Reddit on August 5, 2009: Top Posts and Discussions

Wednesday, Aug. 5th 2009

News on 8/5/09

Maybe not everybody know it: a Texas-sized buildup of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean
r/worldnews · msx · 593 pts
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
r/worldnews · okkoto · 575 pts
Italy approved the use of RU-486, the abortion drug. The Vatican warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women taking it!!
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 571 pts
Wow. Found the blog from the shooter in gym yesterday. Chronological entries track his decent into madness. Scary.
r/news · plat00n · 255 pts
Idiots slaughter some Ducklings and post it on Youtube. Any Internet Detectives?
r/worldnews · heavysteve · 205 pts
Zambian reporter sends pictures of woman giving birth without medical assistance to health minister. Now she is being accused of distributing porn? WTF?
r/worldnews · mikepixie · 182 pts
US Gov't demands the names of 52,000 citizens with secret Swiss bank accounts. Gets 5000 after threat of nothing at all from Swiss Gov't.
r/worldnews · plytheman · 156 pts
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
r/worldnews · flatbily · 143 pts

Politics on 8/5/09

Sports on 8/5/09

Pictures and Memes

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Loud sex at CERN

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I think i <3 u

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Flight of the Conchords portrait.

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Maelstrom

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This gets more awesome every time i watch it! [GIF]

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Be honest, reddit. Which one of you was responsible for this? [PIC]

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Drug Disposal Technician

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this is what a saw while trying to circumnavigate my way out of a hospital last night

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Reddit on August 5, 2009

Wednesday, Aug. 5th 2009

News on 8/5/09

Maybe not everybody know it: a Texas-sized buildup of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

Italy approved the use of RU-486, the abortion drug. The Vatican warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women taking it!!

Wow. Found the blog from the shooter in gym yesterday. Chronological entries track his decent into madness. Scary.

Idiots slaughter some Ducklings and post it on Youtube. Any Internet Detectives?

Zambian reporter sends pictures of woman giving birth without medical assistance to health minister. Now she is being accused of distributing porn? WTF?

US Gov't demands the names of 52,000 citizens with secret Swiss bank accounts. Gets 5000 after threat of nothing at all from Swiss Gov't.

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.

Politics on 8/5/09

CNN Refuses to Air This Ad

Disgusted by "spontaneous" GOP mobs drowning out rational discussion at healthcare town halls? Well here's the RNC's phone number: 202-863-8500. You know what to do, Reddit. (vote up, also)

President Bush told French President Jacques Chirac that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest. This isn’t a joke.

Rupert Murdoch to commit Internet suicide

In retrospect, isn't it fairly clear that Hillary was correct to try to reform healthcare in 90s, and the republican "victory" at preventing reform is why healthcare has gotten so much worse? Now are Americans truly dumb enough to do the same thing again?

Sports on 8/5/09

25 things you didn't know about baseball - For the nerdy stat-loving redditors

Dodgers bean Prince fielder in retaliation for earlier beaning. After the final out, Prince attempts to obtain access to Dodgers locker room, to beat some ass.

Eli Manning to sign record NFL contract

Some Staten Island kid tried to James Brown Super Bad-it into second and his mom is $125,000 fatter in the wallet because of it.

Dallas Cowboys' New Stadium Offers $90 Pizza With No Toppings

Pictures and Memes