Diversity: Atheists Unveil Monument Near Ten Commandments.

(Associated Press) A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse.

As a small group of protesters blasted Christian country music and waved “Honk for Jesus” signs, the atheists celebrated what they believe is the first atheist monument allowed on government property in the United States.

“When you look at this monument, the first thing you will notice is that it has a function. Atheists are about the real and the physical, so we selected to place this monument in the form of a bench,” said David Silverman, president of American Atheists.

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Mired In Recession, Former Yugoslav Republic Of Croatia Joins Troubled European Union

(Reuters) - Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union at midnight on Sunday, a milestone that caps the Adriatic republic's recovery from war but is tinged with anxiety over the state of the economy and the bloc it joins.

EU flags fluttered from a stage in Zagreb's central square ahead of the evening's festivities, though there have been few signs of the gushing welcome that marked past expansions to ex-communist Eastern Europe.

Croatia joins the bloc just over two decades after declaring independence from federal Yugoslavia, the trigger for four years of war in which some 20,000 people died.

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Top Reasons For Trolling Include Boredom & Amusement

(Telegraph) - People troll on Twitter and Facebook because of seven reasons including boredom, amusement and revenge, according to experts.

In a study looking at 4,000 online cases of trolling, linguist expert Dr Claire Hardaker found culprits were from all ages and backgrounds.

Dr Hardraker of Lancaster University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences said: “Aggression, deception and manipulation are increasingly part of online interaction, yet many users are unaware not only that some of these behaviours exist, but of how destructive and insidious they can be.

“An incredible amount of time and strategy can be involved in trolling, as my research into the techniques they use highlights."

She found people trolled for seven main reasons, such as digressing from a topic at hand and moving onto sensitive issues.

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Modern Progressive Canada: Hate Speach Provision In Human Rights Act Struck Down.

(sunnewsnetwork.ca) OTTAWA - An Alberta MP has succeeded in his bid to repeal a section of the Canadian Human Rights Act long seen by free-speech advocates as a tool to squelch dissenting opinions.

Conservative MP Brian Storseth saw the Senate give third and final reading late Wednesday to his Bill C-304 which repeals Section 13 of the Human Rights Act, an act that had been used to, among other things, attack the writings of Sun News Network's Ezra Levant and Maclean's columnist Mark Steyn.

Section 13 ostensibly banned hate speech on the Internet and left it up to the quasi-judicial human rights commission to determine what qualified as "hate speech."

But, unlike a court, there was no presumption of innocence of those accused of hate speech by the commission.

Instead, those accused had to prove their innocence.

With elimination of Section 13, producing and disseminating hate speech continues to be a Criminal Code violation but police and the courts will adjudicate rather than human rights tribunals.

Storseth drafted his bill in 2011 and enjoyed support from the highest levels in cabinet.

"Our government believes Section 13 is not an appropriate or effective means for combating hate propaganda," Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said in late 2011. "We believe the Criminal Code is the best vehicle to prosecute these crimes."

Last summer, Storseth's bill cleared the House of Commons in a free vote and, now that it's through the Senate, it will get royal assent and Section 13 should soon disappear.
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Paula Deen Fired For A WORD. But, Obama Ghetto Blacks Cont. Murdering, Raping, Robbing Whites

Via themadjewess:
- The Food-queen is fired for using the word “Nigger” 27 years ago. She admitted she used this very horrible word (puke) that holds the whole nation captive. Just a WORD and you are fired. It used to be the vc versa. Now, you say a WORD about the black supremacist cabal and your life is O V A H. And you don’t think this is supremacy?

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Anal Hazing Hits US High Schools.

 

Via moonbattery.com:

- Where you have moonbattery, you have unintended consequences even more pernicious than what liberals planned to impose. For example, the aggressive campaign against “bullying” is intended to normalize homosexual deviancy among schoolchildren. A consequence of authorities constantly ramming home their obscene belief that the anus is a sex organ:

"In the last year, there have been more than a dozen hazing incidents around the country involving high school boys who have sodomized other boys with foreign objects, reports Bloomberg. Over 40 boys have been reported victims. Most have been younger students.

