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Obama Administration edits 911 call from Orlando shooter
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations released the transcript of the 911 call made by Omar Mateen during his attack on the Orlando nightclub Pulse, retracting the parts where Mateen appeared to pledge allegiance to ISIS. Attorney General Loretta Lynch first announced that the released trans...
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We may be losing our offices
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My parent company is big on employee footprint. They now only own two buildings in the world, my building and a plant in Mexico. They lease the rest of the buildings all over the world... Now they are thinking about selling and re-leasing our building. This would mean that no one, NO ONE, would have a...
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Unaccompanied minor groped on flight.
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The first warning sign came before the plane had even taken off.Chad Cameron Camp had his choice of seats on the half-empty American Airlines flight from Dallas to Portland, Ore. But Camp, 26, curiously chose a middle seat — right next to an unaccompanied 13-year-old girl, the FBI said in a state...
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Parents Question School's Response to Harassment of Daughter
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Parents Question School's Response to Harassment of Daughter Jun 22, 2016 - Letter 2 of 2 DEAR ABBY: Our daughter came home for spring break from college with troubling news. She has been sexually harassed by a very large and aggressive lesbian in her dorm this year. When the girl first came on to he...
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Sound familiar?
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Dear Prudence, I am a 23-year-old woman about to start my first full-time job. This means moving out of the family house to a town a day’s drive away. I am excited (and relieved) but also writhing in guilt and anxiety over my mother. My mom and I have a complicated relationship. She is by far the most negat...
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Tuesday, twinkle toes!
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RIP Anton Yelchin
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Chekov died! Freak accident where he accidentally put his car in neutral instead of park when he got out to get the mail, and it ran into him and pinned him against his brick mailbox and crushed him! He was only 27. How sad.
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Dear Prudence: Daughter Wants Late Term Abortion
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Q. Daughter wants late-term abortion: My daughter left her husband, and now wants to abort what had been a wanted pregnancy. She is too far along to terminate in our state, but she could get it done elsewhere. She asked me for money, to cover transportation and the procedure itself. My daughter says t...
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Dear Prudie: Was I a Mean Girl?
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Q. Was I a mean girl?: I am 62 years old. I recently received a Facebook message that was a diatribe about how cruel I was to a girl in high school. The message was fairly long and gave a few different specific examples of how mean I was. I do not remember this woman at all. I went through my old yearbooks and f...
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Ticketmaster
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Might want to check your ticketmaster account if you bought tickets b/t 1999 and 2013. Click the "active vouchers" link. They just settled a class action lawsuit, and you could have a credit.
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Dear Miss Manners: Popcorn Ettiquette at Movies
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: In a small movie theater, at the end of the show, the couple sitting two seats away from me asked if I had enjoyed the movie.I smiled and said very much so, and they proceeded to tell me in front of others that I had completely ruined it for them because of my noisy popcorn chewing, and the...
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Q. Divorce and health insurance
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Q. Divorce and health insurance: After I had an ugly and protracted affair, my husband ended our eight-year marriage. We’ve been living separately for almost four months. Despite many pleas on my part to reconcile, I’ve finally begun to accept that he does not view me as a life partner anymore, for ex...
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Monday, my dear!
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My youngest is having his senior pictures made today. I won't lie, I'm both excited and happy.
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5 Keys to Handling Judgmental and Opinionated People
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5 Keys to Handling Judgmental and Opinionated PeopleHow to handle highly opinionated people Posted Jun 19, 2016SHARETWEETEMAILMORE Most of us come across judgmental and opinionated people at some points in our lives. These individuals may presume that they “know better”, and be inclined to “...
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Breakfast: The Most Contentious Meal of the Day
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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/breakfast-the-most-contentious-meal-of-the-day/487220/The New York Times’s data blog, having conducted a lengthy review of scholarly assessments of the meal that Ameri...
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Stars' Real Names
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Lady Gaga = Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta Stevie Wonder = Stevland Hardaway Judkins Helen Mirren = Ilyena Lydia Mironoff Tina Fey = Elizabeth Stamatina Fey Adele = Adele Laurie Blue Adkins Vin Diesel = Mark Sinclair Vincent flan (not my real name, but neither am I a star!)
