Reddit on July 19, 2011: Top Posts and Discussions

Tuesday, Jul. 19th 2011

News on 7/19/11

Rupert Murdoch's News International has been found by a parliamentary committee to have "deliberately" tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investigation into phone hacking
r/worldnews · reyofish · 1535 pts
Suppressed Report Found Busted Pirate Site Users Were Good Consumers: some pirate site users treat these services as a preview to buy more DVDs, visit the cinema more often and on average spend more than their ‘honest’ counterparts at the box office
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 1507 pts
Rupert Murdoch sensationally attacked with cream pie in hearing
r/worldnews · davePollard · 924 pts
When a theif stole a pregnant woman's purse on a Philadelphia train, she chased after him through the station. He broke her wrist and punched her in the stomach, but she used her 3 and a half years of kickboxing to shatter his shin in two places. He was found screaming in pain in the street.
r/news · Egg0927 · 755 pts
China Executes Corrupt Officials for Taking Bribes
r/worldnews · anutensil · 613 pts
Nearly One Quarter Of Met Police Press Officers Worked For News International, Police Chief Says
r/worldnews · GonzoVeritas · 565 pts
LIVE NOW - Phone Hacking - BBC news coverage
r/worldnews · IAmAnAnonymousCoward · 560 pts
Why India Can't Feed Her People --- Production of food per head is shrinking. And much of what is grown is lost or wasted. Main culprits are primitive farming methods and poor distribution infrastructure. India "wastes more grain each year than Australia produces"
r/worldnews · DrRichardCranium · 389 pts

Politics on 7/19/11

Sports on 7/19/11

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My 8-year-old neighbor is saving for Comic-Con and put this on my door...

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Teddy Roosevelt's diary entry from the day his wife Alice died of kidney failure. He never spoke publicly about her again.

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The saddest thing I've ever seen on PostSecret.

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I'm from the Midwest and I have one thing to say:

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Scumbag Socrates

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Needy Reddit Girl GoneWild

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Never put your dick in crazy

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Pisses me off

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From personal experience

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Yeah Mom, I'm just good with computers

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This swedish McDonalds has a pretty clear employment policy.

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Zuckerberg knows his shit

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Coincidence? I think not.

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Not sure if I hate hipsters...

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Good Guy Google

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Well, that wasn't the right answer....

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Scumbag Brain

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We could all take notes from Greg

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Reddit on July 19, 2011

Tuesday, Jul. 19th 2011

News on 7/19/11

Rupert Murdoch's News International has been found by a parliamentary committee to have "deliberately" tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investigation into phone hacking

Suppressed Report Found Busted Pirate Site Users Were Good Consumers: some pirate site users treat these services as a preview to buy more DVDs, visit the cinema more often and on average spend more than their ‘honest’ counterparts at the box office

Rupert Murdoch sensationally attacked with cream pie in hearing

When a theif stole a pregnant woman's purse on a Philadelphia train, she chased after him through the station. He broke her wrist and punched her in the stomach, but she used her 3 and a half years of kickboxing to shatter his shin in two places. He was found screaming in pain in the street.

China Executes Corrupt Officials for Taking Bribes

Nearly One Quarter Of Met Police Press Officers Worked For News International, Police Chief Says

LIVE NOW - Phone Hacking - BBC news coverage

Why India Can't Feed Her People --- Production of food per head is shrinking. And much of what is grown is lost or wasted. Main culprits are primitive farming methods and poor distribution infrastructure. India "wastes more grain each year than Australia produces"

Politics on 7/19/11

Video of Speaker of the House, John Boehner, admitting to handing out tobacco industry checks right before Republicans voted to extend tobacco industry subsidies using taxpayer money

Reps: "here's the plan: we let him go down, then we get to run the ship"

Incumbent dem wins first Wisconsin recall race by a lanslide

Behavioral scientists take note: today's Parliamentary hearings will be a clinic on how high-functioning sociopaths can procure sympathy, deflect blame, and dodge accountability for heinous crimes by mimicking genuine human emotions, feigning humility and injury, and, above all else, scapegoating.

More wisdom from Jon Stewart, July 18

Sports on 7/19/11

NFL to review every scoring play this season

Even at age 48, Michael Jordan makes dunking look easy.

This pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with college sports.

r/Sports: Who is on your Personal Sports Mount Rushmore?

What's your opinion on paying student athletes in college?

Pictures and Memes