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This was taken from the Huffington Post.
In his 11 years in the Washington Legislature, Representative Mark Miloscia says he has supported all manner of methods to fill the state’s coffers, including increasing fees on property owners to help the homeless and taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, most of which, he said, passed “without a peep.”
And so it was last month that Mr. Miloscia, a Democrat, decided he might try to “find a new tax source” — pornography.
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For CCSU student John Wahlberg, a class presentation on campus violence turned into a confrontation with the campus police due to a complaint by the professor.
On October 3, 2008, Wahlberg and two other classmates prepared to give an oral presentation for a Communication 140 class that was required to discuss a “relevant issue in the media”. Wahlberg and his group chose to discuss school violence due to recent events such as the Virginia Tech shootings that occurred in 2007.
Shortly after his professor, Paula Anderson, filed a complaint with the CCSU Police against her student. During the presentation Wahlberg made the point that if students were permitted to conceal carry guns on campus, the violence could have been stopped earlier in many of these cases. He also touched on the controversial idea of free gun zones on college campuses.
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How alike is Clint Eastwood (pictured) to the character he plays in his latest film Gran Torino? Very, it seems. In the movie (see trailer below), the actor plays a retired soldier who ends up living next to a Chinese family, whom he cheerfully dismisses as “gooks” and “slit-eyes”, but who he then goes on to befriend, defending them Dirty Harry-style with guns and extreme violence.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The handful of optimistic Guns N’ Roses fans still holding out for a reunion of the band’s classic lineup can probably call it a day.
In a newly published interview, singer Axl Rose describes former bandmate Slash as “a cancer,” elevating his distaste for the top-hatted guitarist to a new level.
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This was taken from the AZ Central.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - It’s enough to make you blush: Some politicians want a bigger taste of the economy’s naughty side, pushing for special taxes on dirty magazines, racy movies, sex toys and strip clubs.
In Washington state, a half-dozen cash-strapped legislators recently endorsed a huge sales tax increase on explicit movies, magazines and other sex-themed products.
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For someone that works at LEGO, this is a functional business card that also happens to be an iconic toy! Moreover, they even try to match the look of the minifig (gender, hair, and glasses) to the person.
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A SEX-MAD Russian died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra pills to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two women pals.
The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov £3,000 that he wouldn’t be able to satisfy them both non-stop for the half-day sex marathon.
But minutes after winning the wager, the randy 28-year-old dropped dead with a heart attack, revealed Moscow police.
One of the women, named only as Alina, said: “We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do.”
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I’ve been gearing up for the new season of Rescue Me and this minisode was so good I thought I had to post it.
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There are between 1,000 and 3,000 women in Israel who are subjected to sex slavery, and there is an intensive commerce in women in the country.
Girls as young as twelve are being lured into the pretext of wealth and prosperity in the west but instead of making their dreams come true, they are held into the noose of sex trade, this is the ground reality that is taking place in Israel and the issue has been surfaced by Canadian journalist and social activist Victor Malarek.
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The Olympic bid book:
Chicago’s bid book was submitted to the International Olympic Committee Feb. 12, as they made their pitch for the 2016 Summer Games.
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Facebook published two new documents which will become their new policies. Here is what Facebook has to say:
“The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights and will serve as the guiding framework behind any policy we’ll consider—or the reason we won’t consider others. The second document is the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which will replace the existing Terms of Use. With both documents, we tried hard to simplify the language so you have a clear understanding of how Facebook will be run.”
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This was taken from Gizmodo.
While Apple grandly updated their notebook line to the new unibody design, the 17-inch MacBook Pro, Apple’s granddaddy of mobile computing, was left behind. Now, the 17-inch model joins its siblings—with promising bonus features.
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This is an article from Gizmodo.
Today CBS pushed out a streaming video player for iPhones and touchy iPods, with smooth navigation of all the content available on TV.com, including for the first time impressive full-length episodes of some—but not most—shows.
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Two separate pieces of gun legislation were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 6. One, H.R. 45, proposes to require that anyone who owns handguns or any semiautomatic firearm that can accept a detachable ammunition-feeding device obtain a federal firearms license. The other, H.R. 17, proposes to allow for the use of firearms in defense of one’s self, one’s family, or one’s home. Both bills have been sent to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.
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This was taken from The Huffington Post. It was written by Juan Lagorio, editing by John Wallace.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Even billionaire Bill Gates may be feeling the pinch these days.
The value of Gates’ investments fell by $3 billion, or almost 20 percent, in the fourth quarter as the worst financial crisis in decades and a deepening recession hammered stock prices.
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