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(Daily Mail By MEGHAN KENEALLY) - Fox news commentators verbally attacked a new enemy on a recent broadcast: the muppets.
On Friday December 2, Follow The Money host Eric Bolling dedicated a segment to discrediting the latest Muppet movie, slamming them for naming the villain Tex Richman in what he thought of as an attack on capitalism.
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(The Local By Rebecca Martin) — A man from Nyköping in eastern Sweden has been denied a power wheelchair despite having had both of his legs amputated as the local health authority remained “uncertain if the impairment was permanent.”
The man had his legs amputated after a long struggle with diabetes, but despite being unable to get about, his application for a power wheelchair has been denied. [Click to read more…]
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(CBS Boston) - A 7-year-old boy is being investigated by his South Boston elementary school for possible sexual harassment after kicking another boy in the crotch.
The first grader’s mother, Tasha Lynch, says she was shocked by the school’s decision.
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(Daily Mail) - A 36-year-old Oregon man accidentally shot himself in the foot while attempting to annihilate a pesky squirrel.
Ethan Bennett told the Benton County sheriff’s department that he was at his home last Wednesday when the rodent began running up Mr Bennett’s left leg.
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(Yahoo News By ERIC PFEIFFER) - There’s a cynical old saying that “no good deed goes unpunished.”
That adage has proved true for an elderly Illinois man who accidentally gave away his entire life savings when making a clothing donation to his local Goodwill.
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(Daily Mail) - When passers-by heard meowing coming from inside a clothes recycling bin their first thought was to get help as quickly as possible.
Especially as it was feared the trapped cat could be missing pet Puss-Puss, who may have been struggling get out as she was pregnant.
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(Daily Mail) - A man suffered serious burns after climbing a high-voltage electricity pylon in an attempt to propose to his girlfriend.
The would-be Romeo attempted the stunt two days after he has split up with his girlfriend in Quanzhou, southern China.
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(Daily Mail) - A TV station in Baltimore, Maryland, doing an obligatory ‘Black Friday shopping’ story made an unfortunate typo as it showed footage of African Americans waiting in line at Target store.
As the camera panned across predominantly African-American shoppers, the message on the screen read ‘Black Holiday Shoppers.’
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(Huffington Post) - In one of the most unusual claims about homosexuality to emerge in some time, a Peruvian mayor is blaming the high mineral levels in the area’s drinking water for a perceived increase in the number of gay men residing in his town.
As Pink News is reporting, Huarmey Mayor Jose Benitez made the bizarre comments at the launch of a local water access project, where he noted high levels of strontium in the tap water.
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(Daily Mail By BETH SETBNER) - A district attorney in Fort Bend County, Texas forgot to file some paperwork, and as a result, a man accused of murdering a his classmate will go free as early as today.
District Attorney John Healy takes ‘full responsibility’ for the slip-up and calls it ‘unfortunate’ that Richard Mendoza, Junior will be free on bail since no paperwork was filed in the 90 days following his arrest.
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