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Looney Tunes
McCain, at a campaign event, equates our troop presence in Iraq with Korea, and then says he'd be fine

with us being in Iraq for another hundred years

Can someone give this man a psych exam? Please?

Source: Mother Jones

Someone Please Mess with Texas
So Texas has an astoundingly high rate of false convictions being overturned by DNA evidence. Color me shocked.

Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated Thursday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he indeed wasn't. The release of Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.

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Dallas has freed more inmates after DNA testing than any other county nationwide, said Natalie Roetzel of the Innocence Project of Texas. Texas leads the country in prisoners freed by DNA testing, releasing at least 30 wrongfully convicted inmates since 2001, according to the Innocence Project.

One of the biggest reasons for the large number of exonerations is the crime lab used by Dallas County, which accounts for about half the state's DNA cases. Unlike many jurisdictions, the lab used by police and prosecutors retains biological evidence, meaning DNA testing is a viable option for decades-old crimes.

District Attorney Craig Watkins also attributes the exonerations to a past culture of overly aggressive prosecutors seeking convictions at any cost. Watkins has started a program in which law students, supervised by the Innocence Project of Texas, are reviewing about 450 cases in which convicts have requested DNA testing to prove their innocence.

"It is time we stop kidding ourselves in believing that what happened in Dallas is somehow unique," said Jeff Blackburn, the founder of the Innocence Project of Texas. "What happened in Dallas is common. This is Texas."

Why do we let them pretend to be a state? It's a joke.

Source: Raw Story

Wasn't There a Fairy Tale Like This?
So a kneeboarder (yeah, I had to look it up too), lost a nose stud in some rough waves while out doing their hybrid waterskiing/wakeboarding thing.

Then her boyfriend went fishing and apparently caught a fish that had, err, eaten her nose stud.

My only question is, how do they know for sure it's hers? I thought studs were sort of plain and generic.

It could be a hoax for the publicity I guess.

Maybe I'm just being cynical because the story is from Fox Noise.

Source: FoxNews.com ()
Kneeboarding pic

Number One With a Bullet
Ok, listen up, retards. I'm only going to state this once, for the painfully dense.

When you fire a bullet into the air, it will come down somewhere. Quite rapidly. Your gun does not in fact allow anything to reach escape velocity for the Planet Earth.

A family in Oregon whose kids were thankfully asleep on the floor on New Years found, in the morning, a 2 inch hole in the roof above their kid's room, and a BULLET ON THE PILLOW

What is wrong with you gun toting nuts? The first thing my stepdad ever told me about using guns before I was allowed to shoot one was, 'Never point a gun at anything you don't intend to destroy'.

Do you intend to destroy the sky? Or just random strangers?

Morons.

Source: Fox Noise

Zombie Nutrition Guide
Zombies need to eat healthy too!

Handy Guide!