There’s a dearth of data concerning the size and scope of the national boy-on-boy anal hazing problem. Astonishingly, though, a study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence has claimed that nearly 10 percent of high school males report suffering some form of sexual assault including, in some cases, forced oral sex or rape."

A few examples of the new craze:

"Three former soccer players at La Puente High School in the suburban sprawl east of Los Angeles were convicted of sexually assaulting other students with a javelin and a broken flagpole, reports Southern California Public Radio.

A bit farther east, in Fontana, Calif., underage students allegedly tried to place a piece of rebar inside the anal cavity of another student, according to NBC Southern California. There was a similar incident involving a broom handle. Prosecutors say a masonry teacher was present at the time and knew what was happening."

In tiny Greenfield, Iowa, a group of members of the Nodaway Valley High School wrestling team allegedly pinned down a 16-year-old teammate and sexually assaulted him because he had missed practice. An unidentified student told ABC affiliate KCRG that older wrestlers ordinarily forced jump role handles into the anuses of younger wrestlers who missed practice or failed to make weight.

A particularly alarming case occurred in Norwood, Colorado:

Three varsity wrestlers bound a 13-year-old boy with duct tape on a bus — at the state wrestling meet — and sodomized him with a pencil.

This wouldn’t be terribly unusual these days, except that the victim was the principal’s son. Everyone else sided with the attackers, who were given token 1-day in-schools suspensions, roughly 1/1,000,000 the punishment they would have received for saying the word “fag.” The principal was forced to move to another town.

At least we know that students have been paying attention during ever-earlier, sodomy-friendly sex ed indoctrination:

Three male students — two third-graders and a fifth-grader — at an elementary school in New York City forced a third-grade boy to perform oral sex on them, according to a disturbing lawsuit.

Did that ever happen when you were in grade school?

America is getting fundamentally transformed, all right.

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Egypt Steps Up Gaza Tunnel Crackdown, Dismaying Palestinians.

Nothing to see here..

(Reuters) - Egypt has intensified a crackdown on smuggling tunnels between its volatile Sinai desert and the Gaza Strip, causing a steep hike in petrol and cement prices in the Palestinian territory.

Palestinians involved in the tunnel business say that the campaign, which began in March and has included flooding of underground passages, was ramped up in the past two weeks before a wave of opposition-led protests in Egypt expected to start on June 30.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has come under political fire at home over a strong challenge to his authority by militant Islamists in the Sinai who have attacked Egyptian security forces in the peninsula.

Egypt's military, struggling to fill a security vacuum in the Sinai since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was swept from power in 2011, has pledged to shut all tunnels under the Gaza border, saying they are used by militants on both sides to smuggle activists and weapons.

The moves against the tunnels have dashed the hopes of many Palestinians that Mursi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood from which Hamas was born, would significantly ease Egyptian border restrictions on Gaza, which is also subjected to blockade by Israel.

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5 Shockingly Progressive Ideas From 'Primitive' Cultures.

Cracked: We're not only less progressive today than you might think, but there have been some truly shocking moments of tolerance in history that make the modern world look downright bigoted.

Canada Floods Claim Approximately 3 Lives & Force Evacuation Of Downtown Calgary.

-At least three people were killed when floodwaters that devastated much of southern Alberta led authorities to evacuate the western Canadian city of Calgary’s entire downtown. Inside the city’s hockey arena, the waters reached as high as the 10th row.

(telegraph.co.uk) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday called the level of flooding “stunning” and said officials don’t know yet if it will get worse, but said the water has peaked and stabilised and noted that the weather has got better.

Overflowing rivers washed out roads and bridges, soaked homes and turned streets into dirt-brown waterways around southern Alberta. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Patricia Neely told reporters three were dead and two bodies were recovered. The two bodies recovered are the two men who had been seen floating lifeless in the Highwood River near High River on Thursday, she said.

