Posts Tagged ‘wtf’

BBC NEWS | Americas | Tent city highlights US homes crisis

2008/03/19/1139

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7297093.stm

The meltdown in the US mortgage market has led to record foreclosures and forced thousands from their homes. In few places is it worse than southern California, where the BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani reports on an extreme consequence of the downturn, but one that some observers fear could grow.

The population of Tent City has grown rapidly in less than a year

Forty miles east of Los Angeles, on a patch of waste ground, is the place they call Tent City.

WTF.

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Amazon.com: Uranium Ore

2007/12/12/1856

RTFA: http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/re…

Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Useful for testing Geiger Counters. License exempt. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. Shipped in labeled metal container as shown. Shipping Information: We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level radioactive materials. Item will be shipped in accordance with Postal Service activity limits specified in Publication 52. Radioactive minerals are for educational and scientific use only.

Hear that? Educational and scientific use ONLY… if you want to apply this Ore to religious fundamentalism, you are violating the product agreement. At under $30, this Uranium is a steal!

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YouTube - WTF? Co-host doesn’t know if the earth is flat or not

2007/09/19/1413

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLnCDTWB2S0&eurl=ht…

The ladies discuss whether evolution is real. One says it isn’t, and so Whoopi asks her if she believes whether the earth is flat or round.

Okay. No. No. This is not okay. See, here’s the thing: you DO need to think SOME of the time.

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