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Target Ad - Is the Woman Having a Shopping Orgasm?

Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:50 PM EST

The woman in the Target ad seems to be holding a phallic symbol. As she gets more excited white stuff ejaculates from the device in her hand. Any one else get the same impression?

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Black Friday 2011: Cash-strapped shoppers to shun deals as fewer go in search of bargains | Mail Online

Seeded on Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:58 PM EST (the Mail online)

Shoppers are planning on watching their wallets on Black Friday as fewer expect to outspend themselves on the busiest shopping day of the year. The Consumer Federation of America took the national financial temperature with their annual survey featuring 1,011 responses from acro …

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Police put on leave, Calif. college president vows system-wide probe in spraying of students | StarTribune.com

Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:37 PM EST (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

The president of the University of California system said he was "appalled" at images of protesters being doused with pepper spray and plans an assessment of law enforcement procedures on all 10 campuses, as two police officers were placed on administrative leave in the incident  …

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Camp Aims to Get Young Men on Their Feet — and Out of Mom’s House | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:39 PM EST (TIME)

Failure to Launch apparently isn’t just a terrible Sarah Jessica Parker movie but an actual phenomenon among young men. Thanks to the sluggish economy and high unemployment rates, more young men across the U.S.

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Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition -- REALLY Buy American

Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:44 AM EST

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods -- merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different.

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Sheriff Lee Baca launches probe of former head of troubled jail

Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:22 PM EST (The L.A. Times)

The investigation of Capt. Daniel Cruz is the first significant action against a high-ranking official since public scrutiny of the L.A. County jails intensified.  

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Most honey sold in U.S. grocery stores not worthy of its name

Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:46 AM EST (CNN)

Most of the honey sold in chain stores across the country doesn't meet international quality standards for the sweet stuff, according to a Food Safety News analysis released this week. One of the nation's leading melissopalynologists analyzed more than 60 jug …

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Toughest inmates guarded by some of least-experienced jailers - latimes.com

Seeded on Sun Nov 6, 2011 1:34 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Two rookies assigned to the most dangerous floor at Los Angeles County's Men's Central Jail racked up some of the highest numbers of use-of-force incidents in the whole facility, documents show.  

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Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard)

Seeded on Sat Nov 5, 2011 10:28 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree.

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Internet Explorer's share of web traffic drops below 50%

Seeded on Fri Nov 4, 2011 2:38 PM EDT (CNN)

Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web's traffic, as of October, ending more than a decade of the default Microsoft browser's reign.

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Muslim Girl Wants Army to Bend Its Rules Just for Her

Seeded on Thu Nov 3, 2011 3:32 PM EDT (The Stir)

When you envision signing up for the US Army, what's the picture that comes to mind? Green fatigues and dress blues that match your fellow soldiers? Or wearing any darn thing you please? The military is pretty well known for requiring uniformity in uniforms.

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The Myth of the Underpaid Cops - Los Angeles County

Tue Nov 1, 2011 11:28 AM EDT

There is a big myth about how badly underpaid police are. Here is a sampling from the Public Employee Database maintained by the Mercury News. Verify the data here. The table data does not cut and paste well. The first number is the Base Salary. The second is Overtime.

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L.A. sheriff's staff raised red flags about jail brutality 2 years ago

Seeded on Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:40 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Nearly two years before Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca acknowledged that jailer brutality was a problem, his command staff raised alarms about excessive force used on inmates in the nation's largest jail system, according to confidential memos reviewed by The Times. The …

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A Christian debate over Halloween: Counter, co-opt, or embrace it?

Seeded on Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:53 PM EDT (CNN)

For many American Christians, Halloween is innocent, harmless and fun, and they trick-or-treat, carve pumpkins and don costumes with gusto. For others, though – especially for some conservative and fundamentalist Christians - Halloween is a celebration of evil and has no p …

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STATE: Deportation rates drop in California

Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:40 PM EDT (The Press-Enterprise)

Federal courts in California have been more likely to allow immigrants to remain in the United States in recent years, despite a widespread perception that federal officials are cracking down and sending more people back to their native countries.During the first two years of the …

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Veteran LAPD sergeant arrested in Mentone burglary

Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:30 PM EDT (San Bernardino County Sun)

The Los Angeles Police Department says 44-year-old Lucien Daigle of Highland, an 18-year veteran, has been placed on leave.

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Like TSA? You'll Love VIPR!

Seeded on Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:58 PM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)

We know how air travel has changed in the era of the Transportation Security Administration.

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L.A. County jails probe now includes allegations that deputies beat a visitor

Seeded on Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:13 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Gabriel Carrillo, visiting his brother at Men's Central Jail, suffered bruises and cuts in an altercation with sheriff's deputies. Carrillo says he was attacked; deputies say he was resisting.  

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Postage prices go up ... again - Oct. 18, 2011

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:08 PM EDT (CNN)

The price of a first class stamp is going up by one cent starting next year, the United States Postal Service said Tuesday.

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9th Circuit finds police stun gun use excessive in 2 cases

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:09 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Police used excessive force when they fired Tasers at a pregnant woman in Seattle and a victim of domestic abuse in Maui, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case that could influence how police handle those resisting arrest across the West. The ruling by the U.S.

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New California law bars E-Verify requirement for businesses

Seeded on Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:14 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

For years, activists against illegal immigration pushed cities across California to adopt ordinances ordering businesses to verify that their employees were eligible to work in the U.S.Several cities, including Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, complied and required businesse …

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Coming clean on 'dirty DUIs' in Contra Costa County - latimes.com

Seeded on Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:05 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

A whistle-blower tells how a private detective arranged for men to be arrested for drunk driving at the behest of their ex-wives and their lawyers — and that entrapment using decoys was only one of many alleged misdeeds.  

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TSA on lookout for big hair and snow globes

Seeded on Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:28 PM EDT (CNN)

The sign at the airport was so ridiculous, I thought it was a joke. "Please be advised, snow globes are not allowed through the security checkpoint," it read.

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Facebook's Bank Transfer Day: Protesters to Close Accounts?

Seeded on Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:47 PM EDT (TIME)

The growing anger directed at U.S.

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Shotguns, Handguns and Tasers...Oh, My!

Seeded on Fri Oct 7, 2011 2:25 PM EDT (Menomonee Falls news)

 I need to let you know that officers don’t call that yellow device on their belts a Taser. It’s an electronic control device.

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