Harper, a Calgary resident, said he never imagined there would be a flood of this magnitude in this part of Canada.

“This is incredible. I’ve seen a little bit of flooding in Calgary before. I don’t think any of us have seen anything like this before. The magnitude is just extraordinary,” he said.

“We’re all very concerned that if gets much more than this it could have real impact on infrastructure and other services longer term, so we’re hoping things will subside a bit.”

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Brazil: 1.5 million March Against Corruption, High Taxes, etc.

President Dilma Rousseff holds crisis talks on Brazil's mass protests
- Brazil's embattled president Dilma Rousseff has held crisis talks to decide how to respond to two weeks of mass street protests that erupted a year ahead of the World Cup.

An estimated 1.25 million people marched in scores of cities on Thursday in the country's biggest protests in two decades.

People marched over a litany of complaints ranging from high taxes to corruption, the poor public services and the huge cost of staging the cup.

Two people have now died in incidents related to the protests.
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2 Killed In Quebec Fireworks Plant Explosion.

(bbc.co.uk) - Two people have been found dead after an explosion destroyed a Quebec fireworks plant, Canadian police say.

A massive blast rocked BEM Fireworks in Coteau-du-Lac shortly before 09:00 EST (13:00 GMT) and was followed by a fire and further explosions.

Images from the scene showed a plume of black smoke and exploding fireworks that could be seen from miles away.

Police evacuated about 40 homes in the town and temporarily closed a nearby highway in both directions.

One building at the plant was reduced to rubble.

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Serena Williams Apologises For Saying Rape Victim 'Lucky'

Serena Williams has issued a qualified apology to the 16-year-old victim of an infamous US rape case after she was quoted implying that the girl bore some responsibility for the attack as she was drunk.

Telegraph - Williams, 31, made her initial comments after watching a television news report about the case during one of a series of interviews with a writer from magazine.

"Do you think it was fair, what they got?" Williams is quoted as saying. "They did something stupid, but I don't know.

"I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you: don't take drinks from other people.

"She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky. Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different."

In a statement issued in response to the furore, the tennis star described the rape as "a horrible tragedy" for the families of the "rape victim and of the accused".

US State Department To Spend $450,000 Protecting Transgenders - Oversees.

(CNSNews.com) – The State Department through its Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) is planning to spend $450,000 in taxpayer dollars “to support programs that increase protection of transgender persons who face acute forms of violence and harassment.”

The primary goal of the grant “is to ensure that incidents of violence are documented and investigated and that victims receive appropriate legal redress through domestic, regional, or international human rights mechanisms.”

The bureau is seeking proposals that will “strengthen civil society organizations’ efforts to both document incidents of violence and the investigation process (or lack thereof)” and “ensure transgender persons have adequate legal representation.”

The proposals must also “support local civil society organizations to seek redress through regional and international human rights mechanisms,” and “where feasible/appropriate, sensitivity training for law enforcement agencies.”

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Just When I Thought Women Couldn't Get Any Dumber...

Miss Utah USA's bungled interview creates overnight fame, infamy.

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Kansas Secretary Of State Kris Kobach Collects Shoes Of Deported Illegal Occupires: GOOD! TROPHIES!

Kansas Secretary Of State Kris Kobach Collects Shoes Of Deported Illegals: GOOD! TROPHIES!

Pray hard for Kris Kobach who is the only official that is OBEYING THE LAW. Illegals should be deported or SHOT. They are invaders. We can’t afford them. People are sick and tired of illegal occupiers getting away with murder–literally. GOOD BYE ILLEGALS!! Thanks for the shoes!

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Apartheid: Israel Builds Sinai Border Fence; Illegal Crossing Drop 99.9%

(breitbart.com) - This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touted the success of a new border fence that Israel built along its boundary with Egypt to stop illegal infiltrators. In a statement posted at his government website, Netanyahu reported that illegal crossings had declined 99.9%, from 2,000 per month to only two.

