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"The sign at the [BP] gas station said $3.39, which doesn’t sound too bad. When folks filled up at the pump though, it rang up as 33-cents a gallon. As you can imagine, it didn’t take long for lines to form at the gas station. In fact, the scene became pretty crazy and police had to be called.

"This wasn’t a case of generosity. It was actually a mistake. …An employee accidentally entered 33.9 cents instead of 3.39 into the pumps. The deal didn’t last long as the station quickly ran out of regular unleaded."

“A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.”

I find it amusing that the media seems to think that we need to know all the personal habits of our potential leadership. So Barack works out. Great! Good for him. One more positive mark for my candidate of choice.

“The parachutist and one of the musicians suffered sprained ankles. One band member was knocked unconscious and another had neck and head pain. He added that two tubas were destroyed.” Poor tubas. Shoulda hit the clarinet section instead.

Every day on my way home from work, I drive by the spot where this happened. I knew it wasn’t the best neighborhood, but I didn’t think the locals would shoot and kill a stranger on a bike over a name-calling dispute.

‘”Please Don’t Vote for a Democrat” reads the type over the picture of the twin towers after hijacked airliners hit them on September, 11, 2001.’

While doing some research on the state of the banking industry, I came across this little gem which I’d heard rumors about. When Huntington purchased Sky, it seems Sky didn’t mention all the sub-prime mortgages they had on the books…

“Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when Google Inc.’s online video site hands over viewership records in a $1 billion lawsuit accusing YouTube of enabling copyright infringement.”

What kind of paranoid world do we live in, where a father can’t even take photos of his own children in a public park?

“On [her] site, The Life of Riley, and in a series of videos post on YouTube, Riley mused on her day-to-day life. She also recounted living through two world wars and raising three children on her own while working as a cook and a bar maid.”