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Man wins right to wear pasta strainer on head in driver’s license photo
VIENNA — Pasta strainers are now considered suitable religious headgear in Austria … at least as far as the transport authorities are concerned. Three years after applying for a new driver’s licence, an Austrian man has finally received the laminated card. And the picture shows him sporting an upturned pasta…
Willie Nelson faces jail after Texas plea bargain falls through
A west Texas judge said this week that she was rejecting a plea deal for legendary country-western musician Willie Nelson, who now faces up to a year in prison for marijuana possession. The original deal, proposed by 78-year-old Hudspeth County prosecutor C.R. “Kit” Bramblett, would have reduced Nelson’s crime to…
Breitbart leaks photo of Weiner’s naked penis
Although conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart initially promised to keep the most explicit picture of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to himself — barring certain actions by Weiner — an alleged picture of Weiner’s naked, erect penis nonetheless leaked out this morning. During an appearance on Sirius XM Radio’s notoriously raunchy program…
Republicans call for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign
WASHINGTON — There was little sympathy among US politicians Tuesday for Anthony Weiner, one day after the US Democratic congressman admitted in a teary-eyed press conference to maintaining a string of lewd online relationships. Weiner, 46, said he was “deeply ashamed” for his behavior, which included sending a close-up picture…
Tearful U.S. Congressman admits to online, phone sex
NEW YORK (AFP) – Pressure was building Tuesday on New York congressman Anthony Weiner, who openly wept as he refused to resign amid stunning admissions that he lied about extramarital online and phone sex with several young women. Observers of US politics were debating Weiner’s future after his nationally televised…
No ‘hacking’ necessary to post lewd ‘Weinergate’ photo on Twitter
It was not necessary to hack into Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account to post a lewd photo, thanks to a feature on the picture hosting site yFrog.com. In an incident that has come to be known as “Weinergate,” the Twitter account of the New York congressman sent a racy photo…
US senators duped by fake bin Laden photo
WASHINGTON — Three US senators retracted their claims of having seen a graphic photograph of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, apparently the victims of a fake picture of the slain Al-Qaeda chief. Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, had told reporters he had seen photos from…
Republican apologizes for depicting Obama as a monkey
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A Republican official in California has apologized for sending an email containing a picture depicting US President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee. The family portrait-style image of three chimps had Obama’s head on the body of a baby chimp with the message “Now you know why…
CA GOP official sent picture of Obama as chimp, didn’t think it was racist
Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County Republican Party central committee, said she doesn’t think a photoshopped image she sent of President Barack Obama’s superimposed on a chimpanzee’s body is racist. She sent the emailed the picture of Obama and two chimp parents to friends Friday, with the…
Overweight? There’s an app for that
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Worried about how many calories you are going to consume in that slice of pizza, chocolate cake or bag of fries? A new iPhoneapplication may help. After taking a picture of the meal with the phone, the app gives a calorie read-out almost instantly. The app, called MealSnap,…
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