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Monday, September 27, 2010

Woman fends off bear attack with zucchini

Someone finally made use of one of those zucchini "clubs" that grow too big to be edible.

Average Government Worker Receives 85 Percent Higher Pay, Benefits than Private Employees


The typical federal worker received a salary of more than $79,000 in 2008, with benefits raising total annual compensation to more than $119,000. The typical private sector worker received pay of about $50,000, with total compensation just under $60,000.

Segway owner dies on Segway

Read the whole thing - quite a fascinating guy.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Rampant 2008 Voter Fraud in Houston


"Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Votes collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures."

Sounds just like ACORN.