Reddit on May 19, 2010: Top Posts and Discussions

Wednesday, May. 19th 2010

News on 5/19/10

Crackdown in Bangkok [pics]
r/worldnews · nomdeweb · 570 pts
New UK government promises to scrap children's databases and DNA data held on innocent people, scrap mandatory ID cards and remove restrictions on peaceful protests.
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 560 pts
Pakistans blocks Facebook because "the site was holding a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad"
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 484 pts
Canada to introduce the most draconian copyright bill ever written next week.
r/worldnews · Psychouroboros · 437 pts
North Korea Threatening War if Punished for Sinking South Korean Ship
r/worldnews · snyderjw · 254 pts
Top Italian policemen get up to five years for violent attack on G8 protesters
r/worldnews · spainguy · 221 pts
Between 1980 and 2003, the amount Americans spent on prescription drugs quietly rose from $12 billion to $197 billion, a seventeenfold increase.
r/worldnews · jkatz · 168 pts
Arizona Threatens to Turn Lights Off in Los Angeles If City Boycotts
r/news · larryj53 · 148 pts

Politics on 5/19/10

Sports on 5/19/10

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I present Rabbit: my faithful sidekick!

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What kind of person are you?

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Why there are no girls on the internets

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Freckles

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How to post a link on Reddit (You're welcome MrOhHai)

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Tying ties.

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Thanks Sun Chips. :) (pic)

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Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you'll be correct?

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Reddit on May 19, 2010

Wednesday, May. 19th 2010

News on 5/19/10

Crackdown in Bangkok [pics]

New UK government promises to scrap children's databases and DNA data held on innocent people, scrap mandatory ID cards and remove restrictions on peaceful protests.

Pakistans blocks Facebook because "the site was holding a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad"

Canada to introduce the most draconian copyright bill ever written next week.

North Korea Threatening War if Punished for Sinking South Korean Ship

Top Italian policemen get up to five years for violent attack on G8 protesters

Between 1980 and 2003, the amount Americans spent on prescription drugs quietly rose from $12 billion to $197 billion, a seventeenfold increase.

Arizona Threatens to Turn Lights Off in Los Angeles If City Boycotts

Politics on 5/19/10

PBS' Frontline gets a $6 million, two-year grant that will allow it to expand its investigative programming to a year-round schedule on PBS stations.

I'm sorry, but WHAT FUCKING RIGHT does BP have to Block Media from filming Public Beaches Covered in Oil???

Nick Clegg is expected to promise the most radical redistribution of power from the state to the people for 178 years.

Instead of pumping billions and billions into two failed wars, why can't the federal government do something about the 300,000 teachers who might lose their jobs? The decline of our public education system is a much greater threat to national security.

LADWP To Arizona: ‘Suck It, We Actually Own Your Power Plants’

Sports on 5/19/10

Tiger [pic]

Manute Bol is in the hospital with kidney failure and seems to be in rough shape. Here's a short highlight film of a man with one of the most unique bodies and biggest hearts in sports history.

I just saw Stephen Strasburg pitch in Rochester. It was an amazing thing to see. He is really as incredible as advertised: 6.1 IP, 0ER, 3H, 9K -- consistently hit 99mph+ into the 7th.

Lakers beat Suns 124-112; take 2-0 series lead in Western Conference final

NBA Ref Throws Ball at Fan During Eastern Conference Finals .. NBA ref Joe De Rosa got into it briefly with a fan right as the first half ended of Game Two between the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics

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