Member 2293Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day (AP)17-05-2008 08h01AP - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries. Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar (Reuters)16-05-2008 05h59Reuters - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects. Bush fails to win Saudi help on gas prices (AP)17-05-2008 10h10AP - President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S. Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama (AP)17-05-2008 07h01AP - Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him. Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ (Reuters)15-05-2008 23h22Reuters - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die. Obama criticizes McCain for 'naive' foreign policy (AP)17-05-2008 14h46AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign. A personality test for your cat (AP)15-05-2008 06h02AP - It happens to all of us. You fall in love with someone's looks... but then he's not quite what you expected. Even, sometimes, if he's a cat. Calif. measure will test public opinion on gay marriage (AP)17-05-2008 07h41AP - The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 2797 Member 1066 Member 3852 Member 2326 Member 2777 Member 647 Member 255 Member 1495 Member 2107 Member 3620 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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