SoundOff Archive
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January 3, 2012
How Long Do You Wait?
Concern about the safety of silicone implants produced by a plant in France called Poly Implants Protheses (PIP) has been growing since 2000 when reports started surfacing of ruptures leaking silic...
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January 3, 2012
Breach of Tweetiquette?
After Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting announced their latest pregnancy earlier in the year Michelle sadly miscarried. After the memorial, a tweet from the D...
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January 3, 2012
27 to Life
Katy Perry (27) and Russell Brand have called it quits after just 14 months. Obviously, true lifelong commitment is challenging for anyone (particularly celebrities apparently), but statistics show...
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December 14, 2011
Kids Yes, Marriage No Thanks
Americans are marrying less, later in life and starting to separate marriage from parenthood. A new study from Pew Research Center reveals that only 51% of adults 18 and over are married - an all t...
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December 14, 2011
You Won!... Not So Fast
A casino is denying a customer a $57 jackpot, citing a software glitch. When 26 year old Behar Merlaku tried to claim his slot machine winnings at a casino in Bregenz, Austria Tuesday he was told t...
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December 14, 2011
Better Black Women
Monique Caradine, a Chicago-based radio show host, is fed up with the negative portrayals of black women on reality television in shows like The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Basketball Wives. In...
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December 13, 2011
War On Christmas
Customers booed when a post office manager in Silver Spring, MD threw out a group of carolers. A spokesperson for the postal service explained, "Public assembly and public address, except when cond...
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December 13, 2011
Cat Inherits Millions
An Italian woman has left 13 million to her housecat, Tommaso, making the former stray one of the richest animals in the world. Tommaso is now the third wealthiest animal on the planet, behind only...
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December 12, 2011
What's a Wife Worth?
The war of the Hogans rages on, with Hulk Hogan now suing his ex wife over her allegations of physical abuse and a homesexual affair. This divorce has been an ugly one for a while, but maybe the mo...
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December 12, 2011
Color Blinded
A new analysis of some of the most definitive survey data available finds a large disparity in perceptions between black and white Americans. Only 16 percent of whites believe there is a lot of rac...
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December 9, 2011
Should We Be Afraid to Fly?
After pleading guilty to charges of trying to open a passenger jet door mid-flight, a Burbank man is facing up to 20 years in prison. Reynel Alcaide pleaded guilty today in federal court in St. Lou...
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December 9, 2011
The More Things Change...
Blacks are 7 times more likely to get pulled over in Milwaukee, according to a study conducted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And the whiter the population, the higher the disparity in traffic ...
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December 8, 2011
Free Alec Baldwin?
Alec Baldwin, as we know, was kicked off an American Airlines flight on Tuesday for playing Words with Friends on his iPhone while the plane was parked at the gate. No one's disputing that Baldwin'...
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December 8, 2011
Murdoch Right for Once?
Rupert Murdock lobbied Congress yesterday for internet restrictions via the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. These measures would mandate Google and AOL to police online content and t...
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December 8, 2011
Has NBC Learned Anything?
Like he doesn't have enough jobs, NBC execs met with Ryan Seacrest yesterday to discuss the possibility of replacing Matt Lauer once Lauer's contract with Today expires in December of 2012. But wor...
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December 7, 2011
None of Your Family Business
The parents of Rosie O'Donnell''s fiancee, Michelle Rounds, say they were shocked to learn their daughter was gay from the newspaper when they saw a picture of the newly engaged couple. Isn't it go...
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December 7, 2011
Santa or Stranger?
Margaret Richards of Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital is claiming that taking your kids to sit on Santa's lap can give them mixed messages; we tell kids not to talk to strangers and then push t...
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December 7, 2011
Smile, You're Under Arrest
This is the best reason I've ever heard to have a camera on your cell phone: A 30 year old snapped a shot of the perv who fondled her in Times Square. No news of an arrest yet, but gropers everywhe...
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December 6, 2011
You Can't Be Offended By This
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee - an Independent - unwittingly sparked a Christmas controversy by erecting a "holiday" tree in the Statehouse out of respect for his state's religious diversity...
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December 6, 2011
At Least Someone's Watching
John Huntsman is refusing to participate in the debate that Donald Trump will be hosting December 27th on ION Television. Trump claims Huntsman is just mad because Trump declined to give him his en...
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December 5, 2011
Racist Church Sees Light
Leaders of a Kentucky church voted to ban interracial couples, but they were overruled by 30 church members who passed a new resolution welcoming all races into the church. Nice of you to join us i...
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December 5, 2011
Hold Onto Your Packages
Yet another man is claiming his significant other tried to cut off his penis. It's been almost 20 years since Lorena Bobbit was found not guilty by reason of insanity after she made this move famou...
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December 5, 2011
Grandma Strip-Searched
After 84 year old Lenore Zimmerman requested a metal detector alternative she claims that TSA officials at the JetBlue terminal took her into a private room and forced her to strip off her clothes ...
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December 2, 2011
Can't Make This Up
One guy, two viral internet sensations on the same day. Rapper Mac Lethal created a leading topic on Reddit with his Texts from Bennett Tumblr blog (http://bit.ly/rWOBrw) the same day his youtube v...
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December 1, 2011
Psychic or Google?
A group of Kansas City volunteers is searching for the remains of baby Lisa Irwin in response to a Dallas psychics visions around the case. Psychic Stephanie Almaguer claims that the toddler died a...
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