Reddit on October 4, 2010: Top Posts and Discussions

Monday, Oct. 4th 2010

News on 10/4/10

In Israel, a chief education official was fired after denying evolution and global warming.
r/worldnews · jesbus · 940 pts
Japan's Okinawa island is the reluctant host of US military bases. Residents hate the US bases that Japan can't give up. In April, 90,000 residents gathered to protest, in the biggest show of opposition for 15 years
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 717 pts
"I got 12 months for a falsified police report and he got probation for raping me and the others," said the now 20-year-old Ashley. "It's just ridiculous."
r/news · dulieu · 466 pts
Unearthed Aryan cities rewrite history
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 226 pts
French women cause a stir in niqab and daisy duke shorts in anti-burka ban protest, aka "the NiqaBitches"
r/worldnews · clementineTangerine · 143 pts
Millions march in France against austerity as opposition to Sarkozy grows. "The growing mass opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension cuts was expressed Saturday on the streets of France—between a million and 3 million people participated in 240 demonstrations throughout the country."
r/worldnews · Upscale_Dirigible · 135 pts
"Congo is the U.N.’s crowning failure, If the women being raped were the daughters or wives or mothers of the power elites, I can promise you this war would have ended about 12 years ago."
r/worldnews · panicking_man · 128 pts
Vandals spray-painted and torched a mosque in the southern West Bank in an attack Palestinian witnesses and officials blamed on Israeli settlers
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 74 pts

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Sports on 10/4/10

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Rural vs urban sky

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Forever Alone [pic]

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The mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland, just tattooed the city's logo on his forearm

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He told me he wasn't drunk, then fell asleep like this

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I present to you: Sarah Bieber! (warning: may cause nightmares)

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Am I doing this right? If so, I hate fuck you.

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The stroller we got at our baby shower just found out where babies come from.

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Interesting Atheist

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Reddit on October 4, 2010

Monday, Oct. 4th 2010

News on 10/4/10

In Israel, a chief education official was fired after denying evolution and global warming.

Japan's Okinawa island is the reluctant host of US military bases. Residents hate the US bases that Japan can't give up. In April, 90,000 residents gathered to protest, in the biggest show of opposition for 15 years

"I got 12 months for a falsified police report and he got probation for raping me and the others," said the now 20-year-old Ashley. "It's just ridiculous."

Unearthed Aryan cities rewrite history

French women cause a stir in niqab and daisy duke shorts in anti-burka ban protest, aka "the NiqaBitches"

Millions march in France against austerity as opposition to Sarkozy grows. "The growing mass opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension cuts was expressed Saturday on the streets of France—between a million and 3 million people participated in 240 demonstrations throughout the country."

"Congo is the U.N.’s crowning failure, If the women being raped were the daughters or wives or mothers of the power elites, I can promise you this war would have ended about 12 years ago."

Vandals spray-painted and torched a mosque in the southern West Bank in an attack Palestinian witnesses and officials blamed on Israeli settlers

Politics on 10/4/10

As the Republican political analyst David Frum put it, “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox” — So the Ministry of Propaganda has, in effect, seized control of the Politburo. — Krugman

The current US Supreme Court has largely taken up cases that champion the rights of--wait for it--corporations

Sarah Silverman's Message to America, On Gay Suicide

If corporations want the rights that people have, we need to end "limited liability." It's insane that I can go to prison for neglect but an egg production owner in Iowa can violate food safety regulations to boost profits and poison thousands of Americans with Salmonella without being locked up

If the Tea Partiers are as angry at Republican fiscal irresponsibility as Democratic fiscal irresponsibility, how come the movement only sprung up after Barack Obama’s election?

Sports on 10/4/10

Wade, Bosh, James out for season.

It was Andy. It was always Andy.

Kobe Bryant says he'd beat LeBron James in a 1 on 1 match

Remember straight-on kicking? This is the foot that kicked the longest field goal ever kicked in the NFL.

Okay, it's the Wizards. And it's a scrimmage. But this 360 degree layup by John Wall is pretty impressive.

Pictures and Memes