Is Bruce Springsteen the greatest singer/songwriter in history or what?

Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:17 PM EST

I'm listening to his greatest hits right now and I never get tired of the guy. "Thunder Road" is my personal favorite at the moment. Anyone else what to throw in their vote for a favorite Springsteen song?

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odd-news, favorite-songs, greatest-hits, thunder-road, bruce-sringsteen

Life, liberty and the pursuit of octuplets?

Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:54 PM EST

With all the talk and controversy around Nadya Suleman, the single, unemployed mother of 14 children, I'm wondering how my Newsvine friends would answer this question.

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us-news, multiple-births, octuplets, invitro, nadya-suleman, one-child-laws

Lawmaker proposes and end to DSHS in Washington State

Seeded on Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:10 PM EST (The Seattle Times)

A Washington State lawmaker has proposed a measure that would eliminate DSHS and break it into four smaller agencies. Washington has a 6 billion dollar budget deficit for this fiscal year.

benefits, washington-state, welfare, us-news, dshs

Why in Gods Name Is Congress Investigating Steriod Use in Baseball?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:30 PM EST

Do our nations congressmen really have nothing better to be doing than investigating whether or not baseball players used performance enhancing drugs? This has got to be the biggest waste of time and resources ever.

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sports, baseball, steroids, congressional-hearings, performance-enhancing-drugs

Fla. doctor investigated in badly botched abortion

Seeded on Thu Feb 5, 2009 4:05 PM EST (The Buffalo News)

A "doctor" in Florida allegedly placed a 23 week old live infant into a plastic bag and put it into a dumpster after the 18 year old mother gave birth to it during a botched late term abortion attempt. Police are investigating.

abortion, us-news, malpractice, abortion-clinics, late-term-abortion

Woman sets world records after getting 38KKK breast implants.

Seeded on Wed Feb 4, 2009 1:54 PM EST (NBC New York)

One woman stopped at nothing to achieve her twin dreams: a 38KKK bust, and a world record. It took nine surgeries and 2 gallons of silcone to make her "dreams" come true.

odd-news, world-records, breast-implants, silicone, crazy-surgery

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Shiver Me Timbers!! Even left now laughing at Global Warming,

Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:16 PM EST (Scripps News)

The worlds weather simply will not cooperate with Al Gore and his minions insistence that the earth is growing warmer. Global warming had gone from partison to punch line.

global-warming, us-news, al-gore, ice-storms, worlds-weather, freak-snow

Gaza victims describe human shield use

Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:09 PM EST (JPost.com)

Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields

israel, hamas, human-shields, gaza, palestine, world-news

Mexican national sues over immigration hold

Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:27 PM EST ()

A Mexican national is suing a county in Washington state stating that immigration holds are unconstitutional because they are used to violate the "48 hour" rule staing a person must be charged, or released within 48 hours.

immigration, law-enforcement, lawsuits, us-news, illegal-aliens, border-enforcement

Judge Dismisses Sex Counts Despite Videotape and Confession

Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:12 PM EST (poststar.com)

A judge in the state of New York threw out several felony counts against a child rapist depsite the fact the man videotaped the act and confessed to it.

court-system, us-news, child-rape, miscarriage-of-justice, bad-judges

Should child rapists be eligible for the death penalty?

Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:36 PM EST

My personal opinion is that people who rape children have shown themselves to unworthy of living any longer. There is no conclusive evidence that they ever reform, pedophilia is not something you dabble in and then change your mind after all.

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politics, death-penalty, molestation, pedophile, child-rape, capital-punishement

N.Y. hunter shoots llama thinking it was an elk

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:18 PM EST ()

A New York hunter managed to shoot, gut and tag a wild llama in Montana thinking it was a deer the entire time. Just one of the many reasons why an IQ test should be performed on anyone wishing to purchase a gun.

new-york, deer, odd-news, hunter, montana, llama

Obama Is Like Biblical Joshua, Boxing Promoter Don King Says

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:52 PM EST (CNSNews.com)

Celebrities questioned as to which biblical figure Obama is most similar to. Joshua and Moses are both mentioned.

politics, obama, celebrities, bible, messianic

Obama Is Half White Isn't He?

Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:38 PM EST

Today our country inaugurated it's first black president and black people everywhere from Oprah to Omaha celebrated in the streets. And they had every right to, but wait just a second here folks.

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white, race, politics, black, obama

Black death in Al Qaeda traing camp

Seeded on Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:33 AM EST ()

Well, how interesting. What are the odds? Fleas perhaps, rats? Sigh.

world-news

Just how many siblings does Barack Obama have anyway?

Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:42 PM EST

Is it just me or do half-siblings of Barack Obama keep coming out of the wood work? First it was a half brother found living in squalor in Kenya, now a half brother who lived in China is coming to town for the inauguration, and I have heard of several others, mostly in Kenya.

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politics, kenya, barack-obama, half-siblings, obama-sr