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I gave away her dog.
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Out, Spot 477 12 7.5k My mother is manipulative and mentally ill. So I gave away her dog.By Mallory Ortberg Mallory Ortberg.Sam Breach Dear Prudence, My mother and I have always had a difficult relationship. She is manipulative and mentally ill. (She refuses to see a professional, so we can’t confi...
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Inside the squalid Las Vegas homes invaded by squatters
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Garbage bags strewn across the floor, filthy empty swimming pools and a child's abandoned bicycle: Inside the squalid Las Vegas homes invaded by squatters Las Vegas squatter problem fueled by big inventory of homes abandoned by people with deep financial problemsPolice don't have a dedicated s...
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Summer Solstice!
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Which means it's the longest day of the year today. Monday’s full moon, which is also called the Mead Moon or the Rose Moon, is the only night in the month when the moon is in the sky all evening long. Normally, throughout the June month, the moon shares some time with the daytime sky. flan
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Guess which country has the most mass shootings in the world?
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From 1966 to 2012, nearly a third of the world's mass shootings took place in the U.S. It surveyed 292 incidents and found 90 of them occurred in America. Put another way: While the U.S. has 5% of the world's population, it had 31% of all public mass shootings. #2. Philippines (18) #3. Russia (15) #4. Yem...
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Dear Abby: Parents Won't Cosign Loans for Law School
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DEAR ABBY: I have plans to go to law school in the next two years. I have already taken the entrance exam, and will receive recommendations from two of my college professors. The problem is, my parents are refusing to co-sign for my law school loan.Abby, I'm not asking for money; I'm just asking for some...
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Happy Father's Day/ Sunday
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I hope all the Geek Dads have a great day being spoiled! Enjoy your day!
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Pet Peeves
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(Hopefully this will be fun...cuz it is Monday) We have two shared desks in the main room. If you break a pencil point, sharpen it. If you need to use the scissors, put them back in the drawer. And, now I'm getting really petty: Pens & pencils do not belong on the keyboard (above the number row, below t...
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Dear Prudie: I Lie About My Pets
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Q. Fur better or worse?: I keep a photograph of my pets at my office desk. My job is not particularly exciting, but one of the things that keeps me going is telling “tall tails” about my animals whenever a customer inquires. Most recently I claimed that my kitty was a distant relative of a line of felines...
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The Disturbingly Different Responses To The Disney And Cincinnati Zoo Tragedies
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Ranier Maningding Copywriter. Ungrateful millennial. Wii Fit Trainer.This week, at the Disney World Resort in Florida, a 2-year-old white boy was killed by an alligator. Last month, a 3-year-old Black child fell into a Gorilla exhibit.Two similar tragedies, two DISTURBINGLY different resp...
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Obama never phoned Florida's Republican governor, part of a long list of no-calls
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It should not surprise anyone that President Obama failed to call Florida Gov. Rick Scott in the days after the Orlando massacre, the worst terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 and the biggest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.Such a call would have been both symbolically appropriat...
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Mountain lion attacks child playing in back yard.
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DENVER (Reuters) - A mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her five-year-old son while he was playing with his older brother outside his home in western Colorado on Friday, the local sheriff said.The unidentified boy's mother heard screams and raced outside the house northwest of Aspen w...
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Skippy Saturday
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well, I won't be skipping, but I will be walking. A lot. 5k...a color fun run (walk). First one I've done in a long time. I'm really excited. this is an annual fund raiser for a HS sports team. I've wanted to do it, but until now, didn't think I'd make it. laters all!!
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Teen Birth Rates Rose in Schools That Gave Out Free Condoms With No Instruction
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/06/15/study_teen_birth_rates_rose_in_schools_that_gave_out_free_condoms_with_no.html
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Obama admin hoarding munitions while pushing to disarm public
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Bureaucrats Stockpiling WeaponsObama admin hoarding munitions while pushing to disarm publicby Kathryn Blackhurst There are now more non-military federal government officials who carry firearms and militarized equipment than the total number of U.S. Marines, leading many Americans to...
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