Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 5, 2009, 7:15 am
A lot of the so-called experts are theorizing why Creigh Deeds, the Democrat nominee for Virginia governor, lost to the Republican candidate Bob McDonnell on Tuesday’s off-year election. Now...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 4, 2009, 5:38 am
The people of Maine voted yesterday to repeal a state law that allowed two people of the same sex to marry. This leaves Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut as the only states....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 3, 2009, 11:36 am
The City of Los Angeles recently made news by announcing that they are turning to Google for their email needs. Instead of maintaining their own servers and staffing people to maintain the...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 3, 2009, 6:02 am
Republican Representative Virginia Foxx from the fifth district of North Carolina spoke on the House floor and said that we have more to fear from health care reform than we do terrorists. Watch...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 2, 2009, 6:52 pm
From CNN: The Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials there said Friday. The Pentagon made the decision based on U.S. government...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 2, 2009, 8:09 am
Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable released a statement in an attempt to defend himself against the allegations presented by ESPN’s Outside the Lines that he physically abuses women. Make...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 1, 2009, 4:55 pm
As if fans of the Silver and Black didn’t already have enough to be ashamed of this year, it appears that the Oakland Raiders have a head coach who likes to hit the ladies. At least that is...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 1, 2009, 7:10 am
If this isn’t one of the best renditions of the National Anthem, I don’t know what is. It’s truly a beautiful performance. It more than made up for Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Nov 1, 2009, 6:17 am
To say that racism, or at the very least, racial insensitivity, can be found here in western Maryland is perhaps a whopper of an understatement. Every once in a while something happens that reminds.....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 30, 2009, 9:44 am
At least that is what Sara Dickerman over at Slate says: The skull can serve as a piratelike threat, but historically it has also symbolized bravado in the face of death—a dual meaning that has m...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 29, 2009, 3:34 pm
Former executive producer of the Ron and Fez Show and lifelong, die-hard New York Yankees fan Earl Douglas has stopped supporting the New York Yankees and has evidently decided to instead support the....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 29, 2009, 1:28 pm
I’m currently reading Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, a history book chronicling the hunt for Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth. Whoever said that truth is...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 29, 2009, 8:11 am
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh spoke about the “hype” of HN1N1 virus and in doing so, claimed that AIDS in Africa is “hyped” too so that “they” can get...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 28, 2009, 6:14 pm
President Obama today signed into law a provision on a defense authorization bill that would make it a federal offense to assault or murder someone based on their sexual orientation, gender, or...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 28, 2009, 6:37 am
Word came out yesterday that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was paid a $1.25 million advance for her memoir, Going Rogue. Being that she was still the governor of Alaska when she received the...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 27, 2009, 6:49 pm
Shocker of all shockers, U.S. Senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman is threatening to filibuster with the Republicans against any health care reform bill if it contains a public option, something...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 27, 2009, 8:40 am
From the AP (via the Huffington Post): During ESPN’s broadcast of the Minnesota-Ohio State game Saturday, a graphic was shown listing the top five drivers in NASCAR’s points race. Fellow...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 26, 2009, 6:59 pm
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that the health reform bill he will bring to the Senate floor will have a public option, but it will include the provision that individual states...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 25, 2009, 7:49 pm
The concrete pedestrian ramps at the new Yankee Stadium are cracking, and nobody seems to know why. These are the same concrete pedestrian ramps built by a company that is rumored to have...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 25, 2009, 8:52 am
We stopped by Wal-Mart yesterday and I spotted this sign announcing a sale on wireless printers, Lexmark Z2420 printers to be exact. Wal-Mart was selling them for $58.88 which is pretty good since...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 24, 2009, 7:39 pm
There was a scary moment last night during a game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Colorado Avalanche. Tuomo Ruutu from the Hurricanes leveled this dirty and illegal hit on Darcy Tucker from.....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 24, 2009, 7:34 am
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco was fined ten grand by the NFL on Friday for a uniform violation. It seems last week when the Bengals played the Houston Texans, Ochocinco wore a chin....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 24, 2009, 5:25 am
Not only is this commercial hilarious, it’s true. Microsoft is constantly releasing new and improved operating systems that promise to be so much better than the last new and improved...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 23, 2009, 8:09 pm
I’ve been hearing that the final health care reform bill would include a public option, a non-profit health insurance program offered and managed by the federal government to compete with...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 23, 2009, 6:36 am
One of my favorite congressmen in the House, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Democrat from New York, has compiled a list of 151 members of Congress that already enjoy single-payer “public option”...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 22, 2009, 6:15 am
