Reddit on December 31, 2009: Top Posts and Discussions

Thursday, Dec. 31st 2009

News on 12/31/09

Czech Republic Decriminalizes All Major Drugs for Personal Use - Starting Tomorrow
r/worldnews · MrTulip · 1624 pts
King Stephen Harper shuts down Canadian Parliament, AGAIN.
r/worldnews · alllie · 152 pts
For seven years, Jennipher was forced to breastfeed the puppies of her husband's hunting dogs.
r/worldnews · spainguy · 143 pts
(Ammonia: it's what's for dinner.) NYT article about ammonia-treated beef: "Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia."
r/news · roor961 · 139 pts
Several hundred people have joined demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border to protest against the Israeli blockade of the territory. Keep it up!!
r/worldnews · justinguest1 · 68 pts
Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI', fears cover up. Excellent eyewitness account of what happened in the terminal!
r/news · hardcourter · 55 pts
Tibetan 'living Buddha' Phurbu Tsering jailed by China
r/worldnews · qgyh2 · 44 pts
4 Reported Dead in Finland Mall Shooting
r/worldnews · BeautifulSnowflake · 44 pts

Politics on 12/31/09

Sports on 12/31/09

Pictures and Memes

Preview

My best friend Chris and me....Now and Then

r/pics · 2k pts

Preview

SO WHAT [pic]

r/pics · 1k pts

Preview

I don't know how to explain.

r/pics · 678 pts

Preview

I found this in my parents' computer desk over the break.

r/pics · 456 pts

Preview

Four Paw Drive [GIF]

r/pics · 2k pts

Preview

It's Star Wars and Narwhals as drawn by my sister. I understand the down-votes for Episode I.

r/pics · 1k pts

Preview

DAMN YOU GEORGE HARRISON!

r/pics · 584 pts

Preview

The Worlds Largest Lightsaber

r/pics · 391 pts

Reddit on December 31, 2009

Thursday, Dec. 31st 2009

News on 12/31/09

Czech Republic Decriminalizes All Major Drugs for Personal Use - Starting Tomorrow

King Stephen Harper shuts down Canadian Parliament, AGAIN.

For seven years, Jennipher was forced to breastfeed the puppies of her husband's hunting dogs.

(Ammonia: it's what's for dinner.) NYT article about ammonia-treated beef: "Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia."

Several hundred people have joined demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border to protest against the Israeli blockade of the territory. Keep it up!!

Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI', fears cover up. Excellent eyewitness account of what happened in the terminal!

Tibetan 'living Buddha' Phurbu Tsering jailed by China

4 Reported Dead in Finland Mall Shooting

Politics on 12/31/09

The reason the US is going to shit is not the gov't, it's the people.

No one has made America more vulnerable to attack than Dick Cheney.

Rachel Maddow's Memo to the media: not only is it good journalism to fact-check Republican lies, it's entertaining too. If we wanted to hear unfiltered Republican lies, we'd watch Fox.

Obama Order on Interpol Work Inside U.S. Irks Conservatives because they fear it would allow international courts to arrest and prosecute people like Bush and Cheney for war crimes.

Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror - Isn't this what happened with 9/11? Isn't this why the Department of Homeland Security was created?

Sports on 12/31/09

He'd waited his whole life -- all 33 years -- to be a high school head football coach, and he didn't want his first season to be a clunker.

Jim Caldwell: “The perfect season has never been one of our goals." Jason Whitlock: Knocking boots with Beyonce has never been one of my goals, but if presented the opportunity, you best believe I won’t labor through 20 minutes of foreplay and signal for Curtis Painter to finish the job.

Shaq bought LeBron a Phantom for his B-day? That is a $434k car!

Chad Ochocinco's depiction of Revis Island (PIC)

If you missed tonight's Canada vs. USA match-up at the World Junior Hockey Championships, you missed one of the greatest hockey games ever played

Pictures and Memes