Slow Hand, Sudetenland, Dirty Hands, Goremands
(MSNBC)
Guitarist Clocked Going 134 mph On French Highway
DIJON, France--Police say they clocked Eric Clapton in his Porsche 9-11 going 134 miles per hour down a highway on Tuesday…more than 50 miles per hour above the posted speed limit. Police took away his British driver’s license, suspending his right to drive in France.
French President Jacques Chirac blamed President Bush for the incident, saying that Americans drove as recklessly as their foreign policy.
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(Bloomberg News)
Germany Loses 15,000 Jobs in a Day, Adding to Economy's Woes
Germany's economic woes deepened as General Motors Corp. and KarstadtQuelle AG announced plans to cut as many as 15,000 jobs in Europe's largest economy.
German officials blamed President Bush for the bad economic news and threatened to invade Lichtenstein if unemployment became any worse by year's end.
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(WJZ.com)
Magazine Gives Baltimore Poor Marks for Sexual Diseases
Men's Health magazine has rated Baltimore as the third worst place in the nation for sexual diseases. The magazine's October issue listed Detroit at number one and Newark, New Jersey in second place. The figures are based primarily on gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia data.
Conversely, Detroit and Newark were named the two most popular cities for gynecologists and urologists in a recent poll by The Journal of Nasty Plumbing.
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(The New York Times)
Kerry's Mention of Cheney's Gay Daughter Sparks Heated Reaction
WASHINGTON--Senator John Kerry's remarks Wednesday night about the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter has touched off a series of furious exchanges between people in both presidential campaigns, with Ms. Cheney's mother declaring that Mr. Kerry "is not a good man."
He's not just a not good man, but he's a very bad, evil man, a man who bites the heads off of poodles and throws lipstick at the homeless and speaks ancient Aramaic to the dead spirits of Huffunfuhry.
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(The New York Times)
G.O.P. Convention Cost $154 Million
The four-day Republican National Convention cost more than $154 million to stage. A detailed report filed with the Federal Election Commission shows that the New York City Host Committee spent $93,516 at the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South and $301,460 on limousine services to $281,000 to build the circular stage that President Bush used to make his acceptance speech.
Other line items: $117,456 for Oriental massages; $93,221 for aromatherapy oils; $16,709 in Blockbuster late charges; $346,567 in overtime charges on four Verizon cell phones; and $15,988 on decaf lattes.
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(The Associated Press)
Gore Steps Up Fund-Raising Efforts
WASHINGTON--Al Gore, largely absent from this year's presidential campaign, is renewing his efforts to help the Democratic Party raise more money as Election Day approaches.
Gore has raised more than $16 million this year, mostly from large donors who paid him to stay home in his bathrobe and not appear anywhere in public.
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(The Associated Press)
Treasury Skirts $7.4 Trillion Debt Limit
WASHINGTON--Treasury Secretary John Snow announced Thursday that the government has begun using various accounting procedures to avoid hitting the $7.4 trillion national debt limit.
Snow said that $2 trillion in national debt will be reclassified as "crazy monkey money", thus allowing for an additional $2 trillion in deficit spending.
Guitarist Clocked Going 134 mph On French Highway
DIJON, France--Police say they clocked Eric Clapton in his Porsche 9-11 going 134 miles per hour down a highway on Tuesday…more than 50 miles per hour above the posted speed limit. Police took away his British driver’s license, suspending his right to drive in France.
French President Jacques Chirac blamed President Bush for the incident, saying that Americans drove as recklessly as their foreign policy.
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(Bloomberg News)
Germany Loses 15,000 Jobs in a Day, Adding to Economy's Woes
Germany's economic woes deepened as General Motors Corp. and KarstadtQuelle AG announced plans to cut as many as 15,000 jobs in Europe's largest economy.
German officials blamed President Bush for the bad economic news and threatened to invade Lichtenstein if unemployment became any worse by year's end.
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(WJZ.com)
Magazine Gives Baltimore Poor Marks for Sexual Diseases
Men's Health magazine has rated Baltimore as the third worst place in the nation for sexual diseases. The magazine's October issue listed Detroit at number one and Newark, New Jersey in second place. The figures are based primarily on gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia data.
Conversely, Detroit and Newark were named the two most popular cities for gynecologists and urologists in a recent poll by The Journal of Nasty Plumbing.
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(The New York Times)
Kerry's Mention of Cheney's Gay Daughter Sparks Heated Reaction
WASHINGTON--Senator John Kerry's remarks Wednesday night about the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter has touched off a series of furious exchanges between people in both presidential campaigns, with Ms. Cheney's mother declaring that Mr. Kerry "is not a good man."
He's not just a not good man, but he's a very bad, evil man, a man who bites the heads off of poodles and throws lipstick at the homeless and speaks ancient Aramaic to the dead spirits of Huffunfuhry.
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(The New York Times)
G.O.P. Convention Cost $154 Million
The four-day Republican National Convention cost more than $154 million to stage. A detailed report filed with the Federal Election Commission shows that the New York City Host Committee spent $93,516 at the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South and $301,460 on limousine services to $281,000 to build the circular stage that President Bush used to make his acceptance speech.
Other line items: $117,456 for Oriental massages; $93,221 for aromatherapy oils; $16,709 in Blockbuster late charges; $346,567 in overtime charges on four Verizon cell phones; and $15,988 on decaf lattes.
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(The Associated Press)
Gore Steps Up Fund-Raising Efforts
WASHINGTON--Al Gore, largely absent from this year's presidential campaign, is renewing his efforts to help the Democratic Party raise more money as Election Day approaches.
Gore has raised more than $16 million this year, mostly from large donors who paid him to stay home in his bathrobe and not appear anywhere in public.
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(The Associated Press)
Treasury Skirts $7.4 Trillion Debt Limit
WASHINGTON--Treasury Secretary John Snow announced Thursday that the government has begun using various accounting procedures to avoid hitting the $7.4 trillion national debt limit.
Snow said that $2 trillion in national debt will be reclassified as "crazy monkey money", thus allowing for an additional $2 trillion in deficit spending.
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