Reddit on August 12, 2010: Top Posts and Discussions

Thursday, Aug. 12th 2010

News on 8/12/10

BP Is Hiding Dead Animals to Avoid Fine of $50,000 Per Dead Animal (and the Bad Publicity)
r/news · Idl3 · 670 pts
U.S. marijuana legalization could cause a recession in Canada, where pot is the most profitable agricultural product
r/worldnews · baconn · 570 pts
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Crime reporter invites three Japanese gangsters to rate new Yakuza video-game. "I like that you can grab ashtrays or billboards and beat the crap out of the punks bothering you"
r/worldnews · DrRichardCranium · 417 pts
Al Jazeera investigates fraud and corruption in US pharmaceutical industry
r/worldnews · tempguest · 379 pts
Record speeding fine of £650,000 ($1 011 920, €789,163 ) given to motorist in Switzerland, the penalty calculated on basis of his income and speed of 300kph (186mph).
r/worldnews · weblypistol · 214 pts
Top-Earning Sportsman Of All Time - And it's not Tiger Woods. A Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles earned the equivalent of $15bn in the course of a 24-year career as chariot-racer in ancient Rome
r/worldnews · DrRichardCranium · 147 pts
The USA: what a collapsing empire looks like.
r/news · mushpuppy · 117 pts
Ecuador hit by 6.9-magnitude earthquake
r/worldnews · ramblagir · 69 pts

Politics on 8/12/10

Sports on 8/12/10

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Screw the 'dislike' button, I want facebook to implement this.

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This explains everything.

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The internet made you stupid [PIC]

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So I'm looking for this asian guy...

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Cargo shorts + cabinet knobs. We hates them...

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Samurai Jack and Powerpuff Girls take place in the same universe

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Not long after my friend recently was killed in Afghanistan, his platoon return home for a short while. In his honor, they all stood in formation as they always did, only this time with a gap where he usually had stood. Here is a picture of his 2yo daughter taking part in that special moment.

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In Soviet Russia...

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Reddit on August 12, 2010

Thursday, Aug. 12th 2010

News on 8/12/10

BP Is Hiding Dead Animals to Avoid Fine of $50,000 Per Dead Animal (and the Bad Publicity)

U.S. marijuana legalization could cause a recession in Canada, where pot is the most profitable agricultural product

Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Crime reporter invites three Japanese gangsters to rate new Yakuza video-game. "I like that you can grab ashtrays or billboards and beat the crap out of the punks bothering you"

Al Jazeera investigates fraud and corruption in US pharmaceutical industry

Record speeding fine of £650,000 ($1 011 920, €789,163 ) given to motorist in Switzerland, the penalty calculated on basis of his income and speed of 300kph (186mph).

Top-Earning Sportsman Of All Time - And it's not Tiger Woods. A Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles earned the equivalent of $15bn in the course of a 24-year career as chariot-racer in ancient Rome

The USA: what a collapsing empire looks like.

Ecuador hit by 6.9-magnitude earthquake

Politics on 8/12/10

If this reaches the frontpage, I will eat my shoe: "Glenn Beck: Gay Marriage NOT Threat To America"

Fuck you Obama. This is not the change we were looking for. Obama presses allies to go after Assange

Glenn Beck: Gay Marriage No Threat To Me, Or America

Judge Walker lifts stay on Prop 8, California gay marriages can resume immediately!

Please, President Obama, please choose Elizabeth Warren over Chris Dodd

Sports on 8/12/10

Shaq: "For the last seven years, I’ve been a detective for Internet crimes against children......My job is to be a little girl."

Apparently the Arizona Cardinals staged a violent coup and have become emperor of the NFL.

Charles Barkley Rips LeBron, Miami's Big Three as 'Punks'

"Pippen, maybe 135 pounds then and 6-1, couldn't get a scholarship and wasn't recruited by even a junior college. He became team manager and went to school on a Pell grant before a scholarship came open late in his freshman year and he got it in more a charitable move."

The NBA to Isiah Thomas: GO AWAY

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