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Finland, land of Nokia and mobile phones aplenty, seems to have an inappropriate love of text messaging that goes all the way up to the head of the state. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (shown above totally hitting on German Chancellor Angela Merkel), apparently known as "Finland's Sexiest Man," dumped his girlfriend (that he met on the Internet, no less) via text message. Slighted ex-girlfriend Susan Kuronen says "Matti dumped me in a text message, where he said 'that's it.'" Cold blooded, Matti!
Sexy Finnish Prime Minister Dumps GF via Text Message - Gizmodo
100,000 dead and we keep hearing about a handful of white people. Sigh. This sums it up:
First-person accounts of third-world tragedies we didn't finish reading:
WELIGAMA, Sri Lanka, Dec. 26 -- Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky.
I was taking my morning swim around the island that my brother Geoffrey, a businessman, had bought on a whim a decade ago....
Minimum U.S. spending on missile defense each year since President Reagan's 1983 "Star Wars" speech : $2,700,000,000 [Office of Sen. Jack Reed (Washington) ]Number of the ten missile-defense components to be deployed this fall that have been field-tested as a system : 0 [General Accounting Office (Washington)/Council for a Livable World (Washington) ]
Amount that next year's Defense Department budget proposal requests for researching low-yield nuclear weapons : $9,000,000 [Arms Control Association (Washington)]
Number of years that such research was illegal before Congress repealed the ban last November : 10 [Arms Control Association (Washington) ]
Number of countries given weapons-grade uranium since the 1950s under the U.S. Atoms for Peace program : 51 [Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Washington) ]
Minimum amount, per kilogram, that the U.S. charges "high income" countries to return spent nuclear fuel : $3,500 [U.S. Department of Energy ]
Number of actors, musicians, and clowns in a U.N. troupe touring Liberia to convince citizens to disarm : 101 [United Nations Mission in Liberia (Monrovia) ]
Number of members of the Iraqi Communist Party who belong to the Governing Council : 1 [Iraqi Governing Council (Baghdad) ]
Number of times that none-of-the-above won a Duma seat last winter in Ulyanovsk, Russia, Lenin's birthplace : 2 [Embassy of the Russian Federation (Washington)/ITAR-TASS News Agency (Moscow) ]
Chance that a Western European has a positive opinion of George W. Bush : 1 in 10 [Harris Interactive Europe (London) ]
Sometimes I am amazed how quickly they can spring up, seemingly fully formed. Check out this one on the Sydney Car Bombing. I mean it's got to be true, there's pictures with bits circled in red!
Not only does he have great things to say about cunnilingus but he also agrees with me on a few other things.
North Korea has launched a nationwide anti-smoking campaign after its leader Kim Jong-il reportedly quit the habit and called on his people to follow suit.Reports in the South Korean media said Kim recently singled out smokers as one of the "three main fools of the 21st century", along with those who are ignorant about computers and music.
from BBC News
Here's some details on that restaurant shooting I was telling y'all about. From Gothamist as always.
Louis Barone, aka Lump Lump Barone, who shot another patron at Rao's restaurant right before Christmas will be pleaing that he was insane and angry. Ah, yes, the prosecutors love the insane and angry defense. The 67 year old Barone shot Albert Cicerelli at the Harlem Italian restuarant after Cicerelli first insulted a woman singing at Rao's and then insulted Barone:Cicerelli: "Oh God. Could someone shut this f–––ing broad up?" Barone: "Hey, watch your mouth. Mind your manners. You're talking about a lady." Cicerelli: "F––– you, I'll f––– you in the ass and I'll split you in two."Barone told the Post, "The things that were coming out of this guy's mouth - I've never spoken to a man like that," and told the police, "I was really mad at this point. I had blood in my eyes." Barone was carrying a gun because the nation had been elevated to a "high/orange" alert, so we'll wait for the "Homeland Security made me pack some heat which I used when I was angry" defense. But, really, what was Cicerelli doing mouthing off to an old Italian man in an Italian restaurant? For a "made" man, Cicerelli was pretty stupid