The Waldenbooks in the Hagerstown Valley Mall is closing.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised in that Hagerstown has a Borders and Borders and Waldenbooks are owned by the same corporate...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 21, 2009, 4:45 pm
Someone from Politico asked Representative Gregg Harper, Republican from Mississippi, what the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus does. Evidently he is a member of this organization. His answer was....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 21, 2009, 5:58 am
I blogged once before about how much I hate it when bloggers ask readers to leave a comment and then after the reader takes the time to write a comment, the comment is withheld from being posted...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 20, 2009, 6:42 pm
CNN reporter Carol Costello did a segment yesterday as part of an ongoing series on political talk radio and she started with the king of political talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. This of course...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 19, 2009, 1:40 pm
Watch CBS News Videos Online Keith Bardwell, the raciest redneck Justice of the Peace down in Louisiana that recently got national attention when he refused to marry a man and woman because they were...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 18, 2009, 8:15 am
Evidently orchestrating a hoax involving a Mylar weather balloon and your 6-year-old son is against the law. Go figure. Richard Heene, father of Falcon Heene, the Fort Collins, Colorado boy made...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 17, 2009, 2:13 pm
The NFL announced yesterday that Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis has been fined $25,000 for two separate dirty plays in the fourth quarter of Baltimore’s 17-14 loss on Sunday. In one of the.....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 17, 2009, 6:57 am
Shepard Fairey, the artist that created the iconic poster of then Senator Barack Obama with the word “Hope”, has admitted that he lied when he said he didn’t base the poster on an...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 15, 2009, 7:26 am
Right wing conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from the group of investors that want to purchase the St. Louis Rams.  Evidently this is some kind of victory for civil...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 14, 2009, 7:35 am
The Senate Finance Committee passed the health care bill crafted by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) 14-9, with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), casting the sole Republican vote. I don’t know why more...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 14, 2009, 6:35 am
Zombieland, directed by Ruben Fleischer and starting Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, is a fantastic movie.   I love zombies.  I love comedies.  Oddly enough, the two genres go together like.....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 13, 2009, 6:24 am
It seems President Obama is celebrating his recent win of the Nobel Peace Prize by secretly sending more troops to Afghanistan than he said he would. From the Washington Post: President Obama...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 13, 2009, 5:29 am
Newsweek sat down with Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak to talk about the live action adaptation of his book. Joining in on the interview was the film director Spike Jonze and...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 12, 2009, 8:22 am
Jamison Hensley from the Baltimore Sun wrote an article asking the question if perhaps the Baltimore Ravens are being “overscrutinized” by the NFL and it’s officials. From the...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 11, 2009, 7:17 am
Marge Simpson, the blue haired wife of Homer and mother to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie will appear in the November issue of Playboy.  They say that it’s the first time that a cartoon character has...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 11, 2009, 5:36 am
President Obama spoke at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group, and restated one of his campaign promises that he will end “don’t...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 10, 2009, 8:07 am
What would post-season, October baseball be without the New York Yankees benefiting from a “questionable” call? Seriously, this is just ridiculous. Umpire Phil Cuzzi was standing right...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 10, 2009, 5:31 am
NASA sent a rocket into one of the craters on the Moon yesterday on the southern pole in the hopes that the rocket traveling nearly 6,ooo miles an hour would send up a massive plume of dust on impact....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 9, 2009, 12:33 pm
It turns out out that getting laid off from my job as an electronics tech last month does have at least one positive side effect; The psoriasis on my hands is practically gone. Granted, there are a....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 9, 2009, 5:53 am
Hardcore teabagging Republicans already believe that President Barack Obama is just like Adolf Hitler because he wants every American to have access to quality health care. How on earth are they...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 8, 2009, 8:39 pm
Pennsylvania mother Meleanie Hain drew national attention last year when she showed up at her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game with a handgun strapped to her hip. She’s in the news once...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 7, 2009, 5:47 am
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued revisions to guides that cover disclosure rules concerning endorsements, specifically endorsements coming from bloggers.  The new guidelines state that....
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 6, 2009, 8:53 am
Check out this neat looking chandelier made with metal spring paperclips and those disposable pulpy cardboard things they give you at fast food joints to carry up to four cups at once.  I found it...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 6, 2009, 3:55 am
Evidently there’s a chain of Australian grocery stores named Woolworths that chose a logo that the powers that be at Apple believe looks just like their logo. You know, that logo that looks...
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Rick R. posted an article on Bent Corner - Oct 5, 2009, 5:05 pm
Kate Gosselin says that her soon-to-be ex-husband Jon Gosselin withdrew more than $200,000 from the couple’s joint bank account last week without her knowledge, leaving her with only a mere...
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