"The fence that we built in the south is achieving the result for which it was erected," Netanyahu said. "As opposed to the over 2,000 infiltrators who entered Israel exactly one year ago and dispersed to various cities, in May 2013 exactly two infiltrators crossed the border and were detained. Now we need to focus on repatriating the illegal infiltrators who are here, and we will meet this task as well."

The main, 144-mile section of the fence was completed in early 2013, according to a January report by the Wall Street Journal. It is sixteen feet high and includes "barbed wire, surveillance cameras and radar." By comparison, the U.S.-Mexico border is roughly 2,000 miles long, and only about a third is fenced off. The Israeli fence's construction was accelerated due to security concerns in the years since Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak left power, leaving a vacuum eventually filled by a Muslim Brotherhood government.

The new Israeli fence is separate from the fence that runs along, and partially inside, the West Bank, which has successfully stopped infiltrations by suicide bombers. It also placed a small amount of disputed territory on the western, "Israeli" side of the fence while creating some hardship for local land owners and workers.

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Nazi SS Led Unit Commander Accused Of Atrocities Reportedly Living In (Socialist) Minnesota

(foxnews.com) BERLIN – A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

Michael Karkoc, 94, told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion and later as an officer in the SS Galician Division, according to records obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Galician Division and a Ukrainian nationalist organization he served in were both on a secret American government blacklist of organizations whose members were forbidden from entering the United States at the time.

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Transparency: Rand Paul: Your Taxes Fund Regimes That Kill Christians 'For Blasphemy Against Islam'

Thanks Captain Obvious!

(CNSNews.com) – In a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference on Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he was angry over the fact that U.S. tax money is used to support foreign regimes where Christians are killed “for blasphemy against Islam,” and where “Muslims who convert to Christianity” are also put to death.

“It angers me to see my tax dollars supporting regimes that put Christians to death for blasphemy against Islam, countries that put to death Muslims who convert to Christianity, and countries who imprison anyone who marries outside their religion,” said Paul at the conference, held at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington, D.C.

“There is a war on Christianity, not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide,” said Paul. “And your government, or more correctly, you, the taxpayer, are funding it. You are being taxed to send money to countries that are not only intolerant of Christians but openly hostile. Christians are imprisoned and threatened with death for their beliefs.”

Paul spent most of his speech talking about the persecution of Christians abroad and cited cases of gross injustice in Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt and Syria.

“It is clear that American taxpayer dollars are being used to enable a war on Christianity in the Middle East and I believe that must end,” said Paul.

In concluding his speech, the senator said, “G-d, help us in these troubling times to make wise decisions, to make moral decisions, and to listen to the voice of God that lives and breathes and resides in us all. Amen.”

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Oldest Man In The World, Jiroemon Kimura, Dies Aged 116.

Now here is some news you don't need...

(telegraph.co.uk) - Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospital early on Wednesday morning, Kyodo News cited the local government as saying.

Mr Kimura, from Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture, was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person in December 2012 when a woman from the United States died at the age of 115.

On the 28th day of that month he broke another record, when he became the oldest man ever verified to have lived when he reached the age of 115 years and 253 days.

However, he was well off the all-time record set by French woman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, making her the longest living person in history.

Mr Kimura, who was born the same year as American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, celebrated his 116th birthday in April, receiving a pre-recorded video greeting from Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The centenarian had seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grand children and 14 great-great grandchildren, and worked at a post office for about 40 years. After retiring he took up farming which he continued to do until the age of 90.

Encouraged by Mr Kimura and 94 other people in Kyotango's 60,000-strong population who will this year be 100 years old or more, the city has launched a research project to examine their diets and find the secrets of their longevity.

Mr Kimura did not smoke and only ate until he was 80 percent full, one local official said.

His motto in life was "to eat light and live long," the official added.

The mayor of Kyotango will pay his respects at Kimura's house while the city hall will prepare a place for a book of condolences, the official said.

