Breaking News Thread

[Peelz]

Great idea Brian, thanks.

Motels can be an attractive alternative for drug makers seeking to avoid a police raid on their own homes.

[Flynbyu]

Hotels on the Oklahoma side will seldom rent to people living in the city.

No shit.

Too many mobile meth labs.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Hotels on the Oklahoma side will seldom rent to people living in the city.

No shit.

Too many mobile meth labs.

~Brian

that is bull$hit! discrimination.

[Flynbyu]

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) – The two main child actors from "Slumdog Millionaire" are to receive new homes from the authorities after the small-budget movie swept the Oscars, winning eight Academy Awards.

The Mumbai homes will go to Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the young roles of the movie's central characters, Latika and Salim, in the rags-to-riches romance about a poor Indian boy competing for love and money on a TV game show.

"These two children have brought laurels to the country, and we have been told that they live in slums, which cannot even be classified as housing," said Gautam Chatterjee, head of the state-run Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority.

Authorities did not say where the home would be only that there would be apartments and near a "prime location."

Ali, 8, currently lives in a tiny hovel in a rubbish strewn slum near railway tracks in India's financial hub. Ismail sleeps under a polythene sheet-covered roof in the same slum. Open sewers run nearby and both homes have no running water.

The movie, based in Mumbai, took home eight awards from the Oscars including best picture and best director for Britain's Danny Boyle.

But in the leadup to Sunday's Oscars, the movie's success around the globe was overshadowed by objections in India to its name which some Indians find offensive, its depiction of the lives of impoverished Indians, and the treatment of the cast.

There was an outcry after pictures emerged of the child stars living in squalor despite the $15 million movie earning about $100 million since its North American release last November.

But since the Oscars, India's media has been caught in a patriotic frenzy and politicians have jumped on the bandwagon to praise Indians involved in the film.

Boyle and producer Christian Colson have flatly rejected claims of exploiting children for the movie.

They said the children were paid above local Indian wages and enrolled in school for the first time with a fund set up to pay for their education, medical emergencies and "basic living costs."

Fox Searchlight Pictures, the 20th Century Film Fox studio behind the film, paid for visas, travel and accommodation for nine children to fly to Los Angeles for the Oscars.


~Brian

[Krandall]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_iraq
Officials: Obama sets Aug. 2010 as Iraq end date


WASHINGTON – A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say.

That pacing suggests that although Obama's promised withdrawal will start soon, it will be backloaded, with larger numbers of troops returning later in the 18-month time frame.

Obama was to announce his strategy Friday at the sprawling Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where thousands of Marines are soon heading to another war front, Afghanistan.

The administration now considers Aug. 31, 2010, as the end date for Iraq war operations.

[Flynbyu]

Why the last douche bag couldn't make that commitment is beyond me.

~Brian

[Krandall]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25113643-13762,00.html
12-hour Viagra-fuelled orgy ends in death



THIS was one bet Sergey Tuganov was determined to win.

British newspaper, The Sun, reports the 28-year-old Russian man died after taking a bottle of Viagra pills for an apparent 12-hour sex romp.

Two women told Moscow police they bet Tuganov $US4300 that he wouldn't be able to satisfy them during a non-stop half day sex marathon.

The mechanic died of a heart attack minutes after winning the wager, Moscow police said.

"We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do," said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

Medics said he most likely died from the quantity of Viagra he had ingested.

There are 30 pills in an average 100mg bottle of Viagra.

[Flynbyu]

Viagra FTW!

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25113643-13762,00.html
12-hour Viagra-fuelled orgy ends in death



THIS was one bet Sergey Tuganov was determined to win.

British newspaper, The Sun, reports the 28-year-old Russian man died after taking a bottle of Viagra pills for an apparent 12-hour sex romp.

Two women told Moscow police they bet Tuganov $US4300 that he wouldn't be able to satisfy them during a non-stop half day sex marathon.

The mechanic died of a heart attack minutes after winning the wager, Moscow police said.

"We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do," said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

Medics said he most likely died from the quantity of Viagra he had ingested.

There are 30 pills in an average 100mg bottle of Viagra.

Twas a good death 

[Krandall]

If you're gonna go out.. Go out w/ a "bang". *drum roll inserted here*

[socalrappy700]

Why the last douche bag couldn't make that commitment is beyond me.

~Brian

He's not doing anything different, just moving the troops from one country to the next.  Its not like they are going home.

[Flynbyu]

Afghanistan is where they should have been all along.......Looking for something that does actually exsist.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Yeah!!!!

Becuase no terroist group would ever fund or recieve funding from a known mass murdering dictator and his regime......thats just silly talk

[Flynbyu]

There were no terrorist groups in Iraq. Saddam wouldn't have put up with that shit. He ruled with an iron fist, and killed innocent people and people suspected as a threat to his power.

Same reason Mutaqa Al-Sadr was just an alter boy then. If he tried to rally peeps while Saddam was in power, he'd be dead now.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Another thing my friend in the cia said about the search for wmd's.......its a damn big desert.