks, 30 years of memories...

A Marine charged with desertion in Iraq after mysteriously disappearing from his post has again been declared a deserter - this time for failing to report to his U.S. base. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who claimed he was abducted by anti-coalition forces...

TAMPA, Fla. - One last victory for David Greene, the winningest quarterback in NCAA (news - web sites) history. No. 8 Georgia closed the Greene era with a 24-21 win over No. 16 Wisconsin in Saturday's Outback Bowl. Greene threw for 264 yards and two touchdowns...

And another POV... The United States government, however, should not give any money to help the tsunami victims. Why? Because the money is not the government's to give.