"I heard a wake will be tomorrow and a funeral the day after tomorrow," he said.

"Mr. Kimura was popular among residents so we expect many people to visit to sign condolences," he added.

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You're Doing It Wrong: Only 5 Percent Wash Hands The Right Way, Study Says.

(yahoonews)- Here’s something to ponder the next time you head to the loo: Only five percent of people wash their hands long enough to kill disease-causing germs. Translation: Ick.

That’s according to a study from Michigan State University, which based its results on observing 3,749 people in public restrooms.

These intrepid researchers published the results in the Journal of Environmental Health. And the details just get more disgusting.

From the story on the MSU.edu website, the dirty details:

-Fifteen percent of men didn’t wash their hands at all, compared with 7 percent of women.
-When they did wash their hands, only 50 percent of men used soap, compared with 78 percent of women.
-People were less likely to wash their hands if the sink was dirty.
-People were more likely to wash their hands if a sign encouraging them to do so was present.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asserts that while 50 percent of foodborne illness are caused by dirty hands, washing those hands is the best way to prevent disease from spreading―if you do it right.

That means washing with soap and water for 20 seconds. The study found that most people wash, on average, for six seconds.

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UK: School Fire Started By Anti-Islamic Arsonist?

"Islamophobia!" 

(EXPRESS) — TERRIFIED pupils had to be evacuated at the weekend as fire broke out at a school in a suspected Islamic arson attack.

The 128 pupils, aged 11 and over, are boarders at the £3,000-a-year Darul Uloom School, in Chislehurst, Kent.

Police confirmed they are treating the blaze as suspicious.

Shocked school principal Mustafa Musa said yesterday that intruders started the fire just before midnight on Saturday.

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Israel Aims To Stay Out Of Syria Conflict Despite Golan Friction.

(Reuters) - Israel aims to stay out of Syria's civil war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, despite violence eroding security on the Golan Heights border area.

The strategic plateau, most of which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war, saw fierce fighting last week between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and Syrian rebels near the armistice line patrolled by U.N. peacekeepers.

"Israel is not getting involved in the civil war in Syria, as long as the fire is not directed at us," Netanyahu told his cabinet in broadcast remarks

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Maryland: 11 Year-Old Suspended Because He Said 'Gun'

(cnsnews 5/June/2013) - A Maryland boy was suspended from school for 10 days last December for telling other students that he wished he'd had a gun to protect the students who were killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. The suspension was later reduced to one day.

In a radio interview, Bruce Henkelman, the boy's father, claimed that a school bus driver overheard the boy use the word "gun" and then took him to the principle. The boy was then questioned by both the principle and a Sherriff's deputy.

Henkelman said that the school's principal, Darrel Prioleau, told him that "[W]ith what happened at Sandy Hook, if you say the word 'gun' in my school, you are going to get suspended for 10 days."

In a Monday interview with Washington, DC-based radio station WMAL, Henkelman claimed that the young boy was telling fellow students how he would have stopped the Sandy Hook shooting if he had been there with a firearm.

"He said, 'I wish I had a gun to protect everyone.' He wanted to defeat the bad guys. That's the context of what he said," Henkelman said. "He wanted to be the hero."

The school principal has not been reached for comment, but the ACLU has said that, if Henkelman's story is accurate, then the suspension was inappropriate.

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California: Man Kills 4 In Shooting Spree.

(reuters) - A gunman dressed in black killed four people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he was shot dead by police in a community college library, law enforcement officials said.

Five other people were wounded, one of them critically, in the shooting rampage that unfolded just a few miles from where President Barack Obama was speaking at a political fundraiser elsewhere in Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles.

As the gunman lay dead on a sidewalk outside the Santa Monica College library, a second individual was taken into custody near the campus and described by police as a "person of interest" in the case. He was later released.

Police initially said six people were killed by the gunman.

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5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Shockingly Easy To Debunk.

