One reason to be glad the holiday season is almost over:
Forcing store clerks to listen to the same holiday music over and over could be akin to torture and should change, a British noise pollution group said.
The UK Noise Association and labor unions are suggesting legal action on behalf of store employees who listen to endless looped recordings of holiday music, the Observer said Sunday.
Fred Phelps is either a delusional whack job who really believes that God is killing our soliders in Iraq because the U.S. too gay-friendly a country, or else he is a shameless publicity hustler. In either case, he has what he probably wanted:
This is even lamer than the "Iraq war has gone on longer than World War II" stories:
The latest deaths also brought the number of U.S. military members killed since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,978 — five more than the number killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
We're in the post-Christmas, pre-New Year's news black hole, so it's time to start looking back on 2006 and trying to figure it out.
Duh: Smaller cars perform poorly in crash tests. Some will, of course, increase their campaign to outlaw big cars. But then only outlaws would have big cars.
Excuse me for piling on -- er, metaphorically -- a fellow Kentuckian, but Miss USA Tra Conner is a silly twit:
In a tear-choked voice, Conner said, "In no way did I think it would be possible for a second chance to be given to me." Turning to Trump, she said, "You'll never know what this means to me, and I swear I will not let you down." Trump said Conner would be entering rehab. A pageant official said details would be worked out privately with Conner over the next weeks.
This isn't terribly surprising:
Shoppers across America have millions of gift cards tucked away in envelopes, drawers and wallets. And some of the nation's largest retailers are profiting as a result.
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Last winter, Best Buy Co. reported a $43 million gain in fiscal 2006 from cards that hadn't been used in two or more years. Limited Brands Inc. recorded $30 million in 2005 revenue because of unredeemed cards.
Apparently, it's a bad idea to change the currency so that the blind can tell one denomination from another -- even the National Federation of the Blind agrees:
Yes, by all means, we must include Iran in our efforts to straighten out the mess in Iraq:
Iran hosted Holocaust deniers from around the world Monday at a conference examining whether the Nazi genocide took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister condemned as a "sick phenomenon."
Kofi Annan, the Oil-for-Food sleazebag and friend to dictators everywhere, presumes to lecture the United States on accountability?
First, in today's world we are all responsible for each other's security. Against such threats as nuclear proliferation, climate change, global pandemics or terrorists operating from safe havens in failed states, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others.
