Reddit on August 14, 2009: Top Posts and Discussions

Friday, Aug. 14th 2009

News on 8/14/09

Why is this not getting more attention? Hamas vs Al-Qaeda in Gaza - 13 dead, 85 injured.
r/worldnews · Raerth · 640 pts
4 armed stick-up kids shot by shotgun wielding store owner in Harlem during an attempted robbery. Store employee who was pistol whipped dragged dead body into the street stomping and cursing him.
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 554 pts
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know... (but maybe you should)
r/worldnews · gm6799 · 455 pts
New Afgan law: husbands can deny food to wives who don't submit to their sexual demands.
r/worldnews · weaselword · 379 pts
NPR on California's broken prison system: the Correctional Officers union has contributed millions in support of "three strikes" and similar laws, and reaped huge benefits as a result.
r/worldnews · atomic_rabbit · 330 pts
Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms
r/worldnews · dumbingdown · 301 pts
WTF: Britain “sleepwalked into a surveillance society” -- there is a request to snoop on the public every 60 secs
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 284 pts
An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.
r/worldnews · flatbily · 254 pts

Politics on 8/14/09

Sports on 8/14/09

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Don't Speed in Sweden

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Scratch-drawings on the wall in St. Elizabeths Hospital made by a patient with "a disturbed case of dementia praecox".

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Your odds of dying in a plane crash. An illustrated graph

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Deserts have a way of reclaiming whatever is built upon them. In the case of Dubai, the global financial implosion has sent that process into overdrive.

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This is the best parking fail picture I have ever seen [PIC]

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More photos of protestors. Sigh... socialism... death care... blah blah... wait! The last one! I'm with you on the last one!

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this is another reason you don't pick up hitchhikers ...

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Dane Cook, Jeremy Piven, Kid Rock were in Vegas together and posted this pic to Twitter with middle fingers and the “shocker” flying high. Plaster a bust of this and we have the makings of Mount Douchemore.

r/pics · 125 pts

Reddit on August 14, 2009

Friday, Aug. 14th 2009

News on 8/14/09

Why is this not getting more attention? Hamas vs Al-Qaeda in Gaza - 13 dead, 85 injured.

4 armed stick-up kids shot by shotgun wielding store owner in Harlem during an attempted robbery. Store employee who was pistol whipped dragged dead body into the street stomping and cursing him.

Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know... (but maybe you should)

New Afgan law: husbands can deny food to wives who don't submit to their sexual demands.

NPR on California's broken prison system: the Correctional Officers union has contributed millions in support of "three strikes" and similar laws, and reaped huge benefits as a result.

Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms

WTF: Britain “sleepwalked into a surveillance society” -- there is a request to snoop on the public every 60 secs

An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.

Politics on 8/14/09

Fuck off America, do what you want with your own health care. Just don't slag off ours. The NHS is an excellent system, an institution and has never done any wrong to any one i know. (down vote as much you like)

A year ago, Glenn Beck, who describes America's healthcare as "the best in the world," released this video describing his "personal voyage through the nightmare that is our health care system."

Jon Stewart Hammers Glenn Beck on Health care Hypocrisy [Video]

Glenn Beck's Wikipedia editors refuse to mention any controversies. Take a glance at the massive talk page.

I just went to Amazon.com by mistake instead of Amazon.ca (the Canadian site), and found Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin in the Top 10 Bestsellers. Are you fucking kidding me? Sorry guys, but your country's screwed.

Sports on 8/14/09

Magic Johnson was a complete badass. Ten of his sickest "clutch" plays.

Magic turns 50. Who would've thunk it 18 years ago when he was diagnosed HIV+?

Chris Benoit - "Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient."

Photo essay of USA fans v. Mexico at Azteca in Mexico City

U.S. soccer player Landon Donovan tested positive for H1N1, after struggling through a 90-minute match the day before.

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