(cracked.com) - Just about every major event in history has a conspiracy theory attached to it, whether you've heard of it or not. It's just that most of them remain known only to the hardcore "we'll believe anything" true believers, where others, like the ones below, pick up real traction.

But even among theories like these (which count their believers in the millions), you find that the whole thing is usually based on some embarrassingly simple misunderstanding.

1 Dead In Philadelphia Building Collapse.

(Yahoonews.com) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A building that was being torn down collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks on a neighboring thrift store, killing a woman and injuring at least 13 other people in an accident that witnesses said was bound to happen.

The woman who died was 35 years old, the mayor said, but no other information about her was released.

Rescuers pulled another woman, trapped amid the rubble of aSalvation Army thrift store, after they heard her voice, city fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said, and the search for survivors continued hours after the 10:45 a.m. collapse on the edge of downtown.

Rescuers used buckets and their bare hands to move bricks and rubble.

"We do not know how many people were actually in the thrift store this morning when the wall collapsed on the building," Mayor Michael Nutter said late Wednesday afternoon.

Survivors were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, Ayers said.

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Actor Michael Douglas: Oral Sex Caused My Cancer.

gaurdian.co.uk (2/June/13)

Michael Douglas – the star of Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction – has revealed that his throat cancer was apparently caused by performing oral sex.

In a surprisingly frank interview with the Guardian, the actor, now winning plaudits in the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, explained the background to a condition that was thought to be nearly fatal when diagnosed three years ago. Asked whether he now regretted his years of smoking and drinking, usually thought to be the cause of the disease, Douglas replied: "No. Because without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus."

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Related - Michael Douglas's Oral Sex Story Went Viral - & Wrong.

Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Driver's Licenses For Illegal Immigrants.

foxnews.com (30/May/13)

HARTFORD, CONN. – The Connecticut state Senate has approved a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, surmounting Republican opposition.

The bill, which cleared the state House last week, passed 19-16 in the Senate early Thursday.

Under the plan, illegal immigrants would be able to obtain driver’s licenses beginning in January 2015. Applicants would need documentation proving their identities and showing they have lived in the state for at least 90 days. They also would have to pass driving tests and background checks verifying they have no felony convictions in the state.

The licenses would be marked “for driving purposes only” and would need to be renewed every three years, rather than the standard six years.

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UK Marks 60 Year Reign Of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II began a long and happy story.

- It is time the British people stopped being embarrassed at the proven success of the monarchy.

The Queen, aged 27, sits in dappled light that catches the blue of her eyes. She looks a little sad, but full of youthful vigour. On her head is a high and heavy crown. That is how the official artist of the Coronation, Terence Cuneo, saw her in Westminster Abbey, that morning 60 years ago today.

The Coronation was the beginning of something. It was thus more like a wedding than a birthday celebration. The monarch was wedded to her people. In 1953, the experience of monarchy was a grateful one. George VI had been a good king in hard times: courageous in the unknowable hazards of war and in the exhausted years of post-war austerity.

The Queen, his daughter, and the nation set off together on a new road. She was, on her accession, 18 years younger than Kennedy would be at the beginning of his presidency. In the 16 months of her reign before the Coronation, Britain had begun to know her, and liked what it found. We were all to be New Elizabethans. The New Elizabethan age was not to be distinguished by verse drama like that of Christopher Fry or by inventions like Christopher Cockerell’s hovercraft. It was, to be sure, transformed by technology, and by nothing so much as by television, on which 20 million people witnessed the crowning of their Queen. But it was growth in prosperity that was to characterise the reign, with all the unsuspected difficulties that prosperity brought.

Through these decades, which ought to be recognised as happy ones, the Queen provided a constantly benign pressure on the polity of the kingdom. This was not just the effect of her personal industry, quiet wisdom and practical devotion to duty. It was the product of the British monarchy itself.

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Education Triumph: Canada Teenager Punished For Breaking Up Knife Fight.

- An Alberta student stepped into a fight to save a fellow student from being stabbed; instead of praising his heroics the edu-crats punished him.