News Thread

[NOD]

You may get a kick out of this, NOD. Mike Brown giving Obama advice and criticism on how to react to a natural disaster.

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/20 ... _sandy.php

lol I had seen that.

I'd say it's in keeping with the Brownie we all know and loathe.

 

[DukeNukem05]

N&O to charge for digital access. SMH. They're not good enough to warrant me spending money, but it's nice to have some local news.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/03/2459760/no-pay-wall-goes-up-dec-19.html

 

[aiw]

My wife gets the paper for the coupons so we end up saving more money than the paper costs. Get free access that way. Annoying that I will have to sign up. Will probably just not get it. Charlotte Observer has the same articles anyway.

 

[bfactor]

N&O to charge for digital access. SMH. They're not good enough to warrant me spending money, but it's nice to have some local news.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/03/2459760/no-pay-wall-goes-up-dec-19.html

In what was probably the most hilarious thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe, the Goldsboro News-Argus had the audacity to begin doing this a few years ago with their fine local journalism.

 

[aiw]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 00587.html

Jalonta Freeman Pays $200 For 'iPad' That's Actually Just A Mirror

 

[aiw]

Elmo accused of sex with underage boy

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/voic ... vcqxnL7B2O

 

[Thain]

http://m.wect.com/autojuice?targetU...ck-buys-beer-takes-police-on-slow-speed-chase

 

[Pantone287]

AC is basically underwater.

Things are way worse on the outer banks right now than they have been at any time since Friday. This storm is going to fuck up the whole east coast from here north.

:(



Sad.

 

[rhfarmer]

Not even newsworthy.

Game over for Rodanthe.

 

[Rollins]

Someone set the Toomers Trees on fire. The same ones that were poisoned two years ago by an enraged Alabama fan. The trees were going to be cut down this spring regardless, but this is just ridiculous and uncalled for.

http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/1 ... t-on-fire/

 

[DukeNukem05]

Jesus that's fucked.

 

[rhfarmer]

I know we had this discussion before, and I'm not trying to stir up anything, but shit like that is the shit that makes me not want to bring kids in the world. Like, first, what asshole poisons a helpless tree. And then, what other asshole sets it on fire? And this isn't even big shit like the Middle East.

What the hell is wrong with people?

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Nancy Grace is so mad. New evidence that Casey Anthony ran google searches for suffocating and poisoning the day baby was murdered.

 

[DukeNukem05]

Nancy Grace is so mad. New evidence that Casey Anthony ran google searches for suffocating and poisoning the day baby was murdered.

The only good to come of Nancy Grace was the bit Amy Poehler did on SNL about fake rape victims having it worse than actual rape victims (who only have to remember stuff).

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Detectives Overlooked Casey Anthony's 'I Killed My Daughter' AMA On Reddit
http://www.theonion.com/articles/detect ... y-d,30515/

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Winning Powerball tickets in Arizona and Missouri.

 

[rhfarmer]

Now for some really important news:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/2 ... 99984.html

 

[Thain]

Now for some really important news:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/2 ... 99984.html

Gus, your mamas a bigfoot!

 

[DukeNukem05]

UN recognizes Palestine as non-member observer state:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/un-recognizes-palestine-as-non-member-observer-state-1.1058351
138-9 vote, 41 countries abstained.

 

[Pantone287]

The most interesting man in the world IRL: http://news.yahoo.com/software-guru-mcafee-says-seek-asylum-guatemala-001313538--finance.html

Sentences you would not expect to see involving an Antivirus program's namesake:

U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee, who is on the run from police in Belize seeking to question him in a murder probe, has crossed into Guatemala and said on Tuesday he will seek political asylum there... McAfee smuggled himself and his girlfriend, Samantha, across the porous land border that Belize shares with Guatemala. He stayed at a hotel in a national park before heading for Guatemala City on Monday evening.

McAfee has denied involvement in the murder and told Reuters on Monday he would not turn himself in. He posted repeatedly on his blog http://www.whoismcafee.com while on the run, describing how he would constantly change his disguise to elude capture.

On Tuesday, he appeared with his hair and goatee died black, and wearing a dark suit and tie - a far cry from the surfer-style blonde hair highlights, shorts and tribal-tattooed bare shoulders he sported in Belize.

On the Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye, where McAfee has lived for about four years, residents say he is eccentric, impulsive, erratic and at times unstable, with a penchant for guns and young women.

He would often be seen with armed bodyguards, pistols tucked into his belt, and McAfee's neighbor had complained about the loud barking of dogs that guarded his exclusive beachside compound.

His run-in with authorities in Belize is a world away from a successful life in the United States, where he started McAfee Associates in 1989 and made millions of dollars developing the Internet anti-virus software that carries his name.

There was already a case against McAfee in Belize for possession of illegal firearms, and police had previously raided his property on suspicion he was running a lab to make illegal synthetic narcotics.

McAfee says he has been persecuted for refusing to donate money to politicians, that he loves Belize, and considers it his home.