This is just sick:
While thousands of dogs and cats are being given up by pet owners across the U.S. as times become harder, chickens are gaining popularity as household pets in some U.S. cities.
The rising popularity of the feathered creature is due to the chicken's ability to provide eggs, pest control, fertilizer and eventually meat. To address zoning regulations, homeowners are working to amend local laws in areas like Fort Collins, CO, Bloomington, IN and Brainerd, MN.
Like many people, I wondered why it was there was such international silence at Hamas constantly lobbing rockets into civilian areas of Israel but such loud international outrage when Israel finally retaliated. Alan Dershowitz puts it much better:
Awww, poor babies. They go all the way to Atlanta expecting to have a real good time, and guess what? There's nothing to do:
When it comes to efforts to lure conventioneers, Atlanta's got the hotels, the easy access to the city via the nation's busiest airport and even the attractions with the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola.
The concept of "environmental refugees" has been around for more than 20 years -- those are people displaced by things like tsunamis and hurricanes and such. Now, apparently, we have to start dealing with "climate refugees":
Millions of people are predicted to become climate refugees as global warming increases. A new international pact will be needed to protect their rights to live.
Am I wrong to think this is an overreaction?
CARMEL, N.Y. - A 14-year-old freshman at Carmel High School was suspended after he brought bullets into school Tuesday, police said.
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After an investigation, a male student who was interviewed admitted that he accidentally brought the bullets to school.
Would this be tempering justice with mercy, or would it be the worst use of presidential power since Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of the 16 members of the Puerto Rican FALN terrorist group?
The parents of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh on Wednesday repeated their annual request to President George W. Bush to commute their son's 20-year prison sentence.
Is anybody else getting tired of the "Omigod, will be ready for digital TV?" hysteria? They've had those stupid crawls about it going across our screens for what seems like a year now. And last night, they did the unforgivable: pre-empted my "Jeopardy!" to do a half-hour special for all the morons who haven't gotten the message yet. By all means, Indianapolis Star, you jump in, too:
Some parents commit child abuse when they name their children:
THE father of a toddler called Adolf Hitler Campbell says it is unfair that a store denied him a birthday cake with his child's name on it.
New Jersey man Heath Campbell, 35, has decorated his home with swastikas and says he is related to a member of the SS.
Today's public service announcement -- How to know when it's time to leave the bar:
Whether at a house party or at your favorite bar, a timely departure is a beautiful thing. Conversely, staying a bit too long can often end in disaster.
A handy flowchart is provided that makes you answer questions such as "Do you have to wake up early?" and "Still have standards?" I really could have used something like this in my younger days -- stayed way too long way too often.
So, where was the Secret Service? Even if the agents were too surpsied to take a shoe for the president, shouldn't they have been ready for the second shoe? Or:
While the shoe was in the air, were you like, "Oh, its just a shoe."
